They existed only in /opt/ops on the VPS — no history, no backup. Rebuilding
that machine would have taken the whole publishing process with it, including
the Android signing flow written today.
/opt/ops now symlinks here so there is one copy rather than two that drift.
No secrets move: the scripts read tokens and the signing key from paths under
/root that stay on the VPS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>