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A host agent already sends a full inventory snapshot on a cadence, and nothing served the endpoint it sends it to — so every one of those calls answered 404. It fails quietly by design, because a dropped snapshot is meant to be corrected by the next one, which is exactly why nobody noticed: the only symptom is a line in the agent's own log. Kept separate from the heartbeat because the two have different loss tolerance. A dropped beat moves a host towards offline and unplaces it; a dropped snapshot costs nothing until the next one arrives. Folding them together would let a malformed inventory field make a healthy host look dead. Three rules decide what a snapshot may do, and the last two are why this is one core function rather than a loop in the route: - a box we know, that the snapshot names, takes the reported state - a box we know that was running, and that the snapshot omits, is stopped and says so — absence inside a snapshot is information - a box the snapshot names that is not placed on the calling host is never created, only reported back as a divergence The scope is in the `where` clause and not in the agent asking politely about its own boxes: a machine credential is a long-lived secret sitting on hardware in somebody's living room. `pid` and `uptimeS` are accepted and deliberately dropped. A pid is a number in another machine's namespace, and uptime is derivable from a run's start time, which is already stored and already trustworthy.