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d8f4844a43 | memory: planned 2026-09-18 dragonfireacoustics move to Namecheap/Cloudflare — DNS-first ordering and the wildcard-masking trap | ||
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8d2b5f6b2e | memory: dragonfireacoustics zone facts — wildcard at a dead IP, Google MX that a transfer would drop, no SPF/DMARC | ||
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33d5d32fa9 | memory: correct the dragonfirepro read — the customer LOST the domain, and dragonfireacoustics expires in six weeks unlocked at eNom | ||
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14b78b4586 | memory: dragonfireacoustics.com is a dead vhost on pfi-ana-webhost — sole tenant, expired cert, EOL OS, publicly exposed | ||
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90e71ca75e | memory: headscale split-DNS for nh3.phasefinal.com so mesh clients resolve the internal-only wildcard | ||
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9a1c028b9f | memory: ESH back on the Cityside static (confirmed four ways); lv-hemingway left as-is per operator | ||
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3ac13c5351 | memory: lv-mccarthy D4 pairs built — 3,673 train / 269 val, the largest val fixture in the line | ||
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370b16ca15 | memory: re-derive the shipped-corpora split-leak numbers with the committed gate | ||
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perf(leak_gate): one alternation pass for the split scan — lv-hemingway went from timing out at 5 min to 35 s
Per-surface scanning is O(surfaces x copies x corpus). lv-mccarthy (108 surfaces, 36 copies) finished in 8 s; lv-hemingway (881 surfaces, 10 copies) was still running at 5 minutes and had to be killed. A gate too slow to run is not a gate. Same trick scan() already uses: build one alternation, map the matched string back to its surface by stripping separators. Regression: identical verdict and identical per-surface hit counts on the pre-fix lv-mccarthy tree (5 surfaces, 78 hits) and on the fixed one (0). Re-derived on the two shipped corpora with the committed instrument rather than a scratch probe: lv-hemingway GATE FAILED Pasionaria, Primitivo, Chicote -- 6 hits each, all 6 copies lv-bronte GATE PASSED 0 |
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328e9b1e56 | memory: snapshot — the mccarthy leak gate passed with five protagonist names in every copy, and the chain it happened on was unrecorded | ||
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fix(lv-mccarthy): the leak gate passed with five protagonist names still in every copy
`leak_gate.py` scans `\b(Surface)\b`. Any character inserted inside a name defeats
that pattern outright, so a mangled occurrence is unrenameable by rename.py AND
unreportable by the gate. lv-mccarthy's 2026-09-17 tree passed at "0 of 75
renameable and 0 of 37 sub-threshold" while carrying 13 occurrences of Bell,
Chigurh, Moss, Toadvine and Glanton in all six copies:
B ell C higurh M oss T oadvine a small-caps drop cap kept as its own token
Toad-vine Glan-ton a print line-break hyphen kept by the extractor
Every visible occurrence HAD been renamed, which is what made the residue invisible
to a spot-read. Fixed at three levels, all three of which must stay:
build_corpus_mccarthy.py rules 4 and 5 repair the source text — 32 split initials
with a lowercase remainder, 5 hyphen-split names, each with an expected count so a
master change fails the build. Rule 4's letter class is consonants only: `I` opens
1,966 paragraphs, `A` 143 and `Y` 32 (Spanish `y`); folding any would corrupt 2,141
lines to fix 32.
leak_gate.py gains a separator-tolerant pass with its own positive and negative
controls, and it FAILS the gate. Validated against the pre-fix tree: reports all
five surfaces, exits 1. Its fragment filter is what makes it usable — a naive scan
returns 18 false positives on Hemingway (`God damn`, `I run`) against 3 real ones;
requiring one fragment to be a non-word of the corpus cleared all 18 and kept all 3.
The whole D1→D3 chain is reproduced byte-identically before and after, so the fix
is the only delta: 6 works, the entity map, the final map and all 36 copy files.
Cross-checked on the shipped corpora: lv-bronte is clean of this class, lv-hemingway
carries 3 (`Primi tivo`, `Pasionar ia`, `Chi cote`) and is live on fv-ml1.
Also in build_sft_pairs.py, both needed before lv-mccarthy's pairs:
DEFECT 4, hard-wrap reflow. Measured on the SHIPPED lv-bronte adapter, which emits
mid-sentence line breaks at 12.46 per 1k chars against 0.00 for its own base control
and 0.00 for every Hemingway arm. McCarthy is the mixed case — The Road is wrapped,
the other five works are not — so the corpus teaches the break as a coin flip. The
obvious fix (join every interior newline) corrupts 46 two-speaker exchanges whose
blank line was lost, and unmarked dialogue is the one thing this adapter exists to
learn; the rule splits on sentence-final punctuation instead and takes the cheaper
error. Self-targeting and off by default, so every shipped pair set is unchanged.
A `mccarthy` register, which names the punctuation deliberately: the eval drives the
base control arm with this same prompt, so tics left out of it are a surface trick
only the adapter can perform, and delta_cb is a character-bigram measure.
drop_leading_heading now also consumes Blood Meridian's dash-separated chapter
arguments — 131 paragraphs, 0 in every other work of all three corpora.
And a RUNBOOK, because the D1→D3 session recorded nothing and the chain had to be
recovered by rebuilding candidates and matching sha256 against the artifacts on disk.
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lv-mccarthy D3 on gx10: leak gate PASSED, and the val split is now bigger than Hemingway's
~/lv-mccarthy on pfi-gx10: corpus-clean, corpus-renamed (6 copies, 1,002 records), scripts.
leak gate 0 of 75 renameable and 0 of 37 sub-threshold survive in any copy
positive control 108/108 surfaces found in the unrenamed source
negative control nonce absent from both trees
THREE McCARTHY-SPECIFIC DECISIONS, each forced by a measurement.
1. --scope corpus, NOT the default per-work map. The Border Trilogy shares characters
across books -- 9 surfaces appear in more than one work, including Parham (The
Crossing + Cities of the Plain), Grady and Cole (All the Pretty Horses + Cities of
the Plain), Socorro and Héctor. A per-work map would give John Grady a different
invented name in each novel, turning one character into two.
2. A NEW `mccarthy` rename preset rather than reusing `hemingway`. Both are
Spanish-inflected, but Hemingway's romance pool carries it_IT and fr_FR for his
Italian and French casts, and McCarthy writes neither language -- drawing from it
would drop Italian and French surnames into a Texas-Mexico border novel. en_GB goes
for the same reason. en_US + es_MX/es_ES at an even share.
3. --min-cap 5 to MATCH the entity map's floor. The first gate run FAILED with 45
survivors, and the diagnosis is the Brontë lesson exactly: entities.py admits
cap >= 5 while rename.py only renamed cap >= 8, so every entity between 5 and 7 sat
in the map, was never renamed, and was counted as a leak. Hemingway never hit it
because its map had sub_threshold_total 0.
⭐ --holdout-chapter NOW TAKES A LIST, and this is the change with the most downstream
effect. The val split is one chapter index per work, so its SIZE is set by how many
WORKS a corpus has, not how many words:
Hemingway 10 works -> 9 val units -> 36,563 words/copy -> gate DECISIVE
Brontë 4 works -> 4 val units -> 17,043 words/copy -> gate MARGINAL
McCarthy 6 works -> 6 val units -> ~18,000 would have been Brontë's end of that
Holding out chapters 7 AND 17 gives 11 units and 40,653 words per copy -- larger than
Hemingway's, at a cost of 7% of the corpus -- on a corpus 40% smaller than his. No
amount of corpus size fixes a val split that scales with work count.
THE HUMAN GENDER PASS IS NOW AN AUDITABLE FILE, not a hand edit. The honorific/window
resolver scored 21 correct / 3 held / 1 WRONG against a 26-name control; the base-rate
proximity resolver built for Hemingway scored 18/6/1 and its own guard correctly
REFUSED to write. So the incumbent stands and four entries are fixed by hand in
gender_overrides_mccarthy.json, each carrying its evidence.
⚠ All four are female and all four look male-dominated in raw pronoun counts, because
this corpus runs 29,144 male pronouns to 5,036 female -- a base rate of 85.3% male.
Carla Jean Moss at 31m/21f would be 44m/8f at that base rate, so 21 female against an
expected 8 is decisive. Same arithmetic that recovered Pilar and Brett on Hemingway.
Alfonsa was in my control set and is correctly absent from the map at 4 occurrences,
below the min-count floor -- an error in the control, not the pipeline.
apply_gender_overrides.py refuses two ways: a name absent from the map is an error
rather than a silent no-op, and overruling a gender the detector already holds needs
an explicit "correcting": true so it cannot look like filling a held entity in a diff.
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lv-mccarthy D2: entity map + stoplist, both audits green — and audit_stoplist was scanning its own rationale
Entity map at ~/mccarthy-corpus/entities.json. 123 surfaces after a 107-surface stoplist.
entities.py 27/27 controls -- 19 positive (Glanton, Toadvine, Rawlins, Blevins,
Alejandra, Chigurh, Moss, Bell, Boyd, Holden, Tobin, Magdalena,
Eduardo, Parham, Socorro, Webster, Redbo, Niño, Franklin) and 8 negative
audit_stoplist PASS -- no stoplisted surface is ever addressed as a person
audit_entity_map PASS -- positive `boy` 0.89, negative band tops out at Riddle 0.17,
all 5 remaining flags on the read-and-cleared list
⚠⚠ A DEFECT IN audit_stoplist.py ITSELF, latent for every corpus before this one. It built
its surface set from every list value in the stoplist JSON -- including `_why`, which by
convention is a LIST OF PROSE LINES. Every sentence of the rationale went into the matcher,
and the empty separator line matched the honorific pattern 139 times, printing a flag with no
surface name at the top of the report, above the one real catch. It now skips `_`-prefixed
metadata keys and empty strings.
THE ONE REAL CATCH WAS A CONTRADICTION INSIDE MY OWN FILE. `Franklin` sat in the geography
list because it is the old name for El Paso, while the same file's context note recorded
'I'm here to see Mr Franklin' -- a lawyer in All the Pretty Horses. The honorific audit found
the contradiction between the two halves of the file. Franklin is now renameable.
A SECOND SELF-INFLICTED ONE: the fragments list was a speculative A-Z, which stoplisted `I`
and `A` -- ordinary English words -- and `Sir I dont think I can do that` duly tripped the
honorific audit. It is now the four letters actually MEASURED as entities (E, H, T, K).
Stoplist what the entity map produced, not the alphabet.
Everything ambiguous was read in context before placement, and the reasoning is in the file:
Socorro is the ranch COOK in Cities of the Plain, not the New Mexico town -- renameable
Webster, Jackson, Harlan, Lamar are Glanton's men and lawmen, not places -- renameable
Niño, Keno, Redbo are HORSES, the author's inventions -- renameable, the `Inglés` precedent
Mangas, Travis, Venada, Moderno are genuinely dual-use -- renamed, the safe direction
Santa, Varas, Griffin, Eagle, Avenue, Calle, Terrell are real geography -- stoplisted
Yaqui and Gilenos are real peoples; Ford and Hashknives are a brand and a real outfit
Ed (Ed Tom Bell) and JC are short but are names, read and kept renameable
Sensitivity floor, stated because it is part of the result: the top 170 of 199 surfaces were
classified. The bottom 29 were not individually read, so a rare real-world referent may be
renamed -- the safe direction, an accepted cost, not an oversight.
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lv-mccarthy D1 fix: three small-caps defects the entity map caught, and one I nearly added
D2's entity map returned `E`, `H`, `T` and `K` as renameable entities with 17-33 capitalised
occurrences each. A bare initial is never a name -- that is the `G` class from the Hemingway
build, where `G` was about to be renamed to a surname 248 times. Reading them in context
showed the McCarthy editions set section openings in small caps and the extractor mangled
them three different ways, none of which the D1 build repaired:
1. SPLIT INITIAL `T HE HOUSE was built` -> `The house was built` 32 cases
Hemingway's restore_smallcaps only fires on TWO or more split initials in a line, so it
is structurally blind to these single ones.
2. UNMARKED RUN `THEY STOOD in the doorway` -> `They stood in the ...` 88 cases
Concentrated in Cities of the Plain (49) and The Crossing (37).
3. LOST INITIAL `HE CANDLEFLAME` -> `THE CANDLEFLAME` 1 case
Rule 1 requires a FOLLOWING all-caps word, because `A TV was playing` and `A Mexican was
changing` are an article plus a capitalised word, not a drop cap. All four such probes
verified untouched. Rule 2's `[a-z]` lookahead is what makes it safe: lowercasing every
all-caps run at a block start would eat a genuine shout or a sign, and requiring the run to
be followed immediately by a lowercase word means it is a sentence continuing. All 23
distinct first words of the 88 were checked and are real words -- HE, WHEN, THE, THEY,
QUINQUAGESIMA -- except one, which was case 3.
⚠⚠ AND A SECOND LOST-INITIAL ENTRY WAS NEARLY SHIPPED THAT WOULD HAVE CORRUPTED THE TEXT.
`HEY RODE` -> `THEY RODE` looked right from a survey of the BUILT corpus. The raw master has
`THEY RODE` intact, twice: `HEY RODE` was matching as a SUBSTRING, and the unanchored replace
produced `TTHEY RODE`, which rule 2 then lowercased to `Tthey rode`. Two things caught it --
the count assertion (expected 1, replaced 2) and then reading the master. Rule 3 is now a
block-anchored regex rather than a string replace, so a substring cannot fire it.
⚠ My first corruption check also missed it, searching for `TTHEY` when the pipeline had
already lowercased it to `Tthey`. Check the shape the pipeline actually emits, not the shape
you imagined it would.
Totals move 584,756 -> 584,716 words, 167 units unchanged. Both guards still pass: quote
marks 0.0/10k, author's own name 26 -> 0. Entity map positive control is 14/14 on real
McCarthy characters (Glanton, Toadvine, Rawlins, Blevins, Alejandra, Chigurh, Moss, Bell,
Boyd, Holden, Tobin, Magdalena, Eduardo, Parham); `T` and `E` no longer appear as entities.
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lv-krakauer: PARKED — research is not a voice (operator, henge id 82)
Operator ruling: "he's a great writer because of his research, not because he has a strong identifiable voice." That reason is about the AUTHOR rather than the data, and it is the better of the two on the table -- the other being the unmeasurable fraction of quoted material. It also names a selection criterion this line did not have: ask whether there IS a voice worth adapting before investigating whether a clean corpus can be built. That question was never asked here. I surveyed the holdings, built the corpus, measured all fifteen containment pairs, and fixed three stripping defects the name guard caught -- all real work, none of it touching the thing that decided it. A voice adapter is worth its corpus-plus-training-plus-gate only when the target has a prose signature a reader could pick out blind. McCarthy: 0.0 quote marks per 10k against Hemingway's 838. Hemingway: spare declaratives, heavy unattributed dialogue. Brontë: periodic sentences built on semicolons and dashes. If that sentence is hard to write, the author is a park. Nothing is deleted. The corpus (126 units, 422,880 words) and the builder stay committed and re-runnable; the park entry records what exists, what was never started (D2), and what would unpark it -- a re-extraction preserving indentation and italics, which would fix the quoted- material problem but not the operator's objection. The builder's own docstring now carries a stop notice so a future session finds the reason at the artifact rather than only in memory. |
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lv-krakauer D1: 126 units, 422,880 words — and an unmeasured fraction is not his prose
The first non-fiction corpus in this line. Builds clean and should not be trained on until
an operator scope call is made; the reason is in the module docstring and the manifest.
into-the-wild 25u 67,606w caps-title [smallcaps 21][back -1,015][epi -52]
missoula 32u 115,841w chapter-word [smallcaps 8][front -858][back -2,874]
under-the-banner-of-heaven 33u 118,171w caps-title
where-men-win-glory 36u 121,262w chapter-word [smallcaps 3][front -1,548][back -6,093]
⚠⚠ THE UNRESOLVED PROBLEM IS QUOTATION, AND IT IS NOT MEASURED BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE.
Krakauer quotes constantly and at length -- McCandless's journals and letters, Tillman's
diaries, court transcripts, depositions, Mormon historical documents, and whole paragraphs
of Jack London and Wallace Stegner at the chapter heads. In print those are indented or
italic; the extraction lost both, so inside the master they are ordinary paragraphs and no
signal this builder can read separates them from his own sentences.
Only 52 words were removable -- chapter-head epigraphs whose all-caps attribution line
survived. That is 0.01% and it is NOT the answer: the method would report 0.0% for a book
made entirely of undated block quotes. The stated floor rather than the number is what a
reader needs. This is the same error as excluding The Torrents of Spring from Hemingway --
another author's style under the target's name -- distributed rather than concentrated, and
the fraction is unknown. Scope is the operator's call, exactly as fiction-only was.
THREE DEFECTS THE NAME GUARD CAUGHT, none of which the build would have reported otherwise:
1. Back matter searched only the LAST unit. Where Men Win Glory's ACKNOWLEDGMENTS sits at
94.8% and the splitter made 41 units, so the apparatus landed in unit 37 with NOTES and
BIBLIOGRAPHY after it -- all past a strip that only looked at unit 41. Into the Wild
kept its acknowledgments AND a full-page advertisement for another of his books. Now
windowed to the last 25% and cut before the split.
2. Relying on the splitter to drop front matter did not work. Units begin at the first
heading mark, and in two works the ebook's table of contents sits above the author's
note -- giving the splitter a `Chapter Thirty-Two` to start on, so unit 1 swallowed the
apparatus and its signed `Jon Krakauer , February 2015`. Now cut at that signature,
windowed to the first 10%.
3. Zero was the wrong bar. 21 survivors became 2, and both were read: `Lewis Krakauer
loved his five children deeply` is Krakauer writing about his own father in the two
autobiographical chapters of Into the Wild, and the other is a reader's letter he
quotes calling him a kook. Hemingway's own name in his corpus was always publisher
apparatus, so 0 was right there; this author writes about himself. The allowance is
pinned at 2 and every survivor is printed with context, so a master change or a strip
that stops working fails loudly instead of widening in silence.
Both strips are windowed in OPPOSITE directions from McCarthy's, which is the point worth
carrying: McCarthy's apparatus is at the end and the earliest marker wins; Krakauer's is at
both ends and the same marker words appear in his front matter at 0.0-0.6% of the file.
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lv-mccarthy D1: 167 units, 584,756 words, and a style that looks exactly like damage
Six complete novels from the licensed Kvasir masters. Same record schema as the Brontë,
Yarros and Hemingway builders, so entities.py, rename.py, leak_gate.py and the trainers run
unchanged. Splits via the new shared split_units module.
all-the-pretty-horses 33u 99,242w paragraph-blocks [back -1,768w] [drop cap restored]
blood-meridian 23u 116,651w roman-numeral [back -354w]
cities-of-the-plain 30u 90,166w paragraph-blocks
no-country-for-old-men 13u 69,841w roman-numeral [back -463w]
the-crossing 49u 149,985w paragraph-blocks [back -30w]
the-road 19u 58,871w paragraph-blocks
THE THING THIS BUILDER PROTECTS IS A VOICE THAT READS AS A DEFECT. McCarthy uses no
quotation marks and drops the apostrophe from most contractions -- dont, aint, wont, didnt.
Measured over the built corpus: 0.0 quote marks per 10k words against Hemingway's 838, and
123 apostrophes against his 241. repair_typography.py normalises "toward what the text
does" and would put the quotes back, deleting the single most identifiable thing about the
author before training starts. This builder runs NO typography normalisation and then
ASSERTS the quote density, so a future well-meaning change fails the build instead of
quietly undoing it.
⚠ That same property will make the voice gate easy to pass for the wrong reason.
voice_distance.py is Burrows's Delta over character bigrams; an adapter that learns only
"emit no quotation marks" moves delta_cb a long way without having learned a sentence. A
punctuation-normalised secondary read needs pre-registering before this one is gated.
Exclusions, measured rather than assumed:
- two truncated catalogue rows dropped for their complete mobi siblings (Blood Meridian
epub 1,167w, The Crossing epub 222w -- both real prose, both `accepted`)
- nothing else. All 15 cross-work 8-gram containment pairs measured on the Hemingway
precedent; worst is 0.10%. Six independent works, no subsumption.
Back matter rides inside the last unit in four of six works and the marker differs every
time -- THE END, a dumped Table of Contents, a Reader's Guide, an About-the-Author, press
blurbs, a CIP page. It carried the author's own name 26 times across the raw masters. Both
guards report and gate: name 26 -> 0, quotes 0.0/10k.
⚠⚠ The back-matter strip runs BEFORE the split here, inverting the Hemingway order. Blood
Meridian and The Crossing end with a dumped table of contents made of bare roman numerals on
their own lines -- the exact shape of a chapter marker. Splitting first feeds the TOC to the
splitter as two dozen extra chapters; only the 150-word floor accidentally saves it today.
One lost drop cap is patched by name, not by heuristic: the All the Pretty Horses epub opens
`HE CANDLEFLAME` because the decorative T was an image the extractor dropped. A general
restore-the-missing-initial rule would have to guess the letter, so this is asserted against
the known string and fails loudly if the master ever changes.
The alphabet is re-derived, not inherited: 1,411 non-ASCII letters across 14 forms
(á é í ñ ó ú ü). The Border Trilogy is half set in Mexico, so the Yarros ASCII-only
conclusion does not transfer -- same finding as Hemingway, same reason.
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split_units: choose a unit mode by SIZE, not by count, and fall back to paragraph blocks
McCarthy and Krakauer both need this before a corpus can be built, so it is a shared module
rather than a third copy of the Hemingway splitter.
THE INHERITED RULE IS "MOST UNITS ABOVE A FLOOR" AND IT BREAKS ON PART MARKERS. Measured:
Cities of the Plain 4 roman marks -> 4 units, median 22,312w <- the book's PARTS
The Crossing 4 roman marks -> 4 units, median 37,310w <- same
"Most units" scores 4 over the 1 that finding-nothing gives, so it wins, and the existing
guard only fires at exactly one unit. A 37,000-word "chapter" sails through and every
downstream tool accepts it. Size is now the eligibility test: a mode qualifies only if its
median unit is inside [600, 12000] AND no single unit holds half the work.
TWO THINGS A CONTROL RUN CAUGHT, BOTH NOW FIXED IN THE RULE. The first version scored
eligible modes by "median closest to target". Run over Hemingway, whose markers are known
good, it chose caps-title over the book's own chapters on True at First Light:
bare-numeral 20 units median 5,337w max 11,155 <- the real chapters
caps-title 6 units median 777w max 113,886 <- median looked BETTER
caps-title matched five stray all-caps lines, so five tiny units sat beside one holding 97%
of the book. A median cannot see that distribution; a max bound can. And caps-title is the
weakest of the four signals, which is why the tiebreak among eligible modes is now PRIORITY
(contents > chapter-word > roman > bare-numeral > caps-title), not size.
CONTROLS, both green after the fix:
positive Hemingway's ten works, markers known good -> 8/10 reproduce the shipped mode and
unit count exactly. The two differences are explained, neither is a mode error:
short-stories used `contents`, which the harness does not supply, and The Old Man
and the Sea was deliberately kept whole as CONTINUOUS.
negative 40,000 words with no blank lines -> 1 unit. It refuses to fabricate divisions
out of unstructured text rather than returning a plausible section count.
Result on the two new authors: McCarthy 167 units / 587,233 words, Krakauer 135 / 431,938,
both median ~3,200-3,500w against Hemingway's 3,128.
⚠ CORRECTION TO AN EARLIER SURVEY. I reported that all four Krakauer works carry zero
chapter markers. That was wrong and it was my regex, not the books: the survey pattern
required "Chapter" followed by a numeral, and Krakauer writes "CHAPTER ONE". Missoula and
Where Men Win Glory split on chapter-word (33 and 41 units); Into the Wild and Under the
Banner of Heaven on caps-title (28 and 33). Only McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, Cities of
the Plain, The Crossing and The Road actually need the fallback.
The Hemingway builder is deliberately NOT repointed at this module. Its corpus is shipped and
its provenance sha is pinned by a live adapter; the one behavioural difference (The Old Man
and the Sea would section into 9 rather than stay whole) is an improvement nobody asked for
on a corpus nobody should churn.
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booth: four arms, one beat, one author-neutral prompt
Six beats through voices-base, lv-bronte, lv-yarros and lv-hemingway, all served from the same process on fv-ml1 :8027 so only the adapter varies. Operator-requested side-by-side. http://10.100.10.50:8090/b/lv-voices-four-arms/ (24h TTL; also on the link board) THE PROMPT NAMES NO AUTHOR, deliberately. Each adapter trained under a prompt naming its own, so driving all four with any one of those hands that arm a hint the others do not get and the page would be measuring the prompt rather than the voice. The shared task skeleton is kept and the author clause removed. One asymmetry is disclosed on the page: Brontë and Hemingway trained on "a SHORT PASSAGE ... may run to several paragraphs" while Yarros trained on "ONE paragraph", so the neutral prompt sits slightly off-distribution for all three rather than for one. THE CONTROL GETS A 4x LARGER TOKEN BUDGET, and publishing it any other way would have been dishonest. Measured at the gate's 320-token budget: voices-base median 26 prose words, 181-257 words of <think> planning first, and 5 of 12 cells never reach the prose at all the adapters 0 of 12 failures each, empty think block in 12 of 12, median 97-105 words The adapters learned to skip the reasoning phase; the carrier has not. Showing the starved control would conflate voice with budget discipline, so the control runs at 1200 tokens and finishes every time, median 121 words. Both numbers are on the page. Two seeds per cell behind a toggle, because one sample of a sampled process is an anecdote, and a blind-mode toggle that hides which column is which. Sampler matches the gate harness (temperature 0.9, top_p 0.95, "BEAT: " prefix). Checked before publishing rather than after: all 36 adapter generations scored for verbatim 8-gram reuse, each arm against ITS OWN corpus. Brontë 0, Yarros 0, Hemingway 2 of 12 with a longest run of 8 words, that run being "i don t know i don t know". Layout verified by rendering it, not by reading the CSS: four equal 374px columns at 1600px wide, no horizontal overflow, 24 cards, 48 panes. ⚠ nh3-dev's shared /opt/ms-playwright tops out at chromium-1234, so playwright must be pinned to 1.61.0; a bare `npm i playwright` pulls 1.63 and asks for a browser build that is not there. |
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voices-seat: ship lv-hemingway (ckpt850), and replace the memorisation control that passed it
Live on vllm-voices (fv-ml1 GPU0 :8027) beside voices-base, lv-yarros and lv-bronte.
Healthy 190 s after recreate, four models served, GPU0 96,092 -> 96,090 MiB. The adapter
was verified byte-identical to checkpoint-850 by sha256 across both transfer hops, and the
seat was verified by generating, not by reading its config: base emits 170 words of <think>
planning and never writes the passage, lv-hemingway writes the scene.
Gate design was pre-registered before any generation existed (
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audit_pairs_sourcenames: --filter-out, so the detector is also the fix
An already-built pair set cannot be repaired by build_sft_pairs.py --source-entities;
that flag only works at generation time. Hemingway's and Yarros's sets both predate it.
The contamination is in the BEAT, so dropping the row removes it outright. Measured on
the Hemingway train pairs: 7,094 -> 7,024, 70 dropped, 0.99% of the training data. That
is cheaper and cleaner than regenerating 70 beats against a second generator session,
which would leave the set mixed-provenance for the sake of 1% more data.
Verified by read-back rather than by the write succeeding: re-auditing the filtered file
reports 0 of 7,024 on both columns, controls green, GATE PASS.
Two refusals rather than a best-effort write:
- a contaminated RESPONSE column aborts. That is a different fault -- pairs built
against an unrenamed corpus -- and dropping rows would hide it instead of fixing it.
- more than one --pairs input aborts, because the output is a single file and would
silently merge train and val into one.
Also cross-validated the detector against the lv-bronte pair sets on real data, where the
answer is already on the record:
pairs-full + pairs-val (post-fix) 0 of 3,858 matches the recorded "0 leaks across
3,858 pairs" exactly
pairs-full.CONTAMINATED 15 of 792 = 1.89%, Rochester x6, Jane, Brocklehurst
x2, Beck, Fairfax, Burns, Helen, Eyre -- against a
record of "13 of the first 714 beats (1.8%)" with
the same names
An independently written instrument reproducing a documented finding at the right
magnitude, on the right names, is the control that says its zeroes mean absent and not
blind.
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lv-bronte: the voice axis passes under the corrected floor rule — amended, not rewritten
lv-bronte shipped 2026-09-17 with a FAILED voice axis written into its compose comment,
its NFS README and its gate record. That verdict no longer stands, and this records the
correction in all three places without deleting what they said.
The floor rule is now pairwise (commit
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orientation: override the gitea NAME on the host, not each repo's remote
nh3-dev was reaching gitea over the public route from every repo on the box. brokkr-smithy-dev flagged it while pushing a new repo: brokkr-smithy, sleipnir, Galdrabok and kvasir all carried git@gitea.phasefinal.com remotes, and brokkr-smithy is pushed several times a week, so the fail2ban trigger this doc already warned about was live and recurring rather than dormant. Measured before changing anything, because the plausible explanation was a split-horizon rewrite making the public name internally correct: getent hosts gitea.phasefinal.com -> 38.120.12.44 (public, ana-srv1) grep -i gitea ~/.ssh/config -> nothing ssh -G git@gitea.phasefinal.com -> hostname gitea.phasefinal.com, port 22 No rewrite, no alias, no per-repo exception. A `Host gitea.phasefinal.com` block pointing at 10.250.50.70:222 now covers every repo on the box at once, which beats rewriting N remotes: it also catches repos nobody audited and fresh clones that copy the public URL out of a README, and nothing has to be remembered next time. Verified as a route change and not just a config edit: both paths already authenticated as `vh` with the same key, and `git ls-remote origin HEAD` succeeds over the alias in brokkr-smithy and in this repo. Backup at ~/.ssh/config.bak-20260917-020929. The alias is per-host; the doc now says to check `ssh -G` rather than assume another host inherits it. |
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audit_entity_map: the rename can damage the prose and no gate will ever say so
audit_stoplist.py finds surfaces wrongly held OUT of the entity map -- a stoplisted character is an undetectable leak. This is the mirror: surfaces wrongly held IN it. leak_gate.py only ever asks whether the author's names are GONE, never whether non-names were spared, so renaming `the Chinese` into an invented surname passes it perfectly. Found sideways on Hemingway. The pairs audit reported beats naming African, Chinese, X-ray, Republican and Cezanne as leaks -- correctly, those surfaces really were removed from the corpus. Reading why turned up the larger defect: they should never have been renameable in the first place. Measured on the Hemingway map, both controls green: positive `other` 764/1356 article-preceded = 0.56 negative 100 honorific-confirmed people, highest Inglés at 0.26, bulk 0.00-0.06 FLAGGED 130 of 946 surfaces, 1,616 instances = 0.162% of corpus words The signal is an article in front of the surface: you write `the Frenchman` and `a Martini`, never `the Rinaldi`. It is a heuristic and every hit is reported FOR READING, never auto-removed -- `the Widow` and `the Informer` are genuine Hemingway epithet-names that SHOULD be renamed, and the band's own top entry makes the point, since Inglés at 0.26 is an in-world nickname deliberately kept renameable and sits just under the bar. Initials are excluded from the negative-control band rather than admitted to it. `Mr. P.` is an initial, not a person, so letting it in lets a map defect poison the control that validates the detector -- on Hemingway `P` (0.32, every occurrence `the P. O. U. M.`) was the one surface failing a band whose next highest was 0.26. Initials take no article and are invisible to the scan anyway, so every surface of two characters or fewer is now listed unconditionally. Sixteen of them are in this map, C at 274 occurrences; the same class as the `G` that was caught by hand about to be renamed to a surname 248 times. The unresolved count that drives the exit code is computed over every flagged surface, not the --show slice. Tying a gate's verdict to a display flag is the same defect as a log filter that turns a real event into a clean zero. Also corrects a wrong claim in audit_pairs_sourcenames.py's docstring: the Hemingway rename did not HOLD 591 surfaces. Paris, Madrid and Spain survive because the stoplist keeps them out of the entity map before it is built, so the map is exactly the removed set -- 941 surfaces, 941 removed, 0 kept. Measured per run rather than assumed, because a pipeline that carried kept surfaces into the map would report every `Paris` as a leak. |
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lv-hemingway: pre-register the v2 gate, and fix the floor rule that decided lv-bronte
The gate design is written before any generation exists, because lv-bronte's
verdict turned on a choice that was only visible after the numbers printed.
THE FLOOR RULE IS NOW PAIRWISE. lv-bronte computed the noise floor as the largest
within-arm seed spread across ALL arms present. Its ckpt475 shipped at +0.193
against a 0.251 floor set entirely by ckpt925 -- a third arm nobody was shipping,
on one outlier seed. Scored against the arm it was actually compared to, the floor
is 0.092 and the same gap clears at 2.1x. A candidate's verdict must not depend on
which other arms happened to be generated. voice_distance.py now prints both floors
and flags any disagreement, so the lv-bronte record stays comparable.
audit_pairs_sourcenames.py closes the blind spot leak_gate.py has by construction:
it reads the corpus and the renamed copies, never the generated beats, so it cannot
see a beat-writing model restoring the author's real character names. Run over the
Hemingway pairs, which predate build_sft_pairs.py --source-entities:
val 0 of 200 -- the eval fixture is clean, the gate is unconfounded
train 70 of 7,094 (0.96%) -- Santiago x16, Catherine x7, Rinaldi x3, Brett,
Harry, Jake, Pablo, Nick, Maria ...
responses 0 of 7,294 -- the lv-bronte beat-only signature exactly
A matched surface is only counted when the rename actually removed it, verified
against the renamed copies, so a beat naming a held real-world place is not a leak.
Controls run every time: 941/941 surfaces found in the unrenamed source, nonce
absent from both trees, and 6 planted canonical names detected 6/6.
voice_distance.py --author is now REQUIRED. It was hardcoded "Yarros" and printed
"reference: held-out Yarros" over Brontë's numbers into a committed artifact. A
default would have moved the silent-wrong-label failure rather than removed it. The
stale "one seed-pair per arm / corroborates Base < Instruct" footer is replaced with
what the run actually carries.
Gate design: three arms (base-unadapted, ckpt1750, ckpt850), 60 beats, 4 seeds.
ckpt850 is present because the loss curve cannot separate it from ckpt1750 -- +0.0040
against a 0.0044 median neighbour jitter, with three checkpoints inside one jitter of
the minimum. adapter/ is excluded: +0.0762 is 17.4x the jitter and is resolved without
a gate.
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memory: snapshot — lv-bronte shipped with a failed voice axis, next goal is landing lv-hemingway
In-flight rewritten for the next goal. lv-hemingway is TRAINED and nothing else has been done to it: ship candidate is checkpoint-1750 (ep 1.97, eval 2.2783), the end-of-run adapter is 0.0763 worse, and the v2 gate has not been run. Every instrument it needs was parameterised during the lv-bronte run tonight and the in-flight section names all four with their traps. New detail files: 2026-09-17-lv-bronte-gate.md shipped, voice axis failed, why anyway 2026-09-17-beat-contamination-leak.md the leak the corpus gate cannot see 2026-09-17-esh-fiber-outages.md two Cityside failures, rotation fragility Also commits the memorization_check.py parameterisation, which was left uncommitted: its hardcoded Yarros defaults would have compared a Hemingway arm against the Yarros corpus and reported a meaningless clean zero. Auto-archival: index was 415 lines pre-run, over the 300 cap. Only five entries cleared the 14-day age guard, and three of those carry open deferred pointers (fused MoE park 47, nconnect=8, AI-tab belayed) and are referenced by in-flight. A fourth — every CI job on pfi-fleet runs as root on ana-docker — is a live security property rather than settled history, so it is held back deliberately. One entry archived. The file stays over cap, which is the guard working: an over-cap file that keeps live decisions beats a scannable one that lost them. |
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voices-seat: ship lv-bronte (ckpt475) with its failed voice axis on the record
lv-bronte is live on vllm-voices (fv-ml1 GPU0 :8027) alongside voices-base and lv-yarros. The seat lists all three; container healthy; GPU0 96092 -> 96090 MiB, so the adapter cost nothing measurable. IT DID NOT PASS ITS VOICE GATE, and the artifact says so in three places — this commit, a comment in the compose file, and a README beside the adapter on NFS — because an adapter found without its provenance will otherwise be read as a pass. VOICE FAIL +0.193 delta_cb vs base, against a 0.251 measured noise floor NOT COPIED PASS 8-gram hit-rate 0.00, longest 0 - identical to the control NO DAMAGE PASS ran-on +0.15 against a 0.400 floor Shipped on three grounds, none of them that the number was nearly good enough: it is additive (a named LoRA nobody reaches without asking for it), reversible (one compose line; hot-unload measures 0.003 s), and clean on the axis that carries actual risk - verbatim regurgitation of the source, on a public-domain corpus, measured against a positive control that saturates at 160. The voice result is UNDERPOWERED rather than absent: it closed 48% of the span from base to the same-author target and beat the control on every individual seed. The cause is structural - 81 val pairs against Hemingway's 200, from a 678k-word corpus against 994k - and neither more beats nor more seeds fixes it, because the floor is a range statistic and ranges widen with n. ckpt475 over ckpt925: indistinguishable on voice (0.017 apart), but ckpt925 has a verbatim 8-gram hit where this has none, and is 2.7x less stable seed-to-seed (0.251 vs 0.092) with a degeneracy probe showing no collapse to explain it. |
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memory: lv-bronte gated — voice axis fails, ship decision open
Records the full v2 gate result and three findings that outlive the ship call: 1. The effect is UNDERPOWERED, not absent. Both candidates closed 48-52% of the achievable span to held-out Bronte and beat base on every individual seed, but the gaps sit under the measured floor. Sensitivity floor stated so the negative is falsifiable: cannot resolve better than ~0.251 delta_cb at 30 beats x 4 seeds. Cause is structural — 81 val pairs against Hemingway's 200, from a 678k-word corpus against 994k — and neither more beats nor more seeds fixes it. 2. A DEFECT IN THE v2 RULE. The floor is the largest within-arm spread across ALL arms, so adding a third noisier arm raised the bar that failed the clean one. Run as a two-arm gate the floor would have been 0.092 and the candidate would have cleared at 2.1x. Deliberately NOT exploited — choosing the floor that passes your preferred answer is the failure pre-registration exists to prevent — but the rule should state whether the floor spans the compared pair or every arm present. As written, a verdict depends on which other arms you happened to run. 3. The two-epochs-on-a-three-epoch-schedule recipe did NOT transfer. Bronte's two minima are 0.0022 apart against a 0.0046 jitter; epoch 2 buys nothing over epoch 1. The epoch-3 collapse (+0.075, ~16x jitter) is the only robust part. The outlier seed was diagnosed rather than waved away: a repeat-5gram degeneracy probe is uniform at 0.0078-0.0102 across every seed and both arms, so it is genuine delta_cb variance and the floor stands. |
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audit_stoplist: a stoplist entry is an assertion the leak gate cannot check
Stoplisting a surface removes it from the entity map, so rename never touches it
and the gate never scans for it. That is exactly what a stoplist is FOR when the
surface is a real-world referent — and exactly how a wrongly stoplisted CHARACTER
becomes an undetectable leak. The gate reports 0 of N surviving and is telling the
truth about the set it was given.
Found by luck on lv-bronte: a generated beat said "Mrs. Leaven", and Leaven had
been filed under scripture as the bread noun. Reading it back: "Robert Leaven,
the coachman" — Bessie's married surname in Jane Eyre.
Running the audit instead of trusting that luck caught two more:
Pierrot "Madame Pierrot: she comes from Lisle, in France" — a teacher in
The Professor, filed as the commedia dell'arte figure
Samuel "Mr. Samuel Wynne" — filed as scripture
and correctly CLEARED two:
Wellington "that Baal of a Lord Wellington" — the real Duke
Moses "the Rev. Moses Barraclough" — the documented dual-use
Signal is an honorific in front of the surface: real-world referents are not
addressed as Mr/Mrs/Miss/Madame/Lord. It is a heuristic and not a proof, which is
why every hit is REPORTED FOR READING and never auto-removed — Wellington and
Moses both trip it and both are correct. Exit 1 on anything not on --allow, so it
can gate a pipeline.
Blast radius of the three errors was 16 of 3781 train pairs and 3 of 80 val —
small, but they are the author's characters in training data, which is the one
thing this pipeline exists to prevent. Corpus rebuilt rather than dropping the
affected pairs: a corpus on disk that disagrees with its committed config is how
superseded claims get made. Gate re-passes at 0 of 368 (three more surfaces than
before, exactly the restored characters), both controls green.
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eval harness: sample the beat fixture from held-out val, and bind the eval prompt to the trained one
Two harness defects that would each make a voice number uninterpretable. build_beat_fixture.py — the fixture is now SAMPLED from the val split rather than hand-written. The original BabyYarros fixture was five hand-written beats about a stray dog and a kitten: wrong genre, so 'He licked her clean' came back as explicit sex from a romantasy adapter, and n=5 had a noise floor of 0.800 that manufactured a +0.45 result which collapsed to +0.08 at n=120. Sampling from val makes it in-genre and held out by construction, spread across works so a naive head(30) is not one novel. Refuses outright if the pairs carry any split but val, because a fixture drawn from training data makes every downstream number a memorisation measurement wearing a voice label. gen_beats_chat_yarros.py --system-from — the SYS constant in this harness is Yarros's. Driving a Bronte or Hemingway adapter with it measures the arm under a system prompt it was never trained on and confounds the carrier change with a prompt change. Rather than duplicate the register table and rely on whoever runs it to pick the matching one, read the prompt out of the pair build's own provenance, which is the artefact that records what the adapter actually saw. |
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bronte-corpus: runbook — the five deviations and what the controls caught
Records the reproducible chain and, more usefully, why it diverges from the Yarros/Hemingway pipeline in five places, each forced by a measurement rather than a preference. Includes the control post-mortem, which is worth keeping because in three of four cases the CONTROL was wrong and the detector was right — the opposite of the reflex. Adele vs Adele-with-a-grave, Hollow at a 0.235 lowercase ratio, and Grace at 0.224 were all correct refusals. Blanche, at 0.0526 against a 0.05 bar, was the one real detector miss. |
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build_sft_pairs: reject beats that name characters the rename removed
A leak the corpus gate structurally cannot see, found on lv-bronte. The rename strips the author's names from the prose and leak_gate.py proves they are gone — 0 of 365 surviving on Brontë, both controls green. But the beat is written by an LLM that READ THE PASSAGE, and if it recognises the book it supplies the canonical names out of its own training. The beat is the INSTRUCTION half of the pair, so training on it re-teaches exactly the inventions the rename pipeline exists to remove, and the gate never looks at it: the gate reads the corpus and the renamed copies, never the generated beats. MEASURED on the first 714 Brontë pairs, before the filter existed: 13 beats (1.8%) named source characters — Rochester x6, Jane x3, Brocklehurst x2, Beck, Fairfax, Helen, Burns, Eyre, Reed, Rivers 0 of 714 RESPONSES did. The rename was perfect; the instruction side was not. One beat read "Saoirse confirms Rochester's flaws, then agrees in English to marry him" — a renamed name and a canonical one in the same sentence, which is the mechanism in miniature. Exposure scales with how well the generator knows the book, so it is WORST for public-domain classics and mildest for recent work. That is exactly why the Yarros and Hemingway runs came up clean and Brontë did not — their clean runs are NOT evidence this cannot happen to them, and both should be rebuilt with --source-entities if they are ever regenerated. Adds a `sourcename` reject to vet() plus --source-entities, which takes the UNRENAMED entity map and refuses any beat naming a surface from it. Firing at roughly 3% of attempts on Brontë. Also adds a `bronte` register. Brontë is the far end of the same axis from Hemingway and the register has to say so, or the beat-writer produces modern summary prose the passages never match. |
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bronte-corpus: gate lv-bronte for real — 0 of 365 with both controls green
The Brontë corpus's "0 of 203" was a HAND COUNT made before leak_gate.py
existed. On Yarros the automated instrument read 212 surviving where a hand
count said 86, so the hand count was never evidence. This runs the real gate,
and getting it to pass required fixing four defects the hand count could not
have seen.
CORPUS DEFECTS (repair_corpus_bronte.py, both measured):
- 1,922 words of publisher back matter inside Shirley's last unit — a
T. Nelson & Sons catalogue advertising Ainsworth, Marryat, Verne, Kingsley
and Dickens, plus a Gutenberg transcriber's punctuation list. Not Brontë,
and the source of the entity CHARLES. Same structural cause as the
Hemingway run: a splitter cuts on headings, nothing follows the final one.
- 1,368 Gutenberg italic spans. Two harms: they teach the adapter to emit
underscores, and the underscore is a word character, so the gate's
word-boundary scan cannot match inside an italicised name. An entity in
italics is invisible to the gate — the same never-renamed-AND-never-
reported shape as Yarros's possessive-only Afendra.
DETECTOR GAPS (phrase_map_bronte.json):
- Blanche is 19 capitalised against ONE lowercase — ratio 0.0526, over the
0.05 bar by a single token, so a named character with 19 mentions is
dropped by a hair.
- Grace (0.224) and Hollow (0.235) are refused correctly — both are common
nouns — but Grace Poole and Hollow's Mill are Brontë's. Sampling all 21
bare capitalised Grace found 20 are the character in direct address and
exactly one is the theological noun.
- Five compounds whose every component is non-renameable survive verbatim:
Moor House, Marsh End, Vale Hall, Bigben Close, Royd Lane. The other 77
audited phrases do not, because each has a renameable component.
GENDER (pin_known_gender.py): the inherited resolver put Jane MALE across 336
occurrences. Hemingway's base-rate resolver is strictly better here (1 wrong vs
4) but still fails on Jane, and the failure is structural, not tuning — Brontë's
three narrators are first-person, so their names appear almost only in dialogue
surrounded by other characters' pronouns. Ground truth is pinned separately from
the resolver's evaluation so the two are never conflated.
Also: min-cap lowered 8 to 3, which pulled Bertha, Ferndean, Rochesters and
Creemsvort in from below the old floor; corpus-scope rename so a name below
threshold in one novel is not printed verbatim there while renamed in another.
Gate: 0 of 365 surviving, positive control 365/365, negative control clean,
phrase audit 0 of 82. Floor stated: 3 capitals per work, 5 recurrences.
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playbooks: generic per-service stack image update (pull + recreate + verify)
Adds playbooks/update-stack-image.yaml — pull the newest image for one
compose stack service and recreate it, with a verify phase that asserts
the container's image id equals what the tag now resolves to rather than
trusting a 'Up' line from docker ps.
Scoped to a single service on purpose: the recreate is 'up -d <service>',
never a bare 'up -d', which would recreate every service in the project.
Go template format strings are written bare; elway's {{ identifier }}
substitution leaves them alone, but {{end}} / {{else}} would match and
die as undefined variables, so the health read uses {{json .State.Health}}
instead of an if/else.
First use: drawio on esh-docker-vm, 28.1.2 -> 31.4.6.
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memory: report the /snapshot handoff defect to galdrabok, with the mechanism
Sent with both specimens. Adds the root cause, which is in SYSTEM_PROMPT rather than the model. Next steps is the only one of the three generated sections with no empty case. Watch out for is told to omit itself when there are no gotchas and Resume here is told what to say when nothing is in flight, but Next steps is told only that it is a numbered, ordered, concrete list. With nothing in flight the sole action-shaped nouns in the input are the deferred items, and the nothing-in-flight rule points the model straight at them by asking it to name the most recent open pointer. Nothing in the prompt protects modality. Invent nothing and trace every claim to the input are both satisfied - the items really are in the input - while their deferred-ness is exactly what gets dropped. The verbatim-identifier rule already establishes that some attributes of the input must survive restructuring untouched; modality is one of them and only identifiers are guarded. Proposed two prompt changes to galdrabok: an empty-case escape for Next steps, and a rule making deferred, parked, belayed and deliberately-not-done items constraints belonging in Watch out for rather than steps. Offered as a caller's diagnosis since the skill is theirs. Noted that galdrabok-dev is pull mode, so there is no herald poke and they will see it on their next check. |
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memory: snapshot refresh — breeze settled, util does not predict residency, handoff defect
Incremental over
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memory: breeze stays put; TTS-stack move to fv-ml1 parked at id 75
Operator ruling: leave breeze-tts on irv-ml1 and park moving it, bragi and tts-gateway to fv-ml1 until the embedder, reranker and reward seats are evacuated. Parked as move-the-tts-stack-breeze-tts-bragi-tts-gateway (id 75) with the trigger, the footprints and the migration gotchas, so it resurfaces with everything needed rather than as a bare line. Two things worth having recorded against the trigger. All three services move as a set because only breeze is GPU-resident at ~10.3 GiB and growing, while bragi and tts-gateway are CPU-only proxies - co-location with the gateway is the entire reason not to move breeze alone, since that is what puts a cross-site hop on every TTS call. And the trigger as stated names gpu0, but vllm-embed, vllm-rerank-a3 and vllm-reward are all pinned to GPU 1. GPU 1 is the constrained card at 0.975 committed with 4,336 MiB free, while GPU 0 has 11,982 MiB free and carries the live chat path, so evacuating those three relieves GPU 1 rather than GPU 0. Recorded as a confirm-before-executing rather than silently corrected, since it changes where the TTS stack would land. Also notes that bragi and tts-gateway reach each other by name only through extra_hosts pins, because containers on irv-ml1 cannot resolve nh3.internal - those pins travel with them and need re-pointing at the new host. |
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memory: breeze-tts sizing and the fv-ml1 GPU 0 placement recommendation
The operator asked this mid-sweep and the answer never reached durable memory - caught only because he asked again after the snapshot. Recommendation is not to move it. Re-measured rather than reciting the earlier figure, which was right when taken and is now wrong: breeze holds 10,316 MiB after 53 minutes of uptime against 9,218 MiB shortly after warm-up. The footprint grows with use, consistent with PyTorch's caching allocator not returning memory - probably caching rather than a leak, but resident either way and counting against any neighbour. Two points is a trend, not a curve; whether it plateaus is unmeasured and stated as such. That changes the placement answer. fv-ml1 GPU 0 has 11,982 MiB free, so the margin is 1.7 GB and shrinking rather than the 2.8 GB the earlier number implied, on the card carrying the live chat serving path. The stronger objection is topology rather than VRAM: tts-gateway runs on irv-ml1 and reaches breeze on the same box, so moving breeze alone puts a cross-site hop on every TTS call against a 478 ms to-first-sample budget. Moving it properly means moving the gateway too. It is also not constrained where it sits - the 3090 still has 10 GB free. Also records the trap that nearly produced a wrong number: breeze reports nothing at idle when queried on the wrong GPU, because BREEZE_GPU_DEVICES=0 is the 3090 rather than the A6000. An idle query of the A6000 shows it absent entirely. |
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memory: snapshot — Parakeet STT, svos_miranda live, talk v10, address sweep, secrets fix
Closes both of the previous session's named jobs and six unplanned pieces of work. Nothing is in flight and nothing is blocked. Parakeet STT live on fv-ml1 GPU 0 behind LiteLLM ext-stt and whisper-1; GPU 3 is now a documented reserve after the operator caught an 800 MiB seat parked on the one pristine 96 GB card. svos_miranda enabled and Miranda serving, with agent.disabled_toolsets deleted and staying out by operator ruling. talk v10 deployed as the STT seat's first consumer. The irv-ml1 dead-address sweep is complete at 0 of 112 Homepage cards, having turned up four live breakages on other hosts. The secrets-broker concurrency bug is fixed, and ~/.local/bin/secret is a symlink rather than a stale copy. Auto-archival fired at 433 lines but moved only one entry: three of the four candidates old enough to qualify carry open deferred-work pointers - a park id, an althing thread, and an explicit 'untracked by operator choice' - and the guard held them. The index stays over cap at 389 lines, which is the correct trade: nearly every entry is genuinely under fourteen days old. The generated handoff needed correcting in-session before it shipped. The model had turned three operator-deferred items into a to-do list and invited the next session to commit files that predate this one. Both would have read as instructions to a fresh context, which is the durable-false-warning failure this session spent the day documenting. |
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docs(memory): the talk-deploy permission problem never existed
Vuong asked me to find and fix the harness issue blocking tts-dev from deploying talk. There was no harness issue, and no issue of any kind. /opt/docker/compose on nh3-dev is root:docker 2775, agent sessions run as lkraven, and lkraven is in the docker group. A mkdir settles it in one second and nobody ran one for nine days. There is also no tts-dev OS account, so the group request had no referent. It held together because a stale persistent-memory row supplied a plausible mechanism and the operator's routing instruction - 'give it to infra' - was read as corroboration of a capability limit. Those are different claims and only one was ever stated: a routing preference explains where work went, never whether it could have gone elsewhere. A contradicting ls -la was on screen in the same session and was dropped. I then repeated the claim to the operator as fact in a deploy report, which put a second name behind it. Then I did the same thing one layer up. Finding no OS problem and no deny rule, I inferred an auto-mode classifier refusal because the shape fit, and committed a settings.json into tts-dev's repo on that inference. Their mkdir showed the path writes with no refusal at all, so the hypothesis was wrong and the commit is reverted. I had spent the night writing up this failure class and still built a fix for a layer nobody had shown me failing. That commit also claimed a doc correction it did not contain: the edit and the commit were chained in one invocation, the edit's anchor assertion failed because the target text had already been fixed, and the commit ran regardless. Amended before reverting. Never chain an edit and its commit in one invocation. The rule worth keeping is that 'I can't do X' from any source is a hypothesis until someone runs the command and pastes the error, and that 'there is no error text, because there was no error' is a possible answer. |
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docs(memory): name the fleet's characteristic failure mode
svos-dev observed that three instances of the same shape turned up between two agents in one night and that it is starting to look like a characteristic failure rather than a coincidence. Collecting all nine from today, because the class is more useful than any instance. The shape is a check that reads the input to a transformation and gets reported as if it read the output - or more generally, the instrument answering instead of the system, in a form shaped exactly like a real answer. What makes it expensive is not that things break but that the broken state is indistinguishable from a legitimate one, so it passes review and is found later by accident. Every one of the nine passed a check. The tell is stated so it can be recognised prospectively: whenever 'broken' and 'legitimately empty, absent or off' produce the same output, the cheap check cannot tell them apart by construction. Remedies that actually worked today: measure the output rather than the input; positive controls, since a method that has only ever passed cannot tell you it is not blind; true-negative controls, because two apparent failures in the secrets-broker test were names I had invented and would have been read as a partial fix; refuse to emit the ambiguous value, which was the real fix rather than the lock; and do not declare victory on a plausible fix, which is the only reason the session-establishment root cause was found at all. |
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fix(secrets-broker): bw is not concurrency-safe — serialise, and never return an empty secret with exit 0
Reported by svos-dev after parallelising four vault reads in SVOS's systemd wrapper. Reproduced here and it is worse than reported: four concurrent secret get calls for distinct items returned empty strings with exit code 0, zero of four succeeding against their one of four. No error, no timeout, no diagnostic. The shape is the problem, not the race. A caller treating an empty optional secret as 'not configured' degrades silently and never learns otherwise - it cost SVOS the ability to page the operator while the process logged a clean startup line. Root cause is session establishment, not item reads. Every invocation runs bw unlock, and concurrent unlocks against the shared appdata dir invalidate each other. The damage then surfaces downstream as an empty listing or an empty item body, which is why a per-call lock is useless: by the time the read runs the session it holds is already dead. So the lock wraps the whole command instead. Three changes. The command-level lock makes concurrent callers queue. cmd_get now refuses an empty value rather than printing it, since a stored secret is never legitimately zero-length. And find() no longer coerces empty stdout to '[]' - that turned a broken read into a confident 'no such secret', the same silent-wrong-answer shape one layer up. Verified: four parallel reads of four real items now return all four correctly, serialised at the honest ~17s each. A name that genuinely does not exist still fails loudly, so the guard did not simply mute the negative case. Also replaces the copy at ~/.local/bin/secret with a symlink to this file. It was a plain copy in sync by luck, and every edit here silently left the live tool behind. |
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fix(sweep): retire the dead 10.100.79.3 address across the fleet
Operator-directed. The wg0 lifeline retired at the 2026-09-06 headscale cutover is on no interface anywhere, so anything pointing at it gets no route at all. Homepage went from 9 dead cards to 0 of 112. The load-bearing part is that there is no single right target: it depends on who resolves it. The operator's browser and the Homepage and open-webui containers on esh-docker-vm all resolve nh3.internal, so those get the name and survive the next renumber. Containers on irv-ml1 and ana-docker cannot resolve it at all, so those get the IP. litellm on ana-docker looked like a counterexample and is not: it resolves the name only through its own extra_hosts entry, while asset-engine on the same host fails on it. Test from the container you are about to change, never from a neighbour. Before committing to the name I confirmed the Homepage container actually fetches ytvc's healthz through it in production rather than assuming resolution implies reach. On irv-ml1, 24 files swept and 14 comment-only hits left as port-allocation history. Seven running containers recreated so the labels took. Seven dormant ones carried stale labels because editing a compose file does not touch an existing container object - fixed with compose create --force-recreate, which rebuilds the container without starting it, the right tool for a deliberately dormant stack. The sweep's real find was off irv-ml1 entirely: four live values on two other hosts, silently dead for nine days and alerting nobody. Open WebUI's read-aloud TTS, asset-engine's inference host, and two skaldsong TTS URLs. Both running services were recreated and verified reaching their targets afterwards rather than merely carrying the new string. One self-inflicted outage worth recording: I recreated breeze-tts for a cosmetic label change and took ext-tts down for its ~90s CUDA-graph warm-up, returning 500. I caught it only because I had taken a baseline before touching it. A label-only edit still costs a full model reload on a GPU container. |
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docs(memory): record the gap tts-dev found in my served-page gate
They adopted the gate as tts-stack tools/gate_served_page.py and extended it in a place that matters: my version would have passed a broken page. A worklet lives inside a template literal, so a syntax error in it is invisible to a parse of the enclosing script - it is just a string until addModule compiles it at runtime, where it fails as a rejected promise and the page quietly falls back to buffered playback or records nothing. Silent degradation, which is harder to notice than a dead page rather than easier. They parse the worklet separately, and they positive-controlled the whole thing against two deliberately broken pages rather than assuming a gate that has only ever passed is not blind. The second control - valid enclosing script, broken worklet - is the one my version fails. The lesson on my own work is the useful part: I built a gate for the failure I had just been shown and stopped at its boundary. The class is 'code that is a string at parse time and code at run time'; an inline script is one instance and a template-literal worklet is another. I checked the instance, not the class. Also promotes the underlying rule to the index, since it was named twice tonight from two unrelated directions: a check that reads an artifact as stored cannot see a transformation that happens between storage and execution. |
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docs(memory): talk v10 deployed with a served-artifact gate
Operator-instructed via tts-dev. First consumer of the ext-stt seat stood up the same night - talk can now listen as well as speak. Relayed authorization was fine to act on because the work is reversible: one-line tag rollback, v1..v9 retained, compose and .env backed up. Checked the escape hatch existed rather than believing the message that described it. Gated properly: build, throwaway on a non-live port, four acceptance checks, tear down, then cut over in a separate invocation. Re-ran all four against production afterwards, because a gate that only ever ran against the throwaway proves the image rather than the deployment, and confirmed the two new env vars inside the running container rather than in the file. Added a fifth gate worth keeping. tts-dev's worst bug this cycle was a JS escape inside a Python string arriving transformed, closing the string and killing the entire inline script while the page still rendered and both import and node --check passed - because the file still held the backslash. So: fetch the page over HTTP, extract the inline script from the response body, and node --check that. Same instrument pointed at the other side of the transformation, and over the wire it also catches anything that mangles the body after TLS and ASGI. That is the second instance tonight of one rule: a check that reads the artifact as stored cannot see a transformation between storage and execution. provider=cuda in a log is the same error - an echo of configured intent read as a measurement of running reality. Also notes an open question for the operator: talk deploys route through infra-ops only because tts-dev's identity is not in nh3-dev's docker group. The durable fix is a group membership, not a standing relay. |
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docs(memory): SVOS/Miranda fully live; bank two restart patterns from svos-dev
svos-dev restarted :8770 at 02:17 and both roster lines printed clean. Confirmed from this side rather than taken on their word: :8770 answers 200 on the new pid, an unauthenticated Bifrost dispatch gets 401, and Hermes reports 29 toolsets with svos_miranda the sole enabled=True row. Two patterns from their restart that generalise past this service. A dry-run boot against the still-held port: start the new process while the old one still owns the socket, and it proves every check above the bind before dying on EADDRINUSE. Zero downtime, no commitment, and it turns a one-way restart into a rehearsed one. Worth doing for any service whose startup validates before binding. And a trap: SIGTERM released the port but left the process alive for 35 seconds, needing SIGKILL. The port was free that entire time, so a script waiting on port availability would have started the replacement alongside a still-running old process. Kill by PID and wait on the PID, never on the port - a freed port is not evidence of a dead process, the same way an unreachable post office is an outage rather than an empty inbox. |
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docs(memory): bank the Parakeet bench result and tts-dev's storage-vs-execution lesson
The IRV seat was retired on tts-dev's numbers: it lost to the FV seat at both clip lengths and to whisper-large-v3 at 6.24s. Their length sweep fits ~58ms fixed + 56ms per audio-second with an asymptote of ~17.8x realtime, which independently reproduces our 17x on a different clip and harness, and the gateway hop measured below their harness resolution so ext-stt is the right consumer path. Two caveats recorded against our own numbers: their between-run variance is 20% because GPU 0 carries the live chat path, and our 0.50s median came off an idle GPU 3 - a best case, not a comparable. Their RTFx retraction is the durable part: published RTFx is batched throughput on datacenter hardware rather than single-stream latency, and the two differ by ~200x. Also banks the shape their acceptance gate caught, because it generalises past their repo. A JS escape inside a Python string arrives transformed, closing the string and killing the whole inline script, while the page still renders and both import and node --check pass - the file still holds the backslash. That is the same failure as reading provider=cuda out of a log: a check that reads the artifact as stored cannot see a transformation that happens between storage and execution. Both check the input to a transformation and get reported as if they checked its output. |
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docs(memory): svos-dev fixed the roster check; disabled_toolsets deleted from config
svos-dev landed c9d2a96 - build_miranda_roster now returns an empty disabled list unconditionally and the startup line no longer names the key. The 28-name list is removed from ~/.hermes/config.yaml rather than left commented, since a paste-ready array behind a hash is what a future session uncomments; a short warning stands in its place. Their mechanism is better than mine and replaces it in the record. _get_platform_tools resolves platform_toolsets first and applies global suppression last, so subtracting 28 names from a one-element platform set is a no-op by resolution order - not merely 'adds no safety on top'. That holds for any future platform; the measurement only established the single case. And the endpoint already carried the answer. _handle_toolsets computes each row's enabled as membership in the per-platform set, so verified live: 29 rows with svos_miranda the only one reporting enabled=True. A check reading that field rather than counting rows was correct all along, against a config that never needed the key. |
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feat(hermes): enable svos_miranda live; retire irv parakeet and voice-studio
Four operator rulings executed. svos_miranda is live in Hermes. Gateway restarted 02:10 (PID 3107822 -> 3901622, confirmed by observing the change). /v1/toolsets now reports 29 rows including svos_miranda, and an api_server session resolves to exactly the 8 plugin tools with the write-klass five absent. agent.disabled_toolsets stays off permanently: 'i dont want the tools disabled everywhere'. That key is a global end-of-pipeline subtraction rather than an api_server-scoped one - measured, a default session goes 46 tools to 20 - and it is unnecessary anyway, since platform_toolsets.api_server alone produces the exact 8-tool surface. The operator's own session was verified intact at 46 tools after the restart, which was the point of the ruling. The consequence is now SVOS's to absorb: it must stop verifying against the global roster before it restarts, because that roster is 29 by design and will not shrink. Two workable options went to svos-dev - verify the api_server surface instead, or relax the check to 'svos_miranda present and write-klass absent'. The second also survives any unrelated plugin landing on this host, which matters because 'stt' already appears in that endpoint's rows while resolving it logs 'Unknown toolset'. irv parakeet retired: it lost tts-dev's bench to the FV seat at both clip lengths and to whisper-large-v3 at 6.24s. Checked for consumers first - no gateway alias pointed at it, and every other reference on that host was a comment in a port-allocation register. Retirement banner on its README names the replacement. voice-studio stopped: it existed for the dots mint loop and Breeze obsoleted dots on 2026-09-06, so it was retired rather than repaired. |
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docs(memory): voice-studio is retired not broken; agent.disabled_toolsets is global
Two corrections and one finding from the same night. voice-studio: operator ruled the stack out of service. It existed for the dots mint/audition loop and dots was decommissioned 2026-09-06 when Breeze took the fleet seat, so its reason to exist went with it - which is also why nine days of breakage alerted nobody. No v11 rebuild. The gate one-liner was applied minutes before the retraction landed and was left in place rather than reverted, since the value it replaced was a dead address and reverting is another recreate of a stack that is going away. Container not stopped: it was already running, and 'down for now' arrived as a relayed paraphrase rather than an instruction. The two host-level facts survive the stack. Containers on irv-ml1 cannot resolve nh3.internal at all, so on that host the DNS name is the WRONG fix for a dead-IP bug - it swaps a dead address for an unresolvable one. Confirm resolution from inside the container before recommending a name. And a stale link can have more than one drift behind it: voice-studio had three stacked, two of them invisible from the host compose file. Hermes: svos_miranda is installed and enabled in config but the gateway was NOT restarted, so it is not live. agent.disabled_toolsets as specified by svos-dev is not scoped to api_server - it is a strict end-of-pipeline subtraction applied to every session on every platform. Measured: a default session goes 46 tools to 20, losing memory, file, terminal, web, browser and more. It is also unnecessary: platform_toolsets.api_server alone resolves an api_server session to exactly the 8 svos_miranda tools. The line buys only SVOS's startup check, which reads a global endpoint to verify a per-platform property. Left commented out with the measurement inline so an incidental restart cannot gut the assistant. |
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docs(memory): record the Parakeet bench result and a 96-place stale address on irv-ml1
tts-dev benched both endpoints against a Whisper baseline. FV wins at both clip lengths (155/391 ms vs IRV 354/1010 vs whisper-large-v3 457/690) — IRV is slower than the incumbent at 6.24 s, so the duplicate seat is now retirable on evidence rather than on tidiness. Their length sweep fits ~58 ms fixed + 56 ms per audio-second, asymptote ~17.8x realtime, independently reproducing our 17x on a different clip and a different harness. The gateway hop measured below their harness resolution, so ext-stt is the right consumer path. Two caveats recorded against our own numbers: their between-run variance is ±20% because GPU 0 carries the live chat path, and our 0.50 s median was taken on an idle GPU 3 — marked as a best case, not a comparable. Also records tts-dev's retraction, which is the durable lesson: published RTFx is batched throughput on datacenter hardware, not single-stream latency, and the two differ by ~200x. Their plan had projected 60-120 ms from it. Separately, chasing the one stale Homepage href they flagged turned up 96 occurrences of the retired wg0 lifeline 10.100.79.3 under /opt/docker on irv-ml1. Most are cosmetic, but voice-studio is genuinely broken: it is configured to reach studio-gate at that address, both are running, they sit on separate docker networks, and the address is on no interface on the host. Failing since the 2026-09-06 cutover with nothing alerting. ext-tts verified unaffected. Not fixed here — eight containers to recreate, three load-bearing, and the voice-studio repair touches app.py rather than config. Surfaced with evidence. The pattern is the third of its shape: a retired address needs a repo-wide grep by ADDRESS rather than by hostname, and container labels live in no file the sweep reads until the container is recreated. |
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fix(parakeet): move the seat from the empty GPU 3 to GPU 0
Placed on GPU 3 first because it was the empty card. That was the wrong read:
the seat is ~800 MiB, under 1% of a 96 GB card, so the question was never "where
does it fit" but "whose headroom is cheapest to spend".
vLLM sizes its KV cache as a fraction of TOTAL VRAM, not free VRAM. A resident
tenant on an otherwise-clean card therefore does not cost its own megabytes — it
costs the profiling margin of whatever full-size seat lands there later, and
flash-next needs 93 GiB of 96. A 96 GB card at 2 MiB can still take that; the
same card at 922 MiB is one where the next big seat needs its utilization
hand-trimmed, which this repo's flash-next history shows is both thin and silent
when it goes wrong.
Committed utilization per card is the number that governs, not free bytes:
GPU 0 0.40 + 0.48 = 0.88 ~13 GB spare <- moved here
GPU 1 0.52+0.24+0.10+0.055+0.03+0.03 = 0.975 ~4.3 GB
GPU 2 0.96 ~1.8 GB
GPU 3 - kept empty as reserve
GPU 3 is back to 2 MiB / 97,247 MiB free and is now documented as a deliberate
reserve rather than a spare.
Post-move n=5 on the same clip: 0.68 / 0.54 / 0.54 / 0.52 / 0.53 s, median 0.54 s
against 0.50 s on GPU 3. The spreads overlap at this sample size and no difference
is claimed; the GPU 3 figure was taken on an idle card and is now noted as a best
case, since the seat shares GPU 0 with the hot serving path. Silence control and
the gateway round-trip both re-verified after the move.
Also records both Parakeet endpoints (FV v3 on Blackwell, IRV v2 on a 3090) and
the four confounds that make them not an A/B pair, sent to tts-dev for the bench.
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feat(parakeet): stand up Parakeet STT on fv-ml1 GPU 3 + LiteLLM ext-stt/whisper-1
Retargets the existing sherpa-onnx stack from irv-ml1 to fv-ml1's utility card and puts it behind the gateway. GPU 3 was the only card with room: 0/1/2 carry the vLLM seats at 84-95.5 GB of 96. Changes: - compose: pin GPU via `device_ids: ["3"]` (the dead on-host stub used `count: all`, which would have handed a 0.6B ASR seat all four cards); join traefik-net; port 8300; homepage href to the live FV address. - .env.example: default to the v3 int8 model (25 European languages, 464 MiB) rather than English-only v2; models to /tank/parakeet/models. - app.py: warm the recognizer at startup before uvicorn accepts traffic. The warmup is not an optimisation. ONNX Runtime's CUDA EP compiles and autotunes lazily on the FIRST DECODE, and on sm_120 that measured 45.7s cold (reproduced at 45.1s on a second container) against ~0.50s warm. A 45s first request is indistinguishable from a hang and LiteLLM's default timeout abandons it long before it returns. Decoding 1s of silence at load moves the cost inside the healthcheck's 300s start_period; first real request after restart is now 0.65s. Verification, because "provider=cuda" in the log is only an echo of the env var: ORT falls back to CPU silently and still returns correct text, so the service being up and the transcript being right establishes nothing. The discriminator is a process on GPU 3 (922 MiB), confirmed. Controls both directions — a known TTS sentence transcribes near-exactly (positive), 3s of digital silence returns empty (null). Warm throughput 0.50s median on an 8.52s clip, n=5, spread 0.47-0.65s, single-stream, one clip: a smoke measurement with its harness stated, not a benchmark. Gateway aliases `ext-stt` (engine-neutral, mirrors ext-tts) and `whisper-1` (OpenAI-compatible drop-in) registered via POST /model/new, i.e. LiteLLM's Postgres store where the ext-tts family already lives — no gateway restart, and config.yaml is consequently not a complete picture of what the gateway serves. Both verified end to end. The aliases use a raw IP deliberately: ana-docker resolves no .internal names at all (resolv.conf points at 1.1.1.1), and LiteLLM only reaches irv-ml1 through a hand-pinned extra_hosts entry. A second hosts entry would mean recreating the container and bouncing the gateway for every consumer. Also records the svos_miranda plugin validation pass and its structural findings, and notes that the irv-ml1 parakeet is still running — there are two now, and retiring the old one is the operator's call. |
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memory: snapshot — mesh retirement complete, next session points at svos-dev + STT
Captures the close-out of the fleet networking session: mesh membership retired for both fv-ml1 and nh3-dev, leaving six nodes that each have a job, with fv-ml1 carrying a break-glass rejoin instead of standing membership and exactly one live reusable pre-auth key left fleet-wide. In-flight rewritten to lead with the two jobs the operator named for the next session -- drain the svos-dev message that has been unread since 00:52, then stand up an STT service from nothing -- so a fresh context opens on the work rather than on the history. |
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feat(mesh): retire nh3-dev from the mesh and revert the masquerade it required
nh3-dev sits on the NH3 LAN and reaches every site through its own default gateway; RouteAll was already false, so it never used the tunnel for routing. Membership bought a 100.64.0.4 address nothing referenced -- grep across the repo and ~/development found only docs and memory hits. It also cost something concrete. A host running Tailscale installs -A ts-input -s 100.64.0.0/10 ! -i tailscale0 -j DROP, and because the fleet's subnet routers preserve source rather than masquerading RFC1918, a mesh client's packet reached nh3-dev's ens18 still sourced 100.64.x and was dropped silently. That is why nh3-dev.nh3.internal failed from the mesh while every NH3 host that does not run Tailscale worked, and it needed a -d 10.100.10.50/32 -j MASQUERADE exception on nh3-scale to paper over. Retiring the membership removed the anti-spoof rule, so the exception went with it -- mesh-exit-masq.sh is back to the two rules it had before yesterday. Verified after: nh3-dev reachable at 10.100.10.50 from ESH, Anaheim, FV, Irvine and NH3, and reaching all four sites plus the internet itself. fv-ml1 unaffected. The mesh is now six nodes and every one has a job: three site routers, vb-gateway, irv-ml1 (Irvine's own router, no separate scale node), and the operator's MacBook Air. Nothing is enrolled just in case. |
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feat(fv): invert the watchdog to break-glass; fv-ml1 off the mesh
Operator's design, and a better one. Once the FV SNAT rules landed, fv-ml1's mesh membership was redundant for routing and its only remaining value was as a second way in. Keeping it enrolled bought a standing second door; joining on demand buys the same recovery path without one. normal tailscaled stopped + disabled; fleet reached via the gateway SNAT fault nh3-dev / nh3-docker unreachable while the WAN is up action start tailscaled + tailscale up -> reachable at its 100.64.x address fv-ml1 is now off the mesh and its node record deleted. Verified it still reaches NH3, ESH, Anaheim, Irvine and the internet on the SNAT path alone, then the break-glass fired on cue (counted 1..4, joined at 5 as 100.64.0.10), answered ping and ssh from nh3-dev, and was closed again cleanly. No auto-leave, deliberately: once open the door stays open until a human runs systemctl disable --now tailscaled. A watchdog that re-closes on recovery flaps, and a flapping recovery path is down exactly when someone finally looks. It also skips entirely when already on the mesh, which is what makes it idempotent after firing. The question exposed a hole worth more than the redesign. The stored rejoin key was one of the 2026-09-12 FV cutover keys, expiring 2026-09-19 -- a break-glass credential that dies in four days and fails silently at the only moment it matters. Replaced with a dedicated 1-year reusable key (headscale ID 8, expires 2027-09-15), vaulted as fv-ml1/headscale-breakglass-key, root:600 on the host. That also closes the standing self-join risk rather than trading it: the two stale reusable keys (IDs 5, 6) are expired, so the mesh now has exactly one live reusable key -- purpose-built, on a host we control -- instead of two orphans nobody owned. Rejoin uses --accept-routes=false and the reason is in the script: on 2026-09-14 tailscale up --accept-routes on this box accepted its OWN subnet from the gateway and black-holed it. That happened with a human watching; here it runs unattended, during an incident, on a box already in trouble. |
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memory: snapshot — FV cross-site routing fixed, fleet conventions pinned
Session captured: the FV outbound-NAT root cause and its diagnostic signature, the fv-ml1 dead man's switch, fleet identity/group/path conventions and the root:docker normalization, nh3-dev's ts-input reachability fix, ESPHome modernisation and the kb KB-search tool, and the Hermes bearer rotation release. Six new detail files. Tried-and-abandoned gains three: probing OPNsense endpoints by POSTing at them (which rebooted the FV firewall), advertising a /32 from nh3-dev, and the nh3-scale remote-site masquerade rules that fired but were not the fix. Housekeeping: 8 Recent-decisions entries archived to archival-memory.md, and 21 oversized inline entries split into detail files per the two-tier rule -- they had been sitting fully inline in the index, which is what the split exists to prevent. Two pointers to a detail file archived this run were repointed at archival-memory.md. The index is 389 lines, still over the ~300 soft cap. The archival guards stop it there: only 4 further entries are old enough to move and every one carries an open deferred-work pointer. An over-cap file that keeps live decisions beats a scannable one that lost a deferred call. |
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fix(fv): broaden the Tailscale SNAT rules from fv-ml1/32 to the FV LAN /24
All four outbound-NAT rules on the FV gateway now match source 10.251.50.0/24 instead of fv-ml1's single address, so a second host at FV works on arrival rather than reproducing a failure whose symptoms point at routing rather than NAT. Anaheim got a /24 rule of its own through the API. The 2026-09-13 ANA rule was written with write_config and is invisible to source_nat/search_rule, so leaving it as the only ANA coverage would have kept one destination on a different code path from the other three. The legacy /32 rule is now redundant but harmless -- it NATs identically and first-match wins -- and is noted in the runbook for deletion from the UI, since it is the one rule the API cannot see. Descriptions rewritten to name the real scope. Three of them said "fv-ml1 to X" while covering the whole subnet, and a description that understates a rule's reach is the same trap as the Anaheim-only scope that caused this. Verified after: fv-ml1 reaches NH3, nh3-dev, ESH, Anaheim, Irvine, the mesh and the internet; nh3-dev, esh-docker-vm and ana-docker all reach FV and each other; the FV BMC remains reachable inbound. Pre-change config backup taken. Also records that 10.251.250.0/24 (BMC/management) is deliberately NOT covered -- inbound reachability is what out-of-band recovery needs, but a management host originating traffic to another site would hit this same wall. |
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fix(fv): extend the Tailscale SNAT rule to NH3, ESH and Irvine
FV could not reach any site but Anaheim. The cause was a single outbound-NAT rule on the FV gateway, added 2026-09-13 and scoped to Anaheim only -- docs/runbooks/fv-to-ana-nat.md says so in as many words: "Other remote sites remain outside this fix's scope." Three mirrors added, same interface and source, only the destination differing: 10.100.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/16 and 10.6.110.0/24. After: fv-ml1 reaches NH3, ESH, Anaheim, Irvine, the mesh and the internet. Regression sweep clean across nh3-dev, nh3-docker and esh-docker-vm. The runbook now records what the failure looks like, because it presents as a routing or Tailscale fault and is neither. fv-ml1 reached mesh addresses perfectly and LAN addresses not at all; the FV firewall log showed the outbound passing with src=10.251.50.54 and no reply returning; temporary counting rules proved nh3-scale received 5 packets and sent 4 replies; both peers' AllowedIPs were correct. The discriminator that settles it is that every other site pair works -- nh3-docker to esh/ana/FV and esh-docker-vm to FV all succeed -- so a general subnet-to-subnet limitation is ruled out and only outbound SNAT is left. Also reverts the remote-site MASQUERADE rules added to nh3-scale earlier on the asymmetric-return theory. They fired but were not the fix, so they are removed rather than left to accumulate as NAT that achieves nothing. Applied via source_nat/add_rule + apply with a pre-change config backup taken first. Source scope is still fv-ml1's /32, so a second FV host will hit this again -- flagged in the runbook. |
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feat(fv): mesh dead-man's switch on fv-ml1; partial progress on FV cross-site routing
WATCHDOG (done, proven). fv-mesh-watchdog probes two independent anchors every
minute and, after 5 consecutive failures, puts Tailscale back to known-good:
accept-routes off, re-up against headscale with a stored key. It touches
nothing else — a watchdog with a wide remit is a second way to lose the box.
Two anchors that cannot share a failure mode: a plain-internet one and a
mesh-only one. If BOTH fail the site uplink is down, Tailscale cannot fix that,
and it deliberately does nothing — thrashing tailscaled during an ISP outage
turns a wait into an incident. Disable file at /etc/fv-watchdog.disable for
planned work.
Proven by positive control, not assumed: counter incremented 1..4 without
acting, fired the restore at 5 (tailscale up ran, tailscaled restarted), and
reset to 0 once the real anchor returned. fv-ml1 stayed reachable throughout.
This exists because a on fv-ml1 black-holed it
from its own LAN earlier the same day: it accepted 10.251.0.0/16 from the
gateway — its OWN subnet — and routed the local network through the tunnel.
FV CROSS-SITE ROUTING (partial). Two changes landed, the path is still broken:
1. acceptSubnetRoutes 0 -> 1 on the FV gateway's tailscale plugin, via
settings/set + service/reconfigure (the documented apply, not a reboot).
The GATEWAY now has 10.0/16, 10.100/16 and 10.250/16 in its routing table
and reaches NH3 and ESH itself. It could not before.
2. Remote-site MASQUERADE rules on nh3-scale. The existing jump matched only
-s 100.64.0.0/10, so traffic from another site's LAN never entered
MESH-EXIT and kept its original source; an NH3 host then replied via its
own LAN router instead of back through nh3-scale, making the path
asymmetric. The rule is confirmed firing (counter increments on FV
traffic) but does not complete the path.
Still failing: fv-ml1 -> NH3/ESH LAN addresses. Mesh addresses work perfectly
from fv-ml1 (100.64.0.1, 100.64.0.4), Anaheim works over the metro link, and
the FV firewall log shows the outbound passing on tailscale0 with
src=10.251.50.54 and no reply ever returning. The remaining gap is forwarded
FV-LAN traffic specifically, not the gateway's own.
Full regression sweep clean: nh3-dev, ana-docker and esh-docker-vm all reach
all four sites plus the internet.
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feat(backup): stage the FV firewall config in ana-docker's nightly restic run
The FV edge firewall was not backed up anywhere. Its config now lands in
/var/lib/restic/stage/fv-gateway-config.xml via ana-docker's pre-backup hook,
so the existing 01:00 restic snapshot captures it. ana-docker is one of the
three egress addresses the firewall's WAN allowlist permits, which is why the
pull lives there rather than with the FV hardware — a site that has lost power
cannot back itself up, and FV lost power two days ago.
Non-fatal by design: an unreachable firewall must not abort the nightly
database dumps. But a bad pull must not be promoted either. The summary loop
only rejects EMPTY staged files, and this endpoint answers an auth failure
with a perfectly non-empty HTML error page — which would have been backed up
as a firewall config that is the right size and restores nothing. The block
checks the body really contains <opnsense> and writes nothing otherwise.
Three tests cover it, including the HTML-error-page case. The first draft of
those tests was worthless: _fv returned a Path out of a TemporaryDirectory
context, so the tree was deleted before the assertions ran and every
exists()-is-False check passed regardless of what the script did. Only the
positive test failed, which is the sole reason the broken negatives were
caught. They now snapshot inside the tempdir's lifetime, and the docstring
says why.
Also records two OPNsense API lessons in docs/pfi/opnsense-api-reference.md:
endpoints are actions and must never be probed for existence by POSTing at
them — that is how /api/core/system/reboot took the FV site dark for 3.5
minutes while looking for an apply call this same file already documented —
and the apply step is service/reconfigure, which auth/user notably lacks, so
an API-only key edit persists in config.xml and does nothing until the OS user
sync runs at boot.
Credentials in /etc/restic/fv-gateway.env (root:600), template committed,
values vaulted as fv-gateway/opnsense-api-{key,secret}. Pre-change config
snapshot vaulted as fv-gateway/config-backup-20260914.
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fix(mesh): make nh3-dev reachable at its LAN address from the mesh
One rule on nh3-scale (CT 107): -d 10.100.10.50/32 -j MASQUERADE, above the RFC1918 RETURNs in /usr/local/sbin/mesh-exit-masq.sh, so it survives a reboot rather than living only in the running ruleset. Cause. A host that runs Tailscale installs -A ts-input -s 100.64.0.0/10 ! -i tailscale0 -j DROP. The fleet's subnet routers run NoSNAT: true with RFC1918 explicitly exempted from masquerade — deliberate source preservation, and a departure from Tailscale's own --snat-subnet-routes=true default — so a mesh client's packet reached nh3-dev's ens18 still sourced 100.64.x and died at the anti-spoof rule. Every NH3 host that does not run Tailscale was unaffected, which is why this read as a DNS or routing fault rather than a policy one. Masquerading just this destination makes it behave like every other host and leaves source preservation absolute elsewhere. Verified before and after against 13 targets from nh3-dev and 9 from the MacBook Air, and again after restarting the service so the chain was rebuilt from the script rather than from the manual insert. nh3-dev.nh3.internal now resolves and connects from the mesh, ssh and the Booth port included, with no script changes anywhere. Records the failed approach prominently, because it is the attractive one: advertising 10.100.10.50/32 from nh3-dev itself black-holed it from ESH, Anaheim, FV and Irvine. ip rule there puts lookup 52 at priority 5270 ahead of main at 32766, and becoming a subnet router let table 52 capture cross-site traffic the node has no accepted route for. Its own LAN and the internet kept working throughout, so a single-host check confirms a break it cannot see. |
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docs(nh3-dev): Hermes bearer rotation hold released
svos-dev split their Bifrost wall's HS256 signing key off the Hermes Bearer (svos main 7165272), so nh3-dev/hermes/api-server-key is free to rotate again. The previous note said do-not-rotate and would have made a future session refuse a legitimate rotation on stale grounds. Not rotating now: the key was minted today, is vaulted, and has never been exposed — rotation is a hygiene action with a trigger, and none applies. What changed is the capability, which is what the record needs to reflect. Also records two things for when the svos_miranda plugin arrives: it will reference the dispatch key rather than the Bearer (expected, not a defect), and its tools array is legitimately seven or eight entries because repo_read is conditional on a config block SVOS owns. A third number is a real fault. |
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fix(esphome): correct the record — mDNS advertisement was never removed
ha-dev caught a false claim I committed in
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fix(esphome): actually disable remote-build — two switches, only one closes the port
ha-dev found the WS API and tested the read half; this runs the write. But the
command they identified is the wrong half, which is worth recording because the
naming actively misleads.
remote_build/set_offloader_settings {remote_builds_enabled: false}
the OUTBOUND half — this dashboard sending builds to peers.
Persists, reads back false, and leaves the receiver listening.
remote_build/set_settings {enabled: false}
the receiver-side master switch, per ReceiverController.set_settings's
own docstring. Tears the listener down live, no restart needed.
Set both. Verified across a restart: 6055 absent, zero peer-link bind lines,
zero mDNS advertisements, both switches read back false. Persisted at
_remote_build.enabled in /config/.device-builder.json — which did not exist
until the flag was first changed, so 'no on-disk representation' was true only
of the default state.
ESPHOME_REMOTE_BUILD_HOST=127.0.0.1 is KEPT as a backstop rather than removed.
The off state now lives in one JSON file whose in-code default is enabled:True
(controllers/remote_build/_state.py) and whose module's stores soft-recover to
an empty model on a malformed blob rather than erroring — so a lost or corrupt
settings file silently re-enables remote-build. With the env var set, that
regression binds loopback instead of 0.0.0.0.
Also finishes deploy-stack.sh properly. This was patched three times in one
session because -a is -rlptgoD and a non-root identity cannot apply owner,
group, permissions OR times to a root-owned directory; each patch fixed one
letter and the next deploy failed on the next one, every time exiting 23 AFTER
a successful transfer. The rule is now written into the script: the deploy
syncs content, the conventions own metadata. --no-o --no-g --no-perms
--omit-dir-times. Verified: clean run, destination keeps 2775 root:docker with
setgid intact.
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fix(esphome): bind the remote-build peer-link to loopback; finish the rsync fix
ha-dev asked for the Device Builder 1.0.0 remote-build receiver to be turned off: one instance, builds run locally, so the feature has no role, and it was binding 0.0.0.0:6055 with mDNS advertisement on a privileged host-network container that writes firmware to devices. Reading the source first changed the framing. controllers/remote_build/ _state.py declares 'remote_builds_enabled: bool = True', so nobody enabled it — it arrived on by default with the rewrite. And the flag has no on-disk representation until it is changed: neither .device-builder.json nor .device-builder-preferences.json carries it, and the only writer is the app's own command API behind the UI. Setting it from a playbook would mean inventing a schema for a model I have not read. So this binds ESPHOME_REMOTE_BUILD_HOST=127.0.0.1 — a documented env var, no entrypoint override — which removes the LAN reachability now and is verifiable (ss reports 127.0.0.1:6055, was 0.0.0.0:6055). It is explicitly NOT the off switch ha-dev asked for and the compose comment says so; the Settings toggle is one UI click and the line can go once someone flips it. Also completes yesterday's deploy-stack.sh fix, which was half a fix. --no-o --no-g stopped rsync chgrp-ing a root:docker destination as a non-root identity, but the very next deploy failed the same way one layer along — 'failed to set times on ...' — because a non-root identity cannot utime() a root-owned directory either. Same exit 23 after a successful transfer. Added --omit-dir-times. Fixing only the group half looked fixed until the next run, which is the whole reason this is worth a line in the script's comment. |
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feat(esphome): pin 2026.8.2, relocate config into backup coverage, rotate creds
ha-dev requested all three on esh-docker-vm (operator-authorized); the stack had no canonical copy, so it is added to stacks/ rather than edited in place. Pinned ghcr.io/esphome/esphome:2026.8.2 — it was bare, which is exactly how it sat on 2025.8.2 for a year: docker pulled latest once at container creation (2026-04-20, from a layer cached 2025-08-29) and never re-pulled. Every current Everything Presence sensor failed config validation on that build. Verified after: esphome version reports 2026.8.2 and the vendor's own Pro package now validates clean (exit 0, 'Configuration is valid!'), which is the item that unblocks the six waiting sensors. Relocated /path/to/esphome/config (the upstream template placeholder, taken literally by docker) to /opt/docker/conf/esphome, matching the mosquitto pattern. Copied and checksum-verified all 5763 files before removing the original, with a tarball kept at /root/pre-change-archive/. Credentials moved off test/ChangeMe to the vaulted 32-char secret (esh-docker-vm/esphome-dashboard), passed via a host-only .env so nothing plaintext enters git. Three things the job surfaced that were not in the request: The directory is 538 MB, not the 3 KB reported — .esphome/platformio is 508 MB of PlatformIO toolchain and .esphome/build another 31 MB, both regenerable. Relocating as-asked would have inflated restic's /opt/docker source ~45x against its own ~12 MB budget, so both subtrees are excluded in /etc/restic/profiles.yaml. The 3 KB of actual config is now covered, which was the point. 2026.8.2 logs a DEPRECATION for the bare USERNAME/PASSWORD env names and says they will stop working in a future release — a silent auth loss on some later bump, on a privileged host-network container that can flash any ESP device on the LAN. Switched to ESPHOME_USERNAME/ESPHOME_PASSWORD; the warning is gone. Device Builder 1.0.0 opens a NEW listener on 0.0.0.0:6055 (remote-build peer-link) that 2025.8.2 did not have. Also fixes deploy-stack.sh: plain 'rsync -a' makes rsync chgrp the destination as the deploy identity, which since the 2026-09-14 root:docker normalisation is not root. It failed with 'Operation not permitted' and exit 23 AFTER transferring content — a loud error on a deploy that had succeeded. --no-o --no-g lets the setgid bit assign the group instead. |
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feat(scripts): add kb — direct search over the personal Worldtree KB
The Worldtree HTTP API cannot answer a question about the operator's notes.
/search there searches conversation MESSAGES, so a note that plainly exists
comes back as a clean empty result with no error attached. On 2026-09-14 a
search for 'shrimp' returned 0 hits; searching for 'the' and 'a' also returned
0, which is the only reason the empty result was read as an empty ACCOUNT
rather than an empty KB. kb reads the markdown tree directly instead:
deterministic, ~0.9s for 7,634 files, no tokens.
Two measurements shaped the design rather than being assumed:
7,492 of 7,634 notes are INGESTED library material (4,155 fiction chapters,
3,287 book sections, 50 academic papers) and only ~142 are hand-written.
A flat relevance list buries the wanted note under a hundred chapters of
Austen, so NOTES and LIBRARY are ranked and reported separately.
Only 137 notes carry a frontmatter summary: key. Ingested notes use a
'## Summary' body heading instead and some have neither, so the description
falls back through all three shapes.
Two bugs caught by controls before shipping, both of which produced confident
wrong output rather than an error:
Deriving the word list from argv meant a quoted
NOTES — 40 matches, showing 12
Sous Vide Shrimp
ATLAS/Cooking/Sous Vide/Sous Vide Shrimp.md
Thawed shrimp should be sous vide at 135°F (57°C) for 30-40 minutes.
Beef Stew
ATLAS/Cooking/Sous Vide/Beef Stew.md
This note outlines sous vide cooking temperatures and times for stew meat
Pulled Pork
ATLAS/Cooking/Sous Vide/Pulled Pork.md
This note explains how to cook pulled pork sous vide: set the precision
Brisket Sous Vide
ATLAS/Cooking/Sous Vide/Brisket Sous Vide.md
Here''s a concise summary:
Ribs Sous Vide
ATLAS/Cooking/Sous Vide/Ribs Sous Vide.md
Here''s a concise summary:
Derusting Solution
ATLAS/Chemistry/Derusting Solution.md
This note details how to create an enhanced rust removal soak by adding specific
CNC with Raspberry Pi, USBIP & Camera
clippings/CNC with Raspberry Pi, USBIP & Camera.md
Here''s a concise summary of the note:
SF - Victor
ATLAS/Buy List/SF - Victor.md
This order confirmation details 7 separate shipments totaling $2,533.45,
Espresso Martini
ATLAS/Cooking/Espresso Martini.md
This note provides a recipe for a cocktail combining vodka, coffee liqueur,
Brazilian Cheese Bread - Pão de Queijo
ATLAS/Cooking/Brazilian Cheese Bread - Pão de Queijo.md
This note provides a recipe for Brazilian cheese bread (#brazilian #food
Congee Chao
ATLAS/Cooking/Congee Chao.md
This note provides the basic ratio (1 part rice to 7 parts water) for making
White Bread
ATLAS/Cooking/Baking/White Bread.md
Here''s a concise summary:
LIBRARY (ingested books, fiction, papers) — 635 matches, showing 12
Pride and Prejudice — CHAPTER XXI.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch23.md
Following Mr. Collins’s proposal, Elizabeth encounters Wickham and learns that Jane has received a letter from Caroline Bingley announcing the party's immediate departure for London. While Jane interprets this move as definitive proof of Bingley’s indifference and permanent absence, Elizabeth remain
Pride and Prejudice — CHAPTER XXIV.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch26.md
Following Bingley’s letter confirming his settlement in London and growing intimacy with Miss Darcy, Elizabeth doubts the sincerity of his attachment to Jane, while Jane remains optimistic that external influences rather than design are responsible for their separation. The sisters debate these diff
Pride and Prejudice — “On the Stairs.” CHAPTERXXVII.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch29.md
Elizabeth reunites with Jane in London, where Mrs. Gardiner reveals that Jane suffers from periodic dejection despite her cheerful exterior, and the women debate whether Mr. Wickham’s pursuit of Miss King is motivated by mercenary or prudent reasons. Elizabeth then accepts an invitation from her aun
Pride and Prejudice — CHAPTER XXXII.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch34.md
Mr. Darcy’s frequent visits to Hunsford Parsonage spark speculation among the locals, particularly Mrs. Collins, who suspects he is in love with Elizabeth despite her own dismissal of the idea. Their initial interactions reveal a clash of perspectives on social convenience and local attachment, whil
Pride and Prejudice — Chapter XLVI.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch48.md
Following Lydia’s elopement with Wickham, Elizabeth Bennet informs Mr. Darcy of the scandal, reflecting that her earlier failure to reveal Wickham’s true character may have prevented the crisis and doubting their intent to marry due to their lack of funds. While Darcy offers sympathetic silence befo
Pride and Prejudice — CHAPTER XIII
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch15.md
Mr. Bennet announces that Mr. Collins, the heir to Longbourn, will visit on November 18th, prompting mixed reactions from his family regarding the entail and Collins’s pompous letter. Upon arrival, the tall and stately visitor formally compliments Mrs. Bennet’s daughters and praises the estate, thou
Pride and Prejudice — Covering a screen. CHAPTER VIII.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch10.md
In Chapter VIII, Elizabeth endures the superficial sympathy and class-based mockery of the Bingley sisters while they criticize her muddy appearance and "low connections," even as Darcy defends her eyes and acknowledges her sisterly affection. The chapter highlights a clash of values when Darcy argu
Pride and Prejudice — “Conjecturing as to the date.” CHAPTER XLIII.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch45.md
Elizabeth’s visit to Pemberley fundamentally shifts her perception of Mr. Darcy, as the estate’s elegance and Mrs. Reynolds’ glowing testimony reveal his true character as a kind master and brother. This admiration deepens into gratitude upon seeing his portrait, softening her view of his past pride
Pride and Prejudice — CHAPTER LVI.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch58.md
Lady Catherine de Bourgh arrives at Longbourn to confront Elizabeth Bennet, demanding she promise never to accept Mr. Darcy’s hand based on claims of superior lineage and the scandal surrounding the Bennet family. She argues that Elizabeth’s inferior birth and lack of fortune constitute a disgracefu
Pride and Prejudice — PRIDE. and PREJUDICE
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch02.md
Jane Austen’s *Pride and Prejudice* is presented as her most perfect work, distinguished by its structural regularity where every incident drives the plot toward a denouement strictly connected to earlier events. The novel’s supreme merit lies in its masterpieces of humor and character creation, whi
Pride and Prejudice — A note for Miss Bennet. CHAPTER VII.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch09.md
Mr. Bennet’s estate entailed on a distant relation leaves his daughters with limited financial security, yet the family’s attention is dominated by the arrival of the militia in Meryton rather than Mr. Bingley’s fortune. Mrs. Bennet successfully engineers Jane’s stay at Netherfield by sending her ou
Pride and Prejudice — CHAPTER XVI.
fiction/rex390-pnp/ch18.md
In Chapter XVI, Mr. Collins and the Bennet cousins visit Meryton, where Mr. Wickham captivates the room and initiates a conversation with Elizabeth regarding Mr. Darcy’s character. Wickham claims that Darcy unjustly withheld a valuable living promised by his father, attributing this act to jealousy
arrived as ONE element and became a single three-word pattern. The phrase
never appears in a note titled 'Sous Vide Shrimp', so the tool reported
'no match' for a note it had just found for the bare word 'shrimp'. The
needle is now split on whitespace.
Resolving the payload from dirname $0 broke the moment it was symlinked onto
PATH. Now readlink -f.
cat refuses any path resolving outside the KB root — the remote half runs as
root because the volume is root-owned.
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fix(fleet): strip sudo+docker from llmuser; record the pgrep over-attribution trap
Operator ruling: remove the groups and see what breaks. Nothing did. ana-docker llmuser sudo+docker -> none; irv-ml1 llmuser sudo -> none (it was never in docker there). 45 containers on ana-docker and 18 on irv-ml1 all still running with zero unhealthy, and lora-training-worker stayed active. Extended to irv-ml1 because it is the same account with the same defect and gpasswd -a reverses it in one command; ana-docker was only the host the audit happened to run against first. The durable lesson is why it was safe, and it is a measurement trap rather than a permissions one. reported 19 processes on ana-docker and 3 on irv-ml1, which reads as a busy service account. Nearly all of them were CONTAINER processes whose in-image UID is 1001 and therefore collides with llmuser on the host — /proc/<pid>/cgroup shows docker-*.scope. A container's runtime UID is unrelated to host group membership, so the groups were buying those workloads nothing. The single real host workload sets User=/Group= explicitly through systemd, which does not consult the sudo group either. Recorded in the conventions doc so the next audit checks the cgroup before concluding a host account is busy — otherwise a UID collision blocks a cleanup that carries no risk. |
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feat(fleet): pin identity/group/path conventions + read-only audit playbook
Operator ratified four conventions on 2026-09-14. docs/pfi/fleet-conventions.md is the pin; playbooks/audit-host-conventions.yaml is its instrument. Pinned, verified free on all eight surveyed hosts (dynamically-allocated system accounts cluster in 989-999 and descend, so 800-899 is safe): 800-849 svc-* service accounts 850 infra-ops uid+gid 851 docker gid 852-899 reserved for fleet-wide groups 1000 the human account (vh) Deliberately a pin for NEW hosts, not a migration mandate. The UID drift (infra-ops is 1001/1002/1003/2001) is tolerable because there is no central identity anywhere and a UID only has to agree where files cross hosts. They do on /mnt/smithy — but that export is owned by Synology UIDs that resolve on neither host and is 0777 throughout, so cross-host sharing works today BECAUSE permissions are wide open. Aligning UIDs does not fix something broken; it earns the right to drop that 777. Recorded as such rather than as an urgent defect. The audit playbook reports and never enforces, so a standard cannot quietly become a flag day. Verified against nh3-dev, ana-docker, corviduo-dev and nh3-extdev; it immediately surfaced two things the survey had missed — llmuser holds sudo AND docker on ana-docker, and seven stacks on corviduo-dev run from outside /opt/docker/compose (three under /home/vh, four under /opt, including the three CI/CD-driven Worldtree deployments that must not be moved). Also supersedes the CLAUDE.md posture that made corviduo-dev the one host excluded from fleet normalisation: the operator ruled all ops on it belong to infra-ops. Its application layer stays CI/CD-owned. |
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feat(fleet): normalize docker deploy trees to root:docker setgid
Operator ruling: root:docker, not a personal username and not a new admin account. lkraven is one of three names he uses, so baking it into shared infrastructure guarantees a stale owner later; a dedicated deploy account buys nothing the existing docker group doesn't, since that group already exists on every host holding exactly lkraven + infra-ops. Applied to nh3-dev, nh3-docker, esh-docker-vm, irv-ml1, ana-docker. All five now 2775 root:docker on /opt/docker and /opt/docker/compose. Clears the 0777 on nh3-docker and ana-docker. 55 stack .env files normalized to root:docker 0640, tightening 43 world-readable ones and opening 31 that were readable by only one of the two deploy identities. No containers bounced — inode metadata only, and .env is read at compose up. Deliberately not a recursive chmod. Three acme.json files and an ssh private key are mode 0600 and traefik/ssh refuse to start if that widens, which would have been a delayed failure surfacing at the next restart rather than now. Protection is both mode-based (0600/0400 untouched) and name-based (acme.json, *.key, *.pem, *.pfx, id_*); modes are symbolic so the 53 executable files in these trees keep their exec bit. Two defects found and fixed mid-rollout. The name list was initially reported but not enforced, so a .key already at 0644 on esh-docker-vm was widened to 0664 — reverted, and the list is now enforced in the chgrp and widening steps. And the exec-bit verify asserted every .sh is executable, which was never true and false-FAILED irv-ml1; it now compares the executable-file count against a recorded baseline. |
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fix(upgrade-docker-ce): retry the stack restart under sudo before reporting FAILED
The restart loop runs as the deploy identity, not root, and a stack .env is allowed to be root-owned 0600. compose bails on the unreadable file before doing anything, so the stack was reported FAILED while restart=unless-stopped had already brought it back healthy — a false failure, which is worse than a quiet one because it trains readers to skim the failure lines. Retry under sudo -n before calling it a failure, and print compose's own output either way. Verified on nh3-dev against beszel: plain attempt rc=1 'open /opt/docker/compose/beszel/.env: permission denied', sudo retry rc=0 'Container beszel-agent Started', container back to healthy. The happy path is unchanged — the sudo attempt only fires after a failure. Also record that tts-dev migrated talk from ~/talk into /opt/docker/compose/talk, which removes the one stack on this host that was invisible to anything walking that path. |
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feat(nh3-dev): migrate to docker-ce 29.8 + compose plugin; drop compose v1
Operator cleared the swap and ruled out a docker-compose v1 shim. Ran playbooks/upgrade-docker-ce.yaml: docker.io 20.10.24 -> docker-ce 29.8.0, docker-compose 1.29.2 -> compose plugin v5.5.1, containerd 1.6.20 -> containerd.io 2.3.5, buildx v0.37.1 added. 12 changed, 0 failed, verify 4/4. talk and beszel-agent back healthy on their restart policies. The pre-state was worse than 'old': there was no cli-plugins directory, so 'docker compose' was not a command and exited 0 on a help blurb — a silent no-op that reads as a successful deploy. Records two things the run surfaced. vastblue-u5-pg and its anonymous volume were removed when the old daemon stopped; the playbook has no rm, prune or purge and five other containers survived, so the cause is almost certainly --rm, unprovable now that the record is gone. It was measured beforehand as zero user tables in every database, so nothing was lost. And the playbook's restart loop runs as infra-ops and cannot read a root-owned 0600 stack .env, so it false-FAILs that stack. Also notes that nh3-dev is the only host where /opt/docker/compose is root-owned; the other four are lkraven. Created /opt/docker/compose/talk as lkraven so tts-dev can move talk out of ~/talk. Normalising the parent is left to the operator. |
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feat(nh3-dev): repoint Hermes at gen-large on the LiteLLM gateway
Operator ruled the repoint; Miranda moves off the paid z.ai Coding Plan onto free local compute. model.default gen-large, provider custom, base_url http://10.250.50.70:4000/v1. Verified by a real turn rather than by config: hermes status reports gen-large / Custom endpoint and a completion through /v1/chat/completions returns 660 tokens. The openrouter/nous credit warnings cleared with it. Records the landmine found on the way: CUSTOM_API_KEY and HERMES_CUSTOM_API_KEY are inert for bare provider: custom — they bind only a named custom_providers entry through its key_env. Without model.api_key the request ships the placeholder no-key-required and LiteLLM 401s inside the response body while hermes status still reports a healthy gen-large / Custom endpoint, so status alone cannot verify this change. Also notes that nh3-dev/hermes/api-server-key must not be rotated until SVOS splits its HS256 signing key off the shared value. |
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fix(nh3-dev): strip the Hermes api_server tool surface; flag the z.ai model resolution
Set platform_toolsets[api_server] = [] in ~/.hermes/config.yaml. Measured back on /v1/toolsets: 28 rows before and after, enabled 14 -> 0, registered tools 40 -> 0. The row count surviving matters — SVOS's _hermes_roster derives its required-config line from the full report, so narrowing the surface does not blind the diagnostic. terminal, code_execution, file, browser and computer_use are now unregistered rather than merely unreachable. Separately, record an unresolved finding raised by svos-dev: model.default names anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 and model.base_url names openrouter, but provider: auto with only a zai credential resolves Miranda to GLM-5.3 on the paid z.ai Coding Plan. Nothing under ~/.hermes references the LiteLLM gateway. The operator believes Miranda runs on gen-large, which does exist on LiteLLM. Not repointed — the premise is his to confirm. |
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docs(nh3-dev): record the Hermes Agent gateway sidecar on 127.0.0.1:8765
Stood up hermes-gateway.service (user systemd, vendor 'hermes gateway install') for SVOS/Miranda, which cut over from Worldtree to Hermes on 2026-09-11 and aborts at boot without it. Bearer key vaulted as nh3-dev/hermes/api-server-key. Notes the wide default tool surface: with no roster config the gateway registers all 28 toolsets on the api_server platform, terminal and code_execution included. Loopback bind plus the key are the only containment until SVOS installs its svos_miranda plugin and the platform_toolsets / disabled_toolsets roster is applied. |
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memory: snapshot — fv-ml1 rebalance (cyberprev→sec, gen-small A3B, all seats native 262K)
Pre-clear snapshot. Rewrote Current state / in-flight to the post-rebalance topology (cyberprev is the sec seat, gen-small stood up, char/coder retuned, all generative seats native 262K in-band, catalog+bench shipped) and added a Recent decisions index entry + detail file 2026-09-14-fv-seat-rebalance-gen-small.md. Also commits two previously-untracked durable artifacts (fv-to-ana-nat runbook + its memory detail) so memory does not lag the work. Archival: file is over the ~300-line soft cap (377) but 0 entries archived — the 4 age-eligible (>14d) entries all carry open deferred-work pointers (guarded), and all other entries are <14 days old. Reported per the archival discipline. |
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docs(fv-ml1): add curated LLM seat catalog (lineage/provenance/cards/speed) + bench script
Adds docs/pfi/llm-seat-catalog.md, the durable hand-curated record of what each seat IS -- lineage, provenance, model-card facts, quantization, speculative decoding, licenses, and measured warm tok/s + deep-prefill depth results with their harness and date. It complements the auto-generated fv-ml1-gpu-seat-inventory.md (live placement/KV/concurrency): the two split by volatility, and the catalog defers to the inventory for any live number. Adds scripts/seat-bench.py so the catalog's speed/depth numbers are reproducible (warm decode tok/s, n=3, conc=1, median; deep prefill at ~0.97x max-model-len with an allocator-log OOM scan). Serial by design -- concurrent deep prefills would confound both OOM and tok/s. Captures the 2026-09-14 measurements: all six generative seats prefill to ~255K (coder ~16K) with zero OOM/CUBLAS/illegal-memory; warm decode 62.7-337.3 tok/s; per-seat VRAM. seat-inventory.py now cross-links the catalog in its footer. |
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feat(fv-ml1): add gen-small A3B seat; sec/gen/char to native 262K; coder reclaim; gateway
Full seat rebalance across GPU0/GPU1 (flash on GPU2 and empty GPU3 untouched), operator-directed. Every target seat now serves native 262,144 context with concurrency in the requested 1.2-2.5x band, verified from live boot logs: cyberprev (sec) 262144 @ 1.37x depth-probed CLEAN to 259,722 tokens flash-next (gen) 262144 @ 1.31x (untouched, already in band) gen-small (NEW) 262144 @ 2.56x MTP k=3 measured 69.6% accept / 3.09 len char-rp 262144 @ 1.22x (was 1.02x; util 0.40->0.52) char-rp-fast 262144 @ 2.04x (util cap 0.30->0.24, pinned KV unchanged) - gen-small: NEW seat, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (3B active MoE), llmfan46 Heretic (MPOA) NVFP4 experts-only, already on disk at qwen36-35b-a3b-heretic-nvfp4. There is no general Qwen3.8 A3B (3.8 MoEs are Flash-Next and the 2.4T), so this is the 3.6 fallback the operator specified. GPU0, :8026, MTP k=3, coherent and MTP-verified before wiring. gen-small / gen-small-reasoning gateway aliases. - coder: 8192 @ 13.75x -> 16384 @ 4.70x (util 0.06->0.055). Context doubled, waste cut. Not the exact 2-3x target: the 1.5B weight+overhead floor (~4.2 GiB) sits just under the util knob's resolution, so hitting <=3x reliably needs a --kv-cache-memory byte pin (compose change) rather than the util fraction. - cyberprev raised 163840 -> 262144: depth-probed with non-repeating prompts to 259,722 tokens, clean (no OOM, memory flat). Unlike mog-sec (same base arch, capped at 163840 for depth crashes), this checkpoint holds native depth. - Gateway (operator calls): summarizer + classifier -> gen-small; new classifier-large -> gen-large (flash) for the accuracy tier; summarizer-large stays on flash. All verified end-to-end. - GPU1 hit its ceiling raising char-rp; resolved by trimming char-rp-fast's reservation cap (its KV is pinned, so concurrency held at 2.04x) rather than moving a utility seat -- the shared GPU_ID on reward/embed/rerank made a single-seat move messier than the in-GPU rebalance. Seat inventory regenerated from the live containers. |
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docs(fv-ml1): regenerate seat inventory — cyberprev in the sec seat, mog-sec gone
Live-read regeneration after promoting cyberprev into sec/sec-reasoning and retiring mog-sec. GPU0 now carries cyberprev alone; sec/sec-reasoning aliases resolve to :8025. |
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feat(litellm): promote cyberprev into the sec / sec-reasoning seats; retire mog-sec
Operator instruction: take down the existing sec seat (mog-sec) and promote hotdogs (cyberprev) into the sec and sec-reasoning gateway seats. - mog-sec container (vllm-mog-sec, :8019, fv-ml1 GPU0) taken down; ~48 GB freed on GPU0 (cyberprev, already co-resident there, is now the sole GPU0 chat seat). - Gateway sec -> hosted_vllm/cyberprev-27b @ :8025; sec-reasoning -> hosted_vllm/cyberprev-27b-thinking @ :8025. sec/sec-reasoning are ROLE aliases, so this is a promotion, not silent substitution (samplers were already identical between the sec blocks and cyberprev, so only model+api_base changed). - Removed the standalone cyberprev-27b / cyberprev-reasoning gateway aliases added in the prior commit -- now redundant with sec/sec-reasoning, and the fleet convention is a role alias on the gateway with the model's served-name only at the vLLM layer (as mog-sec had). cyberprev's vLLM served-names are unchanged. - Verified e2e through the gateway: sec answers (nmap -sV version detection), sec-reasoning answers with a thinking split (127 reasoning tokens); retired mog-sec-27b now 400s. Note: mog-sec was the fleet's only offense+defense/blue-team seat; the sec role is now offense-only (cyberprev tool-calling). Operator-directed after reviewing the capability comparison. mog-sec stack files retained for a future restore. |
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docs: correct sec-seat lineage — M.O.G.-SEC/mog-sec is an offense+defense SFT finetune, not a persona-on-stock
The sentinel-r3 header and two memory notes described mog-sec (Blackfrost
M.O.G.-SEC / Qwentium) as 'a persona system prompt on stock weights'. Its card
is explicit that it is NOT: base_model_relation: finetune on Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B,
a refusal-free offense+defense cybersecurity SFT with YaRN 1M context ('not a
system-prompt sticker on a stock Qwen'). So all three sec-seat candidates are
Qwen3.8-27B SFT finetunes and differ in training focus, not in kind:
mog-sec = broad offense+defense SFT; sentinel-r3 = pentest agent-trajectory SFT;
cyberprev = cyber tool-calling LoRA SFT on an abliterated base.
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docs(cyberprev-seat): correct model lineage — it is a cyber SFT finetune, not an abliteration
Earlier commits and the compose header called cyberprev "an abliteration of Qwen3.8-27B (refusal-direction weight edit, no finetune)". That was wrong. Per the hotdogs model card (base_model_relation: finetune), cyberprev is an offensive-security agentic tool-calling LoRA, merged at scale 1.0, trained on hotdogs/cyber-sft-agent-qwen38 (8,400 rows across 22 pentest tools: nmap, sqlmap, metasploit, hydra, crackmapexec, ...). The abliteration is INHERITED from its base (hotdogs/Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated); the new capability in this repo is the cyber SFT itself. So the sec-seat lineage is: mog-sec = persona on stock weights; sentinel-r3 = pentest-trajectory SFT on stock weights; cyberprev = cyber tool-calling SFT on an abliterated base. All three are SFT-or-prompt variants; the earlier framing of cyberprev as "not a finetune" was backwards. Corrects the compose header lineage block, the homepage dashboard description, and the gateway alias comment. No functional change; the running seat and its weights are unchanged (label refreshes on next container recreate). |
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fix(cyberprev-seat): serve coherent v2 quant from name-repaired source; wire gateway
The first cyberprev quant served pure gibberish despite passing every structural check. Root cause: the hotdogs/Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-cyber-preview checkpoint ships broken -- 850 of 1199 tensors (the whole transformer body) carry a TRIPLED `language_model.` prefix, confirmed present in the upstream HF index (an unsloth export bug, not our download). transformers silently loaded the unmapped tensors as random-init, the pipeline quantized noise, and structural verification passed because it inspects the output config, never that input names mapped. A plain greedy coherence smoke caught it; nothing structural could. Fix: rewrite tensor names against a known-good reference of the same architecture (qwen38-27b-uncensored-bf16), verified the repaired name-set == reference name-set exactly (1199 tensors, 0 collisions), and re-quantized from the corrected source (cyberprev-bf16-fixed). v2 is coherence-verified (spec off AND live with dflash): Paris/Berlin/Rome, correct arithmetic precedence, primes, clean cyber-domain chat with a proper thinking split. dflash k=7 measured at 2.77 mean acceptance length. Seat serves cyberprev-27b / cyberprev-27b-thinking on :8025/GPU0 with dflash k=7, displacing the retired sentinel-r3. Gateway: removed the retired sentinel-r3 / sentinel-r3-reasoning aliases and added cyberprev-27b / cyberprev-reasoning -- NOT repointed, since serving cyberprev weights under sentinel's name is silent substitution. Verified end-to-end through the gateway; sentinel-r3 now 400s. Playbook gains a superseded-claims row: structural verification does not imply a good quant; a coherence smoke is the load-bearing gate, and third-party sources must have their tensor names diffed against a reference before quantizing. Broken v1 quant dir removed. |
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feat(cyberprev-seat): mixed-NVFP4 quant of the abliterated cyber-preview, displacing sentinel-r3
Third sec-seat candidate: hotdogs/Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-cyber-preview, an abliteration (refusal-direction weight edit) of Qwen3.8-27B aimed at the cyber-offense refusal surface -- distinct from mog-sec (persona on stock weights) and sentinel-r3 (SFT finetune). Operator instruction: quant it, take sentinel down, serve it with mtp or dflash. Quantized to the house mixed recipe via services/gen-seat-mixed-quant/ (NVFP4 W4A4 on MLP layers 0-55 + FP8 W8A8 on attn/linear_attn/lm_head/MLP 56-63, FP8 KV). The prior attempt (2026-09-11/14) died with "Cannot determine num_attention_heads" because it ran from a bare .venv whose newer compressed-tensors reads that field at top level; quant_mixed_nvfp4.py already promotes text_config attention fields for exactly this reason, and the run through the canonical vLLM-image + llmcompressor 0.13.0 / compressed-tensors 0.18.0 path (versions recorded from the container) completed clean. post_quant.py did its job: grafted the 15 MTP tensors verbatim (BF16), and re-injected re:^mtp.* into the ignore list after llm-compressor pruned it for matching no module at quant time -- without which vLLM loads the grafted head uninitialised and speculative decoding runs at 0% acceptance. It also caught a missing preprocessor_config.json (absent from the abliterated source AND its hotdogs upstream); restored from Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B, verified byte-identical to the working sentinel-r3 build, so the vision tower preprocesses. Verified from the tensors, not the config: NVFP4 covers MLP 0-55, FP8 covers 56-63, no overlap, 168 weight_packed tensors (56x3), 15 BF16 MTP, 333 BF16 vision. 51.0 GiB bf16 -> 21.0 GiB. Served under its own name (cyberprev-27b / -thinking), NOT sentinel-r3 -- serving different weights under a retired name is silent substitution. Takes over :8025 and GPU 0 (co-resident with mog-sec). dflash k=7 is the default, carried from the sentinel measurement, but is re-measured against MTP on this ABLITERATED body before cutover, since abliteration is exactly what can desync an MTP head. Drafter (qwen38-27b-dflash2-drafter) shared with mog-sec. Context capped at 163840 not native 262K, inherited from mog-sec's hard-won depth lesson; raise only after a non-repeating deep-prefill probe on this checkpoint. |
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test(flash-next-seat): depth-probe orca to 258K clean; record a blind instrument
Bisected context depth on the orcarouter checkpoint with non-repeating prompts (unique random hex per probe, so prefix caching cannot short-circuit the prefill). Six depths from 31,978 to 258,517 tokens, all served. The load-bearing evidence is the engine allocator log: zero OOM, CUBLAS, or illegal-memory entries across the run. That is the same detector that caught the dealignai near-miss at 155K on the previous checkpoint, where it did fire. The probe also ran under real concurrent operator load, making it a stricter test than a solo run rather than a weaker one. Positive control passed: a mis-sized first attempt produced a ~265K-token prompt and got a clean 400 naming the limit instead of killing the engine, so the probe could detect the failure mode it was looking for. Calibration for re-runs: random hex words tokenize at 7.9 tokens/word here. vLLM #54919 (long prefill starving decode for 3-7 minutes) did not reproduce: 258K prefilled in 28.9 s, roughly 8,900 tok/s, scaling near-linearly from 32K. Records that the probe's memory-headroom half was BLIND and must not be reused. It reported an identical 95,460 MiB used / 2,427 MiB free on every row across an 8x range of depths, which is the tell. Two causes: --kv-cache-memory pins the pool and the engine logs "skipped memory profiling", so GPU usage is flat with respect to depth; and the actual risk is a transient activation spike during prefill, which before/after nvidia-smi bracketing structurally cannot observe. Peak-activation headroom therefore remains unmeasured; the pass/fail result rests on the allocator log alone. Also qualifies the earlier 167.5 tok/s decode figure as a possibly-contended lower bound, and records the operator's independent 140 tok/s average measured in real use while this probe was loading the same card. |
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chore(flash-next-seat): hardlink duplicated orca shards — 76 GiB reclaimed
The PLE conversion copied 28 non-PLE shards instead of linking them, because os.link hit EXDEV across two separate container bind mounts of the same filesystem. Both directories sit directly on /tank, so the duplication was recoverable. All 28 files verified byte-identical by SHA-256 before any change -- the point of a hardlink is that two paths become one file, so "same size" is not sufficient evidence. Relinked with ln to a temp name followed by an atomic rename over the target, never rm-then-ln, which would leave a window where the file does not exist for a process that reopens it. Generated as 56 literal-path commands rather than a loop, per the no-destructive-ops-on-a-variable-path rule. 294G apparent across the two directories -> 218G actual. Done with the seat live and serving; it did not blink. Records the coupling this creates: the pristine and converted directories now SHARE INODES, so editing a shared file in place in either one changes both. config.json and model.safetensors.index.json are deliberately excluded from the sharing, since the conversion changed them. Also consolidates two duplicate disk bullets left by earlier edits. |
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docs(flash-next-seat): dealignai weights deleted — record that no local rollback exists
Operator instruction: delete the displaced dealignai checkpoint. 125 GiB reclaimed from /tank (59% -> 57% used). Verified before removing: not mounted by any running or exited container, no symlinks, no inodes shared with the converted orcarouter directory. Every "rollback is two .env keys" statement across the stack README, the .env.example, persistent-memory and its detail file was true when written and is false now -- the .env backup still names paths that no longer exist. Corrected in place rather than left as false reassurance, since a stale rollback instruction is discovered precisely when it is needed. Reverting this seat now costs a 126 GiB re-download. The quality A/B against dealignai is likewise no longer runnable locally: its reference arm is gone. The pristine 170 GiB orcarouter download is retained deliberately -- it is what makes the PLE bf16->FP8 conversion reproducible without re-fetching -- and that is now recorded so a future session does not reclaim it as an obvious duplicate. Also notes that ~75 GiB of non-PLE shards are duplicated between the pristine and converted orca directories (the convert's hardlinks hit EXDEV across two container bind mounts); both now sit directly on /tank, so relinking would reclaim it if /tank ever tightens. |
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feat(flash-next-seat): serve orcarouter weight-only NVFP4 on gen-large
Swaps gen-large from the dealignai ModelOpt W4A4 build to orcarouter/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-NVFP4, which is weight-only on both axes (W8 float attn, W4 float experts, input_activations: null) and so avoids the 4-bit-activation long-context degradation mode. The checkpoint was previously recorded as unloadable on any mainline vLLM, requiring a from-source PLE-loader patch. That conclusion was wrong on cost. Qwen4ExpPLEEmbeddingMethod.from_quant_config checks ple_embedding_dtype as branch 1, before any quant-config type check, and its NotImplementedError for CompressedTensorsConfig is scoped to the PLE path only -- experts and dense load through the ordinary compressed-tensors paths. Verified by instantiating the real config and calling the selector both ways before doing any work. orcarouter ships a bf16 PLE, so the fix was to make the declaration true: convert the 51.2B-param table to FP8 and declare it. Its 128 PLE tensors sit in one shard file with nothing else in it. Global amax 0.0894, per-shard outlier ratio 1.66x, scale chosen exactly representable in bf16 so no scale-rounding error stacks on quantization; amax maps to 446.17/448, no clipping. Round-trip 2.655% RMS relative, 0.002% underflow, 0 saturation -- the same FP8-PLE treatment dealignai already shipped. MTP head (31 tensors) and vision tower carried through untouched. A second, independent blocker followed: orcarouter labels its 12 QSA layers qwen_sparse_attention, which vLLM rejects; it accepts full_attention and selects QSA via indexer_n_heads. Confirmed indexer_n_heads == 4 in both this and the dealignai checkpoint before renaming -- without that check the rename silently selects plain attention and serves a subtly wrong model that still passes a healthcheck. Measured on the live seat: healthy, coherent, KV 344,155 tokens @ 262,144 ctx, MTP k=3 at 60.4% acceptance / 2.81 mean acceptance length, warm decode median 167.5 tok/s at conc=1 (n=5, spread 12.2%). The reorg note's dealignai figure came from a different harness, so this is not claimed as a win over it; what it does establish is that weight-only experts did not cost decode speed. Still open: controlled quality A/B vs dealignai, and a deep-prefill probe at 262K. Rollback is two .env keys; dealignai remains on disk. Also corrects the README's MTP-is-off section, stale since k=3 was deployed, and adds a superseded-claims row to the quantization playbook. |
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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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feat(fv-ml1): daily drift alarm for the seat inventory
Wires scripts/seat-inventory.py --check to a user systemd timer on nh3-dev (09:15 daily, Persistent=true so a missed run fires on next boot) that posts to althing when the committed document stops matching the live box. Alarms rather than auto-committing. A drift means something changed on the HOST, which deserves a human look -- silently regenerating the doc would erase the evidence of when the change happened and why, which is how the char-rp substitution went unnoticed for three weeks. The alarm includes the changed table rows, not just the fact of divergence, so it does not send the reader hunting. ⚠ The post goes --to infra-ops, which is the fleet ops handle the reading session also runs as. That is the documented exception -- a memo from cron to a future session, the same pattern as the Beszel alerts -- so the message says so in its first line, to stop a future session triaging its own alarm as peer mail and trying to reply to it. SuccessExitStatus=0 1 because a detected drift is a deliberate non-zero exit, not a unit failure. |
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feat(fv-ml1): generate the seat inventory from the live box instead of maintaining it by hand
The seat documentation must stay current, and a hand-written document cannot. The LiteLLM config described char-rp as a 31B model on a host and GPU it had not been on since 2026-08-24 -- three weeks of silent drift in a file that read as authoritative, and the reason a seat spent that period serving a model nobody intended. Anything typed here drifts the same way; anything read off the running containers cannot. scripts/seat-inventory.py derives the whole document from the host: - placement and VRAM from nvidia-smi compute-apps, mapped to containers through /proc/<pid>/cgroup -- nvidia-smi reports the vLLM engine child while docker reports the container pid, so matching them directly silently yields nothing - weights and KV tokens parsed from each engine's own startup log, not derived arithmetically, with concurrency computed as KV tokens over context - architecture, layer and expert counts, and the exact quantization group scheme (W4A4 vs W4A16 distinguished) from each model's config.json - speculative-decoding method and k from the container argv, which is how the three incompatible methods on this box became visible - lineage from the .PROVENANCE.txt SIBLING files -- they sit beside the model directory, not inside it, which is why an earlier pass wrongly reported two fully-documented seats as having no provenance - gateway aliases resolved from the LiteLLM config on ana-docker --check compares the committed document against the live box and exits non-zero when they diverge, ignoring only the generation timestamp. Suitable for CI or a scheduled drift alarm; read-only throughout, safe against production. Also commits the KV_CACHE_BYTES override added to the MTP campaign runner, which asserts the flag exists in the derived argv and aborts rather than running a campaign that silently ignored it. |
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docs(fv-ml1): reconcile GPU seat inventory and model lineage against running containers
Read from docker inspect, nvidia-smi and each model's own config.json rather than from compose files or the gateway config, so the document records what is deployed rather than what was intended. Findings worth naming: - char-rp drift. The LiteLLM config documents char-rp as G4-MeroMero-v2-31B on ana-ml2 GPU 0; :8016 actually serves gemma4-26b-a4b-it-nvfp4, a 26B 30-layer 128-expert stock Gemma-4, on fv-ml1 GPU 1. Host renaming explains part of it, but 31B MeroMero-v2 and 26B stock gemma4 are different models and the comment block carries sampler defaults keyed to the model it names. - Two gateway aliases are dead: erp-tune-v2 (:8098) and gemma4-26b-a4b-it-base (:8099). Nothing is listening on either; callers get a connection failure rather than a clear retirement error. - Three different speculative-decoding methods coexist -- dflash k=7 with a separate drafter on mog-sec, qwen3_5_mtp k=3 on gen, mtp k=3 on flash-next. The method string is architecture-specific; copying a --speculative-config between seats without changing it will not work. - Three seats run the floating :latest tag, so what they would pull on recreate is not what is running and was never recorded. - Seven aliases resolve to vllm-gen on :8015, which is why GPU 0 shows draw during ordinary OpenWebUI use -- its auto-titling fires summarizer per turn. Also commits the flash-next-seat MTP k=3 change made today: compose gains the speculative-config with its measured rationale, and .env.example documents the KV-cache reduction MTP requires (14 GiB OOMs, 10 GiB verified in production). |
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fix(mtp-bench): give each arm its own container name instead of tuning teardown waits
Container teardown latency here is unpredictable, not merely slow. Measured 2026-09-13 on the same container in the same session: once ~55s, once 0s. Removing a container holding ~92 GB of GPU memory plus the offloaded PLE mapping leaves an Exited record owning its name for that whole window, so any fixed wait or retry budget is a guess that will eventually be wrong -- a 12x5s retry lost arm k1 by roughly two attempts. Arms now use $NAME_BASE-$arm, set in boot() after stop_bench has torn down the previous arm. Names are never reused, so the collision is impossible by construction and teardown latency stops being load-bearing. cleanup() reaps every fn-mtp-bench-* container at exit. stop_bench keeps the GPU-memory wait -- the next container genuinely needs the device, and unlike the container record nvidia-smi clears promptly and reports truthfully. It no longer waits on the container listing at all. Three earlier hypotheses were wrong and are recorded so they are not retried: the name is not held by a phantom (the container is present and Exited), the removal does not fail (rm -f succeeds; it is asynchronous), and GPU memory release does not track name release (memory frees first, by a wide margin). |
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fix(mtp-bench): docker ps -a is the wrong probe for name release; wait on GPU memory and retry the conflict
The previous fix polled `docker ps -a` until the bench container's name disappeared. That probe is useless here and the fix was a no-op: measured 2026-09-13, the container stops being listed while the daemon still holds the name reservation, so the poll returns false early and `docker run` hits a Conflict naming a container ID that `docker inspect` already reports as 'no such object'. Arm k1 was lost twice this way. Two changes, each aimed at something actually observed: - stop_bench waits on GPU memory falling below 1000 MiB rather than on the container listing. That is the resource the next container genuinely needs, and nvidia-smi reports it truthfully. - boot() retries `docker run` while stderr matches 'already in use', up to 12 attempts at 5s. The daemon's name lag is transient, and forfeiting an arm over it is silent data loss -- run_arm turns a failed boot into a skipped arm that still lets the campaign report success. Both probes verified against real artifacts before deploy: grep -c 'already in use' on the captured k1.runerr returns 1, and the nvidia-smi query returns a bare integer that compares correctly under [ -gt ]. The earlier fix passed bash -n and was still inert, so syntax is not the check that matters here. |
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67a7dc539e |
fix(mtp-bench): stop_bench raced docker name release, silently dropping arms
`docker rm -f` returns once removal is INITIATED, not once complete. The
bench container holds ~92 GB of GPU memory plus the offloaded PLE mapping, so
the name stays reserved for several seconds while the device is released. The
next `docker run --name` then dies with a name Conflict.
That failure was near-invisible: run_arm treats a failed boot as
`arm SKIPPED`, the campaign continues, and it still prints CAMPAIGN DONE.
Observed 2026-09-13 -- arm k1 lost the race after off_A's loaded container,
while k2 won it only because k1 had never started a container to tear down.
Every arm that follows one which actually ran is exposed, so k3 and off_B were
both on track to vanish from a run that would have reported success.
stop_bench now polls until the name is released (120s ceiling, warns and
continues). Added a completeness gate: the campaign asserts every expected
res-<arm>-rep<n>.json exists and reports CAMPAIGN INCOMPLETE naming each
missing result rather than DONE, so a gutted run cannot look like a clean one.
Verified the docker ps format string empirically -- an earlier draft nested
quotes so the template rendered as '{{.Names}}' with literal quotes, which
grep -qx could never match, making the wait a no-op that passed bash -n.
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0a9cf58e19 |
fix(mtp-bench): peak-power summary mis-keyed GPU 0 by timestamp
power.log lines begin '<HH:MM:SS> 0, <W> W, ...', so splitting the first pipe-field on ', ' yields a[1] = '20:18:00 0' rather than '0'. GPU 0 was therefore keyed by sample timestamp, emitting one bogus row per sample and no recoverable peak, while GPUs 1-3 aggregated correctly. Take the GPU index as the last whitespace-separated token of a[1]. Verified against a two-sample fixture: the old parser emits a spurious row per timestamp, the patched one reports 0/1/2/3 once each at the correct peaks. The end-of-campaign summary is the GPU-side input to the fv-ml1 circuit budget, so a silently wrong GPU 0 row is a measurement fault, not cosmetic. The in-flight campaign still runs the old on-host copy (editing a running bash script corrupts execution by byte offset); its summary will be recomputed from the raw power.log. |