Every agent on nh3-dev — Claude, Codex, Grok, Aider — needs the same answers: what runs here, how do I call it, what will bite me. Until now that lived in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, which only Claude sessions load, and it was interleaved with operator preferences that other families have no use for. Two-tier by design, matching the persistent-memory split: FLEETTOOLS.md is a 135-line index an agent reads whole, and each entry links to a detail file it opens only when it actually needs that tool. Reading the index costs about a fifth of reading the tree. Detail paths are absolute so they resolve from any working directory, since a non-Claude agent will cat the path rather than follow a markdown link. ~/FLEETTOOLS.md symlinks to the index for discovery. Rule zero is that live inventories get queried, not transcribed: Homepage /api/services, asset-engine /api/v1/services, LiteLLM /v1/models, and every FastAPI seat's /openapi.json. A copied service table would be stale within a month and this repo already has a standing rule against second copies that drift. Contents verified against the running fleet rather than copied from existing docs: binaries resolved on PATH, seven endpoints probed live, the LiteLLM roster counted at 40 models where the old note said ~30. No credentials are included; the vault and its CLI are pointed at 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/.