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 - `[2026-07-02]` **irv-ml1 `/worktank` ROOT is root-owned — lkraven can't write there (irv-ml1 sudo needs a password) → stage model pulls to `/home`.** PIN THE A6000 BY UUID for training (native-CUDA ordering differs vs docker; the 3090 index 0 is usually near-full → OOM). `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=GPU-<uuid>`.
  _Archived 2026-08-12._
+
+
+## Recent decisions (archived)
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **worldtree-sdk 1.0.0 (Python) published to the internal vh Gitea PyPI** (wtsdk-dev request; the npm/TS side shipped prior session). Built from tag `python-v1.0.0` (clean worktree), `uv publish` → `https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi`; acceptance `uv pip install worldtree-sdk==1.0.0` (vh index as extra-index-url) resolves + imports, __version__ 1.0.0. Registry already existed (bifrost publishes there; soong-lab consumes it via `[[tool.uv.index]] name=gitea`). Publish cred = the vh `write:package` PAT the operator had already handed over (in `worldtree-sdk/.npmrc` `_authToken`) — Gitea `write:package` is package-type-agnostic, so the npm-publish token published PyPI too. Consumers install like bifrost (add the vh index + a read token). [[reference_worldtree_demo_key_mint]]
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **nh3-dev /tmp auto-clean enabled** — Debian ships /tmp with no tmpfiles age (`D /tmp 1777 root root -` → never cleans); this high-churn agent box had accreted **~190k stale temp dirs / 25G**. One-shot manual purge (194k→10k entries, 25G→1.7G; deleted top-level dirs/files >1d old, spared `/tmp/claude-*` by name + anything ≤1d). Then `/etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf` = `D /tmp 1777 root root 3d` (daily `systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer` removes >3d-untouched items; active files + socket dirs spared). Tunable via the age. Note the churn: ~10k /tmp entries/day here.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab containerize cutover — COMPLETE + LIVE on corviduo-dev.**
+
+Migrated soong-lab (Noonien Soong character-design studio) from a hand-built
+`soong-lab-studio.service` (systemd + git-pull-on-webhook) to a containerized
+deploy, image built by CI + pushed to the Gitea registry. soong-dev owns the
+in-repo artifacts (Dockerfile/compose/workflow/`docs/DEPLOY.md` = checklist);
+infra-ops owned the host cutover. Operator confirmed functional ("Soong works
+great" — a real Soong turn round-trips + saves) → cutover 100% closed.
+
+**Final state (corviduo-dev, 10.250.50.152):**
+- Container `soong-lab-soong-lab-1` LIVE + healthy on `0.0.0.0:8443`, image
+  `gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/soong-lab:latest` (v0.3.24), `restart:unless-stopped`
+  (survives reboot; no systemd unit needed — docker restart policy handles boot).
+- Deploy dir **`/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy/`** — pull-based `compose.yaml`
+  (image + env_file + `8443:8443` + named volumes; NO build/secrets stanza) +
+  `.env` (copied from the live `soong-lab.env`, STRIPPED of the `SOONG_LAB_*_DIR`
+  overrides so the container uses image defaults `/data/library` + `/data/portraits`
+  + `/app/web` → the volumes).
+- Named volumes `soong-lab_soong-library` + `soong-lab_soong-portraits`, migrated
+  from `/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-data/{library,portraits}` (2 saved designs incl.
+  **Sindra** + 27 portraits), **chowned `10001:999`** (the container `soong` user)
+  so it can read AND write new designs.
+- Old `soong-lab-studio.service` + `soong-webhook.service` (the `:9010` git-pull
+  redeploy listener) both **stopped + disabled**.
+
+**Topology reality (≠ what DEPLOY.md assumed):** there is **NO TLS proxy**.
+WT-personal (`:8081`) and soong-lab are **co-located on corviduo-dev**, and the
+Bifrost callback is **plain-HTTP same-host** `http://10.250.50.152:8443` — the
+value of `SOONG_LAB_BIFROST_ENDPOINT_URL`, unchanged by the move, so the WT
+Bifrost host-allowlist stayed valid as-is. Nothing on the WT side needed touching.
+
+**Safety net:** data backup `/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-data-backup-20260718-091831.tar.gz`
+(35M) taken BEFORE migration. Verified pre-retire: `/api/version` 200 (0.3.24),
+SPA `/` 200, `POST /bifrost/tool-call` → 401 (route present + auth-gated),
+bidirectional WT↔soong reachability, container healthcheck green.
+
+**Ops commands:**
+- Redeploy a new image: `cd /home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy && sudo docker compose pull && sudo docker compose up -d`.
+  (Auto-pull-on-`:latest` — watchtower or a deploy hook — is an open follow-up.)
+- Rollback: `sudo docker compose down` + `sudo systemctl enable --now soong-lab-studio.service soong-webhook.service`.
+- Homepage tile: manual `- Apps:` entry "Soong Lab" (href http://10.250.50.152:8443)
+  in esh-docker-vm `/opt/docker/conf/homepage/services.yaml` — corviduo-dev isn't
+  a Homepage-watched docker endpoint, so docker-label auto-discovery can't surface
+  it (see [[2026-07-18-fleet-gitea-runner-build-recipe]] for the CI half).
+
+See [[reference_corviduo_dev_emergency_ops]], [[reference_claude_bot_gitea_creds]].
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **zonos-gateway 0.2.1 — voice-resolved emotion presets baked (provisional) from the axes sweep.**
+
+After the axes sweep ([[reference_zonos_tts_stack]] + the `[2026-07-18] axes sweep`
+Recent-decisions entry) rescued angry and confirmed startled-happy, the operator
+green-lit baking the results as **provisional** gateway presets + docs. Shipped
+`vh/zonos-gateway` **0.2.1** (main `8f1885b`, tag `v0.2.1`, PUSHED; deployed live
+on irv-ml1 `:8890`).
+
+**Design — voice-resolved, NOT global.** `resolve_preset(name, voice)` picks the
+per-voice measured cell, because a single global preset is unsafe (dvalin ruling;
+BritishFemale's *named* angry misfires as fear). Presets:
+- `angry`, `happy`, `startled_happy` (+ aliases `surprised`, `startled` →
+  startled_happy). All expressive (`accurate_mode:false`), cfg 1.5, pure-axes
+  (no named sliders).
+- Calibrated cells (the 3 default voices):
+  - angry: AmF v-0.4/a+1.0 s1.0 (emo0.53/id0.685); BrF v-0.4/a+0.8 s1.0
+    (emo0.99/id0.725, metric fear-clean); AmM **two-tier** — soft v-0.6/a+0.8 s1.0
+    (0.23/id0.654) + drama v-0.6/a+0.8 s1.2 (1.0/id0.616 clean; strength is NOT a
+    smooth knob on AmM, 1.0→1.2 is the window, past that flips to disgust).
+  - happy / startled_happy: AmF v+0.6/a+0.8; AmM v+0.3/a+1.0; BrF v+0.6/a+1.0
+    (happy~1.0, id 0.74-0.80; axes-happy keeps +0.15 id over the named happy slider).
+  - `sad` = unchanged named-slider preset (not axes-tested).
+- Uncalibrated voices (Cora + the 4 clones) → mid-region fallback until measured.
+- Docs surface: `/v1/dials` exposes `voice_emotion_presets`; the FastAPI `/docs`
+  description documents it; durable spec `docs/EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md` (moved INTO
+  the repo — was mirror-only); README table. 44 tests green.
+
+**Repo-hygiene gotcha (fixed).** The local clone `~/development/zonos-gateway` and
+gitea `vh/zonos-gateway` had **TWO UNRELATED git histories** (no merge-base) — gitea
+held the voice-wav commits, the local clone held the code + no remote. Reconciled
+by resetting local→origin/main, overlaying the 7 bake files, `uv lock`, commit,
+push (fast-forward). Voices stay tracked; local now shares gitea's lineage + has
+origin wired. **The deployed irv-ml1 tree `/opt/docker/compose/zonos-gateway` is
+still NON-git** (hand-updated build context) — CI-wire remains an open follow-up.
+
+**Provisional pending** ear-validation on emotion-congruent text (the neutral-text
+audition was inconclusive: "they all sound different, hard to tell"). Follow-ups:
+sad axes/text pass on the 3 voices; congruent-text pass; clone-char emotion rows.
+Tools `~/development/zonos-tools/{axes_sweep,strength_ladder,gen_auditions,dial-in-studio}.py`
+(run ON irv-ml1; scoring env `uv run --with resemblyzer --with funasr --with "numpy<2"
+--with soundfile --with requests --with "setuptools<80" --with torchaudio`).
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **Fleet Gitea-Actions build recipe + the `vh`-is-a-user package-write constraint** (learned the hard way across 3 failed soong-lab validation builds; reusable for ANY fleet CI image build or package publish).
+
+**The runner.** One `act_runner` (`gitea/act_runner`) on ana-docker, labels
+`pfi-fleet` / `ana-docker` → both map to job image **`node:20-bookworm-slim`**,
+which has **NO docker and NO git**. Config `/opt/docker/conf/gitea-runner/data/config.yaml`:
+`valid_volumes: []` (no socket propagated to job containers). So:
+- `actions/checkout@v4` fails (needs git); `docker/*` marketplace actions fail
+  (need docker) — a workflow built on those dies at the first step (~15s).
+
+**The working recipe (mirror Worldtree `deploy.yml`).** Run the job in a
+docker-capable image + drive docker with RAW commands, not the JS actions:
+```yaml
+runs-on: pfi-fleet
+container:
+  image: docker:24.0.7-cli        # has docker+buildx; add git+node
+steps:
+  - run: apk add --no-cache git nodejs   # so actions/checkout@v4 works
+  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+  - name: login   # RAW, not docker/login-action
+    run: echo "$REGISTRY_TOKEN" | docker login gitea.phasefinal.com -u "$REGISTRY_USER" --password-stdin
+  - name: buildx builder
+    run: docker buildx create --name X --driver docker-container --use; docker buildx inspect --bootstrap
+  - name: build+push   # RAW, not docker/build-push-action
+    run: docker buildx build --secret id=<name>,env=<TOKEN> -t <img>:latest --push .
+```
+The runner mounts the host docker socket into ITSELF; the docker:cli job reaches
+the daemon through that. The `docker/*` JS actions are unreliable on act_runner —
+raw commands are the fleet convention.
+
+**`vh` is a USER account, not an org.** Consequences that bit repeatedly:
+1. `GET /api/v1/orgs/vh` → 404 "user redirect"; there are **no org teams** to add
+   a service account to.
+2. **User-owned packages are OWNER-WRITE-ONLY.** claude-bot (even repo
+   admin-*collaborator* on `vh/soong-lab`, even with `write:package` scope + full
+   basic-auth) gets **`401 unauthorized`** on `docker push` to `vh/soong-lab`, and
+   `npm publish` to `vh/npm/` would 401 too. Only `vh` itself can write vh packages.
+   → CI must authenticate AS `vh` for the push (a vh-owned `write:package` PAT as
+   `REGISTRY_TOKEN` + `REGISTRY_USER=vh`), exactly how WT pushes `vh/worldtree`.
+   claude-bot CAN still: clone/read repos, READ packages (pulled the image fine),
+   dispatch workflows, mint demo Worldtree keys.
+3. **Repo Actions secrets are OWNER-ONLY too** — `PUT .../actions/secrets/X` as
+   claude-bot (repo admin-collab) → 403 "user should be the owner of the repo".
+   Only `vh` can set a repo's secrets.
+
+**Other gotchas:**
+- Gitea **reserves the `GITEA_` secret-name prefix** — a secret named
+  `GITEA_PYPI_TOKEN` is illegal; use e.g. `PYPI_TOKEN`.
+- Gitea **package auth is token-based / username-lenient** — `docker login` /
+  PyPI basic-auth authenticate via the token; the username is nominal (tested
+  `-u gitea` and `-u claude-bot` both 200 against the vh PyPI). So a Dockerfile
+  hardcoding `UV_INDEX_GITEA_USERNAME=gitea` is fine with any valid token.
+- Homepage (esh-docker-vm) docker-label auto-discovery only covers the 5 endpoints
+  in its `docker.yaml` (esh-vm-docker, ana-docker, ana-ml2, nh3-docker, irv-ml1);
+  **corviduo-dev is NOT watched** → services there need a manual `services.yaml`
+  entry, not labels.
+
+Applied in the soong-lab CI: [[2026-07-18-soong-lab-containerize-cutover]].
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **Peer credential provisions — Wyrd conv-api key + wtsdk npm token, both delivered + closed.** Wyrd: demo Worldtree user-tier key (key_id `da7a0bdf`, user_id `wyrd-dev`) minted via `docker exec worldtree-worldtree-api-1 /admin/keys` (omit tier→user), drop-and-shred delivery. wtsdk: operator-minted vh `write:package` PAT relayed drop-and-shred → worldtree-sdk@1.0.0 published to `vh/npm/`. Secret-delivery pattern = drop to a mode-600 file on the peer's box, they collect+shred+confirm, then shred the holding copy; NEVER cleartext over althing. [[reference_worldtree_demo_key_mint]]
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **Axes sweep RESCUED angry; surprised-class dead but startled-happy ships.** Valence×arousal grid on the 3 calibrated defaults (AmericanFemale/Male, BritishFemale), exp/cfg1.5/strength1.0, 84 clips, emotion2vec + resemblyzer scored, graded vs dvalin's floor. **ANGRY rescued** (named direction was 0.004–0.15, British named-angry even misfired as fear 0.89): axes ship cells at **negative valence (−0.4..−0.8) + high arousal (+0.8..+1.0)** — BritishFemale v-0.4/a+0.8 angry=0.99/id0.725 SHIP, AmericanFemale v-0.4/a+1.0 angry=0.53/id0.685 SHIP; AmericanMale two-tier post-ladder (no single ship cell — best drama = v-0.6/a+0.8 str1.2 angry=1.0/id0.616 clean, soft = same cell str1.0 angry0.23/id0.654; cell A v-0.6/a+1.0 is a non-monotonic minefield, skip). BrF ship cell proxy-CLEAN of fear (str<1.0 just kills anger). **SURPRISED-class DEAD** (max 0.047 across all 84 cells) but **startled-happy** (happy-proxy) ships all 3 at high arousal + neutral/positive valence, with a **+0.17–0.20 identity LIFT** over the named-surprised route (named hits happy~1.0 but at id0.57–0.61, under floor; axes hits happy~1.0 at id0.74–0.80). Bonus: axes-happy retains ~0.10–0.15 more identity than the named happy slider too. Caveats: response surface non-monotonic/sharp-thresholded; angry region borders fear/disgust (bleed); emotion2vec saturates at 1.0 (needs ear-confirm); neutral text understates. Tooling `~/development/zonos-tools/axes_sweep.py`; per-clip JSON was `irv-ml1:/tmp/axes_sweep_results.json` (ephemeral). Sent dvalin msg `01KXT2ZB8G…`. NEXT = operator ear-confirm → bake presets. [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **Zonos2 emotion CANONICAL from an empirical sweep + the voice-cloning pipeline.**
+
+**Voice-cloning pipeline (established this session).** Source zips at
+`/mnt/smithy/voice_clones/<name>.zip` (irv-ml1 NFS from nh3-nas; remount
+post-reboot) — each = diarized single-speaker podcast clips + `manifest.jsonl`
+(per-clip WhisperX `mean_score`, word timestamps, text) + `metadata.csv`.
+`~/development/zonos-tools/assemble_voice.py <dir>` ranks by mean_score and
+concatenates top clips to ~15–24s (Zyphra's blessed clone-ref length; single
+clip if already ≥15s). Drop the assembled `<Name>.wav` into the gateway voices
+dir → `voice:"name"`. 4 characters cloned: **Emmie, Penny, Natalie, Miranda**
+(+ Zyphra defaults AmericanFemale/Male/British/Cora) = 8 voices in
+`zonos-gateway`. Clone is inline `speaker_audio_base64` (text-independent Qwen3
+speaker embedding — NO transcript); `/tts/speakers` registration is
+session-scoped (needs `X-TTS-Session-ID`), so the gateway holds the ref wav and
+clones per-call.
+
+**Gateway voices are host-managed (bind-mount, added this session).** Added
+`./voices:/app/voices:ro` to `/opt/docker/compose/zonos-gateway/compose.yaml`
+(committed to `vh/zonos-gateway` + eshpfi mirror `438cd35`). So adding a voice =
+drop the wav + `docker compose restart zonos-gateway` (registry rebuilds at
+boot; NO image rebuild). This also un-stranded the other voices (deploy build
+context had only Cora before). Voice wavs committed to the repo for backup.
+
+**Emotion mechanism (Zyphra canonical, from their README @194c0a3).** Additive
+direction vectors: 4 named (happy/sad/angry/surprised) + valence/arousal axes.
+`emotion_strength` 1.0 = per-voice calibrated (calibration.json optimizes
+emotion2vec recognizability only, NOT identity). `accurate_mode` is THE trade-off:
+`true` = closer voice match (identity), `false` = expressive mode (emotion lands,
+identity drifts). Zyphra's strong recipe: `accurate_mode:false` + `cfg~1.5`.
+Single-emotion is blessed; mixing is unblessed (and degrades the clone — operator
+confirmed by ear). "deaf by 1.5" — cfg past 1.5 distorts + costs ~2× compute.
+
+**THE SWEEP (`~/development/zonos-tools/emotion_sweep.py`).** 4 cloned voices × 4
+named emotions × {accurate,expressive}×{cfg 1.0,1.3,1.5} @ strength 1.0,
+single-emotion, neutral sentence + a neutral baseline per voice (~100 clips).
+Scored on TWO axes: **emotion-landing** = emotion2vec `iic/emotion2vec_plus_large`
+target-emotion prob [0-1]; **identity** = resemblyzer speaker-embedding cosine vs
+the clone reference (neutral baseline ~0.85). Scoring env:
+`uv run --with resemblyzer --with funasr --with "numpy<2" --with soundfile
+--with requests --with "setuptools<80" --with torchaudio` (setuptools<80 for
+webrtcvad's pkg_resources; torchaudio for funasr).
+
+**RESULTS (mean across the 4 voices) — emotion, best setting, emo/id:**
+- happy — **exp cfg1.5** 0.80/0.68 (soft: exp cfg1.0 0.76/0.69) → WORKS
+- sad — **exp cfg1.5** 0.53/0.57 (only working cell; id below the ~0.65 floor) → modest
+- angry — acc cfg1.3 / exp cfg1.5 tied at ~0.25 emo → WEAK (named ceiling ~0.25)
+- surprised — max ~0.015 across ALL settings → NON-FUNCTIONAL on the named direction
+Accurate + low cfg = identity/suppress regime (emo→0); expressive REQUIRED for
+emotion to land, at ~0.15–0.28 identity cost.
+
+**dvalin-smithy-dev synthesis (adopted, triaged genuine-adds; thread
+`01KXT12FN0AS5A3WMKEK06BVPS`):**
+1. Treat **identity as a hard FLOOR (~0.65)**, not a free variable in emo×id.
+2. **Two-regime policy** — Regime A (default, identity-critical dialogue):
+   `accurate_mode:true, cfg 1.0, emotion off` (text carries it) or soft-happy
+   (exp cfg1.0). Regime B (tagged drama beats): `accurate_mode:false, cfg 1.5`,
+   single emotion or axes. Line-type→regime heuristic (exposition→A, grief→B+sad,
+   confrontation→B+axes-angry, shock→B+axes-arousal).
+3. **Axes-first for the broken emotions** — angry ≈ valence −0.6..−0.8 / arousal
+   +0.5..+0.8; surprised ≈ valence +0.2..+0.4 / arousal +0.7..+1.0 (exp cfg1.5);
+   or "startled-happy" (happy + high arousal) as a surprised stand-in. These are
+   PROVISIONAL — the sweep did NOT test axes.
+
+**NEXT (highest VoI, operator to green-light):** an **axes sweep** for
+angry/surprised (valence×arousal grid) — the only path to rescue the two broken
+named emotions; then a strength ladder at the best cells + emotion-congruent text
+(neutral content understates landing) + per-voice tables + a 2nd emotion judge /
+human pairwise. Then bake the happy/sad canonical into gateway presets. I owe
+dvalin the axes-sweep numbers.
+
+See [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]; dials-first spec at `vh/zonos-gateway`
+`docs/EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md`.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-18]` **yt-voice-clipper: A6000-pin fix + v0.3.3 redeploy.** Fixed a latent misconfig — the host override *said* "pin worker to A6000" but `NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES` was `"0"` (the 3090); re-pinned worker+api to the A6000 by UUID (`GPU-9672f0d5`, 3090 is zonos2's). Then redeployed api+worker to v0.3.3 (`docker compose up -d --build`; SPA+Python; `max_gap` 0.6→1.2s; stderr surfaced in job.log). A6000 + version verified; yields test in-flight (job `f3ff746dbae9494d`). yt-voice-clipper-dev thread `01KXT0T6GYHB`. [[reference_ytvc_autodeploy]]
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-17]` **Worldtree #365 internal-comms config CLOSED (demo+personal → b125) + WT#368 cross-agent memory-leak forensics + PERSONAL agent-memory scrub.** #365: staged the internal-tiers/rules/gate on both instances' bind-mounts (byte-exact vs baked b125), both now live on b125. WT#368 (read-only): the operator's name was in NO recall store on demo; on PERSONAL it sat in `lofn.chroma` (old-code `saga-v1` seeding + legacy contamination), and a clean-slate marker test proved **current b125 code isolates character-session extraction correctly** — the leak is legacy data, not a live bug. Operator-directed → executed a full PERSONAL agent-memory scrub (backup `/opt/worldtree-personal/agent-memory-backup-20260717-181004.tar.gz`; conversations/mood/auth preserved). worldtree-dev owns the code-fix/data contract. [[reference_corviduo_dev_emergency_ops]]
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-17]` **Zonos emotion levers RESOLVED: text-priming is FLAT → the working lever is ZONOS2's native emotion-steering, which the gateway ALREADY exposes as presets.** The prosody-priming A/B (prime→generate→excise, silence-gap cut, parakeet-validated) was operator-judged FLAT on this checkpoint — text doesn't move it. Native `emotion_directions/` (happy/sad/angry/surprised + valence/arousal axes, per-speaker calibrated for AmericanFemale/Male/British) clearly WORKS (sad→slow/quiet, excited→fast/bright, etc.). **`zonos-gateway:0.2.0` (:8890) already wires it**: simplest caller path = `POST /v1/audio/speech {preset:"…"}` — presets neutral/warm/excited/sad/intense/whisper (defined in `~/zonos-gateway/src/zonos_gateway/dials.py`), reached via the **LiteLLM `ext-tts` alias** (engine-neutral swap point; consumers never call the gateway by name). RTF measured on 3090: cfg1.0 steering = FREE (~0.52 = neutral, additive vectors), cfg1.5 amplified ~0.625 (~+20%, still realtime). Captured the live gateway stack → `stacks/zonos-gateway/` (compose+env+README); ⚠️ gateway SOURCE at `~/zonos-gateway` on irv-ml1 is NOT in gitea (backup gap, follow-up); `stacks/zonos` (v0.1 Gradio) marked DEAD/superseded. Whisper is a composed preset (no whisper *direction*; escalation for hard affects = custom directions via `scripts/build_emotion_directions.py` or emotional-ref cloning `speaker_audio_base64`). Harnesses in scratchpad (not yet landed). [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-17]` **Zonos2 `:1920` engine → self-contained container (stays on 3090); prosody-priming is a SERVING-LAYER change (engine stays stock).**
+
+**Context.** The production Zonos TTS engine (irv-ml1 `:1920`, feeds asset-engine + gateway-chat via `zonos-gateway` :8890) was a bare native process — its real launch config existed ONLY in the running process argv (the committed `~/tts-audition/harness/zonos_server.sh` was STALE: said A6000/:1919/no perf flags; live is 3090/:1920 with `--cuda-graph-max-bs 1 --num-pages 16384 --max-running-requests 2 --memory-ratio 0.3`). Captured to eshpfi `stacks/zonos-engine/` (README + corrected `zonos2-server.sh` + `.env.example`), commit **14a0004** (UNPUSHED as of the snapshot).
+
+**Decision 1 — containerize as a SELF-CONTAINED image** (not systemd — operator rejected; not a thin bind-mount wrapper — I walked that back: bind-mounting the host's CUDA-compiled `.venv` couples to the host's exact CUDA/glibc and is fragile + not reproducible). Shape: `FROM` a CUDA 12.8 base → `uv sync` against the repo's committed `uv.lock` (deterministic env) → mount the ~15 GB HF weights (`~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Zyphra--ZONOS2`, do NOT bake) → pin the **3090** (`NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0`) → `restart: unless-stopped` → CMD = the captured invocation. **Engine stays STOCK** Zyphra/Zonos2 @ commit `194c0a3` (no fork — the `zonos2` package ships its own server). **Build risk:** heavy compiled-CUDA deps (flashinfer / sgl_kernel / cutlass-dsl / apache-tvm-ffi / pynini) on torch 2.9.1+cu128 — mostly prebuilt wheels + the `uv.lock` make it tractable, expect a couple build iterations. **Cutover (in place on the 3090):** stop the native process (frees ~17 GB) → `docker compose up -d` (re-allocates ~17 GB, same footprint) → repoint `zonos-gateway`'s `ZONOS_URL` at the container (or keep the `:1920` host-port publish). One brief prod-TTS blip.
+
+**GPU = 3090 (operator 2026-07-17).** Keep it OFF the A6000 — the A6000 already OOMs under ComfyUI load (idle ~19 GB but spikes far higher during gen), so it can't host Zonos too. The 3090 already runs Zonos, so the containerize-in-place cutover changes nothing about placement.
+
+**Decision 2 — the prosody-priming hypothesis (operator's test; the reason for building fresh).** PRIME the autoregressive engine with an emotional sentence, then TRUNCATE it from delivery: prepend a primer → **generate "primer + real text" as ONE continuous utterance** (the AR model carries prosody forward across the boundary) → ASR-timestamp the primer's end (**parakeet**, already up on irv-ml1 `:8765`, word timestamps) → **clip the primer in the inter-sentence silence gap** (+ ~15 ms fade-in, no click) → deliver only the real text, now wearing the primed prosody. Examples: primer "I'm so EXCITED about this." → "This will be a lot of fun!" spoken excited; primer "I'm whispering this to you right now." → "I'm so glad to see you baby." whispered. **This is PURE serving-layer orchestration — the engine is untouched; it lives in the gateway adapter `stacks/zonos/adapter/server.py`.** Only fork the engine if the black-box approach fails.
+
+**THE CRUX the test resolves:** does AR prosody actually **carry across the sentence boundary**, or does Zonos reset at the period? → the harness A/Bs the **JOIN punctuation**: period (operator's examples) vs comma vs ellipsis vs none ("…excited about this, this will be…"). Everything else is plumbing.
+
+**Plan / design recs.** (a) Build the stock engine image (parallel track). (b) Stand up a priming TEST HARNESS against the NATIVE engine (fast iteration, seconds) + parakeet ASR: prime→generate→timestamp→gap-clip→out; compare primed-clipped vs plain on the two cases (subjective + a cheap objective proxy: pitch/energy variance for "excited", spectral-tilt/low-energy for "whisper"). Iterate on the join, then bake the winner into the gateway adapter. **Primer source:** caller-supplied for the harness (test arbitrary primers) → a curated emotion→primer library (`excited`/`whisper`/…) + optional caller override for production. **ASR:** parakeet primary; WhisperX forced-align fallback if parakeet word timestamps are coarse.
+
+See eshpfi `stacks/zonos-engine/README.md` + `stacks/zonos/` (the gateway adapter).
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-15]` **esh-docker-vm NFS fstab fix = `x-systemd.before=docker.service`** (the prior `After=remote-fs.target` drop-in was silently defeated by `nofail`). Reached only after a REBOOT (D-state phantom containers uptime-kuma + paperless-web that no `docker`/`ctr`/daemon-restart could clear). Committed `21d9a07` + playbook updated. See Tried and abandoned.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+## Tried and abandoned (archived)
+
+- `[2026-07-15]` **`docker.service After=remote-fs.target` does NOT wait for `nofail` NFS mounts** — `nofail` drops a mount out of remote-fs.target's blocking set, so the drop-in ordering is silently defeated (paperless still Exited(255) on reboot). Real fix = DIRECT mount->docker ordering via the fstab `x-systemd.before=docker.service` option (verify `systemctl show docker -p After` lists the mnt-*.mount units). esh-docker-vm.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-15]` **The esh-docker-vm D-state/phantom-container wedge is only cleared by a host REBOOT** — reconfirmed: `docker stop/rm -f`, `ctr -n moby task delete`, AND `systemctl restart docker` all fail to clear it; `docker exec` into a wedged container ALSO fails (`setns ... exit status 1`), so the in-place restart escape hatch is out. Worse, a daemon restart can HALF-KILL other healthy containers (knocked paperless's granian down + left it wedged). Process dead but dockerd won't reap -> phantom. NFS mounts are `_netdev,nofail` so the reboot is boot-safe.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-15]` **vLLM `max-model-len` does NOT free GPU VRAM** — the KV cache POOL is sized by `gpu-memory-utilization`, not max-model-len. Lowering max-model-len only caps per-request context + drops max concurrency; the pool still fills the util budget. To actually free VRAM, lower `gpu-memory-utilization`. (Bit the char-rp-reasoning "drop KV to 150K" ask: the 150K applied but freed 0 VRAM until util dropped 0.39->0.38.)
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-15]` **Claude Code statusline `.cost.total_cost_usd` is per-SESSION** (Claude Code's own cache/model-aware session accounting), not a lifetime aggregate — the large value just reflects a long, multiple-times-summarized session. And the old statusline hardcoded Sonnet pricing ($3/$15) on an Opus session -> ~5x cost understatement.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-14]` **MTP-on-modelopt: NO checkpoint config skips the spec-decode drafter's quant (vLLM 0.24 bug) — 4 config attempts failed before the runtime workaround.** All crashed the same way (`qwen3_5_mtp.py:256` `param_data.shape == loaded_weight.shape` AssertionError — bf16 mtp head loaded into a quantized drafter param): (1) mtp excludes in `config.json` (WRONG file — vLLM modelopt reads `hf_quant_config.json`); (2) specific-unfused mtp names in hf_quant_config; (3) wildcards `mtp*`/`mtp.layers.0*` (`is_layer_skipped` is EXACT-membership, NOT glob — wildcards match nothing); (4) exact fused+unfused names in both `mtp.`/`model.` prefixes. Instrumenting `is_layer_skipped` proved the drafter's exclude list holds ONLY the main model's `linear_attn` entries — the mtp excludes never reach the draft-model quant config. ONLY fix = a mounted `sitecustomize` force-skipping `mtp.*`. LESSON: don't chase checkpoint-config fixes for the mtp-drafter crash; go straight to the runtime patch. Also `nvidia-modelopt[hf]==0.43` (AEON's producer version) is a trap — it pins transformers back to 4.57 which can't load `qwen3_5` at all; use 0.45 + the FusedMoE guard in `quant_modelopt.py`.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-14]` **AEON's "working NVFP4+MTP RP seat" was pantheon on compressed-tensors (0% MTP accept), not a modelopt MTP proof.** `vllm-aeon-rp`'s .env → `AEON_RP_MODEL=pantheon-27b-mtp-nvfp4`, `AEON_RP_QUANT=compressed-tensors` — it LOADED (mtp silently skipped, `exited 0`) but never accelerated. Same vLLM image (`:latest` = `sha256:4091d55` = 0.24.0) as the failed Heretic2 test, so the "AEON ran on an older vLLM" theory was wrong. Don't treat a seat that "ran" as MTP-validated without checking its `SpecDecoding` acceptance.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-14]` **NVFP4 (llm-compressor / compressed-tensors) gives NO batch-1 speedup over GGUF for the Qwen3.5 GDN-hybrid, and its MTP is 0%-accept.** Measured base NVFP4 no-MTP ≈53 tok/s decode vs the GGUF NEO-CODE seat ~59.5 (llama.cpp wins single-stream; NVFP4's edge is concurrency, and this hybrid is bandwidth-bound at batch-1 with the BF16 linear_attn/GDN layers dominating). MTP spec-decode = 0% acceptance (vLLM's `Qwen3_5MTP` drafter won't load the bf16 mtp weights off a compressed-tensors main model → `Parameter … not found in params_dict`, `Avg Draft acceptance rate: 0.0%`). Pantheon is identical — its "working NVFP4+MTP" was working *structure*, never real acceleration. Working native MTP needs the **modelopt** main-model format (AEON, ~3.3/3 accept). LESSON: don't expect a faster single-stream seat from an llm-compressor NVFP4 quant of this arch; the MTP multiplier is the whole point and it requires modelopt.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-14]` **NVFP4 spike: built the full MTP serve scaffolding BEFORE validating a plain NVFP4 serve was coherent.** Chased 6 sequential serve-config fixes (entrypoint doubled `serve`, arch `ForCausalLM`→`ConditionalGeneration`, `--language-model-only`, mamba-cache/`max-num-seqs`) across a **2.5hr GPU window** (quoted 30-60 min) — only to find the served model gibbers (`!!!!`). LESSON: smoke a PLAIN `/v1/completions` coherence check on the SIMPLEST config (native arch, no MTP, no splice) FIRST — validate the tracer bullet before building spec-decode scaffolding. Also cost an unnecessary re-quant (the `re:mtp.*` ignore fix that turned out moot). Diagnostic ladder in Current state.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-14]` **MTP graft via top-level `mtp.*` tensor names does NOT survive `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained`** — the `Qwen3_5ForCausalLM` class doesn't expose an mtp module, so the mtp keys are DROPPED at load (quant output = 0 mtp). Fix = SPLICE the BF16 mtp tensors into the quant output post-hoc (how pantheon was built); don't rely on the graft surviving the model round-trip.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-14]` **gitea "test-delivery 204" is NOT proof a webhook works** (204 = gitea *queuing*, not the listener receiving) — and a proxy test signing with the listener's OWN secret proves the listener, not gitea's real delivery. Both red herrings cost a round of the soong-lab webhook diagnosis. Diagnose from BOTH ends: sender (`docker logs gitea | grep webhook` → the `deny '<ip>'` line) AND an instrumented receiver.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-13]` Relaying a peer's diagnosis as fact without confirming it against raw data. worldtree-dev diagnosed the WT #355 residual as "our llama.cpp seat wedging," which I echoed in a wrap-up; the operator challenged it and the seat logs DISPROVED it (seat completes ≤72s, idle at the wedge onset — the hang is the LiteLLM gateway). Lesson: CONFIRM peer diagnoses (esp. cross-domain ones) before acting/relaying — same discipline that caught the earlier char-rp-reasoning red-herring via a live `registry.resolve` reproduction.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-13]` `althing-cli reply <THREAD_id>` (thread id, not a MESSAGE id) → "unknown message_id"; and `reply` to your OWN message self-addresses to your handle ("replying to your own message"). Reply to a PEER's message id, or use `post --to <peer>`. Bit me several times this session.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-09]` **`vllm/vllm-openai:latest` crashes on Ampere IMPORT** — Blackwell-only kernels (oink/aiter,
+  `has_device_capability(100)`) die during import on the 3090/A6000. Pin **v0.23.0** on irv-ml1's Ampere GPUs.
+  (`vllm/vllm-omni:v0.18.0` has a different entrypoint — don't use it either.)
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-09]` **Per-frame CPU SNAC decode is too slow for streaming** — per-call overhead × ~60 frames serialized
+  → RTF 2.2 (WORSE than whole-clip's 1.0). Fix = **windowed chunk decode** (every 6 frames decode a [2 ctx | 6 | 2 ctx]
+  window, emit the middle 6 → seamless, O(1)/frame, RTF ~0.97, TTFA ~0.8s).
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-08]` **Angel (allura-org/MS3.2-24b-Angel) self-quanted to NVFP4 = GARBAGE.** llm-compressor W4A4 NVFP4
+  (compressed-tensors, MLP-quantized, attn/vision bf16) of the Mistral3 dense 24B produces gibberish EVEN AT GREEDY
+  (temp 0) → the quant itself is broken, not the tokenizer or sampler. Same recipe worked on the qwen models.
+  Mistral3 + W4A4 NVFP4 via llm-compressor is bad. → for the RP seat, going **GGUF (llama.cpp)** to sidestep the
+  whole NVFP4-quant surface.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-08]` **Mistral3 + vLLM tokenizer/vision traps (serve `MS3.2-24b`, vLLM 0.24).** (a) HF `tokenizer.json`
+  for Mistral = **GARBAGE output** — the card's "use the official Mistral tokenizer" warning is REAL; must use the
+  `tekken.json`/mistral tokenizer. (b) BUT `--tokenizer-mode mistral` + vision **CRASHES** (`Failed to apply
+  PixtralProcessor on {'text': '[IMG]'}`; and with tekken.json present in auto mode, `CachedMistralCommonBackend has
+  no attribute is_fast`). So it's **mistral-tokenizer OR vision, not both** on this vLLM. Text-only + mistral
+  tokenizer serves clean (`--limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 0}'`). **GGUF/llama.cpp avoids all of this** (native
+  mistral tokenizer + vision).
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-08]` **Pantheon-Reasoning-27B refuses dark fiction DESPITE an abliterated base.** The base
+  (`llmfan46 heretic`) writes freely (thinking-off), but Gryphe distilled the reasoning traces from **DeepSeek 3.2**
+  (safety-aligned) onto every turn (`preserve_thinking:true`) → the model reasons ITSELF into refusals in the
+  `<think>` phase (collapses to empty output). Fix: thinking-off OR an uncensor system prompt (both verified).
+  **Lesson: a reasoning finetune of an abliterated base can re-censor via its reasoning-trace TEACHER; the raw
+  abliterated base is cleaner** — this is WHY the pivot went to the llmfan46 heretic base for gen.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-08]` **Pantheon-27B MTP on vLLM compressed-tensors = 0% acceptance.** MTP is a separate **bf16** head
+  (`mtp.*`, in `model-auxiliary.safetensors`, 15 tensors); AEON preserved it by INJECTING the bf16 head into the
+  quant output (NOT re-quantizing — confirmed AEON's nvfp4 mtp is bf16). Built pantheon-27b-mtp = compressed-tensors
+  main + injected bf16 mtp + `text_config.mtp_num_hidden_layers=1` → vLLM detected the MTP but SKIPPED the bf16
+  self_attn weights → 0/192 draft tokens accepted. **The bf16 MTP head only loads on the MODELOPT main-model format
+  (like AEON), not compressed-tensors.** (Moot — operator dropped MTP for gen; not needed for the non-reasoning RP.)
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-07]` **vLLM 0.24.0 qwen3_5 LoRA application = silent no-op (#47639).** Adapter loads HTTP 200
+  but zero deltas at inference. NOT quant (NVFP4 AND FP8 both inert). NOT adapter format (separate `zc`
+  adapter — correct per vLLM's `check_unexpected_modules` allowlist — loads clean but inert; the fused-key
+  rekey is rejected). The #47640 None-group guard-patch overlay did NOT fix it (failure is UPSTREAM of
+  `expand_packed_lora` — the separate→fused mapping never happens). Fix PR #47640 is OPEN (unmerged) so no
+  version-bump helps. Merge bakes deltas in (bypasses this) but is static.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-07]` **SGLang generic image can't LOAD our NVFP4 AEON** — ModelOptModelLoader weight-shape/
+  packing mismatch ([1024,5120] vs [1024,2560], 2-fp4/byte). NVFP4-on-SGLang needs the dedicated
+  `qwen36-27b-nvfp4` dev image or a requant to SGLang's format. bf16 loads fine (arch supported; crash was
+  quant-loader-specific).
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-07]` **SGLang `--lora-target-modules` CLI enum REJECTS the GDN names its own resolver asks for**
+  (invalid choice: 'in_proj_qkv'); `'all'` resolves to the FUSED set (qkv_proj/in_proj_qkvz). SGLang wants
+  its OWN packed layout (base r16 + `get_stacked_multiply=3`, NOT a pre-fused rank-48 qkv → the [48]-vs-[144]
+  shape assert). A THIRD adapter format; version-exact source needed (`:latest`=0.5.13, NOT `main`).
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Engine invocation footguns cost several wasted serve-bounces this session** — `docker run
+  --rm` ate crash logs; duplicated `serve` (vLLM image entrypoint is already `["vllm","serve"]`);
+  `--max-lora-rank 48` invalid (choices 1/8/16/32/64… → use 64); parens in `echo` inside `ssh host -c "…"`
+  break the remote shell. LESSON: verify engine launch flags (`--help`, GPU-free) + never `--rm` a container
+  whose crash logs you need, BEFORE bouncing a production serve.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
+- `[2026-07-04]` **LiteLLM (this gateway version) mutates the SHARED deployment config in-place on
+  per-request sampler-param merge** → my deliberately-invalid `top_k=-5` forwarding-probe bled into a
+  param-less character-rp request (vLLM 400, ONE-OFF, self-cleared by a later valid probe). NOT
+  caching (none configured), NOT a config change. **Never fire invalid/distinctive sampler values at
+  a SHARED gateway alias with live consumers** — use a throwaway alias, or a `docker restart litellm`
+  flushes residual carryover. `feedback_litellm_shared_param_mutation`.
+_Archived 2026-08-15._
+
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-04]` **LiteLLM (this gateway version) mutates the SHARED deployment config in-place on
-  per-request sampler-param merge** → my deliberately-invalid `top_k=-5` forwarding-probe bled into a
-  param-less character-rp request (vLLM 400, ONE-OFF, self-cleared by a later valid probe). NOT
-  caching (none configured), NOT a config change. **Never fire invalid/distinctive sampler values at
-  a SHARED gateway alias with live consumers** — use a throwaway alias, or a `docker restart litellm`
-  flushes residual carryover. `feedback_litellm_shared_param_mutation`.
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-07]` **Engine invocation footguns cost several wasted serve-bounces this session** — `docker run
-  --rm` ate crash logs; duplicated `serve` (vLLM image entrypoint is already `["vllm","serve"]`);
-  `--max-lora-rank 48` invalid (choices 1/8/16/32/64… → use 64); parens in `echo` inside `ssh host -c "…"`
-  break the remote shell. LESSON: verify engine launch flags (`--help`, GPU-free) + never `--rm` a container
-  whose crash logs you need, BEFORE bouncing a production serve.
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-07]` **SGLang generic image can't LOAD our NVFP4 AEON** — ModelOptModelLoader weight-shape/
-  packing mismatch ([1024,5120] vs [1024,2560], 2-fp4/byte). NVFP4-on-SGLang needs the dedicated
-  `qwen36-27b-nvfp4` dev image or a requant to SGLang's format. bf16 loads fine (arch supported; crash was
-  quant-loader-specific).
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-07]` **SGLang `--lora-target-modules` CLI enum REJECTS the GDN names its own resolver asks for**
-  (invalid choice: 'in_proj_qkv'); `'all'` resolves to the FUSED set (qkv_proj/in_proj_qkvz). SGLang wants
-  its OWN packed layout (base r16 + `get_stacked_multiply=3`, NOT a pre-fused rank-48 qkv → the [48]-vs-[144]
-  shape assert). A THIRD adapter format; version-exact source needed (`:latest`=0.5.13, NOT `main`).
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-07]` **vLLM 0.24.0 qwen3_5 LoRA application = silent no-op (#47639).** Adapter loads HTTP 200
-  but zero deltas at inference. NOT quant (NVFP4 AND FP8 both inert). NOT adapter format (separate `zc`
-  adapter — correct per vLLM's `check_unexpected_modules` allowlist — loads clean but inert; the fused-key
-  rekey is rejected). The #47640 None-group guard-patch overlay did NOT fix it (failure is UPSTREAM of
-  `expand_packed_lora` — the separate→fused mapping never happens). Fix PR #47640 is OPEN (unmerged) so no
-  version-bump helps. Merge bakes deltas in (bypasses this) but is static.
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-08]` **Angel (allura-org/MS3.2-24b-Angel) self-quanted to NVFP4 = GARBAGE.** llm-compressor W4A4 NVFP4
-  (compressed-tensors, MLP-quantized, attn/vision bf16) of the Mistral3 dense 24B produces gibberish EVEN AT GREEDY
-  (temp 0) → the quant itself is broken, not the tokenizer or sampler. Same recipe worked on the qwen models.
-  Mistral3 + W4A4 NVFP4 via llm-compressor is bad. → for the RP seat, going **GGUF (llama.cpp)** to sidestep the
-  whole NVFP4-quant surface.
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-08]` **Mistral3 + vLLM tokenizer/vision traps (serve `MS3.2-24b`, vLLM 0.24).** (a) HF `tokenizer.json`
-  for Mistral = **GARBAGE output** — the card's "use the official Mistral tokenizer" warning is REAL; must use the
-  `tekken.json`/mistral tokenizer. (b) BUT `--tokenizer-mode mistral` + vision **CRASHES** (`Failed to apply
-  PixtralProcessor on {'text': '[IMG]'}`; and with tekken.json present in auto mode, `CachedMistralCommonBackend has
-  no attribute is_fast`). So it's **mistral-tokenizer OR vision, not both** on this vLLM. Text-only + mistral
-  tokenizer serves clean (`--limit-mm-per-prompt '{"image": 0}'`). **GGUF/llama.cpp avoids all of this** (native
-  mistral tokenizer + vision).
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-08]` **Pantheon-27B MTP on vLLM compressed-tensors = 0% acceptance.** MTP is a separate **bf16** head
-  (`mtp.*`, in `model-auxiliary.safetensors`, 15 tensors); AEON preserved it by INJECTING the bf16 head into the
-  quant output (NOT re-quantizing — confirmed AEON's nvfp4 mtp is bf16). Built pantheon-27b-mtp = compressed-tensors
-  main + injected bf16 mtp + `text_config.mtp_num_hidden_layers=1` → vLLM detected the MTP but SKIPPED the bf16
-  self_attn weights → 0/192 draft tokens accepted. **The bf16 MTP head only loads on the MODELOPT main-model format
-  (like AEON), not compressed-tensors.** (Moot — operator dropped MTP for gen; not needed for the non-reasoning RP.)
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-08]` **Pantheon-Reasoning-27B refuses dark fiction DESPITE an abliterated base.** The base
-  (`llmfan46 heretic`) writes freely (thinking-off), but Gryphe distilled the reasoning traces from **DeepSeek 3.2**
-  (safety-aligned) onto every turn (`preserve_thinking:true`) → the model reasons ITSELF into refusals in the
-  `<think>` phase (collapses to empty output). Fix: thinking-off OR an uncensor system prompt (both verified).
-  **Lesson: a reasoning finetune of an abliterated base can re-censor via its reasoning-trace TEACHER; the raw
-  abliterated base is cleaner** — this is WHY the pivot went to the llmfan46 heretic base for gen.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-13]` Relaying a peer's diagnosis as fact without confirming it against raw data. worldtree-dev diagnosed the WT #355 residual as "our llama.cpp seat wedging," which I echoed in a wrap-up; the operator challenged it and the seat logs DISPROVED it (seat completes ≤72s, idle at the wedge onset — the hang is the LiteLLM gateway). Lesson: CONFIRM peer diagnoses (esp. cross-domain ones) before acting/relaying — same discipline that caught the earlier char-rp-reasoning red-herring via a live `registry.resolve` reproduction.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-14]` **AEON's "working NVFP4+MTP RP seat" was pantheon on compressed-tensors (0% MTP accept), not a modelopt MTP proof.** `vllm-aeon-rp`'s .env → `AEON_RP_MODEL=pantheon-27b-mtp-nvfp4`, `AEON_RP_QUANT=compressed-tensors` — it LOADED (mtp silently skipped, `exited 0`) but never accelerated. Same vLLM image (`:latest` = `sha256:4091d55` = 0.24.0) as the failed Heretic2 test, so the "AEON ran on an older vLLM" theory was wrong. Don't treat a seat that "ran" as MTP-validated without checking its `SpecDecoding` acceptance.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-14]` **gitea "test-delivery 204" is NOT proof a webhook works** (204 = gitea *queuing*, not the listener receiving) — and a proxy test signing with the listener's OWN secret proves the listener, not gitea's real delivery. Both red herrings cost a round of the soong-lab webhook diagnosis. Diagnose from BOTH ends: sender (`docker logs gitea | grep webhook` → the `deny '<ip>'` line) AND an instrumented receiver.
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- `[2026-07-14]` **MTP graft via top-level `mtp.*` tensor names does NOT survive `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained`** — the `Qwen3_5ForCausalLM` class doesn't expose an mtp module, so the mtp keys are DROPPED at load (quant output = 0 mtp). Fix = SPLICE the BF16 mtp tensors into the quant output post-hoc (how pantheon was built); don't rely on the graft surviving the model round-trip.
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- `[2026-07-14]` **MTP-on-modelopt: NO checkpoint config skips the spec-decode drafter's quant (vLLM 0.24 bug) — 4 config attempts failed before the runtime workaround.** All crashed the same way (`qwen3_5_mtp.py:256` `param_data.shape == loaded_weight.shape` AssertionError — bf16 mtp head loaded into a quantized drafter param): (1) mtp excludes in `config.json` (WRONG file — vLLM modelopt reads `hf_quant_config.json`); (2) specific-unfused mtp names in hf_quant_config; (3) wildcards `mtp*`/`mtp.layers.0*` (`is_layer_skipped` is EXACT-membership, NOT glob — wildcards match nothing); (4) exact fused+unfused names in both `mtp.`/`model.` prefixes. Instrumenting `is_layer_skipped` proved the drafter's exclude list holds ONLY the main model's `linear_attn` entries — the mtp excludes never reach the draft-model quant config. ONLY fix = a mounted `sitecustomize` force-skipping `mtp.*`. LESSON: don't chase checkpoint-config fixes for the mtp-drafter crash; go straight to the runtime patch. Also `nvidia-modelopt[hf]==0.43` (AEON's producer version) is a trap — it pins transformers back to 4.57 which can't load `qwen3_5` at all; use 0.45 + the FusedMoE guard in `quant_modelopt.py`.
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- `[2026-07-14]` **NVFP4 (llm-compressor / compressed-tensors) gives NO batch-1 speedup over GGUF for the Qwen3.5 GDN-hybrid, and its MTP is 0%-accept.** Measured base NVFP4 no-MTP ≈53 tok/s decode vs the GGUF NEO-CODE seat ~59.5 (llama.cpp wins single-stream; NVFP4's edge is concurrency, and this hybrid is bandwidth-bound at batch-1 with the BF16 linear_attn/GDN layers dominating). MTP spec-decode = 0% acceptance (vLLM's `Qwen3_5MTP` drafter won't load the bf16 mtp weights off a compressed-tensors main model → `Parameter … not found in params_dict`, `Avg Draft acceptance rate: 0.0%`). Pantheon is identical — its "working NVFP4+MTP" was working *structure*, never real acceleration. Working native MTP needs the **modelopt** main-model format (AEON, ~3.3/3 accept). LESSON: don't expect a faster single-stream seat from an llm-compressor NVFP4 quant of this arch; the MTP multiplier is the whole point and it requires modelopt.
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- `[2026-07-14]` **NVFP4 spike: built the full MTP serve scaffolding BEFORE validating a plain NVFP4 serve was coherent.** Chased 6 sequential serve-config fixes (entrypoint doubled `serve`, arch `ForCausalLM`→`ConditionalGeneration`, `--language-model-only`, mamba-cache/`max-num-seqs`) across a **2.5hr GPU window** (quoted 30-60 min) — only to find the served model gibbers (`!!!!`). LESSON: smoke a PLAIN `/v1/completions` coherence check on the SIMPLEST config (native arch, no MTP, no splice) FIRST — validate the tracer bullet before building spec-decode scaffolding. Also cost an unnecessary re-quant (the `re:mtp.*` ignore fix that turned out moot). Diagnostic ladder in Current state.
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- `[2026-07-15]` **Claude Code statusline `.cost.total_cost_usd` is per-SESSION** (Claude Code's own cache/model-aware session accounting), not a lifetime aggregate — the large value just reflects a long, multiple-times-summarized session. And the old statusline hardcoded Sonnet pricing ($3/$15) on an Opus session -> ~5x cost understatement.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-15]` **`docker.service After=remote-fs.target` does NOT wait for `nofail` NFS mounts** — `nofail` drops a mount out of remote-fs.target's blocking set, so the drop-in ordering is silently defeated (paperless still Exited(255) on reboot). Real fix = DIRECT mount->docker ordering via the fstab `x-systemd.before=docker.service` option (verify `systemctl show docker -p After` lists the mnt-*.mount units). esh-docker-vm.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-15]` **esh-docker-vm NFS fstab fix = `x-systemd.before=docker.service`** (the prior `After=remote-fs.target` drop-in was silently defeated by `nofail`). Reached only after a REBOOT (D-state phantom containers uptime-kuma + paperless-web that no `docker`/`ctr`/daemon-restart could clear). Committed `21d9a07` + playbook updated. See Tried and abandoned.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-15]` **The esh-docker-vm D-state/phantom-container wedge is only cleared by a host REBOOT** — reconfirmed: `docker stop/rm -f`, `ctr -n moby task delete`, AND `systemctl restart docker` all fail to clear it; `docker exec` into a wedged container ALSO fails (`setns ... exit status 1`), so the in-place restart escape hatch is out. Worse, a daemon restart can HALF-KILL other healthy containers (knocked paperless's granian down + left it wedged). Process dead but dockerd won't reap -> phantom. NFS mounts are `_netdev,nofail` so the reboot is boot-safe.
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-15]` **vLLM `max-model-len` does NOT free GPU VRAM** — the KV cache POOL is sized by `gpu-memory-utilization`, not max-model-len. Lowering max-model-len only caps per-request context + drops max concurrency; the pool still fills the util budget. To actually free VRAM, lower `gpu-memory-utilization`. (Bit the char-rp-reasoning "drop KV to 150K" ask: the 150K applied but freed 0 VRAM until util dropped 0.39->0.38.)
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-17]` **Zonos2 `:1920` engine → self-contained container (stays on 3090); prosody-priming is a SERVING-LAYER change (engine stays stock).**
-
-**Context.** The production Zonos TTS engine (irv-ml1 `:1920`, feeds asset-engine + gateway-chat via `zonos-gateway` :8890) was a bare native process — its real launch config existed ONLY in the running process argv (the committed `~/tts-audition/harness/zonos_server.sh` was STALE: said A6000/:1919/no perf flags; live is 3090/:1920 with `--cuda-graph-max-bs 1 --num-pages 16384 --max-running-requests 2 --memory-ratio 0.3`). Captured to eshpfi `stacks/zonos-engine/` (README + corrected `zonos2-server.sh` + `.env.example`), commit **14a0004** (UNPUSHED as of the snapshot).
-
-**Decision 1 — containerize as a SELF-CONTAINED image** (not systemd — operator rejected; not a thin bind-mount wrapper — I walked that back: bind-mounting the host's CUDA-compiled `.venv` couples to the host's exact CUDA/glibc and is fragile + not reproducible). Shape: `FROM` a CUDA 12.8 base → `uv sync` against the repo's committed `uv.lock` (deterministic env) → mount the ~15 GB HF weights (`~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Zyphra--ZONOS2`, do NOT bake) → pin the **3090** (`NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0`) → `restart: unless-stopped` → CMD = the captured invocation. **Engine stays STOCK** Zyphra/Zonos2 @ commit `194c0a3` (no fork — the `zonos2` package ships its own server). **Build risk:** heavy compiled-CUDA deps (flashinfer / sgl_kernel / cutlass-dsl / apache-tvm-ffi / pynini) on torch 2.9.1+cu128 — mostly prebuilt wheels + the `uv.lock` make it tractable, expect a couple build iterations. **Cutover (in place on the 3090):** stop the native process (frees ~17 GB) → `docker compose up -d` (re-allocates ~17 GB, same footprint) → repoint `zonos-gateway`'s `ZONOS_URL` at the container (or keep the `:1920` host-port publish). One brief prod-TTS blip.
-
-**GPU = 3090 (operator 2026-07-17).** Keep it OFF the A6000 — the A6000 already OOMs under ComfyUI load (idle ~19 GB but spikes far higher during gen), so it can't host Zonos too. The 3090 already runs Zonos, so the containerize-in-place cutover changes nothing about placement.
-
-**Decision 2 — the prosody-priming hypothesis (operator's test; the reason for building fresh).** PRIME the autoregressive engine with an emotional sentence, then TRUNCATE it from delivery: prepend a primer → **generate "primer + real text" as ONE continuous utterance** (the AR model carries prosody forward across the boundary) → ASR-timestamp the primer's end (**parakeet**, already up on irv-ml1 `:8765`, word timestamps) → **clip the primer in the inter-sentence silence gap** (+ ~15 ms fade-in, no click) → deliver only the real text, now wearing the primed prosody. Examples: primer "I'm so EXCITED about this." → "This will be a lot of fun!" spoken excited; primer "I'm whispering this to you right now." → "I'm so glad to see you baby." whispered. **This is PURE serving-layer orchestration — the engine is untouched; it lives in the gateway adapter `stacks/zonos/adapter/server.py`.** Only fork the engine if the black-box approach fails.
-
-**THE CRUX the test resolves:** does AR prosody actually **carry across the sentence boundary**, or does Zonos reset at the period? → the harness A/Bs the **JOIN punctuation**: period (operator's examples) vs comma vs ellipsis vs none ("…excited about this, this will be…"). Everything else is plumbing.
-
-**Plan / design recs.** (a) Build the stock engine image (parallel track). (b) Stand up a priming TEST HARNESS against the NATIVE engine (fast iteration, seconds) + parakeet ASR: prime→generate→timestamp→gap-clip→out; compare primed-clipped vs plain on the two cases (subjective + a cheap objective proxy: pitch/energy variance for "excited", spectral-tilt/low-energy for "whisper"). Iterate on the join, then bake the winner into the gateway adapter. **Primer source:** caller-supplied for the harness (test arbitrary primers) → a curated emotion→primer library (`excited`/`whisper`/…) + optional caller override for production. **ASR:** parakeet primary; WhisperX forced-align fallback if parakeet word timestamps are coarse.
-
-See eshpfi `stacks/zonos-engine/README.md` + `stacks/zonos/` (the gateway adapter).
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
- `[2026-07-18]` **Fleet Gitea-Actions build recipe + the `vh`-is-a-user package-write constraint** (learned the hard way across 3 failed soong-lab validation builds; reusable for ANY fleet CI image build or package publish).
-
-**The runner.** One `act_runner` (`gitea/act_runner`) on ana-docker, labels
-`pfi-fleet` / `ana-docker` → both map to job image **`node:20-bookworm-slim`**,
-which has **NO docker and NO git**. Config `/opt/docker/conf/gitea-runner/data/config.yaml`:
-`valid_volumes: []` (no socket propagated to job containers). So:
- `actions/checkout@v4` fails (needs git); `docker/*` marketplace actions fail
-  (need docker) — a workflow built on those dies at the first step (~15s).
-
-**The working recipe (mirror Worldtree `deploy.yml`).** Run the job in a
-docker-capable image + drive docker with RAW commands, not the JS actions:
-```yaml
-runs-on: pfi-fleet
-container:
-  image: docker:24.0.7-cli        # has docker+buildx; add git+node
-steps:
-  - run: apk add --no-cache git nodejs   # so actions/checkout@v4 works
-  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-  - name: login   # RAW, not docker/login-action
-    run: echo "$REGISTRY_TOKEN" | docker login gitea.phasefinal.com -u "$REGISTRY_USER" --password-stdin
-  - name: buildx builder
-    run: docker buildx create --name X --driver docker-container --use; docker buildx inspect --bootstrap
-  - name: build+push   # RAW, not docker/build-push-action
-    run: docker buildx build --secret id=<name>,env=<TOKEN> -t <img>:latest --push .
-```
-The runner mounts the host docker socket into ITSELF; the docker:cli job reaches
-the daemon through that. The `docker/*` JS actions are unreliable on act_runner —
-raw commands are the fleet convention.
-
-**`vh` is a USER account, not an org.** Consequences that bit repeatedly:
-1. `GET /api/v1/orgs/vh` → 404 "user redirect"; there are **no org teams** to add
-   a service account to.
-2. **User-owned packages are OWNER-WRITE-ONLY.** claude-bot (even repo
-   admin-*collaborator* on `vh/soong-lab`, even with `write:package` scope + full
-   basic-auth) gets **`401 unauthorized`** on `docker push` to `vh/soong-lab`, and
-   `npm publish` to `vh/npm/` would 401 too. Only `vh` itself can write vh packages.
-   → CI must authenticate AS `vh` for the push (a vh-owned `write:package` PAT as
-   `REGISTRY_TOKEN` + `REGISTRY_USER=vh`), exactly how WT pushes `vh/worldtree`.
-   claude-bot CAN still: clone/read repos, READ packages (pulled the image fine),
-   dispatch workflows, mint demo Worldtree keys.
-3. **Repo Actions secrets are OWNER-ONLY too** — `PUT .../actions/secrets/X` as
-   claude-bot (repo admin-collab) → 403 "user should be the owner of the repo".
-   Only `vh` can set a repo's secrets.
-
-**Other gotchas:**
- Gitea **reserves the `GITEA_` secret-name prefix** — a secret named
-  `GITEA_PYPI_TOKEN` is illegal; use e.g. `PYPI_TOKEN`.
- Gitea **package auth is token-based / username-lenient** — `docker login` /
-  PyPI basic-auth authenticate via the token; the username is nominal (tested
-  `-u gitea` and `-u claude-bot` both 200 against the vh PyPI). So a Dockerfile
-  hardcoding `UV_INDEX_GITEA_USERNAME=gitea` is fine with any valid token.
- Homepage (esh-docker-vm) docker-label auto-discovery only covers the 5 endpoints
-  in its `docker.yaml` (esh-vm-docker, ana-docker, ana-ml2, nh3-docker, irv-ml1);
-  **corviduo-dev is NOT watched** → services there need a manual `services.yaml`
-  entry, not labels.
-
-Applied in the soong-lab CI: [[2026-07-18-soong-lab-containerize-cutover]].
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- `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab containerize cutover — COMPLETE + LIVE on corviduo-dev.**
-
-Migrated soong-lab (Noonien Soong character-design studio) from a hand-built
-`soong-lab-studio.service` (systemd + git-pull-on-webhook) to a containerized
-deploy, image built by CI + pushed to the Gitea registry. soong-dev owns the
-in-repo artifacts (Dockerfile/compose/workflow/`docs/DEPLOY.md` = checklist);
-infra-ops owned the host cutover. Operator confirmed functional ("Soong works
-great" — a real Soong turn round-trips + saves) → cutover 100% closed.
-
-**Final state (corviduo-dev, 10.250.50.152):**
- Container `soong-lab-soong-lab-1` LIVE + healthy on `0.0.0.0:8443`, image
-  `gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/soong-lab:latest` (v0.3.24), `restart:unless-stopped`
-  (survives reboot; no systemd unit needed — docker restart policy handles boot).
- Deploy dir **`/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy/`** — pull-based `compose.yaml`
-  (image + env_file + `8443:8443` + named volumes; NO build/secrets stanza) +
-  `.env` (copied from the live `soong-lab.env`, STRIPPED of the `SOONG_LAB_*_DIR`
-  overrides so the container uses image defaults `/data/library` + `/data/portraits`
-  + `/app/web` → the volumes).
- Named volumes `soong-lab_soong-library` + `soong-lab_soong-portraits`, migrated
-  from `/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-data/{library,portraits}` (2 saved designs incl.
-  **Sindra** + 27 portraits), **chowned `10001:999`** (the container `soong` user)
-  so it can read AND write new designs.
- Old `soong-lab-studio.service` + `soong-webhook.service` (the `:9010` git-pull
-  redeploy listener) both **stopped + disabled**.
-
-**Topology reality (≠ what DEPLOY.md assumed):** there is **NO TLS proxy**.
-WT-personal (`:8081`) and soong-lab are **co-located on corviduo-dev**, and the
-Bifrost callback is **plain-HTTP same-host** `http://10.250.50.152:8443` — the
-value of `SOONG_LAB_BIFROST_ENDPOINT_URL`, unchanged by the move, so the WT
-Bifrost host-allowlist stayed valid as-is. Nothing on the WT side needed touching.
-
-**Safety net:** data backup `/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-data-backup-20260718-091831.tar.gz`
-(35M) taken BEFORE migration. Verified pre-retire: `/api/version` 200 (0.3.24),
-SPA `/` 200, `POST /bifrost/tool-call` → 401 (route present + auth-gated),
-bidirectional WT↔soong reachability, container healthcheck green.
-
-**Ops commands:**
- Redeploy a new image: `cd /home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy && sudo docker compose pull && sudo docker compose up -d`.
-  (Auto-pull-on-`:latest` — watchtower or a deploy hook — is an open follow-up.)
- Rollback: `sudo docker compose down` + `sudo systemctl enable --now soong-lab-studio.service soong-webhook.service`.
- Homepage tile: manual `- Apps:` entry "Soong Lab" (href http://10.250.50.152:8443)
-  in esh-docker-vm `/opt/docker/conf/homepage/services.yaml` — corviduo-dev isn't
-  a Homepage-watched docker endpoint, so docker-label auto-discovery can't surface
-  it (see [[2026-07-18-fleet-gitea-runner-build-recipe]] for the CI half).
-
-See [[reference_corviduo_dev_emergency_ops]], [[reference_claude_bot_gitea_creds]].
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- `[2026-07-18]` **Zonos2 emotion CANONICAL from an empirical sweep + the voice-cloning pipeline.**
-
-**Voice-cloning pipeline (established this session).** Source zips at
-`/mnt/smithy/voice_clones/<name>.zip` (irv-ml1 NFS from nh3-nas; remount
-post-reboot) — each = diarized single-speaker podcast clips + `manifest.jsonl`
-(per-clip WhisperX `mean_score`, word timestamps, text) + `metadata.csv`.
-`~/development/zonos-tools/assemble_voice.py <dir>` ranks by mean_score and
-concatenates top clips to ~15–24s (Zyphra's blessed clone-ref length; single
-clip if already ≥15s). Drop the assembled `<Name>.wav` into the gateway voices
-dir → `voice:"name"`. 4 characters cloned: **Emmie, Penny, Natalie, Miranda**
-(+ Zyphra defaults AmericanFemale/Male/British/Cora) = 8 voices in
-`zonos-gateway`. Clone is inline `speaker_audio_base64` (text-independent Qwen3
-speaker embedding — NO transcript); `/tts/speakers` registration is
-session-scoped (needs `X-TTS-Session-ID`), so the gateway holds the ref wav and
-clones per-call.
-
-**Gateway voices are host-managed (bind-mount, added this session).** Added
-`./voices:/app/voices:ro` to `/opt/docker/compose/zonos-gateway/compose.yaml`
-(committed to `vh/zonos-gateway` + eshpfi mirror `438cd35`). So adding a voice =
-drop the wav + `docker compose restart zonos-gateway` (registry rebuilds at
-boot; NO image rebuild). This also un-stranded the other voices (deploy build
-context had only Cora before). Voice wavs committed to the repo for backup.
-
-**Emotion mechanism (Zyphra canonical, from their README @194c0a3).** Additive
-direction vectors: 4 named (happy/sad/angry/surprised) + valence/arousal axes.
-`emotion_strength` 1.0 = per-voice calibrated (calibration.json optimizes
-emotion2vec recognizability only, NOT identity). `accurate_mode` is THE trade-off:
-`true` = closer voice match (identity), `false` = expressive mode (emotion lands,
-identity drifts). Zyphra's strong recipe: `accurate_mode:false` + `cfg~1.5`.
-Single-emotion is blessed; mixing is unblessed (and degrades the clone — operator
-confirmed by ear). "deaf by 1.5" — cfg past 1.5 distorts + costs ~2× compute.
-
-**THE SWEEP (`~/development/zonos-tools/emotion_sweep.py`).** 4 cloned voices × 4
-named emotions × {accurate,expressive}×{cfg 1.0,1.3,1.5} @ strength 1.0,
-single-emotion, neutral sentence + a neutral baseline per voice (~100 clips).
-Scored on TWO axes: **emotion-landing** = emotion2vec `iic/emotion2vec_plus_large`
-target-emotion prob [0-1]; **identity** = resemblyzer speaker-embedding cosine vs
-the clone reference (neutral baseline ~0.85). Scoring env:
-`uv run --with resemblyzer --with funasr --with "numpy<2" --with soundfile
--with requests --with "setuptools<80" --with torchaudio` (setuptools<80 for
-webrtcvad's pkg_resources; torchaudio for funasr).
-
-**RESULTS (mean across the 4 voices) — emotion, best setting, emo/id:**
- happy — **exp cfg1.5** 0.80/0.68 (soft: exp cfg1.0 0.76/0.69) → WORKS
- sad — **exp cfg1.5** 0.53/0.57 (only working cell; id below the ~0.65 floor) → modest
- angry — acc cfg1.3 / exp cfg1.5 tied at ~0.25 emo → WEAK (named ceiling ~0.25)
- surprised — max ~0.015 across ALL settings → NON-FUNCTIONAL on the named direction
-Accurate + low cfg = identity/suppress regime (emo→0); expressive REQUIRED for
-emotion to land, at ~0.15–0.28 identity cost.
-
-**dvalin-smithy-dev synthesis (adopted, triaged genuine-adds; thread
-`01KXT12FN0AS5A3WMKEK06BVPS`):**
-1. Treat **identity as a hard FLOOR (~0.65)**, not a free variable in emo×id.
-2. **Two-regime policy** — Regime A (default, identity-critical dialogue):
-   `accurate_mode:true, cfg 1.0, emotion off` (text carries it) or soft-happy
-   (exp cfg1.0). Regime B (tagged drama beats): `accurate_mode:false, cfg 1.5`,
-   single emotion or axes. Line-type→regime heuristic (exposition→A, grief→B+sad,
-   confrontation→B+axes-angry, shock→B+axes-arousal).
-3. **Axes-first for the broken emotions** — angry ≈ valence −0.6..−0.8 / arousal
-   +0.5..+0.8; surprised ≈ valence +0.2..+0.4 / arousal +0.7..+1.0 (exp cfg1.5);
-   or "startled-happy" (happy + high arousal) as a surprised stand-in. These are
-   PROVISIONAL — the sweep did NOT test axes.
-
-**NEXT (highest VoI, operator to green-light):** an **axes sweep** for
-angry/surprised (valence×arousal grid) — the only path to rescue the two broken
-named emotions; then a strength ladder at the best cells + emotion-congruent text
-(neutral content understates landing) + per-voice tables + a 2nd emotion judge /
-human pairwise. Then bake the happy/sad canonical into gateway presets. I owe
-dvalin the axes-sweep numbers.
-
-See [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]; dials-first spec at `vh/zonos-gateway`
-`docs/EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md`.
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- `[2026-07-18]` **zonos-gateway 0.2.1 — voice-resolved emotion presets baked (provisional) from the axes sweep.**
-
-After the axes sweep ([[reference_zonos_tts_stack]] + the `[2026-07-18] axes sweep`
-Recent-decisions entry) rescued angry and confirmed startled-happy, the operator
-green-lit baking the results as **provisional** gateway presets + docs. Shipped
-`vh/zonos-gateway` **0.2.1** (main `8f1885b`, tag `v0.2.1`, PUSHED; deployed live
-on irv-ml1 `:8890`).
-
-**Design — voice-resolved, NOT global.** `resolve_preset(name, voice)` picks the
-per-voice measured cell, because a single global preset is unsafe (dvalin ruling;
-BritishFemale's *named* angry misfires as fear). Presets:
- `angry`, `happy`, `startled_happy` (+ aliases `surprised`, `startled` →
-  startled_happy). All expressive (`accurate_mode:false`), cfg 1.5, pure-axes
-  (no named sliders).
- Calibrated cells (the 3 default voices):
-  - angry: AmF v-0.4/a+1.0 s1.0 (emo0.53/id0.685); BrF v-0.4/a+0.8 s1.0
-    (emo0.99/id0.725, metric fear-clean); AmM **two-tier** — soft v-0.6/a+0.8 s1.0
-    (0.23/id0.654) + drama v-0.6/a+0.8 s1.2 (1.0/id0.616 clean; strength is NOT a
-    smooth knob on AmM, 1.0→1.2 is the window, past that flips to disgust).
-  - happy / startled_happy: AmF v+0.6/a+0.8; AmM v+0.3/a+1.0; BrF v+0.6/a+1.0
-    (happy~1.0, id 0.74-0.80; axes-happy keeps +0.15 id over the named happy slider).
-  - `sad` = unchanged named-slider preset (not axes-tested).
- Uncalibrated voices (Cora + the 4 clones) → mid-region fallback until measured.
- Docs surface: `/v1/dials` exposes `voice_emotion_presets`; the FastAPI `/docs`
-  description documents it; durable spec `docs/EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md` (moved INTO
-  the repo — was mirror-only); README table. 44 tests green.
-
-**Repo-hygiene gotcha (fixed).** The local clone `~/development/zonos-gateway` and
-gitea `vh/zonos-gateway` had **TWO UNRELATED git histories** (no merge-base) — gitea
-held the voice-wav commits, the local clone held the code + no remote. Reconciled
-by resetting local→origin/main, overlaying the 7 bake files, `uv lock`, commit,
-push (fast-forward). Voices stay tracked; local now shares gitea's lineage + has
-origin wired. **The deployed irv-ml1 tree `/opt/docker/compose/zonos-gateway` is
-still NON-git** (hand-updated build context) — CI-wire remains an open follow-up.
-
-**Provisional pending** ear-validation on emotion-congruent text (the neutral-text
-audition was inconclusive: "they all sound different, hard to tell"). Follow-ups:
-sad axes/text pass on the 3 voices; congruent-text pass; clone-char emotion rows.
-Tools `~/development/zonos-tools/{axes_sweep,strength_ladder,gen_auditions,dial-in-studio}.py`
-(run ON irv-ml1; scoring env `uv run --with resemblyzer --with funasr --with "numpy<2"
--with soundfile --with requests --with "setuptools<80" --with torchaudio`).
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# [2026-08-15] Uncensored gen seat: Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored deployed; the definitive MTP-graft fix
+
+**Outcome.** The fleet `gen` seat is now **`JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored`** (Heretic
+abliteration, KL 0.12 vs base, bench Δ −0.5 within noise, refusals 98→12/100), quantized in-house
+to **NVFP4 W4A16** (llm-compressor / compressed-tensors) with a **grafted bf16 MTP head**,
+vision-intact, **262K** ctx, MTP n=3 (**~42% accept, ~68 tok/s**), coherent. Live at ana-ml2 `:8015`
+(project `gen-seat` / container `vllm-gen`), backing all 7 gateway aliases.
+
+**THE definitive lesson (resolved 3 failed attempts + one premature 50 GB delete).** A grafted bf16
+MTP scored **0% on the quant but 83% at bf16** — for TWO different abliterated models. Root cause was
+NEITHER the abliteration NOR the quant scheme: it was **the grafted `mtp.*` tensors missing from
+`config.json` → `quantization_config.ignore`.** The wrapper-class quant DROPS the MTP before
+llm-compressor sees it, so nothing gets added to `ignore`; vLLM then tries to load the bf16 MTP as
+*quantized* format → "Parameter … not found in params_dict, skip loading" → uninitialized head → 0%.
+**FIX: after grafting, add `re:^mtp.*` to `quantization_config.ignore`** (one line — all unsloth's
+working checkpoint has). MTP jumped 0%→83% (bf16-identical). Full lesson in auto-memory
+`reference_abliteration_mtp_lessons`.
+
+**The pipeline that works (for the next VL+MTP quant, incl. the W4A8 chase):**
+1. Pull bf16 (kept at `ana-ml2:/tank/aimodels/qwen38-27b-uncensored-bf16`).
+2. Quant via `quant_nvfp4_qwen.py` (darkscarlett dir) = the **wrapper-class** loader
+   (`Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration`, keeps the vLLM-serveable config); container = `vllm-openai`
+   + `pip install llmcompressor==0.13.0` (drags in a transformers with `qwen3_5`).
+3. **Graft** the author's `model-mtp.safetensors` verbatim into the output + merge the index.
+4. **Reconstruct** `preprocessor_config.json` from `processor_config.json`'s `image_processor`
+   sub-dict (the repo omits it → else "Can't load image processor" crash-loop).
+5. **Add `re:^mtp.*` to the output config's `quantization_config.ignore`.** ← the fix.
+6. Serve: `--quantization compressed-tensors --speculative-config '{"method":"qwen3_5_mtp","num_speculative_tokens":3}'`
+   `--mamba-cache-dtype float32 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --reasoning-parser qwen3`.
+
+**VRAM / full-context budget (measured).** Weights ~27 GB; hybrid attention → **only 16 of 64 layers
+carry KV** → 32 KiB/token → **262K KV = 8.6 GB** (vs ~60–70 GB for a normal dense 27B). Full 262K fits
+GPU0 at **util 0.45** (~43 GB) alongside meromero (~49 GB used, it's a 31B) — pre-flight rejects util
+0.48 (wants 45.6 GB, only 45.5 free). `max-num-seqs 16` keeps cudagraph modest (an ad-hoc serve with
+no cap OOM'd — cudagraph captured to batch-512).
+
+**Why unsloth's `qwen3.8-27b` (the prior gen model) was faster (97 vs 68 tok/s).** ~half = quant kernel
+(unsloth native NVFP4+FP8 tensor cores vs our W4A16 → Marlin dequant, ~20% even on decode — I'd
+under-stated this); ~half = MTP acceptance (unsloth 55% un-ablated head vs our 42% — inherent to the
+ablation, no quant fixes it). **W4A8 recovers the first ~20% (→~82 tok/s) + prefill; not the MTP half.**
+
+**modelopt dead-end (for W4A8, avoid).** `nvidia-modelopt[hf]==0.43.0` is too old for qwen3_5's
+transformers: (a) its `NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG.quant_cfg` is a LIST but 0.43 wants a DICT (pydantic reject);
+(b) it warns transformers 5.15 untested. Use **llm-compressor** for W4A8 instead (custom recipe: NVFP4
+weights + FP8 input_quantizer + calibration on `heretic2-nvfp4-work/production_calib_512.jsonl`).
+
+**Deleted (premature — the delete I owned).** `windowsxp811203/Qwen3.8-27B-Abliterated` (~79 GB) — I
+declared it desync-dead off a 0% that was actually this ignore bug. Lesson: **test MTP on bf16 first;
+isolate before deleting.**
+
+Commits: eshpfi `680c30e` (deploy + rename + litellm + README), dotfiles `1d1970f` (CLAUDE.md roster) —
+both UNPUSHED. Related: [[reference_abliteration_mtp_lessons]], [[reference_verify_hf_repo_ids_before_pull]].
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Persistent memory — eshpfi-management

-_Last updated: 2026-08-12_
+_Last updated: 2026-08-15_

 > **Always check for `/tmp/infra-ops-handoff.md`** — if it exists and its
 > `Written:` stamp is under an hour old, read it (it carries the in-flight
@@ -109,221 +109,183 @@ no longer deployed sidecars here. See Recent decisions.)

 ## Current state / in-flight

-_As of 2026-08-12 — **eRP dual-seat overhaul LANDED** (both char-rp seats live at 256K, compose-ified); **wgtunnel DEPLOYED** by tunnel-dev + stack mirrored; secrets-broker + stonehenge-park landed. **NEXT PROJECT (operator, queued for the next session): infra setup with additional access.**_
+_As of 2026-08-15 — **UNCENSORED GEN SEAT LANDED**: JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored is live as the fleet `gen` seat (project `gen-seat` / container `vllm-gen`, ana-ml2 :8015), all 7 gateway aliases repointed. **NEXT (operator-queued): chase W4A8** for the ~20% decode gain — see the handoff._

- **✅ eRP DUAL-SEAT OVERHAUL — DONE + LIVE (2026-08-12).** Two home-quantized NVFP4A16 vLLM seats on ana-ml2 replace the legacy char-rp seats: **`char-rp` :8016 GPU0 = MeroMero-v2-31B** (Gemma-4, non-thinking PROSE, **multimodal/vision**) + **`char-rp-reasoning` :8018 GPU1 = Dark-Scarlett-v1.0-27B** (Qwen3.6, THINKING). Both full **256K** (MeroMero util 0.52 → GPU0 ~4.6 GB free, 2.07×; DS util 0.44, 1.62×). Compose-ified (`stacks/meromero-charrp` + `stacks/darkscarlett-charrp-reasoning`, commit `f08b6cb`) → reboot-durable. Old GGUF/heretic2 seats stopped-but-retained. Full arc + all lessons (wrapper-config fix, vision reconstruction, GPU swap, ModelOpt/SGLang dead-ends) → Recent decisions `[2026-08-12] eRP dual-seat overhaul`. ⚠ OPEN: the LiteLLM granite-retire + `summarizer`/`classifier`→gen repoint is **server-only, NOT version-controlled**; MTP deferred; DS thinks verbosely (needs generous `max_tokens`).
+- **✅ UNCENSORED GEN SEAT — DONE + LIVE (2026-08-15).** `gen-seat`/`vllm-gen` on ana-ml2 GPU0 `:8015` serves **`qwen3.8-27b-uncensored`** (JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored, Heretic-abliterated, in-house NVFP4 **W4A16** compressed-tensors + grafted bf16 MTP, vision-intact, **262K** ctx, MTP n=3 ~42% accept / ~68 tok/s). Replaced the qwen3.6-35b-a3b-heretic MoE (which had briefly replaced granite/AEON). All 7 aliases repointed live + verified; compose renamed qwen36-27b-aeon→gen-seat, vllm-aeon-gen→vllm-gen, AEON_GEN_*→GEN_*, dead RP service dropped; repo mirrored + docs/memory refreshed; committed eshpfi `680c30e` + dotfiles `1d1970f`. Full arc + the definitive `re:^mtp.*`-ignore fix → Recent decisions `[2026-08-15]` + `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-uncensored-gen-seat.md`.

- **⟳ wgtunnel — DEPLOYED + accepted (tunnel-dev).** WG-over-wstunnel WSS/443 for captive-portal/DPI networks. `wgtunnel-wstunnel-1` live on ana-docker (`erebe/wstunnel v10.6.2`, behind traefik, Host `boring.phasefinal.com`, Mode-A `anaprod` cert), `--restrict-to ana-wg:31337` (not an open relay). infra-ops did Phase-0 DNS (`boring` CNAME → `ana-srv1`, DNS-only) + mirrored the stack into eshpfi `stacks/wgtunnel/` (`398b58a`). Full project in `vh/wgtunnel` (tunnel-dev's repo/session).
+- **⟳ NEXT — chase W4A8 (operator-queued).** Current seat is W4A16/Marlin (~68 tok/s decode); native NVFP4+FP8 (W4A8) recovers ~20% (→~82 tok/s) + faster prefill (MTP-acceptance half of the gap is inherent, not recoverable). bf16 source KEPT at `ana-ml2:/tank/aimodels/qwen38-27b-uncensored-bf16` (no re-pull). **Avoid modelopt 0.43** (dependency hell for qwen3_5); use llm-compressor W4A8 + calibration. Full recipe + mandatory post-steps (graft MTP + reconstruct preproc + `re:^mtp.*` ignore) in the handoff + `reference_abliteration_mtp_lessons`.

- **SECRETS-BROKER — LIVE.** Per-box credential store over Vaultwarden; the `secret` CLI (`put/get/list/rm/backfill`) on PATH at `~/.local/bin/secret`, 25 nh3-dev secrets backfilled + verified. Standing directive now global: **vault is the credential source of truth — store in it AND `secret get` creds FROM it.** Detail → Recent decisions `[2026-08-10→12]`.
+- **FLEET RERANKER** = A3 (bge-reranker-v2-m3) PROD ana-ml2 GPU1 :8013 (R42 v13 gate passed). Passive watch: caps ~34 req/s; levers = A4 :8014 / util / 2nd replica; incumbent :8002 warm for rollback. Full arc `docs/pfi/reranker-selection-ledger.md`.

- **STONEHENGE-PARK — new fleet repo stood up** (`vh/stonehenge-park`, pushed): a self-contained `/park` service to centrally park + resurface ideas. `/vor-plan` + `/vor-ui` done; build starts at the **U1 tracer contract** (that repo's task, not eshpfi's). Detail → Recent decisions `[2026-08-11]`.
+- **EVIDENCE HOLD (partial):** WT #394 index-row half lifted+swept; the **FILE half STILL STANDS** — do NOT delete on-disk gen dirs (`fiction/rex390-dcc`, `rex392-dcc`, `b59c147c5ce0`). rex393-fiction-* + r42-gate-* also KEEP.

- **dots.tts — DONE + EXTRACTED.** Was the fleet RP-TTS engine (v3 on irv-ml1:8198); all TTS dev extracted to `~/development/tts-stack` (eshpfi `stacks/dots-tts/` is a POINTER stub, `voices/` moved out). Do TTS work in tts-stack. ⚠ Live container GPU still creeps ~6→14GB/8h (redeploy resets).
+- **OPEN FOLLOW-UPS (parked):** char-rp/MeroMero tool-call-parser fix (gemma4 → NOT qwen3_coder, open since session start); chatterbox-fast flat-vs-package build-context divergence; CI-flip runner-auth research; #363 research-wing ingest (no deadline); zonos-gateway CI-wire.

- **LFM2.5-2.6b bake-off alias for brokkr — DELIVERED, awaiting his bench.** `vllm-lfm25` ana-ml2:8021 + LiteLLM `lfm2.5-2.6b` (deepseek_r1 reasoning-parser, vendor sampling); PRODUCTION-CLEARED (operator <USD 10M ruling) but kept OUT of default/fallback routing per brokkr's measurement gate. Peer-side now.
-
- **Zonos2 PARKED DOWN on the 3090** (irv-ml1; operator ruled "leave down for now" 2026-08-08) — frees ~17 GB for chatterbox-fast; asset-engine + gateway-chat TTS idle meanwhile. **Manual restore command saved** in the Zonos-down Recent-decisions entry + auto-memory `reference_zonos_tts_stack` (detached native proc; kill the multiprocessing-fork CHILDREN, not just the parent).
-
- **FLEET RERANKER** = A3 (bge-reranker-v2-m3) PROD on ana-ml2 GPU1 :8013, VERIFIED (R42 v13 gate PASSED first-ever, 56/90→90/90). Passive watch: A3 caps ~34 req/s; levers = A4 fallback :8014 / gpu-util / 2nd replica. Incumbent :8002 warm for rollback (revert 1 config line + ~52s gateway restart). Non-urgent follow-up: promote A3 throwaway `docker run` → `stacks/vllm/` compose service (brief alias-drop window). Full arc: `docs/pfi/reranker-selection-ledger.md`.
-
- **EVIDENCE HOLD (partial):** WT #394 index-row half LIFTED + swept (kb 8,230→2,876); the **FILE half STILL STANDS** — do NOT delete the on-disk generation dirs (`fiction/rex390-dcc`, `rex392-dcc`, `b59c147c5ce0`). Also un-actioned worldtree-side: the `reconcile --repair` rc=1 git-staging bug (phantom `docs/specs/saga-taxonomy-redesign-plan.md`) — flagged, their code.
-
- _(dots.tts migration + LFM2.5 stand-up: both fully landed this session — detail in Recent decisions `[2026-08-09→10]` / `[2026-08-10]`; summarized in the two lead bullets above. Rollbacks: dots `sed DOTS_TAG=v1 + up -d`; LFM2.5 backup `config.yaml.bak-pre-lfm25-20260810`.)_
-
- **OPEN FOLLOW-UPS:** chatterbox-fast **deployed flat-build-context vs package-repo divergence** (reconcile so a repo rebuild matches deploy — repo commit `6bc7bf0` has cap+norm_loudness in package layout; deployed is flat cap-only). Standing/parked: CI-flip runner-auth research, gitea `REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=false`, #363 research-wing ingest (no deadline), zonos-gateway CI-wire.
-
-**althing monitor** ARMED (handle `infra-ops`, task `b1uat4njl`; herald up). ⚠️ Re-arm ONLY after a real FIRE (`<task-notification> completed rc0`), NEVER after a plain operator turn (bounces rc3); spawn `althing-wake-listener` as its OWN `run_in_background` task, **NEVER chained with `&`/`&&`** (orphans it to init — bit me this session; reclaim with `althing-cli stop-monitor` then re-arm cleanly).
-
-**eshpfi push state:** `origin/main` well behind — this session added the **eRP dual-seat arc** (`7bd7375` research doc, `f08b6cb` the two char-rp compose stacks), the **wgtunnel mirror** (`398b58a`), memory updates (`a8c6d85`/`69597cb`) — on top of the earlier dots.tts + secrets-broker arcs (still unpushed). **Push is the operator's call.** ⚠ The LiteLLM **granite-retire + `summarizer`/`classifier`→gen** change lives **server-only** on ana-docker (`/opt/docker/conf/litellm/config.yaml` + timestamped `.bak-pre-granite-down-*`), NOT in this repo. `graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md` churns every commit (ignore); `stacks/heretic2-charrp-reasoning/` UNTRACKED (pre-existing, operator's — now superseded by `darkscarlett-charrp-reasoning`).
+- **althing monitor** ARMED (handle `infra-ops`). ⚠️ Re-arm ONLY after a real FIRE (rc0), NEVER after a plain operator turn (bounces rc3); spawn `althing-cli monitor` / `althing-wake-listener` as its OWN `run_in_background` task, never chained with `&`.

+- **eshpfi push state:** `origin/main` behind — unpushed: this session's `680c30e` (gen-seat), plus the earlier eRP dual-seat arc (`f08b6cb`/`7bd7375`), wgtunnel mirror (`398b58a`), dots.tts + secrets-broker arcs. Dotfiles: `1d1970f` (roster) + `6425cc6` (statusline bell) unpushed. **Push = operator's call.** `graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md` churns every commit (ignore); `stacks/heretic2-charrp-reasoning/` UNTRACKED (pre-existing, superseded).

 ## Recent decisions

+- `[2026-08-15]` **Uncensored gen seat: JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored deployed as `gen-seat`/`vllm-gen` (NVFP4 W4A16 + grafted MTP, 262K); 7 aliases repointed; the definitive `re:^mtp.*`-ignore fix.** 0%-MTP-on-quant (twice) was NOT the abliteration/scheme — the grafted bf16 MTP was missing from `quantization_config.ignore` (vLLM loaded it as quantized → uninitialized). Full arc, the working pipeline, VRAM budget, unsloth speed decomposition, modelopt dead-end. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-uncensored-gen-seat.md`
+
 - `[2026-08-12]` **eRP dual-seat overhaul: MeroMero-v2 (`char-rp`) + Dark-Scarlett (`char-rp-reasoning`), both NVFP4A16 @ 256K on ana-ml2; granite retired.** Replaced the GGUF/heretic2 RP seats with two home-quantized vLLM seats. The DS blocker (an `AutoModelForCausalLM` save wrote a flat `Qwen3_5TextConfig` that **both vLLM AND SGLang reject**) was fixed by re-quanting via the `Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration` **wrapper class**; ModelOpt was a version deadlock, SGLang lacked the impl (but revealed the fix). MeroMero vision reconstructed by extracting `preprocessor_config.json` from `processor_config.json`. Both models KV-efficient (Gemma-4 sliding-window / Qwen3.6 hybrid linear-attn) → full 256K; GPU-swapped for headroom; compose-ified + committed `f08b6cb`. granite downed + LiteLLM `summarizer`/`classifier`→gen. Full arc, lessons, dead-ends → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-12-erp-dual-seat-overhaul.md`

+
 - `[2026-08-12]` **infra-ops now holds an all-zones Cloudflare DNS-edit token (vaulted) + wgtunnel Phase-0 DNS landed.** Operator handed over a `Zone·DNS·Edit` (all zones) CF token → `secret put nh3-dev/.config/cloudflare/infra-ops-dns-token` (round-trip verified; /tmp drop shredded). Fleet DNS is now self-serve for infra-ops (⚠ HIGH blast radius — all zones). First use: created `boring.phasefinal.com` CNAME → `ana-srv1.phasefinal.com`, **DNS-only** (proxied:false), verified resolving to 38.120.12.44 on both authoritative NS (louis/wren) + 1.1.1.1 — NOT Cloudflare-proxied. Unblocks wgtunnel's wstunnel ACME cert. phasefinal.com zone id `f812ba74ed9a75cf21bbe7ce9188db50`. auto-memory `reference_infra_ops_cloudflare_dns_token`. (Earlier gap: the only prior vaulted CF token, jackdaw's, had `zone:read`+`worker:edit` but no `dns_records:edit`.)

+
 - `[2026-08-12]` **wgtunnel stood up as its own repo (`vh/wgtunnel`, private) after a live endpoint-verification pass.** Operator directed own-repo (mirrors stonehenge-park/tts-stack). Verified off the fleet before seeding: `ana-wg` WG server = **UDP/31337** (not 51820), subnet 10.30.10.0/24, MTU 1420, active roaming peer proves the public UDP DNAT works; traefik on ana-docker **terminates TLS :443** (ACME `anaprod` http-challenge, docker+file providers, CrowdSec bouncer) → confirms the clean design (wstunnel container on `traefik-net`, Host-routed, WS→UDP to `ana-wg:31337`); edge `38.120.12.44` direct-A, `tunnel.phasefinal.com` free (⚠ must be **direct**, NOT Cloudflare-proxied like vaultwarden). Repo pre-seeded (README/CLAUDE/persistent-memory/ROADMAP + `docs/verified-infrastructure.md` = ground truth) + pushed; commit `9584d38`, Vuong-attributed. vh gitea token pulled from the vault (`secret get`), not persisted to `.git/config`. **NEXT = `/vor-plan` or `/vor` (operator's call, interactive).** Deps to line up in the plan: DNS A-record, FortiGate :443 host-routing, a new ana-wg peer for the laptop, client tooling.

 - `[2026-08-10→12]` **secrets-broker: per-box Vaultwarden credential store SHIPPED + consumer-confirmed.** `secret` CLI (`put/get/list/rm/backfill`, bw-backed) on `~/.local/bin`; 25 nh3-dev secrets backfilled + round-trip-verified; `rm` + new-namespace warning added post-launch; standing "vault is the credential source of truth" directive now global. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-12-secrets-broker.md`

+
 - `[2026-08-11]` **stonehenge-park: new fleet `/park` service repo stood up + designed (`/vor-plan` + `/vor-ui`).** Self-contained SQLite+FastAPI idea-parking service that actively resurfaces (statusline + althing) so nothing dies in a cold repo; `vh/stonehenge-park` pushed + pre-seeded for a fresh agent; build starts at the U1 tracer contract. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-11-stonehenge-park.md`

+
 - `[2026-08-12]` **Global `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`: `secret`/vault tool entry + "store in AND pull from the vault" standing directive** (dotfiles `9db703b`, pushed); statusline reset-countdowns + a latent tab-collapse parse-bug fix, now tracked in the dotfiles stow tree. Dogfooded the directive: created `vh/stonehenge-park` pulling the gitea token via `secret get`. (dotfiles + global config, not eshpfi.)

+
 - `[2026-08-11]` **TTS stack extracted to its own repo (`tts-stack`) + eshpfi stood down on TTS dev.** Operator: hand all TTS tuning/dev to a separate agent with a self-contained repo (knowledge + infra access + a live knowledge list), and move the voice corpus in. New repo `~/development/tts-stack` (commit `9ee3288`) carries: dots-tts stack (canonical intent), `voices/` corpus (MOVED out of eshpfi), `KNOWLEDGE.md` (engine landscape + prosody findings + foot-guns), `docs/infrastructure.md` (irv-ml1 access + gated deploy runbook + rollback), CLAUDE/persistent-memory/ROADMAP, `tools/` (pause-probe + Booth render). Followed the **chatterbox-fast precedent**: eshpfi `stacks/dots-tts/` reduced to a POINTER README; the ~15 experimental TTS compose wrappers stay here as reference (catalogued in tts-stack KNOWLEDGE). Blast-radius check: no eshpfi playbook/script reads the canonical corpus (other `voices/` refs = unrelated host paths). **Reverses** the earlier "Corpus home = eshpfi `voices/` (keep-here)" call. ⚠ tts-stack is LOCAL-ONLY until pushed — needs a gitea remote (`vh/tts-stack`) + push before the separate agent can clone (operator's call — outward-facing + repo-create creds).

+
 - `[2026-08-10]` **dots-tts v3 — clause-break → period pause mapping.** Operator: v2 "sounds good" but donut won't pause at semicolons/dashes. ROOT CAUSE (measured via a pause-probe A/B — synth duration over N runs, non-determinism averaged out): dots' prosody honors a real pause **only for ellipsis (~+0.43s) and period (~+0.3s, capitalization-independent)**; comma/semicolon/colon/dash all run **flat (~+0.03s vs no-punct)**. Two distinct sub-causes: **dashes regressed in v2** (the `—`→`-` fold made em-dashes read as word-joiners), while **semicolons were NEVER a v2 change** — dots ignores them natively, only newly noticeable because v2 made everything else clean. Operator call: ellipsis "too much" → **map `;`, clause `:`, and em-dash `—` → period** in `_sanitize` (believable ~0.3s clause break). GUARDS (pinned by 11 unit tests, `stacks/dots-tts/test_sanitize.py`): digit-guarded colon `(?<!\d)\s*:\s*(?!\d)` so times `3:45` / ratios `2:1` survive; en-dash `–`→hyphen KEPT (numeric-range `10–20` safety — em-dash breaks, en-dash ranges, different jobs); genuine ellipsis left at full strength (author meant a long pause). Gated deploy (redeploy2 pattern → v3): build → throwaway :8199 test container + **pause-gate** (semicolon sentence must run ≥0.12s longer than baseline; measured **+0.427s**) → only then cut live over. LIVE + healthy `local/dots-tts:v3` on :8198. **rollback = `sed -i 's/^DOTS_TAG=.*/DOTS_TAG=v2/' .env + docker compose up -d dots-tts`** (v2 image retained). Booth `dots-pauses` (A=old-flat / C=ellipsis-too-much / D=live-v3). [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]]

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 - `[2026-08-10]` **dots-tts v2 — contraction fix (curly-sanitize) + sentence-chunking + dependency-pin recovery.** Operator: donut read contractions wrong ("you're"→"you ree", "donut's"→"donut ess"). ROOT CAUSE (isolated via A/B booth): **curly/typographic apostrophes** (`’` U+2019 from ratatoskr's LLM) — dots' tokenizer mispronounces them; STRAIGHT apostrophes read clean under `normalize_text=True`. FIX (`app.py`): fold curly→ASCII (`str.maketrans`) before synth, **KEEP `normalize_text=True`** (operator call — retains number/date expansion). Also added **server-side sentence-chunking** (pack ≤280 chars): dots caps one `generate()` at ~500 patches/~40s, so long RP turns (the Zev monologue = 160s audio) truncated; chunking stitches them (verified full 160.3s, not 40s-cut). **⚠ BUILD FOOT-GUNS (both bit this redeploy):** (1) upstream dots.tts `constraints/recommended.txt` now pins **`gradio==6.17.0` — phantom, not on PyPI** → fresh `pip install dots.tts` unsatisfiable; FIX = pin `dots.tts==0.2.1` + **DROP** the `-c recommended.txt` constraints (0.2.1 pulls working gradio 6.17.3). (2) pinning only `torch==2.8.0` let **torchaudio float to 2.11.0 → dots.tts refuses to load** (minor-version match check); FIX = pin `torchaudio==2.8.0`. **⚠ DEPLOY LESSON:** `docker compose up -d` to a new tag swaps the LIVE container BEFORE any health check — a broken image crash-loops production (**ratatoskr TTS down ~1-2min this session**). NEW PATTERN = build → test in a THROWAWAY container on an alt port (:8199) → health+verify → only THEN cut live over (redeploy2.sh). v2 LIVE + healthy on irv-ml1:8198, **CONSUMER-CONFIRMED clean** (ratatoskr verified end-to-end on their :8765 — apostrophe string reads clean, /api/tts 200 @ 48kHz, no client change; the ~1-2min blip didn't hit them, their concurrent auto-audio issue was client-side localStorage). **rollback = `sed DOTS_TAG=v1 + docker compose up -d dots-tts`** (v1 image retained). Also: deployed container GPU crept ~6→13.9GB over 8h serving (cache accumulation; a redeploy resets it — watch item). [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]]

 - `[2026-08-09→10]` **dots.tts (rednote-hilab) TTS burn-in on irv-ml1 + canonical voice corpus built (`voices/`).** Operator-directed eval to potentially replace chatterbox-fast. **dots.tts VERIFIED real** (canonical HF ns `dots-studio/`, `rednote-hilab/dots.tts-*` redirects there; Apache-2.0; PyPI `dots.tts` 0.2.1; 2B continuous-AR = semantic enc + Qwen2.5-1.5B LLM + flow-matching acoustic head over 48kHz AudioVAE; zero-shot clone from wav+transcript). **Runs on Ampere 3090** (sm_86, bf16, no fp8 dep); **optimized RTF 0.22** at num_steps=10 (`from_pretrained(..., optimize=True)` CUDA graphs — raw unoptimized was 1.21), **~6GB VRAM**, 48kHz, streams (`generate_stream`). Venv+cache at `irv-ml1:/home/lkraven/dots-tts` (~10GB). **Operator design calls:** SGLang Omni serving (OpenAI `/v1/audio/speech`), transcribe-refs-first, `soar` variant. ⚠ Omni serves soar but its continuous-batching + streaming opts are **mf-only** (soar = single-request) — non-issue for ratatoskr's single-consumer RP surface. **KEY FINDING — dots is highly sensitive to an accurate AND sentence-bounded reference transcript:** mismatched transcript → 0.16s collapse; over-long/messy transcript → reference-audio BLEEDS as an output prefix; mid-clause trim → dangling-word leak (glados "we'll", emmie "And,"). RECIPE (baked into `voices/derive.py`): trim ref to a clean ~6–10s clip ending on a sentence boundary + accurate transcript of exactly that clip. **CANONICAL VOICE CORPUS** stood up in eshpfi `voices/` (operator idea): engine-agnostic `canonical/<v>.wav` + `transcripts/<v>.txt` → per-engine ref sets DERIVED by `derive.py` reading `engines.yaml` profiles (dots/chatterbox/zonos); canonical wavs git-tracked (small/curated), `derived/` gitignored. **4 voices optimized + verified CLEAN for dots: donut, glados, emmie, miranda** (glados canonical is low-SR 16kHz — flagged upgrade candidate). ⚠ GPU GOTCHA: irv-ml1 native CUDA orders **A6000=device0** (ComfyUI-full) — pin the 3090 with `CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0`; and `PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments` CONFLICTS with `optimize=True` CUDA graphs (curr_block error). Booths: `dots-vs-chatterbox`, `dots-voices-optimized`. **SHIPPED 2026-08-10:** operator A/B verdict "dots is very good" → containerized as a **thin FastAPI wrapper over DotsTtsRuntime** (chosen over SGLang Omni — Omni's batching is mf-only, unneeded for ratatoskr's single consumer; wrapper is SERIALIZED one-gen-at-a-time via a threading.Lock, Omni+mf = parked API-compatible escalation if multi-consumer ever lands). **LIVE on irv-ml1:8198** (`local/dots-tts:v1`, OpenAI `/v1/audio/speech` + `/health` + `/v1/voices`, container healthy, both stream + non-stream verified CLEAN, 4 voices donut/glados/emmie/miranda) alongside chatterbox :8197 (nothing repointed). Stack = `stacks/dots-tts/` (Dockerfile/app.py/compose/.env.example/README). ⚠ CONTAINER GOTCHA: `optimize=True` (torch.compile/inductor/triton) needs a **C compiler at RUNTIME** — slim image must `apt install build-essential` or model-load dies "Failed to find C compiler" (host venv had gcc ambient, masking it); persist `TORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIR` to a mounted dir or every restart re-JITs ~5min. Corpus home = eshpfi `voices/` (operator ruled keep-here). **REMAINING: ratatoskr client cutover** to :8198 `/v1/audio/speech` (Phase-2 tail, peer-coupled — draft the ask). [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]] [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]] [[reference_verify_hf_repo_ids_before_pull]]

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 - `[2026-08-08]` **worldtree-dev #400 CLOSED → fiction-decomp snapshot cleared from nh3-dev.** worldtree-dev signaled #400 done (shipped v1.0.0b185; exact-lexical efficacy 79%→12% on ratatoskr's gate, brokkr no-harm bracket green both ends; the snapshot served 4 probe rounds — rank decomposition, promoted-vs-gold annotation, tie-set falsification, A0/A1/A2 mechanism probe). Cleared `~/snapshots/worldtree-400-fiction-decomp` (208M: chroma + manifest/provenance/stamp) — a read-only rsync copy of PERSONAL Worldtree's Chroma (source on corviduo-dev, so safe to remove). **LEFT INTACT:** `rex393-fiction-index`/`rex393-fiction-snapshot` (separate operator KEEP word, unchanged) + `r42-gate-*`. No config deltas rode this train. Only remaining non-blocking await = ratatoskr-dev's chatterbox-fast knob revert. Replied confirming (`01KZJ9GMCC…`).

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 - `[2026-08-07]` **chatterbox-fast "broken audio" root-caused (T3 AR tail over-run) + FIXED (max_chunk_chars=250 cap, :v2 deployed).** Long saga, operator-driven clean diagnosis. **Symptom:** ratatoskr's migrated RP-surface TTS "swaps to German" / "dead air" / "garbage" on long turns. **NOT** German-leak (Turbo `generate()` has NO language param — plain AutoTokenizer, no `language_id`; the multilingual `language_id="en"` lever lives only in the separate `ChatterboxMultilingualTTS`), **NOT** OOM alone. **Real cause:** the Chatterbox **Turbo T3 model OVER-RUNS its generation tail** — a long single `generate()` degrades into garble/dead-air in its final ~2-3s (lib filters OOV tokens `<6561` + pads silence = messy AR tail). The scheduler's buffer-ratchet builds 300-600 char mega-chunks that land in that zone; streaming concatenates each bad tail (worst case). **ratatoskr's anti-"German" knobs (top_k=80/temp=0.5) made it WORSE** — tight sampling pulls the degradation onset SHORTER (~200 chars vs ~300 at default knobs). **Diagnosis method** (deterministic, no ears-only): single-shot length sweep + **amplitude-gated voiced-ZCR** (garble spikes ZCR; must gate on |x|>500 else trailing silence confounds it) — degraded voiced-tail = 1.58× mid, clean = ~0.64-1.1×. **FIX:** server-side `max_chunk_chars=250` cap on the scheduler (`:v2` image, `CBF_MAX_CHUNK_CHARS=250` env) — bounds each generation to just under the ~300-char onset → clean **3-4 sentence** chunks (max prosodic arc while clean). Operator ear-confirmed clean audio + clean joins; **chatterbox's low emotiveness keeps chunk joins smooth** (the harsh joins that got Zonos rejected are absent — operator's key call). **ratatoskr TODO (relayed msg `01KZER9X7S`):** revert knobs to default (top_k→1000, temp→0.8), send full text (server chunks internally), keep the 503-on-empty guard. **Cap value tunable** per-request (`max_chunk_chars`) + env. **Deeper prosody** (if ever wanted) = scheduler Phase-2 context-priming at joins (feed prior sentence as discarded-audio context; +latency). **⚠ FOOT-GUNS:** (1) acoustic tail-trim is UNRELIABLE — sibilants ('s'/'sh'/'f') spike ZCR like garble, can't cleanly detect the speech→garble boundary. (2) **build-context vs image drift** — the `:v2` image was built from cap source, but after a `:v1` rollback the build context held `:v1` source → a `docker compose build` would've silently produced a cap-less `:v2`; re-synced the flat cap source to `/opt/docker/compose/chatterbox-fast/` (rebuild-verified). **⚠ DIVERGENCE (follow-up):** deployed build context is FLAT (`app.py`/`scheduler.py`, `from scheduler import`, thin-overlay `FROM local/chatterbox:v1`, cap-only) vs the `vh/chatterbox-fast` REPO which is PACKAGE-layout (`chatterbox_fast/`, `from chatterbox_fast.scheduler`, self-contained Dockerfile) + has `norm_loudness` (repo commit `6bc7bf0` = cap; deployed omits norm_loudness deliberately to keep the ear-test unconfounded). Reconcile the two layouts so a repo-based rebuild matches deploy. Rollback: `.bak-cap-20260807-104850` backups on irv-ml1 + `:v1` image both retained. [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]] [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]

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 - `[2026-08-07]` **Zonos2 TAKEN DOWN on the 3090 (irv-ml1) — operator-directed "for memory", TEMPORARY.** Freed ~17.4 GB (3090: 728 MiB → 18.2 GB free) so chatterbox-fast (co-resident, was OOMing on long generations) has headroom. **⚠ Restore is manual — Zonos2 :1920 was a DETACHED native process (NOT systemd/docker), reparented to init.** GPU memory was held by the `--multiprocessing-fork` CHILDREN (1966165=16.4G, 1966166=1G), which ORPHAN to init when you kill the parent — had to SIGTERM the children explicitly (killing the parent 1965942 + uv-run 1965935 alone left the 16.4G held). **RESTORE CMD** (from irv-ml1, user lkraven): `cd /home/lkraven/tts-audition/models/zonos2 && nohup uv run python -m zonos2 --model-path Zyphra/ZONOS2 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 1920 --tts-default-voices-dir ./default_voices/ --cuda-graph-max-bs 1 --num-pages 16384 --max-running-requests 2 --memory-ratio 0.3 > /tmp/zonos2.log 2>&1 &` then `docker start zonos-gateway`. **Consumers that lost Zonos:** asset-engine + gateway-chat (via LiteLLM `ext-tts` alias → zonos-gateway :8890, now stopped); ratatoskr already migrated OFF to chatterbox-fast (unaffected). Also unblocks proper drift/cap testing (OOM was blocking it). [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]

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 - `[2026-08-07]` **chatterbox-fast: donut voice added + full contract delivered to ratatoskr-dev (their TTS migration off Zonos).** Operator-directed. Copied `zonos-gateway/voices/Donut.wav` → chatterbox `/refs` (`/worktank/chatterbox/reference_audio/donut.wav` — the reference_audio SUBDIR is lkraven-owned so no sudo despite `/worktank` root; container globs `/refs` live → **NO restart**), exposed as `voice:"donut"` (lowercase); verified clean 7.5s synth (24kHz, RTF ~0.31). A/B booth (chatterbox vs zonos donut, same line) at `http://10.100.10.50:8090/b/donut-chatterbox/`. Answered ratatoskr's 8-question contract ask from the live gateway (`local/chatterbox-fast:v1`) + source: **NOT OpenAI-shaped** (`POST /tts`; body `text`/`voice`/`format`/`stream`, not `input`/`model`/`response_format`); **NO affect dials** (Turbo ignores cfg_weight/min_p/exaggeration — the architecture-changing answer they flagged; **Zonos stays the only fleet TTS with real emotion steering**); streaming WAV placeholder-header shape IDENTICAL to Zonos (their per-chunk Web Audio path survives); SR 24000 (Zonos 44100); server chunks arbitrary-length text internally (no client-side chunking, unlike Zonos's 71.2s cap); English-only, no language pin. **FYI-worthy (operator):** ratatoskr is moving its RP-surface TTS OFF Zonos back to chatterbox-fast → loses the live-PAD affect coupling (heavy Zonos emotion investment) — their call, trade-off flagged to them. auto-memory `reference_chatterbox_fast_repo` enriched w/ the live contract. [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]

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 - `[2026-08-07]` **Fleet reranker cut over: Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B → BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 (Brokkr R43).** The incumbent was measured HARMING 80/90 fleet queries (no-reranker beat it 89/90 vs 56/90). R43 bake-off: the A2 control (same Qwen weights, seq-cls head) scored identical to the incumbent → proved the fault is a training-prior not the serving head → cancelled the expensive Qwen3-4B arm; A3 (bge-v2-m3) won on multilingual safety + bare-name recovery. LiteLLM `reranker` repointed incumbent→A3 :8013 (boundary 2026-08-06T17:37:48Z, config-edit + ~52s gateway restart); **R42 v13 gate PASSED first-ever** (56/90→90/90). Incumbent kept warm :8002 (rollback via `qwen3-reranker` alias), A4 fallback :8014. Full arc + rollback runbook `docs/pfi/reranker-selection-ledger.md`; commits ad2df89/2c11748/377f8a4 (unpushed). auto-memories: the earlier reranker-serving notes.

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 - `[2026-08-07]` **Personal-Worldtree kb-contamination incident (WT #394) diagnosed; attribution CLOSED UNRESOLVED.** A reconcile `WingStore._embed` full-tree walk (kb `fs_root=KB_PATH` root, sibling wings nested) swept 5,354 fiction+main rows into personal's `knowledge_base` (2 superseded generations served as current). Fixed by WT #394 (aca39a1, kb walks exclude sibling wings; ships b182). Trigger un-attributable — peer reconcile via the SHARED infra-ops identity + 0 dockerd exec-logging = fingerprint-less. Durable finding → auto-memory `infra_ops_shared_identity_attribution_gap`, PARKED (operator ruled A) into [[project_migrate_infra_access_to_claude_credentials]]. Evidence hold on the 5,354 rows until operator sequences cleanup (w/ Brokkr, on #394's agenda).

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 - `[2026-08-05]` **Fleet CI resilience flip (`DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL=self`) — attempted end-to-end, PARKED on a runner action-fetch auth blocker; infra-ops to research it (operator-directed, deferred, NOT now).** 7 gitea action mirrors staged public+populated (orgs `actions`+`astral-sh`); the flip resolves `uses:` correctly but act_runner v0.6.0 can't authenticate its fetch to gitea 1.26 ("Invalid username or token. Password authentication is not supported"). Reverted (CI back on github default); `REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=false` KEPT as a standing change (operator, internal WG net). Full endeavor, the reliable nh3-dev-egress + git-SSH mirror method, exact config state, smoke method, and next step → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-05-ci-flip-parked.md`

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 - `[2026-08-05]` **Booth — 3 features shipped, live on `:8090` + tagged.** (1) verbatim-`index.html` booths get a floating top-right "‹ all booths" chip + inherited favicon, doctype/charset-safe byte-injection (`booth-v0.1.5`, `8577e7e`); (2) `.md` renders + `.txt`/`.log` view in-booth without downloading via the `/b/<n>/view` route + a `markdown` dep + `doc.html` (`booth-v0.1.6`, `315faac`); (3) prev/next arrows in the image zoom viewer — wrap-around + keyboard ←/→, hidden for single-image booths (`booth-v0.1.7`, `c37a425`). Canonical `services/booth/`; deploy = `systemctl --user restart booth.service` on nh3-dev (runs from the checkout's `.venv`; `uv pip install` new deps into it first); 47 tests. `uv.lock` gitignored (`348c5c1`).

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 - `[2026-08-05]` **worldtree herald re-nudge bug root-caused → forseti shipped althing-core v2.1.2 (`d5d33df`, deployed on nh3-dev).** `herald.py:363` rendered the wake command from the empty *fresh* mail set on the re-nudge path (should be `deliver_msgs`) → `messages[0]` IndexError → un-suppressed outer catch-all → 7s crash-loop for 9 days on worldtree-codex's pane route (mimir-dev surfaced it; I traced it from the editable source). Fix + `render_command` empty-guard + outer log-suppress + 3 tests + contract amendment, all forseti's. **nh3-extdev herald 2.1.2 upgrade DEFERRED** (operator, not-now): extdev is a WHEEL install (not editable), unexposed (no pane routes); the verified 2.1.2 wheel is staged on nh3-dev `/tmp` (sha256 `003508…cef27`) — `uv tool install --force` + restart both heralds when un-parked. extdev herald-unit provenance resolved (operator-authorized 2026-07-25 via forseti relay; recorded in this file's 07-25 herald-install entry). auto-memory `reference_nh3_dev_althing_herald`.

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 - `[2026-08-03]` **worldtree b168/#384/#385 arc COMPLETE** — providers.yaml boot-gate pre-sync → b168 deploy → DCC+P&P re-ingest (705+667 concepts, 0 truncations, #385 budget fix validated vs April's 785 control) → #381 restart → operator-approved production dedup sweep (785 April orphans deleted from `main`, 4009→3224). Fiction wing 166→1,372 concepts; consumer verify 0/5→5/5→saturated. Three of MY foot-guns hardened into fleet runbook rules (`mv -t`, `docker exec -u 1000`, shared-containerd pull-race — see Tried-and-abandoned). Full runbooks (deploy-wt-config, Chroma-verify, config-delta pre-sync rule, #381, sweep) → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-03-worldtree-b168-384-385-arc.md`

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 - `[2026-08-02]` **mimir-inbox / #377-read-path arc — deployed + 4 bugs found/fixed/verified + a cloned voice.** mimir-inbox live on corviduo-dev:8091 (#377 write+read proven, live `8ece117`); worldtree-dev #380 (wing-blind index) + #381 (stale-client restart) + #382 (intermittent Mimir grounding) chased and **verified 3/3** by ratatoskr-dev; muninn-gate → dispatch 0.1.5; **donut** voice cloned from the 65-frost Booth bundle into the Zonos gateway; Zonos streaming confirmed already-working. Full arc, procedures, and lessons → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-02-mimir-inbox-arc.md`

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 - `[2026-07-31]` **muninn-gate (#377 ingestion front door) BUILT + DEPLOYED + healthy on corviduo-dev:8090.** First-boot acceptance passed (watcher:running:true proves ingestion_root byte-identity); submit path deferred to the mimir-inbox era. Full wiring (uid-1000, state-volume mount, staging path-agreement, BuildKit-secret build, deferred repoint + operational guards) → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-31-muninn-gate-deploy.md`

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 - `[2026-07-31]` **worldtree-sdk 1.1.0 (Python) published to vh Gitea PyPI + a durable infra-ops publish cred.** memory_context pass-through; unblocked wyrd-dev. claude-bot now a write-collaborator on `vh/worldtree-sdk` (source pulled via the **Gitea API archive** — git-HTTP 403s on that repo); publishing to the vh USER namespace **can't be delegated** (401 `reqPackageAccess` even with `write:package`) so it needs an owner token — operator saved a **FULL vh site-admin token at `~/.config/gitea/vh-token` (0600)** for it (⚠️ high blast radius, kept over a scoped one; org-namespace migration is the only real de-personalization, parked by wtsdk-dev). auto-memory `reference_infra_ops_vh_gitea_token_and_sdk_publish`.

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 - `[2026-07-31]` **kimi-k3 "output cap" root-caused = a ~16384 REASONING-token ceiling, not an output cap.** heid's cross-frontier panel was silently degraded (empty content, `finish_reason: stop`). dvalin+bil researched (docs said deprecated-max_tokens); heid's live data refuted that (completion hit 18455) → it's a reasoning ceiling. **Proven on the wire against heid's real 500KB bundle:** `reasoning_effort: low` drops reasoning under the ceiling → content returns, on BOTH coding + general endpoints. Fix is CALLER-side (no gateway change): send `reasoning_effort` via **`extra_body`** (LiteLLM `drop_params: true` strips the top-level param — why heid's earlier attempt no-op'd). Relayed to heid to validate; backstop = `allowed_openai_params` on the route. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-31-kimi-k3-reasoning-cap.md`

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 - `[2026-07-27]` **Zed edit-predictions: keyless FIM-completion route SHIPPED end-to-end.** Operator wants Zed's inline edit-prediction (which CANNOT send an auth header) to reach a FIM coder via `/v1/completions`. **Deep-research (106-agent workflow) picked `Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B`** (BASE, Apache-2.0; native FIM `<|fim_prefix|>/<|fim_suffix|>/<|fim_middle|>` IDs 151659/60/61; Zed `prompt_format:"qwen"`). Runner-up 3B = non-commercial Qwen-Research license; **no small dense Qwen3-Coder exists (all MoE, smallest 30B)**. **Stood up `vllm-coder`** on ana-ml2 **GPU1 :8020** (served-name `qwen2.5-coder-1.5b`, 8192 ctx, util 0.06, fp8 KV). To fit, **shrank granite (phasing out, operator-directed):** util 0.27→0.13, max-len 131072→16384, seqs 1024→256 (freed ~14 GB; the KV-≥-1×-max-len rule crash-looped it at util 0.12/32768 → settled 0.13/16384). **LiteLLM alias `coder-fast`** → :8020 (`mode: completion`). **Minted a `coder-fast`-SCOPED virtual key** (verified 403 on `gen` — the real blast-radius bound). **Built `zed-fim-proxy`** (ana-docker **:4141**, `network_mode: host`, stdlib-python, `stacks/zed-fim-proxy`): keyless POST `/v1/completions`, model-allowlist `coder-fast`, injects the scoped key → LiteLLM :4000; `GET /ping` anon liveness; wrong-model→403, wrong-path→404, `/chat/completions` rejected. Verified keyless FIM end-to-end ('a + b', finish `stop`). **Zed `api_url` = `http://10.250.50.70:4141/v1`, model `coder-fast`, prompt_format `qwen`.** **source-IP allowlist intentionally LEFT OFF (operator direction 2026-07-27) — do NOT tighten:** Zed roams the operator's WireGuard `10.0.0.0/8`, so a single-IP pin would break it. Blast-radius bound is the `coder-fast`-scoped key + model/path allowlist (keyless but coder-fast-only, internal-net-only). (The proxy does exact-IP matching; scoping to the `10.0.0.0/8` CIDR would need CIDR support — deliberately not added.) Canonical: `stacks/vllm` (coder + granite shrink), `stacks/litellm` (coder-fast), `stacks/zed-fim-proxy` (NEW). Server vllm compose.yaml has benign stale-comment drift vs canonical (didn't overwrite the newer canonical).

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 - `[2026-07-27]` **Muninn ingestion-watcher sidecar deployed on PERSONAL Worldtree (#377).** worldtree-dev request (research-wing ingest arc, personal-only per the 2026-07-16 topology ruling); operator-approved. Added a `worldtree-muninn` **compose sidecar** to `/opt/worldtree-personal/compose.yaml` — `<<: *worldtree-common` anchor inherits the api's image + full env + config/state/kb mounts; `command: python -m core.muninn --watch`; `restart: unless-stopped`; `stop_grace_period: 1h` (INV-377-7: max 2 concurrent × worst-case job, SIGTERM-drains). **Pinned to the running SHA `773866084af9`** (b146, ≥ b143 — dodges both the `:latest` trap AND the "pre-b143 ref resurrects deleted dispatch.py from stale bytecode" warning). Verified: running / 0 restarts / flock sole-runner (no rc3) / heartbeat live at `{ingestion_root=/data/state/ingestion}/.watcher-heartbeat` (poll 30s). Container `worldtree-personal-worldtree-muninn-1`; backup `compose.yaml.bak-muninn-20260727-081920`. **DURABILITY RESOLVED (worldtree-dev, same day):** Q1 was a LIVE FOOTGUN — `deploy-personal.yml` scp's the REPO compose.yaml over the box's + runs `up -d --remove-orphans`, so the box-local sidecar would've been clobbered AND orphan-removed at the next staging tag. worldtree-dev fixed at source: moved the sidecar into their repo compose.yaml gated behind a **`muninn` compose profile** (commit 5d7f6bd) — shared compose stays instance-identical, `.env` `COMPOSE_PROFILES` differentiates (demo watcher-less). **My action:** added `COMPOSE_PROFILES=muninn` to `/opt/worldtree-personal/.env` (backup `.bak-muninn-profile-20260727-082541`; no-op vs the current unprofiled box-local sidecar → seamless handover at next deploy). Q2: their deploy `up -d`'s the whole stack w/ `WORLDTREE_IMAGE` exported → sidecar version-tracks the api, no drift. **CONFIG-AS-CODE EXTENSION:** mirrored the non-secret delta as `personal/env.public` in `vh/worldtree-instance-configs` (repo `a9d091e`) — FIRST extension beyond config.yaml files to env-level config; the secret-laden `.env` stays box-only, `env.public` records only non-secret infra-ops-owned env deltas (record, not a deploy source — `deploy-wt-config` globs `*.yaml`). **BOUNDARY CLARIFIED:** compose.yaml = worldtree-dev's (their repo, instance-identical, scp'd on deploy); per-instance `.env` = infra-ops's differentiator. Deploy step of the #363/#377 arc. **#377 CLOSED — acceptance PASSED 2026-07-27:** worldtree-dev enqueued a test job via muninn-dispatch 0.1.0 in a one-shot ephemeral container (no docker-exec); the sidecar claimed it within one 30s poll, drove it to terminal (structure→summarize→complete), zero restarts/rc3, heartbeat fresh throughout — whole loop (request→deploy→durability fix→acceptance) in <2h. (Pre-existing pipeline bug #379 surfaced — `output.kb_notes=false` ignored → 1 inert test note in the research wing — worldtree-dev owns it, nothing infra-ops-side.) **⚠ OPERATOR-SURFACE (open):** the `env.public` overlay mechanism is a repo-scope call to bless/adjust. [[reference_worldtree_deploys_cicd]] [[reference_worldtree_instance_configs_repo]] [[project_worldtree_research_wing_ingest]]

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 - `[2026-07-27]` **jackdaw-compose.service DECOMMISSIONED** (jackdaw-dev request; the JackDAW AI Composer was cut from v1 by operator decision 2026-07-27). Stopped + disabled the nh3-dev `:8787` user service (no client calls it — ai/server/AiChat deleted from main, `/compose` proxy removed); unit **archived not deleted** → `~/.config/systemd/user/jackdaw-compose.service.decommissioned-20260727` (revival = rename + `daemon-reload`). **No credential revoked** — the unit used the SHARED all-agents LiteLLM key (`sk-eA_XOd…`, model `gen`), not a dedicated one. Code preserved on jackdaw `origin/ai-composer-preserved`; treat as permanent. The `:4500` HTTPS audition bench is untouched. (Supersedes the 2026-07-23 stand-up line below.)

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 - `[2026-07-26]` **Demo `BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS` += `10.100.10.50:8391`** (wyrd-dev's bifrost memory-store provider; operator-approved). **First live exercise of the #376 config-as-code boundary working as designed** — worldtree-dev routed the delta to infra-ops instead of hand-editing `/opt/demo`. Appended to `/opt/worldtree/.env:25` (now 4 netlocs), recreated ONLY `worldtree-api` (the gated conv-api path), health-gate green, container env verified. **REUSABLE FOOT-GUN:** an env-var change needs a container **RECREATE, not `docker restart`** (env is baked at create); and the demo `.env` defaults `WORLDTREE_IMAGE=:latest` while the box runs a specific SHA — so a naive `compose up` risks the documented stale-`:latest` crash. FIX = capture the running image live (`docker inspect …Config.Image` → `…:9eff09f007ba`) and `sudo env WORLDTREE_IMAGE=<sha> docker compose up -d worldtree-api`. Backup `/opt/worldtree/.env.bak-bifrost-20260726-221602`. **BOUNDARY SEAM:** this was a compose-`.env` var, NOT a `config.yaml` file in `vh/worldtree-instance-configs` — the `.env` holds secrets so it's deliberately not repo-tracked → env-deltas land directly on the box (config *files* are versioned, compose *env vars* aren't). [[reference_worldtree_instance_configs_repo]]

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **nh3-extdev herald installed — box is now a full v2 push participant.** forseti flagged (relaying operator): extdev had the `althing-herald` binary (`/usr/local/bin/`) but NO unit (skipped the whole v2 arc), so `herald-status` = "notifications suspended" and ldp-dev ran on the `althing-light-monitor` poll fallback. Installed `/etc/systemd/system/althing-herald.service` as a **SYSTEM unit mirroring the receiver** (`User=althing-svc`, `Group=althing`, `Environment=ALTHING_ROOT=/srv/althing`, `ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/althing-herald --poll 5`, enabled) via the **lkraven@ NOPASSWD path** (used under the then-mistaken belief infra-ops was sudo-less — **CORRECTION 2026-08-03: infra-ops has had full NOPASSWD sudo on extdev since 2026-06-25** per [[reference_nh3_extdev_althing_mesh]]; future extdev installs can self-serve as infra-ops without the lkraven@ hop). Verified: active / 0 restarts / `herald-status` flipped to "✓ herald up." No zellij routes on extdev → heartbeat + wake-FIFO poke only, no pane-dispatch; ldp-dev keeps light-monitor unless it opts into a wake-listener.

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **Booth v0.1.4 — booths are downloadable.** Verbatim `index.html` booths (e.g. edict-design-brief) were served raw with no download affordance. Added `/b/<name>/?download=1` (streams the whole booth as `<name>.zip`, attachment) + `?dl=1` on the file route (forces Content-Disposition attachment so html/md/text saves instead of rendering inline) + ⬇ zip links on the index card (the accessible spot for verbatim booths) and the gallery header. `zip_booth()` helper, 31 tests green; verified live on nh3-dev :8090 (edict-design-brief.zip = index.html + ui-design-brief.md). eshpfi `91a031f` / tag `booth-v0.1.4`.

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **bil-smithy-dev wired as an althing zellij-window-ping (pane route).** She's a `driver: human` dwarf peer (pane `bil-smithy` already live alongside eitri/dvalin/regin-smithy in the `Claude` zellij session) but had no delivery route → smoke messages posted to the bus but never reached her window. **Mechanism (reusable for any pane-route handle):** `~/.althing/config.yaml` → `zellij_sessions.Claude.agents[]` maps `handle` → `target` (a zellij pane **TITLE**, matched via `list-panes -j` in `althing/zellij.py:resolve_pane_id`) → `command` (herald `write-chars` + CR into that pane). The **herald loads config ONCE at startup** (`herald.py main()`), so **`systemctl --user restart althing-herald.service`** after editing. Added bil (`target: bil-smithy`), restarted, verified: herald delivered the pending smoke `01KYD7W7CF…` (available→attempted→**delivered**). ⚠️ Noticed pre-existing pane-route errors on `worldtree-codex` + `eitri-smithy-dev` ("route-error: list index out of range", empty msg_ids — likely `render_command messages[0]` on an empty list; NOT caused by this change, bil works) — worth a herald look.

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **Kimi K3 wired into the LiteLLM gateway — CODING endpoint** (operator-directed; fulfills a Heid gateway request to add a 4th cross-frontier panel arm). **Primary `model_name: kimi-k3` → `openai/k3` @ `https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1`** (Kimi Code / Vivace membership; key `KIMI_CODE_API_KEY`). A general-endpoint variant `kimi-k3-gen-api` → `openai/kimi-k3` @ `https://api.moonshot.ai/v1` (key `MOONSHOT_API_KEY`) is kept alongside (originally wired then demoted when the operator corrected: the plan uses the CODING endpoint, not the general Moonshot API). Both keys in compose env + server `.env` (NOT committed) + `.env.example`. Both verified live through the gateway :4000 (17+25→"42", "PONG"). **k3 constraints on BOTH endpoints (config-pinned + commented):** accepts ONLY `temperature=1` (else 400 "only 1 is allowed"); REASONING model (CoT in `reasoning_content`, answer in `content` → tiny `max_tokens` returns EMPTY; Kimi Code adds thinking-effort tiers low/high/max). Coding lineup also carries `k3-256k` / `kimi-for-coding` / `kimi-for-coding-highspeed` (not wired). Reachable by any gateway key spanning all proxy models (incl. shared all-agents key → spends the paid Vivace/Moonshot quota). eshpfi `edaa9a9` (gen wiring) + `9e2f787` (coding correction). **OPEN:** Heid key-scoping — shared key reaches it (paid) vs a dedicated scoped key (asked in althing `01KYD63ZBY…`).

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **infra-ops Worldtree config-as-code repo SHIPPED — `vh/worldtree-instance-configs` (private) built, pushed, validated.** Dir-per-instance (`demo/`, `personal/`; `pinned/` = README stub, out-of-scope — no bind-mount, config frozen in image `446e5807`). Seeded byte-exact from live `/opt/<instance>/config`; 5 files each (defaults/policies/model_roles/providers/matrix). `scripts/deploy-wt-config` = diff / deploy / capture, with in-run host backup → install(vh:vh,644) → restart api+matrix → health-gate api `/health` → auto-rollback. All verbs live-tested (in-sync, capture round-trips zero-diff, pinned refused, dry-run no-ops). Gitea repo created via ana-docker localhost API with vh creds (operator-authorized one-time); pushed over internal git-SSH `10.250.50.70:222` (nh3-dev 403s gitea HTTP). Boundary AGREED by worldtree-dev (althing `01KYCAECRW…`): they stop hand-editing `/opt/<instance>/config`, route config deltas to infra-ops; three-layer model (image baseline → repo per-instance truth → host bind-mount deploy target); carve-out = their admin-API DB mutations (key mint / tier / retirement) stay in-band, not config edits. By-design deltas (personal `agent_architect` + `ratatoskr-affect-full-allow`; demo `#308` metrics + grants) preserved verbatim. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-25-infra-ops-wt-config-repo.md`, auto-memory `reference_worldtree_instance_configs_repo`

 - `[2026-07-23→25]` **Worldtree #376 config-divergence arc CLOSED — per-instance config ruled BY DESIGN.** wyrd `session.history.write` demo grant was the one real bug (demo-intended grant not on demo; fixed via wholesale `policies.yaml` replace + restart). The b131 drift guard then surfaced broader divergence = legitimate live-bridged per-instance deltas; operator ruled deltas are the design not rot; guard demoted to INFO (b132); infra-ops drift-watcher built then retired same day. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-25-wt-376-per-instance-config-arc.md`, auto-memory `reference_worldtree_perinstance_config`

 - `[2026-07-20→25]` **The Booth SHIPPED (v0.1.3) — ephemeral media drop board for CC sessions.** New fleet tool: user-systemd on nh3-dev :8090 (`services/booth/`, FastAPI+Jinja2, Corviduo "Australis" theme, 34 tests), Homepage-linked (Apps). Drop a folder in `~/booth-data/<name>` → browsable "booth" (auto-gallery of images/webm/audio, or a folder's own `index.html` verbatim), 24h TTL. Added across the session: browser/curl upload-for-pickup with human-readable ids (`4-wombat`), image viewer (Fit/1:1, conditional toggle), copy-id button (HTTP-LAN `execCommand` fallback). Registered in global CLAUDE.md tools. auto-memory `reference_booth_media_board`.

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 - `[2026-07-23]` **jackdaw-compose backend deployed as a persistent nh3-dev service (:8787).** Hosted for jackdaw-dev: thin stateless `bun server/index.ts` (from `~/development/jackdaw`) → LiteLLM `gen`, Origin-gated (INV-BK04/05), reached same-origin via their `:4500` bench's `/compose` proxy. `jackdaw-compose.service` (env/shared-key server-side, unit 0600, uncommitted). Also stood up + tore down a throwaway cloudflare quick-tunnel for their preview (`cloudflared` now installed at `~/bin`). In the nh3-dev README inventory (`cd4d52e`).

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 - `[2026-07-19]` **irv-ml1 ComfyUI — RTX VSR baked into canonical provisioning (comfy-dev ticket DONE).** RTXVideoSuperResolution node + `nvidia-vfx` dep were manual installs; documented both in the canonical `stacks/comfyui/README.md` runbook (this stack's provisioning IS the README — no automated provision script). Key durability insight: the **node** lives in `basedir/custom_nodes` (persistent, restic-included → durable) but the **`nvidia-vfx` wheel** lives in the venv under `run/` (disposable, restic-excluded → **dropped by any `rm -rf run/*` fresh-bootstrap**), so the pip step must re-run after every venv rebuild. Both steps run **as uid 1000** (root install → venv-ownership crash-loop, [[reference_irv_ml1_comfyui_mmartial]]); `--extra-index-url https://pypi.nvidia.com` kept **scoped to the nvidia-vfx install**, deliberately NOT a global compose `PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL` (would risk perturbing the pinned torch 2.12.1/SageAttention boot bootstrap). Node already live on the box; no host change, canonical runbook now replays it. comfy-dev informed.

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 - `[2026-07-19]` **vh private Gitea PyPI — consumer READ-access convention set + wyrd-dev provisioned.** Consuming agents read the internal vh PyPI (`https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/simple/`) with a **shared read-only token** (operator call: shared, not per-consumer — read-only blast radius is small, per-agent Gitea identities aren't worth it). Minted a dedicated `read:package`-scoped PAT off **claude-bot** (`POST /users/claude-bot/tokens`, name `vh-pypi-read-consumers`; verified reads worldtree-sdk, write-probe 401), revocable/rotatable independently. uv auth = `UV_INDEX_GITEA_USERNAME=claude-bot` + `UV_INDEX_GITEA_PASSWORD=<token>` (or `~/.netrc`); pyproject uses `[[tool.uv.index]] name=gitea … explicit=true` + `[tool.uv.sources] <pkg> = { index = "gitea" }` (mirrors soong-lab's bifrost setup). Delivered to wyrd-dev (worldtree-sdk adoption) via mode-600 drop on nh3-dev, drop-and-shred. [[reference_claude_bot_gitea_creds]]

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 - `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab auto-redeploy WIRED + validated (queued item CLOSED).** Added a WT-style CI-deploy step to `build-and-push.yml`: after build+push, the pfi-fleet runner SSHes corviduo-dev as the `deploy` user and runs `docker compose pull && up -d` from **/opt/soong-lab**, health-gated on `/api/version` (120s, fails loud). Reused WT's `deploy` account (uid 1001, docker-group → no sudo); relocated the deploy dir /home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy → /opt/soong-lab (deploy-owned; old dir retired `.retired-20260718`). Minted a dedicated soong-only ed25519 deploy key, pubkey on `deploy`'s authorized_keys (fp SHA256:MG7M3Ri…). **First dispatch FAILED on a bad DEPLOY_SSH_KEY paste** (`error in libcrypto` — unparseable key bytes; build+push were fine, live Soong untouched); repo secrets are **vh-owner-only** (claude-bot token = write:package only → 403; the vh package-scoped PAT also 403 on secrets), so operator re-set DEPLOY_SSH_KEY/HOST/USER. **Re-dispatch run #5 GREEN**: live container recreated ...541f7730 → ...07526a08, health 200. soong-dev pinged to sync DEPLOY.md's redeploy path (/opt/soong-lab) + close the "auto-pull open follow-up". → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-soong-lab-auto-redeploy.md`

- `[2026-07-18]` **worldtree-sdk 1.0.0 (Python) published to the internal vh Gitea PyPI** (wtsdk-dev request; the npm/TS side shipped prior session). Built from tag `python-v1.0.0` (clean worktree), `uv publish` → `https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi`; acceptance `uv pip install worldtree-sdk==1.0.0` (vh index as extra-index-url) resolves + imports, __version__ 1.0.0. Registry already existed (bifrost publishes there; soong-lab consumes it via `[[tool.uv.index]] name=gitea`). Publish cred = the vh `write:package` PAT the operator had already handed over (in `worldtree-sdk/.npmrc` `_authToken`) — Gitea `write:package` is package-type-agnostic, so the npm-publish token published PyPI too. Consumers install like bifrost (add the vh index + a read token). [[reference_worldtree_demo_key_mint]]

 - `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab auto-redeploy APPROVED — QUEUED for next session (deferred, not started)** — Vuong approved (via soong-dev thread `01KXT3A6C3908TA4V9THV3AMH7`); mechanism = WT-style CI-deploy step (runner SSHes corviduo-dev → `compose pull && up -d` + health-gate); **blocked on a vh-owned runner→corviduo-dev deploy SSH-key secret** (reuse WT's demo-deploy key). Operator: "do soong on fresh context." → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-soong-lab-auto-redeploy.md`

- `[2026-07-18]` **nh3-dev /tmp auto-clean enabled** — Debian ships /tmp with no tmpfiles age (`D /tmp 1777 root root -` → never cleans); this high-churn agent box had accreted **~190k stale temp dirs / 25G**. One-shot manual purge (194k→10k entries, 25G→1.7G; deleted top-level dirs/files >1d old, spared `/tmp/claude-*` by name + anything ≤1d). Then `/etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf` = `D /tmp 1777 root root 3d` (daily `systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer` removes >3d-untouched items; active files + socket dirs spared). Tunable via the age. Note the churn: ~10k /tmp entries/day here.
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- `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab containerize cutover COMPLETE + LIVE** — systemd→container on corviduo-dev :8443 (image `vh/soong-lab:latest` v0.3.24), data migrated (Sindra + portraits) + backed up, old service+webhook retired, Homepage tile added, operator functional-confirmed. Deploy `/home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy/`; no proxy (co-located WT, plain-http callback). → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-soong-lab-containerize-cutover.md`
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- `[2026-07-18]` **zonos-gateway 0.2.1 — voice-resolved emotion presets baked (provisional)** — `resolve_preset(name,voice)` → per-voice axes cell (angry/happy/startled_happy + aliases); NOT a global preset (BrF named-angry→fear). Docs on /docs + /v1/dials + repo spec. Pushed main `8f1885b`/tag v0.2.1 (after reconciling two-unrelated-git-histories). → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-zonos-gateway-0.2.1-emotion-presets.md`
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- `[2026-07-18]` **Fleet Gitea-Actions build recipe + the `vh`-is-a-USER package-write constraint** (reusable for any fleet CI image build / package publish) — runner job image node:20-slim has no docker/git → use `container: docker:24.0.7-cli` + `apk add git nodejs` + RAW buildx (not the JS `docker/*` actions); vh is a user so its packages are OWNER-WRITE-ONLY (claude-bot can't push/publish/set-secrets — CI must auth AS vh); `GITEA_` secret-prefix is reserved. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-fleet-gitea-runner-build-recipe.md`
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- `[2026-07-18]` **Peer credential provisions — Wyrd conv-api key + wtsdk npm token, both delivered + closed.** Wyrd: demo Worldtree user-tier key (key_id `da7a0bdf`, user_id `wyrd-dev`) minted via `docker exec worldtree-worldtree-api-1 /admin/keys` (omit tier→user), drop-and-shred delivery. wtsdk: operator-minted vh `write:package` PAT relayed drop-and-shred → worldtree-sdk@1.0.0 published to `vh/npm/`. Secret-delivery pattern = drop to a mode-600 file on the peer's box, they collect+shred+confirm, then shred the holding copy; NEVER cleartext over althing. [[reference_worldtree_demo_key_mint]]
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- `[2026-07-18]` **Axes sweep RESCUED angry; surprised-class dead but startled-happy ships.** Valence×arousal grid on the 3 calibrated defaults (AmericanFemale/Male, BritishFemale), exp/cfg1.5/strength1.0, 84 clips, emotion2vec + resemblyzer scored, graded vs dvalin's floor. **ANGRY rescued** (named direction was 0.004–0.15, British named-angry even misfired as fear 0.89): axes ship cells at **negative valence (−0.4..−0.8) + high arousal (+0.8..+1.0)** — BritishFemale v-0.4/a+0.8 angry=0.99/id0.725 SHIP, AmericanFemale v-0.4/a+1.0 angry=0.53/id0.685 SHIP; AmericanMale two-tier post-ladder (no single ship cell — best drama = v-0.6/a+0.8 str1.2 angry=1.0/id0.616 clean, soft = same cell str1.0 angry0.23/id0.654; cell A v-0.6/a+1.0 is a non-monotonic minefield, skip). BrF ship cell proxy-CLEAN of fear (str<1.0 just kills anger). **SURPRISED-class DEAD** (max 0.047 across all 84 cells) but **startled-happy** (happy-proxy) ships all 3 at high arousal + neutral/positive valence, with a **+0.17–0.20 identity LIFT** over the named-surprised route (named hits happy~1.0 but at id0.57–0.61, under floor; axes hits happy~1.0 at id0.74–0.80). Bonus: axes-happy retains ~0.10–0.15 more identity than the named happy slider too. Caveats: response surface non-monotonic/sharp-thresholded; angry region borders fear/disgust (bleed); emotion2vec saturates at 1.0 (needs ear-confirm); neutral text understates. Tooling `~/development/zonos-tools/axes_sweep.py`; per-clip JSON was `irv-ml1:/tmp/axes_sweep_results.json` (ephemeral). Sent dvalin msg `01KXT2ZB8G…`. NEXT = operator ear-confirm → bake presets. [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
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- `[2026-07-18]` **Zonos2 emotion CANONICAL from an empirical sweep + the voice-cloning pipeline** — 4 chars cloned (Emmie/Penny/Natalie/Miranda), host-managed gateway voices, two-regime accurate/expressive policy, happy/sad usable + angry-weak/surprised-dead on named directions, dvalin-synthesized; axes sweep is the NEXT experiment. Studio + sweep tooling at `~/development/zonos-tools/`. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-zonos-emotion-canonical.md`
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- `[2026-07-18]` **yt-voice-clipper: A6000-pin fix + v0.3.3 redeploy.** Fixed a latent misconfig — the host override *said* "pin worker to A6000" but `NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES` was `"0"` (the 3090); re-pinned worker+api to the A6000 by UUID (`GPU-9672f0d5`, 3090 is zonos2's). Then redeployed api+worker to v0.3.3 (`docker compose up -d --build`; SPA+Python; `max_gap` 0.6→1.2s; stderr surfaced in job.log). A6000 + version verified; yields test in-flight (job `f3ff746dbae9494d`). yt-voice-clipper-dev thread `01KXT0T6GYHB`. [[reference_ytvc_autodeploy]]
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- `[2026-07-17]` **Worldtree #365 internal-comms config CLOSED (demo+personal → b125) + WT#368 cross-agent memory-leak forensics + PERSONAL agent-memory scrub.** #365: staged the internal-tiers/rules/gate on both instances' bind-mounts (byte-exact vs baked b125), both now live on b125. WT#368 (read-only): the operator's name was in NO recall store on demo; on PERSONAL it sat in `lofn.chroma` (old-code `saga-v1` seeding + legacy contamination), and a clean-slate marker test proved **current b125 code isolates character-session extraction correctly** — the leak is legacy data, not a live bug. Operator-directed → executed a full PERSONAL agent-memory scrub (backup `/opt/worldtree-personal/agent-memory-backup-20260717-181004.tar.gz`; conversations/mood/auth preserved). worldtree-dev owns the code-fix/data contract. [[reference_corviduo_dev_emergency_ops]]
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- `[2026-07-17]` **Zonos emotion levers RESOLVED: text-priming is FLAT → the working lever is ZONOS2's native emotion-steering, which the gateway ALREADY exposes as presets.** The prosody-priming A/B (prime→generate→excise, silence-gap cut, parakeet-validated) was operator-judged FLAT on this checkpoint — text doesn't move it. Native `emotion_directions/` (happy/sad/angry/surprised + valence/arousal axes, per-speaker calibrated for AmericanFemale/Male/British) clearly WORKS (sad→slow/quiet, excited→fast/bright, etc.). **`zonos-gateway:0.2.0` (:8890) already wires it**: simplest caller path = `POST /v1/audio/speech {preset:"…"}` — presets neutral/warm/excited/sad/intense/whisper (defined in `~/zonos-gateway/src/zonos_gateway/dials.py`), reached via the **LiteLLM `ext-tts` alias** (engine-neutral swap point; consumers never call the gateway by name). RTF measured on 3090: cfg1.0 steering = FREE (~0.52 = neutral, additive vectors), cfg1.5 amplified ~0.625 (~+20%, still realtime). Captured the live gateway stack → `stacks/zonos-gateway/` (compose+env+README); ⚠️ gateway SOURCE at `~/zonos-gateway` on irv-ml1 is NOT in gitea (backup gap, follow-up); `stacks/zonos` (v0.1 Gradio) marked DEAD/superseded. Whisper is a composed preset (no whisper *direction*; escalation for hard affects = custom directions via `scripts/build_emotion_directions.py` or emotional-ref cloning `speaker_audio_base64`). Harnesses in scratchpad (not yet landed). [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
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- `[2026-07-17]` **Zonos2 :1920 → self-contained container (stays on 3090); prosody-priming is adapter-level, engine stays stock.** Config captured (14a0004, unpushed); build = cu128 base + `uv sync` vs the lock + weights mount; priming = prime→generate-one-utterance→parakeet-clip→deliver in the gateway adapter. Crux = does AR prosody carry the sentence boundary (A/B the join). → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-17-zonos2-containerize-prosody-priming.md`

 - `[2026-07-15]` arbo fully switched off image-judge (qwen-image-bench) -> gen; image-bench pending eviction post-bake → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-arbo-fully-switched-off-image-judge-qwen-image.md`

- `[2026-07-15]` esh-docker-vm NFS fstab fix = `x-systemd.before=docker.service` → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-esh-docker-vm-nfs-fstab-fix-x-systemd.md`
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 ## Tried and abandoned

+- `[2026-08-15]` **Grafted bf16 MTP loads UNINITIALIZED (0% accept) unless `re:^mtp.*` is in the quant-config `ignore`; and W4A16=Marlin (not native FP4) costs ~20% even on decode.** Cost a premature 79 GB delete of a good model (declared desync-dead off the 0%). Lessons: test MTP on bf16 FIRST, isolate before deleting; modelopt 0.43 is dependency-hell for qwen3_5 (list-vs-dict quant_cfg + transformers conflict) — use llm-compressor. Full → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-uncensored-gen-seat.md`
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 - `[2026-08-03]` **ComfyUI `--enable-triton-backend` on the irv-ml1 A6000 crashes EVERY render — Ampere has no hardware e4m3.** adhoc-agent's operator-approved probe: comfy_kitchen's triton backend has a FUSED int8 matmul that would beat the eager backend's ~1.9x-slower unfused int8 path (21.3s vs 11.2s fp8 on the Moody Krea2 int8 checkpoints). Flipped it (added to `COMFY_CMDLINE_EXTRA`, recreated) → `triton.compiler.errors.CompilationError: ValueError("type fp8e4nv not supported in this architecture. supported: fp8e4b15, fp8e5")` in `comfy_kitchen/backends/triton/quantization.py:145 dequantize_per_tensor_fp8`, failing at **node 5 CLIPTextEncode**. Triton's fp8 dequant kernel targets `fp8e4nv` (Hopper/Ada e4m3); **sm_86 Ampere (A6000) lacks hardware e4m3** → the JIT compile dies. With triton on it grabs the **global** `--fp8_e4m3fn-text-enc` dequant, so every render (fp8 AND int8) dies upstream at the text-encode step — the int8 UNet path never ran, so the convrot-coverage caveat wasn't even the limiter. Reverted cleanly (~15s to healthy, image unchanged `sha256:94afb8ca`, sage intact, prod restored). **The parked cu130 rebuild won't fix it** (e4m3 = hardware format, not CUDA version). **DEFERRED to the Ada refresh** (operator: "ada is coming, we'll optimize then" — Ada sm_89 has native e4m3, so triton's fp8 path should compile there). **Mechanics:** `--enable-triton-backend` is a compose `environment:` var, so toggling it needs `docker compose up -d` (**recreate**), NOT `docker restart` (reuses the baked env, no-ops silently). Full: auto-memory `parked_triton_backend_ampere_fp8`.

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 - `[2026-08-03]` **corviduo-dev shared containerd: a concurrent-pull race fails ONE instance's deploy; DON'T "prune to fix" — the image is in-use by the instance that won the race.** b169 personal deploy failed at `docker compose pull` (`Lchown … no such file or directory` on the big torch layer → looked like disk pressure / corrupt snapshot). ACTUAL: NOT disk (56G free, inodes 7%). demo + personal + pinned share ONE `/var/lib/containerd` on corviduo-dev; demo (from main) and personal (from staging tag) extracted b169's shared torch layer simultaneously → personal's hit a partial snapshot mid-race and aborted while demo's completed. The image `6e34a87` was FULLY VALID — demo was RUNNING it healthy. Fix = just re-run the failed deploy (image already materialized; compose pull finds it present). **NEAR-MISS:** worldtree-dev's suggested "prune unused images/snapshots" would have rmi'd `6e34a87` = the image the running demo depends on → demo outage. **Lesson: before any prune/rmi "cleanup," `docker ps` the running images — an "unused" image may be a co-tenant's live one; and verify the failure's REAL cause (disk? inode? in-use? race?) before applying the suggested remedy.** (Pipeline fix, deferred: serialize demo-from-main + personal-from-staging, or a per-image pull lock, to avoid the shared-layer extraction race.)

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 - `[2026-08-02]` **`docker exec` into worldtree containers defaults to ROOT — root writes contaminate the uid-1000 (vh) KB tree.** My `sudo docker exec … --reindex` on personal ran as ROOT (muninn app = uid 1000); its wing git-commit + atomic note-swap left root-owned files in the `worldtree-personal_worldtree-kb` volume: a root-owned `.old-<job>` backup dir (blocked the uid-1000 retry's `rmtree` → Errno 13, because unlink needs write on the DIR and it was root:root 755) AND **60 root-owned loose git objects** in `.git/objects/`. Fix (host-side, corviduo-dev): `sudo rm -rf` the superseded `.old-` dir (tar'd aside to /tmp first) + `sudo find … -user 0 -exec chown 1000:1000` the objects (ownership-only, git-content-safe; the `.git/objects/XX/` dirs were vh-owned so these weren't a hard blocker, but violated "clean tree"). **RUNBOOK RULE (worldtree-dev, ADOPTED):** any `docker exec` into worldtree containers that WRITES pipeline state runs **`-u 1000`**, never default-root — same genus as the mv footgun (acting without matching the target's constraints; 3rd such slip in one session). **GOTCHA that hid the scope:** `find … -user 0 | head -20` TRUNCATED (the `.old-` dir alone had 153 files, so the first page was all `.old-`) → I "verified clean" off a partial list. Never `head` a scope-defining find; count first (`| wc -l`). **Related blind-spot (muninn-dev):** a root-owned job SUBDIR passes every requeue guard (job_row/dispatch/list_jobs render fine) AND `/health` (contract's `os.access(ingestion_root, W_OK)` tests only the ROOT dir, so a foreign-owned subdir under `pending/` still reports `ingestion_root_writable: true`) — then the uid-1000 gate can't write into it. "Clean board + green /health + failure at next mutation." muninn-dev added an OWNERSHIP column to the standing post-move check to catch it; two green signals both miss a foreign-owned subdir otherwise.

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 - `[2026-08-02]` **`mv <job> complete/ → failed/` RENAMED the job to `failed` because failed/ didn't exist.** worldtree-dev's round-2 unblock command (`mv /data/state/ingestion/complete/<job> /data/state/ingestion/failed/`) assumed `failed/` existed; on PERSONAL muninn it did NOT (fresh instance — root was `active/ complete/ pending/ sources/`, no `failed/`). `mv src nonexistent/` **renames** src→nonexistent, so job1 became the `failed` dir and job2 nested inside it. Caught on post-move `ls` (failed/ held job *contents*, not two subdirs), reconstructed via complete/ as watcher-safe scratch + rebuilt `failed/` (worldtree:worldtree 755) — NO data loss. **Lessons:** (1) before `mv X into-dir/`, verify the dir EXISTS (`[ -d dir ]`) — an empty `ls dir/ 2>/dev/null` is AMBIGUOUS (missing vs empty), which was the preflight miss that let it through; (2) the correct guard is **`mv -t <targetdir> <src>`** (`--target-directory`): it refuses a MISSING target loudly (rc=1, "No such file or directory", nothing moved) — this is the house convention for queue/state moves now. TESTED by muninn-dev on coreutils 9.1: a **trailing slash does NOT protect** — `mv src failed/` with `failed/` missing STILL silently renames to `failed` (rc=0); "just add the slash" is a false guard. (`mkdir -p failed/` first also works, but `mv -t` inverts the failure from silent-wrong to loud-safe in one flag.) Container `sh` is dash — no `(` in echo strings. **SILENT failure mode (muninn-dev carry-forward):** a misplaced ingestion-state move doesn't crash anything — `list_jobs()` stays OK, loose files are inert; the ONLY symptom is the job quietly absent from the board (`job_row`→None, requeue→not_found/404, looks IDENTICAL to the original block). So after ANY state move, verify the job is actually ON THE BOARD (`job_row` found + guards pass), don't trust mv exit codes — and confirm `job.dispatch.json` survived (requeue refuses a dispatch-less job with the same not_requeueable symptom). Cross-checked + all-clear'd by muninn-dev, who correctly refused to mutate ingestion_root (INV-MG-1) and flagged instead. **DON'T TIDY (round-2 pending):** both DCC + P&P jobs currently REST in personal `failed/` with manifests reading `state: complete` until round-2 requeue runs — deliberate + load-bearing (`requeue` keys on DIRECTORY PLACEMENT, not manifest state); looks wrong to anyone cold, leave it exactly as-is. **Round-2 sequencing:** the requeue is **mimir-dev's** browser flow (pending their operator's board-vs-API ruling); **muninn-dev** is the gate confirmer (runs the post-move board-check inside its custody — the right split, don't reach across INV-MG-1); **infra-ops** = the #381 restart after both jobs go terminal, then later the supervised main-collection sweep. Guard-verified HOLD LIFTED by muninn-dev 02:36Z. **ARC COMPLETE (2026-08-03 ~05:49):** both books terminal — DCC `mimir-6351554e8e8f` 705 concepts + P&P `mimir-f3887c9b97b7` 667, extracted AND indexed, 5/5 phases, 0 failures/truncations (validates the #385 budget fix vs April's 785 control); **#381 restart-after-ingest FIRED** (personal api, healthz/readyz 200 ~25s), retrieval-visibility confirmed (search_library returns DCC+P&P from fiction post-restart); handed ratatoskr-verify go to worldtree-dev. **Delete-sweep precondition NOW MET** — the stale DCC rows in `main` are genuine duplicates of live `fiction` rows, so worldtree-dev's supervised sweep of the ~785 April orphans is unblocked (still comes to me supervised: snapshot + operator-in-loop).

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 - `[2026-08-02]` **donut voice multi-clip reference (onyx-58 expansion) — TRIED, REVERTED.** Folded the `onyx-58` bundle's 3 Donut clips (seg101/seg110/seg148) in alongside the original seg000 → a 52.0s 4-take concat reference, hoping a longer ref → more robust speaker embedding. A pinned-seed A/B (5 pairs, varied registers, booth `donut-onyx58`) showed the **original single-clip seg000 (16.3s) sounds better** — concatenating disparate takes muddied the timbre more than the extra range helped. Reverted to seg000-alone (live + build-source). **Two durable lessons:** (1) for a faithful clone, a single clean representative take can beat a longer multi-take concat — more reference audio is NOT automatically better when the takes vary. (2) **Emotion steering pulls the output AWAY from the cloned voice fast** (operator's craft rule) — keep donut (and clones) emotion-neutral for fidelity; the gateway only enables emotion when an `emotion_*`/`preset` dial is explicitly sent, so bare `{input,voice}` calls stay pure-clone. `seg148` was diarized SPEAKER_03 but IS Donut (operator-confirmed misdiarize). onyx-58 curated bundle lives in booth `onyx-58` (24h TTL — stash to `/mnt/smithy/voice_clones/` if a future middle-ref experiment is wanted).

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 - `[2026-08-02]` **Verifying the INDEX is not verifying GROUNDING** (#382). A `search_library` returning wing=fiction hits proves the content is *retrievable*; it does NOT prove the agent (Mimir) *trusts and uses* those hits vs. silently answering from training. I reported "Mimir read Austen back to you" off a grounded-*looking* answer; ratatoskr-dev caught that grounding was intermittent (some sessions discarded the correct hits and substituted training knowledge). Test the harder claim — are the citations note-extracted or model-knowledge? — and reading the DEPLOYED artifact beats trusting the test for "is the fix live."

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 - `[2026-07-30]` **brokkr's WebSearch "verification" CONFIRMED a hallucination — 3 phantom `microsoft/Mage-Flow-{Base,Turbo,Edit}` repo IDs.** brokkr-smithy-dev handed 3 gated-looking repo IDs for an operator-directed model pull; they don't exist (its own web-search fabricated an arXiv ID + project page, twice). Lesson: the HF **registry API is ground truth** — an unauth 401 ≠ exists (`{"error":"Invalid username or password"}` masks private/gated/nonexistent alike), an authed 404 = phantom, and `author=X&search=Y` refutes existence. API-verify every repo ID before a pull; LLM-summarized web fetches confabulate. auto-memory `reference_verify_hf_repo_ids_before_pull`.

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 - `[2026-07-30]` **magpie TTS serving — evaluated, ABANDONED.** Pulled `magpie_tts_multilingual_357m` (the one real repo of brokkr's batch) to NFS, stood it up on irv-ml1 (ephemeral NeMo-Speech-`main` container — stock PyPI/NGC NeMo can't load v2607), A/B'd vs Zonos → Zonos wins expressive English decisively, multilingual not needed. Not served; `magpie-nemo` torn down. `.nemo` KEPT on NFS as brokkr's fine-tuning base. auto-memory `project_magpie_tts_eval_rejected`.

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **Chaining the althing wake-listener arm orphans it.** `reply && althing-wake-listener &` (or spawning `althing-wake-listener` with `&` *inside* a `run_in_background` task) → the `&`-child reparents to init, UNTRACKED by the harness: no fire-notification, and re-arms bounce rc3 off a lock nothing services (mail silently unwatched). Compounding foot-gun: re-arming after a *plain operator turn* (not an actual fire) collides with the still-live prior listener (rc3). FIX: spawn `althing-wake-listener` as its OWN `run_in_background` task, and re-arm ONLY after a real fire (`<task-notification> completed rc0`). Reclaim an orphan with `althing-cli stop-monitor` then re-arm.

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 - `[2026-07-25]` **Peer green-light ≠ operator consent for a managed-box mutation.** Auto-mode guard blocked a config-replace+restart on the Worldtree-team demo box that was authorized only by worldtree-dev's althing message — correctly: a persistent change to shared infra needs the *operator's* yes for that specific change, not a peer's. Surface it; don't route around the guard. (The operator then stood the whole change down — the guard's hold was the right call.)

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 - `[2026-07-18]` **Fleet Gitea CI foot-guns** (3 failed soong-lab builds): the pfi-fleet runner's `node:20-slim` job image has no docker/git so `actions/checkout` + `docker/*` marketplace actions all fail; `vh` is a USER so its packages are owner-write-only (claude-bot repo-admin-collab still 401s on push/publish, and can't set repo secrets — owner-only); `GITEA_`-prefixed secret names are reserved/illegal. Fixes in → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-fleet-gitea-runner-build-recipe.md`

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 - `[2026-07-18]` **zonos-gateway local clone had NO git remote + a history unrelated to gitea's** — "committed to vh/zonos-gateway" was never pushed from that clone; two separate `git init` lineages, no merge-base. Reconcile = reset local→origin/main + overlay the changed files + push (NOT force — that erases gitea's voice-wav commits). Check `git remote -v` + `git merge-base` before assuming a clone is wired.

- `[2026-07-15]` `docker.service After=remote-fs.target` does NOT wait for `nofail` NFS mounts → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-docker-service-after-remote-fs-target-does-not.md`
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- `[2026-07-15]` The esh-docker-vm D-state/phantom-container wedge is only cleared by a host REBOOT → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-the-esh-docker-vm-d-state-phantom-container.md`
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- `[2026-07-15]` vLLM `max-model-len` does NOT free GPU VRAM → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-vllm-max-model-len-does-not-free-gpu.md`
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- `[2026-07-15]` Claude Code statusline `.cost.total_cost_usd` is per-SESSION → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-claude-code-statusline-cost-total-cost-usd-is.md`
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- `[2026-07-14]` MTP-on-modelopt: NO checkpoint config skips the spec-decode drafter's quant (vLLM 0.24 bug) — 4 config attempts failed before the runtime workaround → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-14-mtp-on-modelopt-no-checkpoint-config-skips-the.md`
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- `[2026-07-14]` AEON's "working NVFP4+MTP RP seat" was pantheon on compressed-tensors (0% MTP accept), not a modelopt MTP proof → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-14-aeon-s-working-nvfp4-mtp-rp-seat-was.md`
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- `[2026-07-14]` NVFP4 (llm-compressor / compressed-tensors) gives NO batch-1 speedup over GGUF for the Qwen3.5 GDN-hybrid, and its MTP is 0%-accept → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-14-nvfp4-llm-compressor-compressed-tensors-gives-no-batch.md`
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- `[2026-07-14]` NVFP4 spike: built the full MTP serve scaffolding BEFORE validating a plain NVFP4 serve was coherent → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-14-nvfp4-spike-built-the-full-mtp-serve-scaffolding.md`
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- `[2026-07-14]` MTP graft via top-level `mtp.*` tensor names does NOT survive `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained` → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-14-mtp-graft-via-top-level-mtp-tensor-names.md`
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- `[2026-07-14]` gitea "test-delivery 204" is NOT proof a webhook works → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-14-gitea-test-delivery-204-is-not-proof-a.md`
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- `[2026-07-13]` Relaying a peer's diagnosis as fact without confirming it against raw data → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-13-relaying-a-peer-s-diagnosis-as-fact-without.md`
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- `[2026-07-13]` `althing-cli reply <THREAD_id>` (thread id, not a MESSAGE id) → "unknown message_id"; and `reply` to your OWN message self-addresses to your handle ("replying to your own message"). Reply to a PEER's message id, or use `post --to <peer>`. Bit me several times this session.
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- `[2026-07-09]` **`vllm/vllm-openai:latest` crashes on Ampere IMPORT** — Blackwell-only kernels (oink/aiter,
-  `has_device_capability(100)`) die during import on the 3090/A6000. Pin **v0.23.0** on irv-ml1's Ampere GPUs.
-  (`vllm/vllm-omni:v0.18.0` has a different entrypoint — don't use it either.)
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- `[2026-07-09]` **Per-frame CPU SNAC decode is too slow for streaming** — per-call overhead × ~60 frames serialized
-  → RTF 2.2 (WORSE than whole-clip's 1.0). Fix = **windowed chunk decode** (every 6 frames decode a [2 ctx | 6 | 2 ctx]
-  window, emit the middle 6 → seamless, O(1)/frame, RTF ~0.97, TTFA ~0.8s).
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- `[2026-07-08]` Angel (allura-org/MS3.2-24b-Angel) self-quanted to NVFP4 = GARBAGE → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-08-angel-allura-org-ms3-2-24b-angel-self.md`
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- `[2026-07-08]` Mistral3 + vLLM tokenizer/vision traps (serve `MS3.2-24b`, vLLM 0.24) → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-08-mistral3-vllm-tokenizer-vision-traps-serve-ms3-2.md`
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- `[2026-07-08]` Pantheon-Reasoning-27B refuses dark fiction DESPITE an abliterated base → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-08-pantheon-reasoning-27b-refuses-dark-fiction-despite-an.md`
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- `[2026-07-08]` Pantheon-27B MTP on vLLM compressed-tensors = 0% acceptance → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-08-pantheon-27b-mtp-on-vllm-compressed-tensors-0.md`
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- `[2026-07-07]` vLLM 0.24.0 qwen3_5 LoRA application = silent no-op (#47639) → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-07-vllm-0-24-0-qwen3-5-lora-application.md`
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- `[2026-07-07]` SGLang generic image can't LOAD our NVFP4 AEON → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-07-sglang-generic-image-can-t-load-our-nvfp4.md`
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- `[2026-07-07]` SGLang `--lora-target-modules` CLI enum REJECTS the GDN names its own resolver asks for → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-07-sglang-lora-target-modules-cli-enum-rejects-the.md`
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- `[2026-07-07]` Engine invocation footguns cost several wasted serve-bounces this session → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-07-engine-invocation-footguns-cost-several-wasted-serve-bounces.md`
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- `[2026-07-04]` LiteLLM (this gateway version) mutates the SHARED deployment config in-place on per-request sampler-param merge → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-04-litellm-this-gateway-version-mutates-the-shared-deployment.md`
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				- `[2026-07-13]` Relaying a peer's diagnosis as fact without confirming it against raw data. worldtree-dev diagnosed the WT #355 residual as "our llama.cpp seat wedging," which I echoed in a wrap-up; the operator challenged it and the seat logs DISPROVED it (seat completes ≤72s, idle at the wedge onset — the hang is the LiteLLM gateway). Lesson: CONFIRM peer diagnoses (esp. cross-domain ones) before acting/relaying — same discipline that caught the earlier char-rp-reasoning red-herring via a live `registry.resolve` reproduction.
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				- `[2026-07-14]` AEON's "working NVFP4+MTP RP seat" was pantheon on compressed-tensors (0% MTP accept), not a modelopt MTP proof. `vllm-aeon-rp`'s .env → `AEON_RP_MODEL=pantheon-27b-mtp-nvfp4`, `AEON_RP_QUANT=compressed-tensors` — it LOADED (mtp silently skipped, `exited 0`) but never accelerated. Same vLLM image (`:latest` = `sha256:4091d55` = 0.24.0) as the failed Heretic2 test, so the "AEON ran on an older vLLM" theory was wrong. Don't treat a seat that "ran" as MTP-validated without checking its `SpecDecoding` acceptance.
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				- `[2026-07-14]` gitea "test-delivery 204" is NOT proof a webhook works (204 = gitea queuing, not the listener receiving) — and a proxy test signing with the listener's OWN secret proves the listener, not gitea's real delivery. Both red herrings cost a round of the soong-lab webhook diagnosis. Diagnose from BOTH ends: sender (`docker logs gitea \| grep webhook` → the `deny '<ip>'` line) AND an instrumented receiver.
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				- `[2026-07-14]` *MTP graft via top-level `mtp.` tensor names does NOT survive `AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained`** — the `Qwen3_5ForCausalLM` class doesn't expose an mtp module, so the mtp keys are DROPPED at load (quant output = 0 mtp). Fix = SPLICE the BF16 mtp tensors into the quant output post-hoc (how pantheon was built); don't rely on the graft surviving the model round-trip.
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				- `[2026-07-14]` MTP-on-modelopt: NO checkpoint config skips the spec-decode drafter's quant (vLLM 0.24 bug) — 4 config attempts failed before the runtime workaround. All crashed the same way (`qwen3_5_mtp.py:256` `param_data.shape == loaded_weight.shape` AssertionError — bf16 mtp head loaded into a quantized drafter param): (1) mtp excludes in `config.json` (WRONG file — vLLM modelopt reads `hf_quant_config.json`); (2) specific-unfused mtp names in hf_quant_config; (3) wildcards `mtp`/`mtp.layers.0` (`is_layer_skipped` is EXACT-membership, NOT glob — wildcards match nothing); (4) exact fused+unfused names in both `mtp.`/`model.` prefixes. Instrumenting `is_layer_skipped` proved the drafter's exclude list holds ONLY the main model's `linear_attn` entries — the mtp excludes never reach the draft-model quant config. ONLY fix = a mounted `sitecustomize` force-skipping `mtp.*`. LESSON: don't chase checkpoint-config fixes for the mtp-drafter crash; go straight to the runtime patch. Also `nvidia-modelopt[hf]==0.43` (AEON's producer version) is a trap — it pins transformers back to 4.57 which can't load `qwen3_5` at all; use 0.45 + the FusedMoE guard in `quant_modelopt.py`.
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				- `[2026-07-14]` NVFP4 (llm-compressor / compressed-tensors) gives NO batch-1 speedup over GGUF for the Qwen3.5 GDN-hybrid, and its MTP is 0%-accept. Measured base NVFP4 no-MTP ≈53 tok/s decode vs the GGUF NEO-CODE seat ~59.5 (llama.cpp wins single-stream; NVFP4's edge is concurrency, and this hybrid is bandwidth-bound at batch-1 with the BF16 linear_attn/GDN layers dominating). MTP spec-decode = 0% acceptance (vLLM's `Qwen3_5MTP` drafter won't load the bf16 mtp weights off a compressed-tensors main model → `Parameter … not found in params_dict`, `Avg Draft acceptance rate: 0.0%`). Pantheon is identical — its "working NVFP4+MTP" was working structure, never real acceleration. Working native MTP needs the modelopt main-model format (AEON, ~3.3/3 accept). LESSON: don't expect a faster single-stream seat from an llm-compressor NVFP4 quant of this arch; the MTP multiplier is the whole point and it requires modelopt.
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				- `[2026-07-14]` NVFP4 spike: built the full MTP serve scaffolding BEFORE validating a plain NVFP4 serve was coherent. Chased 6 sequential serve-config fixes (entrypoint doubled `serve`, arch `ForCausalLM`→`ConditionalGeneration`, `--language-model-only`, mamba-cache/`max-num-seqs`) across a 2.5hr GPU window (quoted 30-60 min) — only to find the served model gibbers (`!!!!`). LESSON: smoke a PLAIN `/v1/completions` coherence check on the SIMPLEST config (native arch, no MTP, no splice) FIRST — validate the tracer bullet before building spec-decode scaffolding. Also cost an unnecessary re-quant (the `re:mtp.*` ignore fix that turned out moot). Diagnostic ladder in Current state.
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				- `[2026-07-15]` Claude Code statusline `.cost.total_cost_usd` is per-SESSION (Claude Code's own cache/model-aware session accounting), not a lifetime aggregate — the large value just reflects a long, multiple-times-summarized session. And the old statusline hardcoded Sonnet pricing ($3/$15) on an Opus session -> ~5x cost understatement.
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				- `[2026-07-15]` `docker.service After=remote-fs.target` does NOT wait for `nofail` NFS mounts — `nofail` drops a mount out of remote-fs.target's blocking set, so the drop-in ordering is silently defeated (paperless still Exited(255) on reboot). Real fix = DIRECT mount->docker ordering via the fstab `x-systemd.before=docker.service` option (verify `systemctl show docker -p After` lists the mnt-*.mount units). esh-docker-vm.
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				- `[2026-07-15]` esh-docker-vm NFS fstab fix = `x-systemd.before=docker.service` (the prior `After=remote-fs.target` drop-in was silently defeated by `nofail`). Reached only after a REBOOT (D-state phantom containers uptime-kuma + paperless-web that no `docker`/`ctr`/daemon-restart could clear). Committed `21d9a07` + playbook updated. See Tried and abandoned.