Long operator-driven diagnosis: the 'broken/German/dead-air' was the Turbo T3
model over-running its generation tail (garble in final ~2-3s, worse with
length + tight sampling), NOT a language leak or OOM. Fix = server-side
max_chunk_chars=250 cap (:v2), keeping 3-4 sentence clean chunks with smooth
joins. Method (amplitude-gated voiced-ZCR), foot-guns (tail-trim unreliable,
build-context/image drift), and the flat-vs-repo divergence recorded.
Freed ~17.4GB (3090 728MiB->18.2GB free) for co-resident chatterbox-fast
(was OOMing). Detached native process; GPU mem held by multiprocessing-fork
children that orphan to init - kill children explicitly. Restore cmd +
affected consumers (asset-engine, gateway-chat) recorded.
Comment-only bump built from clean git archive of Worldtree origin/main
(578f8fc, on the b182 line). Index + clean-venv install + metadata==0.1.6
verified; muninn-dev + worldtree-dev pinged. Cleared from carried-pending.
Operator-authorized (via worldtree-dev thread 01KZE6TGRHAW) cleanup of the WT
#394 contamination: b182 deployed onto personal, all 3 preconditions verified,
reconcile --repair swept the 5,354 orphan index rows. Fresh reconcile confirms
orphan=0/missing=0/stale=0. Evidence-hold index-row half lifted+done; on-disk
generation-dir file-retention hold still stands. reconcile --repair exited rc=1
on a non-blocking worldtree-side git-staging bug (index.add on a deleted
uncommitted path) — flagged to worldtree-dev, not fixed here.
Brokkr independent verify clean (maxdiff 0.000000, no split). R42 v13
acceptance gate PASSES first time in its history: main+kb 56/90->90/90,
evictions 33->0. A2 control torn down. A3 throughput characterized at
~34 req/s (graceful queueing), with A4/util-bump/replica as levers.
A3 now backs the prod reranker alias but was launched --restart no;
docker update to unless-stopped so an ana-ml2 reboot can't silently
break the alias. Full compose-service promotion tracked as a follow-up
in the selection ledger.
The incumbent Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B was measured actively harming 80/90
fleet queries on main+knowledge_base (and inverting the bare-name region
behind Worldtree #389) — no-reranker beat it 89/90 vs 56/90. Brokkr's R43
bake-off selected BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 (A3): 90/90 top-10, mean rank
0.19, multilingual (XLM-R), ~1.2 GB lighter than the incumbent.
Control arm (A2 = same Qwen weights, seq-cls head) scored identical to the
incumbent, proving the fault is a training prior, not the serving head —
which cancelled the expensive Qwen3-4B arm before it cost a GPU seat.
Cutover boundary 2026-08-06T17:37:48Z. The qwen3-reranker alias and the
:8002 backend are retained for one-edit rollback. Adds the process audit
trail at docs/pfi/reranker-selection-ledger.md.
Session (2026-08-05): 3 Booth features live+tagged (verbatim-wrap chip, .md/.txt
doc-viewer, image prev/next arrows); worldtree herald re-nudge bug -> forseti
althing-core v2.1.2; fleet-CI-resilience flip attempted end-to-end and PARKED on
an act_runner->gitea action-fetch auth blocker (infra-ops to research, deferred).
Archived the 2026-07-15/16 recent-decisions batch (8 entries) to keep the index
under the soft cap.
Zooming an image now shows ‹ / › arrows at the left/right edges that step
to the previous/next image in the booth (gallery sorted-rel order), wrapping
around, plus keyboard ←/→. Arrows are hidden when a booth has a single image.
booth_view_file computes neighbors via a new booth_image_names() helper and
passes prev_url/next_url to view.html. 3 new tests, suite 47 passing;
deployed + verified live on nh3-dev :8090.
Loose .md/.txt/.log files rendered as forced-download links in the gallery
and downloaded (or showed raw) when opened. Now they open in a readable
in-booth page via the existing /b/<name>/view route:
- .md -> rendered HTML (Python-Markdown: fenced code, tables, sane lists),
styled in an Australis .markdown-body with the viewer chrome;
- .txt/.log -> preformatted <pre> text view.
The gallery links docs to the viewer (📄) instead of a download; the view
page keeps a ⬇ (?dl=1) for saving. Files over 2 MB hand back raw. New
markdown dep (optional-import: degrades .md to text view if absent).
booth_image_view -> booth_view_file (now handles image + doc + raw-fallback).
9 new tests, suite 44 passing; deployed + verified live on nh3-dev :8090.
Recorded under Tried-and-abandoned: --enable-triton-backend on irv-ml1's
A6000 crashes every render (triton's fp8 dequant needs fp8e4nv/e4m3, which
sm_86 lacks; the global --fp8_e4m3fn-text-enc dequant dies at CLIPTextEncode,
taking fp8 and int8 alike). Reverted cleanly; cu130 rebuild won't fix a
hardware format limit; revisit at the Ada refresh. Also captures the
compose-env-needs-recreate-not-restart mechanics lesson.
Verbatim-index.html booths were served raw (FileResponse) with no base
template, so they had no favicon and no way back to the booth index — the
gap the app-rendered gallery/zoom pages already covered via base.html.
booth_view now reads a small verbatim index.html and, via a pure
wrap_verbatim_html(), injects:
- a fixed-position 'all booths' chip (scoped class, max z-index, hidden
in print), pinned top-right (empty on left-aligned report layouts; a
top-left chip clips the page title) and appended at the END of the
document so it never reorders the page;
- the Booth favicon at the first head-ish seam, only if the page declares
no icon of its own.
Injection is doctype/charset-safe for the compact HTML real booths use
(<!doctype html><meta charset><title><style>…content, no explicit head/
body): nothing is ever placed ahead of a leading <!doctype> (which would
force quirks mode), and the ~250B favicon link keeps the charset <meta>
inside the first-1024-byte detection window. The raw file route
(/b/<name>/index.html) stays byte-for-byte, so assets and ?dl=1 downloads
are unchanged; files over 8 MB serve raw, unwrapped.
Verified live on nh3-dev :8090 across the real booth shapes (compact-HTML
crow-*/jackdaw-*/mimir-favicon, well-formed dcc-summarizer-ab, own-icon
edict-favicon). 10 new tests; suite 38 passing.
The [2026-07-25] nh3-extdev herald-install entry claimed infra-ops was
sudo-less on extdev, explaining the use of the lkraven@ NOPASSWD path.
That parenthetical was wrong: infra-ops has had full NOPASSWD sudo on
extdev since 2026-06-25. Kept the historical action (lkraven@ was used)
and appended a dated correction so a future session self-serves as
infra-ops instead of taking the lkraven@ hop unnecessarily. Surfaced
during the 2026-08-03 herald.py:363 re-nudge-bug arc.
Collapsed the completed-arc bloat out of Current state / in-flight (line 125:
6487->1073 chars; runbooks moved to persistent-memory.d/2026-08-03-worldtree-b168-384-385-arc.md).
Added the 2026-08-03 arc Recent-decisions entry. Auto-archived 20 oldest
Recent-decisions entries (2026-07-08..07-14) to archival-memory.md (index 345->308
lines). Refreshed the b169-deploy watch, unpushed-count, and handoff.
corviduo-dev demo+personal+pinned share one containerd; concurrent pull of b169's
torch layer failed personal mid-race while demo completed. Image 6e34a87 fully
valid (demo running it healthy). Fix = re-run. NEAR-MISS: prune/rmi 6e34a87 would
have downed demo. Lesson: docker ps running images before any prune cleanup.
worldtree-dev closed the watch with git evidence: both round-2 wing commits
landed clean under exec -u 1000; loose-object chown enabled it. Self-healed as
predicted; last thread of the reindex-as-root fallout closed.
os.access(ingestion_root, W_OK) tests only the root dir, so a root-owned job
subdir passes requeue guards + /health both while being unclaimable by uid 1000.
muninn-dev added an ownership column to the post-move check.
muninn-dev tested on coreutils 9.1: mv src failed/ with failed/ missing STILL
silently renames (rc=0) — trailing slash buys nothing. mv -t <dir> <src> refuses
a missing target loudly (rc=1). Adopted as house convention. Also: DCC+P&P rest
in failed/ with manifest=complete until round-2 (requeue keys on dir placement) —
deliberate, don't tidy.
A misplaced ingestion-state move is silent (list_jobs OK, files inert; sole
symptom = job absent from board, job_row->None/404). Verify job is on the board
+ job.dispatch.json survived after any move; don't trust mv exit codes.
worldtree-dev round-2 unblock: mv job complete/->failed/ assumed failed/
existed; it didn't on personal, so mv renamed job1 to 'failed' + nested job2.
Caught + reconstructed via complete/ scratch, no data loss. Lesson: verify dir
exists with [ -d ] before mv-into (empty ls is ambiguous); guard peer fs cmds
with mkdir -p.
worldtree-dev accepted #384 recovery. Wing-git BrokenPipeError ruled a
watch-item (self-heals on DCC round-2 re-run; escalate only if 2-in-a-row).
Recorded a heads-up for a future production delete-by-job_id of 785 April-era
DCC orphans (job_id=b59c147c5ce0, 'main' collection) — to be handled supervised
(backup + scope-confirm + operator-in-loop) after ratatoskr's verify.
worldtree-dev pushed the train (main + tags v1.0.0b168/staging) and verified my
pre-sync matches the commit byte-for-byte. Recorded the next pending op: after
b168 CI-lands on personal, run --reindex of job mimir-6351554e8e8f + #381 restart
on their exact commands.
Synced the boot-gating summarization block + deep-reasoning desc to demo +
personal via deploy-wt-config (health-gated); replied GO. Recorded gotchas:
unpushed-commit fetch falls back to default branch (verify SHA exists), and
paste-sourced YAML needs indent/validate (8-space desc was invalid).
worldtree-dev advance notice: #384/#385 train adds a boot-blocking
'summarization' capability block (vastblueai-gateway/gen) that in-image
muninn/config.yaml references. Must pre-sync into providers.yaml on demo
+ personal via deploy-wt-config BEFORE the image deploy, from the exact
commit. ACKed; recorded as an open watch.
worldtree-dev gave advance notice: standing #381 restart of
worldtree-personal-worldtree-api-1 will be requested when DCC re-ingest
job mimir-6351554e8e8f (fiction wing) goes terminal in a few hours.
ACKed no scheduling constraints; recorded as an open watch so a fresh
session catches the request.
A/B (5 pinned-seed neutral pairs) showed original single-clip seg000
(16.3s) beats the 52s 4-take concat on timbre fidelity — reverted live +
build-source to seg000-alone. Recorded two craft lessons: more reference
audio is not automatically better when takes vary; emotion steering pulls
output away from a cloned voice fast (keep clones emotion-neutral).
Folded the onyx-58 Booth bundle (seg101/seg110/seg148, all Princess Donut
per operator-confirmed misdiarization of seg148) into the Zonos gateway
donut voice reference alongside the original 65-frost seg000. New ref =
52.0s @ 44.1kHz mono s16, deployed to irv-ml1 live bind-mount +
build-source tree; old ref backed up. A/B audition in booth donut-onyx58.
Gate rebuilt off vh/muninn-gate main (bc04c4c) for the muninn-dispatch
0.1.4->0.1.5 bump (concept_schema/concept_schema_source row fields). Gate
version unchanged at 0.0.14; note to also tag the image with the source SHA
for traceability, and that the pin is authoritative in pyproject.
The mimir-inbox deploy changed two things the committed example documents:
the mimir-inbox key gained the control scope (2026-08-01, for cancel/retry),
and the staging root is no longer a placeholder — it's the real shared dir on
corviduo-dev, path-agreement probe PASS (muninn-dev). Bind was already correct
at :8090 (the stale :8080 was only in the gate repo's own example).
WG-internal FastAPI+HTMX front end for large-document ingestion into the
Muninn KB, over the muninn-gate API (browser -> mimir-inbox -> staging ->
path-addressed POST /jobs). Co-located on corviduo-dev with the gate (:8090)
and the worldtree-personal muninn watcher per the operator's 2026-08-01
co-location ruling (reversing the earlier off-box/NFS plan; worldtree-dev
approved the box placement).
- Dockerfile: python:3.11-slim + uv sync --no-dev --frozen (--no-dev is
load-bearing; the dev group's muninn-dispatch path source is absent in-image
and INV-MI-7 forbids importing it). Single-stage by design — src/ stays in
the final image (uv installs the project editable-linked to src/).
- compose.yaml: uid 1000, host-net bind 10.250.50.152:8091, staging :rw,
TCP-liveness healthcheck (deliberately not coupled to gate reachability).
- Built from vh/mimir-inbox HEAD c8ab38f; deployed + healthy.
Records the open-in-place claim semantics (worldtree-dev, runner.py:362-367)
and the INV-MI-19 retention rule (staged files persist until job terminal;
gate retry returns a false-200 on a swept source) in persistent memory.
Deployed on corviduo-dev, co-located with the worldtree-personal muninn
watcher. ingestion_root=/data/state/ingestion (shared state volume, byte-
identical to the watcher); runs as uid 1000 to write the queue; staging
bound :ro at the ratified /mnt/muninn-staging/mimir-inbox (local placeholder
until the shared mount + mimir-inbox writer land). Boot verified: /ping
{"service":"ok"}, /health watcher.running=true (byte-identity proven).
Image built out-of-band with the Gitea read token as a BuildKit secret.
Real config (bearer keys) lives on-server at /opt/docker/conf 0600.
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