The open-source plan flagged three references as "the real gaps for app
developers", and the docs index named them as not-yet-written. Written now,
each from the code rather than stubbed:
- secrets.md — generated_secrets/secret_env: the two halves, the four kinds
(hex16/hex32/base64/bcrypt) and which files each writes, the idempotent
self-healing 0600 materialisation, and the rules a developer must not break
(no hardcoded fallbacks, one canonical name, right encoding). From
container/secrets.rs and the manifest schema.
- quadlet-compilation.md — manifest -> .container unit: the full directive
mapping (including Secret= by reference, never value, and Pull=never), where
units land (~/.config/containers/systemd, systemctl --user), the
render/write/enable/disable lifecycle with write-if-changed, and how to
inspect one. From container/quadlet.rs, scoped accurately to the companion-UI
path it drives today.
- container-lifecycle.md — the level-triggered 30s reconciler: desired state
from user-stopped/user-uninstalled/manifest set, the operations table, the
self-heal-vs-respect-a-deliberate-stop rule, and migrations-never-destroy-data.
From prod_orchestrator.rs and boot_reconciler.rs.
Index updated to link all three under App development and the "known gap" note
removed. Every link across the docs tree resolves.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
