archipelagoandClaude Opus 5
0ed9334f15
10-03 closed the build half of F-03: the ISO no longer bakes SSH host keys or
a TLS keypair into the shared rootfs, and first-boot regeneration fails closed.
Nodes already in the field receive none of that — the first-boot script is
installed by the installer, not shipped by OTA — so a node that hit the old
fail-open path is still running key material that every downloader of its ISO
also holds, and its completion marker guarantees it will never try again.
scripts/security/host-secrets-audit.sh decides, from the node's own disk alone,
which of those it is. Four signals in a fixed precedence: missing material can
never be shared material; the fail-open fingerprint (marker present plus the
literal `WARNING: TLS regeneration failed` / `WARNING: ssh-keygen -A failed`
lines the old script emitted) is direct evidence and outranks timestamps and
also names WHICH class survived; then key mtime against a first-boot anchor
(.secrets-regenerated, falling back to the installer's LUKS key then
machine-id). Verdicts are per-node / shared / fail-closed-missing / unknown,
and every one of them carries the evidence strings that produced it, each
naming the file it was read from.
per-node is never claimed from an absent signal. No anchor means `unknown`, and
a standing first-boot-secrets.failed record also means `unknown` — a clean
mtime is not evidence that generation succeeded. That is T-10-37: a false
per-node verdict leaves an exposed node looking clean, which is worse than no
verdict at all.
Rotation (D-06: detect-report-then-apply, recorded in
docs/security/KEY-02-FLEET-ROTATION.md):
- --detect is the default and is read-only; it always exits 0, because
detection is informational and must never fail a boot.
- --apply without --yes writes nothing at all, not even its own verdict file.
"Touches nothing" is worth being able to say without a footnote.
- --apply --yes refuses unless the verdict is `shared`, so the wrong node
cannot be rotated even deliberately.
- It stages the full replacement TLS pair AND host-key set before touching
anything live and aborts if either fails; records the OLD fingerprints
before the swap; does TLS first (a dead web UI is recoverable over SSH, the
converse is not); replaces host keys by mv-onto-the-existing-path rather
than rm-then-mv, so the directory is never momentarily empty; and RELOADS
sshd, never restarts it, so the operator's own session survives its own
rotation.
bootstrap.rs ships the boot unit through the existing run_runtime_assets
promotion and enables it --now, so the verdict lands with the OTA rather than
at the next reboot. handle_system_stats gains a host_secrets object read from
the on-disk verdict — cheap, never an error however malformed the file, and
deliberately carrying no fingerprints, because a payload polled every few
seconds does not need digests an operator on the node can already read.
tests/first-boot-secrets/rotation-tests.sh: 8 cases against temp roots through
the HOST_SECRETS_ROOT seam. Negative controls run and reverted, each reddening
exactly one case: dry run writing its verdict file (STATE-DIR-CHANGED); the
old fingerprints recorded after the swap instead of before (caught by an
ordering observation, not a content comparison — the systemctl stub records
whether the file existed at the moment of the first reload); a tolerated
generation failure leaving a half-rotated node; and `per-node` claimed with no
anchor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Archipelago
Self-sovereign Bitcoin node OS and manifest-driven app platform.
Archipelago is a bootable personal server OS for Bitcoin infrastructure,
self-hosted apps, mesh communication, decentralized identity, and federation.
Apps are packaged as declarative manifest.yml files and run as rootless
Podman containers managed by the Rust backend.
What is here
core/- Rust workspace: backend API, container runtime, security, OpenWrt helpers, and performance/resource management.neode-ui/- Vue 3 + TypeScript frontend.apps/- app manifests and custom app container sources.docker/- supporting container build contexts for UI companion surfaces.image-recipe/- bootable image/ISO build inputs.Android/- Android companion app.scripts/- development, release, deployment, and validation tooling.docs/- architecture, app packaging, operations, API, and roadmap docs.
Platform model
Archipelago is built as a developer-ready app platform, not a fixed appliance:
- Apps are declared in
apps/<app-id>/manifest.yml. - The Rust parser in
core/container/src/manifest.rsis the canonical schema. - The orchestrator compiles manifests to rootless Podman/Quadlet runtime state.
- App data lives under
/var/lib/archipelago/<app-id>/. - Secrets are generated or read from
/var/lib/archipelago/secrets/and injected through Podman secrets rather than static environment values. - Release and app catalogs are signed and verified against a pinned trust anchor.
Start with:
- Architecture
- Developer Guide
- App Developer Guide
- App Manifest Spec
- Nostr Git Source Hosting Plan
- Operations Runbook
- Troubleshooting
Quick start
Frontend
cd neode-ui
npm install
npm start
The dev UI runs at http://localhost:8100 with a mock backend on :5959.
Backend
cd core
cargo build
cargo test --all-features
Linux is the supported backend runtime and release-build target. macOS is fine for frontend work and many Rust compile/test loops, but host integration tests that touch Podman, systemd, networking, or image build paths require Linux.
App manifests
./scripts/validate-app-manifest.sh apps/filebrowser/manifest.yml
python3 scripts/generate-app-catalog.py
python3 scripts/check-app-catalog-drift.py --release --strict
scripts/generate-app-catalog.py requires Python with PyYAML installed.
Documentation map
| Doc | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Architecture | System layers, crates, data paths, security model |
| Developer Guide | Local setup, code workflow, testing |
| API Reference | JSON-RPC API overview |
| App Developer Guide | How to package and test apps |
| App Manifest Spec | Manifest schema and validation rules |
| Nostr Git Source Hosting Plan | ngit/NIP-34 contribution workflow and maintainer model |
| Apps README | Packaged app catalog overview |
| Image Recipe | Bootable image build flow |
| Operations Runbook | Production operations and recovery |
| Open Source Readiness | Public-release cleanup checklist |
| Roadmap | Shipped, in-progress, and planned work |
| Unified Task Tracker | Launch hardening task list |
| Archive | Historical plans, audits, and handoffs |
Contributing
Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. For security issues, follow SECURITY.md and do not open a public issue.
License
Archipelago is licensed under the MIT License. Third-party notices are listed in NOTICE and generated license inventories in component release artifacts.