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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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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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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. |
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memory: raise the handoff staleness window from 1 h to 8 h (operator)
A one-hour window deleted the handoff unread across any overnight gap -- which is precisely the case the handoff exists for. Tonight's snapshot would have been discarded before the operator returned from the site visit. 8 h also matches the global CLAUDE.md and the /snapshot skill default, so the repo stops being the outlier. The reasoning is kept inline in the header rather than only in this commit message, because the next session reads the header and not the log. |
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memory: snapshot — FV dark, Flash-Next seat built, power policy settled
Operator-invoked before heading to the Fountain Valley site visit. Rewrites Current state / in-flight around the outage: FV dark since 06:56Z including the BMC, will not self-recover, 19 of 30 gateway aliases down with no local fallback because every free local model lived on fv-ml1 and irv-ml1 runs no chat seat. The section now POINTS AT docs/runbooks/fv-site-dark-20260913.md rather than restating it, since the runbook is the single source of truth for the visit. Records what was built and verified before the power failed -- the Flash-Next seat on one card with its 51B n-gram table in host RAM, gen-large on the gateway -- and what is decided but unexecuted: the 250 W / 200 W power caps, the incomplete MTP campaign with one off_A rep banked, and the ten stale Homepage labels that the staged bring-up fixes as a side effect. Closes a stale in-flight claim: the 'fv-ml1 cannot initiate to fleet LAN IPs' gap is resolved, fixed by another session's scoped SNAT at 06:22Z with Beszel 18/18 verified. Adds ana-ml3 as its own subsection, since conflating it with fv-ml1 caused two rounds of wrong arithmetic today. Auto-archival fired (index was 431 lines, over the ~300 cap) but reached only 2 entries. The 14-day guard holds almost everything: this repo has had an exceptionally dense fortnight and nearly every dated entry postdates 2026-08-30. Of the six entries old enough, four carry open deferred-work pointers and were held back per the decision-loss guard. The file stays over cap, which is the documented trade -- an over-cap file that keeps live decisions beats a scannable one that lost one. |
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power: RETRACT the DCGM caveat — config management and power limits ARE supported on our cards
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power: what DCGM is, and why not to plan around it on workstation-SKU cards
DCGM is NVIDIA's own Data Center GPU Manager -- first-party, Apache-2.0, packaged as datacenter-gpu-manager -- and it layers above NVML rather than beside it: nvidia-smi is a thin CLI over NVML's per-GPU primitives, and DCGM is a daemon plus dcgmi adding health, diagnostics, config enforcement, policy and group abstractions on top. Which is why its group notion still resolves to N per-GPU writes underneath. The caveat that matters, and it undercuts the experiment suggested in the previous commit: DCGM is datacenter-oriented and parts of it are gated to datacenter SKUs of the Tesla/A100/H100 class. Our cards are professional/workstation parts -- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q and RTX 6000 Ada -- and several DCGM capabilities are unsupported or degraded outside that line, plausibly including config enforcement, which is precisely the power path. So DCGM_CONFIG_POWER_BUDGET_GROUP may return 'unsupported on this device'. Downgraded from 'worth testing' to five minutes of curiosity after the real work, and explicitly not a planning assumption. None of which touches the plan: nvidia-smi -pl 250 is plain NVML and works on these cards. DCGM would only have bought the group-budget experiment and nicer telemetry, and is probably not installed anyway since beszel-agent-nvidia shells out to nvidia-smi. |
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power: answer the bank-budget question — DCGM has the concept, the dynamic part is a control loop, and 4x250 already is 1000 W
DCGM_CONFIG_POWER_BUDGET_GROUP ('the power budget for the entire group') exists
alongside DCGM_CONFIG_POWER_CAP_INDIVIDUAL, so the concept is first-class. The docs do
not state how a group budget is distributed, and the deduction is that it cannot be
anything exotic: the only enforcement primitive underneath is NVML's per-GPU
nvmlDeviceSetPowerManagementLimit and there is no bank-level register, so any group
budget resolves to N per-GPU writes. Static even division is one write each; 'each card
free until they are all loaded' requires continuous re-writing, which is a control loop
rather than a hardware feature. Worth a ten-minute test when the box returns, in case
NVIDIA already runs that loop.
Records the design constraint that matters more than the logic: power readings lag and
-pl application takes tens of milliseconds, so a reactive daemon overshoots during a load
ramp -- and the ramp is the dangerous moment, being the same all-cards-at-once shape as
this box's ten restart:unless-stopped containers starting together. So any such loop must
be safe-by-default and opportunistic upward: boot at budget/N, only ever raise after
observing idle neighbours. Inverted, it works for weeks and then fails on precisely the
event it existed to prevent.
And the reason to defer it: 4x250 W is already 1000 W, so the static cap is the
conservative floor of the dynamic scheme rather than an alternative. The daemon's entire
contribution is the one-card-busy case, worth perhaps 5% throughput, which is rare for a
serving fleet that puts one seat per card and common only for a training window.
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caps: fv-ml1 250W / ana-ml3 200W — and nvidia-smi -pl caps BOARD power, not wall power
Operator set fv-ml1 at 250 W per card (83% of TGP, ~5% throughput) and ana-ml3 at 200 W (67%, ~10-15%). Records the term that decides whether 250 W actually clears a 15 A feed, because it is easy to drop: a power limit bounds BOARD power, and the wall sees that divided by PSU efficiency. Four cards at 250 W is 1000 W of board; add 180-300 W of host components and divide by ~0.90 and the plug sees ~1310-1445 W, against a 15 A circuit's 1440 W NEC continuous derating -- an inference box serving all day being a continuous load. So 250 W lands ON the limit rather than under it, where 200 W would give ~1090-1220 W with real margin. The deciding term is the host draw, which is still an estimate, so the procedure is: set 250 W, verify at the plug under four-card load, fall back to 200 W if it reads near 1440 W. A cap is a claim; the ammeter is the verification. Two consequences recorded alongside. Caps bound sustained draw and not transients -- the enforcement window is short but not instantaneous -- and while a breaker's thermal-magnetic curve forgives brief overload, a UPS's overload protection does not. So 250 W implicitly commits the fv-ml1 chassis to the PDU rather than behind the 1500 VA unit, which it exceeds even capped. And ana-ml3's 200 W across only two cards is deliberately conservative at 400 W total, relaxable if Anaheim's measured headroom beats its trip history. |
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correct the hardware: fv-ml1 is 4x Blackwell Max-Q 300W, ana-ml3 is 2x Ada RTX 6000 — and four cards is a breaker problem
Operator clarification, and it separates two boxes I had been conflating. fv-ml1 is 4x Blackwell RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q at 300 W each (Max-Q being the reduced-TGP SKU; the Workstation Edition is the 600 W part), 391 GB VRAM, deployed and currently dark. ana-ml3 is 2x Ada Generation RTX 6000 at 300 W, 96 GB VRAM, not yet deployed. The 200 W cap directive is ana-ml3's. With the TGP known, the outage stops being a vague 'undersized' and acquires a mechanism: two Max-Q cards at 300 W is ~600 W of card, plus a host carrying 566 GB of RAM, drives, fans and PSU conversion loss at perhaps 200-350 W, against an Eaton 1500 VA's real ~900-1200 W. That lands at or just over the rating, which is precisely what explains a full day of service on one card and failure minutes into the second. The host term is the only one being guessed; idle-at-the-plug measures it directly. It also surfaces something that is not a UPS question at all. Four cards at 300 W plus ~300 W of host is ~1500 W against a 15 A circuit's 1440 W continuous derating, so four cards uncapped is marginal on the breaker with no UPS in the path. Capping therefore belongs at fv-ml1 as well as ana-ml3, or fv-ml1 needs a 20 A feed -- and worth noting today's incident only ever had two of the four cards working. ana-ml3's placement constraints sharpen too: sm_89 has native FP8 but no NVFP4, so the in-house NVFP4 quants stay at FV, and at 96 GB total it cannot host the Flash-Next seat at all -- that needs 74 GiB resident on a single card, and the offload moves the n-gram table rather than the experts. |
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policy(gpu-power): cards are RTX 6000 Ada at 300 W — 200 W is a mild cap, plus two sm_89 placement consequences
Corrects the SKU: RTX 6000 Ada, 300 W, not the ~600 W initially recalled. That makes 200 W a cap to 67% of TGP -- the favourable part of the concave perf/watt curve, roughly 10-15% of throughput -- rather than the severe 33% cap a 600 W part would have implied, and it very likely sits above the card's enforceable floor, so the check becomes a formality rather than a gate. The protective value is worth stating: four cards at 300 W uncapped is ~1200 W, which is roughly the neighbourhood that overwhelmed a 1500 VA unit at FV with only TWO Blackwell cards drawing. Capping to 800 W makes a repeat of today a non-event. Two consequences that follow from Ada independent of power, and both are placement constraints rather than details. sm_89 has native FP8 but NOT NVFP4, which is Blackwell-only -- so the in-house NVFP4 quants that most of this fleet runs will not be accelerated on that colo's cards, and its seats want FP8 W8A8 builds or the NVFP4 checkpoints stay at FV. And it unparks the triton-backend item, which is a hard no on Ampere because fp8e4nv is unsupported on sm_86 and was explicitly deferred to Ada; sm_89 has what it needs. VRAM is 4x48 = 192 GB against fv-ml1's 391 GB, so big-model placement stays at FV. The Flash-Next seat needs 74 GiB resident on one card and would not fit a 48 GB Ada card even with the n-gram table offloaded -- the offload moves the table, not the experts. |
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policy: cap GPU power limits at build time — 200 W for the other colo's cards
Operator directive, and the right generalisation of the FV outage: decide the power envelope first and size the cards into it, rather than installing cards and discovering the constraint by tripping it. Four cards at 200 W is 800 W, which fits a real circuit with a real UPS and headroom. Records three things to settle before it is a plan. First, 200 W may sit below the card's enforceable floor: nvidia-smi -pl is bounded by Min Power Limit, often around half of TGP on a high-TGP part, and a sub-floor request is refused -- quietly, depending on how it is scripted. Run nvidia-smi -q -d POWER before any build planning depends on the number. Second, the 600 W figure wants confirming against the actual SKU. The Ada parts do not land there -- RTX 6000 Ada is 300 W, L40/L40S 300/350 W, 4090 450 W -- while 600 W is Blackwell RTX PRO 6000 Workstation territory, so these may be Blackwell or the figure may be a two-card total. Read it off the device rather than a spec sheet. Third, the workload asymmetry is in this fleet's favour: decode is memory-bandwidth-bound and tolerates a cap far better than training does, with a concave perf/watt curve where 60-70% of TGP costs roughly 10-15% of throughput. A cap to a third of TGP is deeper into the steep region; measure it on the first card rather than predicting, and expect prefill-heavy and training work to pay more than a serving seat. And persist the cap. A hand-set limit holds until the next reboot and then silently stops holding, which is the worst shape available given that the thing rebooting the box is likely to be the power event the cap existed to prevent. |
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runbook(fv-outage): the circuit case — split power survives a trip on battery, but only if the colo handoff does
Operator: 'unless of course the thing trips the circuit anyway.' Correct, and it splits into two halves with different answers. A breaker trip is the event the split-power proposal survives: firewall + BMC is 25-40 W on a 1500 VA unit, which is hours of battery, and on a trip the UPS stops being a load-bearing supply and goes back to being what it is for. What it does NOT cover is the colo's own handoff -- their switch, ONT or demarc. If that sits on the circuit we just tripped, the outcome is a firewall running on battery with nothing upstream to talk to and the drive happens anyway. Added as a question for the facility, because it decides whether split power delivers remote diagnosis or merely feels like it does. Records the case where none of it matters: removing an undersized UPS does not remove the constraint, it promotes the next one -- UPS ~900-1200 W to circuit ~1800 W at 15 A or ~2400 W at 20 A. Which side the four-card figure lands on decides everything, which is what makes that single ammeter reading the load-bearing measurement of the visit. Surfaces the lever that may avoid an electrician entirely: nvidia-smi -pl caps per-card TGP, so the box can be made to fit its feed at a throughput cost rather than a rewiring cost. Read nvidia-smi -q -d POWER for the enforced range before assuming how much room the dial has, and persist any cap -- one that evaporates on reboot will hold right up until the next power event and then silently stop holding. |
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runbook(fv-outage): operator ruling — undersized UPS; NAT demoted; ammeter protocol for the visit
Operator's reasoning, accepted and better than the hypothesis-space argument it replaces: the NAT change went effective, was verified bidirectional, and then ran correctly for twenty minutes before the site died the moment GPU load was applied. A working config change does not spontaneously fail under an unrelated physical variable. The load correlation is tight; the NAT correlation is merely adjacent in time. Undersized UPS is the only candidate that explains the trigger. NAT material retained as record, and the power.log/uptime check demoted from decision point to free confirmation. Adds the measurement protocol, since the operator is bringing a PDU and an ammeter. The load-bearing caveat: power.log is GPU-ONLY -- nvidia-smi per-card, excluding CPU, 566 GB of RAM, drives, fans and PSU conversion losses -- so the ammeter at the plug is the primary instrument and power.log only cross-checks the GPU share. Four states to capture (idle, one card, two cards, four cards), and capture PEAK rather than average: UPS overload protection responds to short-term overload, so an average-only reading that hides transients will mis-size the replacement exactly the way the present unit got mis-sized, and must be recorded as a floor rather than as the draw. The four-card figure is earmarked for servers/fv-ml1/README.md, because it closes the cutover's own open question -- that the FV circuit was likely specced against half the real draw, back when every record still said the box had two GPUs. |
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runbook(fv-outage): a NAT change 34 min earlier means power is not established — and power.log settles it for free
Another session applied a scoped Tailscale SNAT rule to the FV gateway at ~06:22Z, 34 minutes before the site went dark (docs/runbooks/fv-to-ana-nat.md, not my work, left uncommitted). That makes the UPS-overload theory a hypothesis rather than a finding, and nobody should buy hardware on it until the discriminator below has been read. On the evidence that change is the wrong shape to have caused this, and it is recorded as such so the visit is not wasted chasing it: one OUTBOUND SNAT rule scoped to a single source /32 and a single destination /16 cannot stop the gateway, the BMC or the public WAN address from answering inbound; no routes, filter rules, WAN settings or subnet advertisements were touched; pfctl -sr came back byte-identical; and it was verified bidirectional afterwards including ANA->FV SSH with Beszel 18/18 up. Their BMC datapoint used 10.251.50.50, which is not the BMC -- that is 10.251.250.50, a different subnet. They correctly declined to claim BMC health, but the observation is void rather than negative and should not be reasoned from. The discriminator costs nothing and is already on disk: power.log is written locally to /tank every 10 s by a shell loop on the box and does not depend on the network. Entries past 06:56Z mean the machine never lost power, which makes this a routing fault and the UPS innocent; entries stopping at 06:56Z confirm power. Cross-check with uptime and journalctl --list-boots -- continuous uptime across 06:56Z kills the UPS theory outright. So the first action on site is now to READ, not to fix. The two hypotheses lead to completely different remediations and only one of them needs a new UPS. |
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flash-next-mtp-bench: run on GPU 3 / :8023 without touching the production seat
Operator-directed so the campaign could run in parallel with live gen-large testing. Strips the production-restore tail entirely -- the only container the driver can create or remove is fn-mtp-bench, and the sole remaining compose call is a read-only config --format json to derive argv. Adds per-card power+memory sampling every 10 s to power.log, because two cards under load was the risk being accepted and a record beats an argument. That power log is now the only surviving measurement of what the load drew before Fountain Valley went dark; it lives on /tank rather than in the container. |
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memory: snapshot — Flash-Next seat on one card, and the FV outage that followed
Durable capture so tomorrow's session does not have to reconstruct either half. Built and verified before the power failed: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next serving on a single RTX PRO 6000 with its 51B n-gram table pinned in host RAM and read over CUDA UVA -- 74.36 GiB weights resident, 14.00 GiB KV for 560,654 tokens at the full 262,144 context, 67 GiB host RSS -- plus a gen-large gateway alias verified end to end. The five findings worth carrying: the offload is #54371 (UVA, merged) which supersedes the paused worker-based #53899 and designs out its entire bug family; text_config.ple_embedding_dtype is the load-or-fail discriminator for any community build; --kv-cache-memory makes vLLM SKIP memory profiling and ignore gpu-memory-utilization, which inverts the usual pin-bytes advice and let a 16 GiB pin nearly OOM with no visible failure; MTP is off pending measurement here rather than written off, because the recipe's number is cross-harness and tested k=3 only while the head is one layer run autoregressively; and a container once reported (healthy) with no published port at all, because the healthcheck runs inside the boundary it was trusted to validate. Then the outage. Records it as will-not-self-recover, so no session wastes effort polling a dead site, and carries the three things that change the visit: bypass the UPS rather than using its surge-only bank (both banks share one 12 A inlet -- the surge bank bypasses the inverter, not the current rating), recover power.log before anything else because it is the only load measurement that exists anywhere, and bring seats up one at a time because ten restart:unless-stopped containers loading at once is the largest transient the box can make into whatever just failed. Also records what is still half-done: the stale homepage labels on the 10 containers that died before they could be recreated, which the staged bring-up fixes as a side effect, and the eight drifted stacks plus three untracked host-only stacks that were deliberately left for a deliberate reconciliation. |
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runbook(fv-outage): UPS overload as leading hypothesis, site-visit bring-list, no-local-fallback correction
Operator's read is that the UPS the box was plugged into overloaded and died, and it fits better than the breaker-trip theory: a UPS's output rating sits far below the circuit's, so it is the first protective device to give -- which explains why the site let go at TWO cards loaded rather than four, and why the ~25 W firewall died with it. Records the operationally important consequence: a tripped UPS resets, an overloaded one can kill its output stage permanently. If it is dead, nothing on site can be reset back to life, so the visit needs the means to BYPASS the UPS or it is wasted. Elevates recovery of /tank/.../power.log to the first action on site. It sampled all four cards every 10 s up to the cut, lives on /tank rather than in a container, and is the only measurement of what the load actually drew -- without it a replacement UPS gets sized by guesswork. Also states that no load figure exists yet, only idle. Corrects an earlier claim of mine in this session: there is NO local fallback for the 19 dark aliases. Probed -- every free local model is on fv-ml1, and irv-ml1 runs no chat seat at all, only TTS/ComfyUI/arbo/clipper work on two partly-occupied Ampere cards. The only non-fv chat backends are paid. Any paid coverage must go under a new opt-in alias name rather than a silent repoint of summarizer/gen/classifier. |
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runbook: FV site dark 2026-09-13 — outage facts, blast radius, staged recovery, OOB design gap
Written while the site is down so recovery does not have to be reconstructed later. Records what was measured rather than what is suspected: every FV address including the BMC is unreachable while all three other sites answer, the campaign's last log line was off_A rep 2 at 06:56:04Z, and the site was dark by 06:58:40Z. Names three candidate causes with the evidence that would distinguish them, because the instrument that could have settled it -- the per-card power log -- died with the box. The two-card-load hypothesis fits the timing and the two prior Anaheim breaker trips on this same chassis, but it is circumstantial and is recorded as such. Carries the recovery hazard that matters: every seat on the box is restart:unless-stopped, so resetting power alone brings ten vLLM containers up loading at once -- the largest transient the box can produce, into a circuit that may have just tripped. Staged sequence given, gen first and flash-next last. Also records the OOB gap the outage exposes: OPNsense-as-subnet-router protects against box-down/gateway-up, and not at all against the site-wide loss that actually happened, because the BMC's only path out is through that same gateway. |
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flash-next-seat: full 262K context, KV pinned at a measured 14 GiB, gen-large on the gateway
Operator-directed: raise context to the model's native maximum and take as much KV as the card safely allows, and expose the seat through LiteLLM as `gen-large`. max_model_len 131,072 -> 262,144 KV cache 8.76 -> 14.00 GiB (332,721 -> 560,654 tokens) concurrency 2.54x@128K -> 2.14x@262K ⚠ 16.00 GiB WAS TRIED FIRST AND IS TOO AGGRESSIVE. A 155,497-token non-repeating prefill drove GPU 2 to 97,074 of 97,887 MiB and the caching allocator logged "OOM on device 0 while trying to allocate 488636416 bytes (free: 422117376)" -- 466 MiB wanted against 403 MiB free. The request completed, so nothing failed visibly; that is one step before the shape that crashed stacks/mog-sec twice on 2026-09-10 (~1.04 GiB wanted, ~600 MB free). Backed off to 14.00 GiB, which re-probes clean: zero allocator warnings, a 155,557-token prefill in 14.2 s, and 2,085 MiB still free at peak. The reason the first estimate was wrong is worth keeping, because it is not obvious and it inverts the usual advice: --kv-cache-memory makes vLLM SKIP MEMORY PROFILING ENTIRELY and ignore --gpu-memory-utilization. The profiler was the thing accounting for deep-prefill activation, so pinning bytes switched off the protection that the pin was supposed to formalise. vLLM's own "--kv-cache-memory=18745235968 (17.46 GiB) to fully utilize gpu memory" line is computed from a profile measured at max-num-batched-tokens depth and sits 3.5 GiB above what a 150K-token request survives; open #54764 compounds it, since PLE short-conv prefill pads every request in a batch to the batch-MAX query length. max-num-batched-tokens stays at 8192 -- it is what bounds the activation peak, and doubling max_model_len left the profiled peak unchanged at 1.65 GiB precisely because the peak tracks chunk size, not context length. Gateway: `gen-large` added to the LiteLLM model_list, pointing at fv-ml1:8022. One alias on purpose -- a single alias cannot trip the shared-config enable_thinking mutation footgun, which needs two over the same (model, api_base). Sampling is the checkpoint's own declared set (temp 1.0 / top_p 0.95 / top_k 20); presence_penalty, min_p and repetition_penalty are left unset because the checkpoint declares no canonical value for them. Verified registered for both the infra-ops admin key and the shared all-agents key, since a new model behind a scoped allowlist 403s silently. Also adds services/flash-next-mtp-bench/ -- the MTP measurement campaign and its rationale. MTP stays off, but on "not yet measured here" rather than on vLLM's 4xH100 recipe number, which is a cross-harness comparison and not evidence about a TP=1 Blackwell seat. |
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fv-ml1: finish the renumber the cutover missed -- 16 dead dashboard links
Every fv-ml1 link on the Homepage dashboard was broken. Measured against the
live dashboard API before the fix: 16 entries pointing at the dead 10.250.50.54
and zero at the live 10.251.50.54, covering gen, M.O.G.-SEC, Scriberr, Embed,
Rerank, Reward, Coder, Dockge and six dormant seats.
The miss was structural, not careless. fv-ml1-rename-sweep.sh works from an
allowlist assembled from files that mention the HOST, and a homepage.href label
mentions only an IP -- so every stack whose sole stale reference was a label
fell outside it. The allowlist now covers those 24 files, and records how to
derive the list next time (grep the old address, subtract history) rather than
enumerating from memory.
History is still untouched, and the exclusions are now written down with the
reason each one keeps the old address: recorded benchmark results, whose
base_url is part of a measurement's provenance; the one LiteLLM comment
preserving a retired hand-test endpoint; and the cutover runbooks, where the old
address is the subject matter.
Two bugs found while applying it, both fixed here:
- deploy-stack.sh rejected any stack name containing a dot, so qwen3.5-122b,
qwopus3.5-122b and mistral-medium-3.5 could not be deployed by the script at
all. The check exists to stop path traversal, which means rejecting ".." and
"/" -- not every dot. Traversal is now rejected explicitly and tested.
- stacks/scriberr/.env.example allowed CORS only from the dead IP and from
scriberr.ana.internal, which no longer resolves; the box is at the fv site
and DNS already carries scriberr.fv.internal. The live .env had both stale
origins, i.e. an allowlist with nothing reachable in it.
Host side, applied separately: canonical pushed for the 16 stacks whose only
difference from the host was this renumber, and an in-place address-only fix for
the nine whose host copy has genuinely drifted or has no canonical copy, so that
drift survives for a deliberate reconciliation instead of being clobbered. Every
compose.yaml on fv-ml1 now reads 10.251.50.54. The labels themselves only take
effect at container creation, so the running containers still need recreating.
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flash-next-seat: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on fv-ml1 GPU 2 with the n-gram table in host RAM
First seat whose weights do not fit its card. The model is 176B total -- a 125B main model plus a 51B n-gram (PLE) lookup table -- at ~6B active per token. The table is a pure embedding lookup, so it lives in pinned host RAM and the GPU reads rows directly over CUDA UVA: ~78 GiB resident on a 95.6 GiB card, 47.7 GiB pinned of 566 GB. GPU 2 and GPU 3 were both idle, so this displaced nothing. Checkpoint dealignai/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-ABLITERATED-NVFP4 @ be794b99, pinned by revision: NVFP4 W4A4 routed experts, FP8 PLE table, everything else at source precision. Chosen over better-liked builds because its provenance states protocols and repeat counts -- AIME26 pass@1 98.75% over 30x8 repeats with a stated SEM, full-set GSM8K, and a byte-equality audit covering all 31 MTP tensors -- and because it declares text_config.ple_embedding_dtype, which is the field vLLM reads first when selecting the PLE weight format. Builds that ship an FP8 table without that declaration resolve to the unquantized path and fail on load; the README records the check. Requires vLLM #54371 (UVA PLE-offload, merged 2026-09-09T14:32Z), verified by ancestry: the pinned nightly is +150 commits / behind_by 0 from the merge commit. Not in v0.29.0, cut six hours earlier. The older worker-based offload (#53899) is paused upstream and is not the path here -- its deadlocks, ptrace gate and stale-output-under-graphs bugs all came from the separate worker process that UVA does not have. Five deliberate departures from the other seats on this box, each from a measurement rather than a preference, all annotated in place: - no MTP: the vLLM recipe measured it worse at every concurrency on 4xH100 (8-36% less throughput, 32-173% more latency, ~36% acceptance) - modelopt_fp4, not compressed-tensors: only the ModelOpt reader honours the ignore list keeping attention, shared experts, PLE and MTP out of W4A4 - KV left at auto: fp8 KV on this model's QSA path is an unmerged RFC (#54426) - mamba-cache-mode stated explicitly: the model raises on mode "all" - 128K context and 8192 batched tokens, not the native 262K: #54764 and #54919 make depth the risky axis, and sizing to the KV pool has never fixed a depth-driven crash on this hardware Nothing is wired into LiteLLM. Pointing an alias at this seat changes what existing callers receive and is a separate decision. |
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restic(esh-vm-db): a backup that exited 0 nightly while keeping an April dump
Work by a parallel session on 2026-09-12; committed here with the rest of the day's changes. Rationale in persistent-memory.d/2026-09-12-esh-vm-db-restic-repair.md. The only visible symptom was a systemd-failed unit from a Sep 6 repository network timeout after boot. The real fault was quieter and much worse: the pre-backup hook logged failures as WARN and returned zero, so pg_dumpall could fail every single night -- it used TCP localhost and wanted a password nobody supplied -- while restic dutifully backed up the stale April 23 dump still sitting in the staging directory and reported success. Mongo was fine, which is part of why it went unnoticed. Postgres now dumps over the /var/run/postgresql socket with peer auth and -w, and both database failures now fail the backup rather than masking it, while still preserving any prior per-DB dump rather than truncating to nothing. An ERRORS counter replaces the warn-and-continue path, and the staging directory is overridable via RESTIC_STAGE_DIR so the new test can exercise it. Adds backup.contract.md, retry.conf and test_pre_backup.py -- three red-green regression tests covering the failure modes above. systemd drop-ins on both jobs add network-online ordering plus Restart=on-failure with a 5m delay and a 3-per-hour limit, which addresses the original boot-timeout symptom. Verified against a real run: snapshot bc5eeaff at 07:01 PDT with a fresh 3.46MB PG dump, retrieved from the repository with decompression and completion marker checked (not a full restore). Repository check passed, 99 snapshots. The old hook and stale dump are preserved root-only at /var/lib/restic/repair-20260912. |
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memory: snapshot — FV cutover executed, BMC online, four GPUs not two
Captures the Fountain Valley cutover as executed rather than planned: fv-ml1 live on 10.251/16 and serving, BMC recovered after finding it was tagging 802.1q VLAN 250 into an untagged port, and the corrected four-GPU / 391 GB count that invalidates prior sizing assumptions. Also records two things that cost real time and would cost it again: OPNsense write APIs need an X-CSRFToken scraped from a script block, not a hidden form input, and a 403 that coincides with the box going down looks exactly like a successful reboot. Auto-archived 8 settled entries (Recent decisions: 8). The index stays over the 300-line cap at 385 because the guards hold -- nearly every remaining dated entry is under 14 days old or carries open deferred work, and an over-cap file that keeps live decisions beats a scannable one that lost any. |
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playbooks: repoint the four remaining live fv-ml1 targets
homepage-regroup, mog-sec-move-to-gpu0, pull-hf-repo and serve-qwen3.5-122b all carried runnable 'scripts/elway ana-ml2 --playbook ...' instructions or the old 10.250.50.54 address. Each would fail today against a dead name and a dead IP, so these are corrections rather than cosmetics. homepage-regroup is renamed to match; the other three keep their names, which never carried the host. |
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fv-ml1: the playbook + homepage body edits the rename commit missed
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homepage: retire the fv-ml1 docker relay, its precondition is now met
stacks/ana-ml2-proxy existed for one reason, stated in its own README: ESH could not reach the box's Docker API cross-site because of a return-route gap, so ana-docker relayed :2354 -> :2375 from the same subnet. The README named its own retirement condition -- "once it has a working return route to ESH, point Homepage back at it directly and compose down this stack". That condition is met. FV is on the mesh, vb-gateway accepts routes, and the NH3 UDM, ESH UDM and Anaheim FortiGate all carry 10.251.0.0/16 statics toward their local scale nodes. Verified before removing anything: esh-docker-vm opens a TCP connection to 10.251.50.54:2375 directly. Homepage now points at 10.251.50.54:2375 and discovers 112 services across 20 groups, so nothing regressed. The socat container is stopped and removed from ana-docker; the compose file and README are deleted here rather than renamed, because renaming would preserve a moving part that no longer earns its place. |
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fv-ml1: complete the cutover — rename, renumber, DNS, and the LiteLLM repoint
The box is physically at Fountain Valley, renamed, renumbered onto 10.251/16, and serving inference again. This lands the repo half of that. Host: hostname ana-ml2 -> fv-ml1, pinned to 10.251.50.54 by a dnsmasq reservation so the address the runbook, DNS and LiteLLM all assume is the address it actually has. Its headscale node is renamed too. The sweep ran from scripts/fv-ml1-rename-sweep.sh, whose allowlist is the reason this diff touches current-state files and not the record. Dated persistent-memory entries, archival-memory and incident notes still say ana-ml2 in 31 and 62 places respectively, because that is what the box was when those things happened. Rewriting them would make the history lie. LiteLLM was the load-bearing piece and needed more than the api_base sed the runbook describes. Twenty api_base entries repointed, but a grep-and-verify pass also caught a LIVE pass_through_endpoints target for the scalar-judge reward route still on the old address -- an api_base-only substitution would have left it dead. Four prose references describing current state were repointed as well; one historical note recording where a hand-test was run is deliberately left pointing at 10.250.50.54. Two facts in the server tables were wrong and are corrected here. The site is Fountain Valley, not Anaheim. And the box has FOUR RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, not two -- verified by nvidia-smi -L and independently by PCI enumeration of four GB202GL devices. That is 391 GB of VRAM rather than 196, which changes what fits on it. DNS: fv-ml1, fv-ml1-bmc and fv-gw added under the fv site via the piggyback approach, scriberr re-homed, and the ana-ml2 records removed. Applied to all three resolvers. The BMC record carries a warning that its 802.1q VLAN tag must stay disabled -- it shipped tagging VLAN 250 into an untagged port, which made it invisible to every network-side diagnostic and is the reason it appeared dead through several cable changes. Verified end to end: summarizer and sec both answer through the Anaheim gateway across the mesh to FV seats on different ports. |
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docs(fv): on-site playbook for the colo build, and the redundancy it does not have
fv-ml1-cutover.md covers what to change; this covers the on-site hour, where the binding constraints are limited time and not locking ourselves out of a site an hour away. The load-bearing correction is that fv-ml1 running tailscale is NOT a second independent path. Its default route is the OPNsense LAN address, so its node needs egress through OPNsense to reach the control plane; OPNsense down means fv-ml1 is unreachable by construction. An earlier version of this plan claimed otherwise and proposed proving it by rebooting the firewall, which would have failed on site with the operator standing at the rack. He caught it. What the fv-ml1 node does buy is narrower and still worth one command: it covers control-plane lockout -- a bad admin rule, a WebGUI on the wrong interface, a lost password -- where the box still routes but cannot be managed. It does not cover data-plane failure. Those are different failure classes and conflating them produced the wrong test. The gate is now a deny-admin-from-mesh test run while the console is in arm's reach, which exercises the bypass that actually exists. Deliberate deviation from the cutover runbook: flat /24 with the BMC at 10.251.50.50 rather than a mgmt VLAN at 10.251.250.50. The VLAN needs OPNsense config plus switch tagging during the scarcest hour, for something addable remotely in ten minutes. Also records the DNS chicken-and-egg (the mesh needs public resolvers because the fleet AdGuard is unreachable until the mesh is up) and the interface auto-assignment trap measured on the lab VM the same night. |
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memory: Worldtree memory-split flip protocol, and all three deployments measured writable
worldtree-dev's U6 reader refuses at boot if it cannot append and read back <memory root>/reader/canary.jsonl. Per-euid subdirectories are lazy and only warn, so that root canary is the single boot-blocking check -- which makes the memory root's writability by the container uid the precondition worth knowing before a flip rather than during one. Protocol agreed with worldtree-dev: neither memory.reader.enabled nor memory.writer.enabled gets flipped on any deployment without infra-ops confirming that writability first. Both ship dark until the operator schedules the tracer skeleton. Measured tonight on corviduo-dev, all three pass. Also retracts a wrong prediction I sent earlier in the thread: personal runs as root, not uid 1000, and pinned is the only uid-1000 deployment -- it passes regardless because /data/state is owned 1000:1000. Recorded with the caveat that a permissions reading is a claim about its own date, so the probe gets re-run immediately before any flip rather than cited from tonight. |
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feat(beszel): commit the fleet agent rollout — configs, playbooks and runbooks
Beszel agents are installed and verified across the fleet but the artifacts that produced them were never committed, so the deployment existed only on the hosts. Adds the per-host agent environment files (PORT, NICS, EXTRA_FILESYSTEMS and the hub's PUBLIC key), the systemd unit, the guest install script, the Synology compose, and the elway playbooks for native, guest-stage, guest-install and Synology paths. The two dated memory detail files covering the priority-1 and priority-2 waves ship alongside, per the convention that memory lands with the work it describes. No credentials here. The KEY= value in every host env is the Beszel hub's public ed25519 key, identical across all nine and public by design; the agent README says so explicitly. The nh3-nas sudo password referenced in the runbook prose lives in Vaultwarden and the helper scripts named there never contained it. ⚠ Overlapping VMIDs across hypervisors are a standing trap and are recorded in the priority-2 notes: pfi-pve 105=postgres and 100=pbs-ana, nh3-pve 105=pbs-nh3. ⚠ PBS-NH3's export was ~75.5% used at capture; resource checks are not job success monitoring and should not be read as such. |
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fix(esh): Plex hardware transcoding on the Arc A580, and the two ways it hid
Plex never hardware-transcoded on esh-pve-nas LXC 105 despite correct passthrough, cgroups, group membership, authenticated HuC firmware, a lifetime Plex Pass, HardwareAcceleratedCodecs=1, and the Arc already selected as HardwareDevicePath. Root cause sat below all of that: intel-media-va-driver 22.3.1 (Apr 2023, stock jammy) predates Arc/DG2 support and exports only __vaDriverInit_1_14, against the libva 2.22 that Plex bundles and loads via RPATH rather than the system one. A half-finished prior attempt at the same fix was also present -- libva and libva-drm hand-installed at 2.22 with libva-x11 left at 2.14, breaking every X11 VA-API consumer on va_fool_postp. Fixed with Intel's client-GPU repo: iHD 24.3.4 (__vaDriverInit_1_22, an exact ABI match) plus a consistent libva 2.22.0.2-87 set, which also brings the orphaned manual install back under dpkg. The repo track is rolling, so the six packages are pinned in /etc/apt/preferences.d/intel-gpu-pin and apt-mark held; verified by a simulated upgrade that moves 152 packages and touches none of them. Two findings worth more than the fix: pct snapshot refuses on a guest with a bind mount and still exits 0, so a script guarding a change with it proceeds without the rollback point it believes it has. The ZFS dataset snapshot is the working path, verified by reading it back. A synthetic Plex Transcoder invocation is not a valid test of Plex's transcode path. Plex bundles its own libc among 61 libraries; the harness produced three distinct failure modes that were artifacts of not reproducing that runtime, and it failed identically before and after a fix that worked. With no positive control its negatives carried no information. Only a forced transcode settles it, and PASS is recognisable by Plex naming the device. The original empty decoder/encoder line was an absence of evidence rather than evidence of failure -- TranscodeSession was 0. Jellyfin LXC 107 has the same stale stack and the same Arc available; left alone per the operator, and it ships its own ffmpeg so this may not transfer verbatim. |
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e01484f6d0 | memory: consolidate backref lines to true archival counts (was triple-counted) |