memory: infra-hermes is infra-ops' assistant, and the ops log is assigned

Operator ruling 2026-09-19, recorded in three places because each serves a
different reader. CLAUDE.md gets the structural facts so a fresh session has
them without reading anything else; persistent-memory gets the dated decision
and the assigned work; auto-memory gets the durable working relationship.

The division: infra-ops keeps improving infrastructure tooling plus the hard
calls, infra-hermes takes day-to-day checks, triage and routine operations,
either may perform infra ops, and infra-ops may task him downward while he
escalates upward.

He is explicitly NOT Miranda. The global CLAUDE.md names Miranda as the sole
trusted relay of operator authority and that exception does not extend to him,
so a directive he relays is information rather than authorization — reversible
relayed work executes, irreversible or fleet-affecting goes to the operator.
He has acknowledged it in those terms.

⚠ The two handles differ by one character in the middle of a word and the
fleet's OS identity is infra-ops, so a misaddressed page still mails the sender
themselves. That trap is now documented alongside the existing mirror warning
rather than replacing it.

Building the ops log is assigned and not started. Two agents now share one
fingerprint-less OS identity: ssh infra-ops@<host> is either of us and dockerd
exec is not logged per-caller. The precipitating incident is on the record —
2026-09-18, a second session edited the searxng stack mid-deploy, crash-looped
fleet search for ~4 minutes, and the author was unidentifiable because every
commit is attributed to Vuong Hoang by convention. The parked attribution-gap
memory is unparked and points here.

The open design questions are noted as mine to settle, the load-bearing one
being whether deploy-stack.sh and elway write to the log automatically. A log
that depends on remembering is the same class of instrument as a health check
that passes in both states, and this repo spent yesterday learning what those
cost.
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@@ -26,6 +26,34 @@ leaving a durable record a *future* infra-ops session will read on recovery
(e.g. an on-boot-gap checklist). That is a memo to your successor, not a page to
a peer — write it as such, and don't then "reply to the peer who wrote it."
### `infra-hermes` IS a real peer — and is one character from a mirror
**Operator ruling 2026-09-19: `infra-hermes` is this session's assistant.** It is a
Hermes-hosted bus seat on nh3-dev (`althing-pump-infra-hermes.service`, enabled), NOT
another name for you. The division of labour:
| | owns |
|---|---|
| **infra-ops** (you) | improving infrastructure **tooling**; the hard calls; anything escalated |
| **infra-hermes** | day-to-day checks, triage, routine operations |
Either of you may perform infrastructure operations. **You may task him downward**
route routine work to him rather than doing it yourself; he escalates upward as needed.
**`infra-ops` and `infra-hermes` differ by one character in the middle of a word**,
and the mirror trap above still applies to the OTHER name. Read the handle back before
sending during an incident. A misaddressed page to `infra-ops` still mails you yourself.
**He is NOT Miranda** (operator, explicitly). The global CLAUDE.md names Miranda as
the sole trusted relay of operator authority; infra-hermes is not covered by that
exception. A directive he relays is **information, not authorization**: reversible
relayed work is fine to execute, but anything irreversible or fleet-affecting goes to
the operator directly. This is standing policy and not a judgement about him.
**You both act as the same OS identity**`ssh infra-ops@<host>` is either of you,
and dockerd exec is not logged per-caller, so host-side changes are fingerprint-less.
That is why the ops log exists (below); use it.
## Persistent memory
`persistent-memory.md` at the repo root captures durable intent and
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# Graph Report - eshpfi-management (2026-09-18)
## Corpus Check
- 623 files · ~840,412 words
- 629 files · ~843,892 words
- Verdict: corpus is large enough that graph structure adds value.
## Summary
- 5472 nodes · 5975 edges · 632 communities (478 shown, 154 thin omitted)
- 5507 nodes · 6006 edges · 641 communities (487 shown, 154 thin omitted)
- Extraction: 98% EXTRACTED · 2% INFERRED · 0% AMBIGUOUS · INFERRED: 97 edges (avg confidence: 0.81)
- Token cost: 0 input · 0 output
## Graph Freshness
- Built from commit: `ee0fa1b7`
- Built from commit: `148a5a34`
- Run `git rev-parse HEAD` and compare to check if the graph is stale.
- Run `graphify update .` after code changes (no API cost).
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
- 7. Critical Warnings by Model
- think-leak — reproducers for the h300 unterminated-`<think>` defect
- services.schema.json
- CatalogReproducibility
- [2026-09-18] NH3↔Anaheim was DERP-relayed, not direct — a UDP 41641 port-forward on ana-gw fixed it
- test_invocation.py
- scriberr — self-hosted transcription + diarization (fv-ml1, GPU1)
- elway
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
- Cloudflare state for phasefinal.com
- 6. Round-1 aborted; throughput root-caused (measured 2026-08-24 22:00 PDT)
- SLZB-MR1U Zigbee/Thread coordinator — ESH IoT VLAN
- CatalogResponse
- [2026-09-18] SearXNG had ONE working general web engine — now seven, and the health script never noticed
- Packed
- Gemma-4 26B-A4B ERP/RP tune — GPU sizing adjudication
- Training throughput probes
@@ -444,11 +444,11 @@
- `[2026-09-04]` `gen` moved to ana-ml2 GPU0 — and I sized it against the wrong number, twice in one hour
- launch-run-03c.sh
- `[2026-09-04]` Forcing 10G on the ESH-Media DAC FAILED progressively — and I called the plateau too early
- .submit
- gpu.py
- `[2026-09-04]` esh-nas SMB account for the AudioGridder box — and the NAS is effectively open to the whole LAN
- remote-ssh
- verify_corpus.py
- max
- [2026-09-18] althing search returned ZERO for every hyphenated query — silently, for everyone
- booth
- tok_repro.py
- wrap_verbatim_html
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@
- 2026-09-08-yt-voice-clipper-back-up.md
- 2026-09-09-erp-run-7-failed-the-safety.md
- svos_miranda Hermes plugin — validation pass (2026-09-15)
- step
- [2026-09-18] FleetTools — one capability index, autoloaded by three agent families
- Claude-Code-only tooling
- dockge
- fablefusion-charrp-probe — THROWAWAY evaluation seat (fv-ml1 GPU1)
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
- irv-ml1 dead-address sweep — EXECUTED 2026-09-15 (operator-directed)
- fv-mesh-watchdog.sh
- grok-token-broker
- mime
- CatalogService
- kb
- 2026-09-10-an-author-voice-adapter-transfers-subject.md
- 2026-09-10-babybronte-h02-adapter-the-voice-transferred.md
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@
- breeze-tts sizing and the fv-ml1 GPU 0 placement question (2026-09-15)
- 2026-09-15-client-abandon-cancellation-boundary.md
- gender_by_proximity.py
- mime_from_field
- accepted_types
- verify_quant.py
- [2026-08-24] ESH DNS fixed at the IPv6 layer, and the naming scheme went live
- booth/app.py
@@ -587,17 +587,17 @@
- description
- score_beats.py
- Direct inference seats + the Asset Engine control plane
- optional
- catalog_version
- LiteLLM gateway — the fleet's OpenAI-compatible front door
- Fleet SSH — the infra-ops identity and host map
- build_beat_fixture.py
- The Booth — ephemeral media board + operator decisions
- options
- min
- $ref
- category
- properties
- pin_known_gender.py
- Speech — TTS and ASR endpoints
- output_field
- content_type
- repair_corpus_bronte.py
- 2026-09-16-grok-broker-shelved.md
- 2026-09-17-lv-bronte-gate.md
@@ -610,6 +610,8 @@
- voice-prep.py
- althing — inter-agent message bus
- sanitize_tts_text
- fields
- generated_at
- apply_gender_overrides.py
- rename.py
- elway — SSH playbook runner (CHANGING things)
@@ -620,6 +622,13 @@
- henge.md
- playwright.md
- _cli
- license_warning
- method
- streamable
- estimated_latency
- host
- lifecycle
- version
## God Nodes (most connected - your core abstractions)
1. ``[2026-09-01]` althing 3.2.0 deployed on nh3-dev — pane routes, and `uv tool install .` lies` - 36 edges
@@ -642,13 +651,13 @@
stacks/zonos/adapter/server.py → services/coldfusion-abliteration/kl_divergence.py
- `build_gallery()` --calls--> `is_ask_file()` [INFERRED]
services/booth/booth/app.py → services/booth/booth/asks.py
- `list_booths()` --calls--> `is_ask_file()` [INFERRED]
- `build_gallery()` --calls--> `is_answer_file()` [INFERRED]
services/booth/booth/app.py → services/booth/booth/asks.py
## Import Cycles
- None detected.
## Communities (632 total, 154 thin omitted)
## Communities (641 total, 154 thin omitted)
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Nodes (29): ana-docker (VM 10.250.50.70), ana-filebot (CT 112 on pfi-pve) — file automation, ana-nas (CT 109 on pfi-pve, 10.250.50.50), ana-wg (CT 113 on pfi-pve) — WireGuard VPN, Cross-cutting: what to check FIRST for ambiguous outages, esh-docker-vm + vm-esh-nas, esh-pve + esh-pve-nas (10.0.250.35 + 10.0.50.55), Fleet disaster-recovery runbook (+21 more)
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### Community 6 - "1. Locked architectural decisions"
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### Community 14 - "properties"
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Nodes (11): anyOf, default, title, properties, default, title, title, type (+3 more)
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Nodes (33): is_kept(), True if this booth carries the keep sentinel and must never be swept., Releasing something already released is a no-op, not a 500., Reversible: the release step must not be a one-way door., Both mutating routes must use resolve_booth, not raw path joining. A name…, It is a dotfile, so it must not inflate the item count or become a tile., test_booth_autogallery_renders_media(), test_delete_api_wipes() (+25 more)
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Nodes (13): properties, title, type, $ref, title, type, endpoint, model (+5 more)
### Community 88 - "Dia / Dia2"
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Nodes (6): Adapter request (example), Deploy, Notes, Two surfaces: Gradio eval (8199) + REST adapter (8203), Why this stack exists, Zonos
### Community 108 - "test_asks.py"
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Nodes (15): build_gallery(), doc_kind(), markdown' | 'text' | None — a booth file viewable as a readable page., (rendered, is_html). Markdown → HTML (fenced code, tables, sane lists); plain…, Files in a booth as render items, with caption sidecars folded in. A…, render_doc(), test_gallery_hides_ask_and_answer_files(), test_build_gallery_folds_caption_sidecars() (+7 more)
### Community 139 - "lv-mccarthy — corpus → gate → pairs"
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Nodes (8): Did our abliteration cause it? No — the base did (~83% / ~17%), Resolution — Cold-Fusion abandoned, seat rolled back to `heresy` (2026-08-21), Scripts, The fix, The trigger is TEMPERATURE, not presence_penalty, think-leak — reproducers for the h300 unterminated-`<think>` defect, Using these on any future seat, What actually happens
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### Community 143 - "CatalogReproducibility"
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### Community 143 - "[2026-09-18] NH3↔Anaheim was DERP-relayed, not direct — a UDP 41641 port-forward on ana-gw fixed it"
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Nodes (12): [2026-09-18] `.internal` DNS was failing ~10% of lookups — two causes, both fleet-wide, End-to-end, the original symptom, Fault 1 — a PUBLIC resolver was the fallback for a PRIVATE zone, Fault 2 — THE ROOT CAUSE: AdGuard rate-limiting, identical on all three, What this says about monitoring, [2026-09-18] NH3↔Anaheim was DERP-relayed, not direct — a UDP 41641 port-forward on ana-gw fixed it, How it surfaced, and how it did NOT, Measured before → after (+4 more)
### Community 144 - "test_invocation.py"
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Nodes (12): 1. The MTP head is abliterated *in-band*, 2. The vision tower is preserved byte-identical, Abliteration recipe — Qwen3.8-27B (MTP-aware, vision-preserving), How this maps onto our pipeline, Measured behaviour (their numbers, for reference), Provenance, Refusal-direction selection, The attention-sink dimension — the one that bricks the model (+4 more)
### Community 190 - "JobManager"
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Nodes (7): Popen, Path, Job, JobManager, _pid_alive(), Singleton owner of the one active job + retained history. Thread-safe., Phase 2 publish step: COPY the succeeded LoRA into ComfyUI's loras search path a
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Nodes (8): Popen, Path, Job, JobManager, _pid_alive(), Singleton owner of the one active job + retained history. Thread-safe., Start a train. Raises InvalidTrainRequest (→422) or Busy (→409)., Phase 2 publish step: COPY the succeeded LoRA into ComfyUI's loras search path a
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Nodes (34): order_for_display(), parse_link_entries(), Board rows for the web view: pinned first, then newest-first in each group.…, Rows of the standing link board, newest last (posting order). Non-matching…, _board(), _body(), The whole reason for the sidecar: links.md stays untouched by a pin, so it…, Callers that want the file-order view (the CLI) must not see a `pinned` key… (+26 more)
### Community 228 - "~26k"
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### Community 327 - "worker/app.py"
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Nodes (13): get_gpu_status(), FastAPI surface for the LoRA training worker (§4.1 API — arbo is the client). E, Static configuration for the LoRA training worker. Everything load-bearing is a, _bus_id_by_index(), _cmdline(), gpu_status(), _query_compute_apps(), _query_devices() (+5 more)
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Nodes (10): RuntimeError, get_gpu_status(), post_train(), FastAPI surface for the LoRA training worker (§4.1 API — arbo is the client). E, TrainRequest, Static configuration for the LoRA training worker. Everything load-bearing is a, LoRA training worker — a host service (runs as llmuser on irv-ml1) that runs sd-, Busy (+2 more)
### Community 329 - "Beszel fleet monitoring"
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### Community 338 - "archival-memory.md"
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### Community 380 - "CatalogResponse"
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### Community 380 - "[2026-09-18] SearXNG had ONE working general web engine — now seven, and the health script never noticed"
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Nodes (10): [2026-09-18] SearXNG's ESH SOCKS5 egress — one day live, reverted, and it fixed nothing, The transferable lesson, What was built, because it was built correctly, Why it was reverted, and why the STATED reason was wrong, [2026-09-18] SearXNG had ONE working general web engine — now seven, and the health script never noticed, ⚠ Still open: the health script cannot see any of this, The fix, The root cause, which is subtler than "engines were disabled" (+2 more)
### Community 381 - "Packed"
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### Community 431 - "remove_link_entry"
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Nodes (21): link_entry_id(), Path, Standing link board: parse and prune the multi-writer link log. STDLIB ONLY, ON…, Atomic replace of the pins file. Caller must hold the board lock., Pinned entry ids for a board. Missing file → empty set. Lock-free: a set read…, Flip one row's pinned state. Returns the NEW state (True = now pinned). Held…, Stable short id for a board row. Content-addressed, so it survives concurrent…, Remove one row by content id. Returns the removed entry, or None. Held under an… (+13 more)
### Community 432 - "OPNsense API — vendored reference + field-shape notes"
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Nodes (3): `[2026-09-05]` A peer's "2.7x stack effect" was a coin flip — the operator caught it and the arithmetic is worth keeping, `[2026-09-04/05]` vLLM RUNS on sm_121 — and the blocker was `ninja` not being on PATH, not the silicon, Run 4 — the corpus arm
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### Community 445 - "`[2026-09-15]` ESPHome modernised for ha-dev; `kb` search tool for the personal Worldtree KB"
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Nodes (26): `[2026-09-10]` MeroMero — both quants landed; the v2 dense took five attempts, A4B — SUCCEEDED, MTP — checked on the SOURCES, not inferred, Published quants: none of them are our scheme, Still owed, The A4B reached a live seat while broken — and looked healthy doing it, The attempt-4 trap — the toolchain moved, the config was fine, The family, because I got it wrong first (+18 more)
### Community 450 - "Current state / in-flight"
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Nodes (16): Current state / in-flight, DONE: lv-mccarthy D4 pairs built — NEXT is `train_pairs_lora.py`, ESH is on Verizon failover — Cityside Fiber failed twice on 2026-09-16, Older deferred set, unchanged, OPEN for the operator, OPEN LOOP — `ravenpen.com`, and a reply hamr-dev is waiting on, ⛔ PARKED — `lv-krakauer` (operator, 2026-09-17), henge id **82**, Persistent memory — eshpfi-management (+8 more)
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Nodes (12): Current state / in-flight, ⚠ FIRST — lv-mccarthy's run outcome is UNVERIFIED by this session, OPEN LOOP — `ravenpen.com`, and a reply hamr-dev is waiting on, Other standing items, unchanged, Persistent memory — eshpfi-management, PLANNED (operator) — move `dragonfireacoustics.com` to Namecheap, DNS to Cloudflare, Recent decisions, Repo purpose (+4 more)
### Community 451 - "`[2026-09-04]` `gen` moved to ana-ml2 GPU0 — and I sized it against the wrong number, twice in one hour"
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### Community 454 - ".submit"
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Nodes (4): RuntimeError, Busy, Start a train. Raises InvalidTrainRequest (→422) or Busy (→409)., A second train was dispatched while one is active → HTTP 409.
### Community 454 - "gpu.py"
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Nodes (8): _bus_id_by_index(), _cmdline(), gpu_status(), _query_compute_apps(), _query_devices(), GPU status for arbo's device-aware scheduler (GET /gpu-status). arbo steers a l, Return `{devices: [...], tts_on_3090: bool}`. Degrades to an error field on nvid, _run()
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### Community 458 - "[2026-09-18] althing search returned ZERO for every hyphenated query — silently, for everyone"
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Nodes (16): additionalProperties, description, required, title, type, additionalProperties, title, type (+8 more)
Nodes (17): additionalProperties, description, required, title, type, additionalProperties, title, type (+9 more)
### Community 529 - "Does MTP actually hurt Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on one Blackwell card?"
Cohesion: 0.29
@@ -2294,9 +2303,9 @@ Nodes (5): Also, Arbo — catalog-driven image generation engine, Character Stud
Cohesion: 0.17
Nodes (11): A false finding I caught on myself, ⚠⚠ `agent.disabled_toolsets` is GLOBAL — it would have cost 26 tools fleet-wide, ENABLED in config 2026-09-15 (operator-directed), ✅✅ FULLY LIVE 2026-09-15 02:17 — SVOS restarted, roster verified both ends, ✅ LIVE 2026-09-15 02:10 — gateway restarted, plugin registered, Roster verified another way, svos_miranda Hermes plugin — validation pass (2026-09-15), The blocker (found, fixed by svos-dev at `c964e64`) (+3 more)
### Community 547 - "step"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): step, anyOf, default, title
### Community 547 - "[2026-09-18] FleetTools — one capability index, autoloaded by three agent families"
Cohesion: 0.33
Nodes (5): [2026-09-18] FleetTools — one capability index, autoloaded by three agent families, Autoload — verified per family, not assumed, Rule zero, which is the load-bearing part, Shape, The CLAUDE.md swap
### Community 548 - "Claude-Code-only tooling"
Cohesion: 0.33
@@ -2330,9 +2339,9 @@ Nodes (6): ⚠⚠ FOUR MORE LIVE BREAKAGES on OTHER hosts — the sweep's real f
Cohesion: 0.29
Nodes (6): Current state — ⛔ SHELVED, deliberately, 2026-09-16, For a consumer, grok-token-broker, Invariants, The problem, ⛔ Why the loop is disarmed until measured
### Community 564 - "mime"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, mime
### Community 564 - "CatalogService"
Cohesion: 0.40
Nodes (5): additionalProperties, required, title, type, CatalogService
### Community 582 - "build_corpus_hemingway.py"
Cohesion: 0.20
@@ -2354,9 +2363,9 @@ Nodes (8): breeze-tts sizing and the fv-ml1 GPU 0 placement question (2026-09-15
Cohesion: 0.31
Nodes (9): decide(), load_text(), main(), Path, D2b for BabyHemingway: resolve entity gender by MAJORITY VOTE over nearby…, One pass over the corpus for EVERY surface at once. The obvious shape -- rescan…, Score a name's local pronoun mix AGAINST THE CORPUS BASE RATE, not against…, score() (+1 more)
### Community 590 - "mime_from_field"
### Community 590 - "accepted_types"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, mime_from_field
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, accepted_types
### Community 591 - "verify_quant.py"
Cohesion: 0.40
@@ -2367,8 +2376,8 @@ Cohesion: 0.40
Nodes (5): [2026-08-24] ESH DNS fixed at the IPv6 layer, and the naming scheme went live, Root cause, The naming scheme became real, The three wrong turns, What landed
### Community 593 - "booth/app.py"
Cohesion: 0.10
Nodes (22): fixture, create_app(), _from_env(), human_dur(), The Booth — a standing web server that renders drop-folders as ephemeral media…, A Content-Disposition-safe `<booth>.zip` (strip quotes/control chars)., Reduce a client-supplied filename to a safe basename (no path, no hidden)., safe_upload_name() (+14 more)
Cohesion: 0.07
Nodes (30): fixture, booth_image_names(), classify(), create_app(), generate_pickup_id(), human_dur(), The Booth — a standing web server that renders drop-folders as ephemeral media…, Image files in a booth, in gallery (sorted-rel) order — for viewer prev/next. (+22 more)
### Community 596 - "description"
Cohesion: 0.50
@@ -2382,9 +2391,9 @@ Nodes (7): load(), main(), per_seed(), Score beat arms against a decision rule f
Cohesion: 0.33
Nodes (5): Asset Engine — `http://10.250.50.70:8200`, Direct inference seats + the Asset Engine control plane, GPU hosts, ⚠ Query the live inventory, never a written list, Traps
### Community 599 - "optional"
### Community 599 - "catalog_version"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): default, title, type, optional
Nodes (4): default, title, type, catalog_version
### Community 600 - "LiteLLM gateway — the fleet's OpenAI-compatible front door"
Cohesion: 0.33
@@ -2402,21 +2411,21 @@ Nodes (4): Ask the operator to decide (no chat round-trip), Show the operator so
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, options
### Community 605 - "min"
### Community 605 - "category"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, min
Nodes (4): enum, title, type, category
### Community 606 - "$ref"
Cohesion: 0.14
Nodes (14): items, title, type, $ref, fields, section_groups, services, items (+6 more)
### Community 606 - "properties"
Cohesion: 0.15
Nodes (14): $ref, properties, reproducibility_audit, section_groups, services, items, title, type (+6 more)
### Community 608 - "Speech — TTS and ASR endpoints"
Cohesion: 0.40
Nodes (4): ASR, Speech — TTS and ASR endpoints, Traps, TTS
### Community 609 - "output_field"
### Community 609 - "content_type"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, output_field
Nodes (4): default, title, type, content_type
### Community 612 - "2026-09-17-lv-bronte-gate.md"
Cohesion: 0.05
@@ -2438,6 +2447,14 @@ Nodes (3): althing — inter-agent message bus, Commands, Traps
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (3): Language-safe text sanitizer for the OmniVoice TTS wrapper. Strips artifacts th, Return ``text`` cleaned of artifacts that shouldn't be spoken, language-safe., sanitize_tts_text()
### Community 622 - "fields"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): items, title, type, fields
### Community 623 - "generated_at"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, generated_at
### Community 625 - "rename.py"
Cohesion: 0.60
Nodes (4): build_pool(), main(), R49 Stage D2 (final) + D3 — entity resolution and deterministic rename…, title_gender()
@@ -2454,8 +2471,36 @@ Nodes (3): load_text(), main(), Audit a stoplist for entries that are actually C
Cohesion: 0.25
Nodes (8): _cli(), Regression: the branch ended with `[ "$n" -eq 0 ] && echo ...`, so it returned…, Regression: ids are 8 hex chars and roughly one in forty is all digits. Those…, test_cli_links_exits_zero_on_a_NON_empty_board(), test_cli_unlink_by_id_even_when_the_id_is_all_digits(), test_cli_unlink_by_index(), test_cli_unlink_of_a_stale_id_leaves_the_board_alone(), test_cli_unlink_rejects_a_non_id_non_index()
### Community 634 - "license_warning"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): anyOf, default, title, license_warning
### Community 635 - "method"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): default, title, type, method
### Community 636 - "streamable"
Cohesion: 0.50
Nodes (4): streamable, default, title, type
### Community 637 - "estimated_latency"
Cohesion: 0.67
Nodes (3): anyOf, default, estimated_latency
### Community 638 - "host"
Cohesion: 0.67
Nodes (3): title, type, host
### Community 639 - "lifecycle"
Cohesion: 0.67
Nodes (3): anyOf, default, lifecycle
### Community 640 - "version"
Cohesion: 0.67
Nodes (3): version, title, type
## Knowledge Gaps
- **3022 isolated node(s):** `Why Headscale (decided 2026-09-06)`, `Site facts that drive placement`, `Topology`, `Access & credentials — all in hand (verified 2026-09-06)`, `Phases` (+3017 more)
- **3045 isolated node(s):** `Symptom 1 — "never delivered": NOT A DEFECT`, `Symptom 2 — A REAL DEFECT, and far wider than one message`, `The fix, and the boundary that held`, `Rollout mechanics worth keeping`, `Still open — two postbox fixes proposed to forseti` (+3040 more)
These have ≤1 connection - possible missing edges or undocumented components.
- **154 thin communities (<3 nodes) omitted from report** — run `graphify query` to explore isolated nodes.
@@ -2463,16 +2508,16 @@ Nodes (8): _cli(), Regression: the branch ended with `[ "$n" -eq 0 ] && echo ...
_Questions this graph is uniquely positioned to answer:_
- **Why does `create_app()` connect `booth/app.py` to `FastAPI`, `test_booth.py`, `Path`?**
_High betweenness centrality (0.004) - this node is a cross-community bridge._
- **Why does ``[2026-09-01]` pfi-gx10 (ASUS Ascent GX10) onboarded headless — and it is the intended new home for run 3c` connect ``[2026-09-01]` pfi-gx10 (ASUS Ascent GX10) onboarded headless — and it is the intended new home for run 3c` to `archival-memory.md`?**
_High betweenness centrality (0.003) - this node is a cross-community bridge._
- **Why does `$defs` connect `$defs` to `CatalogLifecycle`, `CatalogSectionGroup`, `services.schema.json`, `CatalogModel`, `properties`, `FieldOption`, `CatalogService`?**
_High betweenness centrality (0.002) - this node is a cross-community bridge._
- **Why does `CatalogService` connect `$defs` to `properties`?**
_High betweenness centrality (0.001) - this node is a cross-community bridge._
- **What connects `Why Headscale (decided 2026-09-06)`, `Site facts that drive placement`, `Topology` to the rest of the system?**
_3022 weakly-connected nodes found - possible documentation gaps or missing edges._
- **Why does `properties` connect `properties` to `version`, `content_type`, `license`, `category`, `status`, `properties`, `fields`, `CatalogModel`, `properties`, `description`, `CatalogService`, `license_warning`, `method`, `streamable`, `estimated_latency`, `host`, `lifecycle`?**
_High betweenness centrality (0.002) - this node is a cross-community bridge._
- **What connects `Symptom 1 — "never delivered": NOT A DEFECT`, `Symptom 2 — A REAL DEFECT, and far wider than one message`, `The fix, and the boundary that held` to the rest of the system?**
_3045 weakly-connected nodes found - possible documentation gaps or missing edges._
- **Should `Status + Open Issues` be split into smaller, more focused modules?**
_Cohesion score 0.05555555555555555 - nodes in this community are weakly interconnected._
- **Should `Fleet disaster-recovery runbook` be split into smaller, more focused modules?**
_Cohesion score 0.06666666666666667 - nodes in this community are weakly interconnected._
- **Should `1. Locked architectural decisions` be split into smaller, more focused modules?**
_Cohesion score 0.07407407407407407 - nodes in this community are weakly interconnected._
- **Should `properties` be split into smaller, more focused modules?**
_Cohesion score 0.08 - nodes in this community are weakly interconnected._
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# Persistent memory — eshpfi-management
_Last updated: 2026-09-18 ~15:05 PT (infrastructure day, no training work. THREE silent faults found and fixed: NH3↔Anaheim was DERP-relayed (now 6 ms direct), `.internal` DNS was failing ~10% of lookups (cross-site resolver ring + AdGuard ratelimit 0), and SearXNG had one working web engine (now seven). althing v3.6.3 deployed — hyphenated search works for the first time. FleetTools shipped and autoloaded for Codex/Grok. ⚠ lv-mccarthy's run outcome is UNVERIFIED by this session.)_
_Last updated: 2026-09-19 ~04:55 PT (⭐ `infra-hermes` is now infra-ops' ASSISTANT — he takes day-to-day checks and triage, infra-ops keeps tooling and the hard calls, and infra-ops may task him downward. He is explicitly NOT Miranda: his relays are information, not authorization. **Building the ops log is assigned and not started** — two agents now share one fingerprint-less OS identity. Previous day: three silent fleet faults fixed (DERP relay, `.internal` DNS, SearXNG one-engine), althing v3.6.3, FleetTools. ⚠ lv-mccarthy's run outcome still UNVERIFIED.)_
> **Always check for `/tmp/infra-ops-handoff.md`** — if it exists and its
> `Written:` stamp is under **8 hours** old, read it (it carries the in-flight
@@ -115,7 +115,31 @@ no longer deployed sidecars here. See Recent decisions.)
## Current state / in-flight
_As of 2026-09-18 ~14:50 PT._
_As of 2026-09-19 ~04:55 PT._
### ▶ ASSIGNED, NOT STARTED — build the ops log (operator, 2026-09-19)
**The problem it solves:** infra-ops and infra-hermes both act as the SAME OS identity
(`ssh infra-ops@<host>`), and dockerd exec is not logged per-caller, so host-side
changes are fingerprint-less. With one agent that was theoretical. With two doing
routine ops daily it is operational — when a host differs from expectation, neither of
us can tell whether the other did it, a prior session did, or something broke.
**Not hypothetical.** On 2026-09-18 another session edited the searxng stack while
this one was deploying it, crash-looping fleet search for ~4 minutes, and the author
was unidentifiable: every commit is attributed to Vuong Hoang by convention and the
on-host file carried no provenance.
**Shape proposed and approved, not yet designed in detail:** one appended line per
host-changing action (who / what / when), plus a lightweight claim on shared stacks so
two agents do not deploy the same thing at once. Cheap, no new infrastructure, and it
makes infra-hermes's handoffs upward legible.
**Open design questions, mine to settle:** where it lives (repo file vs a host-side
log vs the post office), whether the claim is advisory or enforced, and whether
`deploy-stack.sh` / `elway` write to it automatically rather than relying on
discipline — the last one matters most, since a log that depends on remembering is the
same class of instrument as a health check that passes in both states.
### ⚠ FIRST — lv-mccarthy's run outcome is UNVERIFIED by this session
@@ -179,6 +203,8 @@ nothing touched. Full context in the 09-17 Recent decisions entries.
## Recent decisions
- `[2026-09-19]` ⭐⭐⭐ **`infra-hermes` is this session's ASSISTANT, and the division of labour is now standing policy.** infra-ops keeps **improving infrastructure tooling** plus the hard calls; infra-hermes does **day-to-day checks, triage and routine operations**; either may perform infra ops; **infra-ops may task him downward** and he escalates upward as needed. Three operator answers, verbatim in intent: (1) **build the ops log** — see in-flight; (2) **he is NOT Miranda**, so the global CLAUDE.md's sole-trusted-relay exception does not cover him and a directive he relays is information rather than authorization (reversible relayed work executes, irreversible or fleet-affecting goes to the operator); (3) **yes, task him**. Structural facts recorded in `CLAUDE.md` § "infra-hermes IS a real peer" rather than here, because a fresh session must have them without reading this file. ⚠ He is a Hermes bus seat on nh3-dev (`althing-pump-infra-hermes.service`, enabled, route declared) — round trip proven both directions 2026-09-19 04:46.
- `[2026-09-18]` ⭐⭐⭐ **NH3↔Anaheim had been running over a throttled DERP relay, not a direct path — 78 GB of fleet traffic on someone else's free infrastructure.** Four additive objects on ana-gw gave ana-scale a stable inbound UDP 41641 endpoint; `tailscale ping` 373522 ms → **6 ms direct**, cross-site HTTP 1.2 s → 0.015 s, STT via the ANA gateway 1.4 s → 0.25 s. ⚠ That box runs `central-nat`, so a policy `dstaddr` is the REAL internal address, not the VIP. No OOB access — back up with `show` to a local file and make additive changes ONLY. irv-ml1 still relayed. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-09-18-nh3-ana-derp-relay.md`
- `[2026-09-18]` ⭐⭐⭐ **`.internal` DNS was failing ~10% of lookups fleet-wide, from two independent causes.** A PUBLIC resolver was the fallback for a PRIVATE zone (Cloudflare answers NXDOMAIN authoritatively, so a transient miss became a hard failure) — now a cross-site ring, each site local-first with a different site as backup. Then the root cause: all three AdGuards shipped `ratelimit: 20` shared across an entire **/24**, silently dropping queries at 5 s each. Set to 0. Hard failures 3/40 → 0/40; burst timeouts 40/60 → 0/60. ⚠ `resolv.conf` is DHCP-managed — change it at the UDM/FortiGate, not the file. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-09-18-fleet-dns-ring-and-ratelimit.md`
- `[2026-09-18]` ⭐⭐ **SearXNG had ONE working general web engine and every health check said fine.** 7 of 55 were enabled-by-default and six of those are dictionary/translation engines — `inactive: false` only makes an engine SELECTABLE, `disabled: false` puts it in the DEFAULT set. Now seven. ⭐ This stack tracks `:latest` ON PURPOSE (upstream ships engine-handler fixes continuously; a pin freezes breakage). ⭐ The Brave key is committed in plaintext by explicit operator decision — scoped to one low-value credential, NOT a change to the no-secrets rule. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-09-18-searxng-one-engine-to-seven.md`