agent: local role repoint + compaction 70%/-1; sync memories and managed skills

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+- On this host's niri build, niri msg do reload-config is rejected ("unrecognized subcommand 'do'") — verified 2026-09-10 during the noctalia unification deploy. The working config-reload path is kill -USR1 $(pidof niri) (SIGUSR1 to the niri process); verified on both fleet hosts (dankware pid via /proc, blankpad over ssh). Future keybind/config deploys that need live reload must use the SIGUSR1 path, not niri msg do.
+- Noctalia fleet architecture UNIFIED 2026-09-10: both dankware and blankpad now run bare noctalia (v5 native, package noctalia 5.0.1-1.1) as the desktop shell, launched via niri spawn-at-startup "noctalia" from repo autostart.kdl. The v4 Quickshell-hosted architecture (qs -c noctalia-shell, JSON settings.json) is retired on dankware; qs host process killed and replaced live by a transient systemd-run unit (noctalia-live) that hands off to autostart at next login — single-instance guard in the binary makes overlap safe. Live config layer on both hosts = TOML only: hand-edit ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml; runtime state ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml loads last and overrides same keys (never hand-edit). Verified mechanics: noctalia msg resolves the running instance via D-Bus session bus, so it works from systemd user-unit context (systemd-run --user --pipe --wait) even though niri's own environ lacks WAYLAND_DISPLAY; spawn-at-startup children do receive a working display connection. Lock keybinds/swayidle unified to noctalia msg session lock; verified verb grammar includes panel-toggle {launcher,session,control-center,...}, volume-up/down/mute, mic-mute, media next/previous/playPause (graceful no-op rc 0 with no active player), brightness-up/down. Wallpapers: wallpaper-next/wallpaper-get confirm rotation draws from the configured [wallpaper] directory on both hosts; current wallpaper stays on the built-in default asset until first rotation after config-reload. Leftover dead packages on dankware (noctalia-shell 4.7.7, noctalia-qs fork) are inert — removal is optional cleanup, zero dependents post-flip.
+- Divergence explained (as of 2026-09-10): dankware and blankpad both show noctalia 5.0.1-1.1 but run different live architectures because each host's autostart froze at its adoption-era architecture and package upgrades never rewrote autostart commands. Fossil record from pacman install dates: noctalia-shell 4.7.7-3 installed on dankware Jul 3 (v4 Quickshell-hosted architecture, JSON config; module files owned at /etc/xdg/quickshell/noctalia-shell/, launched via qs -c noctalia-shell from base niri package autostart.kdl); noctalia-qs 0.0.12-2 (Quickshell fork hosting the shell) installed Aug 24; v5-era noctalia package landed Sep 6 as a parallel package owning ONLY /usr/bin/noctalia + desktop file + README — CLI/client surface, no shell module. blankpad was provisioned fresh Sep 9 entirely from CachyOS repo packaging (noctalia 5.0.1-1.1 + vanilla quickshell 0.3.1-1.1 + cachyos-niri-noctalia 1.4.0-1; no v4-era packages exist in that repo set), so its zz-blankpad override autostart launches bare noctalia (native v5, TOML config). Consequence: settings.json is genuinely the live config on dankware (v4 code), while blankpad runs true v5 with TOML state at ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml + ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml. Unification candidate when approved: flip both to noctalia as single entrypoint, but verify first that the v5 packaging on dankware ships the shell module (current -Ql evidence says CLI-only) — a unified flip likely requires installing the full v5 package set on dankware first. Diagnostic recipe for this class of question: query pacman install dates + package ownership (pacman -Qi/-Ql/-Qo, pgrep -af) to reconstruct which architecture each host actually runs rather than trusting version labels.
+- Noctalia shell runtime split on the fleet (as of 2026-09): both dankware and blankpad install noctalia 5.0.1-1.1 (-dirty = git build), but launch differently — dankware hosts it via qs -c noctalia-shell (Quickshell host; reads JSON-era config ~/.config/noctalia/settings.json), blankpad runs the bare v5 binary (reads hand-edit ~/.config/noctalia/config.toml, runtime state written to ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml which overrides declarative values last). Lock chain on both hosts: primary qs -c noctalia-shell ipc call lockScreen lock, fallback noctalia msg session lock|suspend|lock-and-suspend|logout|reboot|shutdown. Quirk: noctalia msg ... from a non-session context (ssh command exec) always answers "noctalia is not running" even when the shell runs — detection needs session-scoped state absent in sshd-spawned shells; DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS override does NOT fix it. Correct remote procedure: write config files directly (they hot-reload or apply at next start); never treat the msg failure over ssh as evidence the shell is dead. Wallpaper dir default when unconfigured = XDG Pictures ($HOME/Pictures) via user-dirs.dirs; explicit [wallpaper] directory key overrides it — blankpad was seeded with directory = /home/blank/.local/share/noctalia/wallpapers (repo-tracked symlink target).
 - blank@blankpad (CachyOS, Arch-like) deployment COMPLETED 2026-09-09 (supersedes earlier "pending action awaiting user go-ahead" note): full-replica rsync of /home/dank/.omp/ → /home/blank/.omp/ (.git included; push to Gitea NOT required for this transport) followed by deploy.sh sync on blankpad. SSH was initially blocked there by firewall default-drop (timeout, not refuse) and opened only after the user started sshd locally — expect that blocker pattern again for new fleet hosts. Host facts verified at deploy time: login shell fish; niri runs as niri --session reading the repo-symlinked config.kdl; installed binaries include noctalia CLI (its keybinds override package uses noctalia msg ..., NOT canonical qs -c noctalia-shell ipc call), alacritty, firefox, nautilus, fish, zsh, shelly-notifications; MISSING: qs/quickshell, ghostty, gnome-calculator — canonical keybinds relying on those are silent no-ops if deployed there. ~/.p10k.zsh on blankpad is an inert repo symlink until powerlevel10k-zsh is installed and sourced. zz-blankpad override package (display/keybinds/misc/rules/autostart/.zshrc) is tracked in the repo; deploy.sh's target derivation must strip the nested base-package segment for zz-* packages or overrides land on phantom paths like $HOME/niri/.config/...
 - blankpad is a fleet machine reached only as blank@blankpad.local (mDNS FQDN; bare hostname does not resolve from Dankware; 192.168.0.83). As of 2026-09-09 it runs the command-center deployment at /home/blank/.omp with host-specific divergence preserved as tracked override package dotfiles/zz-blankpad/: its own display.kdl output layout (not Dankware's DP/eDP rig), autostart/keybinds targeting the bare noctalia CLI instead of qs -c noctalia-shell ipc call, misc.kdl without renderD129, rules.kdl without the Noctalia floating-window rule, and blank's own minimal .zshrc. Its login shell is fish. Initial blocker (port 22 drop-not-refuse = sshd down or firewall default-drop) was fixed same day by user locally; if SSH drops again on blankpad, suspect firewall default-drop first, not auth.
 - blankpad (user blank) is fleet member at 192.168.0.83, reachable ONLY via mDNS FQDN blankpad.local — bare hostname does not resolve from Dankware. As of 2026-09-09 its SSH was unreachable from the LAN segment: ping fine (~1 ms, wired) but TCP 22 and alt ports (2222/8022/22222/10022) all TIMEOUT = firewall default-drop or sshd down; drop-not-refuse distinguishes this from sshd-listening-but-auth-failing. Pending action awaiting user go-ahead: deploy command-center to blank@blankpad via full-replica rsync of /home/dank/.omp/ (incl .git so core.hooksPath stays armed pre-push) → deploy.sh --check review → sync; transport deliberately chosen over clone-from-Gitea because main was 6 commits ahead of origin/main and push is reserved as a user-only trigger. Note: origin remote on Dankware embeds the Gitea token in plaintext URL — keep it off other machines' .git/config by using rsync as transport. _(context: User asked to set up the dotfiles/command-center deployment on blank@blankpad with a password credential; SSH entry point unreachable from this segment, so work was staged and handed back with exact unblock steps (systemctl enable --now sshd + firewalld internal-zone ssh service).)_