Merge pull request #204 from theta42/release-v2.3.0

release(v2.3.0): live replication + gateway-to-gateway WireGuard mesh

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ jobs:
         run: shellcheck -S warning setup.sh
 
   bootstrap-syntax:
+    # Keep this job name stable: branch protection on master requires a status
+    # check named exactly "Syntax check bootstrap.js".
     name: Syntax check bootstrap.js
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -40,7 +42,9 @@ jobs:
           node-version: 22.x
 
       - name: Syntax check
-        run: node --check bootstrap/bootstrap.js
+        run: |
+          node --check bootstrap/bootstrap.js
+          node --check bootstrap/site-join.js
 
       - name: Jump-host LDAP config consistency
         run: node test/check_jump_ldap_tls.js

.gitmodules

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "sso-manager-node"]
 	path = sso-manager-node
-	url = https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node.git
+	url = https://github.com/theta42/theta-directory.git
 [submodule "proxy"]
 	path = proxy
 	url = https://github.com/theta42/proxy.git

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,9 +5,437 @@ follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/); versions
 correspond to git tags (`vX.Y.Z`). Entries here cover theta-suite's own
 orchestration code; see each submodule's own `CHANGELOG.md`
 ([proxy](https://github.com/theta42/proxy/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md),
-[sso-manager-node](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md))
+[theta-directory](https://github.com/theta42/theta-directory/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md),
+[jump-host](https://github.com/theta42/jump-host/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md))
 for what changed inside the apps it composes.
 
+## [v2.3.0] - 2026-08-10
+
+Rolls up **theta-directory v2.4.0**, **jump-host v2.1.0**, **theta-agent v2.1.2**. Live catalog replication and a real gateway-to-gateway WireGuard mesh land in the same pass — multi-site directory sync stops being a one-time snapshot, and site-to-site networking becomes real infrastructure instead of a documented-but-unbuilt design. See `docs/MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md` for the full architecture and an explicit TODO list of what's still open (Windows/macOS mDNS, routing directory traffic over the mesh, `theta-proxy` no-inbound relay automation).
+
+### theta-directory v2.4.0
+
+#### Added
+- **Live catalog replication.** A spoke now stays in sync after joining instead of only getting a one-time snapshot: it registers its own endpoint with the master at join time (`POST /api/site/spokes`, Bearer the site join key), and every successful master catalog write fires a fire-and-forget push (`utils/site_replicate.js`) at every registered spoke, concurrently — one unreachable spoke never blocks or delays delivery to another. The spoke's `POST /api/site/resync` handler re-runs the same tested export-pull-and-import path used at join time rather than applying a partial diff.
+- **Identical-directory agent-signing key.** `POST /api/site/export` now best-effort includes the master's agent-signing key; a spoke adopts it via `agent_keys.adopt()` on both join and every resync, so any site's `sso-manager-node` can validly sign a command for any agent enrolled at any other site (a deliberate blast-radius tradeoff for this deployment's small, trusted scale — see `docs/MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md` §2).
+- **Coordinated master promotion.** `POST /api/directory-admin/site-promote` now demotes the previous master as part of the same action (mints it a fresh join key, calls its new `POST /api/site/demote`) instead of leaving a manual two-step gap where two nodes could both believe they're master. Best-effort: an unreachable old master never blocks the local promotion — the response's `handoff` field reports what happened.
+- **Master Site modal UI**: new "Live Replication" (spoke) / "Registered Spokes" (master) status rows; the join form gained a "this site's own reachable URL" field wired to `selfUrl`, which the join API already supported but the UI never sent; the promote button's success toast now reports the actual handoff result.
+
+#### Fixed
+- **`site-promote`'s god_admin check was dead on arrival** — it read `req.user.groups`, a field nothing in the codebase ever populates, so the check silently evaluated to an empty array on every request. Promotion returned 403 for every user, including a real god_admin, since it shipped in v2.0.0. Only surfaced by live two-container testing, not by inspection.
+- **The read-only write-gate blocked `site-promote` on a spoke** before its handler could run — the one mutating request a spoke must be able to make to itself.
+- **`GET /api/site/config` was returning live credentials** (`masterJoinKey`, `replicationPushToken`) directly to the browser on every admin session. Replaced with boolean derivatives.
+
+### jump-host v2.1.0
+
+#### Added
+- **Gateway-to-gateway WireGuard mesh** (`routes/mesh.js`) — real site-to-site tunnels between theta-gateway instances, distinct from the existing roaming-client/exit-node WireGuard feature. Join-token bootstrap, mesh-index addressing (172.24.\<idx\>.0/16 + 10.\<idx\>.0.0/16).
+- **In-kernel WireGuard with a userspace fallback** (`utils/wg_iface.js`) — prefers `ip link add type wireguard`, falls back to `wireguard-go` when the kernel module isn't available.
+- **mDNS local-discovery announcer** (`services/mdns_announce.js`) — advertises which public hostnames this site fronts so a `theta-agent` on the same LAN segment can skip the relay/WAN path.
+- **Mesh UI** (`/mesh`) — gateway identity, join-token minting, remote-join form, meshed-gateways table.
+
+Verified with real two-container tests: an actual encrypted WireGuard tunnel passing ICMP traffic end to end (0% loss), and the mDNS announce/discover/apply/revert cycle over real multicast. Two real bugs found and fixed: `wg set ... allowed-ips` doesn't add a kernel route (a real handshake completed with zero routing until `setPeer()` was fixed to add it); mDNS's default IPv6 query aborting the entire lookup after a valid IPv4 response had already arrived.
+
+### theta-agent v2.1.2
+
+#### Added
+- **Linux mDNS local-discovery** (`local_discovery.go`, `hosts_override.go`) — opt-in via `prefer_local_directory`; skips the relay/WAN path when a local `theta-gateway`/`theta-proxy` announces it fronts this agent's `server_url` host. Never touches TLS/certificate validation — only changes where the agent connects, never whether it trusts what answers.
+
+#### Fixed (found via live two-container testing over real multicast)
+- `mdns.Lookup()`'s default IPv6 query aborted the whole lookup — discarding an already-valid IPv4 response — when IPv6 wasn't available. Fixed by disabling IPv6 querying explicitly.
+- Hosts-file writes used write-tmp-then-rename; `/etc/hosts` is frequently a bind mount (every container runtime does this) and `rename()` onto one fails with `EBUSY`. Switched to truncate-and-rewrite in place.
+
+Windows/macOS local-discovery remain unbuilt — see `docs/AGENT_LOCAL_DISCOVERY_SPEC.md`.
+
+Also backfills v2.1.0/v2.1.1 changelog entries (Windows agent, WireGuard client, installer, CI) in theta-agent's own CHANGELOG.md, which were tagged and released earlier but never documented there.
+
+## [v2.2.0] - 2026-08-10
+
+Multi-site join is now end-to-end: theta-directory can adopt an existing
+master's directory as a read-only spoke (v2.3.0), and setup.sh wires it into a
+first-run bring-up.
+
+### theta-directory v2.3.0
+- **Master Site modal**: "Join an Existing Site" form (fresh installs only),
+  Site Join Keys manager (mint/revoke/list), live WAN Sync Health via
+  `POST /api/site/ping`.
+- **Spoke read-only**: directory writes (resources/edges/groups/secrets/grants/
+  driver actions/discovery merges) return 403 pointing at the master.
+- **Fresh-install guard**: `/api/site/join` refuses unless no users beyond the
+  bootstrap admin and no enrolled agents; `site-status` exposes `canJoin`.
+- (Server endpoints, join keys, persisted role shipped in theta-directory v2.2.0.)
+
+### theta-suite (this repo)
+- **First-run site join**: `setup.sh` step 5b runs `bootstrap/site-join.js`
+  (logs in as the admin, calls `/api/site/join`) when `setup.env` sets
+  `CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL` + `CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY`. Honored only on
+  first run (once `./config/` exists it is ignored), so a populated directory
+  can never be merged. Idempotent — an already-joined node reports "already a
+  spoke".
+- `setup.env.example` documents the two vars; the lint job (branch-protected
+  name "Syntax check bootstrap.js") now also `node --check`s `site-join.js`.
+
+## [v2.1.1] - 2026-08-10
+
+Fresh-install fixes for the v2.1.0 Windows rollout.
+
+### theta-agent v2.1.1
+- **Silent installs wrote an empty `server_url`.** `CurPageChanged` fires even when the wizard is walked programmatically in silent mode, so it read the (empty) edit boxes and clobbered the `/SERVER_URL` `/JOIN_KEY` command-line params. Now guarded with `WizardSilent()` — silent installs keep the params (this was also why the service exited at first connect and the Directory showed the agent as a placeholder version).
+- **Tray post-install launch had `skipifsilent`** — a silent install (the common path from the Directory's Windows command) never started the tray. Removed.
+- **`theta-agent update` 404'd** — it downloaded from the SSO `/resources` path, which no longer serves binaries (they are GitHub release artifacts). Pointed at `releases/latest/download/`.
+
+### theta-directory v2.1.1
+- **"Master Site" button error** (`app.modal.show is not a function`) — the multi-site status modal used the legacy `app.modal.show()` signature; now `app.modal.open({ title, bodyHtml, size })`.
+- **Agents with no discovery showed a fake `v2.0.0`** — hardcoded fallbacks now report `unknown`.
+
+## [v2.1.0] - 2026-08-10
+
+Rolls up **theta-agent v2.1.0** and **theta-directory v2.1.0**: the theta-agent
+Windows client is now a first-class citizen (Windows service, WireGuard mesh,
+IAM, tray, fully-offline installer) and the Directory can hand a Windows host
+the same one-command install it has always handed Linux.
+
+### theta-agent v2.1.0
+- **Windows agent** (`feat/windows-agent`): platform ops (shutdown.exe / sc.exe /
+  PowerShell / Get-WinEvent), Windows service wrapper (`install-service` starts it
+  immediately), session helper (lock/display/logout/staged self-update), signed
+  `wireguard_apply`/`wireguard_remove` + auto-VPN, IAM via local groups + OpenSSH
+  keys, tray icon fix (PNG→ICO), and the fully-offline Inno installer with a
+  wizard page (Theta Directory URL + join key + "open install-agent page").
+- **Release pipeline**: `.github/workflows/release.yml` builds every binary on
+  GitHub Actions and attaches them to the GitHub release as artifacts (with
+  optional Azure Trusted Signing); nothing binary is committed to the repo.
+  `install.sh` and the Directory modal download from `releases/latest/download/`.
+
+### theta-directory v2.1.0
+- **Windows install commands in the Install Agent modal.** PowerShell one-liners
+  for the join-key / pre-register / custom-config flows (download the offline
+  `setup.exe`, pass `/SERVER_URL`, `/JOIN_KEY`, `/AUTH_TOKEN`, `/PUBLIC_KEY` or
+  `/B64_CONFIG`).
+- **Dropped the committed binaries** from `nodejs/public/resources/theta-agent/`
+  (they are GitHub release artifacts now); the small `install.sh` bootstrap
+  script remains.
+
+## [v2.0.2] - 2026-08-09
+
+Rolls up **theta-directory v2.0.2**, **proxy v2.0.1**, **jump-host v2.0.1**. Unifies the GitHub Pages docs site: the SSO/Proxy/Jump Host pages, their nav labels, and each component's own README now consistently say Theta Directory / Theta Proxy / Theta Gateway, drop marketing sections ("Why this over the alternatives", "Get it", "Related projects") that don't apply to a suite component, remove every standalone/bare-metal install path, and link to `theta42.github.io/theta-suite/...` instead of the old per-repo Pages sites.
+
+### theta-directory v2.0.2
+- **README rebranding & standalone-install cleanup.** Removed the "Why this over the alternatives" section and stale links to the old per-repo GitHub Pages site (`theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/`); documentation and secrets links now point at the unified `theta42.github.io/theta-suite/` site. Made explicit that Theta Directory is deployed as part of Theta Suite and isn't installed or run on its own. Added the agent capability/install screenshots to the gallery.
+- **Docs site (`docs/sso/`)**: full rewrite of the landing page — dropped "Why this over the alternatives" / "Get it" / "Related projects", refreshed all screenshots, added the two agent screenshots, and swept "SSO Manager" → "Theta Directory" across every sub-page (configuration, OAuth, LDAP, directory, agents, replication, vault, concepts-*).
+
+### proxy v2.0.1
+- Finishes the pending v2.0.0 Docker-only rewrite (README's Quick start already trimmed to one Docker Compose path via Theta Suite).
+- Removed "Why this over the alternatives"; trimmed Requirements to actual Docker-host requirements (was still listing bare-metal items: root access, directly-installed OpenResty/Redis).
+- Fixed stale links to the old per-repo GitHub Pages site; synced `package-lock.json`'s version (missed by the earlier 2.0.0 bump commit).
+- Docs site (`docs/proxy/`): renamed to Theta Proxy, dropped the same three sections, refreshed screenshots, relative links within the unified site. Deleted a stale `docs/proxy/README.md` meta-doc left over from when this repo had its own separate Pages site (wrong live URL, referenced a deleted `installation.md`).
+
+### jump-host v2.0.1
+- Rebranded docs to Theta Gateway (matches the repo's own README/package.json naming).
+- Removed the "Standalone Docker" and "Bare metal" install paths, which contradicted the Deployment section's own "exclusively via Docker Compose within Theta Suite" claim.
+- Fixed stale links to the old per-repo GitHub Pages sites.
+- Docs site (`docs/jump-host/`): same section removal, added a WireGuard mesh-routing feature bullet, refreshed screenshots, fixed three more stale absolute links in `architecture.md`. Deleted the same kind of stale `docs/jump-host/README.md` meta-doc.
+
+## [v2.0.4] - 2026-08-10
+
+Rolls up **theta-directory v2.0.4**.
+
+### Changed
+- **`Dockerfile.openldap` no longer compiles OpenLDAP from source.** Extracted the from-source compile (nestgroup overlay, ~5 min, dependent on `git.openldap.org` being reachable — it 502'd twice tonight, blocking two PRs) into its own image, `ghcr.io/theta42/openldap-nestgroup:<pinned commit>`, published by a new workflow whenever the pin changes. `Dockerfile.openldap`'s `ldapbuild` stage now just pulls it. Cut CI's "Build LDAP test image" step from ~5-6 minutes to ~1.5 minutes total per matrix run; every local build of this Dockerfile gets the same speedup.
+
+## [v2.0.3] - 2026-08-09
+
+Rolls up **theta-directory v2.0.3**.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Directory tab showed unpromoted discoveries.** `GET /api/directory-admin/resources` unconditionally admitted every `kind: 'host'` resource, and every discovery plugin (UniFi, Proxmox, nmap) creates its finds as `kind: 'host'` — so unchecking "Auto-promote to Directory" on a plugin never actually kept undiscovered/unpromoted devices out of the Directory tab, only out of the LDAP-group auto-provisioning. Now only `site` resources are unconditionally shown; anything else that discovery ever touched requires `metadata.managed === true` (set by promotion, an agent, or merging into an already-managed resource).
+- **`GET /api/directory-admin/site-status` 500'd.** Queried `Resource.list({ where: { subType: 'wireguard' } })`, but `subType` only ever lives in `metadata.subType` — never a top-level DB column, so SQLite raised `no such column: Resource.subType`. Filters in JS over `metadata.subType` now.
+- **Discovered Inventory had no way to review ignored devices.** Added a "Show ignored" toggle (off by default).
+
+### Chore
+- **Untracked `nodejs/config/inventory.sqlite`** in theta-directory — the app's default runtime DB, not a fixture; had been committed by mistake across 13 prior releases.
+
+## [v2.0.2] - 2026-08-09
+
+Rolls up **theta-directory v2.0.2**, **proxy v2.0.1**, **jump-host v2.0.1**. Unifies the GitHub Pages docs site: the SSO/Proxy/Jump Host pages, their nav labels, and each component's own README now consistently say Theta Directory / Theta Proxy / Theta Gateway, drop marketing sections ("Why this over the alternatives", "Get it", "Related projects") that don't apply to a suite component, remove every standalone/bare-metal install path, and link to `theta42.github.io/theta-suite/...` instead of the old per-repo Pages sites.
+
+### theta-directory v2.0.2
+- **README rebranding & standalone-install cleanup.** Removed the "Why this over the alternatives" section and stale links to the old per-repo GitHub Pages site (`theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/`); documentation and secrets links now point at the unified `theta42.github.io/theta-suite/` site. Made explicit that Theta Directory is deployed as part of Theta Suite and isn't installed or run on its own. Added the agent capability/install screenshots to the gallery.
+- **Docs site (`docs/sso/`)**: full rewrite of the landing page — dropped "Why this over the alternatives" / "Get it" / "Related projects", refreshed all screenshots, added the two agent screenshots, and swept "SSO Manager" → "Theta Directory" across every sub-page (configuration, OAuth, LDAP, directory, agents, replication, vault, concepts-*).
+
+### proxy v2.0.1
+- Finishes the pending v2.0.0 Docker-only rewrite (README's Quick start already trimmed to one Docker Compose path via Theta Suite).
+- Removed "Why this over the alternatives"; trimmed Requirements to actual Docker-host requirements (was still listing bare-metal items: root access, directly-installed OpenResty/Redis).
+- Fixed stale links to the old per-repo GitHub Pages site; synced `package-lock.json`'s version (missed by the earlier 2.0.0 bump commit).
+- Docs site (`docs/proxy/`): renamed to Theta Proxy, dropped the same three sections, refreshed screenshots, relative links within the unified site. Deleted a stale `docs/proxy/README.md` meta-doc left over from when this repo had its own separate Pages site (wrong live URL, referenced a deleted `installation.md`).
+
+### jump-host v2.0.1
+- Rebranded docs to Theta Gateway (matches the repo's own README/package.json naming).
+- Removed the "Standalone Docker" and "Bare metal" install paths, which contradicted the Deployment section's own "exclusively via Docker Compose within Theta Suite" claim.
+- Fixed stale links to the old per-repo GitHub Pages sites.
+- Docs site (`docs/jump-host/`): same section removal, added a WireGuard mesh-routing feature bullet, refreshed screenshots, fixed three more stale absolute links in `architecture.md`. Deleted the same kind of stale `docs/jump-host/README.md` meta-doc.
+
+## [v2.0.1] - 2026-08-09
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v2.0.1** and **theta-agent v2.0.1**.
+
+### Added
+- **Non-Root Secrets Group Access**: Set up `theta-secrets` and `theta` system groups in `setup.sh` and set permission flags to `0750` on `/etc/theta42` and `0640` on `agent.yml` to allow non-root users in the group to request secrets.
+- **Autostart Tray Icon Companion**: Configured `/etc/xdg/autostart/theta-agent-tray.desktop` in `setup.sh` to automatically launch the desktop tray icon companion.
+- **OpenBao / OpenBoa Resource Exclusion**: Skipped internal secret/renewer services from populating the directory resources catalogue.
+- **Full Docker Integration Tests**: Rewrote the integration test runner (`test-integration.sh`) to support full env-mode LDAP seeding (`seed-test-user.sh`) and pass test environment configs/parameters reliably inside Docker containers.
+
+## [v2.0.0] - 2026-08-09
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v2.0.0**, **theta-agent v2.0.0**, **jump-host v2.0.0**.
+
+### Added
+- **Theta Gateway (\`jump-host\` v2.0.0)**: WireGuard mesh exit node management, QR code profiles, \`.conf\` file downloads, and automatic X25519 keypair bootstrap.
+- **Theta Agent (v2.0.0)**: System tray status companion badge, systemd logind desktop session detection, and real-time CPU / disk / process telemetry stream.
+- **SSO Directory (\`sso-manager-node\` v2.0.0)**: Live telemetry dashboard cards, desktop session power controls (lock, display off, logout, sleep), and site reconciler.
+
+## [v1.48.0] - 2026-08-08
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v1.33.0**, **theta-agent v1.8.0**, **proxy v1.35.1**, **jump-host v1.19.1**.
+
+### Added
+- **Directory Key Badges & Secret Search/Filter.** Added key badges `🔑 Secret` to resources with stored OpenBao secrets, secret key search filtering, and a `With Secrets` tree toggle.
+- **Discovered Inventory Merge & Ignore Actions.** Supported merging discovered network devices into existing Directory resources and ignoring unmanaged entries.
+- **Kind-Specific Resource Creation Modals.** Added dedicated `+ Add Site`, Host, and Service creation workflows.
+- **Optional Child Secret Key Name on Inheritance.** Made key name optional when inheriting parent secrets — defaulting to the original parent secret key name if left blank.
+- **Agent Tab Versioning, Logged Users & Desktop Operations.** Added Agent Version badge (`v1.8.0`), physical partitions table, active logged-in sessions list (`who` / `host.Users()`), and desktop session/power controls (Lock, Display Off, Log Out, Sleep Host).
+
+## [v1.47.0] - 2026-08-08
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v1.32.0**, **theta-agent v1.7.0**, **proxy v1.35.1**, **jump-host v1.19.1**.
+
+### Added
+- **Subtype Management & Metrics Drivers Architecture.** Implemented a 4-tier resolution engine (`services/driver_registry.js`) binding resource `subType` metadata (`systemd`, `docker`, `proxmox`, `wireguard`, `postgresql`, `redis`, `unifi`, `k8s`) to operational telemetry, log streaming, and remote lifecycle control.
+- **Explicit Secret Inheritance Mode.** Enforced strict upward ancestor lineage (`Resource -> Host -> Cluster -> Site`) for secret inheritance with explicit pointer resolution (`INHERIT:<parentSlug>:<parentKey>`).
+- **Cross-Platform Theta Agent Binaries.** Compiled native zero-dependency Go binaries for **Linux (amd64, arm64, armv7)**, **Windows (amd64, arm64)**, and **macOS (Intel, Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3/M4)**.
+- **Consolidated External App Tokens.** Relocated external OpenBao App Token minting into the **Configuration** page (`/conf` -> External App Tokens tab) and deprecated standalone `/vault` navigation item.
+- **Multi-Secret Support.** Supported multiple secret keys per resource in OpenBao `secret/data/resources/<slug>/conf` with per-key merging and deletion.
+- **Automated Integration Testing.** Fixed `test-integration.sh` to use modern `docker compose` syntax and added driver test coverage.
+
+### Fixed
+- **Ancestry Lineage Querying.** Fixed `Resource.findAllAncestors(id)` memory filtering over `ResourceEdge.list()` to resolve deep ancestor lineage across all graph depths.
+- **Dockerfile Driver Staging.** Added `COPY nodejs/drivers ./drivers` to `Dockerfile.openldap` and `Dockerfile.test-runner` for clean container execution.
+
+## [v1.46.0] - 2026-08-07
+
+Rolls up **theta-agent v1.6.0**, **sso-manager-node v1.31.0**, **jump-host v1.19.1**.
+
+### Added
+- **On-demand CLI Secret Fetching.** `theta-agent get-secret <key>` and `theta-agent get-secrets [--env|--json]` for dynamic secret resolution without plaintext files on disk.
+- **Resource Secrets Engine & Zero-View Security.** OpenBao KV-v2 encrypted secrets for directory resources with strict regex validation (`^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$`), password generator, and multi-level hierarchy secret inheritance.
+- **OpenBao `sso-broker` Policy.** Granted `secret/data/resources/*` and `secret/metadata/resources/*` permissions to `sso-broker`.
+- **Zero-Trust LDAP WebSocket Tunnel.** Auto-starts local `/run/theta/ldap.sock` and `127.0.0.1:3890` loopback listeners on managed nodes.
+- **Agent Self-Update & Service Control.** Added `theta-agent update` and `theta-agent reinitialize` CLI commands with automated service restarts (`sssd`, `sshd`).
+
+## [v1.45.0] - 2026-08-06
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v1.30.2**, **proxy v1.35.1**, **jump-host v1.19.1**.
+
+### bootstrap.js — Directory topology fix
+
+**`host_theta-proxy` / `host_theta-jump` were synthetic `kind: 'host'` resources that never should have existed.** "Host" means a real, independently-existing machine — something with its own OS and sshd. A Docker container backing one of this stack's own services is never that: it has no sshd, no independent network identity. Proxy and jump-host are two of this stack's five containers, running on the one real stack host — not machines of their own.
+
+A 2026-08-05 change gave them their own `host` resources to fix their services being parented to the stack host, solving that parenting problem with the wrong tool — the correct one, `kind: 'container'`, already existed one layer below `service` (same as `sso-manager` and `openbao` already used correctly). Beyond being conceptually wrong, this had a real functional consequence: jump-host resolves its "hosts you can reach" list from exactly `kind: host` resources, so it could offer `theta-proxy`/`theta-jump` as SSH targets — machines that don't exist and can't be reached.
+
+Fixed: `bootstrap.js` no longer creates the synthetic hosts. Proxy's and jump-host's services parent directly onto the stack host, like every other component. On an install seeded between 2026-08-05 and this release, the fix self-heals on the next `./setup.sh` run — existing children are re-parented onto the real host and the now-empty synthetic host resources are removed automatically; a fresh install never creates them.
+
+### Docs
+
+- `README.md`'s architecture diagram and "Repo layout" section described a stale 2-service (sso-manager + proxy) architecture from before jump-host and OpenBao existed — updated to match the (already-accurate) `docs/architecture.md`, and listed only 2 of 5 git submodules — added the rest.
+- `docs/fixtures.md` (new) — the canonical demo-fixtures reference: exact users/groups/hosts for a consistent homelab/small-business demo dataset, so future screenshot passes only need to re-capture pages whose UI actually changed.
+- `docs/screenshots.md` (new) — the screenshot-capture workflow, including two gotchas hit while building it: a stale-browser-cache issue with `app.modal.js`, and never touching a login form that autofills a real saved credential.
+- `bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh` (new) — idempotent script seeding the fixtures.md user/group list via direct LDAP writes matching the app's own schema.
+
+## [v1.44.0] - 2026-08-06
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v1.30.1**.
+
+### sso-manager-node v1.30.1
+
+**Test Email and Test SMS could never have worked, and all SMS delivery was broken.**
+
+- Test Email threw `Email.send is not a function`: `models/email.js` exports `{Mail}`, and the handler required the module and called `.send` on it directly.
+- Test SMS threw `Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "...`: it POSTed to `https://api.voip.ms/v1.0/sms/send`, an endpoint that does not exist. VoIP.ms's REST API is a GET against `voip.ms/api/v1/rest.php` with `api_username`/`api_password` and `method=sendSMS`, so the fabricated URL returned an HTML page and `response.json()` threw.
+- **Every SMS was broken, not just the test.** `models/sms.js` called `PluginInstance.find({…})`, but the ORM has no `find` — the query method is `list({where})`. It threw on every send, before it could even fall back to the direct VoIP.ms path, so OTP-by-SMS and notifications were dead too.
+- Both test endpoints now send through the same senders every real message uses. A test that reimplements delivery proves nothing about whether real delivery works — which is how two independently broken paths went unnoticed. Failures report as `400` with the underlying reason instead of an opaque `500`.
+- New guard suite fails the build on any call to a non-existent ORM static, on requiring `models/email` without destructuring `{Mail}`, and on any reference to the bogus `api.voip.ms` host.
+
+**Install Agent offers the join-key flow.** v1.43.0 shipped join keys in the API and documented the modal as the place to get one, but the modal itself still only did the pre-register flow. It now leads with "Join key" — mint one, copy a single install command, and the host enrolls itself.
+
+### Release note
+
+Tagged with GitHub Actions in a major outage. CI could not run (every job failed at *Set up job* with `Failed to resolve action download info: Service Unavailable`, before reaching any test). Verified locally instead, on the exact merged commit: the full Docker suite — same LDAP + Redis service containers CI uses — passed **299/299**, plus proxy 176/176, jump-host 43/43 and theta-agent green. The Node 18/20/22 matrix was not exercised.
+
+## [v1.43.0] - 2026-08-06
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v1.30.0**, **theta-agent v1.5.1**, **proxy v1.35.0**. Fixes what a fresh `setup.sh` install actually produced under v1.42.0.
+
+> **No manual step to re-enroll agents.** v1.42.0 required an admin to pre-register every host. `setup.sh` now mints a **join key** and the agent enrolls itself, so installing the agent is once again all it takes to add a host.
+
+### Fixed — theta-suite orchestration
+
+- **The stack's own theta-agent could never connect.** `setup.sh` generated a random token locally and wrote it into `agent.yml`. The SSO only accepts credentials it issued, so that token was rejected on every attempt and the agent looped on `close 4001: Unauthorized` forever. It now writes a join key the SSO minted; the agent exchanges it for its own token and the SSO's public key on first connect and rewrites its own config.
+- **`agent.yml` was left holding literal placeholders.** The `REPLACE_WITH_ISSUED_AGENT_TOKEN` / `REPLACE_WITH_SSO_PUBLIC_KEY` strings were shipped as-is when the seds no longer matched the renamed fields, so the file on a fresh install contained no credential at all. The file is also `chmod 600` now that it holds one.
+- **A fresh install presented its own five containers as unmanaged discoveries** (`theta-proxy`, `theta-jump`, `sso-manager`, `bao-renewer`, `openbao`). The compose project name is now passed to the Docker discovery plugin, which recognises them as ours and links each to the service it implements.
+- **`openbao` and `bao-renewer` had no directory entries**, so their containers had nothing to attach to and appeared as parentless roots. Both are seeded as services now — they are part of what the stack deploys and belong in the directory like every other component.
+
+### Added
+
+- The bootstrap mints a theta-agent join key and hands it to `setup.sh` (`AGENT_JOIN_KEY`), reusing the `setup`-labelled key across runs.
+
+---
+
+### sso-manager-node v1.30.0
+
+**Join keys.** `POST /api/agent/join-keys` mints one credential an operator hands out; a host presenting it is enrolled automatically and immediately issued its **own** per-agent token plus the public key to pin. The join key is a bootstrap credential, never the host's identity — one key stays convenient without becoming a fleet-wide skeleton key, every host remains individually revocable, and revoking a key stops new hosts joining without touching enrolled ones.
+
+**Collapsing the Directory tree did nothing.** `applyTreeCollapse` found the caret with `.tree-caret i` and returned early when absent — Font Awesome's SVG-with-JS mode rewrites `<i>` to `<svg>`, so that selector matched nothing and the early return skipped setting `hideBelowDepth`, meaning no row was ever hidden. State now lives on the caret button, rotated by CSS.
+
+**Discovery Plugins.** The delete button called `deleteDiscoveryPlugin()`, which was never defined. The pane also had no `.actionMessage`, and confirmations render into one — without it the promise never settles, so an awaited confirmation hangs forever and the gated action silently never happens. Instances can now be edited (secrets shown blank rather than prefilled with the mask).
+
+**Discovery.** Docker container slugs came from the container id, which changes on recreate, so every deploy minted a new resource and orphaned the old one; they now derive from compose project + service.
+
+**Docs.** `/docs/discovery` 404'd; new `docs/discovery.md`. The `agents` slug pointed at `plugins.md`, leaving `docs/agents.md` unreachable in-app.
+
+### theta-agent v1.5.1
+
+- `join_key` config field, presented while `auth_token` is empty. The agent persists the issued token + public key into its own `agent.yml` — line-based, so comments, capabilities and formatting survive — and blanks the join key.
+- Sends `?hostname=` so a self-enrolling host is named after itself; refuses to connect with no credential rather than presenting an empty one.
+- `install.sh --join-key`.
+- **v1.5.1 rebuilds the prebuilt `theta-agent-linux-amd64`.** `setup.sh` installs that committed binary rather than building from source, and the v1.5.0 one predated join-key support — it would have received a `join_key` it did not understand. Same trap as the v1.3.0 heartbeat fix.
+
+### proxy v1.35.0
+
+- Permission entries can be **edited**; previously only Delete existed, so changing a role meant delete-and-re-add. Because a permission's id is derived from (subjectType, subject, scope, domain), changing any of those replaces the record — the endpoint creates the new grant and removes the superseded one in that order, so an edit can never leave the old grant conferring access.
+
+## [v1.42.0] - 2026-08-05
+
+Rolls up **sso-manager-node v1.29.0**, **theta-agent v1.4.0**, **proxy v1.34.0** and **jump-host v1.19.0**.
+
+> **Breaking — re-enroll your theta-agents.** The SSO now rejects agent tokens it
+> did not issue. Any agent installed before this release carries a token
+> generated in the browser that the server never recorded, and will be refused
+> with close code `4001` until re-enrolled from **Directory → Install Agent**.
+>
+> **Re-run `./setup.sh`.** The `sso-broker` OpenBao policy needs the new
+> `secret/agent/*` grant, or the SSO cannot persist its agent signing key and
+> will refuse every high-risk agent command.
+
+### Fixed — theta-suite orchestration
+
+- **Per-host SSO returned `400 redirect_uri is not registered for this client`.** The bootstrap registered only the proxy's own management callback (`https://<proxy-host>/api/auth/oidc/callback`), but per-host SSO calls back to `https://<protected-host>/__proxy_auth/callback` — a different URL for every host the proxy fronts, all against that one OAuth client. It now also registers `https://**.<domain>/__proxy_auth/callback` and the bare apex, and `ensureRedirectUris()` backfills them onto an existing client so upgraded stacks are fixed too, not just fresh installs. (The SSO's wildcard matcher already supported this; nothing was ever registered to use it.)
+- **Seeded services were parented to the wrong host.** `theta-proxy` and `theta-jump` were created as host resources and then left childless, while the Proxy, OpenResty Edge and SSH Jump Host services hung off the stack host instead. They now parent to the host that runs them. `reparent()` corrects existing installs on the next run, and only when the current parent is exactly the one the old code set — a layout an operator arranged deliberately is left alone.
+- The directory-edge fetch added for re-parenting is tolerated separately from the resource list, so losing it can't skip seeding the resources themselves.
+
+### Added — theta-suite orchestration
+
+- **The proxy gets a read-only SSO API token.** Minted by the bootstrap and written into `proxy-secrets.js` (before the OpenBao snapshot, so the running proxy actually receives it), backing the per-host SSO group autocomplete. Idempotent: only mints when `sso.apiToken` is still empty.
+- `setup.sh` writes an `sso: { url, apiToken }` block into the generated `proxy-secrets.js`.
+- The `sso-broker` OpenBao policy grants `secret/agent/*` for the persistent theta-agent signing key.
+- `docs/secrets.md` documents the signing key, why it must be stable, and what happens when the grant is missing.
+
+---
+
+### sso-manager-node v1.29.0
+
+**Security — the theta-agent channel authenticated nothing.** `/api/agent/ws` accepted any token string; there was no agent registry, because tokens were generated in the *browser* and never recorded server-side. Anyone who could reach the SSO could register as a node, publish discovery/telemetry into the admin view, and receive commands — including a signed `arbitrary_bash` — addressed to a token they guessed.
+
+- Agents are now rows in a new `Agent` table, authenticated by SHA-256 token hash *before* the connection is registered or the welcome payload is sent. Unknown/revoked → close `4001`, audited.
+- `POST /api/agent/enroll` mints the token server-side and returns it once; only its hash is stored. Rotate/revoke/delete drop the live socket immediately (`4004`/`4003`).
+- Commands are addressed by agent **id**, never by token.
+- The Ed25519 signing key was generated in the `AgentManager` constructor, so it changed on every restart and the `public_key` pinned in an agent's `agent.yml` stopped matching. It now lives in OpenBao at `secret/agent/signing-key`; if it can't be loaded the SSO refuses high-risk commands rather than signing with a key no agent has seen.
+- Enroll/update/rotate/revoke/delete, every command, and every rejected connection are audited with the acting user.
+
+**Directory & agents.** Agents bind to a host resource instead of being matched by hostname; a bound agent's discovery is written onto that resource (`discovery_sources: ["theta-agent"]`) — previously the one source running *on* the host contributed nothing. Enrollments survive restarts, so "installed but offline" (red) is now distinguishable from "no agent" (grey). The Install Agent modal enrolls first and emits `--public-key`, which was never written into `agent.yml` before.
+
+**Directory tree.** Collapsible, with per-browser persisted state; an active search overrides collapse so matches inside folded subtrees aren't hidden.
+
+**Discovery — found by running against a live 3-node Proxmox cluster.**
+
+- MACs and IPs were collected into two flat lists and zipped by index, attributing addresses to the wrong NIC on multi-NIC guests. NICs are now keyed by MAC.
+- A Proxmox endpoint resource now parents its nodes (one endpoint = one subtree), carrying no IP — giving it the address it's reached at made the reconciler merge it with the node answering there, producing a resource that was **its own parent**. Self-edges and cycle-closing edges are refused.
+- Hosts were named after their MAC address, because `bestName` preferred the longer string. Names are ranked hostname > IP > MAC.
+- `isIp` never matched anything (`\\.` in a regex literal matches a backslash, not a dot).
+- Guests carry `sourceId`/`node`/`vmid`/`macAddress`; container and overlay interfaces (`docker0`, `veth*`) are filtered out; stopped VMs still report a MAC; DHCP LXCs get an address; nodes report their own IP/MAC; offline nodes are recorded rather than skipped.
+- Cross-kind merges prevented; the inventory is read once per run instead of once per incoming resource.
+
+**Other.** The Profile page's API Tokens card is no longer wider than every other card (it sat outside the page container). `Dockerfile.test-runner` never copied `nodejs/plugins`, so every plugin test suite had been failing in CI as "Cannot find module" — suites 27 → 29, 296 tests passing.
+
+### theta-agent v1.4.0 (protocol v1.2.0)
+
+- **Fail-closed verification.** `verifySignature` returned `true` when no `public_key` was configured — and the installer never wrote one, so a default install executed `reboot`, `configure_ldap`, `arbitrary_bash` and `update_binary` **unverified**.
+- **Canonicalization disagreed with the server.** Go's `encoding/json` escapes `<`, `>` and `&`; `JSON.stringify` does not. Any payload containing them failed verification — for `arbitrary_bash` that is most real scripts (`>` redirection, `&&`). Now uses `SetEscapeHTML(false)`.
+- Handles the SSO's enrollment close codes and backs off 5 minutes instead of retrying a dead credential every 5 seconds forever.
+- The connect log no longer prints the URL, which carried `?token=`.
+- `install.sh --public-key`, and a loud warning when none is configured.
+
+### proxy v1.34.0
+
+- The per-host SSO **Allowed groups** field autocompletes from the SSO directory's groups. It previously suggested only local groups — the one set of values that can never match, since the allow-list is checked against the SSO's `groups` claim. New `conf.sso` block; degrades silently when unset.
+- Authenticates with `Authorization: Bearer`, not the `auth-token` header.
+
+### jump-host v1.19.0
+
+- **Only catalog hosts are jump targets.** The filter treated a missing `managed` flag as permission, so unpromoted discovery results — Proxmox guests, UniFi clients — appeared in the TUI picker and were accepted by the username grammar. It now mirrors the SSO Directory's own rule.
+
+## [v1.41.0] - 2026-08-05
+
+### Fixed
+- **The Local Docker daemon discovery plugin no longer errors** — the sso-manager container had no access to the host docker socket, so the seeded `docker-local` plugin (socketPath `/var/run/docker.sock`) failed with `ENOENT` and showed "Last run: error". `docker-compose.yml` now mounts `/var/run/docker.sock` into the container. Recreate the container (`docker compose up -d sso-manager`) and hit "Run now" on the plugin.
+- **theta-agent ships the rebuilt binary with the heartbeat fix** (v1.3.1, gitlink `51750d0`) — the prebuilt `theta-agent-linux-amd64` predated the v1.3.0 `heartbeat_ack` fix, so the installed agent still logged "Unknown command type: heartbeat_ack". Now rebuilt + tested.
+
+## [v1.40.0] - 2026-08-05
+
+### Fixed
+- **No more spurious "Invalid Credentials, login failed" during LDAP enrollment** (ldap-client v1.25.0, gitlink `68fcdb5`) — `index.sh` self-registered the host in the Directory when `sso_token` was *declared but empty* (it checked `[[ -v ]]`), POSTing an empty Bearer token and getting a misleading `LDAPLoginFailed`. It now only registers with a real token; the stack host (already seeded by the bootstrap) skips registration.
+- **The `cn=ldapclient` service account now shows in the SSO Users UI** — it was created as a bare `organizationalRole` (invisible to the `posixAccount` user filter) and never joined `app_sso_service_account`, so it never appeared as a service account. The bootstrap now creates it as a `posixAccount` (uid 10001, above the regular-user reserved floor) and adds it to `app_sso_service_account`; for an existing account it best-effort adds the `posixAccount` shape (auxiliary, so it can't conflict with the structural `organizationalRole`) + the group membership.
+
+## [v1.39.0] - 2026-08-05
+
+### Fixed
+- **Plain LDAP (389) now reachable from the host** — `docker-compose.yml` published only LDAPS (636); plain LDAP (389) was deliberately not mapped, so the stack host's own enrollment (`setup.sh` → ldap-client, which configures sssd against `ldap://localhost:389` and `ldaps://localhost:636`) could not reach the directory over loopback. Both 389 and 636 are now published to the host (bind 0.0.0.0; `LDAP_BIND`/`LDAPS_BIND=127.0.0.1` to lock to the host only).
+
+## [v1.38.0] - 2026-08-04
+
+### Fixed
+- **LDAP enrollment no longer reaches for the public domain** — `setup.sh` generated `ldap.vars` with `ldap_host` defaulting to the public SSO host (`sso.<domain>`), which the NAT/firewall blocks on the LDAP ports (389/636). It now defaults to `localhost` (the LDAP server is co-located on the stack host; `ldap_tls_reqcert=never` makes this safe), overridable with `CFG_LDAPS_HOST` for an internal hostname/IP.
+- **SSH access groups match the SSO group model** (ldap-client v1.24.0) — the generated `sssd.conf` access filter and `ldap-ssh-key.sh` referenced the legacy names (`<location>_access`, `app_super_admin`); they now use `site_<location>_hosts_access` (all-hosts aggregate), `site_<location>_host_<hostname>_access`, and `god_admin`. GROUPS.md §8's example updated to match.
+
+## [v1.37.0] - 2026-08-04
+
+### Changed
+- **Group naming corrected to match docs/GROUPS.md** — per-resource groups are `{site}_{kind}_{name}_{level}` (kind always present; a host `host_theta-env` → `site_local_host_theta-env_access`, a service → `site_local_app_sso-manager_access`). The spec's §3 text was updated to state this explicitly.
+- **Roll up sso v1.27.0** — group names match the docs, a site carries only god + site-wide groups, duplicate group links removed, `/api/agent/*` no longer 404s, shared-secrets POST/GET fixed, Vault Apps tab lists minted tokens, discovery promote + plugin run logs fixed. See the [sso changelog](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+## [v1.36.1] - 2026-08-04
+
+### Fixed
+- **`setup.sh` no longer aborts with `CFG_BASE_DN: unbound variable`** — the ldap-client `ldap.vars` generation read the CFG_* first-run vars, which `ensure_config` only derives once (it returns early on a re-run once `sso-secrets.js` exists). It now reads the real values from the operator-owned `./config/sso-secrets.js` when the CFG_* vars are unset, so LDAP enrollment works on re-runs too. The generated `ldap_access_groups` now references `god_admin` (the legacy `app_super_admin` is gone).
+- **Roll up sso v1.26.1** — drops the legacy `app_super_admin`: `SUPER_ADMIN_GROUP` is now `god_admin` (nested into every resource's `_admin` group), and `docker-entrypoint.sh` no longer seeds/nests `app_super_admin`. See the [sso changelog](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+## [v1.36.0] - 2026-08-04
+
+### Added
+- **`god_admin` seeded + site groups auto-provisioned** (sso v1.26.0) — `god_admin` exists from first boot; every site gets `{site}_super_admin`, `{site}_hosts_*`/`{site}_apps_*` aggregates and `{site}_everyone`; per-resource groups (`{site}_{slug}_{level}`) nest into the site aggregates (the inheritance lattice now exists in LDAP, not just the resolver). See the sso changelog for the full group-model completeness + server-side naming enforcement + Directory god_admin management.
+- **Docker discovery plugin configured out of the box** — the bootstrap seeds a `docker-local` plugin instance pointed at `/var/run/docker.sock`, so a fresh stack discovers its own containers into the Directory immediately (idempotent; an operator-created instance is left alone).
+
+### Fixed
+- **ldap-client enrollment no longer fails** — `setup.sh` was calling `ldap-client/index.sh`, which refuses to run without a gitignored `ldap.vars` that nothing ever created (the "ldap.vars file not found!" + "enrollment failed" you saw). It now generates `ldap-client/ldap.vars` from the stack's own config (LDAPS host, base DN, `cn=ldapclient` bind + service password, SSO URL, site name) before enrolling; an operator-provided `ldap.vars` is always kept.
+- **theta-agent no longer logs `Unknown command type: heartbeat_ack`** every minute — the server's ack of the agent's own heartbeat is now silently ignored instead of falling through to the unknown-command handler (which also answered with a spurious error).
+
+### Changed
+- **Roll up sso v1.26.0 + theta-agent v1.3.0** — gitlinks point at the version-tagged commits for both submodules (sso-manager-node → 8a9de94, theta-agent → 52379c2). Full changelogs: [sso](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md), [theta-agent](https://github.com/theta42/theta-agent/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+## [v1.35.18] - 2026-08-04
+
+### Changed
+- **Sync proxy + jump-host gitlinks to their version-tagged commits** — proxy v1.33.0 and jump-host v1.18.0 bumped their package.json to match their tags; this release picks up those corrected gitlinks so a fresh deploy reports the matching versions.
+
 ## [v1.35.17] - 2026-08-04
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -1,74 +1,68 @@
-# theta-suite
+# Theta Suite 2.0
 
-The whole theta42 identity + access stack in one repo, brought up with a single
+Theta Suite 2.0 is your production-grade, single-command solution for replacing fragmented identity, gateway, and host management setups with a unified zero-trust infrastructure stack. It seamlessly integrates OIDC identity, LDAP directories, automated host enrollment, WireGuard mesh routing, and centralized secret management in one command.
-command — for home labs and small businesses.
 
-It composes four applications around a shared [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/)
+Theta Suite composes core applications around a shared [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/) secrets store, brought up with a single `./setup.sh`:
-secrets store, brought up with one command:
 
-- **[SSO Manager](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node)** — an OIDC
+- **[Theta Directory](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node)** — an OIDC provider with a built-in OpenLDAP directory, resource catalog, IAM group access controls, and administrative web console.
-  provider with a built-in LDAP directory (OpenLDAP) and a web UI for managing
+- **[Theta Gateway](https://github.com/theta42/jump-host)** — directory-driven SSH access gateway and integrated WireGuard mesh network router with site-aware target filtering and NETMAP shadow subnets.
-  users, groups, and OAuth clients.
+- **[Theta Agent](https://github.com/theta42/theta-agent)** — lightweight multi-platform host telemetry and desktop control agent for Linux (amd64, arm64, armv7), macOS (Intel, Apple Silicon), and Windows.
-- **[theta42/proxy](https://github.com/theta42/proxy)** — an OIDC-protected
+- **[Theta Proxy](https://github.com/theta42/proxy)** — an OIDC-protected reverse proxy (OpenResty) that puts web applications behind directory authentication with direct LDAP user lookups.
-  reverse proxy (OpenResty) that puts any of your apps behind SSO login and can
+- **[ldap-client](https://github.com/theta42/ldap-client)** — enrolls Linux hosts into the directory for PAM/SSSD login, sudo, and SSH keys.
-  look users up directly in LDAP.
-- **[Jump Host](https://github.com/theta42/jump-host)** — directory-driven SSH
-  access to your machines through one public entry point.
-- **[ldap-client](https://github.com/theta42/ldap-client)** — enrolls Linux
-  hosts into the directory for PAM/SSSD login, sudo, and SSH keys.
 
-All four load their secrets from OpenBao at boot; `setup.sh` automates the
+All applications load their secrets from OpenBao at boot; `./setup.sh` automates the first-run glue so components discover each other and the secrets engine automatically.
-first-run glue so they find each other and the secrets store.
 
-**Documentation:** [https://theta42.github.io/theta-suite/](https://theta42.github.io/theta-suite/)
+**Site:** [https://theta42.github.io/theta-suite/](https://theta42.github.io/theta-suite/)
 
 ## Screenshots
 
-The SSO Manager and the proxy it fronts, both stood up by one `./setup.sh` run:
+The Theta Directory and Theta Proxy, stood up by one `./setup.sh` run:
 
-| SSO Manager Dashboard | Proxy Hosts |
+| Theta Directory Dashboard | Proxy Hosts |
 | --- | --- |
-| [![SSO Manager dashboard](docs/images/sso-dashboard.png)](docs/images/sso-dashboard.png) | [![Proxy host list](docs/images/proxy-hosts.png)](docs/images/proxy-hosts.png) |
+| [![Theta Directory dashboard](docs/images/sso-dashboard.png)](docs/images/sso-dashboard.png) | [![Proxy host list](docs/images/proxy-hosts.png)](docs/images/proxy-hosts.png) |
 
-## Configuration
+## System Architecture
-
-`setup.sh` automates the first-run glue between subprojects:
-- Asks for your domain once (in `setup.env`) and fills it in across all config files.
-- Registers the proxy as an OIDC client of the SSO.
-- Persists submodule commit hashes in `.env` for reproducibility (e.g., `SSO_GIT_COMMIT`, `PROXY_GIT_COMMIT`). This ensures future `docker compose` runs use the same submodule versions.
-
-**Why use this instead of running the two separately?** The two only become useful once the proxy is registered as an OIDC client of the SSO and pointed at the SSO's LDAP directory — and the SSO's domain has to match across half a dozen config fields or logins silently fail with `Invalid Credentials`. Doing that by hand is fiddly and easy to get wrong. `setup.sh` handles this automatically and snapshots state before every rebuild — so you get a working SSO + proxy stack in one command and a safe way to upgrade it.
-
-## Unified Release Status
-- ✅ **Phase 1 (oidc-client)**: Complete.
-- ⏳ **Phases 2-5**: Pending (see [roadmap](#)).
 
 ```
-            ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+          ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-            │  your browser / apps                          │
+          │ browser / OIDC apps │ SSH clients │ Linux hosts           │
-            └───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
+          │                     │             │ (PAM/SSSD, sudo, keys)│
-                            │ https
+          └───────┬─────────────┴───────┬─────┴────────────┬──────────┘
-                  ┌─────────▼─────────┐
+            https (:443)          ssh (:2222)        ldaps (:636)
-                  │  proxy            │  OpenResty :80/:443/:4443
+                  │                     │                  │
-                  │  (OIDC + LDAP)    │  mgmt app :3000 (localhost)
+         ┌────────▼─────────┐  ┌────────▼──────────┐       │
-                  └─────────┬─────────┘  bundled redis
+         │  theta-proxy     │  │  theta-gateway    │       │
-              ┌─────────────┼──────────────────────┐
+         │  OpenResty       │  │  SSH Gateway      │       │
-              │ ldaps:636   │ http:3001 (internal)│  OIDC token/userinfo
+         │  :80/:443/:4443  │  │  WireGuard Mesh   │       │
-              ▼             ▼                      │
+         │  mgmt app :3000  │  └────────┬──────────┘       │
-      ┌──────────────────────────┐                │
+         └────────┬─────────┘           │ OIDC + LDAP      │
-      │  sso-manager             │◄────────────────┘
+                  │ http:3001 (internal)│ via theta-directory
-      │  OIDC provider + OpenLDAP │  bundled redis
+                  ▼                     ▼                  ▼
-      │  web UI :3001 (localhost) │
+        ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-      │  ldaps :636 (LAN clients) │
+        │  theta-directory (Express + OpenLDAP + Redis)         │
-      └───────────────────────────┘
+        │  OIDC provider + LDAP directory + Resource Catalog    │
+        │  web UI :3001 (internal)   ldaps :636 (published)     │
+        └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+                          ▲  loads secrets at boot (scoped token each)
+              ┌───────────┴───────────────────┐
+              │  openbao   (KV-v2 at secret/) │  ← central secrets store
+              │  :8200 (internal)             │     per-user + per-app KV
+              │  :8080 (operator UI/API)      │
+              └───────────────────────────────┘
 ```
 
-The proxy fronts the SSO Manager UI under TLS and protects it with OIDC login.
+The proxy fronts the SSO Manager UI (and the jump-host web UI) under TLS and
-It is **both** an OIDC client of the SSO (for login) **and** a direct LDAP
+protects them with OIDC login. It is **both** an OIDC client of the SSO (for
-client (for user lookups). Legacy apps can still bind to LDAPS on the SSO
+login) **and** a direct LDAP client (for user lookups). Legacy apps can still
-directly.
+bind to LDAPS on the SSO directly. See
+[docs/architecture.md](docs/architecture.md) for the full diagram (ports,
+secrets flow, jump-host, ldap-client) and [docs/secrets.md](docs/secrets.md)
+for the OpenBao model.
 
 - **Self-service API tokens** in both apps' UIs, for scripting/CI without a browser session.
+- **Subtype Management & Metrics Drivers Engine** — 4-tier resolution engine (`theta-agent`, specialized subtype driver, Proxmox hypervisor fallback, unmanaged) for systemd, docker, proxmox, wireguard, database, and k8s resources.
+- **Explicit Secret Inheritance Mode** — OpenBao KV-v2 integration with strict upward ancestor lineage (`Resource -> Host -> Cluster -> Site`), guaranteeing strict secret scoping across services and containers.
 - **Multi-Site Support (Geo-Location Scaling)** — built-in support for N-Way Multi-Master LDAP replication across physical locations.
 - **Multi-target load balancing** — built-in proxy support for round-robin load balancing across multiple application servers.
 
@@ -129,18 +123,24 @@ see browser warnings.)
 
 Optional extra ports (only if you need them):
 - **4443** — alternate HTTPS listener (e.g. if 443 is taken by something else).
-- **636** (LDAPS) — for direct-LDAP clients on other machines (Linux hosts
+- **389** (LDAP) + **636** (LDAPS) — direct-LDAP access. The stack host's **own**
-  via PAM/SSSD, LDAP-native apps). The proxy itself reaches LDAP over the
+  enrollment (`setup.sh` → ldap-client) configures its sssd against
-  internal Docker network, so you do **not** need to expose 636 for the stack
+  `ldap://localhost:389` / `ldaps://localhost:636`, so both ports are published
-  to work.
+  to the host by default (bind 0.0.0.0; set `LDAP_BIND`/`LDAPS_BIND=127.0.0.1` to
-  **Do not forward 636 to the public internet.** If you need LAN clients to bind
+  lock to the host). LAN clients (Linux hosts via PAM/SSSD, LDAP-native apps) can
-  LDAP, set `CFG_LDAPS_HOST=ldap.internal.example.com` (or `sso-manager` for
+  bind over either; the proxy itself reaches LDAP over the internal Docker
+  network and doesn't need them.
+  **Do not forward 389/636 to the public internet.** If you need LAN clients to
+  bind LDAP, set `CFG_LDAPS_HOST=ldap.internal.example.com` (or `sso-manager` for
   same-host Docker clients) in `setup.env` and use an internal DNS record / cert
   SAN. The default shows the public SSO hostname, which implies a public route.
 
 ### 4. Docker + Docker Compose
 
-You must use the modern Docker Compose v2 plugin (`docker compose`). The older v1 standalone (`docker-compose`) is not compatible with the BuildKit images generated by this suite and will fail with a `ContainerConfig` KeyError during deployment.
+You must use the modern Docker Compose v2 plugin (`docker compose`). The older
+v1 standalone (`docker-compose`) is not compatible with the BuildKit images
+generated by this suite and will fail with a `ContainerConfig` KeyError during
+deployment.
 
 ---
 
@@ -270,17 +270,19 @@ for details.
 
 ## Logs
 
-The stack runs under Docker Compose with two services — `sso-manager` and
+The stack runs under Docker Compose with several services — `sso-manager`,
-`proxy`. Both the Node app and, for the SSO, OpenLDAP write to the container's
+`proxy`, `jump-host`, and `openbao` (plus its `bao-renewer` sidecar). Both the
-stdout/stderr, so `docker compose logs` is the primary view.
+Node app and, for the SSO, OpenLDAP write to the container's stdout/stderr, so
+`docker compose logs` is the primary view.
 
 ```bash
-# Follow both services live
+# Follow all services live
 docker compose logs -f
 
 # One service
 docker compose logs -f sso-manager
 docker compose logs -f proxy
+docker compose logs -f jump-host
 
 # Last 200 lines and keep following
 docker compose logs --tail=200 -f proxy
@@ -470,12 +472,15 @@ exactly in the bootstrap) so the SSO can verify them on bind.
 theta-suite/
 ├── setup.env.example   # first-run config template — cp to setup.env, set CFG_DOMAIN
 ├── config.example/      # committed annotated config templates (copy to ./config/)
-├── docker-compose.yml   # sso-manager + proxy on one bridge net
+├── docker-compose.yml   # sso-manager + proxy + jump-host + openbao on one bridge net
 ├── setup.sh             # one-command idempotent bring-up (manages ./config/ + backups)
 ├── bootstrap/
 │   └── bootstrap.js      # runs in the sso-manager container
 ├── sso-manager-node/    # git submodule
-└── proxy/               # git submodule
+├── proxy/               # git submodule
+├── jump-host/           # git submodule
+├── ldap-client/         # git submodule (enrolls Linux hosts; also the opt-in ldap-test-host fixture)
+└── theta-agent/         # git submodule
 ```
 
 `./setup.sh` reads the gitignored `setup.env` on first run to generate the

bootstrap/bootstrap.js

@@ -84,12 +84,38 @@ const HAS_USABLE_CREDS = EXISTING_ID && EXISTING_SECRET
 	&& !PLACEHOLDER.test(EXISTING_ID) && !PLACEHOLDER.test(EXISTING_SECRET);
 
 const REDIRECT_URI = `https://${PROXY_HOST}/api/auth/oidc/callback`;
+
+// Per-host SSO (proxy routes/host_auth.js) calls back to
+// `https://<proxied-host>/__proxy_auth/callback` — a DIFFERENT URL for every
+// host the proxy fronts, all against this one OAuth client. Registering just
+// REDIRECT_URI above is what produced "400 redirect_uri is not registered for
+// this client" the moment a host's auth was set to SSO. The SSO's
+// redirectUriAllowed() supports `**` (any number of labels), so one pattern
+// covers the whole domain; `**.` does not match the bare apex, so register that
+// separately for a host served at the domain itself.
+//
+// A function, not a const: DOMAIN is declared further down this file, so
+// evaluating it here at module scope would hit the temporal dead zone.
+function proxyRedirectUris() {
+	if (!DOMAIN) return [REDIRECT_URI];
+	return [
+		REDIRECT_URI,
+		`https://**.${DOMAIN}/__proxy_auth/callback`,
+		`https://${DOMAIN}/__proxy_auth/callback`,
+	];
+}
 const SSO_INTERNAL = 'http://localhost:3001';
 const CLIENT_NAME = 'theta-proxy';
 
 const ADMIN_DN  = `cn=${ADMIN_UID},ou=people,${BASE_DN}`;
 const SVC_DN    = `cn=ldapclient,ou=people,${BASE_DN}`;
-const ADMIN_GROUPS = ['app_sso_admin', 'app_sso_oauth_admin'];
+// god_admin is the global super group (docs/GROUPS.md §2); the bootstrapped
+// admin is its first member. app_sso_admin / app_sso_oauth_admin are the
+// per-console admin groups still used by the SSO UI. god_admin is nested into
+// the app_sso_* groups (and every resource's _admin group) by
+// docker-entrypoint.sh + api_directory_admin, so LDAP-level consumers (SSSD,
+// sudo) resolve it transitively.
+const ADMIN_GROUPS = ['god_admin', 'app_sso_admin', 'app_sso_oauth_admin'];
 
 const log  = (...a) => process.stderr.write('[bootstrap] ' + a.join(' ') + '\n');
 const out  = (k, v) => process.stdout.write(`${k}=${v}\n`);
@@ -172,31 +198,88 @@ function ldapModify(ldif) {
 }
 
 // ── 1. LDAP service account for the proxy ───────────────────────────────────
+// The proxy / ldap-client bind as cn=ldapclient. For it to SHOW in the SSO Users
+// UI as a service account it must (a) match the user filter (posixAccount) and
+// (b) be a member of app_sso_service_account (that membership is what the Users
+// page marks as a non-person/service account). Older bootstraps created it as a
+// bare organizationalRole (invisible to the Users list) and never joined the
+// group, so it never appeared. Both are fixed here; the existing-path shape add
+// is best-effort so a pre-existing account still binds even if the upgrade add
+// fails.
 function ensureServiceAccount() {
 	const pw = hashPasswordSSHA512(SVC_PASS);
+	const uidNum = '10001'; // distinct from the bootstrap admin's 10000; above uidGidReservedFloor so regular-user id allocation ignores it
 	if (entryExists(SVC_DN)) {
-		log(`Service account ${SVC_DN} exists — resetting password to ./config`);
+		log(`Service account ${SVC_DN} exists — ensuring service-account shape + password`);
-		const r = ldapModify([
+		// Add the auxiliary posixAccount objectClass + required attrs so the entry
+		// matches the Users list filter. inetOrgPerson is deliberately NOT added:
+		// it is structural and would conflict with the existing organizationalRole.
+		const shape = [
+			`dn: ${SVC_DN}`,
+			'changetype: modify',
+			'add: objectClass',
+			'objectClass: posixAccount',
+			'-',
+			'add: uid',
+			'uid: ldapclient',
+			'-',
+			'add: uidNumber',
+			`uidNumber: ${uidNum}`,
+			'-',
+			'add: gidNumber',
+			`gidNumber: ${uidNum}`,
+			'-',
+			'add: homeDirectory',
+			'homeDirectory: /nonexistent',
+			'-',
+			'add: description',
+			'description: LDAP bind service account (proxy / ldap-client)',
+			'',
+		].join('\n');
+		const rs = ldapModify(shape);
+		if (rs.code !== 0 && !/already exists|Type or value exists/i.test(rs.stderr)) {
+			log('  service-account shape warning (account still binds):', rs.stderr.trim());
+		}
+		const rp = ldapModify([
 			`dn: ${SVC_DN}`,
 			'changetype: modify',
 			'replace: userPassword',
 			`userPassword: ${pw}`,
 			'',
 		].join('\n'));
-		if (r.code !== 0) log('  password reset warning:', r.stderr.trim());
+		if (rp.code !== 0) log('  password reset warning:', rp.stderr.trim());
-		return;
+	} else {
+		log(`Creating service account ${SVC_DN}`);
+		const entry = [
+			`dn: ${SVC_DN}`,
+			'objectClass: inetOrgPerson',
+			'objectClass: posixAccount',
+			'objectClass: top',
+			'cn: ldapclient',
+			'sn: ldapclient',
+			'uid: ldapclient',
+			`uidNumber: ${uidNum}`,
+			`gidNumber: ${uidNum}`,
+			'homeDirectory: /nonexistent',
+			'description: LDAP bind service account (proxy / ldap-client)',
+			`userPassword: ${pw}`,
+			'',
+		].join('\n');
+		const r = ldapAdd(entry);
+		if (r.code !== 0) throw new Error(`ldapadd service account failed: ${r.stderr.trim()}`);
 	}
-	log(`Creating service account ${SVC_DN}`);
+	// Mark it as a service account (the Users UI's service-account signal).
-	const r = ldapAdd([
+	const gdn = `cn=app_sso_service_account,ou=groups,${BASE_DN}`;
-		`dn: ${SVC_DN}`,
+	const rm = ldapModify([
-		'objectClass: organizationalRole',
+		`dn: ${gdn}`,
-		'objectClass: simpleSecurityObject',
+		'changetype: modify',
-		'objectClass: top',
+		'add: member',
-		'cn: ldapclient',
+		`member: ${SVC_DN}`,
-		`userPassword: ${pw}`,
 		'',
 	].join('\n'));
-	if (r.code !== 0) throw new Error(`ldapadd service account failed: ${r.stderr.trim()}`);
+	if (rm.code === 0) log(`  marked ${SVC_DN} as a service account`);
+	else if (/already exists|Type or value exists/i.test(rm.stderr)) log(`  ${SVC_DN} already in app_sso_service_account`);
+	else log(`  app_sso_service_account membership warning:`, rm.stderr.trim());
 }
 
 // ── 2. First admin user ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -275,7 +358,7 @@ async function listClients(token) {
 }
 
 async function createClient(token, opts) {
-	const o = opts || { name: CLIENT_NAME, description: 'theta-suite proxy (auto-registered)', redirect_uris: [REDIRECT_URI] };
+	const o = opts || { name: CLIENT_NAME, description: 'theta-suite proxy (auto-registered)', redirect_uris: proxyRedirectUris() };
 	const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/oauth/client`, {
 		method: 'POST',
 		headers: { 'auth-token': token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
@@ -299,6 +382,29 @@ async function createClient(token, opts) {
 	return { id, secret };
 }
 
+// Add any redirect_uris the client is missing, keeping whatever the operator
+// has already registered. Backfills installs whose proxy client was created
+// before the per-host `__proxy_auth/callback` patterns existed — without this,
+// setting a host's auth to SSO fails with "400 redirect_uri is not registered
+// for this client" on an upgraded stack and only works on a fresh one.
+// Warn-only: a stack that cannot widen its client is still a working stack.
+async function ensureRedirectUris(token, client, wanted) {
+	const have = client.redirect_uris || [];
+	const missing = wanted.filter((u) => !have.includes(u));
+	if (!missing.length) return;
+	try {
+		const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/oauth/client/${client.client_id}`, {
+			method: 'PUT',
+			headers: { 'auth-token': token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+			body: JSON.stringify({ redirect_uris: [...have, ...missing] }),
+		});
+		if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text().catch(() => '')}`);
+		log(`  OAuth client ${client.name}: registered ${missing.length} redirect URI(s) for per-host SSO`);
+	} catch (error) {
+		log(`  WARNING: could not add redirect URIs to ${client.name}: ${error.message}`);
+	}
+}
+
 async function rotateClient(token, id) {
 	const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/oauth/client/${id}/rotate`, {
 		method: 'POST',
@@ -362,6 +468,18 @@ async function dirPut(token, path, body) {
 	return res.json();
 }
 
+async function dirDelete(token, path) {
+	const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/directory-admin/${path}`, {
+		method: 'DELETE',
+		headers: { 'auth-token': token },
+	});
+	if (!res.ok) {
+		const text = await res.text().catch(() => '');
+		throw new Error(`DELETE /api/directory-admin/${path} failed (${res.status}): ${text}`);
+	}
+	return res.json();
+}
+
 // The site the stack registers itself under. Also the default "Location
 // (Site)" that ldap-client-joined Linux hosts attach to (parent slug
 // site_<name> — see ldap-client/index.sh), so the slugs must line up.
@@ -381,6 +499,30 @@ const HOST_FACTS = {
 
 async function seedDirectory(token, clientId, jumpClientId) {
 	let resources = ((await dirGet(token, 'resources')).results) || [];
+	// Tolerated separately from the resource list: edges only drive the
+	// re-parent + OAuth-link steps, and losing those is not a reason to skip
+	// seeding the resources themselves.
+	let edges = [];
+	try { edges = ((await dirGet(token, 'edges')).results) || []; }
+	catch (e) { log(`  WARNING: could not list directory edges (${e.message}) — skipping re-parent/link steps`); }
+
+	// Move an already-seeded resource under the parent it should have had.
+	// Only ever corrects a parent this bootstrap itself seeded wrongly (the
+	// proxy/jump services were parented to the stack host instead of to
+	// host_theta-proxy / host_theta-jump); an operator who has deliberately
+	// re-parented something keeps their layout, because we only rewire when the
+	// current parent is the one the old code would have set.
+	async function reparent(resource, wantParentId, fromParentId) {
+		if (!resource || !wantParentId || !fromParentId) return;
+		const current = edges.find((e) => e.childId === resource.id && (e.relation === 'hosts' || e.relation === 'oauth'));
+		if (!current) return;                          // unparented: leave it alone
+		if (current.parentId === wantParentId) return; // already correct
+		if (current.parentId !== fromParentId) return; // operator moved it: respect that
+		// PUT with kind + hostId is what makes the route rewire the parent edge.
+		await dirPut(token, `resources/${resource.id}`, { kind: resource.kind, hostId: wantParentId });
+		current.parentId = wantParentId;
+		log(`  directory: re-parented ${resource.kind} '${resource.slug}' onto its own host`);
+	}
 
 	// Create a resource unless its slug (or a legacy alternate from an earlier
 	// seed layout) already exists. On an existing resource, seed metadata keys
@@ -431,29 +573,23 @@ async function seedDirectory(token, clientId, jumpClientId) {
 		managed: true,
 	}, ['stack-host']);
 
-	// theta-proxy and theta-jump are first-class managed host resources (their
+	// "Host" means a real, independently-existing machine — something with its
-	// names match the OAuth client identities the proxy/jump apps use). They
+	// own OS and sshd, that theta-agent or a directory-aware tool like the jump
-	// appear as hosts in the Directory; the per-app services below still carry
+	// host could actually reach on its own. A Docker container backing one of
-	// the OAuth-client + reachability detail.
+	// this stack's own services is never that, no matter how convenient it'd be
-	const jumpHostAddr = process.env.CFG_JUMP_HOST || (DOMAIN ? `jump.${DOMAIN}` : '');
+	// to group its services under a host-shaped node in the UI: it has no sshd,
-	await ensure('host', 'theta-proxy', 'host_theta-proxy', site.id, {
+	// no independent network identity, nothing jump-host could honestly offer
-		subType: 'linux',
+	// as an SSH target. Proxy and jump-host are two of this stack's five
-		address: `https://${PROXY_HOST}`,
+	// containers, running on the one real host above (`host`) — not machines of
-		port: 3000,
+	// their own. Briefly (2026-08-05 through the next release) this file seeded
-		gitRepo: 'https://github.com/theta42/proxy',
+	// `host_theta-proxy` / `host_theta-jump` as first-class `kind: 'host'`
-		icon: 'mdi:server-network',
+	// resources to fix their services being parented to the stack host; that
-		tagline: 'Reverse proxy and API gateway (node management UI).',
+	// solved the parenting problem with the wrong tool. The right tool already
-		managed: true,
+	// existed: `kind: 'container'` (see seedPlugins' Docker discovery, which
-	});
+	// already attaches `docker-theta-suite-proxy` etc. under these services
-	await ensure('host', 'theta-jump', 'host_theta-jump', site.id, {
+	// correctly) sits one layer below `service`, same as `sso-manager` and
-		subType: 'ssh',
+	// `openbao` already do. So: no synthetic hosts — Proxy's and jump-host's
-		address: jumpHostAddr ? `https://${jumpHostAddr}` : '',
+	// services parent directly onto the stack host, same as everything else.
-		port: 3002,
-		gitRepo: 'https://github.com/theta42/jump-host',
-		icon: 'mdi:ssh',
-		tagline: 'Secure SSH jump host.',
-		managed: true,
-	});
 
 	await ensure('service', 'SSO Manager', 'sso-manager', host.id, {
 		address: `https://${SSO_HOST}`,
@@ -465,7 +601,8 @@ async function seedDirectory(token, clientId, jumpClientId) {
 		requestable: false,
 	});
 	// Proxy = the node management UI; OpenResty = the data plane every hostname
-	// in the stack actually flows through (80/443). Two faces, two entries.
+	// in the stack actually flows through (80/443). Two faces, two entries, both
+	// parented directly to the stack host — see the "Host means..." note above.
 	const psvc = await ensure('service', 'Proxy', 'proxy', host.id, {
 		address: `https://${PROXY_HOST}`,
 		port: 3000,
@@ -505,6 +642,14 @@ async function seedDirectory(token, clientId, jumpClientId) {
 		requestable: false,
 	});
 
+	// Remove or set ignored on OpenBao/bao-renewer seed resources if present — OpenBao is an
+	// internal stack service, not a user-facing published directory service.
+	for (const r of resources) {
+		if (r.slug === 'openbao' || r.slug === 'openboa' || r.slug === 'bao-renewer' || (r.name && (/openbao|openboa|bao-renewer/i.test(r.name)))) {
+			await dirDelete(token, `resources/${r.id}`).catch(() => {});
+		}
+	}
+
 	// SSH jump host service (core component — always registered).
 	let jumpSvc = null;
 	{
@@ -520,16 +665,50 @@ async function seedDirectory(token, clientId, jumpClientId) {
 		});
 	}
 
+	// Correct installs seeded between 2026-08-05 and this release, where Proxy's
+	// and jump-host's services were parented to now-removed synthetic
+	// `host_theta-proxy` / `host_theta-jump` resources instead of the stack
+	// host. Look them up by slug (never created going forward) rather than
+	// `ensure`-ing them back into existence: on any install that never had
+	// them, or already got corrected, this is a no-op.
+	const proxyHostRes = resources.find((r) => r.slug === 'host_theta-proxy');
+	const jumpHostRes = resources.find((r) => r.slug === 'host_theta-jump');
+	if (proxyHostRes) {
+		await reparent(psvc, host.id, proxyHostRes.id);
+		await reparent(resources.find((r) => r.slug === 'openresty'), host.id, proxyHostRes.id);
+	}
+	if (jumpHostRes) {
+		await reparent(jumpSvc, host.id, jumpHostRes.id);
+	}
+
+	// Once childless, the synthetic host itself is dead weight from this file's
+	// own earlier mistake — never something an operator would hand-create at
+	// these exact reserved slugs — so remove it. DELETE /resources/:id clears
+	// its own edges first, so this is safe now that the reparents above have
+	// already moved the real children off of it.
+	async function removeIfChildless(resource, label) {
+		if (!resource) return;
+		const stillHasChildren = edges.some((e) => e.parentId === resource.id);
+		if (stillHasChildren) {
+			log(`  directory: '${label}' still has children after reparenting — leaving it for now`);
+			return;
+		}
+		await dirDelete(token, `resources/${resource.id}`);
+		log(`  directory: removed now-empty synthetic host '${label}'`);
+	}
+	await removeIfChildless(proxyHostRes, 'host_theta-proxy');
+	await removeIfChildless(jumpHostRes, 'host_theta-jump');
+
 	// Link an OAuth client (Resource-backed since sso-manager 1.3.0) under its
 	// owning service, if it appears in the directory and isn't linked yet.
 	async function linkOauthClient(id, parent, label) {
 		if (!id || !parent) return;
 		const oauthRes = resources.find((r) => r.id === id);
 		if (!oauthRes) return;
-		const edges = ((await dirGet(token, 'edges')).results) || [];
 		const linked = edges.some((e) => e.childId === id);
 		if (!linked) {
 			await dirPost(token, 'edges', { parentId: parent.id, childId: id, relation: 'oauth' });
+			edges.push({ parentId: parent.id, childId: id, relation: 'oauth' });
 			log(`  directory: linked OAuth client under '${label}'`);
 		}
 	}
@@ -537,6 +716,68 @@ async function seedDirectory(token, clientId, jumpClientId) {
 	await linkOauthClient(jumpClientId, jumpSvc, 'jump-host');
 }
 
+// ── Plugin instances ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+// Seed a sensible default set of plugin instances so the stack is usable the
+// moment it boots, without the operator having to add them by hand. The setup
+// stack runs on Docker, so the single biggest win is a Docker discovery plugin
+// pointed at the local daemon socket: containers that make up the stack (and
+// any others on the host) get discovered into the Directory automatically.
+// Idempotent per slug: an instance an operator already created is left alone.
+async function seedPlugins(token) {
+	async function pluginGet(path) {
+		const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/plugins/${path}`, {
+			headers: { 'auth-token': token },
+		});
+		if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`GET /api/plugins/${path} failed (${res.status})`);
+		return res.json();
+	}
+	async function pluginPost(body) {
+		const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/plugins/`, {
+			method: 'POST',
+			headers: { 'auth-token': token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+			body: JSON.stringify(body),
+		});
+		if (!res.ok) {
+			const text = await res.text().catch(() => '');
+			throw new Error(`POST /api/plugins failed (${res.status}): ${text}`);
+		}
+		return res.json();
+	}
+
+	async function ensurePlugin({ pluginType, name, slug, config }) {
+		const existing = ((await pluginGet('')).results) || [];
+		if (existing.some((i) => i.slug === slug)) {
+			log(`  plugins: '${slug}' exists — keeping`);
+			return;
+		}
+		await pluginPost({ pluginType, name, slug, config });
+		log(`  plugins: created '${slug}' (${pluginType})`);
+	}
+
+	try {
+		// The Docker daemon the setup stack itself runs under. The socket must be
+		// mounted into the sso container for discovery to reach it; if it isn't,
+		// discovery simply errors non-fatally until it is.
+		await ensurePlugin({
+			pluginType: 'docker',
+			name: 'Local Docker daemon',
+			slug: 'docker-local',
+			config: {
+				socketPath: '/var/run/docker.sock',
+				// Containers in our own compose project are the stack itself --
+				// already seeded as services above. Telling the plugin which
+				// project that is lets it mark them managed and attach them to
+				// the service they implement, instead of a fresh install
+				// presenting its own five containers as unmanaged discoveries.
+				stackProject: process.env.COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME || 'theta-suite',
+				hostSlug: HOST_FACTS.name ? `host_${slugify(HOST_FACTS.name)}` : '',
+			},
+		});
+	} catch (e) {
+		log(`WARNING: plugin seed failed (${e.message || e}) — continuing`);
+	}
+}
+
 // Write the OAuth client creds back into /config/proxy-secrets.js so the proxy
 // (which reads that file) can use them. Only the clientId/clientSecret lines
 // are touched; the rest of the file (operator edits, comments) is preserved.
@@ -567,6 +808,78 @@ function writeProxyCreds(id, secret) {
 	}
 }
 
+// The proxy needs a read-only SSO API token so its per-host SSO allow-list can
+// suggest the directory's actual groups (otherwise the "Allowed groups" field
+// autocompletes from the proxy's local groups only, which for an SSO-gated host
+// is never what the operator wants). Idempotent: only mints when the file's
+// `sso.apiToken` is still empty, and only rewrites that one line. Warn-only —
+// no token just means no suggestions.
+const PROXY_TOKEN_NAME = 'theta-proxy';
+
+async function ensureProxyApiToken(token) {
+	const path = '/config/proxy-secrets.js';
+	let src;
+	try {
+		src = fs.readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
+	} catch (e) {
+		log(`  WARNING: cannot read ${path} to add an SSO API token (${e.message})`);
+		return;
+	}
+	// An `sso: { ... apiToken: 'sso_...' }` already present means we're done.
+	if (/apiToken:\s*['"]sso_[0-9a-f]{24}_[0-9a-f]{48}['"]/.test(src)) {
+		log('  proxy already has an SSO API token — keeping');
+		return;
+	}
+	if (!/\bsso:\s*\{/.test(src)) {
+		log(`  WARNING: ${path} has no \`sso\` block — add one with url + apiToken to enable SSO group autocomplete`);
+		return;
+	}
+	try {
+		const apiToken = await mintApiToken(token, PROXY_TOKEN_NAME, 'theta-suite proxy (auto-registered)');
+		// Replace the apiToken line inside the sso block only. The jump host's
+		// token lives in a different file, so an unanchored match is safe here.
+		const updated = src.replace(/(apiToken:\s*)(['"])[^'"]*\2/, `$1$2${apiToken}$2`);
+		if (updated === src) {
+			log(`  WARNING: could not locate apiToken in ${path} — set sso.apiToken manually`);
+			return;
+		}
+		fs.writeFileSync(path, updated);
+		log(`  Minted SSO API token for the proxy and wrote it into ${path}`);
+	} catch (e) {
+		log(`  WARNING: could not provision the proxy's SSO API token: ${e.message}`);
+	}
+}
+
+// Mint (or reuse) a theta-agent join key and hand it to setup.sh.
+//
+// A join key is the single credential an operator needs to add a host: the
+// agent presents it, the SSO enrolls the host and issues it its own per-agent
+// token + public key, which the agent writes back into its agent.yml. Without
+// this, adding a host meant pre-registering it in the SSO and copying two
+// values onto the machine by hand -- and setup.sh's own agent install had no
+// way to produce a token the server would accept at all.
+//
+// Idempotent: reuses the existing `setup` key rather than piling up new ones.
+// A key can only be shown once, so if the stored one is not recoverable we mint
+// a replacement and label it for the run that created it.
+async function ensureAgentJoinKey(token) {
+	try {
+		const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/agent/join-keys`, {
+			method: 'POST',
+			headers: { 'auth-token': token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+			body: JSON.stringify({ label: 'setup' }),
+		});
+		if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text().catch(() => '')}`);
+		const data = await res.json();
+		if (!data.key) throw new Error('join-key response had no key');
+		log('  Minted a theta-agent join key');
+		return data.key;
+	} catch (error) {
+		log(`  WARNING: could not mint a theta-agent join key: ${error.message}`);
+		return '';
+	}
+}
+
 // ── 6. Provision the SSH jump host ─────────────────────────────────────────
 // The jump host is a core component (always provisioned). It needs: a directory
 // API token (to resolve which hosts a user may reach), an LDAP bind account
@@ -583,11 +896,11 @@ const JUMP_TOKEN_NAME = 'theta-jump-host';
 const JUMP_CLIENT_NAME = 'theta-jump';
 const JUMP_REDIRECT_URI = `https://${JUMP_HOST}/api/auth/oidc/callback`;
 
-async function mintApiToken(token, name) {
+async function mintApiToken(token, name, description) {
 	const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/api-token`, {
 		method: 'POST',
 		headers: { 'auth-token': token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-		body: JSON.stringify({ name, description: 'theta-suite jump host (auto-registered)' }),
+		body: JSON.stringify({ name, description: description || 'theta-suite jump host (auto-registered)' }),
 	});
 	if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`mint API token failed (${res.status}): ${await res.text().catch(() => '')}`);
 	const data = await res.json();
@@ -722,6 +1035,10 @@ async function provisionJumpHost(token) {
 		if (HAS_USABLE_CREDS) client = list.find((c) => c.client_id === EXISTING_ID);
 		if (!client) client = list.find((c) => c.name === CLIENT_NAME);
 
+		// Widen an existing client before any of the branches below return: a
+		// freshly created one already gets these from createClient().
+		if (client) await ensureRedirectUris(token, client, proxyRedirectUris());
+
 		if (client && HAS_USABLE_CREDS && client.client_id === EXISTING_ID) {
 			// File creds match an existing client — trust the file's secret
 			// (it's bcrypt-hashed server-side, so we can't verify, but the proxy
@@ -751,6 +1068,11 @@ async function provisionJumpHost(token) {
 			resolvedClientId = id;
 		}
 
+		// Must run before the baoPut below: that snapshots proxy-secrets.js into
+		// OpenBao, and the proxy loads its conf from there at boot, so a token
+		// written after the snapshot would never reach the running proxy.
+		await ensureProxyApiToken(token);
+
 		// Mirror the (now-current) proxy-secrets.js into OpenBao so the proxy
 		// loads it from there at boot via @simpleworkjs/bao-conf. Re-require
 		// fresh: writeProxyCreds rewrote the file out from under the cached
@@ -777,6 +1099,9 @@ async function provisionJumpHost(token) {
 			log(`WARNING: jump host provisioning failed (${e.message || e}) — continuing`);
 		}
 
+		// The agent join key setup.sh writes into /etc/theta42/agent.yml.
+		out('AGENT_JOIN_KEY', await ensureAgentJoinKey(token));
+
 		// Seed the directory (site/host/services + OAuth client link). Never
 		// fails the bootstrap — warn and continue.
 		try {
@@ -786,6 +1111,15 @@ async function provisionJumpHost(token) {
 			log(`WARNING: directory seed failed (${e.message || e}) — continuing`);
 		}
 
+		// Seed default plugin instances (Docker discovery) — same warn-and-go
+		// policy; a stack without plugins is still usable.
+		try {
+			log('Seeding default plugins...');
+			await seedPlugins(token);
+		} catch (e) {
+			log(`WARNING: plugin seed failed (${e.message || e}) — continuing`);
+		}
+
 		log('Done.');
 		process.exit(0);
 	} catch (e) {

bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# seed-demo-users.sh — Seed realistic homelab/small-business demo users +
+# groups into the SSO Manager's LDAP directory, for screenshots/demos.
+#
+# Mirrors the schema sso-manager-node's addLdapUser/addGroup actually write
+# (see nodejs/models/user_ldap.js, group_ldap.js) so accounts created here are
+# indistinguishable from ones created through the UI. Idempotent: safe to
+# re-run, existing entries are skipped.
+#
+# Usage (from theta-env/):
+#   docker compose exec -T sso-manager bash /bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh
+#
+# Reads the real LDAP bind DN/password out of the mounted /config/sso-secrets.js
+# at runtime rather than hardcoding them, so it keeps working if secrets rotate.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+LDAP_URL="ldap://localhost:389"
+BIND_DN=$(node -e "console.log(require('/config/sso-secrets.js').ldap.bindDN)")
+BIND_PW=$(node -e "console.log(require('/config/sso-secrets.js').ldap.bindPassword)")
+BASE_DN=$(node -e "console.log(require('/config/sso-secrets.js').stack.ldapBaseDn)")
+PEOPLE_OU="ou=people,${BASE_DN}"
+GROUPS_OU="ou=groups,${BASE_DN}"
+
+info()  { echo "[INFO] $*"; }
+error() { echo "[ERROR] $*" >&2; }
+
+ldap_exists() {
+  ldapsearch -x -H "$LDAP_URL" -D "$BIND_DN" -w "$BIND_PW" -b "$1" -s base '(objectClass=*)' >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+hash_password() {
+  node -e "
+    const crypto = require('crypto');
+    const salt = crypto.randomBytes(8);
+    const hash = crypto.createHash('sha512').update('$1').update(salt).digest();
+    console.log('{SSHA512}' + Buffer.concat([hash, salt]).toString('base64'));
+  "
+}
+
+# create_person <uid> <sn> <given_name> <mail> <uidNumber> <password> [description]
+create_person() {
+  local uid="$1" sn="$2" given="$3" mail="$4" uidnum="$5" pass="$6" desc="${7:-}"
+  local person_dn="cn=${uid},${PEOPLE_OU}"
+  local group_dn="cn=${uid},${GROUPS_OU}"
+
+  if ldap_exists "$person_dn"; then
+    info "User '${uid}' already exists — skipping"
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  local hash; hash=$(hash_password "$pass")
+  local tmp; tmp=$(mktemp)
+  trap 'rm -f "$tmp"' RETURN
+
+  cat > "$tmp" <<LDIF
+dn: ${group_dn}
+objectClass: posixGroup
+objectClass: top
+cn: ${uid}
+gidNumber: ${uidnum}
+description: Personal group for ${uid}
+
+dn: ${person_dn}
+objectClass: inetOrgPerson
+objectClass: posixAccount
+objectClass: sudoRole
+objectClass: ldapPublicKey
+objectClass: top
+objectClass: theta42Person
+cn: ${uid}
+sn: ${sn}
+givenName: ${given}
+uid: ${uid}
+uidNumber: ${uidnum}
+gidNumber: ${uidnum}
+homeDirectory: /home/${uid}
+loginShell: /bin/bash
+mail: ${mail}
+userPassword: ${hash}
+description: ${desc:- }
+sudoHost: ALL
+sudoCommand: ALL
+sudoUser: ${uid}
+LDIF
+
+  ldapadd -x -H "$LDAP_URL" -D "$BIND_DN" -w "$BIND_PW" -f "$tmp"
+  info "Created user '${uid}' (${mail})"
+}
+
+# create_group <cn> <owner_dn> <description>
+create_group() {
+  local cn="$1" owner_dn="$2" desc="$3"
+  local group_dn="cn=${cn},${GROUPS_OU}"
+
+  if ldap_exists "$group_dn"; then
+    info "Group '${cn}' already exists — skipping"
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  ldapadd -x -H "$LDAP_URL" -D "$BIND_DN" -w "$BIND_PW" <<LDIF
+dn: ${group_dn}
+objectClass: groupOfNames
+objectClass: top
+cn: ${cn}
+description: ${desc}
+member: ${owner_dn}
+LDIF
+  info "Created group '${cn}'"
+}
+
+# add_member <group_cn> <user_dn>
+add_member() {
+  local cn="$1" user_dn="$2"
+  local group_dn="cn=${cn},${GROUPS_OU}"
+  ldapmodify -x -H "$LDAP_URL" -D "$BIND_DN" -w "$BIND_PW" 2>/dev/null <<LDIF || true
+dn: ${group_dn}
+changetype: modify
+add: member
+member: ${user_dn}
+LDIF
+}
+
+info "Waiting for LDAP at ${LDAP_URL}..."
+for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+  ldapsearch -x -H "$LDAP_URL" -b '' -s base '(objectClass=*)' >/dev/null 2>&1 && break
+  [ "$i" -eq 30 ] && { error "LDAP not reachable"; exit 1; }
+  sleep 1
+done
+
+# ── Demo users (homelab / small-business cast) ───────────────────────────────
+# uidNumbers start at 5000 to stay well clear of the app's own auto-assigned
+# range (nextPosixId scans existing entries and increments from the highest).
+# See docs/fixtures.md for the canonical list this mirrors — update both
+# together.
+create_person schen      Chen      Sarah  sarah.chen@laptop-dev.vm42.us     5000 'DemoPass123!' 'Engineering — DevOps lead'
+create_person dkim       Kim       David  david.kim@laptop-dev.vm42.us      5001 'DemoPass123!' 'Engineering — Backend developer'
+create_person ppatel     Patel     Priya  priya.patel@laptop-dev.vm42.us    5002 'DemoPass123!' 'Engineering — Frontend developer'
+create_person mjohnson   Johnson   Marcus marcus.johnson@laptop-dev.vm42.us 5003 'DemoPass123!' 'Finance — Finance manager'
+create_person lnguyen    Nguyen    Linda  linda.nguyen@laptop-dev.vm42.us   5004 'DemoPass123!' 'Finance — Bookkeeper'
+create_person erodriguez Rodriguez Emily  emily.rodriguez@laptop-dev.vm42.us 5005 'DemoPass123!' 'Support — Support lead'
+create_person tbaker     Baker     Tom    tom.baker@laptop-dev.vm42.us      5006 'DemoPass123!' 'Support — Support tech'
+create_person jwilson    Wilson    James  james.wilson@laptop-dev.vm42.us   5007 'DemoPass123!' 'Management — Owner'
+create_person svc-monitoring Bot  monitoring monitoring@laptop-dev.vm42.us  5008 'ServiceAcct!2024' 'Service account — Grafana/Prometheus scraping'
+create_person svc-backup     Bot  backup     backup@laptop-dev.vm42.us     5009 'ServiceAcct!2024' 'Service account — backup automation'
+
+# ── Department groups (groupOfNames — what shows up in Directory > Groups) ──
+ADMIN_DN="cn=admin,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+create_group engineering "$ADMIN_DN" "Engineering team"
+create_group finance     "$ADMIN_DN" "Finance and accounting"
+create_group support     "$ADMIN_DN" "Support and operations"
+create_group management  "$ADMIN_DN" "Company management"
+
+add_member engineering "cn=schen,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member engineering "cn=dkim,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member engineering "cn=ppatel,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member finance     "cn=mjohnson,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member finance     "cn=lnguyen,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member support     "cn=erodriguez,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member support     "cn=tbaker,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+add_member management  "cn=jwilson,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+
+# Mark the service accounts as service accounts (app_sso_service_account is
+# seeded by the app itself on boot, so it should already exist).
+if ldap_exists "cn=app_sso_service_account,${GROUPS_OU}"; then
+  add_member app_sso_service_account "cn=svc-monitoring,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+  add_member app_sso_service_account "cn=svc-backup,${PEOPLE_OU}"
+else
+  info "app_sso_service_account group not found — skipping service-account tagging"
+fi
+
+info "Demo data seed complete."

bootstrap/site-join.js

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+/*
+ * theta-suite site-join — runs inside the sso-manager container to adopt a
+ * master site's directory as a read-only spoke. Invoked by setup.sh when
+ * setup.env sets CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL + CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY:
+ *
+ *   docker compose exec sso-manager node /bootstrap/site-join.js \
+ *       https://sso.master.example.com stj_9f2e... https://sso.this-site.example.com
+ *
+ * The third argument (selfUrl, optional) is this site's own public SSO host
+ * (setup.sh passes https://$CFG_SSO_HOST) -- without it the join still
+ * succeeds, it just registers for one-time adoption only: the master has no
+ * way to reach this spoke to push live replication resync pings at it (see
+ * theta-directory's docs/site-join.md and utils/site_replicate.js).
+ *
+ * Self-contained (Node built-ins + global fetch), same rule as bootstrap.js —
+ * it does NOT require the SSO's internal models. It logs in as the bootstrap
+ * admin (reading /config/sso-secrets.js) and calls the SSO's own
+ * /api/site/join, which imports the master's resource catalog + LDAP tree and
+ * persists the spoke role in /config/site.json.
+ *
+ * Output (stdout, KEY=VALUE for setup.sh): JOINED, SITE_SLUG, RESOURCES, LDAP.
+ * Progress logs go to stderr.
+ */
+'use strict';
+
+const sso = require('/config/sso-secrets.js');
+
+const ADMIN_UID       = (sso.bootstrap && sso.bootstrap.adminUid) || 'admin';
+const ADMIN_USER_PASS = (sso.bootstrap && sso.bootstrap.adminPass) || '';
+const SSO_INTERNAL    = 'http://localhost:3001';
+
+const masterUrl = process.argv[2];
+const joinKey   = process.argv[3];
+const selfUrl   = process.argv[4] || '';
+
+function log(msg) { console.error('[site-join] ' + msg); }
+
+async function main() {
+  if (!masterUrl || !joinKey) {
+    throw new Error('usage: node /bootstrap/site-join.js <masterUrl> <joinKey>');
+  }
+
+  // 1. Login as the bootstrap admin (validates the password end-to-end).
+  const loginRes = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/auth/login`, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ uid: ADMIN_UID, password: ADMIN_USER_PASS }),
+  });
+  if (!loginRes.ok) {
+    throw new Error(`admin login failed (${loginRes.status}): ${await loginRes.text().catch(() => '')}`);
+  }
+  const loginData = await loginRes.json();
+  const token = loginData.token;
+  if (!token) throw new Error('admin login returned no token');
+  log(`Logged in as ${ADMIN_UID}`);
+
+  // 2. Join the master.
+  const res = await fetch(`${SSO_INTERNAL}/api/site/join`, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    headers: { 'auth-token': token, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    body: JSON.stringify({ masterUrl, joinKey, ...(selfUrl ? { selfUrl } : {}) }),
+  });
+  const text = await res.text().catch(() => '');
+  let data = null;
+  try { data = JSON.parse(text); } catch (e) { /* not JSON */ }
+  if (!res.ok) {
+    // A node that already joined is a no-op, not a failure (idempotent setup).
+    if (res.status === 400 && data && /already a spoke/i.test(data.message || '')) {
+      log('Already a spoke — nothing to do.');
+      console.log('JOINED=already');
+      return;
+    }
+    throw new Error(`join failed (${res.status}): ${(data && data.message) || text}`);
+  }
+
+  log(`Joined master site ${masterUrl} as ${data.siteSlug || '?'}`);
+  log(`Live replication: ${(data.replication && data.replication.note) || 'unknown'}`);
+  console.log([
+    `JOINED=yes`,
+    `SITE_SLUG=${data.siteSlug || ''}`,
+    `RESOURCES=${(data.resources && data.resources.created) || 0}`,
+    `LDAP=${(data.ldap && data.ldap.note) || ''}`,
+    `LIVE_REPLICATION=${(data.replication && data.replication.live) ? 'yes' : 'no'}`
+  ].join(' '));
+}
+
+main().catch((e) => {
+  console.error('[site-join] FAILED: ' + e.message);
+  process.exit(1);
+});

docker-compose.yml

@@ -52,12 +52,16 @@ services:
       # the UI is reachable on the LAN during setup). Set SSO_BIND=127.0.0.1 to
       # lock it to localhost once the proxy fronts it at https://<SSO_HOST>.
       - "${SSO_BIND:-0.0.0.0}:${SSO_PORT:-3001}:3001"
-      # LDAPS for EXTERNAL direct-LDAP clients (legacy apps). The proxy itself
+      # LDAPS (636) + plain LDAP (389) for direct-LDAP clients AND for the stack
-      # reaches LDAPS over theta-net (sso-manager:636) without this host mapping.
+      # host's OWN enrollment: setup.sh / ldap-client configure the host's sssd
-      # Prefer an internal-only hostname (set CFG_LDAPS_HOST in setup.env / ldapsHost
+      # against ldap://localhost and ldaps://localhost, and the LDAP server is
-      # in sso-secrets.js) and do NOT forward 636 to the public internet.
+      # co-located on this host, so BOTH ports must be reachable from the host
-      - "${LDAPS_PORT:-636}:636"
+      # over loopback — not only over the docker network. Bind 0.0.0.0 (default)
-      # Plain LDAP (389) is NOT mapped — direct-LDAP clients should use LDAPS.
+      # so LAN clients can use the host's local IP too; set LDAP_BIND and/or
+      # LDAPS_BIND=127.0.0.1 to lock either to the host only. Prefer an internal
+      # hostname (CFG_LDAPS_HOST) and do NOT forward 389/636 to the public internet.
+      - "${LDAP_BIND:-0.0.0.0}:${LDAP_PORT:-389}:389"
+      - "${LDAPS_BIND:-0.0.0.0}:${LDAPS_PORT:-636}:636"
     environment:
       # Config (LDAP, OAuth, SMTP, ...) is loaded by @simpleworkjs/conf from
       # ./config/sso-secrets.js (see volumes), then @simpleworkjs/bao-conf
@@ -77,6 +81,10 @@ services:
       - HTTPS_PROXY=${CFG_HTTPS_PROXY:-}
       - NO_PROXY=${CFG_NO_PROXY:-}
     volumes:
+      # The host docker socket so the bundled Docker discovery plugin (seeded as
+      # 'docker-local' with socketPath /var/run/docker.sock) can list containers.
+      # Without this the plugin errors with ENOENT and shows 'Last run: error'.
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
       # Operator-edited SSO secrets (sso-secrets.js). Read-WRITE so the bootstrap
       # can write the generated OAuth client creds into proxy-secrets.js. The
       # entrypoint points CONF_SECRETS at /config/sso-secrets.js.

docs/AGENT_LOCAL_DISCOVERY_SPEC.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# theta-agent: Local-Discovery Spec (mDNS "prefer local directory")
+
+**Audience**: implementer on Windows/Mac (this was authored on Linux; Windows/Mac-specific network and hosts-file behavior needs to be built and tested there, not assumed here).
+**Repo**: `theta-agent` (Go). Signing/config mechanism referenced below: `websocket.go`, `config.go`.
+**Parent doc**: [`MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md`](./MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md) §5.3 — read that section for the "why," this doc is the "what," precisely enough to implement without re-deriving the reasoning.
+
+## Problem
+
+A no-inbound spoke site's public hostname (e.g. `sso-staten-island.theta42.com`) resolves, from the internet, to the master's IP, which relays over WireGuard to the spoke. A device physically on that spoke's LAN resolving the same hostname takes the same path — out to the master, back over the tunnel — even though the real service is a few feet away. This is wasted latency, not a correctness bug, but it's the kind of thing users notice.
+
+## What to Build
+
+### 1. Announcer (gateway/proxy side — may already be scoped elsewhere, confirm before duplicating)
+The spoke's `theta-gateway` or `theta-proxy` periodically advertises itself via mDNS on the local segment:
+- Service type: `_theta-suite._tcp.local`
+- TXT records: `site=<slug>`, `hosts=<comma-separated list of public hostnames this site fronts>`
+- Advertised address: the service's own local LAN IP
+
+### 2. Listener + Override (this doc's actual scope — theta-agent)
+- New config field in `agent.yml`, e.g. `prefer_local_discovered_directory: bool` (default `false` — opt-in, not automatic, since it changes name resolution behavior on the host).
+- When `true`, the agent runs an mDNS browser for `_theta-suite._tcp.local` in the background.
+- On receiving an announcement whose `hosts` TXT list includes a hostname the agent cares about (at minimum: the hostname the agent itself is currently configured to connect to for its WS connection), the agent installs a **local override** redirecting that hostname to the discovered local IP.
+- No announcement seen (agent off-site, or flag disabled) → no override installed, normal DNS resolution applies. Nothing else about the agent's behavior changes in this case.
+- If a previously-discovered site's announcement stops being seen (TTL expiry / agent moved networks), the override must be **removed**, not left stale. Don't let a laptop that left the office keep resolving the old office hostname to a now-unreachable LAN IP.
+
+### 3. Override Mechanism — Platform-Specific, Needs Real Investigation
+
+This is the part that most needs Windows/Mac-native work; do not assume the Linux/Unix approach ports directly:
+
+- **Windows**: hosts file lives at `%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts`; writing to it requires elevation, and Windows caches DNS results independently (`ipconfig /flushdns` needed after an edit, or the change won't take effect immediately — verify whether theta-agent already runs elevated on Windows, since if it doesn't, this whole approach may need a different mechanism, e.g. a local proxy/resolver instead of hosts-file edits).
+- **macOS**: hosts file at `/etc/hosts`, also requires root; macOS's mDNSResponder/DNS caching behavior differs from Windows and Linux (`dscacheutil -flushcache; killall -HUP mDNSResponder` territory) — confirm whether an installed hosts entry is actually honored promptly, or whether the built-in mDNSResponder needs to be told directly instead of fighting it with a hosts-file edit (macOS already *has* native mDNS support baked into resolution — it may be simpler/more idiomatic there to register via the OS's own Bonjour APIs rather than hand-roll hosts-file mutation).
+- **Linux**: `/etc/hosts`, requires root, comparatively straightforward, `systemd-resolved` caching considerations may apply depending on distro.
+
+Given the platform divergence, seriously consider whether a **local stub resolver** (theta-agent listens on `127.0.0.1:<port>`, answers matching hostnames from its own discovery cache, forwards everything else upstream — with the OS's DNS pointed at it only for the duration this feature is active) is actually simpler and more uniform across all three platforms than hosts-file mutation, despite the extra moving part. Recommend evaluating both before committing to an implementation; this doc intentionally doesn't prescribe one, since that call needs platform testing this environment can't do.
+
+## Hard Security Rule (non-negotiable, applies regardless of mechanism chosen)
+
+mDNS is **unauthenticated** on a local network — anyone on the same LAN segment can broadcast a spoofed announcement. This feature may only ever change **where** the agent connects (which IP a hostname resolves to). It must **never** change **whether** the agent trusts what answers there. Concretely:
+- TLS certificate validation and hostname verification against the redirected IP must remain fully enforced — no exceptions, no "local network so it's fine" carve-out.
+- A spoofed rogue announcement pointing a hostname at an attacker's local IP should produce a TLS handshake failure (cert won't match), not a silent connection. If your chosen mechanism has *any* code path where local-discovery bypasses or weakens cert checking, that's a bug, not an optimization — fix it before shipping.
+
+## Out of Scope for This Piece
+
+- The announcer side's exact library/implementation on the gateway/proxy (Linux — can be built where this spec was authored, not blocked on Windows/Mac).
+- Anything about the master-relay mechanism itself (§5.2 of the parent spec) — this doc is purely the "skip the relay when local" optimization layered on top of it.
+
+## Definition of Done
+
+- Flag exists, defaults off.
+- Enabling it on a machine physically on a spoke's LAN measurably routes traffic to the local spoke instead of through the master relay (verify via a network capture or the proxy's own access logs on each side, not just "it feels faster").
+- Leaving that LAN (or disabling the flag) reliably reverts to normal resolution — no stale overrides.
+- A test with a spoofed/rogue mDNS announcement (a second, non-legitimate advertiser) results in a TLS failure, not a successful connection to the impostor.
+- Behavior verified on both Windows and macOS, not just Linux.

docs/GROUPS.md

@@ -76,9 +76,18 @@ enumerated as LDAP members, and cannot be used as Unix groups.
 
 - The **structural delimiter is `_`**. It appears only between the fixed segments
   of a group name.
-- **Site, host, and app slugs never contain `_`.** Normalize to lowercase;
+- **The `S` site segment is the site resource's slug verbatim** (`site_local`),
-  spaces and `_` → `-`; strip other non-`[a-z0-9-]`. A host named `Web 01` and a
+  NOT re-slugified (which would corrupt the delimiter: `site_local` → `site-local`).
-  site `Main Office` produce slugs `web-01` and `main-office`.
+- **Per-resource groups are `{S}_{kind}_{name}_{level}`.** `kind` is `host` or
+  `app`; `name` is the resource's **name slug with the kind prefix stripped** — a
+  host resource `host_theta-env` has name `theta-env`, so its groups are
+  `site_local_host_theta-env_access` / `_admin`. A service (the group model's
+  `app`, docs §11) `sso-manager` gives `site_local_app_sso-manager_access`. The
+  kind segment is always present, which is what makes a resource's name
+  unambiguous even if a host and a service share a name.
+- **Within a segment, normalize to lowercase** — spaces and stray `_` → `-`; strip
+  other non-`[a-z0-9-]`. A host named `Web 01` and a site `Main Office` (resource
+  slugs `host_web-01` and `site_main-office`) yield groups `site_main-office_host_web-01_*`.
 - **Aggregate groups use the plural kind** (`hosts`, `apps`); per-resource groups
   use the singular (`host`, `app`). This makes `S_hosts_admin` unambiguous even
   if a host were named `admin` (that host would be `S_host_admin_admin`).
@@ -139,7 +148,9 @@ def effective(resource, level_or_cap, site):
     if level_or_cap in ("admin","access"):
         agg = f"{site}_{resource.kind}s_{level_or_cap}"
         if user in agg:                      return True
-    specific = f"{site}_{resource.kind}_{resource.slug}_{level_or_cap}"
+    # resource.name is the resource's name slug (kind prefix stripped); the kind
+    # is its own segment. A host `host_theta-env` has name `theta-env`, kind `host`.
+    specific = f"{site}_{resource.kind}_{resource.name}_{level_or_cap}"
     if user in specific:                     return True
     if level_or_cap == "access":             return effective(resource, "admin", site)
     if level_or_cap == "admin":              return False          # access does not imply admin
@@ -221,12 +232,12 @@ Key ideas:
 A host should import its **own** resource groups (plus any explicitly granted
 ones). Because the schema is predictable, `ldap-client` can generate the per-host
 `ldap_group_search_filter` from the enrolled host's identity, e.g. a host `web01`
-at site `main-office` imports:
+at site `main-office` (site resource slug `site_main-office`) imports:
 
 ```
-(&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(|(cn=main-office_host_web01_access)
+(&(objectClass=groupOfNames)(|(cn=site_main-office_host_web01_access)
-                               (cn=main-office_host_web01_admin)
+                               (cn=site_main-office_host_web01_admin)
-                               (cn=main-office_host_web01_sudo)))
+                               (cn=site_main-office_host_web01_sudo)))
 ```
 
 So the operator (or ldap-client) selects a small allowlist of the host's `_access`

docs/MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md

@@ -0,0 +1,277 @@
+# Theta Suite Multi-Site Architecture & VPN Specification
+
+**Specification Version**: `2.2.0`
+**Status**: Mostly shipped. Read the status table at the bottom before trusting any section's detail as current behavior — this document accumulated across several build passes and earlier sections describe things that were aspirational when written and real by the time later sections were added.
+**Target Suite Version**: `v1.50.0+`
+**Repository**: [`theta-suite`](https://github.com/theta42/theta-suite)
+
+> ## Shipped today
+> - **Join, live replication, promotion** (`sso-manager-node`): a spoke joins via a one-time export over a site join key (`POST /api/site/join-keys` / `/export` / `/join`), then registers its own endpoint so the master can push live resync pings on every catalog write — no longer a one-time snapshot. Promotion (`POST /api/directory-admin/site-promote`) coordinates a real handoff, demoting the old master as one action. Identical agent-signing keys ride the same export/resync path. Read [`sso-manager-node/docs/site-join.md`](https://github.com/theta42/theta-directory/blob/master/docs/site-join.md) and `directory_spec.md` §11 for the endpoint-level detail.
+> - **Gateway-to-gateway WireGuard mesh** (`theta-gateway`): real site-to-site tunnels via `POST /api/mesh/register`/`/join`, kernel WireGuard with a userspace `wireguard-go` fallback. Verified with an actual two-container encrypted tunnel passing traffic, not a mock.
+> - **Not yet connected to each other**: the mesh is a transport layer that exists on its own; `sso-manager-node`'s HTTPS-based join/replicate calls don't route over it yet. That wiring, plus the no-inbound relay it would enable (mechanism verified, automation not built — see status table), is the next layer.
+> - **mDNS local-discovery, Linux**: shipped and verified end-to-end — `theta-gateway` announces (`services/mdns_announce.js`), `theta-agent` discovers and applies a hosts-file override, cleanly reverts when the announcement disappears. Windows/macOS remain unbuilt — see the TODO list.
+
+Design scale: a handful of sites (dozen max, 254 hard ceiling — see §4), a few hundred users/hosts total. This is a deliberate, small, trusted-operator deployment, not a hyperscale/adversarial-tenant one — several decisions below (fire-and-forget replication, identical directories) trade blast-radius for simplicity *because* the scale allows it. Don't generalize these choices past that scale without re-deriving them.
+
+---
+
+## 1. High-Level System Architecture
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TB
+    subgraph ControlPlane["Master Site (write authority)"]
+        ssoM["sso-manager-node (isMaster=true)"]
+        ldapM["OpenLDAP (MMR write node)"]
+        baoM["OpenBao (local, replication source)"]
+        proxyM["theta-proxy"]
+        gateM["theta-gateway"]
+        agentM["theta-agent"]
+    end
+
+    subgraph SiteB["Spoke — inbound (has a public IP)"]
+        ssoB["sso-manager-node (isMaster=false)"]
+        ldapB["OpenLDAP (MMR read replica)"]
+        baoB["OpenBao (local replica)"]
+        proxyB["theta-proxy — serves this site's public traffic directly"]
+        gateB["theta-gateway"]
+        agentB["theta-agent"]
+    end
+
+    subgraph SiteC["Spoke — no inbound (CGNAT)"]
+        ssoC["sso-manager-node (isMaster=false)"]
+        ldapC["OpenLDAP (MMR read replica)"]
+        baoC["OpenBao (local replica)"]
+        proxyC["theta-proxy — LAN-local traffic only"]
+        gateC["theta-gateway"]
+        agentC["theta-agent"]
+    end
+
+    gateM <==>|"WireGuard mesh tunnel"| gateB
+    gateM <==>|"WireGuard mesh tunnel"| gateC
+
+    ssoM -.->|"fire-and-forget push: catalog + secrets + signing key"| ssoB
+    ssoM -.->|"fire-and-forget push"| ssoC
+    ldapM <==>|"OpenLDAP MMR syncrepl"| ldapB
+    ldapM <==>|"OpenLDAP MMR syncrepl"| ldapC
+
+    proxyM -->|"TLS-terminate + relay (no direct path exists)"| gateM
+    gateM ==>|"WG tunnel"| gateC
+```
+
+---
+
+## 2. Every Directory Is Identical
+
+Master and every spoke run the **same LDAP data, the same OpenBao secrets, and the same agent-signing key**. Hitting any site's `sso-manager-node` for read/auth purposes is equivalent to hitting any other. The only asymmetry is **write authority** (§3).
+
+This is a deliberate tradeoff, not a default: it means compromising *any single spoke* — including the smallest, least-secured one — grants an attacker the same agent-command authority (`update_binary`, `arbitrary_bash`, service control) as compromising the master, because every site holds the same Ed25519 signing key (`sso-manager-node/nodejs/utils/agent_keys.js`). Accepted here because the deployment scale is small and trusted. Do not extend this pattern to a larger/adversarial-tenant deployment without revisiting it.
+
+Consequence: `theta-agent` needs **no change** to support multi-site — it already does TOFU pairing against a single trusted key (`websocket.go:341-351`), and since that key is identical everywhere, any site's `sso-manager-node` can validly sign a command for any agent, anywhere, without agents needing a keyring.
+
+### 2.1 What Replicates, and How
+
+| Data | Mechanism | Direction |
+|---|---|---|
+| LDAP (users, groups) | OpenLDAP MMR syncrepl | master (write) → spokes (read-only) |
+| OpenBao secrets (incl. agent-signing key at `secret/agent/signing-key`) | **New**: custom replicator (OpenBao has no built-in multi-site replication — Performance Replication is Vault-Enterprise-only, confirmed absent from OpenBao as of this writing) | master (write) → spokes (read-only) |
+| Directory catalog (Resources: hosts, apps, sites) | Existing catalog change events | master (write) → spokes (read-only) |
+| Audit log | Async batch worker, already speced (§6) | spokes → master |
+
+### 2.2 Replication Delivery: Fire-and-Forget
+
+Master is the sole writer (§3), so there is exactly one producer per data type — no conflict resolution, no consensus, no vector clocks needed. On every write, master pushes the change to all connected spokes **concurrently** (not sequentially — spokes are independent WG peers, none blocks on another) and does **not** wait for acks. A spoke that's offline queues nothing on the master's side; on reconnect, the spoke pulls (or master replays) missed versions.
+
+This is a deliberate choice over "wait for all spokes to ack": with a dozen spokes, concurrent push completes in low hundreds of milliseconds on the happy path, but *waiting* for acks makes every write's latency bounded by the slowest/offline spoke — reintroducing the split-brain-adjacent stall that §3's explicit-promotion design exists to avoid. Never make a master write block on spoke reachability.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Explicit Master Control & Human `god_admin` Authority
+
+Automatic failover across WAN is explicitly disabled — 0% split-brain risk by design:
+
+```
+                          WAN OUTAGE DETECTED
+                                   │
+                                   ▼
+             Spoke Node Unconditionally Retains SPOKE Mode
+                                   │
+                                   ▼
+             Requires Human god_admin Promotion Action
+```
+
+1. **Unreachable master**: a spoke that loses the master unconditionally stays a spoke. No auto-election.
+2. **Promotion is a single coordinated action, not two steps**: `POST /api/directory-admin/site-promote` (god_admin-gated) calls out to the *current* master over the WG tunnel and demotes it as part of the same operation — there's never a window with two masters. (Requires the old master to be reachable; if it isn't, that's an operator-visible failure to resolve manually, not a silent partial-promotion.)
+3. Because every directory is identical (§2), promotion carries **no agent re-keying cost** — this was the main risk in earlier drafts of this design and is now moot.
+4. Site state (name, slug, `isMaster`, `masterUrl`, `wanConnected`) lives on the site's own `kind:'site'` Resource (`metadata.multiSite`), not in server memory — it must survive restarts and be visible via the same directory API as everything else.
+
+---
+
+## 4. `spoke.env` vs `setup.env`
+
+A spoke shares almost none of `setup.env`'s concerns (it doesn't mint LDAP admin/JWT/service-account secrets — those arrive via replication, §2) so it gets its own, much shorter file:
+
+```
+CFG_DOMAIN=theta42.com          # REQUIRED, must match the master's exactly — this is the shared LDAP base DN (dc=theta42,dc=com). Never per-site.
+CFG_SITE_NAME=staten-island     # this site's name/slug
+CFG_SPOKE_INBOUND=false         # true: this site has a public IP and serves its own traffic directly (standalone-style). false: no inbound path exists; master relays (§5).
+CFG_PUBLIC_DOMAIN=              # only used when CFG_SPOKE_INBOUND=true — this site's own domain, own DNS, own ACME cert, independent of the master's domain.
+CFG_JOIN_TOKEN=                 # one-time token from the master, used for WG mesh auto-registration (§4.1) and initial catalog/secret pull.
+CFG_MASTER_ENDPOINT=            # master's WG endpoint (host:port) to join through.
+```
+
+`CFG_DOMAIN` is the identity namespace (LDAP DN) and must be identical across every site — MMR replicas cannot diverge on base DN. `CFG_PUBLIC_DOMAIN` is a *web-hostname* concern, unrelated to LDAP, and only exists at all for inbound spokes.
+
+### 4.1 WireGuard Mesh Auto-Registration
+
+1. A new `theta-gateway` boots with `CFG_JOIN_TOKEN` + `CFG_MASTER_ENDPOINT`, generates its Curve25519 keypair, and calls `POST /api/mesh/gateway/register` on the master over an initial bootstrap tunnel.
+2. Master assigns the next free **site index** (one octet, used identically in both `172.24.<site>.0/16` and `10.<site>.0.0/16` per the reference topology in Appendix A) and returns full mesh peer config.
+3. **Site index ceiling is 254** (0 and 255 excluded) — a hard technical limit of this addressing scheme, not an arbitrary cap. Real deployments target a dozen or fewer; no need to cap lower than the real ceiling.
+4. Each `theta-gateway` applies the new peer set to its running `wg0` via `wgctrl` without dropping existing connections.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Inbound vs. No-Inbound Spokes
+
+Whether a spoke has a public IP determines everything about how its traffic reaches the outside world — these are two distinct, documented operating modes, not a single universal mechanism.
+
+### 5.1 Inbound Spoke (`CFG_SPOKE_INBOUND=true`)
+Behaves like a standalone install. Own `CFG_PUBLIC_DOMAIN`, own DNS pointed at its own public IP, own ACME cert. `theta-proxy` and `theta-gateway` serve public web + SSH traffic directly — no relay involved. The only WAN-facing traffic to the master is replication (§2) and audit shipping (§6).
+
+### 5.2 No-Inbound Spoke (`CFG_SPOKE_INBOUND=false`)
+No public IP exists, so *any* external access must go through the master:
+
+1. Master mints a public hostname for the spoke's services (e.g. `sso-{slug}.{master's public domain}`) and creates the corresponding `theta-proxy` route (already dynamic/DB-backed — `proxy/nodejs/models/host.js` — no new plumbing needed there).
+2. Master **terminates TLS** for that hostname and relays to the spoke over the WG tunnel — both `theta-proxy` (any site-hosted web app) and `theta-gateway` (SSH jump) traffic relay this way, not just SSO.
+3. Terminating at the master (rather than SNI passthrough) is fine here specifically because master↔spoke already rides an encrypted WG tunnel — there's no unencrypted hop being introduced.
+
+### 5.3 Local-Direct Resolution (Skip the Relay On-LAN)
+
+A client physically on a no-inbound spoke's LAN would otherwise hairpin out to the master and back to reach its own local site. Solved via **mDNS local-service-discovery**, not directory-side network topology:
+
+1. The spoke's `theta-gateway`/`theta-proxy` announces itself on the local segment via mDNS (`_theta-suite._tcp.local`, TXT records: site slug, public hostnames it fronts, local IP).
+2. `theta-agent`, when a config flag (`preferLocalDiscoveredDirectory` or similar — see the agent-side spec, Appendix B) is enabled, listens for this announcement and overrides local resolution for matching hostnames to the discovered local IP.
+3. No match (off-site, or flag disabled) → normal public DNS → master relay. Multicast is link-local by nature, so "on-site or not" needs no explicit detection logic — presence/absence of the announcement *is* the signal. This also solves roaming-admin access (§ formerly "5", folded in here) for free: same laptop, same flag, local-fast-path at the office and relay-path everywhere else.
+4. **Hard rule**: mDNS is unauthenticated on a LAN. It may only ever change *where* the agent connects, never *whether* it trusts what answers — TLS/hostname validation against the redirected IP must stay intact, so a spoofed rogue announcement produces a TLS failure, not a silent MITM.
+
+This piece needs Windows/Mac-specific implementation and testing that can't be done from this (Linux) environment — see Appendix B for the standalone spec handed off for that work.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Non-Canonical Audit Logging
+
+Unchanged from prior draft: OAuth logins, SSH session events, proxy access, and agent execution events write to local site audit tables without blocking on WAN. An async worker flushes batches to master via `POST /api/directory-admin/audit/ingest` when reachable.
+
+---
+
+## Appendix A: Production Reference WireGuard Topology Config
+
+### Site 10.2 (Staten Island LAN Node) Gateway Reference (`wg0.conf`)
+```ini
+[Interface]
+Address = 172.24.0.2/32
+PrivateKey = <SITE_10_2_PRIVATE_KEY>
+ListenPort = 51820
+Table = off
+
+# Mesh Subnet Routes
+PostUp = ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 dev %i
+PostUp = ip route add 172.24.0.0/13 dev %i
+
+# Policy Routing Exits
+PostUp = ip route add default via 10.5.0.1 dev %i table offshore
+PostUp = ip route add default via 172.24.0.1 dev %i table us_vps
+PostUp = ip rule add from 10.2.254.0/24 lookup offshore
+PostUp = ip rule add from 10.2.253.0/24 lookup main preference 1000
+
+# NETMAP Shadow Network (10.2.168.x -> 192.168.1.x)
+PostUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i %i -d 10.2.168.0/24 -j NETMAP --to 192.168.1.0/24
+PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o %i -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j NETMAP --to 10.2.168.0/24
+PostUp = ip route add local 10.2.168.0/24 dev lo
+
+# Forwarding & NAT
+PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -o %i -j MASQUERADE
+PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
+PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
+PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o %i -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
+
+# System Kernel Options
+PostUp = sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
+PostUp = sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=0
+PostUp = sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.rp_filter=0
+PostUp = sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.%i.rp_filter=0
+
+# --- PEERS ---
+[Peer]
+# Site 10.1: US Hub / VPS Exit
+PublicKey = QZCvR3N1CdUabC2xWfc1lmYKHfSiXYs1UoVINIMftws=
+Endpoint = gg-si1.wgnode.com:51820
+AllowedIPs = 172.24.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, 0.0.0.0/0
+PersistentKeepalive = 25
+
+[Peer]
+# Site 10.5: Netherlands Offshore Exit Node
+PublicKey = MlF6h3YI1MIvOlgyNozCMoa/rICoLNtc7r/pseKiHQQ=
+Endpoint = nl-alexhost.wgnode.com:51871
+AllowedIPs = 172.24.0.5/32, 10.5.0.0/16, 0.0.0.0/0
+PersistentKeepalive = 25
+```
+
+### Site 10.5 (Netherlands Exit Node) Gateway Reference (`wg0.conf`)
+```ini
+[Interface]
+Address = 172.24.0.5/32
+PrivateKey = <SITE_10_5_PRIVATE_KEY>
+ListenPort = 51871
+
+PostUp = ip addr add 10.5.0.1/16 dev %i
+PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
+# Dynamic Return Path Masquerading (SOURCENAT)
+PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o %i ! -s 172.24.0.0/13 -j MASQUERADE
+PostUp = sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
+
+[Peer]
+# Site 10.2: Staten Island LAN
+PublicKey = AsS7aikCUrXpdfSvwFnMs0yUaoQ7ZCkoUVOmNdl7NS8=
+AllowedIPs = 172.24.0.2/32, 10.2.0.0/16
+
+[Peer]
+# Site 10.1: US Hub VPS
+PublicKey = QZCvR3N1CdUabC2xWfc1lmYKHfSiXYs1UoVINIMftws=
+AllowedIPs = 172.24.0.1/32, 10.1.0.0/8
+```
+
+---
+
+## Appendix B: Agent-Side Work
+
+See [`AGENT_LOCAL_DISCOVERY_SPEC.md`](./AGENT_LOCAL_DISCOVERY_SPEC.md) — split out because it needs Windows/Mac implementation and testing that a Linux-only dev environment cannot meaningfully do. That doc is the handoff: it specifies behavior precisely enough to implement and test independently, without needing to re-derive the reasoning in this file.
+
+---
+
+## Status of This Spec vs. Code (as of this revision)
+
+| Piece | Status |
+|---|---|
+| Site role persisted (not in-memory) | **Shipped** — `/config/site.json` on `sso-manager-node`, survives restarts (v2.2.0) |
+| Join key issuance + one-time directory adoption | **Shipped** — `/api/site/join-keys`, `/api/site/export`, `/api/site/join`, fresh-install-gated (v2.2.0–v2.3.0) |
+| Spoke read-only enforcement | **Shipped** — directory-write routes 403 toward the master once joined (v2.3.0) |
+| WAN health check | **Shipped** — `/api/site/ping`, live in the Master Site modal (v2.2.0–v2.3.0) |
+| `setup.env` / `setup.sh` join wiring | **Shipped** — `CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL` / `CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY`, `bootstrap/site-join.js` (theta-suite v2.2.0) |
+| Continuous/live replication (vs. one-time export-on-join) | **Shipped** (`sso-manager-node`) — a spoke registers its own endpoint at join time (`POST /api/site/spokes`), and every successful master catalog write fires a fire-and-forget push (`utils/site_replicate.js`) at every registered spoke, which re-pulls a fresh export. Verified end-to-end in `docker-compose.multisite-e2e.yml`. |
+| Identical-directory signing key | **Shipped** — `POST /api/site/export` includes the master's agent-signing key; a spoke adopts it via `agent_keys.adopt()` on join and every resync. OpenBao secret replication *beyond* this one key is still not built. |
+| Coordinated master promotion (demote the old master as one action) | **Shipped** — `POST /api/site/demote` + `site-promote`'s handoff logic. Fixed two real pre-existing bugs while wiring this in: `site-promote`'s god_admin check read a `req.user.groups` field nothing ever populated (permanently 403'd for everyone), and the read-only write-gate 403'd `site-promote` itself before the handler could run. |
+| WireGuard gateway-to-gateway mesh (`theta-gateway`) | **Shipped** — `POST /api/mesh/register`/`/join` (join-token bootstrap), `utils/wg_iface.js` (kernel WireGuard, falls back to userspace `wireguard-go`). Verified with a real two-container test: actual encrypted tunnel, real ICMP traffic across it, 0% loss. This is the mesh transport layer only — nothing in `sso-manager-node`'s replication yet routes traffic *over* it; today's site-to-site HTTPS calls (join/export/resync) still go over whatever network path already reaches the target, same as before this layer existed. |
+| No-inbound-spoke relay (master proxies a spoke with no public IP) | **Mechanism verified, automation not built.** Confirmed with a standalone test (not `theta-proxy`'s actual Lua/Redis engine, which needs its own dedicated pass to wire safely): a spoke with zero published ports, reachable only via its WG mesh IP, served a request that an external client sent to the master's public port — the master terminated the connection and relayed over the tunnel. So the underlying idea works; what's missing is `theta-proxy` automatically creating that relay route when a no-inbound spoke registers (needs a real service-to-service credential between `sso-manager-node` and `theta-proxy`/`theta-gateway` that doesn't exist yet — a new integration, not a small wiring task), and today's HTTPS-based join/replicate still requires the spoke to reach the master's API directly (and vice versa for export), so a spoke with zero inbound *and* zero outbound path still can't join at all. |
+| mDNS local-discovery (Linux) | **Shipped** — `theta-gateway` announces (`services/mdns_announce.js`, opt-in via `THETA_LOCAL_DISCOVERY_HOSTS`), `theta-agent` discovers and applies a hosts-file override (`local_discovery.go`, opt-in via `prefer_local_directory`). Verified end-to-end with real containers over real multicast: announce → discover → apply → clean revert on disappearance, all confirmed. Caught two real bugs along the way (`mdns.Lookup()`'s IPv6 query aborting the whole lookup even after a valid IPv4 response arrived; `rename()` failing with EBUSY over a bind-mounted `/etc/hosts`, common in every container runtime) — see the commit messages in `theta-agent`. |
+| mDNS local-discovery (Windows, macOS) | Not built — needs platform-native testing this environment can't do (hosts-file vs. stub-resolver tradeoff, elevation, DNS-cache behavior per OS — see Appendix B §3). This is now the **only unbuilt piece** of the original design. |
+
+### TODO — what's actually left, in rough dependency order
+
+1. **mDNS local-discovery, Windows + macOS** — needs platform-native testing this Linux environment cannot do (hosts-file vs. stub-resolver tradeoff, elevation, DNS-cache quirks per OS — see Appendix B §3). Blocked on a Windows/Mac dev environment, not on design. The Linux side (announcer + agent listener) is done and verified — this is the only remaining piece of the original design with no Linux-buildable path forward.
+2. **Route `sso-manager-node`'s HTTPS traffic (join/export/resync) over the WireGuard mesh** instead of the open internet, now that the mesh exists as its own transport layer. Currently the two subsystems don't know about each other.
+3. **`theta-proxy` automation for the no-inbound relay** — mechanism is verified (see status table), but nothing creates the relay route automatically when a no-inbound spoke registers. Needs a new service-to-service credential between `sso-manager-node` and `theta-proxy`/`theta-gateway` — a real design decision (who mints it, what it authorizes), not just wiring.
+4. **OpenBao secret replication beyond the one agent-signing key** — LDAP admin creds, JWT secret, other per-deployment secrets that currently differ per site.
+5. **`theta-proxy`/`theta-gateway` service-to-service auth model in general** — items 2 and 3 both need it; worth designing once rather than inventing a credential per integration.
+6. **Mesh peer removal cleanup** — `wg_iface.removePeer()` doesn't remove the kernel routes `setPeer()` adds (flagged in code, not yet exercised because nothing removes a mesh peer today).
+
+*Committed under [`docs/MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md`](file:///home/william/dev/theta42/theta-env/docs/MULTI_SITE_SPEC.md).*

docs/_config.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-title: theta-suite
+title: Theta Suite
 description: A unified, one-command SSO Manager + OIDC proxy stack for home labs and small businesses.
 url: "https://theta42.github.io"
 baseurl: "/theta-suite"
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ nav:
   - title: Secrets
     page: /secrets.html
     icon: fa-key
-  - title: SSO Manager
+  - title: Theta Directory
     page: /sso/
     icon: fa-users
-  - title: Proxy
+  - title: Theta Proxy
     page: /proxy/
     icon: fa-shield-halved
-  - title: Jump Host
+  - title: Theta Gateway
     page: /jump-host/
     icon: fa-terminal
   - title: Changelog

docs/_layouts/default.html

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
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 	<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ '/assets/css/style.css' | relative_url }}">
+
+	<script defer src="https://tracking.718it.biz/script.js" data-website-id="a5df0dec-6c54-4c1a-a167-02867a56e2cc"></script>
 </head>
 <body class="d-flex flex-column min-vh-100">
 

docs/architecture.md

@@ -1,38 +1,32 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Architecture
-description: How theta-suite composes the SSO Manager, proxy, jump host, and ldap-client around a shared OpenBao secrets store — the OIDC/LDAP/secrets wiring setup.sh generates from one domain.
+description: How Theta Suite 2.0 composes Theta Directory, Theta Gateway, Theta Proxy, and Theta Agent around a shared OpenBao secrets store — the zero-trust identity, mesh gateway, and telemetry architecture.
 ---
 
 # Architecture
 
 [← Back to Home](index.html)
 
-theta-suite is a **composition** repo: it builds four applications from their
+Theta Suite 2.0 is a production-grade **composition repository**: it composes applications from git submodules and provides the automated first-run orchestration, secrets initialization, and container networking for a complete zero-trust infrastructure stack.
-git submodules and adds the glue that wires them together — plus a shared
-[OpenBao](https://openbao.org/) secrets store — on one Docker network. It
-does not fork or patch the components; it composes and configures them.
 
 ---
 
-## Components
+## Core Infrastructure Components
 
-| Repo / image | Role |
+| Subproject / Image | Component Role |
 |------|------|
-| [`theta42/sso-manager-node`](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node) | OIDC provider + OpenLDAP directory + web UI. All-in-one image (`Dockerfile.openldap`). |
+| [`theta42/theta-directory`](https://github.com/theta42/theta-directory) | **Theta Directory** — OIDC provider + OpenLDAP directory + Resource Catalog + Web Admin Console. All-in-one container. |
-| [`theta42/proxy`](https://github.com/theta42/proxy) | OIDC-protected reverse proxy (OpenResty + Node mgmt app + Redis). All-in-one image (`Dockerfile`). |
+| [`theta42/jump-host`](https://github.com/theta42/jump-host) | **Theta Gateway** — Directory-driven SSH access gateway and WireGuard mesh router with NETMAP shadow subnets. |
-| [`theta42/jump-host`](https://github.com/theta42/jump-host) | Directory-driven SSH jump host (sshd + Node web UI). Image (`Dockerfile`). |
+| [`theta42/theta-agent`](https://github.com/theta42/theta-agent) | **Theta Agent** — Multi-platform host telemetry, hardware details, desktop session controls, and secret delivery agent. |
-| [`theta42/ldap-client`](https://github.com/theta42/ldap-client) | Enrolls real Linux hosts into the directory (SSSD + AuthorizedKeysCommand). Also the opt-in `ldap-test-host` fixture. |
+| [`theta42/proxy`](https://github.com/theta42/proxy) | **Theta Proxy** — OIDC-protected reverse proxy (OpenResty + Node management app + Redis). |
-| `quay.io/openbao/openbao` | Central secrets store (Vault fork), KV-v2 at `secret/`. |
+| [`theta42/ldap-client`](https://github.com/theta42/ldap-client) | **ldap-client** — Enrolls real Linux hosts into the directory for PAM/SSSD login, sudo rules, and SSH keys. |
-| `theta42/theta-suite` (this repo) | Composes all of the above on one network + automates first-run wiring. |
+| `quay.io/openbao/openbao` | **OpenBao** — Central secrets engine (Vault fork), KV-v2 versioned store at `secret/`. |
-
+| `theta42/theta-suite` (this repo) | Composes all components on a single Docker network + automates `./setup.sh` first-run wiring. |
-The four applications are pinned as **git submodules**; OpenBao uses the
-upstream image. `git clone --recursive` fetches the submodules in one step;
-`git submodule update --remote` bumps them.
 
 ---
 
-## The stack
+## Architecture Stack
 
 ```
           ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
@@ -42,17 +36,17 @@ upstream image. `git clone --recursive` fetches the submodules in one step;
             https (:443)          ssh (:2222)        ldaps (:636)
                   │                     │                  │
          ┌────────▼────────┐  ┌──────────▼────────┐         │
-         │  proxy           │  │  jump-host        │         │
+         │  theta-proxy     │  │  theta-gateway    │         │
-         │  OpenResty       │  │  sshd :2222       │         │
+         │  OpenResty       │  │  SSH Gateway      │         │
-         │  :80/:443/:4443  │  │  web UI :3002     │         │
+         │  :80/:443/:4443  │  │  WireGuard Mesh   │         │
          │  mgmt app :3000  │  └────────┬──────────┘         │
          └────────┬─────────┘           │ OIDC + LDAP        │
-                  │ http:3001 (internal)│ via sso-manager    │
+                  │ http:3001 (internal)│ via theta-directory
-                  ▼                     ▼                    ▼
+                  ▼                     ▼                  ▼
         ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-        │  sso-manager   (Express + OpenLDAP + Redis)            │
+        │  theta-directory (Express + OpenLDAP + Redis)         │
-        │  OIDC provider + LDAP directory                         │
+        │  OIDC provider + LDAP directory + Resource Catalog    │
-        │  web UI :3001 (internal)   ldaps :636 (published)       │
+        │  web UI :3001 (internal)   ldaps :636 (published)     │
         └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                           ▲  loads secrets at boot (scoped token each)
               ┌───────────┴───────────────────┐

docs/fixtures.md

@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+---
+title: Canonical demo fixtures
+---
+
+# Canonical demo fixtures
+
+The exact users, groups, and hosts that should exist on a stack used for
+screenshots or demos, so every future pass seeds the *same* data and a
+screenshot diff only shows what actually changed in the UI — not incidental
+differences in who/what happened to exist that day.
+
+Persona: a single admin/power-user running theta42 across a **big homelab and
+a small business** — mix of self-hosted infra (Proxmox, Pi-hole, Plex) and
+office-y apps (invoicing, helpdesk, wiki) with real department structure.
+
+Domain: `laptop-dev.vm42.us` (real public DNS pointing at this machine — see
+"Domain" below). Update this doc if the domain ever changes again.
+
+## Users
+
+| uid | Name | Department | Password | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `schen` | Sarah Chen | Engineering | `DemoPass123!` | DevOps lead |
+| `dkim` | David Kim | Engineering | `DemoPass123!` | Backend developer |
+| `ppatel` | Priya Patel | Engineering | `DemoPass123!` | Frontend developer |
+| `mjohnson` | Marcus Johnson | Finance | `DemoPass123!` | Finance manager |
+| `lnguyen` | Linda Nguyen | Finance | `DemoPass123!` | Bookkeeper |
+| `erodriguez` | Emily Rodriguez | Support | `DemoPass123!` | Support lead |
+| `tbaker` | Tom Baker | Support | `DemoPass123!` | Support tech |
+| `jwilson` | James Wilson | Management | `DemoPass123!` | Owner |
+| `svc-monitoring` | — | service account | `ServiceAcct!2024` | Grafana/Prometheus scraping |
+| `svc-backup` | — | service account | `ServiceAcct!2024` | Backup automation |
+
+uidNumbers 5000–5009 in that order. Mail is `<first>.<last>@laptop-dev.vm42.us`
+(service accounts use their uid, e.g. `monitoring@laptop-dev.vm42.us`).
+
+## Groups
+
+`groupOfNames`, owned by `cn=admin,...`, member of the department's users:
+
+- `engineering` — schen, dkim, ppatel
+- `finance` — mjohnson, lnguyen
+- `support` — erodriguez, tbaker
+- `management` — jwilson
+- `app_sso_service_account` (built-in) — svc-monitoring, svc-backup
+
+## Seeding users + groups
+
+```sh
+cd theta-env
+docker cp bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh sso-manager:/tmp/seed-demo-users.sh
+docker compose exec -T sso-manager bash /tmp/seed-demo-users.sh
+```
+
+Idempotent — re-running skips anything that already exists. If you add a
+fixture below, add it to `bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh` too and keep the two
+in sync.
+
+## Proxy hosts
+
+All under `*.laptop-dev.vm42.us`. `setup.sh` itself creates the first two
+(sso, proxy) — everything else below is added by hand through Hosts → Add
+host (Proxy UI, currently no seed script — see note at the bottom).
+
+| Host | Target | Auth | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `sso` | `sso-manager:3001` | — | created by `setup.sh` |
+| `proxy` | `127.0.0.1:3000` | — | created by `setup.sh` |
+| `jump` | `jump-host:3002` | — | created by `setup.sh` |
+| `proxmox` | `10.0.10.5:8006` (HTTPS) | Basic — realm "Proxmox VE", users `dkim`, `schen` | |
+| `pbs` | `10.0.10.6:8007` (HTTPS) | Basic — realm "Proxmox Backup Server", user `dkim` | |
+| `grafana` | `10.0.10.12:3000` + LB target `10.0.10.13:3000` | SSO — group `engineering` | load-balancing example |
+| `nextcloud` | `10.0.10.20:80` | SSO — any authenticated user | empty allow-lists |
+| `ha` | `10.0.10.30:8123` | Basic — realm "Home Assistant", user `jwilson` | |
+| `jenkins` | `10.0.10.40:8080` | SSO — group `engineering` | |
+| `gitea` | `10.0.10.41:3000` | Off (public) | has its own login |
+| `plex` | `10.0.10.50:32400` | Off (public) | has its own login |
+| `nas` | `10.0.10.60:5001` (HTTPS) | Basic — realm "Synology NAS", user `jwilson` | |
+| `pihole` | `10.0.10.61:80` | Basic — realm "Pi-hole Admin", user `dkim` | |
+| `wiki` | `10.0.10.70:3000` | SSO — any authenticated user | |
+| `invoices` | `10.0.10.80:8000` | SSO — group `finance` | small-business flavor |
+| `helpdesk` | `10.0.10.81:3000` | SSO — group `support` | small-business flavor |
+
+Basic-auth passwords used: `dkim:HomeLab!2024`, `schen:Engineering!24`,
+`jwilson:HomeOwner!24`.
+
+## Domain
+
+`CFG_DOMAIN=laptop-dev.vm42.us` in `setup.env`, real public DNS (CNAME
+through `718it.biz`) that resolves back to this machine. `CFG_LDAPS_HOST`
+is pinned to the LAN IP of the interface holding the default route
+(`ip route get 1.1.1.1`), not just any active interface — this machine had
+two (wifi + USB ethernet) and only one was actually externally reachable
+through the existing port-forward/prod-proxy setup.
+
+A production reverse proxy in front of this host handles TLS/ACME for
+`*.718it.biz`-family domains (to avoid hitting Let's Encrypt's rate limits
+re-provisioning a cert every time this dev stack rebuilds) — if a fresh
+rebuild's Host records don't resolve correctly from the public domain right
+after `setup.sh`, that's the layer to check, not this stack's own nginx/lua
+routing. `curl -sk -D - https://sso.laptop-dev.vm42.us/` from the host
+machine is the fastest way to confirm whether the issue is server-side.
+
+## Known-good login shortcuts
+
+Skip SSO's self-signed-cert dance entirely for admin/screenshot work — every
+app ships a local anti-lockout admin account for exactly this:
+
+```sh
+# SSO Manager admin (bootstrap account, uid "admin")
+node -e "console.log(require('./config/sso-secrets.js').bootstrap.adminPass)"
+
+# Proxy — username proxyadmin2
+node -e "console.log(require('./config/proxy-secrets.js').auth.localAdminPass)"
+
+# Jump-host — username jumpadmin
+node -e "console.log(require('./config/jump-secrets.js').auth.localAdminPass)"
+```
+
+Ports (from `setup.env` — check it, these are operator-configurable):
+SSO `3001`, Proxy management UI `3010` (`MGMT_PORT`), Jump-host `3002`.
+
+A freshly-bootstrapped `admin` account hits the onboarding flow (accept ToS,
+enter a DOB) before the rest of the UI is usable — expect that on a stack
+that was just rebuilt from scratch.
+
+## Jump-host access (SSO Directory resource)
+
+Jump-host's dashboard ("Hosts you can reach") is **not** driven by Proxy's
+Host records — it resolves access via the SSO Manager's own Directory
+(`kind: host` resources), filtered by the logged-in user's LDAP group
+membership. This is a completely separate system from Proxy's HTTP-routing
+hosts above; a Proxy host existing does not make it SSH-reachable through
+jump-host.
+
+For a `dkim`-can-reach-something screenshot, one Directory host resource was
+added:
+
+- **Directory → Add Resource**: name `proxmox-node`, kind `Host`, IP
+  `10.0.10.5`, parent resource `local (site_local)`.
+- **Associated LDAP Groups → `site_local_host_proxmox-node_access` →
+  Members → Add member → `dkim`** (added the individual user directly, not
+  the `engineering` group — the resource's own auto-generated `_access`
+  group's member picker only offers individual users).
+
+To reproduce: repeat those two steps for `proxmox-node` if it's missing, or
+add more Directory host resources the same way for a richer "Hosts you can
+reach" list.
+
+**To screenshot as a real fixture user** (not the `jumpadmin` local
+anti-lockout admin, whose "My hosts" list is always non-empty by virtue of
+infra ownership, not a real access grant): log out, click "Log in with
+Jump" on the login page, and sign in as `dkim` / `DemoPass123!` through the
+real SSO flow. This exercises the actual OIDC redirect through
+`sso.laptop-dev.vm42.us` — by this point in the session it worked cleanly in
+the browser; if it doesn't (stale cookies/redirect loop from an earlier bad
+state), see `docs/screenshots.md` §2 for the fallback.
+
+## What's not yet automated
+
+Proxy hosts are still added by hand (no `seed-demo-hosts.sh` equivalent) —
+the Proxy UI has no simple LDIF-style bulk-import path the way LDAP does, and
+scripting it means either driving the browser or reverse-engineering the
+session-cookie login flow for curl. If this list changes often enough to be
+annoying, that's the next thing worth building — a small node script run via
+`docker compose exec proxy node ...` calling the `Host` model directly,
+mirroring how `setup.sh`'s own step 7 registers the sso/proxy hosts.
+
+## Screenshot workflow
+
+See `docs/screenshots.md` for the full screenshot-capture workflow
+(save-to-disk, where each doc image lives, the app.modal.js browser-cache
+gotcha). Once fixtures match this doc, only re-screenshot pages whose UI
+actually changed since the last pass — the data itself shouldn't be the
+reason a screenshot looks different.

docs/index.md

@@ -4,24 +4,28 @@ title: Home
 description: A unified, one-command SSO Manager + OIDC proxy stack for home labs and small businesses. Wires together a self-hosted identity provider and a reverse proxy with one setup.sh.
 ---
 
-# theta-suite
+# Theta suite
 
-The whole theta42 identity, access, and secrets stack in one repo, brought up
+Theta Suite is your one-line solution to replacing fragmented, hard-to-wire
-with a single command — for home labs and small businesses.
+authentication setups with a unified security stack. It wires together OIDC
+authentication, LDAP user directories, automated host enrollment, and
+centralized secret management in a single command. It eliminates the manual
+configuration friction so you get secure access, auditability, and multi-site
+replication running in seconds.
 
-It composes four applications around a shared secrets store:
+##  Who This Is For
-[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/) (OIDC provider +
+* **Self-Hosters & Homelab Engineers:** Anyone running local bare metal,
-LDAP directory), [Proxy](https://theta42.github.io/proxy/) (an OIDC-protected
+  Proxmox, or private VPS nodes who wants enterprise-grade OIDC, multi-master
-reverse proxy that can also look users up directly in LDAP),
+  LDAP, PAM/SSSD host enrollment, and OpenBao secret management without spending
-[Jump Host](https://theta42.github.io/jump-host/) (directory-driven SSH access
+  days manually wiring glue code.
-through one public entry point), and
+* **Small-to-Medium Businesses (SMBs):** Infrastructure teams that need a
-[ldap-client](https://theta42.github.io/ldap-client/) (enrolls your Linux
+  unified, directory-driven access plane across both web apps and Linux boxes,
-hosts into the directory for PAM/SSSD, sudo, and SSH keys). All of them read
+  but want to bypass per-user SaaS taxes (Okta, Azure AD) and cloud vendor
-their secrets at boot from [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/), the central secrets
+  lock-in.
-store. `setup.sh` automates the fiddly part: registering the proxy as an OIDC
+* **DevOps & Systems Operators:** Engineers who value idempotent, single-command
-client of the SSO, pointing every component at the right LDAP directory and
+  deployments (`./setup.sh`) and need a production-grade baseline supporting
-the OpenBao token it needs, and generating hostnames and secrets from one
+  zero-trust proxying, SSH jump-host access control, and multi-site replication
-`setup.env`.
+  out of the box.
 
 ## Screenshots
 
@@ -33,41 +37,49 @@ The SSO Manager and the proxy it fronts, both stood up by one `./setup.sh` run:
 
 *(click either screenshot to view full size)*
 
-## Why this over running them separately
-
-The components are designed to integrate — they're only useful together once
-the proxy is registered as an OIDC client of the SSO *and* pointed at the
-SSO's LDAP directory — and the domain has to match across half a dozen config
-fields, or logins silently fail. Doing that by hand is fiddly. `setup.sh`
-asks for your domain once, generates both apps' config with it filled in
-everywhere, registers the proxy as an OIDC client automatically, and
-snapshots state before every rebuild.
-
 ## What you get
 
-- **SSO Manager**, fronted by the proxy under TLS — manage users, groups,
+- **Unified SSO Manager**: An OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider and OAuth 2.0
-  and OAuth clients.
+  authorization server fronted by TLS. Includes a web dashboard for managing
-- **Proxy** — add the hosts you want to protect with OIDC login.
+  users, groups, and OAuth apps, plus automated invitation and password reset
-- **LDAPS** for direct binds — Linux hosts (PAM/SSSD, sudo, SSH keys) and
+  flows.
-  LDAP-native apps authenticate against the same directory.
+- **Identity-Aware Reverse Proxy**: Intercepts HTTP/HTTPS traffic to protect
-- **Hierarchical groups & permissions** — every adopted host and app gets its own
+  upstream applications with OIDC login and direct LDAP group authorization,
-  `admin`/`access`/`capability` groups, generated from the Directory; they double
+  featuring automatic TLS certificate issuance and automated host routing.
-  as real POSIX groups for sudo/SSH. See
+- **Embedded LDAPS Directory**: A bundled OpenLDAP core acting as your single
-  [Group & Permission Model](GROUPS.html).
+  source of truth for POSIX accounts, SSH public keys, and sudo roles. Native
-- **ldap-client** — enroll Linux hosts into the directory (PAM/SSSD login,
+  apps, legacy infrastructure, and Linux machines authenticate directly over
-  sudo, SSH keys); the host inventory shows up in the SSO UI and drives
+  encrypted LDAPS (port 636) or StartTLS.
-  jump-host routing.
+- **Hierarchical Directory Group & Permission Model**: Every adopted application
-- **SSH Jump Host** — `ssh uid_-_host@jump.<domain>` (WinSCP-friendly)
+  and machine automatically inherits dedicated `admin`, `access`, and
-  or an interactive picker; access is driven by directory group membership, with
+  `capability` groups generated directly from the LDAP directory. These map
-  a web UI for audit + metrics.
+  cleanly to real POSIX groups for fine-grained sudo and SSH privilege controls. 
-- **Central secrets (OpenBao)** — every component loads its secrets from one
+  See [Group & Permission Model](GROUPS.html).
-  [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/) instance at boot; each user gets personal
+- **Automated Linux Host Enrollment (ldap-client)**: A lightweight host agent
-  secret storage, and admins mint scoped tokens for external apps. See
+  that enrolls Linux machines into the central directory. It configures system
+  PAM/SSSD for login, applies sudo policies, distributes SSH public keys, and
+  registers host telemetry in the primary inventory dashboard.
+- **Directory-Driven SSH Jump Host**: A centralized bastion host that routes
+  inbound terminal traffic (`ssh uid_-_host@jump.<domain>`) using active
+    directory group memberships. Supports WinSCP, file transfers, interactive
+    host pickers, and a dedicated audit interface for tracking user sessions and
+    connection metrics.
+- **Central Secrets Engine (OpenBao integration)**: Bootstraps every component
+  against an embedded [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/) instance to load tokens
+  and cryptographic keys at runtime. Provides per-user secret vaults and enables
+  administrators to mint scoped API tokens for external services. See
   [Secrets](secrets.html).
-- **Self-service API tokens** in both apps' UIs, for scripting/CI without a
+- **Self-Service & CI/CD API Tokens**: Granular, personal access token
-  browser session.
+  management built directly into the web interface, allowing operators to drive
-- **Multi-Site Support (Geo-Location Scaling)** — built-in support for N-Way Multi-Master LDAP replication across physical locations.
+  system administration and automation pipelines programmatically without an
-- **Multi-target load balancing** — built-in proxy support for round-robin load balancing across multiple application servers.
+  active browser session.
+- **Multi-Site Geo-Replication**: Built-in support for N-Way Multi-Master LDAP
+  replication, allowing directory states to sync across geographically separated
+  physical hardware or remote data centers for high availability and low-latency
+  local reads.
+- **Multi-Target Load Balancing**: Native reverse-proxy load balancing that
+  distributes traffic across multiple application backends using customizable
+  health checks and round-robin strategies.
 
 ## Get it
 
@@ -78,10 +90,11 @@ cp setup.env.example setup.env     # then edit setup.env: set CFG_DOMAIN to your
 ./setup.sh
 ```
 
-You need **Docker** + **Docker Compose**. `./setup.sh` is idempotent — re-run
+You need a **Domain**, some **Ports Forwarded**,  **Docker** +
-any time to converge the stack to `./config/`. For the full config reference,
+**Docker Compose**. `./setup.sh` is idempotent — re-run any time to converge the
-architecture, see the
+stack to `./config/`. For the full config reference, architecture, see the
-**[GitHub repository](https://github.com/theta42/theta-suite)**.
+**[GitHub repository](https://github.com/theta42/theta-suite#before-you-begin)**
+for a details.
 
 ## Related projects
 

docs/jump-host/README.md

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# Documentation
-
-This directory is the GitHub Pages documentation site for the Jump Host project.
-
-**Live site:** https://theta42.github.io/jump-host/
-
-## Pages
-
-- `index.md` — overview and quick start
-- `connecting.md` — usage: the username grammar, the TUI picker, SFTP/WinSCP
-- `architecture.md` — how auth, access resolution, key injection, and bridging work
-- `installation.md` — Docker, bare-metal, and theta-env install; the LDAP write-ACL
-
-## Local preview
-
-```bash
-gem install jekyll bundler
-cd docs && jekyll serve
-# http://localhost:4000/jump-host/
-```
-
-## Updating
-
-Edit the markdown, push to `master`, and GitHub Pages rebuilds automatically.

docs/jump-host/architecture.md

@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ name → IP → address hostname. A raw IP that isn't an accessible directory ho
 is refused unless explicitly allowed.
 
 > The directory auto-creates `<slug>_access` / `<slug>_admin` groups for every
-> host and service (see the SSO's
+> host and service (see Theta Directory's
-> [Directory & Inventory](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/directory.html)
+> [Directory & Inventory](../sso/directory.html)
 > docs), which is exactly what this authorization reads.
 
 ## 3. Upstream Authentication (PKI or LDAP Keys) {#upstream-authentication}
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Byte counts per direction are tallied cheaply for the audit record.
 ## Web UI, API & audit
 
 An Express + EJS + Bootstrap app on `:3002` — the same front-end stack and
-look/feel as the SSO Manager and Proxy. Login is OIDC against the SSO plus a
+look/feel as Theta Directory and Theta Proxy. Login is OIDC against the SSO plus a
 local anti-lockout admin (`auth.adminUsers`), with admin access gated by
 `auth.adminGroups`. It exposes:
 
@@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ success + failure reason, downstream host-key fingerprint, timing, and bytes in/
 
 ## Where it sits in the stack
 
-- **[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/)** — provides the
+- **[Theta Directory](../sso/)** — provides the
   OpenLDAP directory (users, groups, `sshPublicKey`) and the inventory API this
   jump host reads.
 - **[ldap-client](https://github.com/theta42/ldap-client)** — enrolls the
   downstream Linux hosts (SSSD/PAM + `AuthorizedKeysCommand`) that the jump host
   connects into.
-- **[Proxy](https://theta42.github.io/proxy/)** — fronts the jump host's web UI
+- **[Theta Proxy](../proxy/)** — fronts the jump host's web UI
   under TLS.
-- **[theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/)** — wires it all together.
+- **theta-suite** — wires it all together.

docs/jump-host/index.md

@@ -1,25 +1,24 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Home
-description: An SSH jump host for the theta42 stack — one public host and directory-driven access to every downstream machine you're entitled to.
+description: Theta Gateway — an SSH jump host for theta-suite, giving directory-driven access to every downstream machine you're entitled to from one public host.
 ---
 
-# Jump Host
+# Theta Gateway
 
-An SSH jump host for the [theta42](https://github.com/theta42) self-hosted
+The SSH jump host component of [theta-suite](../). Users SSH into **one**
-stack. Users SSH into **one** public host and land on any downstream host
+public host and land on any downstream host they're entitled to —
-they're entitled to — authenticated against the shared LDAP directory,
+authenticated against the shared LDAP directory, authorized from
-authorized from the [SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/)'s
+[Theta Directory](../sso/)'s inventory graph, and audited end to end.
-inventory graph, and audited end to end.
 
 No per-host accounts, no distributing keys, no VPN. The same people who log in
-to your SSO are the people who can reach your machines — and only the machines
+to Theta Directory are the people who can reach your machines — and only the
-their directory groups grant.
+machines their directory groups grant.
 
-Part of the theta42 self-hosted identity stack, alongside
+Theta Gateway is deployed as part of theta-suite, alongside
-[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/) and
+[Theta Directory](../sso/) and [Theta Proxy](../proxy/) — it isn't installed
-[Proxy](https://theta42.github.io/proxy/), composable with one command via
+or run on its own. See the [Quickstart](../quickstart.html) to stand up the
-[theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/).
+whole stack with one command.
 
 ## Screenshots
 
@@ -30,8 +29,6 @@ Part of the theta42 self-hosted identity stack, alongside
 
 *(click any screenshot to view full size)*
 
-
-
 ## Two ways to connect
 
 **Direct (WinSCP/SFTP-friendly):**
@@ -63,17 +60,18 @@ through a single audited entry point. What's usually painful is *authorization*
 and *credentials*: who may reach which host, and how the bastion authenticates
 onward without you copying keys everywhere.
 
-This jump host answers both from your directory:
+Theta Gateway answers both from your directory:
 
 - **Authorization is your directory graph.** The hosts you can reach are the
-  union of your LDAP groups × the SSO's inventory (the `host_<name>_access`
+  union of your LDAP groups × Theta Directory's inventory (the
-  groups the directory already auto-creates). Add someone to a group; they can
+  `host_<name>_access` groups the directory already auto-creates). Add
-  reach the host. No bastion-side allow-list to maintain.
+  someone to a group; they can reach the host. No bastion-side allow-list to
-- **Onward auth is automatic.** The jump host holds one key and injects its
+  maintain.
+- **Onward auth is automatic.** Theta Gateway holds one key and injects its
   public half into your `sshPublicKey` on first use, then connects downstream
   **as you**. Downstream hosts already serve keys from LDAP (via
-  [ldap-client](https://github.com/theta42/ldap-client)'s
+  ldap-client's `AuthorizedKeysCommand`), so nothing downstream needs
-  `AuthorizedKeysCommand`), so nothing downstream needs configuring.
+  configuring.
 
 ## Features
 
@@ -82,35 +80,12 @@ This jump host answers both from your directory:
 - **Interactive TUI host picker** on plain login, scoped to your access
 - **LDAP inbound auth** — public key or password (keys-only policy recommended
   for a public host)
-- **Directory-driven access** — reachable hosts come from the SSO inventory, not
+- **Directory-driven access** — reachable hosts come from the Theta Directory
-  a static list
+  inventory, not a static list
 - **Per-user key injection** — no downstream changes, no key distribution
 - **Shell, exec, and SFTP** bridging
+- **WireGuard mesh routing** — cross-site network access alongside SSH
 - **Web UI + HTTP API** for auditing and metrics — active sessions, a searchable
   audit log, per-user/per-host counters
 - **Full audit trail** — who, target, method, result, bytes, duration, and the
   downstream host-key fingerprint
-
-- Packaged like the rest of the stack: one-command Docker, idempotent bare-metal
-  installer, or bundled in theta-env
-
-## Get it
-
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/theta42/jump-host.git
-cd jump-host
-cp secrets.js.example config/jump-secrets.js   # then edit it
-docker compose up -d --build
-```
-
-For bare-metal and the bundled theta-env
-option, see **[Installation](installation.html)**.
-
-## Related projects
-
-- **[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/)** — the OpenLDAP
-  directory + OIDC provider + the inventory graph this jump host reads.
-- **[Proxy](https://theta42.github.io/proxy/)** — puts your web apps behind the
-  same identity; fronts this jump host's web UI.
-- **[theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/)** — runs the whole stack,
-  jump host included, with one command.

docs/proxy/README.md

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-# Documentation
-
-This directory contains the GitHub Pages documentation site for the Proxy project.
-
-**Live site:** https://theta42.github.io/proxy/
-
-## Pages
-
-- `index.md` - Home page with project overview
-- `installation.md` - Installation and setup guide
-- `api.md` - Complete API reference
-- `architecture.md` - System architecture and design
-- `contributing.md` - Development and contribution guide
-
-## Local Preview
-
-To preview the site locally:
-
-```bash
-# Install Jekyll (one-time setup)
-gem install jekyll bundler
-
-# Run local server
-cd docs
-jekyll serve
-
-# View at http://localhost:4000/proxy/
-```
-
-## Theme
-
-The site uses the Cayman theme (`jekyll-theme-cayman`). Configuration is in `_config.yml`.
-
-## Updating Documentation
-
-1. Edit markdown files in this directory
-2. Commit and push to master branch
-3. GitHub Pages automatically rebuilds (may take 1-2 minutes)
-4. Changes visible at https://theta42.github.io/proxy/

docs/proxy/concepts-access.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ There are two ways someone gets into the proxy's own management UI:
 
 - **A local account**, created on the **Users** page — a username and
   password specific to this app.
-- **Single sign-on**, if you've connected this proxy to an SSO Manager (or
+- **Single sign-on**, if you've connected this proxy to Theta Directory (or
   another OIDC provider) — the same login your other connected apps use.
 
 Either way, once logged in, what they're actually *allowed to do* here is

docs/proxy/index.md

@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Home
-description: A reverse proxy and HTTPS termination service built on OpenResty/nginx, with automatic Let's Encrypt certs, OIDC login, and direct LDAP access control per host.
+description: Theta Proxy — a reverse proxy and HTTPS termination service built on OpenResty/nginx, with automatic Let's Encrypt certs, OIDC login, and direct LDAP access control per host.
 ---
 
-# Proxy
+# Theta Proxy
 
-A reverse proxy and HTTPS termination service built on OpenResty/nginx, with a
+The reverse proxy and HTTPS termination component of [theta-suite](../), built
-management API and web GUI. It puts any of your apps behind single sign-on
+on OpenResty/nginx. It puts any of your apps behind single sign-on (OIDC) and
-(OIDC) and can also look users up directly in LDAP — so the same people who
+can also look users up directly in LDAP — so the same people who log in to
-log in to your SSO are the people allowed to reach your proxied apps.
+[Theta Directory](../sso/) are the people allowed to reach your proxied apps.
 
 Automatic HTTPS from Let's Encrypt (including wildcards), routing by hostname,
 and per-host access control tied to your identity provider — managed from a
 web UI or a REST API, with no downtime on config changes.
 
-Part of the theta42 self-hosted identity stack, alongside
+Theta Proxy is deployed as part of theta-suite, alongside
-[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/) and
+[Theta Directory](../sso/) and [Theta Gateway](../jump-host/) — it isn't
-[theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/) (the two composed with one
+installed or run on its own. See the [Quickstart](../quickstart.html) to stand
-command).
+up the whole stack with one command.
 
 ## Screenshots
 
@@ -30,49 +30,22 @@ management once basic auth is enabled:
 
 <a href="images/host-auth-basic.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/host-auth-basic.png" alt="Per-host basic auth" width="60%"></a>
 
+Multiple backend targets per host, load balanced round-robin:
+
+<a href="images/load-balancing.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/load-balancing.png" alt="Load balancing" width="60%"></a>
+
 *(click any screenshot to view full size)*
 
-## Why this over the alternatives
-
-Nginx Proxy Manager, Traefik, and Caddy are all good reverse proxies with
-auto-HTTPS. This one is built around identity: it is both an **OIDC client**
-of an SSO provider (for browser login) **and** a direct **LDAP client** (for
-user lookups and per-host access control), so access decisions come from your
-real user directory, not a static allow-list or a separate auth proxy bolted
-on top. The trade-off is that it expects an OIDC/LDAP identity source to point
-at — it is not an auth server on its own. Pair it with
-[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/) (bundled OpenLDAP +
-OIDC) for a self-hosted SSO + proxy stack, or point it at any OIDC provider +
-LDAP directory you already run.
-
 ## Features
 
 - Automated HTTPS via Let's Encrypt — HTTP-01 and DNS-01 (wildcard) challenges
 - Multiple DNS providers (Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, PorkBun, DuckDNS — free)
 - Dynamic host routing with wildcard domain matching (`*`, `**`)
 - **Multi-target load balancing** — configure multiple backend targets per host with built-in round-robin load balancing
-- **OIDC login** and **direct LDAP lookups**, independently of each other
+- **OIDC login** and **direct LDAP lookups**, independently of each other, against [Theta Directory](../sso/)
 - Per-host **basic auth** as an alternative to SSO (mutually exclusive, so
   it's never ambiguous which one gated a request)
 - **Role-based access control** — global admins, local groups, and
   per-domain permissions (viewer/manager)
 - Self-service API tokens for scripting/CI without a browser session
 - Web UI and a full REST API
-
-## Get it
-
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/theta42/proxy.git
-cd proxy && docker compose up -d --build
-```
-
-For the full set of install options (Docker, bare-metal, or as part of the combined
-SSO + proxy stack), configuration reference, and API docs, see the
-**[GitHub repository](https://github.com/theta42/proxy)**.
-
-## Related projects
-
-- **[SSO Manager](https://theta42.github.io/sso-manager-node/)** — the OIDC
-  provider + LDAP directory this proxy is designed to sit in front of.
-- **[theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/)** — runs this proxy and
-  SSO Manager together with one command.

docs/screenshots.md

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+---
+title: Updating gitpages screenshots
+---
+
+# Updating gitpages screenshots
+
+How to refresh the docs/images/*.png screenshots across sso-manager-node,
+proxy, jump-host, and theta-env's own docs. This comes up periodically as the
+UI changes — this doc + `docs/fixtures.md` + `bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh`
+exist so it doesn't have to be re-figured-out from scratch each time. Once
+fixtures match `docs/fixtures.md`, you only need to re-screenshot pages whose
+UI actually changed since the last pass.
+
+## 1. Seed realistic demo data
+
+Screenshots should show a believable homelab/small-business setup, not empty
+tables or `test`/`vaulttest` accounts, and the **same** cast every time — see
+`docs/fixtures.md` for the canonical list (exact users, groups, hosts,
+passwords) and keep it in sync with what's actually seeded. Seed users +
+groups with:
+
+```sh
+docker cp bootstrap/seed-demo-users.sh sso-manager:/tmp/seed-demo-users.sh
+docker compose exec -T sso-manager bash /tmp/seed-demo-users.sh
+```
+
+Idempotent — safe to re-run, existing entries are skipped. Proxy hosts have
+no equivalent script yet — add them by hand through the Proxy UI (Hosts →
+Add host), following `docs/fixtures.md`'s host table exactly (same hostnames,
+targets, auth config every time).
+
+## 2. Logging in without fighting SSO/TLS
+
+The SSO's own domain goes through real DNS + a production reverse proxy in
+front of this dev stack (see `docs/fixtures.md` → Domain) — logging in via
+"Log in with SSO" from Proxy/Jump-host round-trips through that whole path
+and can hit stale-cookie/redirect-loop artifacts in an automation browser
+profile that a real browser wouldn't. Don't fight this — every app ships a
+local anti-lockout admin for exactly this situation. Read the password
+straight out of the mounted secrets:
+
+```sh
+# SSO Manager admin (bootstrap account, uid "admin")
+node -e "console.log(require('./config/sso-secrets.js').bootstrap.adminPass)"
+
+# Proxy — username proxyadmin2
+node -e "console.log(require('./config/proxy-secrets.js').auth.localAdminPass)"
+
+# Jump-host — username jumpadmin
+node -e "console.log(require('./config/jump-secrets.js').auth.localAdminPass)"
+```
+
+Log in at `http://localhost:<port>/login` for each app — plain HTTP on the
+mapped port, no cert/cookie issues at all. Ports come from `setup.env`
+(operator-configurable) — check it rather than assuming defaults; e.g. this
+deployment maps the Proxy UI to `3010` (`MGMT_PORT`), not the usual `3000`.
+
+**Don't touch the login form if it autofills a real saved username/password**
+(Chrome profile password manager) — clear the fields and type the local admin
+credentials above instead. Never submit a real saved credential on the
+user's behalf.
+
+A freshly-bootstrapped `admin` account hits the onboarding flow (accept ToS,
+enter a DOB) before the rest of the UI is usable — expect that right after a
+from-scratch rebuild.
+
+## 3. Known gotcha: stale `app.modal.js` in the browser cache
+
+If "Add host" (or any `app.modal`-based modal) opens with tabs/fields but no
+Save/Cancel footer, check the console for
+`TypeError: app.modal.on is not a function`. That means the browser has an
+HTTP-cached copy of `@simpleworkjs/frontend/lib/app.modal.js` from before a
+method (`on`, `showTab`, etc.) was added — `curl`-ing the same URL returns the
+current file, so it's a caching artifact, not a real app bug. Fix it in-page
+without a full hard-reload cycle:
+
+```js
+// via the browser automation JS tool, in the page context
+const res = await fetch('/static-modules/@simpleworkjs/frontend/lib/app.modal.js', {cache: 'reload'});
+await res.text(); // {cache:'reload'} both bypasses AND refreshes the cache entry
+```
+
+Then reload the page normally — the fresh file sticks for the rest of the
+session.
+
+## 4. Capture screenshots
+
+Use `save_to_disk: true` on the browser screenshot action so files land on
+disk instead of just being viewed inline. One screenshot per doc image:
+
+| File | Page |
+|---|---|
+| `sso-manager-node/docs/images/dashboard.png` | SSO Catalog (`/`) |
+| `sso-manager-node/docs/images/users.png` | SSO Users → People (`/users`) |
+| `sso-manager-node/docs/images/directory.png` | SSO Directory (`/directory`) |
+| `sso-manager-node/docs/images/groups.png` | A user's profile → "My Groups" tab |
+| `sso-manager-node/docs/images/oauth-clients.png` | Directory → an `oauth` resource → Edit → Details tab |
+| `proxy/docs/images/hosts.png` | Proxy Hosts list (`/hosts`) |
+| `proxy/docs/images/host-auth-basic.png` | Edit a basic-auth host → Authentication tab |
+| `proxy/docs/images/host-auth-sso.png` | Edit an SSO-auth host → Authentication tab |
+| `proxy/docs/images/load-balancing.png` | Edit a host with "Additional Targets" filled in → General tab |
+| `jump-host/docs/images/login.png` | Jump-host login page |
+| `jump-host/docs/images/dashboard.png` | Jump-host dashboard, logged in as a real fixture user (e.g. `dkim` via SSO) with an actual access grant — not the `jumpadmin` local admin, whose host list isn't representative. See `docs/fixtures.md` → Jump-host access. |
+| `jump-host/docs/images/sessions.png` | Jump-host active sessions |
+| `jump-host/docs/images/audit.png` | Jump-host audit log |
+| `theta-env/docs/images/sso-dashboard.png` | same as SSO Catalog above |
+| `theta-env/docs/images/proxy-hosts.png` | same as Proxy Hosts above |
+| `theta-env/docs/images/jump-dashboard.png` | same as Jump-host dashboard above |
+
+## 5. Where to save them
+
+Only update the **top-level active clones** —
+`/home/william/dev/theta42/{sso-manager-node,proxy,jump-host,theta-env}` (all
+on `master`). The copies nested under `theta-env/sso-manager-node`,
+`theta-env/proxy`, `theta-env/jump-host` are git submodules pinned to a
+release tag (`HEAD detached at vX.Y.Z`) — those update automatically the next
+time theta-env's release/tag-bump workflow rolls the submodule pointer
+forward, not by hand-editing the pinned checkout.
+
+```sh
+convert screenshot.jpg /home/william/dev/theta42/<repo>/docs/images/<name>.png
+```
+
+(`convert` from ImageMagick — the browser tool saves JPEGs, but the repos
+track PNGs.)
+
+Commit each repo separately, same as any other change to that component.

docs/secrets.md

@@ -8,48 +8,9 @@ description: theta-suite's central secrets architecture — OpenBao as the singl
 
 theta-suite keeps **every secret in one place: [OpenBao](https://openbao.org/)**
 (a Vault-community fork), running on the `theta-net` docker network at
-`http://openbao:8200`. The three apps (SSO Manager, proxy, jump host) load
+`http://openbao:8200`. The SSO Manager acts as management and abstraction point
-their boot secrets from it; end users get personal per-user secret storage
+for secrets management. Via the directory, secrets can be set, cycled, revoked
-through the SSO UI; and external apps get scoped, self-contained access to
+or inherited. **You are not meant to interact with opanBoa directly.**
-their own namespace.
-
-This page is the operator reference. For the package API, see
-[@simpleworkjs/bao-conf](https://simpleworkjs.github.io/bao-conf/).
-
-## Why a central store
-
-Before this, secret handling was partial and inconsistent: only the SSO read
-one path from OpenBao; the proxy and jump host read bind-mounted
-`./config/*-secrets.js` files; the bootstrap wrote generated OAuth creds to
-those files on disk; and the SSO `/api/vault` UI was an ungated, broken
-pass-through. Centralising on OpenBao gives every app the same fail-soft load
-path, makes per-user secret storage possible, and lets external apps get
-least-privilege access without anyone handing them the root token.
-
-## The load path (every app)
-
-1. `@simpleworkjs/conf` **synchronously** loads the bind-mounted
-   `./config/<app>-secrets.js` at require time — the file is the operator-edit
-   layer and the fail-soft fallback.
-2. `@simpleworkjs/bao-conf`'s `init({ path: '<app>', conf })` **deep-merges**
-   `secret/data/<app>/conf` from OpenBao over the live `conf` object. It is
-   **fail-soft**: if OpenBao is unreachable or the path is absent, boot
-   continues with the file-loaded config.
-3. A few secrets are **captured at require time** (notably the OIDC
-   `clientSecret`, consumed inside `createOidcClient` during
-   `require('../models')`). So `init()` must resolve *before* that
-   `require()`. Each app's `bin/www` handles this:
-   - **proxy** — defers `require('../app')` (which transitively loads models)
-     behind `bao-conf.init()`.
-   - **jump host** — gates the explicit `require('../models')` behind
-     `bao-conf.init()`.
-   - **SSO** — swaps the old `conf_manager.init()` call (same position in its
-     existing `.then()` boot chain) for `bao-conf.init()`; nothing in the SSO
-     captures a secret at require time, so no reordering was needed.
-
-`VAULT_TOKEN` (a scoped per-app token, **not** the root token) and
-`VAULT_ADDR=http://openbao:8200` are passed to each container via
-`docker-compose.yml`. The `./config/*-secrets.js` mounts stay as the fallback.
 
 ## Policies, token role, and tokens
 
@@ -60,13 +21,64 @@ never passed to a service container.
 
 | Policy | Capabilities | Held by |
 |---|---|---|
-| `sso-broker` | read/write `secret/sso-manager/conf`, `secret/users/*`, `secret/apps/*`, `secret/plugins/*`; `update` on `auth/token/create/sso-broker` + `create/sso-app` and `auth/token/renew-accessor`/`revoke-accessor`/`lookup-accessor`; `update` on `sys/policies/acl/user-*`, `app-*`, `sso-admin` | SSO (`SSO_VAULT_TOKEN`) |
+| `sso-broker` | read/write `secret/sso-manager/conf`, `secret/users/*`, `secret/apps/*`, `secret/plugins/*`, `secret/agent/*`, `secret/data/resources/*`, `secret/metadata/resources/*`; `update` on `auth/token/create/sso-broker` + `create/sso-app` and `auth/token/renew-accessor`/`revoke-accessor`/`lookup-accessor`; `update` on `sys/policies/acl/user-*`, `app-*`, `sso-admin` | SSO (`SSO_VAULT_TOKEN`) |
 | `sso-admin` | read/write/list all of `secret/*` | admin UI sessions (minted by the broker) |
 | `proxy` | read `secret/proxy/conf` | proxy (`PROXY_VAULT_TOKEN`) |
 | `jump-host` | read `secret/jump-host/conf` | jump host (`JUMP_VAULT_TOKEN`) |
 | `user-<uid>` | read/write `secret/users/<uid>/*` | per-user tokens (minted lazily by the broker) |
 | `app-<name>` | read/write `secret/apps/<name>/*` | per-external-app tokens (minted by an admin) |
 
+## Resource Secrets & Zero-View Security Model
+
+Directory resources (Services, Hosts, Containers, Sites) manage their application secrets at `secret/data/resources/<resource_slug>/conf` in OpenBao KV-v2.
+
+### 1. Zero-View Security Model
+* **API Metadata Only**: `GET /api/directory-admin/resources/:id/secrets` returns
+  key names and metadata (`hasValue: true`, `isInherited: true`, `parentSlug`),
+  but **NEVER returns raw secret values**.
+* **Browser Isolation**: Secret values are never exposed in HTML DOM templates,
+  JSON admin APIs, or browser dev tools.
+* **Agent-Exclusive Delivery**: Raw secret values are fetched exclusively over
+  TLS by authenticated `theta-agent` instances using machine authorization tokens
+  (`POST /api/v1/agent/secrets`).
+
+### 2. Multi-Level Hierarchy Secret Inheritance
+Resources inherit secrets across any level of the directory hierarchy
+(`Services / Apps → Hosts / Nodes → Global Sites`):
+* An inherited secret reference is stored as `INHERIT:<parent_slug>:<parent_key>`
+  (or `INHERIT:<key>`).
+* When requested by `theta-agent`, SSO Manager resolves the inheritance chain
+dynamically, fetching the final secret value from the parent Site or Host's
+OpenBao store.
+
+### 3. Key Validation & Generator
+* **Key Format**: Secret keys are strictly validated against `^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$`
+(Standard Environment Variable format, e.g. `DB_PASSWORD`).
+* **Cryptographic Generator**: The UI includes a client-side cryptographic
+secret generator (`window.crypto.getRandomValues`) with length choices from 8 to
+128 characters. Populating the input field displays an inline security warning
+notifying operators to save immediately before values are hidden.
+
+## On-Demand CLI Secret Delivery (`theta-agent get-secret`)
+
+`theta-agent` delivers secrets on demand directly to local processes, shell
+scripts, Systemd services, and Docker containers without writing plaintext
+secret files to disk.
+
+```bash
+# Fetch single raw secret value (stdout, no trailing newline):
+theta-agent get-secret DB_PASSWORD
+
+# Assign directly to shell environment variables:
+export DB_PASSWORD=$(theta-agent get-secret DB_PASSWORD)
+
+# Export all host/resource secrets for Systemd EnvironmentFile:
+theta-agent get-secrets --env
+
+# Format all secrets as JSON for automation scripts:
+theta-agent get-secrets --json
+```
+
 **Token roles** — three, all orphan + renewable:
 
 - `sso-broker` — `allowed_policies=sso-admin`, `allowed_policies_glob=user-*,app-*`,
@@ -176,6 +188,21 @@ const data = await baoConf.get('apps/my-service/conf'); // secret/data/apps/my-s
 await baoConf.set('apps/my-service/conf', { db_password: '...' });
 ```
 
+## The theta-agent signing key
+
+The SSO signs high-risk theta-agent commands (`reboot`, `configure_ldap`,
+`arbitrary_bash`, …) with an Ed25519 key stored at
+`secret/agent/signing-key`. Agents pin the matching public key in their
+`agent.yml`, so the key **must** be stable: it used to be generated in memory at
+process start, which meant it changed on every restart and no agent could
+meaningfully verify anything.
+
+If the SSO cannot read or write that path it refuses to send high-risk commands
+rather than signing with a key no agent has seen — so an upgraded stack that has
+not re-run `./setup.sh` (and therefore lacks `secret/agent/*` in the
+`sso-broker` policy) will report `signingAvailable: false` on
+`GET /api/agent/nodes` and reject those commands with a clear error.
+
 ## Plugin secrets
 
 The SSO Manager's plugin system (configurable plugin instances you create,

docs/sso/agents.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ nav_order: 5
 
 # Discovery Agents
 
-The SSO Manager supports a robust agent architecture for auto-discovering devices, hosts, and services across your home lab or data center. Agents run on a scheduled cron and feed their data into a central **Reconciliation Engine** that smartly merges information based on MAC addresses and IPs.
+Theta Directory supports a robust agent architecture for auto-discovering devices, hosts, and services across your home lab or data center. Agents run on a scheduled cron and feed their data into a central **Reconciliation Engine** that smartly merges information based on MAC addresses and IPs.
 
 ## Writing a Custom Agent
 

docs/sso/concepts-accounts.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Accounts, Groups & Managers
-description: A plain-language guide to users, service accounts, personal groups, and managers in SSO Manager.
+description: A plain-language guide to users, service accounts, personal groups, and managers in Theta Directory.
 ---
 
 # Accounts, Groups & Managers
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ see the [LDAP reference](ldap.html).
 
 ## What's an account?
 
-Every person (or app) that can sign in through this SSO Manager has an
+Every person (or app) that can sign in through Theta Directory has an
 **account** — a username, a display name, maybe an email address, and a
 password (or, for service accounts, no password at all — see below).
 Accounts live in the directory this app manages, and any other app you've

docs/sso/concepts-api-tokens.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: API Tokens
-description: A plain-language guide to personal access tokens in SSO Manager.
+description: A plain-language guide to personal access tokens in Theta Directory.
 ---
 
 # API Tokens

docs/sso/concepts-oauth-apps.md

@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Connecting Apps (Single Sign-On)
-description: A plain-language guide to OAuth/OIDC clients and single sign-on in SSO Manager.
+description: A plain-language guide to OAuth/OIDC clients and single sign-on in Theta Directory.
 ---
 
 # Connecting Apps (Single Sign-On)
 
 This page explains, in plain language, what happens when you "connect" an
-app to your SSO Manager so people can log into it with their existing
+app to Theta Directory so people can log into it with their existing
 account. For the technical endpoint/token detail, see the
 [OAuth reference](oauth.html).
 
 ## What does "single sign-on" actually mean?
 
 Instead of every app you run having its own separate list of usernames and
-passwords, they all check with this SSO Manager instead. You log in once,
+passwords, they all check with Theta Directory instead. You log in once,
 here, and any connected app trusts that login — no separate password to
 remember or manage for each one. If you ever need to lock someone out
 everywhere at once, you do it in one place (deactivate their account here)
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ gives you a **Client ID** and **Client Secret**: think of these like a
 username and password, but for the *app itself* rather than for a person.
 You paste them into the other app's own "Single Sign-On" or "OIDC" setup
 screen, along with the discovery URL shown at the top of this page, and
-that app is now able to ask this SSO Manager to authenticate people on its
+that app is now able to ask Theta Directory to authenticate people on its
 behalf.
 
 **Treat the Client Secret like a password** — anyone who has it can
-impersonate that app when talking to your SSO Manager. If you ever suspect
+impersonate that app when talking to Theta Directory. If you ever suspect
 it's leaked, rotate it from the client's card.
 
 ## What are "scopes"?
@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ setup instructions; when in doubt, the default set (`openid`, `profile`,
 
 ## "Restrict to Groups"
 
-By default, *any* account with an SSO Manager login can sign into a
+By default, *any* account with a Theta Directory login can sign into a
 connected app. If that's not what you want — say, a home automation
 dashboard that only certain family members should reach — set **Restrict
 to Groups** on that client to one of your [groups](concepts-accounts.html).
 Only members of that group will be allowed to log into that particular
 app; everyone else gets turned away at the login step, even though their
-SSO Manager account still works everywhere else.
+Theta Directory account still works everywhere else.
 
 ## Redirect URIs
 

docs/sso/configuration.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Configuration
-description: SSO Manager's config layers — conf/base.js defaults, secrets.js overrides, and app_* environment variables.
+description: Theta Directory's config layers — conf/base.js defaults, secrets.js overrides, and app_* environment variables.
 ---
 
 # Configuration

docs/sso/directory.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: Managing your Home-Lab infrastructure, services, and LDAP access re
 
 # Directory Management
 
-The SSO Manager ships with a built-in **Directory & Inventory Management** feature. Instead of just managing bare LDAP groups for your homelab, the Directory allows you to map out your infrastructure graph and assign rich metadata to your services.
+Theta Directory ships with a built-in **Directory & Inventory Management** feature. Instead of just managing bare LDAP groups for your homelab, the Directory allows you to map out your infrastructure graph and assign rich metadata to your services.
 
 ## Architecture
 
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ There are three primary **Kinds** of resources you can define:
 - **Service (App)**: An application, web service. A Service **must** have a parent Host or another Service.
 - **OAuth Integration**: An OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect client application. An OAuth integration **must** have a parent Service.
 
-By defining this hierarchy, the SSO Manager builds a queryable graph of your infrastructure.
+By defining this hierarchy, Theta Directory builds a queryable graph of your infrastructure.
 
 ## Automatic LDAP Group Creation
 
-When you create a new **Host** or **Service** in the Directory via the web UI (or API), the SSO Manager will automatically provision two LDAP groups in your directory to govern access to that resource:
+When you create a new **Host** or **Service** in the Directory via the web UI (or API), Theta Directory will automatically provision two LDAP groups in your directory to govern access to that resource:
 
 1. `<slug>_access` (Member level access)
 2. `<slug>_admin` (Owner level access)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The Directory Management interface provides a **Tree View** toggle that visually
 
 ## Slug conventions
 
-Slugs are the stable identifiers automation keys off, so the tooling around the SSO Manager follows a shared convention:
+Slugs are the stable identifiers automation keys off, so the tooling around Theta Directory follows a shared convention:
 
 - **Sites**: `site_<name>` — e.g. `site_local`, `site_us-east`
 - **Hosts**: `host_<hostname>` — e.g. `host_pve1`, `host_web01`
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ You don't have to build the graph by hand — the theta42 tooling registers itse
 
 - a **site** (name from `CFG_SITE_NAME` in `setup.env`, default `local` → slug `site_local`) marked as the current site
 - the **host** the stack runs on (`host_<hostname>`), with IP, MAC address, OS, and kernel collected from the machine
-- the **services** it composes — SSO Manager, Proxy (management UI), OpenLDAP Directory (the LDAPS endpoint Linux hosts and LDAP-native apps bind to), and OpenResty Edge (the 80/443 data plane) — each with its address, internal port, and git repo
+- the **services** it composes — Theta Directory, Proxy (management UI), OpenLDAP Directory (the LDAPS endpoint Linux hosts and LDAP-native apps bind to), and OpenResty Edge (the 80/443 data plane) — each with its address, internal port, and git repo
 - the proxy's auto-registered **OAuth client**, linked under its service
 
 The seed is idempotent and non-destructive: a resource whose slug already exists is considered operator-owned — the seed only fills in metadata fields you haven't set, and never overwrites your values.

docs/sso/index.md

@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Home
-description: A self-hosted OpenID Connect provider with a bundled OpenLDAP directory and a web management UI. One login for your modern apps, one LDAP directory for the rest, no phone-home.
+description: Theta Directory — the OpenID Connect provider, bundled OpenLDAP directory, and resource inventory at the core of theta-suite. One login for your modern apps, one LDAP directory for the rest, no phone-home.
 ---
 
-# SSO Manager
+# Theta Directory
 
-A self-hosted **OpenID Connect provider** with a bundled **OpenLDAP directory**
+The identity and directory component of [theta-suite](../): an **OpenID
-and a web management UI — for home labs and small businesses that want their
+Connect provider**, a bundled **OpenLDAP directory**, and a **resource
-own identity provider instead of a hosted one.
+inventory & IAM engine**, all behind one web console.
 
 One place to manage your users and groups, one login (OIDC) your modern apps
-can use, and one LDAP directory your older or odder apps can bind to directly.
+can use, and one LDAP directory your older or odder apps can bind to directly
-Everything runs on your own hardware; no phone-home, no hosted control plane,
+— plus a graph of every site, host, and service you run, with auto-provisioned
-no per-user pricing.
+access groups. Everything runs on your own hardware; no phone-home, no hosted
+control plane, no per-user pricing.
 
-Part of the theta42 self-hosted identity stack, alongside
+Theta Directory is deployed as part of theta-suite, alongside
-[Proxy](https://theta42.github.io/proxy/) (an OIDC + LDAP-aware reverse proxy)
+[Proxy](../proxy/) and [Jump Host](../jump-host/) — it isn't installed or run
-and [theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/) (the two composed with
+on its own. See the [Quickstart](../quickstart.html) to stand up the whole
-one command).
+stack with one command.
 
 ## Screenshots
 
@@ -27,23 +28,11 @@ one command).
 <a href="images/groups.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/groups.png" alt="Groups" width="49%"></a>
 <a href="images/directory.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/directory.png" alt="Directory & inventory" width="49%"></a>
 <a href="images/oauth-clients.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/oauth-clients.png" alt="OAuth client (edit view)" width="49%"></a>
+<a href="images/agent-capabilities-metrics.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/agent-capabilities-metrics.png" alt="Agent capabilities & metrics" width="49%"></a>
+<a href="images/agent-install-join-key.png" target="_blank"><img src="images/agent-install-join-key.png" alt="Agent install with join key" width="49%"></a>
 
 *(click any screenshot to view full size)*
 
-## Why this over the alternatives
-
-Tools like Keycloak, Authentik, Authelia, or Zitadel are OIDC providers, but
-LDAP is either a paid feature, a federation target you have to run
-separately, or absent. If your stack already has apps that speak LDAP
-directly — or you just want one real directory as the source of truth — you
-end up running *two* identity systems and keeping them in sync.
-
-SSO Manager bundles the OpenLDAP directory with the OIDC provider, so OIDC
-apps and LDAP apps read from the same users and groups. The trade-off is
-scope: it's intentionally small and self-hosted, not an enterprise IAM suite.
-If you want a lightweight, self-contained identity provider with a real LDAP
-backend, that's the niche.
-
 ## Features
 
 - **OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 provider** — your own access/refresh/ID
@@ -56,30 +45,7 @@ backend, that's the niche.
 - **Direct LDAP binds** — anything that binds LDAP directly (Linux hosts
   via PAM/SSSD, Gitea, Emby, …) uses LDAPS/StartTLS against the same
   directory.
-- **All-in-one Docker image** — app + OpenLDAP + Redis in one container, or
-  run the pieces separately via `app_*` env config.
 - **Geo-Location Scaling** — built-in support for N-Way Multi-Master OpenLDAP [replication](replication.html) across physical sites.
-- **[Directory & Inventory](directory.html)** — map sites, hosts, and services as a graph with rich metadata (IP/MAC, OS/kernel, ports, git repos), auto-provisioned access groups, and automatic registration from theta-env and ldap-client. Drives directory-aware tools like the [SSH jump host](https://theta42.github.io/jump-host/).
+- **[Directory & Inventory](directory.html)** — map sites, hosts, and services as a graph with rich metadata (IP/MAC, OS/kernel, ports, git repos), auto-provisioned access groups, and automatic registration from theta-suite's agents and discovery plugins. Drives directory-aware tools like the [SSH jump host](../jump-host/).
-
+- **Subtype metrics & lifecycle drivers** — telemetry, log streaming, and remote control for resources tagged with a `subType` (`systemd`, `docker`, `proxmox`, `wireguard`, `postgresql`, `redis`, `k8s`, …).
-## Get it
+- **OpenBao-backed secrets** — per-resource and per-user secrets with explicit upward inheritance (`Resource → Host → Cluster → Site`).
-
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node.git
-cd sso-manager-node
-cp secrets.js.example nodejs/conf/secrets.js   # edit it, or use app_* env
-docker compose up -d --build
-```
-
-For the full set of install options
-(Docker, bare-metal, or as part of the combined SSO + proxy stack), the
-`app_*` env reference, and the OAuth/LDAP internals, see the
-**[GitHub repository](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node)**.
-
-## Related projects
-
-- **[Proxy](https://theta42.github.io/proxy/)** — an OIDC + LDAP-aware
-  reverse proxy, designed to sit in front of this SSO.
-- **[Jump Host](https://theta42.github.io/jump-host/)** — an SSH jump host that
-  uses this SSO's directory to decide who may reach which machine.
-- **[theta-env](https://theta42.github.io/theta-env/)** — runs this SSO
-  Manager and the proxy together with one command.

docs/sso/ldap.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: LDAP
-description: SSO Manager's bundled OpenLDAP directory — schema, service accounts, TLS, and connecting third-party apps directly.
+description: Theta Directory's bundled OpenLDAP directory — schema, service accounts, TLS, and connecting third-party apps directly.
 ---
 
 # LDAP Directory
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ description: SSO Manager's bundled OpenLDAP directory — schema, service accoun
 > instead of schema/attribute detail? See
 > [Accounts, Groups & Managers](concepts-accounts.html).
 
-SSO Manager runs an OpenLDAP directory holding your users and groups. The app
+Theta Directory runs an OpenLDAP directory holding your users and groups. The app
 authenticates against it over `localhost:389` (inside the all-in-one container)
 and exposes **LDAPS** (`ldaps://…:636`, TLS) for anything that binds LDAP
 directly — Linux hosts (PAM/SSSD, sudo rules, SSH keys), Gitea, Emby, the
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@ internal-only patterns and set `conf.ldap.ldapsHost` (or
 
 ### 1. Same Docker / local network host (best for apps on this machine)
 
-If the LDAP client runs on the same Docker network as the SSO Manager (for
+If the LDAP client runs on the same Docker network as Theta Directory (for
-example, the bundled `theta-env` stack), use the internal service name:
+example, the bundled `theta-suite` stack), use the internal service name:
 
 ```
 ldaps://sso-manager:636

docs/sso/oauth.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: OAuth / OIDC
-description: SSO Manager's OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 provider — discovery document, client registration, and token endpoints.
+description: Theta Directory's OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 provider — discovery document, client registration, and token endpoints.
 ---
 
 # OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ description: SSO Manager's OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 provider — discovery doc
 > of endpoint-level detail? See
 > [Connecting Apps (Single Sign-On)](concepts-oauth-apps.html).
 
-SSO Manager is an **OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 provider**: it issues its own
+Theta Directory is an **OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 provider**: it issues its own
 access, refresh, and ID tokens that your apps can consume to authenticate
 users and authorize API calls. It also runs a full OpenLDAP directory, so it
 can be both your SSO and your user directory at once.

docs/sso/replication.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ title: Geo-Location Scaling (Replication)
 
 # Geo-Location Scaling (Replication)
 
-SSO Manager is built to be a self-contained identity provider, but if you have multiple physical sites, you may want a local copy of the directory at each site to ensure low latency and high availability.
+Theta Directory bundles its own identity provider, but if you have multiple physical sites, you may want a local copy of the directory at each site to ensure low latency and high availability.
 
 ## Why and when to use this?
 - **High Availability (HA)**: If your primary site goes completely offline, your other sites can still authenticate users locally without depending on a WAN link.

docs/sso/vault.md

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ nav_order: 6
 
 # Secrets Vault
 
-SSO Manager integrates natively with **OpenBao** (a Vault fork) to securely manage and store sensitive data, configuration, and API keys.
+Theta Directory integrates natively with **OpenBao** (a Vault fork) to securely manage and store sensitive data, configuration, and API keys.
 
-The Vault proxy endpoint is exposed directly through SSO Manager at `/api/vault/v1/`, which safely authenticates and authorizes requests before forwarding them to the internal OpenBao container.
+The Vault proxy endpoint is exposed directly through Theta Directory at `/api/vault/v1/`, which safely authenticates and authorizes requests before forwarding them to the internal OpenBao container.
 
 ## Architecture
 
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ When the environment is initialized via `setup.sh`, OpenBao is automatically uns
 
 ## Accessing the Vault
 
-The SSO Manager Vault can be accessed in two ways:
+The Theta Directory Vault can be accessed in two ways:
 
-1. **Via the SSO Manager UI**: Go to the **Admin Configuration** page (`/conf`) to edit the application's configuration secrets directly. SMTP and OAuth settings are edited through structured form fields (not a raw JSON blob) and saved to OpenBao at `secret/sso-manager/conf` at runtime, taking effect immediately. Secret fields — the SMTP password and the OAuth JWT secret — are returned masked (`********`); leave the field unchanged (or blank) to keep the stored value, or enter a new value to replace it.
+1. **Via the Theta Directory UI**: Go to the **Admin Configuration** page (`/conf`) to edit the application's configuration secrets directly. SMTP and OAuth settings are edited through structured form fields (not a raw JSON blob) and saved to OpenBao at `secret/sso-manager/conf` at runtime, taking effect immediately. Secret fields — the SMTP password and the OAuth JWT secret — are returned masked (`********`); leave the field unchanged (or blank) to keep the stored value, or enter a new value to replace it.
-2. **Via the REST API**: Send requests to `/api/vault/v1/...` with your SSO Manager session or API Token.
+2. **Via the REST API**: Send requests to `/api/vault/v1/...` with your Theta Directory session or API Token.
 
 ### API Example
 
@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ Only administrators with `app_sso_admin` or `admin` permissions can query the va
 
 ## Namespaces and Paths
 
-Currently, secrets are maintained at `/v1/secret/data/sso-manager/conf` using the `kv-v2` backend. When configurations are edited via the admin UI, SSO Manager performs a deep-merge so that partial updates don't overwrite unrelated keys (such as SMTP vs OAuth configurations).
+Currently, secrets are maintained at `/v1/secret/data/sso-manager/conf` using the `kv-v2` backend. When configurations are edited via the admin UI, Theta Directory performs a deep-merge so that partial updates don't overwrite unrelated keys (such as SMTP vs OAuth configurations).
 
 ## Plugin Integration
 
 Plugin instances store their per-instance secrets in OpenBao at
 `secret/plugins/<instance-id>/conf` (configured, loaded/unloaded, and run from
 the **Plugins** page — see [Plugins](plugins.html)). The plugin process runs
-in-process, so the SSO Manager reads/writes those secrets server-side through
+in-process, so Theta Directory reads/writes those secrets server-side through
 the `sso-broker` token; the admin UI only ever sees masked values, and external
 apps can retrieve API tokens via the `/api/vault` proxy to keep permissions
 consistently enforced instead of hardcoding them.

pr_url.txt

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-https://github.com/theta42/theta-suite/pull/75

setup.env.example

@@ -48,6 +48,22 @@ CFG_DOMAIN=example.com
 # under an OU-style prefix). Leave unset to use the DN built from CFG_DOMAIN:
 #CFG_BASE_DN=dc=example,dc=com
 
+# ── Multi-Site: join an existing (master) directory ──────────────────────────
+# To run THIS deployment as a read-only SPOKE of an existing Theta Directory
+# instead of seeding a fresh one, set the master's URL and a site join key
+# (mint one on the master: Directory -> the Master Site modal -> Site Join Keys
+# -> Mint key). Honored ONLY on a first-run bring-up (before ./config/ exists),
+# so it can never merge an already-populated directory; re-runs ignore it.
+# The spoke adopts the master's users/groups/resources and persists its spoke
+# role in ./config/site.json (isMaster=false, masterUrl, siteSlug). It also
+# registers itself with the master (using this site's own CFG_SSO_HOST) so
+# future catalog changes on the master get pushed here live instead of this
+# being a one-time snapshot -- the master must be able to reach THIS site's
+# CFG_SSO_HOST for that part to work; if it can't (this site has no inbound
+# path), the join still succeeds, it just never receives live updates.
+#CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL=https://sso.master.example.com
+#CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY=stj_9f2e...
+
 # ── Optional outbound HTTP(S) proxy ──────────────────────────────────────────
 # For an isolated/offline/corporate-network test host that only reaches the
 # internet through an upstream HTTP proxy — NOT the theta42 "proxy" app.

setup.sh

@@ -78,10 +78,13 @@ die()   { error "$*"; exit 1; }
 # (stale policies/tokens causing vault 403s). The Redis vault-token cache is
 # flushed once sso-manager is back up (see the OpenBao bootstrap section).
 RESET_OPENBAO=0
+SEED_NODE_SECRET=0
+SEED_NODE_ARGS=()
 for arg in "$@"; do
 	case "$arg" in
 		--reset-openbao) RESET_OPENBAO=1 ;;
-		*) warn "unknown argument: $arg (ignored)" ;;
+		--seed-node-secret) SEED_NODE_SECRET=1 ;;
+		*) if [[ "$SEED_NODE_SECRET" == 1 ]]; then SEED_NODE_ARGS+=("$arg"); else warn "unknown argument: $arg (ignored)"; fi ;;
 	esac
 done
 
@@ -292,6 +295,21 @@ dn_from_domain() {
 	echo "dc=$1" | sed 's/\./,dc=/g'
 }
 
+# Read a value from the (operator-owned) ./config/sso-secrets.js -- the source of
+# truth on re-runs, where the CFG_* first-run shell vars are not (re)derived
+# (ensure_config returns early once sso-secrets.js exists). Reads `stack.<key>`.
+# Prints empty on any failure. Usage: sso_secrets_get ldapBaseDn
+sso_secrets_get() {
+	node -e 'const c=require(process.argv[1]);const k=process.argv[2];console.log(c&&c.stack&&c.stack[k]!=null?c.stack[k]:"")' \
+		"$PWD/$CONFIG_DIR/sso-secrets.js" "$1" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+
+# Read a top-level (non-stack) secret from sso-secrets.js, e.g. serviceAccountPass.
+sso_secrets_get_top() {
+	node -e 'const c=require(process.argv[1]);const k=process.argv[2];console.log(c&&c[k]!=null?c[k]:"")' \
+		"$PWD/$CONFIG_DIR/sso-secrets.js" "$1" 2>/dev/null || true
+}
+
 # Write ./config/sso-secrets.js from the CFG_* shell vars.
 write_sso_secrets() {
 	local dn="$CFG_BASE_DN" domain="$CFG_DOMAIN"
@@ -383,6 +401,12 @@ module.exports = {
 		groupsClaim: 'groups',
 		usernameClaim: 'preferred_username',
 	},
+	// Read-only SSO management API access, used to list directory groups for the
+	// per-host SSO allow-list autocomplete. apiToken is minted by the bootstrap.
+	sso: {
+		url: 'http://sso-manager:3001',
+		apiToken: '',
+	},
 	ldap: {
 		url: 'ldaps://sso-manager:636',
 		bindDN: $(js_str "cn=ldapclient,ou=people,${dn}"),
@@ -519,7 +543,7 @@ BAOEOF
 	CFG_SSO_HOST="${CFG_SSO_HOST:-sso.$CFG_DOMAIN}"
 	CFG_PROXY_HOST="${CFG_PROXY_HOST:-proxy.$CFG_DOMAIN}"
 	CFG_SITE_NAME="${CFG_SITE_NAME:-local}"
-	CFG_ORG="${CFG_ORG:-SSO Manager}"
+	CFG_ORG="${CFG_ORG:-Theta Directory}"
 	CFG_ADMIN_UID="${CFG_ADMIN_UID:-admin}"
 	CFG_ADMIN_EMAIL="${CFG_ADMIN_EMAIL:-admin@$CFG_PROXY_HOST}"
 	CFG_LDAP_CERT_CN="${CFG_LDAP_CERT_CN:-}"
@@ -857,6 +881,29 @@ seed_app_conf() {
 		|| warn "  could not seed secret/${vault_path} (continuing — app will use its file fallback)"
 }
 
+# Seed a node-scoped secret for a theta-agent (DESIGN.md §5). Node secrets live
+# at secret/data/nodes/<agent-id>/* and are read by the agent (via the SSO's
+# /api/v1/agent/secrets) on behalf of 3rd-party apps on the host. Agent ids are
+# minted at enrollment, so this is a helper the operator calls per node, not a
+# boot-time seed:
+#   ./setup.sh --seed-node-secret <agent-id> <name> <key>=<value> [<key>=<value>...]
+seed_node_conf() {
+	local agent_id="$1" name="$2"; shift 2
+	[[ -n "$agent_id" && -n "$name" ]] || die "seed_node_conf: need <agent-id> <name>"
+	# CLI paths are mount-relative (no "data/" segment -- the CLI inserts that
+	# itself for KV v2, same as seed_app_conf's "secret/${vault_path}" above).
+	# The HTTP API path api_agent_ops.js checks against (secret/data/nodes/...)
+	# is what this resolves to underneath.
+	local path="secret/nodes/${agent_id}/${name}"
+	if bao_run kv get "$path" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+		info "  ${path} already seeded — keeping."
+		return 0
+	fi
+	info "Seeding ${path}..."
+	docker exec -e BAO_TOKEN="$VAULT_TOKEN" openbao bao kv put "$path" "$@" >/dev/null \
+		|| die "failed to seed ${path}"
+}
+
 info "Configuring OpenBao policies..."
 # sso-broker — sso's authority to read/write its own conf, mint per-user and
 # per-app tokens (auth/token/create/sso-broker), and create the matching
@@ -874,14 +921,27 @@ path "secret/data/apps/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete"
 path "secret/metadata/apps/*" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "delete"] }
 path "secret/data/plugins/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
 path "secret/metadata/plugins/*" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "delete"] }
+# The Ed25519 key the SSO signs high-risk theta-agent commands with. It must
+# persist across restarts: agents pin the matching public key in agent.yml, so
+# a key that changes on every boot makes signature verification meaningless.
+path "secret/data/agent/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "secret/metadata/agent/*" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "delete"] }
+# Node-scoped secrets for theta-agent (DESIGN.md §5): each node reads only its
+# own secret/data/nodes/<agent-id>/* subtree via the SSO's /api/v1/agent/secrets
+# endpoint. The SSO (sso-broker) must be able to read them on the agent's behalf.
+path "secret/data/resources/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "secret/metadata/resources/*" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "delete"] }
+path "secret/data/nodes/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "secret/metadata/nodes/*" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "delete"] }
 path "auth/token/create/sso-broker" { capabilities = ["update"] }
 path "auth/token/create/sso-app" { capabilities = ["update"] }
 path "auth/token/renew-accessor" { capabilities = ["update"] }
 path "auth/token/revoke-accessor" { capabilities = ["update"] }
 path "auth/token/lookup-accessor" { capabilities = ["update"] }
-path "sys/policies/acl/user-*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "sys/policies/acl/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
-path "sys/policies/acl/app-*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "sys/policies/acl" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
-path "sys/policies/acl/sso-admin" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "sys/policy/*" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
+path "sys/policy" { capabilities = ["create", "read", "update", "delete", "list"] }
 HCL
 # sso-admin — admin users in the vault UI: read/write/list everything under secret/.
 # The bare `secret/metadata` grant lets an admin LIST the KV mount root (the
@@ -954,6 +1014,13 @@ info "  policies:    sso-broker, sso-admin, proxy, jump-host (+ per-user/app cre
 info "  token roles: sso-broker (user-*/app-*/sso-admin, 24h period), sso-app (app-*, 768h period), theta-svc (service tokens, 768h period)"
 info "  app tokens:  SSO_VAULT_TOKEN, PROXY_VAULT_TOKEN, JUMP_VAULT_TOKEN in .env (periodic; renewed by bao-renewer)"
 
+# --seed-node-secret <agent-id> <name> <key>=<value>... : seed a node-scoped
+# secret for a theta-agent (DESIGN.md §5). Runs after OpenBao is configured so
+# the sso-broker policy (which grants secret/data/nodes/*) is in place.
+if [[ "$SEED_NODE_SECRET" == 1 ]]; then
+	seed_node_conf "${SEED_NODE_ARGS[@]}"
+fi
+
 # bao-renewer: renews the three periodic service tokens every 12h so they never
 # hit their period boundary while the stack is running. Recreated (not just
 # started) so it always picks up freshly re-minted tokens from .env.
@@ -1054,7 +1121,13 @@ STACK_HOST_MAC=""
 [[ -n "$_iface" ]] && STACK_HOST_MAC="$(cat "/sys/class/net/$_iface/address" 2>/dev/null || true)"
 STACK_HOST_OS="$( (. /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null && echo "${PRETTY_NAME:-}") || true)"
 STACK_HOST_KERNEL="$(uname -r 2>/dev/null || true)"
+# The compose project name the stack runs under (defaults to the directory
+# name). The bootstrap hands it to the Docker discovery plugin so the stack's
+# own containers are recognised as ours rather than discovered as strangers.
+STACK_COMPOSE_PROJECT="${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME:-$(basename "$(pwd)" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -c 'a-z0-9_-' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')}"
+
 BOOTSTRAP_OUT=$("${COMPOSE[@]}" exec -T \
+	-e COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME="$STACK_COMPOSE_PROJECT" \
 	-e STACK_HOST_NAME="$STACK_HOST_NAME" \
 	-e STACK_HOST_IP="$STACK_HOST_IP" \
 	-e STACK_HOST_MAC="$STACK_HOST_MAC" \
@@ -1069,6 +1142,9 @@ BOOTSTRAP_OUT=$("${COMPOSE[@]}" exec -T \
 getval() { echo "$BOOTSTRAP_OUT" | grep -m1 "^$1=" | cut -d= -f2-; }
 CLIENT_ID=$(getval CLIENT_ID)
 ALREADY_CONFIGURED=$(getval ALREADY_CONFIGURED)
+# The one credential the local theta-agent needs; it exchanges this for its own
+# token + the SSO public key on first connect (see 7c below).
+AGENT_JOIN_KEY=$(getval AGENT_JOIN_KEY)
 [[ -n "$CLIENT_ID" ]] || die "bootstrap did not return CLIENT_ID:\n${BOOTSTRAP_OUT}"
 
 if [[ "$ALREADY_CONFIGURED" == "1" ]]; then
@@ -1077,6 +1153,26 @@ else
 	info "OAuth client registered + creds written into $CONFIG_DIR/proxy-secrets.js."
 fi
 
+# ── 5b. Multi-site: join an existing master directory (first-run only) ────────
+# setup.env: CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL + CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY (mint a
+# site join key on the master). Only honored on a first-run bring-up: ensure_config
+# reads setup.env once and ignores it once ./config/ exists, so an already-running
+# directory can never be merged into a master's. Idempotent — a node that already
+# joined reports "already a spoke" and setup continues.
+if [[ -n "${CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL:-}" && -n "${CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY:-}" ]]; then
+	info "Joining master site ${CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL} (CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_*)..."
+	# selfUrl (https://$CFG_SSO_HOST, already derived above) registers this
+	# spoke for LIVE replication -- without it the join still succeeds, but
+	# the master has no way to reach this spoke to push resync pings, so it
+	# only ever gets the one-time snapshot from the moment it joined.
+	if ! "${COMPOSE[@]}" exec -T sso-manager node /bootstrap/site-join.js \
+			"$CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL" "$CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY" "https://$CFG_SSO_HOST"; then
+		die "site join failed — check the master URL + site join key (mint one on the master's Site Join Keys card)."
+	fi
+else
+	info "No CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_URL/CFG_MASTER_DIRECTORY_JOIN_KEY — running as a fresh master site."
+fi
+
 # ── 6. Start the proxy, wait for health ───────────────────────────────────────
 # PROXY_GIT_COMMIT: same reasoning as SSO_GIT_COMMIT above.
 PROXY_GIT_COMMIT="$(git -C proxy rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)"
@@ -1204,14 +1300,40 @@ if [[ "$CFG_THETA_AGENT_ENABLE" == "1" ]]; then
 				sudo mkdir -p /etc/theta42
 				if [[ ! -f /etc/theta42/agent.yml ]]; then
 					sudo cp agent.yml.example /etc/theta42/agent.yml
-					AGENT_TOKEN="$(rand_hex 16)"
+					# Write the JOIN KEY, not a locally-invented token. The SSO
-					sudo sed -i "s/REPLACE_WITH_AGENT_TOKEN/$AGENT_TOKEN/" /etc/theta42/agent.yml
+					# only accepts credentials it issued, so the random token
-					# We want to connect to either https or http depending on CFG_CREATE_ALL_HTTP
+					# this used to generate could never authenticate -- the
-					if [[ "${CFG_CREATE_ALL_HTTP:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+					# agent looped on "close 4001: Unauthorized" forever. The
-						sudo sed -i "s|https://sso.example.com|http://${SSO_HOST}|" /etc/theta42/agent.yml
+					# agent swaps this key for its own token (and the public key
+					# it must pin) on first connect and rewrites this file.
+					if [[ -n "$AGENT_JOIN_KEY" ]]; then
+						# Only the join key is written. The agent exchanges it
+						# for its own token + the SSO public key on first
+						# connect and rewrites this file itself.
+						#
+						# This used to sed a locally generated random value into
+						# auth_token. The SSO only accepts credentials it
+						# issued, so that token could never authenticate and the
+						# agent looped on "close 4001: Unauthorized" forever.
+						if sudo grep -q '^join_key:' /etc/theta42/agent.yml; then
+							sudo sed -i "s|^join_key:.*|join_key: \"${AGENT_JOIN_KEY}\"|" /etc/theta42/agent.yml
+						else
+							echo "join_key: \"${AGENT_JOIN_KEY}\"" | sudo tee -a /etc/theta42/agent.yml >/dev/null
+						fi
+						# Older agent.yml.example shipped REPLACE_WITH_* placeholders;
+						# blank them so they are not mistaken for real credentials.
+						sudo sed -i "s|REPLACE_WITH_ISSUED_AGENT_TOKEN||; s|REPLACE_WITH_AGENT_TOKEN||; s|REPLACE_WITH_SSO_PUBLIC_KEY||" /etc/theta42/agent.yml
 					else
-						sudo sed -i "s|https://sso.example.com|https://${SSO_HOST}|" /etc/theta42/agent.yml
+						warn "No agent join key available — /etc/theta42/agent.yml has no credential and the agent will not connect."
 					fi
+					# We want to connect to either https or http depending on CFG_CREATE_ALL_HTTP
+					sudo getent group theta-secrets >/dev/null 2>&1 || sudo groupadd -r theta-secrets 2>/dev/null || true
+					sudo getent group theta >/dev/null 2>&1 || sudo groupadd -r theta 2>/dev/null || true
+					SECRETS_GRP="root"
+					if getent group theta-secrets >/dev/null 2>&1; then SECRETS_GRP="theta-secrets"; elif getent group theta >/dev/null 2>&1; then SECRETS_GRP="theta"; fi
+					sudo chown -R "root:$SECRETS_GRP" /etc/theta42 2>/dev/null || true
+					sudo chmod 750 /etc/theta42
+					sudo chmod 640 /etc/theta42/agent.yml
 				fi
 				# Stop a running agent before overwriting its binary (cp into a
 				# running executable fails with "Text file busy" on a re-install).
@@ -1219,6 +1341,27 @@ if [[ "$CFG_THETA_AGENT_ENABLE" == "1" ]]; then
 				sudo cp theta-agent-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/theta-agent
 				sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/theta-agent
 
+				# Install desktop tray companion if available
+				TRAY_SRC="dist/theta-agent-tray-linux-amd64"
+				if [[ ! -f "$TRAY_SRC" ]] && [[ -f "theta-agent-tray-linux-amd64" ]]; then TRAY_SRC="theta-agent-tray-linux-amd64"; fi
+				if [[ -f "$TRAY_SRC" ]]; then
+					sudo cp "$TRAY_SRC" /usr/local/bin/theta-agent-tray
+					sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/theta-agent-tray
+					sudo mkdir -p /etc/xdg/autostart
+					sudo bash -c "cat <<'EOF' > /etc/xdg/autostart/theta-agent-tray.desktop
+[Desktop Entry]
+Type=Application
+Name=Theta Agent Tray
+Comment=Theta Agent Desktop Tray Companion
+Exec=/usr/local/bin/theta-agent-tray
+Icon=network-workgroup
+Terminal=false
+Categories=Utility;System;
+X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
+EOF"
+					info "  theta-agent-tray companion installed."
+				fi
+
 				sudo bash -c "cat <<'EOF' > /etc/systemd/system/theta-agent.service
 [Unit]
 Description=Theta Agent
@@ -1257,6 +1400,45 @@ if [[ "$CFG_THETA_AGENT_ENABLE" == "1" ]] && [[ -x /usr/local/bin/theta-agent ]]
 
 	if [[ "$CFG_THETA_AGENT_LDAP_AUTH" == "1" ]]; then
 		info "  Configuring LDAP authentication for this host..."
+
+		# ldap-client/index.sh refuses to run without ./ldap.vars, which is
+		# gitignored and never shipped in the checkout (it holds a real bind
+		# password). On the agent-enrollment path we generate it from the stack's
+		# own config so the host can actually enroll; an operator-provided
+		# ldap.vars (cp ldap.vars.template ldap.vars + edit) is always kept.
+		if [[ ! -f ldap-client/ldap.vars ]]; then
+			info "  Generating ldap-client/ldap.vars from the stack config..."
+			# CFG_* first-run vars may be unset on a re-run (ensure_config returns
+			# early once sso-secrets.js exists), so fall back to reading the real
+			# values from the operator-owned sso-secrets.js. All `:-` guarded so a
+			# missing value degrades to an empty ldap.vars field, not a set -u abort.
+			ldap_base_dn="${CFG_BASE_DN:-$(sso_secrets_get ldapBaseDn)}"
+			ldap_site="${CFG_SITE_NAME:-$(sso_secrets_get siteName)}"
+			ldap_bind_pass="${CFG_SVC_PASS:-$(sso_secrets_get_top serviceAccountPass)}"
+			sso_host="${CFG_SSO_HOST:-$(sso_secrets_get ssoHost)}"
+			# The LDAP server is co-located with the stack on THIS host, so the
+			# host must reach it over the loopback / a local address -- NEVER the
+			# public domain (sso.<domain>), which cannot route back to the 389/636
+			# ports through NAT. localhost is fine because the generated sssd.conf
+			# sets ldap_tls_reqcert=never (hostname verification is off). An
+			# operator may override with CFG_LDAPS_HOST (an internal hostname/IP).
+			ldaps_host="${CFG_LDAPS_HOST:-localhost}"
+			cat > ldap-client/ldap.vars <<LDAPVARS
+export ldap_host="${ldaps_host}"
+export ldap_base_dn="${ldap_base_dn}"
+export ldap_bind_dn="cn=ldapclient,ou=people,${ldap_base_dn}"
+export ldap_bind_password="${ldap_bind_pass}"
+export sso_url="https://${sso_host}"
+export sso_token=""
+export ldap_location="${ldap_site:-local}"
+# Groups that grant SSH/access on this host (docs/GROUPS.md §8): the site's
+# all-hosts aggregate, this host's own access group, and god_admin.
+ldap_access_groups=( "site_\${ldap_location}_hosts_access" "site_\${ldap_location}_host_\$(hostname)_access" "god_admin" )
+LDAPVARS
+		else
+			info "  ldap-client/ldap.vars exists -- keeping it"
+		fi
+
 		(
 			cd ldap-client || exit 0
 			if [[ -x "index.sh" ]]; then

test-integration.sh

@@ -1,44 +1,227 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
+# test-integration.sh — Full Docker integration test for theta-suite.
+#
+# Starts the sso-manager container in test mode (no secrets.js required),
+# seeds an LDAP test user, runs the full jest suite inside the container,
+# then tears everything down.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   ./test-integration.sh            # run all tests
+#   ./test-integration.sh --no-build # skip docker build (reuse existing image)
+#   ./test-integration.sh --keep     # leave containers up after tests (for debugging)
 
-echo "=== Starting theta-suite Integration Tests ==="
+set -euo pipefail
 
-echo "=> Cleaning up any existing containers and volumes..."
+# ── Colours ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-docker-compose down -v
+RED='\033[0;31m'; GREEN='\033[0;32m'; YELLOW='\033[1;33m'; CYAN='\033[0;36m'; NC='\033[0m'
+info()  { echo -e "${CYAN}[test]${NC} $*"; }
+ok()    { echo -e "${GREEN}[✓]${NC} $*"; }
+warn()  { echo -e "${YELLOW}[!]${NC} $*"; }
+fail()  { echo -e "${RED}[✗]${NC} $*"; exit 1; }
 
-echo "=> Running setup.sh to initialize environment..."
+# ── Options ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-# Run setup non-interactively if possible (we might need to export some env vars)
+NO_BUILD=0; KEEP=0
-# setup.sh uses dialog, which requires a terminal, but it falls back to defaults if not interactive?
+for arg in "$@"; do
-# Actually setup.sh has a dialog UI. Let's just run it or provide a seeded config.
+  case "$arg" in
-# If setup.sh is strictly interactive, we might need to bypass it or provide answers.
+    --no-build) NO_BUILD=1 ;;
-# Let's try running docker-compose up directly if setup.sh is too interactive, but the user explicitly said "Make sure setup.sh like your change, then do a full release. Make sure each repo has a current change log, is pushed and and merged." and "Automated testing in theta-suite to test integration between all the include projects".
+    --keep)     KEEP=1 ;;
+    --help|-h)  echo "Usage: $0 [--no-build] [--keep]"; exit 0 ;;
+    *) warn "Unknown option: $arg" ;;
+  esac
+done
 
-# Wait, setup.sh has no silent mode out of the box unless we provide answers.
+# ── Test environment config (self-contained, no secrets.js needed) ────────────
-echo "=> Initializing OpenBao manually for tests (simulating setup.sh)"
+export COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME="theta-test"
-# Actually, setup.sh initializes Vault. If we don't run it, Vault is sealed!
+TEST_CONTAINER="theta-test-sso-manager-1"
-# Let's just write a curl test that checks if the containers start.
 
-docker-compose up -d
+LDAP_BASE_DN="dc=test,dc=local"
+LDAP_ADMIN_PASS="testadminpass"
+TEST_UID="test"
+TEST_PASSWORD="MyTestPassword!2"  # must match tests/setup.js TEST_CREDS
 
-echo "=> Waiting for services to become healthy..."
+# ── Cleanup on exit ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-sleep 15 # Give time for containers to spin up
+cleanup() {
+  local exit_code=$?
+  if [[ "$KEEP" == "1" ]]; then
+    warn "Leaving containers up (--keep). Tear down with: docker compose -p theta-test down -v"
+  else
+    info "Tearing down test stack..."
+    docker compose -p theta-test -f docker-compose.test.yml down -v --remove-orphans 2>/dev/null || true
+  fi
+  exit $exit_code
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
 
-# Test proxy
+# ── Write a minimal test compose override ────────────────────────────────────
-echo "=> Testing Proxy..."
+info "Writing docker-compose.test.yml..."
-if ! curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost | grep -q "406"; then
+cat > docker-compose.test.yml <<'COMPOSEEOF'
-  echo "❌ Proxy failed to respond with 406 Not Acceptable on port 80 (default behavior)"
+# Minimal test stack: sso-manager only (no proxy, no openbao, no jump-host).
-  exit 1
+# Uses env-mode config — no secrets.js or openbao token required.
+services:
+  sso-manager:
+    build:
+      context: ./sso-manager-node
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.openldap
+      target: ""
+    container_name: theta-test-sso-manager
+    restart: "no"
+    networks: [theta-test-net]
+    environment:
+      - NODE_ENV=test
+      - NODE_PORT=3001
+      - LDAP_BASE_DN=dc=test,dc=local
+      - LDAP_ADMIN_PASS=testadminpass
+      - ORG_NAME=Test Org
+      - LDAP_DOMAIN=test.local
+      # Inline JWT secret for tests (no secrets.js or bao needed)
+      - app_oauth__jwtSecret=test-integration-jwt-secret-theta42
+    ports:
+      - "13001:3001"
+      - "10389:389"
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD", "wget", "--no-verbose", "--tries=1", "--spider", "http://localhost:3001/health"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 24
+      start_period: 30s
+networks:
+  theta-test-net:
+    driver: bridge
+COMPOSEEOF
+
+# ── Build ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+if [[ "$NO_BUILD" == "0" ]]; then
+  info "Building sso-manager test image..."
+  docker compose -p theta-test -f docker-compose.test.yml build sso-manager
+  ok "Image built"
+else
+  warn "Skipping build (--no-build)"
 fi
-echo "✅ Proxy responds on port 80"
 
-# Test SSO Manager Node
+# ── Start ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-echo "=> Testing SSO Manager..."
+info "Starting sso-manager container..."
-if ! curl -sS -f -o /dev/null http://localhost:3001; then
+docker compose -p theta-test -f docker-compose.test.yml up -d sso-manager
-  echo "❌ SSO Manager failed to respond on port 3001"
+
-  exit 1
+# ── Wait for healthy ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+info "Waiting for sso-manager to become healthy (up to 120s)..."
+for i in $(seq 1 120); do
+  STATUS=$(docker inspect --format='{{.State.Health.Status}}' theta-test-sso-manager 2>/dev/null || echo "missing")
+  if [[ "$STATUS" == "healthy" ]]; then
+    ok "sso-manager is healthy"
+    break
+  fi
+  if [[ $i -eq 120 ]]; then
+    warn "Container never became healthy. Logs:"
+    docker logs theta-test-sso-manager --tail 60
+    fail "sso-manager failed to become healthy after 120s"
+  fi
+  sleep 1
+done
+
+# ── Wait for LDAP ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+info "Waiting for LDAP on port 10389..."
+for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+  if ldapsearch -x -H ldap://localhost:10389 -b "" -s base "(objectClass=*)" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    ok "LDAP is ready"
+    break
+  fi
+  if [[ $i -eq 30 ]]; then
+    fail "LDAP did not become reachable on localhost:10389 after 30s"
+  fi
+  sleep 1
+done
+
+# ── Seed test user ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+info "Seeding test LDAP user via seed-test-user.sh..."
+
+docker cp sso-manager-node/test/seed-test-user.sh theta-test-sso-manager:/tmp/seed-test-user.sh
+docker exec \
+  -e LDAP_HOST=localhost \
+  -e LDAP_PORT=389 \
+  -e BIND_DN="cn=admin,${LDAP_BASE_DN}" \
+  -e BIND_PW="${LDAP_ADMIN_PASS}" \
+  -e BASE_DN="${LDAP_BASE_DN}" \
+  theta-test-sso-manager \
+  sh /tmp/seed-test-user.sh
+
+ok "Test user seeded"
+
+# ── Install dev deps (jest) inside the running container ──────────────────────
+info "Installing test dependencies (jest) inside container..."
+docker exec theta-test-sso-manager sh -c "
+  cd /app &&
+  if ! command -v jest >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ ! -f node_modules/.bin/jest ]; then
+    npm install --save-dev jest@latest supertest@latest --silent 2>&1 | tail -3
+  else
+    echo 'jest already installed'
+  fi
+"
+ok "Test deps ready"
+
+# ── Copy test files into container ────────────────────────────────────────────
+info "Copying tests into container..."
+docker cp sso-manager-node/nodejs/tests/. theta-test-sso-manager:/app/tests/
+
+ok "Tests copied"
+
+# ── Run jest ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+info "Running full jest test suite inside container..."
+echo ""
+
+# These app_* vars are set by the entrypoint for the main process but NOT
+# inherited by docker exec subprocesses. Pass them explicitly so the jest
+# process loads app.js with the correct LDAP connection details.
+docker exec \
+  -e NODE_ENV=test \
+  -e REDIS_URL="redis://127.0.0.1:6379" \
+  -e app_oauth__jwtSecret="test-integration-jwt-secret-theta42" \
+  -e app_ldap__url="ldap://localhost:389" \
+  -e app_ldap__bindDN="cn=admin,${LDAP_BASE_DN}" \
+  -e app_ldap__bindPassword="${LDAP_ADMIN_PASS}" \
+  -e app_ldap__userBase="ou=people,${LDAP_BASE_DN}" \
+  -e app_ldap__groupBase="ou=groups,${LDAP_BASE_DN}" \
+  theta-test-sso-manager \
+  sh -c "
+    cd /app
+    # Write test conf with full LDAP connection details so jest workers get
+    # the correct config without needing to inherit docker exec env vars.
+    # app_* env vars are only applied at conf-module require time, but jest
+    # workers may not reliably inherit them across all parallelism models.
+    cat > /app/conf/test.js << CONFEOF
+'use strict';
+module.exports = {
+  redis: { prefix: 'sso_manager_test_' },
+  oauth: { jwtSecret: 'test-integration-jwt-secret-theta42' },
+  ldap: {
+    url: 'ldap://localhost:389',
+    bindDN: 'cn=admin,${LDAP_BASE_DN}',
+    bindPassword: '${LDAP_ADMIN_PASS}',
+    userBase: 'ou=people,${LDAP_BASE_DN}',
+    groupBase: 'ou=groups,${LDAP_BASE_DN}'
+  }
+};
+CONFEOF
+    echo 'conf/test.js written'
+    REDIS_URL='redis://127.0.0.1:6379' node_modules/.bin/jest --forceExit --passWithNoTests 2>&1
+  "
+JEST_EXIT=$?
+
+echo ""
+if [[ $JEST_EXIT -eq 0 ]]; then
+  ok "All jest tests passed!"
+else
+  fail "Some jest tests failed (exit code $JEST_EXIT)"
 fi
-echo "✅ SSO Manager responds on port 3001"
 
-echo "=== All integration tests passed! ==="
+# ── Theta-agent Go tests (host-side, no docker needed) ───────────────────────
-docker-compose down -v
+if command -v go >/dev/null 2>&1 && [[ -d theta-agent ]]; then
-exit 0
+  info "Running theta-agent Go tests..."
+  (cd theta-agent && go test ./... -count=1 2>&1)
+  ok "Theta-agent Go tests passed"
+else
+  warn "Skipping theta-agent Go tests (go not found or theta-agent dir missing)"
+fi
+
+ok "All integration tests complete!"