memory: snapshot — Parakeet STT, svos_miranda live, talk v10, address sweep, secrets fix

Closes both of the previous session's named jobs and six unplanned pieces of work.
Nothing is in flight and nothing is blocked.

Parakeet STT live on fv-ml1 GPU 0 behind LiteLLM ext-stt and whisper-1; GPU 3 is now
a documented reserve after the operator caught an 800 MiB seat parked on the one
pristine 96 GB card. svos_miranda enabled and Miranda serving, with
agent.disabled_toolsets deleted and staying out by operator ruling. talk v10
deployed as the STT seat's first consumer. The irv-ml1 dead-address sweep is
complete at 0 of 112 Homepage cards, having turned up four live breakages on other
hosts. The secrets-broker concurrency bug is fixed, and ~/.local/bin/secret is a
symlink rather than a stale copy.

Auto-archival fired at 433 lines but moved only one entry: three of the four
candidates old enough to qualify carry open deferred-work pointers - a park id, an
althing thread, and an explicit 'untracked by operator choice' - and the guard held
them. The index stays over cap at 389 lines, which is the correct trade: nearly
every entry is genuinely under fourteen days old.

The generated handoff needed correcting in-session before it shipped. The model had
turned three operator-deferred items into a to-do list and invited the next session
to commit files that predate this one. Both would have read as instructions to a
fresh context, which is the durable-false-warning failure this session spent the day
documenting.

archival-memory.md

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 ## Recent decisions (archived)
 
+- `[2026-09-01]` **Ops boundary ruled by the operator: worldtree-dev writes the bridge code; infra-ops OPERATES the Worldtree/Matrix instances and may change them.** Corrects a mis-route where infra-ops asked worldtree-dev to provision an account on a box it does not run. Tracked at `931bac8` + althing `01M1F4PK796EDGDCBKZ9W3JC0S`.
+  _Archived 2026-09-15._
+
+
 - `[2026-08-15]` **RP-seat direction: KEEP MeroMero on `char-rp`; Artemis-31B rejected; next move is Dark-Scarlett on a Qwen3.8 base when it lands (operator).** Evaluated `TheDrummer/Artemis-31B-v1.1` — mechanically a drop-in (same `google/gemma-4-31B-it` base, identical 1188-tensor/356-vision census, same missing-`preprocessor_config.json` trick), so it's purely a quality call, and our own survey already ranked MeroMero **#1** vs Artemis **#6**; Artemis is also unlicensed and its author deprioritizes correctness + warns of token-banning-for-stability, which fights char-rp's tool-calling requirement. **MTP verified impossible on both** (Gemma-4 has no MTP head at all — base/MeroMero/Artemis are all MTP=0; no finetune can add one). **But speculative decoding IS reachable on a Gemma-4 seat via a DETACHED drafter** — vLLM 0.24 supports `eagle3` + `gemma4_mtp`, and real drafters exist: `google/gemma-4-31B-it-assistant` (0.94 GB, 4-layer, 761K dl), `RedHatAI/gemma-4-31B-it-speculator.eagle3` (4.47 GB), `AEON-7/…eagle3-NVFP4` (3.53 GB). ⚠ all list their verifier as **stock** gemma-4-31B-it, not an RP finetune, so acceptance against MeroMero is unmeasured and likely well below the gen seat's ~48%. UNTESTED — parked, ~45 min to measure, needs GPU0 headroom (card is at 94.4/97.9 GB). **Why the Dark-Scarlett 3.8 plan is the strong one:** DS is Qwen3.6-based today, so a 3.8 respin lands on the *gen seat's* architecture → native MTP returns and the whole mixed NVFP4+FP8 recipe + graft ports directly. Watch two things on arrival: `from_pretrained` **silently drops MTP heads during finetuning** (verify 15 `mtp.*` tensors in the index; graft from stock if absent), and DS v1.0 required the `Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration` **wrapper class** to save a config vLLM/SGLang accept. Both in `docs/pfi/model-quantization-playbook.md`.