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+# ADR 0285 — A shared box holds about twelve projects per GB, and memory is the wall
+
+- **Status:** accepted
+- **Date:** 2026-09-15
+- **Task:** [1003877](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003877) (goal 1000106), a spike. Informs [1003923](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003923) (the resize) and [1001949](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1001949) (managed billing).
+
+## Context
+
+Every live project is `hosting_shape='standalone'`: its own checkout and pinned core, one Node process on its own port and one Postgres database, all on the `s-1vcpu-2gb` control plane beside the control plane itself. Nothing recorded what one more project costs, so creation could not refuse, overflow or price honestly.
+
+The task asked for a throwaway droplet filled one instance at a time. The owner chose instead to **measure the live box read-only**: eleven real projects already give the data points, and nothing was changed to get them.
+
+## Measurement (2026-09-15, live control plane, read-only)
+
+Sources: `/proc/<pid>/smaps_rollup` (`Pss` + `SwapPss`, which avoids `ps` double-counting shared pages), each unit's cgroup `memory.peak`, `/proc/<pid>/stat` CPU ticks over a 60-second `vmstat 5 12` window, `pg_stat_activity` joined to backend PSS, sysstat history (`sa12`–`sa15`) and the kernel journal (retained since 2026-07-14). Box at the time: 1967 MiB RAM, 4 GiB swap, 11 project processes + the control plane, 1.09 GB available.
+
+**One project process:**
+
+| State | Resident (PSS) | Swapped | Total |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| fresh boot, 10 min old (test4) | 65 MB | 0 | 65 MB |
+| same, after 150 local requests | 70 MB | 0 | 70 MB |
+| idle for 33 h+ (ten projects) | 12–28 MB | 21–35 MB | **45–49 MB**, a tight band |
+| boot peak, cgroup `memory.peak` (includes page cache) | — | — | 118–134 MB |
+
+- **CPU:** 0.02–0.05% of one core per project, the same over the 60-second window and over each process's lifetime.
+- **Postgres:** **zero** backends per idle project (pg's pool releases an idle client after 10 s). A busy backend is 7–10 MB PSS.
+- **Disk:** a checkout is 77–140 MB, including an unshared 63 MB `node_modules`. An adopted repo with its own dependencies runs larger (hermeslines-marketing: 936 MB). A fresh database is 45 MB.
+
+**Fixed cost of the box, whatever the project count:** kernel unreclaimable memory ~98 MB (slab, page tables, stacks), OS daemons ~112 MB, Caddy 38 MB, Postgres 139 MB (`shared_buffers` 160 MB), and the control-plane process ~116 MB (boot peak 233 MB). That totals **~500 MB**, and we reserve **~250 MB of page cache** on top (an allowance, not a measurement) so module loads and Postgres reads stay off the disk. **~750 MB fixed**, or ~630 MB on a box that does not run the control plane.
+
+**History:** the box has never OOM-killed a project. The only OOM kill on record was Prometheus on 2026-09-04 (812 MB anon), since removed ([ADR 0284](0284-the-control-plane-carries-no-metrics-stack.md)). The worst pressure since then (2026-09-14 11:40: 279 MB available, commit 316%, load 6.82) came during operator ssh sessions while no fleet unit changed state. It was work on the box, not the fleet. The day-average 4–6% user CPU is the control plane's own 1–2-minute intent-runner and deploy timers, each a fresh Node start, and it does not grow with project count.
+
+## Decision
+
+### 1. The number: ~80 MB per project, about 12 projects per GB above the fixed base
+
+Price a project at its **warm** size, 70 MB for the process plus ~10 MB for one busy Postgres backend. **Swap is not capacity.** An idle project shrinks to ~25 MB resident only because the kernel swaps its cold pages out, which is why the box looks roomier than it is. A reboot (the resize in [1003923](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003923) needs one), a fleet core upgrade or a burst of traffic brings every project back to warm at once, on top of a ~130 MB boot peak each.
+
+### 2. The ceiling per tier: `floor((usable MiB − fixed) / 80)`
+
+| Tier | $/mo | Box role | Ceiling | $/project |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `s-1vcpu-2gb` (today) | 12 | control plane | **15** | 0.80 |
+| `s-2vcpu-4gb` | 24 | control plane | **39** | 0.62 |
+| `s-2vcpu-4gb` | 24 | overflow box, no control plane | **41** | 0.59 |
+| `s-4vcpu-8gb` | 48 | control plane | 90 by RAM, **only with a pool cap** (§3) | 0.53 |
+
+Today's box holds **11 of 15**. Resize (or open the next box) when it reaches **12**, which is 80% of the ceiling.
+
+### 3. Memory binds first; connections bind second
+
+- **RAM is the binding constraint** at every tier up to 4 GB.
+- **Postgres connections are the next wall.** `max_connections` is 100 (97 for non-superusers), and every instance pool uses pg's default of `max: 10` with no override ([`src/bongos/pool.js`](../../src/bongos/pool.js)). At idle this costs nothing, but nine projects busy at once can exhaust it, and at 8 GB it binds long before RAM does. Filed as [1003928](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003928): cap the provisioned instances' pool size.
+- **Walls that do not bind:**
+  - CPU: 0.03% per idle project.
+  - Ports: lowest-free from 3003 up to the 32768 ephemeral floor, about 29,700.
+  - systemd: three units per project; `TasksMax` is 2315 per unit.
+  - Disk: 26 GB free at ~200 MB per project with its database and dumps, room for ~130.
+  - The 04:00 backup cluster: all twelve timers fire in one window with a 5-minute random delay, adding ~4 points of user CPU for ten minutes. Ten of eleven instance backups currently fail on the size floor ([1003925](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003925)), so the per-dump cost is not yet observable, but a dump of a 45 MB database is small.
+
+### 4. The shapes: keep three, and add placement as its own question
+
+The measured cost is the same **unit** for `co-tenant` and `standalone`. What separates them is repository layout, not what they cost the box. So no new shape is needed. What the three shapes never answer is **which box**, and the rule is **standalone until the box reaches its ceiling, then the next box**. The box is the unit of spend, and this ceiling governs placement. Filed as [1003927](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003927): the runner refuses to place a control-plane-local project past the ceiling.
+
+`dedicated` stays behind `provisioning.fleet.manage` ([`paid-shape-gate.js`](../../modules/provisioning/paid-shape-gate.js)). It has never been provisioned, and it should not be offered to anyone paying nothing: at $6/mo minimum ($24 at the runner's default tier), one dedicated project costs **8–40× a shared slot**.
+
+`costEstimateUsd` prices a shared project at $0, a visibility choice ([ADR 0111](0111-instance-hosting-provisioning-module.md) §6). It can now become honest: a shared slot costs **box price ÷ ceiling**, $0.62–0.80/mo at today's tiers. That change belongs to the billing work ([1001949](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1001949)), not this ADR.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **A throwaway droplet filled one instance at a time** (the task's original method). Declined by the owner. The live box already carried eleven instances at two ages (33 h idle and 10 min fresh), which is the slope data a lab box would have produced, with none of the spend.
+- **Price by idle resident memory (~25 MB, about 40 per GB).** Rejected. It counts swap as capacity, and it breaks exactly when every project wakes at once: on reboot, on a fleet upgrade, or under traffic.
+- **Price by the boot peak (~130 MB).** Rejected. The peak includes reclaimable page cache and lasts seconds, so it would understate capacity by ~40%.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- **+** Provisioning has a number to act on (15 today, 39 after the resize), and the resize in [1003923](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003923) has a trigger: 12 projects.
+- **+** Billing has a unit cost for a shared slot.
+- **−** The page-cache reserve is an allowance, not a measurement. If a ceiling is ever approached, re-measure `MemAvailable` then instead of trusting the 250 MB.
+- **−** These are **idle-fleet** numbers. A project with real traffic or large data will sit above 80 MB, so the ceiling is an upper bound for quiet projects. Re-measure the same way (`Pss` + `SwapPss` per unit, `memory.peak`, `pg_stat_activity`) as projects gain users.

package/docs/adr/0286-a-gated-project-s-manifest-tells-a-stranger-how-to-sign-in-and-nothing-else.md

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+# ADR 0286 — A gated project's manifest tells a stranger how to sign in, and nothing else
+
+- **Status:** accepted
+- **Date:** 2026-09-15
+- **Task:** [1003652](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003652) (goal 1000106), from idea 1000845. Closes the item [ADR 0192](0192-platform-visibility-member-door.md) deferred as "projecting the manifest down when gated".
+
+## Context
+
+A gated project (`platformVisibility: 'gated'`, ADR 0192) refuses strangers on every surface except a short exempt list. `GET /api/*/instance` is on that list for two reasons. A stranger reads it to learn how to sign in, and the platform's runner reads it cookie-less after a settings restart to confirm the value was consumed (`provision-units.js` `settingsConsumed`), including the push that turns the gate on.
+
+The route still answered with the **full** manifest: every branding string (company, tagline, palette, rank labels), the module roster, the rank ladder, dev-box availability, and the repository's `owner/repo/branch/url`, even when the owner had made that repository private.
+
+## Decision
+
+The owner's call: **sign-in basics only.** When the project is gated **and** the caller has no live, non-deactivated session (cookie or Bearer, the same `resolveSession` lookup the member door uses), `routes/instance.js` answers with `strangerManifest()`:
+
+```
+{ schema, name, brand: { identity: { productName }, project }, auth, admission }
+```
+
+| Kept | Why |
+|---|---|
+| `schema` | `bongos login` refuses any other id, so the value stays `instance-manifest/v1`: the stranger shape is a subset, and every kept field means what it means in the full manifest |
+| `name`, `brand.identity.productName` | the door and the CLI name the project |
+| `auth` including `idp` | the CLI routes device-flow and web sign-in through the hub from `auth.idp` |
+| `admission` | `bongos login` tells an applicant invite-only from open |
+| `brand.project` | the runner's settings read-back; the hub's `projects.html` (`platformVisibility`); `platform-identity/visibility-pull.js` (`visibility`); `bongos login` (`joinability`) |
+
+- **Members** get the full manifest.
+- **A session lookup that fails** gets the stranger answer rather than a 500. The manifest is how the door gets opened, and an unknown identity must not see a member's answer.
+- **Every gated response** is sent with `Cache-Control: private, no-store` and `Vary: Cookie, Authorization`: one URL, two answers by identity. The route is exempt from the gate, so the gate's own `markPrivate` never runs on it.
+- **Ungated projects** are unchanged.
+
+## Alternatives considered
+
+- **Gate the manifest like every other surface.** Rejected: the door could not be opened, and the runner could not confirm the push that gates the project.
+- **A separate `/instance/sign-in` endpoint.** Rejected: two routes to keep in agreement, and every shipped CLI already reads `/instance`.
+- **Project down for everyone, gated or not.** Rejected: an ungated project is public by the owner's choice, and the CLI's `devBox` and module checks read the full shape.
+
+## Consequences
+
+- **+** A stranger to a gated project no longer learns what it runs, how its ranks are named, what it looks like, or where its code lives.
+- **−** `cli-lib.js` `devBoxEnabledInManifest` fails open (assumes a box exists) when `modules` is missing. That only happens on a session-less fetch; the CLI sends its bearer, so a signed-in member reads the real roster.
+- **−** A gated project's manifest can no longer be cached at an edge. It is one small JSON read per sign-in.

package/docs/adr/README.md

@@ -376,3 +376,5 @@ This keeps the decision history honest and traceable.
 | 0282 | [**A module that spends money for its callers DECLARES so, and the core refuses to enable it where anyone can sign up and nobody is on the hook** ([task 1003884](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003884), owner decision 2026-09-13). A fire from `modules/agents` costs ~$0.90, `POST /agents/:name/invoke` answers **202** so the caller does not even wait, and the route is gated at `requireBuilder` and nothing else — deliberately, because a v1 agent is hard-read-only by plumbing. That bounds CAPABILITY, not SPEND, and `lib/fire-budget.js` says so in its own header: it is a blast radius, explicitly NOT a budget, and it defers the real cap to `agents_runs.cost_usd`. The cap did not exist. The exposure is three reasonable facts composed: a fire is expensive and async; invoke admits any **any-builder**; and with the join door `open`, any GitHub account IS one seconds after sign-up. **Decision: the MODULE declares `"spend": { "requiresPayer": true }` and the CORE refuses to enable it when the composed join door (ADR 0247 — the door, never the `joinability` knob alone) is `open` with no configured payer.** The declaration lives in the manifest because fitness Check 10 forbids the kernel from naming a discovered module key — a constraint that turns out to be the better design, since the next metered module inherits the guard by declaring one line rather than by someone remembering to widen a list. The refusal is at **config load**, so the routes never mount and the migrations never run: a per-request check would let the module mount, advertise its routes and read as enabled everywhere the UI looks, then refuse callers one at a time — a broken feature, not a closed door. It is applied AFTER config, env and default alike, because `<PREFIX>_MODULE_<KEY>` is exactly the knob a hurried deploy reaches for and a wall env could outrank is a suggestion. An UNREADABLE posture refuses too, inverting this file’s usual fail-to-unchanged default: "I could not tell whether strangers can sign up" has to mean "assume they can", and the cost of being wrong is one module resolving off. `spend_payer` (`none|project|builder`) joins `SETTINGS_VOCAB` on ADR 0241’s transport, and `agents_runs` gains `payer_kind` + `payer_builder_id` — **stored, not derived**, because the setting is a live knob and deriving would make last month’s bill change when an owner flips it. `none` is NOT a third payer: a run always has a real one and `none` attributes to the project, so a CLOSED-door instance is unchanged and `none` is fatal only where it is also dangerous. An EVENT fire has no caller, so it bills the project rather than nobody — otherwise the event path is the one unbounded route. The per-payer monthly ceiling (`lib/spend-ceiling.js`) is a SECOND wall that must never merge into the first: a rate ceiling cannot bound a bill (~$650/month/builder at 10 fires an hour) and a spend ceiling cannot bound a loop (it reads spend already landed). It records NOTHING — the ledger is the tally, and a second tally is the disagreeing answer fire-budget’s header refuses to become. It honours the finding of abandoned [task 1001393](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1001393), which caught the autonomy brake reading month-to-date spend from a DB it could not reach and **failing open**: every unknown refuses (no cap, non-finite cap, no payer, a read that threw, a sum absent or unparseable), answering **402** rather than fire-budget’s 429 so "the money is gone" and "too fast" stay distinguishable. Writing the absent-sum clause down was not paranoia — the first draft admitted the fire on a null sum because `Number(null)` is `0`, and the test for that clause is what caught it. The overshoot is STATED: in-flight fires are invisible to the read, bounded by concurrency × ~$0.90, and what bounds concurrency is fire-budget — each wall’s blind spot is the other’s window. The cost-needs-a-payer constraint is added `NOT VALID` so it binds every future write without failing the migration of an instance whose history predates the column. **What it does not do:** nobody is billed; `builder` attributes spend, it does not collect.](0282-a-module-that-spends-for-its-callers-declares-a-payer-and-the-core-refuses-it-without-one.md) | modules / spend attribution / agents |
 | 0283 | [**The core publishes publicly, because access was never the thing protecting it** ([task 1003872](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003872) · goal 1000090 — *Working area 4, Bongos Core distribution*; owner decision 2026-09-13, resolving [task 1003502](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003502)). [ADR 0134](0134-private-first-npm-distribution.md) chose private-first and named "public at launch" as a later deliberate step; this is that step. The restricted posture had a cost that grew quietly because every symptom read as a different bug: a tokenless `npm install` returns a flat **E404**, indistinguishable from "no such package", so every co-tenant and downstream upgrade needed a credential to move at all; the nightly auto-upgrade sweep **died on 2026-08-25 and reported `failed=0`** (its unit passed no `NPM_TOKEN`, the env-fed `.npmrc` expanded to empty, and a skip is not a failure in that script's accounting, so nothing complained while the instance stopped receiving core updates); an Anthropic-hosted cloud session could not install the dependency at all; and a fresh scaffold's README step 1 IS `npm install`, which is also what installs the `bongos` command — so without a token an owner got no working instance rather than a stale one. [ADR 0258](0258-the-public-cli-is-a-generated-client-package-not-the-published-core.md)'s `@cloudbongos/cli`, require-closure delazification and all, exists ONLY because of this. **The decisive point is that access control was never what protected the artifact:** three gates decide what is IN the tarball — the in-build no-leak gate (branding literals + credential shapes, fail-closed, 2,624 files clean), the prior-instance leak scan (**fatal by default since [task 1003870](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003870)**, `--no-leak-scan` the only escape), and the fixture confirmation of [task 1003871](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003871) (all 14 credential-shape files checked against each provider's real key format: 11 too short to have ever been valid, 3 alphabet sequences or Amazon's own published doc example). `--access restricted` decides who may FETCH it; those three decide what is IN it, and conflating them is what made a launch-timing choice feel like a security control. **Decision: publish public — at all three sites.** `publishConfig.access` and `publishArgs` both say `public` (belt-and-braces of the restricted era pointed the other way, so neither drifting alone reverts it), **and so does `publish.yml`** — the site that ACTUALLY releases, `package-core --publish` being the manual owner path. Flipping only `package-core.js` would have left every real release restricted while the code claimed otherwise: exactly task 1003870's shape, where the workflow did not arm the gate its own header comment advertised. A test reads the workflow and fails if `restricted` reappears anywhere in the lane. **The one-time registry flip stays a separate owner step** (`npm access set status=public`): `--access` governs what THAT publish declares and has historically been a no-op when re-publishing an already-private package — the package read `private` on the registry when this was written — so it is verified by a tokenless install from a clean `HOME`, never by the flag's presence. **Provenance stays off:** the PACKAGE is public, the SOURCE REPO is not, and npm blocks provenance on the repo's visibility — turning it on before the source repository goes public fails every publish. The npm path deliberately does not run [ADR 0099](0099-delayed-redacted-mirror-export.md)'s mirror pipeline (`package-core` runs its own redaction: 476 docs redacted, 24 agent-docs stubbed), which is why gates 1–3 carry the whole safety burden and had to land first. **Going public is effectively one-way** — a published tarball is mirrored and cached beyond our control and `npm unpublish` has a 72-hour window that does not reach mirrors. **Does NOT fix the 22 co-tenants:** twenty pin `file:vendor/bongos-core-<v>.tgz`, a local path with no registry channel to follow, so public access is necessary but not sufficient. Rejected: a **rank-gated registry proxy** (server holds the token, builders authenticate with their existing Bongos session, per-request rank check — the RIGHT design if the core must stay private, rejected because it manages the problem going public deletes); **handing builders the read token gated by rank** (rank-gating the handout does not rank-gate the use — a token once held is held forever and revocation means rotating it for everyone: access control in name only); keeping the vendored tarball as the answer (it is why twenty co-tenants are frozen at their provisioning date); making the REPO public in the same change (a larger decision, not required for any of this, and separating them keeps the provenance question honest).](0283-the-core-publishes-publicly-because-access-was-never-the-thing-protecting-it.md) | core distribution / npm access |
 | 0284 | [**The control plane carries no metrics stack** ([task 1003876](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003876) · goal 1000106). Supersedes ADR 0127. Grafana (187 MB, the box's largest process) + Prometheus (110 MB, 2.5 GB data) were removed from the `s-1vcpu-2gb` control plane every provisioned project shares; they scraped none of those projects and nothing in the core read them. Owner chose remove over move-to-own-droplet. The `/metrics` exporter stays in every instance, so a scraper can return from a box that is not the control plane. Leftovers (DNS record, co-hosting-box socat forwarders, instance `infra/` copies) filed as a follow-up.](0284-the-control-plane-carries-no-metrics-stack.md) | infra / Cloud Bongos |
+| 0285 | [**A shared box holds about twelve projects per GB, and memory is the wall** ([task 1003877](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003877) · goal 1000106, a spike measured read-only on the live control plane at the owner's call). A project costs ~80 MB warm (70 MB Node + one busy Postgres backend); idle projects look like ~25 MB only because swap holds their cold pages, and swap is not capacity. Fixed base ~750 MB on a control plane. Ceiling per tier `floor((usable − fixed) / 80)`: 15 on today's `s-1vcpu-2gb` (11 live), 39 on `s-2vcpu-4gb`; resize at 12. RAM binds first, Postgres connections (pool default 10 × N vs 97) second; CPU, ports, units, disk and the backup window do not bind. Keep the three shapes, add placement ("standalone until the box is full, then the next box"); a shared slot costs box price ÷ ceiling ($0.62–0.80/mo), `dedicated` 8–40× that.](0285-a-shared-box-holds-about-twelve-projects-per-gb-and-memory-is-the-wall.md) | infra / Cloud Bongos |
+| 0286 | [**A gated project's manifest tells a stranger how to sign in, and nothing else** ([task 1003652](https://cloudbongos.com/builders#/task/1003652) · goal 1000106, from idea 1000845; closes ADR 0192's deferred item). `GET /instance` stays exempt from the member door, but on a gated project a caller with no live session gets `{ schema, name, brand: { identity.productName, project }, auth (incl. idp), admission }` — no modules, ranks, repo coordinates, dev-box flag or branding strings. Members get the full manifest; a failed lookup answers as a stranger; gated responses are `private, no-store` + `Vary: Cookie, Authorization`. Schema id stays `instance-manifest/v1` (a subset; `bongos login` refuses any other). Owner's call: sign-in basics only.](0286-a-gated-project-s-manifest-tells-a-stranger-how-to-sign-in-and-nothing-else.md) | security / Cloud Bongos |

package/docs/module-api-changelog.md

@@ -1966,5 +1966,9 @@ is load-bearing: the script throws rather than guess if it is missing, and
         landed since 1.19.744 with no explicit bump. run 34990123950. (task 1002620)
   1.19.746 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
         landed since 1.19.745 with no explicit bump. run 35021312150. (task 1002620)
+  1.19.747 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+        landed since 1.19.746 with no explicit bump. run 35025151628. (task 1002620)
+  1.19.748 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+        landed since 1.19.747 with no explicit bump. run 35026862340. (task 1002620)
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ```

package/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.746",
+  "version": "1.19.748",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@bongos/core",
-      "version": "1.19.746",
+      "version": "1.19.748",
       "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
       "dependencies": {
         "express": "^4.21.2",

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.19.746",
+  "version": "1.19.748",
   "description": "Cloud Bongos — the AI-first build platform core (GDS + platform surfaces + module system), installed as a versioned dependency (ADR 0108).",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "main": "src/platform-server.js",

package/src/bongos/platform-visibility-gate.js

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ const API = `(?:${ALL_API_PREFIXES.map(escRe).join('|')})`;
 //                        value was consumed (provision-units.js settingsConsumed)
 //                        — including the very push that turns this gate on. It
 //                        carries the policy itself, public by nature (ADR 0190 §9).
+//                        A stranger gets its sign-in projection only (ADR 0286).
 //   <api>/healthz, /healthz, /version, /metrics
 //                        the probes: the deploy's, the runner's, the uptime
 //                        poller's, the control plane's liveness sweep; Prometheus

package/src/bongos/routes/instance.js

@@ -26,14 +26,22 @@
 // hosts, no DB name, no env prefix, no tokens. The assembler (buildInstanceManifest)
 // is PURE — all inputs injected — so a unit test proves the shape + the no-leak
 // guarantee with zero I/O (mirrors resolveBranding/resolveModules, ADR 0062 §3/§4).
+//
+// GATED PROJECTS (task 1003652, ADR 0286): the route stays exempt from the member
+// door (ADR 0192) because a stranger needs it to sign in, but a caller with no live
+// session on a gated project gets strangerManifest() — sign-in basics only, not
+// what the project runs or where its code lives. Members get the full manifest.
 
 const express = require('express');
 const { corsPublicGet, asyncHandler } = require('./_helpers');
 const { clientBranding } = require('../../branding');
 const { clientModules, isModuleEnabled } = require('../../modules');
 const { loadRepoInfo } = require('../repo-info');
-const { authConfigured, openEnrollmentEnabled, loadIdpConfig } = require('../auth');
+const { authConfigured, openEnrollmentEnabled, loadIdpConfig, resolveSession } = require('../auth');
 const { RANK_TIER } = require('../permission-path-check');
+const { isGated } = require('../platform-visibility-gate');
+
+const log = require('../logger').logger.child({ src: 'instance' });
 
 // The manifest format id — bumped when the SHAPE changes so a CLI can detect a
 // too-new server. Deliberately neutral (no instance/platform identity literal).
@@ -105,7 +113,61 @@ function buildInstanceManifest({
   };
 }
 
-module.exports = function buildInstanceRouter() {
+// strangerManifest — PURE. What a gated project tells a caller with no live session:
+// enough to sign in (name, auth incl. the idp hint, admission) plus brand.project,
+// which the platform runner reads back cookie-less after a settings restart. Same
+// schema id — every kept field means what it does in the full manifest.
+function strangerManifest(manifest) {
+  const { schema, name, brand, auth, admission } = manifest;
+  return {
+    schema,
+    name,
+    brand: { identity: { productName: name }, project: brand && brand.project },
+    auth,
+    admission,
+  };
+}
+
+function currentManifest() {
+  const idpCfg = loadIdpConfig();
+  return buildInstanceManifest({
+    branding: clientBranding(),
+    modules: clientModules(),
+    rankTier: RANK_TIER,
+    repo: loadRepoInfo(),
+    authConfigured: authConfigured(),
+    // The COMPOSED join door, not the raw `joinability` knob (task 1003579):
+    // `admission.policy` says whether a stranger can actually sign themselves
+    // in, so a project that is off the map reports 'invite-only' even while its
+    // `joinability` reads back 'open' under brand.project. The two fields answer
+    // different questions on purpose — one is the owner's setting, the other is
+    // what the gate will do — and 'invite-only' already covers every non-open
+    // door, so narrowing it names no state (ADR 0247 D3).
+    openEnrollment: openEnrollmentEnabled(),
+    devBoxEnabled: isModuleEnabled('dev-box'),
+    // Project OUT the client secret — the manifest is public; only origin +
+    // client_id (both public) advertise federation.
+    idp: idpCfg ? { origin: idpCfg.origin, client_id: idpCfg.clientId } : null,
+  });
+}
+
+// A failed lookup answers as a stranger rather than a 500: the manifest is how the
+// door gets opened, and an unknown identity must not see a member's answer.
+async function isMember(req, lookup) {
+  try {
+    const session = await lookup(req);
+    return !!session && session.status !== 'inactive';
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.error({ err: err && err.message }, 'session lookup failed — answering as a stranger');
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+// `deps` exists for tests only (the platformVisibilityGate shape).
+module.exports = function buildInstanceRouter(deps = {}) {
+  const gated = deps.isGated || isGated;
+  const lookup = deps.resolveSession || resolveSession;
+  const buildManifest = deps.buildManifest || currentManifest;
   const router = express.Router();
 
   // CORS for the unauthenticated cross-origin read (same posture as /public/*
@@ -116,33 +178,20 @@ module.exports = function buildInstanceRouter() {
   // fetches it to learn how to sign in). asyncHandler returns a 500 with no
   // err.message if branding/modules fail to resolve (misconfigured instance) —
   // never leaks internals.
-  router.get('/instance', asyncHandler('GET /instance', (_req, res) => {
-    const idpCfg = loadIdpConfig();
-    res.json(buildInstanceManifest({
-      branding: clientBranding(),
-      modules: clientModules(),
-      rankTier: RANK_TIER,
-      repo: loadRepoInfo(),
-      authConfigured: authConfigured(),
-      // The COMPOSED join door, not the raw `joinability` knob (task 1003579):
-      // `admission.policy` says whether a stranger can actually sign themselves
-      // in, so a project that is off the map reports 'invite-only' even while its
-      // `joinability` reads back 'open' under brand.project. The two fields answer
-      // different questions on purpose — one is the owner's setting, the other is
-      // what the gate will do — and 'invite-only' already covers every non-open
-      // door, so narrowing it names no state (ADR 0247 D3).
-      openEnrollment: openEnrollmentEnabled(),
-      devBoxEnabled: isModuleEnabled('dev-box'),
-      // Project OUT the client secret — the manifest is public; only origin +
-      // client_id (both public) advertise federation.
-      idp: idpCfg ? { origin: idpCfg.origin, client_id: idpCfg.clientId } : null,
-    }));
+  router.get('/instance', asyncHandler('GET /instance', async (req, res) => {
+    const manifest = buildManifest();
+    if (!gated()) return res.json(manifest);
+    // One URL, two answers by identity: no shared cache may keep either.
+    res.set('Cache-Control', 'private, no-store');
+    res.vary('Cookie').vary('Authorization');
+    res.json(await isMember(req, lookup) ? manifest : strangerManifest(manifest));
   }, { message: false, errorCode: 'instance_manifest_failed' }));
 
   return router;
 };
 
-// Exported for unit tests (the pure assembler) + the schema/auth constants.
+// Exported for unit tests (the pure assemblers) + the schema/auth constants.
 module.exports.buildInstanceManifest = buildInstanceManifest;
+module.exports.strangerManifest = strangerManifest;
 module.exports.MANIFEST_SCHEMA = MANIFEST_SCHEMA;
 module.exports.AUTH_METHODS = AUTH_METHODS;

package/src/module-api.js

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ const { responsibilityFor, ROLE_RESPONSIBILITIES } = require('./role-responsibil
 // there. scripts/gds/bump-version.js still rewrites the literal below; it appends
 // the entry to that file. Look for a version's history there, not here.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.746'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); changelog: docs/module-api-changelog.md
+const CORE_VERSION = '1.19.748'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); changelog: docs/module-api-changelog.md
 
 // A namespaced logger so a module's log lines are attributable + consistent.
 // Usage: const log = api.logger('dev-box'); log.info('mounted');

package/tests/instance_manifest.mjs

@@ -116,3 +116,84 @@ test('manifest: vanilla instance is fully populated (every field present)', () =
   assert.equal(m.name, 'Cloud Bongos');
   assert.deepEqual(m.modules.enabled, MODULES_VANILLA.enabled);
 });
+
+// ── task 1003652: a gated project tells a stranger only what sign-in needs ──
+const express = require('express');
+const http = require('node:http');
+const buildInstanceRouter = instanceMod;
+import { strangerManifest } from '../src/bongos/routes/instance.js';
+
+const IDP = { origin: 'https://hub.example.com', client_id: 'proj-1' };
+const FULL = () => buildInstanceManifest({ branding: BRAND_OTB, modules: MODULES_OTB, rankTier: RANK_TIER, repo: REPO, authConfigured: false, openEnrollment: false, devBoxEnabled: true, idp: IDP });
+
+test('stranger manifest: schema, name, brand.project, auth (idp kept), admission — and nothing else', () => {
+  const s = strangerManifest(FULL());
+  assert.deepEqual(Object.keys(s).sort(), ['admission', 'auth', 'brand', 'name', 'schema']);
+  assert.equal(s.schema, MANIFEST_SCHEMA, '`bongos login` refuses any other schema id');
+  assert.equal(s.name, 'Example World');
+  assert.deepEqual(s.brand, { identity: { productName: 'Example World' }, project: BRAND_OTB.project },
+    'brand.project stays: the runner reads it back after a settings restart, the hub and login read it too');
+  assert.deepEqual(s.auth, { methods: AUTH_METHODS, configured: true, idp: IDP });
+  assert.deepEqual(s.admission, { policy: 'invite-only' });
+  const json = JSON.stringify(s);
+  for (const gone of ['example-owner', 'github.com', 'Straight example world', 'Hermeslines', 'drachmae', 'art-pipeline', 'Archon', 'devBox']) {
+    assert.ok(!json.includes(gone), `a stranger must not read "${gone}"`);
+  }
+});
+
+test('stranger manifest: a brand with no project policy projects none', () => {
+  const s = strangerManifest(buildInstanceManifest({ branding: BRAND_VANILLA, modules: MODULES_VANILLA, rankTier: RANK_TIER, repo: { error: 'x' }, authConfigured: false, openEnrollment: true, devBoxEnabled: false }));
+  assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(s.brand)), { identity: { productName: 'Cloud Bongos' } });
+  assert.equal(s.admission.policy, 'open');
+});
+
+async function getInstance(deps) {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(buildInstanceRouter({ buildManifest: FULL, ...deps }));
+  const server = http.createServer(app);
+  await new Promise((r) => server.listen(0, '127.0.0.1', r));
+  try {
+    return await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+      http.get({ host: '127.0.0.1', port: server.address().port, path: '/instance', agent: false }, (res) => {
+        let data = '';
+        res.on('data', (c) => { data += c; });
+        res.on('end', () => resolve({ status: res.statusCode, headers: res.headers, body: JSON.parse(data) }));
+      }).on('error', reject);
+    });
+  } finally {
+    await new Promise((r) => server.close(r));
+  }
+}
+
+test('route: an ungated project serves the full manifest and never looks the caller up', async () => {
+  let looked = 0;
+  const res = await getInstance({ isGated: () => false, resolveSession: async () => { looked += 1; return null; } });
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200);
+  assert.deepEqual(res.body, JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(FULL())));
+  assert.equal(looked, 0);
+  assert.equal(res.headers['cache-control'], undefined, 'the public answer keeps its caching');
+});
+
+test('route: gated + no session → the stranger projection, uncacheable and varied on identity', async () => {
+  const res = await getInstance({ isGated: () => true, resolveSession: async () => null });
+  assert.equal(res.status, 200, 'the manifest stays public — it is how the door gets opened');
+  assert.deepEqual(res.body, JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(strangerManifest(FULL()))));
+  assert.equal(res.headers['cache-control'], 'private, no-store');
+  assert.equal(res.headers.vary, 'Cookie, Authorization');
+});
+
+test('route: gated + a live member session → the full manifest, still uncacheable', async () => {
+  const res = await getInstance({ isGated: () => true, resolveSession: async () => ({ builder_id: 7, status: 'active' }) });
+  assert.deepEqual(res.body, JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(FULL())));
+  assert.equal(res.headers['cache-control'], 'private, no-store');
+  assert.equal(res.headers.vary, 'Cookie, Authorization');
+});
+
+test('route: gated + a deactivated session, or a lookup that fails → the stranger answer, never a 500', async () => {
+  const stranger = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(strangerManifest(FULL())));
+  const inactive = await getInstance({ isGated: () => true, resolveSession: async () => ({ builder_id: 7, status: 'inactive' }) });
+  assert.deepEqual(inactive.body, stranger);
+  const failed = await getInstance({ isGated: () => true, resolveSession: async () => { throw new Error('db down'); } });
+  assert.equal(failed.status, 200);
+  assert.deepEqual(failed.body, stranger);
+});

package/tests/platform_visibility_gate.mjs

@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ test('booted gated: the door, the manifest, the probes and the downloads still a
     assert.equal(m.status, 200, `${p}: the manifest stays public`);
     const j = JSON.parse(m.body);
     assert.equal(j.brand.project.platformVisibility, 'gated', 'and it carries the policy itself');
+    // …and only what sign-in needs (task 1003652)
+    assert.equal(j.modules, undefined, `${p}: a stranger is not told what the project runs`);
+    assert.equal(j.repo, undefined, `${p}: nor where its code lives`);
+    assert.equal(m.headers['cache-control'], 'private, no-store');
   }
   // the sign-in start must be reachable: it reaches the auth router (which may
   // refuse for its own reasons — a missing OAuth app — but never with the door)