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+# MinerOps Coding Standards
+
+## Purpose
+
+This document defines the engineering conventions for MinerOps. Task specifications may add feature-specific requirements, but they should not weaken these standards without an explicit architectural decision.
+
+## Core Principles
+
+1. Prefer explicit domain operations over generic CRUD.
+2. Preserve operational history.
+3. Enforce critical invariants in PostgreSQL.
+4. Keep operations atomic.
+5. Separate network identity from durable asset identity.
+6. Use server-controlled timestamps and authenticated actor identities.
+7. Design for self-hosted deployment and safe recovery.
+8. Prefer clear, maintainable code over clever abstractions.
+9. Keep each implementation task focused and reviewable.
+10. Treat safety as more important than convenience for actions affecting miners.
+
+## Layered Architecture
+
+```text
+Router
+  -> Service
+    -> Repository
+      -> PostgreSQL
+```
+
+### Router
+
+Routers may define HTTP routes, validate requests, enforce authentication and permissions, and serialize responses.
+
+Routers must not contain SQL, manage transactions, implement domain decisions, import database drivers directly, or bypass the service layer.
+
+### Service
+
+Services implement domain workflows, coordinate repositories, enforce domain rules, and raise domain exceptions.
+
+Services must not import FastAPI, raise HTTP-specific exceptions, contain raw SQL, or trust actor identity supplied in request bodies.
+
+### Repository
+
+Repositories own database queries, row locking, persistence details, and PostgreSQL-specific integrity behavior.
+
+Repositories must not import FastAPI, make permission decisions, define HTTP behavior, or commit independently inside a larger service transaction.
+
+## Domain Operations
+
+Use explicit operations such as:
+
+```http
+POST /api/repairs
+POST /api/repairs/{repair_id}/complete
+POST /api/miners/{miner_id}/move
+POST /api/miners/{miner_id}/replace-control-board
+```
+
+Only `POST /api/repairs` is implemented by the modular Repairs domain today.
+The other routes are illustrative names for possible future explicit workflows,
+not existing API contracts.
+
+Avoid broad mutable CRUD endpoints when the request represents a meaningful operational event.
+
+## Transactions and Concurrency
+
+Any workflow that changes multiple authoritative records must execute atomically.
+
+Use row locks and database constraints when concurrent requests could violate an invariant. Do not rely only on pre-insert application checks when PostgreSQL can enforce the rule.
+
+## Database Integrity
+
+Use constraints for uniqueness, valid state combinations, referential integrity, one-active-record rules, event-sequence integrity, and actor/timestamp requirements.
+
+Operational history should generally use `RESTRICT` rather than disappearing through cascades.
+
+Every migration must support upgrade, safe downgrade or explicit refusal, previous-head testing, re-upgrade, and empty-database-through-head validation. A downgrade must never invent historical values.
+
+## Identity
+
+A miner's durable identity must not depend on its current IP address, MAC address, control board, hostname, or location.
+
+Network identifiers are observations or replaceable hardware attributes and must retain history.
+
+Actor identity must come from the authenticated principal, never an authoritative request-body field.
+
+## Time
+
+Use timezone-aware timestamps. Authoritative operational timestamps are server- or database-controlled. Never use timestamp order as a substitute for an explicit event sequence.
+
+## Immutable Operational History
+
+Timeline and audit events are append-only. Once written, an event is never edited, deleted, reordered, or silently replaced. Corrections are new events.
+
+Sequenced domain timeline events should include an event UUID, parent UUID,
+sequence, event type, actor UUID, timestamp, and structured JSON payload.
+
+## API Design
+
+- Use UUID types for UUID fields.
+- Use constrained domain values.
+- Use 404 for missing resources, 409 for state conflicts, 422 for invalid input, and established project behavior for 401 and 403.
+- Do not expose internal fields without a product requirement.
+- Keep routes focused.
+- Protect existing static routes when introducing parameter routes.
+
+## Permissions
+
+Permissions describe capabilities, not roles. Implemented examples include
+`repairs.read` and `repairs.create`. Names such as `repairs.complete` and
+`miners.move` illustrate possible future capabilities and are not currently
+registered permissions.
+
+Every protected route requires unauthenticated, unauthorized, and authorized-role tests. Read-only roles may view history but may not perform actions.
+
+## Testing and Validation
+
+Feature work should cover happy paths, validation, permissions, missing records, conflicts, rollback, concurrency where relevant, constraints, migrations, route compatibility, and architecture boundaries.
+
+Unless a task says otherwise, run:
+
+- Python compilation
+- shell syntax validation
+- focused tests
+- relevant regression suites
+- migration upgrade, downgrade, re-upgrade, and empty database
+- disposable development baseline
+- router SQL/driver/transaction audit
+- service/repository FastAPI audit
+- route-count audit
+- `git diff --check`
+
+## Security
+
+Never commit credentials, tokens, environment files, dumps, private configuration, caches, or local database data. Do not log secrets. Apply least privilege and preserve audit history for sensitive actions.
+
+## Documentation
+
+Every implementation task should have a version-controlled specification under `docs/tasks/`. Update roadmaps only after validation passes. Add an ADR only for a genuinely new architectural principle.
+
+## Review Checklist
+
+Before approval, confirm scope, transaction boundaries, database invariants, actor attribution, timestamps, immutable history, permissions, migrations, regressions, route behavior, performance risks, and the reviewed file set.
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+# Contributing to MinerOps
+
+## Workflow
+
+```text
+Product decision
+  -> Task specification
+    -> Implementation
+      -> Architecture review
+        -> Focused review and fixes
+          -> Commit
+            -> Push
+```
+
+Substantial work should begin from an approved specification in `docs/tasks/`.
+
+## Before Starting
+
+1. Confirm repository, branch, working tree, and expected latest commit.
+2. Read the architecture, product, decisions, coding standards, task
+   specification, and relevant release planning document when one exists.
+3. Confirm the current Alembic head.
+4. Report material conflicts before deviating.
+
+## Scope
+
+Each task should implement one coherent feature. Adjacent ideas belong in later tasks rather than being bundled into the current change.
+
+## Branches and Commits
+
+Do not force-push, rebase shared branches, amend approved commits, or mix unrelated work without explicit approval.
+
+Use concise conventional commit messages, for example:
+
+```text
+feat: add begin repair workflow
+feat: add repair timeline read APIs
+fix: restore lifecycle during repair downgrade
+docs: add MinerOps coding standards
+```
+
+Commit only after implementation, validation, review, and file-set confirmation.
+
+## Completion Report
+
+Report files created and modified, migrations, routes, permissions, domain behavior, test counts, validation results, risks, and final `git status --short`.
+
+## Architecture
+
+Follow `docs/CODING_STANDARDS.md` and preserve:
+
+```text
+Router -> Service -> Repository -> PostgreSQL
+```
+
+Use explicit operational APIs and immutable history.
+
+## Migrations
+
+Validate previous head to new head, downgrade, re-upgrade, empty database through head, constraints, indexes, permission assignments, and transactional failure behavior.
+
+## Review
+
+Review for scope creep, hidden CRUD, incorrect transactions, application-only invariants, unsafe downgrades, route shadowing, permission regressions, loss of history, N+1 queries, concurrency gaps, and accidental sensitive files.
+
+## AI-Assisted Work
+
+AI tools must inspect the repository, follow the task, preserve conventions, report conflicts, run validation, avoid commits and pushes unless instructed, and provide a complete report. Human approval is still required.
diff --git a/docs/releases/v0.2-repair-workflow.md b/docs/releases/v0.2-repair-workflow.md
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+# MinerOps v0.2: Repair Workflow
+
+## Status
+
+Planning document. The version label and remaining scope are provisional and do
+not override the current version summary in `README.md` or phase ordering in
+`docs/ROADMAP.md`.
+
+## Goal
+
+Deliver a complete, auditable repair lifecycle based on durable miner identity
+and immutable history.
+
+## Completed
+
+- [x] Begin Repair (`POST /api/repairs`)
+- [x] Repair detail and timeline read APIs
+
+## Planned
+
+- [ ] Return to Service
+- [ ] Control Board Replacement
+- [ ] Repair Parts Tracking
+
+These planned items refer to explicit workflows in the modular Repairs domain.
+Existing legacy repair, maintenance, location, and parts-summary behavior does
+not make these workflows complete.
+
+## Definition of Done
+
+- all planned tasks are implemented
+- repair actions are atomic
+- history is immutable
+- actor and timestamps are authoritative
+- critical invariants are enforced in PostgreSQL
+- migration lifecycle tests pass
+- repair and inventory regressions pass
+- no generic repair CRUD is introduced
+- operator behavior is documented
+- the release candidate is built from a clean, reproducible repository state
+
+## Candidate Task Order
+
+1. `003-return-to-service.md`
+2. `004-control-board-replacement.md`
+3. `005-repair-parts-tracking.md`
+
+These are proposed future files under `docs/tasks/`. They do not exist yet and
+must not be treated as approved specifications until they are created and
+reviewed.
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+# MinerOps v0.3: Operations
+
+## Status
+
+Planning document. The version label and candidate scope are provisional and do
+not override the current version summary in `README.md` or phase ordering in
+`docs/ROADMAP.md`.
+
+## Goal
+
+Add safe operational control for individual miners and groups while preserving
+guardrails and auditability.
+
+## Candidate Scope
+
+- [ ] Miner move workflow
+- [ ] Maintenance mode
+- [ ] Bulk tagging and location updates
+- [ ] Safe reboot and shutdown
+- [ ] Scheduled actions
+- [ ] Staggering and cooldown controls
+- [ ] Action history
+- [ ] Partial-failure reporting
+- [ ] Role-based action permissions
+
+This scope spans the roadmap's Operations and Fleet Control phases. Inventory,
+identity, maintenance context, and monitoring dependencies remain governed by
+`docs/ROADMAP.md`.
+
+The repository already contains early-stage legacy movement, command,
+scheduling, and action-status behavior. Unchecked items mean the modular,
+permissioned, fully validated product workflow remains planned; they do not
+claim that no related code exists.
+
+## Definition of Done
+
+Actions are explicit, permissioned, audited, safety-limited, recoverable, and
+tested for authorization, concurrency, retries, and partial failure.
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+# MinerOps v0.4: Monitoring
+
+## Status
+
+Planning document. The version label and candidate scope are provisional and do
+not override the current version summary in `README.md` or phase ordering in
+`docs/ROADMAP.md`.
+
+## Goal
+
+Provide reliable current-state and historical visibility across the fleet.
+
+## Candidate Scope
+
+- [ ] Configurable discovery
+- [ ] MAC-based asset reconciliation
+- [ ] Miner status and telemetry
+- [ ] Historical retention
+- [ ] Fleet dashboard
+- [ ] Room, rack, model, and electrical summaries
+- [ ] Alert generation and lifecycle
+- [ ] Notification integrations
+
+Discovery and network reconciliation depend on the roadmap's Inventory &
+Identity phase, while electrical summaries depend on Infrastructure. Their
+presence here does not change those dependencies.
+
+The repository already contains early-stage discovery, telemetry, retention,
+dashboard, and infrastructure-summary foundations. Unchecked items describe
+work needed for a coherent, supported monitoring product rather than an absence
+of related implementation.
+
+## Definition of Done
+
+Observations remain distinct from authoritative inventory, stale data is
+explicit, discovery does not blindly create assets, retention is documented,
+alerts are auditable, and monitoring failures cannot corrupt inventory or
+repair history.
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+# MinerOps v1.0
+
+## Status
+
+Planning document. The version label is provisional. This file describes release criteria, not current
+capabilities or a delivery commitment. It does not override the current version
+summary in `README.md` or phase ordering and completion status in
+`docs/ROADMAP.md`.
+
+## Goal
+
+Deliver a production-ready, self-hosted operating platform for cryptocurrency
+mining operations.
+
+## Release Themes
+
+- durable inventory and identity
+- complete repair workflow
+- safe operational controls
+- monitoring and alerting
+- work orders and maintenance
+- spare parts and component history
+- electrical mapping
+- backup, restore, and migration
+- security, roles, and auditability
+- documented deployment and upgrades
+
+## Production Readiness
+
+v1.0 requires tested backup and restore, safe migrations, health checks,
+reproducible deployment, encrypted credential handling, HTTPS guidance,
+database-backed integrity, documented regression coverage for critical
+workflows, performance testing at representative fleet size, release notes, and
+documented limitations.
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+# Task NNN: Feature Name
+
+## Objective
+
+Describe the operational outcome.
+
+## Background
+
+Summarize relevant current behavior and dependencies.
+
+## Scope
+
+List exactly what is included.
+
+## API
+
+Define every route, request, response, permission, and status code.
+
+## Permissions
+
+Define capabilities and role assignments.
+
+## Domain Rules
+
+List invariants and lifecycle rules.
+
+## Architecture
+
+Preserve:
+
+```text
+Router -> Service -> Repository -> PostgreSQL
+```
+
+## Database and Migration
+
+Define schema changes, constraints, indexes, migration order, and downgrade behavior.
+
+## Events and History
+
+Define immutable events, sequence, actor, timestamp, and structured payload.
+
+## Models and Validation
+
+Define UUID, time, enum, normalization, length, and JSON requirements.
+
+## Repository Requirements
+
+Define focused query and locking behavior. Avoid N+1 queries and generic CRUD.
+
+## Service Requirements
+
+Define validation, workflow, transaction boundaries, and domain exceptions.
+
+## Router Requirements
+
+Define dependencies, exception mapping, and route-count constraints.
+
+## Error Behaviour
+
+Define 401, 403, 404, 409, 422, and any additional statuses.
+
+## Concurrency and Atomicity
+
+Describe races and database enforcement.
+
+## Tests
+
+Cover authorization, domain behavior, rollback, constraints, migrations, regressions, routing, and architecture audits.
+
+## Validation
+
+Run compilation, shell validation, focused and regression tests, migration lifecycle tests, disposable baseline, architecture audits, route audit, and `git diff --check`.
+
+## Documentation
+
+List required roadmap, release, API, or operator documentation.
+
+## Explicitly Out of Scope
+
+List adjacent features that must not be added.
+
+## Completion Report
+
+Report files, migration, routes, permissions, tests, validation, limitations, and final `git status --short`.
+
+Do not commit.
+Do not push.