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Some installs are run by somebody other than the person who administers them. The operator owns the credentials, the configuration and the upgrade schedule, and the admin of the instance is a user of the result rather than the one who set it up. Nothing in the app knows that today, so it keeps offering settings whose values are not the admin's to change, and the honest answer to half of them would be a 403 the UI never anticipated. TREK_MANAGED says it once. It is a single boolean and the surfaces that care read it themselves, so adding one never comes back to the config layer. Runtime-toggled, in the same class as DEMO_MODE, rather than a registerAs token: roughly sixty tests mutate env mid-lifetime, and a value frozen per built app breaks all of them. `=== true` on the way in, so an unset, empty or misspelled value means off — a managed install sets it deliberately, and a typo must not quietly take settings away from an admin who never asked for it. The guard keys on a decorator, not on a path. MfaPolicyGuard documents where the two literal path lists it replaced ended up: they stopped being maintained, and every endpoint added afterwards silently fell on the wrong side. A marker on the handler cannot drift away from the handler. It carries a mandatory reason, which is for the next reader of the source rather than for the client, so the marks stay auditable. It registers third, after the auth and MFA guards, so a stranger still gets the 401 those two would have given them instead of a 403 that would confirm the route exists. And it checks the mode before it touches metadata, because it runs on every request of every install and almost all of them are self-hosted. One 403 body, shared by REST and MCP. DEMO_MODE grew two texts for the same condition and neither can be changed now without hunting for the other. The flag reaches the client through app-config so the UI can stop offering what the server would refuse anyway, but it is deliberately not persisted the way demo_mode is: two installs can share a browser profile, and a stale "this one is managed" would take settings away on an install that never set it. No route carries the marker yet. The per-domain marks follow. Unset, which is every self-hosted install, nothing about this changes anything.