frank-dragoon's health gate never checked WHO answered :7770 — the
false-green the fleet learned about on 2026-09-26 (a stray probe holding
the port satisfies a bare curl while the unit is stopped). The other two
handlers carried that check as inlined copies; all three now call
assert_unit_owns_port, and dragoon gets the protection it was missing.
The seam follows: the endpoints' text-grep deployer tests are deleted,
because tests/llm_deploy_gates.bats EXECUTES the same handlers end to end
(stub systemctl/podman/sudo/ss/curl) and asserts refusals, restarts, unit
links, the pending marker, and the MainPID hardening. GATE_PREFIX is
exported at each handler for the same reason the serve scripts export it.
deploy_llm_dragoon/zealot/arkon now call require_image / require_bytes /
require_min_mib / require_file / require_dir_files, so the deployer and the
serve scripts refuse the same missing payload with the same words — the
2026-10-01 crash-loop law, enforced by construction instead of by duplicated
shell. require_exec joins the library for the native-runtime gate (a
compiled tree that lost its +x refuses like a missing one). relink_unit
takes SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR so a handler can be driven end to end in a sandbox.
The library's own refusals now carry their status: a bash function that
ends inside an if returns the CONDITION's status, so a gate whose last
statement is its refusal printed the message and returned SUCCESS — the
new seam caught it, and the gate tests pin it.
New seam tests/llm_deploy_gates.bash + tests/stubs/: deploy-remote.sh's LLM
handlers EXECUTED against stub systemctl/podman/sudo/ss/curl, asserting
exit status, refusal text, no restart, and the pending state marker.
Frank