Do not report an absent lock or agent setting after malformed current-configuration output. Preserve passive bounded host reads, private output, unknown well-formed fields and the distinction from guest responsiveness or thaw.
Contract-Neutral: The operator-only helper now enforces its existing incomplete-read failure semantics; polling, guest-agent admission, API and storage contracts are unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
Replace active guest probes with bounded passive host reads. Preserve errors and private configuration, distinguish setup from responsiveness, and put backup/thaw precautions ahead of troubleshooting. Exercise the actual helper and copied command with adverse and healthy controls.
Contract-Neutral: Operator diagnostics and existing help only; Proxmox polling, guest-agent coordination, APIs, storage and runtime behaviour are unchanged.
Change-source: pulse-maintainer
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