A/B of the live STT seat (fv-ml1 GPU 0, sherpa-onnx int8 v3) against nvidia/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b, measured on GPU 3 with the seat's own image, k2-fsa's published unified int8 export, fp32/fp16 exports made with k2-fsa's recipe, v2 int8, and NeMo 3.0.0 (fp32, bf16 autocast, bf16 weights). - Seat int8 graph runs on one CPU thread (cpu/wall 1.00, GPU 2-9%). - unified-en under NeMo: -121/-234/-530 ms vs the seat at 1-3/3-8/8-20 s (paired, n=120/bin; floor <=6 ms; +50 ms positive control reads +52-54). - unified-en WER lower in every runtime: -0.7 pp clean, -1.5 pp other, -3.2 to -4.4 pp AMI (paired CIs exclude 0). - Seat defects found: hard 400 s input ceiling (HTTP 500), truncation after a quiet 1.5 s pause, and severe long-window dropouts (int8 v3 only). - B-bf16w needs +0.8 to +1.5 GB over the seat's 1,690 MiB on GPU 0. Raw requests, hypotheses, manifests and the full harness under services/parakeet-ab-2026-09-30/. No deploy; live seat untouched apart from 240 light test requests.
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/.