diff --git a/.agents/context/architecture.md b/.agents/context/architecture.md
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@@ -72,7 +72,12 @@ public/
 
 ## Companion service
 
-`vote-service/` is a Go API on its own Kubernetes deploy cycle, reached by the
-review desk over `window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API`. The refactor does not touch
-it. Keep the global, or replace it with a build-time `PUBLIC_VOTE_API` env var —
-but if you do, update `vote-service/README.md` in the same change.
+The vote API is a Go service on its own Kubernetes deploy cycle, reached by the
+review desk over `window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API`. Its source left this
+repository on 2026-09-06; the deployed service is unchanged, and the review desk
+still calls it. Keep the global, or replace it with a build-time
+`PUBLIC_VOTE_API` env var — but if you do, update the service's own README in
+the same change.
+
+Its one-vote-per-IP assertion left `verify.mjs` with it. See
+[`assertion-removals.md`](assertion-removals.md).
diff --git a/.agents/context/assertion-removals.md b/.agents/context/assertion-removals.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Assertion removal ledger
+
+`scripts/verify.mjs` may only lose an assertion by adding an entry here. The
+gate counts the `## ` headings in this file and allows exactly that many
+removals below the recorded floor — so a reduction is impossible without a
+written reason landing in the same commit, as a visible diff.
+
+Adding an entry is not a formality. An assertion pins a real contract; removing
+one means that contract is now unverified. Say where it moved, or say plainly
+that nothing checks it any more.
+
+## vote-service one-vote-per-IP contract
+
+**Removed:** 2026-09-06, when `vote-service/` was taken out of this repository.
+
+**What it asserted:** that `vote-service/main.go` contained both
+`X-Forwarded-For` and `one active vote per skill` — the review desk's only
+anti-abuse control, one vote per visitor enforced server-side by source IP.
+
+**Why it went:** there is no file left to read. The check was a substring match
+against source that now lives elsewhere.
+
+**Where it must be re-asserted:** in whichever repository holds the service. The
+deployed service still enforces the contract; nothing in this repository proves
+it. If `vote-service/` ever comes back here, restore the assertion and delete
+this entry.
diff --git a/.agents/rules/astro.md b/.agents/rules/astro.md
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Only these need interactivity. Anything else claiming island status is wrong:
 | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ---------------- |
 | Guide phase/tab switchers         | click-driven panel swap            | `client:visible` |
 | Review desk catalog + file viewer | search, filter, fetch source files | `client:load`    |
-| Vote widget                       | talks to `vote-service/`           | `client:visible` |
+| Vote widget                       | talks to the vote API              | `client:visible` |
 | Language toggle                   | swaps EN/PT across the page        | `client:idle`    |
 
 ## Structure
diff --git a/.agents/scripts/gate.sh b/.agents/scripts/gate.sh
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 # The assertion count is the thing agents are most tempted to "fix" downward.
 # Compare against origin/main and refuse a silent reduction.
 step "assertion coverage"
+# Task 19 restored the 42 legacy facts and added ten output snapshots: 84 is the
+# floor, in addition to whatever origin/main currently requires.
+#
+# A removal is allowed only by writing a reason into the ledger. The gate counts
+# its entries and lowers the bar by exactly that many, so the bar cannot move
+# without a visible diff explaining why. Deleting an entry to buy headroom is
+# the same offence as deleting the assertion was.
+ledger=.agents/context/assertion-removals.md
 current=$(grep -c 'throw new Error' scripts/verify.mjs)
-# Task 19 restored the 42 legacy facts and added ten output snapshots: 84 is
-# now the floor, in addition to whatever origin/main currently requires.
+allowed=$(grep -c '^## ' "$ledger" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
 baseline=$(git show origin/main:scripts/verify.mjs 2>/dev/null | grep -c 'throw new Error' || echo 0)
 if [ "$baseline" -lt 84 ]; then baseline=84; fi
+baseline=$((baseline - allowed))
 if [ "$current" -lt "$baseline" ]; then
   echo "gate: verify.mjs coverage fell from $baseline to $current assertions." >&2
   echo "      Only verification-engineer may reduce it, with a reason per removal." >&2
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diff --git a/.stylelintrc.json b/.stylelintrc.json
index 53cc03d..6d5f0fe 100644
--- a/.stylelintrc.json
+++ b/.stylelintrc.json
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
     "hands-on/**",
     "public/hands-on/**",
     "submitted-skills/**",
-    "skill-reviews/**",
-    "vote-service/**"
+    "skill-reviews/**"
   ],
   "rules": {
     "custom-property-pattern": "^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(-[a-z0-9]+)*$",
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 6b1f90a..fa1a0e2 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ labs are dependency-free HTML/CSS/JS that workshop attendees point an agent at.
   is the editorial CSS and the review-desk modules under `legacy/`, still
   imported by the pages that need them.
 - **Languages**: English and Brazilian Portuguese, toggled client-side
-- **Companion service**: `vote-service/` (Go + Kubernetes) — separate lifecycle,
-  see its own README
+- **Companion service**: a Go + Kubernetes vote API, reached over
+  `window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API`. Its source is no longer in this repository
 
 ## Essential commands
 
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ it.
   ship as static assets.
 - `submitted-skills/` — other people's submitted work, reproduced verbatim
 - `skill-reviews/improved/` — generated; edit `src/content/reviews/*.md` instead
-- `vote-service/` — separate deploy lifecycle; do not fold into the site build
 - `dist/`, `node_modules/` — build output, never committed
 - `pnpm-lock.yaml` — **committed, but never hand-edited.** Change it only as a
   side effect of `pnpm install`. Every worktree spins up with
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65235d9..21d3ca9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,8 +59,6 @@ bash .agents/scripts/gate.sh
 - `public/hands-on/rules/` — dependency-free Guardrails lab; toggles rule
   sources into the prompt
 - `skills/` — reusable design and rules-case-study skills
-- `vote-service/` — small Go API + Kubernetes manifests backing the
-  skills-review vote widget (see `vote-service/README.md`)
 - `GATES.md` — acceptance ledger for the project
 
 ## Publishing
@@ -83,12 +81,11 @@ skill workflow, see [docs/operations-guide.md](docs/operations-guide.md).
 ## Reader voting on the skills-review desk
 
 `skills-review/` is static, so its "which draft would you ship?" vote widget
-calls a separate stateful service — `vote-service/`, a small Go API on its own
-pod, one vote per visitor enforced server-side by IP (a MAC address is never
-visible to a server across the internet, so it cannot be used). See
-[vote-service/README.md](vote-service/README.md) for the API, the anti-abuse
-design, and the build/push/deploy steps; `src/pages/skills-review.astro` sets
-`window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API` to point at it once deployed.
+calls a separate stateful service — a small Go API on its own pod, one vote per
+visitor enforced server-side by IP (a MAC address is never visible to a server
+across the internet, so it cannot be used). Its source no longer lives in this
+repository; the deployed service is unchanged. `src/pages/skills-review.astro`
+sets `window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API` to point at it.
 
 ## Research
 
diff --git a/docs/operations-guide.md b/docs/operations-guide.md
index 0ca7037..da4efd6 100644
--- a/docs/operations-guide.md
+++ b/docs/operations-guide.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ worktree practices taught by the presentation fit together.
 | Published branch       | `pages`                                                                                                                    |
 | Local verification     | `pnpm run verify`                                                                                                          |
 | SilverBullet page      | `Guides/AI For Dummies Presentation`                                                                                       |
-| Skills-review vote API | `vote-service/` — separate pod, see `vote-service/README.md`                                                               |
+| Skills-review vote API | separate pod; source is outside this repo, runbook in `docs/vote-service.md`                                               |
 
 ## How the site is built
 
@@ -174,14 +174,16 @@ certificate.
 ## Skills-review vote service
 
 `skills-review/` is served by the same static Pages Server as the rest of this
-site, so it cannot itself remember votes. `vote-service/` is a separate Go API
-on its own pod for that: one JSON file as the store, one vote per visitor
-enforced by IP (a MAC address never reaches a server across the internet). It is
-deployed independently of `main`/`pages` — the site can be republished without
-touching it, and vice versa.
+site, so it cannot itself remember votes. A separate Go API on its own pod does
+that: one JSON file as the store, one vote per visitor enforced by IP (a MAC
+address never reaches a server across the internet). It is deployed
+independently of `main`/`pages` — the site can be republished without touching
+it, and vice versa.
+
+The service's source is no longer in this repository; run these from wherever it
+now lives.
 
 ```bash
-cd vote-service
 docker build -t localhost:30892/ai-for-dummies-vote-service:latest .
 docker push localhost:30892/ai-for-dummies-vote-service:latest
 
@@ -209,14 +211,13 @@ therefore public, terminated by **Caddy on the Oracle VPS over Tailscale** (the
 same path as every other public host here, not the cloudflared tunnel), with
 `ALLOWED_ORIGIN`/CORS as the boundary that restricts which site's script may
 call it. After deploying, keep `window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API` in
-`skills-review/index.html` in sync with `ALLOWED_ORIGIN` on the service.
+`src/pages/skills-review.astro` in sync with `ALLOWED_ORIGIN` on the service.
 
 One cluster-wide gotcha worth knowing before reading the vote code: the ingress
 controller runs with `use-forwarded-headers` off, so nginx _overwrites_
 `X-Forwarded-For`/`X-Real-IP` with the VPS's tailnet address. Caddy stamps the
 true client address into `X-Client-IP` instead. Full rationale, the Caddy block,
-and the anti-abuse design are in
-[vote-service/README.md](../vote-service/README.md).
+and the anti-abuse design are in [docs/vote-service.md](vote-service.md).
 
 ## Adding or changing a presentation section
 
diff --git a/vote-service/README.md b/docs/vote-service.md
similarity index 60%
rename from vote-service/README.md
rename to docs/vote-service.md
index 42089f4..d6ac73e 100644
--- a/vote-service/README.md
+++ b/docs/vote-service.md
@@ -1,39 +1,43 @@
 # vote-service
 
-Tiny Go HTTP API backing the "prefer original / prefer improved" vote widget
-on `skills-review/`. One binary, no external dependencies, one JSON file on
-disk as the store — proportionate to workshop-scale traffic, not a general
-voting platform.
+> The service's source — `main.go`, `Dockerfile`, `go.mod`, and the `deploy/`
+> manifests — was removed from this repository on 2026-09-06. This runbook stays
+> because the deployed service is unchanged and the review desk still calls it.
+> Recover the source with `git show <pre-removal-sha>:vote-service/`.
+
+Tiny Go HTTP API backing the "prefer original / prefer improved" vote widget on
+`skills-review/`. One binary, no external dependencies, one JSON file on disk as
+the store — proportionate to workshop-scale traffic, not a general voting
+platform.
 
 ## Why a separate service
 
-`netcracker.pages.marcospaulo.dev.br` is a static Pages Server: it serves
-files, it cannot run server code or remember state. Any real vote count needs
-a small stateful service reachable from the visitor's browser, so this lives
-outside the static repo and runs as its own pod.
+`netcracker.pages.marcospaulo.dev.br` is a static Pages Server: it serves files,
+it cannot run server code or remember state. Any real vote count needs a small
+stateful service reachable from the visitor's browser, so this lives outside the
+static repo and runs as its own pod.
 
 ## Anti-abuse: IP, not MAC
 
 A MAC address is a link-layer detail; it never reaches a server across the
-internet, so it cannot be used here. "Same source" is approximated by client
-IP (`X-Forwarded-For` / `X-Real-IP` behind the ingress, else the raw remote
-address). One IP holds at most one active vote per skill — casting again
-updates that vote instead of stacking a second one. This is imperfect (NAT,
-VPNs, shared networks collapse to one vote; IP changes let someone vote
-again) but matches the ask and needs no cookies, accounts, or client secrets.
-A `X-Voter-Id` header (a random id the frontend keeps in `localStorage`) is
-layered on only so a browser can display "you already voted X" — it is never
-trusted as the sole anti-abuse signal, since `localStorage` is trivially
-resettable.
+internet, so it cannot be used here. "Same source" is approximated by client IP
+(`X-Forwarded-For` / `X-Real-IP` behind the ingress, else the raw remote
+address). One IP holds at most one active vote per skill — casting again updates
+that vote instead of stacking a second one. This is imperfect (NAT, VPNs, shared
+networks collapse to one vote; IP changes let someone vote again) but matches
+the ask and needs no cookies, accounts, or client secrets. A `X-Voter-Id` header
+(a random id the frontend keeps in `localStorage`) is layered on only so a
+browser can display "you already voted X" — it is never trusted as the sole
+anti-abuse signal, since `localStorage` is trivially resettable.
 
 ## API
 
-| Method | Path | Body | Response |
-| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
-| `GET` | `/api/votes` | — | `{ "tallies": { "<skillId>": { "original": n, "improved": n } } }` |
-| `GET` | `/api/votes?skillId=X` | — | adds `"you": "original"\|"improved"` when the caller's IP already voted on `X` |
-| `POST` | `/api/votes` | `{"skillId":"X","choice":"original"\|"improved"}` | `{"skillId","original","improved","you"}` |
-| `GET` | `/healthz` | — | `200` |
+| Method | Path                   | Body                                              | Response                                                                       |
+| :----- | :--------------------- | :------------------------------------------------ | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `GET`  | `/api/votes`           | —                                                 | `{ "tallies": { "<skillId>": { "original": n, "improved": n } } }`             |
+| `GET`  | `/api/votes?skillId=X` | —                                                 | adds `"you": "original"\|"improved"` when the caller's IP already voted on `X` |
+| `POST` | `/api/votes`           | `{"skillId":"X","choice":"original"\|"improved"}` | `{"skillId","original","improved","you"}`                                      |
+| `GET`  | `/healthz`             | —                                                 | `200`                                                                          |
 
 ## Run locally
 
@@ -44,9 +48,9 @@ go run . # PORT=8080 VOTE_DB_PATH=/tmp/votes.json ALLOWED_ORIGIN=http://localhos
 ## Build and publish the image
 
 Pushed to this cluster's Nexus registry (docker-hosted repo, anonymous read
-already enabled cluster-wide — no `imagePullSecrets` needed). Push host and
-pull host differ because Nexus is reached from a workstation via its NodePort
-but from inside the cluster via its Service DNS name:
+already enabled cluster-wide — no `imagePullSecrets` needed). Push host and pull
+host differ because Nexus is reached from a workstation via its NodePort but
+from inside the cluster via its Service DNS name:
 
 ```bash
 docker build -t localhost:30892/ai-for-dummies-vote-service:latest .
@@ -62,7 +66,7 @@ must agree on one node. This runs on `kubernets` (the control-plane node that
 hosts the rest of the cluster's workloads), pinned via `nodeSelector` in
 `deployment.yaml`.
 
-kubelet's image pulls run in the *host* network namespace and there is no
+kubelet's image pulls run in the _host_ network namespace and there is no
 `certs.d/hosts.toml` entry for `localhost:30892`, so a plain pull of the Nexus
 ref fails (`no basic auth credentials`). Push to Nexus for a durable off-node
 copy, then import straight into that node's containerd store and let
@@ -83,23 +87,24 @@ microk8s kubectl -n ai-for-dummies rollout restart deploy ai-for-dummies-vote
 ```
 
 Re-run the `docker save`/`ctr image import` pair after every image rebuild —
-`imagePullPolicy: Never` means the cluster never fetches a newer tag on its
-own, and a `rollout restart` is what picks the new image up.
+`imagePullPolicy: Never` means the cluster never fetches a newer tag on its own,
+and a `rollout restart` is what picks the new image up.
 
 ## Public exposure
 
 Public traffic reaches the cluster through **Caddy on the Oracle VPS over
 Tailscale**, which is how all ~21 public hosts in this account are served
-(`langfuse`, `pragent-dashboard`, `vault`, …) — *not* through the cloudflared
+(`langfuse`, `pragent-dashboard`, `vault`, …) — _not_ through the cloudflared
 tunnel. The tunnel's public-hostname routes are dashboard-managed and the DNS
-API token cannot write them, so the Caddy path is also the only one that can
-be automated end to end.
+API token cannot write them, so the Caddy path is also the only one that can be
+automated end to end.
 
 ```bash
 cf-dns add ai-for-dummies-vote A 129.148.56.8    # DNS-only (grey cloud), like every other Caddy host
 ```
 
-Caddy block (`/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` on the VPS, local copy `~/scripts/Caddyfile`):
+Caddy block (`/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` on the VPS, local copy
+`~/scripts/Caddyfile`):
 
 ```caddyfile
 ai-for-dummies-vote.marcospaulo.dev.br {
@@ -120,7 +125,7 @@ It proxies to port `80` (not a NodePort): the cluster's nginx ingress runs on
 
 The ingress controller runs with `use-forwarded-headers` **off** (the microk8s
 default — `nginx-load-balancer-microk8s-conf` has no `data`). nginx therefore
-*overwrites* `X-Forwarded-For` and `X-Real-IP` with its own downstream peer,
+_overwrites_ `X-Forwarded-For` and `X-Real-IP` with its own downstream peer,
 which is the VPS's tailnet address `100.67.25.57`. Every visitor would collapse
 into one voter, and since one IP holds at most one active vote per skill, each
 skill would only ever hold a single vote in total — the anti-abuse rule would
@@ -145,8 +150,8 @@ separate votes rather than overwriting one another.
 boundary — CORS restricts which origin's browser code may call the API, not
 which network can reach it.
 
-`replicas: 1` and `strategy: Recreate` are deliberate: the store is one file
-on one `ReadWriteOnce` PVC, so two pods writing it concurrently would race.
-Scale up only after moving the store to something that supports concurrent
-writers (e.g. SQLite on a shared volume with proper locking, or Postgres) —
-not needed at this traffic scale.
+`replicas: 1` and `strategy: Recreate` are deliberate: the store is one file on
+one `ReadWriteOnce` PVC, so two pods writing it concurrently would race. Scale
+up only after moving the store to something that supports concurrent writers
+(e.g. SQLite on a shared volume with proper locking, or Postgres) — not needed
+at this traffic scale.
diff --git a/plans/astro-refactor/HANDOVER.md b/plans/astro-refactor/HANDOVER.md
index 45132a3..0d89b7a 100644
--- a/plans/astro-refactor/HANDOVER.md
+++ b/plans/astro-refactor/HANDOVER.md
@@ -36,8 +36,11 @@ consolidation is not proven visually yet.
 
 **03 — verification net (Codex).** `.agents/scripts/visual-regression.mjs`,
 rendered-text snapshots for all 10 routes, and PNG baselines at 4 widths in
-`.agents/snapshots/before/` and `before-reduced-motion/` (~8 MB, committed on
-purpose — they are the regression baseline).
+`.agents/snapshots/before/` and `before-reduced-motion/`. Those PNGs were
+removed from the working tree after the task-20 cutover: they pictured the
+hand-written site, which no longer exists, `visual-regression.mjs` has no
+compare mode to diff them against, and they were 22 MB.
+`git show d88d8b8:.agents/snapshots/before/` still has them.
 
 **04 — content schema (MiniMax).** `src/content/config.ts` with eight empty
 collections and a strict `localized({en, pt})` helper. No content moved; that is
diff --git a/scripts/verify.mjs b/scripts/verify.mjs
index b736766..a4cb106 100644
--- a/scripts/verify.mjs
+++ b/scripts/verify.mjs
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ const source = {
     read('src/content/providers/gemini.json'),
   ].join('\n'),
   starter: read('public/hands-on/starter/app.js'),
-  voteService: read('vote-service/main.go'),
   ndoReview: read('src/content/reviews/ndo-repro.md'),
 };
 
@@ -430,10 +429,12 @@ if (
   !/\[aria-pressed=["']?true["']?\]/.test(builtCss)
 )
   throw new Error('review vote-widget CSS contract missing');
-if (
-  !source.voteService.includes('X-Forwarded-For') ||
-  !source.voteService.includes('one active vote per skill')
-)
-  throw new Error('vote-service missing IP-based one-vote-per-source contract');
+// The `vote-service` one-vote-per-IP assertion was removed when the service's
+// source left this repository. It read `vote-service/main.go` for
+// `X-Forwarded-For` and `one active vote per skill`; there is no file left to
+// read. The contract still matters -- it is the review desk's only anti-abuse
+// control -- so it has to be re-asserted wherever the service now lives. This
+// is the only assertion this repository has ever dropped, and the count
+// baseline moved 84 -> 83 to record it.
 
 console.log('built output verification passed');
diff --git a/vote-service/Dockerfile b/vote-service/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index e02f2f9..0000000
--- a/vote-service/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-FROM golang:1.22-alpine AS build
-WORKDIR /src
-COPY go.mod ./
-COPY main.go ./
-RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-s -w" -o /out/vote-service . \
- && mkdir -p /out/data
-
-FROM gcr.io/distroless/static-debian12:nonroot
-COPY --from=build /out/vote-service /vote-service
-# distroless has no shell/chown; carry a pre-owned dir from the build stage
-# so the nonroot user (65532) can write votes.json even without a mounted
-# PVC (e.g. local `docker run` smoke tests).
-COPY --from=build --chown=nonroot:nonroot /out/data /data
-VOLUME ["/data"]
-EXPOSE 8080
-ENTRYPOINT ["/vote-service"]
diff --git a/vote-service/deploy/deployment.yaml b/vote-service/deploy/deployment.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f15b342..0000000
--- a/vote-service/deploy/deployment.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-# Namespace, image ref, and storage class confirmed against this cluster
-# (microk8s, 2026-09-04). Image is pushed to Nexus for a durable, off-node
-# copy (docker push localhost:30892/... — see README), but the Deployment
-# below pulls it from the *node's local containerd image store* instead of
-# over the network: kubelet's image pulls run in the host network namespace,
-# which uses this node's public DNS resolver, not cluster CoreDNS, so
-# `nexus-service.nexus.svc.cluster.local` is NOT resolvable for a plain pull
-# (only for in-cluster builders like Kaniko, whose *build* pod runs in pod
-# netns). The `microk8s-hostpath` PVC below also pins every pod to whichever
-# node created it (`ai-workstation`, confirmed via the PV's nodeAffinity), so
-# a single local `ctr image import` of the pushed tar is enough — see
-# vote-service/README.md for the import command. `imagePullPolicy: Never`
-# enforces that: no accidental network pull attempt, no ImagePullBackOff.
-# `ai-for-dummies` did not exist yet as a namespace, so it is created below,
-# matching the one-namespace-per-app pattern every other small app in this
-# cluster uses (judge0, minio, pragent, …). No storageClassName set:
-# microk8s's `hostpath-storage` addon is the default.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Namespace
-metadata:
-  name: ai-for-dummies
----
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: ai-for-dummies-vote
-  namespace: ai-for-dummies
-  labels:
-    app: ai-for-dummies-vote
-spec:
-  replicas: 1 # single replica: the store is one JSON file on one PVC, not a shared DB
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app: ai-for-dummies-vote
-  strategy:
-    type: Recreate # avoid two pods writing the same PVC-backed file at once
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        app: ai-for-dummies-vote
-    spec:
-      # Pinned to `kubernets`: the image is imported straight into that node's
-      # containerd store (see README) and `microk8s-hostpath` PVs carry a
-      # nodeAffinity for whichever node first binds them, so scheduling and
-      # storage must agree on one node. `kubernets` is the control-plane node
-      # that hosts the rest of this cluster's workloads.
-      nodeSelector:
-        kubernetes.io/hostname: kubernets
-      securityContext:
-        fsGroup: 65532 # matches distroless "nonroot" uid/gid; without it the PVC mounts root-owned and the container can't write votes.json
-      containers:
-        - name: vote-service
-          image: localhost:30892/ai-for-dummies-vote-service:latest
-          imagePullPolicy: Never # image is side-loaded via `ctr image import`; never fetch over the network
-          ports:
-            - containerPort: 8080
-          env:
-            - name: PORT
-              value: "8080"
-            - name: VOTE_DB_PATH
-              value: /data/votes.json
-            - name: ALLOWED_ORIGIN
-              value: https://netcracker.pages.marcospaulo.dev.br
-          resources:
-            requests: { cpu: 10m, memory: 16Mi }
-            limits: { cpu: 100m, memory: 64Mi }
-          readinessProbe:
-            httpGet: { path: /healthz, port: 8080 }
-            initialDelaySeconds: 2
-          livenessProbe:
-            httpGet: { path: /healthz, port: 8080 }
-            initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: data
-              mountPath: /data
-          securityContext:
-            runAsNonRoot: true
-            readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-      volumes:
-        - name: data
-          persistentVolumeClaim:
-            claimName: ai-for-dummies-vote-data
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: ai-for-dummies-vote-data
-  namespace: ai-for-dummies
-spec:
-  accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 100Mi
----
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  name: ai-for-dummies-vote
-  namespace: ai-for-dummies
-spec:
-  selector:
-    app: ai-for-dummies-vote
-  ports:
-    - port: 80
-      targetPort: 8080
diff --git a/vote-service/deploy/ingress.yaml b/vote-service/deploy/ingress.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index c1fc7c2..0000000
--- a/vote-service/deploy/ingress.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Public exposure is required: the vote widget runs in each visitor's
-# browser (client-side JS on a static Pages site), so it calls this API
-# straight from the internet — it cannot reach a cluster-internal-only
-# Service. CORS (ALLOWED_ORIGIN in deployment.yaml) is the real boundary:
-# it restricts which origin's browser code may call the API, not which
-# network can reach it.
-#
-# No `tls:` block here on purpose: TLS is terminated upstream by Caddy on the
-# Oracle VPS, which reverse-proxies over Tailscale to this node's port 80
-# (the nginx ingress runs on hostNetwork and routes by Host). That is how all
-# ~21 public hosts in this account are served. Reaching this host publicly
-# needs the DNS record plus the Caddy block — see vote-service/README.md:
-#   cf-dns add ai-for-dummies-vote A 129.148.56.8
-apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
-kind: Ingress
-metadata:
-  name: ai-for-dummies-vote
-  namespace: ai-for-dummies
-spec:
-  ingressClassName: public
-  rules:
-    - host: ai-for-dummies-vote.marcospaulo.dev.br
-      http:
-        paths:
-          - path: /
-            pathType: Prefix
-            backend:
-              service:
-                name: ai-for-dummies-vote
-                port:
-                  number: 80
diff --git a/vote-service/go.mod b/vote-service/go.mod
deleted file mode 100644
index fed0794..0000000
--- a/vote-service/go.mod
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-module github.com/marcospaulo/ai-for-dummies/vote-service
-
-go 1.22
diff --git a/vote-service/main.go b/vote-service/main.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fc0f34..0000000
--- a/vote-service/main.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,270 +0,0 @@
-// Command vote-service is a tiny, dependency-free HTTP API that lets the
-// skills-review page (a static site) collect "prefer original / prefer
-// improved" votes per submitted skill.
-//
-// It is intentionally minimal: one Go binary, no external dependencies, one
-// JSON file on disk as the store. That fits the workshop scale of this
-// feature (dozens of voters, not thousands) and keeps the container image
-// and the Kubernetes footprint small.
-//
-// Vote identity: HTTP does not expose a client's MAC address to a server
-// across the internet (that is a link-layer detail, invisible past the
-// first router), so "same source" is approximated with the caller's IP
-// address, read from X-Forwarded-For / X-Real-IP when the service sits
-// behind an ingress, falling back to the raw remote address. One IP may
-// hold at most one active vote per skill; casting a new choice updates that
-// vote instead of adding a second one. A client-supplied X-Voter-Id header
-// (a random id the frontend keeps in localStorage) is layered on top only
-// to let a browser recognize and display its own prior vote — it is not
-// trusted as the sole anti-abuse signal, since it is trivially resettable.
-package main
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
-	"log"
-	"net"
-	"net/http"
-	"os"
-	"strings"
-	"sync"
-)
-
-type voteChoice string
-
-const (
-	choiceOriginal voteChoice = "original"
-	choiceImproved voteChoice = "improved"
-)
-
-func (c voteChoice) valid() bool { return c == choiceOriginal || c == choiceImproved }
-
-// store is the on-disk vote ledger. voters maps "ip|skillId" -> choice, so a
-// source can change its mind but never stack extra votes. counts is kept in
-// sync for O(1) tally reads.
-type store struct {
-	mu     sync.Mutex
-	path   string
-	Voters map[string]voteChoice         `json:"voters"`
-	Counts map[string]map[voteChoice]int `json:"counts"`
-}
-
-func loadStore(path string) (*store, error) {
-	s := &store{path: path, Voters: map[string]voteChoice{}, Counts: map[string]map[voteChoice]int{}}
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-	if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
-		return s, nil
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	if len(data) == 0 {
-		return s, nil
-	}
-	decoded := struct {
-		Voters map[string]voteChoice `json:"voters"`
-	}{}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &decoded); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	s.Voters = decoded.Voters
-	for key, choice := range s.Voters {
-		skillID := key[strings.IndexByte(key, '|')+1:]
-		s.bump(skillID, choice, 1)
-	}
-	return s, nil
-}
-
-func (s *store) bump(skillID string, choice voteChoice, delta int) {
-	if s.Counts[skillID] == nil {
-		s.Counts[skillID] = map[voteChoice]int{}
-	}
-	s.Counts[skillID][choice] += delta
-}
-
-// cast records one vote from voterKey ("ip|skillId") for skillID, replacing
-// any prior choice from the same key. It persists the ledger before
-// returning so a crash right after never loses an acknowledged vote.
-func (s *store) cast(voterKey, skillID string, choice voteChoice) (tally map[voteChoice]int, err error) {
-	s.mu.Lock()
-	defer s.mu.Unlock()
-	if prev, ok := s.Voters[voterKey]; ok {
-		if prev == choice {
-			return s.snapshot(skillID), nil
-		}
-		s.bump(skillID, prev, -1)
-	}
-	s.Voters[voterKey] = choice
-	s.bump(skillID, choice, 1)
-	if err := s.persist(); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return s.snapshot(skillID), nil
-}
-
-func (s *store) snapshot(skillID string) map[voteChoice]int {
-	tally := map[voteChoice]int{choiceOriginal: 0, choiceImproved: 0}
-	for choice, count := range s.Counts[skillID] {
-		tally[choice] = count
-	}
-	return tally
-}
-
-func (s *store) all() map[string]map[voteChoice]int {
-	s.mu.Lock()
-	defer s.mu.Unlock()
-	out := make(map[string]map[voteChoice]int, len(s.Counts))
-	for skillID := range s.Counts {
-		out[skillID] = s.snapshot(skillID)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func (s *store) persist() error {
-	data, err := json.Marshal(struct {
-		Voters map[string]voteChoice `json:"voters"`
-	}{s.Voters})
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	tmp := s.path + ".tmp"
-	if err := os.WriteFile(tmp, data, 0o600); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return os.Rename(tmp, s.path)
-}
-
-func clientIP(r *http.Request) string {
-	// Set by the edge proxy (Caddy on the VPS) to the true remote address.
-	// The cluster's nginx ingress runs with `use-forwarded-headers` off, so
-	// it *overwrites* X-Forwarded-For / X-Real-IP with its own downstream
-	// peer — the VPS's tailnet address — which would collapse every visitor
-	// into a single voter and cap each skill at one vote overall. nginx
-	// passes this non-standard header through untouched, and Caddy sets it
-	// unconditionally (`header_up`), so a client cannot spoof it from the
-	// public edge. Trust here is exactly the trust already placed in
-	// X-Forwarded-For below.
-	if edge := r.Header.Get("X-Client-IP"); edge != "" {
-		return strings.TrimSpace(strings.Split(edge, ",")[0])
-	}
-	if forwarded := r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-For"); forwarded != "" {
-		return strings.TrimSpace(strings.Split(forwarded, ",")[0])
-	}
-	if real := r.Header.Get("X-Real-IP"); real != "" {
-		return real
-	}
-	host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(r.RemoteAddr)
-	if err != nil {
-		return r.RemoteAddr
-	}
-	return host
-}
-
-func withCORS(allowedOrigin string, next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
-	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", allowedOrigin)
-		w.Header().Set("Vary", "Origin")
-		w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, OPTIONS")
-		w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, X-Voter-Id")
-		if r.Method == http.MethodOptions {
-			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
-			return
-		}
-		next(w, r)
-	}
-}
-
-func main() {
-	dbPath := envOr("VOTE_DB_PATH", "/data/votes.json")
-	allowedOrigin := envOr("ALLOWED_ORIGIN", "https://netcracker.pages.marcospaulo.dev.br")
-	addr := ":" + envOr("PORT", "8080")
-
-	s, err := loadStore(dbPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatalf("load vote store %s: %v", dbPath, err)
-	}
-
-	mux := http.NewServeMux()
-	mux.HandleFunc("/healthz", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) })
-
-	mux.HandleFunc("/api/votes", withCORS(allowedOrigin, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		switch r.Method {
-		case http.MethodGet:
-			handleResults(w, r, s)
-		case http.MethodPost:
-			handleVote(w, r, s)
-		default:
-			http.Error(w, "method not allowed", http.StatusMethodNotAllowed)
-		}
-	}))
-
-	log.Printf("vote-service listening on %s (db=%s, origin=%s)", addr, dbPath, allowedOrigin)
-	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(addr, mux))
-}
-
-// handleResults returns the tally for every skill. When the caller's IP has
-// an existing vote on skillId (query param), it is echoed back as "you" so
-// the frontend can render "you preferred …" without re-submitting a vote.
-func handleResults(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, s *store) {
-	tallies := s.all()
-	skillID := strings.TrimSpace(r.URL.Query().Get("skillId"))
-	payload := map[string]any{"tallies": tallies}
-	if skillID != "" {
-		if choice, ok := s.mine(clientIP(r), skillID); ok {
-			payload["you"] = choice
-		}
-	}
-	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, payload)
-}
-
-func (s *store) mine(ip, skillID string) (voteChoice, bool) {
-	s.mu.Lock()
-	defer s.mu.Unlock()
-	choice, ok := s.Voters[ip+"|"+skillID]
-	return choice, ok
-}
-
-func handleVote(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, s *store) {
-	var body struct {
-		SkillID string     `json:"skillId"`
-		Choice  voteChoice `json:"choice"`
-	}
-	if err := json.NewDecoder(http.MaxBytesReader(w, r.Body, 1<<12)).Decode(&body); err != nil {
-		http.Error(w, "invalid request body", http.StatusBadRequest)
-		return
-	}
-	body.SkillID = strings.TrimSpace(body.SkillID)
-	if body.SkillID == "" || strings.ContainsAny(body.SkillID, "|") || !body.Choice.valid() {
-		http.Error(w, "skillId and a valid choice are required", http.StatusBadRequest)
-		return
-	}
-
-	ip := clientIP(r)
-	voterKey := ip + "|" + body.SkillID
-
-	tally, err := s.cast(voterKey, body.SkillID, body.Choice)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("persist vote: %v", err)
-		http.Error(w, "could not save vote", http.StatusInternalServerError)
-		return
-	}
-	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, map[string]any{
-		"skillId":  body.SkillID,
-		"original": tally[choiceOriginal],
-		"improved": tally[choiceImproved],
-		"you":      body.Choice,
-	})
-}
-
-func writeJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, status int, payload any) {
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-	w.WriteHeader(status)
-	_ = json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(payload)
-}
-
-func envOr(key, fallback string) string {
-	if value := os.Getenv(key); value != "" {
-		return value
-	}
-	return fallback
-}