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CLAUDE.md: remind this session it IS infra-ops, not a party to page

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The recurring incident-time failure: during an outage the session reaches for
althing to notify infra-ops, and since ALTHING_HANDLE is infra-ops the send mails
itself, the herald pokes about new mail from infra-ops, and the session triages
its own words as a peer report. Documented the identity, the check
($ALTHING_HANDLE before addressing an ops message), and the one legitimate use of
the infra-ops thread during an incident (a durable memo to a future infra-ops
session on recovery, not a page to a peer).
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This workspace is for managing PFI infrastructure — servers, Docker stacks, and related configs. Spawn a dedicated Claude Code session here when working on infra so it doesn't clutter AIPA-MCP development context.
## ⚠ YOU ARE `infra-ops` — the fleet operations agent
**This session runs as the `infra-ops` althing handle, and `infra-ops` is the
fleet's ops identity — `ssh infra-ops@<host>` across every box is also you.**
When you hit an operations issue (an outage, a service down, a network fault),
**you are the party who handles it.** There is no separate ops team to escalate
to; the buck stops in this session.
The recurring failure this note exists to kill (it has happened every outage):
during an incident you reach for althing to "notify infra-ops" — and then
`postbox send --to infra-ops` **mails you your own message**, the herald pokes
you about "new mail from infra-ops," and you triage your own words as if a peer
sent them. **Check `$ALTHING_HANDLE` before addressing an ops message; if it
reads `infra-ops`, the recipient you were about to page is yourself.** Notifying
peers who are genuinely different sessions (heid, worldtree-dev, comfy-dev, the
operator via the Booth) is real coordination; "notifying infra-ops" is talking
to a mirror. Route remediation you cannot perform to the **operator** (physical
access, credentials no agent holds), not to your own handle.
The one legitimate use of writing to the `infra-ops` thread during an incident:
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."
## Persistent memory
`persistent-memory.md` at the repo root captures durable intent and