The dashboard used to open with six status-header tiles *and* four compact
cards restating them (runner state lived in three places at once). The tiles
are gone; each card is now the single owner of its subject, enriched with
what only the tiles had (CPU%/RAM/disk with gauges) plus what neither had
(hostname, kernel, full CPU model, the vmware-host.service row).
All four cards share the same <dl> grammar and font scale now -- VMware and
Runners were a bordered <table> at a different size/case, which read as a
visibly different style sitting next to Host and Cargo cache's plain
label/value lists.
operations/host.py also gains delete_template()/TemplateDeleteResult, used
by the template-delete route in the next commit.
Stage A: swap CSS tokens to the real Gitea dark palette (accent blue #4183c4); add Jinja formatting filters (humanbytes/duration/relative_time/localtime/shorten_path/thousands), a health status-header, and an inline SVG icon sprite; fix two UI bugs — unthemed action pages (htmx swap into #action-slot with a full-page HX-Request fallback) and polling wiping form input (hx-preserve).
Stage B: four read-only panels that degrade to notices (never 500) — host resources (/proc, two-sample CPU%), VMware module health, template inventory (.vmem warn + last backup), and a path-contained file browser; backup card becomes a validated template dropdown; expensive dir-size walk is TTL-cached. Adds operations/inventory.py plus host_resources()/vmware_module_health() in operations/host.py.
Stage C: parse_clone_name() adds a Job column (job_id + started) to the VM table; nav gains a Gitea link-out derived from the OIDC issuer origin (no fabricated run URLs); audit page gets action icons, relative time, and a client-side filter.
Gates: 989 tests pass, coverage 94.12%, ruff + mypy --strict clean. Stage D (service management) intentionally deferred.
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