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rcourtman 4c7b1a2434 Fix Docker-in-LXC probe storm against slow Proxmox hosts
The guest Docker socket probe hung minipc hard enough to need a power
cycle (2026-08-20): ~100 orphaned pct exec children, load 133, sshd and
pveproxy starved. Three bugs chained, each fixed here:

1. Dispatcher re-issued a probe while the previous one was still
   executing. The poll cycle's enrichment context had expired, so
   ExecuteCommand dispatched, returned the context error 50ms later,
   and the next 3s cycle sent the identical command again — unbounded
   concurrency against a host that was slow to begin with. The
   monitoring dispatcher now takes a per-guest in-flight claim before
   dispatching probe or inventory commands (completed probes release
   it; abandoned ones hold it for a 2-minute window), and both dispatch
   paths bail out under a dead context.

2. The host agent never got the July process-leak fix: 45480a5cc
   landed only on pulse/v6-release, so main-line agents killed just the
   direct shell on timeout, orphaning pct exec → lxc-attach children
   and blocking Wait on their inherited pipes (10s timeouts reported as
   300s+ durations). Port it: run each command in its own process
   group, SIGKILL the group on cancel, bound Wait with WaitDelay, and
   treat ErrWaitDelay after a clean exit as success.

3. Server-side abandonment never reached the agent. ExecuteCommand and
   ReadFile now refuse to dispatch under an already-expired context,
   and send a best-effort cancel_command when they stop waiting; the
   agent cancels the in-flight execution (killing its process group)
   and reports "command canceled". Older agents ignore the unknown
   message type.

Also add a per-node circuit breaker: three consecutive command failures
on one node suspend all Docker probe/inventory dispatch to it on the
existing 1m→30m backoff schedule, so a host-level stall (NFS flapping)
stops the probing entirely instead of failing guest by guest.

Regression tests simulate the storm without hardware: a never-returning
executor is not re-issued across poll cycles, an expired context
dispatches nothing and records no failure, abandoned probes hold their
claim, the breaker blocks new guests on a failing node, and the agent
kills the whole process group on timeout and on server-issued cancel.

Contract-Neutral: monitor.go delta is three private struct fields holding Docker probe dispatch state; host-agent deletion/re-enrollment lifecycle untouched — contracts and all other proofs are staged
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