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# Persistent memory — eshpfi-management
_Last updated: 2026-08-15_
> **Always check for `/tmp/infra-ops-handoff.md`** — if it exists and its
> `Written:` stamp is under an hour old, read it (it carries the in-flight
> handoff from the previous session), then delete it. Older than an hour:
> stale — delete it unread.
## Repo purpose
Reference workspace for PFI infrastructure: server inventory, canonical
Docker Compose stacks, ops playbooks, and conventions. Authoritative
copies of compose files live on the servers under
`/opt/docker/compose/<stack>/`; this repo mirrors them for version
control, editing, planning, and CI-driven deploys. **It was originally
spun up to handle the fleet backups** — keep that lens when triaging
backup/storage issues.
## Tools and conventions
Sister repos (separate gitea repos, deployed by playbooks here):
| Repo | Role | CI status |
|---|---|---|
| `vh/task-board` | MCP + web dashboard for assistant task state (port 7878) | push-to-main → CI deploys (2026-04-29) |
| `vh/vor` | Inquisitor UI sidecar (port 7879) | push-to-main → CI deploys (2026-04-29) |
| `vh/nevermore` | Twice-daily LLM-curated briefing (port 8181, replaces news-digest) | push-to-main → CI deploys (2026-04-30) |
| `vh/asset-engine` | Internal control plane over inference services (port 8200, LAN-direct) | push-to-main → CI deploys (2026-05-12) |
| `vh/althing` | Lean trusted inter-agent message bus — **v2 "email model" (v2.0.0b2, 2026-07)**: per-box local-SQLite bus + courier/receiver for P2P over the 10.x net; pillars = open-loops / per-box herald + wake-listener / roaming owner API `/owner/*` / `althing-mcp` stdio surface. The v0.15 lean-bus cut RIPPED moderation / chamber / forseti-daemon / agent-runner / redis-valkey. | per-box `uv tool install` (NOT CI-deploy); **nh3-dev = the DEV box** (editable install of `~/development/althing`, gets new versions first); **nh3-extdev** a mesh peer (model B: althing-svc + shared `/srv/althing`) |
| `vh/mead-hall` | Bifrost tool-provider sidecar (port 5173 on dev VM 10.100.10.50) | push-to-main → CI deploys (2026-05-16) |
| `vh/skaldsong` | Wizard + reader surface (port 8300, ana-docker, registry-pull pattern) | push-to-main → CI deploys (2026-05-19) |
| `vh/Worldtree` | Conversation API (corviduo-dev demo :8080 / personal :8081 / pinned :8082) — Heimdall auth, Bifrost integration. **gitea-runner builds on ana-docker**; claude-bot ADMIN collaborator (2026-06-20). Now v1.0.0b19. | push-to-main → CI build-and-deploy (runner on ana-docker) |
| `vh/yt-voice-clipper` | YouTube → diarized voice-clip dataset builder + audition console (irv-ml1 :8000) | push-to-main → **gitea-webhook auto-deploy** to irv-ml1 (2026-06-03) — see `docs/runbooks/ytvc-autodeploy.md` |
| `vh/arbo` | Catalog-driven ComfyUI engine (irv-ml1 :8201, comfy-dev owns engine/catalog/image) | push-to-main → gitea Actions CI (deploy-engine.sh, build-local, health-gated) now LIVE; catalog via :9009 webhook |
| `vh/zonos-gateway` | OpenAI-compatible TTS gateway over stock ZONOS2 (`:8890` irv-ml1); emotion **dials-first** + voice mapping; reached via LiteLLM `ext-tts` alias. **v0.2.1 (2026-07-18): voice-resolved emotion presets** (`resolve_preset(name,voice)`; angry/happy/startled_happy per-voice). 8 voices incl. 4 clones | pushed to gitea (main `8f1885b`/`v0.2.1`); **deployed irv-ml1 tree still NON-git** (hand-updated build context — CI-wire = open follow-up). Spec `docs/EMOTION-DIALS-SPEC.md`; host-managed voices bind-mount (`./voices:/app/voices`, drop wav + restart, no rebuild) |
| `vh/soong-lab` | Noonien Soong character-design studio (SPA + /api + WT `/bifrost/tool-call`); **containerized 2026-07-18**, LIVE on corviduo-dev `:8443` (image `vh/soong-lab:latest`). soong-dev owns Dockerfile/compose/workflow; infra-ops owns the host | CI = Gitea Actions build+push+**DEPLOY** on tag/dispatch (fleet recipe: docker:cli + raw buildx, pushes AS vh; **auto-redeploy LIVE 2026-07-18** — runner SSHes corviduo-dev as `deploy`, `compose pull && up -d` from **/opt/soong-lab**, health-gated on /api/version). Manual redeploy `sudo -u deploy bash -c 'cd /opt/soong-lab && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d'`. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-soong-lab-auto-redeploy.md` |
| `model-training-forge` (mtf-dev) | Fine-tuning recipe forge; **T1 = E-RP writing LoRA, retargeted qwopus-122B→AEON-27B (2026-07-06)** (SFT→DPO, LitBench-RM reward) | training runs, not a deployed sidecar |
(`vh/volva` + Heid were re-architected from systemd daemons to Claude Code
session orchestrators 2026-06-08; their nh3-dev `.service` units were removed —
no longer deployed sidecars here. See Recent decisions.)
- **Two-layer backups** — Backrest orchestrates restic for file+DB (5
fleet repos, daily 01:00 PDT); PBS-ANA primary + PBS-NH3 DR mirror for
VM images. ana-nas is the SPOF for postgres + PBS-ANA datastore +
cross-site restic targets — see `docs/runbooks/disaster-recovery.md`
for the blast-radius matrix. **⚠️ The restic file+DB layer routes
through TWO rest-servers** (`rest-server-ana` @ ana-docker:8000 →
ana-docker/ana-ml2/esh-docker-vm/vm-esh-nas; `rest-server-nh3` @
nh3-nas:8000 → irv-ml1/nh3-docker). Both depend on their NAS's NFS
export of `/mnt/backup`. (rest-server-ana recovered 2026-06-20.)
- **`pull-hf-repo.yaml`** is the canonical "get a HuggingFace
model/dataset onto ana-ml2's shared cache at
`/tank/aimodels/huggingface/`" playbook. Supports `--var repo_type=model|dataset|space`. Replaces ad-hoc `huggingface_hub.snapshot_download` patterns.
- **Worldtree admin auth — per-instance.** Each Worldtree deployment
(demo :8080, personal :8081, pinned :8082) has its own Heimdall
registry and its own bootstrap admin key. Infra-ops's stored
long-lived admin key (`key_id 61419c92`) at
`ana-docker:/opt/docker/conf/.secrets/worldtree-infra-ops-admin`
auths against **demo only**. Personal-instance admin (the
`~/.config/worldtree/personal-admin-token`, mode 600) POSTs
`/admin/keys` (mints per-project keys; takes `user_id`+`label`, **no
scope param** — scopes are tier-derived). **On-instance mint recipe
(cleaner than DB-manip):** `docker exec worldtree-worldtree-api-1` POST
`/admin/keys` with the in-container `WORLDTREE_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_KEY`; cleartext
once in `.key`=`wt_live_+16hex`. auto-memory `reference_worldtree_demo_key_mint`.
- **Per-project user keys against personal Worldtree** (issued
2026-05-19): `skaldsong:79744637`, `skaldsong:7c1dbbbe`,
`althing:50d85460`, `mead-hall:a360822d`. Mint via `/admin/keys`, drop
value to `/tmp/wt-personal-<name>.key` mode 600, dev collects +
shreds (DO NOT cat to chat transcript).
- **Skaldsong CD pattern (registry-pull).** vh/skaldsong's CI builds and
pushes `gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/skaldsong:<sha>` + `:latest`;
`playbooks/deploy-skaldsong.yaml` on ana-docker pulls + recreates.
SHA-pin only. Prereq: host needs `docker login gitea.phasefinal.com` once.
- **gitea internal route for fleet hosts.** gitea is a container on
**ana-docker** — git-SSH `10.250.50.70:222`, HTTP `:3000`. Fleet/colo
hosts must use this internal route, NOT public `gitea.phasefinal.com`
(`38.120.12.44`) — the public path fail2bans the host egress IP. Full
gotcha in `docs/orientation.md` → Git/gitea.
- **docker-as-root pattern** (for ops with no admin API, or to edit
deploy-owned/root-owned files without sudo): `docker run --rm -v
<target-dir>:/wt docker:cli sh -c "..."`. docker-group membership is
effectively root via bind-mount. **Foot-gun: relative paths in compose.yaml
resolve against the sandbox CWD but the daemon interprets them against the
HOST fs — always pass `-e VAR=/abs/path` for any relative-default config dir.**
- **`scripts/elway` sudo handling** — elway prompts for the sudo password
ONCE via `getpass` before the first `sudo: true` step → can't run
unattended from a non-TTY tool if any step needs sudo. Sudo-free
playbooks run fully non-interactive over key SSH.
- **Per-host SSH identity matters for sudo.** infra-ops has NOPASSWD sudo
on most PFI Linux boxes (corviduo-dev included since 2026-06-15). On
ana-docker: **default `ssh ana-docker` = `lkraven`** (docker-group, NO
passwordless sudo); **`ssh infra-ops@ana-docker` HAS NOPASSWD root**. **
For any sudo op on ana-docker, use `ssh infra-ops@ana-docker`.** `ssh
infra-ops@10.100.10.50` (nh3-dev) ALSO NOPASSWD sudo; on **nh3-extdev** infra-ops
is sudo-LESS by design (`ssh lkraven@10.100.50.42` is the NOPASSWD path). **irv-ml1:
`ssh irv-ml1` = lkraven, docker-group (plain docker) but sudo needs a PASSWORD
(no NOPASSWD)** — stage model pulls to `/home`, not root-owned `/worktank`.
## Current state / in-flight
_As of 2026-08-15 — **GEN SEAT REQUANTED (mixed NVFP4+FP8, +18% decode / prefill ~2×) and the char-rp tool-call parser FIXED.** Both were the two open items from the prior session; both closed, verified, committed, and **PUSHED**. Operator ruled the +1.7% PPL cost acceptable — settled, don't re-litigate. Nothing queued behind them._
- **✅ UNCENSORED GEN SEAT — DONE + LIVE (2026-08-15).** `gen-seat`/`vllm-gen` on ana-ml2 GPU0 `:8015` serves **`qwen3.8-27b-uncensored`** (JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored, Heretic-abliterated, in-house NVFP4 **W4A16** compressed-tensors + grafted bf16 MTP, vision-intact, **262K** ctx, MTP n=3 ~42% accept / ~68 tok/s). Replaced the qwen3.6-35b-a3b-heretic MoE (which had briefly replaced granite/AEON). All 7 aliases repointed live + verified; compose renamed qwen36-27b-aeon→gen-seat, vllm-aeon-gen→vllm-gen, AEON_GEN_*→GEN_*, dead RP service dropped; repo mirrored + docs/memory refreshed; committed eshpfi `680c30e` + dotfiles `1d1970f`. Full arc + the definitive `re:^mtp.*`-ignore fix → Recent decisions `[2026-08-15]` + `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-uncensored-gen-seat.md`.
- **✅ GEN SEAT REQUANT — DONE + LIVE (2026-08-15, overnight).** The seat now runs **mixed-precision** `/tank/aimodels/qwen38-27b-uncensored-nvfp4-mixed` (NVFP4 W4A4 layers 0-55 MLPs + FP8 W8A8 attn/`linear_attn`/`lm_head`/layers 56-63 MLPs + FP8 KV) — **80.12 → 94.53 tok/s decode (+18.0%)** and — the bigger win — **prefill roughly DOUBLED** (3,206→6,334 tok/s at 6.7k prompt; 2,862→5,085 at 27k; TTFT on a 27k doc 9.43→5.31 s), at unchanged MTP acceptance (47.8→47.7%), +1.7% PPL, abliteration 4/4 preserved, weights 27.7→22.5 GB. Prefill > decode is the expected ordering (decode is bandwidth-bound and 4-bit either way; prefill is compute-bound = where native FP4 replaces Marlin) — the `summarizer` aliases feel this most. Surface-verified live (chat/vision/tools/thinking/36K-needle/streaming 6/6) + all 7 aliases routing. **The queued "W4A8" framing was unservable** — vLLM 0.24 allows NVFP4 weights with ONLY A16 or A4, FP8 activations raise ValueError at load; FP8 has to enter per-layer-group. Committed `74f596b`. Pipeline + acceptance harness + raw numbers → `services/gen-seat-mixed-quant/`; full arc → Recent decisions `[2026-08-15]` + `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-gen-seat-mixed-requant.md`. **Rollback = one `.env` line**, old build untouched at `…/qwen38-27b-uncensored-nvfp4`.
- **⚠️ GPU0 is at 94.4/97.9 GB** (gen 0.43 + meromero 0.52). `GEN_GPU_MEM_UTIL` was cut 0.45→0.43 because the smaller mixed weights let gen soak the slack as KV and starved meromero by 0.18 GiB → crash-loop. **Any future util bump on either GPU0 seat must be checked against the other.**
- **FLEET RERANKER** = A3 (bge-reranker-v2-m3) PROD ana-ml2 GPU1 :8013 (R42 v13 gate passed). Passive watch: caps ~34 req/s; levers = A4 :8014 / util / 2nd replica; incumbent :8002 warm for rollback. Full arc `docs/pfi/reranker-selection-ledger.md`.
- **EVIDENCE HOLD (partial):** WT #394 index-row half lifted+swept; the **FILE half STILL STANDS** — do NOT delete on-disk gen dirs (`fiction/rex390-dcc`, `rex392-dcc`, `b59c147c5ce0`). rex393-fiction-* + r42-gate-* also KEEP.
- **✅ CHAR-RP TOOL-CALLING — FIXED (2026-08-15).** MeroMero (Gemma-4) had **no** tool parser at all, so every tools-bearing request 400'd. Fixed with `--tool-call-parser gemma4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --reasoning-parser gemma4 --default-chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking": false}'` — the last flag is **mandatory**, not decorative (the parser defaults `enable_thinking` to True, which pre-inits the engine to REASONING and returns null `content` for all plain RP prose). Verified green: tool call streaming + non-streaming, tool round-trip, prose in `content`, vision. Committed `b8f0f4c`. Details in `stacks/meromero-charrp/README.md`.
- **OPEN FOLLOW-UPS (parked):** chatterbox-fast flat-vs-package build-context divergence; CI-flip runner-auth research; #363 research-wing ingest (no deadline); zonos-gateway CI-wire.
- **althing monitor** ARMED (handle `infra-ops`). ⚠️ Re-arm ONLY after a real FIRE (rc0), NEVER after a plain operator turn (bounces rc3); spawn `althing-cli monitor` / `althing-wake-listener` as its OWN `run_in_background` task, never chained with `&`.
- **eshpfi push state: IN SYNC.** `origin/main` == `main` at `930197a` (2026-08-15) — the 38-commit backlog (gen-seat requant, char-rp tool parser, eRP dual-seat, wgtunnel mirror, dots.tts + secrets-broker arcs) is all pushed. ⚠ **Push over the INTERNAL gitea route**`git push ssh://git@10.250.50.70:222/vh/esh-pfi-infrastructure.git main:main`; `origin` resolves `gitea.phasefinal.com`→38.120.12.44 (the public edge), which fail2bans fleet-host egress. Dotfiles `1d1970f` + `6425cc6` still unpushed (separate repo). `graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md` churns every commit (ignore); `stacks/heretic2-charrp-reasoning/` UNTRACKED (pre-existing, superseded).
## Recent decisions
- `[2026-08-15]` **Operator ruling: the gen seat's +1.7% perplexity is an acceptable price for the speed — SETTLED, don't re-litigate.** Precise attribution for future reasoning: it is the **activation-quantization** cost (W4A4 MLPs + FP8 attention vs BF16 activations), not an MTP cost — PPL was measured with speculative decoding **off** on both builds, so MTP was not in the loop. Turning MTP off would not recover it; only reverting the quant would (rollback = one `.env` line, old build intact at `…/qwen38-27b-uncensored-nvfp4`).
- `[2026-08-15]` **gen seat requanted to mixed NVFP4+FP8 (+18% decode) + char-rp Gemma-4 tool-calling fixed.** The queued "W4A8" (NVFP4 weights + FP8 activations) is **not servable** — vLLM 0.24 allows NVFP4 weights with only A16 or A4; FP8 activations ValueError at load, and `CompressedTensorsW4A8Fp8` is INT4-weights + sm90-exact (closed on Blackwell twice). FP8 must enter **per-layer-group**. Also: the handoff's "~68 tok/s" baseline didn't reproduce — cache-busted, the incumbent already did **80.12** (≈ the stated W4A8 target), so the premise needed re-measuring before any work. Shortcut: `unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4` was already on-box → served as a probe, measured **+19.1% at identical acceptance**, which both proved the gain was real and handed over the reference recipe. Replicated it on the abliterated weights → **80.12→94.53 tok/s, acceptance unchanged, +1.7% PPL, abliteration 4/4, weights 19%**; surface 6/6 live, 7 aliases routing. char-rp had **no** tool parser at all (every tools request 400'd) → `gemma4` tool + reasoning parser + a **mandatory** `enable_thinking:false` (the parser defaults it True → null `content` for all RP prose; proven byte-identical prompt before deploying). Commits `b8f0f4c`, `74f596b`. Foot-guns banked (llm-compressor prunes unmatched `ignore` entries → the 0%-MTP bug, **fired on this run**; prompt_logprobs uniform under spec-decode; 0600 `.env` silently no-ops compose; GPU0 is zero-sum). → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-gen-seat-mixed-requant.md`
- `[2026-08-15]` **Uncensored gen seat: JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored deployed as `gen-seat`/`vllm-gen` (NVFP4 W4A16 + grafted MTP, 262K); 7 aliases repointed; the definitive `re:^mtp.*`-ignore fix.** 0%-MTP-on-quant (twice) was NOT the abliteration/scheme — the grafted bf16 MTP was missing from `quantization_config.ignore` (vLLM loaded it as quantized → uninitialized). Full arc, the working pipeline, VRAM budget, unsloth speed decomposition, modelopt dead-end. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-uncensored-gen-seat.md`
- `[2026-08-12]` **eRP dual-seat overhaul: MeroMero-v2 (`char-rp`) + Dark-Scarlett (`char-rp-reasoning`), both NVFP4A16 @ 256K on ana-ml2; granite retired.** Replaced the GGUF/heretic2 RP seats with two home-quantized vLLM seats. The DS blocker (an `AutoModelForCausalLM` save wrote a flat `Qwen3_5TextConfig` that **both vLLM AND SGLang reject**) was fixed by re-quanting via the `Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration` **wrapper class**; ModelOpt was a version deadlock, SGLang lacked the impl (but revealed the fix). MeroMero vision reconstructed by extracting `preprocessor_config.json` from `processor_config.json`. Both models KV-efficient (Gemma-4 sliding-window / Qwen3.6 hybrid linear-attn) → full 256K; GPU-swapped for headroom; compose-ified + committed `f08b6cb`. granite downed + LiteLLM `summarizer`/`classifier`→gen. Full arc, lessons, dead-ends → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-12-erp-dual-seat-overhaul.md`
- `[2026-08-12]` **infra-ops now holds an all-zones Cloudflare DNS-edit token (vaulted) + wgtunnel Phase-0 DNS landed.** Operator handed over a `Zone·DNS·Edit` (all zones) CF token → `secret put nh3-dev/.config/cloudflare/infra-ops-dns-token` (round-trip verified; /tmp drop shredded). Fleet DNS is now self-serve for infra-ops (⚠ HIGH blast radius — all zones). First use: created `boring.phasefinal.com` CNAME → `ana-srv1.phasefinal.com`, **DNS-only** (proxied:false), verified resolving to 38.120.12.44 on both authoritative NS (louis/wren) + 1.1.1.1 — NOT Cloudflare-proxied. Unblocks wgtunnel's wstunnel ACME cert. phasefinal.com zone id `f812ba74ed9a75cf21bbe7ce9188db50`. auto-memory `reference_infra_ops_cloudflare_dns_token`. (Earlier gap: the only prior vaulted CF token, jackdaw's, had `zone:read`+`worker:edit` but no `dns_records:edit`.)
- `[2026-08-12]` **wgtunnel stood up as its own repo (`vh/wgtunnel`, private) after a live endpoint-verification pass.** Operator directed own-repo (mirrors stonehenge-park/tts-stack). Verified off the fleet before seeding: `ana-wg` WG server = **UDP/31337** (not 51820), subnet 10.30.10.0/24, MTU 1420, active roaming peer proves the public UDP DNAT works; traefik on ana-docker **terminates TLS :443** (ACME `anaprod` http-challenge, docker+file providers, CrowdSec bouncer) → confirms the clean design (wstunnel container on `traefik-net`, Host-routed, WS→UDP to `ana-wg:31337`); edge `38.120.12.44` direct-A, `tunnel.phasefinal.com` free (⚠ must be **direct**, NOT Cloudflare-proxied like vaultwarden). Repo pre-seeded (README/CLAUDE/persistent-memory/ROADMAP + `docs/verified-infrastructure.md` = ground truth) + pushed; commit `9584d38`, Vuong-attributed. vh gitea token pulled from the vault (`secret get`), not persisted to `.git/config`. **NEXT = `/vor-plan` or `/vor` (operator's call, interactive).** Deps to line up in the plan: DNS A-record, FortiGate :443 host-routing, a new ana-wg peer for the laptop, client tooling.
- `[2026-08-10→12]` **secrets-broker: per-box Vaultwarden credential store SHIPPED + consumer-confirmed.** `secret` CLI (`put/get/list/rm/backfill`, bw-backed) on `~/.local/bin`; 25 nh3-dev secrets backfilled + round-trip-verified; `rm` + new-namespace warning added post-launch; standing "vault is the credential source of truth" directive now global. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-12-secrets-broker.md`
- `[2026-08-11]` **stonehenge-park: new fleet `/park` service repo stood up + designed (`/vor-plan` + `/vor-ui`).** Self-contained SQLite+FastAPI idea-parking service that actively resurfaces (statusline + althing) so nothing dies in a cold repo; `vh/stonehenge-park` pushed + pre-seeded for a fresh agent; build starts at the U1 tracer contract. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-11-stonehenge-park.md`
- `[2026-08-12]` **Global `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`: `secret`/vault tool entry + "store in AND pull from the vault" standing directive** (dotfiles `9db703b`, pushed); statusline reset-countdowns + a latent tab-collapse parse-bug fix, now tracked in the dotfiles stow tree. Dogfooded the directive: created `vh/stonehenge-park` pulling the gitea token via `secret get`. (dotfiles + global config, not eshpfi.)
- `[2026-08-11]` **TTS stack extracted to its own repo (`tts-stack`) + eshpfi stood down on TTS dev.** Operator: hand all TTS tuning/dev to a separate agent with a self-contained repo (knowledge + infra access + a live knowledge list), and move the voice corpus in. New repo `~/development/tts-stack` (commit `9ee3288`) carries: dots-tts stack (canonical intent), `voices/` corpus (MOVED out of eshpfi), `KNOWLEDGE.md` (engine landscape + prosody findings + foot-guns), `docs/infrastructure.md` (irv-ml1 access + gated deploy runbook + rollback), CLAUDE/persistent-memory/ROADMAP, `tools/` (pause-probe + Booth render). Followed the **chatterbox-fast precedent**: eshpfi `stacks/dots-tts/` reduced to a POINTER README; the ~15 experimental TTS compose wrappers stay here as reference (catalogued in tts-stack KNOWLEDGE). Blast-radius check: no eshpfi playbook/script reads the canonical corpus (other `voices/` refs = unrelated host paths). **Reverses** the earlier "Corpus home = eshpfi `voices/` (keep-here)" call. ⚠ tts-stack is LOCAL-ONLY until pushed — needs a gitea remote (`vh/tts-stack`) + push before the separate agent can clone (operator's call — outward-facing + repo-create creds).
- `[2026-08-10]` **dots-tts v3 — clause-break → period pause mapping.** Operator: v2 "sounds good" but donut won't pause at semicolons/dashes. ROOT CAUSE (measured via a pause-probe A/B — synth duration over N runs, non-determinism averaged out): dots' prosody honors a real pause **only for ellipsis (~+0.43s) and period (~+0.3s, capitalization-independent)**; comma/semicolon/colon/dash all run **flat (~+0.03s vs no-punct)**. Two distinct sub-causes: **dashes regressed in v2** (the `—``-` fold made em-dashes read as word-joiners), while **semicolons were NEVER a v2 change** — dots ignores them natively, only newly noticeable because v2 made everything else clean. Operator call: ellipsis "too much" → **map `;`, clause `:`, and em-dash `—` → period** in `_sanitize` (believable ~0.3s clause break). GUARDS (pinned by 11 unit tests, `stacks/dots-tts/test_sanitize.py`): digit-guarded colon `(?<!\d)\s*:\s*(?!\d)` so times `3:45` / ratios `2:1` survive; en-dash ``→hyphen KEPT (numeric-range `1020` safety — em-dash breaks, en-dash ranges, different jobs); genuine ellipsis left at full strength (author meant a long pause). Gated deploy (redeploy2 pattern → v3): build → throwaway :8199 test container + **pause-gate** (semicolon sentence must run ≥0.12s longer than baseline; measured **+0.427s**) → only then cut live over. LIVE + healthy `local/dots-tts:v3` on :8198. **rollback = `sed -i 's/^DOTS_TAG=.*/DOTS_TAG=v2/' .env + docker compose up -d dots-tts`** (v2 image retained). Booth `dots-pauses` (A=old-flat / C=ellipsis-too-much / D=live-v3). [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]]
- `[2026-08-10]` **dots-tts v2 — contraction fix (curly-sanitize) + sentence-chunking + dependency-pin recovery.** Operator: donut read contractions wrong ("you're"→"you ree", "donut's"→"donut ess"). ROOT CAUSE (isolated via A/B booth): **curly/typographic apostrophes** (`` U+2019 from ratatoskr's LLM) — dots' tokenizer mispronounces them; STRAIGHT apostrophes read clean under `normalize_text=True`. FIX (`app.py`): fold curly→ASCII (`str.maketrans`) before synth, **KEEP `normalize_text=True`** (operator call — retains number/date expansion). Also added **server-side sentence-chunking** (pack ≤280 chars): dots caps one `generate()` at ~500 patches/~40s, so long RP turns (the Zev monologue = 160s audio) truncated; chunking stitches them (verified full 160.3s, not 40s-cut). **⚠ BUILD FOOT-GUNS (both bit this redeploy):** (1) upstream dots.tts `constraints/recommended.txt` now pins **`gradio==6.17.0` — phantom, not on PyPI** → fresh `pip install dots.tts` unsatisfiable; FIX = pin `dots.tts==0.2.1` + **DROP** the `-c recommended.txt` constraints (0.2.1 pulls working gradio 6.17.3). (2) pinning only `torch==2.8.0` let **torchaudio float to 2.11.0 → dots.tts refuses to load** (minor-version match check); FIX = pin `torchaudio==2.8.0`. **⚠ DEPLOY LESSON:** `docker compose up -d` to a new tag swaps the LIVE container BEFORE any health check — a broken image crash-loops production (**ratatoskr TTS down ~1-2min this session**). NEW PATTERN = build → test in a THROWAWAY container on an alt port (:8199) → health+verify → only THEN cut live over (redeploy2.sh). v2 LIVE + healthy on irv-ml1:8198, **CONSUMER-CONFIRMED clean** (ratatoskr verified end-to-end on their :8765 — apostrophe string reads clean, /api/tts 200 @ 48kHz, no client change; the ~1-2min blip didn't hit them, their concurrent auto-audio issue was client-side localStorage). **rollback = `sed DOTS_TAG=v1 + docker compose up -d dots-tts`** (v1 image retained). Also: deployed container GPU crept ~6→13.9GB over 8h serving (cache accumulation; a redeploy resets it — watch item). [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]]
- `[2026-08-09→10]` **dots.tts (rednote-hilab) TTS burn-in on irv-ml1 + canonical voice corpus built (`voices/`).** Operator-directed eval to potentially replace chatterbox-fast. **dots.tts VERIFIED real** (canonical HF ns `dots-studio/`, `rednote-hilab/dots.tts-*` redirects there; Apache-2.0; PyPI `dots.tts` 0.2.1; 2B continuous-AR = semantic enc + Qwen2.5-1.5B LLM + flow-matching acoustic head over 48kHz AudioVAE; zero-shot clone from wav+transcript). **Runs on Ampere 3090** (sm_86, bf16, no fp8 dep); **optimized RTF 0.22** at num_steps=10 (`from_pretrained(..., optimize=True)` CUDA graphs — raw unoptimized was 1.21), **~6GB VRAM**, 48kHz, streams (`generate_stream`). Venv+cache at `irv-ml1:/home/lkraven/dots-tts` (~10GB). **Operator design calls:** SGLang Omni serving (OpenAI `/v1/audio/speech`), transcribe-refs-first, `soar` variant. ⚠ Omni serves soar but its continuous-batching + streaming opts are **mf-only** (soar = single-request) — non-issue for ratatoskr's single-consumer RP surface. **KEY FINDING — dots is highly sensitive to an accurate AND sentence-bounded reference transcript:** mismatched transcript → 0.16s collapse; over-long/messy transcript → reference-audio BLEEDS as an output prefix; mid-clause trim → dangling-word leak (glados "we'll", emmie "And,"). RECIPE (baked into `voices/derive.py`): trim ref to a clean ~610s clip ending on a sentence boundary + accurate transcript of exactly that clip. **CANONICAL VOICE CORPUS** stood up in eshpfi `voices/` (operator idea): engine-agnostic `canonical/<v>.wav` + `transcripts/<v>.txt` → per-engine ref sets DERIVED by `derive.py` reading `engines.yaml` profiles (dots/chatterbox/zonos); canonical wavs git-tracked (small/curated), `derived/` gitignored. **4 voices optimized + verified CLEAN for dots: donut, glados, emmie, miranda** (glados canonical is low-SR 16kHz — flagged upgrade candidate). ⚠ GPU GOTCHA: irv-ml1 native CUDA orders **A6000=device0** (ComfyUI-full) — pin the 3090 with `CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0`; and `PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments` CONFLICTS with `optimize=True` CUDA graphs (curr_block error). Booths: `dots-vs-chatterbox`, `dots-voices-optimized`. **SHIPPED 2026-08-10:** operator A/B verdict "dots is very good" → containerized as a **thin FastAPI wrapper over DotsTtsRuntime** (chosen over SGLang Omni — Omni's batching is mf-only, unneeded for ratatoskr's single consumer; wrapper is SERIALIZED one-gen-at-a-time via a threading.Lock, Omni+mf = parked API-compatible escalation if multi-consumer ever lands). **LIVE on irv-ml1:8198** (`local/dots-tts:v1`, OpenAI `/v1/audio/speech` + `/health` + `/v1/voices`, container healthy, both stream + non-stream verified CLEAN, 4 voices donut/glados/emmie/miranda) alongside chatterbox :8197 (nothing repointed). Stack = `stacks/dots-tts/` (Dockerfile/app.py/compose/.env.example/README). ⚠ CONTAINER GOTCHA: `optimize=True` (torch.compile/inductor/triton) needs a **C compiler at RUNTIME** — slim image must `apt install build-essential` or model-load dies "Failed to find C compiler" (host venv had gcc ambient, masking it); persist `TORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIR` to a mounted dir or every restart re-JITs ~5min. Corpus home = eshpfi `voices/` (operator ruled keep-here). **REMAINING: ratatoskr client cutover** to :8198 `/v1/audio/speech` (Phase-2 tail, peer-coupled — draft the ask). [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]] [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]] [[reference_verify_hf_repo_ids_before_pull]]
- `[2026-08-08]` **worldtree-dev #400 CLOSED → fiction-decomp snapshot cleared from nh3-dev.** worldtree-dev signaled #400 done (shipped v1.0.0b185; exact-lexical efficacy 79%→12% on ratatoskr's gate, brokkr no-harm bracket green both ends; the snapshot served 4 probe rounds — rank decomposition, promoted-vs-gold annotation, tie-set falsification, A0/A1/A2 mechanism probe). Cleared `~/snapshots/worldtree-400-fiction-decomp` (208M: chroma + manifest/provenance/stamp) — a read-only rsync copy of PERSONAL Worldtree's Chroma (source on corviduo-dev, so safe to remove). **LEFT INTACT:** `rex393-fiction-index`/`rex393-fiction-snapshot` (separate operator KEEP word, unchanged) + `r42-gate-*`. No config deltas rode this train. Only remaining non-blocking await = ratatoskr-dev's chatterbox-fast knob revert. Replied confirming (`01KZJ9GMCC…`).
- `[2026-08-07]` **chatterbox-fast "broken audio" root-caused (T3 AR tail over-run) + FIXED (max_chunk_chars=250 cap, :v2 deployed).** Long saga, operator-driven clean diagnosis. **Symptom:** ratatoskr's migrated RP-surface TTS "swaps to German" / "dead air" / "garbage" on long turns. **NOT** German-leak (Turbo `generate()` has NO language param — plain AutoTokenizer, no `language_id`; the multilingual `language_id="en"` lever lives only in the separate `ChatterboxMultilingualTTS`), **NOT** OOM alone. **Real cause:** the Chatterbox **Turbo T3 model OVER-RUNS its generation tail** — a long single `generate()` degrades into garble/dead-air in its final ~2-3s (lib filters OOV tokens `<6561` + pads silence = messy AR tail). The scheduler's buffer-ratchet builds 300-600 char mega-chunks that land in that zone; streaming concatenates each bad tail (worst case). **ratatoskr's anti-"German" knobs (top_k=80/temp=0.5) made it WORSE** — tight sampling pulls the degradation onset SHORTER (~200 chars vs ~300 at default knobs). **Diagnosis method** (deterministic, no ears-only): single-shot length sweep + **amplitude-gated voiced-ZCR** (garble spikes ZCR; must gate on |x|>500 else trailing silence confounds it) — degraded voiced-tail = 1.58× mid, clean = ~0.64-1.1×. **FIX:** server-side `max_chunk_chars=250` cap on the scheduler (`:v2` image, `CBF_MAX_CHUNK_CHARS=250` env) — bounds each generation to just under the ~300-char onset → clean **3-4 sentence** chunks (max prosodic arc while clean). Operator ear-confirmed clean audio + clean joins; **chatterbox's low emotiveness keeps chunk joins smooth** (the harsh joins that got Zonos rejected are absent — operator's key call). **ratatoskr TODO (relayed msg `01KZER9X7S`):** revert knobs to default (top_k→1000, temp→0.8), send full text (server chunks internally), keep the 503-on-empty guard. **Cap value tunable** per-request (`max_chunk_chars`) + env. **Deeper prosody** (if ever wanted) = scheduler Phase-2 context-priming at joins (feed prior sentence as discarded-audio context; +latency). **⚠ FOOT-GUNS:** (1) acoustic tail-trim is UNRELIABLE — sibilants ('s'/'sh'/'f') spike ZCR like garble, can't cleanly detect the speech→garble boundary. (2) **build-context vs image drift** — the `:v2` image was built from cap source, but after a `:v1` rollback the build context held `:v1` source → a `docker compose build` would've silently produced a cap-less `:v2`; re-synced the flat cap source to `/opt/docker/compose/chatterbox-fast/` (rebuild-verified). **⚠ DIVERGENCE (follow-up):** deployed build context is FLAT (`app.py`/`scheduler.py`, `from scheduler import`, thin-overlay `FROM local/chatterbox:v1`, cap-only) vs the `vh/chatterbox-fast` REPO which is PACKAGE-layout (`chatterbox_fast/`, `from chatterbox_fast.scheduler`, self-contained Dockerfile) + has `norm_loudness` (repo commit `6bc7bf0` = cap; deployed omits norm_loudness deliberately to keep the ear-test unconfounded). Reconcile the two layouts so a repo-based rebuild matches deploy. Rollback: `.bak-cap-20260807-104850` backups on irv-ml1 + `:v1` image both retained. [[reference_chatterbox_fast_repo]] [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
- `[2026-08-07]` **Zonos2 TAKEN DOWN on the 3090 (irv-ml1) — operator-directed "for memory", TEMPORARY.** Freed ~17.4 GB (3090: 728 MiB → 18.2 GB free) so chatterbox-fast (co-resident, was OOMing on long generations) has headroom. **⚠ Restore is manual — Zonos2 :1920 was a DETACHED native process (NOT systemd/docker), reparented to init.** GPU memory was held by the `--multiprocessing-fork` CHILDREN (1966165=16.4G, 1966166=1G), which ORPHAN to init when you kill the parent — had to SIGTERM the children explicitly (killing the parent 1965942 + uv-run 1965935 alone left the 16.4G held). **RESTORE CMD** (from irv-ml1, user lkraven): `cd /home/lkraven/tts-audition/models/zonos2 && nohup uv run python -m zonos2 --model-path Zyphra/ZONOS2 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 1920 --tts-default-voices-dir ./default_voices/ --cuda-graph-max-bs 1 --num-pages 16384 --max-running-requests 2 --memory-ratio 0.3 > /tmp/zonos2.log 2>&1 &` then `docker start zonos-gateway`. **Consumers that lost Zonos:** asset-engine + gateway-chat (via LiteLLM `ext-tts` alias → zonos-gateway :8890, now stopped); ratatoskr already migrated OFF to chatterbox-fast (unaffected). Also unblocks proper drift/cap testing (OOM was blocking it). [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
- `[2026-08-07]` **chatterbox-fast: donut voice added + full contract delivered to ratatoskr-dev (their TTS migration off Zonos).** Operator-directed. Copied `zonos-gateway/voices/Donut.wav` → chatterbox `/refs` (`/worktank/chatterbox/reference_audio/donut.wav` — the reference_audio SUBDIR is lkraven-owned so no sudo despite `/worktank` root; container globs `/refs` live → **NO restart**), exposed as `voice:"donut"` (lowercase); verified clean 7.5s synth (24kHz, RTF ~0.31). A/B booth (chatterbox vs zonos donut, same line) at `http://10.100.10.50:8090/b/donut-chatterbox/`. Answered ratatoskr's 8-question contract ask from the live gateway (`local/chatterbox-fast:v1`) + source: **NOT OpenAI-shaped** (`POST /tts`; body `text`/`voice`/`format`/`stream`, not `input`/`model`/`response_format`); **NO affect dials** (Turbo ignores cfg_weight/min_p/exaggeration — the architecture-changing answer they flagged; **Zonos stays the only fleet TTS with real emotion steering**); streaming WAV placeholder-header shape IDENTICAL to Zonos (their per-chunk Web Audio path survives); SR 24000 (Zonos 44100); server chunks arbitrary-length text internally (no client-side chunking, unlike Zonos's 71.2s cap); English-only, no language pin. **FYI-worthy (operator):** ratatoskr is moving its RP-surface TTS OFF Zonos back to chatterbox-fast → loses the live-PAD affect coupling (heavy Zonos emotion investment) — their call, trade-off flagged to them. auto-memory `reference_chatterbox_fast_repo` enriched w/ the live contract. [[reference_zonos_tts_stack]]
- `[2026-08-07]` **Fleet reranker cut over: Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B → BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 (Brokkr R43).** The incumbent was measured HARMING 80/90 fleet queries (no-reranker beat it 89/90 vs 56/90). R43 bake-off: the A2 control (same Qwen weights, seq-cls head) scored identical to the incumbent → proved the fault is a training-prior not the serving head → cancelled the expensive Qwen3-4B arm; A3 (bge-v2-m3) won on multilingual safety + bare-name recovery. LiteLLM `reranker` repointed incumbent→A3 :8013 (boundary 2026-08-06T17:37:48Z, config-edit + ~52s gateway restart); **R42 v13 gate PASSED first-ever** (56/90→90/90). Incumbent kept warm :8002 (rollback via `qwen3-reranker` alias), A4 fallback :8014. Full arc + rollback runbook `docs/pfi/reranker-selection-ledger.md`; commits ad2df89/2c11748/377f8a4 (unpushed). auto-memories: the earlier reranker-serving notes.
- `[2026-08-07]` **Personal-Worldtree kb-contamination incident (WT #394) diagnosed; attribution CLOSED UNRESOLVED.** A reconcile `WingStore._embed` full-tree walk (kb `fs_root=KB_PATH` root, sibling wings nested) swept 5,354 fiction+main rows into personal's `knowledge_base` (2 superseded generations served as current). Fixed by WT #394 (aca39a1, kb walks exclude sibling wings; ships b182). Trigger un-attributable — peer reconcile via the SHARED infra-ops identity + 0 dockerd exec-logging = fingerprint-less. Durable finding → auto-memory `infra_ops_shared_identity_attribution_gap`, PARKED (operator ruled A) into [[project_migrate_infra_access_to_claude_credentials]]. Evidence hold on the 5,354 rows until operator sequences cleanup (w/ Brokkr, on #394's agenda).
- `[2026-08-05]` **Fleet CI resilience flip (`DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL=self`) — attempted end-to-end, PARKED on a runner action-fetch auth blocker; infra-ops to research it (operator-directed, deferred, NOT now).** 7 gitea action mirrors staged public+populated (orgs `actions`+`astral-sh`); the flip resolves `uses:` correctly but act_runner v0.6.0 can't authenticate its fetch to gitea 1.26 ("Invalid username or token. Password authentication is not supported"). Reverted (CI back on github default); `REQUIRE_SIGNIN_VIEW=false` KEPT as a standing change (operator, internal WG net). Full endeavor, the reliable nh3-dev-egress + git-SSH mirror method, exact config state, smoke method, and next step → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-05-ci-flip-parked.md`
- `[2026-08-05]` **Booth — 3 features shipped, live on `:8090` + tagged.** (1) verbatim-`index.html` booths get a floating top-right " all booths" chip + inherited favicon, doctype/charset-safe byte-injection (`booth-v0.1.5`, `8577e7e`); (2) `.md` renders + `.txt`/`.log` view in-booth without downloading via the `/b/<n>/view` route + a `markdown` dep + `doc.html` (`booth-v0.1.6`, `315faac`); (3) prev/next arrows in the image zoom viewer — wrap-around + keyboard ←/→, hidden for single-image booths (`booth-v0.1.7`, `c37a425`). Canonical `services/booth/`; deploy = `systemctl --user restart booth.service` on nh3-dev (runs from the checkout's `.venv`; `uv pip install` new deps into it first); 47 tests. `uv.lock` gitignored (`348c5c1`).
- `[2026-08-05]` **worldtree herald re-nudge bug root-caused → forseti shipped althing-core v2.1.2 (`d5d33df`, deployed on nh3-dev).** `herald.py:363` rendered the wake command from the empty *fresh* mail set on the re-nudge path (should be `deliver_msgs`) → `messages[0]` IndexError → un-suppressed outer catch-all → 7s crash-loop for 9 days on worldtree-codex's pane route (mimir-dev surfaced it; I traced it from the editable source). Fix + `render_command` empty-guard + outer log-suppress + 3 tests + contract amendment, all forseti's. **nh3-extdev herald 2.1.2 upgrade DEFERRED** (operator, not-now): extdev is a WHEEL install (not editable), unexposed (no pane routes); the verified 2.1.2 wheel is staged on nh3-dev `/tmp` (sha256 `003508…cef27`) — `uv tool install --force` + restart both heralds when un-parked. extdev herald-unit provenance resolved (operator-authorized 2026-07-25 via forseti relay; recorded in this file's 07-25 herald-install entry). auto-memory `reference_nh3_dev_althing_herald`.
- `[2026-08-03]` **worldtree b168/#384/#385 arc COMPLETE** — providers.yaml boot-gate pre-sync → b168 deploy → DCC+P&P re-ingest (705+667 concepts, 0 truncations, #385 budget fix validated vs April's 785 control) → #381 restart → operator-approved production dedup sweep (785 April orphans deleted from `main`, 4009→3224). Fiction wing 166→1,372 concepts; consumer verify 0/5→5/5→saturated. Three of MY foot-guns hardened into fleet runbook rules (`mv -t`, `docker exec -u 1000`, shared-containerd pull-race — see Tried-and-abandoned). Full runbooks (deploy-wt-config, Chroma-verify, config-delta pre-sync rule, #381, sweep) → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-03-worldtree-b168-384-385-arc.md`
- `[2026-08-02]` **mimir-inbox / #377-read-path arc — deployed + 4 bugs found/fixed/verified + a cloned voice.** mimir-inbox live on corviduo-dev:8091 (#377 write+read proven, live `8ece117`); worldtree-dev #380 (wing-blind index) + #381 (stale-client restart) + #382 (intermittent Mimir grounding) chased and **verified 3/3** by ratatoskr-dev; muninn-gate → dispatch 0.1.5; **donut** voice cloned from the 65-frost Booth bundle into the Zonos gateway; Zonos streaming confirmed already-working. Full arc, procedures, and lessons → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-02-mimir-inbox-arc.md`
- `[2026-07-31]` **muninn-gate (#377 ingestion front door) BUILT + DEPLOYED + healthy on corviduo-dev:8090.** First-boot acceptance passed (watcher:running:true proves ingestion_root byte-identity); submit path deferred to the mimir-inbox era. Full wiring (uid-1000, state-volume mount, staging path-agreement, BuildKit-secret build, deferred repoint + operational guards) → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-31-muninn-gate-deploy.md`
- `[2026-07-31]` **worldtree-sdk 1.1.0 (Python) published to vh Gitea PyPI + a durable infra-ops publish cred.** memory_context pass-through; unblocked wyrd-dev. claude-bot now a write-collaborator on `vh/worldtree-sdk` (source pulled via the **Gitea API archive** — git-HTTP 403s on that repo); publishing to the vh USER namespace **can't be delegated** (401 `reqPackageAccess` even with `write:package`) so it needs an owner token — operator saved a **FULL vh site-admin token at `~/.config/gitea/vh-token` (0600)** for it (⚠️ high blast radius, kept over a scoped one; org-namespace migration is the only real de-personalization, parked by wtsdk-dev). auto-memory `reference_infra_ops_vh_gitea_token_and_sdk_publish`.
- `[2026-07-31]` **kimi-k3 "output cap" root-caused = a ~16384 REASONING-token ceiling, not an output cap.** heid's cross-frontier panel was silently degraded (empty content, `finish_reason: stop`). dvalin+bil researched (docs said deprecated-max_tokens); heid's live data refuted that (completion hit 18455) → it's a reasoning ceiling. **Proven on the wire against heid's real 500KB bundle:** `reasoning_effort: low` drops reasoning under the ceiling → content returns, on BOTH coding + general endpoints. Fix is CALLER-side (no gateway change): send `reasoning_effort` via **`extra_body`** (LiteLLM `drop_params: true` strips the top-level param — why heid's earlier attempt no-op'd). Relayed to heid to validate; backstop = `allowed_openai_params` on the route. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-31-kimi-k3-reasoning-cap.md`
- `[2026-07-27]` **Zed edit-predictions: keyless FIM-completion route SHIPPED end-to-end.** Operator wants Zed's inline edit-prediction (which CANNOT send an auth header) to reach a FIM coder via `/v1/completions`. **Deep-research (106-agent workflow) picked `Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B`** (BASE, Apache-2.0; native FIM `<|fim_prefix|>/<|fim_suffix|>/<|fim_middle|>` IDs 151659/60/61; Zed `prompt_format:"qwen"`). Runner-up 3B = non-commercial Qwen-Research license; **no small dense Qwen3-Coder exists (all MoE, smallest 30B)**. **Stood up `vllm-coder`** on ana-ml2 **GPU1 :8020** (served-name `qwen2.5-coder-1.5b`, 8192 ctx, util 0.06, fp8 KV). To fit, **shrank granite (phasing out, operator-directed):** util 0.27→0.13, max-len 131072→16384, seqs 1024→256 (freed ~14 GB; the KV-≥-1×-max-len rule crash-looped it at util 0.12/32768 → settled 0.13/16384). **LiteLLM alias `coder-fast`** → :8020 (`mode: completion`). **Minted a `coder-fast`-SCOPED virtual key** (verified 403 on `gen` — the real blast-radius bound). **Built `zed-fim-proxy`** (ana-docker **:4141**, `network_mode: host`, stdlib-python, `stacks/zed-fim-proxy`): keyless POST `/v1/completions`, model-allowlist `coder-fast`, injects the scoped key → LiteLLM :4000; `GET /ping` anon liveness; wrong-model→403, wrong-path→404, `/chat/completions` rejected. Verified keyless FIM end-to-end ('a + b', finish `stop`). **Zed `api_url` = `http://10.250.50.70:4141/v1`, model `coder-fast`, prompt_format `qwen`.** **source-IP allowlist intentionally LEFT OFF (operator direction 2026-07-27) — do NOT tighten:** Zed roams the operator's WireGuard `10.0.0.0/8`, so a single-IP pin would break it. Blast-radius bound is the `coder-fast`-scoped key + model/path allowlist (keyless but coder-fast-only, internal-net-only). (The proxy does exact-IP matching; scoping to the `10.0.0.0/8` CIDR would need CIDR support — deliberately not added.) Canonical: `stacks/vllm` (coder + granite shrink), `stacks/litellm` (coder-fast), `stacks/zed-fim-proxy` (NEW). Server vllm compose.yaml has benign stale-comment drift vs canonical (didn't overwrite the newer canonical).
- `[2026-07-27]` **Muninn ingestion-watcher sidecar deployed on PERSONAL Worldtree (#377).** worldtree-dev request (research-wing ingest arc, personal-only per the 2026-07-16 topology ruling); operator-approved. Added a `worldtree-muninn` **compose sidecar** to `/opt/worldtree-personal/compose.yaml``<<: *worldtree-common` anchor inherits the api's image + full env + config/state/kb mounts; `command: python -m core.muninn --watch`; `restart: unless-stopped`; `stop_grace_period: 1h` (INV-377-7: max 2 concurrent × worst-case job, SIGTERM-drains). **Pinned to the running SHA `773866084af9`** (b146, ≥ b143 — dodges both the `:latest` trap AND the "pre-b143 ref resurrects deleted dispatch.py from stale bytecode" warning). Verified: running / 0 restarts / flock sole-runner (no rc3) / heartbeat live at `{ingestion_root=/data/state/ingestion}/.watcher-heartbeat` (poll 30s). Container `worldtree-personal-worldtree-muninn-1`; backup `compose.yaml.bak-muninn-20260727-081920`. **DURABILITY RESOLVED (worldtree-dev, same day):** Q1 was a LIVE FOOTGUN — `deploy-personal.yml` scp's the REPO compose.yaml over the box's + runs `up -d --remove-orphans`, so the box-local sidecar would've been clobbered AND orphan-removed at the next staging tag. worldtree-dev fixed at source: moved the sidecar into their repo compose.yaml gated behind a **`muninn` compose profile** (commit 5d7f6bd) — shared compose stays instance-identical, `.env` `COMPOSE_PROFILES` differentiates (demo watcher-less). **My action:** added `COMPOSE_PROFILES=muninn` to `/opt/worldtree-personal/.env` (backup `.bak-muninn-profile-20260727-082541`; no-op vs the current unprofiled box-local sidecar → seamless handover at next deploy). Q2: their deploy `up -d`'s the whole stack w/ `WORLDTREE_IMAGE` exported → sidecar version-tracks the api, no drift. **CONFIG-AS-CODE EXTENSION:** mirrored the non-secret delta as `personal/env.public` in `vh/worldtree-instance-configs` (repo `a9d091e`) — FIRST extension beyond config.yaml files to env-level config; the secret-laden `.env` stays box-only, `env.public` records only non-secret infra-ops-owned env deltas (record, not a deploy source — `deploy-wt-config` globs `*.yaml`). **BOUNDARY CLARIFIED:** compose.yaml = worldtree-dev's (their repo, instance-identical, scp'd on deploy); per-instance `.env` = infra-ops's differentiator. Deploy step of the #363/#377 arc. **#377 CLOSED — acceptance PASSED 2026-07-27:** worldtree-dev enqueued a test job via muninn-dispatch 0.1.0 in a one-shot ephemeral container (no docker-exec); the sidecar claimed it within one 30s poll, drove it to terminal (structure→summarize→complete), zero restarts/rc3, heartbeat fresh throughout — whole loop (request→deploy→durability fix→acceptance) in <2h. (Pre-existing pipeline bug #379 surfaced — `output.kb_notes=false` ignored → 1 inert test note in the research wing — worldtree-dev owns it, nothing infra-ops-side.) **⚠ OPERATOR-SURFACE (open):** the `env.public` overlay mechanism is a repo-scope call to bless/adjust. [[reference_worldtree_deploys_cicd]] [[reference_worldtree_instance_configs_repo]] [[project_worldtree_research_wing_ingest]]
- `[2026-07-27]` **jackdaw-compose.service DECOMMISSIONED** (jackdaw-dev request; the JackDAW AI Composer was cut from v1 by operator decision 2026-07-27). Stopped + disabled the nh3-dev `:8787` user service (no client calls it — ai/server/AiChat deleted from main, `/compose` proxy removed); unit **archived not deleted**`~/.config/systemd/user/jackdaw-compose.service.decommissioned-20260727` (revival = rename + `daemon-reload`). **No credential revoked** — the unit used the SHARED all-agents LiteLLM key (`sk-eA_XOd…`, model `gen`), not a dedicated one. Code preserved on jackdaw `origin/ai-composer-preserved`; treat as permanent. The `:4500` HTTPS audition bench is untouched. (Supersedes the 2026-07-23 stand-up line below.)
- `[2026-07-26]` **Demo `BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS` += `10.100.10.50:8391`** (wyrd-dev's bifrost memory-store provider; operator-approved). **First live exercise of the #376 config-as-code boundary working as designed** — worldtree-dev routed the delta to infra-ops instead of hand-editing `/opt/demo`. Appended to `/opt/worldtree/.env:25` (now 4 netlocs), recreated ONLY `worldtree-api` (the gated conv-api path), health-gate green, container env verified. **REUSABLE FOOT-GUN:** an env-var change needs a container **RECREATE, not `docker restart`** (env is baked at create); and the demo `.env` defaults `WORLDTREE_IMAGE=:latest` while the box runs a specific SHA — so a naive `compose up` risks the documented stale-`:latest` crash. FIX = capture the running image live (`docker inspect …Config.Image``…:9eff09f007ba`) and `sudo env WORLDTREE_IMAGE=<sha> docker compose up -d worldtree-api`. Backup `/opt/worldtree/.env.bak-bifrost-20260726-221602`. **BOUNDARY SEAM:** this was a compose-`.env` var, NOT a `config.yaml` file in `vh/worldtree-instance-configs` — the `.env` holds secrets so it's deliberately not repo-tracked → env-deltas land directly on the box (config *files* are versioned, compose *env vars* aren't). [[reference_worldtree_instance_configs_repo]]
- `[2026-07-25]` **nh3-extdev herald installed — box is now a full v2 push participant.** forseti flagged (relaying operator): extdev had the `althing-herald` binary (`/usr/local/bin/`) but NO unit (skipped the whole v2 arc), so `herald-status` = "notifications suspended" and ldp-dev ran on the `althing-light-monitor` poll fallback. Installed `/etc/systemd/system/althing-herald.service` as a **SYSTEM unit mirroring the receiver** (`User=althing-svc`, `Group=althing`, `Environment=ALTHING_ROOT=/srv/althing`, `ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/althing-herald --poll 5`, enabled) via the **lkraven@ NOPASSWD path** (used under the then-mistaken belief infra-ops was sudo-less — **CORRECTION 2026-08-03: infra-ops has had full NOPASSWD sudo on extdev since 2026-06-25** per [[reference_nh3_extdev_althing_mesh]]; future extdev installs can self-serve as infra-ops without the lkraven@ hop). Verified: active / 0 restarts / `herald-status` flipped to "✓ herald up." No zellij routes on extdev → heartbeat + wake-FIFO poke only, no pane-dispatch; ldp-dev keeps light-monitor unless it opts into a wake-listener.
- `[2026-07-25]` **Booth v0.1.4 — booths are downloadable.** Verbatim `index.html` booths (e.g. edict-design-brief) were served raw with no download affordance. Added `/b/<name>/?download=1` (streams the whole booth as `<name>.zip`, attachment) + `?dl=1` on the file route (forces Content-Disposition attachment so html/md/text saves instead of rendering inline) + ⬇ zip links on the index card (the accessible spot for verbatim booths) and the gallery header. `zip_booth()` helper, 31 tests green; verified live on nh3-dev :8090 (edict-design-brief.zip = index.html + ui-design-brief.md). eshpfi `91a031f` / tag `booth-v0.1.4`.
- `[2026-07-25]` **bil-smithy-dev wired as an althing zellij-window-ping (pane route).** She's a `driver: human` dwarf peer (pane `bil-smithy` already live alongside eitri/dvalin/regin-smithy in the `Claude` zellij session) but had no delivery route → smoke messages posted to the bus but never reached her window. **Mechanism (reusable for any pane-route handle):** `~/.althing/config.yaml``zellij_sessions.Claude.agents[]` maps `handle``target` (a zellij pane **TITLE**, matched via `list-panes -j` in `althing/zellij.py:resolve_pane_id`) → `command` (herald `write-chars` + CR into that pane). The **herald loads config ONCE at startup** (`herald.py main()`), so **`systemctl --user restart althing-herald.service`** after editing. Added bil (`target: bil-smithy`), restarted, verified: herald delivered the pending smoke `01KYD7W7CF…` (available→attempted→**delivered**). ⚠️ Noticed pre-existing pane-route errors on `worldtree-codex` + `eitri-smithy-dev` ("route-error: list index out of range", empty msg_ids — likely `render_command messages[0]` on an empty list; NOT caused by this change, bil works) — worth a herald look.
- `[2026-07-25]` **Kimi K3 wired into the LiteLLM gateway — CODING endpoint** (operator-directed; fulfills a Heid gateway request to add a 4th cross-frontier panel arm). **Primary `model_name: kimi-k3` → `openai/k3` @ `https://api.kimi.com/coding/v1`** (Kimi Code / Vivace membership; key `KIMI_CODE_API_KEY`). A general-endpoint variant `kimi-k3-gen-api``openai/kimi-k3` @ `https://api.moonshot.ai/v1` (key `MOONSHOT_API_KEY`) is kept alongside (originally wired then demoted when the operator corrected: the plan uses the CODING endpoint, not the general Moonshot API). Both keys in compose env + server `.env` (NOT committed) + `.env.example`. Both verified live through the gateway :4000 (17+25→"42", "PONG"). **k3 constraints on BOTH endpoints (config-pinned + commented):** accepts ONLY `temperature=1` (else 400 "only 1 is allowed"); REASONING model (CoT in `reasoning_content`, answer in `content` → tiny `max_tokens` returns EMPTY; Kimi Code adds thinking-effort tiers low/high/max). Coding lineup also carries `k3-256k` / `kimi-for-coding` / `kimi-for-coding-highspeed` (not wired). Reachable by any gateway key spanning all proxy models (incl. shared all-agents key → spends the paid Vivace/Moonshot quota). eshpfi `edaa9a9` (gen wiring) + `9e2f787` (coding correction). **OPEN:** Heid key-scoping — shared key reaches it (paid) vs a dedicated scoped key (asked in althing `01KYD63ZBY…`).
- `[2026-07-25]` **infra-ops Worldtree config-as-code repo SHIPPED — `vh/worldtree-instance-configs` (private) built, pushed, validated.** Dir-per-instance (`demo/`, `personal/`; `pinned/` = README stub, out-of-scope — no bind-mount, config frozen in image `446e5807`). Seeded byte-exact from live `/opt/<instance>/config`; 5 files each (defaults/policies/model_roles/providers/matrix). `scripts/deploy-wt-config` = diff / deploy / capture, with in-run host backup → install(vh:vh,644) → restart api+matrix → health-gate api `/health` → auto-rollback. All verbs live-tested (in-sync, capture round-trips zero-diff, pinned refused, dry-run no-ops). Gitea repo created via ana-docker localhost API with vh creds (operator-authorized one-time); pushed over internal git-SSH `10.250.50.70:222` (nh3-dev 403s gitea HTTP). Boundary AGREED by worldtree-dev (althing `01KYCAECRW…`): they stop hand-editing `/opt/<instance>/config`, route config deltas to infra-ops; three-layer model (image baseline → repo per-instance truth → host bind-mount deploy target); carve-out = their admin-API DB mutations (key mint / tier / retirement) stay in-band, not config edits. By-design deltas (personal `agent_architect` + `ratatoskr-affect-full-allow`; demo `#308` metrics + grants) preserved verbatim. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-25-infra-ops-wt-config-repo.md`, auto-memory `reference_worldtree_instance_configs_repo`
- `[2026-07-23→25]` **Worldtree #376 config-divergence arc CLOSED — per-instance config ruled BY DESIGN.** wyrd `session.history.write` demo grant was the one real bug (demo-intended grant not on demo; fixed via wholesale `policies.yaml` replace + restart). The b131 drift guard then surfaced broader divergence = legitimate live-bridged per-instance deltas; operator ruled deltas are the design not rot; guard demoted to INFO (b132); infra-ops drift-watcher built then retired same day. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-25-wt-376-per-instance-config-arc.md`, auto-memory `reference_worldtree_perinstance_config`
- `[2026-07-20→25]` **The Booth SHIPPED (v0.1.3) — ephemeral media drop board for CC sessions.** New fleet tool: user-systemd on nh3-dev :8090 (`services/booth/`, FastAPI+Jinja2, Corviduo "Australis" theme, 34 tests), Homepage-linked (Apps). Drop a folder in `~/booth-data/<name>` → browsable "booth" (auto-gallery of images/webm/audio, or a folder's own `index.html` verbatim), 24h TTL. Added across the session: browser/curl upload-for-pickup with human-readable ids (`4-wombat`), image viewer (Fit/1:1, conditional toggle), copy-id button (HTTP-LAN `execCommand` fallback). Registered in global CLAUDE.md tools. auto-memory `reference_booth_media_board`.
- `[2026-07-23]` **jackdaw-compose backend deployed as a persistent nh3-dev service (:8787).** Hosted for jackdaw-dev: thin stateless `bun server/index.ts` (from `~/development/jackdaw`) → LiteLLM `gen`, Origin-gated (INV-BK04/05), reached same-origin via their `:4500` bench's `/compose` proxy. `jackdaw-compose.service` (env/shared-key server-side, unit 0600, uncommitted). Also stood up + tore down a throwaway cloudflare quick-tunnel for their preview (`cloudflared` now installed at `~/bin`). In the nh3-dev README inventory (`cd4d52e`).
- `[2026-07-19]` **irv-ml1 ComfyUI — RTX VSR baked into canonical provisioning (comfy-dev ticket DONE).** RTXVideoSuperResolution node + `nvidia-vfx` dep were manual installs; documented both in the canonical `stacks/comfyui/README.md` runbook (this stack's provisioning IS the README — no automated provision script). Key durability insight: the **node** lives in `basedir/custom_nodes` (persistent, restic-included → durable) but the **`nvidia-vfx` wheel** lives in the venv under `run/` (disposable, restic-excluded → **dropped by any `rm -rf run/*` fresh-bootstrap**), so the pip step must re-run after every venv rebuild. Both steps run **as uid 1000** (root install → venv-ownership crash-loop, [[reference_irv_ml1_comfyui_mmartial]]); `--extra-index-url https://pypi.nvidia.com` kept **scoped to the nvidia-vfx install**, deliberately NOT a global compose `PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL` (would risk perturbing the pinned torch 2.12.1/SageAttention boot bootstrap). Node already live on the box; no host change, canonical runbook now replays it. comfy-dev informed.
- `[2026-07-19]` **vh private Gitea PyPI — consumer READ-access convention set + wyrd-dev provisioned.** Consuming agents read the internal vh PyPI (`https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/simple/`) with a **shared read-only token** (operator call: shared, not per-consumer — read-only blast radius is small, per-agent Gitea identities aren't worth it). Minted a dedicated `read:package`-scoped PAT off **claude-bot** (`POST /users/claude-bot/tokens`, name `vh-pypi-read-consumers`; verified reads worldtree-sdk, write-probe 401), revocable/rotatable independently. uv auth = `UV_INDEX_GITEA_USERNAME=claude-bot` + `UV_INDEX_GITEA_PASSWORD=<token>` (or `~/.netrc`); pyproject uses `[[tool.uv.index]] name=gitea … explicit=true` + `[tool.uv.sources] <pkg> = { index = "gitea" }` (mirrors soong-lab's bifrost setup). Delivered to wyrd-dev (worldtree-sdk adoption) via mode-600 drop on nh3-dev, drop-and-shred. [[reference_claude_bot_gitea_creds]]
- `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab auto-redeploy WIRED + validated (queued item CLOSED).** Added a WT-style CI-deploy step to `build-and-push.yml`: after build+push, the pfi-fleet runner SSHes corviduo-dev as the `deploy` user and runs `docker compose pull && up -d` from **/opt/soong-lab**, health-gated on `/api/version` (120s, fails loud). Reused WT's `deploy` account (uid 1001, docker-group → no sudo); relocated the deploy dir /home/infra-ops/soong-lab-deploy → /opt/soong-lab (deploy-owned; old dir retired `.retired-20260718`). Minted a dedicated soong-only ed25519 deploy key, pubkey on `deploy`'s authorized_keys (fp SHA256:MG7M3Ri…). **First dispatch FAILED on a bad DEPLOY_SSH_KEY paste** (`error in libcrypto` — unparseable key bytes; build+push were fine, live Soong untouched); repo secrets are **vh-owner-only** (claude-bot token = write:package only → 403; the vh package-scoped PAT also 403 on secrets), so operator re-set DEPLOY_SSH_KEY/HOST/USER. **Re-dispatch run #5 GREEN**: live container recreated ...541f7730 → ...07526a08, health 200. soong-dev pinged to sync DEPLOY.md's redeploy path (/opt/soong-lab) + close the "auto-pull open follow-up". → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-soong-lab-auto-redeploy.md`
- `[2026-07-18]` **soong-lab auto-redeploy APPROVED — QUEUED for next session (deferred, not started)** — Vuong approved (via soong-dev thread `01KXT3A6C3908TA4V9THV3AMH7`); mechanism = WT-style CI-deploy step (runner SSHes corviduo-dev → `compose pull && up -d` + health-gate); **blocked on a vh-owned runner→corviduo-dev deploy SSH-key secret** (reuse WT's demo-deploy key). Operator: "do soong on fresh context." → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-soong-lab-auto-redeploy.md`
- `[2026-07-15]` arbo fully switched off image-judge (qwen-image-bench) -> gen; image-bench pending eviction post-bake → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-15-arbo-fully-switched-off-image-judge-qwen-image.md`
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## Tried and abandoned
- `[2026-08-15]` **Grafted bf16 MTP loads UNINITIALIZED (0% accept) unless `re:^mtp.*` is in the quant-config `ignore`; and W4A16=Marlin (not native FP4) costs ~20% even on decode.** Cost a premature 79 GB delete of a good model (declared desync-dead off the 0%). Lessons: test MTP on bf16 FIRST, isolate before deleting; modelopt 0.43 is dependency-hell for qwen3_5 (list-vs-dict quant_cfg + transformers conflict) — use llm-compressor. Full → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-15-uncensored-gen-seat.md`
- `[2026-08-03]` **ComfyUI `--enable-triton-backend` on the irv-ml1 A6000 crashes EVERY render — Ampere has no hardware e4m3.** adhoc-agent's operator-approved probe: comfy_kitchen's triton backend has a FUSED int8 matmul that would beat the eager backend's ~1.9x-slower unfused int8 path (21.3s vs 11.2s fp8 on the Moody Krea2 int8 checkpoints). Flipped it (added to `COMFY_CMDLINE_EXTRA`, recreated) → `triton.compiler.errors.CompilationError: ValueError("type fp8e4nv not supported in this architecture. supported: fp8e4b15, fp8e5")` in `comfy_kitchen/backends/triton/quantization.py:145 dequantize_per_tensor_fp8`, failing at **node 5 CLIPTextEncode**. Triton's fp8 dequant kernel targets `fp8e4nv` (Hopper/Ada e4m3); **sm_86 Ampere (A6000) lacks hardware e4m3** → the JIT compile dies. With triton on it grabs the **global** `--fp8_e4m3fn-text-enc` dequant, so every render (fp8 AND int8) dies upstream at the text-encode step — the int8 UNet path never ran, so the convrot-coverage caveat wasn't even the limiter. Reverted cleanly (~15s to healthy, image unchanged `sha256:94afb8ca`, sage intact, prod restored). **The parked cu130 rebuild won't fix it** (e4m3 = hardware format, not CUDA version). **DEFERRED to the Ada refresh** (operator: "ada is coming, we'll optimize then" — Ada sm_89 has native e4m3, so triton's fp8 path should compile there). **Mechanics:** `--enable-triton-backend` is a compose `environment:` var, so toggling it needs `docker compose up -d` (**recreate**), NOT `docker restart` (reuses the baked env, no-ops silently). Full: auto-memory `parked_triton_backend_ampere_fp8`.
- `[2026-08-03]` **corviduo-dev shared containerd: a concurrent-pull race fails ONE instance's deploy; DON'T "prune to fix" — the image is in-use by the instance that won the race.** b169 personal deploy failed at `docker compose pull` (`Lchown … no such file or directory` on the big torch layer → looked like disk pressure / corrupt snapshot). ACTUAL: NOT disk (56G free, inodes 7%). demo + personal + pinned share ONE `/var/lib/containerd` on corviduo-dev; demo (from main) and personal (from staging tag) extracted b169's shared torch layer simultaneously → personal's hit a partial snapshot mid-race and aborted while demo's completed. The image `6e34a87` was FULLY VALID — demo was RUNNING it healthy. Fix = just re-run the failed deploy (image already materialized; compose pull finds it present). **NEAR-MISS:** worldtree-dev's suggested "prune unused images/snapshots" would have rmi'd `6e34a87` = the image the running demo depends on → demo outage. **Lesson: before any prune/rmi "cleanup," `docker ps` the running images — an "unused" image may be a co-tenant's live one; and verify the failure's REAL cause (disk? inode? in-use? race?) before applying the suggested remedy.** (Pipeline fix, deferred: serialize demo-from-main + personal-from-staging, or a per-image pull lock, to avoid the shared-layer extraction race.)
- `[2026-08-02]` **`docker exec` into worldtree containers defaults to ROOT — root writes contaminate the uid-1000 (vh) KB tree.** My `sudo docker exec … --reindex` on personal ran as ROOT (muninn app = uid 1000); its wing git-commit + atomic note-swap left root-owned files in the `worldtree-personal_worldtree-kb` volume: a root-owned `.old-<job>` backup dir (blocked the uid-1000 retry's `rmtree` → Errno 13, because unlink needs write on the DIR and it was root:root 755) AND **60 root-owned loose git objects** in `.git/objects/`. Fix (host-side, corviduo-dev): `sudo rm -rf` the superseded `.old-` dir (tar'd aside to /tmp first) + `sudo find … -user 0 -exec chown 1000:1000` the objects (ownership-only, git-content-safe; the `.git/objects/XX/` dirs were vh-owned so these weren't a hard blocker, but violated "clean tree"). **RUNBOOK RULE (worldtree-dev, ADOPTED):** any `docker exec` into worldtree containers that WRITES pipeline state runs **`-u 1000`**, never default-root — same genus as the mv footgun (acting without matching the target's constraints; 3rd such slip in one session). **GOTCHA that hid the scope:** `find … -user 0 | head -20` TRUNCATED (the `.old-` dir alone had 153 files, so the first page was all `.old-`) → I "verified clean" off a partial list. Never `head` a scope-defining find; count first (`| wc -l`). **Related blind-spot (muninn-dev):** a root-owned job SUBDIR passes every requeue guard (job_row/dispatch/list_jobs render fine) AND `/health` (contract's `os.access(ingestion_root, W_OK)` tests only the ROOT dir, so a foreign-owned subdir under `pending/` still reports `ingestion_root_writable: true`) — then the uid-1000 gate can't write into it. "Clean board + green /health + failure at next mutation." muninn-dev added an OWNERSHIP column to the standing post-move check to catch it; two green signals both miss a foreign-owned subdir otherwise.
- `[2026-08-02]` **`mv <job> complete/ → failed/` RENAMED the job to `failed` because failed/ didn't exist.** worldtree-dev's round-2 unblock command (`mv /data/state/ingestion/complete/<job> /data/state/ingestion/failed/`) assumed `failed/` existed; on PERSONAL muninn it did NOT (fresh instance — root was `active/ complete/ pending/ sources/`, no `failed/`). `mv src nonexistent/` **renames** src→nonexistent, so job1 became the `failed` dir and job2 nested inside it. Caught on post-move `ls` (failed/ held job *contents*, not two subdirs), reconstructed via complete/ as watcher-safe scratch + rebuilt `failed/` (worldtree:worldtree 755) — NO data loss. **Lessons:** (1) before `mv X into-dir/`, verify the dir EXISTS (`[ -d dir ]`) — an empty `ls dir/ 2>/dev/null` is AMBIGUOUS (missing vs empty), which was the preflight miss that let it through; (2) the correct guard is **`mv -t <targetdir> <src>`** (`--target-directory`): it refuses a MISSING target loudly (rc=1, "No such file or directory", nothing moved) — this is the house convention for queue/state moves now. TESTED by muninn-dev on coreutils 9.1: a **trailing slash does NOT protect**`mv src failed/` with `failed/` missing STILL silently renames to `failed` (rc=0); "just add the slash" is a false guard. (`mkdir -p failed/` first also works, but `mv -t` inverts the failure from silent-wrong to loud-safe in one flag.) Container `sh` is dash — no `(` in echo strings. **SILENT failure mode (muninn-dev carry-forward):** a misplaced ingestion-state move doesn't crash anything — `list_jobs()` stays OK, loose files are inert; the ONLY symptom is the job quietly absent from the board (`job_row`→None, requeue→not_found/404, looks IDENTICAL to the original block). So after ANY state move, verify the job is actually ON THE BOARD (`job_row` found + guards pass), don't trust mv exit codes — and confirm `job.dispatch.json` survived (requeue refuses a dispatch-less job with the same not_requeueable symptom). Cross-checked + all-clear'd by muninn-dev, who correctly refused to mutate ingestion_root (INV-MG-1) and flagged instead. **DON'T TIDY (round-2 pending):** both DCC + P&P jobs currently REST in personal `failed/` with manifests reading `state: complete` until round-2 requeue runs — deliberate + load-bearing (`requeue` keys on DIRECTORY PLACEMENT, not manifest state); looks wrong to anyone cold, leave it exactly as-is. **Round-2 sequencing:** the requeue is **mimir-dev's** browser flow (pending their operator's board-vs-API ruling); **muninn-dev** is the gate confirmer (runs the post-move board-check inside its custody — the right split, don't reach across INV-MG-1); **infra-ops** = the #381 restart after both jobs go terminal, then later the supervised main-collection sweep. Guard-verified HOLD LIFTED by muninn-dev 02:36Z. **ARC COMPLETE (2026-08-03 ~05:49):** both books terminal — DCC `mimir-6351554e8e8f` 705 concepts + P&P `mimir-f3887c9b97b7` 667, extracted AND indexed, 5/5 phases, 0 failures/truncations (validates the #385 budget fix vs April's 785 control); **#381 restart-after-ingest FIRED** (personal api, healthz/readyz 200 ~25s), retrieval-visibility confirmed (search_library returns DCC+P&P from fiction post-restart); handed ratatoskr-verify go to worldtree-dev. **Delete-sweep precondition NOW MET** — the stale DCC rows in `main` are genuine duplicates of live `fiction` rows, so worldtree-dev's supervised sweep of the ~785 April orphans is unblocked (still comes to me supervised: snapshot + operator-in-loop).
- `[2026-08-02]` **donut voice multi-clip reference (onyx-58 expansion) — TRIED, REVERTED.** Folded the `onyx-58` bundle's 3 Donut clips (seg101/seg110/seg148) in alongside the original seg000 → a 52.0s 4-take concat reference, hoping a longer ref → more robust speaker embedding. A pinned-seed A/B (5 pairs, varied registers, booth `donut-onyx58`) showed the **original single-clip seg000 (16.3s) sounds better** — concatenating disparate takes muddied the timbre more than the extra range helped. Reverted to seg000-alone (live + build-source). **Two durable lessons:** (1) for a faithful clone, a single clean representative take can beat a longer multi-take concat — more reference audio is NOT automatically better when the takes vary. (2) **Emotion steering pulls the output AWAY from the cloned voice fast** (operator's craft rule) — keep donut (and clones) emotion-neutral for fidelity; the gateway only enables emotion when an `emotion_*`/`preset` dial is explicitly sent, so bare `{input,voice}` calls stay pure-clone. `seg148` was diarized SPEAKER_03 but IS Donut (operator-confirmed misdiarize). onyx-58 curated bundle lives in booth `onyx-58` (24h TTL — stash to `/mnt/smithy/voice_clones/` if a future middle-ref experiment is wanted).
- `[2026-08-02]` **Verifying the INDEX is not verifying GROUNDING** (#382). A `search_library` returning wing=fiction hits proves the content is *retrievable*; it does NOT prove the agent (Mimir) *trusts and uses* those hits vs. silently answering from training. I reported "Mimir read Austen back to you" off a grounded-*looking* answer; ratatoskr-dev caught that grounding was intermittent (some sessions discarded the correct hits and substituted training knowledge). Test the harder claim — are the citations note-extracted or model-knowledge? — and reading the DEPLOYED artifact beats trusting the test for "is the fix live."
- `[2026-07-30]` **brokkr's WebSearch "verification" CONFIRMED a hallucination — 3 phantom `microsoft/Mage-Flow-{Base,Turbo,Edit}` repo IDs.** brokkr-smithy-dev handed 3 gated-looking repo IDs for an operator-directed model pull; they don't exist (its own web-search fabricated an arXiv ID + project page, twice). Lesson: the HF **registry API is ground truth** — an unauth 401 ≠ exists (`{"error":"Invalid username or password"}` masks private/gated/nonexistent alike), an authed 404 = phantom, and `author=X&search=Y` refutes existence. API-verify every repo ID before a pull; LLM-summarized web fetches confabulate. auto-memory `reference_verify_hf_repo_ids_before_pull`.
- `[2026-07-30]` **magpie TTS serving — evaluated, ABANDONED.** Pulled `magpie_tts_multilingual_357m` (the one real repo of brokkr's batch) to NFS, stood it up on irv-ml1 (ephemeral NeMo-Speech-`main` container — stock PyPI/NGC NeMo can't load v2607), A/B'd vs Zonos → Zonos wins expressive English decisively, multilingual not needed. Not served; `magpie-nemo` torn down. `.nemo` KEPT on NFS as brokkr's fine-tuning base. auto-memory `project_magpie_tts_eval_rejected`.
- `[2026-07-25]` **Chaining the althing wake-listener arm orphans it.** `reply && althing-wake-listener &` (or spawning `althing-wake-listener` with `&` *inside* a `run_in_background` task) → the `&`-child reparents to init, UNTRACKED by the harness: no fire-notification, and re-arms bounce rc3 off a lock nothing services (mail silently unwatched). Compounding foot-gun: re-arming after a *plain operator turn* (not an actual fire) collides with the still-live prior listener (rc3). FIX: spawn `althing-wake-listener` as its OWN `run_in_background` task, and re-arm ONLY after a real fire (`<task-notification> completed rc0`). Reclaim an orphan with `althing-cli stop-monitor` then re-arm.
- `[2026-07-25]` **Peer green-light ≠ operator consent for a managed-box mutation.** Auto-mode guard blocked a config-replace+restart on the Worldtree-team demo box that was authorized only by worldtree-dev's althing message — correctly: a persistent change to shared infra needs the *operator's* yes for that specific change, not a peer's. Surface it; don't route around the guard. (The operator then stood the whole change down — the guard's hold was the right call.)
- `[2026-07-18]` **Fleet Gitea CI foot-guns** (3 failed soong-lab builds): the pfi-fleet runner's `node:20-slim` job image has no docker/git so `actions/checkout` + `docker/*` marketplace actions all fail; `vh` is a USER so its packages are owner-write-only (claude-bot repo-admin-collab still 401s on push/publish, and can't set repo secrets — owner-only); `GITEA_`-prefixed secret names are reserved/illegal. Fixes in → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-fleet-gitea-runner-build-recipe.md`
- `[2026-07-18]` **zonos-gateway local clone had NO git remote + a history unrelated to gitea's** — "committed to vh/zonos-gateway" was never pushed from that clone; two separate `git init` lineages, no merge-base. Reconcile = reset local→origin/main + overlay the changed files + push (NOT force — that erases gitea's voice-wav commits). Check `git remote -v` + `git merge-base` before assuming a clone is wired.
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