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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ A small full-stack "quote of the day" app, built for the privatecloud VM `privat
 - **Platform auth**: [Zitadel](https://zitadel.com), self-hosted via Docker, OIDC Authorization Code + PKCE. Gates "submit a quote" and "favorites"; browsing is public.
 - **Git hosting**: [Gitea](https://gitea.io), self-hosted via Docker (this repo's `origin`).
 - **CI/CD**: Gitea Actions, using a local `act_runner` container. See `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`.
+  Verified working end-to-end (checkout → build → syntax check, all green), but the
+  runner has occasionally been slow to pick up a freshly-pushed task on this VM; a
+  `docker restart quoteapp-gitea-runner` reliably kicks it back into gear if a run
+  seems stuck in "queued".
 - **Observability**: `prom-client` metrics at `/api/metrics`, scraped by Prometheus, visualized in a provisioned Grafana dashboard.
 - **Backup**: nightly `pg_dump` via a systemd timer (`quoteapp-backup.timer`), 7-day retention, dumps to `~/backups`.