f8ecc6c047
The pre-fix wrapper at stacks/ace-step/infer-api.py returned a JSON
{output_path: "..."} reference to a file written inside the
container at /app/outputs/. That path was unreachable from outside
the container — every consumer got 134 bytes of JSON-pretending-to-
be-WAV instead of audio. Surfaced by the asset_engine consumer's
end-to-end smoke (althing thread 01KRCJF7NGMXYE9F62Q1A6KFD4 msg 5);
my own earlier smoke missed it because I checked HTTP=200 and stopped
reading instead of inspecting the response body.
Wrapper now reads back the file the pipeline writes and streams the
bytes via fastapi.responses.Response with media_type set from the
audio_format request field (audio/wav | audio/mpeg | audio/flac).
The in-container path is exposed via X-Output-Path header for log
correlation but is no longer load-bearing.
Verified end-to-end against live ace-step on irv-ml1:
POST /generate -> HTTP 200 in 80s
content-type: audio/wav
content-length: 945226
x-output-path: /app/outputs/output_cfe87d1d....wav
$ file response.wav
RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit,
stereo 48000 Hz
Catalog: ace-step bumped version 3 -> 4. Dropped
response.output_field (no longer applicable). reproducibility.notes
expanded to record both the v2 18-arg-tuple fix and this v4
inline-streaming change so the history is auditable from the
catalog itself.
Stale ACEStepOutput Pydantic model left in infer-api.py for now —
unused but small; future cleanup.
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/.