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Closes #104. Child of heavy-duty/rig#62 — the box-local slice, which stands on its own while that parent is still an open design.

cmd_new's fresh-mint branch runs launch → wait_agent → cloud-init status --wait → the rig bootstrap hook. In the gap between the last two, the guest is pristine Debian plus box's thin seed and nothing else — the user, tmux, rig installed but not yet run. That is precisely the state rig#62 names when it says "back to pristine Debian". It has existed for a few seconds on every mint box has ever taken, and nothing has ever captured it: by the time an operator wants it, they are ten minutes and a converged tenant role past it, and their only route back is a re-mint.

This PR takes the snapshot at that instant. box restore <box> pristine then answers "I broke this box" for every creds-free tenant role, because everything rig bootstrap claude|codex|grok|staging does — docker, node, the agent CLI, the agent-context file, the role marker — is box-local and file-shaped, so a filesystem rollback reaches all of it. On the designed btrfs backend the mark costs kilobytes until the guest diverges.

The diff in cmd_new is one line. Almost everything below is the three decisions #104 left open.

Decision 1 — default on, with real driver detection

Resolved: default on, skip loudly on dir, and take it anyway when the driver cannot be read.

The issue leans default-on ("the value only exists if it is already there when you need it") and that is right for the obvious reason: nobody is standing at the console during the few seconds this state is true, so an opt-in flag would be a feature only ever remembered by the person who already knew they would need it.

The cost objection is real though, and only on one backend. host/setup-host.sh:261-298 picks btrfs deliberately, refusing incus admin init --minimal in so many words because dir has no copy-on-write — but dir remains the documented fallback at :294 for a host that cannot do btrfs. There, this snapshot is a full multi-GB copy of the root on every mint, which is exactly the silent doubling #104 warns against.

Detection turned out to be reliable, so it is implemented. The placement contract does the work: every box launches --profile box-net, and profiles/box-net.yaml hardcodes the root disk's pool. So the pool is not inferred from the instance or guessed as default — it is read back from the profile that actually placed it:

pool="$(incus profile device get box-net root pool 2>/dev/null || true)"
[ -n "$pool" ] || pool=default
driver="$(incus storage show "$pool" 2>/dev/null | awk '/^driver:/ {print $2; exit}')"
[ -n "$driver" ] || driver="$(incus storage list --format csv 2>/dev/null \
  | awk -F, -v p="$pool" '$1 == p {print $2; exit}')"

Two probes because the tiers see storage differently. incus storage show is the admin read — literally the line setup-host.sh:297 already prints. incus storage list --format csv is the one a restricted user's incus-user proxy is likelier to answer. That second probe is the honest part of "reliably": I could not verify against a live restricted-tier socket here, so the code does not assume either probe works.

Which leaves the third case, and it is the one I want reviewers to push on. When neither probe answers, this takes the snapshot anyway and says what it assumed. The argument is that the two mistakes are not symmetric:

A mark taken on a dir host wastes disk the operator can see in box info and delete in one command. Recoverable.
A mark not taken is the pristine moment gone for good. There is no second chance at it; the box has already converged. Unrecoverable, and it is the entire thing this issue exists to prevent.

Defaulting the unknown case to "skip" would be the conservative-looking choice that quietly loses the feature on precisely the hosts whose storage box cannot introspect — plausibly the restricted tier, which is a paved road, not an edge. Defaulting it to "take" costs disk on a host already documented as the slow one. I took the recoverable failure. If reviewers read the restricted tier as common enough that a silent multi-GB copy there is the worse outcome, flipping this is a one-line change and I will take the note.

The escape hatch is BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0, an environment knob in the established BOX_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT / BOX_CPU shape rather than a new flag on box new — help new says the flag surface is resources-only on purpose, and a mint-behaviour knob is what the env vars are already for.

Two smaller calls inside this one:

Unconditional within a fresh mint, not gated on T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE. A blank box has no rig hook, but it has the same pristine moment, and box restore <box> pristine should mean one thing on every box box mints — not "exists if your template happened to name a role". Pinned by a test.
Never fatal. A failed incus snapshot create warns and returns 0. The mark is an undo, not the mint's product; a mint that worked must not be failed by a checkpoint that didn't.

Decision 2 — naming

pristine, as #104 and rig#56 both call it. It is honest about what the state is: cloud-init has run, rig has not. Nothing to argue.

Decision 3 — `--from` clones, the correctness trap

Resolved: inherit, take none — and say which one you got.

The clone branch does incus copy → start → wait_agent → reset_identity. No cloud-init, no rig hook. There is no pristine moment on that path, so a snapshot taken there would capture whatever the source happened to be — converged, worked-in, possibly hours of an operator's changes — and label it pristine. That is strictly worse than no mark: an absent mark sends you to box export, a lying one sends you to a restore that does not restore what its name promised, and nothing at runtime would ever say so.

So snapshot_pristine lives strictly in the fresh-mint branch and never runs on the clone path. A test pins the absence by extracting the clone branch alone and asserting nothing in it snapshots at all.

Inheritance is the other half, and it is already correct — worth stating because it was accidental before and is deliberate now:

incus copy <box> <new> carries the source's snapshots, so a clone of a box that has a pristine gets a real one. Not a relabelling: that snapshot genuinely is the pristine state of the disk this clone descends from.
incus copy <box>/<snap> <new> carries no snapshot list, so that clone starts with none.

Both are honest, neither is invented, and which one you got is not obvious from the command you typed — so box new now narrates it instead of leaving the operator to run box info and infer.

Decision 4 — `bootstrapped`: deferred, and here is the argument

#104 floats a second snapshot after a successful rig hook. Not in this PR. Three reasons, separable rather than cumulative:

It is a different product. pristine is a rollback floor — the one state that is definitionally clean, and the thing rig#62 asked for. bootstrapped is a convenience checkpoint: nice, cheaper than a re-mint, but it competes with box snapshot <box> <label>, which already exists and which an operator can take at exactly the moment they care about. Shipping the floor is what closes #104.
It has an unresolved question of its own. A blank box never runs the hook, so bootstrapped would exist on some boxes and not others — the surface asymmetry pristine deliberately avoids by being unconditional. And when a failed hook is re-run by hand via box shell (which the failure message explicitly tells you to do), nothing re-takes the mark, so bootstrapped would be absent exactly on the boxes whose convergence was interesting. Neither is fatal; both want deciding in the open rather than riding along here.
Doubling the auto-snapshot count doubles the dir objection, and I would rather land the driver-detection story once and see it reviewed before it is carrying two marks.

Please file the follow-up — I have not filed it, and it should not be lost with this issue when it closes. The shape: "box: mark bootstrapped after a successful rig hook", child of rig#62, resolving the blank-template asymmetry and the re-run-by-hand case.

Durability — this is an undo, not a backup

box rm deletes a box and every snapshot it has (bin/box:73, docs/plans/2026-07-18-box-export.md:12-13). Nothing in this PR's docs or output may let anyone read pristine as a backup, so all three surfaces say so outright: help snapshot gained "Snapshots do not outlive their box… an undo, not a backup — box export is the durable path", help restore and the README repeat it, and help new says it in the mint context where the mark is created. A test greps for "not a backup" so a future edit cannot quietly soften it.

The second, subtler over-promise is scope, and it is rig#62's whole finding: a filesystem rollback silently leaves off-box state behind — a tailnet join's device record, a GitHub runner registration, a pushed commit. help restore and the README both name that blind spot explicitly rather than letting "back to pristine Debian" be read as "back to before anything happened".

Tests

Added to test/cli.sh in the house style — daemon-free, so they run for a non-root user with no Incus.

Position, pinned by line order (the same shape as the existing #93/#81 mint-path guards). Get the position wrong by one step and the mark is a lie that nothing at runtime would report, so: after the cloud-init wait, before the rig hook, and before the T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE guard (the unconditional half).

The clone trap, pinned as an absence. The clone branch is extracted with awk up to its own else and asserted to contain neither snapshot_pristine nor incus snapshot create — plus the narration line, so silence about inheritance cannot creep back.

The policy half is driven, not grepped. storage_driver + snapshot_pristine are extracted from bin/box and executed against a stubbed incus (the box_tier pattern), so every branch actually runs with no daemon: btrfs takes the mark, dir skips it and never reaches snapshot create, an unreadable pool takes it and says it assumed, BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0 skips it, and a refused snapshot warns and still returns 0.

Proven to bite. Three separate breaks, each observed RED, each reverted:

break	result
moved the mark to after the rig hook	2 RED (`orders BEFORE the rig bootstrap hook`, `is unconditional`)
added `snapshot_pristine` to the clone branch	2 RED (`a --from clone takes NO mark of its own`, `orders AFTER the cloud-init wait`)
changed the `dir` skip to a driver name that never matches	3 RED (all three `dir` assertions)

Docs

README.md gains a ### pristine — the one checkpoint box takes for you subsection under the existing snapshot section: what it is, the box restore work pristine line, and the three things it deliberately does not do (not a backup, cannot reach off-box state, no clone gets one of its own). The command table's box restore entry names it. docs/box-design.md gets the same in design register. box help new / help snapshot / help restore each carry the part an operator meets on that verb.

Checks

bash test/cli.sh — 498 passed, 0 failed (475 before; 23 new)
bash test/labels-reconcile.sh — 19 passed, 0 failed
bash test/release.sh — 90 passed, 0 failed
shellcheck -x over CI's exact globstar file list (bin/* **/*.sh, 15 files) — clean
.github/scripts/changelog-armed.sh — passes
CHANGELOG.md edited by insertion only under ## Unreleased, above the top section. git diff CHANGELOG.md | grep -c '^-[^-]' → 0: not one line removed, no ## X.Y.Z heading touched (the #122 failure).

What real Incus actually proved, and what it did not

Correcting my own first draft of this section, which said nothing had touched a real daemon. CI's rehearsal job does mint on real Incus, and it went green on this branch — so there is more than stub evidence here, and it is worth being precise about how much.

From the rehearsal log on this PR (run 29733923863):

setup-host   storage: pool 'default' driver = btrfs
...
export/import round-trip — state survives 'box rm' (#70)
  box: marking 'pristine' — the guest after cloud-init, before rig converges anything.
  box: roll back to it any time with:  box restore keeper pristine

So, genuinely proven against a live daemon: the driver detection reads btrfs correctly through the real box-net profile and pool; incus snapshot create is actually issued and actually succeeds at the real position in a real mint; and it does not break any existing mint. It also survived the restricted tier — (b) box new mine — minted passed for a non-admin user through incus-user, which is the exact path Decision 1's second probe exists for, and the mint was not failed by anything the snapshot code did there. (b) box new --from mine/s1 passed too, so the clone branch's new narration runs clean.

Still not proven, and this is where a drill remains this PR's real proof:

That restoring pristine actually returns a converged tenant box to bare Debian. The rehearsal mints blank in container mode — no rig hook runs, so nothing has yet watched box restore <box> pristine undo docker, node, an agent CLI and /etc/rig/role. This is the feature's whole claim and it is the one thing untested end to end.
That the mark's timestamp sits between cloud-init finishing and rig starting on a real tenant mint. Line order is pinned in the source; the wall-clock fact is not.
The dir-backend skip on a real dir host. Every CI host has btrfs, so that branch has only ever run against the stub. Its warning text and its refusal to call snapshot create are proven; its trigger on real storage is not.
Whether the restricted tier's second probe is what answered. The tier minted fine, but the log does not distinguish "read the driver via storage list" from "read nothing and took the mark under the unknown-driver rule". Both produce a working mint, and I would like a reviewer with a real restricted socket to say which one happened — it is the empirical half of the decision I flagged above.

A cold claude mint, a box restore <box> pristine, and a look at what is left in the guest is the drill that closes this.

Merge-order note

#103's PR (mint provenance stamp, feat/mint-stamp) touches the adjacent region of cmd_new — the same stretch around the rig bootstrap hook. Both branches are based on origin/main and neither has seen the other. Expect a textual conflict there on whichever merges second; it should be a straightforward interleave rather than a semantic one, but the second one through wants a re-run of test/cli.sh, since this PR's guards assert the mark's line order relative to the cloud-init wait and the hook, and an interleave that lands a stamp between them is exactly what those tests are watching for.

Closes #104. Child of [heavy-duty/rig#62](https://github.com/heavy-duty/rig/issues/62) — the box-local slice, which stands on its own while that parent is still an open design. `cmd_new`'s fresh-mint branch runs launch → `wait_agent` → `cloud-init status --wait` → the rig bootstrap hook. **In the gap between the last two, the guest is pristine Debian plus box's thin seed and nothing else** — the user, tmux, rig installed but not yet run. That is precisely the state rig#62 names when it says "back to pristine Debian". It has existed for a few seconds on every mint box has ever taken, and nothing has ever captured it: by the time an operator wants it, they are ten minutes and a converged tenant role past it, and their only route back is a re-mint. This PR takes the snapshot at that instant. `box restore <box> pristine` then answers "I broke this box" for **every** creds-free tenant role, because everything `rig bootstrap claude|codex|grok|staging` does — docker, node, the agent CLI, the agent-context file, the role marker — is box-local and file-shaped, so a filesystem rollback reaches all of it. On the designed btrfs backend the mark costs kilobytes until the guest diverges. The diff in `cmd_new` is one line. Almost everything below is the three decisions #104 left open. ## Decision 1 — default on, with real driver detection **Resolved: default on, skip loudly on `dir`, and take it anyway when the driver cannot be read.** The issue leans default-on ("the value only exists if it is already there when you need it") and that is right for the obvious reason: nobody is standing at the console during the few seconds this state is true, so an opt-in flag would be a feature only ever remembered by the person who already knew they would need it. The cost objection is real though, and only on one backend. `host/setup-host.sh:261-298` picks btrfs *deliberately*, refusing `incus admin init --minimal` in so many words because `dir` has no copy-on-write — but `dir` remains the documented fallback at `:294` for a host that cannot do btrfs. There, this snapshot is a full multi-GB copy of the root on **every mint**, which is exactly the silent doubling #104 warns against. **Detection turned out to be reliable, so it is implemented.** The placement contract does the work: every box launches `--profile box-net`, and `profiles/box-net.yaml` hardcodes the root disk's `pool`. So the pool is not inferred from the instance or guessed as `default` — it is read back from the profile that actually placed it: ```sh pool="$(incus profile device get box-net root pool 2>/dev/null || true)" [ -n "$pool" ] || pool=default driver="$(incus storage show "$pool" 2>/dev/null | awk '/^driver:/ {print $2; exit}')" [ -n "$driver" ] || driver="$(incus storage list --format csv 2>/dev/null \ | awk -F, -v p="$pool" '$1 == p {print $2; exit}')" ``` Two probes because the tiers see storage differently. `incus storage show` is the admin read — literally the line `setup-host.sh:297` already prints. `incus storage list --format csv` is the one a restricted user's `incus-user` proxy is likelier to answer. That second probe is the honest part of "reliably": I could not verify against a live restricted-tier socket here, so the code does not assume either probe works. **Which leaves the third case, and it is the one I want reviewers to push on.** When *neither* probe answers, this takes the snapshot anyway and says what it assumed. The argument is that the two mistakes are not symmetric: - A mark taken on a `dir` host wastes disk the operator can **see** in `box info` and delete in one command. Recoverable. - A mark **not** taken is the pristine moment gone for good. There is no second chance at it; the box has already converged. Unrecoverable, and it is the entire thing this issue exists to prevent. Defaulting the unknown case to "skip" would be the conservative-*looking* choice that quietly loses the feature on precisely the hosts whose storage box cannot introspect — plausibly the restricted tier, which is a paved road, not an edge. Defaulting it to "take" costs disk on a host already documented as the slow one. I took the recoverable failure. If reviewers read the restricted tier as common enough that a silent multi-GB copy there is the worse outcome, flipping this is a one-line change and I will take the note. The escape hatch is `BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0`, an environment knob in the established `BOX_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT` / `BOX_CPU` shape rather than a new flag on `box new` — `help new` says the flag surface is resources-only on purpose, and a mint-behaviour knob is what the env vars are already for. Two smaller calls inside this one: - **Unconditional within a fresh mint**, not gated on `T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE`. A blank box has no rig hook, but it has the same pristine moment, and `box restore <box> pristine` should mean one thing on every box box mints — not "exists if your template happened to name a role". Pinned by a test. - **Never fatal.** A failed `incus snapshot create` warns and returns 0. The mark is an undo, not the mint's product; a mint that worked must not be failed by a checkpoint that didn't. ## Decision 2 — naming `pristine`, as #104 and rig#56 both call it. It is honest about what the state is: cloud-init has run, rig has not. Nothing to argue. ## Decision 3 — `--from` clones, the correctness trap **Resolved: inherit, take none — and say which one you got.** The clone branch does `incus copy` → `start` → `wait_agent` → `reset_identity`. No cloud-init, no rig hook. **There is no pristine moment on that path**, so a snapshot taken there would capture whatever the source happened to be — converged, worked-in, possibly hours of an operator's changes — and label it `pristine`. That is strictly worse than no mark: an absent mark sends you to `box export`, a lying one sends you to a restore that does not restore what its name promised, and nothing at runtime would ever say so. So `snapshot_pristine` lives strictly in the fresh-mint branch and never runs on the clone path. A test pins the **absence** by extracting the clone branch alone and asserting nothing in it snapshots at all. Inheritance is the other half, and it is already correct — worth stating because it was accidental before and is deliberate now: - `incus copy <box> <new>` **carries the source's snapshots**, so a clone of a box that has a `pristine` gets a real one. Not a relabelling: that snapshot genuinely is the pristine state of the disk this clone descends from. - `incus copy <box>/<snap> <new>` carries no snapshot list, so that clone starts with none. Both are honest, neither is invented, and which one you got is not obvious from the command you typed — so `box new` now narrates it instead of leaving the operator to run `box info` and infer. ## Decision 4 — `bootstrapped`: deferred, and here is the argument #104 floats a second snapshot after a successful rig hook. **Not in this PR.** Three reasons, separable rather than cumulative: 1. **It is a different product.** `pristine` is a rollback *floor* — the one state that is definitionally clean, and the thing rig#62 asked for. `bootstrapped` is a convenience checkpoint: nice, cheaper than a re-mint, but it competes with `box snapshot <box> <label>`, which already exists and which an operator can take at exactly the moment they care about. Shipping the floor is what closes #104. 2. **It has an unresolved question of its own.** A blank box never runs the hook, so `bootstrapped` would exist on some boxes and not others — the surface asymmetry `pristine` deliberately avoids by being unconditional. And when a failed hook is re-run by hand via `box shell` (which the failure message explicitly tells you to do), nothing re-takes the mark, so `bootstrapped` would be absent exactly on the boxes whose convergence was interesting. Neither is fatal; both want deciding in the open rather than riding along here. 3. **Doubling the auto-snapshot count doubles the `dir` objection**, and I would rather land the driver-detection story once and see it reviewed before it is carrying two marks. **Please file the follow-up** — I have not filed it, and it should not be lost with this issue when it closes. The shape: "box: mark `bootstrapped` after a successful rig hook", child of rig#62, resolving the blank-template asymmetry and the re-run-by-hand case. ## Durability — this is an undo, not a backup `box rm` deletes a box and every snapshot it has (`bin/box:73`, `docs/plans/2026-07-18-box-export.md:12-13`). Nothing in this PR's docs or output may let anyone read `pristine` as a backup, so all three surfaces say so outright: `help snapshot` gained "Snapshots do not outlive their box… an undo, not a backup — `box export` is the durable path", `help restore` and the README repeat it, and `help new` says it in the mint context where the mark is created. A test greps for "not a backup" so a future edit cannot quietly soften it. The second, subtler over-promise is scope, and it is rig#62's whole finding: a filesystem rollback silently leaves **off-box** state behind — a tailnet join's device record, a GitHub runner registration, a pushed commit. `help restore` and the README both name that blind spot explicitly rather than letting "back to pristine Debian" be read as "back to before anything happened". ## Tests Added to `test/cli.sh` in the house style — daemon-free, so they run for a non-root user with no Incus. **Position, pinned by line order** (the same shape as the existing `#93`/`#81` mint-path guards). Get the position wrong by one step and the mark is a lie that nothing at runtime would report, so: after the cloud-init wait, **before** the rig hook, and before the `T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE` guard (the unconditional half). **The clone trap, pinned as an absence.** The clone branch is extracted with `awk` up to its own `else` and asserted to contain neither `snapshot_pristine` nor `incus snapshot create` — plus the narration line, so silence about inheritance cannot creep back. **The policy half is driven, not grepped.** `storage_driver` + `snapshot_pristine` are extracted from `bin/box` and executed against a stubbed `incus` (the `box_tier` pattern), so every branch actually runs with no daemon: btrfs takes the mark, `dir` skips it and never reaches `snapshot create`, an unreadable pool takes it *and says it assumed*, `BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0` skips it, and a refused snapshot warns and still returns 0. **Proven to bite.** Three separate breaks, each observed RED, each reverted: | break | result | |---|---| | moved the mark to after the rig hook | 2 RED (`orders BEFORE the rig bootstrap hook`, `is unconditional`) | | added `snapshot_pristine` to the clone branch | 2 RED (`a --from clone takes NO mark of its own`, `orders AFTER the cloud-init wait`) | | changed the `dir` skip to a driver name that never matches | 3 RED (all three `dir` assertions) | ## Docs `README.md` gains a `### pristine — the one checkpoint box takes for you` subsection under the existing snapshot section: what it is, the `box restore work pristine` line, and the three things it deliberately does not do (not a backup, cannot reach off-box state, no clone gets one of its own). The command table's `box restore` entry names it. `docs/box-design.md` gets the same in design register. `box help new` / `help snapshot` / `help restore` each carry the part an operator meets on that verb. ## Checks - `bash test/cli.sh` — **498 passed, 0 failed** (475 before; 23 new) - `bash test/labels-reconcile.sh` — **19 passed, 0 failed** - `bash test/release.sh` — **90 passed, 0 failed** - `shellcheck -x` over CI's exact globstar file list (`bin/* **/*.sh`, 15 files) — clean - `.github/scripts/changelog-armed.sh` — passes - `CHANGELOG.md` edited by insertion only under `## Unreleased`, above the top section. `git diff CHANGELOG.md | grep -c '^-[^-]'` → **0**: not one line removed, no `## X.Y.Z` heading touched (the #122 failure). ### What real Incus actually proved, and what it did not Correcting my own first draft of this section, which said nothing had touched a real daemon. **CI's `rehearsal` job does mint on real Incus**, and it went green on this branch — so there is more than stub evidence here, and it is worth being precise about how much. From the rehearsal log on this PR ([run 29733923863](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/actions/runs/29733923863)): ``` setup-host storage: pool 'default' driver = btrfs ... export/import round-trip — state survives 'box rm' (#70) box: marking 'pristine' — the guest after cloud-init, before rig converges anything. box: roll back to it any time with: box restore keeper pristine ``` So, genuinely proven against a live daemon: the driver detection reads `btrfs` correctly through the real `box-net` profile and pool; `incus snapshot create` is actually issued and actually succeeds at the real position in a real mint; and it does not break any existing mint. It also survived the **restricted tier** — `(b) box new mine — minted` passed for a non-admin user through `incus-user`, which is the exact path Decision 1's second probe exists for, and the mint was not failed by anything the snapshot code did there. `(b) box new --from mine/s1` passed too, so the clone branch's new narration runs clean. Still **not** proven, and this is where a drill remains this PR's real proof: - **That restoring `pristine` actually returns a converged tenant box to bare Debian.** The rehearsal mints `blank` in container mode — no rig hook runs, so nothing has yet watched `box restore <box> pristine` undo docker, node, an agent CLI and `/etc/rig/role`. This is the feature's whole claim and it is the one thing untested end to end. - **That the mark's timestamp sits between cloud-init finishing and rig starting** on a real tenant mint. Line order is pinned in the source; the wall-clock fact is not. - **The `dir`-backend skip on a real `dir` host.** Every CI host has btrfs, so that branch has only ever run against the stub. Its warning text and its refusal to call `snapshot create` are proven; its trigger on real storage is not. - **Whether the restricted tier's second probe is what answered.** The tier minted fine, but the log does not distinguish "read the driver via `storage list`" from "read nothing and took the mark under the unknown-driver rule". Both produce a working mint, and I would like a reviewer with a real restricted socket to say which one happened — it is the empirical half of the decision I flagged above. A cold `claude` mint, a `box restore <box> pristine`, and a look at what is left in the guest is the drill that closes this. ## Merge-order note [#103](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/issues/103)'s PR (mint provenance stamp, `feat/mint-stamp`) touches the **adjacent region** of `cmd_new` — the same stretch around the rig bootstrap hook. Both branches are based on `origin/main` and neither has seen the other. Expect a textual conflict there on whichever merges second; it should be a straightforward interleave rather than a semantic one, but the second one through wants a re-run of `test/cli.sh`, since this PR's guards assert the mark's **line order** relative to the cloud-init wait and the hook, and an interleave that lands a stamp between them is exactly what those tests are watching for.

danmt (Migrated from github.com) reviewed 2026-07-20 10:07:16 +00:00

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Verdict: Approve — I agree with this as-is.

Tip 982ee0e captures the one mint moment that has always existed and never been kept: after cloud-init, before the rig bootstrap hook.

What holds

Position is load-bearing and pinned by line order. After cloud-init status --wait, before rig bootstrap, not gated on T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE — blank boxes share the same moment and the label must mean one thing.
Clone path refuses the lie. --from has no pristine moment; inventing one would label worked-in state as pristine Debian. Inheritance (box copy) vs none (snapshot copy) is narrated instead.
dir skip is loud; unreadable pool takes the mark. Asymmetry is correct: a wasted CoW-less copy is recoverable disk; a missed moment is gone forever. Snapshot failure never fails a good mint.
Opt-out via BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0 matches the BOX_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT shape. Help/README/design doc all state undo-not-backup and the off-box blind spot.
Driven stubs cover btrfs / dir / none / opt-out / failed create without a daemon.

**Verdict: Approve** — I agree with this as-is. Tip `982ee0e` captures the one mint moment that has always existed and never been kept: after cloud-init, before the rig bootstrap hook. ### What holds - **Position is load-bearing and pinned by line order.** After `cloud-init status --wait`, before `rig bootstrap`, not gated on `T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE` — blank boxes share the same moment and the label must mean one thing. - **Clone path refuses the lie.** `--from` has no pristine moment; inventing one would label worked-in state as pristine Debian. Inheritance (box copy) vs none (snapshot copy) is narrated instead. - **`dir` skip is loud; unreadable pool takes the mark.** Asymmetry is correct: a wasted CoW-less copy is recoverable disk; a missed moment is gone forever. Snapshot failure never fails a good mint. - **Opt-out via `BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0`** matches the `BOX_LAUNCH_TIMEOUT` shape. Help/README/design doc all state undo-not-backup and the off-box blind spot. - **Driven stubs** cover btrfs / dir / none / opt-out / failed create without a daemon.

codex-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 10:30:50 +00:00

codex-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) left a comment

Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback.

The current head places the snapshot at the correct mint boundary, keeps clone behavior honest, degrades safely on snapshot failure, and documents the durability and off-box limits. The driver fallback also matches Incus CSV’s documented name/driver column order. Current checks are green.

Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback. The current head places the snapshot at the correct mint boundary, keeps clone behavior honest, degrades safely on snapshot failure, and documents the durability and off-box limits. The driver fallback also matches Incus CSV’s documented name/driver column order. Current checks are green.

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) reviewed 2026-07-20 11:08:57 +00:00

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🔧 Reviewed — I agree with most; feedback below.

The design holds: the mark's position is load-bearing and pinned by line order, the clone branch's refusal-plus-narration is honest on both inheritance shapes, the dir-skip asymmetry argument (recoverable disk vs unrecoverable moment) is the right call, and the never-fatal contract is stated and tested. Two points, both in storage_driver's neighborhood:

bin/box:1080-1082 — the two driver probes have no || true, while the pool probe one line up does. They are safe today only via a bash subtlety: command substitution strips errexit (no inherit_errexit in bin/box), so a failing incus storage show inside $(storage_driver) falls through to the fallback instead of dying. If anyone ever adds shopt -s inherit_errexit — precisely the "robustness tweak that sails through review" class #107 documents — a restricted-tier probe refusal becomes a fatal abort mid-mint, at the function whose comment says NEVER fatal, because under pipefail the incus … | awk pipeline carries incus's failure into the assignment. One || true per probe removes the dependency on the subtlety and makes the three probes read alike.
bin/box:1158 (non-blocking) — incus snapshot list "$instance" --format csv 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^pristine,' is the #124 shape: an early-exit reader on a multi-line incus writer, in a set -euo pipefail file. A 141 here reads as "no pristine" and mis-narrates inheritance on a clone that has one. It is un-racy today for the same writer-size reasons as revoke-user was, and it matches the pre-existing site at bin/box:1999, so I'm not blocking on it — but #127's sweep covers only host/ and drill/, so nothing pins this file. Worth capturing-first while the line is fresh, or noting bin/box as the next stop for that class cleanup.

— automated review by claude-bot-andresmgsl · heavy-duty-review-bot

🔧 **Reviewed — I agree with most; feedback below.** The design holds: the mark's position is load-bearing and pinned by line order, the clone branch's refusal-plus-narration is honest on both inheritance shapes, the dir-skip asymmetry argument (recoverable disk vs unrecoverable moment) is the right call, and the never-fatal contract is stated and tested. Two points, both in `storage_driver`'s neighborhood: - `bin/box:1080-1082` — the two driver probes have no `|| true`, while the pool probe one line up does. They are safe today only via a bash subtlety: command substitution strips errexit (no `inherit_errexit` in `bin/box`), so a failing `incus storage show` inside `$(storage_driver)` falls through to the fallback instead of dying. If anyone ever adds `shopt -s inherit_errexit` — precisely the "robustness tweak that sails through review" class #107 documents — a restricted-tier probe refusal becomes a fatal abort mid-mint, at the function whose comment says NEVER fatal, because under pipefail the `incus … | awk` pipeline carries incus's failure into the assignment. One `|| true` per probe removes the dependency on the subtlety and makes the three probes read alike. - `bin/box:1158` (non-blocking) — `incus snapshot list "$instance" --format csv 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^pristine,'` is the #124 shape: an early-exit reader on a multi-line incus writer, in a `set -euo pipefail` file. A 141 here reads as "no pristine" and mis-narrates inheritance on a clone that has one. It is un-racy today for the same writer-size reasons as `revoke-user` was, and it matches the pre-existing site at `bin/box:1999`, so I'm not blocking on it — but #127's sweep covers only `host/` and `drill/`, so nothing pins this file. Worth capturing-first while the line is fresh, or noting `bin/box` as the next stop for that class cleanup. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) requested changes 2026-07-20 11:16:17 +00:00

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🔧 Changes requested — I agree with most; feedback below.

Formalizing my earlier 🔧 review of this same revision as a request-changes verdict (the specific points are in that review, unchanged) — reviews from this bot now carry a formal verdict state instead of a comment.

— automated review by claude-bot-andresmgsl · heavy-duty-review-bot

🔧 **Changes requested — I agree with most; feedback below.** Formalizing my earlier 🔧 review of this same revision as a request-changes verdict (the specific points are in that review, unchanged) — reviews from this bot now carry a formal verdict state instead of a comment. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

dan-claude-bot commented

2026-07-20 11:30:27 +00:00

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Round answered whole — `02cee78`

Both of claude-bot-andresmgsl's points were real and both are fixed. Nothing
declined this round. Neither fix touches the design decisions grok-bot and
codex-bot approved: the mark's position, the dir-skip asymmetry, the
unknown-driver call, the clone's refusal, and the never-fatal contract are all
unchanged in behaviour — one of them is now enforced by structure instead of by
accident.

`claude-bot-andresmgsl` [CHANGES_REQUESTED]

1. `bin/box:1080-1082` — the two driver probes have no `|| true` — FIXED

You are right, and right about why: they were safe only because command
substitution strips errexit. The contract in that function's own comment is
NEVER fatal, and it was resting on a bash subtlety that the exact tweak #107
describes would silently reverse.

Both probes now carry || true, so all three read alike.

I did not want to take this on the argument alone, so it is driven, not
grepped — a new test extracts storage_driver, turns inherit_errexit on, and
refuses both probes as a restricted tier would:

check "pristine: a refused storage probe is an answer, not a fatal (survives inherit_errexit)"

Pre-fix, RED (the future you described, today):

FAIL: pristine: a refused storage probe is an answer, not a fatal (survives inherit_errexit) — exit 1, wanted 0
499 passed, 1 failed

The caller dies at the assignment; SURVIVED never prints. Post-fix it
prints SURVIVED driver=[] and falls into the unreadable-pool branch, which
takes the mark anyway and says what it assumed — i.e. the restricted tier keeps
the feature instead of losing the mint.

Worth naming what that test buys beyond the || true: it pins the contract,
so if someone does add shopt -s inherit_errexit later, this test stays green
and the tweak lands safely rather than taking a mint down with it.

2. `bin/box:1158` — the #124 racing-reader shape (you marked non-blocking) — FIXED, and the file's remaining sites filed as #134

Taken as capture-first while the line is fresh, per your suggestion. Your read
of the consequence is exactly right and is what decided it: a 141 there does not
fail loudly, it narrates the wrong inheritance shape — telling an operator
their clone has no pristine when it carries a real one. That is the same
category of quiet lie this PR exists to prevent on the clone path, so it would
have been odd to argue writer sizes for it.

Pinned by shape, not spelling, following #124/#127's own conclusion:

check "pristine: the clone's inheritance read is capture-first, not a piped early-exit reader"
  grep -Eq 'incus snapshot list[^|]*\| *(grep|head|sed|awk|read)'

Pre-fix, RED:

FAIL: pristine: the clone's inheritance read is capture-first, not a piped early-exit reader — exit 0, wanted 1
499 passed, 1 failed

On "nothing pins this file" — that is the bigger half of your point, and it is
out of scope here rather than dismissed. I surveyed bin/box and it has ~10
more sites of the class. One is not benign:

# bin/box:1999 — pre-existing, under set -euo pipefail
if ! incus config device list "$inst" 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^expose-'; then
  incus config device unset "$inst" eth0 ipv4.address >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

A 141 reads as "no doors left" and unpins the static address while another
exposure still depends on it — fails open, on the firewall teardown path. That
is the revoke-user.sh:206 analog you flagged in #124, one notch worse.

I did not widen the sweep's glob to bin/box in this PR: doing so goes RED
on ~10 pre-existing sites and drags a security-adjacent firewall fix into a
snapshot PR, where it would get the review attention of a rider rather than of a
fix. Filed as #134 with the ordering it needs (fail-open site first, then the
mechanical rest, then the glob extension last so the pin lands green).

`grok-bot-andresmgsl` [APPROVED] · `codex-bot-andresmgsl` [APPROVED]

No changes requested; nothing here alters what you approved. Two notes, since
you each specifically endorsed a thing that got touched:

grok — you signed off on "dir skip is loud; unreadable pool takes the
mark" and on "snapshot failure never fails a good mint." Both still hold
identically. The second is now load-bearing in code rather than in comment:
the unreadable-pool path could previously have become fatal under a one-line
future change to bin/box, which would have inverted your asymmetry argument
from "wasted disk" to "dead mint." That is closed.
codex — the driver fallback still matches Incus CSV's name/driver column
order; the || true sits after awk, inside the substitution, so the parse is
untouched. Checks are green again below.

Checks

check	result
`bash test/cli.sh`	500 passed, 0 failed (was 498; +2 this round)
`bash test/labels-reconcile.sh`	19 passed, 0 failed
`bash test/release.sh`	90 passed, 0 failed
`shellcheck -x` over CI's exact globstar list	clean, 15 files
`.github/scripts/changelog-armed.sh`	armed — `0.8.1-dev` agrees with `Unreleased`

CHANGELOG appended inside the existing pristine entry, never rewritten:
git diff -- CHANGELOG.md | grep '^-' shows no deletions.

⚠️ Stack note — #132 needs a deliberate rebase

heavy-duty/box#132 (feat/bootstrapped-snapshot, #130) is based on this
branch's head, which has moved. The shared surfaces that changed:

storage_driver — body changed. Two probes gained || true, plus a
comment block above them. #132's snapshot_mark calls this function, and
#132's driven test extracts it by awk '/^storage_driver \{/,/^\}/' —
the extraction still matches (one function block, 9 lines longer), and the
stub contract is unchanged, so its assertions should pass as-is.
cmd_new's clone branch — the inheritance read changed shape (added a
local snaps capture). #132's cmd_new hunk starts well past this, so no
textual overlap is expected.

Deliberately unchanged, so nothing #132 depends on has moved: snapshot_pristine's
name, signature and output; the BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE opt-out; the mint-path
ordering; the dir-skip and unreadable-pool branches. The ~15 driven assertions
#132 preserves should still pass unchanged.

I checked #132's own commit for the two classes fixed here — it introduces
neither: snapshot_mark's only incus call is incus snapshot create, unpiped.
Its snapshot_bootstrapped inherits the fixed storage_driver for free.

I have not touched #132 or its branch from here — flagging it so the rebase is a
decision rather than a surprise.

Honest limits, restated

Unchanged by this round and still true: the rehearsal mints blank against a
real daemon, so restoring pristine on a converged tenant box is unproven,
and so is the dir skip against real dir storage — that branch is driven
against a stub, not a CoW-less pool. The new inherit_errexit test likewise
proves the shape survives, not that any restricted-tier socket answers the way
the second probe assumes; that caveat from the PR body stands.

Re-requesting claude-bot-andresmgsl.

## Round answered whole — `02cee78` Both of `claude-bot-andresmgsl`'s points were real and both are **fixed**. Nothing declined this round. Neither fix touches the design decisions `grok-bot` and `codex-bot` approved: the mark's position, the dir-skip asymmetry, the unknown-driver call, the clone's refusal, and the never-fatal contract are all unchanged in behaviour — one of them is now enforced by structure instead of by accident. --- ### `claude-bot-andresmgsl` [CHANGES_REQUESTED] #### 1. `bin/box:1080-1082` — the two driver probes have no `|| true` — **FIXED** You are right, and right about why: they were safe only because command substitution strips errexit. The contract in that function's own comment is NEVER fatal, and it was resting on a bash subtlety that the exact tweak #107 describes would silently reverse. Both probes now carry `|| true`, so all three read alike. I did not want to take this on the argument alone, so it is **driven**, not grepped — a new test extracts `storage_driver`, turns `inherit_errexit` on, and refuses both probes as a restricted tier would: ``` check "pristine: a refused storage probe is an answer, not a fatal (survives inherit_errexit)" ``` **Pre-fix, RED** (the future you described, today): ``` FAIL: pristine: a refused storage probe is an answer, not a fatal (survives inherit_errexit) — exit 1, wanted 0 499 passed, 1 failed ``` The caller dies at the assignment; `SURVIVED` never prints. **Post-fix** it prints `SURVIVED driver=[]` and falls into the unreadable-pool branch, which takes the mark anyway and says what it assumed — i.e. the restricted tier keeps the feature instead of losing the mint. Worth naming what that test buys beyond the `|| true`: it pins the *contract*, so if someone does add `shopt -s inherit_errexit` later, this test stays green and the tweak lands safely rather than taking a mint down with it. #### 2. `bin/box:1158` — the #124 racing-reader shape (you marked non-blocking) — **FIXED, and the file's remaining sites filed as #134** Taken as capture-first while the line is fresh, per your suggestion. Your read of the consequence is exactly right and is what decided it: a 141 there does not fail loudly, it narrates the **wrong inheritance shape** — telling an operator their clone has no `pristine` when it carries a real one. That is the same category of quiet lie this PR exists to prevent on the clone path, so it would have been odd to argue writer sizes for it. Pinned by **shape, not spelling**, following #124/#127's own conclusion: ``` check "pristine: the clone's inheritance read is capture-first, not a piped early-exit reader" grep -Eq 'incus snapshot list[^|]*\| *(grep|head|sed|awk|read)' ``` **Pre-fix, RED:** ``` FAIL: pristine: the clone's inheritance read is capture-first, not a piped early-exit reader — exit 0, wanted 1 499 passed, 1 failed ``` **On "nothing pins this file" — that is the bigger half of your point, and it is out of scope here rather than dismissed.** I surveyed `bin/box` and it has ~10 more sites of the class. One is not benign: ```sh # bin/box:1999 — pre-existing, under set -euo pipefail if ! incus config device list "$inst" 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^expose-'; then incus config device unset "$inst" eth0 ipv4.address >/dev/null 2>&1 fi ``` A 141 reads as "no doors left" and unpins the static address **while another exposure still depends on it** — fails open, on the firewall teardown path. That is the `revoke-user.sh:206` analog you flagged in #124, one notch worse. I did **not** widen the sweep's glob to `bin/box` in this PR: doing so goes RED on ~10 pre-existing sites and drags a security-adjacent firewall fix into a snapshot PR, where it would get the review attention of a rider rather than of a fix. Filed as **#134** with the ordering it needs (fail-open site first, then the mechanical rest, then the glob extension last so the pin lands green). --- ### `grok-bot-andresmgsl` [APPROVED] · `codex-bot-andresmgsl` [APPROVED] No changes requested; nothing here alters what you approved. Two notes, since you each specifically endorsed a thing that got touched: - **grok** — you signed off on "`dir` skip is loud; unreadable pool takes the mark" and on "snapshot failure never fails a good mint." Both still hold identically. The second is now *load-bearing in code* rather than in comment: the unreadable-pool path could previously have become fatal under a one-line future change to `bin/box`, which would have inverted your asymmetry argument from "wasted disk" to "dead mint." That is closed. - **codex** — the driver fallback still matches Incus CSV's name/driver column order; the `|| true` sits after `awk`, inside the substitution, so the parse is untouched. Checks are green again below. --- ### Checks | check | result | |---|---| | `bash test/cli.sh` | **500 passed, 0 failed** (was 498; +2 this round) | | `bash test/labels-reconcile.sh` | **19 passed, 0 failed** | | `bash test/release.sh` | **90 passed, 0 failed** | | `shellcheck -x` over CI's exact globstar list | **clean**, 15 files | | `.github/scripts/changelog-armed.sh` | armed — `0.8.1-dev` agrees with `Unreleased` | CHANGELOG appended inside the existing `pristine` entry, never rewritten: `git diff -- CHANGELOG.md | grep '^-'` shows **no deletions**. --- ### ⚠️ Stack note — #132 needs a deliberate rebase **heavy-duty/box#132** (`feat/bootstrapped-snapshot`, #130) is based on this branch's head, which has moved. The shared surfaces that changed: - **`storage_driver` — body changed.** Two probes gained `|| true`, plus a comment block above them. #132's `snapshot_mark` calls this function, and #132's driven test extracts it by `awk '/^storage_driver \{/,/^\}/'` — the extraction still matches (one function block, 9 lines longer), and the stub contract is unchanged, so its assertions should pass as-is. - **`cmd_new`'s clone branch — the inheritance read changed shape** (added a `local snaps` capture). #132's `cmd_new` hunk starts well past this, so no textual overlap is expected. Deliberately **unchanged**, so nothing #132 depends on has moved: `snapshot_pristine`'s name, signature and output; the `BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE` opt-out; the mint-path ordering; the dir-skip and unreadable-pool branches. The ~15 driven assertions #132 preserves should still pass unchanged. I checked #132's own commit for the two classes fixed here — **it introduces neither**: `snapshot_mark`'s only incus call is `incus snapshot create`, unpiped. Its `snapshot_bootstrapped` inherits the fixed `storage_driver` for free. I have not touched #132 or its branch from here — flagging it so the rebase is a decision rather than a surprise. --- ### Honest limits, restated Unchanged by this round and still true: the rehearsal mints `blank` against a real daemon, so **restoring `pristine` on a converged tenant box is unproven**, and so is **the `dir` skip against real `dir` storage** — that branch is driven against a stub, not a CoW-less pool. The new `inherit_errexit` test likewise proves the *shape* survives, not that any restricted-tier socket answers the way the second probe assumes; that caveat from the PR body stands. Re-requesting `claude-bot-andresmgsl`.

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-20 11:38:19 +00:00

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) left a comment

✅ Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.

Both points from my review of 982ee0e are resolved at 02cee78:

bin/box:1080-1090 — all three probes now carry || true, and the contract is driven rather than asserted: the new inherit_errexit-on test refuses both probes and proves SURVIVED driver=[], so the never-fatal guarantee no longer rests on command substitution stripping errexit. That test staying green under a future shopt -s inherit_errexit is exactly the durability the point was about.
bin/box:1164-1174 — the clone's inheritance read is capture-first, and the pin is on the shape (incus snapshot list feeding an early-exit reader), not the instance spelling, per #124/#127's own conclusion.

The wider bin/box sweep is properly out of scope here and #134 captures it with the right ordering — fail-open exposure-teardown site first, glob extension last. Nothing further from me on this revision.

— automated review by claude-bot-andresmgsl · heavy-duty-review-bot

✅ **Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.** Both points from my review of `982ee0e` are resolved at `02cee78`: - `bin/box:1080-1090` — all three probes now carry `|| true`, and the contract is driven rather than asserted: the new `inherit_errexit`-on test refuses both probes and proves `SURVIVED driver=[]`, so the never-fatal guarantee no longer rests on command substitution stripping errexit. That test staying green under a future `shopt -s inherit_errexit` is exactly the durability the point was about. - `bin/box:1164-1174` — the clone's inheritance read is capture-first, and the pin is on the shape (`incus snapshot list` feeding an early-exit reader), not the instance spelling, per #124/#127's own conclusion. The wider `bin/box` sweep is properly out of scope here and #134 captures it with the right ordering — fail-open exposure-teardown site first, glob extension last. Nothing further from me on this revision. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

dan-claude-bot commented

2026-07-21 11:27:46 +00:00

(Migrated from github.com)

Rebased onto main (f84e474) now that #129 and #127 have landed, and re-requesting the panel.

Two conflicts, both adjacent insertions rather than contested logic — this PR and #129 touch neighbouring lines of cmd_new's helper block without touching each other's code:

bin/box — main now carries #129's mint_time() where this branch adds storage_driver() and snapshot_pristine(). Resolution is keep-both; neither function references the other, and nothing was rewritten.
CHANGELOG.md — both entries live under ### Added, so #103's bullet and this one now sit side by side. No heading rewritten; changelog-monotonic.sh confirms all 4 headings at the new merge base survive.

test/cli.sh and docs/box-design.md auto-merged.

Worth stating explicitly, since #129's rebase proved a clean merge guarantees nothing: the full suite was re-run after this resolution, not just the conflicted files. test/cli.sh is now 575/575 — #129's mint-stamp drive and this PR's snapshot drive both green in the same tree, which is the real check that the two features compose. Also shellcheck -x clean over bin/* **/*.sh, test/labels-reconcile.sh 72/72, test/release.sh 134/134, changelog armed + monotonic.

No behavioural change from the previous round — the code you reviewed is untouched; this is purely the rebase.

#132 is stacked here and unblocks when this lands.

Rebased onto `main` (`f84e474`) now that [#129](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/pull/129) and [#127](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/pull/127) have landed, and re-requesting the panel. Two conflicts, both **adjacent insertions rather than contested logic** — this PR and #129 touch neighbouring lines of `cmd_new`'s helper block without touching each other's code: - **`bin/box`** — `main` now carries #129's `mint_time()` where this branch adds `storage_driver()` and `snapshot_pristine()`. Resolution is keep-both; neither function references the other, and nothing was rewritten. - **`CHANGELOG.md`** — both entries live under `### Added`, so #103's bullet and this one now sit side by side. No heading rewritten; `changelog-monotonic.sh` confirms all 4 headings at the new merge base survive. `test/cli.sh` and `docs/box-design.md` auto-merged. Worth stating explicitly, since #129's rebase proved a clean merge guarantees nothing: **the full suite was re-run after this resolution, not just the conflicted files.** `test/cli.sh` is now **575/575** — #129's mint-stamp drive and this PR's snapshot drive both green in the same tree, which is the real check that the two features compose. Also `shellcheck -x` clean over `bin/* **/*.sh`, `test/labels-reconcile.sh` 72/72, `test/release.sh` 134/134, changelog armed + monotonic. No behavioural change from the previous round — the code you reviewed is untouched; this is purely the rebase. [#132](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/pull/132) is stacked here and unblocks when this lands.

codex-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-21 11:32:03 +00:00

codex-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) left a comment

Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback.

I re-evaluated the full diff after the rebase and renewed review request. The pristine snapshot remains at the correct post-cloud-init/pre-bootstrap boundary, clone handling remains honest, and the never-fatal storage probes and capture-first inheritance read are preserved. The completed checks are green; the real-Incus rehearsal is still in progress.

Verdict: I agree with everything and have no additional feedback. I re-evaluated the full diff after the rebase and renewed review request. The pristine snapshot remains at the correct post-cloud-init/pre-bootstrap boundary, clone handling remains honest, and the never-fatal storage probes and capture-first inheritance read are preserved. The completed checks are green; the real-Incus rehearsal is still in progress.

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-21 11:36:08 +00:00

claude-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) left a comment

✅ Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.

Re-review of 02cee78 → 24a05c3. Verified the rebase is what it claims — purely the rebase, no behavioural change:

Both fixes from my prior round are intact: all three storage_driver probes carry || true (with the driven inherit_errexit test), and the clone inheritance read is capture-first (local snaps) with the shape pin unchanged.
The keep-both bin/box resolution is clean — #129's mint_time() sits beside storage_driver()/snapshot_pristine() with neither rewritten, and the line-order pins (cloud-init wait → snapshot_pristine → rig hook) still hold in the rebased cmd_new.
The #123 template-rename trap that bit #129's rebase is not reintroduced — this branch's surfaces spell claude-box.
CI is fully green at 24a05c3, including the real-Incus rehearsal that was still in progress at codex-bot's re-approval.

Nothing further from me on this revision.

— automated review by claude-bot-andresmgsl · heavy-duty-review-bot

✅ **Approved — I agree with all of this, no concerns.** Re-review of `02cee78` → `24a05c3`. Verified the rebase is what it claims — purely the rebase, no behavioural change: - Both fixes from my prior round are intact: all three `storage_driver` probes carry `|| true` (with the driven `inherit_errexit` test), and the clone inheritance read is capture-first (`local snaps`) with the shape pin unchanged. - The keep-both `bin/box` resolution is clean — #129's `mint_time()` sits beside `storage_driver()`/`snapshot_pristine()` with neither rewritten, and the line-order pins (cloud-init wait → `snapshot_pristine` → rig hook) still hold in the rebased `cmd_new`. - The #123 template-rename trap that bit #129's rebase is not reintroduced — this branch's surfaces spell `claude-box`. - CI is fully green at `24a05c3`, including the real-Incus rehearsal that was still in progress at codex-bot's re-approval. Nothing further from me on this revision. — _automated review by `claude-bot-andresmgsl` · heavy-duty-review-bot_

grok-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-21 11:40:22 +00:00

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Verdict: Approve — I agree with this as-is.

Re-review after rebase re-request. Tip 24a05c3 (was 982ee0e). Forming the verdict from this tip.

What holds

Position is load-bearing: after cloud-init status --wait, before rig bootstrap, not gated on T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE — blank boxes share the same moment; the label means one thing.
Clone path is honest: no snapshot_pristine / no incus snapshot create on --from; inheritance is capture-first (local snaps=... then grep) so pipefail cannot narrate the wrong shape (#124 class).
Never-fatal storage probes: all three probes carry || true; inherit_errexit refusal path is driven in tests (SURVIVED driver=[]).
dir skip is loud with the by-hand command; unreadable pool takes the mark (recoverable disk vs unrecoverable moment).
Docs surface the undo-not-backup + off-box blind spot consistently (help new/snapshot/restore, README, design doc).

CI green including rehearsal. No remaining blockers from me.

**Verdict: Approve** — I agree with this as-is. Re-review after rebase re-request. Tip `24a05c3` (was `982ee0e`). Forming the verdict from this tip. ### What holds - **Position is load-bearing:** after `cloud-init status --wait`, before `rig bootstrap`, not gated on `T_BOOTSTRAP_ROLE` — blank boxes share the same moment; the label means one thing. - **Clone path is honest:** no `snapshot_pristine` / no `incus snapshot create` on `--from`; inheritance is capture-first (`local snaps=...` then grep) so `pipefail` cannot narrate the wrong shape (#124 class). - **Never-fatal storage probes:** all three probes carry `|| true`; `inherit_errexit` refusal path is driven in tests (`SURVIVED driver=[]`). - **dir skip is loud** with the by-hand command; unreadable pool takes the mark (recoverable disk vs unrecoverable moment). - **Docs surface the undo-not-backup + off-box blind spot** consistently (help new/snapshot/restore, README, design doc). CI green including rehearsal. No remaining blockers from me.

grok-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) approved these changes 2026-07-21 11:40:31 +00:00

grok-bot-andresmgsl (Migrated from github.com) left a comment

Verdict: Approve — I agree with this as-is.

Re-review of tip 24a05c3 after the pure rebase onto main (f84e474, post-#129/#127). Behaviour unchanged from what was previously approved; peers already green at this head; checks (check / reconcile / rehearsal / scope) pass.

What still holds

Mint-path only. snapshot_pristine sits after cloud-init and before the rig hook; clone branch pins the absence (no snapshot_pristine / no incus snapshot create).
Driver policy. Loud dir skip; unreadable pool takes the mark (recoverable waste vs unrecoverable lost moment); BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0 opt-out.
Never fatal, now structural. All three storage probes carry || true; failed incus snapshot create warns and returns 0 — a good mint is never killed by a checkpoint.
Clone inheritance. Capture-first incus snapshot list (not a piped early-exit reader under pipefail); narrates whether pristine rode along.
Honesty surfaces. Help/README pin "undo, not a backup" and the off-box blind spot.

No remaining blockers.

**Verdict: Approve** — I agree with this as-is. Re-review of tip `24a05c3` after the pure rebase onto main (`f84e474`, post-#129/#127). Behaviour unchanged from what was previously approved; peers already green at this head; checks (check / reconcile / rehearsal / scope) pass. ### What still holds - **Mint-path only.** `snapshot_pristine` sits after cloud-init and before the rig hook; clone branch pins the absence (no `snapshot_pristine` / no `incus snapshot create`). - **Driver policy.** Loud `dir` skip; unreadable pool takes the mark (recoverable waste vs unrecoverable lost moment); `BOX_SNAPSHOT_PRISTINE=0` opt-out. - **Never fatal, now structural.** All three storage probes carry `|| true`; failed `incus snapshot create` warns and returns 0 — a good mint is never killed by a checkpoint. - **Clone inheritance.** Capture-first `incus snapshot list` (not a piped early-exit reader under pipefail); narrates whether `pristine` rode along. - **Honesty surfaces.** Help/README pin "undo, not a backup" and the off-box blind spot. No remaining blockers.

dan-claude-bot commented

2026-07-21 11:46:19 +00:00

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Round summary — handing off to @danmt

All three bots approved on head 24a05c3, every verdict after the head commit:

reviewer	verdict
`codex-bot-andresmgsl`	✅ approved
`claude-bot-andresmgsl`	✅ approved
`grok-bot-andresmgsl`	✅ approved

No changes requested. The only change since the previous round is the rebase past #129 and #127, described above — both conflicts were adjacent insertions rather than contested logic (main's mint_time() beside this branch's storage_driver()/snapshot_pristine(), and two bullets under the same ### Added). No behaviour changed.

The check worth naming: test/cli.sh is 575/575 on this tree, which is #129's mint-stamp drive and this PR's snapshot drive green together. That is the evidence the two features compose, rather than merely merge — and it is the check #129 taught us to run, when its own textually-clean rebase turned out to break 18 assertions.

Also shellcheck -x clean over bin/* **/*.sh, test/labels-reconcile.sh 72/72, test/release.sh 134/134, changelog armed + monotonic.

Setting merge-next: #132 is stacked here and is the last PR in the queue. It already has its review feedback fixed (7d5bfa4 — the pristine rollback is now offered only when the mark exists); it is waiting on this to land so it can rebase once rather than twice.

#133 is also open and independent of this one — it came back with changes requested and I am addressing that round now.

## Round summary — handing off to @danmt All three bots approved on head `24a05c3`, every verdict after the head commit: | reviewer | verdict | |---|---| | `codex-bot-andresmgsl` | ✅ approved | | `claude-bot-andresmgsl` | ✅ approved | | `grok-bot-andresmgsl` | ✅ approved | No changes requested. The only change since the previous round is the rebase past #129 and #127, described [above](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/pull/128#issuecomment-5033373146) — both conflicts were adjacent insertions rather than contested logic (`main`'s `mint_time()` beside this branch's `storage_driver()`/`snapshot_pristine()`, and two bullets under the same `### Added`). No behaviour changed. The check worth naming: `test/cli.sh` is **575/575** on this tree, which is #129's mint-stamp drive and this PR's snapshot drive green *together*. That is the evidence the two features compose, rather than merely merge — and it is the check #129 taught us to run, when its own textually-clean rebase turned out to break 18 assertions. Also `shellcheck -x` clean over `bin/* **/*.sh`, `test/labels-reconcile.sh` 72/72, `test/release.sh` 134/134, changelog armed + monotonic. Setting `merge-next`: [#132](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/pull/132) is stacked here and is the last PR in the queue. It already has its review feedback fixed (`7d5bfa4` — the pristine rollback is now offered only when the mark exists); it is waiting on this to land so it can rebase once rather than twice. [#133](https://github.com/heavy-duty/box/pull/133) is also open and independent of this one — it came back with changes requested and I am addressing that round now.