memory: snapshot — .internal DNS live, waterland containerised, homepage themed

Captures a long infra session: fleet *.internal DNS (git-sourced, 42 names,
three resolvers including a new colo one), waterland studio containerised on
irv-ml1, Homepage cleaned up and themed with Australis Skyfall over an
Arbo-generated background, and four unmanaged stacks adopted into stacks/.

Four detail files added. Auto-archived 4 entries to archival-memory.md
(Recent decisions 2, Tried and abandoned 2); 5 held back by the open-deferred
guard rather than moved.

Also records three operator-owned open items: the colo DNS repoint, the
static-v6 convention, and the deliberately belayed AI-tab Dormant regrouping.
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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`.
_Archived 2026-08-18._
## Recent decisions (archived 2026-08-19 batch)
`[2026-07-31]` **kimi-k3 "output cap" root-caused = a ~16384 REASONING-token ceiling, not an output cap; fix relayed to heid, NOT applied gateway-side.**
heid reported that `kimi-k3` (the primary route = Kimi Code coding endpoint `openai/k3` @ `api.kimi.com/coding/v1`) silently degraded its cross-frontier panel: on large/reasoning-heavy dispatches, `completion_tokens: 16381` **exactly**, `content` empty, `reasoning_content` ~64KB, `finish_reason: **stop**` (a truncation mislabeled as a clean stop). `max_tokens: 100000` in the request was not honored.
**Investigation arc (a clean cross-frontier-triage + verify-on-the-wire case):**
1. My first read: a flat ~16384 OUTPUT cap; fix = a LiteLLM `stop→length` relabel callback (heid's fallback ask). Confirmed the cap isn't in our LiteLLM config (no `max_tokens` clamp on the route).
2. Operator routed a fix-research pass to **dvalin-smithy-dev + bil-smithy-dev** (independent). Both CONVERGED (docs-based): `max_tokens` is a deprecated alias on Kimi/Moonshot; the canonical field is `max_completion_tokens` (default 131072, max 1M); the coding endpoint defaults output to 16384; fix = send `max_completion_tokens` + `reasoning_effort` via `extra_body` (drop_params-safe).
3. **heid's live data REFUTED the docs hypothesis:** a later dispatch hit `completion_tokens: 18455` (ABOVE 16384) cleanly, with `reasoning_tokens: 16198` (just under 16384) and content present. So COMPLETION is uncapped; the bound is on **REASONING at ~16384**. When a hard task's thinking exhausts that budget, nothing's left for content → empty answer under `stop`.
4. **I proved it on the wire** — ran heid's real 500KB failing bundle direct at both endpoints (bypassing LiteLLM so `reasoning_effort` isn't dropped): default effort → 504/timeout (the failure); **`reasoning_effort: low` → reasoning ~1213.5k (under the ceiling), content returns (67.6k chars)**, on BOTH coding AND general endpoints. So re-routing to the general endpoint buys nothing — the fix is the effort param, and it works on the wire.
**THE FIX (caller-side, no shared-gateway change/restart):** send `reasoning_effort` via **`extra_body`** on kimi-k3 dispatches (`low` for large bundles). LiteLLM `drop_params: true` strips the top-level `reasoning_effort` — which is exactly why heid's earlier `reasoning_effort: low` was a no-op. `extra_body` survives drop_params (the house GLM-thinking pattern). Tradeoff: low effort = shallower reasoning, but a complete answer beats today's empty one.
**Relayed to heid to validate on a real round** (the one unconfirmed hop is whether `extra_body` survives OUR LiteLLM). **Backstop if it doesn't:** add `allowed_openai_params: ["reasoning_effort"]` to the `kimi-k3` route in the gateway config — that IS a shared-gateway change + a ~10s restart (blips all consumers), so it needs a heads-up.
Gateway = LiteLLM on ana-docker `10.250.50.70:4000`; kimi-k3 config in `stacks/litellm/conf/config.yaml` (see Recent-decisions `[2026-07-25]` Kimi K3 wiring). No gateway change was made this session. Failing dispatch on record: `01KYTASKTY3T` (jackdaw-dev bug-hunt).
_Archived 2026-08-19._
- `[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.
_Archived 2026-08-19._
## Tried and abandoned (archived 2026-08-19 batch)
- `[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.
_Archived 2026-08-19._
- `[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.
_Archived 2026-08-19._
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`[2026-07-31]` **kimi-k3 "output cap" root-caused = a ~16384 REASONING-token ceiling, not an output cap; fix relayed to heid, NOT applied gateway-side.**
heid reported that `kimi-k3` (the primary route = Kimi Code coding endpoint `openai/k3` @ `api.kimi.com/coding/v1`) silently degraded its cross-frontier panel: on large/reasoning-heavy dispatches, `completion_tokens: 16381` **exactly**, `content` empty, `reasoning_content` ~64KB, `finish_reason: **stop**` (a truncation mislabeled as a clean stop). `max_tokens: 100000` in the request was not honored.
**Investigation arc (a clean cross-frontier-triage + verify-on-the-wire case):**
1. My first read: a flat ~16384 OUTPUT cap; fix = a LiteLLM `stop→length` relabel callback (heid's fallback ask). Confirmed the cap isn't in our LiteLLM config (no `max_tokens` clamp on the route).
2. Operator routed a fix-research pass to **dvalin-smithy-dev + bil-smithy-dev** (independent). Both CONVERGED (docs-based): `max_tokens` is a deprecated alias on Kimi/Moonshot; the canonical field is `max_completion_tokens` (default 131072, max 1M); the coding endpoint defaults output to 16384; fix = send `max_completion_tokens` + `reasoning_effort` via `extra_body` (drop_params-safe).
3. **heid's live data REFUTED the docs hypothesis:** a later dispatch hit `completion_tokens: 18455` (ABOVE 16384) cleanly, with `reasoning_tokens: 16198` (just under 16384) and content present. So COMPLETION is uncapped; the bound is on **REASONING at ~16384**. When a hard task's thinking exhausts that budget, nothing's left for content → empty answer under `stop`.
4. **I proved it on the wire** — ran heid's real 500KB failing bundle direct at both endpoints (bypassing LiteLLM so `reasoning_effort` isn't dropped): default effort → 504/timeout (the failure); **`reasoning_effort: low` → reasoning ~1213.5k (under the ceiling), content returns (67.6k chars)**, on BOTH coding AND general endpoints. So re-routing to the general endpoint buys nothing — the fix is the effort param, and it works on the wire.
**THE FIX (caller-side, no shared-gateway change/restart):** send `reasoning_effort` via **`extra_body`** on kimi-k3 dispatches (`low` for large bundles). LiteLLM `drop_params: true` strips the top-level `reasoning_effort` — which is exactly why heid's earlier `reasoning_effort: low` was a no-op. `extra_body` survives drop_params (the house GLM-thinking pattern). Tradeoff: low effort = shallower reasoning, but a complete answer beats today's empty one.
**Relayed to heid to validate on a real round** (the one unconfirmed hop is whether `extra_body` survives OUR LiteLLM). **Backstop if it doesn't:** add `allowed_openai_params: ["reasoning_effort"]` to the `kimi-k3` route in the gateway config — that IS a shared-gateway change + a ~10s restart (blips all consumers), so it needs a heads-up.
Gateway = LiteLLM on ana-docker `10.250.50.70:4000`; kimi-k3 config in `stacks/litellm/conf/config.yaml` (see Recent-decisions `[2026-07-25]` Kimi K3 wiring). No gateway change was made this session. Failing dispatch on record: `01KYTASKTY3T` (jackdaw-dev bug-hunt).
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# `[2026-08-19]` Fleet `.internal` DNS — git-sourced, agent-managed, three resolvers
Operator: *"with ipv6 i can't memorize the IP addresses anymore. need a way to
keep track of local .internal dns names that can be agent managed and is
lightweight."* Built and live in one session; commit `b8003c7`.
## Shape
```
dns/internal.yaml source of truth — 38 hosts + 4 service aliases
scripts/dns-sync.py reconciles AdGuard resolvers against it
stacks/adguard-ana/ the colo's resolver, which did not exist
dns/README.md workflow, naming, the IPv6 caveat
```
Deliberately the same posture as `deploy-stack.sh`: the file is intent, the
resolvers are derived state, you see a diff before anything changes.
`--dry-run` / `--yes` / `--site <s>`. Verified idempotent — a second run prints
`nothing to do`.
Naming is `<host>.<site>.internal` with sites **`ana` / `esh` / `nh3`**
(operator's call). `.internal` is ICANN-reserved for private use since 2024;
`.local` is reserved for mDNS, which is why the pre-existing
`searxng.pfi.local` was a standards collision that merely happened to work.
Every name is published to **every** resolver — the site label says where a
host *is*, not which resolver knows about it.
## The framing correction that mattered most
The ask reads as "I can't memorise v6 addresses", but the deeper problem is
that **v6 addresses are derived, not assigned**, so they cannot reliably be
*written down once* either. SLAAC gives EUI-64 (MAC-coupled) or
privacy-extension (rotating) addresses, and UniFi has **no v6 equivalent of a
DHCP reservation** — so a hand-maintained v6 table rots on its own.
⇒ The fix has two halves and only the second is DNS: (1) pin static v6 on
server-class hosts, (2) then the name table is just a file. Surfaced to the
operator before building.
**Verified 2026-08-19: no fleet host has a global v6 address at all yet**
ESH's `/56` is live only on `esh-cameras`, NH3's LANs are back to
`ipv6_interface_type: none`, the colo has none. So the `v6:` column ships
EMPTY and correct, and the naming layer was built first rather than blocking
on v6. Names established now need no renaming when addresses land.
Suggested convention when they do (awaiting operator): each server static at
its site's `/64` with low-order bits echoing the v4 host octet —
`esh-docker-vm` at `…::45` — so addresses are declarable *and* semi-memorable.
## Two properties not to break
**Authority is scoped to the ZONE, not the resolver.** Only rewrites ending in
`.internal` are managed. ESH's resolver turned out to carry three hand-made
`esteban.net` rewrites (`eshnas`, `brotherprinter`, `eshhome`) — **my first
read of the config missed them**, because an `awk` range on `rewrites:` matched
an empty-looking block. A resolver-wide authoritative sync would have silently
deleted all three on first run. Verified intact after sync.
**Within `.internal` it IS authoritative** — names added by hand in the AdGuard
UI get deleted by the next sync. That is the point: one place to look.
## The colo had no resolver at all
ESH and NH3 each ran AdGuard; **ana-docker resolved straight against
`1.1.1.1`**, so the colo had no way to answer for internal names. Closed with
`stacks/adguard-ana/`.
⚠️ Its API is on **8053**, not 8080 — `:8080` and `:3000` were already taken on
that busy host. The port is therefore carried **per-site in the yaml**, not
assumed by the script, so the odd one out cannot be forgotten.
⚠️ It ships with **no blocklists**, deliberately. The other two filter ads for
human browsing; this one resolves for a rack of servers, where a blocklist
false-positive breaks service-to-service calls at 3am for no upside.
First boot uses a **seed config** (`conf/AdGuardHome.seed.yaml`) copied into
the conf volume before first start, so the container comes up configured
instead of sitting in the setup wizard.
## Credential — service account, not the operator's
Added a dedicated **`infra-ops`** AdGuard user to all three resolvers rather
than asking for the `lkraven` password (per the standing migrate-off-operator-
creds directive). Password vaulted at
`nh3-dev/adguard-infra-ops-password`; `lkraven` untouched; pre-change configs
backed up on each host as `AdGuardHome.yaml.bak-preinfraops-*`. Both existing
resolvers kept answering across the restart.
Two landmines worth keeping:
- **Go's bcrypt rejects `htpasswd`'s `$2y$` prefix.** Same algorithm, different
marker; `golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt` accepts only `$2a$`/`$2b$`. Normalise
the prefix, and self-verify the hash with `htpasswd -vb` BEFORE installing it
on a live resolver.
- **The vault appends a trailing newline on `get`.** A password carrying a
stray `\n` fails auth in a way that looks exactly like a wrong password.
`dns-sync.py` strips it.
## `pfi.local` migration — and the one that must NOT move
`searxng.pfi.local``searxng.ana.internal`, with the **old `Host()` kept
alongside** in the Traefik rule so nothing breaks mid-migration; both return
200. Drop the fallback once the access log shows the old name unused.
**`matrix.pfi.local` deliberately NOT migrated.** A Matrix `server_name` is
baked into every user ID, room ID and signing key, and federation identity
derives from it — renaming it is not a DNS change, it is rebuilding the
homeserver's identity and invalidating its history. The operator approved
"migrate pfi.local" generally; this was surfaced as a deliberate exclusion
rather than executed blindly.
## Still open
Colo hosts still point at `1.1.1.1`, so they do not yet *use* the new resolver
— it only answers what asks it directly. Repointing a whole site's DNS is a
bigger change than standing the service up, and is the operator's to schedule.
See also [[2026-08-17-fleet-ipv6-mesh]].
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# `[2026-08-19]` Homepage cleaned up, then themed with Australis Skyfall + an Arbo-generated background
Commits `9d92c4b`, `c3de7db`, `45c1995`, `f38cf69`, `df68dd2`.
## The cleanup (three real defects)
- **UltraSeedbox rendered on all four tabs.** The bookmark group had no entry in
`settings.yaml`'s `layout:` block at all, and Homepage's documented behaviour
is that a group with no `tab:` is shown on **every** tab. Pinned to Main.
⚠️ This will happen again to the next group added without a `tab:` — the rule
is now written at the top of the layout block.
- **Uptime Kuma rendered twice** — a manual `services.yaml` entry under
Monitoring *and* `homepage.group=Apps` on the container. Exactly the
"never list a labelled container manually" failure the stack README warns
about; it survived the previous day's audit because a duplicate reads as two
plausible cards rather than as an error. Manual block deleted, label moved to
`Monitoring`, `homepage.siteMonitor` added.
- **Column counts were fiction** — several groups declared more columns than
they had members, so the last row of each was dead space (Notes: 1 card in a
4-wide row). Columns now track member counts; `GET /api/services` prints the
live per-group counts and is the check.
Later, on operator instruction, the **AI tab was reordered by clickability**:
Gateways & Chat → Image & Media → Audio Tools on top, then the vLLM `/docs`
seats and TTS endpoints. Reasoning written into the config so it survives:
order by "would I click this?", not by how central the service is.
## ⚠️ The expensive red herring — the tab bar after a recreate
After a recreate the client render comes up with **no tab bar, no wallpaper and
no i18n** (search box shows the raw key `search.search`), groups falling back to
side-by-side columns. **It restores itself with no intervention.**
Timing, measured rather than assumed: a fresh container was still tab-less at
**4m30s, twice**; it was healthy again after roughly an hour. `docker ps`
reporting `healthy` says nothing about it — the container is serving, the page
is just wrong.
An hour went into ruling out four causes that were never the cause:
1. **Not the config** — restoring `settings.yaml` *and* `services.yaml` to
their committed versions reproduces it, as does the pre-adoption backup in
`/opt/docker-bu/conf/homepage/`.
2. **Not the v2.0.0 release** — a throwaway container on `v1.13.2` shows
identical symptoms, and the image never changed anyway (working and broken
both report `v2.0.0` / rev `17456f2`).
3. **Not `PUID`/`PGID`**, and not Docker discovery — tested both, and with the
socket unmounted entirely.
4. **Not server-side** — the server-rendered HTML still contains the tab
markup, the background URL and `useEqualHeights`; `GET /api/validate`
returns `[]`. The loss is client-side, with no page error, no failed chunk
and no non-200.
Every throwaway container in that list was judged within ~30s of starting, so
they were all inside the same window — and that consistency **read as a
reproduction when it was the same measurement mistake five times over.**
**Operative rule: recreate, walk away, re-check later. Do not chase it.**
## ⚠️ The iteration loop that would have prevented the overcook
`custom.css` is served **per request** from `/api/config/custom.css`, so a CSS
change needs a **browser reload** — not a container recreate, and it never owed
the layout warm-up above. Conflating the two costs ~10 operator-visible minutes
per attempt (operator called this out directly).
Faster still, and how the final pass was done: **inject candidate CSS into the
running page and screenshot it** —
`await p.addStyleTag({content: css})` in Playwright against the live
dashboard. Seconds per iteration, no deploy. Build + deploy only once the
render looks right.
## The theme — Australis Skyfall
Operator supplied a Claude Design handoff bundle via the Booth (`26-copper`).
Skyfall is a dual-theme OKLCH system: one lightness law across every chromatic
family (deep 0.48 / base 0.66 / bright 0.80), all hues cooler than neutral, a
Sea neutral ramp drifting ice-blue→ocean-green as it brightens, and a
"calm depth" language of **hairline + two-layer shadow on every elevated
surface, never one without the other**.
```
theme/colors.css layout.css typography.css vendored VERBATIM from the bundle
theme/fonts/Supreme-{400,500,700}.woff2 the body/UI face
theme/skyfall.css.in the Homepage bindings (ours)
theme/build.py → conf/custom.css (generated — do not hand-edit)
```
The build step exists for one reason: **Homepage serves only `custom.css` and
`custom.js` out of its config dir**, with no static route beside them, so a
`@font-face` pointing at a vendored `.woff2` would 404 — the face must arrive
as a data URI. The background image takes the other road, because
`/app/public/images` **is** a real static route (mounted read-only in
`compose.yaml`).
Only Supreme is embedded: a link dashboard has no display type, and Victor
Mono ships as 2.4 MB TTF statics per cut — 30x the whole stylesheet for a
handful of latency figures.
## The background is generated, not stock
**Arbo as an image-gen engine** (the operator's actual ask, which I first
misread as "use Arbo's palette" and had to redo). Arbo's `t2i-ui-background`
workflow is purpose-built: *"abstract full-bleed backgrounds, no subject"*.
Job `13f0891f4e42`, seed 26, flux2-klein-9b, 2048×1152, 1.6 MB PNG → **22 KB
WebP** (smooth gradients compress absurdly well).
⚠️ Arbo API gotcha: `prompt` is a **discriminated union, not a string** — a
bare string 422s. `{"kind":"raw","text":…,"negative":…}` is the shape.
## Two documented deviations from the design system
1. **Skyfall forbids this background.** Its rule is "flat semantic surfaces; no
photography, no textures", with one permitted motif — a subtle aurora
gradient on hero/empty-state areas only, *"never behind body text blocks"*.
A dashboard is a body-text block. Present on the operator's explicit
instruction, mitigated rather than excused: abstract, no subject, strictly
cool temperature, held at **`opacity: 30`**. That number is load-bearing —
at 14 the aurora was invisible, and turning it up makes the cards fight the
ribbon.
2. **Service icons stay full-colour vendor logos.** Desaturating them from CSS
only makes them illegible.
## Overcorrection, and the colour pass
First stat-well pass went from `font-thin` 13px straight to **bold 22px in
heading white** — operator: *"went from subtle to BASH YOU OVER THE HEAD."*
The principle missed: a stat only has to out-rank **its own label**, not the
service name above it. Now `--text-md` medium in cyan.
Colour was then lifted **from inside the system**: Skyfall names Aurora (blue,
cyan, green) the *primary* families, "used generously, in that order", while
Dawn (amber/red/violet) is semantic-only. So group markers cycle
blue→cyan→green down the page (icons full strength, names at 0.72), service
icons take a single cool wash, latency tags move to the info family so
"how fast" stops looking like "is it alive". **No Dawn colour is used
decoratively anywhere.**
Two DOM findings that made it possible:
- **Homepage renders mdi icons as a gradient behind an SVG mask** — recolour
via `background`, not `color`.
- **Homepage emits `docker-status-<state>`, not `status-<state>`.** The
original selectors matched nothing, so every green pill up to that point was
stock colouring rather than the theme. Both forms are now matched.
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# `[2026-08-19]` Four unmanaged stacks found on live hosts — and two of them were quietly broken
Commits `42c594c`, `dc3e47b`, plus `uptimekuma` in `9d92c4b`.
## The pattern worth remembering
Chasing two bad-looking cards on the dashboard turned up **four stacks running
on fleet hosts with no canonical copy anywhere**: `uptimekuma` and (already
known) the two AdGuards on esh-docker-vm, `searxng` and `seafile` on
ana-docker, and `heretic2-charrp-reasoning` on ana-ml2 (untracked in git).
**A dashboard card is a cheap census of what is actually running.** When
something on it looks wrong, check whether the stack behind it is even in
`stacks/` before debugging the symptom — twice here the answer was "no", and
the fix belonged in version control as much as on the host.
Adopted: `stacks/uptimekuma/`, `stacks/searxng/`, `stacks/seafile/`,
`stacks/heretic2-charrp-reasoning/`. ESH/NH3 AdGuard compose files were
**deliberately left unmanaged** — adopting three live resolvers while also
introducing a new DNS naming system is two risky changes at once.
## SearXNG — the healthcheck was eating itself
Card flapped UNHEALTHY; the container was fine the whole time. The compose
passed `--tries` and `--spider` as **two separate argv entries**, so wget
consumed `--spider` as the *value* of `--tries`. Spider mode never engaged,
which means every probe since April **downloaded** the healthz response to a
file:
```
295,287 healthz.N files in the container's working directory
```
With that many files, wget's scan for the next free filename is what
intermittently blew the 10s timeout. **Self-worsening — every probe made the
next one slower.** Restored `--tries=1`; the junk lived in the writable layer
so the recreate cleared it. Now `healthy`, `fails=0`, 200 in 0.16s.
Lesson: an argv list in YAML has no shell to catch a missing `=`. A flag that
silently swallows the next argument turns a liveness probe into a workload.
## SeaFile — not broken, never restarted
Card showed EXITED for three months. **None of the three services declared a
restart policy**, so Docker defaulted them to `no`. On
**2026-05-06T21:27:45Z** the daemon stopped all three within 200ms of each
other — a daemon restart or host reboot — and nothing brought them back.
⚠️ **Exit code `255` is a red herring**: it is what a container that ignores
SIGTERM reports when the daemon stops it, **not** evidence of a crash. Reading
it as one sends you hunting a bug that does not exist. The tell was all three
services stopping within 200ms.
Added `restart: unless-stopped` to all three; brought up; mariadb gated on its
healthcheck exactly as the existing `depends_on` comments intended, seahub
started without the race, `302` → login page. Data was in local named volumes,
not on the ana-nas NFS, so nothing was at risk.
Three months of silent downtime whose only signal was a card nobody read as an
outage — the argument for semantic status colour on the dashboard (see
[[2026-08-19-homepage-skyfall-theme]], where amber EXITED pills made six
mis-grouped AI seats obvious at a glance).
## heretic2-charrp-reasoning — tracked, with its shim
The `char-rp-reasoning` seat (NEO-CODE Heretic2 27B, modelopt NVFP4 + grafted
BF16 MTP head, ~77 tok/s via `qwen3_5_mtp` spec-decode) had been running
untracked. Now in `stacks/`, including
`conf/mtp-workaround/sitecustomize.py`, which is **not optional**: vLLM 0.24.0
does not propagate modelopt `exclude_modules` to the spec-decode **draft**
model, so the BF16 MTP head gets quantized and the engine dies at load. Both
the mount and `PYTHONPATH` are load-bearing.
Added the two files house convention expects and the directory lacked — a
`.env.example` naming every knob (all values are compose defaults; the host
overrides only the three VRAM ones) and a README pointing at
`docs/runbooks/heretic2-nvfp4-mtp-seat.md` rather than duplicating it.
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
# `[2026-08-19]` waterland studio containerised on irv-ml1 — three landmines, all measured
Handover from `waterland-dev` over althing (thread `01M0CDRGEZWAJCEJXXMQWXV80F`):
a FastAPI + SPA GPU service fronting the `waterland` CLI, running as a bare
`nohup` (PID 1283383) that would not survive a reboot. Now
`stacks/waterland-studio/`, `restart: unless-stopped`, healthy on
irv-ml1:8410. Commits `a2b5b58`, `8189076`.
Tracking `main` per operator: PR #4 merged and `main` HEAD is exactly the
pinned `8025366`, so tracking-a-moving-ref and keeping-the-pin agreed anyway.
## Build context lives OUTSIDE the compose dir — on purpose
`/opt/waterland-studio/src` is the checkout; the Dockerfile is passed
out-of-context from `/opt/docker/compose/waterland-studio/`. **`deploy-stack.sh`
rsyncs `stacks/<stack>/` with `--delete`**, so a checkout kept beside
`compose.yaml` would be destroyed by the next deploy of this stack. `update.sh`
refreshes source → rebuild → recreate → health, and is verified end to end.
## Landmine 1 — both uv extras are load-bearing at BUILD *and* RUN
`gpu` carries `cupy-cuda12x`; a bare `uv sync` prunes it and the renderer
silently drops to the numpy path at ~21x wall time — it does not error, it
just gets slow. waterland-dev warned about the build side.
The runtime side is worse and was not in the handover: **`studio/jobs.py`
shells the renderer out as a literal `uv run waterland ...` with no `--extra`
flags** (`cwd=WATERLAND_STUDIO_REPO`). Left alone, uv re-syncs the project
mid-job to its default extras and prunes cupy back out from under a correctly
built venv. Pinned with `UV_NO_SYNC=1`; `UV_OFFLINE=1` alongside so that if the
pin ever stops holding the job fails **loudly** instead of quietly rebuilding a
slower environment.
## Landmine 2 — cupy needs CUDA HEADERS, which the host never had to declare
Every render died 1.7s in with:
```
RuntimeError: Failed to find CUDA headers.
```
printed **through argparse's usage banner**, which makes it read like a CLI
argument bug rather than a missing toolkit. That misdirection is the reason
this is written down.
cupy compiles kernels at runtime through NVRTC, which needs the toolkit
**headers** — not just the driver and the runtime libs bundled in the
`cupy-cuda12x` wheel. irv-ml1 has a CUDA toolkit installed system-wide, so the
bare `nohup` process found them **by accident**; a slim image has none.
Fixed with `uv pip install "cupy-cuda12x[ctk]"` — headers as wheels, a few
hundred MB against ~6 GB for a `-devel` base image. It runs **after**
`uv sync`, because sync prunes what it does not know about.
Reported upstream: it is an undeclared runtime dependency of the `gpu` extra,
and anyone running this without a system toolkit hits it.
## Landmine 3 — the GPU index inside the container is not the host's
The app pins `CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID` and selects
`CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET` (default `1`, correct on the host, where
`nvidia-smi` shows A6000 at 1). Compose exposes **exactly one** GPU
(`device_ids: ["1"]`, the A6000 in Docker's ordering), so **inside** the
container that card is index **0**`CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_TARGET=0`. Copying
the host's value selects a device that does not exist. Host device 0 is the
3090, which carries the TTS zoo and must not be touched.
## Cold start is ~17s of NVRTC compile → `/root/.cupy` is a volume
| job | wall |
|---|---|
| 256² + anim, cold container | 23.3 s |
| 256² + anim, warm | **6.1 s** |
| 256² plate only (`--codec none`) | 3.9 s |
| 512² plate only | 6.4 s |
Warm beats the **7.4 s** recorded against the bare-metal process, so
containerising cost nothing. Verified the cache volume properly: recreate
(fresh cache → 23.2 s first render) then restart (populated → 6.0 s). Without
it every restart makes the next user wait 4x and the service merely *looks*
slow.
## Upstream finding — the on-disk job store grows without bound
`JobStore._jobs` is a plain dict and **nothing scans `WATERLAND_STUDIO_DATA` at
startup**. Consequences:
1. After a restart `/api/jobs` lists only jobs created since — cosmetic, and
how this was spotted: the API reported **1 job** while the volume held all
**16 directories, 60.6 MB**. Not data loss.
2. The real one: `RETAIN = 40` eviction only ever iterates the in-memory dict,
so directories orphaned by a restart are **never reclaimed**. The
handover's "bounded around 500 MB" holds within a single process lifetime;
across restarts the store grows monotonically at ~12 MB per animated job.
Reported to waterland-dev with evidence; **not patched from the infra side**
it is their code. Prune the volume by hand if it bites first.
## Access
Repo is not anonymously readable (a bare clone 403s). Operator granted
**`claude-bot` read on `vh/waterland`** — verified `admin: False, push: False,
pull: True`. Token on irv-ml1 at
`/root/.config/waterland-studio/git-credentials`, `0600` root-owned, wired as a
**repo-scoped** credential helper; `.git/config` carries no token (verified),
so the remote stays clean in any diff or backup. The operator's `vh`
site-admin token was used only for the initial clone and the grant itself and
was **never written to disk on that host** — a site-admin credential on a GPU
box is a blast radius nobody needs for a read-only fetch.
## Constraints honoured as stated (not inferred)
- **Serial by design — one replica, one card.** A render is 2045s of near-full
GPU with a single worker thread. Two on the same A6000 would OOM or thrash.
Throughput is a hardware conversation, not a replica-count one.
- **No authentication, arbitrary file uploads** ⇒ stays inside the
LAN/WireGuard boundary. Do **not** paper over it with a proxy password;
waterland-dev offered to add a real auth layer if wider reach is ever needed.
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## Current state / in-flight
_As of 2026-08-19 — **ESH fiber (Cityside 2Gb symmetric) is LIVE and the site is fully provisioned on it**; `esh-pve-nas` finished its ZFS-root migration AND took its 225-package backlog (reboot deferred); `ESH↔colo` IPsec rebuilt as dialup+NAT-T after CGNAT broke it; ESH has a `/56` of IPv6. Operator is moving to **Lobe Chat** work next — nothing from this session blocks it. ⚠ This session caused ONE self-inflicted outage (missing `--make-rslave`, see ops-lessons-playbook §1) and three long-dead things surfaced on their own (pvestatd 82d, a vzdump 126d, a VM in prelaunch 4mo)._
_As of 2026-08-19 (late) — a long infra session, all of it landed and committed: **fleet `*.internal` DNS is live** (git-sourced, 42 names, three resolvers incl. a NEW colo one), **waterland studio containerised** on irv-ml1, **Homepage cleaned up and themed** with Australis Skyfall + an Arbo-generated background, and **four unmanaged stacks adopted** into `stacks/` (two of which turned out to be quietly broken — SearXNG's healthcheck, SeaFile down 3 months). ⚠ 17 commits unpushed. ⚠ 2 unread althing messages from waterland-dev left deliberately undrained — operator deferred the inbox to after the `/clear`._
- **🟢 FLEET `.internal` DNS — LIVE 2026-08-19.** `<host>.<site>.internal`, sites `ana`/`esh`/`nh3`. `dns/internal.yaml` is the source of truth; `scripts/dns-sync.py` reconciles the three AdGuard resolvers (diff → prompt → apply, idempotent). 42 names resolving from all three sites. **Colo got its first resolver ever** (`stacks/adguard-ana/`, API on **8053** not 8080, no blocklists by design) — before this, ana-docker resolved straight against `1.1.1.1`. Auth = a dedicated `infra-ops` AdGuard user, password vaulted `nh3-dev/adguard-infra-ops-password`. **⏳ TWO OPEN, both operator's to schedule:** (a) colo hosts still point at `1.1.1.1` so they do not yet *use* the new resolver — repointing a site's DNS is a separate change; (b) the static-v6 convention (each server at its site's `/64` with low bits echoing the v4 octet, `esh-docker-vm``…::45`) is **proposed, not ruled on**. The `v6:` column is empty and correct — no fleet host has a global v6 address yet. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-fleet-internal-dns.md`
- **🟢 WATERLAND STUDIO — containerised + live, irv-ml1:8410.** Displaced a bare `nohup` (PID 1283383). Warm 256²+anim render **6.1s**, beating the 7.4s bare-metal figure. `claude-bot` now has **read** on `vh/waterland` (operator-granted); token on irv-ml1 root-owned 0600, repo-scoped helper, nothing in `.git/config`. **⏳ Reported upstream, NOT patched by us:** the on-disk job store grows without bound across restarts (`RETAIN=40` eviction only sees the in-memory dict). → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-waterland-studio-containerised.md`
- **🟢 HOMEPAGE — cleaned + themed (Australis Skyfall).** Three real defects fixed (UltraSeedbox on all tabs, Uptime Kuma double-rendered, fiction column counts), AI tab reordered by clickability, then themed from the operator's Skyfall handoff bundle with a background generated by **Arbo** (`t2i-ui-background`, job `13f0891f4e42`). ⚠ **After any recreate the tab bar/wallpaper/i18n vanish for up to ~an hour and then return on their own — do not chase it.** ⚠ CSS is served per-request: a theme change needs a **reload**, not a recreate, and candidate CSS can be injected live via Playwright for seconds-long iteration. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-homepage-skyfall-theme.md`
- **🟢 GEN SEAT — SWAPPED to `absolute-heresy` 2026-08-17 (validated, promoted).** Live gen = `/tank/aimodels/qwen38-27b-heresy-nvfp4-mixed`**MuXodious/Qwen3.8-27B-absolute-heresy** (Heretic v1.4.0 + **SOMPOA**, trial T377, pin `c2374593`) put through our own mixed NVFP4+FP8 recipe. Chosen because it beats the incumbent on **both** axes at once: author refusals 2/101 vs 12/100, first-token KL 0.0759 vs 0.1191. **Gate (probe :8017, pinned nightly, seat-matched flags): MTP 47.2% (inc. 48.2%), decode 103.5 tok/s (96.4), prefill 6618/5403 @6.7k/27k (6334/5085), PPL 6.910 (7.059 — 2.1% BETTER), surface 6/6, abliteration 4/4, and 0/55 refusals on our battery-instruct arm with ZERO EMPTY (no catatonia).** ⚠ speed deltas are **image-confounded** (probe on the pinned nightly, incumbent numbers from an earlier image) — read as "not worse", not a clean win. All 7 LiteLLM aliases verified end-to-end; GPU0 at 91.3/97.9 GB with meromero healthy (more headroom than the old build's 96.8). ⚠ **RC1, 2 days old, ~348 downloads.** **Operator-confirmed "working very well" in real use 2026-08-17**, same evening as the cutover — the signal the synthetic gates structurally cannot give (multi-turn degeneration is stochastic; four synthetic tests once validated three non-fixes). Not yet the 60k-token bar the prior seat cleared, so **keep watching and do NOT delete the rollback weights yet**. **ROLLBACK:** `sudo cp /opt/docker/compose/gen-seat/.env.bak-heresy-20260817 /opt/docker/compose/gen-seat/.env && cd /opt/docker/compose/gen-seat && sudo docker compose up -d vllm-gen`; incumbent weights UNTOUCHED at `qwen38-27b-uncensored-nvfp4-mixed`**do NOT delete** until this holds. Runbook `services/gen-seat-mixed-quant/RUNBOOK-heresy-swap.md`.
@@ -154,10 +160,22 @@ _As of 2026-08-19 — **ESH fiber (Cityside 2Gb symmetric) is LIVE and the site
- **althing monitor** ARMED (handle `infra-ops`). ⚠️ Re-arm ONLY after a real FIRE (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 — hit this twice 2026-08-17, `stop-monitor` reclaims).
- **eshpfi push state:** operator pushes **manually**; last push `50d13f5..8be8a51`. ⚠ **7 commits unpushed as of 2026-08-19** (`707a8cb`..this snapshot) — all docs/memory from the v6 investigation. Push over the INTERNAL gitea route: `git push ssh://git@10.250.50.70:222/vh/esh-pfi-infrastructure.git main:main` (`origin` resolves the public edge which fail2bans fleet-host egress, and stays stale locally as a result). `graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md` churns every commit (ignore); `stacks/heretic2-charrp-reasoning/` UNTRACKED.
- **eshpfi push state:** operator pushes **manually**; last push `50d13f5..8be8a51`. ⚠ **17 commits unpushed as of 2026-08-19** (`707a8cb`..`b8003c7`, plus this snapshot commit) — nothing is on the remote from this session.
## Recent decisions
- `[2026-08-19]` **Fleet `.internal` DNS built and live — git-sourced, agent-managed, three resolvers.** Zone-scoped authority (ESH's hand-made `esteban.net` rewrites survive); the colo had no resolver at all; v6 column empty on purpose because SLAAC addresses rotate. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-fleet-internal-dns.md`
- `[2026-08-19]` **waterland studio containerised on irv-ml1 — three landmines, all measured.** cupy needs CUDA *headers* the host had by accident; `uv run` re-syncs and prunes cupy at RUNTIME; the A6000 is container-index 0, not the host's 1. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-waterland-studio-containerised.md`
- `[2026-08-19]` **Homepage cleaned up, then themed with Australis Skyfall + an Arbo-generated background.** Includes the hour lost to a self-healing tab-bar red herring, and the CSS-iteration loop that prevents it recurring. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-homepage-skyfall-theme.md`
- `[2026-08-19]` **Four unmanaged stacks found on live hosts — two quietly broken.** A dashboard card is a cheap census of what is actually running; check whether the stack is even in `stacks/` before debugging the symptom. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-19-unmanaged-stacks-searxng-seafile.md`
- `[2026-08-19]` **`claude-bot` granted read on `vh/waterland`** (operator-empowered, verified `admin:false push:false pull:true`) so irv-ml1 can self-update without the operator's site-admin token living on a GPU box. Precedent for the standing migrate-off-operator-creds directive: grant the service account, wire a repo-scoped 0600 credential helper, keep the remote URL clean. Commit `8189076`.
- `[2026-08-19]` **AI-tab Dormant regrouping BELAYED by the operator** — six seats (char-rp Magidonia, char-rp-reasoning Heretic2, Granite summarizer, Qwen-Image-Bench, Skaldsong, Chatterbox Fast) show amber EXITED inside live groups rather than `AI - Dormant`. Fix is a label change + recreate per stack; needs the operator's read on which are retired vs temporarily down. `untracked by operator choice` (his words: "belay the ai dormant regrouping for now").
- `[2026-08-18]` **esh-pve-nas migration STAGED — and staging is where three landmines surfaced, none of which the plan predicted.** (1) The runbook's `/boot` LV had **nowhere to live**: VG `pve` had 4 MB free and mounted ext4 cannot shrink, so the space came from the 768 MB swap LV (operator's call: shrink to 256 MB, not drop). (2) The runbook's `zpool set cachefile=… nvme` would have **broken the NAS** — populating a cache flips the host to import-by-cache, and a one-pool cache leaves `ssd`+`tank` unimported under CT 103's twelve bind mounts. (3) **`update-grub` silently emitted a pool-less `root=ZFS=/ROOT/pve-1`**, because GRUB's ZFS reader cannot open a pool with `encryption`/`large_dnode`/`zstd_compress` and the probe failure is swallowed. All three were caught by *verify steps that asserted effective state*, not by reading the plan. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-17-esh-pve-nas-dom.md`
- `[2026-08-17]` **esh-pve-nas PVE root is on a USB DOM — mitigated, and the migration replanned to split boot from root.** Operator's design beats my reinstall plan; wear was never the issue, blocked patching is. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-17-esh-pve-nas-dom.md`
@@ -271,15 +289,11 @@ _As of 2026-08-19 — **ESH fiber (Cityside 2Gb symmetric) is LIVE and the site
- `[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`.
- `[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`
- `[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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## Tried and abandoned
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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.)
- `[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.
- `[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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- `[2026-07-25]` **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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