Rewrote the in-flight section to reflect that nothing is running and the
operator stood the session down. The GX10 work is recorded as what it was
asked to be: a baseline for the box and a check that the tooling loads,
with the run-3c port scoped but explicitly declined.
Added index lines for four decisions that had detail files but no pointer:
the GX10 baseline at 79.35 s/it, the costing error the operator overruled,
the althing four-surface deploy finding, and the irv-ml1 GPU resident map.
Auto-archival fired at the soft cap and moved 17 entries dated on or
before 2026-08-18 to archival-memory.md, holding back 4 that carry open
deferred-work pointers. The index went from 410 lines to 296, mostly by
rewriting in-flight rather than by archiving -- the dated log was not what
made it long.
Dell R750xa JPJ1ZP3, 2x RTX 6000 Ada to be fitted, ComfyUI's new home at NH3. Diffing
Dell's factory CSV against the reseller invoice shows four downgrades: half the RAM, the
2400 W PSUs, and the GPU risers, cables and high-performance fans all absent.
Records the resolved GPU power chain, correcting my own first answer: the chassis' CPU
8-pin cabling is the right source type and NVIDIA 930-00030-1546-000 bridges it to the
card's 12VHPWR, so the PCIe-type RCCWC I first proposed is withdrawn. Also closes the NVMe
question — the backplane is SAS/SATA only — and notes that free PCIe slots may moot it.
Auto-archival fired at 308 lines; seven entries moved to archival-memory.md. The 250-line
target was not reached because the guards hold nearly everything else back as under 14 days
or carrying open deferred work.
The in-flight section was a day stale: it still described run 3c as the
live subject on a box where nothing had moved. Rewritten around what is
actually true now -- v3 deployed fleet-wide, the post office relocated
to nh3-docker, sec serving on GPU0, run 3c still held on power.
Six new decision entries, three of which carry findings that outlive
their incident: the inbound half of the handle-resolution bug (a stale
ALTHING_HANDLE reads another agent's mailbox and reports it empty,
which is a second route into the failure v3 exists to prevent), the OOM
attribution to Claude Code sessions, and the operator's two explicit
belays recorded so a later session does not re-raise them as new.
Auto-archival fired at 301 lines and moved exactly one entry. Three
others were old enough and every one carries a still-open deferred
pointer -- the parked CI flip, muninn-gate's submit path, and the triton
backend deferred to the Ada refresh. Held back per the guards; an
over-cap file that keeps live decisions beats a scannable one that lost
them. The entry that did move had its deferred item closed today:
nh3-extdev's staged v2.1.2 wheel is moot now that the box runs 3.1.1.
Run 3 trained, gated and dispositioned do-not-serve on a measured 44pp self-harm
guardrail regression that its own preregistered rule passed -- a pooled preserve-list
test cannot see a single-axis collapse. Run 3c (lr 20x cut, single variable) launched,
killed by an Anaheim power-breaker trip at step 80, relaunched, then stopped by the
operator at step 22 pending a weekend power triage.
Also captured: the corpus mix was specified in a unit the optimiser never sees
(45.8% dialogue by context, 24.2% by loss); the dose-response says benefit and damage
are one direction in weight space, so the merge-back measures the problem rather than
fixing it; four guests including the storage SPOF had onboot unset and never came back
from the outage, now fixed with dependency ordering; and a transport failure that
enters a measurement as a value looks like whatever you hoped to find -- which found a
live defect in another agent's instrument an hour after it was reported.
Auto-archived 8 entries to archival-memory.md (Recent decisions: 8, Tried and
abandoned: 0); 4 held back on open deferred-work pointers.
Captures an evening that ran from an OOM crash-loop to a measured trainee base.
The durable lessons, none of which CLAUDE.md can carry: --gpu-memory-utilization
sizes the KV cache and does not cover CUDA context or graphs, which is half of
why a seat that fit on the 21st stopped fitting on the 24th; the other half is
that gen's footprint GROWS WITH UPTIME (38.5 GiB fresh against 45.6 GiB after
three days, same container, same flag), so headroom arithmetic against a
long-running gen measures a moving number. The stale-chat-template trap turned
out to be endemic across third-party Gemma-4 derivatives rather than a one-off,
and it is silent in both directions — wrong prompt when serving, train/serve
skew when tuning. And a benchmark finding was retracted because 12% on a
five-option task is below the 20% chance floor: a below-chance score indicts the
instrument before the model, and a preflight can be thorough while aimed in the
wrong direction.
Records the serving decision for the tuned model with its history intact:
LoRA-on-NVFP4 is preferred if it works, merged weights the expected fallback,
but the archived root-cause says the objection was never NVFP4-specific — vLLM
0.24.0's LoRA application was a silent no-op proven quant-agnostic, and ana-ml2
now runs 0.26.0. Retest before designing around merge; the answer changes what
Eitri's harness must emit, and he is still early.
Auto-archival moved 5 entries (Recent decisions) to archival-memory.md; the
guards held back the rest of the 78 age-eligible candidates because their bodies
carry open deferred-work language, per the keep-when-unsure rule. Index sits at
286 lines, above the ~250 target and reported rather than forced.
Rewrites the in-flight section (140 lines to 18) now that the AI-seat work
has settled, promoting the durable calls into the dated decision log where
they will not decay: DFlash2 measured and promoted to sec's compose stack,
the calibration-truncation defect fixed at source in the quant pipeline,
sec retuned after a runtime OOM, the Max-Q spread disproved by telemetry,
ESH dual-stack with the Cityside static proven unprovisioned, and speaches
live with the weak-gate finding.
Carries forward the two things a fresh session must not get wrong: the sec
degeneration question is confounded because engine and drafter changed
together, and neither the 2k nor the 10k observation is evidence.
Auto-archived one entry (Recent decisions: 1) to archival-memory.md.
Eight further candidates were held back by the guards -- open deferred work
or referenced by in-flight state.
Captures the session's real work as the in-flight focus: abliterating
DavidAU Cold-Fusion with the Robinson formula. fp32 capture succeeded
(finite direction, layer 22, sink-clean) but two-template agreement is
0.59 vs Robinson's 0.99 — calibration-set expansion is the next step.
New detail file records the full saga including the transformers/DeltaNet
bf16-NaN fight (fp32 fix, the causal-conv1d kernel gap, the seat-restart
VRAM-greed gotcha). Supersedes the earlier "watch for DavidAU's heretic
build" posture — we abliterate it ourselves.
Auto-archived 4 closed entries (Recent decisions: Booth-3-features 08-05,
worldtree-sdk 07-31; Tried and abandoned: containerd-race 08-03,
mv-rename 08-02) to archival-memory.md; the rest of the over-cap entries
are held back by the <14-day and open-deferred guards. Index 331 -> 327.
Captures a long infra session: fleet *.internal DNS (git-sourced, 42 names,
three resolvers including a new colo one), waterland studio containerised on
irv-ml1, Homepage cleaned up and themed with Australis Skyfall over an
Arbo-generated background, and four unmanaged stacks adopted into stacks/.
Four detail files added. Auto-archived 4 entries to archival-memory.md
(Recent decisions 2, Tried and abandoned 2); 5 held back by the open-deferred
guard rather than moved.
Also records three operator-owned open items: the colo DNS repoint, the
static-v6 convention, and the deliberately belayed AI-tab Dormant regrouping.
Session captured: ESH cut over to Cityside 2Gb symmetric fiber and was
fully provisioned on it; esh-pve-nas completed its ZFS-root migration off
the USB DOM and took its 225-package security backlog with the reboot
deferred; ESH<->colo IPsec was rebuilt as a dialup tunnel with NAT-T after
CGNAT broke the statically-pinned one; IPv6 was mapped across all three
sites.
Auto-archival fired at the soft cap: 7 entries moved to
archival-memory.md (Recent decisions 3, Tried and abandoned 4), all
verified-complete arcs, with two detail files moved and removed. The
remaining pre-Aug-05 entries were held back by the open-deferred-work
guard, so the index stays slightly over cap at 313 lines rather than
losing a live pointer.
Also records the one self-inflicted outage of the session (missing
--make-rslave on a chroot rbind) and that three long-dead things
surfaced incidentally: pvestatd down 82 days, a vzdump hung 126 days,
and a VM sitting in prelaunch for four months.
Current state rewritten to session-end: secrets-broker LIVE (secret CLI + 25-item
backfill + rm/warn), stonehenge-park /park service repo stood up (vor-plan+vor-ui),
dots-tts extracted to tts-stack; NEXT PROJECT = wgtunnel (WireGuard over a plane's
wifi). Two detail files added; 2 oldest T&A entries archived. Handoff written to
/tmp/infra-ops-handoff.md for the post-clear pickup.
Session (2026-08-05): 3 Booth features live+tagged (verbatim-wrap chip, .md/.txt
doc-viewer, image prev/next arrows); worldtree herald re-nudge bug -> forseti
althing-core v2.1.2; fleet-CI-resilience flip attempted end-to-end and PARKED on
an act_runner->gitea action-fetch auth blocker (infra-ops to research, deferred).
Archived the 2026-07-15/16 recent-decisions batch (8 entries) to keep the index
under the soft cap.
Collapsed the completed-arc bloat out of Current state / in-flight (line 125:
6487->1073 chars; runbooks moved to persistent-memory.d/2026-08-03-worldtree-b168-384-385-arc.md).
Added the 2026-08-03 arc Recent-decisions entry. Auto-archived 20 oldest
Recent-decisions entries (2026-07-08..07-14) to archival-memory.md (index 345->308
lines). Refreshed the b169-deploy watch, unpushed-count, and handoff.
9 Recent decisions + 6 Tried-and-abandoned (dates [2026-06-14]/[2026-06-15]) moved
non-destructively to archival-memory.md, each stamped _Archived 2026-06-19._. Kept
the active [2026-06-14] 'migrate ALL infra access to Claude-specific credentials'
standing directive. Back-ref counts: Recent decisions 79->88, Tried-and-abandoned
70->76. persistent-memory.md 397->363 lines.
Capture this session's durable state: Dia2 live as dia2-2b/dia2-1b (legacy
dia retired), dia2 catalog on /tts with full controls + stable-voice default,
zonos REST adapter (built, stack down), schema regen, all pushed. New
foot-guns: dia2 image-build quirks, predefined-voices-not-in-/tts, voice_mode
clone 'undefined' 404. Archived 6 older entries (4 decisions, 2 foot-guns).
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