feat(agent): gather debug log — phase transitions + per-match regex traces

- New "phase" stage: OnPhaseChanged writes a transition marker line
  (phase change: Old -> New) so rule-level lines read against the current
  phase; only on real changes, written outside _scopeLock.
- LogParser traces each regex match: line number, matched text (<=200 chars)
  and capture groups (<=100 chars, same selection as event data), capped at
  10 lines per file per run; the per-file summary keeps the full count.
- Invalid-regex error line now includes the offending pattern string.

Tests: 4 new (transition dedup, match trace, cap, pattern in error);
agent suite 2137/2137 green. OKF doc + docs/log.md updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.claude/CLAUDE.md

@@ -1,79 +1,37 @@
-## Workflow Orchestration
-# Agent Directives: Mechanical Overrides
+# Agent Directives
 
-You are operating within a constrained context window and strict system prompts. To produce production-grade code, you MUST adhere to these overrides:
+- **Plan first.** Enter plan mode for any non-trivial task (3+ steps or an architectural decision) and write the spec before building. If something goes sideways, stop and re-plan instead of pushing on.
+- **Use subagents liberally** for research, exploration, and parallel analysis — one focus each — to keep the main context clean.
+- **Verify before claiming done.** Run the tests, check the logs, show the evidence. Diff against `main` where behaviour could regress.
+- **Fix bugs autonomously.** Given a report, a failing test, or an error, resolve it — no hand-holding.
+- **Capture corrections.** After any correction from the user, record the pattern and a preventing rule in `tasks/lessons.md`; review it at session start.
+- Read files over 500 LOC in chunks. Never treat one grep as proof of absence.
 
+Codex reviews your output once you are done.
 
+## Code Quality
 
-### 1. Plan Mode Default
-- Enter plan mode for ANY non-trivial task (3+ steps or architectural decisions)
-- If something goes sideways, STOP and re-plan immediately — don't keep pushing
-- Use plan mode for specification steps, not just building
-- Write detailed specs upfront to reduce ambiguity
-
-### 2. Subagent Strategy
-- Use subagents liberally to keep main context window clean
-- Offload research, exploration, and parallel analysis to subagents
-- For complex problems, throw more compute at it via subagents
-- One tack per subagent for focused execution
-
-### 3. Self-Improvement Loop
-- After ANY correction from the user: update `tasks/lessons.md` with the pattern
-- Write rules for yourself that prevent the same mistake
-- Ruthlessly iterate on these lessons until mistake rate drops
-- Review lessons at session start for relevant project
-
-### 4. Verification Before Done
-- Never mark a task complete without proving it works
-- Diff behavior between main and your changes when relevant
-- Ask yourself: "Would a staff engineer approve this?"
-- Run tests, check logs, demonstrate correctness
-
-### 5. Demand Elegance (Balanced)
-- For non-trivial changes: pause and ask "is there a more elegant way?"
-- If a fix feels hacky: "Knowing everything I know now, implement the elegant solution"
-- Skip this for simple, obvious fixes — don't over-engineer
-- Challenge your own work before presenting it
-
-### 6. Autonomous Bug Fixing
-- When given a bug report: just fix it. Don't ask for hand-holding
-- Point at logs, errors, failing tests — then resolve them
-- Zero context switching required from the user
-- Go fix failing CI tests without being told how
-
-
-
-### Tools Execution
-- Read any file over 500 LOC in chunks using offset and limit parameters.
-- Do not assume a single grep caught everything.
-
-### Code Quality
-- If architecture is flawed, state is duplicated, or patterns are inconsistent - propose and implement structural fixes. Ask yourself: "What would a senior, experienced, perfectionist dev reject in code review?" Fix all of it.
-
-
-Codex will review your output once you are done!
-
+- Simplicity first: minimal, targeted changes. No temporary fixes — find the root cause.
+- Where architecture is flawed, state is duplicated, or patterns are inconsistent, propose and implement the structural fix. Ask what a perfectionist reviewer would reject, and fix that too.
+- On non-trivial changes, ask whether there is a more elegant way before presenting. Skip it for simple fixes — don't over-engineer.
 
 ## Task Management
 
-1. **Plan First**: Write plan to `tasks/todo.md` with checkable items
-2. **Verify Plan**: Check in before starting implementation
-3. **Track Progress**: Mark items complete as you go
-4. **Explain Changes**: High-level summary at each step
-5. **Document Results**: Add review section to `tasks/todo.md`
-6. **Capture Lessons**: Update `tasks/lessons.md` after corrections
+Keep the plan in `tasks/todo.md` as checkable items, confirm it before implementing, tick items off as you go, and add a review section when done.
 
-## Core Principles
+## Customer-Facing Claims
 
-- **Simplicity First**: Make every change as simple as possible. Impact minimal code.
-- **No Laziness**: Find root causes. No temporary fixes. Senior developer standards.
-- **Minimal Impact**: Changes should only touch what's necessary. Avoid introducing bugs.
+`src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/app/{about,terms,privacy}/page.tsx` and `autopilotmonitor-docs/trust/*` state facts customers and security reviewers rely on. They drift silently.
 
-## Technical Docs — OKF Knowledge Bundle (`docs/`)
+- Verify every claim against the code before writing it — never carry one forward because it was already on the page.
+- Update them in the same change as: runtime/framework versions, roles, notification providers, agent deployment or lifecycle, diagnostics payload, isolation/delegation model, retention caps, sub-processors, or any default governing what is collected.
+- Describe only what customers can actually use; operator-only infrastructure is not a feature.
+- Trust pages: durable phrasing over exact figures, and bump their "Last reviewed" date.
 
-`docs/` is an [Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog/blob/main/okf/SPEC.md) knowledge bundle for contributor/AI-facing technical documentation (customer docs live in the separate autopilotmonitor-docs repo).
+## Technical Docs — OKF Bundle (`docs/`)
 
-- **Consume first**: start at `docs/index.md` for progressive disclosure before opening individual documents.
-- **When new durable technical knowledge emerges** (architecture decisions, flows, non-obvious mechanisms), capture it as an OKF concept document in `docs/` — markdown with YAML frontmatter: `type` (mandatory), plus `title`, `description`, `resource`, `tags`, `timestamp` (recommended).
-- **Maintain the bundle**: add every new document to `docs/index.md`, note changes in `docs/log.md` (grouped by ISO date). Use standard RELATIVE markdown links between docs — never the OKF `/`-prefixed bundle-absolute form (GitHub resolves those from the repo root and navigation breaks). `index.md` and `log.md` are reserved filenames.
-- Documents are English, structural markdown over prose (`# Schema`, `# Examples`, `# Citations` sections where applicable).
+Contributor/AI-facing docs (customer docs live in the `autopilotmonitor-docs` repo). Start at `docs/index.md` before opening individual files.
+
+- New durable knowledge (architecture decisions, flows, non-obvious mechanisms) → an OKF concept doc with YAML frontmatter: `type` (mandatory), plus `title`, `description`, `resource`, `tags`, `timestamp`.
+- Register it in `docs/index.md`, note the change in `docs/log.md` (ISO date). `index.md` and `log.md` are reserved names.
+- English, structural markdown (`# Schema`, `# Examples`, `# Citations`). Links between docs are RELATIVE — never `/`-prefixed, that breaks GitHub navigation.

.github/codeql/codeql-config.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# CodeQL configuration.
+#
+# The default query suites stay active — this file only filters out two C# queries
+# that fire structurally on this codebase, where the flagged behavior is the feature,
+# not a defect:
+#
+#   cs/exposure-of-sensitive-information
+#     Audit and operational logs record WHO performed an action (actor UPN / email)
+#     and notification services deliver mail to a recipient address. Writing that
+#     identity to the log / notification IS the purpose of the field. Every such site
+#     is a legitimate, reviewed use — the query cannot distinguish it from a leak.
+#
+#   cs/cleartext-storage-of-sensitive-information
+#     The rate limiters and distress guard use the trusted client IP as their bucket
+#     key. The IP is an identifier for throttling, not a secret at rest; storing it in
+#     the in-memory / table rate-limit key is by design.
+#
+# Genuine one-off false positives from OTHER queries (e.g. an open-redirect the taint
+# model can't see is allow-listed, a rate-limited route it doesn't recognize) are
+# dismissed individually in the Security tab so those queries stay sharp — they are
+# NOT suppressed here.
+#
+# Log-injection (cs/log-forging) is deliberately NOT filtered: user-controlled values
+# are sanitized at the sink via Helpers/LogSanitizer, so the query stays useful for
+# catching a future unsanitized sink.
+
+query-filters:
+  - exclude:
+      id: cs/exposure-of-sensitive-information
+  - exclude:
+      id: cs/cleartext-storage-of-sensitive-information

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+version: 2
+
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: nuget
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+    groups:
+      dotnet:
+        patterns: ['*']
+        update-types: [minor, patch]
+
+  - package-ecosystem: npm
+    directory: /src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+    groups:
+      web:
+        patterns: ['*']
+        update-types: [minor, patch]
+    # Major bumps are breaking and reviewed deliberately, not auto-PR'd.
+    # Security updates ignore this filter, so the Security tab stays clean.
+    ignore:
+      - dependency-name: '*'
+        update-types: ['version-update:semver-major']
+
+  - package-ecosystem: npm
+    directory: /src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp
+    schedule:
+      interval: weekly
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+    groups:
+      mcp:
+        patterns: ['*']
+        update-types: [minor, patch]
+    # Major bumps are breaking and reviewed deliberately, not auto-PR'd.
+    # Security updates ignore this filter, so the Security tab stays clean.
+    ignore:
+      - dependency-name: '*'
+        update-types: ['version-update:semver-major']
+
+  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
+    directory: /
+    schedule:
+      interval: monthly

.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+<#
+.SYNOPSIS
+    Reserves a monotone build number from a counter blob (ETag compare-and-swap).
+
+.DESCRIPTION
+    Single source of build numbers for every component that ships from this repo
+    (agent, backend, MCP). Each component owns one counter blob holding a plain
+    integer; this script reads it, writes value+1 back under If-Match, and returns
+    the reserved number.
+
+    Reserve-BEFORE-build: two concurrent builds can never mint the same number.
+    A failed build burns a number, which is harmless -- uniqueness matters,
+    density does not.
+
+    The blob is public-read; only the write needs the container SAS.
+
+    Why a counter and not the published version manifest: manifests are written
+    on publish, not on build (the agent writes version.json only for stable
+    releases), so two dev builds in a row would derive the same number and
+    overwrite each other's versioned artifact.
+
+.PARAMETER CounterUrl
+    Full URL of the counter blob, without SAS.
+
+.PARAMETER SasToken
+    Container SAS with create+write permission. A leading '?' is tolerated.
+
+.PARAMETER Override
+    Explicit build number instead of counter+1. If it is not greater than the
+    current counter the blob is left untouched (re-build of a number that was
+    already reserved). 0 = no override.
+
+.PARAMETER MaxAttempts
+    CAS retries before giving up.
+
+.OUTPUTS
+    [int] the reserved build number. Progress goes to the host, not the pipeline.
+
+.EXAMPLE
+    $n = ./Request-BuildNumber.ps1 -CounterUrl $url -SasToken $sas
+#>
+[CmdletBinding()]
+param(
+    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$CounterUrl,
+    [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string]$SasToken,
+    [int]$Override = 0,
+    [int]$MaxAttempts = 5
+)
+
+$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
+
+# Tolerate both secret formats ("sp=cw&..." and "?sp=cw&...").
+$writeUrl = $CounterUrl + '?' + $SasToken.TrimStart('?')
+
+function Get-HttpStatus {
+    param($ErrorRecord)
+    if ($ErrorRecord.Exception.PSObject.Properties['Response'] -and $ErrorRecord.Exception.Response) {
+        return [int]$ErrorRecord.Exception.Response.StatusCode
+    }
+    return 0
+}
+
+function Read-Counter {
+    try {
+        $resp = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $CounterUrl -Method Get -UseBasicParsing
+    } catch {
+        if ((Get-HttpStatus $_) -eq 404) {
+            throw "Counter blob not found at $CounterUrl. Seed it once with the last used build number: PUT the plain integer with 'x-ms-blob-type: BlockBlob' and 'If-None-Match: *'. See docs/versioning.md."
+        }
+        throw
+    }
+    $raw = if ($resp.Content -is [byte[]]) { [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($resp.Content) } else { [string]$resp.Content }
+    # If-Match requires the quoted ETag form; PowerShell strips the quotes on read.
+    $etag = '"' + ([string]($resp.Headers['ETag'] | Select-Object -First 1)).Trim('"') + '"'
+    return [pscustomobject]@{ Value = [int]$raw.Trim(); ETag = $etag }
+}
+
+for ($attempt = 1; $attempt -le $MaxAttempts; $attempt++) {
+    $counter = Read-Counter
+
+    if ($Override -gt 0 -and $Override -le $counter.Value) {
+        Write-Host "  Build number $Override <= counter $($counter.Value) -- already reserved, counter blob unchanged"
+        return $Override
+    }
+    $target = if ($Override -gt 0) { $Override } else { $counter.Value + 1 }
+
+    try {
+        $headers = @{ 'x-ms-blob-type' = 'BlockBlob'; 'If-Match' = $counter.ETag }
+        Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $writeUrl -Method Put -Headers $headers -Body "$target" -ContentType 'text/plain' | Out-Null
+        Write-Host "  Reserved build number $target (CAS write ok, attempt $attempt)"
+        return $target
+    } catch {
+        if ((Get-HttpStatus $_) -eq 412) {
+            Write-Host "  CAS conflict on attempt $attempt (another build reserved concurrently) -- retrying"
+            Start-Sleep -Seconds ($attempt * 2)
+        } else {
+            throw
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+throw "Could not reserve a build number after $MaxAttempts CAS attempts"

.github/workflows/build-agent.yml

@@ -56,78 +56,27 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       # SDK 10 = single build toolchain (parity with local build.ps1 / global.json).
       - name: Setup .NET
-        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v6
         with:
           dotnet-version: '10.0.x'
 
-      # Build numbers come from the shared counter blob (single source of truth for CI
-      # AND local build.ps1). Reserve-before-build with ETag-CAS: concurrent builds can
-      # never mint the same number; a failed build burns a number, which is harmless.
-      # The blob is public-read (like the rest of the container); writes need the SAS.
+      # Build numbers come from the shared counter blob -- one counter and one
+      # implementation for CI and the local build (.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1).
+      # Reserve-before-build with ETag-CAS: concurrent builds can never mint the same
+      # number; a failed build burns a number, which is harmless.
       - name: Reserve build number (counter blob CAS)
         id: version
         shell: pwsh
         run: |
-          $counterBlob = "buildcounter-v$env:LINE_MAJOR.txt"
-          $counterUrl = "https://autopilotmonitoreu.blob.core.windows.net/agent/$counterBlob"
-          # Tolerate both secret formats ("sp=cw&..." and "?sp=cw&...") -- the URL below adds the '?'.
-          $sasToken = "${{ secrets.AZURE_BLOB_AGENT_SAS_TOKEN }}".TrimStart('?')
-          $override = "${{ inputs.build_number }}"
+          $override = 0
+          if ('${{ inputs.build_number }}' -ne '') { $override = [int]'${{ inputs.build_number }}' }
 
-          function Get-Counter {
-            try {
-              $resp = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $counterUrl -Method Get
-              $raw = if ($resp.Content -is [byte[]]) { [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($resp.Content) } else { [string]$resp.Content }
-              # If-Match requires the quoted ETag form; pwsh strips the quotes on read.
-              $etag = '"' + ([string]($resp.Headers['ETag'] | Select-Object -First 1)).Trim('"') + '"'
-              return @{ Value = [int]$raw.Trim(); ETag = $etag }
-            } catch {
-              $status = if ($_.Exception.Response) { [int]$_.Exception.Response.StatusCode } else { 0 }
-              if ($status -eq 404) {
-                Write-Error "Counter blob '$counterBlob' not found. Seed it once with the last used build number (see docs/agent/build-counter-blob.md) -- do NOT seed from the repo's buildcounter.txt, it is a stale offline fallback."
-              }
-              throw
-            }
-          }
-
-          $buildNumber = $null
-          for ($attempt = 1; $attempt -le 5; $attempt++) {
-            $counter = Get-Counter
-            if ($override -ne '') {
-              $target = [int]$override
-              if ($target -le $counter.Value) {
-                # Re-build of an already-reserved number: counter stays monotonic, no write.
-                Write-Host "Manual build number $target <= counter $($counter.Value) -- counter blob unchanged"
-                $buildNumber = $target
-                break
-              }
-              Write-Host "Manual build number $target > counter $($counter.Value) -- advancing counter"
-            } else {
-              $target = $counter.Value + 1
-            }
-            try {
-              $headers = @{ 'x-ms-blob-type' = 'BlockBlob'; 'If-Match' = $counter.ETag }
-              Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$counterUrl`?$sasToken" -Method Put -Headers $headers -Body "$target" -ContentType 'text/plain' | Out-Null
-              $buildNumber = $target
-              Write-Host "Reserved build number ${target} (CAS write ok, attempt $attempt)"
-              break
-            } catch {
-              $status = if ($_.Exception.Response) { [int]$_.Exception.Response.StatusCode } else { 0 }
-              if ($status -eq 412) {
-                Write-Host "CAS conflict on attempt $attempt (another build reserved concurrently) -- retrying"
-                Start-Sleep -Seconds ($attempt * 2)
-              } else {
-                throw
-              }
-            }
-          }
-          if ($null -eq $buildNumber) {
-            Write-Error "Could not reserve a build number after 5 CAS attempts"
-          }
+          $counterUrl = "https://autopilotmonitoreu.blob.core.windows.net/agent/buildcounter-v$($env:LINE_MAJOR).txt"
+          $buildNumber = & ./.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1 -CounterUrl $counterUrl -SasToken '${{ secrets.AZURE_BLOB_AGENT_SAS_TOKEN }}' -Override $override
 
           $csproj = Get-Content $env:CSPROJ_PATH -Raw
           if ($csproj -match '<VersionPrefix>(\d+\.\d+)</VersionPrefix>') {
@@ -228,8 +177,13 @@ jobs:
             Write-Warning "Could not parse bootstrap `$ScriptVersion from $env:BOOTSTRAP_SOURCE"
           }
 
-          # Enrich the per-line manifest emitted by MSBuild (version-v2.json, read above)
+          # Enrich the per-line manifest emitted by MSBuild (version-v2.json, read above).
+          # commit/buildUtc are the same two fields the backend and MCP manifests carry —
+          # additive, and the bootstrap reads this file by field name, so older installers
+          # ignore them. sha256/bootstrapVersion stay: those are the customer contract.
           $manifest | Add-Member -NotePropertyName "sha256" -NotePropertyValue $sha256Hash -Force
+          $manifest | Add-Member -NotePropertyName "commit" -NotePropertyValue '${{ github.sha }}'.Substring(0, 7) -Force
+          $manifest | Add-Member -NotePropertyName "buildUtc" -NotePropertyValue ([DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('o')) -Force
           if ($bootstrapVersion) {
             $manifest | Add-Member -NotePropertyName "bootstrapVersion" -NotePropertyValue $bootstrapVersion -Force
           }
@@ -277,7 +231,12 @@ jobs:
             param([string]$Local, [string]$BlobName, [string]$ContentType)
             $url = "$containerUrl/$BlobName`?$sasToken"
             $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($Local)
-            $headers = @{ "x-ms-blob-type" = "BlockBlob"; "Content-Type" = $ContentType }
+            # no-cache on EVERY blob: they all rotate in place (even the per-line ZIP is
+            # overwritten each build), and the download alias fronts them with Front Door.
+            # Route caching is disabled there, but a stale manifest paired with a fresh ZIP
+            # (independent cache entries) would fail the bootstrap SHA check -- this header
+            # keeps that class of bug impossible even if caching is ever re-enabled.
+            $headers = @{ "x-ms-blob-type" = "BlockBlob"; "Content-Type" = $ContentType; "x-ms-blob-cache-control" = "no-cache" }
             if ($ContentType -eq "application/zip") {
               $md5 = [System.Security.Cryptography.MD5]::Create()
               $headers["Content-MD5"] = [Convert]::ToBase64String($md5.ComputeHash($bytes))
@@ -352,13 +311,13 @@ jobs:
           subject-path: ${{ steps.artifact.outputs.versioned_zip_release }}
 
       - name: Upload build artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: AutopilotMonitor-Agent-v${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
           path: ${{ steps.artifact.outputs.versioned_zip_release }}
 
       - name: Upload version metadata
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: version-metadata
           path: ${{ env.MANIFEST_NAME }}

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+name: CI
+
+# Tests, typechecks and drift-checks every push to main and every pull request:
+# the .NET suites, the web and MCP suites, and a guard that the generated rule
+# files still match rules/guardrails.json.
+#
+# The deploy workflows build but never test, so this is the only place the suites
+# actually run. It does not gate anything — main is deliberately unprotected, so a
+# red run reports rather than blocks. Read the result and follow up.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ci-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  dotnet:
+    name: .NET tests (backend + agent)
+    # windows-latest is required: the agent test projects target net48.
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v6
+        with:
+          dotnet-version: '10.0.x'
+
+      - name: Restore
+        run: dotnet restore AutopilotMonitor.sln
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: dotnet build AutopilotMonitor.sln --configuration Release --no-restore
+
+      - name: Backend tests
+        run: dotnet test src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests --configuration Release --no-build --verbosity quiet
+
+      - name: Agent V2 Core tests
+        run: dotnet test src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests --configuration Release --no-build --verbosity quiet
+
+      - name: Decision Core tests
+        run: dotnet test src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Tests --configuration Release --no-build --verbosity quiet
+
+      - name: Summary Dialog tests
+        run: dotnet test src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.SummaryDialog.Tests --configuration Release --no-build --verbosity quiet
+
+  web:
+    name: Web (typecheck + tests)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/package-lock.json
+
+      - run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Typecheck
+        run: npx tsc --noEmit
+
+      - name: Tests
+        run: npm test
+
+  mcp:
+    name: MCP server tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/package-lock.json
+
+      - run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Typecheck
+        run: npx tsc --noEmit
+
+      - name: Tests
+        run: npm test
+
+  guardrails-in-sync:
+    name: Generated guardrails match rules/guardrails.json
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+
+      - name: Regenerate
+        run: node rules/scripts/combine.js
+
+      - name: Fail if the generated files drifted
+        run: |
+          if ! git diff --quiet; then
+            echo "::error::Generated files are out of date. Run 'node rules/scripts/combine.js' and commit the result."
+            git diff --stat
+            exit 1
+          fi

.github/workflows/codeql.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+name: CodeQL
+
+# Documentation-only changes cannot affect what CodeQL analyzes (C# and
+# TypeScript), so they are filtered out rather than spending ~10 minutes to
+# re-report an unchanged result. A commit that touches docs AND code still runs:
+# GitHub skips only when EVERY changed path matches the filter.
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - '**/*.md'
+      - 'LICENSE'
+  schedule:
+    # Weekly, so advisories published after a merge still surface. Deliberately
+    # unfiltered — it re-analyzes the whole tree regardless of what changed, which
+    # is also the backstop if the filters above ever skip too much.
+    - cron: '17 3 * * 1'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  analyze:
+    name: Analyze ${{ matrix.language }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
+    permissions:
+      security-events: write
+      packages: read
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          # csharp needs the net48 agent projects to build, so Windows.
+          - language: csharp
+            runner: windows-latest
+            build-mode: manual
+          - language: javascript-typescript
+            runner: ubuntu-latest
+            build-mode: none
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v6
+        if: matrix.language == 'csharp'
+        with:
+          dotnet-version: '10.0.x'
+
+      - name: Initialize CodeQL
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v4
+        with:
+          languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+          build-mode: ${{ matrix.build-mode }}
+          config-file: .github/codeql/codeql-config.yml
+
+      - name: Build
+        if: matrix.build-mode == 'manual'
+        run: dotnet build AutopilotMonitor.sln --configuration Release
+
+      - name: Analyze
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v4
+        with:
+          category: /language:${{ matrix.language }}

.github/workflows/combine-rules.yml

@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: write
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v5
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v7
         with:
-          node-version: '20'
+          node-version: '22'
 
       - name: Install ajv-cli
         run: npm install -g ajv-cli ajv-formats

.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml

@@ -7,13 +7,19 @@ permissions:
   id-token: write   # OIDC federated login (secret-less)
   contents: read
 
+env:
+  FUNCTION_APP: autopilotmonitor-api-eu
+  HEALTH_URL: https://autopilotmonitor-api-eu.azurewebsites.net/api/health
+  VERSIONS_CONTAINER: https://autopilotmonitoreu.blob.core.windows.net/versions
+  CSPROJ_PATH: src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.csproj
+
 jobs:
   build-and-deploy:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Build and Deploy Backend
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
 
       - name: Login to Azure (OIDC)
         uses: azure/login@v3
@@ -23,21 +29,95 @@ jobs:
           subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
 
       - name: Setup .NET 10
-        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v6
         with:
           dotnet-version: '10.0.x'
 
+      # Same counter mechanism as the agent line: reserve-before-build with ETag-CAS
+      # against a per-component counter blob. BuildTimestampUtc is pinned here rather
+      # than left to MSBuild's default so the published manifest and the value baked
+      # into the assembly (reported by /api/health) are the same instant.
+      - name: Reserve build number (counter blob CAS)
+        id: version
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $buildNumber = & ./.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1 -CounterUrl "${{ env.VERSIONS_CONTAINER }}/backend.txt" -SasToken '${{ secrets.AZURE_BLOB_VERSIONS_SAS_TOKEN }}'
+
+          $csproj = Get-Content ${{ env.CSPROJ_PATH }} -Raw
+          if ($csproj -notmatch '<VersionPrefix>(\d+\.\d+)</VersionPrefix>') {
+            throw "VersionPrefix not found in ${{ env.CSPROJ_PATH }}"
+          }
+          $version = "$($Matches[1]).$buildNumber"
+          $buildUtc = [DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('o')
+          Write-Host "Backend version: $version (built $buildUtc)"
+
+          "build_number=$buildNumber" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          "version=$version" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          "build_utc=$buildUtc" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
       - name: Restore dependencies
-        run: dotnet restore src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.csproj
+        run: dotnet restore ${{ env.CSPROJ_PATH }}
 
       - name: Build
-        run: dotnet build src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.csproj --configuration Release --no-restore -p:SourceRevisionId=${{ github.sha }}
+        run: dotnet build ${{ env.CSPROJ_PATH }} --configuration Release --no-restore -p:SourceRevisionId=${{ github.sha }} -p:BuildNumber=${{ steps.version.outputs.build_number }} -p:BuildTimestampUtc=${{ steps.version.outputs.build_utc }}
 
       - name: Publish
-        run: dotnet publish src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.csproj --configuration Release --output ./publish --no-build -p:SourceRevisionId=${{ github.sha }}
+        run: dotnet publish ${{ env.CSPROJ_PATH }} --configuration Release --output ./publish --no-build -p:SourceRevisionId=${{ github.sha }} -p:BuildNumber=${{ steps.version.outputs.build_number }} -p:BuildTimestampUtc=${{ steps.version.outputs.build_utc }}
 
       - name: Deploy to Azure Functions
         uses: Azure/functions-action@v1
         with:
-          app-name: autopilotmonitor-api-eu
+          app-name: ${{ env.FUNCTION_APP }}
           package: ./publish
+
+      # A green deploy step only means the package was accepted. This gate makes the
+      # workflow assert what is actually being served, so the manifest published below
+      # can be trusted as "this is live" rather than "this was uploaded".
+      # /api/health is IP rate-limited at 30/min; one poll per 10s stays well under.
+      - name: Verify deployed build is live
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $expectedCommit = '${{ github.sha }}'.Substring(0, 7)
+          $expectedVersion = '${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}'
+          $deadline = [DateTime]::UtcNow.AddMinutes(3)
+          $attempt = 0
+
+          while ([DateTime]::UtcNow -lt $deadline) {
+            $attempt++
+            try {
+              $health = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri '${{ env.HEALTH_URL }}' -Method Get -TimeoutSec 30
+              if ($health.commitHash -eq $expectedCommit -and $health.version -eq $expectedVersion) {
+                Write-Host "Live after $attempt attempt(s): $($health.version) @ $($health.commitHash), built $($health.buildUtc)"
+                exit 0
+              }
+              Write-Host "Attempt ${attempt}: serving $($health.version) @ $($health.commitHash) -- waiting for $expectedVersion @ $expectedCommit"
+            } catch {
+              Write-Host "Attempt ${attempt}: /api/health not answering yet -- $($_.Exception.Message)"
+            }
+            Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
+          }
+
+          throw "Backend did not report $expectedVersion @ $expectedCommit within 3 minutes -- deployment not verified, version manifest NOT published"
+
+      # The manifest is the cross-component record of what is deployed where. It is
+      # written last and only on a verified deploy, so a difference between the
+      # manifest and /api/health means the running app drifted after the fact
+      # (rollback, stale instance) rather than a half-finished pipeline.
+      - name: Publish version manifest
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $manifest = [ordered]@{
+            component   = 'backend'
+            version     = '${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}'
+            commit      = '${{ github.sha }}'.Substring(0, 7)
+            buildUtc    = '${{ steps.version.outputs.build_utc }}'
+            deployedUtc = [DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('o')
+            runId       = '${{ github.run_id }}'
+          } | ConvertTo-Json
+
+          $sas = '${{ secrets.AZURE_BLOB_VERSIONS_SAS_TOKEN }}'.TrimStart('?')
+          $url = "${{ env.VERSIONS_CONTAINER }}/backend.json?$sas"
+          # no-cache: rotating pointer, must never be served stale by any fronting cache.
+          Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Put -Headers @{ 'x-ms-blob-type' = 'BlockBlob'; 'x-ms-blob-cache-control' = 'no-cache' } -Body $manifest -ContentType 'application/json' | Out-Null
+          Write-Host "Published versions/backend.json"
+          Write-Host $manifest

.github/workflows/deploy-mcp.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ env:
   CONTAINER_APP_NAME: autopilotmonitor-mcp
   RESOURCE_GROUP: ${{ secrets.AZURE_MCP_RESOURCE_GROUP }}
   IMAGE_TAG: ${{ github.sha }}
+  HEALTH_URL: https://mcp.autopilotmonitor.com/health
+  VERSIONS_CONTAINER: https://autopilotmonitoreu.blob.core.windows.net/versions
+  PACKAGE_JSON: src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/package.json
 
 jobs:
   build-and-deploy:
@@ -19,7 +22,23 @@ jobs:
     name: Build and Deploy MCP Server
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      # The published customer documentation lives in its own PUBLIC repo and is
+      # baked into the image as the search_docs corpus (see the Dockerfile). No
+      # token is needed. Checking it out here rather than vendoring it keeps the
+      # docs single-sourced — but it also means EDITING THE DOCS DOES NOT UPDATE A
+      # RUNNING SERVER; this workflow must be re-run. /health reports the SHA
+      # captured below so that staleness is checkable.
+      - name: Check out documentation bundle
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+        with:
+          repository: autopilotmonitor/autopilotmonitor-docs
+          path: mcp-docs
+
+      - name: Resolve docs commit
+        id: docs
+        run: echo "sha=$(git -C mcp-docs rev-parse HEAD)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
       - name: Login to Azure (OIDC)
         uses: azure/login@v3
@@ -28,6 +47,30 @@ jobs:
           tenant-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
           subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}
 
+      # Same counter mechanism as agent and backend: reserve-before-build with
+      # ETag-CAS against the component's own counter blob. major.minor stays curated
+      # in package.json; only the build part is minted here.
+      - name: Reserve build number (counter blob CAS)
+        id: version
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $buildNumber = & ./.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1 -CounterUrl "${{ env.VERSIONS_CONTAINER }}/mcp.txt" -SasToken '${{ secrets.AZURE_BLOB_VERSIONS_SAS_TOKEN }}'
+
+          $pkgVersion = (Get-Content ${{ env.PACKAGE_JSON }} -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json).version
+          $prefix = ($pkgVersion -split '\.')[0..1] -join '.'
+          $version = "$prefix.$buildNumber"
+          $buildUtc = [DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('o')
+          Write-Host "MCP version: $version (built $buildUtc)"
+
+          # 7 chars, matching what the backend's BackendBuildInfo reports — one commit
+          # shape across all components so the values can be compared as-is.
+          $shortSha = '${{ github.sha }}'.Substring(0, 7)
+
+          "build_number=$buildNumber" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          "version=$version" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          "build_utc=$buildUtc" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          "short_sha=$shortSha" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
       - name: Login to ACR
         run: az acr login --name ${{ env.ACR_NAME }}
 
@@ -35,6 +78,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           docker build \
             -f src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/Dockerfile \
+            --build-arg DOCS_COMMIT=${{ steps.docs.outputs.sha }} \
+            --build-arg BUILD_NUMBER=${{ steps.version.outputs.build_number }} \
+            --build-arg BUILD_COMMIT=${{ steps.version.outputs.short_sha }} \
+            --build-arg BUILD_UTC=${{ steps.version.outputs.build_utc }} \
             -t ${{ env.ACR_NAME }}.azurecr.io/${{ env.CONTAINER_APP_NAME }}:${{ env.IMAGE_TAG }} \
             -t ${{ env.ACR_NAME }}.azurecr.io/${{ env.CONTAINER_APP_NAME }}:latest \
             .
@@ -46,3 +93,55 @@ jobs:
             --name ${{ env.CONTAINER_APP_NAME }} \
             --resource-group ${{ env.RESOURCE_GROUP }} \
             --image ${{ env.ACR_NAME }}.azurecr.io/${{ env.CONTAINER_APP_NAME }}:${{ env.IMAGE_TAG }}
+
+      # `az containerapp update` returns once the revision is provisioned, not once
+      # it serves traffic — and with minReplicas=0 the first request also pays a cold
+      # start. Polling /health until it reports THIS build is what makes the manifest
+      # below mean "live"; a full 5 minutes because the cold start alone is ~25s.
+      - name: Verify deployed build is live
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $expectedCommit = '${{ steps.version.outputs.short_sha }}'
+          $expectedVersion = '${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}'
+          $deadline = [DateTime]::UtcNow.AddMinutes(5)
+          $attempt = 0
+
+          while ([DateTime]::UtcNow -lt $deadline) {
+            $attempt++
+            try {
+              $health = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri '${{ env.HEALTH_URL }}' -Method Get -TimeoutSec 60
+              if ($health.commit -eq $expectedCommit -and $health.version -eq $expectedVersion) {
+                Write-Host "Live after $attempt attempt(s): $($health.version) @ $($health.commit), docs $($health.docs.commit) ($($health.docs.chunks) chunks)"
+                exit 0
+              }
+              Write-Host "Attempt ${attempt}: serving $($health.version) @ $($health.commit) -- waiting for $expectedVersion @ $expectedCommit"
+            } catch {
+              Write-Host "Attempt ${attempt}: /health not answering yet -- $($_.Exception.Message)"
+            }
+            Start-Sleep -Seconds 15
+          }
+
+          throw "MCP did not report $expectedVersion @ $expectedCommit within 5 minutes -- deployment not verified, version manifest NOT published"
+
+      # Cross-component record of what is deployed where; written last and only on a
+      # verified deploy. docsCommit rides along because for this component "which
+      # build" and "which documentation" are two separate questions.
+      - name: Publish version manifest
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          $manifest = [ordered]@{
+            component   = 'mcp'
+            version     = '${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}'
+            commit      = '${{ steps.version.outputs.short_sha }}'
+            buildUtc    = '${{ steps.version.outputs.build_utc }}'
+            deployedUtc = [DateTime]::UtcNow.ToString('o')
+            runId       = '${{ github.run_id }}'
+            docsCommit  = '${{ steps.docs.outputs.sha }}'.Substring(0, 7)
+          } | ConvertTo-Json
+
+          $sas = '${{ secrets.AZURE_BLOB_VERSIONS_SAS_TOKEN }}'.TrimStart('?')
+          $url = "${{ env.VERSIONS_CONTAINER }}/mcp.json?$sas"
+          # no-cache: rotating pointer, must never be served stale by any fronting cache.
+          Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Put -Headers @{ 'x-ms-blob-type' = 'BlockBlob'; 'x-ms-blob-cache-control' = 'no-cache' } -Body $manifest -ContentType 'application/json' | Out-Null
+          Write-Host "Published versions/mcp.json"
+          Write-Host $manifest

.github/workflows/deploy-web.yml

@@ -21,13 +21,21 @@ jobs:
     if: github.event_name == 'push' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action != 'closed')
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Build and Deploy Job
+    # Dependabot PRs run without repo secrets, so the deploy token is absent.
+    # Surface it as an env var so the deploy step can gate on it — secrets
+    # cannot be referenced directly in an `if:` expression.
+    env:
+      DEPLOY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SWA_DEPLOY_TOKEN }}
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with:
           lfs: false
           fetch-depth: 0  # Full history needed for git-based sitemap lastmod dates
       - name: Build And Deploy
         id: builddeploy
+        # Skip (green) instead of failing when the token is missing (Dependabot
+        # PRs); real deploys on main and internal PRs still have it.
+        if: env.DEPLOY_TOKEN != ''
         uses: Azure/static-web-apps-deploy@v1
         env:
           NEXT_PUBLIC_ENTRA_CLIENT_ID: ${{ vars.NEXT_PUBLIC_ENTRA_CLIENT_ID }}
@@ -44,16 +52,24 @@ jobs:
           # For more information regarding Static Web App workflow configurations, please visit: https://aka.ms/swaworkflowconfig
           app_location: "src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web" # App source code path
           api_location: "" # Api source code path - optional
-          output_location: "" # Built app content directory - optional
+          # Static export (next.config output:'export'): Oryx runs `npm run build`
+          # and uploads the exported out/ directory as plain static files — no
+          # managed SSR runtime is provisioned anymore. (No is_static_export
+          # input on this action version; Oryx detects the export from
+          # next.config + output_location.)
+          output_location: "out" # Built app content directory - optional
           ###### End of Repository/Build Configurations ######
 
   close_pull_request_job:
     if: github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'closed'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Close Pull Request Job
+    env:
+      DEPLOY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SWA_DEPLOY_TOKEN }}
     steps:
       - name: Close Pull Request
         id: closepullrequest
+        if: env.DEPLOY_TOKEN != ''
         uses: Azure/static-web-apps-deploy@v1
         with:
           azure_static_web_apps_api_token: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SWA_DEPLOY_TOKEN }}

.gitignore

@@ -117,8 +117,11 @@ scripts/Deployment/
 # Migration tooling (local only, vorerst) — cross-tenant storage/cert migration scripts
 scripts/Migration/
 
-# Infra (local only)
-infra/
+# Infra: tracked. The Bicep templates carry no credentials — every secret is a
+# @secure() parameter with an empty default, injected at deploy time, and image
+# pull runs on managed identity. Keep it that way: never commit a resolved secret
+# value or a *.parameters.json holding one.
+infra/*.parameters.json
 
 # M2 — local raw session fixtures before anonymization (plan §4 M2)
 tests/fixtures/enrollment-sessions-local/
@@ -145,3 +148,6 @@ plans/REFACTOR_AGENT_V2.md
 scripts/Backup/setup-backup-container.ps1
 docs/Introduction-AutopilotMonitor.pptx
 docs/~$Introduction-AutopilotMonitor.pptx
+
+# Playwright MCP browser artifacts (snapshots, screenshots, console logs)
+.playwright-mcp/

.mcp.json

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
     "autopilot-monitor": {
       "type": "http",
       "url": "https://mcp.autopilotmonitor.com/mcp"
+    },
+    "playwright": {
+      "command": "cmd",
+      "args": ["/c", "npx", "@playwright/mcp@latest"]
     }
   }
 }

README.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ For detailed information about the system architecture, components, and data flo
 
 ## Documentation
 
-Full documentation is available at **[autopilotmonitor.com/docs](https://www.autopilotmonitor.com/docs)**
+Full admin documentation is available at **[docs.autopilotmonitor.com](https://docs.autopilotmonitor.com)**
 
 ## License
 

docs/agent/autopilot-ztd-diagnostics.md

@@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ normal IME deployment flow. Spam containment, in order:
    payload; the event's own timestamp is the emission time, so the session's `StartedAt`
    (which the backend aligns to the earliest event) is not dragged backwards.
 
+Presentation (2026-07-28, customer feedback — an unannounced wall of pre-agent Error
+events read like a live failure):
+
+- The scan buffers the (capped) record set, first emits an **Info summary event**
+  (`modern_deployment_log`, payload `backfillSummary: true` + `replayedCount` /
+  `droppedOverCap` / `lookbackMinutes`) announcing the replay block, then replays the
+  records **oldest-first** so the timeline sequence follows event-log chronology.
+- The web timeline (`EventTimeline.tsx`) badges `backfilled: true` events („⟲ Backfilled",
+  slate, explanatory tooltip) and renders the original `timeCreated` as the row time with a
+  "(reported …)" suffix; the expanded metadata block gains a `Recorded` line. Severity is
+  deliberately **not** downgraded — unresolved pre-agent errors must still surface in the
+  Error filter.
+
 # Schema — Error codes (backend known-issue map)
 
 Codes documented in the known-issues / troubleshooting-FAQ pages that appear in ESP/enrollment

docs/agent/build-counter-blob.md

@@ -22,26 +22,21 @@ attestation on top.
 
 # Schema
 
-- **Counter blob**: `https://autopilotmonitor.blob.core.windows.net/agent/buildcounter-v{LINE}.txt`
-  (per release line, analogous to `version-v{LINE}.json`). Content: the **last used**
-  build number as plain text. Public-read like the rest of the container (the number
-  is visible in `version-v{LINE}.json` anyway); writes require the container SAS.
-- **Protocol — reserve before build, ETag-CAS**:
-  1. Anonymous `GET` the blob, capture value `N` and the `ETag`.
-  2. `PUT N+1` with `If-Match: <etag>` (quoted form — pwsh strips the quotes on read,
-     they must be re-added or the request is rejected client-side).
-  3. `412 Precondition Failed` → another build reserved concurrently → re-read, retry
-     (5 attempts, linear backoff).
-  4. Build with `BUILD_NUMBER=N+1` in the environment. The csproj honors
-     `BUILD_NUMBER` and then skips its `PersistBuildCounter` target, so the repo file
-     is not touched.
-- **Failed builds burn a number.** That is intentional: uniqueness matters, density
-  does not. Reserve-before-build is what makes concurrent minting impossible.
+The reserve-before-build CAS protocol itself is shared with the backend and the MCP
+server and is documented once in [Version Contract](../versioning.md); the single
+implementation is `.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1`. Agent-specific:
+
+- **Counter blob**: `https://autopilotmonitoreu.blob.core.windows.net/agent/buildcounter-v{LINE}.txt`
+  — one per release line, analogous to `version-v{LINE}.json`, and kept in the `agent`
+  container next to the artifacts it numbers rather than in `versions/`. Content: the
+  **last used** build number as plain text. Public-read like the rest of the container
+  (the number is visible in `version-v{LINE}.json` anyway); writes require the SAS.
+- The reserved number reaches the build as `BUILD_NUMBER` in the environment. The
+  csproj honors it and then skips its `PersistBuildCounter` target, so the repo file
+  is not touched.
 - **CI manual override** (`build_number` input): numbers `<=` counter are re-builds
   and leave the blob unchanged; numbers `>` counter advance it (monotonic guard).
-- **Seeding** (one-time per line): `PUT <last used number>` with `If-None-Match: *`
-  so an existing counter can never be clobbered. V2 was seeded with `1356` on
-  2026-07-17.
+- V2 was seeded with `1356` on 2026-07-17.
 
 # Consequences
 
@@ -62,7 +57,9 @@ attestation on top.
 
 # Citations
 
+- [Version Contract](../versioning.md) — the shared CAS protocol and manifest format
 - `.github/workflows/build-agent.yml` — "Reserve build number (counter blob CAS)" step
-- `scripts/Deployment/build.ps1` (gitignored, contains SAS) — `Request-BuildNumber`
+- `.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1` — the shared implementation
+- `scripts/Deployment/build.ps1` (gitignored, contains SAS) — local build path
 - `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.csproj` —
   `BUILD_NUMBER` property + `PersistBuildCounter` target

docs/agent/decision-engine.md

@@ -137,8 +137,17 @@ false` and an arm holds), `EspExiting`, `ImeUserSessionCompleted`,
 advisory backstop. All routes converge on `CompleteThroughFinalizingOrDefer`:
 
 1. **Completion gates** (currently only the RealmJoin AND-gate): if RealmJoin was
-   detected and is neither resolved nor timed-out (hard 60-min timeout), completion is
-   *deferred* — the session stays in stage and emits `completion_waiting`.
+   detected and has no terminal outcome yet, completion is *deferred* — the session
+   stays in stage and emits `completion_waiting`. Three terminals open the gate:
+   `Resolved` (DeploymentPhase 110), `FirstDeploymentIncomplete` (phase left the
+   first-deployment window 100/101 for 200/210 without 110 — the RJ ESP was aborted,
+   typically by an interactive logon reclassifying the run as secondary-user; emits
+   the `realmjoin_first_deployment_incomplete` Warning, session 224b2087), and
+   `Timeout` (hard 60-min deadline). The abort rule reads the *persisted*
+   `RealmJoinFacts.LastDeploymentPhase` (updated by the typed `RealmJoinPhaseChanged`
+   signal), so it survives agent restarts — the `RealmJoinDetected` replay path
+   evaluates it too. A first observation of 210 does **not** release (RJ may have
+   completed before agent boot and deploy afterwards).
 2. `Finalizing` stage + ~5 s `FinalizingGrace` deadline.
 3. Grace fires → `Completed`, `EnrollmentComplete` outcome, `enrollment_complete`
    timeline event with full audit payload.

docs/agent/esp-policy-provider-stall.md

@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+---
+type: Concept
+title: ESP Policy-Provider Stall Detection — the no-timeout Setup/Apps wait and the co-management Sidecar gap
+description: Why the ESP's Apps wait is keyed to the Intune-registered "Sidecar" provider by name — a foreign provider (ConfigMgr) with TrackingPoliciesCreated=1 does not satisfy it — plus the classic never-completes stall, and how the always-on two-arm esp_policy_provider_stalled tripwire (reason=provider_incomplete | sidecar_provider_missing, 15-min wall-clock dwell, StartupEventGate cross-restart dedup) surfaces both.
+resource: /src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/SystemSignals/EspPolicyProviderProbe.cs
+tags:
+  - agent
+  - esp
+  - enrollment-status-tracking
+  - co-management
+  - stall-detection
+timestamp: 2026-07-24T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# ESP Policy-Provider Stall Detection
+
+## Schema
+
+The Enrollment Status Page decides when its "Apps" category may progress from
+"Identifying" using the **EnrollmentStatusTracking CSP**
+(<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/enrollmentstatustracking-csp>),
+mirrored in the registry under
+`HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot\EnrollmentStatusTracking\{Device|<UserSID>}\…`.
+Two contracts matter:
+
+1. **`Setup/Apps/PolicyProviders/<Name>`** — per the CSP doc: *"Existence of this node
+   indicates to the ESP that it shouldn't show the tracking status message until the
+   TrackingPoliciesCreated node has been set to true."* This wait has **no timeout**. A
+   registered provider that never sets `TrackingPoliciesCreated=1` parks the ESP at
+   "Apps (Identifying)" indefinitely — observed for days in the field. Exists in device
+   scope (`Device`) and user scope (`S-<SID>`, appears at sign-in).
+2. **`DevicePreparation/PolicyProviders/<Name>/InstallationState`** — must reach 2
+   (NotRequired) or 3 (Completed); 1=NotInstalled, 4=Error. Device scope only. The ESP
+   applies a default 15-minute timeout here, so these stalls self-surface as ESP errors —
+   the detector still records them for the diagnostic trail.
+
+Known provider names: **`Sidecar` is the Intune Management Extension** (the CSP doc names
+"Intune's agents, such as SideCar"); **`ConfigMgr`** is the Configuration Manager client,
+registered during Autopilot-into-co-management — the troubleshooting section of
+<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/comanage/autopilot-enrollment> queries
+exactly these registry paths. The same document states that ESP policy providers **are not
+aware of each other** and that **pre-provisioning is unsupported** with Autopilot into
+co-management.
+
+## The field case (issue #106)
+
+A tenant pre-provisions devices and installs the ConfigMgr client as a blocking app.
+Occasionally the user-phase ESP reaches "Apps (Identifying)" and never leaves it — for
+hours to days. On those devices `Device\Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders` contains **only a
+`ConfigMgr` key (no `Sidecar`)** — and, per the customer's follow-up, **`TrackingPoliciesCreated=1`
+IS set under it**. The provider is "complete" by the CSP value contract, yet the ESP
+still waits. Manually renaming the key to `Sidecar` — which creates no tracking entries,
+only satisfies the name — unblocks the ESP instantly.
+
+The naive CSP-doc reading ("any provider with TrackingPoliciesCreated=1 satisfies the
+wait") is therefore wrong for this case. What the evidence supports instead: provider
+nodes are registered **by the Intune service at enrollment**, and its ESP-policy WAP
+payload always registers `Sidecar` (ConfigMgr joins only via a co-management settings
+policy — see the payload documented by Niehaus). The ESP waits on the provider it
+expects **by name**; a foreign provider occupying the slot does not satisfy it,
+regardless of its completion values. On the affected devices the CM client (installed
+as a plain Win32 app, no co-management settings policy) evidently displaced the
+Sidecar node — consistent with Microsoft's warning that providers "aren't currently
+aware of others" and that pre-provisioning is unsupported with co-management. The exact
+CloudExperienceHost mechanism is not publicly documented; the registry signature —
+setupApps providers present, `Sidecar` absent — is deterministic either way.
+
+## Detection
+
+`EspPolicyProviderProbe` (fail-soft, static, `ScopedOverride` test seam — structural clone
+of `EspTrackingInfoProbe`) enumerates all providers in both kinds and scopes.
+`EspPolicyProviderStallDetector` evaluates a pure transition function on a 60-second tick
+from the always-on `EspPolicyProviderStallHost` — **two arms**, same 15-minute wall-clock
+dwell, one shared event type discriminated by `reason`:
+
+* **Arm 1, `reason=provider_incomplete`** — a provider **continuously incomplete for
+  ≥ 15 minutes**. The dwell clock starts at first incomplete observation and resets on
+  completion or disappearance. Missing values parse as incomplete
+  (fail-toward-observation). Catches e.g. Sidecar itself never reporting.
+* **Arm 2, `reason=sidecar_provider_missing`** — **≥ 1 `Setup\Apps` provider registered
+  but none named `Sidecar`**, continuously for ≥ 15 minutes. Deliberately ignores
+  provider completeness (the field case had `TrackingPoliciesCreated=1`). Sidecar
+  registering later — the legitimate startup ordering — clears the condition and resets
+  the clock. DevicePreparation-only snapshots don't activate it.
+* When both arms cross in the same round, ONE event is emitted and
+  `sidecar_provider_missing` wins as `reason` (it explains the hang regardless of the
+  foreign provider's state).
+* Missing root key / empty provider list = normal early enrollment: clears all dwell
+  state (both arms), never fires.
+* One `esp_policy_provider_stalled` **Warning** per newly stalled condition set
+  (`ImmediateUpload`), one-shot per condition in-process, cross-restart deduped via a
+  `StartupEventGate` fingerprint over the sorted currently-active fired conditions
+  (provider keys + a `sidecarMissing` sentinel) — a restart into the same stall stays
+  silent, a new condition joining re-reports.
+* Payload: `reason`, `providers[]` (full table: name, scope, kind, raw values, complete
+  flag), `stalledProviders[]` with `stalledForMinutes`, `sidecarMissingForMinutes`
+  (arm 2 only), `sidecarRegistered`, `dwellMinutes`.
+* **Purely observational**: emitted via `InformationalEventPost` (dispatch-guard exempt
+  pass-through) — never touches decision state. No config toggle, no ConfigVersion bump
+  (precedent: `disk_space_low`).
+
+Deliberately **not** built on `StallProbeCollector` (its idle clock resets on any session
+activity — a provider stall coexists with a chatty session) and not on the periodic
+collectors (idle-stopped after 15 minutes — exactly the dormant window the dwell must
+observe).
+
+## Guardrail companion
+
+`rules/guardrails.json` allow-lists `SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot` (category
+"Autopilot / OOBE / Setup") so tenants can build their own gather rules on the subtree —
+e.g. a `not_exists` registry rule on the `Sidecar` provider key. The subtree carries
+deployment state only (provider registrations, tracking lists, app IDs, per-user SIDs);
+sensitivity is at or below existing entries. Enforcement is agent-side (embedded
+resource), so both the detector and the guardrail change ship with the agent release.
+
+## Examples
+
+Customer-case event (abbreviated) — note the provider is "complete" by CSP values, the
+hang is carried entirely by `reason=sidecar_provider_missing`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "eventType": "esp_policy_provider_stalled",
+  "severity": "Warning",
+  "data": {
+    "reason": "sidecar_provider_missing",
+    "dwellMinutes": 15,
+    "sidecarRegistered": false,
+    "sidecarMissingForMinutes": 15.0,
+    "providers": [
+      { "name": "ConfigMgr", "scope": "device", "kind": "setupApps",
+        "trackingPoliciesCreated": 1, "installationState": null, "complete": true }
+    ],
+    "stalledProviders": []
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`reason=sidecar_provider_missing` is the co-management signature;
+`reason=provider_incomplete` with `sidecarRegistered=true` covers a stalled Sidecar or
+third-party provider — the generalized contract violation.
+
+# Citations
+
+* EnrollmentStatusTracking CSP — <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/enrollmentstatustracking-csp>
+* Windows Autopilot into co-management (requirements, provider-conflict warning, troubleshooting registry paths) — <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/comanage/autopilot-enrollment>
+* Troubleshoot the ESP (models app tracking exclusively via the `Sidecar` subkey) — <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/mem/intune/device-enrollment/understand-troubleshoot-esp>
+* Niehaus: the Intune ESP-policy WAP payload registering the provider nodes (`Sidecar` always, `ConfigMgr` only with a co-management settings policy) — <https://oofhours.com/2023/08/25/run-an-sccm-task-sequence-during-autopilot/>
+* Niehaus: ESP tracks arbitrarily named providers when they are properly registered — <https://oofhours.com/2023/09/18/track-anything-using-esp/>
+* Agent code: `EspPolicyProviderProbe.cs`, `EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.cs`, `EspPolicyProviderStallHost.cs` (SystemSignals / Orchestration.Hosts)
+* Related: [MDM Reboot Coalescing](mdm-reboot-coalescing.md), [Gather-Rule Guardrails](../rules/gather-rule-guardrails.md)

docs/agent/gather-rule-debug-log.md

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: Gather Rule Debug Log — the per-tenant evaluation trace for rules that produce nothing
+description: EnableGatherRuleDebugLog (ConfigVersion 36) makes the agent write a local trace file explaining every gather-rule evaluation decision — scope skips, missing intervalSeconds, on_change suppression, empty collector results, logparser position/parse-mode/no-match outcomes — so customers can self-diagnose rules that never show up in the timeline.
+resource: /src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather/GatherRuleDebugLog.cs
+tags:
+  - agent
+  - gather-rules
+  - diagnostics
+  - tenant-configuration
+timestamp: 2026-07-28T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Gather Rule Debug Log
+
+## Schema
+
+### The problem
+
+A gather rule that produces no timeline events is indistinguishable from a rule that
+never ran. The pipeline has many *silent-nothing* exits — before this feature, none of
+them were visible to the customer:
+
+| # | Decision point | Where |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | Rule delivered but `Enabled=false` | `GatherRuleExecutor.UpdateRules` |
+| 2 | `trigger=interval` without `intervalSeconds` — never runs | `UpdateRules` timer filter |
+| 3 | Interval timer's first tick comes only after one **full** interval | `UpdateRules` timer creation |
+| 4 | Out of phase scope (`activePhases` / `activeFromPhase` not latched); incl. `currentPhase=Unknown` before the first phase signal | `IsRuleInScopeLocked` |
+| 5 | phase_change / phase_exit dedup — once per (rule, phase) | `OnPhaseChanged` |
+| 6 | Collector returned an **empty** result (e.g. `emitOnlyIfExists=true` and target absent) | `ExecuteRule` |
+| 7 | `emit_mode=on_change` — result hash unchanged, emit suppressed | `ShouldEmitOnChange` |
+| 8 | Guard blocked the target (emits `security_warning`, but the rule yields no data) | `GatherRuleContext.EmitSecurityWarning` |
+| 9 | logparser: no files matched, position tracker says nothing new, regex no-match, plain-text file parsed in default `cmtrace` mode, `maxLines` cap, wildcard capped at 20 files | `LogParserCollector` |
+| 10 | Rule execution threw (agent log had only the message, no stack) | `ExecuteRule` catch |
+
+### The setting
+
+`TenantConfiguration.EnableGatherRuleDebugLog` (`bool?`, default null→false), served to the
+agent as `AgentConfigResponse.EnableGatherRuleDebugLog` — **ConfigVersion 36**. Portal:
+Settings → Agent → Settings, toggle "Gather Rule Debug Log", stored via the usual
+tenant-config roundtrip (`TableConfigRepository` Store+Map). Also shown in the admin
+tenant-config report.
+
+`RemoteConfigMerger` projects the bool onto a runtime path (same pattern as
+`EnableImeMatchLog`): `true` → `Constants.GatherRuleDebugLogPath` =
+`%ProgramData%\AutopilotMonitor\Logs\gather_rules_debug.log`; `false` → null, unless a
+`--gather-debug-log <path>` CLI override supplied a non-default path. The field is not
+security-sensitive and deliberately **survives the offline config cache**.
+
+### The trace file
+
+`GatherRuleDebugLog` is an append-only writer held by `GatherRuleExecutor` and exposed
+to collectors via `GatherRuleContext.DebugLog(ruleId, stage, message)` (null-safe no-op
+when disabled — zero cost on the normal path). Line format:
+
+```
+2026-07-28T09:15:02.123Z | RULE-ID | stage | message
+```
+
+Stages: `config` (registration summary per rule, header, zero-rules note), `phase`
+(enrollment-phase transition marker `phase change: Old -> New`, ruleId `-` — every
+rule-level line below it reads against the new phase), `trigger` (timer scheduled,
+phase/event fired, dedup), `scope` (skips with reason incl. current phase), `exec`
+(execution start), `collector` (null/empty results with likely cause), `guard`
+(allowlist block), `emit` (event emitted, hash change), `suppress` (on_change
+suppression with hash prefix + streak), `logparser` (per-file outcome: lines read,
+position range, match count, parse failures, regex timeouts, mode; plus the
+`format=text` hint when every line fails CMTrace parsing; plus one line **per regex
+match** — line number, matched text, capture groups — capped at 10 per file per run),
+`error` (full exception **with stack trace** — the agent log keeps only the message;
+an invalid logparser regex is reported here including the offending pattern string).
+
+Volume control: 10 MB cap with a single `.old` rotation generation (~20 MB worst case).
+Every write failure is swallowed — tracing must never break gathering. The trace never
+leaves the device on its own — but because it lives in the agent log folder
+(`Constants.LogDirectory`), the diagnostics package (`DiagnosticsPackageService`,
+`*.log` pattern, `AgentLogs/` section) picks it up automatically, so a customer-initiated
+diagnostics upload hands the trace to support without manual copying.
+
+### Semantics
+
+* **No hot-reload** — the flag is consumed once when `DefaultComponentFactory` builds
+  the `GatherRuleExecutorHost` at session start (per-enrollment lifecycle, same as
+  `EnableImeMatchLog`). Enable it in the tenant, then the *next* enrollment writes the
+  trace.
+* **Zero-rules case is traced too** — flag on + backend delivered no gather rules →
+  a one-shot standalone `config` line, so the file is never just absent.
+* **`--run-gather-rules` always traces** (operator diagnostic mode; CLI override or
+  default path) and mirrors every line to the console under `--console`.
+
+## Examples
+
+A logparser rule with `emit_mode=on_change` that "delivers nothing" becomes:
+
+```
+... | LP-01 | config | registered: trigger=interval, collector=logparser, target=C:\...\app.log, unscoped, emitMode=on_change, interval=300s
+... | LP-01 | trigger | interval timer scheduled every 300s (first run after one full interval — no immediate execution)
+... | -     | phase | phase change: DeviceSetup -> AccountSetup
+... | LP-01 | exec | executing: collector=logparser, target=C:\...\app.log
+... | LP-01 | logparser | app.log: read 1000 lines from position 0->81234, matched 0, parseFailures=1000, regexTimeouts=0, mode=cmtrace
+... | LP-01 | logparser | every line failed CMTrace parsing — if this is a plain-text log, set parameter format=text
+```
+
+— the answer ("plain-text log parsed in CMTrace mode") is in the file.
+
+A matching rule shows *how* it matched (capped at 10 per-match lines per file per run):
+
+```
+... | LP-02 | logparser | setupact.log: line 42 matched "Error 0x80070005" — groups: code="0x80070005"
+... | LP-02 | logparser | setupact.log: read 500 lines from position 0->40123, matched 1, parseFailures=0, regexTimeouts=0, mode=text
+```
+
+and a broken regex names itself:
+
+```
+... | LP-03 | error | invalid regex pattern '([unclosed' — rule can never match: Invalid pattern '([unclosed' at offset 10. Not enough )'s.
+```
+
+## Citations
+
+* Executor + trace points: `../../src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather/GatherRuleExecutor.cs`
+* Writer: `../../src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather/GatherRuleDebugLog.cs`
+* Config projection: `../../src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Configuration/RemoteConfigMerger.cs`
+* Backend serve + ConfigVersion: `../../src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Config/GetAgentConfigFunction.cs`
+* Phase scoping / emit mode background: `../rules/gather-rule-phase-scoping.md`

docs/agent/secureboot-ca2023-detection.md

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: Secure Boot CA-2023 Detection — firmware evidence vs. Windows servicing status
+description: Why ANALYZE-SEC-001 v3 reads the UEFI db/KEK variables directly (GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExW + SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege) instead of trusting the SecureBoot\Servicing registry key, and how the one-sided uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed marker plus a not_exists precondition give absence-tolerant rule suppression across old and new agents.
+resource: /src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Interop/UefiSecureBootCertReader.cs
+tags:
+  - agent
+  - secureboot
+  - ca2023
+  - analyze-rules
+  - backward-compatibility
+timestamp: 2026-07-23T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Secure Boot CA-2023 Detection
+
+## Schema
+
+Two independent evidence sources describe the Windows UEFI CA 2023 rollout state:
+
+1. **Servicing registry** (`HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecureBoot\Servicing\UEFICA2023Status`)
+   — reflects whether the *Windows Update* rollout ran and self-verified. Lags reality:
+   devices whose firmware received the certificate another way (OEM factory image, WinCS
+   CLI, manual deployment) or where WU simply has not run yet show `unknown`/`notfound`.
+2. **Firmware itself** — the UEFI variables `db` (signature database, GUID
+   `{d719b2cb-3d3a-4596-a3bc-dad00e67656f}`) and `KEK` (GUID
+   `{8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c}`). Authoritative. Certificate subject CNs are
+   ASCII bytes inside the DER signature lists, so a byte-substring search for
+   `Windows UEFI CA 2023` / `Microsoft Corporation KEK 2K CA 2023` decides presence —
+   the same check `Get-SecureBootUEFI` enables from PowerShell.
+
+`UefiSecureBootCertReader` (agent, `Monitoring/Interop`) reads both variables natively via
+`GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExW` — no PowerShell runspace during OOBE. The call needs
+`SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege`: SYSTEM holds it default-disabled, so the reader enables it
+on the process token (`AdjustTokenPrivileges`) and restores the previous state afterwards.
+Fail-soft contract like `OobeStateReader`: never throws; failures map to status strings
+(`not_uefi` = legacy BIOS via `ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION`, `variable_not_found`,
+`privilege_denied`, `error_<code>`).
+
+This is the repo's only privilege-adjustment code, so it also carries the ownership rules
+any future one should copy:
+
+* The process token lives in a `SafeHandle` assigned by the P/Invoke marshaler, so the CLR
+  owns it from the moment `OpenProcessToken` returns — the critical finalizer releases it
+  even if `Dispose` never runs (async exception before the instance reaches its `using`).
+* The restore obligation is recorded immediately after the successful `AdjustTokenPrivileges`,
+  and only when the privilege was not *already* enabled; nothing that can throw sits between
+  the adjustment and that assignment. `Dispose` is idempotent, swallows a failed restore, and
+  releases the handle in a `finally`.
+* The privilege is adjusted on the **process** token, so enable → read → restore is a
+  process-wide side effect and runs under a static gate. Without it a concurrent reader would
+  see "already enabled", correctly skip its own restore, and then lose the privilege mid-read
+  when the first reader disposes — a spurious `privilege_denied` on a machine that holds it.
+
+Fields land on the existing `secureboot_status` event (once per agent start,
+restart-deduped by the StartupEventGate): `uefiFirmwareReadStatus`, per-cert booleans
+(`uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023`, `uefiDbHasWindowsProductionPca2011`,
+`uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023`, …) — emitted only when the respective read succeeded —
+plus the marker below.
+
+## The one-sided marker (absence-tolerant suppression)
+
+Rule-engine constraints (pinned by `RuleEnginePreconditionTests`):
+
+* **Conditions** never match on an absent field (null guard) — new fields must stay
+  `required: false` or the rule dies for every old agent.
+* **Preconditions**: `not_exists` passes while the field is absent/empty and fails as soon
+  as the field is present with *any* value; comparison operators fail closed on absence.
+
+A two-sided boolean therefore cannot drive suppression: `not_exists` on
+`uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023` would also suppress the rule when the field is present with
+`false`. Hence the **one-sided marker** `uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed = true`, emitted
+ONLY when the db read succeeded AND the 2023 certificate was found — never as `false`.
+ANALYZE-SEC-001 v3 adds a `not_exists` precondition on it:
+
+| Device state | Marker | Rule |
+|---|---|---|
+| Old agent (no firmware fields) | absent | evaluates exactly like v2 |
+| New agent, cert missing or firmware unreadable | absent | evaluates; optional conditions `uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023=false` (+20) / `uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023=false` (+10) raise confidence |
+| New agent, firmware confirms cert | present | silently suppressed (the customer-reported false positive) |
+
+Because the marker exists nowhere until the new agent ships, the v3 rule is safe to seed
+**before** the agent rollout.
+
+## Examples
+
+Customer-equivalent verification from PowerShell (authoritative, matches the reader):
+
+```powershell
+[Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI -Name db).Bytes).Contains('Windows UEFI CA 2023')
+[Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI -Name KEK).Bytes).Contains('Microsoft Corporation KEK 2K CA 2023')
+```
+
+## Citations
+
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Interop/UefiSecureBootCertReader.cs` — native reader
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/DeviceInfo/DeviceInfoCollector.NetworkAndSecurity.cs` — `CollectSecureBootStatus` / `AppendFirmwareCertFields`
+* `rules/analyze/ANALYZE-SEC-001.json` — v3.0.0 rule definition
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests/RuleEnginePreconditionTests.cs` — pinned precondition semantics + v3 mirror tests
+* Microsoft: [Act now — Secure Boot certificates expire June 2026](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/act-now-secure-boot-certificates-expire-in-june-2026/4426856)

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: Device Journeys & First-Time-Right (F2)
+description: How a device's terminal enrollment attempts are grouped into journeys (device key, junk-serial exclusion, first-success end, 30-day gap), where the DeviceHistories chain and the daily FTR aggregates are computed, stored and pruned, and which surfaces serve them.
+resource: src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/DeviceJourneyCalculator.cs
+tags:
+  - backend
+  - metrics
+  - device-history
+  - first-time-right
+  - insights
+timestamp: 2026-07-27T12:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Device Journeys & First-Time-Right (F2)
+
+Answers "how many devices enrolled right on the first try?" and "show me every attempt
+this device made". Session success rate hides wipe-and-retry loops — every retry that
+eventually succeeds counts as a success; First-Time-Right (FTR) exposes the real pain.
+All grouping semantics live server-side in `DeviceJourneyCalculator` (JourneyVersion 1);
+no consumer re-derives them.
+
+# Schema
+
+## Device key
+
+`(TenantId, normalized serial)` — normalization is trim + lower-case. Junk/placeholder
+serials are excluded entirely (never a chain, never in FTR, disclosed as a per-day
+exclusion count): `System Serial Number`, `To Be Filled By O.E.M.`, `Default string`,
+`0`, `None`, `INVALID`, `Unknown` (the agent's WMI-failure sentinel), empty, or shorter
+than 4 characters. A motherboard swap changes the serial and therefore the device key;
+re-enrollment under a different tenant is a separate key by design.
+
+## Journey
+
+Terminal sessions of a device key ordered by StartedAt. The terminal set is
+**Succeeded / Failed / Incomplete** — `Pending` (a sealed WhiteGlove part 1),
+`AwaitingUser`, `Stalled` and `InProgress` are OPEN sessions and never attempts.
+
+* A journey **ends** with the first terminal success; the next session starts a new
+  journey (redeployment).
+* A gap of **more than 30 days** since the previous attempt's terminal moment
+  (`CompletedAt`, fallback StartedAt) starts a new journey even without a success
+  (device shelved/repurposed). Constant, not a setting — production gaps: median 4.9 h,
+  92 % < 7 d.
+* WhiteGlove part 1 + part 2 share ONE session row, so a completed WG enrollment is ONE
+  attempt; a WG device still waiting for its user session leaves the journey open —
+  never a failed attempt.
+* **Attempt count** = terminal sessions in the journey (`Failed` and `Incomplete` are
+  non-successful attempts).
+* **FTR rate** = completed journeys with attempt count 1 ÷ all completed journeys.
+  Open and gap-abandoned journeys never enter numerator or denominator.
+
+Durations shown for attempts are the sessions' authoritative `DurationSeconds` verbatim
+(WhiteGlove pause excluded; `Incomplete` deliberately has none) — never
+`CompletedAt − StartedAt`, which is later in ~25 % of terminal sessions.
+
+## Persistence & compute
+
+* `DeviceHistories` (PK = TenantId, RK = percent-encoded normalized serial): the chain of
+  the device's terminal session refs `{sessionId, startedAt, completedAt, status,
+  enrollmentType, isPreProvisioned, durationSeconds, adminMarked}` capped at the 20 most
+  recent, plus derived `CurrentJourneyAttempts` (the LAST journey's attempts — the
+  banner's "Attempt N"), `JourneyCount` (chain-scoped) and `JourneyVersion`. Written
+  inline at the session-terminal single-writer seam
+  (`TableSessionRepository.UpdateSessionStatusAsync`, all three terminal statuses,
+  DeletionState-guarded) so the session banner is fresh; healed by the maintenance sweep.
+  Deliberately NOT part of the per-session deletion manifest — the row aggregates many
+  sessions. Wiped on tenant offboarding.
+* Sweep (`SweepDeviceJourneysAsync`, 30-day rolling window, 2h tick): (1) drops chain
+  refs of deleted sessions **tombstone-driven** — every session deletion (cascade and
+  retention both run through the cascade worker) leaves a `SessionTombstones` marker for
+  ~7 days, far longer than the sweep cadence, and even an expired-but-unpruned marker is
+  valid deletion evidence; a chain left empty deletes its row. (2) Merges the window's
+  terminal sessions into their chains (backfill, inline-miss healing, re-terminal
+  reclassifications). (3) Recomputes the daily FTR aggregates idempotently.
+* `DeviceJourneyAggregates` (PK = TenantId or `global`, RK = `{yyyy-MM-dd}`): per day —
+  completed journeys, first-time-right count, attempt histogram, junk-serial exclusion
+  count, `JourneyVersion`. A journey buckets on the StartedAt date of its completing
+  success session (the platform's StartedAt-date convention; late terminals converge via
+  the sweep). All counts are **additive**, so a window rate is the ratio of summed daily
+  rows — there is no rolling-window row (unlike the median-based time-attribution
+  aggregates, which cannot merge). 180-day retention. Rows exist below the ≥20 UI gate
+  on purpose (the UI needs the n for "insufficient data (n=…)").
+
+# Surfaces
+
+* `GET api/metrics/device-history?serialNumber=&sessionId=` (MemberRead + tenant query
+  param — the same route serves the web banner and MCP; a Global Admin passes `tenantId`)
+  — the chain plus, with `sessionId`, that session's server-computed attempt number
+  (live sessions get their would-be position via a virtual non-successful attempt, so the
+  redeploy and gap rules apply). `history: null` = no recorded history.
+* `GET api/metrics/device-journeys?days=` (MemberRead) /
+  `GET api/global/metrics/device-journeys?days=&tenantId=` (GlobalReadOrAdmin) —
+  `{ windowDays, totals, daily, repeatDevices }`. The days selector is honored because
+  counts are additive. Without `tenantId` the global variant serves the cross-tenant
+  aggregate rows and `repeatDevices: null` — a per-device list would require scanning
+  every tenant's partition.
+* Repeat devices (violator list, capped 10): devices whose LAST journey took ≥2 attempts
+  and whose newest terminal session falls inside the window, ordered by attempts then
+  recency; the failure reason comes from the newest failed attempt (bounded point-reads).
+* Web: "Attempt N for this device · View history" banner on session detail (expandable
+  chain); "First-time-right" section on Fleet Health (rate + weekly trend + attempt
+  histogram + repeat devices). MCP: `get_device_history` (serial mode / fleet FTR mode).
+
+# Examples
+
+A device fails ESP twice and succeeds on the third try within one week: one journey,
+three attempts, completed — counts once in the FTR denominator, not in the numerator,
+and the histogram's bucket `3` gains one. The same device redeployed a month later and
+succeeding immediately starts journey 2 with attempt count 1 — first-time-right. A
+device with `serialNumber = "Unknown"` (WMI failure) never gets a chain; its terminal
+sessions surface only as that day's disclosed exclusion count.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/DeviceJourneyCalculator.cs` — device key, junk list, grouping, attempt numbers (JourneyVersion 1).
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Services/TableStorageService.DeviceHistory.cs` — persistence + inline seam entry.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Services/MaintenanceService.DeviceJourneys.cs` — sweep, tombstone pruning, daily aggregation.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Metrics/GetDeviceJourneyFunctions.cs` — read surfaces.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests/DeviceJourneyAndFtrTests.cs` — table-driven grouping/aggregation/attempt-number tests.
+* `tasks/insights-expansion-spec.md` — F2 specification and source-data audit (§0.5).

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: OOBE Bootstrap go-Code Flow — Always-200 Script Endpoint
+description: The full lifecycle of the bootstrap short-code — created in the portal, typed as `irm go.autopilotmonitor.com/CODE | iex` at Shift+F10, served by GetBootstrapScriptFunction as an always-HTTP-200 PowerShell script — including the two-line injection defense and the rate-limit story behind Front Door.
+resource: src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Bootstrap/GetBootstrapScriptFunction.cs
+tags:
+  - backend
+  - bootstrap
+  - security
+  - oobe
+timestamp: 2026-07-28T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# OOBE Bootstrap go-Code Flow
+
+Bootstrap Sessions let a technician install the agent **before** Intune
+enrollment: an admin creates a short-lived session in the portal (Settings →
+Bootstrap Sessions), hands the technician a short URL, and the technician types
+`irm https://go.autopilotmonitor.com/CODE | iex` into a Shift+F10 console
+during OOBE. The URL is deliberately short because it is typed by hand on a
+device that has no clipboard.
+
+# Lifecycle
+
+1. **Create** — `POST /api/bootstrap/sessions` (`BootstrapManagerOrGA`).
+   `BootstrapSessionService.CreateAsync` mints an unambiguous-charset short
+   code + a GUID token, validity clamped 1–168 h. The response's `bootstrapUrl`
+   is built from `Constants.BootstrapGoBaseUrl` — the single producer of the
+   absolute URL (pinned by `CreateBootstrapSessionUrlShapeTests`).
+2. **Serve** — `GET /api/bootstrap/go/{code}` (`GetBootstrapScriptFunction`,
+   `PublicAnonymous`). Customers reach it through the Front Door custom domain
+   `go.autopilotmonitor.com`, whose `/*` route rewrites onto the API path.
+   Validation runs in-process (`ValidateCodeAsync` + the tenant's
+   `BootstrapTokenEnabled` gate) — no HTTP hop to the validate endpoint.
+3. **Install** — the generated script downloads the agent ZIP from
+   `Constants.AgentDownloadBaseUrl`, extracts, and runs
+   `--install --no-auth --bootstrap-token … --tenant-id …`. The agent monitors
+   from OOBE start, switches to certificate auth after Intune enrollment, and
+   self-destructs on completion.
+
+The legacy Next.js `/go/[code]` route (SSR on the SWA) stays alive only for
+URLs issued before the migration and is removed with the static-export PR —
+see the transition rule in [URL Registry](../url-registry.md).
+
+# Always-200 contract
+
+Every response — success, invalid format, unknown/expired code, disabled
+feature, rate limit, internal error — is **HTTP 200 `text/plain`**. The
+consumer is `irm | iex`: a non-2xx status would make `irm` throw an opaque
+exception on the OOBE console, while a 200 error script surfaces the actual
+message via `Write-Host 'ERROR: …'`. Consequences:
+
+- Failures are invisible in status-code metrics; the compensating signal is the
+  `LogWarning` per rejection (code + client IP).
+- Error messages are capped at 200 chars **before** quote-escaping and
+  single-quote-doubled — a hostile upstream message cannot break out of the
+  `Write-Host` literal.
+
+A disabled tenant returns the **same generic message** as an unknown code — no
+enumeration oracle for whether a code exists.
+
+# Injection defense (two lines)
+
+The script runs as SYSTEM during OOBE, so interpolation is treated as a
+security boundary:
+
+1. **`BootstrapScriptValueValidator`** — tenantId/token must be exact canonical
+   GUIDs, the download URL must be https on an allow-listed host
+   (`AgentDownloadBaseUrl`/`AgentBlobBaseUrl` hosts) with the strict
+   `/agent/….zip` path shape, expiry must be future and ≤ 14 days. No accepted
+   value can contain `$`, quotes, backticks, spaces, or newlines. Kept even
+   though values are produced in-process — defense-in-depth against tampered
+   table data.
+2. **Single-quoted PS literals** — every interpolated value sits inside
+   single-quoted PowerShell strings, which do not expand `$()`, `$var`, or
+   backticks.
+
+The template is a C# raw string with `__TOKEN__` placeholders substituted via
+`Replace` (never `$`-interpolation — the script is full of PS `$vars`).
+`OobeBootstrapScriptGeneratorTests` pins byte parity with the original
+TypeScript template through a golden file, so the legacy route and the backend
+serve identical scripts during the transition.
+
+# Rate limiting behind Front Door
+
+The endpoint self-limits per client IP (`bootstrap-script:{ip}`, 20/min via
+`ClientIpExtractor.GetRateLimitClientIp`) — anonymous routes are skipped by
+`UserRateLimitMiddleware` and must bring their own limiter. Because traffic
+arrives through Front Door, the rightmost X-Forwarded-For hop resolves to AFD
+egress IPs and buckets would collapse (the shared-bucket 429 incident class);
+the AFD-aware extraction therefore honors `X-Azure-ClientIP` only when
+`X-Azure-FDID` matches the `FrontDoorProfileId` app setting (fail-closed to
+the trusted-hop path otherwise). Verified post-deploy 2026-07-29: real client
+IPs are keyed, not AFD egress.
+
+Front Door route caching is DISABLED for this route: the body inlines the
+bearer token, so a cache hit would replay one requester's token to another.
+`NoStoreCacheMiddleware` covers the `/api/bootstrap/go/` prefix.
+
+# Citations
+
+- `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Bootstrap/GetBootstrapScriptFunction.cs`
+- `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Bootstrap/OobeBootstrapScriptGenerator.cs`
+- `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Security/BootstrapScriptValueValidator.cs`
+- `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests/OobeBootstrapScriptGeneratorTests.cs` — golden parity
+- `src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/app/go/[code]/route.ts` — legacy route (transition only)
+- [URL Registry](../url-registry.md) — go-URL registry entries + transition rule

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: Rule Regression Radar (F3)
+description: How the radar detects analyze rules whose hit rate suddenly rose (7-day window vs 28-day baseline, Wilson-separated), which suppressions keep it quiet, how alert episodes live in the notification tracker, and which surfaces show them.
+resource: src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/RuleRegressionRadar.cs
+tags:
+  - backend
+  - rules
+  - regression-radar
+  - insights
+timestamp: 2026-07-27T16:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Rule Regression Radar (F3)
+
+Detects "this analyze rule suddenly fires much more often" before helpdesk volume does, and
+says what the spike correlates with — with honest statistics and honest wording. Analyze
+rules only in v1: their daily stats are audit-verified session-deduplicated
+(`FireCount` ≈ distinct sessions with a hit, `SessionsEvaluated` the same-source
+denominator). Gather rules are excluded until their per-batch stats dedup is fixed —
+never silently included with bad math.
+
+# Schema
+
+## Signal & detection
+
+Per (tenant, ruleId), daily hit rate = `FireCount ÷ SessionsEvaluated` from the
+`RuleStats` rows — RATES, not counts (absolute counts spike with every rollout wave).
+A regression fires only when ALL hold for the trailing 7-day window vs. the prior
+28-day baseline:
+
+1. window has ≥ 5 hit sessions AND ≥ 20 evaluated sessions;
+2. window rate ≥ 2× baseline rate;
+3. the Wilson 95 % intervals are disjoint in the increase direction
+   (`MetricsMath.WilsonInterval` / `RateIncreaseSeparated` — deterministic, unit-pinned),
+   so small-n noise never alerts.
+
+## Suppression (false positives are trust damage)
+
+* Rule entity missing (deleted) — never alerts.
+* Rule younger than baseline + window (`CreatedAt` within 35 days — grace period for new
+  rules; the entity timestamp is the honest gate, a stats-row count would fail on
+  low-volume tenants whose quiet days simply have no rows).
+* Rule edited inside the window (`UpdatedAt` ≥ window start) — edits legitimately change
+  hit rates.
+* Empty baseline denominator (rule disabled throughout the baseline).
+* Platform kill switch: app setting `RuleRegressionRadarDisabled=true` skips the radar
+  (fail-open — it only notifies, never mutates data).
+
+## Alert episodes (tracker keyspace)
+
+An episode lives as `ruleregression|{ruleId}` in the notification-tracker table
+(the `tpmpss|` pattern): the row IS the dedup (bell + ops event fire exactly once per
+episode), the badge state and the `regressions[]` payload — window/baseline counts,
+rates, lift (null for a zero-baseline "new signal" — no finite lift is invented), window
+dates, and the dimension concentration captured at first fire. Numbers refresh on every
+radar pass while the episode stays active; `FirstNotifiedAt` never moves. The episode
+closes (badge clears, dedup re-arms) when the window rate falls back under 1.5× baseline
+or fires stop entirely; the tracker's 30-day retention sweep also re-arms, so a
+month-old still-burning regression rings once more by design.
+
+## Dimension correlation (on fire only)
+
+Hit sessions (RuleResults scan: tenant partition range + RowKey = ruleId + DetectedAt in
+window, intersected with the window's sessions) are compared against all window sessions
+across `osBuild`, `model` (manufacturer + model), `agentVersion` and `imeVersion`. The
+top value by lift is reported with BOTH shares — wording contract: "X % of affected
+sessions are on … vs Y % of all sessions — correlated, not necessarily causal". No value
+with ≥ 5 hit sessions at ≥ 2× lift → "no clear dimension concentration"; a correlation
+failure also yields no claim. App-version correlation for `ANALYZE-APP-*` rules is a
+follow-up (needs rule→app matching semantics), tracked with the gather-rule fix.
+
+## Compute & alert path
+
+Runs in the daily maintenance pass right after the rule-stats aggregation
+(`RunRuleRegressionRadarAsync`), anchored on YESTERDAY — whole days only, a partial
+today would understate the window rate. One 35-day stats read covers all tenants;
+evaluation is the pure `RuleRegressionRadar` core. On a NEW episode:
+
+1. `RuleFrequencyRegression` ops event (category Tenant, Warning) with the full numbers
+   — dual-registered in the web `OPS_EVENT_TYPES` catalog for alert-rule routing.
+2. Tenant bell notification (type `rule_frequency_regression`, Admin audience) with the
+   same numbers and a deep link to the rule's card (`/analyze-rules#rule-card-{ruleId}`).
+   A sessions-list pre-filtered to rule hits needs a rule filter the session search does
+   not have yet — follow-up alongside the gather-rule work.
+3. v1 channel: bell + ops event only. Provider fan-out (webhook/Telegram) follows once
+   alert quality is proven — a noisy first version burns trust permanently.
+
+# Surfaces
+
+* `GET api/metrics/rule-stats` (and the global variant with `tenantId`) carries
+  `regressions[]` — the active episodes. MCP `get_rule_stats` inherits the block.
+* Analyze-rules page: per-rule 30-day fire-count sparkline (densified from the `trend`
+  rows the endpoint already served) and a red "↑ Regression" badge while an episode is
+  active, with the full numbers in the tooltip.
+
+# Examples
+
+A rule firing on 2 % of sessions for a month jumps to 15 % over a week (15/100 vs
+10/500): lift 7.5×, Wilson-separated → one bell, one ops event, badge until the rate
+falls back under 3 %. The same jump on 5/20 sessions with a 12 % baseline stays silent —
+the intervals overlap, so the spike is not statistically real yet. A rule that never
+fired in the baseline and now hits 15 % alerts as a "new signal" with no lift figure.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/RuleRegressionRadar.cs` — gates, suppression, re-arm, dimension concentration.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/MetricsMath.cs` — Wilson interval + separation primitive.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Services/MaintenanceService.RuleRegression.cs` — sweep, episode reconcile, bell/ops wiring.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/DataAccess/TableStorage/TableHardwareRejectionNotificationTracker.cs` — episode keyspace.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests/RuleRegressionRadarTests.cs` — hand-computed Wilson vectors + every suppression branch.
+* `tasks/insights-expansion-spec.md` — F3 specification and source-data audit (§0.5).

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: ServerActions & On-Demand Diagnostics Collection
+description: The queue-on-session, deliver-on-ingest ServerAction channel (terminate_session / rotate_config / request_diagnostics), the operator-tier authorization split, the portal's Collect Logs flow including the admin quick-config path, and why the offboarding cascade sweeps the hosted diagnostics prefix.
+resource: /src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Sessions/QueueSessionActionFunction.cs
+tags:
+  - backend
+  - agent
+  - web
+  - server-actions
+  - diagnostics
+  - authorization
+timestamp: 2026-07-24T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Schema
+
+**Channel.** A `ServerAction` (`Type`, `Reason`, `RuleId`, `Params`, `QueuedAt`) is queued onto
+`Sessions.PendingActionsJson` by server-side writers — the admin endpoint
+`POST /api/sessions/{sessionId}/actions`, the RuleEngine, maintenance — and delivered
+piggy-backed on the agent's next ingest response. No polling channel exists; delivery latency
+equals the agent's telemetry cadence (seconds to ~1 minute during enrollment). Delivery is
+at-least-once: the agent's `ServerActionDispatcher` dedups on `Type|RuleId|QueuedAt` and
+processes a batch sequentially in queue order. Unknown types are logged and skipped, so new
+types roll out server-first. Every action emits `server_action_received` and then
+`server_action_executed` or `server_action_failed` into the session timeline.
+
+**Authorization (two layers).** The route sits on `EndpointPolicy.TenantAdminOrOperator`
+(tenant Admin, tenant Operator, or Global Admin — no Viewer, no Global Reader: it is a write
+tier). Because the route serves multiple action kinds, `QueueSessionActionFunction`
+re-gates per type via `IsTypeAllowedForCaller`: Operators may queue only
+`request_diagnostics`; `terminate_session` and `rotate_config` require
+`RequestContext.IsTenantAdmin || IsGlobalAdmin` (403 otherwise). Any route on this tier with
+a multi-kind body MUST follow this same in-function re-gating pattern.
+
+**On-demand collection (`request_diagnostics`).** The dispatcher calls
+`DiagnosticsPackageService.CreateAndUploadAsync(enrollmentSucceeded: false, suffix:
+"server-requested")` — producing `AgentDiagnostics-{sessionId}-{timestamp}-server-requested.zip`.
+Passing `enrollmentSucceeded: false` is what makes on-demand collection work under
+`DiagnosticsUploadMode=OnFailure`; only `Off` (or an unconfigured destination) blocks it,
+surfacing as `server_action_failed`. The `diagnostics_uploaded` event stamps
+`DiagnosticsBlobName` + `Destination` onto the Sessions row (latest wins — an on-demand name
+is later replaced by the terminal package), and the SignalR `sessionUpdate` delta carries the
+field, so the portal's Download button flips live.
+
+**Portal flow (Collect Logs, session detail header).** The button is always rendered; the
+disabled states carry tooltips (inactive session, cross-tenant view, missing role, diagnostics
+not configured) as a deliberate nudge. Members below Admin cannot read the tenant config, so
+the member-readable feature-flags endpoint exposes `diagnosticsUploadConfigured`
+(`mode != Off && (customer SAS present || destination Hosted)`). Progress tracking is
+sequence-based (backend-assigned, monotonic), never timestamp-based — agent clock skew and
+at-least-once redelivery of older actions cannot produce false matches
+(`collectLogsLogic.ts`). Cross-tenant views are gated off because `TenantHelper.GetTenantId`
+resolves the tenant strictly from the caller's JWT.
+
+**Admin quick-config.** For an unconfigured tenant, a Tenant Admin's click opens a dialog
+that switches the tenant to `Destination=Hosted`, `Mode=OnFailure` (GET full config → patch
+exactly those two fields → PUT verbatim), then queues `rotate_config` **before**
+`request_diagnostics` — the dispatcher's sequential ordering guarantees the agent refetches
+the now-enabled config (the `RemoteConfigMerger` applies diagnostics fields live, remote wins)
+before building the package. This works against the already-deployed agent fleet; a
+"one-time override" variant would not, because the `mode=Off` check is client-side in
+`CreateAndUploadAsync` and the deployed handler reads no params.
+
+**Offboarding cascade.** Latest-wins on `DiagnosticsBlobName` means a session can leave more
+hosted blobs behind than the deletion manifest references. The cascade's Hosted branch
+therefore sweeps the canonical prefix `{tenantId}/AgentDiagnostics-{sessionId}-`
+(`HostedDiagnosticsBlobService.DeleteBySessionPrefixAsync`) plus the manifest-named blob as
+belt-and-braces; a non-GUID legacy `SessionId` degrades to the single-name delete instead of
+poisoning the cascade. The CustomerSas branch is unchanged (delete only with the `d`
+permission; the customer's lifecycle rules stay authoritative).
+
+# Examples
+
+Queue an on-demand collection (Admin or Operator, own tenant):
+
+```
+POST /api/sessions/{sessionId}/actions
+{ "type": "request_diagnostics", "reason": "On-demand log collection from portal" }
+→ 202 { "success": true, "queuedAt": "..." }
+```
+
+Operator queueing an admin-only type:
+
+```
+POST /api/sessions/{sessionId}/actions
+{ "type": "terminate_session" }
+→ 403 { "message": "Action type 'terminate_session' requires the Tenant Admin role" }
+```
+
+Timeline for a successful round trip: `server_action_received` → `server_action_executed`
+(with `blobName`) → `diagnostics_uploaded` → Sessions row + SignalR delta carry the new
+`DiagnosticsBlobName`.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Sessions/QueueSessionActionFunction.cs` — allowed types, per-type caller gate.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Security/EndpointAccessPolicyCatalog.cs` — `TenantAdminOrOperator` tier definition.
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Runtime/ServerActionDispatcher.cs` — dedup, sequential dispatch, telemetry contract.
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Runtime/DiagnosticsPackageService.cs` — mode gates, archive build, suffix.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Services/Diagnostics/DiagnosticsBlobCascadeDeleter.cs` — hosted prefix sweep.
+* `src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/app/sessions/[sessionId]/components/collectLogsLogic.ts` — button gating matrix, sequence-based progress evaluation.

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: Enrollment Time Attribution (F1)
+description: How a terminal session's wall clock is partitioned into named segments with an explicit unattributed remainder, how ESP-blocking apps and reboots are attributed, and where breakdowns and fleet aggregates are computed, stored and served.
+resource: src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/TimeAttributionCalculator.cs
+tags:
+  - backend
+  - metrics
+  - time-attribution
+  - insights
+timestamp: 2026-07-26T20:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Enrollment Time Attribution (F1)
+
+Answers "where did the 47 minutes go?" per session and per fleet. Every number is
+traceable to observed events; a missing signal produces "unknown" or an explicit
+unattributed remainder — never a guess, and the partition is never normalized to 100 %.
+
+# Schema
+
+## Invariant
+
+For every computed breakdown:
+
+```
+sum(span seconds) + UnattributedSeconds == WallClockSeconds == session DurationSeconds
+```
+
+`DurationSeconds` is the authoritative wall clock — for WhiteGlove it is part 1 + part 2
+WITHOUT the pause, and re-terminal stamps move `CompletedAt`, so `CompletedAt − StartedAt`
+is never used (it diverges in ~25 % of terminal sessions). Span seconds are floored;
+sub-second dust lands in the unattributed remainder.
+
+## Observation windows
+
+Windows are end-anchored on authoritative timestamps and constructed so their lengths sum
+exactly to `DurationSeconds`:
+
+* Non-WhiteGlove: one window `[CompletedAt − DurationSeconds, CompletedAt]`.
+* WhiteGlove (ONE session row, two windows): part 2 = `[ResumedAt, CompletedAt]`; part 1 =
+  `[part1End − (DurationSeconds − part2), part1End]` where `part1End` is anchored on the
+  `whiteglove_part1_complete` event. The pause between the windows is never attributed.
+  Fallback anchors set the `WhiteGloveAnchorsIncomplete` quality flag.
+
+## Segments
+
+Spans are sliced at phase-declaration events (only declaration events carry
+`Phase != Unknown`) plus `desktop_arrived`, in canonical Sequence order; anchors whose
+timestamp runs backward are dropped (`ClockSkewDropped`).
+
+| EnrollmentPhase | Segment key |
+|---|---|
+| Start / DevicePreparation / DeviceSetup | `device_prep` |
+| AppsDevice | `esp_apps` |
+| AccountSetup / FinalizingSetup | `identity_hello` |
+| AppsUser | `user_esp` |
+| Complete, `desktop_arrived` event | `desktop_handoff` |
+| Failed | attribution ends — tail stays unattributed |
+
+## ESP-blocking apps (positive evidence only)
+
+Per-app intervals use EVENT timestamps (first started/download event → LAST terminal
+event, covering IME retries) — never the agent payload timing, which freezes at the first
+terminal transition. Blocking membership joins the app id against the session's latest
+list-carrying `esp_config_detected` emission: listed ⇒ blocking; absent ⇒ unknown, never
+false (`BlockingSetUnknown` / `BlockingSetTruncated` flags). Critical-path occupancy =
+overlap-merged union of blocking intervals clipped to the `esp_apps` spans;
+`EspAppsOccupancySeconds` is null (unknown) when no lists were observed.
+
+The fleet what-if bound per app X is `max(0, cpEnd − cpEndWithoutX)` (latest interval end
+with vs. without X; the idle gap before X counts — the ESP also waits for X to start).
+It is an upper bound by construction; every consumer says "up to", never "you will save".
+
+## Reboots
+
+`system_reboot_detected` is detection-time-stamped by the NEXT agent run; the real boot
+moment is its `lastBootUtc` payload. Reboot spans are therefore the event-stream gap
+bracketing `lastBootUtc`, deduped per boot, clipped to the observation windows, and carried
+as a cross-cutting annotation (they overlap the segment they started in — never a slice of
+the partition).
+
+## Persistence & compute
+
+* `SessionTimeBreakdowns` (PK = TenantId, RK = SessionId): spans, reboot spans, blocking
+  intervals (top 20 + uncapped count), quality flags, `AttributionVersion`. Written once at
+  the session-terminal single-writer seam (`TableSessionRepository.UpdateSessionStatusAsync`,
+  Succeeded/Failed only — Incomplete deliberately has no duration). Deleted with its session
+  (deletion-manifest step) and on tenant offboarding.
+* Self-healing 30-day maintenance sweep (2h tick): backfills missing breakdowns, folds
+  late-terminating sessions into their StartedAt-date aggregates, and enforces version
+  purity — a stale-version row whose events aged out counts as missing, never mixed.
+* `TimeAttributionAggregates` (PK = TenantId or `global`, RK = `{yyyy-MM-dd}|{class}` and
+  `rolling30|{class}`): per enrollment class (`user_driven`, `whiteglove`, `self_deploying`,
+  `device_preparation` — never mixed) median/p75/p90 per segment over the fixed six-segment
+  stack (incl. `unattributed`; a session without a segment contributes 0), plus top blocking
+  apps (≥5 sessions per app row). Clean/flagged/missing counts are part of every row; rows
+  exist below the ≥20 UI gate on purpose (the UI needs the n for "insufficient data (n=…)").
+  Daily rows retain 180 days; `rolling30` rows are refreshed whole (a median of per-day
+  medians is not the range median — the rolling rows are the honest range statistics).
+
+## Surfaces
+
+* `GET api/sessions/{sessionId}/time-attribution` (MemberRead + tenant query param) —
+  breakdown row or `breakdown: null` (pre-feature / non-terminal / Incomplete = no lane).
+* `GET api/metrics/time-attribution` (MemberRead) / `GET api/global/metrics/time-attribution`
+  (GlobalReadOrAdmin, optional `tenantId`) — `{ windowDays, classes (rolling), daily }`.
+* Web: attribution lane under the session-detail phase timeline; "Time attribution" section
+  on Fleet Health. MCP: `get_time_attribution` (sessionId mode / fleet mode).
+
+# Examples
+
+A 30-minute user-driven session: `device_prep` 5m → `esp_apps` 10m (occupancy 4m by one
+blocking app) → `identity_hello` 8m → `user_esp` 5m → `desktop_handoff` 2m, unattributed 0.
+A WhiteGlove session with a 2-day pause reports wall clock = part1 + part2 only; the resume
+gap before the first part-2 phase declaration is unattributed, not guessed.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Helpers/TimeAttributionCalculator.cs` — calculator + semantics (AttributionVersion 1).
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Services/TableStorageService.TimeAttribution.cs` — persistence.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Services/MaintenanceService.Aggregation.cs` — sweep + aggregation.
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests/TimeAttributionCalculatorTests.cs` — golden fixtures pinning the invariant.
+* `tasks/insights-expansion-spec.md` — F1 specification and source-data audit (§0.5).

docs/index.md

@@ -12,21 +12,40 @@ https://docs.autopilotmonitor.com (separate repository).
 # Architecture
 
 * [Architecture Guide](architecture.md) - High-level architecture overview and solution layout for contributors.
+* [Version Contract](versioning.md) - One version shape for agent, backend and MCP: the ETag-CAS counter blob that mints build numbers, and the manifests published only after a deploy is verified live.
+* [URL Registry](url-registry.md) - Every well-known host lives in one registry file per component (Constants.cs / utils/config.ts / src/config.ts), enforced by guard tests; includes the agent-download migration to the download alias and its deploy-order constraint.
 
 # Agent
 
 * [V2 Agent](agent/index.md) - How the on-device agent works: [runtime overview](agent/overview.md), [decision engine](agent/decision-engine.md) (reducer, signals, completion arms), [logs & persistence](agent/logs-and-persistence.md) (signal log, snapshot, crash recovery), [Hello wizard un-skip](agent/hello-wizard-unskip.md) (why a single "WHfB disabled" read never decides completion), [Autopilot ZTD diagnostics](agent/autopilot-ztd-diagnostics.md) (event IDs, diagnostic registry, endpoints, error-code map).
 * [Build Counter Blob](agent/build-counter-blob.md) - How agent build numbers are minted: shared counter blob with ETag-CAS so local and CI builds never collide; CI additionally attests build provenance (Sigstore).
 * [Agent Endpoint Migration](agent/endpoint-migration.md) - How the backend re-homes agents to a new API base URL via the config channel (backend move or per-tenant region move): live-fetch-only, allowlist-validated on both sides, one hop, kill wins.
+* [Gather Rule Debug Log](agent/gather-rule-debug-log.md) - EnableGatherRuleDebugLog (ConfigVersion 36): the per-tenant local trace file that explains every gather-rule evaluation decision — scope skips, on_change suppression, empty collector results, logparser position/parse-mode outcomes — for rules that produce no timeline events.
 * [MDM Reboot Coalescing](agent/mdm-reboot-coalescing.md) - Attributing the mid-ESP coalesced reboot ("second sign-in") to the device-assigned policy URIs that forced it: aggregated DM-Enterprise 2800 observations (neutral, flush-time watermark) + the ANALYZE-ESP-005 advisory gated on an actually-observed reboot.
+* [Secure Boot CA-2023 Detection](agent/secureboot-ca2023-detection.md) - Why ANALYZE-SEC-001 v3 reads the UEFI db/KEK variables directly instead of trusting the SecureBoot\Servicing registry, and how the one-sided uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed marker plus a not_exists precondition give absence-tolerant suppression across old and new agents.
+* [ESP Policy-Provider Stall Detection](agent/esp-policy-provider-stall.md) - The EnrollmentStatusTracking CSP's no-timeout Setup/Apps wait is keyed to the Intune-registered "Sidecar" provider by NAME: co-management's "ConfigMgr" parks the user ESP at "Apps (Identifying)" for days even with TrackingPoliciesCreated=1 (issue #106); the always-on two-arm esp_policy_provider_stalled tripwire (provider_incomplete | sidecar_provider_missing) and the SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot gather-rule allowlist entry that surface it.
 
 # Rules
 
-* [Gather Rule Phase Scoping & Emit-on-Change](rules/gather-rule-phase-scoping.md) - Restricting gather rules to enrollment phases (activePhases / activeFromPhase sticky latch) and emitMode "on_change" result-dedup — the anti-spam pair for interval rules.
+* [Gather Rule Phase Scoping, One-Shot Triggers & Emit-on-Change](rules/gather-rule-phase-scoping.md) - Restricting gather rules to enrollment phases (activePhases / activeFromPhase sticky latch), one-shot collection at a phase's start/end (phase_change / phase_exit), and emitMode "on_change" result-dedup.
+* [Gather Rule Guardrails](rules/gather-rule-guardrails.md) - Why the allowlists in rules/guardrails.json are enforced on the agent and nowhere else, which hard blocks survive unrestricted mode, and the rule that every collector must call a guard and emit security_warning on refusal.
 
 # Backend
 
 * [Business Timestamps](backend/business-timestamps.md) - Why the Azure Tables system Timestamp is never authoritative (migrations reset it), and the OccurredUtc + RowKey-decode compensation for AuditLogs/OpsEvents/Events after the 2026-07-18 migration.
+* [OOBE Bootstrap go-Code Flow](backend/oobe-bootstrap-go-flow.md) - The bootstrap short-code lifecycle (portal-created session → `irm go.autopilotmonitor.com/CODE | iex` at Shift+F10 → GetBootstrapScriptFunction), the always-HTTP-200 text/plain contract, the two-line injection defense (GUID/URL/expiry validator + single-quoted PS literals, golden-pinned against the legacy TS template), and the per-IP rate-limit story behind Front Door.
+* [Device Journeys & First-Time-Right](backend/device-journeys.md) - How a device's terminal enrollment attempts are grouped into journeys (trim+casefold device key with junk-serial exclusion, first-success end, 30-day gap, WhiteGlove = one attempt), the DeviceHistories chain with its tombstone-driven deleted-session pruning, the additive daily FTR aggregates, and the banner/fleet/MCP surfaces.
+* [Enrollment Time Attribution](backend/time-attribution.md) - How a terminal session's authoritative wall clock (DurationSeconds, WhiteGlove pause excluded) is partitioned into named segments with an explicit unattributed remainder, ESP-blocking apps as positive evidence with "up to" what-if bounds, reboot spans from event gaps, and the breakdown/aggregate tables the sweep maintains.
+* [Rule Regression Radar](backend/rule-regression-radar.md) - How analyze-rule hit-rate regressions are detected (7-day window ≥2× the 28-day baseline with disjoint Wilson intervals), which suppressions keep the radar quiet (grace period, edit-in-window, kill switch), how alert episodes live in the ruleregression tracker keyspace with re-arm semantics, and the on-fire dimension correlation with its "correlated, not necessarily causal" wording contract.
+* [ServerActions & On-Demand Diagnostics](backend/server-actions-on-demand-diagnostics.md) - The queue-on-session, deliver-on-ingest action channel, the TenantAdminOrOperator tier with in-function per-type re-gating, the portal's Collect Logs flow (quick-config orders rotate_config before request_diagnostics), and the hosted-prefix sweep in the offboarding cascade.
+
+# MCP Server
+
+* [MCP Docs Corpus](mcp/docs-corpus.md) - How the published customer documentation becomes the `search_docs` corpus: CRLF-safe heading chunking, build-time embedding as a third precomputed section, and why a docs edit needs an MCP redeploy.
+
+# Web Portal
+
+* [Portal Navigation Prefetch & the SWA Runtime Bottleneck](web/portal-navigation-prefetch.md) - Why every navigation Link sets `prefetch={false}`: the App Router's viewport prefetch fans out one RSC request per visible link and the Static Web Apps SSR runtime queues them server-side into a multi-minute tail. Records the follow-up measurement (the Standard plan changed nothing; the prefetch storm was an accidental keep-alive), where browser telemetry actually lives, and why this curl build cannot be trusted for HTTP versions.
 
 # Security & Identity
 

docs/log.md

@@ -1,7 +1,69 @@
 # Log
 
+## 2026-07-29
+
+* **Update**: `agent/gather-rule-debug-log.md` — three trace enrichments: (1) new `phase` stage writing an enrollment-phase transition marker (`phase change: Old -> New`, ruleId `-`) so every rule-level line reads against the current phase; (2) logparser now writes one line per regex match — line number, matched text, capture groups — capped at 10 per file per run (the per-file summary keeps the full count); (3) the invalid-regex `error` line includes the offending pattern string.
+
+* **Update**: `url-registry.md` (+ `web/portal-navigation-prefetch.md` context) — the portal is now a **full static export** (`output: 'export'`, `trailingSlash: true`): the SWA serves plain files, the managed SSR runtime — the portal's last cold-start source ("Backend call failure" > 45 s) — no longer exists. Detail routes moved from path params to query strings (`/sessions?id=`, `/sessions/inspector?id=`, `/diagnosis?id=`, `/apps/detail?name=`, `/admin/backups/detail?id=`, `/admin/customs-archive/detail?tenantId=&rowKey=`) with all 21 link sites going through the new single-definition builders in `lib/routes.ts`; the 9 `[section]` families prerender via `generateStaticParams` server shells (37 pages, `dynamicParams=false`), server `redirect()` index pages became `ClientRedirect` shells. Legacy PATH-shaped deep links (sent Teams/Slack/webhook notifications hold `/sessions/{id}` forever) are preserved permanently: SWA wildcard rewrites serve the family page and the globally mounted `LegacyPathRedirect` rewrites to the canonical query URL (hash + query preserved; mapping pinned by `lib/__tests__/legacyPathRedirect.test.ts`). `middleware.ts` host routing became the client-side `HostRoutingGuard` (prefix list moved to `lib/hostRouting.ts`); the legacy `/go/[code]` route + `bootstrapValidation.ts` are deleted (BootstrapSessions table verified free of pre-cutover active sessions). `staticwebapp.config.json` now carries the 19 docs/marketing redirects (order-sensitive), the legacy rewrites, `404.html` override and ALL security headers incl. the literalized prod CSP — guarded by the new `swaConfig.guard.test.ts`; maintenance mode changed from whole-file swap to a first-routes-entry insert (README rewritten). Backend notification deep links go through the new `Constants.PortalSessionUrl` (query shape, pinned). Deploy: `deploy-web.yml` uploads `out/` with `is_static_export: true`.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `backend/oobe-bootstrap-go-flow.md` (and a `Bootstrap go-URL` section + web-registry update in `url-registry.md`) — the OOBE bootstrap script endpoint moved from the portal's Next.js `/go/[code]` SSR route into the Function App (`GET /api/bootstrap/go/{code}`, `GetBootstrapScriptFunction`), unblocking the portal's static export; the customer URL became **`go.autopilotmonitor.com/{code}`** (Front Door custom domain, `/*` route with origin-path rewrite, caching disabled — the script inlines the bearer token). New `Constants.BootstrapGoBaseUrl` (single producer via `CreateBootstrapSessionFunction`) + web `BOOTSTRAP_GO_URL` (display only); both guard host lists extended. Security invariants ported to C#: `BootstrapScriptValueValidator` (exact-GUID tenantId/token, https + host-allowlist + `/agent/….zip` path, expiry ≤ 14 d) and `OobeBootstrapScriptGenerator` (Replace-token raw-string template, single-quoted PS literals, 200-char error cap before quote-doubling; always-HTTP-200 text/plain contract for `irm | iex`). Endpoint is `PublicAnonymous` in the catalog, `NoStoreCacheMiddleware`-covered, self-rate-limited `bootstrap-script:{ip}` 20/min (rate-limit reply is also a 200 error script). Tests: golden byte-parity against the TS template, validator invariants incl. hostile-URL cases, format-gate table, and the previously missing BootstrapUrl shape pin. Transition: the legacy www route + `middleware.ts` `/go` prefix stay alive for pre-migration URLs (validity ≤ 168 h) and are removed in the static-export PR no earlier than 168 h after the last www URL was issued. Customer docs `network-endpoints.md` gained the `go.` host (device-facing, Bootstrap-Sessions-only).
+
+* **Update**: `agent/autopilot-ztd-diagnostics.md` — presentation layer for the startup error backfill (customer feedback: an unannounced wall of pre-agent Error events with a single identical timestamp read like a live failure). Agent: the backfill scan now buffers the capped record set, emits an Info summary event first (`modern_deployment_log`, `backfillSummary: true` + `replayedCount`/`droppedOverCap`/`lookbackMinutes`), then replays oldest-first so the timeline sequence follows event-log chronology. Web: `EventTimeline.tsx` badges `backfilled: true` events („⟲ Backfilled", tooltip) and renders the original `timeCreated` as the row time with a "(reported …)" suffix plus a `Recorded` metadata line — works retroactively for already-stored events. Severity is deliberately not downgraded.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `agent/gather-rule-debug-log.md` — the new per-tenant setting `EnableGatherRuleDebugLog` (ConfigVersion 35 → 36, portal toggle under Settings → Agent, `EnableImeMatchLog`-style bool→path projection in `RemoteConfigMerger`). When enabled, the agent writes `%ProgramData%\AutopilotMonitor\Logs\gather_rules_debug.log`: one pipe-delimited line per evaluation decision across ten previously silent "produced nothing" exits — disabled rules, `interval` without `intervalSeconds` (never runs), the first-tick-after-one-full-interval window, phase-scope skips incl. `currentPhase=Unknown`, per-(rule, phase) dedup, empty collector results (`emitOnlyIfExists`), `on_change` hash suppression (hash prefix + streak), guard blocks, logparser per-file outcomes (position skips, parse failures with a `format=text` hint when every line fails CMTrace parsing, `maxLines`/wildcard caps), and full exception stacks that the agent log drops. 10 MB cap + one `.old` generation; no hot-reload (per-enrollment lifecycle); flag survives the offline config cache; `--run-gather-rules` always traces and echoes under `--console`; zero-rules delivery leaves a one-line file instead of nothing. Side fix: `GatherRuleExecutorHost` now passes the logger into `InformationalEventPost`, so gather-event emissions appear in the agent DEBUG log.
+
+* **Correction + Update**: `web/portal-navigation-prefetch.md`. The HTTP/1.1 claim in the 2026-07-27 entry below is **wrong** and has been struck from the document: `portal.autopilotmonitor.com` negotiates **h2**, verified by `openssl s_client -alpn h2,http/1.1` and a .NET `HttpClient` returning `HTTP/2.0`. The false reading came from the Windows/Schannel curl build in this environment, which has no HTTP/2 support and therefore always reports `1.1` — do not use it to determine HTTP versions. There is no six-connection cap in play; the queue is server-side in the SWA SSR runtime, which does not change the fix or the evidence, only the mechanism. Added an `Outcome` section with 20 h of post-change telemetry: the Free → Standard plan change (16:02:44 UTC) produced **no measurable latency gain** once stratified by the gap to the previous request (p50 Free → Standard: `<10s` 85 → 95 ms, `5-30min` 429 → 441 ms; tail rates 1.64 %/0.374 % over 2 s/10 s vs 6 and 1 events at n = 258 against 4.2 and 1.0 expected; `browserTimings` Mann-Whitney z = −0.24, p = 0.81). The freezes were removed by `prefetch={false}` (16:34:13 UTC): worst `browserTimings.totalDuration` 225,277 → 4,856 ms. The prefetch storm was also an **accidental keep-alive** — requests under 10 s apart fell from 85 % to 46 %, and on the identical never-cacheable `/sessions/{id}` route the median rose 87 → 211 ms and p90 465 → 1,480 ms, with one 11,441 ms abandoned request (`resultCode 0`) after 517 minutes idle. Synthetic bursts warm the runtime and must not be used to benchmark this (round 1 p50 288 ms vs rounds 4–25 p50 113 ms).
+
+## 2026-07-27
+
+* **Creation**: Added `web/portal-navigation-prefetch.md` (and a `Web Portal` section to the index) — root cause of the minute-long portal freezes. `GlobalSidebar` and `Navbar` render the whole navigation on every page, so the App Router's default viewport prefetch issued one `?_rsc=` request per visible link against `portal.autopilotmonitor.com` (~10,400 in 14 days). *(The original entry attributed the freeze to HTTP/1.1 and a six-connection-per-origin cap — see the 2026-07-28 correction; the queue is server-side.)* When the Static Web Apps managed runtime queued the prefetches (p50 91 ms, p95 896 ms, but max 234 s / 21 samples over 30 s), the navigation the user wanted was stuck behind that queue. Measured on the 2026-07-27 17:25 CEST incident: `/admin/presence?_rsc=` 151 s, three siblings finishing within 340 ms of each other at ~37.5 s, all `200`, while the backend API answered in 1.6–2.2 s and `browserTimings` showed `networkDuration` 16 ms against `processingDuration` 225 s. Every navigation Link now sets `prefetch={false}` — these routes are client components behind `ProtectedRoute` that fetch their own data, so the prefetched RSC payload carried no benefit. The doc also records that browser telemetry lives in a **separate** App Insights resource (`AUTOPILOT_MONITOR_WEB_APPINSIGHTS_ID`) that the MCP `query_backend_logs` tool cannot reach, which is why the freezes left no trace in the backend logs.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `backend/rule-regression-radar.md` — F3 regression radar (analyze rules only; gather rules wait for their per-batch stats dedup fix): per (tenant, rule) daily hit rate from `RuleStats`, firing only when the trailing 7-day window has ≥5 hit sessions and ≥20 evaluated sessions, the rate is ≥2× the prior 28-day baseline AND the Wilson 95 % intervals are disjoint (deterministic `MetricsMath` primitive with hand-computed test vectors). Suppressed for deleted rules, rules younger than baseline+window (`CreatedAt` grace), rules edited inside the window (`UpdatedAt`), empty baselines, and the `RuleRegressionRadarDisabled` app-setting kill switch. Alert episodes live as `ruleregression|{ruleId}` tracker rows (one bell + one `RuleFrequencyRegression` ops event per episode; numbers refreshed while active; re-armed under 1.5× baseline, on fire-stop, or by the 30-day tracker retention). On-fire dimension correlation over osBuild/model/agentVersion/imeVersion with the "correlated, not necessarily causal" wording contract. Surfaces: `regressions[]` in the rule-stats response (MCP inherits), the analyze-rules page's 30-day sparkline and regression badge.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `backend/device-journeys.md` — F2 device history / First-Time-Right: the device key (trim + case-fold serial, junk/placeholder exclusion incl. the agent's `Unknown` WMI sentinel), journey grouping over the terminal set Succeeded/Failed/Incomplete (first success ends a journey, a >30-day gap from the previous attempt's CompletedAt starts one, WhiteGlove's single session row is ONE attempt, open sessions are never attempts), the `DeviceHistories` chain (cap 20, written inline at the terminal seam, healed by the sweep, deleted-session refs pruned tombstone-driven, deliberately not in the per-session deletion manifest) and the additive `DeviceJourneyAggregates` daily rows (window rate = ratio of sums — no rolling row needed, 180-day retention). Surfaces: the session-detail "Attempt N" banner with server-computed attempt numbers (virtual-attempt rule for live sessions), the Fleet Health First-time-right section (≥20-journey gate, attempt histogram, repeat-devices violator list), and the MCP `get_device_history` tool (serial mode / fleet FTR mode).
+
+## 2026-07-25
+
+* **Update**: `agent/secureboot-ca2023-detection.md` — review follow-up on 90012d9 hardened the privilege scope, the repo's only privilege-adjustment code and therefore the precedent for any future one. The process token moved from a raw `IntPtr` to a `SafeHandle` assigned by the P/Invoke marshaler, so the CLR owns it from the moment `OpenProcessToken` returns and the critical finalizer releases it even when `Dispose` never runs — previously an async exception between the successful open and the caller's `using` leaked the handle *with the privilege enabled and no owner left to restore it*. `Dispose` became idempotent and now releases the handle in a `finally`, so a throwing restore cannot strand it; the restore obligation is recorded immediately after the successful `AdjustTokenPrivileges` with nothing throwable in between. The whole enable → read → restore sequence runs under a static gate because the privilege is adjusted on the *process* token: a concurrent reader would see "already enabled", correctly skip its own restore, and then lose the privilege mid-read when the first reader disposed, reporting `privilege_denied` on a machine that holds it.
+
+## 2026-07-24
+
+* **Creation**: Added `backend/server-actions-on-demand-diagnostics.md` — the ServerAction channel (queue on `Sessions.PendingActionsJson`, deliver piggy-backed on the next ingest response, at-least-once with `Type|RuleId|QueuedAt` dedup and sequential dispatch) and the on-demand log collection built on it: the portal's always-visible **Collect Logs** button, the new `EndpointPolicy.TenantAdminOrOperator` tier with the mandatory in-function per-type re-gate (Operators queue only `request_diagnostics`), the member-readable `diagnosticsUploadConfigured` feature flag, the admin quick-config path that must queue `rotate_config` before `request_diagnostics` (works against the deployed fleet — a one-time override would not, the mode gate is agent-side), sequence-based progress matching immune to agent clock skew, and the offboarding cascade's hosted-prefix sweep closing the latest-wins orphan-blob gap.
+
+* **Update**: `agent/esp-policy-provider-stall.md` — the customer's follow-up on issue #106 corrected the field-case mechanics: `TrackingPoliciesCreated=1` WAS set under the foreign `ConfigMgr` provider, so the ESP ignores a foreign provider's completion values and waits on the Intune-registered `Sidecar` provider by name (the rename to `Sidecar` creates no tracking entries yet unblocks instantly). The completeness-keyed detector would have missed exactly this — the incident it was built for. The tripwire is now two-armed under one event type discriminated by `reason`: `provider_incomplete` (unchanged dwell on continuously-incomplete providers) and `sidecar_provider_missing` (≥ 1 Setup/Apps provider registered without `Sidecar`, completeness deliberately ignored, clock reset when Sidecar registers later). Sidecar-missing wins the `reason` when both arms cross in one round; the cross-restart fingerprint gains a `sidecarMissing` sentinel; payload adds `reason` and `sidecarMissingForMinutes`. Evidence for the name-keyed wait: Niehaus' documented Intune WAP payload always registers `Sidecar` (ConfigMgr only via a co-management settings policy) and Microsoft's ESP troubleshooting models app tracking exclusively through the Sidecar subkey.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `agent/esp-policy-provider-stall.md` — a customer diagnosed that pre-provisioned devices with the ConfigMgr client as a blocking app occasionally park the user ESP at "Apps (Identifying)" for days: only a `ConfigMgr` provider is registered under `EnrollmentStatusTracking\Device\Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders` (no `Sidecar` = IME) and `TrackingPoliciesCreated` never becomes 1 — a wait the CSP defines without any timeout; renaming the key to `Sidecar` unblocks immediately. The agent now ships the always-on `esp_policy_provider_stalled` tripwire (60-s tick, 15-min continuous-incompleteness dwell, one-shot per provider, `StartupEventGate` fingerprint across restarts, purely observational via the InformationalEvent rail — no toggle, no ConfigVersion bump), generalized to any provider in both `Setup/Apps` and `DevicePreparation` kinds rather than hardcoding the ConfigMgr case. Companion change: `SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot` joins the gather-rule registry allowlist so tenants can target the subtree with custom rules (e.g. `not_exists` on the Sidecar key).
+
+* **Creation**: Added `agent/secureboot-ca2023-detection.md` — ANALYZE-SEC-001 warned on devices whose firmware already carried the 2023 certificate, because the agent only read the `SecureBoot\Servicing\UEFICA2023Status` registry value, which mirrors the Windows Update rollout rather than the firmware (customer report). The agent now reads the UEFI `db`/`KEK` variables natively (`GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableExW` with `SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege` enabled on the process token — first privilege-adjustment code in the repo) and emits per-certificate booleans on `secureboot_status`. Suppression rides on a one-sided marker, `uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed`, emitted only on positive confirmation: the engine's `not_exists` precondition fails on any present value, so a two-sided boolean could not distinguish "confirmed" from "checked and missing", while the marker's absence keeps old agents and firmware-missing devices on the v2 path. Rule v3.0.0 is therefore safe to seed before the agent release.
+
+* **Update**: `url-registry.md` — the first release after the alias migration surfaced Front Door caching as a correctness hazard: the alias served the previous `version.json` (`X-Cache: TCP_REMOTE_HIT`) after the origin had rotated, and since manifest and ZIP are independent cache entries, a stale manifest with a fresh ZIP fails the bootstrap SHA-256 check. Route caching on `/agent/*` is now disabled and every blob upload stamps `Cache-Control: no-cache` (CI `Send-Blob`, local `build.ps1`, `versions/*.json` manifests) — all agent-container blobs rotate in place, so nothing there is safely cacheable.
+
+* **Update**: `agent/decision-engine.md` — the RealmJoin completion gate has a third terminal, `FirstDeploymentIncomplete`. Session 224b2087 showed why: an interactive logon 17 s after DeploymentPhase 101 makes RealmJoin reclassify the run as a secondary-user deployment, whose branch writes 200/210 and never 110 — the gate stayed closed until the 60-min hard timeout although Hello and desktop were long resolved. `realmjoin_phase_changed` is now a typed `RealmJoinPhaseChanged` signal, so `RealmJoinFacts.LastDeploymentPhase` is persisted across agent restarts (this also fixes every `realmjoin_timeout` event claiming "last phase: 0"); a transition out of 100/101 into 200/210 releases the gate with the `realmjoin_first_deployment_incomplete` Warning, and the `RealmJoinDetected` replay path evaluates the same rule for restarts that swallow the transition. A first observation of 210 deliberately does not release — session 6f1959c0 started at 210 and only deployed afterwards.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `url-registry.md` — all well-known hosts (own subdomains, both blob accounts, API origin, Graph, Entra login) are now defined once per component (`Constants.cs`, web `utils/config.ts`, MCP `src/config.ts`) and referenced everywhere else; three guard tests fail the build on any literal outside the registries. Written because the EU cutover missed two hardcoded copies of the legacy blob host — `LatestVersionsService` (feeds the portal's version badge) and `ValidateBootstrapCodeFunction` — which kept working only through the fail-soft legacy mirror in `build-agent.yml`; those two plus the agent `SelfUpdater` now use the `download.autopilotmonitor.com` alias (verified serving all four artifacts first). The portal's bootstrap allow-list accepts alias AND legacy host during the transition, which imposes a deploy order: web before (or with) backend. The sweep also surfaced a fourth copy of the www/portal host pair in `middleware.ts` (now derived from the registry via `hostRouting.ts`) and a backend short-link built on the bare apex domain, which only worked through a registrar-level 301.
+
+## 2026-07-22
+
+* **Creation**: Added `versioning.md` — agent, backend and MCP now share one version shape (`<major>.<minor>.<build>` + 7-char commit + build timestamp) and one implementation of the build-number reservation (`.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1`, previously copy-pasted between `build-agent.yml` and `build.ps1`). The backend had been pinned at a hand-written `1.0.0` since inception and now starts at `1.5.1000`; the MCP server's `package.json` version was bumped by hand and now starts at `1.5.300`, and it reports its own commit on `/health` instead of only the documentation bundle's. Both deploy workflows poll their health endpoint until it reports the build just deployed and publish `versions/<component>.json` only then, so a manifest that disagrees with the live endpoint means the instance drifted rather than the pipeline failing halfway. `agent/build-counter-blob.md` keeps the agent-specific parts and now points at the shared protocol; its counter URL was still the pre-cutover storage account.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `rules/gather-rule-guardrails.md` — the gather-rule allowlists are enforced only on the agent (the backend validates no `collectorType`, `target`, or `parameters`), so a collector that forgets to call its guard *is* the vulnerability. Written because two had: `LogParserCollector` read any path in `rule.Target`, bypassing even the `C:\Users` hard block that every other file collector honours, and `EventLogCollector` read any channel including `Security` — while the customer-facing documentation already promised both were allowlisted. Both now guard, with `logparser` checking the directory for wildcard targets (`Path.GetFullPath` throws on `*`) and re-checking each resolved path. Added an event-log channel allowlist (`eventLogChannels`) plus hard-blocked channels held in C# rather than JSON, so a parse error cannot lift them. Also fixed the command timeout, which was inert: `ReadToEnd()` blocks until the pipe closes, so `WaitForExit(30000)` was only reached after the process had already exited and a hung command pinned its worker forever — now read asynchronously and killed at the timeout.
+
+* **Update**: Added `.github/workflows/ci.yml` — the full suite (backend, agent V2 Core, DecisionCore, SummaryDialog, web, MCP) now runs on every pull request and every push to main, plus a job that fails if the generated guardrail files drift from `rules/guardrails.json`. Previously **no** workflow ran tests on a PR: the deploy workflows build without testing, and `build-agent.yml` tested only `DecisionCore.Tests` on manual dispatch — while `trust/security-faq.md` already told customers that automated tests run in CI. Added CodeQL (C# and TypeScript) and Dependabot (nuget, npm ×2, actions). Marked `OfficeBinaryWatcherTests` `[Collection("SerialThreading")]`: its bounded re-probe races the shared ThreadPool and failed once under full-suite load.
+
+## 2026-07-21
+
+* **Update**: `search_docs` and `search_knowledge` now state in their tool descriptions that queries must be in English. Both corpora and `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` are English-only, and the failure is total rather than gradual — a German question returns zero results, not weak ones. The caller is a language model, so translating the question before the call and answering in the user's language costs nothing; a multilingual embedding model would be the alternative but is much larger and would have to be measured against the eval harness first, since it changes English retrieval too.
+
+* **Update**: Added `scripts/eval-docs-search.ts`, an offline retrieval evaluation harness (2465 queries in three classes: chunk headings as a regression detector, rare identifiers, and hand-written questions as the reality anchor), and used it to close a third `search_docs` gap found during the live test. The keyword fallback only fired when semantic search returned *fewer* than `topK`; a pasted identifier like `WOW6432Node` instead returned three chunks at ~0.29 that did not contain the word while the one chunk that did was never considered. It now also fires on a weak semantic head (<0.35), letting exact matches take the front while keeping one semantic result. The threshold is measured, not guessed: 0.35 fixes 335 queries and breaks 0 (identifier recall 66.2% → 81.1%), while 0.40 fixes more but starts demoting hand-written questions. The measurement also resized the problem — identifier queries were only succeeding 66.2% of the time, so the reported case was one of roughly 750.
+
+* **Update**: Closed the two measured recall gaps in `search_docs` (`mcp/docs-corpus.md`). (1) **Token windows** — 87 of 324 chunks exceeded the model's 256-token context and 13% of all tokens never reached the ranking; a character budget cannot fix this (the corpus ranges 2.43–5.81 chars/token), so long text is now embedded as 250-token windows with 40 overlap and scored by its BEST window (`embeddings: number[][]`, max not mean). Token coverage 87% → 100%; "proxy configuration blocking app downloads" went from absent to 0.559 at rank 1; the ten reference queries kept byte-identical scores. Costs +31% vectors, index 2.63 → 3.12 MB. The rules corpus gained the same treatment (128 rules → 172 vectors). (2) **Keyword fallback** — when the semantic pass returns fewer than `topK`, results are topped up via literal `lexicalMatch` on distinctive query terms, requiring two matching terms for corroboration (one incidental substring match returned a page about LLM providers for a sourdough query). Fuzzy matching was measured and rejected: at a threshold low enough to surface "RealmJoin" it invents 5 hits for "SCEPman", which the corpus never mentions. Also sharpened the tool description with the measured context argument for preferring it over fetching the docs site.
+
+* **Creation**: Added `mcp/docs-corpus.md` (new `mcp/` section) — the MCP server gains `search_docs`, a third semantic corpus built from the published customer documentation repository (`autopilotmonitor-docs`, checked out into the Docker build context by the deploy workflow). Documents the h2/h3 + `<details>` chunking with breadcrumb prefixes, the two deliberate size exceptions (tables never split, unbroken changelog lists split at line level), the CRLF precondition (`.` does not match `\r` in JS — headings silently stop matching, which produced 286 wrong-but-plausible chunks before it was found), the optional `docs` section in `search-index.json` and its validation asymmetry, embedding rounding to 6 decimals, and the cross-repo coupling: a docs edit reaches clients only after an MCP redeploy, made checkable via `DOCS_COMMIT` on `/health`. Container resources raised to 0.5 vCPU / 1.0 GiB for the cold-start query-embedder load.
+
 ## 2026-07-20
 
+* **Update**: `rules/gather-rule-phase-scoping.md` — the gather-rule form now shows the phase-scope and emit-mode controls only where they can change behavior (`supportsPhaseScope` / `supportsEmitMode`), nulls hidden-control state out of the payload, and rejects a scope mode selected but left unfilled. Offering all three "when" controls unconditionally allowed combinations that could only suppress a one-shot rule, plus a silent no-op state.
+* **Update**: Extended `rules/gather-rule-phase-scoping.md` with the `phase_exit` trigger — the closing bookend to `phase_change`, for one-shot collection when a phase is LEFT (e.g. "state at the end of Account Setup"). Documents the evaluation-before-phase-advance rule (triggerPhase match and scope gate see the phase being left), firing into `Failed`, the disjoint `exit:` dedup key space, and why no ConfigVersion bump is needed (no new field — old agents simply never fire the rule).
 * **Update**: Reworked `agent/mdm-reboot-coalescing.md` after the first real enrollment (session b2e890c1): 2800 records are now **aggregated per burst** into ONE neutral Info event (`rebootUris[]`/`uriCount`/`firstRebootUri`; watermark persisted at flush so a pre-emit reboot kill loses nothing); the raw event no longer claims a reboot — ANALYZE-ESP-005 is gated on an actually-observed `system_reboot_detected`. **Removed** the Shell-Core `esp_reboot_coalescing` event entirely: the "RebootCoalescing" token appears in the routine `SubcategoryProcessing_Started` bootstrap marker on every enrollment (false positive by construction). Verified 2800 description shape recorded.
 * **Creation**: Added `agent/mdm-reboot-coalescing.md` — the agent now attributes the "unexpected mid-ESP reboot + second sign-in" pattern (PMPC research) to the device-assigned policy URIs that forced it: new `MdmRebootPolicyTracker` (DM-Enterprise EventID 2800, per-URI `mdm_policy_reboot_required` events, cross-restart RecordId watermark), a `RebootCoalescing` branch in `ShellCoreTracker` (`esp_reboot_coalescing`, backfill-emitting by design), and the `ANALYZE-ESP-005` advisory (reassign device → user groups). ConfigVersion 35; event types deliberately distinct from `system_reboot_detected` so RebootCount stays uninflated.
 
@@ -12,6 +74,10 @@
 
 * **Creation**: Added `agent/endpoint-migration.md` — config-channel agent re-home (`MigrateToApiBaseUrl` on `GET agent/config`, ConfigVersion 33): backend or per-tenant API-URL moves without DNS indirection (impossible due to mTLS/Flex-TLS). Live-fetch-only with cache strip, `AgentEndpointMigrationRules` allowlist validated on both sides, one hop, kill-switch wins. Built as the lesson from the 2026-07-18 WEU→GWC cutover, which hard-cut all in-flight agents.
 
+## 2026-07-26
+
+* **Creation**: Added `backend/time-attribution.md` — the F1 enrollment time attribution: exact-partition invariant against the session's authoritative DurationSeconds, two-window WhiteGlove model, segment mapping from phase-declaration events, positive-evidence ESP-blocking join with "up to" what-if bounds, reboot spans from event gaps around `lastBootUtc`, and the SessionTimeBreakdowns / TimeAttributionAggregates tables with their terminal-seam + maintenance-sweep compute paths and read surfaces (web lane, fleet panel, MCP `get_time_attribution`).
+
 ## 2026-07-17
 
 * **Creation**: Added `agent/build-counter-blob.md` — agent build numbers now come from a shared public counter blob (`buildcounter-v{N}.txt`, reserve-before-build with ETag-CAS) so local `build.ps1` and CI `build-agent.yml` builds can never mint the same number. Documents the CI parity fixes (SummaryDialog.exe.config in the ZIP, EXE-vs-manifest version check, hash-oracle update gated on stable cutover) and the Sigstore provenance attestation on CI-built ZIPs.

docs/mcp/docs-corpus.md

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: MCP Docs Corpus — search_docs and the Cross-Repo Build Coupling
+description: How the published customer documentation becomes a third semantic search corpus in the MCP server — CRLF-safe heading chunking, build-time embedding, the corpus hash guard, and why editing the docs does not update a running server.
+resource: /src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/src/docs-corpus.ts
+tags:
+  - mcp
+  - search
+  - embeddings
+  - documentation
+  - build
+timestamp: 2026-07-21T19:30:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Purpose
+
+The MCP server answers two different kinds of question, and they need two
+different corpora.
+
+* *"Why did this enrollment fail?"* → analysis rules, gather rules, IME log
+  patterns. That is `search_knowledge`, backed by `knowledge-base.ts`.
+* *"How do I deploy the agent?" / "Where is my data stored?"* → the published
+  customer documentation. That is `search_docs`, backed by `docs-corpus.ts`.
+
+They are deliberately **separate indexes**. Merged into one, they would compete
+for the same `topK` and dilute each other: a rules query would surface prose
+pages, and a product question would surface rule definitions.
+
+# Schema
+
+## Corpus source
+
+The corpus is the `autopilotmonitor-docs` repository — a public OKF bundle
+published at `docs.autopilotmonitor.com`. It is **not** vendored into this repo.
+The deploy workflow checks it out into `mcp-docs/` of the Docker build context;
+the Dockerfile copies it to `/app/docs` in both the build and the final stage
+(byte-identical, or the boot-time corpus hash rejects the precomputed index).
+
+`SUMMARY.md` and `log.md` are skipped as navigation scaffolding. `index.md` is
+kept — it is the documentation map and answers "what documentation exists" — but
+gets no `url`, because the bundle deliberately keeps it out of `SUMMARY.md` and
+GitBook therefore never renders it.
+
+## Chunking
+
+A whole page cannot be one document: `trust/security-faq.md` is 36 KB, while
+MiniLM-L6-v2 truncates at ~256 tokens. An un-chunked page would silently embed
+only its first paragraph.
+
+Chunks are cut at **h2/h3 headings**, which in this bundle are also the semantic
+boundaries — `security-faq.md` carries 37 h3s, one per question.
+`<details><summary>Q</summary>` blocks (used by `troubleshooting/faq.md`) are
+treated the same way, with the summary as the section title. Each chunk is
+prefixed with a `Page Title › Section › Subsection` breadcrumb so a hit lifted
+out of the middle of a page is self-describing to both the embedder and the
+reader.
+
+Two deliberate exceptions to the ~1500-character budget:
+
+* **Markdown tables are never split.** A table broken across chunks leaves
+  `| --- |` rows with no header — unreadable in a result and meaningless to
+  embed. Tables carry real answers here (the role matrix, the settings
+  reference), so an over-long table is allowed to exceed the budget.
+* **Unbroken lists split at line level.** The changelog pages are one bullet
+  list per release with no blank lines, so paragraph splitting cannot touch
+  them; left whole, everything past the model's window would be truncated away
+  and become unsearchable.
+
+Short sections are **kept**, not filtered. A one-line answer ("Is it free?" →
+"Yes, the Community plan is free") is often the most valuable hit, and the
+breadcrumb supplies the context the short body lacks. Only structural residue
+(under 25 alphanumeric characters) is dropped.
+
+## CRLF is a correctness precondition
+
+The docs repo is authored on Windows and ships CRLF. In JavaScript `.` does not
+match `\r`, so a pattern like `/^(#{2,3})\s+(.*)$/` matches **nothing** on a CRLF
+file: `(.*)` stops before the `\r` and `$` never reaches end-of-string.
+
+This was observed during development, and the failure mode is what makes it
+dangerous: no crash, no error — headings and frontmatter simply stop being
+recognized and every page silently degrades to unlabelled paragraph splits. The
+first working build produced 286 plausible-looking chunks that were almost all
+wrong; after normalizing, `security-faq.md` went from 29 blind splits to 46 real
+question sections.
+
+`normalizeNewlines()` runs before any parsing. Do not remove it, and do not
+"fix" a future parsing bug here by adding `\r?` to one pattern.
+
+## Token windows: why a chunk can hold several vectors
+
+Chunking at heading boundaries keeps sections coherent, but it does not bound the
+result by *tokens* — and it cannot. Measured on this corpus the ratio ranges from
+**2.43 to 5.81 characters per token**, a factor of 2.4, so no character budget maps
+reliably onto the model's 256-token window. A budget safe for the worst case
+(~620 characters) would shred prose and tables alike.
+
+Left alone, 87 of 324 chunks exceeded the window and **13% of all tokens never
+reached the ranking** — silently, since the tokenizer truncates without complaint.
+The effect was concrete: in `built-in-rules.md :: Apps` (734 tokens), the strings
+`ANALYZE-APP-013`, `ANALYZE-OFFICE-001`, `ANALYZE-CORR-003` and `Click-to-Run` all
+sit past the cutoff, so *"proxy configuration blocking app downloads"* did not
+retrieve that section at all.
+
+So the *chunk* stays whole and the *embedding* is split instead:
+`VectorSearchProvider.index()` cuts long text into 250-token windows with 40 tokens
+of overlap and embeds each. A document therefore carries `embeddings: number[][]`,
+and `search()` scores it by its **best** window.
+
+- **Max, not mean.** Averaging window vectors would blur a long section's several
+  topics into one mediocre direction — the same dilution that makes large context
+  windows worse than chunking. Max keeps a document findable by any one thing it
+  discusses.
+- **The tokenizer is a build-time dependency only.** `index()` runs during the
+  Docker build; production boots from precomputed vectors and never loads it. It is
+  also only the vocabulary, not the ONNX weights (~93 ms).
+- Cost: 324 chunks → 424 vectors (+31%), index 2.63 → 3.12 MB, and 424 instead of
+  324 dot products per query — still microseconds.
+- The rules corpus benefits too, unplanned: 128 rules now carry 172 vectors.
+
+Measured effect: token coverage 87% → **100%**, *"Office Click-to-Run install never
+finished"* 0.318 → **0.442**, *"proxy configuration blocking app downloads"* absent
+→ **0.559 at rank 1**. The ten reference queries kept byte-identical scores — their
+chunks are short, hence one window, hence the same vector as before.
+
+## Keyword fallback
+
+Semantic ranking alone leaves a gap: proper nouns embed poorly. `RealmJoin` occurs
+in 3 chunks yet scores under the threshold.
+
+Fuzzy matching is the wrong remedy, and the corpus says so. At a threshold low
+enough to surface `RealmJoin` (0.28), Fuse also returns 5 hits for `SCEPman` — a
+word this corpus contains **zero** times. Literal containment has neither problem.
+
+So when the semantic pass returns fewer than `topK`, `search_docs` tops the list up
+via `lexicalMatch`, the substring scan every provider already exposes:
+
+- Query terms are filtered to distinctive ones (≥4 characters, non-stopword, max 6).
+- A hit needs **corroboration**: at least two matching terms, unless the query has
+  only one. Without this rule, "how do I bake sourdough bread" matched a page about
+  LLM providers, because "bake" is a substring of "baked into the image".
+- Hits are **appended, never merged**: they carry no cosine similarity, so semantic
+  results keep the head of the list and keyword hits fill the tail, flagged
+  `matchType: "keyword"` with `keywordFallback` in the response.
+
+### Language
+
+The corpus and `all-MiniLM-L6-v2` are both English-only, and the failure is total
+rather than gradual: "wo werden meine Daten gespeichert" returns **zero** results,
+not weak ones, because the query vector lands nowhere near any English chunk.
+
+The fix is a sentence in the tool description telling the caller to query in English
+and answer in the user's language — the caller is a language model, so translating
+the question before the call costs nothing. A multilingual embedding model would
+handle it natively but is substantially larger and would need to be measured against
+`scripts/eval-docs-search.ts` first, since it changes English retrieval too.
+`search_knowledge` carries the same note for the same reason.
+
+### When it fires
+
+Two triggers, and the second one exists because the first was not enough:
+
+1. **Fewer than `topK` semantic hits** — the obvious case.
+2. **A weak semantic head** (best score below `WEAK_SEMANTIC_SCORE`, 0.35). Topping
+   up only a short list misses the more common failure: a pasted identifier like
+   `WOW6432Node` returns three chunks at ~0.29 that do not contain the word, while
+   the single chunk that does never gets considered. When nothing semantic is
+   convincing, exact matches take the front — keeping at least one semantic result,
+   so a weak-but-correct hit is never pushed out entirely.
+
+The threshold was chosen by measurement, not intuition. `scripts/eval-docs-search.ts`
+scores strategies over 2465 queries in three classes — every chunk heading
+(known-item, a regression detector), rare identifiers (the class this fallback
+serves), and hand-written questions (the reality anchor, not derived from the
+corpus):
+
+| strategy | known-item | literal | handwritten MRR | fixed | broken |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| append-only (previous) | 71.9% | 66.2% | 1.000 | — | — |
+| weak < 0.30 | 71.9% | 72.6% | 1.000 | 142 | 0 |
+| **weak < 0.35** | **73.7%** | **81.1%** | **1.000** | **335** | **0** |
+| weak < 0.40 | 76.3% | 88.2% | 0.944 | 502 | 3 |
+| weak < 0.45 | 77.2% | 93.0% | 0.889 | 613 | 5 |
+
+0.35 is strictly dominant: better in every class, worse in none. Higher thresholds
+keep repairing more identifier queries but start demoting hand-written questions —
+the class that most resembles real use — so the gain is not free past that point.
+
+The measurement also corrected the size of the problem: identifier queries were
+succeeding only 66.2% of the time, so `WOW6432Node` was not an outlier but one of
+roughly 750 such failures.
+
+## Build-time embedding
+
+Like the rules corpus, docs are embedded once at Docker build time by
+`precompute-embeddings.js <rulesDir> <outFile> [docsDir]`, into a third
+`PrecomputedSection` (`docs`) of `search-index.json`. The container never embeds
+a corpus at boot — only the incoming query.
+
+The `docs` section is **optional** in the file format, which is what makes a
+local checkout without the docs repo work: `validatePrecomputedIndex` skips it
+when the booting server loaded zero doc chunks. The asymmetry is intentional —
+if the server *has* a docs corpus and the file does *not*, that is staleness and
+is rejected like any other mismatch.
+
+Embeddings are rounded to 6 decimals on serialize. A float64 component
+serializes to ~20 characters of JSON, so 384 dims cost ~7.8 KB per vector;
+rounding roughly halves the index file, which is `JSON.parse`d on every
+scale-to-zero cold start. The induced L2 norm error (~1e-5 over 384 dims) sits
+two orders of magnitude inside `UNIT_NORM_EPSILON`.
+
+## Registration
+
+`search_docs` is registered for **every role**, unlike the platform tools: this
+is public documentation carrying no tenant data, and a tenant user asking "how do
+I deploy the agent" has as much business here as a Global Admin. It is skipped
+entirely when the corpus is empty, so a doc-less build advertises no broken tool.
+
+# Cold start
+
+`minReplicas: 0` means every idle period ends in a cold start someone waits through.
+Measured from outside: **24.5 s** to first byte after `ScaledToZero`, against **60 ms**
+warm.
+
+Where those seconds go could not be answered from outside the process. Log Analytics
+stamps every console line of one ingestion batch with the same time, so the boot
+sequence collapses to a single instant however it is queried. The server therefore
+times itself — `[boot +Nms]` marks from `process.uptime()`, which includes Node's own
+startup and module loading.
+
+Measured in production on a real cold start (31.5 s to first byte that time):
+
+```
++244ms  node started (startup + module loading)
++431ms  corpora read from disk         (+187ms)
++491ms  index read, validated, hydrated (+60ms  <- for 3.12 MB)
++504ms  listening
++677ms  query embedder warm            (background)
+```
+
+**The application accounts for half a second of it.** The other ~31 s — 98% — is
+Container Apps activation: KEDA reacting to the request, scheduling a pod, mounting
+the 236 MB image, starting the container. The container also boots *faster* than a
+development laptop (504 ms against 1273 ms), so nothing here is CPU-starved.
+
+Three conclusions, and two of them overturn assumptions this file previously stated:
+
+- **Index size is irrelevant to startup.** 3.12 MB hydrates in 60 ms. Growing the
+  corpus is effectively free, and the embedding rounding earns its keep on file size
+  alone, not on boot time.
+- **Raising the container to 0.5 vCPU was not justified by cold start.** The stated
+  reason was the embedding model load; prebaked, that is 173 ms and runs in the
+  background, where only the first *search* could ever wait on it. The extra vCPU may
+  still help concurrent requests, but the cold-start argument does not survive
+  measurement.
+- **The only real lever is `minReplicas: 1`**, which removes activation entirely at
+  roughly 7× the monthly free consumption grant. Shrinking the image would shave the
+  mount, but that is a fraction of platform time, not the bulk of it.
+
+# Cross-repo coupling
+
+**Editing the documentation does not update a running MCP server.** The corpus is
+baked into the image, so only re-running the *Deploy MCP Server* workflow picks
+up doc changes.
+
+That coupling is made checkable rather than memorable: the build passes the docs
+checkout SHA as `--build-arg DOCS_COMMIT`, and `/health` reports
+`docs: { commit, chunks, sections }`. Comparing that commit against
+`git rev-parse HEAD` in `autopilotmonitor-docs` answers "is the deployed
+documentation stale?" directly.
+
+Automatic redeploy on a docs push was considered and rejected: it would need a
+PAT secret in the docs repo and would turn every typo fix into a container
+deployment.
+
+# Examples
+
+Retrieval measured against the real bundle (323 chunks, all-MiniLM-L6-v2):
+
+```
+"where is my data stored"            → 0.566  troubleshooting/faq.md :: General › Where is my data stored?
+"how do I deploy the agent with Intune" → 0.819  troubleshooting/faq.md :: Setup & Agent › How do I deploy the agent?
+"which roles exist and what can they do" → 0.500  trust/security-faq.md :: Identity and Access › What roles exist?
+"how do I set up Teams notifications"    → 0.592  reference/settings.md  :: Tenant › Notifications
+"what firewall URLs do I need to allow"  → 0.374  reference/network-endpoints.md :: (intro)
+```
+
+The 0.25 `minScore` default is tuned to that observed band — short keyword
+queries on all-MiniLM score low, and a relevant-but-marginal hit lands around
+0.34.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `/src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/src/docs-corpus.ts` — loader, frontmatter
+  parser, chunker
+* `/src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/src/tools/search.ts` — `search_docs`
+  registration
+* `/src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/src/precomputed-index.ts` — `docs`
+  section and its validation asymmetry
+* `/src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/Dockerfile` — `mcp-docs/` copy,
+  `DOCS_COMMIT`
+* `/.github/workflows/deploy-mcp.yml` — docs checkout and SHA capture
+* `/src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/scripts/eval-docs-search.ts` — retrieval
+  evaluation harness; run it before changing anything about ranking
+* [MCP OAuth Flow](../mcp-oauth-flow.md) — the other MCP concept document

docs/rules/gather-rule-guardrails.md

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+---
+type: Concept
+title: Gather Rule Guardrails
+description: >-
+  How gather-rule collectors are fenced in — the allowlists in rules/guardrails.json,
+  the hard blocks that survive unrestricted mode, and why every collector must call a
+  guard rather than trusting rule.Target.
+resource: src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather
+tags: [gather-rules, security, guardrails, agent]
+timestamp: 2026-07-22
+---
+
+# Concept
+
+A gather rule is authored by a **tenant administrator** through `POST /api/rules/gather` and executed by the agent as **SYSTEM** on an enrolling device. The backend does not validate `collectorType`, `target`, or `parameters` at all — it only enforces scope/emit-mode fields, a 1 MB body cap, and that the rule lands in the caller's own tenant partition. Everything that decides *what a rule may reach* is therefore enforced **on the agent**, in `GatherRuleGuards`.
+
+This is the security boundary. The portal's `ValidationIndicator` is a convenience: it does not block submit, and the API is reachable directly.
+
+# Schema
+
+Allowlists come from `rules/guardrails.json`, embedded into the agent assembly as
+`AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Resources.guardrails.json` (see the `EmbeddedResource`
+item in `AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.csproj`) and regenerated into the portal's
+`utils/guardrails.generated.ts` by `node rules/scripts/combine.js`.
+
+| Guard | Source list | Match rule |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `IsRegistryPathAllowed` | `registryPrefixes` | prefix, boundary `\` or end |
+| `IsFilePathAllowed` | `filePrefixes` | `Path.GetFullPath` first, then prefix + boundary |
+| `IsWmiQueryAllowed` | `wmiQueryPrefixes` | prefix, boundary whitespace or end |
+| `IsCommandAllowed` | `allowedCommands` | **exact** match, trimmed — never prefix |
+| `IsEventLogChannelAllowed` | `eventLogChannels` | prefix, boundary `/` or end |
+
+**Hard blocks live in code, not in the JSON**, so a parse error cannot lift them — on a
+parse failure the allowlists fall back to empty and everything is blocked (fail-closed),
+but the hard blocks must hold regardless of configuration:
+
+* `BlockedUsersPrefix` (`C:\Users`) and `AdditionalHardBlockedPathPrefixes`
+  (`C:\Windows\System32\config`) — exception only for `%LOGGED_ON_USER_PROFILE%`
+  under `AppData\Local` / `AppData\Roaming`.
+* `HardBlockedCommandPatterns` — download, user/group creation, boot config,
+  persistence, destructive operations; plus `MaxCommandLength`.
+* `HardBlockedEventLogChannels` — `Security` (audit trail of user behaviour) and the
+  PowerShell channels (script-block logging routinely contains secrets in clear text).
+
+`rules/guardrails.json` mirrors the blocked lists (`blockedFilePrefixes`,
+`blockedEventLogChannels`) **for display only**. Enforcement is the C# constant.
+
+# Examples
+
+Every collector must call its guard and return `context.EmitSecurityWarning(...)` on
+refusal — that emits the `security_warning` event that makes a block visible in the
+timeline instead of failing silently.
+
+```csharp
+// FileCollector / JsonCollector / XmlCollector
+if (!GatherRuleGuards.IsFilePathAllowed(filePath, context.UnrestrictedMode, userProfilePath))
+    return context.EmitSecurityWarning(rule, "file", filePath);
+```
+
+Two collectors were added to this contract on 2026-07-22 after shipping without it:
+
+* **`LogParserCollector`** read any path in `rule.Target`, bypassing even the `C:\Users`
+  hard block. It cannot guard `rule.Target` directly — a wildcard filename makes
+  `Path.GetFullPath` throw — so it guards **the directory** when the filename contains
+  `*`/`?`, and re-guards **each resolved path** after wildcard expansion (a junction can
+  surface a file the directory check did not cover).
+* **`EventLogCollector`** read any channel, including `Security`.
+
+`ImeLogPathOverride` comes only from the local `--ime-log-path` CLI flag, never from
+remote config. The operator using it is already a local admin, so it relaxes the
+allowlist exactly the way unrestricted mode does — hard blocks still apply.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather/GatherRuleGuards.cs`
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather/GatherRuleContext.cs` — `EmitSecurityWarning`
+* `src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleCollectorGuardTests.cs`
+* `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions/Functions/Rules/GatherRulesFunction.cs` — what the backend does *not* validate
+* `rules/guardrails.json`, `rules/scripts/combine.js`
+* Customer-facing counterpart: `autopilotmonitor-docs/rules/gather-rules.md` (§ Security guardrails)

docs/rules/gather-rule-phase-scoping.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 type: Concept
-title: Gather Rule Phase Scoping & Emit-on-Change
-description: How gather rules are restricted to enrollment phases (activePhases / activeFromPhase) and how emitMode "on_change" suppresses repeated identical results — the anti-spam pair for interval rules.
+title: Gather Rule Phase Scoping, One-Shot Triggers & Emit-on-Change
+description: How gather rules are restricted to enrollment phases (activePhases / activeFromPhase), collect once at a phase boundary (phase_change / phase_exit), and how emitMode "on_change" suppresses repeated identical results.
 resource: /src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Telemetry/Gather/GatherRuleExecutor.cs
 tags:
   - agent
@@ -35,6 +35,35 @@ Backend validation (`GatherRulesFunction.ValidateScopeAndEmitMode`) rejects `Unk
 numeric tokens, unknown emit modes, and both scope fields set at once (400). The agent
 defensively prefers `activePhases` if both arrive anyway.
 
+# One-shot collection at phase boundaries
+
+Scoping answers "while *may* this rule run". The trigger answers "when does it fire". For
+one-shot collection the two phase triggers are the bookends of a phase:
+
+| Trigger | Fires |
+|---|---|
+| `phase_change` | Once when `triggerPhase` is **entered** (dedup key `{ruleId}\|{phase}`). |
+| `phase_exit` | Once when `triggerPhase` is **left** (dedup key `exit:{ruleId}\|{phase}`). |
+
+Empty `triggerPhase` means every transition. Both keys live in the same
+`_phaseRulesExecuted` set; the `exit:` prefix keeps the two key spaces disjoint, so an
+enter-rule and an exit-rule on the same phase never cannibalise each other's slot.
+
+`phase_exit` semantics that are easy to get wrong:
+
+* It is evaluated **before** `_currentPhase` advances, so both the `triggerPhase` match and
+  the phase-scope gate see the phase being **left**. A rule scoped to `DeviceSetup` therefore
+  still fires on its own exit, even though the phase being entered is outside that scope.
+* A transition into `Failed` **does** fire the exit rules of the failing phase — capturing
+  state at the failure boundary is the point.
+* Exit of `Unknown` never fires (nothing was entered yet), and a repeated identical phase
+  signal is not a transition.
+* An exit rule on `Complete` only fires if something transitions *away* from Complete. For
+  "at the end of enrollment", use `phase_change` on `Complete` or `on_event` with
+  `enrollment_complete`.
+* Old agents do not know the trigger value and simply never fire the rule (silent no-op) —
+  which is why `phase_exit` needs no ConfigVersion bump: no new field is transported.
+
 # Scope semantics (agent, `GatherRuleExecutor`)
 
 * Scope applies to **all trigger types**:
@@ -78,6 +107,16 @@ defensively prefers `activePhases` if both arrive anyway.
   `always`. The scope UI is a three-way mode (always / during phases / from phase) backed by
   a canonical `GATHER_PHASES` list — the same list replaced the free-text `triggerPhase`
   input, whose placeholder used to suggest invalid tokens.
+* **Controls are shown only where they change behavior** (`supportsPhaseScope` /
+  `supportsEmitMode` in `types.ts`). Offering all three "when" controls unconditionally
+  produced meaningless combinations — a scope on a `phase_change` rule naming a concrete
+  phase can only ever suppress the single firing, and `on_change` has no second result to
+  compare against. Hidden controls are nulled by `buildScopeFields` so state from an earlier
+  trigger choice cannot leak into the payload, and `validateScopeSelection` rejects a scope
+  mode that was selected but left unfilled (which previously serialised to null and silently
+  ran the rule everywhere while the form still read "From a phase onwards").
+  Startup is the deliberate exception: a scope there defers the one-shot rather than
+  suppressing it, so the scope control stays while emit mode is hidden.
 * The custom-rule toggle PUT (`{enabled, isBuiltIn, isCommunity}`) previously full-replaced
   the stored rule and wiped Title/Target/Trigger — `GatherRuleService.UpdateRuleAsync` now
   merges toggle-style partials (empty Title/CollectorType/Target) into the existing row and

docs/url-registry.md

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+---
+type: Concept
+title: URL Registry — One Place per Component, Guard-Enforced
+description: Every well-known own or Microsoft host lives in exactly one registry file per component (Constants.cs, utils/config.ts, src/config.ts); guard tests fail the build on any literal outside them. Includes the agent-download host migration to the download alias.
+resource: /src/Shared/AutopilotMonitor.Shared/Constants.cs
+tags:
+  - architecture
+  - urls
+  - ci
+  - convention
+timestamp: 2026-07-23T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# URL Registry
+
+Every well-known base URL — own hosts (portal, www, docs, download alias, MCP,
+API, both blob accounts) and Microsoft hosts (Graph, Entra login) — is defined
+in exactly one registry file per component. Code references the constant; the
+literal appears nowhere else.
+
+| Component | Registry | Guard test |
+|---|---|---|
+| C# (Shared/Backend/Agent) | `AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Constants` (`*BaseUrl`) | `HardcodedUrlGuardTests` |
+| Web | `utils/config.ts` (`DOCS_URL`, `SITE_URL`, `PORTAL_URL`, `BOOTSTRAP_GO_URL`, `ENTRA_LOGIN_URL`, `API_URL_PROD`, `BLOB_URL_PROD`, `AGENT_DOWNLOAD_HOSTNAMES`) | `utils/__tests__/hardcodedUrls.guard.test.ts` |
+| MCP | `src/config.ts` (`API_BASE_URL`, `ENTRA_LOGIN_BASE_URL`, `DOCS_BASE_URL`) | `src/__tests__/hardcoded-urls.guard.test.ts` |
+
+Derived registries build on these instead of repeating hosts:
+`lib/hostRouting.ts` computes `PUBLIC_HOST`/`PORTAL_HOST`/`APEX_HOST` from the
+URL constants, and `middleware.ts` imports from it.
+
+# Schema
+
+The guards scan non-test source for the enforced host list and fail with
+file:line on any occurrence outside the registry. Comment lines are ignored
+(docs may cite URLs). Test files are excluded on purpose: a literal in a test
+is an independent oracle — `ValidateBootstrapCodeResponseShapeTests` spells the
+full agent download URL out so a registry change must be acknowledged in two
+places, backend and portal allow-list, consciously.
+
+Why enforced rather than agreed: the registry existed before (both
+`Constants.AgentBlobBaseUrl` and the MCP `config.ts` header document earlier
+drift), yet the EU cutover still missed two literal copies of the blob host —
+`LatestVersionsService` and `ValidateBootstrapCodeFunction` kept reading the
+legacy account, silently kept alive only by the fail-soft legacy mirror in
+`build-agent.yml`. A convention that is not checked decays; these guards make
+the next stray literal a red build instead of a production surprise.
+
+# Agent-download host migration (2026-07-23)
+
+The two legacy readers above plus the agent's `SelfUpdater` now use
+`Constants.AgentDownloadBaseUrl` (`download.autopilotmonitor.com/agent`, Front
+Door in front of the current blob origin — verified serving `version.json`,
+`version-v2.json` and both ZIPs before the switch). The portal's
+`bootstrapValidation.ts` allow-lists BOTH the alias and the legacy blob host
+(`AGENT_DOWNLOAD_HOSTNAMES`) because bootstrap scripts already deployed in
+customer Intune tenants still carry legacy URLs.
+
+Deploy-order constraint: the web allow-list must be live BEFORE (or with) the
+backend that serves alias URLs — an old portal build rejects the alias host and
+the bootstrap flow dies client-side. Remove the legacy hostname from the
+allow-list only after the legacy account is torn down.
+
+**Front Door caching is a correctness hazard here, not a staleness nuisance.**
+The first release after the migration exposed it: the alias kept serving the
+previous `version.json` (`X-Cache: TCP_REMOTE_HIT`) while the origin was already
+updated — and because manifest and ZIP are independent cache entries, a stale
+manifest paired with a fresh ZIP fails the bootstrap's SHA-256 check. Two
+defenses, both in place since 2026-07-23: route caching on `/agent/*` is
+DISABLED, and every blob upload (CI `Send-Blob`, local `build.ps1`, the
+`versions/*.json` manifests) stamps `Cache-Control: no-cache` — all these blobs
+rotate in place, even the per-line ZIP. If caching is ever re-enabled, the
+headers keep the mismatch class impossible.
+
+Deliberately still on the legacy account: the `HealthCheckService` /
+`MaintenanceService` legacy-keepalive probes and the fail-soft mirror in
+`build-agent.yml` — they exist precisely to keep already-deployed customer
+bootstrap scripts working until the customer migration completes.
+
+# Bootstrap go-URL (2026-07-28)
+
+The OOBE bootstrap short-URL moved from `www.autopilotmonitor.com/go/{code}`
+(Next.js route, SSR) to **`go.autopilotmonitor.com/{code}`** — a Front Door
+custom domain whose `/*` route rewrites onto `/api/bootstrap/go/{code}` on the
+Function App (`GetBootstrapScriptFunction`). Registry entries:
+`Constants.BootstrapGoBaseUrl` (C#, the single producer via
+`CreateBootstrapSessionFunction`) and `BOOTSTRAP_GO_URL` (web, display-only in
+the sessions list); `go.autopilotmonitor.com` is on both guards' enforced-host
+lists. `CreateBootstrapSessionUrlShapeTests` pins the produced URL as an
+independent oracle — before this, no test guarded the bootstrap URL shape at
+all.
+
+Front Door route caching for `bootstrap-go` is DISABLED — same hazard class as
+the `/agent/*` route above, sharpened: the script body inlines the bearer
+token, so a cache hit would replay one requester's token to another.
+`NoStoreCacheMiddleware` additionally stamps `no-store` via the
+`/api/bootstrap/go/` prefix.
+
+Transition COMPLETED with the static-export PR (2026-07-29): the legacy
+Next.js `/go/[code]` route, `utils/bootstrapValidation.ts`, and
+`middleware.ts` are deleted — verified safe because the BootstrapSessions
+table held zero active sessions predating the URL cutover (all expired
+2026-03). The backend is now the only script producer;
+`OobeBootstrapScriptGeneratorTests`' golden file remains as the pin of the
+shipped template.
+
+Portal detail routes are query-string based since the same PR
+(`/sessions?id=…` etc., builders in `lib/routes.ts`, notification producer
+`Constants.PortalSessionUrl`). Legacy PATH-shaped links in sent
+Teams/Slack/webhook notifications are rewritten forever by SWA wildcard
+rewrites + `components/LegacyPathRedirect.tsx`; `staticwebapp.config.json`
+carries the production redirects/headers and is guarded by
+`utils/__tests__/swaConfig.guard.test.ts` (registry-backed hosts, no
+unsafe-eval, route order).
+
+# Citations
+
+- `src/Shared/AutopilotMonitor.Shared/Constants.cs` — C# registry
+- `src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/utils/config.ts` — web registry
+- `src/McpServer/autopilot-monitor-mcp/src/config.ts` — MCP registry
+- `src/Backend/AutopilotMonitor.Functions.Tests/HardcodedUrlGuardTests.cs`
+- [Version Contract](versioning.md) — the release pipeline this migration protects

docs/versioning.md

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+---
+type: Concept
+title: Version Contract — Agent, Backend, MCP
+description: One version shape for all three shipping components, the ETag-CAS counter blob that mints build numbers, and the published manifests that make "what is deployed" checkable from outside.
+resource: /.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1
+tags:
+  - build
+  - ci
+  - release
+  - versioning
+timestamp: 2026-07-22T00:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Version Contract
+
+Three components ship from this repository — the agent, the Functions backend and the
+MCP server. They share one version shape, one way of minting build numbers, and one
+manifest format, so that a version string means the same thing whoever emits it.
+
+```
+version   = <major>.<minor>.<build>    major.minor curated by hand, build minted per build
+commit    = 7-char short SHA of this repo
+buildUtc  = ISO-8601 build moment
+```
+
+| Component | major.minor from | Counter blob | Reported by |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Agent V2 | `VersionPrefix` in `AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.csproj` | `agent/buildcounter-v2.txt` | `agent/version.json` |
+| Backend | `VersionPrefix` in `AutopilotMonitor.Functions.csproj` | `versions/backend.txt` | `GET /api/health` |
+| MCP | `version` in `package.json` | `versions/mcp.txt` | `GET /health`, MCP handshake |
+
+# Schema
+
+## Build numbers — reserve before build, ETag-CAS
+
+`.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1` is the only implementation; the CI
+workflows and the local `build.ps1` all call it.
+
+1. Anonymous `GET` on the counter blob → value `N` and `ETag`. The blob holds the
+   **last used** number as plain text and is public-read; only the write needs the
+   container SAS.
+2. `PUT N+1` with `If-Match: <etag>`. The quoted ETag form is required — PowerShell
+   strips the quotes on read, and an unquoted `If-Match` is rejected client-side.
+3. `412 Precondition Failed` → a concurrent build reserved first → re-read and retry
+   (5 attempts, linear backoff).
+4. Build with the reserved number.
+
+Reserving *before* the build is what makes concurrent minting impossible. **A failed
+build burns a number** — deliberate: uniqueness matters, density does not.
+
+Why a counter and not the published manifest: manifests are written on publish, not on
+build. The agent writes `version.json` only for stable releases, so deriving the next
+number from it would hand two consecutive dev builds the same number and let the second
+overwrite the first's artifact. A state-free scheme such as `git rev-list --count HEAD`
+fails for the same reason — two builds of one commit collide.
+
+**Seeding** (once per component): `PUT <last used number>` with `If-None-Match: *`, so
+an existing counter can never be clobbered. Agent V2 was seeded with `1356` on
+2026-07-17; `versions/backend.txt` with `999` and `versions/mcp.txt` with `299` on
+2026-07-22.
+
+## Local builds
+
+No counter is reached, the build number stays `0`, and the commit is empty or
+`unknown`. A `1.5.0` with no commit hash on `/api/health` is therefore a developer
+machine, not a release — the fallback is the signal, not a defect. The agent is the
+exception: `build.ps1` produces uploadable artifacts and reserves a real number unless
+`-SkipUpload` is passed.
+
+## Manifests
+
+`versions/backend.json` and `versions/mcp.json` (public-read) record what is deployed:
+
+```json
+{ "component": "backend", "version": "1.5.1000", "commit": "abc1234",
+  "buildUtc": "…", "deployedUtc": "…", "runId": "…" }
+```
+
+The MCP manifest adds `docsCommit`, because for that component "which build" and "which
+documentation" are separate questions.
+
+Each is written **last and only after the deploy workflow has polled the component's
+health endpoint until it reports that exact version and commit**. A green deploy step
+alone means the package was accepted, not that it is being served. Consequently a
+manifest that disagrees with the live endpoint means the running instance drifted after
+the fact (rollback, stale revision) rather than a half-finished pipeline.
+
+The agent keeps its own manifest at `agent/version.json` — the bootstrap derives that
+URL from the download URL and verifies the ZIP against its `sha256`, so it cannot move.
+It carries the same `commit` and `buildUtc` fields; `sha256` and `bootstrapVersion`
+remain, being the customer-facing integrity contract.
+
+# Consequences
+
+- Bumping `major.minor` is a human decision, made in the component's own file
+  (`VersionPrefix`, or `version` in `package.json`). Nothing bumps it automatically.
+- A new component joins by seeding a counter blob and calling the same script; no new
+  mechanism.
+- The counter blobs and manifests live in the `versions` container on
+  `autopilotmonitoreu` (writes via `AZURE_BLOB_VERSIONS_SAS_TOKEN`). The agent's
+  counter stays in the `agent` container next to the artifacts it numbers.
+
+# Citations
+
+- `.github/scripts/Request-BuildNumber.ps1` — the CAS protocol
+- `.github/workflows/deploy-backend.yml`, `deploy-mcp.yml` — reserve, verify, publish
+- `.github/workflows/build-agent.yml`, `scripts/Deployment/build.ps1` — agent line
+- [Build Counter Blob](agent/build-counter-blob.md) — agent-specific consequences

docs/web/portal-navigation-prefetch.md

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+---
+type: Concept
+title: Portal Navigation Prefetch & the SWA Runtime Bottleneck
+description: Why every navigation Link in the portal sets prefetch={false} — the App Router's viewport prefetch fires one RSC request per visible link, and the Static Web Apps SSR runtime queues them server-side into a multi-minute latency tail. Also records what the follow-up measurement showed about the Standard SKU and the keep-alive side effect.
+resource: src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/components/GlobalSidebar.tsx
+tags:
+  - web
+  - performance
+  - nextjs
+  - static-web-apps
+  - observability
+timestamp: 2026-07-27T18:00:00+02:00
+---
+
+# Context
+
+The portal is a Next.js 15 App Router application hosted on Azure Static Web Apps. Every page under
+the authenticated shell is a client component behind `ProtectedRoute` that fetches its own data from
+the Function App (`autopilotmonitor-api-eu`) after mount. The RSC payload a route returns on
+navigation therefore carries no page data — only the shell.
+
+`GlobalSidebar` and `Navbar` render the full navigation on every page. With the App Router's default
+prefetch behaviour, each visible `<Link>` triggers a background `GET /<route>?_rsc=<hash>` as soon as
+it enters the viewport.
+
+# Mechanism
+
+Two properties combine into a portal-wide freeze:
+
+1. **Fan-out.** The navigation is fully rendered on each page load, so a single navigation issues one
+   RSC request per visible link — measured at ~10,400 requests over 14 days.
+2. **A heavy latency tail on the SSR runtime.** RSC responses are prerendered and edge-cached
+   (`x-nextjs-cache: HIT`, `s-maxage=31536000`), so the median is fast. On a cache miss or cold start
+   the Static Web Apps managed runtime queues them **server-side**, and the queue drains all at once.
+
+The navigation the user wants is then stuck behind that queue and the tab shows a loading spinner or a
+blank page until it drains. Nothing fails — the requests eventually return `200`, which is why the
+failure leaves no error trace anywhere.
+
+> **Correction (2026-07-28).** The original version of this document named a third property: that
+> `portal.autopilotmonitor.com` negotiates HTTP/1.1 and the prefetches exhaust the six-connection
+> browser cap. **That is wrong.** It came from `curl -w '%{http_version}'` on a Windows build of curl
+> whose Schannel backend has no HTTP/2 support, so it can only ever report `1.1`. ALPN says otherwise:
+> `openssl s_client -alpn h2,http/1.1` negotiates **h2** on the portal host, confirmed by a .NET
+> `HttpClient` request returning `HTTP/2.0`. There is no six-connection cap and connection starvation
+> was never the mechanism — the queue is server-side. Verify HTTP versions with `openssl s_client
+> -alpn` or `HttpClient`, never with this curl build.
+
+# Evidence
+
+Incident of 2026-07-27, 17:25–17:29 CEST. Browser-side dependencies during the freeze:
+
+| Request | Duration | Status |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| `/admin/presence?_rsc=…` | 151,461 ms | 200 |
+| `/gather-rules?_rsc=…` | 52,283 ms | 200 |
+| `/progress?_rsc=…` | 37,878 ms | 200 |
+| `/analyze-rules?_rsc=…` | 37,559 ms | 200 |
+| `/audit?_rsc=…` | 37,539 ms | 200 |
+| Backend API, same window | 1,600–2,200 ms | 200 |
+
+The three ~37.5 s responses complete within 340 ms of each other — a queue draining, not independent
+slow requests. The corresponding `browserTimings` row for `/geographic-performance` reports
+`networkDuration` = 16 ms against `processingDuration` = 225,095 ms: the network delivered the
+document immediately and the browser then waited nearly four minutes for the `load` event.
+
+Fourteen-day distribution of RSC prefetches: n = 10,428, p50 = 91 ms, p95 = 896 ms, max = 234,230 ms,
+38 over 10 s, 21 over 30 s.
+
+# Outcome, measured 2026-07-28
+
+Two changes landed within half an hour of each other on 2026-07-27: the SWA plan went Free → Standard
+at 16:02:44 UTC, and `prefetch={false}` went live at 16:34:13 UTC. Twenty hours of production
+telemetry separate their effects.
+
+**The Standard plan produced no measurable latency gain.** Latency is governed almost entirely by the
+gap to the previous request — the SSR runtime cools down — so raw percentiles only measure the traffic
+mix. Stratified by that gap, the two eras are indistinguishable (p50, Free → Standard): `<10s`
+85 → 95 ms · `10-60s` 100 → 117 ms · `1-5min` 295 → 310 ms · `5-30min` 429 → 441 ms. Tail rates match
+too: Free ran 1.64 % over 2 s and 0.374 % over 10 s (n = 10,163); Standard produced 6 and 1 events at
+n = 258 against 4.2 and 1.0 expected. `browserTimings.totalDuration` by Mann-Whitney: n = 436 vs 48,
+z = −0.24, **p = 0.81**.
+
+**The prefetch fix is what removed the freezes** — worst `browserTimings.totalDuration` fell from
+225,277 ms to 4,856 ms, and the 30-second events stopped.
+
+**It also removed an accidental keep-alive.** The prefetch storm kept the SSR runtime warm: 85 % of
+requests used to arrive less than 10 s apart, now 46 % do. On an identical never-cacheable route
+(`/sessions/{id}`) the median rose from 87 ms to 211 ms and p90 from 465 ms to 1,480 ms. After 517
+minutes idle, one request took 11,441 ms and was abandoned (`resultCode 0`). The trade — minute-long
+freezes gone, ~150 ms added to a cold navigation — is worth it, but it is a trade.
+
+Do not benchmark this with a synthetic burst. Firing requests in quick succession warms the runtime
+and measures the best case: in a 25-round `curl --parallel-max 6` run, round 1 came in at p50 288 ms
+and rounds 4–25 at p50 113 ms.
+
+> **Endgame (2026-07-29).** The cold-start class was eliminated at the root: the portal became a
+> full static export (`output: 'export'`) — the SWA-managed SSR runtime no longer exists, so there
+> is nothing left to cool down. One escalation drove this: on 2026-07-28 a cold start exceeded the
+> SWA's 45-second function limit and the landing page served a hard "Backend call failure" 500.
+> The availability test that bridged the gap as a keep-alive stays as plain uptime monitoring.
+
+# Diagnosing this class of problem
+
+The backend Application Insights resource is the wrong place to look — a freeze appears there as an
+*absence* of requests, never as an error. Browser telemetry lives in a **separate** Application
+Insights resource addressed by `AUTOPILOT_MONITOR_WEB_APPINSIGHTS_ID`, which the MCP
+`query_backend_logs` tool does not reach. Query it through
+`.claude/commands/scripts/query-appinsights.sh` with that ID exported, and read `dependencies`
+(client-side fetches, including RSC prefetches) and `browserTimings` (the network/processing split of
+a document load).
+
+# Contract
+
+Navigation `<Link>` elements in `GlobalSidebar` and `Navbar` set `prefetch={false}`. The prefetched
+RSC payload buys nothing for these routes, so the only remaining cost of a click is the route's JS
+chunk, which the browser caches after first use.
+
+Do not remove the prop to "speed up navigation" without first re-measuring the tail in the web
+Application Insights resource — the prefetch is cheap only while the runtime is warm.
+
+# Citations
+
+* `src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/components/GlobalSidebar.tsx` — nav link rendering, rationale comment
+* `src/Web/autopilot-monitor-web/components/Navbar.tsx` — top-bar and notification links
+* [SWA and Oryx node pinning](../architecture.md) — hosting model for the web app

infra/mcp-server.bicep

@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+// Autopilot-Monitor MCP Server — Azure Container App Infrastructure
+//
+// Reconciled against the live deployment on 2026-07-21 (rg-autopilotmonitor-prd-gwc,
+// Germany West Central). The template had drifted behind two changes made directly
+// in Azure: the EU cutover (registry/API renamed) and the ACR hardening (admin user
+// disabled, image pull moved to the app's system-assigned identity).
+//
+// !! BEFORE RE-DEPLOYING THIS TEMPLATE, READ THIS !!
+// The live app carries an ingress custom-domain binding for mcp.autopilotmonitor.com
+// (SNI-enabled, with a managed certificate). Custom domains are NOT modelled below,
+// because the certificate is bound out-of-band. A full template deployment would
+// therefore REMOVE that binding and take the public MCP endpoint offline.
+// For routine changes (CPU/memory, env vars, image) prefer the surgical CLI form:
+//   az containerapp update -n autopilotmonitor-mcp -g rg-autopilotmonitor-prd-gwc --cpu 0.5 --memory 1.0Gi
+// Treat this file as the documented desired state and as a rebuild-from-scratch
+// recipe — not as a routinely-applied deployment.
+//
+// On a FROM-SCRATCH deploy the AcrPull assignment below is created only after the
+// Container App exists (it needs the app's principalId), so the very first revision
+// can fail to pull its image. Re-run the deployment, or restart the revision, once
+// the role assignment has propagated. This does not affect updates to a live app.
+//
+// Deploy (two-stage; required to set the OAuth public URL safely):
+//   1. First deploy without mcpPublicUrl:
+//      az deployment group create \
+//        --resource-group <rg-name> \
+//        --template-file infra/mcp-server.bicep \
+//        --parameters apiUrl=https://autopilotmonitor-api.azurewebsites.net \
+//                     entraClientSecret=<secret-value>
+//      This emits `containerAppUrl` as an output (e.g. https://autopilotmonitor-mcp.<env-suffix>.<region>.azurecontainerapps.io).
+//
+//   2. Re-deploy with that URL pinned, so the OAuth proxy never trusts caller-
+//      supplied X-Forwarded-Host / Host headers when building issuer / WWW-
+//      Authenticate / redirect_uri metadata:
+//        --parameters mcpPublicUrl=<containerAppUrl from step 1>
+//
+//   When mcpPublicUrl is set, the MCP server uses it verbatim and ignores any
+//   forwarded-headers from the request. Without it, the server logs a startup
+//   warning and falls back to header-derived URLs (acceptable for local dev,
+//   not for production).
+
+@description('Azure region for all resources')
+param location string = resourceGroup().location
+
+@description('Name of the Container App')
+param containerAppName string = 'autopilotmonitor-mcp'
+
+@description('Name of the Container App Environment')
+param environmentName string = 'autopilotmonitor-env'
+
+@description('Name of the Log Analytics Workspace (dedicated for Container Apps)')
+param logAnalyticsName string = 'autopilotmonitor-container-logs'
+
+@description('Name of the Azure Container Registry')
+param acrName string = 'autopilotmonitoreuacr'
+
+@description('Backend API URL')
+param apiUrl string = 'https://autopilotmonitor-api-eu.azurewebsites.net'
+
+@description('Container image tag')
+param imageTag string = 'latest'
+
+@description('Entra ID app registration client_id used for the OAuth proxy. Public value (appears in JWT aud claim); not a secret.')
+param entraClientId string = '1a400946-62c1-4ab4-aa37-f730ac89704d'
+
+@secure()
+@description('Entra ID client secret for OAuth token exchange')
+param entraClientSecret string = ''
+
+@description('Comma-separated allowlist of redirect_uri hosts for the OAuth proxy. Loopback is always allowed. Empty = built-in default (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google).')
+param mcpAllowedRedirectHosts string = ''
+
+@description('Public URL of the MCP server, used verbatim for OAuth issuer / WWW-Authenticate / redirect metadata. REQUIRED in production: the container refuses to boot without it (host-spoofing defense — see config.ts). Set on the second deploy with the value of the containerAppUrl output from the first deploy. The stage-1 deploy is safe because minReplicas=0 means no container runs until this is pinned. Empty falls back to X-Forwarded-Host headers only outside production (NODE_ENV != production).')
+param mcpPublicUrl string = ''
+
+@secure()
+// NOTE: avoid characters outside cp1252 here (this one used to say a Unicode
+// >=). `az bicep build --stdout` writes through the Windows console codec and
+// dies with a UnicodeEncodeError on anything it cannot map. Em dashes are fine.
+@description('Base64-encoded HMAC key (>=32 bytes after decode) for signing the OAuth proxy state. Naming and format match the backend\'s PaginationTokenSigningKey for consistency. Empty = generate per-instance random key on startup (acceptable for single-replica deployments since state has 10 min lifetime). Generate with PowerShell: [Convert]::ToBase64String([Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator]::GetBytes(32))')
+param oAuthStateSigningKey string = ''
+
+@description('Enable structured tool-call logging to stderr (queryable via Container App Logs)')
+param toolLoggingEnabled bool = false
+
+// --- Azure Container Registry ---
+
+// Admin user is DISABLED: a registry-wide username/password pair is a static,
+// non-rotating credential that would also have to live in a Container App secret.
+// The app pulls with its system-assigned identity + AcrPull instead (see below).
+resource acr 'Microsoft.ContainerRegistry/registries@2023-07-01' = {
+  name: acrName
+  location: location
+  sku: {
+    name: 'Basic'
+  }
+  properties: {
+    adminUserEnabled: false
+  }
+}
+
+// AcrPull for the Container App's system-assigned identity — this is what replaces
+// the admin credentials. Without it the app cannot pull its own image.
+//
+// NOTE: this assignment exists on the live registry but could not be enumerated
+// during reconciliation (the CLI session lacks Microsoft.Authorization read), so it
+// is reproduced here from the documented pattern rather than read back from Azure.
+// Verify with:
+//   az role assignment list --scope <acr-id> --assignee <containerApp principalId>
+var acrPullRoleId = '7f951dda-4ed3-4680-a7ca-43fe172d538d'
+
+resource acrPull 'Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments@2022-04-01' = {
+  scope: acr
+  name: guid(acr.id, containerAppName, acrPullRoleId)
+  properties: {
+    roleDefinitionId: subscriptionResourceId('Microsoft.Authorization/roleDefinitions', acrPullRoleId)
+    principalId: containerApp.identity.principalId
+    principalType: 'ServicePrincipal'
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Log Analytics Workspace (required by Container App Environment) ---
+
+resource logAnalytics 'Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces@2023-09-01' = {
+  name: logAnalyticsName
+  location: location
+  properties: {
+    sku: {
+      name: 'PerGB2018'
+    }
+    retentionInDays: 30
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Container App Environment ---
+
+resource environment 'Microsoft.App/managedEnvironments@2024-03-01' = {
+  name: environmentName
+  location: location
+  properties: {
+    appLogsConfiguration: {
+      destination: 'log-analytics'
+      logAnalyticsConfiguration: {
+        customerId: logAnalytics.properties.customerId
+        sharedKey: logAnalytics.listKeys().primarySharedKey
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Container App ---
+
+resource containerApp 'Microsoft.App/containerApps@2024-03-01' = {
+  name: containerAppName
+  location: location
+  // System-assigned identity: the credential the app uses to pull from the ACR
+  // (see the AcrPull assignment above). Replaces the former admin-user secret.
+  identity: {
+    type: 'SystemAssigned'
+  }
+  properties: {
+    managedEnvironmentId: environment.id
+    configuration: {
+      ingress: {
+        external: true
+        targetPort: 8080
+        transport: 'auto'
+        allowInsecure: false
+      }
+      // 'system' = pull with the app's system-assigned identity. No username, no
+      // password secret — nothing to rotate and nothing to leak from the app config.
+      registries: [
+        {
+          server: acr.properties.loginServer
+          identity: 'system'
+        }
+      ]
+      secrets: [
+        {
+          name: 'entra-client-secret'
+          value: entraClientSecret
+        }
+        {
+          name: 'oauth-state-signing-key'
+          value: oAuthStateSigningKey
+        }
+      ]
+      activeRevisionsMode: 'Single'
+    }
+    template: {
+      containers: [
+        {
+          name: 'mcp-server'
+          image: '${acr.properties.loginServer}/${containerAppName}:${imageTag}'
+          // 0.5 vCPU, but NOT for the reason originally given. It was raised from
+          // 0.25 to shorten the scale-to-zero cold start, on the assumption that
+          // loading the ONNX embedding model dominated it. Measurement disproved
+          // that: the app boots in 504 ms in production (see the [boot] marks in
+          // the container log and docs/mcp/docs-corpus.md), of which the prebaked
+          // embedder is 173 ms in the background. Of a 31 s cold start, ~98% is
+          // Container Apps activation — pod scheduling, image mount, container
+          // start — which no CPU setting touches.
+          //
+          // It stays at 0.5 because it plausibly helps CONCURRENT requests
+          // (maxReplicas is 1, so one replica serves up to 10 in-flight calls) and
+          // because at scale-to-zero the container bills only while active, making
+          // the difference negligible. If cold start ever needs to actually go
+          // away, the only lever is minReplicas: 1. Container Apps accepts fixed
+          // CPU/memory pairs, so memory moves with the CPU.
+          resources: {
+            cpu: json('0.5')
+            memory: '1.0Gi'
+          }
+          env: [
+            { name: 'AUTOPILOT_API_URL', value: apiUrl }
+            { name: 'PORT', value: '8080' }
+            { name: 'AUTOPILOT_ENTRA_CLIENT_ID', value: entraClientId }
+            { name: 'AUTOPILOT_ENTRA_CLIENT_SECRET', secretRef: 'entra-client-secret' }
+            { name: 'MCP_ALLOWED_REDIRECT_HOSTS', value: mcpAllowedRedirectHosts }
+            { name: 'MCP_PUBLIC_URL', value: mcpPublicUrl }
+            { name: 'OAuthStateSigningKey', secretRef: 'oauth-state-signing-key' }
+            { name: 'MCP_TOOL_LOGGING', value: toolLoggingEnabled ? 'true' : 'false' }
+          ]
+          probes: [
+            {
+              type: 'Liveness'
+              httpGet: {
+                path: '/health'
+                port: 8080
+              }
+              periodSeconds: 30
+              initialDelaySeconds: 10
+            }
+            {
+              type: 'Readiness'
+              httpGet: {
+                path: '/health'
+                port: 8080
+              }
+              periodSeconds: 10
+              initialDelaySeconds: 5
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]
+      scale: {
+        minReplicas: 0
+        maxReplicas: 1
+        rules: [
+          {
+            name: 'http-scaler'
+            http: {
+              metadata: {
+                concurrentRequests: '10'
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Outputs ---
+
+output containerAppUrl string = 'https://${containerApp.properties.configuration.ingress.fqdn}'
+output mcpEndpoint string = 'https://${containerApp.properties.configuration.ingress.fqdn}/mcp'
+output acrLoginServer string = acr.properties.loginServer

rules/analyze/ANALYZE-ESP-006.json

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "../schema/analyze-rule.schema.json",
+  "ruleId": "ANALYZE-ESP-006",
+  "title": "ESP Failure Recovered After User Retry",
+  "description": "Detects the recovery story: the ESP reported a terminal failure (typically DeviceSetup/Apps), the user most likely pressed 'Try again' on the failure page, the failed step re-ran and completed successfully. The earlier failure did not stick — the enrollment continued past it.",
+  "severity": "info",
+  "category": "esp",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "enabled": true,
+  "baseConfidence": 85,
+  "conditions": [
+    {
+      "signal": "advisory",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_advisory",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": true
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "recovered",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": true
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "retry",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_retry_detected",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": false
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "category",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+      "dataField": "category",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": false
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "failedSubcategory",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+      "dataField": "failedSubcategory",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": false
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "likelyCulpritApps",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_advisory",
+      "dataField": "likelyCulpritApps",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": false
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "minutesSinceFailure",
+      "source": "event_type",
+      "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+      "dataField": "minutesSinceFailure",
+      "operator": "exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "required": false
+    }
+  ],
+  "confidenceFactors": [
+    { "signal": "retry", "condition": "exists", "weight": 10 },
+    { "signal": "likelyCulpritApps", "condition": "exists", "weight": 5 }
+  ],
+  "explanation": "The Enrollment Status Page reported a **failure** in the `{{category}}` phase (`{{failedSubcategory}}` subcategory, most likely app(s): `{{likelyCulpritApps}}`) — and then **recovered**: the failed step left its failed state and completed successfully about `{{minutesSinceFailure}}` min later.\n\nThat pattern is consistent with the user pressing **'Try again'** on the ESP failure page (the profile allows failure-page actions; the agent cannot observe the click itself). The failure the user saw was real, but it did not stick — the ESP re-ran the step, it succeeded, and the enrollment continued.\n\nRead the session timeline as one arc: `esp_failure_advisory` (the failure, with the likely culprit app) → `esp_failure_retry_detected` (the retry) → `esp_failure_recovered` (the recovery). If this pattern repeats across devices for the same app, that app's install is flaky on first attempt — fix the app rather than the devices. Any literal `{{…}}` placeholder means that detail was not recorded for this session.",
+  "remediation": [
+    {
+      "title": "Make the first install attempt stick",
+      "steps": [
+        "Check the likely culprit app(s) (`{{likelyCulpritApps}}`) in Intune: an app that fails on the first ESP pass but succeeds on retry usually has a dependency/ordering or detection-timing problem.",
+        "If the app shows 'never started installing' in esp_failure_settle_started, verify its assignment and applicability rules — ESP counted it as required, but IME never processed it.",
+        "If the pattern repeats across the tenant, consider removing the app from the ESP blocking list until the first-attempt install is reliable — users are seeing an avoidable failure screen.",
+        "No device-side action is needed for this session: the failure recovered and the enrollment continued."
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "tags": ["esp", "recovery", "try-again", "retry", "continue-anyway", "enrollment"]
+}

rules/analyze/ANALYZE-SEC-001.json

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
   "$schema": "../schema/analyze-rule.schema.json",
   "ruleId": "ANALYZE-SEC-001",
   "title": "Secure Boot UEFI CA 2023 certificate not deployed",
-  "description": "Detects devices where the Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB. The 2011 certificates expired in June 2026 — affected devices no longer receive Secure Boot security updates until the 2023 certificate is deployed.",
+  "description": "Detects devices where the Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB. The 2011 certificates expired in June 2026 — affected devices no longer receive Secure Boot security updates until the 2023 certificate is deployed. Since v3 the agent reads the firmware db/KEK variables directly: when the firmware itself confirms the 2023 certificate, the rule is suppressed even if the Windows servicing status has not caught up yet.",
   "severity": "warning",
   "category": "security",
-  "version": "2.0.0",
+  "version": "3.0.0",
   "enabled": true,
   "baseConfidence": 70,
   "preconditions": [
@@ -16,6 +16,14 @@
       "operator": "equals",
       "value": "false",
       "description": "Skip on virtual machines — Secure Boot DB is host-controlled (Hyper-V/VMware/etc), the inside-the-VM UEFICA2023Status registry value is not the right indicator and not actionable for the VM admin."
+    },
+    {
+      "source": "event_data",
+      "eventType": "secureboot_status",
+      "dataField": "uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed",
+      "operator": "not_exists",
+      "value": "",
+      "description": "Skip when the firmware db itself confirms the Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate — the marker is only emitted on positive firmware confirmation, so old agents (field absent) and unconfirmed devices keep evaluating the rule. The servicing registry status lags behind actual firmware state (OEM factory image, WinCS, manual deployment, or WU simply not run yet)."
     }
   ],
   "conditions": [
@@ -54,13 +62,33 @@
       "operator": "exists",
       "value": "",
       "required": false
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "db_ca2023_firmware_missing",
+      "source": "event_data",
+      "eventType": "secureboot_status",
+      "dataField": "uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023",
+      "operator": "equals",
+      "value": "false",
+      "required": false
+    },
+    {
+      "signal": "kek_2023_missing",
+      "source": "event_data",
+      "eventType": "secureboot_status",
+      "dataField": "uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023",
+      "operator": "equals",
+      "value": "false",
+      "required": false
     }
   ],
   "confidenceFactors": [
     { "signal": "ca2023_notfound", "condition": "exists", "weight": 20 },
-    { "signal": "ca2023_error", "condition": "exists", "weight": 10 }
+    { "signal": "ca2023_error", "condition": "exists", "weight": 10 },
+    { "signal": "db_ca2023_firmware_missing", "condition": "exists", "weight": 20 },
+    { "signal": "kek_2023_missing", "condition": "exists", "weight": 10 }
   ],
-  "explanation": "This device has Secure Boot enabled but the **Windows UEFI CA 2023** certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB.\n\nThe original Windows UEFI CA 2011 certificates **expired on June 27, 2026 — this deadline has passed**. The automatic pre-expiry rollout window is over: this device no longer receives Secure Boot security updates (DB/DBX) and cannot trust 2023-signed boot managers until the 2023 certificate is deployed. Deploying it now requires active remediation (Windows servicing opt-in and, on some models, an OEM firmware update) rather than waiting for an automatic update.\n\nCurrent UEFI CA 2023 status: `{{uefiCA2023Status}}`",
+  "explanation": "This device has Secure Boot enabled but the **Windows UEFI CA 2023** certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB.\n\nThe original Windows UEFI CA 2011 certificates **expired on June 27, 2026 — this deadline has passed**. The automatic pre-expiry rollout window is over: this device no longer receives Secure Boot security updates (DB/DBX) and cannot trust 2023-signed boot managers until the 2023 certificate is deployed. Deploying it now requires active remediation (Windows servicing opt-in and, on some models, an OEM firmware update) rather than waiting for an automatic update.\n\nOn devices running a current agent this finding is verified against the firmware itself: the agent reads the UEFI `db` signature database directly, and this warning is automatically suppressed when the firmware already contains the 2023 certificate — regardless of the Windows servicing status below.\n\nCurrent UEFI CA 2023 servicing status: `{{uefiCA2023Status}}`",
   "remediation": [
     {
       "title": "Deploy UEFI CA 2023 certificate now",
@@ -69,7 +97,7 @@
         "Use Intune policy to enable Secure Boot DB update (Windows UEFI CA 2023)",
         "Check with the device OEM whether a firmware update is required for the DB update to apply on this model",
         "Alternatively, use the WinCS CLI tool from Microsoft for manual deployment",
-        "Verify deployment: check registry HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\SecureBoot\\Servicing\\UEFICA2023Status = 'Updated'",
+        "Verify deployment against the firmware directly: [Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI -Name db).Bytes).Contains('Windows UEFI CA 2023') — this is authoritative; the registry value HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\SecureBoot\\Servicing\\UEFICA2023Status = 'Updated' only reflects the Windows Update rollout",
         "After DB update: ensure the boot manager is updated to a 2023-signed version via monthly cumulative update"
       ]
     }

rules/dist/analyze-rules.json

@@ -1884,6 +1884,110 @@
         "user-experience"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "ruleId": "ANALYZE-ESP-006",
+      "title": "ESP Failure Recovered After User Retry",
+      "description": "Detects the recovery story: the ESP reported a terminal failure (typically DeviceSetup/Apps), the user most likely pressed 'Try again' on the failure page, the failed step re-ran and completed successfully. The earlier failure did not stick — the enrollment continued past it.",
+      "severity": "info",
+      "category": "esp",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "enabled": true,
+      "baseConfidence": 85,
+      "conditions": [
+        {
+          "signal": "advisory",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_advisory",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": true
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "recovered",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": true
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "retry",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_retry_detected",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": false
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "category",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+          "dataField": "category",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": false
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "failedSubcategory",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+          "dataField": "failedSubcategory",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": false
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "likelyCulpritApps",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_advisory",
+          "dataField": "likelyCulpritApps",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": false
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "minutesSinceFailure",
+          "source": "event_type",
+          "eventType": "esp_failure_recovered",
+          "dataField": "minutesSinceFailure",
+          "operator": "exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "required": false
+        }
+      ],
+      "confidenceFactors": [
+        {
+          "signal": "retry",
+          "condition": "exists",
+          "weight": 10
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "likelyCulpritApps",
+          "condition": "exists",
+          "weight": 5
+        }
+      ],
+      "explanation": "The Enrollment Status Page reported a **failure** in the `{{category}}` phase (`{{failedSubcategory}}` subcategory, most likely app(s): `{{likelyCulpritApps}}`) — and then **recovered**: the failed step left its failed state and completed successfully about `{{minutesSinceFailure}}` min later.\n\nThat pattern is consistent with the user pressing **'Try again'** on the ESP failure page (the profile allows failure-page actions; the agent cannot observe the click itself). The failure the user saw was real, but it did not stick — the ESP re-ran the step, it succeeded, and the enrollment continued.\n\nRead the session timeline as one arc: `esp_failure_advisory` (the failure, with the likely culprit app) → `esp_failure_retry_detected` (the retry) → `esp_failure_recovered` (the recovery). If this pattern repeats across devices for the same app, that app's install is flaky on first attempt — fix the app rather than the devices. Any literal `{{…}}` placeholder means that detail was not recorded for this session.",
+      "remediation": [
+        {
+          "title": "Make the first install attempt stick",
+          "steps": [
+            "Check the likely culprit app(s) (`{{likelyCulpritApps}}`) in Intune: an app that fails on the first ESP pass but succeeds on retry usually has a dependency/ordering or detection-timing problem.",
+            "If the app shows 'never started installing' in esp_failure_settle_started, verify its assignment and applicability rules — ESP counted it as required, but IME never processed it.",
+            "If the pattern repeats across the tenant, consider removing the app from the ESP blocking list until the first-attempt install is reliable — users are seeing an avoidable failure screen.",
+            "No device-side action is needed for this session: the failure recovered and the enrollment continued."
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "tags": [
+        "esp",
+        "recovery",
+        "try-again",
+        "retry",
+        "continue-anyway",
+        "enrollment"
+      ]
+    },
     {
       "ruleId": "ANALYZE-ID-001",
       "title": "Expected Machine Certificate Not Found",
@@ -2178,10 +2282,10 @@
     {
       "ruleId": "ANALYZE-SEC-001",
       "title": "Secure Boot UEFI CA 2023 certificate not deployed",
-      "description": "Detects devices where the Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB. The 2011 certificates expired in June 2026 — affected devices no longer receive Secure Boot security updates until the 2023 certificate is deployed.",
+      "description": "Detects devices where the Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB. The 2011 certificates expired in June 2026 — affected devices no longer receive Secure Boot security updates until the 2023 certificate is deployed. Since v3 the agent reads the firmware db/KEK variables directly: when the firmware itself confirms the 2023 certificate, the rule is suppressed even if the Windows servicing status has not caught up yet.",
       "severity": "warning",
       "category": "security",
-      "version": "2.0.0",
+      "version": "3.0.0",
       "enabled": true,
       "baseConfidence": 70,
       "preconditions": [
@@ -2192,6 +2296,14 @@
           "operator": "equals",
           "value": "false",
           "description": "Skip on virtual machines — Secure Boot DB is host-controlled (Hyper-V/VMware/etc), the inside-the-VM UEFICA2023Status registry value is not the right indicator and not actionable for the VM admin."
+        },
+        {
+          "source": "event_data",
+          "eventType": "secureboot_status",
+          "dataField": "uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed",
+          "operator": "not_exists",
+          "value": "",
+          "description": "Skip when the firmware db itself confirms the Windows UEFI CA 2023 certificate — the marker is only emitted on positive firmware confirmation, so old agents (field absent) and unconfirmed devices keep evaluating the rule. The servicing registry status lags behind actual firmware state (OEM factory image, WinCS, manual deployment, or WU simply not run yet)."
         }
       ],
       "conditions": [
@@ -2230,6 +2342,24 @@
           "operator": "exists",
           "value": "",
           "required": false
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "db_ca2023_firmware_missing",
+          "source": "event_data",
+          "eventType": "secureboot_status",
+          "dataField": "uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023",
+          "operator": "equals",
+          "value": "false",
+          "required": false
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "kek_2023_missing",
+          "source": "event_data",
+          "eventType": "secureboot_status",
+          "dataField": "uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023",
+          "operator": "equals",
+          "value": "false",
+          "required": false
         }
       ],
       "confidenceFactors": [
@@ -2242,9 +2372,19 @@
           "signal": "ca2023_error",
           "condition": "exists",
           "weight": 10
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "db_ca2023_firmware_missing",
+          "condition": "exists",
+          "weight": 20
+        },
+        {
+          "signal": "kek_2023_missing",
+          "condition": "exists",
+          "weight": 10
         }
       ],
-      "explanation": "This device has Secure Boot enabled but the **Windows UEFI CA 2023** certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB.\n\nThe original Windows UEFI CA 2011 certificates **expired on June 27, 2026 — this deadline has passed**. The automatic pre-expiry rollout window is over: this device no longer receives Secure Boot security updates (DB/DBX) and cannot trust 2023-signed boot managers until the 2023 certificate is deployed. Deploying it now requires active remediation (Windows servicing opt-in and, on some models, an OEM firmware update) rather than waiting for an automatic update.\n\nCurrent UEFI CA 2023 status: `{{uefiCA2023Status}}`",
+      "explanation": "This device has Secure Boot enabled but the **Windows UEFI CA 2023** certificate has not been deployed to the Secure Boot DB.\n\nThe original Windows UEFI CA 2011 certificates **expired on June 27, 2026 — this deadline has passed**. The automatic pre-expiry rollout window is over: this device no longer receives Secure Boot security updates (DB/DBX) and cannot trust 2023-signed boot managers until the 2023 certificate is deployed. Deploying it now requires active remediation (Windows servicing opt-in and, on some models, an OEM firmware update) rather than waiting for an automatic update.\n\nOn devices running a current agent this finding is verified against the firmware itself: the agent reads the UEFI `db` signature database directly, and this warning is automatically suppressed when the firmware already contains the 2023 certificate — regardless of the Windows servicing status below.\n\nCurrent UEFI CA 2023 servicing status: `{{uefiCA2023Status}}`",
       "remediation": [
         {
           "title": "Deploy UEFI CA 2023 certificate now",
@@ -2253,7 +2393,7 @@
             "Use Intune policy to enable Secure Boot DB update (Windows UEFI CA 2023)",
             "Check with the device OEM whether a firmware update is required for the DB update to apply on this model",
             "Alternatively, use the WinCS CLI tool from Microsoft for manual deployment",
-            "Verify deployment: check registry HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\SecureBoot\\Servicing\\UEFICA2023Status = 'Updated'",
+            "Verify deployment against the firmware directly: [Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString((Get-SecureBootUEFI -Name db).Bytes).Contains('Windows UEFI CA 2023') — this is authoritative; the registry value HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\SecureBoot\\Servicing\\UEFICA2023Status = 'Updated' only reflects the Windows Update rollout",
             "After DB update: ensure the boot manager is updated to a 2023-signed version via monthly cumulative update"
           ]
         }

rules/guardrails.json

@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
       "prefixes": [
         "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup",
         "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\OOBE",
-        "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon"
+        "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon",
+        "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Autopilot"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -109,6 +110,79 @@
     "SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk",
     "SELECT * FROM SoftwareLicensingProduct"
   ],
+  "eventLogChannels": [
+    {
+      "category": "Core Windows logs",
+      "channels": [
+        "Application",
+        "System",
+        "Setup",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Boot",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "category": "MDM / Enrollment",
+      "channels": [
+        "Microsoft-Windows-DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-ModernDeployment-Diagnostics-Provider",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Provisioning-Diagnostics-Provider",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-AAD",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-User Device Registration"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "category": "ESP / Shell / Apps",
+      "channels": [
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Core",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeployment",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-AppReadiness",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Store"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "category": "Security posture / Crypto",
+      "channels": [
+        "Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-API",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-BitLocker-DrivePreparationTool",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-TPM-WMI",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-Lifecycle-System"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "category": "Update / Servicing",
+      "channels": [
+        "Microsoft-Windows-WindowsUpdateClient"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "category": "Logon / Session",
+      "channels": [
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-User Profile Service",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "category": "Network",
+      "channels": [
+        "Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Dhcp-Client",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-NCSI",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-WLAN-AutoConfig",
+        "Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "blockedEventLogChannels": [
+    "Security",
+    "Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell",
+    "Windows PowerShell",
+    "Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon"
+  ],
   "allowedCommands": [
     {
       "category": "TPM and Security",

rules/schema/gather-rule.schema.json

@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
         },
         "trigger": {
           "type": "string",
-          "description": "When to collect data.",
-          "enum": ["startup", "phase_change", "interval", "on_event"]
+          "description": "When to collect data. \"phase_change\" fires once when triggerPhase is entered, \"phase_exit\" once when it is left.",
+          "enum": ["startup", "phase_change", "phase_exit", "interval", "on_event"]
         },
         "intervalSeconds": {
           "type": "integer",
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
         },
         "triggerPhase": {
           "type": "string",
-          "description": "Phase to trigger on (only used when trigger = \"phase_change\")."
+          "description": "Phase to trigger on (used when trigger = \"phase_change\" or \"phase_exit\"). Empty = every phase transition."
         },
         "triggerEventType": {
           "type": "string",

rules/scripts/combine.js

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ if (fs.existsSync(guardrailsPath)) {
   // Flatten categorized lists for validation
   const flatRegistryPrefixes = guardrails.registryPrefixes.flatMap((g) => g.prefixes);
   const flatCommands = guardrails.allowedCommands.flatMap((g) => g.commands);
+  const flatEventLogChannels = guardrails.eventLogChannels.flatMap((g) => g.channels);
 
   const ts = `/**
  * AUTO-GENERATED from rules/guardrails.json — DO NOT EDIT.
@@ -114,6 +115,10 @@ export const COMMAND_CATEGORIES: readonly GuardrailCategory[] = [
 ${categorizedArray(guardrails.allowedCommands, 'commands')}
 ];
 
+export const EVENT_LOG_CHANNEL_CATEGORIES: readonly GuardrailCategory[] = [
+${categorizedArray(guardrails.eventLogChannels, 'channels')}
+];
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Flat arrays (for validation logic)
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -141,10 +146,18 @@ ${flatArray(guardrails.diagnosticsPathPrefixes)}
 export const BLOCKED_FILE_PREFIXES: readonly string[] = [
 ${flatArray(guardrails.blockedFilePrefixes)}
 ];
+
+export const ALLOWED_EVENT_LOG_CHANNELS: readonly string[] = [
+${flatArray(flatEventLogChannels)}
+];
+
+export const BLOCKED_EVENT_LOG_CHANNELS: readonly string[] = [
+${flatArray(guardrails.blockedEventLogChannels)}
+];
 `;
 
   fs.writeFileSync(guardrailsOutput, ts, 'utf8');
-  console.log(`guardrails.generated.ts: ${flatRegistryPrefixes.length} registry, ${flatCommands.length} commands, ${guardrails.filePrefixes.length} file prefixes`);
+  console.log(`guardrails.generated.ts: ${flatRegistryPrefixes.length} registry, ${flatCommands.length} commands, ${guardrails.filePrefixes.length} file prefixes, ${flatEventLogChannels.length} event log channels`);
 } else {
   console.warn('guardrails.json not found — skipping guardrails generation');
 }

scripts/Bootstrap/Install-AutopilotMonitor-dev.ps1

@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@
       PowerShell 5.1 (IME) reads scripts without BOM as ANSI, corrupting multi-byte chars.
 
 .CHANGELOG
+    2026-07-20  v2.2  Switched default download endpoint from the legacy blob
+                      (autopilotmonitor.blob.core.windows.net) to the Front Door alias
+                      https://download.autopilotmonitor.com/agent/ (route /agent/*).
+                      version.json is still derived from the same container.
     2026-06-25  v2.1  OOBE-relax: detect genuine OOBE via WinRT
                       SystemSetupInfo.OutOfBoxExperienceState and exempt guards 2+3 when a
                       single freshly-created profile appears in OOBE (Windows Backup for
@@ -80,7 +84,7 @@
 [CmdletBinding()]
 param(
     [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
-    [string]$AgentDownloadUrl = "https://autopilotmonitor.blob.core.windows.net/agent/AutopilotMonitor-Agent.zip",
+    [string]$AgentDownloadUrl = "https://download.autopilotmonitor.com/agent/AutopilotMonitor-Agent.zip",
 
     [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]
     [string]$VersionJsonName = "version.json",
@@ -93,7 +97,7 @@ param(
 )
 
 # Script version (bump on meaningful changes; see .CHANGELOG above)
-$ScriptVersion = "2.1"
+$ScriptVersion = "2.2"
 
 # Configuration - Everything in ProgramData for easy cleanup
 $AgentBasePath = "$env:ProgramData\AutopilotMonitor"
@@ -268,13 +272,16 @@ try {
                 $downloadAttempt++
                 try {
                     Write-Log "Download attempt ${downloadAttempt}/${maxDownloadAttempts}"
+                    $downloadStopwatch = [System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()
                     Invoke-WebRequest `
                         -Uri $AgentDownloadUrl `
                         -OutFile $zipPath `
                         -UseBasicParsing `
                         -TimeoutSec 30 `
                         -ErrorAction Stop
-                    Write-Log "Downloaded agent to $zipPath"
+                    $downloadStopwatch.Stop()
+                    $downloadSeconds = [math]::Round($downloadStopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds, 1)
+                    Write-Log "Downloaded agent to $zipPath (took ${downloadSeconds}s)"
                     break
                 }
                 catch {

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Configuration/EndpointMigrationTests.cs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Configuration
         private const string CurrentUrl = "https://autopilotmonitor-api-eu.azurewebsites.net";
         private const string TargetUrl = "https://autopilotmonitor-api-us.azurewebsites.net";
 
-        private static AgentConfigResponse Config(string migrateUrl) =>
+        private static AgentConfigResponse Config(string? migrateUrl) =>
             new AgentConfigResponse { MigrateToApiBaseUrl = migrateUrl };
 
         [Fact]

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Configuration/RemoteConfigMergerTests.cs

@@ -285,6 +285,54 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Configuration
             Assert.Equal(@"C:\Temp\custom-ime.log", agent.ImeMatchLogPath);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void Merge_maps_enable_gather_rule_debug_log_true_to_default_path()
+        {
+            var agent = NewAgentConfig();
+            agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath = null;
+
+            var remote = FullRemote();
+            remote.EnableGatherRuleDebugLog = true;
+
+            RemoteConfigMerger.Merge(agent, remote);
+
+            Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath));
+            Assert.Equal(
+                Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(Constants.GatherRuleDebugLogPath),
+                agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Merge_maps_enable_gather_rule_debug_log_false_clears_path()
+        {
+            var agent = NewAgentConfig();
+            agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(Constants.GatherRuleDebugLogPath);
+
+            var remote = FullRemote();
+            remote.EnableGatherRuleDebugLog = false;
+
+            RemoteConfigMerger.Merge(agent, remote);
+
+            Assert.Null(agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Merge_preserves_custom_gather_rule_debug_log_path_when_remote_disables()
+        {
+            // A dev-time --gather-debug-log <custom> override seeds a non-default path on the
+            // AgentConfiguration. When the tenant remote flips EnableGatherRuleDebugLog off we
+            // keep the custom path rather than clobbering a deliberate dev override.
+            var agent = NewAgentConfig();
+            agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath = @"C:\Temp\custom-gather.log";
+
+            var remote = FullRemote();
+            remote.EnableGatherRuleDebugLog = false;
+
+            RemoteConfigMerger.Merge(agent, remote);
+
+            Assert.Equal(@"C:\Temp\custom-gather.log", agent.GatherRuleDebugLogPath);
+        }
+
         // ============================================================= Null / partial tolerance
 
         [Fact]

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Configuration/RemoteConfigServiceCacheHardeningTests.cs

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Configuration
             // Read the file the production code actually wrote and deserialize with the same lib.
             var raw = File.ReadAllText(_cachePath);
             var persisted = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<AgentConfigResponse>(raw);
+            Assert.NotNull(persisted);
 
             Assert.False(persisted.UnrestrictedMode);
             Assert.False(persisted.AllowAgentDowngrade);

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Configuration/RemoteConfigServiceRetryTests.cs

@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Configuration
                     case BackendBehaviour.AlwaysAuthFailure401:
                         throw new BackendAuthException("Unauthorized", 401);
                     case BackendBehaviour.AlwaysReturnNull:
-                        return Task.FromResult<AgentConfigResponse>(null);
+                        return Task.FromResult<AgentConfigResponse>(null!);
                     default:
                         throw new InvalidOperationException("unknown behaviour");
                 }
@@ -204,9 +204,9 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Configuration
 
             // In-memory + per-instance cache so a prior test's successful fetch can't
             // bleed into a later test that expects UsedDefaults.
-            private AgentConfigResponse _cached;
+            private AgentConfigResponse? _cached;
             protected override void CacheConfig(AgentConfigResponse config) { _cached = config; }
-            protected override AgentConfigResponse LoadCachedConfig() => _cached;
+            protected override AgentConfigResponse LoadCachedConfig() => _cached!;
         }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/DeviceInfo/DeviceInfoCollectorEspRefreshTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Persistence;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Engine;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Signals;
+using Xunit;
+using SharedEventTypes = AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Constants.EventTypes;
+using DeviceInfoCollector = AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.DeviceInfo.DeviceInfoCollector;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.DeviceInfo
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Audit Q2 — <see cref="DeviceInfoCollector.RefreshEspConfiguration"/>
+    /// re-reads the ESP blocking lists and re-emits <c>esp_config_detected</c> exactly when the
+    /// payload changed: the registry lists grow progressively (one timestamped subkey per CSP
+    /// status write) and the user-scope lists appear only after sign-in, so the early emissions
+    /// are structurally partial. The StartupEventGate keeps an unchanged re-read silent.
+    /// Probe overrides are static slots → serialized with the other probe-driven suites.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Collection("SerialThreading")]
+    public sealed class DeviceInfoCollectorEspRefreshTests
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime T0 = new DateTime(2026, 7, 27, 10, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+        private const string DeviceApp1 = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111";
+        private const string DeviceApp2 = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222";
+        private const string UserApp1 = "33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333";
+
+        private static EspTrackingInfoSnapshot Snapshot(string[] deviceApps, string[] userApps)
+        {
+            var all = deviceApps.Concat(userApps).Distinct().ToArray();
+            return new EspTrackingInfoSnapshot(
+                msiProductCodes: Array.Empty<string>(),
+                modernAppPfns: Array.Empty<string>(),
+                win32AppIds: all,
+                userWin32AppIds: userApps,
+                msiCount: 0,
+                modernCount: 0,
+                win32Count: all.Length);
+        }
+
+        private static IReadOnlyList<FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal> EspConfigEvents(FakeSignalIngressSink ingress) =>
+            ingress.Posted
+                .Where(p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent
+                            && p.Payload != null
+                            && p.Payload.TryGetValue(SignalPayloadKeys.EventType, out var et)
+                            && et == SharedEventTypes.EspConfigDetected)
+                .ToList();
+
+        private static IReadOnlyList<string> TypedList(FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal signal, string key)
+        {
+            var data = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>>(signal.TypedPayload);
+            return Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyList<string>>(data[key]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Refresh_reemits_when_lists_grew_and_stays_silent_when_unchanged()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+            var ingress = new FakeSignalIngressSink();
+            var clock = new VirtualClock(T0);
+            var collector = new DeviceInfoCollector(
+                "session-1", "tenant-1",
+                new InformationalEventPost(ingress, clock), logger,
+                signalIngress: null, clock: clock,
+                startupGate: new StartupEventGate(tmp.Path, logger));
+
+            using var skip = new EspSkipConfigurationProbe.ScopedFullOverride(
+                _ => new EspFirstSyncSnapshot(
+                    skipUser: false, skipDevice: false,
+                    blockInStatusPage: null, syncFailureTimeoutMinutes: null));
+
+            // Early read (agent start / DeviceSetup detection): partial device list, empty user list.
+            using (new EspTrackingInfoProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => Snapshot(new[] { DeviceApp1 }, Array.Empty<string>())))
+            {
+                collector.CollectEspConfiguration();
+            }
+            var afterEarly = EspConfigEvents(ingress);
+            Assert.Single(afterEarly);
+            Assert.Empty(TypedList(afterEarly[0], "espTrackedUserWin32AppIds"));
+
+            // Apps sub-phase opened: the device list grew and sign-in populated the user list.
+            using (new EspTrackingInfoProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => Snapshot(new[] { DeviceApp1, DeviceApp2 }, new[] { UserApp1 })))
+            {
+                collector.RefreshEspConfiguration(DeviceInfoHost.EspConfigTriggerAppsUser);
+            }
+            var afterGrowth = EspConfigEvents(ingress);
+            Assert.Equal(2, afterGrowth.Count);
+            Assert.Contains(DeviceApp2, TypedList(afterGrowth[1], "espTrackedWin32AppIds"));
+            Assert.Equal(new[] { UserApp1 }, TypedList(afterGrowth[1], "espTrackedUserWin32AppIds"));
+
+            // A later trigger with an UNCHANGED registry state re-reads but emits nothing —
+            // the StartupEventGate suppresses the identical payload.
+            using (new EspTrackingInfoProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => Snapshot(new[] { DeviceApp1, DeviceApp2 }, new[] { UserApp1 })))
+            {
+                collector.RefreshEspConfiguration(DeviceInfoHost.EspConfigTriggerAccountSetup);
+            }
+            Assert.Equal(2, EspConfigEvents(ingress).Count);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Concurrent_refreshes_never_emit_an_older_snapshot_after_a_newer_one()
+        {
+            // Codex review: the refresh triggers each run on their own Task.Run — without the
+            // collector-side lock, two collects can interleave read-before-emit and the LATER
+            // emission carries the OLDER (smaller) list. The backend keeps the latest
+            // list-bearing emission as positive evidence, so that would silently shrink it.
+            // The probe returns a strictly growing list per read; with the read→emit critical
+            // section, emission order must equal read order — sizes strictly ascending.
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+            var ingress = new FakeSignalIngressSink();
+            var clock = new VirtualClock(T0);
+            var collector = new DeviceInfoCollector(
+                "session-1", "tenant-1",
+                new InformationalEventPost(ingress, clock), logger,
+                signalIngress: null, clock: clock,
+                startupGate: new StartupEventGate(tmp.Path, logger));
+
+            using var skip = new EspSkipConfigurationProbe.ScopedFullOverride(
+                _ => new EspFirstSyncSnapshot(
+                    skipUser: false, skipDevice: false,
+                    blockInStatusPage: null, syncFailureTimeoutMinutes: null));
+
+            var readCounter = 0;
+            using var tracking = new EspTrackingInfoProbe.ScopedOverride(_ =>
+            {
+                var n = Interlocked.Increment(ref readCounter);
+                var ids = Enumerable.Range(1, n)
+                    .Select(i => $"{i:d8}-1111-2222-3333-444444444444")
+                    .ToArray();
+                return Snapshot(ids, Array.Empty<string>());
+            });
+
+            var tasks = Enumerable.Range(0, 12)
+                .Select(i => Task.Run(() => collector.RefreshEspConfiguration($"stress-{i}")))
+                .ToArray();
+            await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
+
+            var sizes = EspConfigEvents(ingress)
+                .Select(e => TypedList(e, "espTrackedWin32AppIds").Count)
+                .ToList();
+            // Every refresh saw a strictly larger list (gate never suppresses) and each
+            // read→emit is atomic, so the emission sequence is exactly 1..12.
+            Assert.Equal(Enumerable.Range(1, 12), sizes);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Harness/ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture.cs

@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness
                 logFolder: Tmp.Path,
                 patterns: new List<ImeLogPattern>(),
                 logger: Logger);
+            // Mirror ImeLogHost wiring: the historic-replay guard judges staleness against the
+            // (virtual) agent clock so tests stay deterministic.
+            Tracker.UtcNowProvider = () => Clock.UtcNow;
         }
 
         public IReadOnlyList<FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal> DecisionSignals(DecisionSignalKind kind) =>

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Integration/ShellCoreToEngineEspExitingTests.cs

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Integration
                 logger: logger,
                 helloTracker: null);
 
-            EspExitedEventArgs captured = null;
+            EspExitedEventArgs? captured = null;
             tracker.EspExited += (_, args) => captured = args;
 
             // Source time IS in the past relative to the clock — verify the tracker carries the

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Analyzers/LocalAdminAnalyzerTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#nullable enable
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Analyzers;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Analyzers
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry — the allowed-list matching contract.
+    /// Entries without wildcard characters match exactly (case-insensitive); entries
+    /// containing * or ? are glob patterns with the same semantics as the hardware
+    /// whitelist. The same matcher is applied to local accounts and profile folders.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class LocalAdminAnalyzerTests
+    {
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------- literal entries
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("SupportAdmin", "SupportAdmin")]
+        [InlineData("supportadmin", "SupportAdmin")]
+        [InlineData("SUPPORTADMIN", "supportadmin")]
+        public void Literal_entry_matches_exactly_case_insensitive(string name, string entry)
+        {
+            Assert.True(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry(name, entry));
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("SupportAdmin2", "SupportAdmin")]
+        [InlineData("SupportAdmin", "SupportAdmin2")]
+        [InlineData("Support", "SupportAdmin")]
+        public void Literal_entry_does_not_substring_match(string name, string entry)
+        {
+            Assert.False(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry(name, entry));
+        }
+
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------- glob patterns
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("adm-12345", "adm-*")]
+        [InlineData("adm-", "adm-*")]
+        [InlineData("ADM-9F3B2C", "adm-*")]
+        [InlineData("lapsAdmin01", "lapsAdmin??")]
+        [InlineData("svc-backup-01", "svc-*-01")]
+        public void Wildcard_entry_matches_glob(string name, string entry)
+        {
+            Assert.True(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry(name, entry));
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("administrator2", "adm-*")]   // no literal "adm-" prefix
+        [InlineData("xadm-123", "adm-*")]          // pattern is anchored at start
+        [InlineData("lapsAdmin1", "lapsAdmin??")]  // ? is exactly one char
+        [InlineData("adm.123", "adm-*")]           // "-" is literal, not a regex class
+        public void Wildcard_entry_does_not_overmatch(string name, string entry)
+        {
+            Assert.False(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry(name, entry));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Regex_metacharacters_in_entry_are_treated_literally()
+        {
+            // "adm.123" as an entry has no wildcard chars → exact match only,
+            // the dot must not act as a regex any-char.
+            Assert.True(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry("adm.123", "adm.123"));
+            Assert.False(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry("admX123", "adm.123"));
+
+            // Mixed: wildcard present, remaining metacharacters stay literal.
+            Assert.True(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry("adm.123", "adm.*"));
+            Assert.False(LocalAdminAnalyzer.MatchesAllowedEntry("admX123", "adm.*"));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/DesktopArrivalDetectorTests.cs

@@ -405,5 +405,144 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring
             var started = trace.Events.Find(e => e.EventType == SharedEventTypes.DesktopDetectorStarted);
             Assert.Equal(0, started.Data["noCandidateThresholdMinutes"]);
         }
+
+        // ============================================================================
+        // OOBE-state flip (oobe_state_completed) — observational one-shot on the poll
+        // ============================================================================
+        // The WinRT OutOfBoxExperienceState flip in_progress->completed is an owner-
+        // independent desktop corroboration for DAD-starved sessions (4d5a0b78 class).
+        // Tests drive polls synchronously via PollOnceForTest after Stop() so the real
+        // timer cannot race, and pin the owner seams to an excluded user so a real
+        // explorer.exe on the test machine can never set _desktopArrived (which would
+        // short-circuit PollForDesktop before the flip check).
+
+        private static DesktopArrivalDetector BuildFlipDetector(TempDirectory tmp, TraceCapture trace, System.Func<string> oobeProvider)
+        {
+            var detector = new DesktopArrivalDetector(new AgentLogger(tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info), noCandidateTimeoutMinutes: 0)
+            {
+                OnTraceEvent = trace.Sink,
+                OobeStateProvider = oobeProvider,
+                SessionOwnerResolver = _ => "SYSTEM",
+                ProcessOwnerResolver = _ => "SYSTEM",
+            };
+            return detector;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Returns the queued states in order, then repeats the last one forever.</summary>
+        private static System.Func<string> StateQueue(params string[] states)
+        {
+            var queue = new Queue<string>(states);
+            var last = states[states.Length - 1];
+            return () => queue.Count > 0 ? queue.Dequeue() : last;
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OobeFlip_emits_exactly_once_with_payload()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var trace = new TraceCapture();
+            // Baseline sample happens synchronously inside Start()/ArmTimer.
+            using var detector = BuildFlipDetector(tmp, trace, StateQueue("in_progress", "completed"));
+
+            detector.Start();
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest(); // reads "completed" -> flip
+            detector.PollOnceForTest(); // still "completed" -> no second emit
+
+            Assert.Equal(1, trace.CountOf(SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted));
+            var flip = trace.Events.Find(e => e.EventType == SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted);
+            Assert.Equal("in_progress", flip.Data["previousState"]);
+            Assert.True(flip.Data.ContainsKey("pollCount"));
+            Assert.True(flip.Data.ContainsKey("minutesSinceStart"));
+            Assert.False((bool)flip.Data["desktopArrived"]);
+            Assert.True(flip.Data.ContainsKey("wmiErrorCount"));
+            Assert.True(flip.Data.ContainsKey("wtsErrorCount"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OobeFlip_does_not_emit_when_state_is_already_completed()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var trace = new TraceCapture();
+            using var detector = BuildFlipDetector(tmp, trace, StateQueue("completed"));
+
+            detector.Start();
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest();
+
+            // Productive machines read "completed" from the very first sample — the flip
+            // event must never fire there (the agent_started field already records the state).
+            Assert.Equal(0, trace.CountOf(SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OobeFlip_does_not_emit_when_in_progress_was_never_seen()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var trace = new TraceCapture();
+            using var detector = BuildFlipDetector(tmp, trace, StateQueue("unavailable", "completed"));
+
+            detector.Start();
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest();
+
+            // Old builds without the WinRT contract report "unavailable"; a later
+            // "completed" without a positively observed "in_progress" is not a flip.
+            Assert.Equal(0, trace.CountOf(SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OobeFlip_survives_transient_unavailable_between_polls()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var trace = new TraceCapture();
+            using var detector = BuildFlipDetector(tmp, trace, StateQueue("in_progress", "unavailable", "completed"));
+
+            detector.Start();
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest(); // transient reflection failure — must NOT clear the baseline
+            detector.PollOnceForTest(); // "completed" -> flip still detected
+
+            Assert.Equal(1, trace.CountOf(SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OobeFlip_provider_throwing_never_emits_and_never_pollutes_wmi_error_count()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var trace = new TraceCapture();
+            using var detector = BuildFlipDetector(tmp, trace, () => throw new System.InvalidOperationException("boom"));
+
+            detector.Start(); // baseline sample throws -> swallowed
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest();
+
+            Assert.Equal(0, trace.CountOf(SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted));
+            // The flip check has its own try/catch — a throw must not fall into
+            // PollForDesktop's outer catch, which increments the WMI error counter the
+            // session-4d5a0b78 liveness diagnostics rely on. first_poll carries that counter.
+            var firstPoll = trace.Events.Find(e => e.EventType == SharedEventTypes.DesktopDetectorFirstPoll);
+            Assert.Equal(0, firstPoll.Data["wmiErrorCount"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OobeFlip_one_shot_flag_survives_ResetForRealUserSwitch()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            var trace = new TraceCapture();
+            using var detector = BuildFlipDetector(tmp, trace,
+                StateQueue("in_progress", "completed", "in_progress", "completed"));
+
+            detector.Start();
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest(); // flip #1
+            detector.ResetForRealUserSwitch(); // re-arms + re-samples baseline ("in_progress")
+            detector.Stop();
+            detector.PollOnceForTest(); // "completed" again — must NOT re-emit
+
+            Assert.Equal(1, trace.CountOf(SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted));
+        }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleCollectorGuardTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,417 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather.Collectors;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Allowlist enforcement for the two collectors that used to bypass it:
+    /// <see cref="LogParserCollector"/> read any path the rule named — including
+    /// C:\Users, whose hard block every other file collector honours — and
+    /// <see cref="EventLogCollector"/> read any channel, including Security.
+    /// A tenant admin can author both through the rules API, so the agent is the
+    /// only place this can be enforced.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class GatherRuleCollectorGuardTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private readonly TempDirectory _tmp = new TempDirectory();
+        private readonly List<EnrollmentEvent> _events = new List<EnrollmentEvent>();
+
+        // %TEMP% itself lives under C:\Users, which is hard-blocked — the positive
+        // cases need a directory the guard can actually admit, so they run beside
+        // the test assembly instead.
+        private readonly string _outsideUsers = Path.Combine(
+            AppContext.BaseDirectory, "guard-tests-" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+
+        public GatherRuleCollectorGuardTests() => Directory.CreateDirectory(_outsideUsers);
+
+        public void Dispose()
+        {
+            _tmp.Dispose();
+            try { Directory.Delete(_outsideUsers, recursive: true); } catch { /* best effort */ }
+        }
+
+        private GatherRuleContext Context(bool unrestricted = false, string? imeLogPathOverride = null)
+            => new GatherRuleContext(
+                new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info),
+                "sess", "tenant",
+                evt => _events.Add(evt),
+                imeLogPathOverride,
+                new LogFilePositionTracker())
+            {
+                UnrestrictedMode = unrestricted
+            };
+
+        private static GatherRule Rule(string collectorType, string target,
+            Dictionary<string, string>? parameters = null) => new GatherRule
+            {
+                RuleId = "GATHER-GUARD-TEST",
+                Title = "guard test",
+                CollectorType = collectorType,
+                Target = target,
+                // Match the model default (empty, never null) so the collectors see the
+                // same shape a deserialized rule without parameters gives them.
+                Parameters = parameters ?? new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+                Trigger = "startup",
+                OutputEventType = "guard_test",
+            };
+
+        private EnrollmentEvent SingleSecurityWarning()
+            => Assert.Single(_events, e => e.EventType == Constants.EventTypes.SecurityWarning);
+
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Event log channel allowlist
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("System")]
+        [InlineData("Application")]
+        [InlineData("Setup")]
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider/Admin")]
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-AAD/Operational")]
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Core/Operational")]
+        public void EventLogChannel_OnAllowlist_IsAllowed(string channel)
+            => Assert.True(GatherRuleGuards.IsEventLogChannelAllowed(channel));
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("Security")]
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational")]
+        [InlineData("Windows PowerShell")]
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational")]
+        public void EventLogChannel_HardBlocked_StaysBlockedEvenUnrestricted(string channel)
+        {
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsEventLogChannelAllowed(channel));
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsEventLogChannelAllowed(channel, unrestrictedMode: true));
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-AADSomethingElse/Operational")] // prefix spoofing
+        [InlineData("Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational")]
+        [InlineData("")]
+        public void EventLogChannel_OffAllowlist_IsBlocked(string channel)
+            => Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsEventLogChannelAllowed(channel));
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void EventLogChannel_Null_IsBlocked()
+            => Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsEventLogChannelAllowed(null));
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void EventLogChannel_OffAllowlist_IsAllowedInUnrestrictedMode()
+            => Assert.True(GatherRuleGuards.IsEventLogChannelAllowed(
+                "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational",
+                unrestrictedMode: true));
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void EventLogCollector_SecurityChannel_EmitsSecurityWarningAndReturnsNoData()
+        {
+            var result = new EventLogCollector().Execute(Rule("eventlog", "Security"), Context());
+
+            Assert.Empty(result);
+            var warning = SingleSecurityWarning();
+            Assert.Equal(true, warning.Data["blocked"]);
+            Assert.Equal("Security", warning.Data["target"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void EventLogCollector_SecurityChannel_StaysBlockedInUnrestrictedMode()
+        {
+            var result = new EventLogCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("eventlog", "Security"), Context(unrestricted: true));
+
+            Assert.Empty(result);
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+        }
+
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Log parser file allowlist
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        private static Dictionary<string, string> TextPattern() => new Dictionary<string, string>
+        {
+            ["pattern"] = "(?<line>.+)",
+            ["format"] = "text",
+            ["trackPosition"] = "false",
+        };
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_UserProfilePath_IsBlockedAndEmitsSecurityWarning()
+        {
+            const string target = @"C:\Users\Public\Documents\secret.txt";
+
+            var result = new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", target, TextPattern()), Context());
+
+            Assert.Null(result);
+            var warning = SingleSecurityWarning();
+            Assert.Equal(target, warning.Data["target"]);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == "guard_test");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_UserProfilePath_StaysBlockedInUnrestrictedMode()
+        {
+            // C:\Users is a hard block — unrestricted mode must not lift it.
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", @"C:\Users\Public\Documents\secret.txt", TextPattern()),
+                Context(unrestricted: true));
+
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_OffAllowlistPath_IsBlockedEvenWhenFileExists()
+        {
+            var path = _tmp.File("evidence.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "line one\nline two\n");
+
+            var result = new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", path, TextPattern()), Context());
+
+            Assert.Null(result);
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == "guard_test");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_WildcardTarget_IsBlockedByItsDirectory()
+        {
+            // Path.GetFullPath rejects '*', so the guard has to check the directory.
+            File.WriteAllText(_tmp.File("evidence.log"), "line one\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", Path.Combine(_tmp.Path, "*.log"), TextPattern()), Context());
+
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == "guard_test");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_UnrestrictedMode_ReadsPathOffTheAllowlist()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "evidence.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "line one\nline two\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", path, TextPattern()), Context(unrestricted: true));
+
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == Constants.EventTypes.SecurityWarning);
+            Assert.Equal(2, _events.Count(e => e.EventType == "guard_test"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_LocalImeLogPathOverride_RelaxesTheAllowlist()
+        {
+            // --ime-log-path is a local CLI flag, never remote config: the operator
+            // using it is already a local admin, so it relaxes the allowlist the way
+            // unrestricted mode does.
+            File.WriteAllText(Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "AppWorkload.log"), "line one\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", @"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Logs\AppWorkload.log",
+                    TextPattern()),
+                Context(imeLogPathOverride: _outsideUsers));
+
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == Constants.EventTypes.SecurityWarning);
+            Assert.Single(_events, e => e.EventType == "guard_test");
+        }
+
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Command execution
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Command_OffAllowlist_IsBlockedAndNeverRuns()
+        {
+            var result = new CommandCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("command_allowlisted", "Get-Content C:\\Windows\\System32\\config\\SAM"), Context());
+
+            Assert.Equal(true, result["blocked"]);
+            Assert.False(result.ContainsKey("output"));
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Command_HardBlockedPattern_StaysBlockedInUnrestrictedMode()
+        {
+            var result = new CommandCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("command_allowlisted", "Invoke-WebRequest https://example.invalid/x"),
+                Context(unrestricted: true));
+
+            Assert.Equal(true, result["blocked"]);
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Command_ThatHangs_IsKilledAtTheTimeoutRatherThanPinningTheWorker()
+        {
+            // Regression: reading stdout synchronously blocked until the pipe closed,
+            // so WaitForExit's timeout was never reached and a hung command pinned the
+            // worker indefinitely. Unrestricted mode is needed to run an ad-hoc command.
+            var sw = System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch.StartNew();
+            var result = new CommandCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("command_allowlisted", "Start-Sleep -Seconds 120"), Context(unrestricted: true));
+            sw.Stop();
+
+            Assert.Equal(true, result["timed_out"]);
+            Assert.Equal(-1, result["exit_code"]);
+            // The 30s timeout plus drain margin — nowhere near the command's 120s.
+            Assert.True(sw.Elapsed < TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60),
+                $"expected the hung command to be killed at the timeout; took {sw.Elapsed}");
+        }
+
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Every remaining collector actually calls its guard
+        //
+        // The guard functions have their own unit tests, but those prove nothing about
+        // whether a collector consults them before touching the registry, WMI or disk.
+        // These drive the collectors themselves: each blocked target must come back empty,
+        // emit exactly one security_warning naming the target, and produce no rule output.
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        private void AssertBlocked(Dictionary<string, object> result, string target)
+        {
+            Assert.Empty(result);
+            var warning = SingleSecurityWarning();
+            Assert.Equal(true, warning.Data["blocked"]);
+            Assert.Equal(target, warning.Data["target"]);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == "guard_test");
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(@"SAM\SAM\Domains\Account\Users")]
+        [InlineData(@"SECURITY\Policy\Secrets")]
+        [InlineData(@"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\EnrollmentsSomethingElse")]  // prefix spoofing
+        [InlineData(@"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\AutopilotSomethingElse")]  // sibling spoof of the Autopilot prefix
+        public void RegistryCollector_OffAllowlistPath_IsBlockedBeforeTheHiveIsOpened(string target)
+            => AssertBlocked(new RegistryCollector().Execute(Rule("registry", target), Context()), target);
+
+        // Session 5d735290: the EnrollmentStatusTracking subtree (ESP policy providers / tracking
+        // state) is allow-listed so tenants can build gather rules on the co-management stall
+        // signature the esp_policy_provider_stalled detector reports (e.g. not_exists on the
+        // Sidecar provider key).
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot")]
+        [InlineData(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot\EnrollmentStatusTracking\Device\Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders\Sidecar")]
+        public void RegistryGuard_AutopilotEnrollmentTrackingSubtree_IsAllowed(string subPath)
+            => Assert.True(GatherRuleGuards.IsRegistryPathAllowed(subPath));
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("SELECT * FROM Win32_UserAccount")]
+        [InlineData("SELECT * FROM Win32_ShadowCopy")]
+        [InlineData("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystemExtra")]          // prefix spoofing
+        public void WmiCollector_OffAllowlistQuery_IsBlockedBeforeTheQueryRuns(string query)
+            => AssertBlocked(new WmiCollector().Execute(Rule("wmi", query), Context()), query);
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void JsonCollector_UserProfilePath_IsBlockedBeforeTheFileIsOpened()
+        {
+            const string target = @"C:\Users\Public\Documents\secrets.json";
+            AssertBlocked(
+                new JsonCollector().Execute(
+                    Rule("json", target, new Dictionary<string, string> { ["jsonpath"] = "$.token" }),
+                    Context()),
+                target);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void XmlCollector_UserProfilePath_IsBlockedBeforeTheFileIsOpened()
+        {
+            const string target = @"C:\Users\Public\Documents\secrets.xml";
+            AssertBlocked(
+                new XmlCollector().Execute(
+                    Rule("xml", target, new Dictionary<string, string> { ["xpath"] = "//token" }),
+                    Context()),
+                target);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FileCollector_UserProfilePath_IsBlockedBeforeTheFileIsOpened()
+        {
+            const string target = @"C:\Users\Public\Documents\secrets.txt";
+            AssertBlocked(new FileCollector().Execute(Rule("file", target), Context()), target);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void JsonCollector_AllowedPath_ReadsTheFile()
+        {
+            // Counterpart to the blocked cases: proves the guard is a gate, not a wall —
+            // the collector does reach the file once the path is admitted.
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "inventory.json");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "{ \"agent\": { \"version\": \"2.4.0\" } }");
+
+            var result = new JsonCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("json", path, new Dictionary<string, string> { ["jsonpath"] = "$.agent.version" }),
+                Context(unrestricted: true));
+
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(_events, e => e.EventType == Constants.EventTypes.SecurityWarning);
+            Assert.Contains("2.4.0", string.Join(",", result.Values));
+        }
+
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Path traversal
+        // -------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FilePath_TraversalOutOfAnAllowedPrefix_IsBlocked()
+        {
+            // The raw string starts with an allowed prefix, so a naive StartsWith check would
+            // admit it. Path.GetFullPath runs FIRST, so the allowlist sees C:\Secret.txt.
+            const string traversal =
+                @"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Logs\..\..\..\..\Secret.txt";
+
+            Assert.Equal(@"C:\Secret.txt", Path.GetFullPath(traversal));
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsFilePathAllowed(traversal));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FilePath_TraversalIntoTheUsersHardBlock_StaysBlockedEvenUnrestricted()
+        {
+            // Unrestricted mode lifts the allowlist but never the C:\Users privacy block —
+            // and it must not be reachable by spelling the path with '..' either.
+            const string traversal =
+                @"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Logs\..\..\..\..\Users\Public\ntuser.dat";
+
+            Assert.StartsWith(@"C:\Users\", Path.GetFullPath(traversal), StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsFilePathAllowed(traversal));
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsFilePathAllowed(traversal, unrestrictedMode: true));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FilePath_TraversalIntoTheConfigHiveDirectory_StaysBlockedEvenUnrestricted()
+        {
+            const string traversal = @"C:\Windows\Logs\..\System32\config\SAM";
+
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsFilePathAllowed(traversal));
+            Assert.False(GatherRuleGuards.IsFilePathAllowed(traversal, unrestrictedMode: true));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FileCollector_TraversalTarget_IsBlockedAndReported()
+        {
+            const string traversal =
+                @"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Logs\..\..\..\..\Users\Public\ntuser.dat";
+
+            AssertBlocked(new FileCollector().Execute(Rule("file", traversal), Context()), traversal);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void LogParser_ImeLogPathOverride_StillHonoursTheUsersHardBlock()
+        {
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule("logparser", @"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\IntuneManagementExtension\Logs\AppWorkload.log",
+                    TextPattern()),
+                Context(imeLogPathOverride: @"C:\Users\Public\Documents"));
+
+            SingleSecurityWarning();
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleDebugLogTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Writer unit tests for <see cref="GatherRuleDebugLog"/>: line format, lazy directory
+    /// creation, size-cap rotation, and the null-writer no-op path on the context.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class GatherRuleDebugLogTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private readonly TempDirectory _tmp = new TempDirectory();
+        private readonly AgentLogger _logger;
+
+        public GatherRuleDebugLogTests()
+        {
+            _logger = new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+        }
+
+        public void Dispose() => _tmp.Dispose();
+
+        private string LogPath => Path.Combine(_tmp.Path, "sub", "gather_rules_debug.log");
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Write_produces_pipe_delimited_line_and_creates_directory_lazily()
+        {
+            var log = new GatherRuleDebugLog(LogPath, _logger);
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(LogPath)); // lazy — nothing until the first write
+
+            log.Write("RULE-1", GatherRuleDebugLog.StageScope, "skipped: out of scope");
+
+            var lines = File.ReadAllLines(LogPath);
+            Assert.Equal(2, lines.Length); // header + entry
+            Assert.Contains("| - | config | -- gather rule debug log started --", lines[0]);
+            var parts = lines[1].Split(new[] { " | " }, StringSplitOptions.None);
+            Assert.Equal(4, parts.Length);
+            Assert.Equal("RULE-1", parts[1]);
+            Assert.Equal("scope", parts[2]);
+            Assert.Equal("skipped: out of scope", parts[3]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Write_flattens_newlines_except_for_error_stage()
+        {
+            var log = new GatherRuleDebugLog(LogPath, _logger);
+            log.Write("RULE-1", GatherRuleDebugLog.StageCollector, "line1\r\nline2");
+            log.Write("RULE-1", GatherRuleDebugLog.StageError, "boom\r\n   at Frame()");
+
+            var content = File.ReadAllText(LogPath);
+            Assert.Contains("line1 line2", content);
+            Assert.Contains("   at Frame()", content); // error stage keeps the stack multi-line
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Write_null_ruleId_renders_dash()
+        {
+            var log = new GatherRuleDebugLog(LogPath, _logger);
+            log.Write(null, GatherRuleDebugLog.StageConfig, "no rules delivered");
+
+            Assert.Contains(" | - | config | no rules delivered", File.ReadAllText(LogPath));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Write_rotates_once_when_file_exceeds_cap()
+        {
+            var log = new GatherRuleDebugLog(LogPath, _logger, maxBytes: 512);
+            for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
+                log.Write("RULE-1", GatherRuleDebugLog.StageExec, new string('x', 100));
+
+            var oldPath = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(LogPath), "gather_rules_debug.old.log");
+            Assert.True(File.Exists(oldPath), "expected one .old rotation generation");
+            Assert.True(File.Exists(LogPath));
+            Assert.Contains("-- rotated", File.ReadAllText(LogPath) + File.ReadAllText(oldPath));
+            // Never more than one .old generation
+            Assert.Single(Directory.GetFiles(Path.GetDirectoryName(LogPath), "*.old.log"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void WriteStandalone_writes_single_config_line()
+        {
+            GatherRuleDebugLog.WriteStandalone(LogPath, "no gather rules delivered by backend — nothing to execute", _logger);
+
+            var lines = File.ReadAllLines(LogPath);
+            Assert.Contains(lines, l => l.Contains("no gather rules delivered by backend"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Context_DebugLog_is_noop_without_writer()
+        {
+            var context = new GatherRuleContext(
+                _logger, "sess", "tenant", _ => { }, null, new LogFilePositionTracker());
+
+            context.DebugLog("RULE-1", GatherRuleDebugLog.StageScope, "should not throw, should not write");
+
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(LogPath));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleExecutorDebugLogTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Debug-trace coverage of <see cref="GatherRuleExecutor"/> (EnableGatherRuleDebugLog):
+    /// every "silently produced nothing" outcome must leave an explanatory line in the trace
+    /// file — registration summary, missing interval, scope skips, on_change suppression,
+    /// empty collector results.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Collection("SerialThreading")] // startup rules execute on the shared ThreadPool
+    public sealed class GatherRuleExecutorDebugLogTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private readonly TempDirectory _tmp = new TempDirectory();
+        private readonly GatherRuleExecutor _executor;
+        private readonly string _debugLogPath;
+
+        private const string AbsentPath =
+            "HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\AutopilotMonitorTests\\DefinitelyAbsent_7e3a1f4b-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
+
+        public GatherRuleExecutorDebugLogTests()
+        {
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+            _debugLogPath = Path.Combine(_tmp.Path, "gather_rules_debug.log");
+            _executor = new GatherRuleExecutor(
+                "sess", "tenant", _ => { }, logger,
+                debugLogPath: _debugLogPath)
+            {
+                UnrestrictedMode = true
+            };
+        }
+
+        public void Dispose()
+        {
+            _executor.Dispose();
+            _tmp.Dispose();
+        }
+
+        private string TraceContent() => File.Exists(_debugLogPath) ? File.ReadAllText(_debugLogPath) : string.Empty;
+
+        private static GatherRule Rule(string id, Action<GatherRule>? mutate = null)
+        {
+            var rule = new GatherRule
+            {
+                RuleId = id,
+                Title = id,
+                CollectorType = "registry",
+                Target = AbsentPath,
+                Trigger = "startup",
+                OutputEventType = "gather_test",
+                Enabled = true,
+            };
+            mutate?.Invoke(rule);
+            return rule;
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void UpdateRules_writes_registration_summary_per_rule()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule>
+            {
+                Rule("GATHER-REG-001", r => { r.Trigger = "interval"; r.IntervalSeconds = 3600; r.EmitMode = "on_change"; }),
+                Rule("GATHER-REG-002", r => r.Enabled = false),
+            });
+            _executor.WaitForStartupRules(30);
+
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-REG-001 | config | registered: trigger=interval, collector=registry", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("emitMode=on_change", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("interval=3600s", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-REG-002 | config | rule disabled — will never run", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("interval timer scheduled every 3600s (first run after one full interval", trace);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void UpdateRules_flags_interval_rule_without_intervalSeconds()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule>
+            {
+                Rule("GATHER-NOINT-001", r => { r.Trigger = "interval"; r.IntervalSeconds = null; }),
+            });
+
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-NOINT-001 | error | trigger=interval but intervalSeconds is missing — rule will NEVER run",
+                TraceContent());
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ScopedRule_skip_traces_unknown_phase_reason()
+        {
+            var rule = Rule("GATHER-SCOPE-001", r => { r.Trigger = "interval"; r.IntervalSeconds = 3600; r.ActivePhases = new List<string> { "DeviceSetup" }; });
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { rule });
+
+            // Synchronous internal check mirrors the timer-tick gate; the reason must name Unknown.
+            string reason;
+            Assert.False(_executor.IsRuleInScope(rule, out reason));
+            Assert.Contains("currentPhase=Unknown", reason);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ScopedStartupRule_deferral_is_traced()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule>
+            {
+                Rule("GATHER-DEFER-001", r => r.ActivePhases = new List<string> { "DeviceSetup" }),
+            });
+
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-DEFER-001 | scope | startup rule deferred — currentPhase=Unknown", TraceContent());
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OnChange_suppression_and_reemission_are_traced()
+        {
+            var rule = Rule("GATHER-OC-001", r => { r.Trigger = "interval"; r.IntervalSeconds = 3600; r.EmitMode = "on_change"; });
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { rule });
+
+            string hashPrefix;
+            int streak;
+            var first = new Dictionary<string, object> { ["exists"] = false };
+            Assert.True(_executor.ShouldEmitOnChange(rule, first, out hashPrefix, out streak));
+            Assert.Equal(0, streak);
+            Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(hashPrefix));
+
+            Assert.False(_executor.ShouldEmitOnChange(rule, new Dictionary<string, object> { ["exists"] = false }, out hashPrefix, out streak));
+            Assert.Equal(1, streak);
+            Assert.False(_executor.ShouldEmitOnChange(rule, new Dictionary<string, object> { ["exists"] = false }, out hashPrefix, out streak));
+            Assert.Equal(2, streak);
+
+            var changed = new Dictionary<string, object> { ["exists"] = true };
+            Assert.True(_executor.ShouldEmitOnChange(rule, changed, out hashPrefix, out streak));
+            Assert.Equal(2, streak); // the streak that just ended
+            Assert.Equal(2, changed["suppressedPolls"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void PhaseChange_writes_transition_line()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { Rule("GATHER-PHASE-001") });
+            _executor.WaitForStartupRules(30);
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.DeviceSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup); // repeat — no extra line
+
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("- | phase | phase change: Unknown -> DeviceSetup (first phase signal", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("- | phase | phase change: DeviceSetup -> AccountSetup", trace);
+            // A repeated signal for the same phase must not produce a second transition line.
+            var marker = "phase change: DeviceSetup -> AccountSetup";
+            Assert.Equal(trace.IndexOf(marker), trace.LastIndexOf(marker));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void EmptyCollectorResult_is_traced_via_startup_execution()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule>
+            {
+                Rule("GATHER-EMPTY-001", r => r.Parameters = new Dictionary<string, string> { ["emitOnlyIfExists"] = "true" }),
+            });
+            Assert.True(_executor.WaitForStartupRules(30));
+
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-EMPTY-001 | exec | executing: collector=registry", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-EMPTY-001 | collector | registry key/value not found", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("GATHER-EMPTY-001 | collector | collector returned EMPTY result — nothing emitted", trace);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleExecutorEmitModeTests.cs

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
                 GatherRuleExecutor.ComputeCanonicalHash(new Dictionary<string, object> { ["v"] = "1" }),
                 GatherRuleExecutor.ComputeCanonicalHash(new Dictionary<string, object> { ["v"] = 1 }));
             Assert.NotEqual(
-                GatherRuleExecutor.ComputeCanonicalHash(new Dictionary<string, object> { ["v"] = null }),
+                GatherRuleExecutor.ComputeCanonicalHash(new Dictionary<string, object> { ["v"] = null! }),
                 GatherRuleExecutor.ComputeCanonicalHash(new Dictionary<string, object> { ["v"] = "<null>" }));
         }
 

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleExecutorPhaseExitTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Threading;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The <c>phase_exit</c> trigger: a one-shot collection when a phase is LEFT — the closing
+    /// bookend to <c>phase_change</c> (which fires on ENTER). The distinguishing invariant is that
+    /// both the TriggerPhase match and the phase-scope gate must evaluate against the phase being
+    /// left, i.e. before the executor's current-phase state moves forward.
+    /// Rules use the absent-registry-path pattern so no real system state is touched.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Collection("SerialThreading")] // rules execute on the shared ThreadPool
+    public sealed class GatherRuleExecutorPhaseExitTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private readonly TempDirectory _tmp = new TempDirectory();
+        private readonly List<EnrollmentEvent> _events = new List<EnrollmentEvent>();
+        private readonly object _eventsGate = new object();
+        private readonly GatherRuleExecutor _executor;
+
+        private const string AbsentPath =
+            "HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\AutopilotMonitorTests\\DefinitelyAbsent_9c4d2a7f-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
+
+        public GatherRuleExecutorPhaseExitTests()
+        {
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+            _executor = new GatherRuleExecutor(
+                "sess", "tenant",
+                evt => { lock (_eventsGate) _events.Add(evt); },
+                logger)
+            {
+                UnrestrictedMode = true
+            };
+        }
+
+        public void Dispose()
+        {
+            _executor.Dispose();
+            _tmp.Dispose();
+        }
+
+        private int EventCount { get { lock (_eventsGate) return _events.Count; } }
+
+        private bool WaitForEventCount(int count, int timeoutMs = 10000)
+        {
+            var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
+            while (sw.ElapsedMilliseconds < timeoutMs)
+            {
+                if (EventCount >= count) return true;
+                Thread.Sleep(25);
+            }
+            return EventCount >= count;
+        }
+
+        private static GatherRule ExitRule(
+            string id, string triggerPhase, List<string>? activePhases = null, string? fromPhase = null)
+            => new GatherRule
+            {
+                RuleId = id,
+                Title = id,
+                CollectorType = "registry",
+                Target = AbsentPath,
+                Trigger = "phase_exit",
+                TriggerPhase = triggerPhase,
+                OutputEventType = "gather_test",
+                Enabled = true,
+                ActivePhases = activePhases,
+                ActiveFromPhase = fromPhase,
+            };
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FiresOnceWhenTheNamedPhaseIsLeft_NotWhenItIsEntered()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-001", "AccountSetup") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.DeviceSetup);
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+
+            // Entering AccountSetup must NOT fire an exit rule.
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+
+            // Leaving it does.
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void DoesNotRefireWhenThePhaseIsLeftTwice()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-002", "AccountSetup") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1));
+
+            // A phase can be re-entered (ESP re-reporting); the one-shot slot stays consumed.
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);
+            Thread.Sleep(400);
+            Assert.Equal(1, EventCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void EmptyTriggerPhase_FiresOnEveryExit()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-003", "") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.DeviceSetup); // exit of Unknown — must NOT fire
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup); // exit of DeviceSetup
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1));
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);     // exit of AccountSetup
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(2));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void NeverFiresOnExitOfUnknown()
+        {
+            // Before the first phase signal there is no phase to leave.
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-004", "") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.Start);
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void RepeatedSamePhaseSignal_IsNotAnExit()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-005", "") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup); // same phase — no transition
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FiresOnTransitionIntoFailed_CapturingStateAtTheFailurePoint()
+        {
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-006", "AccountSetup") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.Failed);
+
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1), "leaving a phase into Failed must still snapshot it");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FiresOnExitOfCompleteOnly_WhenCompleteIsActuallyLeft()
+        {
+            // "End of enrollment" is better served by phase_change on Complete / on_event; an exit
+            // rule on Complete only fires if a later transition happens at all.
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { ExitRule("GATHER-PX-007", "Complete") });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.FinalizingSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.Complete);
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ScopeGate_EvaluatesAgainstThePhaseBeingLeft()
+        {
+            // Scope = only during DeviceSetup. Leaving DeviceSetup must fire (the rule is still in
+            // scope at that instant) even though the NEW phase is outside the scope.
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule>
+            {
+                ExitRule("GATHER-PX-010", "DeviceSetup", activePhases: new List<string> { "DeviceSetup" })
+            });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.DeviceSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1),
+                "the scope gate must see the phase being left, not the one being entered");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void OutOfScopeExit_DoesNotFire_AndDoesNotConsumeTheOneShotSlot()
+        {
+            // Scope = only during AccountSetup; the rule exits DeviceSetup while out of scope.
+            var rule = ExitRule("GATHER-PX-011", "", activePhases: new List<string> { "AccountSetup" });
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { rule });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.DeviceSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup); // exit of DeviceSetup: out of scope
+            Thread.Sleep(300);
+            Assert.Equal(0, EventCount);
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);     // exit of AccountSetup: in scope
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ExitAndChangeRulesForTheSamePhase_BothFireIndependently()
+        {
+            // The dedup key spaces must not collide: same ruleId shape, same phase, different trigger.
+            var enter = new GatherRule
+            {
+                RuleId = "GATHER-PX-020",
+                Title = "enter",
+                CollectorType = "registry",
+                Target = AbsentPath,
+                Trigger = "phase_change",
+                TriggerPhase = "AccountSetup",
+                OutputEventType = "gather_test",
+                Enabled = true,
+            };
+            var exit = ExitRule("GATHER-PX-021", "AccountSetup");
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { enter, exit });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1)); // enter fired
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(2)); // exit fired
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ExitRuleWithEmitOnChange_StillEmitsItsFirstResult()
+        {
+            var rule = ExitRule("GATHER-PX-030", "AccountSetup");
+            rule.EmitMode = "on_change";
+            _executor.UpdateRules(new List<GatherRule> { rule });
+
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AccountSetup);
+            _executor.OnPhaseChanged(EnrollmentPhase.AppsUser);
+
+            Assert.True(WaitForEventCount(1));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/GatherRuleExecutorPhaseScopeTests.cs

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
 
         /// <summary>Interval rule with a 1h period — the timer never ticks within a test run,
         /// so these rules exist purely for synchronous scope-matrix assertions.</summary>
-        private static GatherRule ScopeProbeRule(string id, List<string> activePhases = null, string fromPhase = null)
+        private static GatherRule ScopeProbeRule(string id, List<string>? activePhases = null, string? fromPhase = null)
             => new GatherRule
             {
                 RuleId = id,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
                 ActiveFromPhase = fromPhase,
             };
 
-        private static GatherRule StartupRule(string id, List<string> activePhases = null, string fromPhase = null)
+        private static GatherRule StartupRule(string id, List<string>? activePhases = null, string? fromPhase = null)
             => new GatherRule
             {
                 RuleId = id,

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Gather/LogParserCollectorDebugLogTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Gather.Collectors;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Gather
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Debug-trace coverage of <see cref="LogParserCollector"/>: the classic
+    /// "rule delivers nothing" cases must be explained in the trace — zero matches,
+    /// position-tracker skips, and plain-text logs parsed in the default cmtrace mode.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class LogParserCollectorDebugLogTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private readonly TempDirectory _tmp = new TempDirectory();
+        private readonly List<EnrollmentEvent> _events = new List<EnrollmentEvent>();
+        private readonly GatherRuleContext _context;
+        private readonly string _debugLogPath;
+
+        // %TEMP% lives under C:\Users (hard-blocked) — parse targets sit beside the
+        // test assembly instead, admitted via UnrestrictedMode.
+        private readonly string _outsideUsers = Path.Combine(
+            AppContext.BaseDirectory, "gather-debug-tests-" + Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+
+        public LogParserCollectorDebugLogTests()
+        {
+            Directory.CreateDirectory(_outsideUsers);
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+            _debugLogPath = Path.Combine(_tmp.Path, "gather_rules_debug.log");
+            _context = new GatherRuleContext(
+                logger, "sess", "tenant",
+                evt => _events.Add(evt),
+                null,
+                new LogFilePositionTracker(),
+                new GatherRuleDebugLog(_debugLogPath, logger))
+            {
+                UnrestrictedMode = true
+            };
+        }
+
+        public void Dispose()
+        {
+            _tmp.Dispose();
+            try { Directory.Delete(_outsideUsers, recursive: true); } catch { /* best effort */ }
+        }
+
+        private string TraceContent() => File.Exists(_debugLogPath) ? File.ReadAllText(_debugLogPath) : string.Empty;
+
+        private static GatherRule Rule(string target, string pattern, string? format = null) => new GatherRule
+        {
+            RuleId = "GATHER-LP-DEBUG",
+            Title = "logparser debug test",
+            CollectorType = "logparser",
+            Target = target,
+            Parameters = format == null
+                ? new Dictionary<string, string> { ["pattern"] = pattern }
+                : new Dictionary<string, string> { ["pattern"] = pattern, ["format"] = format },
+            Trigger = "startup",
+            OutputEventType = "logparser_debug_test",
+        };
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ZeroMatches_writes_per_file_outcome_line()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "app.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "nothing interesting\nstill nothing\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(Rule(path, "WILL_NEVER_MATCH_[0-9]+", format: "text"), _context);
+
+            Assert.Empty(_events);
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("app.log: read 2 lines", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("matched 0", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("mode=text", trace);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void SecondRun_without_new_content_traces_position_skip()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "twice.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "one line\n");
+            var rule = Rule(path, "one", format: "text");
+
+            var collector = new LogParserCollector();
+            collector.Execute(rule, _context);   // reads the file, advances the position
+            collector.Execute(rule, _context);   // nothing new
+
+            Assert.Contains("twice.log: no new content (position", TraceContent());
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void PlainTextFile_in_default_cmtrace_mode_gets_format_hint()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "plain.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "plain line one\nplain line two\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(Rule(path, "plain"), _context); // default = cmtrace mode
+
+            Assert.Empty(_events);
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("parseFailures=2", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("every line failed CMTrace parsing — if this is a plain-text log, set parameter format=text", trace);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Match_traces_line_number_matched_text_and_groups()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "match.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "boring line\nError 0x80070005 in setup\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(
+                Rule(path, @"Error (?<code>0x[0-9A-Fa-f]+)", format: "text"), _context);
+
+            Assert.Single(_events);
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("match.log: line 2 matched \"Error 0x80070005\"", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("groups: code=\"0x80070005\"", trace);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void MatchTraces_are_capped_per_file()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "many.log");
+            var sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
+            for (var i = 1; i <= 15; i++)
+                sb.Append("hit number ").Append(i).Append('\n');
+            File.WriteAllText(path, sb.ToString());
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(Rule(path, "hit", format: "text"), _context);
+
+            Assert.Equal(15, _events.Count); // all matches still emit events
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("many.log: line 10 matched", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("further matches not traced individually", trace);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("many.log: line 11 matched", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("matched 15", trace); // summary still carries the full count
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void InvalidRegex_traces_the_pattern_itself()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "irrelevant.log");
+            File.WriteAllText(path, "content\n");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(Rule(path, "([unclosed", format: "text"), _context);
+
+            Assert.Empty(_events);
+            var trace = TraceContent();
+            Assert.Contains("invalid regex pattern '([unclosed'", trace);
+            Assert.Contains("rule can never match", trace);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void MissingFile_traces_no_files_matched()
+        {
+            var path = Path.Combine(_outsideUsers, "does-not-exist.log");
+
+            new LogParserCollector().Execute(Rule(path, "x", format: "text"), _context);
+
+            Assert.Contains("no files matched target", TraceContent());
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Ime/CmTraceLogParserTests.cs

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Ime
         [InlineData("   ")]                                    // whitespace only
         [InlineData("<![LOG[truncated line with no closing")]  // truncated / missing fields
         [InlineData("garbage prefix <![LOG[msg]LOG]!><time=\"06:08:04.8834397\" date=\"2-8-2026\" component=\"C\" context=\"\" type=\"1\" thread=\"1\" file=\"\">")] // leading junk (non-ignorable) fails the StartsWith gate
-        public void TryParseLine_returns_false_without_throwing_for_malformed_input(string line)
+        public void TryParseLine_returns_false_without_throwing_for_malformed_input(string? line)
         {
             var ok = CmTraceLogParser.TryParseLine(line, out var entry);
 

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Ime/ImeLogPatternReDoSTests.cs

@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Ime
     /// </summary>
     public sealed class ImeLogPatternReDoSTests
     {
-        private static ImeLogPattern Pattern(string id, string regex, string action = null) => new ImeLogPattern
+        private static ImeLogPattern Pattern(string id, string regex, string? action = null) => new ImeLogPattern
         {
             PatternId = id,
             Pattern = regex,
             Category = "always",
-            Action = action,
+            // Action is optional on the wire (absent = null); the model declares it non-nullable.
+            Action = action!,
             Enabled = true,
             Parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>(),
         };

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Ime/ImeLogTrackerHistoricReplayGuardTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Ime
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Tracker-level historic-replay guard (session eaf3d8c4 part 2): source lines > 24 h older
+    /// than now are content from a previous enrollment whose IME log survived on disk. The guard
+    /// in <c>HandlePatternMatch</c> skips app-mutating actions for such lines so replayed apps
+    /// never enter <c>_packageStates</c> / phase snapshots / persistence — keeping
+    /// app_tracking_summary, culprit lists and final-status clean. Script actions pass through
+    /// (the adapter suppresses their emissions), and SimulationMode bypasses the guard entirely.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class ImeLogTrackerHistoricReplayGuardTests
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime Now = new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 15, 42, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+        private static List<ImeLogPattern> TestPatterns() => new List<ImeLogPattern>
+        {
+            new ImeLogPattern
+            {
+                PatternId = "T-POLICIES", Category = "always", Enabled = true,
+                Pattern = @"policies discovered = (?<policies>\[.*\])",
+                Action = "policiesDiscovered",
+                Parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+            },
+            new ImeLogPattern
+            {
+                PatternId = "T-INSTALLED", Category = "always", Enabled = true,
+                Pattern = @"app (?<id>[\w-]+) installed",
+                Action = "updateStateInstalled",
+                Parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+            },
+            new ImeLogPattern
+            {
+                PatternId = "T-ESP-PHASE", Category = "always", Enabled = true,
+                Pattern = @"In EspPhase: (?<espPhase>\w+)",
+                Action = "espPhaseDetected",
+                Parameters = new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+            },
+            new ImeLogPattern
+            {
+                PatternId = "T-SCRIPT-START", Category = "always", Enabled = true,
+                Pattern = @"script (?<id>[\w-]+) started",
+                Action = "scriptStarted",
+                Parameters = new Dictionary<string, string> { ["scriptType"] = "platform" },
+            },
+        };
+
+        private static ImeLogTracker BuildTracker(TempDirectory tmp)
+        {
+            var tracker = new ImeLogTracker(
+                logFolder: tmp.Path,
+                patterns: TestPatterns(),
+                logger: new AgentLogger(tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info));
+            tracker.UtcNowProvider = () => Now;
+            return tracker;
+        }
+
+        private const string PoliciesLine = @"policies discovered = [{""Id"":""app-1"",""Name"":""App One""}]";
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_policies_line_does_not_populate_package_states()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest(PoliciesLine, Now.AddDays(-7));
+
+            Assert.Empty(tracker.GetAllKnownPackageStates());
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Fresh_relog_of_same_policies_is_tracked_after_stale_skip()
+        {
+            // IME re-logs the full policy JSON on every app-policy check-in — skipping the
+            // stale copy cannot starve the current enrollment.
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest(PoliciesLine, Now.AddDays(-7));
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest(PoliciesLine, Now.AddMinutes(-2));
+
+            var all = tracker.GetAllKnownPackageStates();
+            var pkg = Assert.Single(all);
+            Assert.Equal("app-1", pkg.Id);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_state_update_against_fresh_app_is_skipped()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+            var stateChanges = 0;
+            tracker.OnAppStateChanged = (_, __, ___) => stateChanges++;
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest(PoliciesLine, Now.AddMinutes(-5));   // fresh discovery
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest("app app-1 installed", Now.AddDays(-7)); // stale mutation
+
+            Assert.Equal(0, stateChanges);
+            var pkg = Assert.Single(tracker.GetAllKnownPackageStates());
+            Assert.NotEqual(AppInstallationState.Installed, pkg.InstallationState);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_esp_phase_line_does_not_block_fresh_phase_detection()
+        {
+            // A stale "AccountSetup" would advance _currentPhaseOrder and make the fresh
+            // enrollment's DeviceSetup bounce as "backward" — the guard must skip it.
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+            var phases = new List<string>();
+            tracker.OnEspPhaseChanged = p => phases.Add(p);
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest("In EspPhase: AccountSetup", Now.AddDays(-7));
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest("In EspPhase: DeviceSetup", Now.AddMinutes(-1));
+
+            Assert.Equal(new[] { "DeviceSetup" }, phases);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_script_line_still_reaches_script_handlers()
+        {
+            // Script tracker state is harmless for stale lines (adapter suppresses the
+            // emissions; the stale-slot hardening covers leftovers) — the guard must not
+            // swallow script actions.
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+            var started = new List<ScriptStartedInfo>();
+            tracker.OnScriptStarted = i => started.Add(i);
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest("script aaaa1111-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 started", Now.AddDays(-7));
+
+            Assert.Single(started);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void SimulationMode_bypasses_the_guard()
+        {
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+            tracker.SimulationMode = true;
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest(PoliciesLine, Now.AddDays(-7));
+
+            Assert.Single(tracker.GetAllKnownPackageStates());
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Lines_without_timestamp_are_not_treated_as_stale()
+        {
+            // Non-CMTrace lines carry no source timestamp (entry == null) — never stale.
+            using var tmp = new TempDirectory();
+            using var tracker = BuildTracker(tmp);
+
+            tracker.ProcessLogMessageForTest(PoliciesLine, sourceTimestampUtc: null);
+
+            Assert.Single(tracker.GetAllKnownPackageStates());
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Interop/NetshWifiFallbackTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+#nullable enable
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Interop;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Interop
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Tests for the pure netsh-output parser of the WiFi fallback path. netsh labels follow
+    /// the OS UI language — the parser must extract SSID/signal/radio/channel from the label
+    /// variants of the languages commonly seen in enrollments, and degrade gracefully (fields
+    /// absent, never throw) on unrecognized ones.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class NetshWifiFallbackTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_english_output_extracts_all_fields()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+There is 1 interface on the system:
+
+    Name                   : Wi-Fi
+    Description            : Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz
+    GUID                   : 754b6c07-5ae9-49d5-ba6c-4fbd6e38bbf6
+    State                  : connected
+    SSID                   : contoso-corp
+    AP BSSID               : 3c:37:12:53:c8:44
+    Band                   : 5 GHz
+    Channel                : 116
+    Radio type             : 802.11ax
+    Signal                 : 94%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-corp", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(94, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11ax", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(116, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_german_output_extracts_all_fields()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+Es ist 1 Schnittstelle auf dem System vorhanden:
+
+    Name                   : WLAN
+    Beschreibung           : Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz
+    Status                 : Verbunden
+    SSID                   : fabrikam-wlan
+    Kanal                  : 44
+    Funktyp                : 802.11ac
+    Signal                 : 87%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("fabrikam-wlan", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(87, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11ac", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(44, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_spanish_output_extracts_signal_and_channel()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+    Nombre                 : Wi-Fi
+    SSID                   : contoso-es
+    Canal                  : 6
+    Tipo de radio          : 802.11n
+    Señal                  : 72%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-es", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(72, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11n", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(6, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_chinese_simplified_output_extracts_all_fields()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+    名称                   : WLAN
+    SSID                   : contoso-cn
+    信道                   : 149
+    无线电类型             : 802.11ac
+    信号                   : 68%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-cn", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(68, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11ac", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(149, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_korean_output_extracts_all_fields()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+    이름                   : Wi-Fi
+    SSID                   : contoso-kr
+    채널                   : 36
+    라디오 종류            : 802.11ax
+    신호                   : 91%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-kr", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(91, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11ax", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(36, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_signal_with_space_before_percent_is_parsed()
+        {
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse("    Signal : 81 %\r\n    SSID : x\r\n");
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal(81, r!.SignalPercent);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_ap_bssid_does_not_overwrite_ssid()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+    SSID                   : contoso-corp
+    AP BSSID               : aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-corp", r!.Ssid);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_finnish_output_extracts_all_fields()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+    Nimi                   : Wi-Fi
+    SSID                   : contoso-fi
+    Kanava                 : 100
+    Radiotyyppi            : 802.11ax
+    Signaali               : 79%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-fi", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(79, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11ax", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(100, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_indonesian_output_extracts_all_fields()
+        {
+            const string output = @"
+    Nama                   : Wi-Fi
+    SSID                   : contoso-id
+    Saluran                : 11
+    Jenis radio            : 802.11n
+    Sinyal                 : 64%
+";
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-id", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Equal(64, r.SignalPercent);
+            Assert.Equal("802.11n", r.RadioType);
+            Assert.Equal(11, r.Channel);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_unknown_language_without_ssid_returns_null()
+        {
+            // Greek is not in the enrollment-geography label set -> nothing to report.
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse("    Κατάσταση : συνδεδεμένο\r\n    Σήμα : 90%\r\n");
+
+            Assert.Null(r);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Parse_unknown_language_still_yields_ssid()
+        {
+            // SSID is untranslated in all locales — partial result beats none.
+            var r = NetshWifiFallback.Parse("    SSID : contoso-gr\r\n    Σήμα : 90%\r\n");
+
+            Assert.NotNull(r);
+            Assert.Equal("contoso-gr", r!.Ssid);
+            Assert.Null(r.SignalPercent);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(null)]
+        [InlineData("")]
+        [InlineData("Der WLAN-AutoKonfig-Dienst (wlansvc) wird nicht ausgeführt.")]
+        public void Parse_empty_or_error_output_returns_null(string? output)
+        {
+            Assert.Null(NetshWifiFallback.Parse(output));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Interop/WifiInfoReaderTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#nullable enable
+using System.Text;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Interop;
+using Xunit;
+using static AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Interop.WlanNativeMethods;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Interop
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Tests for the native-WLAN-API WiFi reader. The WLAN state of the test machine is
+    /// unknown (CI runners/VMs have no WLAN service), so the live path only pins the
+    /// fail-soft contract; the pure helpers (SSID decode, PHY-type mapping) are pinned
+    /// exactly — their output feeds wifi_signal_info event payloads and must stay
+    /// consistent with the strings netsh historically reported.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class WifiInfoReaderTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public void TryGetCurrentConnection_never_throws_and_returns_sane_values()
+        {
+            var result = WifiInfoReader.TryGetCurrentConnection();
+
+            if (result != null)
+            {
+                Assert.True(result.SignalPercent.HasValue, "native API path must always carry signal quality");
+                Assert.InRange(result.SignalPercent.Value, 0, 100);
+                if (result.Channel.HasValue)
+                    Assert.True(result.Channel.Value > 0, "channel must be positive when present");
+            }
+        }
+
+        // ----- DecodeSsid ---------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void DecodeSsid_decodes_utf8_bytes()
+        {
+            var raw = new byte[32];
+            var ssid = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Contoso-Büro");
+            ssid.CopyTo(raw, 0);
+
+            Assert.Equal("Contoso-Büro", WifiInfoReader.DecodeSsid(raw, (uint)ssid.Length));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void DecodeSsid_returns_null_for_empty_or_missing()
+        {
+            Assert.Null(WifiInfoReader.DecodeSsid(null, 5));
+            Assert.Null(WifiInfoReader.DecodeSsid(new byte[32], 0));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void DecodeSsid_clamps_length_to_buffer_size()
+        {
+            var raw = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("abc");
+
+            // A corrupt native length beyond the buffer must not throw.
+            Assert.Equal("abc", WifiInfoReader.DecodeSsid(raw, 200));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void DecodeSsid_uses_only_declared_length()
+        {
+            var raw = new byte[32];
+            Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("HomeNet-Rest-Ignored").CopyTo(raw, 0);
+
+            Assert.Equal("HomeNet", WifiInfoReader.DecodeSsid(raw, 7));
+        }
+
+        // ----- PhyTypeToRadioType -------------------------------------------
+
+        // int parameters (cast inside): DOT11_PHY_TYPE is internal and may not appear in a
+        // public test method signature (CS0051).
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_ofdm, "802.11a")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_hrdsss, "802.11b")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_erp, "802.11g")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_ht, "802.11n")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_vht, "802.11ac")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_dmg, "802.11ad")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_he, "802.11ax")]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_eht, "802.11be")]
+        public void PhyTypeToRadioType_maps_known_generations(int phyType, string expected)
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(expected, WifiInfoReader.PhyTypeToRadioType((DOT11_PHY_TYPE)phyType));
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_unknown)]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_fhss)]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_dsss)]
+        [InlineData((int)DOT11_PHY_TYPE.dot11_phy_type_irbaseband)]
+        [InlineData(9999)]
+        public void PhyTypeToRadioType_returns_null_for_legacy_or_unknown(int phyType)
+        {
+            Assert.Null(WifiInfoReader.PhyTypeToRadioType((DOT11_PHY_TYPE)phyType));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Office/OfficeBinaryWatcherTests.cs

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Office
     /// cadence and stops at its bound, is idempotent, the initial scan raises when binaries already
     /// exist, a filesystem create raises, and Dispose cancels the re-probe.
     /// </summary>
+    [Collection("SerialThreading")] // the bounded re-probe runs on the shared ThreadPool
     public sealed class OfficeBinaryWatcherTests
     {
         private static readonly string[] CoreBinaries = { "WINWORD.EXE", "EXCEL.EXE", "POWERPNT.EXE", "OUTLOOK.EXE" };

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/OobeStateReaderTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#nullable enable
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Interop;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Smoke tests for the WinRT <c>SystemSetupInfo.OutOfBoxExperienceState</c> reader.
+    /// The actual state on the test machine is unknown (CI runners are post-OOBE; Server
+    /// SKUs may lack the UniversalApiContract entirely), so only the fail-soft contract
+    /// is pinned: never throw, always return a member of the known value set.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class OobeStateReaderTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public void Read_never_throws_and_returns_known_value()
+        {
+            var value = OobeStateReader.Read();
+
+            Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(value));
+            Assert.True(
+                value == "not_started"
+                || value == "in_progress"
+                || value == "completed"
+                || value == OobeStateReader.Unavailable
+                || value.StartsWith("unknown_"),
+                $"unexpected reader value '{value}'");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Read_is_stable_across_repeated_calls()
+        {
+            // Exercises the cached-PropertyInfo path (second call skips resolution).
+            var first = OobeStateReader.Read();
+            var second = OobeStateReader.Read();
+
+            Assert.Equal(first, second);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Runtime/CleanupServiceScriptIntegrationTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+using System;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.IO;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Runtime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Security;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Runtime
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Executes the generated cleanup script against REAL scratch trees with a real
+    /// powershell.exe — end-to-end replays of the 2026-07-22 incident mechanics that the
+    /// string pins in <see cref="CleanupServiceScriptTests"/> cannot prove:
+    /// <list type="bullet">
+    ///   <item>a locked tree must abort WITHOUT deleting anything (old script force-deleted
+    ///     marker + state around the locks and orphaned the binaries),</item>
+    ///   <item>a straggler agent process (the incident's second instance) must be found by
+    ///     NAME, killed, and the cleanup must then complete — simulated via function
+    ///     shadowing, NEVER by launching a renamed executable (EDR isolation, see the test),</item>
+    ///   <item>concurrent cleanup scripts must be serialized by the lock file.</item>
+    /// </list>
+    /// Timings are dialed down via the test-only BuildCleanupScript parameters so each case
+    /// runs in seconds. Every test uses GUID-unique process/task/tree names so nothing real
+    /// (a dev-box agent, a real Scheduled Task) can ever be touched.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Collection("SerialThreading")]
+    public class CleanupServiceScriptIntegrationTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private readonly string _root;
+        private readonly string _basePath;
+        private readonly string _taskName = $"AmTest-NoSuchTask-{Guid.NewGuid():N}";
+        private readonly string _fakeProcessName = $"AmTestAgent{Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N").Substring(0, 8)}";
+
+        public CleanupServiceScriptIntegrationTests()
+        {
+            _root = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), $"am-cleanup-it-{Guid.NewGuid():N}");
+            _basePath = Path.Combine(_root, "AutopilotMonitor");
+            Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Agent"));
+            Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(_basePath, "State"));
+            Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Logs"));
+            File.WriteAllText(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Agent", "fake.exe"), "x");
+            File.WriteAllText(Path.Combine(_basePath, "State", "enrollment-complete.marker"), "x");
+            File.WriteAllText(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Logs", "agent.log"), "x");
+        }
+
+        public void Dispose()
+        {
+            try { Directory.Delete(_root, recursive: true); } catch { }
+        }
+
+        private static string LockPath => Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "AutopilotMonitor-Cleanup.lock");
+
+        private string BuildScript(bool keepLogs = false, int processWaitSeconds = 1)
+            => CleanupService.BuildCleanupScript(
+                agentProcessName: _fakeProcessName,
+                agentBasePath: _basePath,
+                keepLogs: keepLogs,
+                scheduledTaskName: _taskName,
+                rebootOnComplete: false,
+                initialDelaySeconds: 0,
+                processWaitSeconds: processWaitSeconds,
+                renameRetries: 2,
+                renameRetryDelaySeconds: 1);
+
+        /// <summary>Runs the script synchronously in a real powershell.exe. Returns the script path.</summary>
+        private string RunScript(string script)
+        {
+            var scriptPath = Path.Combine(_root, $"cleanup-{Guid.NewGuid():N}.ps1");
+            File.WriteAllText(scriptPath, script);
+            using (var proc = Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo
+            {
+                FileName = SystemPaths.PowerShell,
+                Arguments = $"-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File \"{scriptPath}\"",
+                UseShellExecute = false,
+                CreateNoWindow = true,
+            }))
+            {
+                Assert.True(proc.WaitForExit(90_000), "cleanup script did not finish within 90s");
+            }
+            return scriptPath;
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Happy_path_deletes_tree_and_removes_lock_and_script()
+        {
+            var scriptPath = RunScript(BuildScript());
+
+            Assert.False(Directory.Exists(_basePath), "tree should be fully deleted");
+            Assert.Empty(Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(_root, "*.del-*"));
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(scriptPath), "script should self-delete");
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(LockPath), "cleanup lock should be released");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Locked_tree_aborts_completely_marker_and_files_survive()
+        {
+            // The incident regression: with a file locked inside the tree the OLD script
+            // deleted everything else (incl. the enrollment-complete marker) and left the
+            // binaries orphaned with the task already gone. The hardened script must treat
+            // the failed probe-rename as "someone still holds this" and walk away entirely.
+            using (File.Open(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Agent", "fake.exe"),
+                       FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.None))
+            {
+                RunScript(BuildScript());
+            }
+
+            Assert.True(File.Exists(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Agent", "fake.exe")), "binaries must stay in place");
+            Assert.True(File.Exists(Path.Combine(_basePath, "State", "enrollment-complete.marker")),
+                "marker must survive so the next boot retries cleanup");
+            Assert.Empty(Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(_root, "*.del-*"));
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(LockPath));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Straggler_agent_process_is_waited_on_and_force_killed_via_name_backstop()
+        {
+            // Incident replay of the second-instance mechanics WITHOUT spawning a process:
+            // an earlier version of this test copied powershell.exe under the fake agent name
+            // and launched it — textbook MITRE T1036.003 ("Rename Legitimate Utilities"),
+            // which Defender for Endpoint answered with a machine ISOLATION on the dev box
+            // (see tasks/lessons.md). Instead, a harness script shadows Get-Process /
+            // Stop-Process with functions (PowerShell resolves functions before cmdlets, so
+            // the dot-sourced cleanup script binds to the stubs): Get-Process reports a live
+            // agent-named straggler on every probe; Stop-Process records the kill. This pins
+            // the same contract — the script polls by NAME until the deadline, then
+            // force-kills by NAME before deleting — with zero EDR-visible behavior.
+            var probeLog = Path.Combine(_root, "probe.log");
+            var cleanupScriptPath = Path.Combine(_root, $"cleanup-{Guid.NewGuid():N}.ps1");
+            File.WriteAllText(cleanupScriptPath, BuildScript(processWaitSeconds: 2));
+
+            var harness = @"
+$probeLog = 'LOG_PATH'
+$global:AmProbeCount = 0
+function Get-Process {
+    [CmdletBinding()]
+    param([string[]]$Name)
+    if ($Name -contains 'FAKE_NAME') {
+        $global:AmProbeCount++
+        Add-Content -Path $probeLog -Value ('probe ' + $global:AmProbeCount)
+        return [pscustomobject]@{ Name = 'FAKE_NAME'; Id = 424242 }
+    }
+    Microsoft.PowerShell.Management\Get-Process @PSBoundParameters
+}
+function Stop-Process {
+    [CmdletBinding()]
+    param([Parameter(ValueFromPipeline = $true)]$InputObject, [switch]$Force)
+    process { Add-Content -Path $probeLog -Value ('kill ' + $InputObject.Id + ' force=' + $Force) }
+}
+. 'SCRIPT_PATH'
+"
+                .Replace("LOG_PATH", probeLog)
+                .Replace("FAKE_NAME", _fakeProcessName)
+                .Replace("SCRIPT_PATH", cleanupScriptPath);
+
+            RunScript(harness);
+
+            var log = File.ReadAllLines(probeLog);
+            Assert.Contains("kill 424242 force=True", log);
+            Assert.True(Array.FindAll(log, l => l.StartsWith("probe")).Length >= 2,
+                "script must poll by name in the wait loop AND re-probe for the kill backstop");
+            Assert.False(Directory.Exists(_basePath), "after the kill the tree must be fully deleted");
+            Assert.Empty(Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(_root, "*.del-*"));
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(LockPath));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Fresh_foreign_lock_backs_off_without_touching_the_tree()
+        {
+            File.WriteAllText(LockPath, "held by another cleanup");
+            try
+            {
+                var scriptPath = RunScript(BuildScript());
+
+                Assert.True(File.Exists(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Agent", "fake.exe")),
+                    "loser script must not touch the tree — the lock holder owns the deletion");
+                Assert.True(File.Exists(LockPath), "foreign lock must not be deleted by the loser");
+                Assert.False(File.Exists(scriptPath), "loser still self-deletes its script");
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                try { File.Delete(LockPath); } catch { }
+            }
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_foreign_lock_is_taken_over_and_cleanup_proceeds()
+        {
+            File.WriteAllText(LockPath, "crashed cleanup from a previous boot");
+            File.SetLastWriteTime(LockPath, DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-15));
+
+            RunScript(BuildScript());
+
+            Assert.False(Directory.Exists(_basePath), "stale lock must be taken over, cleanup must run");
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(LockPath));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void KeepLogs_variant_deletes_everything_except_logs()
+        {
+            RunScript(BuildScript(keepLogs: true));
+
+            Assert.True(File.Exists(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Logs", "agent.log")), "Logs must survive");
+            Assert.False(Directory.Exists(Path.Combine(_basePath, "Agent")));
+            Assert.False(Directory.Exists(Path.Combine(_basePath, "State")));
+            Assert.Empty(Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(_basePath, "*.del-*"));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Runtime/CleanupServiceScriptTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Runtime;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Runtime
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Pins the LIFE-F7 hardening invariants of the self-destruct cleanup script
+    /// (incident 2026-07-22: a second agent instance held exe + loaded DLLs while the
+    /// old script — waiting on the launcher PID only — force-deleted around the locks
+    /// AFTER removing the Scheduled Task, orphaning the binaries with no retry path).
+    /// These are string-level pins on <see cref="CleanupService.BuildCleanupScript"/>:
+    /// weakening any of them silently re-introduces the orphaned-binaries failure mode.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class CleanupServiceScriptTests
+    {
+        private const string ProcessName = "AutopilotMonitor.Agent";
+        private const string BasePath = @"C:\ProgramData\AutopilotMonitor";
+        private const string TaskName = "AutopilotMonitorAgent";
+
+        private static string Script(bool keepLogs = false, bool reboot = false)
+            => CleanupService.BuildCleanupScript(ProcessName, BasePath, keepLogs, TaskName, reboot);
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Waits_by_process_name_not_launcher_pid(bool keepLogs)
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs);
+
+            // LIFE-F7 #2: name-based wait covers marker-retry / self-update / manual instances
+            // and is immune to PID reuse. Wait-Process -Id saw exactly one PID and nothing else.
+            Assert.Contains($"Get-Process -Name '{ProcessName}'", script);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("Wait-Process", script);
+
+            // Backstop: stragglers are force-killed — their images are deleted right after.
+            Assert.Contains("Stop-Process -Force", script);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Never_deletes_the_original_path(bool keepLogs)
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs);
+
+            // LIFE-F7 #3: deletion happens exclusively on successfully renamed targets
+            // ($entry.Renamed). A Remove-Item against the original tree is what deleted
+            // marker + state around locked binaries in the incident.
+            Assert.DoesNotContain($"Remove-Item -Path '{BasePath}'", script);
+            Assert.Contains("Remove-Item -Path $entry.Renamed", script);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Task_removal_is_gated_on_probe_and_deletion_on_task_gone(bool keepLogs)
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs);
+
+            // Probe-rename first; only a successful probe reaches task removal, and only a
+            // removed task reaches deletion. Both failure branches rename BACK so the next
+            // boot retries with task + marker + files intact.
+            Assert.Contains("if ($probeOk)", script);
+            Assert.Contains("if ($taskGone)", script);
+            Assert.Contains("Rename-Item -Path $entry.Renamed -NewName $entry.Original", script);
+
+            // LIFE-F6 task-removal loop + module-independent fallback stay intact.
+            Assert.Contains("Unregister-ScheduledTask -TaskName $taskName", script);
+            Assert.Contains("schtasks.exe /Delete /TN $taskName /F", script);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Concurrent_cleanup_scripts_are_serialized_by_lock_file(bool keepLogs)
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs);
+
+            // LIFE-F7 #1: CreateNew is the atomic single-flight gate; the loser exits without
+            // touching the tree. Stale locks (>10 min) are taken over.
+            Assert.Contains("AutopilotMonitor-Cleanup.lock", script);
+            Assert.Contains("[System.IO.FileMode]::CreateNew", script);
+            Assert.Contains("$lockAge.TotalMinutes -gt 10", script);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Rename_targets_carry_a_guid_suffix(bool keepLogs)
+        {
+            // A fixed '.del' target collides with leftovers of earlier attempts and with a
+            // concurrent script's rename — the GUID makes every attempt's target unique.
+            Assert.Contains(".del-' + [Guid]::NewGuid().ToString('N')", Script(keepLogs));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void KeepLogs_variant_excludes_logs_directory()
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs: true);
+            Assert.Contains("-Exclude 'Logs'", script);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain($"Rename-Item -Path '{BasePath}' -NewName", script);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Full_variant_renames_the_whole_tree()
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs: false);
+            Assert.Contains($"Rename-Item -Path '{BasePath}' -NewName $renamedPath", script);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("-Exclude 'Logs'", script);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Reboot_flag_controls_shutdown_invocation(bool reboot)
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs: false, reboot: reboot);
+            if (reboot)
+                Assert.Contains("shutdown.exe /r /t 10", script);
+            else
+                Assert.DoesNotContain("shutdown.exe", script);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(false)]
+        [InlineData(true)]
+        public void Script_and_lock_are_released_in_finally(bool keepLogs)
+        {
+            var script = Script(keepLogs);
+            Assert.Contains("finally", script);
+            Assert.Contains("$lockStream.Dispose()", script);
+            Assert.Contains("Remove-Item -Path $scriptPath -Force", script);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Runtime/DiagnosticsPackageServiceTests.cs

@@ -226,6 +226,95 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Runtime
             return archive.Entries.Select(e => e.FullName).ToArray();
         }
 
+        private static string ZipEntryText(byte[] zipBytes, string entryName)
+        {
+            using var ms = new MemoryStream(zipBytes);
+            using var archive = new ZipArchive(ms, ZipArchiveMode.Read);
+            var entry = archive.GetEntry(entryName);
+            Assert.NotNull(entry);
+            using var reader = new StreamReader(entry!.Open(), Encoding.UTF8);
+            return reader.ReadToEnd();
+        }
+
+        // ── Nullable outcome (on-demand mid-session) — gate + sessioninfo semantics ──
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Sentinel subclass: throws before any HTTP so gate-pass-through is observable as a
+        /// non-null error result (a skip returns null BEFORE the archive is ever built).
+        /// </summary>
+        private sealed class ThrowOnBuildService : DiagnosticsPackageService
+        {
+            public ThrowOnBuildService(AgentConfiguration cfg, AgentLogger logger, BackendApiClient api)
+                : base(cfg, logger, api) { }
+            internal override byte[] BuildArchiveBytes(bool? enrollmentSucceeded) =>
+                throw new System.InvalidOperationException("gate-passed-sentinel");
+        }
+
+        private static DiagnosticsPackageService BuildGateProbe(AgentLogger logger, string mode)
+        {
+            var cfg = Cfg();
+            cfg.DiagnosticsUploadEnabled = true;
+            cfg.DiagnosticsUploadMode = mode;
+            var apiClient = new BackendApiClient(
+                httpClient: new System.Net.Http.HttpClient(),
+                baseUrl: "http://localhost",
+                manufacturer: string.Empty,
+                model: string.Empty,
+                serialNumber: string.Empty,
+                useBootstrapTokenAuth: false,
+                bootstrapToken: null,
+                agentVersion: "0.0.0",
+                logger: logger);
+            return new ThrowOnBuildService(cfg, logger, apiClient);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task CreateAndUploadAsync_null_outcome_passes_OnFailure_gate()
+        {
+            // On-demand mid-session (no outcome yet): the OnFailure gate must NOT skip —
+            // there is no known success to skip on. Reaching the archive build (sentinel
+            // throw → error result) proves the gate was passed; a skip would return null.
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            var result = await BuildGateProbe(rig.Logger, "OnFailure")
+                .CreateAndUploadAsync(enrollmentSucceeded: null, fileNameSuffix: "server-requested");
+
+            Assert.NotNull(result);
+            Assert.Equal("gate-passed-sentinel", result!.ErrorCode);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task CreateAndUploadAsync_known_success_still_skipped_by_OnFailure_gate()
+        {
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            var result = await BuildGateProbe(rig.Logger, "OnFailure")
+                .CreateAndUploadAsync(enrollmentSucceeded: true);
+
+            Assert.Null(result);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task CreateAndUploadAsync_null_outcome_still_blocked_by_mode_Off()
+        {
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            var result = await BuildGateProbe(rig.Logger, "Off")
+                .CreateAndUploadAsync(enrollmentSucceeded: null);
+
+            Assert.Null(result);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(true, "Succeeded")]
+        [InlineData(false, "Failed")]
+        [InlineData(null, "In Progress")]
+        public void BuildArchiveBytes_sessioninfo_reflects_nullable_outcome(bool? outcome, string expected)
+        {
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            var bytes = rig.Build().BuildArchiveBytes(outcome);
+
+            var sessionInfo = ZipEntryText(bytes, "sessioninfo.txt");
+            Assert.Contains($"Enrollment Result: {expected}", sessionInfo);
+        }
+
         // ── BuildBlobUploadUrl — destination-aware URL construction ─────────────────
 
         [Theory]

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/SystemSignals/AppxFailureAnalyzerTests.cs

@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
         [InlineData(null, false)]
         [InlineData("", false)]
         [InlineData("0x8007", false)]
-        public void IsAppxFamilyHresult_MatchesOnlyAppxDeploymentRange(string hresult, bool expected)
+        public void IsAppxFamilyHresult_MatchesOnlyAppxDeploymentRange(string? hresult, bool expected)
         {
             Assert.Equal(expected, AppxFailureAnalyzer.IsAppxFamilyHresult(hresult));
         }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/SystemSignals/EspFailureRecoveryStoryTests.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Engine;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Signals;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Session 4910a5a5 (2026-07-23) — post-terminal recovery story. Field sequence:
+    /// DeviceSetup/Apps failed (culprit app never started installing) → settle window expired
+    /// → terminal EspFailureDetected → the user pressed "Try again" ~23 min later → Apps left
+    /// the failed state → 10/10 installed → DeviceSetup resolved. Pre-fix, that recovery only
+    /// appeared as a generic <c>subcategory_state_change</c>. Coverage:
+    /// <list type="bullet">
+    ///   <item><c>esp_failure_retry_detected</c> fires once when the failed subcategory leaves
+    ///         the failed state AFTER the terminal fire.</item>
+    ///   <item><c>esp_failure_recovered</c> fires once when the category then resolves to
+    ///         success.</item>
+    ///   <item>An in-settle-window recovery keeps emitting only
+    ///         <c>esp_failure_settle_recovered</c> — the post-terminal pair stays silent.</item>
+    ///   <item>Apps failures carry <c>LikelyCulpritApps</c> on the EspFailureDetected args,
+    ///         never-started apps ranked first.</item>
+    /// </list>
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class EspFailureRecoveryStoryTests
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime Fixed = new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 4, 30, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+        private sealed class Fixture : IDisposable
+        {
+            public TempDirectory Tmp { get; } = new TempDirectory();
+            public FakeSignalIngressSink Sink { get; } = new FakeSignalIngressSink();
+            public List<EspFailureDetectedEventArgs> EspFailures { get; } = new List<EspFailureDetectedEventArgs>();
+            public ProvisioningStatusTracker Tracker { get; }
+
+            public Fixture(Func<IReadOnlyList<AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppPackageState>>? packageStatesProbe = null)
+            {
+                var clock = new VirtualClock(Fixed);
+                var post = new InformationalEventPost(Sink, clock);
+                var logger = new AgentLogger(Tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+                Tracker = new ProvisioningStatusTracker(
+                    sessionId: "S1",
+                    tenantId: "T1",
+                    post: post,
+                    logger: logger,
+                    appxScanner: new FakeAppxDeploymentFailureScanner(),
+                    backgroundDispatcher: action => action(),
+                    packageStatesProbe: packageStatesProbe);
+                Tracker.EspFailureDetected += (_, args) => EspFailures.Add(args);
+            }
+
+            public IReadOnlyList<(string EventType, IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object> Data)> CapturedEvents()
+            {
+                return Sink.Posted
+                    .Where(p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent && p.Payload != null)
+                    .Select(p =>
+                    {
+                        var eventType = p.Payload!.TryGetValue(SignalPayloadKeys.EventType, out var et) ? et : "";
+                        var data = p.TypedPayload as IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>
+                                   ?? (IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>)new Dictionary<string, object>();
+                        return (eventType, data);
+                    })
+                    .ToList();
+            }
+
+            /// <summary>Drive the session-4910a5a5 shape up to the terminal fire.</summary>
+            public void DriveToTerminalDeviceSetupAppsFailure()
+            {
+                Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                    ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                    ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                    ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""inProgress"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (9 of 10 installed)""}
+                }");
+                Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                    ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                    ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                    ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""failed"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (Error)""}
+                }");
+                Tracker.TriggerSettleTimerForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status");
+            }
+
+            public void Dispose()
+            {
+                Tracker.Dispose();
+                Tmp.Dispose();
+            }
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void PostTerminalRetry_EmitsRetryDetected_Once()
+        {
+            using var f = new Fixture();
+            f.DriveToTerminalDeviceSetupAppsFailure();
+            Assert.Single(f.EspFailures);
+
+            // "Try again": Apps leaves the failed state well after the settle window.
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""inProgress"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (Working on it...)""}
+            }");
+
+            var retry = Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_retry_detected");
+            Assert.Equal("DeviceSetup", (string)retry.Data["category"]);
+            Assert.Equal("Apps", (string)retry.Data["subcategory"]);
+            Assert.Equal("failed", (string)retry.Data["previousState"]);
+            Assert.Equal("inProgress", (string)retry.Data["newState"]);
+            Assert.Equal("Provisioning_DeviceSetup_Apps_Failed", (string)retry.Data["failureType"]);
+            Assert.True(retry.Data.ContainsKey("minutesSinceFailure"));
+
+            // A later unrelated transition does not re-emit.
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (10 of 10 installed)""}
+            }");
+            Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_retry_detected");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void PostTerminalRecovery_EmitsRecovered_OnCategorySuccess()
+        {
+            using var f = new Fixture();
+            f.DriveToTerminalDeviceSetupAppsFailure();
+
+            // Retry → all apps installed → Windows resolves the category boolean.
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""inProgress"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (Working on it...)""}
+            }");
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": true,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (10 of 10 installed)""}
+            }");
+
+            var recovered = Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_recovered");
+            Assert.Equal("DeviceSetup", (string)recovered.Data["category"]);
+            Assert.Equal("Apps", (string)recovered.Data["failedSubcategory"]);
+            Assert.Equal("Provisioning_DeviceSetup_Apps_Failed", (string)recovered.Data["failureType"]);
+            Assert.True(recovered.Data.ContainsKey("minutesSinceFailure"));
+
+            // Duplicate category-success writes do not re-emit (fire-once).
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": true,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Security policies (1 of 1 applied)""},
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (10 of 10 installed, take 2)""}
+            }");
+            Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_recovered");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void InSettleWindowRecovery_KeepsPostTerminalPairSilent()
+        {
+            using var f = new Fixture();
+
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""inProgress"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (0 of 1 installed)""}
+            }");
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""failed"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (Error)""}
+            }");
+            // Recovery INSIDE the settle window — terminal fire is suppressed.
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""inProgress"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (Working on it...)""}
+            }");
+            f.Tracker.TriggerSettleTimerForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status");
+            Assert.Empty(f.EspFailures);
+
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": true,
+                ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""succeeded"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (1 of 1 installed)""}
+            }");
+
+            var events = f.CapturedEvents();
+            Assert.Contains(events, e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_recovered");
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(events, e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_retry_detected");
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(events, e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_recovered");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void AppsFailure_TerminalArgs_CarryLikelyCulprits_NeverStartedFirst()
+        {
+            var neverStarted = BuildApp("app-bg", "Teams Backgrounds v2",
+                AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Unknown,
+                downloadingSeen: false);
+            var startedButPending = BuildApp("app-slow", "Slow Installer",
+                AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Unknown,
+                downloadingSeen: true);
+            var installed = BuildApp("app-ok", "Falcon Sensor",
+                AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Installed,
+                downloadingSeen: true);
+            using var f = new Fixture(() => new[] { startedButPending, neverStarted, installed });
+
+            f.DriveToTerminalDeviceSetupAppsFailure();
+
+            var fired = Assert.Single(f.EspFailures);
+            Assert.Equal(2, fired.LikelyCulpritApps.Count);
+            // Never-started app ranked first — it starved the ESP gate without any IME event.
+            Assert.Equal("Teams Backgrounds v2", fired.LikelyCulpritApps[0]);
+            Assert.Equal("Slow Installer", fired.LikelyCulpritApps[1]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void NonAppsFailure_TerminalArgs_CarryNoCulprits()
+        {
+            var neverStarted = BuildApp("app-bg", "Teams Backgrounds v2",
+                AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Unknown,
+                downloadingSeen: false);
+            using var f = new Fixture(() => new[] { neverStarted });
+
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""inProgress"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Working""}
+            }");
+            f.Tracker.ProcessCategoryStatusForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status", @"{
+                ""categorySucceeded"": null,
+                ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""failed"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Failed""}
+            }");
+            f.Tracker.TriggerSettleTimerForTest("DeviceSetupCategory.Status");
+
+            var fired = Assert.Single(f.EspFailures);
+            Assert.Empty(fired.LikelyCulpritApps);
+        }
+
+        private static AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppPackageState BuildApp(
+            string id, string name,
+            AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState state,
+            bool downloadingSeen)
+        {
+            var pkg = new AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppPackageState(id, 0);
+            pkg.UpdateName(name);
+            pkg.UpdateIntent(AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppIntent.Install);
+            pkg.UpdateTargeted(AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppTargeted.Device);
+            // DownloadingOrInstallingSeen is derived inside UpdateState (Downloading..Installing
+            // range) — drive it through a Downloading transition instead of setting it directly.
+            if (downloadingSeen)
+                pkg.UpdateState(AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Downloading);
+            if (state != AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Unknown
+                && state != AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppInstallationState.Downloading)
+                pkg.UpdateState(state);
+            return pkg;
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/SystemSignals/EspPolicyProviderStallDetectorTests.cs

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+#nullable enable
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Persistence;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Engine;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Signals;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Session 5d735290 — pure detection logic of <see cref="EspPolicyProviderStallDetector"/>:
+    /// the CSP completion rule and the dwell/one-shot transition. No registry, no timers.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class EspPolicyProviderStallLogicTests
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime T0 = new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 10, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+        private static readonly TimeSpan Dwell = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes);
+
+        private static PolicyProviderState SetupApps(string name, int? tracking, string scope = "device") =>
+            new PolicyProviderState(name, scope, EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, tracking, null);
+
+        private static PolicyProviderState DevicePrep(string name, int? installState) =>
+            new PolicyProviderState(name, "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindDevicePreparation, null, installState);
+
+        private static EspPolicyProviderSnapshot Snapshot(params PolicyProviderState[] providers) =>
+            new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(providers);
+
+        // ------------------------------------------------- completion rule (CSP contract)
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(1, true)]   // TrackingPoliciesCreated=true
+        [InlineData(0, false)]  // explicit false (the CSP default)
+        [InlineData(null, false)] // value missing — the field case
+        [InlineData(2, false)]  // anything else is not "true"
+        public void SetupApps_provider_complete_only_at_tracking_1(int? tracking, bool expected)
+            => Assert.Equal(expected, EspPolicyProviderProbe.IsProviderComplete(
+                EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, tracking, null));
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(2, true)]   // NotRequired
+        [InlineData(3, true)]   // Completed
+        [InlineData(1, false)]  // NotInstalled
+        [InlineData(4, false)]  // Error
+        [InlineData(null, false)]
+        public void DevicePreparation_provider_complete_at_state_2_or_3(int? state, bool expected)
+            => Assert.Equal(expected, EspPolicyProviderProbe.IsProviderComplete(
+                EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindDevicePreparation, null, state));
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void TryReadInt_tolerates_dword_string_and_bool_forms()
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(1, EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(1));
+            Assert.Equal(3, EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(3L));
+            Assert.Equal(1, EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(" 1 "));
+            Assert.Equal(1, EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(true));
+            Assert.Equal(0, EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(false));
+            Assert.Null(EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(null));
+            Assert.Null(EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt("not-a-number"));
+            Assert.Null(EspPolicyProviderProbe.TryReadInt(new byte[] { 1 }));
+        }
+
+        // ------------------------------------------------- dwell transition
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Empty_or_missing_snapshot_clears_dwell_state_and_never_stalls()
+        {
+            var previous = new Dictionary<string, DateTime> { ["setupApps|device|ConfigMgr"] = T0 };
+
+            var missing = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty, previous, new HashSet<string>(), T0, false, T0.AddHours(2), Dwell);
+            Assert.Empty(missing.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc);
+            Assert.Empty(missing.NewlyStalled);
+            Assert.Null(missing.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc); // arm 2 resets too
+            Assert.Null(missing.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes);
+
+            var registeredButEmpty = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(), previous, new HashSet<string>(), T0, false, T0.AddHours(2), Dwell);
+            Assert.Empty(registeredButEmpty.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc);
+            Assert.Empty(registeredButEmpty.NewlyStalled);
+            Assert.Null(registeredButEmpty.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Incomplete_provider_accrues_dwell_but_does_not_stall_before_threshold()
+        {
+            var snapshot = Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: null));
+
+            var round1 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(), new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0, Dwell);
+            Assert.Equal(T0, round1.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc["setupApps|device|ConfigMgr"]);
+            Assert.Empty(round1.NewlyStalled);
+
+            var round2 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, round1.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc, new HashSet<string>(),
+                round1.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc, false, T0.AddMinutes(14), Dwell);
+            Assert.Equal(T0, round2.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc["setupApps|device|ConfigMgr"]); // first-seen preserved
+            Assert.Empty(round2.NewlyStalled);
+            Assert.Null(round2.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes); // 14 min < dwell on arm 2 as well
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Provider_stalls_at_dwell_threshold_with_correct_minutes()
+        {
+            var snapshot = Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 0));
+            var seen = new Dictionary<string, DateTime> { ["setupApps|device|ConfigMgr"] = T0 };
+
+            var eval = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, seen, new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0.AddMinutes(15), Dwell);
+
+            var stalled = Assert.Single(eval.NewlyStalled);
+            Assert.Equal("ConfigMgr", stalled.Provider.Name);
+            Assert.Equal(15.0, stalled.StalledForMinutes, precision: 3);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Completion_or_disappearance_resets_the_dwell_clock()
+        {
+            var key = "setupApps|device|ConfigMgr";
+            var seen = new Dictionary<string, DateTime> { [key] = T0 };
+
+            // Completes mid-dwell → dropped from the map.
+            var completed = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1)), seen, new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0.AddMinutes(10), Dwell);
+            Assert.Empty(completed.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc);
+
+            // Re-appears incomplete much later → dwell restarts from the new now, no stall yet.
+            var reappeared = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 0)), completed.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc,
+                new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0.AddHours(3), Dwell);
+            Assert.Equal(T0.AddHours(3), reappeared.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc[key]);
+            Assert.Empty(reappeared.NewlyStalled);
+
+            // Disappearance behaves the same as completion.
+            var disappeared = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("Sidecar", tracking: 1)), new Dictionary<string, DateTime> { [key] = T0 },
+                new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0.AddMinutes(20), Dwell);
+            Assert.False(disappeared.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc.ContainsKey(key));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Already_fired_provider_is_never_reported_again()
+        {
+            var snapshot = Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: null));
+            var seen = new Dictionary<string, DateTime> { ["setupApps|device|ConfigMgr"] = T0 };
+            var fired = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase) { "setupApps|device|ConfigMgr" };
+
+            var eval = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, seen, fired, null, false, T0.AddHours(5), Dwell);
+
+            Assert.Empty(eval.NewlyStalled);
+            Assert.True(eval.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc.ContainsKey("setupApps|device|ConfigMgr")); // still tracked
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Mixed_kinds_and_scopes_are_tracked_under_distinct_keys()
+        {
+            var snapshot = Snapshot(
+                SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: null),
+                SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: null, scope: "user:S-1-5-21-1111"),
+                DevicePrep("ConfigMgr", installState: 1));
+
+            var eval = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(), new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0, Dwell);
+
+            Assert.Equal(3, eval.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc.Count);
+            Assert.Contains("setupApps|device|ConfigMgr", eval.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc.Keys);
+            Assert.Contains("setupApps|user:S-1-5-21-1111|ConfigMgr", eval.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc.Keys);
+            Assert.Contains("devicePreparation|device|ConfigMgr", eval.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc.Keys);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void SidecarRegistered_matches_setupApps_sidecar_only()
+        {
+            Assert.True(Snapshot(SetupApps("Sidecar", tracking: 0)).SidecarRegistered);
+            Assert.True(Snapshot(SetupApps("sidecar", tracking: 1, scope: "user:S-1-5-21-1")).SidecarRegistered);
+            Assert.False(Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1)).SidecarRegistered);
+            Assert.False(Snapshot(DevicePrep("Sidecar", installState: 3)).SidecarRegistered); // wrong kind
+            Assert.False(EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty.SidecarRegistered);
+        }
+
+        // ------------------------------------------------- arm 2: sidecar-missing transition
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Issue106_foreign_provider_complete_but_sidecar_missing_stalls_after_dwell()
+        {
+            // The actual field case: ConfigMgr with TrackingPoliciesCreated=1 — "complete" by the
+            // CSP value contract, arm 1 never fires — yet the ESP waits on the absent Sidecar.
+            var snapshot = Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1));
+
+            var round1 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(), new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0, Dwell);
+            Assert.Empty(round1.NewlyStalled);                       // arm 1 stays silent...
+            Assert.Equal(T0, round1.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);  // ...but arm 2 starts its clock
+            Assert.Null(round1.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes);
+
+            var round2 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, round1.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc, new HashSet<string>(),
+                round1.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc, false, T0.AddMinutes(15), Dwell);
+            Assert.Empty(round2.NewlyStalled);
+            Assert.Equal(15.0, round2.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes!.Value, precision: 3);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Sidecar_registering_resets_the_sidecar_missing_clock()
+        {
+            // ConfigMgr first (legitimate startup ordering) → clock runs...
+            var round1 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1)),
+                new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(), new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0, Dwell);
+            Assert.Equal(T0, round1.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);
+
+            // ...Sidecar joins → condition clears, state resets.
+            var round2 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1), SetupApps("Sidecar", tracking: 0)),
+                round1.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc, new HashSet<string>(),
+                round1.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc, false, T0.AddMinutes(10), Dwell);
+            Assert.Null(round2.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);
+            Assert.Null(round2.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes);
+
+            // Sidecar gone again much later → clock restarts from the new now, no instant stall.
+            var round3 = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1)),
+                round2.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc, new HashSet<string>(),
+                round2.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc, false, T0.AddHours(3), Dwell);
+            Assert.Equal(T0.AddHours(3), round3.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);
+            Assert.Null(round3.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Sidecar_missing_one_shot_and_deviceprep_only_scoping()
+        {
+            // Already fired → never re-reported, but the clock keeps running.
+            var latched = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(SetupApps("ConfigMgr", tracking: 1)),
+                new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(), new HashSet<string>(), T0, true, T0.AddHours(5), Dwell);
+            Assert.Null(latched.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes);
+            Assert.Equal(T0, latched.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);
+
+            // DevicePreparation providers alone don't constitute the Setup/Apps wait — arm 2 off.
+            var devicePrepOnly = EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.EvaluateStallTransition(
+                Snapshot(DevicePrep("ConfigMgr", installState: 1)),
+                new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(), new HashSet<string>(), null, false, T0, Dwell);
+            Assert.Null(devicePrepOnly.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Emission surface of the detector via the real <see cref="InformationalEventPost"/> rail.
+    /// Static probe override → serial collection (same contract as
+    /// <c>EspConfigDetectedTrackingFieldsTests</c>).
+    /// </summary>
+    [Collection("SerialThreading")]
+    public sealed class EspPolicyProviderStallDetectorEmissionTests : IDisposable
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime At = new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 12, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+        private readonly TempDirectory _tmp = new TempDirectory();
+
+        public void Dispose() => _tmp.Dispose();
+
+        private (EspPolicyProviderStallDetector sut, FakeSignalIngressSink sink, VirtualClock clock)
+            BuildDetector(StartupEventGate? gate = null)
+        {
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+            var sink = new FakeSignalIngressSink();
+            var clock = new VirtualClock(At);
+            var post = new InformationalEventPost(sink, clock);
+            var sut = new EspPolicyProviderStallDetector("S1", "T1", post, logger, clock, gate);
+            return (sut, sink, clock);
+        }
+
+        private static EspPolicyProviderSnapshot ConfigMgrOnly() => new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(new[]
+        {
+            new PolicyProviderState("ConfigMgr", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps,
+                trackingPoliciesCreated: null, installationState: null),
+        });
+
+        private static EspPolicyProviderSnapshot SidecarCompleteConfigMgrIncomplete() => new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(new[]
+        {
+            new PolicyProviderState("Sidecar", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, 1, null),
+            new PolicyProviderState("ConfigMgr", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, 0, null),
+        });
+
+        private static IReadOnlyList<FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal> StalledEvents(FakeSignalIngressSink sink) =>
+            sink.Posted.Where(p =>
+                p.Payload != null
+                && p.Payload.TryGetValue(SignalPayloadKeys.EventType, out var et)
+                && et == "esp_policy_provider_stalled").ToList();
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void CustomerScenario_configmgr_without_sidecar_emits_one_warning_after_dwell()
+        {
+            using var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => ConfigMgrOnly());
+            var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector();
+
+            sut.Tick();                                     // first sighting — dwell starts
+            Assert.Empty(StalledEvents(sink));
+
+            clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+            sut.Tick();                                     // threshold crossed → emit
+
+            var evt = Assert.Single(StalledEvents(sink));
+            Assert.Equal(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent, evt.Kind);
+            Assert.Equal("Warning", evt.Payload![SignalPayloadKeys.Severity]);
+            Assert.Equal("true", evt.Payload[SignalPayloadKeys.ImmediateUpload]);
+            Assert.Equal(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.SourceLabel, evt.Payload[SignalPayloadKeys.Source]);
+
+            var data = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>>(evt.TypedPayload);
+            // Both arms cross in the same round (ConfigMgr incomplete AND Sidecar absent) →
+            // ONE event; sidecar-missing is the dominant reason.
+            Assert.Equal(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.ReasonSidecarMissing, data["reason"]);
+            Assert.Equal(false, data["sidecarRegistered"]);
+            Assert.Equal(15.0, data["sidecarMissingForMinutes"]);
+            Assert.Equal(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes, data["dwellMinutes"]);
+            var stalled = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyList<Dictionary<string, object>>>(data["stalledProviders"]);
+            var entry = Assert.Single(stalled);
+            Assert.Equal("ConfigMgr", entry["name"]);
+            Assert.Equal(EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, entry["kind"]);
+            Assert.Equal(15.0, entry["stalledForMinutes"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Issue106_configmgr_complete_without_sidecar_still_emits_sidecar_missing()
+        {
+            // Regression test for the customer's follow-up on issue #106: TrackingPoliciesCreated=1
+            // WAS present under ConfigMgr — the provider looks "complete", arm 1 never fires, yet
+            // the ESP hangs because Sidecar is absent. Arm 2 must catch exactly this.
+            var configMgrComplete = new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(new[]
+            {
+                new PolicyProviderState("ConfigMgr", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps,
+                    trackingPoliciesCreated: 1, installationState: null),
+            });
+            using var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => configMgrComplete);
+            var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector();
+
+            sut.Tick();
+            Assert.Empty(StalledEvents(sink));
+
+            clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+            sut.Tick();
+
+            var evt = Assert.Single(StalledEvents(sink));
+            var data = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>>(evt.TypedPayload);
+            Assert.Equal(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.ReasonSidecarMissing, data["reason"]);
+            Assert.Equal(false, data["sidecarRegistered"]);
+            Assert.Equal(15.0, data["sidecarMissingForMinutes"]);
+            Assert.Empty(Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyList<Dictionary<string, object>>>(data["stalledProviders"]));
+            var providers = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyList<Dictionary<string, object?>>>(data["providers"]);
+            Assert.Equal(true, Assert.Single(providers)["complete"]); // the misleading "complete" is visible
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Sidecar_complete_configmgr_incomplete_reports_only_configmgr_with_sidecar_flag()
+        {
+            using var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => SidecarCompleteConfigMgrIncomplete());
+            var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector();
+
+            sut.Tick();
+            clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+            sut.Tick();
+
+            var evt = Assert.Single(StalledEvents(sink));
+            var data = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>>(evt.TypedPayload);
+            Assert.Equal(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.ReasonProviderIncomplete, data["reason"]); // arm 2 off — Sidecar is there
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["sidecarRegistered"]);
+            Assert.False(data.ContainsKey("sidecarMissingForMinutes"));
+            var stalled = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyList<Dictionary<string, object>>>(data["stalledProviders"]);
+            Assert.Equal("ConfigMgr", Assert.Single(stalled)["name"]);
+            var providers = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyList<Dictionary<string, object?>>>(data["providers"]);
+            Assert.Equal(2, providers.Count); // full table always attached
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Latch_prevents_second_emission_for_the_same_provider()
+        {
+            using var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => ConfigMgrOnly());
+            var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector();
+
+            sut.Tick();
+            clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+            sut.Tick();
+            clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30));
+            sut.Tick();
+            sut.Tick();
+
+            Assert.Single(StalledEvents(sink));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Startup_gate_suppresses_same_stall_across_restart_but_reports_new_provider_set()
+        {
+            var logger = new AgentLogger(_tmp.Path, AgentLogLevel.Info);
+
+            // Run 1: fires and persists the fingerprint.
+            using (var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => ConfigMgrOnly()))
+            {
+                var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector(new StartupEventGate(_tmp.Path, logger));
+                sut.Tick();
+                clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+                sut.Tick();
+                Assert.Single(StalledEvents(sink));
+            }
+
+            // Run 2 (simulated restart — fresh detector, gate reloaded from the same state dir):
+            // identical stall re-accrues dwell but lands on the same fingerprint → suppressed.
+            using (var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => ConfigMgrOnly()))
+            {
+                var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector(new StartupEventGate(_tmp.Path, logger));
+                sut.Tick();
+                clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+                sut.Tick();
+                Assert.Empty(StalledEvents(sink));
+            }
+
+            // Run 3: a SECOND provider joins the stall → fingerprint changes → reported.
+            var widened = new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(new[]
+            {
+                new PolicyProviderState("ConfigMgr", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, null, null),
+                new PolicyProviderState("Contoso", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, 0, null),
+            });
+            using (var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => widened))
+            {
+                var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector(new StartupEventGate(_tmp.Path, logger));
+                sut.Tick();
+                clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.DwellMinutes));
+                sut.Tick();
+                Assert.Single(StalledEvents(sink));
+            }
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Healthy_or_absent_tracking_never_emits()
+        {
+            var healthy = new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(new[]
+            {
+                new PolicyProviderState("Sidecar", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps, 1, null),
+                new PolicyProviderState("ConfigMgr", "device", EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindDevicePreparation, null, 3),
+            });
+            using (var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => healthy))
+            {
+                var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector();
+                sut.Tick();
+                clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromHours(4));
+                sut.Tick();
+                Assert.Empty(StalledEvents(sink));
+            }
+
+            using (var _probe = new EspPolicyProviderProbe.ScopedOverride(_ => EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty))
+            {
+                var (sut, sink, clock) = BuildDetector();
+                sut.Tick();
+                clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromHours(4));
+                sut.Tick();
+                Assert.Empty(StalledEvents(sink));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/SystemSignals/ModernDeploymentTrackerErrorBackfillTests.cs

@@ -112,6 +112,36 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
             Assert.Equal(false, data["backfilled"]);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public void ErrorBackfillSummary_EmitsInfoLogEvent_AnnouncingTheReplayBlock()
+        {
+            _tracker.EmitErrorBackfillSummary(replayedCount: 6, droppedOverCap: 0);
+
+            var posted = _sink.Posted.Single(p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent);
+            Assert.Equal("modern_deployment_log", posted.Payload![SignalPayloadKeys.EventType]);
+
+            var data = Assert.IsAssignableFrom<IReadOnlyDictionary<string, object>>(posted.TypedPayload);
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["backfillSummary"]);
+            Assert.Equal(6, data["replayedCount"]);
+            Assert.Equal(0, data["droppedOverCap"]);
+            Assert.Equal(240, data["lookbackMinutes"]);
+
+            var message = (string)posted.Payload[SignalPayloadKeys.Message];
+            Assert.Contains("Replaying 6 error event(s)", message);
+            Assert.Contains("before the agent started", message);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("cap", message);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ErrorBackfillSummary_MentionsDroppedRecords_WhenCapWasHit()
+        {
+            _tracker.EmitErrorBackfillSummary(replayedCount: 25, droppedOverCap: 7);
+
+            var posted = _sink.Posted.Single(p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent);
+            var message = (string)posted.Payload![SignalPayloadKeys.Message];
+            Assert.Contains("7 older record(s) beyond the 25-record cap", message);
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void BackfilledHarmlessId_StillRunsThroughRollupSuppression()
         {

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/SystemSignals/ProvisioningFailureSettleWindowTests.cs

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
             public List<EspFailureDetectedEventArgs> EspFailures { get; } = new List<EspFailureDetectedEventArgs>();
             public ProvisioningStatusTracker Tracker { get; }
 
-            public Fixture(Func<IReadOnlyList<AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppPackageState>> packageStatesProbe = null)
+            public Fixture(Func<IReadOnlyList<AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime.AppPackageState>>? packageStatesProbe = null)
             {
                 var clock = new VirtualClock(Fixed);
                 var post = new InformationalEventPost(Sink, clock);
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
             }");
 
             var captured = f.CapturedEvents();
-            Assert.Single(captured.Where(e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_started"));
+            Assert.Single(captured, e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_started");
         }
 
         // =====================================================================
@@ -214,8 +214,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
             // No terminal fire — the failure was retracted.
             Assert.Empty(f.EspFailures);
 
-            var recovered = Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents()
-                .Where(e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_recovered"));
+            var recovered = Assert.Single(
+                f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_recovered");
             Assert.Equal("AccountSetup", (string)recovered.Data["category"]);
             Assert.Equal("Apps", (string)recovered.Data["failedSubcategory"]);
             Assert.Equal("inProgress", (string)recovered.Data["observedState"]);
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
             f.Tracker.TriggerSettleTimerForTest("AccountSetupCategory.Status");
 
             Assert.Single(f.EspFailures);
-            Assert.Empty(f.CapturedEvents().Where(e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_recovered"));
+            Assert.DoesNotContain(f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_recovered");
         }
 
         // =====================================================================
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
                 ""AppsSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""failed"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Apps (Error)""}
             }");
 
-            var settleStarted = Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents()
-                .Where(e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_started"));
+            var settleStarted = Assert.Single(
+                f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_started");
             Assert.Equal(1, (int)settleStarted.Data["trackedAppsNotCompletedCount"]);
             var apps = (List<Dictionary<string, object>>)settleStarted.Data["trackedAppsNotCompleted"];
             var app = Assert.Single(apps);
@@ -354,8 +354,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.SystemSignals
                 ""SecurityPoliciesSubcategory"": {""subcategoryState"":""failed"",""subcategoryStatusText"":""Failed""}
             }");
 
-            var settleStarted = Assert.Single(f.CapturedEvents()
-                .Where(e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_started"));
+            var settleStarted = Assert.Single(
+                f.CapturedEvents(), e => e.EventType == "esp_failure_settle_started");
             Assert.False(settleStarted.Data.ContainsKey("trackedAppsNotCompleted"));
             Assert.False(settleStarted.Data.ContainsKey("trackedAppsNotCompletedCount"));
         }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/Transport/EmergencyReporterTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Transport;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring.Transport
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Pins the anti-flood semantics of <see cref="EmergencyReporter.TrySendAsync"/> after the
+    /// delivery-hardening change (2026-07-23): the once-per-session dedup and the per-session
+    /// budget count DELIVERED reports. The previous mark-before-send permanently suppressed an
+    /// error key after its first transport failure — fatal for single-shot callers like the 48h
+    /// emergency break, whose process exits right after the attempt.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class EmergencyReporterTests
+    {
+        private sealed class FakeApiClient : BackendApiClient
+        {
+            public readonly List<TimeSpan?> Timeouts = new List<TimeSpan?>();
+            public readonly Queue<bool> Results = new Queue<bool>();
+
+            public FakeApiClient() : base(
+                httpClient: new HttpClient(),
+                baseUrl: "http://localhost",
+                manufacturer: string.Empty,
+                model: string.Empty,
+                serialNumber: string.Empty,
+                useBootstrapTokenAuth: false,
+                bootstrapToken: null,
+                agentVersion: "0.0.0",
+                logger: null)
+            {
+            }
+
+            public int Calls => Timeouts.Count;
+
+            public override Task<bool> ReportAgentErrorAsync(AgentErrorReport report, TimeSpan? timeout = null)
+            {
+                Timeouts.Add(timeout);
+                return Task.FromResult(Results.Count > 0 && Results.Dequeue());
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static EmergencyReporter Reporter(FakeApiClient client)
+            => new EmergencyReporter(client, "session", "tenant", "0.0.0", logger: null);
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Failed_send_rolls_back_reservation_so_a_later_call_retries()
+        {
+            var client = new FakeApiClient();
+            client.Results.Enqueue(false); // first call fails
+            client.Results.Enqueue(true);  // second call succeeds
+            var reporter = Reporter(client);
+
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+
+            // Old behaviour: second call suppressed as "already reported" ⇒ 1 call.
+            Assert.Equal(2, client.Calls);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Delivered_send_is_deduplicated_per_key()
+        {
+            var client = new FakeApiClient();
+            client.Results.Enqueue(true);
+            var reporter = Reporter(client);
+
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+
+            Assert.Equal(1, client.Calls);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Retries_stay_inside_one_reservation_and_stop_on_success()
+        {
+            var client = new FakeApiClient();
+            client.Results.Enqueue(false);
+            client.Results.Enqueue(true); // second attempt delivers — third must not fire
+            var reporter = Reporter(client);
+
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(
+                AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m",
+                attempts: 3, perAttemptTimeout: TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(50), retryDelay: TimeSpan.Zero);
+
+            Assert.Equal(2, client.Calls);
+
+            // Delivered ⇒ dedup holds for the session.
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+            Assert.Equal(2, client.Calls);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Per_attempt_timeout_is_forwarded_to_the_api_client()
+        {
+            var client = new FakeApiClient();
+            client.Results.Enqueue(true);
+            var reporter = Reporter(client);
+
+            var timeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15);
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(
+                AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m",
+                attempts: 1, perAttemptTimeout: timeout);
+
+            Assert.Equal(timeout, Assert.Single(client.Timeouts));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task All_attempts_failing_rolls_back_after_exhausting_attempts()
+        {
+            var client = new FakeApiClient(); // queue empty ⇒ every attempt fails
+            var reporter = Reporter(client);
+
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(
+                AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m",
+                attempts: 3, retryDelay: TimeSpan.Zero);
+            Assert.Equal(3, client.Calls);
+
+            // Rolled back ⇒ a later call may try again (budget + dedup + cooldown restored).
+            client.Results.Enqueue(true);
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+            Assert.Equal(4, client.Calls);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task Different_keys_do_not_suppress_each_other_after_rollback()
+        {
+            var client = new FakeApiClient();
+            client.Results.Enqueue(false); // break report fails → rollback (incl. cooldown restore)
+            client.Results.Enqueue(true);  // unrelated report must still go out
+            var reporter = Reporter(client);
+
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.SessionAgeEmergencyBreak, "m");
+            await reporter.TrySendAsync(AgentErrorType.ConfigFetchFailed, "m");
+
+            Assert.Equal(2, client.Calls);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Monitoring/UefiSecureBootCertReaderTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+#nullable enable
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Text;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Interop;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.DeviceInfo;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Monitoring
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Pins the pure parts of the UEFI Secure Boot certificate probe: the ASCII substring
+    /// search over raw signature-list bytes and the <c>secureboot_status</c> payload shaping
+    /// (in particular the one-sided <c>uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed</c> marker whose ABSENCE
+    /// is load-bearing for ANALYZE-SEC-001's not_exists precondition). The actual firmware
+    /// read is only smoke-tested: test machines may be VMs, non-elevated, or legacy BIOS,
+    /// so only the fail-soft contract is asserted.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class UefiSecureBootCertReaderTests
+    {
+        // --- ContainsAscii ---
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ContainsAscii_finds_needle_embedded_in_binary_noise()
+        {
+            var bytes = Concat(new byte[] { 0x00, 0xA1, 0x30, 0x82 },
+                Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Windows UEFI CA 2023"),
+                new byte[] { 0x00, 0xFF });
+
+            Assert.True(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(bytes, "Windows UEFI CA 2023"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ContainsAscii_finds_needle_at_the_very_end()
+        {
+            var bytes = Concat(new byte[] { 0x01, 0x02 }, Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("KEK 2K CA 2023"));
+
+            Assert.True(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(bytes, "KEK 2K CA 2023"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ContainsAscii_rejects_partial_overlap_and_absent_needle()
+        {
+            var bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("Windows UEFI CA 2011 something else");
+
+            Assert.False(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(bytes, "Windows UEFI CA 2023"));
+            // Repeated prefix bytes must not confuse the scan.
+            var tricky = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("ababac");
+            Assert.True(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(tricky, "abac"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void ContainsAscii_handles_null_empty_and_oversized_needle()
+        {
+            Assert.False(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(null, "x"));
+            Assert.False(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(new byte[0], "x"));
+            Assert.False(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(new byte[] { 1, 2 }, ""));
+            Assert.False(UefiSecureBootCertReader.ContainsAscii(new byte[] { 1, 2 }, "abc"));
+        }
+
+        // --- Payload shaping ---
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Marker_emitted_only_when_db_ok_and_ca2023_present()
+        {
+            var data = new Dictionary<string, object>();
+            DeviceInfoCollector.AppendFirmwareCertFields(data, new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot
+            {
+                DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk,
+                KekStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk,
+                DbHasWindowsUefiCa2023 = true,
+                KekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023 = true
+            });
+
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed"]);
+            Assert.Equal("ok", data["uefiFirmwareReadStatus"]);
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023"]);
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Marker_absent_when_ca2023_missing_even_though_read_succeeded()
+        {
+            var data = new Dictionary<string, object>();
+            DeviceInfoCollector.AppendFirmwareCertFields(data, new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot
+            {
+                DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk,
+                KekStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk,
+                DbHasWindowsUefiCa2023 = false,
+                DbHasWindowsProductionPca2011 = true
+            });
+
+            // The marker must be OMITTED, not false — not_exists fails on any present value.
+            Assert.False(data.ContainsKey("uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed"));
+            Assert.Equal(false, data["uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023"]);
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["uefiDbHasWindowsProductionPca2011"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Failed_db_read_emits_status_but_no_cert_booleans_and_no_marker()
+        {
+            var data = new Dictionary<string, object>();
+            DeviceInfoCollector.AppendFirmwareCertFields(data, new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot
+            {
+                DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusPrivilegeDenied,
+                KekStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusPrivilegeDenied
+            });
+
+            Assert.Equal(UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusPrivilegeDenied, data["uefiFirmwareReadStatus"]);
+            Assert.False(data.ContainsKey("uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023"));
+            Assert.False(data.ContainsKey("uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023"));
+            Assert.False(data.ContainsKey("uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Db_ok_but_kek_failed_keeps_db_booleans_and_reports_kek_status()
+        {
+            var data = new Dictionary<string, object>();
+            DeviceInfoCollector.AppendFirmwareCertFields(data, new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot
+            {
+                DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk,
+                KekStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusVariableNotFound,
+                DbHasWindowsUefiCa2023 = true
+            });
+
+            Assert.Equal(UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusVariableNotFound, data["uefiFirmwareReadStatus"]);
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["uefiDbHasWindowsUefiCa2023"]);
+            Assert.Equal(true, data["uefiCa2023FirmwareConfirmed"]);
+            Assert.False(data.ContainsKey("uefiKekHasMicrosoftKek2kCa2023"));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Null_snapshot_leaves_payload_untouched()
+        {
+            var data = new Dictionary<string, object> { { "uefiSecureBootEnabled", true } };
+            DeviceInfoCollector.AppendFirmwareCertFields(data, null);
+
+            Assert.Single(data);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void DescribeFirmwareVerdict_covers_all_shapes()
+        {
+            Assert.Equal("unavailable", DeviceInfoCollector.DescribeFirmwareVerdict(null));
+            Assert.Equal(UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusNotUefi, DeviceInfoCollector.DescribeFirmwareVerdict(
+                new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot { DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusNotUefi }));
+            Assert.Equal("CA2023 confirmed", DeviceInfoCollector.DescribeFirmwareVerdict(
+                new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot { DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk, DbHasWindowsUefiCa2023 = true }));
+            Assert.Equal("CA2023 missing", DeviceInfoCollector.DescribeFirmwareVerdict(
+                new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot { DbStatus = UefiSecureBootCertReader.StatusOk, DbHasWindowsUefiCa2023 = false }));
+        }
+
+        // --- Reader smoke (real firmware; machine state unknown) ---
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Read_never_throws_and_reports_a_status_for_both_variables()
+        {
+            var snapshot = UefiSecureBootCertReader.Read();
+
+            Assert.NotNull(snapshot);
+            Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(snapshot.DbStatus));
+            Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(snapshot.KekStatus));
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege is adjusted on the PROCESS token, so the enable →
+        /// read → restore sequence is a process-wide side effect. Unserialized, a second
+        /// reader observes "already enabled", skips its own restore, and then loses the
+        /// privilege mid-read when the first reader disposes — surfacing as a privilege_denied
+        /// that disagrees with the other readers. The machine's actual privilege state does
+        /// not matter here: whatever it is, every reader must report the SAME status.
+        /// </summary>
+        [Fact]
+        public void Read_is_serialized_across_concurrent_callers()
+        {
+            const int readers = 8;
+            var snapshots = new UefiSecureBootCertSnapshot[readers];
+            var failures = new System.Exception[readers];
+
+            var threads = new System.Threading.Thread[readers];
+            for (var i = 0; i < readers; i++)
+            {
+                var index = i;
+                threads[i] = new System.Threading.Thread(() =>
+                {
+                    try { snapshots[index] = UefiSecureBootCertReader.Read(); }
+                    catch (System.Exception ex) { failures[index] = ex; }
+                });
+                threads[i].Start();
+            }
+            foreach (var thread in threads) thread.Join();
+
+            Assert.All(failures, Assert.Null);
+            Assert.All(snapshots, s => Assert.False(string.IsNullOrEmpty(s.DbStatus)));
+            Assert.All(snapshots, s => Assert.Equal(snapshots[0].DbStatus, s.DbStatus));
+            Assert.All(snapshots, s => Assert.Equal(snapshots[0].KekStatus, s.KekStatus));
+        }
+
+        private static byte[] Concat(params byte[][] parts)
+        {
+            var total = 0;
+            foreach (var part in parts) total += part.Length;
+            var result = new byte[total];
+            var offset = 0;
+            foreach (var part in parts)
+            {
+                System.Array.Copy(part, 0, result, offset, part.Length);
+                offset += part.Length;
+            }
+            return result;
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Orchestration/DecisionStepProcessorParkedTripwireTests.cs

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
         private readonly FakeQuarantineSink _quarantine = new FakeQuarantineSink();
         private readonly FakeSignalIngressSink _sink = new FakeSignalIngressSink();
         private readonly DecisionEngine _engine = new DecisionEngine();
-        private DecisionStepProcessor _sut;
+        private DecisionStepProcessor? _sut;
 
         public DecisionStepProcessorParkedTripwireTests()
         {
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
             return (step, signal);
         }
 
-        private FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal FindTripwirePost()
+        private FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal? FindTripwirePost()
         {
             foreach (var posted in _sink.Posted)
             {
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
             return null;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>The tripwire post, asserted present — for the assertions that only run
+        /// after <c>WaitForTripwire()</c> has already confirmed one was emitted.</summary>
+        private FakeSignalIngressSink.PostedSignal RequireTripwirePost()
+        {
+            var post = FindTripwirePost();
+            Assert.NotNull(post);
+            return post!;
+        }
+
         private int CountTripwirePosts()
         {
             var count = 0;
@@ -165,9 +174,9 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
             Thread.Sleep(SuppressWait);
             Assert.Equal(1, CountTripwirePosts());
 
-            var post = FindTripwirePost();
+            var post = RequireTripwirePost();
             Assert.Equal(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent, post.Kind);
-            Assert.Equal(nameof(SessionStage.EspAccountSetup), post.Payload["stage"]);
+            Assert.Equal(nameof(SessionStage.EspAccountSetup), post.Payload!["stage"]);
             Assert.Equal("Warning", post.Payload[SignalPayloadKeys.Severity]);
             Assert.Equal("true", post.Payload[SignalPayloadKeys.ImmediateUpload]);
             Assert.Contains("esp_final_exit", post.Payload["signalsSeen"]);
@@ -222,7 +231,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
             sut.ApplyStep(step, signal);
 
             Assert.True(WaitForTripwire());
-            Assert.Equal(DeadlineNames.ClassifierTick, FindTripwirePost().Payload["armedDeadlines"]);
+            Assert.Equal(DeadlineNames.ClassifierTick, RequireTripwirePost().Payload!["armedDeadlines"]);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -237,7 +246,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
             sut.ApplyStep(step, signal);
 
             Assert.True(WaitForTripwire());
-            Assert.Equal(nameof(SessionStage.AwaitingDesktop), FindTripwirePost().Payload["stage"]);
+            Assert.Equal(nameof(SessionStage.AwaitingDesktop), RequireTripwirePost().Payload!["stage"]);
         }
 
         // ===================================================================== Dwell semantics

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Orchestration/DeviceInfoHostTriggerTests.cs

@@ -37,5 +37,41 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Orchestration
             Assert.False(DeviceInfoHost.IsEndTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.EspPhaseChanged, null));
             Assert.False(DeviceInfoHost.IsEndTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent, Phase("FinalizingSetup")));
         }
+
+        // Audit Q2 — the payload shape the adapter's apps sub-phase declaration produces on the
+        // ingress rail (InformationalEventPost: eventType + declared phase enum name).
+        private static IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> SubPhaseDeclaration(string declaredPhase) =>
+            new Dictionary<string, string>
+            {
+                { SignalPayloadKeys.EventType, AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Constants.EventTypes.PhaseTransition },
+                { AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Telemetry.Events.EventTimelineEmitter.PhaseParamKey, declaredPhase },
+            };
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Apps_subphase_declarations_classify_as_esp_config_refresh_triggers()
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(DeviceInfoHost.EspConfigTriggerAppsDevice,
+                DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent, SubPhaseDeclaration("AppsDevice")));
+            Assert.Equal(DeviceInfoHost.EspConfigTriggerAppsUser,
+                DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent, SubPhaseDeclaration("AppsUser")));
+            // Non-apps phase declarations (e.g. the reducer's Finalizing entry) never classify.
+            Assert.Null(DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent, SubPhaseDeclaration("FinalizingSetup")));
+            // A phase_transition without a declared phase never classifies.
+            Assert.Null(DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent,
+                new Dictionary<string, string> { { SignalPayloadKeys.EventType, AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Constants.EventTypes.PhaseTransition } }));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void AccountSetup_phase_classifies_as_the_user_setup_refresh_trigger()
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(DeviceInfoHost.EspConfigTriggerAccountSetup,
+                DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.EspPhaseChanged, Phase("AccountSetup")));
+            // DeviceSetup is the enrollment-start trigger, not an ESP-config refresh.
+            Assert.Null(DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.EspPhaseChanged, Phase("DeviceSetup")));
+            Assert.Null(DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.EspPhaseChanged, null));
+            // Unrelated informational events never classify.
+            Assert.Null(DeviceInfoHost.ClassifyEspConfigRefreshTrigger(DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent,
+                new Dictionary<string, string> { { SignalPayloadKeys.EventType, "esp_config_detected" } }));
+        }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Program/LifecycleEmittersRemoteConfigTests.cs

@@ -256,8 +256,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Program
                 RemoteConfigFetchOutcome outcome,
                 int configVersion = 0,
                 int attempts = 1,
-                string failureType = null,
-                string failureMessage = null,
+                string? failureType = null,
+                string? failureMessage = null,
                 int? authStatusCode = null)
             {
                 // CurrentConfig is set via the protected SetConfig path — easiest:

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Security/HardwareInfoNormalizeTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Security;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Security
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Audit Q5 — WMI hardware values are trimmed at the source. BIOS serials become device
+    /// identity keys downstream (F2 device history joins on TenantId + serial), so padding
+    /// must never leave the agent; whitespace-only values collapse to the "Unknown" sentinel
+    /// the retry logic already treats as unresolved.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class HardwareInfoNormalizeTests
+    {
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData(" PF60H941 ", "PF60H941")]
+        [InlineData("PF60H941", "PF60H941")]
+        [InlineData("\tLENOVO \r\n", "LENOVO")]
+        [InlineData("Unknown", "Unknown")]
+        public void Trims_whitespace_at_the_source(string raw, string expected)
+            => Assert.Equal(expected, HardwareInfo.NormalizeWmiValue(raw));
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("")]
+        [InlineData("   ")]
+        [InlineData("\t\r\n")]
+        public void Empty_and_whitespace_only_collapse_to_the_Unknown_sentinel(string raw)
+            => Assert.Equal("Unknown", HardwareInfo.NormalizeWmiValue(raw));
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Null_collapses_to_the_Unknown_sentinel()
+            => Assert.Equal("Unknown", HardwareInfo.NormalizeWmiValue(null));
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/SignalAdapters/EspFailureDetectedHResultTests.cs

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.SignalAdapters
         [InlineData("Network connections (1 of 1 added)", null)]
         [InlineData("", null)]
         [InlineData(null, null)]
-        public void TryExtractErrorCode_extracts_parenthesised_hex_tail(string statusText, string expected)
+        public void TryExtractErrorCode_extracts_parenthesised_hex_tail(string? statusText, string? expected)
         {
             var actual = ProvisioningStatusTracker.TryExtractErrorCode(statusText);
             Assert.Equal(expected, actual);

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/SignalAdapters/ImeLogTrackerAdapterHistoricAppReplayTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+using System;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.SignalAdapters;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Signals;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+using SharedEventTypes = AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Constants.EventTypes;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.SignalAdapters
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Historic-replay suppression for APP events (session eaf3d8c4 part 2): 147 of 157 app
+    /// events in that session were replayed from a previous enrollment's IME log — all 10
+    /// "installed apps" were phantoms. Stale app-state transitions and DO telemetry must be
+    /// suppressed BEFORE the sub-phase declaration, the timing bookkeeping and the terminal
+    /// DecisionSignal dedup, so fire-once flags stay unconsumed and no phantom
+    /// AppInstallCompleted/Failed reaches the engine (which could spuriously re-arm the
+    /// AdvisoryCompletion window). The script twin lives in
+    /// <see cref="ImeLogTrackerAdapterHistoricReplayTests"/>.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class ImeLogTrackerAdapterHistoricAppReplayTests
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime ClockNow = new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 15, 42, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_terminal_app_transition_is_fully_suppressed()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            var app = new AppPackageState("app-old", 0);
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Installing, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AppInstallComplete));
+            Assert.Empty(f.DecisionSignals(DecisionSignalKind.AppInstallCompleted));
+            // Shadow download_progress (status=completed) and the summary snapshot ride the
+            // same emit — both must be gone too.
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.DownloadProgress));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AppTrackingSummary));
+            // Timing bookkeeping must not be poisoned (feeds FinalStatusBuilder).
+            Assert.False(adapter.AppTimings.ContainsKey("app-old"));
+
+            Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Fresh_run_after_suppressed_stale_run_fires_signal_timing_and_subphase()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            var app = new AppPackageState("app-X", 0);
+
+            // Fresh ESP phase so the sub-phase declaration is armed.
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-5);
+            adapter.TriggerEspPhaseFromTest("DeviceSetup");
+
+            // Stale replay of the same app — suppressed, must consume NEITHER the sub-phase
+            // fire-once NOR the terminal-signal dedup for this appId.
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Unknown, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.PhaseTransition));
+            Assert.Empty(f.DecisionSignals(DecisionSignalKind.AppInstallCompleted));
+
+            // The app genuinely runs in THIS enrollment.
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-2);
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Unknown, AppInstallationState.Installing);
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-1);
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Installing, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+
+            Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.PhaseTransition));            // sub-phase fired fresh
+            Assert.Single(f.DecisionSignals(DecisionSignalKind.AppInstallCompleted)); // signal fired fresh
+            var timing = adapter.AppTimings["app-X"];
+            Assert.Equal(ClockNow.AddMinutes(-2), timing.StartedAtUtc);               // fresh stamps, not stale
+            Assert.Equal(ClockNow.AddMinutes(-1), timing.CompletedAtUtc);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_do_telemetry_is_suppressed_fresh_emits()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            var app = new AppPackageState("app-do", 0);
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerDoTelemetryFromTest(app);
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.DoTelemetry));
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-1);
+            adapter.TriggerDoTelemetryFromTest(app);
+            Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.DoTelemetry));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Oneshot_summary_is_shared_between_script_and_app_suppressions()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "aaa11111",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+            });
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(new AppPackageState("app-old", 0),
+                AppInstallationState.Installing, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+
+            Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FutureSkew_app_transition_still_emits()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            var app = new AppPackageState("app-skew", 0);
+
+            // Mid-enrollment clock jump — genuine current activity, stamped to the clock.
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddHours(2);
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Installing, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+
+            var info = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AppInstallComplete));
+            Assert.Equal(ClockNow, info.OccurredAtUtc);
+            Assert.Equal("true", info.Payload!["derivedTimestamp"]);
+            Assert.Single(f.DecisionSignals(DecisionSignalKind.AppInstallCompleted));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void SimulationMode_bypasses_suppression_for_apps_and_scripts()
+        {
+            // The --replay-log-dir dev tool intentionally feeds historic lines.
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            f.Tracker.SimulationMode = true;
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(new AppPackageState("app-sim", 0),
+                AppInstallationState.Installing, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "bbb22222",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+            });
+
+            Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AppInstallComplete));
+            Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/SignalAdapters/ImeLogTrackerAdapterHistoricReplayTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+using System;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.SignalAdapters;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Harness;
+using SharedEventTypes = AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Constants.EventTypes;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.SignalAdapters
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Historic-replay handling (session eaf3d8c4): a previous enrollment's IME log surviving
+    /// on disk made the agent replay week-old script activity — 156 phantom script_completed
+    /// events with ~170 h durations (clock-clamped completion minus RAW stale start) and an
+    /// immediate-upload flood. Script events whose source line is &gt; 24 h stale are now
+    /// suppressed entirely (one-shot <c>historic_ime_replay_detected</c> summary instead),
+    /// and durations are computed from a timeline-consistent timestamp pair with a 24 h
+    /// plausibility backstop.
+    /// </summary>
+    public sealed class ImeLogTrackerAdapterHistoricReplayTests
+    {
+        private static readonly DateTime ClockNow = new DateTime(2026, 7, 23, 15, 42, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
+        // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Suppression: stale (> 24 h past) source lines are a previous enrollment
+        // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Stale_completion_is_suppressed_and_emits_oneshot_summary()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            var ancient = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ancient;
+
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "d78c1822",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Failed",
+                StartedAtUtc = ancient.AddMinutes(-30),
+                // Bootstrap marker in stdout — week-old evidence must not drive the
+                // bootstrap-detected trace either.
+                Stdout = "Bootstrap script version: v2.0",
+            });
+
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptFailed));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptTimeoutSuspected));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AgentTrace));
+
+            var summary = f.InfoEvent(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected);
+            Assert.Equal(ancient.ToString("o"), summary.Payload!["earliestRejectedSourceTimestamp"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Summary_is_oneshot_across_started_and_completed_suppressions()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptStartedFromTest(new ScriptStartedInfo { PolicyId = "aaa11111", ScriptType = "platform" });
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7).AddMinutes(1);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "aaa11111",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+            });
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7).AddMinutes(2);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "bbb22222",
+                ScriptType = "remediation",
+                ScriptPart = "detection",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                ComplianceResult = "True",
+            });
+
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptStarted));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+            // Exactly ONE summary regardless of how many replayed lines followed — and it dates
+            // the replay window from the FIRST (earliest) suppressed line.
+            var summary = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+            Assert.Equal(ClockNow.AddDays(-7).ToString("o"), summary.Payload!["earliestRejectedSourceTimestamp"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Fresh_events_after_suppression_emit_normally()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddDays(-7);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "aaa11111",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+            });
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+
+            // The agent catches up to current log content — normal emission resumes.
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-2);
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "ccc33333",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+                StartedAtUtc = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-3),
+            });
+
+            var info = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+            Assert.Equal("ccc33333", info.Payload!["policyId"]);
+            Assert.Equal("60.00", info.Payload["durationSeconds"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Clock_fallback_without_source_timestamp_still_emits()
+        {
+            // derivedFromClock with NO rejected source ts (synthetic/callback path) is not a
+            // replay — must emit, and must not trigger the summary.
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "ddd44444",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+            });
+
+            var info = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+            Assert.Equal("true", info.Payload!["derivedTimestamp"]);
+            Assert.False(info.Payload.ContainsKey("rejectedSourceTimestamp"));
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+        }
+
+        // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Duration: timeline-consistent pair + plausibility backstop
+        // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FutureSkew_completion_emits_with_clamped_stamp_and_raw_pair_duration()
+        {
+            // Mid-enrollment clock jump (WhiteGlove +1h CMTrace skew case): the source ts is
+            // rejected as future-skewed — NOT suppressed — and the duration must come from the
+            // raw source pair (both ends on the same skewed timeline), not clamped-now − raw-start.
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            var skewed = ClockNow.AddHours(2);
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = skewed;
+
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "eee55555",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Success",
+                StartedAtUtc = skewed.AddSeconds(-360),
+            });
+
+            var info = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted));
+            Assert.Equal(ClockNow, info.OccurredAtUtc);                       // stamp: clamped to clock
+            Assert.Equal("true", info.Payload!["derivedTimestamp"]);
+            Assert.Equal(skewed.ToString("o"), info.Payload["rejectedSourceTimestamp"]);
+            Assert.Equal("360.00", info.Payload["durationSeconds"]);          // duration: raw pair
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.HistoricImeReplayDetected));
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void FutureSkew_failed_platform_script_timeout_heuristic_uses_raw_pair()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            var skewed = ClockNow.AddHours(2);
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = skewed;
+
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "fff66666",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Failed",
+                StartedAtUtc = skewed.AddMinutes(-26),  // past the 25-min suspicion threshold
+            });
+
+            var suspected = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptTimeoutSuspected));
+            Assert.Equal("1560.00", suspected.Payload!["durationSeconds"]);
+            Assert.Equal(ClockNow, suspected.OccurredAtUtc);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Implausible_duration_above_24h_is_omitted()
+        {
+            // Fresh (accepted) completion paired with an ancient start — e.g. a stale pending
+            // slot a legacy path left behind. The duration would be a cross-run lie; omit it.
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddMinutes(-2);
+
+            adapter.TriggerScriptCompletedFromTest(new ScriptExecutionState
+            {
+                PolicyId = "abc12345",
+                ScriptType = "platform",
+                ExitCode = 0,
+                Result = "Failed",
+                StartedAtUtc = ClockNow.AddHours(-30),
+            });
+
+            var info = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptFailed));
+            Assert.False(info.Payload!.ContainsKey("durationSeconds"));
+            Assert.False(info.Payload.ContainsKey("durationBasis"));
+            // The 30 h "duration" must not read as a hung script either.
+            Assert.Empty(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptTimeoutSuspected));
+        }
+
+        // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+        // Tracker slot hardening: stale pending start must not pair with a fresh run
+        // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Fresh_start_discards_stale_pending_slot_from_previous_enrollment()
+        {
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(ClockNow);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+
+            // Previous enrollment: replayed start line whose matching result never appeared
+            // (the script was mid-run when that enrollment ended).
+            f.Tracker.SeedPendingPlatformScriptForTesting("beef7777", exitCode: null, exitObservedAtUtc: null,
+                startedAtUtc: ClockNow.AddDays(-7));
+
+            // Same policy genuinely re-runs now — the fresh start must begin a NEW execution.
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow.AddSeconds(-90);
+            f.Tracker.HandlePlatformScriptStarted("beef7777");
+
+            f.Tracker.LastMatchedLogTimestamp = ClockNow;
+            f.Tracker.CompletePlatformScriptFromImeResultForTesting("beef7777", "Success", ClockNow);
+
+            var info = f.InfoEvent(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted);
+            // Without the hardening the slot kept the 7-day-old start: the duration would have
+            // been dropped by the 24 h backstop (or, before that, shown as ~168 h).
+            Assert.Equal("90.00", info.Payload!["durationSeconds"]);
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/SignalAdapters/ImeLogTrackerAdapterTimingTests.cs

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.SignalAdapters
             var all = f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.ScriptCompleted);
             Assert.Equal(2, all.Count);
             Assert.Equal("65.00", all[1].Payload!["durationSeconds"]);
-            Assert.Equal("cycle_including_reporting_latency", all[1].Payload["durationBasis"]);
+            Assert.Equal("cycle_including_reporting_latency", all[1].Payload!["durationBasis"]);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -243,5 +243,87 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.SignalAdapters
 
             Assert.Equal(firstStamp, adapter.AppTimings["app-P"].StartedAtUtc);
         }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Terminal_to_active_retry_rearms_CompletedAt_and_final_terminal_covers_total_occupancy()
+        {
+            // Audit Q1: the IME retry path (Error -> Downloading -> Installed is permitted by
+            // AppPackageState.UpdateState). Pre-fix, CompletedAt froze at the first Error, so
+            // the final Installed payload carried the first failure's completedAt/duration.
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(T0);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            var app = new AppPackageState("app-R", 0);
+
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Unknown, AppInstallationState.Installing);
+            f.Clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Installing, AppInstallationState.Error);
+            f.Clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Error, AppInstallationState.Downloading);
+
+            // Re-armed while active again: the retry's download event carries no completedAt,
+            // and the FIRST start stamp is kept.
+            Assert.Null(adapter.AppTimings["app-R"].CompletedAtUtc);
+            var retryDownload = f.InfoEvent(SharedEventTypes.AppDownloadStarted);
+            Assert.False(retryDownload.Payload!.ContainsKey("completedAt"));
+            Assert.False(retryDownload.Payload.ContainsKey("durationSeconds"));
+            Assert.Equal(T0.ToString("o"), retryDownload.Payload["startedAt"]);
+
+            f.Clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20));
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Downloading, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+
+            var timing = adapter.AppTimings["app-R"];
+            Assert.Equal(T0, timing.StartedAtUtc);
+            Assert.Equal(T0.AddSeconds(35), timing.CompletedAtUtc);
+            Assert.Equal(35.0, timing.DurationSeconds);
+
+            var completed = Assert.Single(f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AppInstallComplete));
+            Assert.Equal("35.00", completed.Payload!["durationSeconds"]);
+            Assert.Equal(T0.AddSeconds(35).ToString("o"), completed.Payload["completedAt"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Skipped_then_retried_app_emits_positive_duration_from_retry_start()
+        {
+            // Production regression (session 66f1c5e1, audit Q1): a user-scope app evaluated
+            // Skipped during DeviceSetup (terminal, no start observed), retried after sign-in
+            // (Skipped -> Downloading is permitted), Installed later. Pre-fix payload:
+            // completedAt frozen at the early Skip + startedAt from the retry ->
+            // durationSeconds=-2342. Post-fix: retry re-arms, duration covers retry-start ->
+            // final terminal.
+            using var f = new ImeLogTrackerAdapterFixture(T0);
+            using var adapter = new ImeLogTrackerAdapter(f.Tracker, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
+            var app = new AppPackageState("app-S", 0);
+
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Unknown, AppInstallationState.Skipped);
+            Assert.Null(adapter.AppTimings["app-S"].StartedAtUtc);
+            Assert.Equal(T0, adapter.AppTimings["app-S"].CompletedAtUtc);
+
+            f.Clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60));
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Skipped, AppInstallationState.Downloading);
+            f.Clock.Advance(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
+            adapter.TriggerAppStateFromTest(app, AppInstallationState.Downloading, AppInstallationState.Installed);
+
+            var timing = adapter.AppTimings["app-S"];
+            Assert.Equal(T0.AddSeconds(60), timing.StartedAtUtc);
+            Assert.Equal(T0.AddSeconds(90), timing.CompletedAtUtc);
+            Assert.Equal(30.0, timing.DurationSeconds);
+
+            var completedEvents = f.InfoEvents(SharedEventTypes.AppInstallComplete);
+            Assert.Equal(2, completedEvents.Count);
+            Assert.Equal("30.00", completedEvents[1].Payload!["durationSeconds"]);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Inverted_endpoints_yield_null_DurationSeconds()
+        {
+            // Negative guard (audit Q1): endpoints stamped from out-of-order source lines must
+            // never surface as a negative durationSeconds (observed -2342s in production). The
+            // payload emitter omits the field when DurationSeconds is null.
+            var inverted = new AppInstallTiming(startedAtUtc: T0.AddSeconds(100), completedAtUtc: T0);
+            Assert.Null(inverted.DurationSeconds);
+
+            var wellOrdered = new AppInstallTiming(startedAtUtc: T0, completedAtUtc: T0.AddSeconds(100));
+            Assert.Equal(100.0, wellOrdered.DurationSeconds);
+        }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/SignalAdapters/RealmJoinWatcherAdapterTests.cs

@@ -151,17 +151,23 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.SignalAdapters
         }
 
         [Fact]
-        public void TriggerPhaseChangedFromTest_emits_informational_only_no_decision_signal()
+        public void TriggerPhaseChangedFromTest_emits_typed_signal_and_informational_event()
         {
             using var f = new Fixture();
             using var adapter = new RealmJoinWatcherAdapter(f.Watcher, f.Ingress, f.Clock);
 
             adapter.TriggerPhaseChangedFromTest(prev: 100, curr: 200);
 
-            // Phase change is observability-only. There is no DecisionSignalKind.RealmJoinPhaseChanged.
+            // 1) Typed signal — persists LastDeploymentPhase and drives the aborted-RJ-ESP
+            //    detection in the reducer (session 224b2087). Not Detected/Resolved.
             Assert.DoesNotContain(f.Ingress.Posted, p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.RealmJoinDetected);
             Assert.DoesNotContain(f.Ingress.Posted, p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.RealmJoinResolved);
+            var decision = f.Ingress.Posted.Single(p => p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.RealmJoinPhaseChanged);
+            Assert.Equal("RealmJoinWatcher", decision.SourceOrigin);
+            Assert.Equal("200", decision.Payload![DecisionEngine.RealmJoinPayloadKeys.DeploymentPhase]);
+            Assert.Equal("100", decision.Payload[DecisionEngine.RealmJoinPayloadKeys.PreviousPhase]);
 
+            // 2) Dual-emit informational event keeps the existing timeline entry.
             var info = f.Ingress.Posted.Single(p =>
                 p.Kind == DecisionSignalKind.InformationalEvent
                 && p.Payload != null

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Telemetry/BandwidthEstimatorTests.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-using System;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Telemetry.Periodic;
 using Xunit;
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
         private static List<BandwidthJobSample> Jobs(params BandwidthJobSample[] jobs)
             => new List<BandwidthJobSample>(jobs);
 
-        private static BandwidthJobSample Job(string fileId, long wan, long lan = 0)
+        private static BandwidthJobSample Job(string? fileId, long wan, long lan = 0)
             => new BandwidthJobSample { FileId = fileId, WanBytes = wan, LanBytes = lan };
 
         [Fact]
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
             Assert.NotNull(estimate);
             Assert.Equal(1, estimate.WanSampleCount);
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90.Value, 3);
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsMax.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90!.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsMax!.Value, 3);
             Assert.Equal(6_000_000, estimate.WanBytesObserved);
             Assert.Equal("10-50", estimate.Bucket);
         }
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
             estimator.AddSnapshot(T0.AddSeconds(3), Jobs(Job("a", 3_000_000), Job("b", 3_000_000)));
 
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90!.Value, 3);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
 
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
             Assert.Equal(2, estimate.WanSampleCount);
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsMax.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsMax!.Value, 3);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
             estimator.AddSnapshot(T0.AddSeconds(63), Jobs(Job("a", 106_000_000)));
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
             Assert.Equal(1, estimate.WanSampleCount);
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90!.Value, 3);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
             estimator.AddSnapshot(T0.AddSeconds(3), Jobs(Job("a", wan: 6_000_000, lan: 375_000_000)));
 
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90.Value, 3);
-            Assert.Equal(1000.0, estimate.LanMbpsP90.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90!.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(1000.0, estimate.LanMbpsP90!.Value, 3);
             Assert.Equal("10-50", estimate.Bucket); // bucket keyed to WAN, not LAN
         }
 
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
 
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
             Assert.Equal(20, estimate.WanSampleCount);
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90.Value, 3); // p90 stays on the steady plateau
-            Assert.Equal(160.0, estimate.WanMbpsMax.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90!.Value, 3); // p90 stays on the steady plateau
+            Assert.Equal(160.0, estimate.WanMbpsMax!.Value, 3);
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry
 
             var estimate = estimator.TryBuildEstimate();
             Assert.Equal(1, estimate.WanSampleCount); // only the finite positive sample survived
-            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90.Value, 3);
+            Assert.Equal(16.0, estimate.WanMbpsP90!.Value, 3);
             Assert.Equal(0, estimate.WanBytesObserved);
         }
 

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Telemetry/Events/TelemetryEventEmitterTests.cs

@@ -17,13 +17,25 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry.Events
             FakeTelemetryTransport transport,
             out EventSequenceCounter counter,
             string sessionId = "sess-1",
-            string tenantId = "tenant-1")
+            string tenantId = "tenant-1",
+            Func<bool>? traceEventsEnabled = null)
         {
             var tmp = new TempDirectory();
             counter = new EventSequenceCounter(new EventSequencePersistence(tmp.File("seq.json")));
-            return new TelemetryEventEmitter(transport, counter, sessionId, tenantId);
+            return new TelemetryEventEmitter(transport, counter, sessionId, tenantId, traceEventsEnabled);
         }
 
+        private static EnrollmentEvent NewTraceEvent(string eventType = "outbound_ip") =>
+            new EnrollmentEvent
+            {
+                EventType = eventType,
+                Severity = EventSeverity.Trace,
+                Source = "test",
+                Timestamp = At,
+                Phase = EnrollmentPhase.Unknown,
+                Message = "trace message",
+            };
+
         private static EnrollmentEvent NewTestEvent(string eventType = "enrollment_complete") =>
             new EnrollmentEvent
             {
@@ -49,6 +61,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry.Events
             Assert.Equal("sess-1", evt.SessionId);
             Assert.Equal("tenant-1", evt.TenantId);
 
+            Assert.NotNull(item);
             Assert.Equal(TelemetryItemKind.Event, item.Kind);
             Assert.Equal("tenant-1_sess-1", item.PartitionKey);
             Assert.Equal(evt.RowKey, item.RowKey);
@@ -174,5 +187,86 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Telemetry.Events
             Assert.Equal("test-reason", (string?)data["reason"]);
             Assert.Equal("Strong", (string?)data["wgConfidence"]);
         }
+
+        // ============================================================ Trace-event gate
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Trace_event_is_dropped_when_gate_is_off()
+        {
+            var transport = new FakeTelemetryTransport();
+            var emitter = Build(transport, out _, traceEventsEnabled: () => false);
+
+            var item = emitter.Emit(NewTraceEvent());
+
+            Assert.Null(item);
+            Assert.Equal(0, transport.EnqueueCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Trace_event_flows_when_gate_is_on()
+        {
+            var transport = new FakeTelemetryTransport();
+            var emitter = Build(transport, out _, traceEventsEnabled: () => true);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(emitter.Emit(NewTraceEvent()));
+            Assert.Equal(1, transport.EnqueueCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Trace_event_flows_when_no_gate_is_wired()
+        {
+            var transport = new FakeTelemetryTransport();
+            var emitter = Build(transport, out _);
+
+            Assert.NotNull(emitter.Emit(NewTraceEvent()));
+            Assert.Equal(1, transport.EnqueueCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Gate_off_does_not_suppress_non_trace_events()
+        {
+            var transport = new FakeTelemetryTransport();
+            var emitter = Build(transport, out _, traceEventsEnabled: () => false);
+
+            foreach (var severity in new[] { EventSeverity.Info, EventSeverity.Warning, EventSeverity.Error })
+            {
+                var evt = NewTestEvent();
+                evt.Severity = severity;
+                Assert.NotNull(emitter.Emit(evt));
+            }
+
+            Assert.Equal(3, transport.EnqueueCount);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Dropped_trace_event_does_not_consume_a_sequence_number()
+        {
+            var transport = new FakeTelemetryTransport();
+            var traceAllowed = true;
+            // ReSharper disable once AccessToModifiedClosure — deliberate: the gate is read
+            // per event, mirroring a mid-session remote-config merge.
+            var emitter = Build(transport, out _, traceEventsEnabled: () => traceAllowed);
+
+            emitter.Emit(NewTestEvent());          // seq 1
+            traceAllowed = false;
+            emitter.Emit(NewTraceEvent());         // dropped — must not burn seq 2
+            emitter.Emit(NewTestEvent());          // seq 2
+
+            Assert.Equal(2, transport.EnqueueCount);
+            var first = JObject.Parse(transport.Enqueued[0].PayloadJson);
+            var second = JObject.Parse(transport.Enqueued[1].PayloadJson);
+            Assert.Equal(1, (long)first["Sequence"]!);
+            Assert.Equal(2, (long)second["Sequence"]!);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Throwing_gate_fails_open_so_diagnostics_are_never_silently_lost()
+        {
+            var transport = new FakeTelemetryTransport();
+            var emitter = Build(transport, out _, traceEventsEnabled: () => throw new InvalidOperationException("boom"));
+
+            Assert.NotNull(emitter.Emit(NewTraceEvent()));
+            Assert.Equal(1, transport.EnqueueCount);
+        }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Termination/EnrollmentTerminationHandlerTests.cs

@@ -511,6 +511,88 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Termination
                 $"network_bandwidth_estimate (@{bandwidthIdx}) must precede whiteglove_part1_complete (@{part1CompleteIdx}) so the straggler stays in Part 1.");
         }
 
+        // ===================================================== WG Part-1 preprov diagnostics
+        // V1 parity (restored 2026-07-28): the seal exit uploads the diagnostics package as a
+        // pre-provisioning intermediate under the SAME mode gating as the terminal path — the
+        // seal counts as a success, so Always uploads, OnFailure skips (a Part-1 failure
+        // terminates via the regular Failed path, which uploads), Off does nothing.
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("Always", true, 1)]
+        [InlineData("OnFailure", true, 0)]
+        [InlineData("Off", true, 0)]
+        [InlineData("Always", false, 0)]
+        public void Handle_whiteglove_part1_diagnostics_upload_respects_mode(
+            string mode, bool enabled, int expected)
+        {
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            rig.State = new DecisionStateBuilder(DecisionState.CreateInitial("S1", "T1")) { Stage = SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed }.Build();
+            var cfg = rig.BuildConfig(diagEnabled: enabled, diagMode: mode);
+
+            rig.Build(cfg).Handle(sender: null!,
+                Args(EnrollmentTerminationReason.DecisionTerminalStage, EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Succeeded, SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed));
+
+            Assert.Equal(expected, rig.DiagnosticsUploads);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Handle_whiteglove_part1_diagnostics_upload_uses_preprov_suffix_and_succeeded_flag()
+        {
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            rig.State = new DecisionStateBuilder(DecisionState.CreateInitial("S1", "T1")) { Stage = SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed }.Build();
+            var cfg = rig.BuildConfig(diagEnabled: true, diagMode: "Always");
+
+            rig.Build(cfg).Handle(sender: null!,
+                Args(EnrollmentTerminationReason.DecisionTerminalStage, EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Succeeded, SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed));
+
+            Assert.Equal(1, rig.DiagnosticsUploads);
+            Assert.Equal("preprov", rig.LastDiagnosticsSuffix);
+            Assert.Equal(true, rig.LastDiagnosticsSucceededFlag);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Handle_whiteglove_part1_diagnostics_events_precede_part1_complete_marker()
+        {
+            // whiteglove_part1_complete is the authoritative Part-1/Part-2 boundary for the
+            // web split (computeWhiteGloveSplitSequence) — diagnostics_collecting/uploaded
+            // must sequence BEFORE it or they get mis-filed into the resumed Part-2 block.
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            rig.State = new DecisionStateBuilder(DecisionState.CreateInitial("S1", "T1")) { Stage = SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed }.Build();
+            rig.DiagnosticsResult = new DiagnosticsUploadResult { BlobName = "diag-preprov.zip" };
+            var cfg = rig.BuildConfig(diagEnabled: true, diagMode: "Always");
+
+            rig.Build(cfg).Handle(sender: null!,
+                Args(EnrollmentTerminationReason.DecisionTerminalStage, EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Succeeded, SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed));
+
+            var emitted = rig.EmittedEventTypes.ToList();
+            var collectingIdx = emitted.IndexOf("diagnostics_collecting");
+            var uploadedIdx = emitted.IndexOf("diagnostics_uploaded");
+            var part1CompleteIdx = emitted.IndexOf(Constants.EventTypes.WhiteGlovePart1Complete);
+
+            Assert.True(collectingIdx >= 0, "diagnostics_collecting must have been emitted.");
+            Assert.True(uploadedIdx >= 0, "diagnostics_uploaded must have been emitted.");
+            Assert.True(part1CompleteIdx >= 0, "whiteglove_part1_complete must have been emitted.");
+            Assert.True(uploadedIdx < part1CompleteIdx,
+                $"diagnostics_uploaded (@{uploadedIdx}) must precede whiteglove_part1_complete (@{part1CompleteIdx}) so the upload stays in Part 1.");
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Handle_whiteglove_part1_still_skips_cleanup_and_marker_when_diagnostics_enabled()
+        {
+            // The preprov upload must not change the Part-1 exit contract: no self-destruct,
+            // no enrollment-complete.marker, whiteglove.complete still written.
+            using var rig = new Rig();
+            rig.State = new DecisionStateBuilder(DecisionState.CreateInitial("S1", "T1")) { Stage = SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed }.Build();
+            var cfg = rig.BuildConfig(diagEnabled: true, diagMode: "Always");
+
+            rig.Build(cfg).Handle(sender: null!,
+                Args(EnrollmentTerminationReason.DecisionTerminalStage, EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Succeeded, SessionStage.WhiteGloveSealed));
+
+            Assert.Equal(0, rig.CleanupService.Invocations);
+            Assert.False(File.Exists(Path.Combine(rig.StateDir, "enrollment-complete.marker")));
+            Assert.True(rig.SessionPersistence.IsWhiteGloveResume());
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void Handle_standalone_reboot_fires_when_reboot_enabled_and_no_self_destruct()
         {

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests/Termination/ObservationCoverageTests.cs

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 using System;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Orchestration;
 using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Termination;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
 using Xunit;
 
 namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Termination
@@ -70,5 +72,82 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Tests.Termination
             Assert.Equal(0, bootToStart, 0);
             Assert.Equal(10, uptime, 0);
         }
+
+        // --- DescribeLateStart: outcome-calibrated severity + phrasing (fleet 2026-07-28) ---
+
+        private static void Describe(
+            EnrollmentTerminationOutcome outcome, string oobeState,
+            out EventSeverity severity, out string message, out string note)
+            => ObservationCoverage.DescribeLateStart(
+                outcome, oobeState, bootToStartSeconds: 34 * 60, uptimeSeconds: 30,
+                out severity, out message, out note);
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Failed_outcome_is_a_warning_with_the_hung_script_post_mortem_note()
+        {
+            Describe(EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Failed, "in_progress",
+                out var severity, out var message, out var note);
+
+            Assert.Equal(EventSeverity.Warning, severity);
+            Assert.Contains("low coverage of the enrollment window", message);
+            Assert.Contains("post-mortem", note);
+            Assert.Contains("hung ahead of the bootstrap", note);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void TimedOut_outcome_is_a_warning_like_a_failure()
+        {
+            Describe(EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.TimedOut, "in_progress",
+                out var severity, out _, out var note);
+
+            Assert.Equal(EventSeverity.Warning, severity);
+            Assert.Contains("post-mortem", note);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Succeeded_outcome_is_an_info_about_tail_only_coverage_without_alarm_framing()
+        {
+            // The 659c3a90 shape: healthy enrollment, bootstrap merely ran late in the ESP queue.
+            Describe(EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Succeeded, "in_progress",
+                out var severity, out _, out var note);
+
+            Assert.Equal(EventSeverity.Info, severity);
+            Assert.Contains("succeeded", note);
+            Assert.Contains("IME log replay", note);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("post-mortem", note);
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("hung", note);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Oobe_completed_at_start_phrases_a_pure_post_mortem()
+        {
+            Describe(EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Failed, "completed",
+                out _, out var message, out _);
+
+            Assert.Contains("OOBE was already completed when the agent started", message);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public void Oobe_in_progress_at_start_phrases_the_live_tail()
+        {
+            Describe(EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Failed, "in_progress",
+                out _, out var message, out _);
+
+            Assert.Contains("OOBE was still in progress at agent start", message);
+            Assert.Contains("final 30s live", message);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("not_started")]  // flips in after a mid-OOBE reboot — not interpretable
+        [InlineData("unavailable")]  // WinRT contract absent / read failed
+        [InlineData("unknown_3")]    // unexpected enum value
+        public void Uninterpretable_oobe_states_add_no_claim_to_the_message(string oobeState)
+        {
+            Describe(EnrollmentTerminationOutcome.Failed, oobeState,
+                out _, out var message, out _);
+
+            Assert.DoesNotContain("OOBE", message);
+            Assert.EndsWith("low coverage of the enrollment window.", message);
+        }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Configuration/AgentConfiguration.cs

@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Configuration
         /// </summary>
         public string ImeMatchLogPath { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Optional path to write a gather-rule evaluation trace (for debugging).
+        /// If empty, no trace is written. Set from remote config (EnableGatherRuleDebugLog)
+        /// or the --gather-debug-log CLI override.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string GatherRuleDebugLogPath { get; set; }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Path to directory with real IME log files for log replay.
         /// When set, the agent replays these logs with time compression instead of reading live logs.

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Configuration/RemoteConfigMerger.cs

@@ -135,6 +135,24 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Configuration
                 }
             }
 
+            // ---------------- GatherRuleDebugLog: same bool→path projection as ImeMatchLog
+            //                  above. `true` expands Constants.GatherRuleDebugLogPath, `false`
+            //                  nulls the runtime path unless a --gather-debug-log CLI override
+            //                  supplied a non-default path.
+            if (remoteConfig.EnableGatherRuleDebugLog)
+            {
+                agentConfig.GatherRuleDebugLogPath = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(Constants.GatherRuleDebugLogPath);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                var defaultGatherDebugPath = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(Constants.GatherRuleDebugLogPath);
+                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(agentConfig.GatherRuleDebugLogPath)
+                    || string.Equals(agentConfig.GatherRuleDebugLogPath, defaultGatherDebugPath, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                {
+                    agentConfig.GatherRuleDebugLogPath = null;
+                }
+            }
+
             // ---------------- Upload interval / batch — direct, V1 parity (no > 0 gate so a
             //                  misconfigured tenant can in theory break uploads, but this
             //                  surfaces the config bug instead of silently masking it).

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Configuration/RemoteConfigService.cs

@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Configuration
                 KeepLogFile = false,
                 EnableGeoLocation = true,
                 EnableImeMatchLog = false,
+                EnableGatherRuleDebugLog = false,
                 Collectors = CollectorConfiguration.CreateDefault(),
                 GatherRules = new System.Collections.Generic.List<GatherRule>(),
                 ImeLogPatterns = new System.Collections.Generic.List<ImeLogPattern>()

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/Ime/AppInstallTiming.cs

@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime
     /// the <c>app_tracking_summary</c> terminal event.
     /// <para>
     /// <b>StartedAtUtc</b> is recorded on the first lifecycle transition into Downloading /
-    /// Installing / InProgress. <b>CompletedAtUtc</b> is recorded on the first transition to a
-    /// terminal state (Installed / Skipped / Postponed / Error). Both are "set-once" — subsequent
-    /// identical-state events do not overwrite an earlier stamp.
+    /// Installing / InProgress and never overwritten. <b>CompletedAtUtc</b> is recorded on a
+    /// transition to a terminal state (Installed / Skipped / Postponed / Error) and re-armed
+    /// to <c>null</c> when the app goes terminal → active again (IME retry / re-evaluation,
+    /// audit Q1) — so the final terminal event carries first-start → last-terminal.
     /// </para>
     /// </summary>
     public sealed class AppInstallTiming
@@ -30,10 +31,14 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime
         /// <summary>
         /// Elapsed time from first Downloading/Installing transition to terminal state, in
         /// seconds. <c>null</c> when either endpoint is missing (e.g. app still installing,
-        /// or the adapter missed the start event because it came online mid-install).
+        /// or the adapter missed the start event because it came online mid-install) — and
+        /// <c>null</c> when the endpoints are inverted (CompletedAt before StartedAt: log lines
+        /// from different source files can be processed out of chronological order; observed in
+        /// production as durationSeconds=-2342 on a Skipped-then-retried user-scope app,
+        /// audit Q1). A negative duration is never a real measurement, so it is not emitted.
         /// </summary>
         public double? DurationSeconds =>
-            StartedAtUtc.HasValue && CompletedAtUtc.HasValue
+            StartedAtUtc.HasValue && CompletedAtUtc.HasValue && CompletedAtUtc.Value >= StartedAtUtc.Value
                 ? (CompletedAtUtc.Value - StartedAtUtc.Value).TotalSeconds
                 : (double?)null;
     }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/Ime/ImeLogTracker.Handlers.cs

@@ -208,39 +208,60 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime
             }
             else
             {
-                // Platform script: AgentExecutor.log entries create/enrich, IME log entries also create
-                if (!_pendingPlatformScripts.ContainsKey(id))
-                {
-                    // A fresh start for this policy (no pending entry) begins a NEW execution.
-                    // Clear any emitted-marker from a prior run so IME re-evaluations / retries of
-                    // the same platform-script policy within one agent lifetime are not silently
-                    // deduped away. Within a single run the start always precedes exit/result, so
-                    // this never clears the current run's own marker.
-                    _platformScriptResultEmitted.Remove(id);
-                    _pendingPlatformScripts[id] = new ScriptExecutionState
-                    {
-                        PolicyId = id,
-                        ScriptType = "platform",
-                        // Prefer the source CMTrace timestamp so a script that started before the
-                        // agent launched (replayed log content) is dated to its real start, not now.
-                        // Set only at slot creation: the start line fires twice (agentexecutor + ime
-                        // source) but the earliest wins.
-                        StartedAtUtc = LastMatchedLogTimestamp ?? DateTime.UtcNow,
-                    };
-                    // Live "running" indicator — same signal health scripts emit. Gated on slot
-                    // creation so the duplicate start line (agentexecutor + ime source) doesn't
-                    // double-emit for the same execution.
-                    try { OnScriptStarted?.Invoke(new ScriptStartedInfo { PolicyId = id, ScriptType = "platform" }); }
-                    catch (Exception ex) { _logger.Warning($"ImeLogTracker: OnScriptStarted handler threw: {ex.Message}"); }
-                }
-                _lastPlatformScriptPolicyId = id;
-                // Started lines fire twice per script (agentexecutor + ime source) and carry no
-                // outcome — the matching `platform script completed` line below carries result+exit
-                // and stays on Info. Keep starts on Debug so Info reflects script outcomes only.
-                _logger.Debug($"ImeLogTracker: platform script started: {id} (source: {source ?? "ime"})");
+                HandlePlatformScriptStarted(id, source);
             }
         }
 
+        // Platform script: AgentExecutor.log entries create/enrich, IME log entries also create.
+        // Internal so the stale-slot hardening is directly testable (the public path arrives via
+        // a regex Match).
+        internal void HandlePlatformScriptStarted(string id, string source = null)
+        {
+            // Stale-slot hardening (session eaf3d8c4): a replayed start line from a previous
+            // enrollment whose matching result never appeared (script was mid-run when that
+            // enrollment ended) leaves a pending slot with a days-old StartedAtUtc. When the
+            // same policy genuinely re-runs now, the fresh start must begin a NEW execution —
+            // otherwise the ancient start pairs with the fresh completion and the duration
+            // lies. > 24 h mirrors the adapter's source-timestamp staleness clamp.
+            var currentStartTs = LastMatchedLogTimestamp ?? DateTime.UtcNow;
+            if (_pendingPlatformScripts.TryGetValue(id, out var pendingSlot)
+                && pendingSlot.StartedAtUtc.HasValue
+                && currentStartTs - pendingSlot.StartedAtUtc.Value > TimeSpan.FromHours(24))
+            {
+                _logger.Debug($"ImeLogTracker: discarding stale pending platform-script slot for {id} (started {pendingSlot.StartedAtUtc:o})");
+                _pendingPlatformScripts.Remove(id);
+            }
+            if (!_pendingPlatformScripts.ContainsKey(id))
+            {
+                // A fresh start for this policy (no pending entry) begins a NEW execution.
+                // Clear any emitted-marker from a prior run so IME re-evaluations / retries of
+                // the same platform-script policy within one agent lifetime are not silently
+                // deduped away. Within a single run the start always precedes exit/result, so
+                // this never clears the current run's own marker.
+                _platformScriptResultEmitted.Remove(id);
+                _pendingPlatformScripts[id] = new ScriptExecutionState
+                {
+                    PolicyId = id,
+                    ScriptType = "platform",
+                    // Prefer the source CMTrace timestamp so a script that started before the
+                    // agent launched (replayed log content) is dated to its real start, not now.
+                    // Set only at slot creation: the start line fires twice (agentexecutor + ime
+                    // source) but the earliest wins.
+                    StartedAtUtc = currentStartTs,
+                };
+                // Live "running" indicator — same signal health scripts emit. Gated on slot
+                // creation so the duplicate start line (agentexecutor + ime source) doesn't
+                // double-emit for the same execution.
+                try { OnScriptStarted?.Invoke(new ScriptStartedInfo { PolicyId = id, ScriptType = "platform" }); }
+                catch (Exception ex) { _logger.Warning($"ImeLogTracker: OnScriptStarted handler threw: {ex.Message}"); }
+            }
+            _lastPlatformScriptPolicyId = id;
+            // Started lines fire twice per script (agentexecutor + ime source) and carry no
+            // outcome — the matching `platform script completed` line below carries result+exit
+            // and stays on Info. Keep starts on Debug so Info reflects script outcomes only.
+            _logger.Debug($"ImeLogTracker: platform script started: {id} (source: {source ?? "ime"})");
+        }
+
         // Routes line-by-line script-data handlers (context / exitCode / output) to the right
         // accumulator based on the pattern's scriptType parameter. Health-script lines feed the
         // single-slot _pendingHealthScript; platform-script lines feed _pendingPlatformScripts.

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/Ime/ImeLogTracker.LogProcessing.cs

@@ -194,6 +194,27 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime
             }
         }
 
+        // Actions that mutate app/phase tracking state (_packageStates, _phasePackageSnapshots,
+        // _currentPhaseOrder, DO telemetry) — the historic-replay guard skips these for source
+        // lines from a previous enrollment so replayed apps never enter tracked state,
+        // persistence, app_tracking_summary, culprit lists or final-status. Script actions are
+        // deliberately NOT here: their tracker state is harmless (stale-slot hardening covers
+        // leftovers) and the adapter suppresses their emissions. espphasedetected IS here — a
+        // stale "In EspPhase: AccountSetup" would advance _currentPhaseOrder and make the fresh
+        // enrollment's DeviceSetup lines bounce as "backward"; IME re-logs the phase constantly,
+        // so fresh lines re-deliver it immediately.
+        private static readonly HashSet<string> AppMutatingActions = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
+        {
+            "imeshutdown", "espphasedetected", "setcurrentapp",
+            "updatestateinstalled", "updatestatedownloading", "updatestateinstalling",
+            "updatestateskipped", "updatestateerror", "updatestatepostponed",
+            "captureexitcode", "capturehresult", "captureappversion",
+            "captureapptypewinget", "captureapptypemsi", "captureattemptnumber",
+            "capturedetectionresult", "esptrackstatus", "policiesdiscovered",
+            "ignorecompletedapp", "updatename", "updatewin32appstate",
+            "cancelstuckandsetcurrent", "updatedotelemetry",
+        };
+
         private void HandlePatternMatch(CompiledPattern pattern, Match match, string message, CmTraceLogEntry entry)
         {
             LastMatchedPatternId = pattern.PatternId;
@@ -206,6 +227,19 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime
             try { OnPatternMatched?.Invoke(pattern.PatternId); }
             catch (Exception ex) { _logger?.Warning($"OnPatternMatched handler threw: {ex.Message}"); }
 
+            // Historic-replay guard (session eaf3d8c4): a source line > 24 h older than now is
+            // content from a previous enrollment whose IME log survived on disk. App-mutating
+            // actions are skipped BEFORE _seenAppIds so replayed apps poison neither the tracked
+            // state nor the phase-change ignore list. SimulationMode (--replay-log-dir dev tool)
+            // replays historic logs on purpose and bypasses the guard.
+            var isStaleReplayLine = !SimulationMode && entry != null
+                && (UtcNowProvider() - NormalizeUtc(entry.Timestamp)) > HistoricReplayThreshold;
+            if (isStaleReplayLine && AppMutatingActions.Contains(pattern.Action?.ToLower() ?? string.Empty))
+            {
+                _logger.Debug($"ImeLogTracker: skipped app action '{pattern.Action}' for historic line ({entry.Timestamp:o})");
+                return;
+            }
+
             try
             {
                 var id = match.Groups["id"]?.Value;

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/Ime/ImeLogTracker.cs

@@ -71,6 +71,23 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.Ime
         public double SpeedFactor { get; set; } = 50;
         private DateTime _lastLogTimestamp = DateTime.MinValue;
 
+        // Source log lines older than this relative to now are content from a previous
+        // enrollment (IME logs surviving a re-enrollment, session eaf3d8c4). Single source of
+        // truth shared with the adapter's ResolveOccurredAt clamp and replay suppression.
+        internal static readonly TimeSpan HistoricReplayThreshold = TimeSpan.FromHours(24);
+
+        // Deterministic-time seam for the historic-replay guard; production default is the
+        // system clock, ImeLogHost rewires it to the agent IClock, tests to their VirtualClock.
+        internal Func<DateTime> UtcNowProvider { get; set; } = () => DateTime.UtcNow;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// CMTrace timestamps from IME are emitted in UTC, but DateTimeKind may arrive as
+        /// Unspecified depending on the parser path. Normalize via SpecifyKind=Utc rather than
+        /// ToUniversalTime() to avoid double-conversion when Kind is already UTC.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static DateTime NormalizeUtc(DateTime value) =>
+            value.Kind == DateTimeKind.Utc ? value : DateTime.SpecifyKind(value, DateTimeKind.Utc);
+
         // Background task
         private Task _pollingTask;
         private CancellationTokenSource _cts;

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/SystemSignals/DesktopArrivalDetector.cs

@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
         internal Func<int, string> SessionOwnerResolver { get; set; }
         internal Func<int, string> ProcessOwnerResolver { get; set; }
 
+        // Test seam for the WinRT OOBE-state sample (null = OobeStateReader.Read).
+        internal Func<string> OobeStateProvider { get; set; }
+
+        // OOBE-state flip tracking (observational only — see OobeStateReader contract).
+        // _oobeCompletedEmitted is one-shot per agent lifetime and deliberately NOT reset
+        // by ResetForRealUserSwitch: the OOBE flip is a global OS transition, not per-user.
+        private string _lastOobeState;
+        private bool _oobeCompletedEmitted;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// System/service account names that should NOT be considered real users.
         /// </summary>
@@ -161,6 +170,10 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
         {
             _startedAtUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;
 
+            // Baseline OOBE-state sample so the first poll can already detect a flip
+            // (self-contained try/catch inside, like the Emit* helpers).
+            CheckOobeStateFlip();
+
             _pollingTimer?.Dispose();
             _pollingTimer = new Timer(
                 PollForDesktop,
@@ -186,6 +199,8 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
 
             _pollCount++;
 
+            CheckOobeStateFlip();
+
             try
             {
                 var explorerProcesses = Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer");
@@ -381,6 +396,66 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
             catch (Exception ex) { _logger.Verbose($"DesktopArrivalDetector: detector-started emit failed: {ex.Message}"); }
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Samples the WinRT OOBE state (<see cref="OobeStateReader"/>) and emits the one-shot
+        /// <c>oobe_state_completed</c> trace event on the in_progress-&gt;completed flip.
+        /// Observational only — an owner-independent desktop corroboration for sessions where
+        /// WTS+WMI owner resolution starves and <c>desktop_arrived</c> never fires. Often absent
+        /// in healthy sessions: the polling timer is disposed at desktop arrival, which is when
+        /// the flip lands (empirical probe, session 9c404ae9).
+        /// <para>
+        /// Self-contained try/catch: a throw here must NOT reach <see cref="PollForDesktop"/>'s
+        /// outer catch, which would inflate <see cref="_wmiErrorCountSinceStart"/> and skew the
+        /// session-4d5a0b78 liveness diagnostics. "unavailable" readings never overwrite the last
+        /// known state, so a transient reflection failure between two polls cannot mask the flip.
+        /// One-shot flag survives <see cref="ResetForRealUserSwitch"/> — the flip is a global OS
+        /// transition, not per-user.
+        /// </para>
+        /// </summary>
+        private void CheckOobeStateFlip()
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                var current = (OobeStateProvider ?? OobeStateReader.Read)();
+                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(current) || current == OobeStateReader.Unavailable)
+                    return;
+
+                if (!_oobeCompletedEmitted
+                    && _lastOobeState == "in_progress"
+                    && current == "completed")
+                {
+                    _oobeCompletedEmitted = true;
+                    var minutesSinceStart = Math.Round((DateTime.UtcNow - _startedAtUtc).TotalMinutes, 1);
+                    _logger.Info("DesktopArrivalDetector: OOBE state flipped in_progress->completed (WinRT SystemSetupInfo)");
+                    OnTraceEvent?.Invoke(
+                        SharedEventTypes.OobeStateCompleted,
+                        $"OOBE state flipped in_progress->completed (WinRT SystemSetupInfo, poll {_pollCount}) — owner-independent desktop corroboration.",
+                        new Dictionary<string, object>
+                        {
+                            { "previousState", "in_progress" },
+                            { "pollCount", _pollCount },
+                            { "minutesSinceStart", minutesSinceStart },
+                            { "desktopArrived", _desktopArrived },
+                            { "wmiErrorCount", _wmiErrorCountSinceStart },
+                            { "wtsErrorCount", _wtsErrorCountSinceStart },
+                        });
+                }
+
+                _lastOobeState = current;
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                _logger.Verbose($"DesktopArrivalDetector: OOBE state check failed: {ex.Message}");
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Drives a single synchronous poll for unit tests — the production poll is private and
+        /// timer-driven with a fixed 30 s interval (precedent: <see cref="ResolveOwner"/> is
+        /// likewise internal for direct testing).
+        /// </summary>
+        internal void PollOnceForTest() => PollForDesktop(null);
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Resolves the owning user of an explorer.exe candidate. Session 4d5a0b78 fix
         /// (2026-06-11): the WMI <c>Win32_Process.GetOwner</c> call failed on every poll on

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/SystemSignals/EspFailureDetectedEventArgs.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
 {
@@ -38,16 +39,30 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
         /// </summary>
         public string Category { get; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Session 4910a5a5: names of the tracked apps most likely behind an Apps-subcategory
+        /// failure (capped, never-started apps ranked first — those starve ESP's app gate
+        /// without ever producing an IME install event). Snapshot from
+        /// <c>ProvisioningStatusTracker.SnapshotTrackedAppsNotCompleted</c> at failure-arming
+        /// time; empty for non-Apps failures and event-log-derived failures. Propagated onto
+        /// the EspTerminalFailure signal payload so the DecisionEngine's
+        /// <c>esp_failure_advisory</c> / <c>enrollment_failed</c> events can name the culprit
+        /// directly.
+        /// </summary>
+        public IReadOnlyList<string> LikelyCulpritApps { get; }
+
         public EspFailureDetectedEventArgs(
             string failureType,
             string errorCode = null,
             string failedSubcategory = null,
-            string category = null)
+            string category = null,
+            IReadOnlyList<string> likelyCulpritApps = null)
         {
             FailureType = string.IsNullOrEmpty(failureType) ? "unknown" : failureType;
             ErrorCode = string.IsNullOrEmpty(errorCode) ? null : errorCode;
             FailedSubcategory = string.IsNullOrEmpty(failedSubcategory) ? null : failedSubcategory;
             Category = string.IsNullOrEmpty(category) ? null : category;
+            LikelyCulpritApps = likelyCulpritApps ?? Array.Empty<string>();
         }
     }
 }

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/SystemSignals/EspPolicyProviderProbe.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,307 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Globalization;
+using System.Linq;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using Microsoft.Win32;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Session 5d735290 (2026-07-23) — reads the ESP's registered policy providers from
+    /// <c>HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot\EnrollmentStatusTracking</c>, the registry
+    /// mirror of the EnrollmentStatusTracking CSP
+    /// (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/mdm/enrollmentstatustracking-csp).
+    /// <para>
+    /// CSP contract the ESP enforces (quotes from the doc above):
+    /// <list type="bullet">
+    ///   <item><c>Setup/Apps/PolicyProviders/&lt;Name&gt;</c> — "Existence of this node indicates
+    ///     to the ESP that it shouldn't show the tracking status message until the
+    ///     TrackingPoliciesCreated node has been set to true." This wait has NO timeout: a
+    ///     registered provider that never sets <c>TrackingPoliciesCreated=1</c> parks the ESP at
+    ///     "Apps (Identifying)" indefinitely (observed for days in the field).</item>
+    ///   <item><c>DevicePreparation/PolicyProviders/&lt;Name&gt;/InstallationState</c> — must reach
+    ///     2 (NotRequired) or 3 (Completed); 1=NotInstalled, 4=Error. ESP applies a default
+    ///     15-minute timeout here, so stalls in this stage are self-surfacing — still reported
+    ///     for the diagnostic trail.</item>
+    /// </list>
+    /// Registry layout: <c>Device</c> subkey for device scope, <c>S-&lt;SID&gt;</c> subkeys for user
+    /// scope (appear at sign-in), each containing <c>Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders\&lt;Name&gt;</c>;
+    /// <c>DevicePreparation\PolicyProviders</c> exists in device scope only.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Known provider names: <c>Sidecar</c> is the Intune Management Extension ("Intune's agents,
+    /// such as SideCar" per the CSP doc); <c>ConfigMgr</c> is the Configuration Manager client
+    /// (registered during Autopilot-into-co-management, see the troubleshooting registry paths in
+    /// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/comanage/autopilot-enrollment). Microsoft
+    /// warns that ESP policy providers are not aware of each other and that pre-provisioning is
+    /// unsupported with co-management. Field case that motivated this probe (issue #106): a
+    /// pre-provisioned device with the ConfigMgr client installed as a blocking app ended up with
+    /// ONLY <c>ConfigMgr</c> registered under <c>Device\Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders</c> (no
+    /// <c>Sidecar</c>) — and although <c>TrackingPoliciesCreated=1</c> WAS set under it, the user
+    /// ESP hung at "Apps (Identifying)" for hours to days; manually renaming the key to
+    /// <c>Sidecar</c> unblocked it immediately. So the ESP's Apps wait is keyed to the provider
+    /// the Intune service registered at enrollment (always <c>Sidecar</c>; ConfigMgr only joins
+    /// via a co-management settings policy — see the WAP payload documented in
+    /// https://oofhours.com/2023/08/25/run-an-sccm-task-sequence-during-autopilot/), and a
+    /// foreign provider's completion values do not satisfy it. Detection therefore keys on the
+    /// provider NAME topology, not only on completeness:
+    /// <see cref="EspPolicyProviderStallDetector"/> turns this contract into the two-arm
+    /// <c>esp_policy_provider_stalled</c> tripwire.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Fail-soft like <see cref="EspTrackingInfoProbe"/>: any failure is Debug-logged and yields
+    /// <see cref="EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty"/>; a missing root key (early enrollment,
+    /// non-Autopilot device) is not an error. Values are parsed defensively — a missing or
+    /// unparseable value counts as incomplete (fail-toward-observation).
+    /// </para>
+    /// </summary>
+    internal static class EspPolicyProviderProbe
+    {
+        internal const string TrackingRootKeyPath =
+            @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Autopilot\EnrollmentStatusTracking";
+
+        /// <summary>Provider kind: <c>Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders</c> (TrackingPoliciesCreated wait, no timeout).</summary>
+        internal const string KindSetupApps = "setupApps";
+
+        /// <summary>Provider kind: <c>DevicePreparation\PolicyProviders</c> (InstallationState wait, 15-min OS timeout).</summary>
+        internal const string KindDevicePreparation = "devicePreparation";
+
+        /// <summary>The IME's provider name — its absence while other providers are registered is the field-case signature.</summary>
+        internal const string SidecarProviderName = "Sidecar";
+
+        internal const string DeviceScope = "device";
+
+        private const string TrackingPoliciesCreatedValueName = "TrackingPoliciesCreated";
+        private const string InstallationStateValueName = "InstallationState";
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Test seam — when non-null, <see cref="Read"/> delegates to this func instead of
+        /// touching the live registry. Use <see cref="ScopedOverride"/> to guarantee cleanup.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static Func<AgentLogger, EspPolicyProviderSnapshot> TestOverride;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Reads all registered ESP policy providers. <see cref="EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.HasData"/>
+        /// is <c>true</c> when the EnrollmentStatusTracking root key existed and was readable
+        /// (even with no providers registered); <see cref="EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty"/> otherwise.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="logger">Optional logger — Debug-level trace only; no warn/error.</param>
+        public static EspPolicyProviderSnapshot Read(AgentLogger logger = null)
+        {
+            var probe = TestOverride;
+            if (probe != null) return probe(logger);
+
+            try
+            {
+                using (var rootKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(TrackingRootKeyPath))
+                {
+                    if (rootKey == null)
+                    {
+                        logger?.Debug("EspPolicyProviderProbe: EnrollmentStatusTracking registry key not found");
+                        return EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty;
+                    }
+
+                    var providers = new List<PolicyProviderState>();
+
+                    foreach (var scopeName in rootKey.GetSubKeyNames())
+                    {
+                        var isDevice = string.Equals(scopeName, "Device", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+                        // User scope repeats the Setup structure under the signed-in user's SID.
+                        var isUserSid = scopeName.StartsWith("S-", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+                        if (!isDevice && !isUserSid) continue;
+
+                        var scopeLabel = isDevice ? DeviceScope : "user:" + scopeName;
+                        using (var scopeKey = rootKey.OpenSubKey(scopeName))
+                        {
+                            if (scopeKey == null) continue;
+
+                            CollectProviders(
+                                scopeKey, @"Setup\Apps\PolicyProviders", scopeLabel, KindSetupApps,
+                                TrackingPoliciesCreatedValueName, providers, logger);
+
+                            if (isDevice)
+                            {
+                                CollectProviders(
+                                    scopeKey, @"DevicePreparation\PolicyProviders", scopeLabel, KindDevicePreparation,
+                                    InstallationStateValueName, providers, logger);
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    return new EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(providers);
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                logger?.Debug($"EspPolicyProviderProbe: read threw: {ex.Message}");
+                return EspPolicyProviderSnapshot.Empty;
+            }
+        }
+
+        private static void CollectProviders(
+            RegistryKey scopeKey,
+            string providersSubPath,
+            string scopeLabel,
+            string kind,
+            string stateValueName,
+            List<PolicyProviderState> providers,
+            AgentLogger logger)
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                using (var providersKey = scopeKey.OpenSubKey(providersSubPath))
+                {
+                    if (providersKey == null) return;
+
+                    foreach (var providerName in providersKey.GetSubKeyNames())
+                    {
+                        using (var providerKey = providersKey.OpenSubKey(providerName))
+                        {
+                            if (providerKey == null) continue;
+                            var value = TryReadInt(providerKey.GetValue(stateValueName));
+                            providers.Add(new PolicyProviderState(
+                                name: providerName,
+                                scope: scopeLabel,
+                                kind: kind,
+                                trackingPoliciesCreated: kind == KindSetupApps ? value : null,
+                                installationState: kind == KindDevicePreparation ? value : null));
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                logger?.Debug($"EspPolicyProviderProbe: '{providersSubPath}' ({scopeLabel}) read threw: {ex.Message}");
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Defensive value parse: REG_DWORD expected per CSP (booleans stored as 0/1), but string
+        /// forms are tolerated. Anything missing or unparseable is <c>null</c> — which the
+        /// completion rule treats as incomplete.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static int? TryReadInt(object rawValue)
+        {
+            switch (rawValue)
+            {
+                case null: return null;
+                case int i: return i;
+                case long l when l >= int.MinValue && l <= int.MaxValue: return (int)l;
+                case string s when int.TryParse(s.Trim(), NumberStyles.Integer, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, out var parsed):
+                    return parsed;
+                case bool b: return b ? 1 : 0;
+                default: return null;
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Pure completion rule per the CSP contract: <c>setupApps</c> providers are complete when
+        /// <c>TrackingPoliciesCreated == 1</c>; <c>devicePreparation</c> providers when
+        /// <c>InstallationState</c> is 2 (NotRequired) or 3 (Completed).
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static bool IsProviderComplete(string kind, int? trackingPoliciesCreated, int? installationState)
+            => kind == KindSetupApps
+                ? trackingPoliciesCreated == 1
+                : installationState == 2 || installationState == 3;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Disposable scope that sets <see cref="TestOverride"/> for the lifetime of the scope
+        /// and restores the previous value on Dispose. Nestable. Internal test-only helper.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal sealed class ScopedOverride : IDisposable
+        {
+            private readonly Func<AgentLogger, EspPolicyProviderSnapshot> _previous;
+            private int _disposed;
+
+            public ScopedOverride(Func<AgentLogger, EspPolicyProviderSnapshot> probe)
+            {
+                _previous = TestOverride;
+                TestOverride = probe;
+            }
+
+            public void Dispose()
+            {
+                if (System.Threading.Interlocked.Exchange(ref _disposed, 1) == 1) return;
+                TestOverride = _previous;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// One registered ESP policy provider with its completion-relevant state.
+    /// <see cref="Key"/> is the stable identity used for dwell tracking and one-shot latching.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal readonly struct PolicyProviderState
+    {
+        public PolicyProviderState(string name, string scope, string kind, int? trackingPoliciesCreated, int? installationState)
+        {
+            Name = name ?? string.Empty;
+            Scope = scope ?? string.Empty;
+            Kind = kind ?? string.Empty;
+            TrackingPoliciesCreated = trackingPoliciesCreated;
+            InstallationState = installationState;
+            IsComplete = EspPolicyProviderProbe.IsProviderComplete(kind, trackingPoliciesCreated, installationState);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Provider key name, e.g. "Sidecar" or "ConfigMgr".</summary>
+        public string Name { get; }
+
+        /// <summary><c>"device"</c> or <c>"user:S-1-5-21-…"</c>.</summary>
+        public string Scope { get; }
+
+        /// <summary><see cref="EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps"/> or <see cref="EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindDevicePreparation"/>.</summary>
+        public string Kind { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>Raw <c>TrackingPoliciesCreated</c> value (setupApps only); <c>null</c> when missing/unparseable.</summary>
+        public int? TrackingPoliciesCreated { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>Raw <c>InstallationState</c> value (devicePreparation only); <c>null</c> when missing/unparseable.</summary>
+        public int? InstallationState { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>Completion per <see cref="EspPolicyProviderProbe.IsProviderComplete"/>.</summary>
+        public bool IsComplete { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>Stable dwell/latch identity: <c>kind|scope|name</c>.</summary>
+        public string Key => Kind + "|" + Scope + "|" + Name;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Snapshot of all registered ESP policy providers. <see cref="HasData"/> is <c>false</c> only
+    /// when the EnrollmentStatusTracking root key was missing or unreadable — an empty provider
+    /// list with <see cref="HasData"/> = <c>true</c> is valid data (nothing registered yet).
+    /// </summary>
+    internal readonly struct EspPolicyProviderSnapshot
+    {
+        public static readonly EspPolicyProviderSnapshot Empty = default;
+
+        public EspPolicyProviderSnapshot(IReadOnlyList<PolicyProviderState> providers)
+        {
+            HasData = true;
+            Providers = providers ?? Array.Empty<PolicyProviderState>();
+        }
+
+        /// <summary><c>true</c> when the EnrollmentStatusTracking root key existed and was readable.</summary>
+        public bool HasData { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>All registered providers across scopes and kinds; empty when none registered.</summary>
+        public IReadOnlyList<PolicyProviderState> Providers { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// <c>true</c> when a <c>Setup\Apps</c> provider named "Sidecar" (the IME) is registered in
+        /// any scope — its absence while other providers are registered is the co-management
+        /// field-case signature.
+        /// </summary>
+        public bool SidecarRegistered
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                var providers = Providers;
+                if (providers == null) return false;
+                return providers.Any(p =>
+                    p.Kind == EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps &&
+                    string.Equals(p.Name, EspPolicyProviderProbe.SidecarProviderName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/SystemSignals/EspPolicyProviderStallDetector.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,315 @@
+#nullable enable
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Logging;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Orchestration;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Persistence;
+using AutopilotMonitor.DecisionCore.Engine;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared;
+using AutopilotMonitor.Shared.Models;
+
+namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Turns the ESP policy-provider contract read by <see cref="EspPolicyProviderProbe"/> into
+    /// the one-shot <c>esp_policy_provider_stalled</c> Warning via two independent arms, each
+    /// with the same <see cref="DwellMinutes"/>-minute continuous-dwell rule and the full
+    /// provider table in the payload:
+    /// <list type="bullet">
+    ///   <item><b>Arm 1 — <c>reason=provider_incomplete</c></b>: a registered provider stays
+    ///     continuously incomplete (e.g. Sidecar itself never sets TrackingPoliciesCreated).</item>
+    ///   <item><b>Arm 2 — <c>reason=sidecar_provider_missing</c></b>: at least one
+    ///     <c>Setup\Apps</c> provider is registered but none of them is <c>Sidecar</c> (the IME).
+    ///     This is the actual co-management field-case signature (issue #106): the foreign
+    ///     <c>ConfigMgr</c> provider had <c>TrackingPoliciesCreated=1</c> — i.e. was "complete"
+    ///     by the CSP value contract — yet the user ESP stayed parked at "Apps (Identifying)"
+    ///     until the key was renamed to <c>Sidecar</c>. The ESP's Apps wait is keyed to the
+    ///     Intune-registered provider by NAME, so provider completeness alone must not gate this
+    ///     detection. See the probe's header for sources.</item>
+    /// </list>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Dwell semantics: arm 1's clock per provider starts when it is first observed incomplete
+    /// and RESETS when the provider completes or disappears; arm 2's clock starts when the
+    /// sidecar-missing condition is first observed and RESETS when Sidecar registers (covers the
+    /// legitimate "ConfigMgr registered before Sidecar" startup ordering) — only
+    /// <i>continuously</i> bad states fire. A missing root key / empty provider list is normal
+    /// early enrollment and clears all dwell state (probe D4). Purely observational: emission
+    /// goes through <see cref="InformationalEventPost"/> (InformationalEvent pass-through,
+    /// dispatch-guard exempt), never into decision state.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Duplicate suppression: in-process one-shot per provider key, plus a
+    /// <see cref="StartupEventGate"/> fingerprint over the sorted set of currently-stalled keys so
+    /// an agent restart into the same stall does not re-report it — while a NEW provider joining
+    /// the stall changes the fingerprint and is reported (the event carries the full list).
+    /// </para>
+    /// </summary>
+    internal sealed class EspPolicyProviderStallDetector
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Wall-clock minutes a provider must stay continuously incomplete before it is reported.
+        /// Mirrors the CSP's own DevicePreparation default timeout; the Setup/Apps wait this
+        /// tripwire mainly targets has no OS timeout at all.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal const int DwellMinutes = 15;
+
+        internal const string SourceLabel = "EspPolicyProviderStallDetector";
+
+        /// <summary>Payload <c>reason</c>: a registered provider stayed continuously incomplete (arm 1).</summary>
+        internal const string ReasonProviderIncomplete = "provider_incomplete";
+
+        /// <summary>Payload <c>reason</c>: Setup\Apps providers registered but Sidecar absent (arm 2 — dominant when both arms fire in one round).</summary>
+        internal const string ReasonSidecarMissing = "sidecar_provider_missing";
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Sentinel token representing the arm-2 condition in the cross-restart fingerprint.
+        /// Cannot collide with provider keys — those always contain <c>|</c> separators.
+        /// </summary>
+        private const string SidecarMissingFingerprintToken = "sidecarMissing";
+
+        private readonly string _sessionId;
+        private readonly string _tenantId;
+        private readonly InformationalEventPost _post;
+        private readonly AgentLogger _logger;
+        private readonly IClock _clock;
+        private readonly StartupEventGate? _startupGate;
+        private readonly TimeSpan _dwell;
+
+        private readonly Dictionary<string, DateTime> _firstSeenIncompleteUtc =
+            new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+        private readonly HashSet<string> _firedKeys =
+            new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+
+        /// <summary>Arm-2 dwell state: first observation of "setupApps providers without Sidecar"; null = condition not active.</summary>
+        private DateTime? _sidecarMissingSinceUtc;
+
+        /// <summary>Arm-2 in-process one-shot latch (mirror of <see cref="_firedKeys"/>).</summary>
+        private bool _sidecarMissingFired;
+
+        public EspPolicyProviderStallDetector(
+            string sessionId,
+            string tenantId,
+            InformationalEventPost post,
+            AgentLogger logger,
+            IClock clock,
+            StartupEventGate? startupGate = null,
+            TimeSpan? dwell = null)
+        {
+            _sessionId = sessionId;
+            _tenantId = tenantId;
+            _post = post ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(post));
+            _logger = logger;
+            _clock = clock ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(clock));
+            _startupGate = startupGate;
+            _dwell = dwell ?? TimeSpan.FromMinutes(DwellMinutes);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Host timer callback and test seam — one probe + evaluation round.</summary>
+        internal void Tick()
+        {
+            var snapshot = EspPolicyProviderProbe.Read(_logger);
+            var eval = EvaluateStallTransition(
+                snapshot, _firstSeenIncompleteUtc, _firedKeys,
+                _sidecarMissingSinceUtc, _sidecarMissingFired, _clock.UtcNow, _dwell);
+
+            _firstSeenIncompleteUtc.Clear();
+            foreach (var kv in eval.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc)
+                _firstSeenIncompleteUtc[kv.Key] = kv.Value;
+            _sidecarMissingSinceUtc = eval.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc;
+
+            if (eval.NewlyStalled.Count > 0 || eval.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes != null)
+                EmitStalled(snapshot, eval);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Pure evaluation of one probe round — the entire detection decision, testable without
+        /// registry, timer, or ingress (pattern: <c>PerformanceCollector.EvaluateDiskLowTransition</c>).
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="snapshot">Current provider snapshot.</param>
+        /// <param name="firstSeenIncompleteUtc">Arm-1 dwell state from the previous round (provider key → first-seen-incomplete).</param>
+        /// <param name="alreadyFired">Provider keys already reported this run (never re-report).</param>
+        /// <param name="sidecarMissingSinceUtc">Arm-2 dwell state from the previous round; null = condition was not active.</param>
+        /// <param name="sidecarMissingAlreadyFired">Arm-2 one-shot latch (never re-report).</param>
+        /// <param name="nowUtc">Evaluation timestamp.</param>
+        /// <param name="dwell">Continuous-condition threshold (shared by both arms).</param>
+        internal static StallEvaluation EvaluateStallTransition(
+            EspPolicyProviderSnapshot snapshot,
+            IReadOnlyDictionary<string, DateTime> firstSeenIncompleteUtc,
+            ISet<string> alreadyFired,
+            DateTime? sidecarMissingSinceUtc,
+            bool sidecarMissingAlreadyFired,
+            DateTime nowUtc,
+            TimeSpan dwell)
+        {
+            var result = new StallEvaluation();
+
+            // Missing root key or no registered providers = normal early enrollment: clear all
+            // dwell state (a condition must be continuously OBSERVED to accrue dwell).
+            if (!snapshot.HasData || snapshot.Providers.Count == 0)
+                return result;
+
+            // Arm 1 — a registered provider continuously incomplete.
+            foreach (var provider in snapshot.Providers)
+            {
+                if (provider.IsComplete)
+                    continue; // completed → falls out of the dwell map (reset)
+
+                var firstSeen = firstSeenIncompleteUtc.TryGetValue(provider.Key, out var seen)
+                    ? seen
+                    : nowUtc;
+                result.UpdatedFirstSeenUtc[provider.Key] = firstSeen;
+
+                var stalledFor = nowUtc - firstSeen;
+                if (stalledFor >= dwell && !alreadyFired.Contains(provider.Key))
+                    result.NewlyStalled.Add(new StalledProvider(provider, stalledFor.TotalMinutes));
+            }
+
+            // Arm 2 — Setup\Apps providers registered, but none of them is Sidecar. Deliberately
+            // ignores provider completeness: the field case (issue #106) had ConfigMgr with
+            // TrackingPoliciesCreated=1 and the ESP still waited. Sidecar registering later
+            // (legitimate startup ordering) clears the condition and resets the clock.
+            if (HasSetupAppsProvider(snapshot) && !snapshot.SidecarRegistered)
+            {
+                var since = sidecarMissingSinceUtc ?? nowUtc;
+                result.UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc = since;
+
+                var missingFor = nowUtc - since;
+                if (missingFor >= dwell && !sidecarMissingAlreadyFired)
+                    result.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes = missingFor.TotalMinutes;
+            }
+
+            return result;
+        }
+
+        private static bool HasSetupAppsProvider(EspPolicyProviderSnapshot snapshot)
+            => snapshot.Providers.Any(p => p.Kind == EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps);
+
+        private void EmitStalled(EspPolicyProviderSnapshot snapshot, StallEvaluation eval)
+        {
+            foreach (var stalled in eval.NewlyStalled)
+                _firedKeys.Add(stalled.Provider.Key);
+            if (eval.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes != null)
+                _sidecarMissingFired = true;
+
+            // Cross-restart dedup: fingerprint = sorted set of all fired conditions that are
+            // still active (incomplete providers + the sidecar-missing sentinel). A restart into
+            // the same stall re-accrues dwell and lands on the same fingerprint → suppressed; a
+            // new condition joining the stall changes it → re-emitted.
+            var currentlyStalledKeys = snapshot.Providers
+                .Where(p => !p.IsComplete && _firedKeys.Contains(p.Key))
+                .Select(p => p.Key)
+                .ToList();
+            if (_sidecarMissingFired && HasSetupAppsProvider(snapshot) && !snapshot.SidecarRegistered)
+                currentlyStalledKeys.Add(SidecarMissingFingerprintToken);
+            currentlyStalledKeys.Sort(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+            var fingerprint = StartupEventGate.HashString(string.Join(";", currentlyStalledKeys));
+            if (_startupGate != null &&
+                !_startupGate.ShouldEmit(Constants.EventTypes.EspPolicyProviderStalled, fingerprint))
+            {
+                _logger?.Debug(
+                    "EspPolicyProviderStallDetector: stalled provider set already reported by a " +
+                    "previous agent run (fingerprint match) — suppressed.");
+                return;
+            }
+
+            // Sidecar-missing is the dominant reason when both arms fire in one round: it
+            // explains the ESP hang regardless of the foreign providers' completeness.
+            var reason = eval.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes != null
+                ? ReasonSidecarMissing
+                : ReasonProviderIncomplete;
+
+            var messageParts = new List<string>();
+            if (eval.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes != null)
+            {
+                var registeredNames = string.Join(", ", snapshot.Providers
+                    .Where(p => p.Kind == EspPolicyProviderProbe.KindSetupApps)
+                    .Select(p => $"{p.Name} ({p.Scope})"));
+                messageParts.Add(
+                    $"expected IME provider '{EspPolicyProviderProbe.SidecarProviderName}' not registered for " +
+                    $">= {DwellMinutes} min while Setup/Apps providers exist: {registeredNames}");
+            }
+            var stalledNames = string.Join(", ",
+                eval.NewlyStalled.Select(s => $"{s.Provider.Name} ({s.Provider.Scope}/{s.Provider.Kind})"));
+            if (eval.NewlyStalled.Count > 0)
+                messageParts.Add($"provider(s) incomplete for >= {DwellMinutes} min: {stalledNames}");
+
+            var data = new Dictionary<string, object>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
+            {
+                ["reason"] = reason,
+                ["dwellMinutes"] = DwellMinutes,
+                ["sidecarRegistered"] = snapshot.SidecarRegistered,
+                ["providers"] = snapshot.Providers.Select(p => new Dictionary<string, object?>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
+                {
+                    ["name"] = p.Name,
+                    ["scope"] = p.Scope,
+                    ["kind"] = p.Kind,
+                    ["trackingPoliciesCreated"] = p.TrackingPoliciesCreated,
+                    ["installationState"] = p.InstallationState,
+                    ["complete"] = p.IsComplete,
+                }).ToList(),
+                ["stalledProviders"] = eval.NewlyStalled.Select(s => new Dictionary<string, object>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
+                {
+                    ["name"] = s.Provider.Name,
+                    ["scope"] = s.Provider.Scope,
+                    ["kind"] = s.Provider.Kind,
+                    ["stalledForMinutes"] = Math.Round(s.StalledForMinutes, 1),
+                }).ToList(),
+            };
+            if (eval.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes != null)
+                data["sidecarMissingForMinutes"] = Math.Round(eval.SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes.Value, 1);
+
+            var message =
+                "ESP Setup/Apps tracking stalled: " + string.Join("; ", messageParts) +
+                " — the ESP waits on its app-tracking providers without any timeout";
+
+            _post.Emit(new EnrollmentEvent
+            {
+                SessionId = _sessionId,
+                TenantId = _tenantId,
+                Timestamp = _clock.UtcNow,
+                EventType = Constants.EventTypes.EspPolicyProviderStalled,
+                Severity = EventSeverity.Warning,
+                Source = SourceLabel,
+                Phase = EnrollmentPhase.Unknown,
+                ImmediateUpload = true,
+                Message = message,
+                Data = data
+            });
+            _startupGate?.MarkEmitted(Constants.EventTypes.EspPolicyProviderStalled);
+
+            _logger?.Warning(
+                $"EspPolicyProviderStallDetector: {string.Join("; ", messageParts)} " +
+                $"(reason={reason}, sidecarRegistered={snapshot.SidecarRegistered}).");
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>Result of one <see cref="EvaluateStallTransition"/> round.</summary>
+        internal sealed class StallEvaluation
+        {
+            /// <summary>Next round's arm-1 dwell state — only currently-incomplete providers survive.</summary>
+            public Dictionary<string, DateTime> UpdatedFirstSeenUtc { get; } =
+                new Dictionary<string, DateTime>(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+
+            /// <summary>Providers that crossed the dwell threshold this round and were not yet reported (arm 1).</summary>
+            public List<StalledProvider> NewlyStalled { get; } = new List<StalledProvider>();
+
+            /// <summary>Next round's arm-2 dwell state; null = sidecar-missing condition not active (reset).</summary>
+            public DateTime? UpdatedSidecarMissingSinceUtc { get; set; }
+
+            /// <summary>Non-null when the sidecar-missing condition crossed the dwell threshold this round and was not yet reported (arm 2).</summary>
+            public double? SidecarMissingStalledForMinutes { get; set; }
+        }
+
+        internal readonly struct StalledProvider
+        {
+            public StalledProvider(PolicyProviderState provider, double stalledForMinutes)
+            {
+                Provider = provider;
+                StalledForMinutes = stalledForMinutes;
+            }
+
+            public PolicyProviderState Provider { get; }
+            public double StalledForMinutes { get; }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/Agent/AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core/Monitoring/Enrollment/SystemSignals/ModernDeploymentTracker.cs

@@ -631,10 +631,15 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
         /// the regular <see cref="ProcessRecord"/> pipeline with isBackfill=true, so they arrive
         /// as modern_deployment_error events carrying backfilled=true plus the original
         /// timeCreated; the event's own timestamp is emission time, so session StartedAt is not
-        /// dragged backwards. Newest-first, capped, watermark-deduped across restarts.
+        /// dragged backwards. The scan reads newest-first (the cap keeps the newest records),
+        /// but replay is buffered so an Info summary event announces the block BEFORE the errors
+        /// hit the timeline (customer feedback 2026-07-28: an unannounced wall of pre-agent
+        /// Error events reads like a live failure) and the records emit oldest-first, giving the
+        /// timeline sequence the original event-log chronology. Watermark-deduped across restarts.
         /// </summary>
         private void BackfillAutopilotErrors()
         {
+            var buffered = new List<EventRecord>();
             try
             {
                 long watermark;
@@ -649,7 +654,7 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
                     ReverseDirection = true
                 };
 
-                int processed = 0, skippedWatermark = 0, droppedOverCap = 0;
+                int skippedWatermark = 0, droppedOverCap = 0;
                 long maxSeen = watermark;
 
                 using (var reader = new EventLogReader(query))
@@ -657,37 +662,48 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
                     EventRecord record;
                     while ((record = reader.ReadEvent()) != null)
                     {
-                        using (record)
+                        var recordId = record.RecordId ?? 0;
+                        if (recordId > maxSeen) maxSeen = recordId;
+
+                        if (recordId != 0 && recordId <= watermark)
                         {
-                            var recordId = record.RecordId ?? 0;
-                            if (recordId > maxSeen) maxSeen = recordId;
-
-                            if (recordId != 0 && recordId <= watermark)
-                            {
-                                skippedWatermark++;
-                                continue;
-                            }
-
-                            if (processed >= ErrorBackfillMaxRecords)
-                            {
-                                droppedOverCap++;
-                                continue;
-                            }
-
-                            processed++;
-                            ProcessRecord(record, "Autopilot", AutopilotChannel, isBackfill: true);
+                            skippedWatermark++;
+                            record.Dispose();
+                            continue;
                         }
+
+                        if (buffered.Count >= ErrorBackfillMaxRecords)
+                        {
+                            droppedOverCap++;
+                            record.Dispose();
+                            continue;
+                        }
+
+                        buffered.Add(record);
                     }
                 }
 
                 if (maxSeen > watermark)
                     AdvanceAutopilotErrorWatermark(maxSeen);
 
-                if (processed == 0 && droppedOverCap == 0)
+                if (buffered.Count == 0 && droppedOverCap == 0)
+                {
                     _logger.Debug($"ModernDeployment error backfill: nothing new (skippedByWatermark={skippedWatermark})");
+                }
                 else
-                    _logger.Info($"ModernDeployment error backfill: forwarded {processed} record(s) " +
+                {
+                    EmitErrorBackfillSummary(buffered.Count, droppedOverCap);
+
+                    // Scan buffered newest-first — replay in reverse so the emitted sequence
+                    // follows the original event-log chronology.
+                    for (var i = buffered.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+                    {
+                        ProcessRecord(buffered[i], "Autopilot", AutopilotChannel, isBackfill: true);
+                    }
+
+                    _logger.Info($"ModernDeployment error backfill: forwarded {buffered.Count} record(s) " +
                         $"(skippedByWatermark={skippedWatermark}, droppedOverCap={droppedOverCap})");
+                }
             }
             catch (EventLogNotFoundException)
             {
@@ -701,6 +717,49 @@ namespace AutopilotMonitor.Agent.V2.Core.Monitoring.Enrollment.SystemSignals
             {
                 _logger.Warning($"ModernDeployment error backfill failed: {ex.Message}");
             }
+            finally
+            {
+                foreach (var record in buffered)
+                {
+                    try { record.Dispose(); } catch { }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Announces the error-backfill block on the session timeline BEFORE the replayed
+        /// errors, so pre-agent Error events are readable as history rather than a live
+        /// failure. The web timeline additionally badges each replayed event via its
+        /// backfilled=true payload marker; this summary carries backfillSummary=true instead —
+        /// it is a live emission, not a replayed record.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal void EmitErrorBackfillSummary(int replayedCount, int droppedOverCap)
+        {
+            var message = $"[Autopilot] Replaying {replayedCount} error event(s) recorded in the Autopilot event log " +
+                $"before the agent started (lookback {ErrorBackfillLookbackMinutes / 60}h). " +
+                "These predate monitoring — if enrollment progressed afterwards, they were already resolved by a retry.";
+            if (droppedOverCap > 0)
+            {
+                message += $" {droppedOverCap} older record(s) beyond the {ErrorBackfillMaxRecords}-record cap were not replayed.";
+            }
+
+            _post.Emit(new EnrollmentEvent
+            {
+                SessionId = _sessionId,
+                TenantId = _tenantId,
+                EventType = Constants.EventTypes.ModernDeploymentLog,
+                Severity = EventSeverity.Info,
+                Source = "ModernDeploymentWatcher",
+                Phase = EnrollmentPhase.Unknown,
+                Message = message,
+                Data = new Dictionary<string, object>
+                {
+                    { "backfillSummary", true },
+                    { "replayedCount", replayedCount },
+                    { "droppedOverCap", droppedOverCap },
+                    { "lookbackMinutes", ErrorBackfillLookbackMinutes }
+                }
+            });
         }
 
         /// <summary>