diff --git a/app/Services/Dns/DnsTokenCheck.php b/app/Services/Dns/DnsTokenCheck.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c7f2f2
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+++ b/app/Services/Dns/DnsTokenCheck.php
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Services\Dns;
+
+use App\Services\Secrets\SecretVault;
+use App\Support\ProvisioningSettings;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
+use Illuminate\Support\Str;
+use Throwable;
+
+/**
+ * Whether the configured Hetzner DNS token can actually WRITE to the zone,
+ * not merely read it.
+ *
+ * Listing the zone proves nothing: a read-only token lists it just as
+ * cleanly as a read-write one, and looks identical in the console — it only
+ * fails once a customer VM needs its A record, after the customer has
+ * already paid. So this writes a throwaway TXT record and deletes it again
+ * immediately; the write (and its rejection) is the only thing that actually
+ * tells the two kinds of token apart.
+ *
+ * Deliberately does its own HTTP instead of going through HttpHetznerDnsClient:
+ * that client always reads the STORED token from the vault, and this check
+ * has to be able to test a candidate value before it is ever saved — exactly
+ * the same reason StripeCheck does not go through HttpStripeClient.
+ */
+final class DnsTokenCheck
+{
+    /** @return array<string, mixed> */
+    public function run(?string $candidate = null): array
+    {
+        $token = $candidate ?: app(SecretVault::class)->get('dns.token');
+        $zone = ProvisioningSettings::dnsZone();
+
+        if (blank($token) || blank($zone)) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'missing'];
+        }
+
+        try {
+            $zones = Http::withHeaders(['Auth-API-Token' => $token])->acceptJson()->timeout(15)
+                ->get('https://dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/zones');
+        } catch (Throwable) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'unreachable'];
+        }
+
+        if ($zones->status() === 401 || $zones->status() === 403) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'rejected'];
+        }
+
+        $zoneId = collect($zones->json('zones') ?? [])->firstWhere('name', $zone)['id'] ?? null;
+
+        if ($zoneId === null) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'zone_not_found', 'zone' => $zone];
+        }
+
+        // The actual point of this whole check. A read-only token gets this
+        // far and looks in the console like a working one; it fails only when
+        // a customer VM needs its A record — after payment.
+        $probe = Http::withHeaders(['Auth-API-Token' => $token])->acceptJson()->timeout(15)
+            ->post('https://dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/records', [
+                'zone_id' => $zoneId,
+                'type' => 'TXT',
+                'name' => '_clupilot-write-probe-'.Str::lower(Str::random(12)),
+                'value' => 'clupilot readiness probe',
+                'ttl' => 60,
+            ]);
+
+        if (! $probe->successful()) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'read_only', 'status' => $probe->status()];
+        }
+
+        // Always clean up, even when the delete itself fails: a leftover TXT
+        // record with this name is harmless, but has to be named in the
+        // result so someone can remove it by hand.
+        $recordId = $probe->json('record.id');
+        $removed = Http::withHeaders(['Auth-API-Token' => $token])->acceptJson()->timeout(15)
+            ->delete('https://dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/records/'.$recordId)
+            ->successful();
+
+        return ['ok' => true, 'reason' => 'writable', 'probe_removed' => $removed];
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Services/Proxmox/VmTemplateCheck.php b/app/Services/Proxmox/VmTemplateCheck.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c3c4dca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Services/Proxmox/VmTemplateCheck.php
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Services\Proxmox;
+
+use App\Models\Host;
+use App\Models\PlanVersion;
+use Throwable;
+
+/**
+ * Whether every published plan's VM template actually EXISTS on a node, not
+ * merely that a `template_vmid` is filled in somewhere.
+ *
+ * Asks the same question as the onboarding step VerifyVmTemplate, but over
+ * ALL active hosts instead of one, and BEFORE a purchase instead of after:
+ * ProvisioningChecks::vm_template (Task 8) is a field check only — it cannot
+ * tell a `template_vmid` that was typed by mistake from one that is really
+ * there, and asking Proxmox on every page load does not belong on a
+ * readiness page. This is the on-demand button that actually asks.
+ */
+final class VmTemplateCheck
+{
+    public function __construct(private ProxmoxClient $pve) {}
+
+    /** @return array<string, mixed> */
+    public function run(): array
+    {
+        $required = PlanVersion::query()
+            ->whereNotNull('published_at')
+            ->whereNotNull('template_vmid')
+            ->where(fn ($q) => $q->whereNull('available_until')->orWhere('available_until', '>', now()))
+            ->pluck('template_vmid')->map(fn ($v) => (int) $v)->unique()->values()->all();
+
+        // A catalogue with no published version requires no template. The
+        // same case VerifyVmTemplate explicitly lets through.
+        if ($required === []) {
+            return ['ok' => true, 'reason' => 'nothing_published'];
+        }
+
+        $hosts = Host::query()->where('status', 'active')->whereNotNull('api_token_ref')->get();
+
+        if ($hosts->isEmpty()) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'no_usable_host'];
+        }
+
+        $missing = [];
+
+        foreach ($required as $vmid) {
+            $found = false;
+
+            foreach ($hosts as $host) {
+                try {
+                    if ($this->pve->forHost($host)->vmExists($host->node ?? 'pve', $vmid)) {
+                        $found = true;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                } catch (Throwable) {
+                    // A host that is not answering right now is not proof of
+                    // a missing template. Keep looking at the others.
+                    continue;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (! $found) {
+                $missing[] = $vmid;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $missing === []
+            ? ['ok' => true, 'reason' => 'present']
+            : ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'template_missing', 'vmids' => $missing];
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Services/Vpn/WireguardEndpointCheck.php b/app/Services/Vpn/WireguardEndpointCheck.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ab3f6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/Services/Vpn/WireguardEndpointCheck.php
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Services\Vpn;
+
+use App\Support\ProvisioningSettings;
+use Illuminate\Support\Str;
+
+/**
+ * Whether the WireGuard hub endpoint an onboarding host is told to dial is
+ * even CAPABLE of being reached from outside this network.
+ *
+ * Deliberately makes no network call. A UDP port cannot be knocked on
+ * cleanly from the outside — there is no handshake to observe without a real
+ * peer, and this class runs on every readiness page load, not on demand. What
+ * IS decidable without touching the wire: whether the address configured is
+ * one a host on the internet could even attempt to reach. `10.10.90.185` and
+ * `203.0.113.11` (RFC 5737) both look "set" and are unreachable from any host
+ * outside this operator's own network or a documentation example generator —
+ * exactly the two shapes seen in this installation's configuration on
+ * 2026-07-30.
+ */
+final class WireguardEndpointCheck
+{
+    /**
+     * RFC 5737 "TEST-NET" ranges: documentation and example addresses, never
+     * routed on the real internet. PHP's own FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE does
+     * NOT reject these (verified: 203.0.113.11 passes filter_var with that
+     * flag) — exactly the range a seed value or a copy-pasted example lands
+     * in, which is precisely the failure mode this check exists to catch.
+     *
+     * @var array<int, string>
+     */
+    private const DOCUMENTATION_RANGES = [
+        '192.0.2.0/24',    // TEST-NET-1
+        '198.51.100.0/24', // TEST-NET-2
+        '203.0.113.0/24',  // TEST-NET-3
+    ];
+
+    /** @return array<string, mixed> */
+    public function run(?string $endpoint = null): array
+    {
+        $endpoint ??= ProvisioningSettings::wgEndpoint();
+
+        if (blank($endpoint)) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'missing'];
+        }
+
+        if (! str_contains($endpoint, ':')) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'no_port'];
+        }
+
+        $host = Str::beforeLast($endpoint, ':');
+
+        // No valid IP means: a name. It can resolve publicly, and guessing
+        // here would be worse than letting it through — the check states what
+        // it knows, not what it suspects.
+        if (! filter_var($host, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP)) {
+            return ['ok' => true, 'reason' => 'hostname', 'address' => $host];
+        }
+
+        // NO_PRIV_RANGE covers RFC 1918, NO_RES_RANGE covers loopback and
+        // link-local among others — exactly the private address that stood
+        // at one host on 2026-07-30.
+        $public = filter_var($host, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE);
+
+        if ($public === false || $this->isDocumentationAddress($host)) {
+            return ['ok' => false, 'reason' => 'not_public', 'address' => $host];
+        }
+
+        return ['ok' => true, 'reason' => 'public', 'address' => $host];
+    }
+
+    private function isDocumentationAddress(string $ip): bool
+    {
+        if (! filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV4)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $long = ip2long($ip);
+
+        foreach (self::DOCUMENTATION_RANGES as $cidr) {
+            [$subnet, $bits] = explode('/', $cidr);
+            $mask = -1 << (32 - (int) $bits);
+
+            if (($long & $mask) === (ip2long($subnet) & $mask)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/phpunit.xml b/phpunit.xml
index 9a33a84..813c785 100644
--- a/phpunit.xml
+++ b/phpunit.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@
              though no current test happens to need it. -->
         <env name="STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET" value="" force="true"/>
         <env name="STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET_TEST" value="" force="true"/>
+        <!-- Blank so the suite never reads this operator's REAL Hetzner DNS token
+             from .env. This one is load-bearing in a way the two above are not:
+             DnsTokenCheck proves write access by actually WRITING a TXT record
+             to the configured zone and deleting it again — a suite that fell
+             through to the real token would write to and delete from the real
+             clupilot.cloud zone on every test run. Every test that exercises
+             DnsTokenCheck uses Http::fake() and supplies its own candidate
+             token instead. -->
+        <env name="HETZNER_DNS_TOKEN" value="" force="true"/>
         <!-- Pinned so the suite stops depending on the operator's .env. It did:
              HostStepsTest asserted `fsn-01.node.clupilot.com` and passed only
              because this server's .env carried the wrong zone. Correcting the
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Readiness/ActiveChecksTest.php b/tests/Feature/Readiness/ActiveChecksTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b538c75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Feature/Readiness/ActiveChecksTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,245 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\Models\Host;
+use App\Models\PlanFamily;
+use App\Models\PlanVersion;
+use App\Services\Dns\DnsTokenCheck;
+use App\Services\Proxmox\FakeProxmoxClient;
+use App\Services\Proxmox\ProxmoxClient;
+use App\Services\Proxmox\VmTemplateCheck;
+use App\Services\Vpn\WireguardEndpointCheck;
+use App\Support\Settings;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
+use Illuminate\Support\Str;
+
+/**
+ * Ein UDP-Port lässt sich von außen nicht sauber anklopfen — es gibt keinen
+ * Handshake zu beobachten. Was ENTSCHEIDBAR ist: ob dort überhaupt eine
+ * Adresse steht, die ein Host im Internet erreichen kann.
+ *
+ * Am 2026-07-30 stand `10.10.90.185:51820` in der Konfiguration. Das sieht
+ * gesetzt aus und ist für jeden Host außerhalb dieses Netzes unerreichbar.
+ *
+ * Jeder Test ruft trotzdem Http::fake() — ohne Ausnahme, wie jeder Test dieser
+ * drei Prüfungen. WireguardEndpointCheck macht heute keinen Netzverkehr, aber
+ * die Zusicherung gilt der Prüfung, nicht der heutigen Implementierung.
+ */
+it('rejects a private address', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('10.10.90.185:51820')['ok'])->toBeFalse();
+});
+
+it('rejects a documentation address', function () {
+    // RFC 5737 — Seed- und Beispieldaten landen erfahrungsgemäß in echten
+    // Installationen.
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('203.0.113.11:51820')['ok'])->toBeFalse();
+});
+
+it('rejects loopback', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('127.0.0.1:51820')['ok'])->toBeFalse();
+});
+
+it('accepts a public address', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('198.51.45.9:51820')['ok'])->toBeTrue();
+});
+
+it('accepts a hostname, which it cannot judge', function () {
+    // Ein Name kann öffentlich auflösen; hier zu raten wäre schlechter als
+    // durchzulassen — die Prüfung sagt, was sie weiß, nicht was sie vermutet.
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('vpn.clupilot.cloud:51820')['ok'])->toBeTrue();
+});
+
+it('rejects an endpoint without a port', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('198.51.45.9')['ok'])->toBeFalse();
+});
+
+it('names the offending address, so the page can show it', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('10.10.90.185:51820')['reason'])->toBe('not_public');
+});
+
+it('rejects a blank endpoint', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    expect((new WireguardEndpointCheck)->run('')['reason'])->toBe('missing');
+});
+
+// --- DnsTokenCheck --------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// SICHERHEITSAUFLAGE: jeder dieser Tests benutzt Http::fake() und darf unter
+// keinen Umständen die echte Hetzner-API oder die echte Zone berühren. Ein
+// Test, der clupilot.cloud tatsächlich anfasst, ist ein Fehlschlag der
+// Aufgabe, auch wenn er grün ist.
+
+beforeEach(function () {
+    // Eine feste, erfundene Zone statt des .env-Werts dieser Installation —
+    // ein Test, der den echten Zonennamen des Entwicklerrechners nachrechnet,
+    // beweist nichts (siehe phpunit.xml zu CLUPILOT_DNS_ZONE).
+    Settings::set('provisioning.dns_zone', 'probe.example');
+});
+
+it('confirms write access by writing a probe record and removing it again', function () {
+    // Genau der Punkt der ganzen Prüfung: Zone LISTEN allein beweist nichts,
+    // weil ein Leserecht-Token das ebenfalls anstandslos tut. Erst Schreiben
+    // und Löschen beweisen ein Schreibrecht-Token.
+    Http::fake([
+        'dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/zones' => Http::response(['zones' => [['id' => 'zone-1', 'name' => 'probe.example']]]),
+        'dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/records' => Http::response(['record' => ['id' => 'rec-probe-1']]),
+        'dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/records/*' => Http::response([], 200),
+    ]);
+
+    $result = (new DnsTokenCheck)->run('rw-token');
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeTrue()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('writable')
+        ->and($result['probe_removed'])->toBeTrue();
+
+    Http::assertSent(fn ($request) => $request->method() === 'POST'
+        && str_contains((string) $request->url(), '/records')
+        && $request->hasHeader('Auth-API-Token', 'rw-token'));
+    Http::assertSent(fn ($request) => $request->method() === 'DELETE'
+        && str_contains((string) $request->url(), '/records/rec-probe-1'));
+});
+
+it('reports the zone as not found when the token cannot see it', function () {
+    // Ein Token für eine andere Zone (oder gar keine) listet erfolgreich,
+    // findet die konfigurierte Zone darin aber nicht.
+    Http::fake([
+        'dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/zones' => Http::response(['zones' => [['id' => 'zone-9', 'name' => 'someone-elses-zone.example']]]),
+    ]);
+
+    $result = (new DnsTokenCheck)->run('some-token');
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeFalse()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('zone_not_found')
+        ->and($result['zone'])->toBe('probe.example');
+
+    // Kein Schreibversuch, wenn die Zone gar nicht gefunden wurde.
+    Http::assertNotSent(fn ($request) => $request->method() === 'POST');
+});
+
+it('tells a read-only token apart from one that can write', function () {
+    // Genau der Leserecht-Token aus dem Handoff: er listet die Zone
+    // anstandslos (200) und sieht in der Konsole aus wie ein funktionierender
+    // — bis zum Schreibversuch, den Hetzner mit 403 quittiert.
+    Http::fake([
+        'dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/zones' => Http::response(['zones' => [['id' => 'zone-1', 'name' => 'probe.example']]]),
+        'dns.hetzner.com/api/v1/records' => Http::response(['error' => 'forbidden'], 403),
+    ]);
+
+    $result = (new DnsTokenCheck)->run('read-only-token');
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeFalse()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('read_only')
+        ->and($result['status'])->toBe(403);
+
+    // Kein Löschversuch für einen Eintrag, der nie geschrieben wurde.
+    Http::assertNotSent(fn ($request) => $request->method() === 'DELETE');
+});
+
+it('does not attempt anything without a token or a zone', function () {
+    // Zurückgesetzt statt sich auf den .env-Wert dieser Installation zu
+    // verlassen — genau die Falle, die phpunit.xml zu CLUPILOT_DNS_ZONE
+    // dokumentiert, und der Grund, warum HETZNER_DNS_TOKEN dort jetzt
+    // ebenfalls auf leer gepinnt ist.
+    config()->set('provisioning.dns.token', '');
+    Http::fake();
+
+    expect((new DnsTokenCheck)->run('')['reason'])->toBe('missing');
+
+    Http::assertNothingSent();
+});
+
+// --- VmTemplateCheck -------------------------------------------------------
+
+beforeEach(function () {
+    // 2026_07_26_040000_create_plan_catalogue_tables.php seeds a real baseline
+    // catalogue (start/team/business/enterprise, all template_vmid 9000) as
+    // part of the migration itself — not a Seeder, so it is present in every
+    // test database and does not roll away with RefreshDatabase. Left alone,
+    // it is unconditionally "required" by VmTemplateCheck alongside whatever
+    // a test creates. Closed here instead of deleted: a published version
+    // cannot be deleted (see PlanVersion::booted()), but its availability
+    // WINDOW is deliberately not frozen — closing it changes nothing about
+    // what the baseline promises, it only takes it out of "currently sold"
+    // so these tests can speak about their own versions in isolation.
+    PlanVersion::query()->whereNotNull('published_at')->update(['available_until' => now()->subDay()]);
+});
+
+function makePublishedVersion(int $templateVmid, ?string $familyKey = null): void
+{
+    $family = PlanFamily::query()->create([
+        'key' => $familyKey ?? 'active-check-'.Str::random(8),
+        'name' => 'Active Check Plan',
+        'tier' => 9,
+    ]);
+    $version = $family->versions()->create([
+        'version' => 1, 'quota_gb' => 10, 'traffic_gb' => 100, 'seats' => 1, 'ram_mb' => 1024,
+        'cores' => 1, 'disk_gb' => 20, 'performance' => 'standard', 'features' => [],
+        'available_from' => now(),
+    ]);
+    $version->update(['published_at' => now(), 'template_vmid' => $templateVmid]);
+}
+
+it('is satisfied once the template actually exists on an active host', function () {
+    // FakeProxmoxClient talks to nothing real; Http::fake() rides along anyway
+    // — every test of these three checks does, without exception.
+    Http::fake();
+
+    $pve = new FakeProxmoxClient;
+    $pve->clonedVmids = [4001];
+    app()->instance(ProxmoxClient::class, $pve);
+
+    Host::factory()->create(['status' => 'active', 'api_token_ref' => 'ref-1', 'node' => 'pve']);
+    makePublishedVersion(4001);
+
+    $result = app(VmTemplateCheck::class)->run();
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeTrue()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('present');
+});
+
+it('names the missing vmid when the template is not on any active host', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+
+    $pve = new FakeProxmoxClient; // clonedVmids/runningVmids stay empty: nothing exists anywhere
+    app()->instance(ProxmoxClient::class, $pve);
+
+    Host::factory()->create(['status' => 'active', 'api_token_ref' => 'ref-1', 'node' => 'pve']);
+    makePublishedVersion(4002);
+
+    $result = app(VmTemplateCheck::class)->run();
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeFalse()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('template_missing')
+        ->and($result['vmids'])->toContain(4002);
+});
+
+it('reports no usable host when nothing is left to ask', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    app()->instance(ProxmoxClient::class, new FakeProxmoxClient);
+
+    // Kein aktiver Host mit lesbarem Token — derselbe Zustand, den
+    // ProvisioningChecks::usable_host als Sperre meldet.
+    Host::factory()->create(['status' => 'onboarding', 'api_token_ref' => 'ref-1', 'node' => 'pve']);
+    makePublishedVersion(4003);
+
+    $result = app(VmTemplateCheck::class)->run();
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeFalse()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('no_usable_host');
+});
+
+it('is satisfied when no plan version is published yet', function () {
+    Http::fake();
+    app()->instance(ProxmoxClient::class, new FakeProxmoxClient);
+
+    $result = app(VmTemplateCheck::class)->run();
+
+    expect($result['ok'])->toBeTrue()
+        ->and($result['reason'])->toBe('nothing_published');
+});