diff --git a/Deployment/host.conf.template b/Deployment/host.conf.template
index d9fa539..737cf7f 100644
--- a/Deployment/host.conf.template
+++ b/Deployment/host.conf.template
@@ -124,6 +124,17 @@
 # Create in Gitea: Settings → Applications → Generate Token → scope: write:user
     HOSTN_GITEA_API_TOKEN=""
 
+# ━━━ Bug Reports ━━━
+# Only used when BUG_REPORT_LOCAL_ENABLED=true in master.conf. Reports then go to this Gitea
+# instead of GitHub — and stay there, so they do not reach the Varaverk maintainer.
+#
+# Reached locally or over Tailscale, so the token never crosses the public proxy and no Authelia
+# bypass is needed. It is a credential and lives here rather than master.conf for that reason;
+# it is never shipped, and the settings UI masks it.
+    HOSTN_BUG_REPORT_URL=""      # e.g. http://gitea:3000 or the tailnet name
+    HOSTN_BUG_REPORT_REPO=""     # owner/repo
+    HOSTN_BUG_REPORT_TOKEN=""    # Gitea API token with issue-write on that repo
+
 # ━━━ Notifications ━━━
 # Discord webhook — leave blank to disable.
     HOSTN_DISCORD_WEBHOOK=""
diff --git a/Deployment/master.conf.template b/Deployment/master.conf.template
index 4eece09..5cf36aa 100644
--- a/Deployment/master.conf.template
+++ b/Deployment/master.conf.template
@@ -1922,6 +1922,22 @@
 # anything that in practice means "mine". Matched as literal text, not as patterns.
     AI_CHAT_MY_SYSTEM_PHRASES=""
 
+# ━━━ Bug Reports ━━━
+# A bug the assistant files is written here and goes nowhere until the owner sends it. Nothing is
+# ever transmitted automatically — the report is shown in full, read-only, and sending is a
+# second, separate press.
+#
+# Two destinations, and they are not a fallback chain. Fetching code from several mirrors is
+# harmless because they all serve the same thing; sending a report is not, because the
+# destinations are different people. Local ships OFF so an install that has configured nothing
+# reports upstream rather than silently into a tracker nobody reads.
+#
+# LOCAL ON  — reports go to your own Gitea (see HOSTN_BUG_REPORT_* in host*.conf) and stay there.
+#             They do NOT reach the Varaverk maintainer. Turn it on if you want your own backlog.
+# LOCAL OFF — reports open a prefilled GitHub issue you submit under your own account.
+    BUG_REPORT_LOCAL_ENABLED=false
+    BUG_REPORT_GITHUB_REPO="FailedProxy/Varaverk"
+
 # ━━━ AI Conf Write Access ━━━
 # Separate switch from AI_ENABLED, off by default, and an explicit key whitelist. Never paths,
 # never credentials, never a container name. An empty whitelist means no writes regardless of
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/api/ai.php b/Plugin/unraid/api/ai.php
index c079998..e13ec88 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/api/ai.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/api/ai.php
@@ -382,6 +382,52 @@ if ($action === 'bug_close') {
     exit;
 }
 
+// The report, rendered server-side. Read-only by design: what the operator reviews is byte for
+// byte what gets sent, so approving one text and transmitting another is not possible. It is also
+// the only renderer — the page used to build its own markdown, which is two formats to keep in
+// step and one of them always losing.
+if ($action === 'bug_report') {
+    $id  = trim($_GET['id'] ?? '');
+    $bug = null;
+    foreach (vv_ai_bugs_list(false) as $b) if (($b['id'] ?? '') === $id) { $bug = $b; break; }
+    if (!$bug) { echo json_encode(['ok' => false, 'error' => 'no such report']); exit; }
+
+    $t     = vv_ai_bug_targets();
+    $title = '[' . ($bug['component'] ?? '?') . '] ' . ($bug['summary'] ?? '');
+    echo json_encode([
+        'ok'       => true,
+        'title'    => $title,
+        'markdown' => vv_ai_bug_report($bug),
+        'targets'  => $t,
+        // Built here because the repo name lives here. Length is the caller's problem to notice:
+        // GitHub truncates a very long query rather than refusing it, which would silently send a
+        // half report — so the page checks and falls back to the copy box.
+        'github'   => 'https://github.com/' . $t['github_repo'] . '/issues/new?title='
+                    . rawurlencode($title) . '&body=' . rawurlencode(vv_ai_bug_report($bug)),
+    ]);
+    exit;
+}
+
+// Sends to the operator's own Gitea, and only there. Never falls back to GitHub on failure: the
+// two destinations are different people, and a silent substitution is how a report meant for a
+// private backlog ends up public.
+if ($action === 'bug_send_local') {
+    if (!$isPost) { http_response_code(405); echo json_encode(['ok' => false, 'error' => 'POST only']); exit; }
+    $id  = trim($_POST['id'] ?? '');
+    $bug = null;
+    foreach (vv_ai_bugs_list(false) as $b) if (($b['id'] ?? '') === $id) { $bug = $b; break; }
+    if (!$bug) { echo json_encode(['ok' => false, 'error' => 'no such report']); exit; }
+
+    // Re-rendered from the store rather than taken from the request. The browser showed this text
+    // read-only; accepting a body from the page would make that guarantee decorative.
+    $r = vv_ai_bug_send_local('[' . ($bug['component'] ?? '?') . '] ' . ($bug['summary'] ?? ''),
+                              vv_ai_bug_report($bug));
+    vv_ai_log(sprintf('bug_send_local id=%s %s', $id,
+        $r['ok'] ? 'ok ' . ($r['url'] ?? '') : 'failed: ' . ($r['error'] ?? '?')));
+    echo json_encode($r);
+    exit;
+}
+
 // ── findings / finding_action ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // What the repair sweep found, and the operator's answer to it. include/ai_repair.php is pulled
 // in here rather than at the top of the file: it is the largest include in the plugin and poll
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai.php
index c6e6b80..5f24aa2 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai.php
@@ -1372,6 +1372,73 @@ function vv_ai_bug_report(array $b): string {
     return $out;
 }
 
+// Where a report can go from this install, resolved once so the page and the sender agree.
+//
+// Local is opt-in and off by default, because a default that files into the operator's own
+// tracker means every report from every other install lands somewhere the maintainer never
+// looks — a fallback chain is right for fetching code and wrong for sending a report.
+function vv_ai_bug_targets(): array {
+    $v    = vv_conf_vars();
+    $slot = strtoupper(vv_detect_host());
+    $on   = strtolower(trim($v['BUG_REPORT_LOCAL_ENABLED'] ?? 'false')) === 'true';
+
+    $url   = trim((string) ($v[$slot . '_BUG_REPORT_URL']   ?? ''));
+    $repo  = trim((string) ($v[$slot . '_BUG_REPORT_REPO']  ?? ''));
+    $token = trim((string) ($v[$slot . '_BUG_REPORT_TOKEN'] ?? ''));
+
+    return [
+        // Configured is not the same as enabled: the switch is off but the details are filled in
+        // is a state worth showing, because it is what "why did this go to GitHub" looks like.
+        'local_enabled'    => $on,
+        'local_configured' => $url !== '' && $repo !== '' && $token !== '',
+        'local_url'        => $url,
+        'local_repo'       => $repo,
+        'github_repo'      => trim((string) ($v['BUG_REPORT_GITHUB_REPO'] ?? 'FailedProxy/Varaverk')),
+    ];
+}
+
+// Files the report as an issue on the operator's own Gitea. Only ever reached when the switch is
+// on and the details are present — never as a fallback from a failed GitHub send, because the two
+// go to different people and quietly substituting one for the other is the whole failure mode
+// this design exists to avoid.
+function vv_ai_bug_send_local(string $title, string $body): array {
+    $t = vv_ai_bug_targets();
+    if (!$t['local_enabled'])    return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'local reporting is switched off'];
+    if (!$t['local_configured']) return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'local reporting is on but URL, repo or token is blank'];
+    if (!function_exists('curl_init')) return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'curl is unavailable'];
+
+    $v     = vv_conf_vars();
+    $slot  = strtoupper(vv_detect_host());
+    $token = trim((string) ($v[$slot . '_BUG_REPORT_TOKEN'] ?? ''));
+    $api   = rtrim($t['local_url'], '/') . '/api/v1/repos/' . trim($t['local_repo'], '/') . '/issues';
+
+    $ch = curl_init($api);
+    curl_setopt_array($ch, [
+        CURLOPT_POST           => true,
+        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ['Content-Type: application/json',
+                                   'Authorization: token ' . $token],
+        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => json_encode(['title' => $title, 'body' => $body]),
+        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
+        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 15,
+        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 5,
+        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
+    ]);
+    $resp = curl_exec($ch);
+    $code = (int) curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+    $err  = curl_error($ch);
+    curl_close($ch);
+
+    if ($resp === false)       return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'could not reach Gitea: ' . $err];
+    if ($code === 401 || $code === 403) return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'Gitea refused the token (HTTP ' . $code . ')'];
+    if ($code === 404)         return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'Gitea has no such repo (HTTP 404) — check the owner/repo'];
+    if ($code < 200 || $code >= 300) return ['ok' => false, 'error' => 'Gitea returned HTTP ' . $code];
+
+    $d = json_decode((string) $resp, true);
+    // The URL back is the whole point of sending server-side rather than opening a form: it is
+    // proof the issue exists, and somewhere to go and look at it.
+    return ['ok' => true, 'url' => $d['html_url'] ?? '', 'number' => $d['number'] ?? null];
+}
+
 // Best effort, and blank rather than wrong. /etc/unraid-version is a shell assignment; on
 // anything that is not Unraid there is simply no file and the report says "?".
 function vv_ai_bug_unraid_version(): string {
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/pages/ai.php b/Plugin/unraid/pages/ai.php
index c1c5b39..942a0e4 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/pages/ai.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/pages/ai.php
@@ -319,6 +319,20 @@ if (is_dir('/var/log/varaverk')) {
       </div>
       <div id="vv-ai-bugs"></div>
       <!-- Manual-copy fallback for plain-http WebGUIs, where the clipboard API is unavailable. -->
+      <!-- Review, then send. The box is readonly because the text shown here is the text that
+           goes — the server re-renders from the store rather than accepting a body from the page,
+           so an editable box would only create a gap between what was approved and what was sent.
+           Sending is a separate press from building, and nothing leaves on its own. -->
+      <div id="vv-ai-bug-send" style="display:none;margin-top:8px;">
+        <div style="display:flex;gap:8px;align-items:center;flex-wrap:wrap;">
+          <button class="vv-ai-btn" id="vv-ai-bug-local" type="button"
+                  style="display:none" onclick="vvAiBugSendLocal(this)">Send to Gitea</button>
+          <button class="vv-ai-btn" id="vv-ai-bug-github" type="button"
+                  onclick="vvAiBugGithub()">Open a GitHub issue</button>
+          <button class="vv-ai-btn ghost" type="button" onclick="vvAiBugCopy()">Copy</button>
+        </div>
+        <div class="vv-ai-set-d" id="vv-ai-bug-dest" style="margin-top:6px;"></div>
+      </div>
       <textarea id="vv-ai-bug-copybox" class="vv-ai-input" rows="8" readonly spellcheck="false"
                 style="display:none;margin-top:8px" onclick="this.select()"></textarea>
     </div>
@@ -616,7 +630,8 @@ vv_ai_chat_markup('vv-ai', [
 
   function renderBugs(bugs) {
     const wrap = $('vv-ai-bugs-wrap');
-    vvBugs = bugs;
+    // The list used to be cached here for the page's own markdown builder. The server renders the
+    // report now, fetched by id, so there is nothing left to keep.
     if (!bugs.length) { wrap.style.display = 'none'; return; }
     wrap.style.display = '';
     $('vv-ai-bugs-sum').innerHTML =
@@ -631,7 +646,7 @@ vv_ai_chat_markup('vv-ai', [
           <span class="vv-ai-bug-m">${esc(b.id)}${esc(seen)} · ${esc(when)}${
             b.context && b.context.verified === null
               ? ' · <span class="vv-ai-warn">evidence unverified</span>' : ''}</span>
-          <button class="vv-ai-btn ghost" onclick="vvAiBugCopy('${esc(b.id)}')">Copy issue</button>
+          <button class="vv-ai-btn" onclick="vvAiBugReport('${esc(b.id)}')">Report…</button>
           <button class="vv-ai-btn ghost" onclick="vvAiBugClose('${esc(b.id)}')">Dismiss</button>
         </div>
         <div class="vv-ai-bug-s">${esc(b.summary)}</div>
@@ -642,46 +657,90 @@ vv_ai_chat_markup('vv-ai', [
     }).join('');
   }
 
-  // Copy out, never transmit. The operator reads the text before it goes anywhere, which is the
-  // whole reason this is a button and not a webhook — evidence is quoted log lines, and Varaverk
-  // logs carry share names, container names and paths. Redaction by inspection beats redaction
-  // by rule, and it cannot be unpublished later.
-  let vvBugs = [];
+  // The report itself is rendered by the server — see api/ai.php?action=bug_report. This page
+  // used to build its own markdown, which meant two formats for the same thing and no way to
+  // tell which one a given issue had been filed with.
+  //
+  // Read-only on purpose. What is reviewed is byte for byte what is sent, so there is no gap
+  // between the text approved and the text transmitted — and the server re-renders from the
+  // store when sending rather than trusting anything the page hands back.
+  window.vvAiBugReport = function (id) {
+    const box = document.getElementById('vv-ai-bug-copybox');
+    const bar = document.getElementById('vv-ai-bug-send');
+    box.value = 'Loading…'; box.style.display = ''; bar.style.display = 'none';
 
-  function vvAiBugMarkdown(b) {
-    const d = t => t ? new Date(t * 1000).toISOString().slice(0, 10) : '—';
-    return `### ${b.component} — ${b.summary}\n\n`
-         + `| | |\n|---|---|\n`
-         + `| Component | \`${b.component}\` |\n`
-         + `| Varaverk | \`${b.commit || 'unknown'}\` |\n`
-         + `| Host slot | ${b.host || '—'} |\n`
-         + `| Seen | ${b.seen}× · ${d(b.first)} → ${d(b.last)} |\n\n`
-         + `**Evidence**\n\n\`\`\`\n${b.evidence}\n\`\`\`\n\n`
-         + (b.context && b.context.asked ? `**Asked while diagnosing:** ${b.context.asked}\n\n` : '')
-         + (b.context && b.context.log ? `**Log:** \`${b.context.log}\`\n\n` : '')
-         + `_Filed automatically by the Varaverk assistant. Report ${b.id}._\n`;
-  }
+    fetch(API + '?action=bug_report&id=' + encodeURIComponent(id))
+      .then(r => r.json())
+      .then(d => {
+        if (!d.ok) throw new Error(d.error || 'could not build the report');
+        box.value = d.markdown;
+        bar.dataset.id  = id;
+        bar.dataset.url = d.github;
+        bar.style.display = '';
 
-  window.vvAiBugCopy = function (id) {
-    const b = vvBugs.find(x => x.id === id);
-    if (!b) return;
-    const text = vvAiBugMarkdown(b);
-    const done = ok => {
-      const btn = event && event.target;
-      if (btn) { btn.textContent = ok ? 'Copied' : 'Select below'; setTimeout(() => btn.textContent = 'Copy issue', 1800); }
-      if (!ok) {
-        // The clipboard API needs a secure context and the WebGUI is often plain http on the
-        // LAN. Falling back to a selectable box means the button always does something useful
-        // rather than failing silently on exactly the setups this is built for.
-        const box = document.getElementById('vv-ai-bug-copybox');
-        box.style.display = ''; box.value = text; box.focus(); box.select();
-      }
-    };
-    if (navigator.clipboard && window.isSecureContext) {
-      navigator.clipboard.writeText(text).then(() => done(true)).catch(() => done(false));
-    } else {
-      done(false);
+        const t = d.targets || {};
+        const local = $('vv-ai-bug-local'), gh = $('vv-ai-bug-github');
+        // Only offered where it can actually work. A button that reports "local reporting is
+        // switched off" after being pressed is a button that should not have been drawn.
+        local.style.display = (t.local_enabled && t.local_configured) ? '' : 'none';
+        local.textContent   = 'Send to ' + (t.local_repo || 'Gitea');
+        // GitHub is the path when local is off — and stays available when it is on, because
+        // "my own backlog" and "tell the maintainer" are different intentions, not a fallback.
+        gh.style.display = '';
+        $('vv-ai-bug-dest').textContent = t.local_enabled
+          ? (t.local_configured
+               ? 'Local reporting is on — this stays on your Gitea and does not reach the maintainer.'
+               : 'Local reporting is on but URL, repo or token is blank, so only GitHub is available.')
+          : 'Opens a prefilled issue you submit under your own GitHub account.';
+        box.focus(); box.select();
+      })
+      .catch(e => { box.value = 'Could not build the report: ' + (e.message || e); });
+  };
+
+  window.vvAiBugSendLocal = function (btn) {
+    const bar = document.getElementById('vv-ai-bug-send');
+    const out = $('vv-ai-bug-dest');
+    btn.disabled = true;
+    out.textContent = 'sending…';
+    // URLSearchParams, not FormData — a multipart POST to this endpoint hangs with no status.
+    fetch(API, { method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8' },
+      body: new URLSearchParams({ action: 'bug_send_local', id: bar.dataset.id }) })
+      .then(r => r.json())
+      .then(d => {
+        btn.disabled = false;
+        if (!d.ok) { out.innerHTML = `<span class="vv-ai-bad">${esc(d.error || 'failed')}</span>`; return; }
+        // The issue URL is the receipt. Without it "sent" is just a word the page chose.
+        out.innerHTML = d.url
+          ? `<span class="vv-ai-ok">filed:</span> <a href="${esc(d.url)}" target="_blank"
+             rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:#7d9be8">${esc(d.url)}</a>`
+          : '<span class="vv-ai-ok">filed</span>';
+      })
+      .catch(e => { btn.disabled = false; out.innerHTML = `<span class="vv-ai-bad">${esc(String(e))}</span>`; });
+  };
+
+  window.vvAiBugGithub = function () {
+    const bar = document.getElementById('vv-ai-bug-send');
+    const url = bar.dataset.url || '';
+    // GitHub silently truncates an over-long query rather than refusing it, which would file half
+    // a report and look like it worked. Past that length the copy box is the honest path.
+    if (url.length > 7500) {
+      $('vv-ai-bug-dest').innerHTML =
+        '<span class="vv-ai-warn">Too long for a prefilled URL — copy the text above into a new '
+        + 'issue instead.</span>';
+      return;
     }
+    window.open(url, '_blank', 'noopener,noreferrer');
+  };
+
+  // Kept because the clipboard API needs a secure context and the WebGUI is often plain http on
+  // the LAN — on exactly the setups this is built for, the box is the path that works.
+  window.vvAiBugCopy = function (id) {
+    const box = document.getElementById('vv-ai-bug-copybox');
+    if (!box.value || box.style.display === 'none') { vvAiBugReport(id); return; }
+    if (navigator.clipboard && window.isSecureContext) {
+      navigator.clipboard.writeText(box.value).catch(() => { box.focus(); box.select(); });
+    } else { box.focus(); box.select(); }
   };
 
   window.vvAiBugClose = function (id) {
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/pages/readme/ui-map.md b/Plugin/unraid/pages/readme/ui-map.md
index e43f86d..a22cc1c 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/pages/readme/ui-map.md
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/pages/readme/ui-map.md
@@ -66,6 +66,18 @@ Saved into `host1.conf`, which does not need to be opened by hand.
 |---|---|---|---|
 | `HOST1_BACKUP_VERIFY_SHARES` | a list, one entry per line | in this section | Leave empty to use HOST1_DAILY_SYNC_SHARES automatically. |
 
+## Bug Reports
+
+Route: Settings tab → All settings → *Bug Reports*
+
+Saved into `host1.conf`, which does not need to be opened by hand.
+
+| Setting | Control | Where | What it does |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `HOST1_BUG_REPORT_URL` | a text box | in this section | e.g. http://gitea:3000 or the tailnet name |
+| `HOST1_BUG_REPORT_REPO` | a text box | in this section | owner/repo |
+| `HOST1_BUG_REPORT_TOKEN` | a masked box with a **Show** button | in this section | Gitea API token with issue-write on that repo |
+
 ## Certificate Monitor
 
 Reachable from:
@@ -1143,6 +1155,17 @@ Saved into `master.conf`, which does not need to be opened by hand.
 | `ARR_RECOVERY_STATS` | a text box | in this section | blocklist + re-search stats |
 | `ARR_RECOVERY_FAILURE_COUNTS` | a text box | in this section | per-item chronic-failure tracking |
 
+## Bug Reports
+
+Route: Settings tab → All settings → *Bug Reports*
+
+Saved into `master.conf`, which does not need to be opened by hand.
+
+| Setting | Control | Where | What it does |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `BUG_REPORT_LOCAL_ENABLED` | a switch | in this section | LOCAL ON — reports go to your own Gitea (HOST1_BUG_REPORT_* in host1.conf) and stay there. They do NOT reach the Varaverk maintainer. LOCAL OFF — reports open a prefilled GitHub issue you submit under your own account. Nothing is ever transmitted automatically: the report is shown read-only and sending is a separate press. |
+| `BUG_REPORT_GITHUB_REPO` | a text box | in this section | — |
+
 ## Certificate Monitor
 
 Reachable from: