# mimir-inbox

UI front end for large-document / novel / book ingestion into the Muninn KB —
server-side FastAPI + HTMX over the **muninn-gate** API (#377). The submit path
is: **browser → mimir-inbox `/upload` (writes to staging) → path-addressed
`POST /jobs` to the gate**. Bytes never reach the gate; the gate references the
staged file by absolute path, and the watcher opens it **in place** at claim.

- **Upstream:** `git@gitea.phasefinal.com:vh/mimir-inbox.git` (infra-ops owns
  containerization — no Dockerfile upstream).
- **Host:** corviduo-dev `10.250.50.152:8091`, co-located with muninn-gate
  (:8090) and the worldtree-personal muninn watcher. Operator ruled co-location
  2026-08-01 (reversing the earlier off-box/NFS plan); worldtree-dev approved
  the box placement.
- **Posture:** LAN/WG-internal, no TLS, no public exposure (same as the gate).
  No datastore, no migrations, no writable path other than the staging root — a
  restart loses nothing.

## Why co-located (not off-box/NFS)

The watcher opens the staged file **in place** at claim (`core/muninn/runner.py`),
so staging's only hard constraint is **path identity** — the writer, gate, and
watcher must resolve the same absolute string to the same bytes. Co-location on
corviduo-dev buys that outright with one local filesystem and sidesteps the NFS
failure modes (path-identity drift, TOCTOU widening, stale handles, a hung mount
blocking the async staging check on mimir-inbox's event loop). Multi-host stays
viable later behind a same-path shared mount, but co-location is the cheapest
way to path identity.

## Retention rule (load-bearing — INV-MI-19)

Because the watcher opens the file in place, **a staged file must persist from
submit until the job is terminal** (complete, or failed-and-not-retried) — retry
re-runs the structure phase, which re-opens the same staged path. Deleting on
201-submit would kill every retried job at claim with a `not_found` that looks
exactly like a namespace mismatch. `MIMIR_INBOX_STAGING_RETENTION_DAYS` is the
**retry window**, not a tidiness knob; do not tune it down without telling
mimir-dev.

## Config

All runtime config is environment variables — no config file. The real values
(including the bearer-key secret) live in a gitignored `.env` next to
`compose.yaml` on the server (`0600`); the repo carries `.env.example`. Two
DEV-ONLY drift-guard vars (`WORLDTREE_CONFIG_PATH`, `MUNINN_GATE_REPO`) must
**not** be set in the container.

## Deploy

```bash
# 1. Fetch the source at the pinned tag/HEAD onto corviduo-dev, build the image
#    (all deps public PyPI; uv sync --no-dev is load-bearing — see Dockerfile):
docker build -t mimir-inbox:0.0.1 .

# 2. Provision the shared staging root (mimir-inbox-writable, gate+watcher :ro):
sudo install -d -o 1000 -g 1000 -m 0755 /mnt/muninn-staging/mimir-inbox

# 3. Drop the real .env (0600) next to compose.yaml with the bearer key filled
#    from the infra-ops key drop (~/.config/muninn-gate/mimir-inbox-env.sh).

# 4. Bring it up:
docker compose up -d

# 5. muninn-dev's one-file path-agreement probe, then the acceptance run.
```

**Operational guard:** docker fabricates a MISSING bind source as an empty dir
that passes checks — confirm `/mnt/muninn-staging/mimir-inbox` exists on the host
before `up -d` (step 2 does this). The container also fails boot if the staging
root is not writable (`os.access(W_OK)`), so a perms miss surfaces loudly.

## Health

`GET /health-banner` is the HTMX health surface (reflects gate reachability).
The container healthcheck is a **TCP-connect liveness** probe only — it must not
couple to the gate's state, so a gate outage never restarts mimir-inbox.
