comfy-dev's ask for Prime's arbo 'incognito' runs: incognito uploads and chained
images are written to /worktank/comfyui/basedir/input/incognito-* and swept after
a TTL. input/ is a backup source, so one alive at 01:00 would be kept for up to
3 years. Verified on irv-ml1: resticprofile show lists the exclude, and a restic
dry-run of input/ skips an incognito-* canary while keeping a control canary.
Verified 2026-10-06 for comfy-dev: the gateway keeps no request or response
content. A canary sent through 'gen' appears in none of SpendLogs' text columns,
LiteLLM's container log, any ana-docker container log, or flash-next's log
(positive controls hit on the same stores). In 24h, 0 of 281,432 spend rows
carried messages, response or proxy_server_request. Langfuse is retired, there
are no DB-stored callbacks, and LiteLLM_ErrorLogs is empty. The per-request
no-log flag skips third-party callbacks but not the proxy's own spend-log
callback (v1.97 source), so the guarantee is this setting. Comment-only change;
the live file was updated in place with no restart.
HF_HOME, TORCH_HOME and NLTK_DATA now point under /app/whisperx-env (the
/tank bind mount). Before, ~6 GB of models sat in the container layer and
every recreate threw them away. The cache was copied across (98/2/78 files,
apparent sizes identical).
HF_TOKEN is now a placeholder. Measured: with an invalid token, cached gated
pyannote models still load (huggingface_hub falls back to the cache on the 401),
and public models still download (HTTP 200). Scriberr only checks that the token
is non-empty. Re-verified on GPU 3: pyannote community-1 and WhisperX+3.1
diarization both exit 0 from the /tank cache with no downloads.
Scriberr: pyannote's diarization models are gated, and Scriberr had no Hugging
Face token, so every diarized job died at the diarize step (WhisperX after a full
CPU transcription). HF_TOKEN now passes through compose; the value is only in the
host .env (vault fv-ml1/hf-token). The separate pyannote env had torchcodec 0.16
(needs torch >=2.11/CUDA 13) beside torch 2.8, so pyannote 4 had no
AudioDecoder. Pinned to 0.7 by hand on the live env; patch 0003 makes it
durable at the next rebuild. WhisperX's adapter defaults to cpu/small/float32,
now documented. Both paths verified on GPU 3 with a real multi-speaker clip.
pbs-nh3: the backups-mirror prune job now keeps the primary's history
(last 3, daily 14, weekly 8, monthly 12, yearly 5). Dry-run: keep 738,
remove 3,194 across 32 groups; first run at the job's 00:00.
Image built from a clean archive of vh/albok 751a729 (tag albok-service/v0.1.12),
pushed as gitea.phasefinal.com/pfi/albok-service:0.1.12@sha256:a29a7e46...,
pinned by digest. Recreated between Nemi walks at 1254; healthy at 1254:48,
all four wings ready, canaries alive, write embedder agrees. Config unchanged.
Rollback: compose.yaml.pre-0.1.12 (0.1.11).
Three defects in one loop in ninety minutes, none visible by reading the
file, all caught by running it against known truth. The runbook's
tested-note now says what is actually tested (one positive control) and
what that implies for future edits.
PBS rewrites index.json.blob inside a snapshot directory at every verify
(the next 02:30, then every 30 days per verification.cfg outdated-after 30)
and on notes/protect edits, which moves the directory mtime forward.
Measured: ana-pve/vm/101's 2026-10-04T10:00:04Z snapshot read as 2026-10-06.
A covered guest whose backups stopped would have alarmed up to a day late,
then gone quiet for ~2 days after each monthly re-verify.
The age now comes from the snapshot name (its backup start time).
Verified: the default run exits 0 with 28 fresh PBS groups and vm/101 dated
2026-10-04. Positive control BACKUP_MAX_AGE_HOURS=5 flags 10 groups by name
age, exit 1.
A guest destroyed with 'qm destroy --purge' also drops out of the vzdump
job's exclude list, so its last snapshot silently ages into a false
🔴 once it passes the threshold (ana-pve/vm/110, destroyed 10-04, fired
this morning). Before reporting coverage, consult the owning cluster's
pvesh inventory: a guest the cluster no longer lists is reported in the
policy section as residue, never as stale. Inventory unreadable fails
loud (falls through to normal alarm).
Two traps pinned the hard way during verification:
- 'guest' is namespaced (ana-pve/vm/110); the case must match the
segment (*/vm/*) and pre-set pveid so a foreign path shape fails the
match, not the script, under set -u (infra-ops caught the first cut).
- ssh inside the while-read loop MUST take -n; without it ssh swallows
the loop's remaining stdin and the entire PBS layer silently vanishes
from the report while exit code and verdict stay green.
Image built from a clean archive of vh/albok ffc6d4e (tag albok-service/v0.1.11),
pushed as gitea.phasefinal.com/pfi/albok-service:0.1.11@sha256:4b641c3e...,
pinned by digest. Recreated between Nemi walks at 0202; healthy at 0202:23, all
four wings ready, canaries alive, write embedder agrees. Config unchanged.
Rollback is compose.yaml.pre-0.1.11, valid only until a wing's first 0.1.11 reindex.
Layout: GPU 0 = cyberprev (KV 16 -> 15 GiB, 1.29x), erp-seat (moved from
GPU 1, KV 8.49 -> 5.5 GiB, 1.32x), voices (ctx 8,192 -> 40,960, its native
maximum, KV 6 GiB, 1.07x), coder (moved from GPU 1, ctx 16,384 -> 32,768,
the card maximum, 2.35x), parakeet-nemo. GPU 1 = gen-small (moved from
GPU 0, 5.5 GiB, 1.76x), meromero-rp (22 GiB, 1.32x), intern-decision.
Sizing rule: KV >= 1.25x max context rounded up to 0.5 GiB, checked against
7 days of LiteLLM traffic and the engines' own KV-usage logs. Each card keeps
spare memory for its bursty tenant (parakeet's cap on GPU 0, intern-decision's
32k call on GPU 1). YaRN extensions are not enabled: they do not fit, and the
Qwen cards warn static YaRN degrades short prompts.
gen-small gets --override-generation-config max_new_tokens 32768. It applies
only to requests that omit max_tokens (vLLM get_max_tokens) and answers 9
runaway ~260k-token replies in 7 days; the longest normal reply was 6,357.
Applied with playbooks/fv-ml1-rebalance-20261005.yaml (boot-check guard and
health/KV verification per seat); all nine seats healthy, gateway smoke
tests pass.
meromero-rp sized its KV from --gpu-memory-utilization, and vLLM's profile
counts co-booting neighbours as its own non-torch memory. Three boots gave
20.37 / 26.74 / 29.04 GiB of KV, and the 2026-10-05 Docker-move restart cut
GPU 1 free memory to 3,981 MiB, below intern-decision's 32k-token budget.
Coder read negative KV on every co-boot. Both are now pinned, so util only
gates the boot check (meromero util 0.52 -> 0.47, just above its footprint).
GPU 0 plateaus at ~60 MiB free 1-2 days after a boot (Beszel), so
gen-small's KV drops to 5.5 GiB (461,215 tokens, 1.76x) and parakeet-nemo
stays on GPU 0 with room for its 3,840 MiB cap. GPU 3 stays clear.
Applied with playbooks/fv-ml1-kv-pin-20261005.yaml: GPU 1 free 3,981 ->
11,801 MiB, GPU 0 495 -> 5,039 MiB right after boot; all nine seats healthy.
Front door: request bodies capped at 1 MiB, headers within 5 s, body within 15 s, no response deadlines (SSE stays open). Validated live: 413 over the cap, stalled body cut at 15 s, signed ping and an SSE stream unaffected. svos-front-inventory also serves the previous release's hashed assets credential-free from that release's static dir, hash-checked. Backup check: reads the logs of vzdump tasks PVE records as OK and reports ERROR lines; an fs-freeze/thaw error is an application-consistency failure, new verdict DEGRADED (exit 4), wired into the alert wrapper. nh3-pve-2 added to the node and namespace lists (its job results were never read). The svos drill task is acknowledged by UPID; BACKUP_IGNORE_ACKS=1 counts it (positive control: exit 4).
svos-dev: the service worker fetches its hash-pinned INVENTORY with credentials omitted. Exactly those files plus /sw.js are now served before basic_auth (GET/HEAD, exact files). The list is generated from the release's sw.js by svos-front-inventory, which hash-checks each file and validates before reload. Gated static routes follow the web/README hosting contract: missing assets 404 instead of index.html, other document requests get index.html, everything else 404, unversioned files no-cache. acceptance-matrix.sh: 35/35 live; 16 FAIL against the previous config (positive control). git added to the nh3-svos playbook (kernel's remote check). Live backup drill: quiesced backup ~1-2 s outage; a refused freeze does NOT abort vzdump (unfrozen backup, job reported successful); both images restore-mounted read-only and verified.
Prime's ruling: basic auth saved in the browser, mesh-only access. basic_auth argon2id with the account hash in a root:caddy file outside git (plaintext vaulted). After auth, Tailscale-User-Login is set from the authenticated user and Authorization is deleted, since the kernel's human path refuses requests that carry it. Removed svos-whois-auth (every mesh node is login pfi). Verified from a mesh peer against a temporary header echo: 401 without/with wrong credentials, 200 with exactly one Tailscale-User-Login: Vuong and no forged or Authorization headers upstream.
svos-dev review: the Caddyfile deleted named headers only. Prefix deletes cover the families; the named strays (Tailscale-Headers-Info, X-Real-IP, Forwarded, X-SVOS-Peer) stay. Wildcard semantics checked on a scratch Caddy (case-insensitive; look-alikes outside the family survive). Deployed, validated via systemd-run with EnvironmentFile, reloaded; deny tests re-run (403). README: safe validate recipe, pending acceptance list.
The policy section said WHICH guests are uncovered but not WHY, so every
reader had to reconstruct the ruling from memory or the bus. A missing
reason now prints as 'NO DOCUMENTED REASON', which turns an undocumented
new exclusion into a visible flag instead of a silent line.
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