Add a third auto-loaded kind beside the host and the module: the guest, a reusable definition under guests/ that a host enables like a module and that realizes its interior as a systemd-nspawn nested container. Split the shared base config so a guest can stand on it. base.nix now holds the substrate both bases share — the primary user, home-manager, and the unstable/stable overlays. system.nix keeps the host-only machinery, and a new guest.nix is the slim guest-base: it imports the full modules tree, pins the interior release, and auto-enables the toolkit bundle and SSH so any guest is workable on sight. Give modules.ssh a guest flavor. A host restores its host keys from secrets as before, while a guest sets hostKeys.restore = false, names no sops files, and self-generates a host key, so it holds no age key of its own. The lib grows a guest helper that declares the guests.<path> namespace with an enable and a backend field. Only the container backend is built; microvm is a reserved value that trips a clear build-time assertion rather than silently building nothing. A sample guest exercises the whole path, and neogaia enables it, so the guest interior builds through the existing nix flake check seam.
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