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§3.12. brokkr-smithy-dev caught and retracted his own recommendation mid-thread; recording it before it reads back later as advice. A common remedy for an overfit tune is a partial merge back toward the base to recover general capability. The published recipes that recommend it merge into the STOCK instruct checkpoint. On an abliterated base, following that literally re-introduces the exact refusal directions the abliteration was run to remove — and it is silent, because the merged model looks healthier on general benchmarks while the property the seat exists for quietly returns. Rule: any merge-back targets the SAME base the LoRA was trained against, never the upstream stock weights however similar the name. The wider lesson is about recipe-card provenance. Community cards are per-checkpoint artifacts and do not transfer across dense-vs-MoE, stock-vs-abliterated, or size variants. The worked example: a recommendation carried from a card for a DENSE STOCK 31B onto a MoE ABLITERATED 26B-A4B on the strength of a shared family name. The overfitting warning on that card happened to come from the right architecture; the pipeline, reward stacks and merge-back came from the wrong one. Same family, three axes apart. So: before quoting a recipe card at a decision, state which checkpoint it was written for and which axes differ. "Same family" is not an answer.
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/.