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+# 2026.08.23.03 — deploy report
+
+**5 of 5 target hosts succeeded.** Two hosts skipped by design: `officer-dev` (the rollout ran from it)
+and `edge-pertento-bridge` (deliberately skipped in `docs/servers.md`, down by the owner's call — not
+attempted, nothing spent on it).
+
+Every host fast-forwarded to the tag `deploy/2026.08.23.03` (`c0788d15`) from `0a8fe1c2`. No host was
+dirty in tracked files. No `bun install` was run, per the plan. No direct SQL was run — none was
+authorised and none was needed.
+
+**Schema check, per host, by query — not by exit code.** `select name from roles order by name` returned
+the same four rows everywhere: `Admin, Developer, Member, Super Admin`. `bun db:push` also printed
+`[seed:roles] 4 seeded, 0 already present` on all five, so the `postdb:push` hook ran.
+
+## Per host
+
+| Host | HEAD before → after | db:push | `roles` query | plugins:update | restarted | back up |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `alpha` | `0a8fe1c2` → `c0788d15` | ✓ | 4 rows ✓ | 12/12 in 49s | `officer` 68→69, + 12 plugin sidecars | online |
+| `fofos` | `0a8fe1c2` → `c0788d15` | ✓ | 4 rows ✓ | 1/1 in 7s | `officer` 22→23, + `officer-gitea` | online |
+| `production-pertento-bridge` | `0a8fe1c2` → `c0788d15` | ✓ | 4 rows ✓ | 1/1 in 4s | `officer` 1→2, + `officer-gitea` | online |
+| `deadpool-rezio-bridge` (`br`) | `0a8fe1c2` → `c0788d15` | ✓ | 4 rows ✓ | 2/2 in 7s | `officer` 7→8, + `officer-email`, `officer-offscale` | online |
+| `macbookpro` | `0a8fe1c2` → `c0788d15` | ✓ | 4 rows ✓ | no plugins installed | `officer` 9→10 | online |
+| `officer-dev` | — | — | 4 rows ✓ (pre-existing) | — | **skipped: this rollout ran on it** | — |
+| `edge-pertento-bridge` | — | — | — | — | **skipped: down, per `docs/servers.md`** | — |
+
+A final `pm2 jlist` sweep across the five deployed hosts found **no process in any state other than
+`online`** — not just `officer`, every entry.
+
+## Notes, and what was not done
+
+- **`officer-dev` still needs its own restart.** It already holds `c0788d15` and the four rows, but
+  nothing on it was pulled or bounced: the deploy agent runs inside `officer-claude-code` there, and
+  restarting `officer` on it is the owner's deliberate last step.
+- **`fofos` carries one untracked file**, `scripts/chk.ts`. Noted, not touched — a fast-forward could
+  never have collided with it, so it is not a reason to skip a host.
+- **`plugins:update` restarts more than the plan's `pm2 restart officer`.** That is the script's own
+  behaviour and it is in the "restarted" column above rather than hidden: 12 sidecars bounced on `alpha`
+  before `officer` itself was touched.
+- **`macbookpro` was awake** and needed the documented PATH append (`/opt/homebrew/bin`) for `bun`, with
+  `pm2` run separately through `$SHELL -ic`. It has no plugins installed, so step 3 was a no-op there.
+- **Nothing was retried and nothing was repaired.** No step failed on any host.