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Two operator rulings, 2026-09-09.
"purge intermediate checkpoints" -- seven checkpoints/ directories removed with
literal paths, one rm per line, after confirming none was a symlink and that
every run's final adapter/ is an independent real directory:
pfi-gx10 run-03c 11G run-04 16G run-05 9.2G run-06 9.2G = 45 GB
ana-ml2 run-01 12G run-02 12G run-03 5.9G = 29 GB
gx10 419G->374G used, 496 GB free. /tank/erp-tune 392G->363G with zfs list -t
snapshot empty, so the space is genuinely returned rather than snapshot-held. All
eight adapters re-verified by sha256 after the deletion, matching the values
recorded during the mirror. Merged artifacts deliberately untouched -- they are
not checkpoints, and the ~550 GB of superseded merges stays a separate call.
"use dense qwen3" -- the R49 H02 carrier sweep becomes Qwen3-{0.6,1.7,4}B-Base,
which overrides the Qwen3.5 arms H02 names; brokkr-smithy owns that file and was
told directly. Qwen3-4B-Base staged and benched to complete the family:
Qwen3-0.6B-Base 0.616 B 1.707 s/step 2,399 tok/s spread 0.6%
Qwen3-1.7B-Base 1.755 B 2.895 s/step 1,415 tok/s spread 0.8%
Qwen3-4B-Base 4.089 B 5.714 s/step 717 tok/s spread 0.3%
The dense 4.089 B carrier still trains 33% faster than the hybrid 0.765 B one.
Projected per voice 2.7 / 4.6 / 9.1 h; the three-arm sweep at two seeds is ~33 h
of GPU, ~10 h if H03's corpus floor holds. The three Qwen3.5 checkpoints stay
staged so the decision is reversible behind an fla install.
Also recorded: verified at 22:45-22:48 PT that nothing is training on gx10,
ana-ml2, nh3-dev or irv-ml1, and that brokkr's own run07-gate close states
"Nothing is owed. No battery to run." Run 7 has no servable artifact left. And a
correction to a standing lesson -- the bracketed-class trick does not defeat a
wrapper's argv, since the invoking shell's command line carries the literal
pattern; observe the artifact instead.
docs/
Navigation map for the documentation tree. New session? Read
orientation.md first — it's the narrative overview
of the fleet, backup architecture, governing principles, and gotchas,
and it points at everything else.
Tree
docs/
├── orientation.md # start here — fleet overview + where-to-look guide
├── runbooks/ # ops runbooks (recovery, deployment phases)
│ ├── disaster-recovery.md
│ ├── nh3-prune-ritual.md
│ └── pbs-deployment.md
└── pfi/ # PFI-specific reference (services, models, VMs)
├── docker-stack.md
├── model-list.md
├── proxmox-vms.md
├── recommended-model-settings.md
├── vm-102-matrix-appservice.md
└── vm-102-matrix-synapse.md
What goes where
runbooks/— step-by-step ops procedures. Anything you'd reach for during an incident or while standing up new infrastructure. Examples: disaster recovery (blast-radius tiers + restoration steps), PBS deployment (9-phase rollout). New runbook → new file here.pfi/— PFI-specific reference material that's too narrow for the top-level CLAUDE.md but doesn't change incident response. AI model inventory, recommended inference settings, Matrix bridge config, Proxmox VM map. New stable reference → new file here.- Top-level (
docs/orientation.md,docs/README.md) — narrative guides about the workspace itself, not about specific infra.
Cross-references
- Fleet topology + servers table: top-level
CLAUDE.md. - Open work + recent milestones: top-level
STATUS.md. - Durable cross-session facts:
~/.claude/projects/-home-lkraven-development-eshpfi-management/memory/.
Conventions
- Markdown, GitHub-flavored. CommonMark renders fine in most viewers.
- File names are lowercase-kebab-case, descriptive. No dates in filenames — git history covers that.
- One topic per file. If a file grows past ~500 lines, look for a natural split before adding more.
- No checked-in binaries or checksums. Build/release artifacts belong
in a build pipeline or
tools/, notdocs/.