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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