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jschoubben c192810fba 004 and 008 resolved; 006 narrowed to the decision it actually needs
**004 — certificate issuance.** The resolver declared no authority at
all, so the client fell to its built-in production default: there was no
setting set wrongly, there was no setting. It is now a node property
defaulting to staging, which answers the first open question. Staging by
default rather than production-with-an-override, because the alternative
leaves the safe path depending on remembering to opt out of it — 005's
lesson, in a second place. The rollout is ordered and the order is the
dangerous part; recorded, not performed.

**008 — node rescue.** Read back from running nodes as the report asked,
and one of its own claims was wrong in a way that matters: the health
timer does exist and does fire. It simply never calls the rescue script.
A trigger that exists and does not do what the script claims survives a
halfway check, which makes it worse than the absence the report
described. Resolved by making the documentation true, not by
implementing rescue — the replacement host already supervises recovery,
and wiring unattended restart into the fleet being retired is a
deliberate decision rather than a tidy-up. Two "self-healing" claims
narrowed to what they actually do.

**006 — deliberately not closed.** Re-checked today: the indexing still
does not exist. What is gone is the reason it was an issue — the claim
is no longer load-bearing, because the README names the gap and the
decision's reasoning never invoked indexing. A signpost now points here
from the knowledge base, and was measured rather than assumed: it is
reachable, it is not surfacing. Closing it while the indexing does not
exist would be this repository's own named failure, one folder from
where it names it.
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