The console could describe a takeover it had no way to start. This is the
vertical slice that closes that: a one-time code, the archive the rescue system
fetches, and the page that says what to do with both.
The command carries EVERYTHING the script needs before the tunnel exists,
because there is nothing to fetch — that is the whole point of spec §5. Which
means CluPilot generates the WireGuard keypair and admits the peer at the hub
before the machine has ever booted, and hands the private half over in the line.
It is worthless within minutes: task 9 of the script replaces it with one
generated on the machine.
Shown exactly once. The database holds only the code's hash and never the
private key, so leaving the page does not bring it back — it mints a new code,
which invalidates the old one. That is deliberate: a glance at somebody's screen
should be worth nothing an hour later.
Which is also why save() no longer redirects. Sending the operator to the host
detail page sends them away from the only value they need, and an existing test
asserted that redirect — it now asserts the opposite, with the reason written
next to it.
SHA-256 rather than bcrypt for the code, and the reason is not speed. Both
endpoints have to FIND the host by the code; with bcrypt that means trying every
row. The code is 32 characters of CSPRNG output, so it has the entropy that
stretching exists to manufacture.
resolve() and claim() are separate because progress reports arrive BEFORE
registration. If reporting consumed the code, a host could never register after
its first message.
The archive URL is always the public hostname. The console runs under admin.…,
but this line executes on a machine that must not reach the admin area — it is
locked down for exactly that reason — so route() from the console would emit a
hostname that 404s on a server only reachable through the provider's console.
The page warns about missing tunnel settings BEFORE the host is created, not
after. An empty hub key produces a line that looks clean, copies fine, runs, and
ends in a tunnel that never handshakes — discovered on the machine, after
somebody has already paid for it.
The three steps lead with the rescue system, because that is the one nobody
knows by heart, and it says enabling is not the same as booting into it — the
script refuses a running production machine, which is what a half-done switch
looks like from the inside.
1986 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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