docs: plan HTTPS peers and source install

docs/README.md

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ disagree, update both in the same change or mark the discrepancy explicitly.
 | [private-workers.md](private-workers.md) | Customer worker isolation, credentials, onboarding | Partial |
 | [network-diagnostics.md](network-diagnostics.md) | Confirmation checks and dedicated diagnostic tasks | Partial |
 | [critical-check-cluster.md](critical-check-cluster.md) | Raft-backed dispatchless critical checks | Scaffold only |
+| [public-endpoint-and-identity.md](public-endpoint-and-identity.md) | One HTTPS origin, peer status, CA/mTLS, managed Raft topology | Planned; peer HTTPS partial |
+| [source-installation.md](source-installation.md) | Go SSH source installer and Docker/OpenSSH test matrix | Planned |
 | [implementation-roadmap.md](implementation-roadmap.md) | Ordered repository work packages and release gates | Active |
 | [source-plan-migration.md](source-plan-migration.md) | Source-to-target conversion ledger and resolved conflicts | Complete mapping |
 
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ This repository owns:
 - check and notification execution;
 - local web console, local state, inventory collection, and host metrics;
 - worker-to-worker transport and Raft state;
-- Docker, Compose, systemd, and release-image packaging.
+- Docker, Compose, systemd, source installation, and release-image packaging.
 
 The RSMon control-plane repository owns:
 

docs/architecture.md

@@ -78,8 +78,10 @@ provided by a validated control-plane task.
   Raft, and closes SQLite without exceeding the service stop timeout.
 - A web-console failure is reported and causes an intentional process policy;
   it must not silently leave a partially healthy process.
-- Startup rejects malformed `WORKER_URL`, incomplete auth credentials, invalid
+- Startup currently rejects malformed `WORKER_URL`; the accepted target is
-  cluster settings, and unwritable data directories before accepting work.
+  `PUBLIC_URL` with bounded compatibility migration. Startup also rejects
+  incomplete auth credentials, invalid cluster settings, and unwritable data
+  directories before accepting work.
 - `GET /healthz` reports process-local liveness. Control-plane reachability is
   a separate readiness/selfcheck signal and must not make a healthy container
   fail its local liveness probe.

docs/control-plane-protocol.md

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ GET /worker?token=<RSMON_TOKEN>
 `/api/worker` and the HTTP jobs/results APIs remain compatibility paths. New
 workers use WebSocket task envelopes.
 
+Public endpoint and cluster identity requirements are defined in
+[public-endpoint-and-identity.md](public-endpoint-and-identity.md).
+
 ## Frame Model
 
 Every frame is a `wire.WorkerMessage` with `kind` and one active content
@@ -43,14 +46,20 @@ without execution or reporting.
 
 ## Initialization And Refresh
 
-`wire.WorkerInit` supplies runtime values owned by the control plane:
+The worker proposes `PUBLIC_URL` during registration. The control plane
+validates and canonicalizes it; `wire.WorkerInit` returns the accepted endpoint
+and supplies runtime values owned by the control plane:
 
 - worker ID, region, advertised URL, capabilities, and concurrency;
 - allowed notification methods and account IDs;
 - optional linked server ID for host metrics;
 - LLM endpoints;
 - scoped notification credentials and system contacts;
-- peer workers for selfcheck/cluster-adjacent behavior.
+- signed, cluster-scoped peer topology for selfcheck and Raft behavior.
+
+Worker ID, account, region, cluster, membership, role, topology generation, and
+certificate identity are control-plane authority. Local environment or a peer
+response cannot override them. Static peer environment remains lab-only.
 
 The worker clamps supplied concurrency to its local maximum. Credentials are
 replaced atomically in memory on refresh. Removed credentials must become

docs/critical-check-cluster.md

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ witness. It is never a Raft voter.
 
 ## Topology
 
-- Production clusters have 3 or 5 voters, never an even count.
+- Initial production clusters require exactly 3 voters. A future measured
+  five-voter profile may be introduced separately; never use an even count.
 - Voters remain within a bounded-latency topology. Remote regions use observer
   nodes unless measured RTT supports the configured election timeout.
 - Nodes may be `voter`, `observer`, or `voter+observer`.
@@ -44,6 +45,12 @@ Single-voter bootstrap is temporary. The cluster must not execute customer
 critical checks until at least three voters are healthy and the signed
 observer set is committed.
 
+Membership and mTLS identity are assigned by the control plane as defined in
+[public-endpoint-and-identity.md](public-endpoint-and-identity.md). Production
+Raft traffic uses `/raft` on each worker's external HTTPS origin through an
+HTTP/1.1 upgrade-capable reverse proxy. Static peers and shared Basic auth are
+lab compatibility only.
+
 ## Raft State
 
 The FSM contains only:
@@ -167,14 +174,16 @@ but cannot commit or fabricate incidents.
 
 1. [x] Remove production exposure of debug config application.
 2. [ ] Complete versioned FSM types, command validation, and deterministic tests.
-3. [ ] Add mTLS identity and safe one-claim cluster bootstrap.
+3. [ ] Adapt the rbackup CA pattern into short-lived SAN-bound mTLS identity,
+   rotation/revocation, and safe one-claim cluster bootstrap.
 4. [ ] Add signed config and observer-set adoption.
 5. [ ] Add deterministic scheduler and checkexec bridge in shadow mode.
 6. [ ] Implement observation aggregation, incident policy, and idempotency.
 7. [ ] Implement encrypted snapshots and restore/migration tests.
 8. [ ] Add metadata outbox executor and failover-safe delivery.
 9. [ ] Add external witness, replay, metrics, and operational runbooks.
-10. [ ] Run synthetic 3/5-node fault campaigns before any customer check.
+10. [ ] Run synthetic three-node HTTPS-proxy fault campaigns before any
+    customer check; define a separate five-node profile before testing it.
 
 ## Release Gates
 

docs/implementation-roadmap.md

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Worker repository:
 - verify amd64 and arm64 image startup, Chromium availability, and version
   metadata;
 - add a package/install smoke test for Docker and systemd artifacts;
+- add the Docker/OpenSSH source-install matrix for Alpine, Ubuntu, and Arch from
+  [source-installation.md](source-installation.md), using Go 1.26 and branch
+  `main`;
 - document immutable SHA and release tags as production defaults.
 
 Gate: a push publishes `sha-<12>` and `latest` manifests for both platforms,
@@ -27,7 +30,8 @@ Worker repository:
 
 - wire local inventory and metrics collector lifecycle into web server start
   and shutdown;
-- validate full HTTP config, including `WORKER_URL`, in main startup;
+- validate full HTTP config, including the accepted `PUBLIC_URL`, in main
+  startup;
 - [x] reconnect in memory on token rotation without stopping the runner;
 - [x] resend bounded check/notification results after websocket reconnect;
 - define process policy when the web listener exits unexpectedly;
@@ -70,7 +74,8 @@ Worker repository:
 - token handoff and revocation handling;
 - stale/expired signed-config behavior;
 - clear disabled/revoked UI state;
-- optional mTLS client identity.
+- mandatory production mTLS client identity and control-plane-owned topology as
+  defined in [public-endpoint-and-identity.md](public-endpoint-and-identity.md).
 
 Control-plane dependency:
 
@@ -139,13 +144,13 @@ State: Raft scaffold only.
 
 Worker repository:
 
-- secure bootstrap and mTLS identity;
+- secure bootstrap, CA lifecycle, mTLS identity, and one-origin HTTPS transport;
 - signed config adoption and observer-set versioning;
 - deterministic scheduler and check executor bridge;
 - deterministic incident/quorum FSM;
 - encrypted snapshots and restore;
 - metadata outbox, witness, replay, and metrics;
-- 3/5-node fault campaigns.
+- three-node external-HTTPS fault campaigns.
 
 Control-plane dependency:
 

docs/install.md

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ Docker image) into a running, enabled systemd service on a Linux host. It is
 the supported way to deploy the worker: it writes the configuration, the
 systemd unit, and the data directory, then starts the service.
 
-> A shell installer that downloads a pre-built binary is planned. Today
+> A Go SSH source installer is planned in
+> [source-installation.md](source-installation.md). Today
 > `install` copies the binary you invoke it from (or pulls the `--image`
 > digest), so build first with `make build` and run the resulting
 > `./bin/rsmon-worker`.
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ values automatically. To override a value, pass the matching flag.
 | `RSMON_TOKEN` | yes | none | Worker bearer token. |
 | `WORKER_HOST` | no | `127.0.0.1` | Operator-console bind address. |
 | `WORKER_PORT` | no | `27401` (primary) | Operator-console port. **Required** for named instances. |
-| `WORKER_URL` | no | none | Public URL advertised to the control plane. |
+| `PUBLIC_URL` | no | none | Proposed public HTTPS origin; accepted by the control plane. |
 | `WORKER_LOGIN` | no | `admin` (generated) | Operator-console basic-auth login. |
 | `WORKER_PASSWORD` | no | generated | Operator-console basic-auth password. |
 | `WORKER_COMPOSE_ENABLED` | no | feature default (on) | Enable Docker Compose discovery/management. |
@@ -66,6 +67,11 @@ writes it to the env file, and prints it once. Record it; the operator console
 requires it for both the browser login and the `/web/api/*` HTTP basic-auth
 endpoints.
 
+`PUBLIC_URL` does not bind a listener or terminate TLS. It advertises the one
+external origin used for the console, authenticated peer status, and planned
+Raft `/raft` transport. See
+[public-endpoint-and-identity.md](public-endpoint-and-identity.md).
+
 Values must be systemd-safe: no whitespace, quotes, backslashes, or `$`
 interpolation inside a value. This keeps the file unambiguous across systemd
 `EnvironmentFile` and `docker --env-file`.

docs/inventory.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ plane validates identity, applies account scope, reconciles lifecycle, and
 persists the inventory projection.
 
 The control-plane inventory entities remain `Server`, `ServerIp`, `Site`,
-`Deployment`, `Domain`, `Repo`, and `site_repos`. Their API and rstuff stream
+`Deployment`, `Domain`, `Repo`, and `site_repos`. Their API and legacy stream
 projection are control-plane concerns. This repository owns only local
 discovery and worker-originated reports.
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ successful section can mark previously observed entities missing.
 - Do not guess a primary address; report interface and route metadata so the
   control plane can apply policy.
 
-## Relationship To deploymentd And rstuff
+## Relationship To deploymentd And RSLogin
 
 Worker reports and deploymentd ingest are complementary producers of the same
 control-plane projection. During migration:
@@ -140,8 +140,9 @@ control-plane projection. During migration:
 - every row records source and source report ID;
 - reconciliation occurs per source and section to prevent one producer from
   deleting another producer's observations;
-- the rstuff `rsmon.inventory.v1` stream remains a control-plane output/input,
+- the former rstuff stream direction is superseded; RSMon owns inventory and
-  not a worker protocol.
+  RSLogin supplies trusted project and SSH-access input through a separate
+  control-plane integration, never a worker protocol.
 
 ## Delivery Phases
 

docs/public-endpoint-and-identity.md

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+# Public Endpoint, Peer Identity, And Raft Transport
+
+## Status
+
+Accepted target architecture. Ordinary peer status checks already support an
+external HTTPS worker URL. Raft currently uses a separate plaintext listener,
+static peers, and shared Basic authentication; it does not yet meet this plan.
+
+## One Worker, One Public URL
+
+Every worker configures one absolute `PUBLIC_URL`, for example:
+
+```text
+https://worker-1.example.net
+```
+
+The worker proposes this URL during registration/configuration. The control
+plane validates and canonicalizes it, persists the accepted value, and returns
+it in signed init/config. The URL has scheme and authority only: no userinfo,
+query, fragment, or ambiguous path. Public production URLs use HTTPS.
+
+The control plane owns worker ID, account, region, cluster ID, membership,
+voter/observer role, peer generation, and topology. A worker cannot gain trust
+or Raft membership by advertising an endpoint.
+
+## Routes On The Origin
+
+- `/healthz`: process liveness;
+- `/api/peer/status`: authenticated peer/control-plane reachability and Raft
+  summary;
+- `/raft`: Hashicorp Raft HTTP/1.1 upgrade transport and membership requests;
+- `/web/*` and `/web/api/*`: operator console.
+
+TLS termination belongs to Traefik or nginx. The worker may keep internal HTTP
+listeners on loopback/private addresses. `PUBLIC_URL` is advertisement, not a
+request to bind the worker process or provision a public certificate.
+
+For `/raft`, proxies must preserve path, query, Host, authorization/client
+identity, `Connection`, and `Upgrade`; use HTTP/1.1, disable response buffering,
+and allow long-lived upgraded connections. nginx requires explicit upgrade
+headers. Tests must exercise this proxy path rather than only direct TCP.
+
+## In-Memory Peer Database
+
+Signed control-plane config supplies a monotonic topology generation and peers
+scoped to one cluster/trust boundary. Each entry includes worker ID,
+`PUBLIC_URL`, role, region, certificate identity, membership state, and expiry.
+
+The worker replaces its in-memory peer database atomically when a newer valid
+generation arrives. Removed or expired peers stop contributing immediately.
+Periodic concurrent HTTP checks call each peer's `/api/peer/status`, validate
+the TLS/client identity and response worker ID, and retain bounded observations.
+Reachability never grants membership.
+
+The response distinguishes process health, control-plane ping duration/result,
+observation time, Raft role/term/leader, applied/commit indexes, and transport
+errors. The worker console presents the same bounded per-peer state.
+
+## Bind And Advertise Separation
+
+Raft requires separate local bind and advertised addresses. The local listener
+may be `127.0.0.1:37401`; the advertised endpoint derives from
+`PUBLIC_URL + /raft`. Hashicorp Raft membership stores the advertised address,
+never the loopback bind.
+
+Outbound Raft transport performs TLS using the public hostname and worker
+certificate. The current `rafthttp.NewDialTCP` and shared Basic-auth injection
+must be replaced. Static `WORKER_CLUSTER_PEERS` remains a local lab fallback,
+not production discovery.
+
+## Certificate Authority
+
+Adapt the proven CA shape from `/data/_backup/rbackup-server`, particularly its
+explicit CA pool, required client-certificate verification, and certificate-to-
+database identity lookup. Do not copy its tracked keys, ten-year certificates,
+CN-only identity, inactive CRL, or server-generated private-key delivery.
+
+The control plane owns a worker-cluster CA separate from public web
+certificates. Requirements:
+
+- worker-generated key and CSR;
+- worker and cluster identity in a verified URI SAN;
+- short-lived leaf certificates with automatic renewal;
+- encrypted CA private key and documented backup/custody;
+- issuance and revocation audit;
+- emergency revocation plus short expiry as the normal revocation bound;
+- rejection of expired, revoked, wrong-cluster, or SAN-mismatched peers.
+
+One-time enrollment tokens authorize a CSR exactly once. They do not become
+ongoing peer credentials. Browser traffic does not require a client certificate;
+the reverse proxy applies mTLS policy to peer/Raft routes or forwards a verified
+client identity through a tightly controlled internal boundary.
+
+## Production Membership
+
+Production critical-check clusters require exactly three voters initially.
+Single-node bootstrap and two-node clusters are lab/bootstrap states and cannot
+execute customer critical checks. Membership changes are leader-mediated and
+control-plane-authorized. The control plane is an external witness, never a
+voter.
+
+## Implementation Order
+
+1. Add `PUBLIC_URL` wire/config fields while accepting legacy `WORKER_URL` only
+   for a bounded migration.
+2. Validate ownership/reachability and return accepted signed configuration.
+3. Add scoped, versioned in-memory peer topology and concurrent health probes.
+4. Extend status APIs/UI with networking, control-plane RTT, and Raft state.
+5. Implement CA storage, CSR enrollment, renewal, revocation, and audit.
+6. Split Raft bind/advertise addresses and add outbound TLS dialing.
+7. Route `/raft` through the shared public origin and reverse-proxy contract.
+8. Replace static production peers with control-plane-managed membership.
+9. Run a three-voter TLS-proxy failover/partition campaign.
+
+## Release Gates
+
+- A peer cannot impersonate another worker or join another cluster.
+- An invalid/replayed enrollment token issues no certificate.
+- Revoked, expired, or SAN-mismatched certificates fail before Raft handling.
+- Three workers join through external HTTPS origins and elect one leader.
+- Killing one voter preserves quorum and commits through the proxy path.
+- The UI reports each peer, transport state, control-plane RTT, role, term,
+  leader, and replication lag without exposing credentials.

docs/source-installation.md

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+# SSH Source Installation Plan
+
+## Status
+
+Planned. The current Go installer can upload a binary or deploy an immutable
+Docker image over SSH. It does not yet install build prerequisites, download Go,
+clone the public repository, or build remotely. Existing tests are unit tests;
+there is no live OpenSSH-container installation test.
+
+## Initial Platform Scope
+
+The first source installer supports Linux and is validated on Alpine, Ubuntu,
+and Arch Linux containers. CentOS-family support follows after its package and
+service differences are implemented. Windows and macOS remain later platform
+work despite the worker being written in Go.
+
+Use `reg.rsxx.ru` image mirrors where available. Tests must not depend on Docker
+Hub when a local mirror exists.
+
+## Source Install Flow
+
+The Go CLI connects through `golang.org/x/crypto/ssh` using existing key,
+passphrase, password, sudo-password, known-hosts, and pinned-fingerprint support.
+It then:
+
+1. detects supported OS, architecture, package manager, init system, and
+   privilege path;
+2. installs only required packages (`git`, CA certificates, download/archive
+   tools); it does not install `build-essential` or a C compiler unless a
+   detected dependency requires CGO;
+3. downloads the pinned Go 1.26 toolchain for the detected architecture and
+   verifies the published SHA-256;
+4. clones `https://rocketgit.ru/rsmon/worker.git` or updates an existing clone;
+5. checks out branch `main` and records the resolved commit;
+6. builds a reproducible worker binary with the repository build flags;
+7. atomically installs the binary, validated environment, data directory, and
+   service definition;
+8. starts the service and verifies process status and `/healthz`.
+
+Repository, branch, Go version, checksum source, build directory, and Go module
+proxy may be configurable, but production output records their resolved values.
+The default repository is publicly readable and requires no source credential.
+
+## Docker OpenSSH Test Harness
+
+Adapt the real-network pattern from `/data/_swap/sshkeymanager`: start an
+OpenSSH container, wait for SSH readiness, connect with the Go installer, and
+tear the environment down reliably. Do not mock SSH command execution in the
+acceptance test.
+
+Provide images/fixtures for:
+
+- Ubuntu with apt and systemd-compatible service testing where practical;
+- Alpine with apk/OpenRC or a clearly separated no-service build/install gate;
+- Arch with pacman and its service behavior.
+
+Each clean target begins without Go or the worker source. The test asserts
+package installation, verified Go version, clone branch/resolved commit, build,
+atomic config permissions, running service where supported, and HTTP liveness.
+
+## Idempotency And Security
+
+- A second run updates/fetches safely and leaves one active service.
+- Wrong host fingerprints fail before remote mutation.
+- Tokens/passwords come from files or stdin-safe channels and never appear in
+  command arguments, logs, source checkout, or shell history.
+- Remote temporary files are removed on success and failure.
+- Failed builds do not replace a working binary or service definition.
+- Package-manager and download failures return bounded actionable errors.
+- The installer verifies Go tarball checksum before extraction.
+
+## Implementation Work Packages
+
+1. Add reusable Docker/OpenSSH harness and distro fixtures.
+2. Add pure distro/toolchain/source-install script planning and unit tests.
+3. Execute source installation through the existing SSH transport.
+4. Add atomic build/install, idempotency, and failure rollback.
+5. Add Alpine, Ubuntu, and Arch network E2E tests to CI.
+6. Add CentOS-family support.
+7. Plan native Windows service and macOS launchd installers separately.
+
+## Acceptance Gates
+
+- All three initial Linux images install from a clean state through OpenSSH.
+- The built worker reports the expected version/commit and serves `/healthz`.
+- Re-running the installer succeeds without duplicate services or leaked files.
+- Host-key, checksum, clone, build, and service-start failure tests preserve the
+  previous installation.
+- CI uses approved registry mirrors and cleans every test container/network.

docs/source-plan-migration.md

@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ Conversion date: 2026-07-13.
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | `docs/inventory-management.md` | `inventory.md` | Control-plane projection retained as dependency; worker owns collection only |
 | `docs/plans/inventory-management.md` | `inventory.md` | deploymentd and worker reports defined as source-aware complementary producers |
-| `docs/parity/rstuff-inventory.md` | `inventory.md` | rstuff enums/stream remain control-plane contracts, not worker protocol |
+| `docs/parity/rstuff-inventory.md` | `inventory.md` | Historical only; RSMon owns inventory and RSLogin supplies project/access input |
 | `docs/parity/deploymentd.md` | `inventory.md` | deploymentd parity becomes fixture normalization and comparison gate |
 | `docs/deploymentd-replay-rollout.md` | `inventory.md` | HTTP nonce rollout remains deploymentd-specific; worker uses authenticated typed reports |
-| `docs/integrations/rstuff-inventory-stream.md` | `inventory.md` | Valkey stream remains between control plane and rstuff, never worker transport |
+| `docs/integrations/rstuff-inventory-stream.md` | `inventory.md` | Superseded; no rstuff service is planned and Valkey is not the target inventory authority |
 | `docs/plans/servers-and-hardware-metrics.md` | `web-console-and-observability.md`, `inventory.md` | Implemented server metric report retained; local hardware extensions staged |
 | `docs/server-observability.md` | `web-console-and-observability.md`, `control-plane-protocol.md` | Current wire fields, ownership validation, and TSDB boundary retained |
 | `docs/parity/capture.md` | `web-console-and-observability.md`, `implementation-roadmap.md` | Worker-host coverage gaps converted into staged collector work |
@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ obsolete. Collector lifecycle remains a real implementation gap.
 ### Inventory
 
 deploymentd HTTP ingest is currently implemented on the control plane. Worker
-inventory is local/partial and has no upstream report yet. Future worker and
+inventory is local/partial and has no upstream report yet. RSMon is the target
-deploymentd reports are complementary source-scoped inputs; neither may erase
+inventory authority; RSLogin supplies trusted project and SSH-access input.
-the other's observations.
+Future worker and deploymentd reports are complementary source-scoped inputs;
+neither may erase the other's observations.
 
 ### Private Workers And Public Work
 

docs/web-console-and-observability.md

@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ absolute lifetime. State-changing browser requests require CSRF validation.
 Authenticated responses use no-store and restrictive security headers.
 
 OAuth/device authorization is not implemented. Public exposure requires a TLS
-reverse proxy and network restrictions. Do not claim that `WORKER_URL` enables
+reverse proxy and network restrictions. The accepted target name is
-TLS; it only advertises the externally reachable URL.
+`PUBLIC_URL`; `WORKER_URL` is current legacy configuration during migration.
+Neither setting enables TLS; it only advertises the externally reachable URL.
 
 ## Known Runtime Gap