memory: snapshot — FV recovered, fv-ml1 seat reorg, gen-large blocked on orca runtime

FV colo recovered 2026-09-13 midday (chassis on PDU, firewall on the Eaton 5P1000,
GPU caps 275W/card). All-night fv-ml1 seat reorganization:

- flash-next gained MTP k=3 (campaign measured it a win here, +52% at conc=1),
  inverting vLLM's 4xH100 recipe; KV 14->10 GiB.
- gen consolidated onto flash-next (all 8 gen/summarizer/classifier/judge aliases
  repointed); 27B dense gen seat retired, 38 GB freed on GPU0.
- char-rp restored to the in-house MeroMero-v2-31B dense heretic (was serving a
  leftover-test RedHatAI 26B); char-rp-fast is the deliberate speed tier.
- Sentinel-R3 (SFT pentest finetune) served for an A/B vs mog-sec, then dflash k=7
  cut over after measuring it beat MTP (2.40 vs 2.18 acceptance, ~121 tok/s warm).

gen-large is intentionally DOWN: the orcarouter weight-only NVFP4 build downloaded
(170 GB, verified) but no mainline vLLM loads its compressed-tensors qwen4_exp PLE;
the third-party backport was vetted and is unfit (old-hardware fork, no Blackwell
image). Runtime decision pending -- this is the resume point.

Also this session: vh/infra-reference repo, scripts/seat-inventory.py + daily drift
alarm, OPNsense API reference vendored, secrets shed from a prior scratchpad.

Leaves the fv-to-ana-nat files (another session's) and graphify-out untouched.
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# OPNsense API — vendored reference + field-shape notes
**Source:** <https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api.html> (fetched 2026-09-13)
**Why vendored:** the upstream page documents the REST conventions but explicitly
*not* parameter shapes — "the auto-generated API documentation captures endpoints
and HTTP methods but not all parameter details." Those shapes are where the time
goes, so the hard-won ones are recorded in § Field shapes below.
## Authentication
HTTP Basic auth: **key = username, secret = password**.
```sh
curl -s -u "$KEY:$SECRET" "http://<gw>/api/<module>/<controller>/<command>"
```
Fleet creds are vaulted: `fv-gateway/opnsense-api-key`, `fv-gateway/opnsense-api-secret`
(see `secret get`). Authorization is per-user **Effective Privileges** — a key only
reaches endpoints its owner is authorized for.
## Conventions
- **Endpoint pattern:** `/api/<module>/<controller>/<command>/[<param>/...]`
- **GET** retrieves; **POST** creates, updates, or executes an action.
- Request bodies and responses are `application/json`.
Search endpoints take a paging body and return a rows envelope:
```json
{"current":1,"rowCount":7,"sort":{},"searchPhrase":""}
```
```json
{"total":10,"rowCount":7,"current":1,
"rows":[{"id":"configd","locked":1,"running":1,"description":"System Configuration Daemon","name":"configd"}]}
```
## Service control
`/api/<module>/service/{status,start,stop,restart,reconfigure}` — `reconfigure`
writes config **and** applies it, which is normally the one you want after a
`settings/set`. Observed status values include `disabled`, `stopped`, `running`
— note **`disabled` ≠ `stopped`**: a disabled service will not start until its
model's `enabled` field is set to `"1"`.
## Field shapes — the part upstream does not document
⚠ **A `settings/get` response is NOT a valid `settings/set` body.** They are
different shapes, and mixing them returns a bare
`{"errorMessage":"Unexpected error, check log for details"}` with no indication
of which field was wrong.
**Selection / option fields.** `get` returns every option with a `selected` flag;
`set` wants only the selected key.
```jsonc
// get
"useExitNode": {"": {"value": "None", "selected": 1}, "abc": {"value":"node-a","selected":0}}
// set
"useExitNode": ""
```
**Array / list fields are UUID-keyed objects, not lists.** This is the one that
costs an afternoon. `get` renders an empty array as `[]`, which misleads you into
POSTing a list.
```jsonc
// get, when empty -> looks like a plain list
"subnets": {"subnet4": []}
// set -> object keyed by a UUID you generate, values are the item's own fields
"subnets": {"subnet4": {"<uuid4>": {"subnet": "10.251.0.0/16", "description": "..."}}}
```
**Discovering an array item's inner fields — two reliable tricks:**
1. POST the wrong shape on purpose. Validation names the full path:
`{"result":"failed","validations":{"settings.subnets.subnet4.<uuid>.subnet":"A value is required."}}`
2. Many models expose a template getter: `/api/<module>/settings/get_<item>`
returns the blank item, e.g. `get_subnet` → `{"subnet4":{"subnet":"","description":""}}`
**Partial `set` is supported** — POST only the fields you are changing rather than
round-tripping the whole model. This sidesteps every other field's shape problem
and is the recommended approach for a surgical change.
**Validation error format:** `{"result":"failed","validations":{"<dotted.path>":"<message>"}}`.
A successful save is `{"result":"saved"}`.
## Working example — enabling a subnet router (2026-09-13, FV gateway)
```jsonc
POST /api/tailscale/settings/set
{"settings":{"enabled":"1",
"subnets":{"subnet4":{"<uuid4>":{"subnet":"10.251.0.0/16",
"description":"FV site subnet router"}}}}}
POST /api/tailscale/service/reconfigure {}
```
**Always read back.** `settings/get` after the write, and re-check anything the
change could disturb (here: `/api/firewall/source_nat/search_rule` total stayed
at 2). A write that reports success is not evidence the value landed.
## Related
- `docs/runbooks/fv-to-ana-nat.md` — the FV gateway's manual SNAT rule
- `docs/runbooks/fv-site-dark-20260913.md` — the outage this reference came out of