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+# Raspberry Pi — boot-time hardening units
+
+Two reusable runbooks for a headless Pi that must stay reachable over SSH.
+Deliberately host-agnostic: **no addresses, key material, or peer identities
+live in this repo** — those stay on each host. Set `HOST` and fill in the
+placeholders from the runbook before running anything.
+
+| Runbook | Solves |
+| --- | --- |
+| [`root-ssh-key.md`](root-ssh-key.md) | root `authorized_keys` gets wiped (imaging, config management) → key is re-installed at boot and re-applied on change |
+| [`wireguard.md`](wireguard.md) | SSH through a WireGuard tunnel address fails after reboot / NAT timeout / roaming to another network |
+
+Verified against Debian 13 (trixie) with systemd 257 and NetworkManager. The
+units are plain POSIX `sh` + systemd, so they carry to any other distribution
+with the same systemd version or newer.
+
+## Layout → target path on the host
+
+| File in this directory | Installs to |
+| --- | --- |
+| `ensure-root-ssh-key` | `/usr/local/sbin/ensure-root-ssh-key` (`0755`) |
+| `ensure-root-ssh-key.service` | `/etc/systemd/system/` |
+| `ensure-root-ssh-key.path` | `/etc/systemd/system/` |
+| `root-ssh-keys/authorized_keys.example` | `/usr/local/share/root-ssh-keys/authorized_keys` (`0644`) — copy, fill in your public key(s) |
+| `wg0-watchdog` | `/usr/local/sbin/wg0-watchdog` (`0755`) |
+| `wg0-watchdog.service` | `/etc/systemd/system/` |
+| `wg0-watchdog.timer` | `/etc/systemd/system/` |
+| `wg-quick@wg0.service.d-10-boot-resilience.conf` | `/etc/systemd/system/wg-quick@wg0.service.d/10-boot-resilience.conf` |
+| `wg0.conf.template` | documents `/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf` (`0600`) — the real file is never copied here |
+
+## Deploy pattern
+
+Every command in both runbooks follows the same shape, so a fresh Pi needs only
+`HOST` and the placeholders:
+
+```bash
+HOST=root@<pi-address>
+D=$PWD   # run the snippets from a checkout of this directory
+```
+
+Files travel over one `tar | ssh` pipe into `/root`, then `install` moves them
+into place with explicit modes (no `scp` of a whole tree into `/etc`, no
+ambiguous ownership). Reload and enable once at the end:
+
+```bash
+ssh "$HOST" 'systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable --now <units>'
+```
+
+## Conventions worth keeping on any host
+
+- Config files under `/usr/local/{sbin,share}` are the source of truth; systemd
+  units stay thin wrappers so they can be re-imaged independently.
+- Idempotent installers over clever state: every script re-derives the desired
+  state from its own config file and never deletes what it did not create.
+- Anything that must heal itself is gap-limited (a minimum interval between
+  restarts) so a broken dependency cannot make a unit flap.
+- Private keys and addresses are excluded from the repo; when dumping a
+  WireGuard config, redact with a regex that tolerates `PrivateKey = ` spacing
+  (`wg-quick strip` emits spaces, a `PrivateKey=` regex misses them):
+  `sed -E 's/^(PrivateKey[[:space:]]*=).*/\1 [REDACTED]/'`