The README Production block went provision -> deploy with no admin-key step, so user-administrator failed early (authorized_keys empty) for both the Guide CI jobs and any real user copying the README. Add a visible 'provision --vars' step that sets users.administrator.authorized_keys (merged into host_vars) in both Production variants of the role README template, regenerate all role READMEs, and replace the invisible CI payload splice with a visible substitution of the documented <your-ssh-public-key> placeholder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The inline run: block for the host-mode deploy exceeded the 11-line
inline-script-block cap. Move the body to scripts/github/guide/host_deploy.sh
and reduce the workflow step to a single bash invocation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>