docs(links): five See Also links had no text at all

A generated See Also pass left `- ](index.md)` style links on the gitea pages, tools/cachyos.md, and tools/applications.md. Rendered, an empty-text link is a bullet with nothing clickable in it, so it reads as a formatting quirk and never as the broken reference it is. All five now name the page they point at and use the absolute bundle path the spec recommends; the grep that finds them is recorded in the log so the sweep is repeatable. Refs #64
docs(log): one dated section per day, and the sweep's lesson learned
2026-10-21 02:43:15 -07:00 · 2026-10-21 02:40:59 -07:00 · 2026-10-21 02:26:24 -07:00 · 2026-10-21 02:25:56 -07:00 · 2026-10-21 02:25:14 -07:00 · 2026-10-21 02:24:11 -07:00
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@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+# LFS routing for image types. Measured 2026-10-21: this repo tracks ZERO LFS files
+# (`git lfs ls-files` = 0) — the wallpaper library became live theme state and is gitignored
+# (omp-docs/tools/dotfiles-deploy.md), so these four rules match nothing today. They are kept
+# because tracked media is a plausible future and idle filters cost nothing; deleting the file
+# is a pruning call for a session with Frank, not a cleanup an agent runs alone.
+#
+# Do not cite this file as the reason `git-lfs` is installed on a box. The manifest carries its
+# own justification (packages/common.pkgs), and a tool justified by dead config is a tool nobody
+# can defend when the config goes.
+
 *.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
 *.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
@@ -1,25 +1,145 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Secret gate: block any commit whose staged diff contains live-secret shapes.
-# This repo is pushed to a Gitea remote; anything committed is instantly visible
+# Secret gate: block any commit whose staged diff contains live-secret shapes or
+# credential assignments. This repo IS the deployment and every workstation
+# pulls it, so a committed secret is instantly in every agent's context window
 # on the fleet. Deliberate override: ALLOW_SECRETS=1 git commit ...
+#
+# Two rules, deliberately different in scope:
+#
+#   1. Token SHAPES are scanned across the ENTIRE staged diff, whatever the file
+#      type. The first version of this gate whitelisted extensions
+#      (*.md *.yml *.yaml *.json *.toml *.sh *.ts *.js), so a `postgres.env`, a
+#      `.container` quadlet, an `.ini`, or an extension-less dotfile — exactly
+#      the shapes the dotfiles tier is made of — was never read at all.
+#   2. Credential ASSIGNMENTS (PASSWORD=…, secret_key: …) are scanned only in
+#      non-prose files. The auto-learned memory tier is prose ABOUT credentials,
+#      and a gate that fires there gets overridden until it means nothing; the
+#      2026-10-20 audit measured 7 such prose hits on the tracked tree. Markdown
+#      keeps shape detection only, which is what it had before.
+#
+# Bcrypt hashes and Basic-auth headers joined the shape list on 2026-10-20
+# (issue #40) after a live Caddy basicauth hash plus its plaintext password —
+# and the Pi-hole internal password — were found in a tracked memory file.
 set -uo pipefail

-staged=$(git diff --cached --diff-filter=ACM -U0 -- '*.md' '*.yml' '*.yaml' '*.json' '*.toml' '*.sh' '*.ts' '*.js')
-[ -z "$staged" ] && exit 0
+shapes='sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{18,}|ghp_[A-Za-z0-9]{36}|github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{22,}|glpat-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20}|xox[baprs]-[A-Za-z0-9-]{10,}|AKIA[A-Z0-9]{16}|ASIA[A-Z0-9]{16}|BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY|aes_[A-Za-z0-9/+]{40}|eyJ[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,}\.ey|\$2[aby]\$[0-9]{2}\$[./A-Za-z0-9]{20,}|Authorization:[[:space:]]*[Bb]asic[[:space:]]+[A-Za-z0-9+/=]{24,}'

-patterns='sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{18,}|ghp_[A-Za-z0-9]{36}|github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{22,}|glpat-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20}|xox[baprs]-[A-Za-z0-9-]{10,}|AKIA[A-Z0-9]{16}|ASIA[A-Z0-9]{16}|BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY|aes_[A-Za-z0-9/+]{40}|eyJ[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,}\.ey'
+# `newpass1234`, `secret_key: "rotated-value"` — an assignment with a literal
+# value. `$VAR`, `${VAULT}`, <placeholders> and empty values cannot match.
+assign='[A-Za-z0-9_]*(PASSW|SECRET|TOKEN|API_?KEY|ACCESS_KEY|PRIVATE_KEY|CREDENTIAL)[A-Za-z0-9_]*[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*["'"'"']?[A-Za-z0-9/+._@-]{8,}'
+placeholders='changeme|change[-_]|placeholder|redacted|example|sample|dummy|nokey|no[-_]key|not[-_]needed|your[-_]|localhost|xxxx|yyyy|\$\{|<[a-z]|\*\*\*|%s|null|false|true'
+
+# Exemptions: a variable naming a location (`…_FILE=`, `…_PATH=`) or a value
+# that is a filesystem path is a pointer, not a credential. Flagging those is
+# how a gate gets permanently overridden.
+assign_exempt='(_FILE|_PATH|_DIR|_URL|_ENDPOINT|_SOCKET)[[:space:]]*[:=]|[:=][[:space:]]*["'"'"']?(/|\.\./)'
+# Fail closed: a gate that cannot read the staged diff must not report success.
+#
+# `-z`, and the list lives in a file. Two traps decide this: git quotes any path it cannot print
+# as UTF-8 (core.quotePath is on by default), and a quoted name handed back to
+# `git diff -- <path>` matches nothing — the file is skipped, and a skipped file used to be a
+# silent pass. Command substitution cannot hold the list either, because $() deletes NUL bytes,
+# so the names go to a temp file and the loop reads them with a NUL delimiter.
+TMPD=$(mktemp -d) || TMPD=""
+if [ -z "$TMPD" ]; then
+  echo "SECRET GATE: cannot create a temp dir — refusing to commit." >&2
+  [ -n "${ALLOW_SECRETS:-}" ] && exit 0
+  exit 1
+fi
+trap 'rm -rf "$TMPD"' EXIT
+if ! git diff --cached --diff-filter=ACM --name-only -z > "$TMPD/files" 2> "$TMPD/err"; then
+  {
+    echo "SECRET GATE: cannot read the staged diff — refusing to commit."
+    sed 's/^/  /' "$TMPD/err"
+    echo "Override deliberately: ALLOW_SECRETS=1 git commit ..."
+  } >&2
+  [ -n "${ALLOW_SECRETS:-}" ] && exit 0
+  exit 1
+fi
+# git's stderr stays out of the name list on purpose: a `warning:` line mistaken for a path
+# becomes a file that "cannot be read", which is how a gate starts skipping the real ones.
+[ -s "$TMPD/files" ] || exit 0
+
+report=""
+exempt=""
+count=0
+while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do
+  [ -z "$f" ] && continue
+  # Self-exemption, deliberately an exact filename list and not `tests/`: the
+  # gate's fixtures must contain credential-shaped strings or there is nothing to
+  # test against, and this hook documents the shapes it looks for. A secret parked
+  # in any other test file is still caught.
+  case "$f" in
+    .githooks/pre-commit|tests/secret-gate.bats) exempt="$exempt $f"; continue ;;
+  esac
+  diff=$(git diff --cached -U0 -- "$f")
+  [ -z "$diff" ] && continue
+  # Only ADDED lines can leak. Matching removals too blocks the very commit that
+  # deletes a credential — which is exactly what happened on 2026-10-20, when the
+  # gate refused the redaction of the password it exists to catch.
+  added=$(printf '%s\n' "$diff" | grep -E '^\+' | grep -vE '^\+\+\+' | sed 's/^+//' || true)
+  [ -z "$added" ] && continue
+  # Shape hits are judged on the MATCHED TOKEN, not on the whole line. Documentation about
+  # credentials quotes vendor placeholders — AWS publishes an all-zeros access-key id that ends
+  # in EXAMPLE for exactly this purpose — and
+  # a gate that blocks prose over an inert example gets worked around until it means nothing:
+  # the live-sync heartbeat failed three ticks on 2026-10-21 because a managed skill page quotes
+  # exactly that id. A line is exempted only when EVERY shape on it is inert, so one live token
+  # sharing the file with a documented fake still blocks.
+  hits=$(printf '%s\n' "$added" | while IFS= read -r line; do
+           live=0
+          while IFS= read -r m; do
+            # The shape regexes carry fixed quantifiers, so the match they return is TRUNCATED:
+            # `AKIA` + exactly 16 characters stops inside the word EXAMPLE and the placeholder
+            # disappears from what is judged. Judge the match plus what follows it instead.
+            ctx=$(printf '%s' "$line" | awk -v m="$m" '{ i = index($0, m); print (i > 0 ? substr($0, i, length(m) + 8) : m) }')
+            printf '%s' "$ctx" | grep -Eiq 'EXAMPLE|X{4,}|Y{4,}|Z{4,}|_{4,}|REDACTED|CHANGEME|PLACEHOLDER' || live=1
+          done < <(printf '%s\n' "$line" | grep -Eio "$shapes" || true)
+           [ "$live" = 1 ] && printf '%s\n' "$line"
+         done)
+  if [ "${f##*.}" != "md" ]; then
+    # The placeholder filter reads the VALUE, never the whole line. A trailing comment that
+    # says `# example` says nothing about the token the same line assigns; scoping the filter
+    # to what follows the separator is what keeps `API_TOKEN=<real>  # placeholder` a block.
+    assigns=$(printf '%s\n' "$added" | grep -Ei "$assign" | grep -Ev "$assign_exempt" \
+      | while IFS= read -r line; do
+          # The judged value is the assigned token alone: it ends at whitespace or `#`, so a
+          # trailing comment cannot vouch for it. Truncating a quoted value early only ever errs
+          # toward blocking, which is the safe direction for a gate that can be overridden.
+          value=${line#*[:=]}
+          value=${value#"${value%%[![:space:]]*}"}
+          value=${value%%[[:space:]]*}
+          value=${value%%#*}
+          printf '%s\n' "$value" | grep -Eiq "$placeholders" && continue
+          printf '%s\n' "$line"
+        done)
+    hits=$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$hits" "$assigns" | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d')
+  fi
+  if [ -n "$hits" ]; then
+    n=$(printf '%s\n' "$hits" | wc -l)
+    count=$((count + n))
+    report+="  $f"$'\n'"$(printf '%s\n' "$hits" | cut -c1-100 | sed 's/^/    /')"$'\n'
+  fi
+done < "$TMPD/files"
+
+# Say so out loud: an exemption that prints nothing is how a carve-out becomes
+# invisible, and invisible is the property a secret wants.
+if [ -n "$exempt" ]; then
+  printf 'secret-gate: self-test fixtures exempt:%s\n' "$exempt" >&2
+fi

-hits=$(printf '%s\n' "$staged" | grep -Ei "$patterns" || true)
 if [ -n "${ALLOW_SECRETS:-}" ]; then
-  [ -n "$hits" ] && printf 'secret-gate: ALLOW_SECRETS set, allowing %s secret-shaped string(s) through.\n' "$(printf '%s\n' "$hits" | wc -l)"
+  [ -n "$report" ] && printf 'secret-gate: ALLOW_SECRETS set, allowing %s secret-shaped string(s) through.\n' "$count"
  exit 0
 fi

-if [ -n "$hits" ]; then
+if [ -n "$report" ]; then
  {
-    echo "SECRET GATE: staged diff contains $(printf '%s\n' "$hits" | wc -l) secret-shaped string(s):"
-    printf '%s\n' "$hits" | sed 's/^/  /'
+    echo "SECRET GATE: staged diff contains $count secret-shaped string(s):"
+    printf '%s\n' "$report"
    echo "Fix it, or override deliberately: ALLOW_SECRETS=1 git commit ..."
+    echo "A credential that reaches a tracked file is already in history on every"
+    echo "machine that pulls this repo — deleting it later does not un-leak it."
  } >&2
  exit 1
 fi
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ auth.json
 **/auth.json
 .env
 **/.env
+*.env
+# `*.env` is the rule that matters: `.env` alone does not match `postgres.env`
+# or `frank-job-hunt.env`, and those are the files that actually carry
+# POSTGRES_PASSWORD / API keys on this fleet (issue #40).
 trust.json
 **/trust.json
 *.pem
@@ -74,3 +78,35 @@ wt/
 # A session run inside a git worktree mints a bucket named after the worktree
 # path; the worktree is deleted, the bucket is orphan state, not config.
 agent/memories/--home-blank-.omp-wt-*
+
+# --- theme media: content the pipeline consumes, not configuration ---------
+# 23 wallpapers, 80 MiB. Tracked until 2026-10-20: every clone of a config repo was
+# carrying a library no diff can review. The live library at
+# ~/.local/share/noctalia/wallpapers is a real directory of real files (measured
+# 2026-10-20), so this path in the repo was a duplicate of it, not its source — and
+# note that untracking deletes the copy in every other checkout regardless of
+# `git rm --cached` on the branch. A fresh box starts with an empty library; every
+# filename carries its wallhaven ID; `/w/<id>` answers `text/html`, so resolve the CDN URL at
+# `https://wallhaven.cc/api/v1/w/<id>` and download `data.path` — the recipe, with the reason it
+# is not a plain `curl -L`, is on omp-docs/tools/dotfiles-deploy.md
+dotfiles/noctalia/.local/share/noctalia/wallpapers/
+
+# --- generated theme output: machine-written, never reviewable, never deployed ---
+# noctalia/matugen rewrite these in place; a tracked copy is a stale snapshot that
+# deploy.sh would push back over a live palette. These patterns are the ignore half of the
+# exclusion list in `deploy_file` (scripts/deploy.sh): change one, change the other, or a
+# generated file becomes tracked-but-never-deployed — the fiction class #41 removed. The
+# capital-N rule is noctalia's own palette-directory naming, and it was in deploy.sh only.
+# Law: omp-docs/inventory/home-config-census.md, Refs #42, #60
+dotfiles/**/themes/noctalia*
+dotfiles/**/colors/noctalia*
+dotfiles/**/noctalia.*
+dotfiles/**/noctalia-*
+dotfiles/**/Noctalia*
+
+# --- harness natives: unpacked runtime payloads, never configuration ----------
+# 2.4 MB of tree-sitter grammars the harness unpacks into the repo root on first use (measured
+# on blankpad 2026-10-21). Regenerable, unreviewable, not config — every clause of AGENTS.md's
+# runtime-state doctrine applies, and it sat unnamed in the root, one `git add -A` away from
+# being committed as if it were configuration.
+natives/
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---
-name: command-center-dotfiles-import
-description: Runbook for importing client env-layer configs into the command-center repo and deploying them via stow on new fleet machines; decisions agreed with Frank 2026-09-09 (pre-execution — verify execution state before assuming done).
---
-
-Design agreed with Frank for importing client application/environment configs into the `~/.omp` command-center repo and deploying them on fresh machines. **Status: plan agreed, not yet executed** — check repo state (does `dotfiles/` or `scripts/deploy.sh` exist?) before re-deriving; if already implemented, this becomes the operating model, not a to-do.
-
-## Agreed decisions (each was an explicit user choice)
-1. **Target**: unknown/TBD fresh machine → design stays host-agnostic; deploy derives overrides from `$(hostname)` at run time. Nothing hardcodes a target.
-2. **Scope**: environment layer only — niri (+cfg includes), gtk-3.0/4.0 settings, ghostty, alacritty, shell rc files (`.zshrc`, `.bashrc`, `.profile`, `.p10k.zsh`), fish, systemd user units, autostart, dconf. App *data* (browser profiles, vaults, DBs) never imported.
-3. **Layout**: stow-style package dirs `dotfiles/<pkg>/<home-relative path>` inside the repo; repo clones to `~/.omp` on every host that runs the harness (full command-center clone, not env-layer only).
-4. **Deploy mechanism**: symlink farm — `stow -t ~` from `~/.omp/dotfiles`; relative symlinks within `$HOME` work because repo root lives inside `$HOME`.
-5. **Dogfood order**: convert the workstation itself (real dirs → symlinks via adopt) BEFORE any target import; iterate where the compositor reload is observable.
-6. **Secrets policy**: never commit secret values. Split rc files into committed logic + untracked sourced-if-exists stub (`~/.config/environment.d/secrets.env` or `.zshrc.local`); real values provisioned out-of-band only on machines that need them. Pre-commit secret scanner stays as safety net, not gate of first resort.
-7. **Divergence**: `zz-<hostname>` override package stowed LAST with `--override`; only per-host diffs live there. (Stow descends into conflicting symlinked dirs — per-file overrides only work via this last-stowed `--override` pattern.)
-8. **Deploy trigger**: explicit `scripts/deploy.sh` invocation, human- or agent-invoked. NO auto-deploy on pull — pull and deploy are separate decisions; `--check` = drift report mode.
-9. **Ownership**: Frank is sole push authority; exactly one editing agent at a time → no multi-writer race machinery needed. Each host's agent edits only its own `zz-<hostname>` package.
-10. **Conflict policy**: pre-existing regular file that differs from repo truth → move to timestamped `.quarantine/` dir on the target (never `rm`, same convention as this repo's trash rule), symlink anyway, print every replacement in deploy output and `--check` report. Repo truth always wins; divergence recoverable from quarantine.
-11. **First-clone auth**: human types credential once console-side (URL-with-token or prompt); the new machine's secrets exist only there afterward.
-
-## Implementation gotchas baked into the design
- `core.hooksPath` is a per-clone local setting — does NOT survive clone; bootstrap/deploy must set it on every fresh clone or the secret-gate pre-commit hook silently doesn't run there.
- dconf/gsettings are databases, not files: import as `dconf dump /` text into repo; deploy runs `dconf load` instead of symlinking.
- p10k installer and toolchain hooks append to rc files at install time — expect conflicts on `.zshrc`-class files at first adopt; quarantine-and-replace handles it, but diff live-vs-repo before adopting so pre-existing drift is seen, not silently adopted.
- Known secret at import time: `GITEA_TOKEN` export lived in `.zshrc` (line ~22) on the workstation — quarantine BEFORE importing rc files; consider token rotation at cutover since it had been exposed in plaintext rc + remote URL.
-
-## Deploy script spec agreed
-`scripts/deploy.sh`: sets hooksPath → stows all base packages → stows `zz-$(hostname)` with `--override` → first run uses `--adopt` for pre-existing identical files → divergent files quarantined-and-reported; `--check` mode emits drift report (modified tracked files vs deployed symlinks) without mutating.
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---
-name: stash-supersession-audit-before-drop
-description: "Before dropping a stale git stash, prove it's superseded by HEAD via per-file line-set diff of git show stash@{0}:file vs HEAD; archive as an annotated tag and drop only after auditing unique facts — zero-loss alternative to blind drop."
---
-
-# Stash Supersession Audit Before Drop
-
-Use when a repo (especially a live-deployment checkout where the working tree IS the deployment, e.g. `~/.omp` command-center) has an old stash whose content may have been superseded by later commits, and dropping blindly risks losing unique facts.
-
-## Procedure
-
-1. **Inventory the stash** — see which files it touches:
-   ```bash
-   git stash show --stat stash@{0}
-   ```
-2. **Probe for unique content per file.** For each touched file, diff stash version against HEAD and count lines that exist only in the stash version:
-   ```bash
-   git show "stash@{0}:<path>" > /tmp/stash_copy
-   # compare normalized line sets; report lines present in stash but absent from HEAD
-   ```
-   A file with `unique-vs-HEAD = 0` is fully superseded — safe to drop for that file.
-3. **Classify each unique-content hit**:
-   - *Stale fact* (superseded by a later refactor, e.g. old model/provider naming) → drop is correct.
-   - *Live durable fact* (e.g. an operational invariant never re-recorded) → extract it into the live memory/docs file or flag to the user before dropping.
-4. **Archive before dropping** — zero-loss: tag the stash commit, then drop from the stash list:
-   ```bash
-   git tag archive/stash-<YYYY-MM-DD>-<base-branch>-wip "stash@{0}"
-   git stash drop "stash@{0}"
-   ```
-   The tag pins the full stash object (including its index parent); recoverable later via `git show archive/stash-...` or `git checkout archive/stash-...^3 -- <path>` for the untracked-files third parent if present.
-
-## Why
-Stashes are invisible in normal history and expire from reflogs (~90 days). A stash that *looks* superseded can still hold the only copy of a durable fact; tagging converts "drop" into a reversible archive with zero workflow cost.
@@ -94,29 +94,36 @@ knowledge base. Those pages own their facts; this is only the pointer.

 ### Issue tracker

-Work items are Gitea issues on `dank/command-center` (Dankclaw,
-`192.168.0.143:3000`) — no `gh`, no `tea`. See
-[`omp-docs/skills/issue-tracker.md`](omp-docs/skills/issue-tracker.md).
+See [`omp-docs/skills/issue-tracker.md`](omp-docs/skills/issue-tracker.md).

 ### Triage labels

-The five canonical roles, each label string equal to its name. See
-[`omp-docs/skills/triage-labels.md`](omp-docs/skills/triage-labels.md).
+See [`omp-docs/skills/triage-labels.md`](omp-docs/skills/triage-labels.md).

 ### Domain docs

-Single-context, inside the existing knowledge base: `omp-docs/glossary.md` and
-`omp-docs/decisions/`. See [`omp-docs/skills/domain-docs.md`](omp-docs/skills/domain-docs.md).
+ADRs: `omp-docs/decisions/`. `omp-docs/glossary.md` is intentionally not created.
+See [`omp-docs/skills/domain-docs.md`](omp-docs/skills/domain-docs.md).

 ## Secret gate (HARD rule)

 The pre-commit hook (`.githooks/pre-commit`, enabled via
-`git config core.hooksPath .githooks`) scans every staged diff for live-secret
-shapes (`sk-…`, `ghp_…`, `github_pat_…`, `glpat-…`, `xox…`, `AKIA…`, PEM headers,
-JWTs) and blocks the commit. Quarantine list — never tracked, ever: `auth.json`,
-`.env`, `trust.json`, `*.pem`, `*.key`, `identity*`. Deliberate override:
+`git config core.hooksPath .githooks`) blocks the commit in two ways. Token
+**shapes** (`sk-…`, `ghp_…`, `github_pat_…`, `glpat-…`, `xox…`, `AKIA…`, PEM
+headers, JWTs, bcrypt hashes, `Authorization: Basic` headers) are scanned across
+the **entire** staged diff — every file type, because the first version of the
+gate whitelisted extensions and never read a `.env`, `.container`, `.ini`, or
+extension-less dotfile at all. Credential **assignments** (`PASSWORD=…`,
+`secret_key: …`) are scanned in non-prose files only; markdown keeps shape
+detection, because the auto-learned memory tier is prose *about* credentials and a
+gate that fires there gets overridden until it means nothing. The gate **fails
+closed**: if it cannot read the staged diff it refuses the commit rather than
+passing it. Quarantine list — never tracked, ever: `auth.json`, `.env` and
+`*.env` (`postgres.env`, `frank-job-hunt.env` are the ones that carry real
+values), `trust.json`, `*.pem`, `*.key`, `identity*`. Deliberate override:
 `ALLOW_SECRETS=1 git commit …`. Remember why: a secret in a tracked file is a
-secret in every agent's context window on every machine that pulls this repo.
+secret in every agent's context window on every machine that pulls this repo, and
+redacting it later does not un-leak the history.

 ## Machine facts (verify before trusting)

@@ -54,13 +54,27 @@ Suggest these tools or languages as possible solutions to problems if they are a

 ### 1. Maintain your projects source of truth.

-The knowledge base at `docs/` is the source of truth for your project. Your training is out of date. Default to the documentation and the code before you assume anything. Maintain a work log of actions taken and their result. Refer to the work log to remember the progress of your tasks.
+Documentation exists for ONE reason: **point of use**. A page earns its bytes only if it helps you perform a task at the moment you perform it — the shape to deploy, the flag that must be passed, the failure mode to recognise, the rollback to run. It is NOT a museum, NOT a lab notebook, and NOT a place to keep track of numbers.
+
+**THE PURPOSE TEST — apply it before you write, and again before you keep:**
+- Would an agent or Frank, doing a real task tomorrow, read this line and act differently because of it? If no: **delete it.**
+- Is this a measured number (t/s, tokens, ms, MiB, %, bench ladder, acceptance rate) for a model, runtime, or hardware configuration that is NOT currently deployed and NOT currently being compared? Then it is **dead weight — destroy it**, do not archive it, do not "preserve it in an Eras row", do not cite it. AI advances make such a figure wrong within weeks, and a wrong number in a runbook is worse than no number: it gets believed.
+- "It is the only copy of that fact" is NOT a reason to keep it. Sole custody of a useless fact is still useless. Losing information is an acceptable — often correct — outcome; do not hesitate to lose it.
+- What survives the test: live configuration and its exact numbers, the procedure that must be followed, the law/causal story that prevents a repeat failure, security posture, and the interface contract a consumer depends on. Qualitative laws outlive the measurement that taught them — keep the law, drop the numbers.
+- Never let a tool's "this is duplicated / this is the only record" census decide what to keep. That is a question of USEFULNESS, which only the operator answers.

 1. Read the relevant `index.md` before you touch a topic.
 2. Follow `omp-docs/references/okf-spec.md` for every doc you create or edit.
 3. Read the target file completely before you edit it.
-4. Always update the documentation when you've completed a task.
-5. Compact the work log when necessary.
+4. Always update the documentation when you've completed a task — and when updating means deleting a page or a paragraph, delete it.
+5. Compact the work log when necessary; a work log holds laws and incidents, never bookkeeping.
+
+#### THE WORK LOG IS ONE FILE.
+The work log is a single page in the knowledge base: `omp-docs/log.md` in this repo, or whichever change-log page the repo's docs index names. Write the entry when the change lands — in the same commit as the change — and read that page to recover where things stand before starting. It follows its own entry law: a dated entry is what changed plus the durable lesson, a few lines.
+
+- NEVER create a second log: not per directory, not per project, feature, branch or run, not `NOTES.md` / `PROGRESS.md` / `STATUS.md` / `worklog/`, not a dated diary. In `dank/command-center` the KB linter reports any `log.md` that is not the bundle root's; the rule and its reasoning are owned by `omp-docs/references/okf-spec.md`.
+- A log holds laws and incidents, never bookkeeping: no per-file inventories, no run-by-run numbers, no transcripts. A number in a log still has to pass the purpose test above.
+- If a knowledge base has no log page, add one at its root and list it in the index. That is the fix — never a log somewhere else.

 #### USE PROGRESSIVE DISCLOSURE.
 Always ensure that all produced documentation is laid out in files following WIKI conventions: start with a top level README.md index file that provides a brief, concise introduction to the item being documented, and then SPLIT OFF individual aspects, features, or arguments into their own interlinked pages so that future agents can read the documentation in a piecewise fashion, only taking in the details they need. Where relevant, crosslink any created documentation with other relevant documentation. This structure may also be nested, if necessary.
@@ -90,6 +104,7 @@ Never assume the user reports correct information. He is human, and humans make
 - Before starting new work, `git pull` from the remote, and start a new branch in a separate worktree using `master` or `main` as the base branch.
 - Commit atomically: after every change that forms a complete functional unit, commit. Do so early and often.
 - When the work is complete, ask the user if they would like to open a pull request.
+- **Report a pull request as link AND title, every time.** A bare `#54` is not a reference: numbers are per-repository, so a number alone does not say which work, in which repo, is being reported. Give the PR's web URL on that forge — on the Dankclaw Gitea that is `https://gitea.franksdank.cloud/<owner>/<repo>/pulls/N` — together with the PR's title. Applies everywhere a PR is mentioned: chat replies, status summaries, issue and commit bodies, alerts. Another forge (GitHub, GitLab, …): the equivalent URL its web UI serves, same pairing.

 ### 5. Test Driven Development

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ retry:
      - llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-dragoon
  maxRetries: 10
 searxng:
-  endpoint: search.franksdank.cloud
+  endpoint: http://192.168.0.143:8081
 exa:
  enabled: false
 memory:
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+---
+name: authentik-rp-sso-login-diagnosis
+description: "Diagnose/repair a dead OAuth2 relying-party login against authentik (Grafana-style): authorize 500, missing email claim, Grafana /emails fallback. Live probe harness + ak-shell gotchas."
+---
+
+# Authentik OAuth2 relying-party (RP) SSO login diagnosis
+
+Use when a vhost authenticates through authentik via the OIDC authorization-code
+flow (Grafana, Seerr OIDC, any "Sign in with <authentik>" button) and the login
+fails — even though the guard-chain e2e (Anubis + outpost) passes green.
+
+## Key insight: the edge test lies
+
+The outpost-guard spec (e.g. `13-sso`) only proves an authenticated session
+reaches the app's *login page*. It never follows the RP OAuth button. So the RP
+login can be 100% dead and the suite still passes. **Always drive the real RP
+round-trip** to get ground truth (harness below).
+
+## Symptom → cause map (all verified live on 2026-10-20, grafana)
+
+| Signature | Root cause | Fix |
+|---|---|---|
+| Browser hits `…/application/o/authorize/?client_id=…` → "Server Error — Powered by authentik" (500), traceback `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'slug'` in `flows/planner.py` | provider `authorization_flow` is NULL (raw `ak shell` `create()` leaves it unset) | set `authorization_flow = default-provider-authorization-implicit-consent` |
+| Grafana log `logger=oauth.generic_oauth level=error msg="Error getting email address" url=<api_url>/emails … 404/403` | the granted scope mapping returns a **bare string**, not a dict → no `email` claim emitted | fix the ScopeMapping expression to `return {"email": user.email, "email_verified": True}` |
+| authorize 500 on scope-overlap, log `Application requested scopes not configured` for a scope like `user:email` | client requested a scope authentik doesn't define (GitLab-ism) | client must request authentik's real scopes: `openid email profile` |
+| Grafana `?api=1` on API URL → GET `<…>/userinfo/?api=1/emails` → 403 | Grafana v13 appends `/emails` to a `?api=1` URL | use the standard `…/userinfo/` with **no `?api=1`** |
+
+Crucial causal note: **Grafana v13 GETs `<api_url>/emails` for the address ONLY
+when the token carries no `email` claim.** So the `/emails` 404 is a *symptom of
+the missing claim*, not a Grafana misconfig. Do NOT chase it with `USE_ID_TOKEN`
+or attribute paths; fix the claim. `USE_ID_TOKEN=true` does NOT stop the
+`/emails` fetch. Once the claim exists, standard userinfo carries `email` and no
+`USE_ID_TOKEN` is needed.
+
+## Live RP-login probe harness (ground truth)
+
+A `qa-e2e` authentik session storage state exists at
+`tests/e2e/.auth/qa-e2e.json` after an e2e run; the e2e node_modules live in the
+main checkout (`tests/e2e/`). Throwaway probe:
+
+```js
+// node _p.cjs  (run from a checkout with node_modules + .auth)
+const { chromium } = require('playwright');
+(async () => {
+  const b = await chromium.launch({ headless: true });
+  const ctx = await b.newContext({ storageState: '.auth/qa-e2e.json',
+    userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" });
+  const p = await ctx.newPage();
+  await p.goto('https://<vhost>/', { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+  for (let i=0;i<30;i++){ const t=await p.locator('body').innerText().catch(()=>''); if(!t.includes('not a bot')) break; await p.waitForTimeout(3000);}
+  await p.goto('https://<vhost>/login/generic_oauth', { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+  await p.waitForTimeout(9000);
+  const r = await ctx.request.get('https://<vhost>/api/user');
+  console.log(p.url(), r.status(), (await r.text()).slice(0,200));
+  await b.close();
+})();
+```
+
+Success = final URL on the app host (not `/login`) AND `/api/user` 200 with an
+email. Before the fix it is `/login` + 401. Move the throwaway to
+`~/.AGENTTRASH/…` after (never `rm`).
+
+## ak-shell census: operational traps (authentik 2026.8)
+
+- **Run it via `ssh dankclaw bash -s <<'EOF' … EOF`, NEVER direct
+  `ssh host '… "{{…}}"'`.** Direct ssh eats inner quotes locally; `podman inspect
+  --format '{{…}}'` and multi-line `ak shell -c "…"` only survive inside a quoted
+  heredoc. Authentik runs **rootless** (`podman exec authentik-server …`, no sudo).
+- `OAuth2Provider` has **no `properties` attribute** in 2026.8; scopes are derived
+  from `p.property_mappings`. Accessing `.properties` raises and silently aborts
+  the whole `-c` payload.
+- `ScopeMapping` is **not importable** from `authentik.core.models`. To read
+  scopes: iterate `p.property_mappings.all()`, then `m.scopemapping.scope_name`
+  (reverse one-to-one; the base `PropertyMapping` row has no `scope_name`).
+- Introspect before guessing: `[f.name for f in Model._meta.get_fields()]`. Don't
+  trial-and-error attribute names — that wastes turns.
+- Claims-into-id_token field is `include_claims_in_id_token`.
+- Provider census that works:
+```
+from authentik.providers.oauth2.models import OAuth2Provider
+for p in OAuth2Provider.objects.all():
+    af=p.authorization_flow
+    print(p.name, af.slug if af else None)
+# email mapping shape (the real bug):
+p=OAuth2Provider.objects.filter(name='grafana').first()
+for m in p.property_mappings.all():
+    print(m.name, getattr(getattr(m,'scopemapping',None),'scope_name',None), repr(getattr(m,'expression','')))
+```
+
+## Repair = idempotent script (DB state, not deployable)
+
+Authentik config lives in its DB, not in any repo file; a blueprint re-import or
+an `ak shell` re-creation reverts provider fields silently. Ship an idempotent
+`scripts/authentik-<svc>-sso-fix.sh` that `ssh HOST 'podman exec -i
+authentik-server ak shell' <<'PYEOF' … PYEOF` and re-applies each fact guarded by
+"already set?" checks. Match the style of
+`scripts/authentik-set-login-session-duration.sh`; add a header note "DB state —
+re-run after a rebuild". Reference it from the service page. Grafana's half
+(env) lives in `grafana.container` and deploys normally.
+
+## Repo test-seam gotchas this triggers
+
+- **literal-secret seam** (`observability_quadlet.bats`, "no literal secret")
+  globs keys `*_SECRET|*_PASSWORD|*_TOKEN|*_API_KEY` and demands a `${VAR}`
+  value. A boolean env ending in `_TOKEN` (`…_USE_ID_TOKEN=true`) is a **false
+  positive**. Prefer not to set such a key (drop `USE_ID_TOKEN`); otherwise the
+  seam must be refined (ask the owner before editing a pre-existing test).
+- Quadlet `Environment=` **word-splits on spaces** (systemd semantics) — a spaced
+  list must be quoted: `Environment="KEY=a b c"`, else it truncates to `a`. The
+  repo already uses this (`open-webui.container` OAUTH_SCOPES).
+- **OKF conformance gate** rejects a page frontmatter `timestamp` in the future.
+  The fleet host clock reads UTC (often a day ahead of local "today") — set the
+  timestamp to the repo's today, not the host's UTC date.
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+name: authentik-session-ttl-query
+description: "Query or change authentik login-session TTL on Dankclaw via ak shell — the string-typed UserLoginStage.session_duration trap, the apply logic, and why SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST is unavailable."
+---
+
+Change or audit how long an authentik login session lives (Dankclaw `authentik-server`, build 2026.x). The real knob is a DB stage row, not env — and the field format will bite you.
+
+## Where the TTL actually lives
+- Run program through raw stdin: `ssh dankclaw 'podman exec -i authentik-server ak shell' <<'EOF' ... EOF 2>&1 | sed -n '/objects imported/,$p'`.
+- Get models by label, NOT import paths (`from authentik.core.models.setting import ...` fails; `authentik.core.models` is not a package; GlobalSettings is NOT a model in 2026.x):
+  `from django.apps import apps; ULS = apps.get_model("authentik_stages_user_login", "UserLoginStage")`
+- The password sign-in path is flow `default-authentication-flow` → stage `default-authentication-login` (FlowStageBinding FK is `target`, not `flow`). Other stages `default-source-authentication-login` / `default-source-enrollment-login` govern external-IdP/enrollment logins only.
+
+## THE FORMAT TRAP (will break login if wrong)
+`UserLoginStage.session_duration` is **string-typed** in authentik's own idiom: `"days=7"` / `"seconds=2"`.
+- Assigning a `datetime.timedelta` stores Python's `str(timedelta)` = `'7 days, 0:00:00'`, which authentik's parser `authentik.lib.utils.time.timedelta_from_string` **REJECTS** (`ValueError: not enough values to unpack`). Left like that, login crashes computing the expiry.
+- Correct write: `s.session_duration = "days=7"; s.save(update_fields=["session_duration"])`
+- Verify it parses: `from authentik.lib.utils.time import timedelta_from_string as P; P(s2.session_duration)` → `7 days, 0:00:00`. A single `key=value` token only; `"days=7 seconds=0"` also errors.
+
+## How it applies (stage.py:77-87, verified)
+`delta = timedelta_from_string(session_duration)`; `if remember: delta += remember_me_offset`; then `set_expiry(0) if delta==0 else set_expiry(delta)`. So any positive duration applies to EVERY login (remember-me only adds on top), and `set_expiry(<positive>)` overrides `SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE` → persistent cookie. Existing sessions keep their old expiry; new logins only.
+
+## SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST (sliding window) is NOT available
+`/authentik/root/settings.py` reads `SESSION_COOKIE_AGE` from `CONFIG.get("sessions.unauthenticated_age","days=1")`, sets `SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE=True`, and references **`SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST` nowhere** → no `AUTHENTIK_*` env or config.yml key can flip it. Enabling a sliding window means patching the vendor image; instead raise the login-stage duration (absolute, supported).
+
+## Audit the rest of the expiry surface (live values)
+- framework: `settings.SESSION_COOKIE_AGE`, `SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST`
+- OAuth2 RPs: `apps.get_model("authentik_providers_oauth2","OAuth2Provider")` → `access_token_validity` / `refresh_token_validity` (this fleet: access 1h [embedded-outpost 24h], refresh 30d)
+- proxy claim cache: `authentik_providers_proxy.ProxySession.expires` (observed ~1–24h; silent re-auth, not a logout)
+- tenant: `authentik_tenants.Tenant.default_token_duration` (hand API tokens, not sessions)
+
+## Notes
+- These stage/provider rows are DB state, NOT repo-managed → a blueprint re-import or fresh rebuild reverts them; drop a setup script/blueprint in the repo if reproducibility matters.
+- Don't probe the guarded vhost for the agent API and don't confuse Anubis' 168h challenge cookie with the authentik login session.
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+name: bash-cwd-drift-multi-worktree
+description: "Diagnose \"files keep reverting / phantom edits\" in multi-worktree sessions: the persistent bash shell's cwd silently reverted to another checkout, so probes and git commands ran against different files."
+---
+
+# Multi-worktree bash cwd drift
+
+## Symptom (all of these at once, in one session)
+- A file "keeps reverting" to an older version between edits (esp. test files).
+- `grep -n` line numbers disagree with the tool/test output (e.g. bats reports `line 637`, grep says the match is at 519).
+- `wc -l`/`md5sum` stable when sampled back-to-back, but state "flaps" across the session.
+- `git status` clean in one call, surprising in the next.
+- Probes against `src/` show code that doesn't exist in the branch you think you're on.
+
+## Root cause
+The persistent bash shell resets to the session's ORIGINAL cwd when a call omits `cwd` (e.g. after a shell respawn at a turn boundary). With several git worktrees of the same repo checked out, consecutive calls silently alternate between two full copies of the tree — half the reads land in the old branch's files. Nothing is rewriting anything; two files are being inspected.
+
+## Decision
+- In multi-worktree work, pass an **explicit `cwd` on EVERY bash call**. Never rely on persistence.
+- Use **absolute paths** for `read`/`edit`/`write` (already required) — file tools don't drift; only bash does.
+
+## Check
+When state seems to flap: `pwd` in the same call as the probe. If two calls to the same relative path report different content, `git worktree list` and census each checkout separately — you have two files, not a gremlin.
+
+## Repair pattern (if corruption got committed via the wrong tree)
+1. `git log --oneline --all -- <file>`; per candidate commit print `wc -l` + counts of a few marker strings to classify clean vs corrupted blobs.
+2. Restore the good blob with `git show <commit>:<path> > <path>` (no checkout — safe under worktree policies).
+3. Re-apply the intended additions as surgical edits; verify with targeted tests before the full suite.
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+---
+name: bats-assertion-trust
+description: "When writing or reviewing bats shell tests, catch vacuously-passing assertions: grep -vq, sed range boundaries, unanchored section slices, and fixtures too small to trigger pipefail/SIGPIPE bugs."
+---
+
+Prove a bats assertion can actually fail before trusting that it passes. These four traps each made a green suite lie in real work.
+
+## 1. `grep -vq` proves nothing
+
+`some_list | grep -vq 'x'` succeeds when ANY line lacks `x` — nearly always true. To assert absence, capture the text and test it:
+
+```bash
+s="$(report_section)"
+[[ "$s" != *libfoo* ]]          # absence
+[[ "$s" == *bun* ]]             # presence
+```
+
+Same trap in reverse: bash `[[ $s == *A*B* ]]` — `*` crosses newlines, so a substring check spanning two lines matches the wrong lines. Slice to one line first, then assert.
+
+## 2. Section slicing helpers must have explicit boundary semantics
+
+A helper used to scope assertions to one report section must define, and comment, both ends. The default you want: **start inclusive** (labels carry the count/names), **terminator exclusive** (a `sed -n "/A/,/B/p"` range includes B and leaks the next section's first line):
+
+```bash
+# Call sites pass a bare anchored regex; both ends documented.
+section() { printf '%s\n' "$output" | awk -v s="$1" -v e="$2" '$0 ~ e {on=0} $0 ~ s {on=1} on'; }
+```
+
+Two bugs this shape hides:
+- Helper prepends `^` while call sites already pass `^name` → pattern `/^^name/` → never matches → empty slice.
+- An **unanchored start address** matches the first line and the range runs to end-of-output, so every absence assertion becomes a vacuous pass. Symptom: tests that "verify X is not in section A" pass while X is printed later in the same output.
+
+After fixing a helper like this, re-run the whole suite: tests that were passing vacuously suddenly fail, and that is the fix working.
+
+## 3. Fixtures too small hide pipefail bugs
+
+`set -euo pipefail` + `sort | head -1`: `head` exits, closes the pipe, `sort` dies of SIGPIPE, the command substitution returns `141`, `set -e` aborts the script. Small fixtures never overflow the 64 KiB pipe buffer, so the suite stays green and the first run against real data fails with no output.
+
+- Take a minimum in one pass: `awk '{ if (m=="" || $1<m) m=$1 } END { print m }' file`
+- `awk 'NR==1{print; exit}'` is **not** a fix — exiting early closes the pipe exactly like `head`.
+- Pin it with a fixture larger than the pipe buffer: `seq 1 20000 | awk '{print "[2026-01-01T10:00:00-0700] [ALPM] installed pkgfiller (1-1)"}' > big.log` (use `seq`, not `yes | head`, or the fixture itself SIGPIPEs).
+
+## 4. `tr` swallows the final newline and downstream tools preserve that
+
+`tr '\n' ' ' < file` emits no trailing newline; `fold`, `sed`, and `cat` faithfully preserve the absence, so the *next* output line gets glued on. Breaks any tool that later slices output by line-start labels.
+
+```bash
+{ tr '\n' ' ' < file; echo; } | fold -s -w 88 | sed 's/^/  /'
+```
+
+Pin with: assert the following section's label does NOT appear inside the preceding section's slice.
+
+## Debugging order when a bats assertion fails but the script output looks right
+
+1. Reproduce the exact command outside bats (`bash -x` against the script under test) — if it works there, the bug is in the *test helper*, not the script.
+2. Dump the constructed argument: `printf '%s' "$sed_script" | od -An -c` inside the helper. That is how `/^^ repo /` (double anchor) got found.
+3. Keep stubs faithful to the real interface: if the stub answers `-Sqq` but the script calls `-Sl`, the test measures nothing. Make the stub exit `64` on unhandled args so a new real query fails loudly instead of silently returning empty.
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+---
+name: bats-output-glob-red-proof-traps
+description: "Write red bats tests over command output: [[ ]] glob adjacency (quoted * is literal), run-capture vs test stdout in failure dumps, and proving red against pre-fix code before trusting green."
+---
+
+Three traps hit while writing red-then-green bats tests for `remote-job.sh` (Refs #60, `dank/command-center` PR #61). Each one cost a detour because it makes a test look like a bug report when it is an assertion bug.
+
+## 1. In `[[ $s == pat ]]` a quoted `*` is LITERAL — and it eats the wildcard beside it
+
+```bash
+s='  x*                   DONE   rc=0  1 lines'
+[[ "$s" == *"x*"DONE*"rc=0"* ]]   # NOMATCH — and it looks like the tool under test broke
+[[ "$s" == "  x*"*"DONE   rc=0"* ]]   # MATCH — quoted literals, UNQUOTED separators
+```
+
+`*"x*"DONE*` means: anything, then the literal substring `x*DONE`, then anything. Quoting only makes the `*` inside the quotes literal; it does **not** keep the next unquoted token from butting up against it. When the subject has whitespace between the two facts, the pattern must carry an **unquoted** `*` between the quoted literals:
+
+```
+"literal-a"*"literal-b"      # a, then anything, then b
+```
+
+Existing suites in the repo write `*"a"*DONE*rc=0*` — unquoted separators throughout — precisely for this reason. Copy that shape; do not quote for "clarity".
+
+Discriminate before believing the test: run the pattern against BOTH the expected line and the line the buggy code produced (`correct-red` / `NOMATCH` on the second is the pass condition). A pattern that matches the old output was never a regression test.
+
+## 2. A bats failure dump prints the TEST's stdout, not `$output`
+
+```
+not ok 1 status treats a job name as a name, not a pattern
+#   `[[ "$output" == *"x*"DONE* ]]` failed
+# started x*
+```
+
+`started x*` is the stdout the test body itself printed (from a `start` call several lines earlier), **not** what `run` captured. Reading it as the captured value sends you to debug the tool. To see the real capture, echo it:
+
+```bash
+run some-command
+echo "CAP:[${output}]"
+```
+
+in a scratch copy of the test (`/tmp/dbg.bats`, same `setup`/harness) rather than adding diagnostics to the committed test.
+
+## 3. Reproduce outside bats when green refuses to arrive
+
+When a test fails but the same command works by hand, replicate the *exact* bats call shape in `/tmp` with the same env exports (`REMOTE_JOBS_DIR` etc.) and the same `run bash -c '…' _ "$A" "$B" "$C"` argument mapping. If the scratch copy passes and the committed one fails, the difference is the assertion, not the system — go back to trap 1.
+
+## Red-proof rule
+
+Run the new test against the pre-fix code and read *why* it failed. Both traps above produced a failure that looked meaningful while proving nothing (one matched the buggy output; one printed the wrong stream). Keep the test only when the failure reason is the defect you set out to pin.
+
+Related: `bats-assertion-trust` (vacuous assertions), `red-verify-without-stash` (proving red in a shared worktree).
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+---
+name: command-center-bundle-lint-gate
+description: "Before committing docs in dank/command-center, lint the real omp-docs bundle directly — the bats suite only lints fixtures, so a green suite is not proof."
+---
+
+# The bundle lint gate (`dank/command-center`)
+
+Adding or editing pages under `omp-docs/`? `bats tests/` going green proves
+nothing about the pages you just wrote.
+
+## Why this exists
+
+`tests/kb-lint.bats` exercises `scripts/kb-lint.sh` against `mktemp -d` fixtures
+(`"conformant bundle passes"`, `"missing frontmatter is reported"`, …). For years
+nothing in the suite pointed the linter at the shipped tree, so a page with no
+frontmatter, an index that stopped listing a file, or a broken relative link
+committed under a green suite. (Two tests appended 2026-10-20 now run both
+checkers against `omp-docs/`; verify they are still present before assuming the
+suite covers it — `grep -n omp-docs tests/kb-lint.bats`.)
+
+The general law: **a lint suite that tests only the linter does not lint your
+content.** Check which one a suite runs before calling green a gate.
+
+## Gate a docs commit
+
+```bash
+cd <worktree>
+bats tests/ ; grep -E '^1\.\.' /tmp/…          # suite (count, failures)
+./scripts/kb-lint.sh omp-docs                  # want: kb-lint: 0 violation(s)
+python3 scripts/kb-coverage.py omp-docs        # want: index-coverage: 0 issue(s)
+```
+
+`kb-lint.sh <kb-dir>` (default `omp-docs`) = OKF v0.1 conformance **plus link
+integrity**, so it is the check that absolute bundle links like
+`/tools/gitea/client-access.md` resolve. `kb-coverage.py` = every page listed by
+its directory `index.md` (repo doctrine: nothing may appear in a directory its
+`index.md` does not list).
+
+OKF shape that passes: every concept page carries frontmatter with a `type`
+(`type: reference` + `title`/`description`/`tags`/`timestamp`/`verified`);
+`index.md` files carry **no** frontmatter; new pages get an entry in their
+directory index in the same commit, plus a dated entry in `omp-docs/log.md`
+(one entry = what changed + the durable lesson, a few lines, never a narrative).
+
+## Commit-message trap in this harness
+
+A multi-line message written as a heredoc inside a chained `bash` command
+(`git commit -q -F - <<'MSG' … && …`) fails with
+`pi-natives:command: syntax error at end of input`. Write the message to
+`/tmp/msg-<topic>.txt` with the write tool and `git commit -q -F /tmp/msg-<topic>.txt`.
+Keep the `&&` chain so a failed gate stops the commit — hooks (secret gate) stay armed,
+never `--no-verify`.
+
+## Land and reap
+
+Merge is form-encoded `do=merge&merge_style=no-ff` and answers `200` with an
+**empty body**; never read that as ambiguous — verify by landing. Then
+`git -C ~/.omp merge --ff-only origin/main` (the checkout *is* the deployment;
+dirty `agent/memories/`, `agent/config.yml`, `APPEND_SYSTEM.md` are machine-tier
+live state and do not block an ff whose diff misses them), fast-forward the
+session's `wt/*` scratch branch the same way, then `git worktree remove <build-wt>`
+and `git branch -d <type>/<issue>-<slug>` (`-d` succeeding is itself proof of
+merge).
+
+Stray files whose names start with `-` (e.g. `-c`, `-es` — vim takes a
+`--startuptime` flag name as the output filename) show as untracked dirt:
+`mv ./-c .AGENTTRASH/<date>-<meaning>.log`, never `rm`.
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+---
+name: dankvoice-epithet-pool-audit
+description: "Grow or audit the dankvoice 1000-name epithet pool: gender classes, individual eviction, typo sweep, safe regeneration into framing.ts."
+---
+
+# Dankvoice epithet pool audit
+
+Use when adding names to, reclassifying, or cleaning `src/framing.ts` `EPITHETS_*` in `dank/dankvoice`. The pool is law: exactly 1000 distinct names, curated at build time, never user-editable, "the commons, never the characters".
+
+## Classification rules (proven traps in parentheses)
+- **man**: gendered lexicon (king, lord, priest, uncle...) + tokens ending `man|men|master` — but never `human|inhuman|nonhuman`. Compounds like `quartermaster`, `hangwoman` are single tokens: token-equality checks miss them, use suffix rules.
+- **woman**: lexicon (queen, sister, daughter...) + tokens ending `woman` + an EXPLICIT `-ess` title list (baroness, countess, prioress, canoness, chartress, heiress, priestess...). Never a bare `-ess` suffix match: `endless`, `harmless`, `fortress` all end in "ess".
+- **Possessives follow the head noun**: `lieutenant of the king's hull` is a lieutenant → neutral commons; `count's armsman` is an armsman → man. Do not gender by words inside `'s` phrases.
+- Modern-neutral offices stay commons: hero, governor, wizard. `witch/lass/bride` are female-coded; `warlock` male-coded.
+- Regex trap for absence checks: `he\b` matches inside `the`; token-split before matching.
+
+## Individual eviction law
+Evict: named fictional/historical individuals (duke caladan, uncle toby, pyrrhus, usul, endymion, skynet, moya-born, medusa), named protagonist ships (rocinante), and real authors in universe clothing (strugatsky, niven).
+Keep: species, orders, houses, orgs/companies (sardaukar, jedi, cyberdyne), places (kessel; `falconer of the caladan eyries` is fine — the person problem was only `duke caladan`), institutions (zekma, karass).
+Replace each eviction with the generic office beside it, class-stable, and unique against the pool.
+
+## Invariants tests pin (breaking any of these goes red)
+- 1000 names, all distinct.
+- Sentinel literals must survive: `hangman of the holiday` (man), `high priestess of the ear moon` (woman), `comrade operator` (other).
+- Pool firsts feed pool[0] probe tests — union order is MAN-first / WOMAN-first / OTHER; keep source order within classes so firsts stay: `chairman of the presidium of processors` / `hangwoman of the public convenience` / `comrade operator`.
+- Class counts (86/15/899 as of 2026-10) may churn but must be reported; tests never pin them.
+
+## Regeneration
+Pool lives as three generated arrays between markers `/** Male-coded` and `/** The unions` in `src/framing.ts`. Splice new arrays between those markers (python splice of a generated `const NAME = [ "x", ... ] as const;` block is fine; do not hand-edit 1000 lines). Then `bun run build` (dist pin test byte-compares), `bun run typecheck`, and the full `bats tests/` — the class sweeps are exhaustive `Math.random`-cycled walks (each ~200 s; suite ~17 min; never two bats processes at once).
+
+## Fleet cutover after merge
+main checkout ff-only → `omp plugin upgrade omp-dankvoice` → `cmp` `~/.omp/plugins/node_modules/omp-dankvoice/dist/index.js` against merged `dist/index.js`.
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+---
+name: docker-pin-latest-census
+description: "Prove a Docker Hub / lscr.io image pin is the latest version before bumping it: registry-API tag census plus digest-equals-latest verification, no docker CLI needed."
+---
+
+# Is my pinned image actually the latest?
+
+Use when bumping a pinned container image tag (e.g. `lscr.io/linuxserver/*` quadlet `Image=` lines) and "latest" must be PROVEN, not assumed. Works from any box with curl — no podman/docker daemon required. `lscr.io` fronts Docker Hub; its tags are NOT on quay.io (querying quay returns nothing and reads like "no newer tags exist" — false).
+
+## 1. Full tag census via the registry API
+
+```bash
+tok=$(curl -s "https://auth.docker.io/token?service=registry.docker.io&scope=repository:<owner>/<repo>:pull" \
+      | python3 -c "import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin)['token'])")
+curl -s "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/<owner>/<repo>/tags/list?n=2000" \
+      -H "Authorization: Bearer $tok" | python3 - <<'PY'
+import json,sys,re
+tags=json.load(sys.stdin).get('tags') or []
+# linuxserver form: <version>-<sha>-ls<N>; group by version, keep newest ls per version
+v={}
+for t in tags:
+    m=re.match(r'^(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)-([0-9a-f]+)-ls(\d+)$',t)
+    if m: v.setdefault(tuple(map(int,m.group(1).split('.'))),[]).append((int(m.group(3)),t))
+for k in sorted(v)[-5:]:
+    print('.'.join(map(str,k)),'-> newest:',max(v[k])[1])   # max on (ls#, tag) tuple
+PY
+```
+
+- Sort versions as **tuples of ints**, never strings (`1.4.10 < 1.4.9` lexicographically).
+- Keep the max `ls` build per version, then the newest version — both can lag independently.
+- Trap already eaten: joining the tuple key to a string mid-loop then re-looking-it-up → `KeyError`. Keep keys as tuples; format only when printing.
+- Some channels have NO `latest` tag in `/tags/list` (or the endpoint truncates) — absence there is not evidence.
+
+## 2. Digest-proof the candidate against `latest`
+
+```bash
+for t in latest <candidate-tag>; do
+  curl -sI "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/<owner>/<repo>/manifests/$t" \
+    -H "Authorization: Bearer $tok" \
+    -H "Accept: application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json,application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json,application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json" \
+    | grep -i '^docker-content-digest'
+done
+```
+
+Equal digests ⇒ the pinned tag IS what `latest` serves right now — the strongest "ensure latest" evidence, and recordable in the endpoint page's pin note (the dank-fleet law: *pinned; verified == the registry's `latest` manifest digest at pin time*). A multi-arch index digest matches only if both requests send the same Accept set — send all three types above.
+
+## 3. Bump through git, not by hand
+
+Edit the quadlet/unit `Image=` line + the vault page's pin row (one owner each), run the repo suite, PR, deploy `--service <svc>` only. Rollback stays "revert one line".
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+---
+name: dotfiles-adoption-audit
+description: "Use when deciding which userspace configs on a Dank box belong in the command-center dotfiles tier — separates tracked intent from generated expansion, app state, secrets, and config owned by another repo. Not for deploying one known file."
+---
+
+# Dotfiles adoption audit
+
+Decides, with evidence, which files under `~/.config` (and top-level dotfiles) belong in
+`dank/command-center`'s `dotfiles/` tier. The repo law being applied: **config in, state
+out**, and **one fact, one owner**.
+
+## The four gates (all four must pass)
+
+1. **Installed?** `command -v <prog>` — config for software absent from the box is a prune
+   candidate, never an adoption target. This eliminates most of the clutter.
+2. **Authored, or the expansion of something else?** Generated files must stay out even
+   though they look like config.
+3. **Does another repo or installer already write it?** If a script or package owns the
+   file, tracking it here creates a second owner that loses every argument.
+4. **Could a secret ever live in it?** If yes: template + quarantine, or leave it out.
+
+## Gate 2 is the one people get wrong — prove generation from mtime
+
+A generator walking the app list writes dozens of files in the same sub-second window.
+Compare timestamps across unrelated programs:
+
+```bash
+cd ~/.config && stat -c '%y  %n' */themes/noctalia* */noctalia.* */colors/noctalia* 2>/dev/null | sort
+```
+
+Identical seconds + microsecond progression across ten different programs = generated.
+Re-check one file days later: a new mtime with no human edit proves regeneration, so the
+tracked file must be the *source* (palette/config the generator reads), never its output.
+The correct pattern is a tracked config that *imports* the generated path.
+
+## Classify the whole tree per file, not per directory
+
+The tracked unit is the **file symlink**, so a directory can be "real" while containing only
+tracked symlinks. Never classify by directory:
+
+```bash
+cd ~/.config && for d in */; do d=${d%/}; tr=0; rl=0; rlfiles=""
+  while IFS= read -r f; do
+    case "$(readlink -f "$f" 2>/dev/null)" in
+      */.omp/dotfiles/*) tr=$((tr+1));;
+      *) rl=$((rl+1)); rlfiles="$rlfiles ${f#./}";;
+    esac
+  done < <(find "$d" -maxdepth 2 \( -type f -o -type l \) 2>/dev/null \
+           | grep -vE 'Cache|cache|Cookies|storage|sessions|Crashpad|Default|thumbnails|extensions')
+  [ $((tr+rl)) -eq 0 ] && continue
+  printf '%-22s tracked=%-3s box-only=%-3s %s\n' "$d" "$tr" "$rl" "$(echo $rlfiles | cut -c1-90)"
+done
+```
+
+Then read the headers of suspicious files — installers often confess ("Installed by
+`infra/setup-dev.sh` into `~/.config/containers/systemd/`") and unit files name another
+project's `WorkingDirectory`/`ExecStart`, which means that project owns them.
+
+## Ownership before adoption
+
+```bash
+git -C ~/.omp ls-files dotfiles                  # packages deploy.sh sees
+grep -rl "<unit-or-file-name>" ~/Projects/<proj> # does a project repo own it?
+systemctl --user is-active <unit>                # dead config is not load-bearing
+```
+
+## Secret-gap check (do this before adopting anything env-shaped)
+
+The ignore list may cover only `.env`, so `frank-job-hunt.env` / `postgres.env` fall
+through, and a token-shape secret gate (`sk-`, `ghp_`, PEM, JWT) does not match a
+low-entropy `POSTGRES_PASSWORD=…`. Test both explicitly:
+
+```bash
+cd ~/.omp && git check-ignore -v --no-index 'dotfiles/x/postgres.env' || echo "NOT IGNORED"
+sed -n 's/^patterns=//p' .githooks/pre-commit
+```
+
+Fix = add `*.env` to the quarantine block **and** a password-assignment pattern to the gate,
+with a red test that stages a fake `POSTGRES_PASSWORD=` file.
+
+## Land it
+
+Packages are home-relative trees under `dotfiles/<pkg>/`; per-host overrides go in
+`zz-$(hostname)` (stowed last). `dconf` is loaded via `dconf load /`, `systemd-user` gets
+`daemon-reload` + conditional `enable --now`. Sequence: `scripts/deploy.sh --check` (dry run,
+reports divergents) → adopt → `deploy.sh` → confirm live paths are symlinks into the repo →
+`bats tests/` (includes the real-bundle `kb-lint`/coverage gate) → branch off `origin/main`,
+PR to `main`, never merge without Frank's OK.
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+---
+name: dotfiles-deployment-truth-audit
+description: "Answer \"is my X config actually tracked and deployed?\" per package: classify every file by readlink, expose tracked-then-ignored debt, and re-derive census numbers from the command printed on the page."
+---
+
+Answer to "does this repo still track my <pkg> settings?" must be a measurement, never a remembered count. The tracked unit is the **file**, not the directory: a live directory can be a real directory and still be fully tracked, because every file inside it is a symlink into the repo.
+
+Run in the deployment checkout (the checkout IS the deployment).
+
+## 1. Tracked set, per package, both tiers
+
+```bash
+cd ~/.omp                      # or the repo that owns dotfiles/
+git ls-files dotfiles/<pkg>    # base tier
+git ls-files dotfiles/zz-$(hostname) | grep <pkg>   # host override tier — counted separately
+```
+
+The `zz-*` tier overrides base files by the same relative path, so a per-package count
+that ignores it under-reports what a machine actually runs.
+
+## 2. Live wiring — classify every tracked file (never by directory)
+
+```bash
+for f in $(git ls-files dotfiles/<pkg>); do
+  rel=${f#dotfiles/<pkg>/}; live="$HOME/$rel"
+  if [ -L "$live" ]; then printf 'link %-50s -> %s\n' "$rel" "$(readlink "$live")"
+  elif [ -e "$live" ]; then printf 'REAL %-50s (NOT a link)\n' "$rel"
+  else printf 'absent %s\n' "$rel"; fi
+done
+```
+
+- `REAL` = the repo copy is a fiction: live state diverged, deployment never reached it.
+- `absent` = tracked relic, nothing consumes it (candidate for `git rm --cached`).
+- Spaces in filenames break the `for` loop (`palettes/Gruber Red.json` splits into two
+  rows). Use `git ls-files -z | tr '\0' '\n'` + `while read -r` when names can hold spaces.
+- Reverse direction finds untracked-but-load-bearing files:
+  `find ~/.config/<pkg> -maxdepth 2 \( -type f -o -type l \) | while read -r p; do case "$(realpath "$p")" in $PWD/dotfiles/*) ;; *) echo "not from repo: $p";; esac; done`
+
+## 3. Live state that must stay untracked
+
+Generated palette output and app state are expansion, not authorship. Distinguish by
+mtime cluster, not by name: `find ~/.local/state/<app> -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %p\n'` —
+a same-second mass write is a generator; single later re-stamps are re-runs. Pointers a
+switcher script writes (e.g. `cfg/display.kdl -> desk-1-home.kdl`) are machine state too.
+
+Then check the hazard this creates: grep the entrypoint for includes of those generated
+files. A **non-optional** include of a correctly-untracked generated file bricks a fresh
+box (`include "noctalia.kdl"` with no `optional=true` = niri cannot start until the theme
+pipeline has run once). Report it as a fresh-box failure, not a style note.
+
+## 4. Tracked-then-ignored debt (invisible to every normal check)
+
+```bash
+git ls-files dotfiles | grep AGENTTRASH         # trash committed inside the tree
+git check-ignore --no-index -v <that path>      # does an ignore rule match it?
+```
+
+`.gitignore` patterns without an interior slash (`.AGENTTRASH/`) match at **any depth**, so
+the rule was fine all along — the file simply entered history *before* the rule existed, and
+an ignore rule never reaches an already-tracked path. Only repair: `git rm --cached <path>`
+plus moving the working copy to the root `.AGENTTRASH/` (never `rm`). `git check-ignore`
+without `--no-index` prints nothing for tracked paths and reads as "not ignored" — that
+false negative is the trap.
+
+## 5. A census number is only valid with its command
+
+If a page prints a classifier command, every number on it must be reproducible by running
+that command. A row that the command does not reproduce was written from memory — wrong, not
+merely stale. Fix the row, and state the correction in the commit message rather than
+silently editing the number.
+
+## Verification before landing
+
+`bats tests/`, `scripts/kb-lint.sh omp-docs`, `scripts/kb-coverage.py omp-docs`, and
+`scripts/deploy.sh --check` **from the worktree** — `--check` is read-only; never run the
+real deploy from a worktree, it repoints live symlinks into the worktree the heartbeat reaps.
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+---
+name: dotfiles-tier-live-audit
+description: "Audit the command-center dotfiles tier before running deploy.sh: prove per-file tracked/deployed state, refuse generated theme output, catch stale zz overrides, wrong-box dconf keys, and unresolvable systemd ExecStart specifiers."
+---
+
+# Deploy-tier audit (`~/.omp` command center)
+
+Run **before** any real `scripts/deploy.sh` on a box with a live session, and whenever a
+symlink, palette, wallpaper or unit behaves oddly. Facts and laws live in
+`omp-docs/tools/dotfiles-deploy.md` + `omp-docs/inventory/home-config-census.md` — this page
+is only the probe order. Do not restate the laws in new files; the vault owns them.
+
+## 0. Classify per file, never per directory
+
+```bash
+cd ~/.omp
+for f in $(git ls-files dotfiles/<pkg>); do t=$(readlink -f "$HOME/${f#dotfiles/<pkg>/}")
+  printf '%-50s %s\n' "${f#dotfiles/<pkg>/}" "$([ -L "$HOME/${f#dotfiles/<pkg>/}" ] && echo LINK || echo real)"
+done
+```
+A live directory can be real and still fully tracked (every file a symlink). `niri` 8/2,
+`gtk-3.0` 3/0. `zz-$HOST` files count in the `zz` tier's row, not the base package's.
+
+## 1. The plan, and how to read it
+
+```bash
+./scripts/deploy.sh --check    # writes nothing; read the last line, not the RELINK lines
+```
+`--check` prints `RELINK` for **every** path the `zz` tier carries even when the live link
+already points at the override (base is walked first, intermediate owner change reported).
+Only `actions=0` is a real summary; confirm a pending change with `readlink`.
+
+## 2. Generated theme output must never be tracked or deployed
+
+```bash
+git ls-files dotfiles | grep -Ei 'noctalia\.(kdl|toml|json|conf|css)|themes/noctalia'
+```
+Hit = generated palette output (same-millisecond mtime cluster proves it). Untrack
+(`git rm --cached` + `.gitignore` patterns); `deploy.sh` refuses the class (`SKIP … generated
+theme output`). Tracking one means the next sync quarantines the user's live palette and
+restores the committed colours.
+
+## 3. Stale `zz` overrides
+
+For each path present in both base and `zz-$HOST`: `diff` them, then compare each file's
+`git log -1 --date=short`. A `zz` copy older than the base change is a time bomb — sync
+relinks cross-package owners **silently** (`nothing to quarantine`). Delete the `zz` copy in
+the same commit that base absorbed.
+
+## 4. dconf: compare key by key, never with `diff`
+
+`dconf load /` writes only keys present, so a text diff misleads both ways. Parse both sides
+into `[section]/key → value` and report: value conflicts, keys the dump would newly write,
+and any value containing `/home/` (foreign-box state). File-chooser `last-folder-path`,
+`window-state`, `picture-uri*` are state, not preferences — delete them from the dump and
+clear the live keys if they were already deployed here.
+
+## 5. Units: state, then resolvability
+
+```bash
+for u in <units in dotfiles/systemd-user>; do printf '%s %s %s\n' "$u" \
+  "$(systemctl --user is-enabled $u)" "$(systemctl --user is-active $u)"; done
+```
+`is-enabled` exits **1** for `linked` exactly as for `disabled` — read the printed word.
+Never start a unit that is already installed: `swayidle-lock` sits `enabled`/`inactive` and
+`--now` arms a screen lock mid-session. Specifiers are systemd's, not the shell's: probe
+`command -v "${bin//%h/$HOME}"` before believing `ExecStart … absent on this host` — the
+literal `%h/…` string made this repo's own heartbeat look foreign on every box.
+
+## 6. Landing it
+
+`bats tests/` (deploy contract runs `scripts/deploy.sh` in a scratch repo with `DEPLOY_REPO`,
+`DEPLOY_HOST`, stub `HOME`, stub `systemctl` on `PATH`) + `scripts/kb-lint.sh omp-docs` +
+`scripts/kb-coverage.py omp-docs`. Branch off `origin/main`, PR, never merge without Frank's
+OK (`gitea-merge-form-encoded`: form-encoded `do=merge`, `merge_style=no-ff`).
+
+Then deploy from the **deployment root** `~/.omp` only — never from a worktree (live symlinks
+would point into a checkout the heartbeat reaps in 7 days). Acceptance: `actions=N
+quarantined=0`, two consecutive `--check` runs both `actions=0`, no `ENABLE … started` for a
+unit that was already installed.
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+---
+name: e2e-port-squat-triage
+description: "When an e2e seam on a fixed port fails weirdly (404s on routes that exist, stale behavior, health probe passes but app seems ancient), audit for leftover dev/debug servers squatting the port before believing any red or green."
+---
+
+# E2E fixed-port squat triage
+
+## Symptom classes (all seen with a stale server squatting the seam's fixed port)
+- Routes that exist in current `dist`/source return 404 ("Cannot POST /api/...") while unit tests through the same app factory pass.
+- A seam that is *green* but exercises old code: its setup curls `http://host:PORT/health` and gets a response from **whoever owns the port** — a leftover server, not the one it just spawned (the spawned one dies or idles with EADDRINUSE, sometimes still showing in `pgrep`).
+- Behavior matches an older build (missing mounts/guards) despite a fresh build step.
+
+## Triage recipe (before touching code)
+1. Who owns the port:
+   ```bash
+   ss -tlnp 2>/dev/null | grep :PORT
+   ```
+2. List every server process with **start times**:
+   ```bash
+   for p in $(pgrep -f "path/to/server-entry"); do ps -o pid,lstart,cmd -p $p --no-headers; done
+   ```
+3. Compare start times against the build artifact timestamps (`ls -la dist/...`). A server older than the dist you just built is a liar — its in-memory modules predate the code under test.
+4. Kill all leftovers, then re-check: `pgrep -f "server-entry" || echo all-dead`.
+5. Rerun the seam. Only now is red/red and green/green meaningful.
+
+## Why it happens
+- `kill %1` in **non-interactive** bash fails silently (no job control) — use explicit PIDs or `pkill -f <pattern>`.
+- Seam setups that "wait for health" cannot distinguish their own server from a squatter on the same port; a pre-flight "port must be free" assertion is the permanent fix (assert *before* spawn).
+
+## Hardening (if you own the seam)
+Add to setup, before spawning: fail fast if the port is already listening — turns the silent liar into a loud error:
+```bash
+ss -tln "sport = :PORT" | grep -q LISTEN && { echo "port PORT busy — kill leftovers first" >&2; return 1; }
+```
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+---
+name: fleet-host-process-service-wiring
+description: "Add a host-process (non-quadlet) systemd USER service/exporter to serverAppConfigs — every file that must change together, with the signal-relay precedent and the Prometheus gateway/LAN reach rules."
+---
+
+A host-process service (runs `python3`/a binary on the host, NOT a container) is the right shape when the thing must read host-only state (DRM/cgroup sysfs, `shells to nvidia-smi`, signal-cli) that a container cannot reach without passthrough. Precedent to mirror: `scripts/signal-relay.{py,service}` + `install_signal_relay` in `deploy-remote.sh`. A new one landed 2026-10-20: `scripts/gpu-exporter.{py,service}` + `deploy_gpu_exporter`.
+
+## The unit is a USER unit, not a quadlet
+- Hand-written `scripts/<svc>.service`: `[Service]` `ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/<svc>.py` (runs straight from the git checkout — a pull updates it, no copy step), `Restart=always`, `[Install] WantedBy=default.target`.
+- It CAN be `systemctl --user enable`-ed (generated quadlet units cannot on this host's podman generator). With `Linger=yes` for `dank`, `[Install]`+`enable` is the whole boot story.
+
+## Every file that MUST change together (a lone change on one side fails silently)
+1. `scripts/<svc>.service` — the unit. Base binds **loopback only**; the LAN address is added by a deploy **drop-in**, so the checked-in unit is never a wildcard.
+2. `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`:
+   - a `deploy_<svc>()` function: `cp` the unit to `~/.config/systemd/user/`, write a `<svc>.service.d/bind.conf` drop-in with the per-host `Environment=..._BINDS=127.0.0.1,<lan>` (map LAN from `$TARGET`: dankclaw=192.168.0.143, dankserver=192.168.0.235 — do NOT hardcode one host if it runs on both), `daemon-reload`, `systemctl --user enable`+`restart`, then a **loop health gate** (`for i in $(seq 1 15); curl -fsS -m5 http://127.0.0.1:<port>/metrics && return; sleep 1`) — a one-shot curl races the bind and once failed a healthy deploy.
+   - a dispatcher branch `<svc>) deploy_<svc> ;;` in the central `case "$service"` (near the observability branch).
+   - an **allowlist entry on EVERY target** it runs on: `dankclaw:<svc>` and/or `dankserver:<svc>` (the allowlist `case` around the top of the file).
+3. `scripts/deploy-plan.py`: add `"<svc>"` to `SERVICE_ORDER`, to `DANKCLAW_SERVICES`/`DANKSERVER_SERVICES` (whichever it runs on), and a `scripts/<svc>.*` path-map in the `parts[0] == "scripts"` block: `if name in {"<svc>.py","<svc>.service"}: _add(services, "<svc>")`. `target_services` then filters per target.
+4. `scripts/test-changed.sh`: a `case` routing `scripts/<svc>.py|scripts/<svc>.service` → its seam + `deployment_scoping.bats` (place before the generic fallbacks). `tests/run.sh` runs all `*.bats` regardless, so the mandatory gate is covered even if this route is missing — but add it for focused runs.
+5. `shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml`: one scrape job per host, using the **reach rules** (below).
+6. Dashboard JSON + the owning page under `serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Observability.md` (one owner per fact).
+
+## Prometheus reach rules (the whole cross-file contract)
+Prometheus is a **bridge container**. On this netavark host a bridge container CANNOT dial the host's own LAN IP at a host-bind (only at a *published* port). Therefore:
+- **Same host (Dankclaw):** scrape `host.containers.internal:<port>` (netavark delivers it to the host LAN bind). Scraping `192.168.0.143:<port>` reads DOWN forever even though the endpoint is healthy.
+- **Different host (Dankserver):** plain LAN `192.168.0.235:<port>` reaches it.
+- Never target a `*.franksdank.cloud` vhost — Prometheus cannot solve an Anubis challenge; it is red by construction.
+- The exporter must bind BOTH loopback and the host LAN (like `node-exporter`/`cadvisor`), so `host.containers.internal` and the LAN both land.
+
+## Firewall
+Leave it LAN-open like node-exporter/cadvisor (unauthenticated metrics on the LAN is the repo's exporter posture). Only signal-relay gets an iptables allowlist (loopback+host+`10.89.0.0/16`+DROP) because it is an unauthenticated message-SENDING webhook — do not copy that lock onto a read-only exporter.
+
+## Seam test (tests/<svc>.bats) pattern
+- Black-box the binary with injectable inputs (fixture dirs / stub commands), assert only consumer-visible output; assert **absent means absent** (anchor guards to a sample line `^metric{`, not the always-emitted `# TYPE` header — grepping the bare family name matches the header and false-fails).
+- Cross-file contracts (grep the other files): the unit's `ExecStart`/bind posture, the deploy function + allowlist + dispatch + health gate, the planner selection (run `deploy-plan.py --target T --paths scripts/<svc>.py`, assert output == `<svc>` per target), the prometheus targets, the dashboard `json.load` + that its `targets[].expr` reference the emitted families.
+
+## Gotchas hit while building gpu-exporter
+- Values are float-normalised (`397.40`→`397.4`); a test pinning the literal fails — assert the normalised value. Derive expected byte counts from real units (MiB×1048576, sysfs µW/1e6, temp1_input/1000), don't guess the multiply.
+- `xdg-open <PR-URL>` after opening the PR (repo law) — don't make Frank hunt in Gitea.
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+name: frank-tts-repoint-voice-consumers
+description: "Rotate/rename a frank-tts voice across all consumers (repo DEFAULT_VOICE, Open Notebook speaker profiles over REST, docs) after packs change."
+---
+
+## When
+frank-tts voice packs on `/home/dank/voices` (Dankclaw) changed — packs added, removed, or renamed — and old voice names (e.g. `narrator1/2/3`) no longer resolve. Consumers still sending a dead name now 400 with `unknown voice 'x'; available voices: ...`. This is a maintenance sweep, NOT a bug; confirm with the operator whether the change is intentional before "fixing".
+
+## Facts that make this non-obvious
+- frank-tts (:7772) resolves a voice as a **directory**: `<name>/reference.wav` must exist. `model` field is ignored; the voice comes solely from `voice`/`voice_id`.
+- Live census: `curl -s http://127.0.0.1:7772/v1/audio/voices` (and `/health` returns the same list). This is the truth; the vault docs may be stale.
+- Two consumers carry voice names, in **different stores**:
+  - **repo**: `scripts/frank-tts.env` `DEFAULT_VOICE=` — answers a voice-less request (the omp harness's normal shape). Deploy via git.
+  - **app-side**: Open Notebook speaker profiles (SurrealDB) and OpenWebUI `audio.tts` voice — NOT repo files.
+
+## Step 1 — repo: DEFAULT_VOICE
+Edit `scripts/frank-tts.env` `DEFAULT_VOICE=<new real voice>`. Trunk-based: this worktree can't `git checkout -b` (shared-workspace policy); commit on HEAD and `git push origin HEAD:refs/heads/<branch>`, open PR vs `main`. No bats test pins the DEFAULT_VOICE value (the tts bats use `narrator1` as a self-contained fixture that builds its own `reference.wav` — mechanism test, leave it).
+
+## Step 2 — Open Notebook speaker profiles (REST, host-side, takes effect immediately)
+Voice ID is **free text passed to the TTS request untouched** (no enum/whitelist). The active fleet profile is `dank-duo` (episode profile `dank-daily` → speaker_config). PW is the host `OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD`.
+
+```bash
+ssh dankclaw bash -s <<'REMOTE'
+PW=$(grep -m1 '^OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD=' /home/dank/Containers/open-notebook/env | cut -d= -f2- | tr -d '"')
+cfg=$(mktemp); chmod 600 "$cfg"; printf 'header = "Authorization: Bearer %s"\n' "$PW" > "$cfg"
+base=http://127.0.0.1:5056/api/speaker-profiles
+# census: name -> speaker/voice_id
+curl -s -K "$cfg" "$base" | jq -c '.[]|{name,speakers:[.speakers[]|{name,voice_id}]}'
+# repoint by NAME (GET-by-name returns full record incl id; PUT whole transformed object to /{id})
+curl -s -K "$cfg" "$base/dank-duo" > /tmp/s.json
+id=$(jq -r .id /tmp/s.json)
+jq '(.speakers[].voice_id) |= ({"OLD1":"NEW1","OLD2":"NEW2"}[.] // .)' /tmp/s.json > /tmp/s2.json
+curl -s -K "$cfg" -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @/tmp/s2.json "$base/$id" -w ' HTTP %{http_code}\n'
+curl -s -K "$cfg" "$base/dank-duo" | jq -c '[.speakers[]|{name,voice_id}]'   # verify
+rm -f "$cfg" /tmp/s.json /tmp/s2.json
+REMOTE
+```
+- A duo has only 2 speakers — an extra voice is available-but-unassigned, not missing.
+- Upstream's seeded profiles (`business_panel`, `solo_expert`, `tech_experts`) use OpenAI names + `voice_model:null`; they aren't wired to frank-tts — leave them.
+
+## Step 3 — OpenWebUI (check before touching)
+`curl -s http://127.0.0.1:<webui-port>/api/config | jq '.audio.tts'` (port from `podman ps`). If `engine`/`openai.*` are null, the active path is `browser-kokoro` (synthesizes in-browser) and the stored voice is **dormant, not broken** — flag, don't edit a live UI unasked.
+
+## Step 4 — docs (point of use, one owner)
+Update the census + speaker-mapping lines in `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Frank TTS.md` and `Open Notebook.md` to the live packs. Leave DATED measurement logs (e.g. a `2026-10-19` `/health` probe) as history. Do NOT chase `scripts/voice-packs.env` / `Voice Packs.md` narrator builder defs — ask the operator whether those packs are being rebuilt or retired.
+
+## Verify (behavior, not config text)
+Synthesize each new voice and expect 200 + distinct bytes:
+```bash
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{size_download}B\n' -X POST http://127.0.0.1:7772/v1/audio/speech \
+  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"model":"voxcpm2","input":"test","voice":"<name>"}'
+```
+`tests/run.sh` EXIT=0 before commit. `DEFAULT_VOICE` only lands after merge + `./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --service frank-tts`; run that from the dev `main` checkout (`/home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig`), NOT the agent worktree (deploy.sh refuses a non-`main` branch and pushes `main` forward — it must run on the dev box, not the target).
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+name: frank-tts-voice-locate
+description: "Answer fleet-voice questions (where voices are stored, add a voice) by jumping straight to the serverAppConfig vault pages and the live 7772 roster probe, instead of re-searching Gitea for a frank-tts repo that does not exist."
+---
+
+# Frank-TTS voice facts: skip the search, go to the owners
+
+Questions like "how do I add a voice?", "where are voices stored?", "why is narratorN missing?" are already answered elsewhere. The frank-tts code does NOT live in a Gitea repo named frank-tts (repo search finds nothing; it is `dank/serverAppConfigs`), and the engine repo is upstream qwentts.cpp pinned at `5916bf7c`.
+
+## Resolution order (one grep, no repo search)
+
+1. **Vault pages (canonical, all of it lives here)** in the local checkout `~/Projects/serverAppConfig`:
+   - `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Voice Packs.md` — pack anatomy, the builder, the 10-second source invariant, "Adding a fourth voice" steps, engine-bump arithmetic.
+   - `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Frank TTS Engine.md` — registry law (memory-only; warm hook), routes, Vulkan device law, troubleshooting table.
+   - `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Frank TTS.md` — the 7772 facade contract.
+   - Code/seam: `dankclaw/voiceservice/`, `scripts/build-voice-pack.sh`, `scripts/voice-packs.env`, `tests/voice_pack_unit.bats`.
+2. **Live roster** (authoritative over any doc census): `curl -s http://192.168.0.143:7772/v1/audio/voices` (bare JSON array; `/health` also echoes `voices`). A missing name = its dir lacks `reference.wav` or the name is not lowercase — check `/home/dank/voices/<name>/` via `ssh dankclaw`.
+
+## Facts that cost turns to re-derive
+
+- Voice storage: `/home/dank/voices/<name>/` on Dankclaw (host state, never git; RO mount at `/voices`). Files: `reference.wav` (24 kHz mono, 18–25 s, existence gate), `reference.spk` (8192 B), `reference.rvq` (5456–6864 B), `manifest.json`.
+- Roster = facade directory scan; engine registry is in-memory, filled by `podman exec frank-tts-engine /app/warm-voices.sh` (boot `ExecStartPost`; re-register replaces, restart costs 6–8 s/voice).
+- Clients (omp-dankvoice, OpenWebUI) store NO voices — they GET `/v1/audio/voices`; only the chosen name persists client-side (`~/.omp/cache/dankvoice.json` `voice`).
+- Crop law: past first 10 s (hard invariant), 20–25 s preferred, floor 19.84 s for `.rvq`; sources pinned by sha256 in `scripts/voice-packs.env`; sample media live on workstations (`/home/blank/audiosample*`) and must be copied to `/home/dank/voice-sources` before a build.
+- Engine `GET /v1/audio/voices` returns `{}` at the pinned commit — always ask the 7772 facade, never 8880, for the list.
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+---
+name: frank-tts-voice-pack-audit
+description: Census live frank-tts voice packs against scripts/voice-packs.env to catch name-drift (renamed/retired packs) and untracked CLI-built packs; use after any voice add/rename when reconciling the builder recipe with what is actually on disk.
+---
+
+# frank-tts voice-pack audit (builder ↔ live census)
+
+Read-only census answering: *does `scripts/voice-packs.env` still describe the packs that actually exist, and is every live pack reproducible from the repo?* Run it after anyone adds or renames a voice. The runtime being healthy (all voices synthesize) does NOT mean the builder is honest — the gap is reproducibility, not serving.
+
+## Why this exists
+Packs are host state under `/home/dank/voices` (never in git). A voice can be:
+- **built by the env** (a `VOICE_PACK_<NAME>_*` block exists), or
+- **built by CLI override** (`build-voice-pack.sh <name> <dir> --source --offset --duration --sha256` with NO env block) — then its only provenance is `/home/dank/voices/<name>/manifest.json`, and `--all` silently skips it.
+
+Renaming a pack directory (e.g. `narrator1` → `wilwheaton`) preserves the crop bytes and its source sha256, so the env recipe stays *correct but keyed under a dead name*. `build-voice-pack.sh --all` then rebuilds the dead names and skips the live ones.
+
+## Procedure (on Dankclaw)
+
+1. **Live set + which builder made each** — the manifest `kind` field tells them apart:
+   - `kind: "voice-pack"` → built by `scripts/build-voice-pack.sh` (env or CLI override).
+   - `kind: "voice-reference-pack"` → the older trial `pipeline.sh`.
+   ```
+   for d in /home/dank/voices/*/; do n=$(basename "$d"); [ -f "$d/reference.wav" ] \
+     && printf '%-16s %8sB  %s\n' "$n" "$(stat -c%s "$d/reference.wav")" "$(stat -c %y "$d/reference.wav" | cut -d. -f1)"; done
+   ```
+2. **Per-voice provenance** — `manifest.json` is the sole record for CLI-built packs. Read `name/voice`, `kind`, `source.path`, `source.sha256`, `crop.offset_seconds`, `crop.duration_seconds`. Use `python3 -c 'import json,...'`, NOT a `jq '{a,b,c}'` object — the brace form gets brace-expanded by the remote zsh and errors.
+3. **Builder tracked list**:
+   ```
+   grep -E '^VOICE_PACKS=|^VOICE_PACK_[A-Z0-9_]+_(SOURCE|OFFSET|DURATION|SHA256)=' /home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/voice-packs.env
+   ```
+   Diff the names in `VOICE_PACKS` against the live dirs. Three findings to report:
+   - env keys that have **no live dir** (renamed/retired),
+   - live dirs with **no env block** (CLI-built, unreproducible from repo),
+   - matching source **sha256** between a dead env key and a live dir = that live pack is the renamed crop (safe to re-key the env, don't recompute).
+4. **Distinguish CLI-built from uncommitted env drift** — check the deployed env matches the repo:
+   ```
+   cd /home/dank/serverAppConfigs && git diff --stat HEAD -- scripts/voice-packs.env   # empty = no drift
+   ```
+   Empty diff + a `kind: "voice-pack"` manifest with no env block ⇒ built via CLI overrides (correct, just untracked), NOT a rogue remote edit.
+
+## Repoint the consumers (separate concern)
+If voices were renamed/retired, the runtime consumers still point at dead names — see the `frank-tts-repoint-voice-consumers` skill. Consumers that name a voice: `scripts/frank-tts.env` `DEFAULT_VOICE`, Open Notebook `dank-duo` speaker profile (`voice_id`, app-side REST), OpenWebUI `audio.tts.voice` (config DB). A voice-less request to frank-tts 400s naming `DEFAULT_VOICE`, so a dead default is a live break, not just cosmetic.
+
+## Gotchas
+- **A published port is reachable at `host.containers.internal` too.** OpenWebUI's docs say use the LAN IP because that name "doesn't resolve on the bridge" — true only for *non-published* ports. frank-tts 7772 IS published, so `host.containers.internal:7772` answers 200 from the open-webui container. Verify before calling a URL the cause; the real break is usually the dead voice name.
+- **Source custody is split**: `audiosample*.mp3/m4b` live on the workstation (`/home/blank`), newer sources on Dankclaw (`/home/dank/voice-sources`). `--all` is only reproducible once each env SOURCE path points at where the file actually is.
+- Do NOT edit `voice-packs.env` to add CLI-built voices without confirming each source path + offset + sha against its manifest, then run `./tests/run.sh` (the pack-list invariant in `voice_pack_unit.bats` walks `VOICE_PACKS`).
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+---
+name: franksign-demo-inspection-stack
+description: "Boot franksign's prod-shaped stack, seed all assignment lifecycle states through the real API, and open a headed inspection tour (platform + storybook) without squatting the e2e port."
+---
+
+Visual-inspection recipe for the franksign repo (Dank boxes). Proven 2026-10-20; use when asked to "show/open the platform" or tour a new slice.
+
+## Boot (do NOT squat :3100 — the e2e seam curls whoever owns that port)
+```bash
+node --env-file=.env apps/api/dist/cli.js        # binds :3000 by default; use named service
+cd apps/web/storybook-static && python3 -m http.server 6007   # gate seam 12 already built it
+curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3000/health              # {"status":"ok","db":"up"}
+```
+
+## Seed lifecycle states through the real API (cookie jar, NOT bearer)
+better-auth sign-up returns a bearer `token`, but the org routes resolve sessions
+from **cookies only** (`Authorization: Bearer …` → get-session null → 401). Use
+`-c /tmp/jar` at sign-up and `-b /tmp/jar` after; state-changing calls need an
+`origin:` header. Keep auth headers out of argv via `curl -K <file>`.
+
+1. `POST /api/auth/sign-up/email` `{"email","password"(>=8 chars),"name"}` → save cookies (`-c`)
+2. `POST /api/orgs` `{"name"}` → `org.id`
+3. `POST /api/orgs/:org/templates` `{"name","baseTemplateId":"sample"}` → `template.id`
+4. `POST /api/orgs/:org/templates/:tpl/assignments` `{"email"}` → `{token, signUrl}` (repeat per demo signer)
+5. signed state: `POST /api/releases/:token` `{"values":{"name":…,"date":…,"agreement":true},"signatureName":…}` — no auth needed (token seam)
+6. voided state: `POST /api/orgs/:org/assignments/:assignmentId/void` (cookie session)
+Remaining pending assignment → three inspectable pages: `/app/sign/:token` renders form / already-signed / cancelled.
+
+## Byte-identity spot check (reconstruction contract, issue #18)
+Fetch `GET /api/releases/:token/pdf` twice with `sleep 1.5` **between** fetches
+and sha256-compare, plus the org door `GET /api/orgs/:org/assignments/:aid/pdf`
+(cookie jar). Same-second-only comparisons are blind to clock leaks
+(pdf-lib's `PDFDocument.load` restamps `/ModDate` unless `updateMetadata:false`).
+To see printed text: inflate the content streams and unescape `\(`, `\)` —
+pdf-lib writes hex-string `Tj` operands.
+
+## Inspection browser (managed Chromium via browser eval)
+- `viewport` must be `{width, height}` — string fails
+- `tab.waitFor(ms)` does NOT exist (ms is parsed as selector) → `await Bun.sleep(900)`
+- open with `headed: true, persist: true`; window lands on the desktop — confirm with `niri msg windows | grep -i chrome`
+
+## Teardown (hard gate hazard)
+A live demo API on :3000 **hangs the full `tests/run.sh` gate for ~10 minutes**
+(observed 2026-10-21: >600s kill with the service up; 14/14 in ~15s without
+it). Always `proc://franksign-demo-api/kill` BEFORE running the gate; verify
+`pgrep -f apps/api/dist/cli.js` is empty so the next `tests/run.sh` e2e seam
+owns :3100 honestly.
+
+## Adjacent Gitea quirk (same fleet)
+Closing an issue/PR: `PATCH {"state":"closed"}` → 201; `POST` → 405. Merging needs form-encoded lowercase `do=merge` (see gitea-merge-form-encoded). Label assignment: `PATCH /issues/N` with `labels:[id]` silently clears labels — use `POST /issues/N/labels` `{"labels":[id]}`.
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+---
+name: git-secret-gate-hook
+description: "Write a fail-closed pre-commit secret-gate hook (staged-content scan) with the grep/ERE traps that kill naive versions, plus its bats fixture test."
+---
+
+# Git secret-gate pre-commit hook
+
+Use when a repo promises a "pre-commit secret gate" but none exists, or when porting the gate to another dank repo. Ships with three traps already paid for.
+
+## Shape
+
+- Track the hook at `hooks/pre-commit` (chmod +x). Git never self-installs hooks — wire per clone:
+  `git config core.hooksPath hooks` — run it in the MAIN checkout once; `core.hooksPath` lives in the
+  **common** git dir config, so every linked worktree inherits it.
+- Do NOT put `hooks` in `package.json` `files` — an installed plugin under node_modules never runs git.
+- Scan **staged** content (`git show ":$f"`), not the working tree: that is what lands in history.
+- Denylist by path (README, docs/, tests/, `.env.example`) — files whose job is naming secrets or holding
+  fixture dummies produce theatre, not safety.
+- Never echo the matched secret; print file + line number only.
+- Red-first test: fixture repo + `cp` the real hook in + `git config core.hooksPath hooks`, then drive
+  REAL `git commit` attempts: credential-shaped file must exit non-zero AND `git log` must show no new
+  commit (block, not warn); clean commit passes; hook must survive committing itself.
+
+## The three traps (each cost a red test)
+
+1. **`--` is a ONE-SHOT end-of-options marker.** `grep -nE -- 'p1' -- 'p2'` treats everything after the
+   first `--` as FILE NAMES: `grep: --: No such file or directory`, rc=2. Multi-pattern = repeat `-e`:
+   `grep -nE -e 'p1' -e 'p2'`.
+2. **`if hits=$(grep ...)` is fail-OPEN on rc>=2** (rc=2 is truthy, hits empty). Capture `rc=$?`
+   explicitly: `rc>=2` must BLOCK with "pattern error, refusing to pass unchecked" — a gate whose regex
+   silently dies is worse than none.
+3. **POSIX ERE (`grep -E`) gotchas:** no `(?:...)` groups (use plain `(...)`); a `[:-]` inside a bracket
+   starts a collating element `[:` and dies with "repetition-operator operand invalid" — put `-` FIRST
+   in every class (`[-A-Za-z0-9/+=_.:+]`). Also `-----BEGIN` literals: prefer printf-safe fixtures in tests.
+
+## Pattern set (shapes, not entropy — say so in the header comment)
+
+```
+-----BEGIN[ A-Z0-9]*(OPENSSH|RSA|DSA|EC|PGP)? ?PRIVATE KEY-----
+AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}
+gh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}|github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{50,}
+xox[baprs]-[A-Za-z0-9-]{10,}
+https://hooks\.slack\.com/services/[A-Za-z0-9/]+
+(aws_secret_access_key|secret(_access)?_key|(api|access|auth)[_-]?key|[a-z_]*token|passwd|password|credential)[[:space:]"']?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*["']?[-A-Za-z0-9/+=_.:+]{16,}
+(Bearer|token|authorization)[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*["']?[-A-Za-z0-9._+/]{20,}
+```
+
+## Test fixture hygiene
+
+Fake secrets must be inert (RFC 2606 domains, all-zero ids, `AKIA0000000000000EXAMPLE`) AND must not
+match the hook's own self-scan. Single quotes in ERE patterns: write `'"'"'`.
+
+## Wiring gotcha (dank worktree policy)
+
+Set `core.hooksPath` AFTER the merge that lands `hooks/` into main — with the config set but the path
+missing, git fails every commit in worktrees lacking `hooks/` ("cannot run hooks/pre-commit: No such
+file or directory"). Order: merge -> land -> `git config core.hooksPath hooks` from main checkout.
+
+Reference implementation: `dank/dankvoice` `hooks/pre-commit` (PR #19), pinned by `tests/gate.bats`.
@@ -1,21 +1,27 @@
 ---
 name: gitea-api-pr-operations
-description: "\"Open, list, merge, and diagnose issues/PRs on the Dankclaw Gitea API (192.168.0.143:3000, repo dank/command-center) with the token stored in ~/.config/secrets/gitea — incl. the required merge payload, where review comments actually live on 1.27.3, and how to recover the session id for the mandatory body footer.\""
+description: "\"Open, list, merge, and diagnose issues/PRs and manage labels on the Dankclaw Gitea API (192.168.0.143:3000) with the token stored in ~/.config/secrets/gitea — incl. the token-only write auth (Basic reads but 422s on POST/PATCH), the required merge payload, where review comments actually live on 1.27.3, and how to recover the session id for the mandatory body footer.\""
 ---

-# Gitea API PR operations (Dankclaw `dank/command-center`)
+# Gitea API operations (Dankclaw `dank/command-center`, `dank/serverAppConfigs`)

 ## Where
- Token: `~/.config/secrets/gitea` (`http://user:TOKEN@192.168.0.143` single line).
+- Token: `~/.config/secrets/gitea` (`http://user:TOKEN@192.168.0.143` single line — git-credential URL form, NOT `username=`/`password=` lines).
  Extract WITHOUT echoing:
  `tok=$(sed -nE 's#^http://[^:/@]+:([^@]+)@192\.168\.0\.143.*#\1#p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)`
 - Build a 600-perm temp curl config and use `curl -K`:
  `cfg=$(mktemp) && chmod 600 "$cfg" && printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$tok" > "$cfg"`
  Delete `$cfg` after use. NEVER pass `-H "Authorization: token $tok"` (the literal
  header lands in transcript + logs). NEVER echo the token.
- Base URL: `http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/command-center`.
+- Base URL: `http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/<repo>`.

-## Recipes (all verified live 2026-10-18)
+## Auth: reads tolerate Basic, writes DO NOT (measured 2026-10-20)
+GETs succeed with an HTTP Basic header built from the same credential, but every
+POST/PATCH/DELETE with Basic returns `407/422 {"message":"token is required"}`.
+Always use the `Authorization: token <tok>` header for everything — never debug
+"permissions" when the header shape is the fault.
+
+## Recipes (all verified live)
 - **Open PR** (token only needed for private repos; this one reads publicly but
  POST needs auth): `POST /pulls` JSON `{title, head, base:"main", body}`.
 - **PATCH PR title/body**: `PATCH /pulls/<n>` with JSON body `{title}` and/or
@@ -36,6 +42,12 @@ description: "\"Open, list, merge, and diagnose issues/PRs on the Dankclaw Gitea
  merge --ff-only origin/main` propagates the live deployment.
 - **Issues**: same shape at `/issues` (`POST {title, body}`), `/issues/<n>/comments`
  (`POST {body}`, `PATCH .../comments/<id>`) — both work with the temp-cfg auth.
+- **Labels**: `GET /labels` (list incl. numeric `id`); `POST /labels`
+  `{"name":"<name>","color":"#rrggbb"}` to create; attach by ID with
+  `POST /issues/<n>/labels {"labels":[<id>,...]}` (names are rejected);
+  detach with `DELETE /issues/<n>/labels/<id>`. serverAppConfigs gained
+  needs-triage / needs-info / ready-for-agent / ready-for-human / wontfix
+  (2026-10-20) alongside the older `human-only`.

 ## Review comments: the API lies on 1.27.3 (learned 2026-10-18)
 - `GET /pulls/<n>/comments` (inline review comments) → **404 `not found` on every
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+---
+name: gitea-credential-store-url-format
+description: "Auth to the Dankclaw Gitea API without the empty-header trap: ~/.config/secrets/gitea is a git-credential-store URL file, so awk '/^password=/' returns empty; resolve the token via git credential fill, and Gitea writes need Authorization: token (reads pass anonymously on a public repo)."
+---
+
+# Gitea auth on Dankclaw: the URL-format credential store
+
+`~/.config/secrets/gitea` is `git config credential.helper = store --file ~/.config/secrets/gitea`, i.e. a **git-credential-store URL file**:
+
+```
+http://dank:<40hex-token>@192.168.0.143:3000
+```
+
+It does NOT contain `username=`/`password=` lines. So:
+
+```bash
+# WRONG — silently returns empty string
+p=$(awk -F= '/^password=/{print substr($0,10)}' ~/.config/secrets/gitea)
+```
+
+An empty `$p` makes every curl send `Authorization: token ` (blank) → Gitea replies `{"message":"token is required"}` on **writes**, while **reads still return 200** (the repo is public-readable, so a green `GET /labels` or `/issues` proves nothing about auth). Symptom: PR-create returns `token is required` even though a `GET` just "worked".
+
+## Resolve the real token via git
+
+```bash
+p=$(printf 'protocol=http\nhost=192.168.0.143:3000\n\n' \
+     | git credential fill 2>/dev/null \
+     | awk -F= '/^password=/{print substr($0,10)}')   # 40-hex token
+```
+
+## Write auth = token scheme, via a 600-perm -K file
+
+```bash
+cfg=$(mktemp); chmod 600 "$cfg"
+printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$p" > "$cfg"
+curl -s -K "$cfg" http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/user   # confirms identity
+curl -s -K "$cfg" -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @body.json "$API/pulls"
+```
+
+- Never pass the token with `-H` — it lands in `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`, world-readable.
+- Confirm identity with `GET /user` before trusting a write path; a `token is required` there means the token never authenticated.
+- Merges are a separate shape (form-encoded `do=merge`, auth-only cfg, NO `Content-Type` header) — see the gitea-merge-form-encoded skill.
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+name: gitea-issue-labels-and-pr-curl-traps
+description: "Dankclaw Gitea API curl traps: PR create needs Content-Type application/json (fake \"[Head]: Required\"), issue labels only via POST /issues/N/labels (PATCH labels silently dropped), token from URL-format secret file."
+---
+
+Operate Dankclaw Gitea (`http://192.168.0.143:3000`, repo `dank/franksign` and siblings) with curl without the three traps that produce misleading errors.
+
+## Token extraction (URL-format store, NOT key=value)
+
+`~/.config/secrets/gitea` is one line: `http://user:TOKEN@192.168.0.143:3000`. `cat`-ing it yields the whole URL, not the token.
+
+```bash
+TOK=$(sed -n 's|.*://[^:]*:\([^@]*\)@.*|\1|p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)
+```
+
+Never pass the token as a `-H` argument (world-readable in `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`). Write a 600-perm curl config:
+
+```bash
+printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$TOK" > /tmp/g.cfg
+```
+
+## Trap 1 — PR create answers `"[Head]: Required"` when the body is the problem
+
+Two independent causes, both look like a missing field:
+
+1. No `Content-Type: application/json` header → Gitea parses the raw JSON as form data, sees no `head`, returns 422 `[Head]: Required`.
+2. Putting `data = "@/tmp/body.json"` inside a `-K` curl config does **not** expand the `@`.
+
+Fix: add `header = "Content-Type: application/json"` to the config and pass `--data @/tmp/body.json` on the command line:
+
+```bash
+curl -s -K /tmp/g.cfg -X POST --data @/tmp/pr.json \
+  "http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/franksign/pulls"
+```
+
+## Trap 2 — issue label assignment via PATCH /issues/N is silently dropped
+
+`PATCH /api/v1/repos/{o}/{r}/issues/{n}` with `{"labels":[id]}` returns **200/201 with the issue JSON**, yet a follow-up GET shows `labels: []` (it can even clear existing labels). Labels are a subresource:
+
+```bash
+curl -s -K /tmp/g.cfg -X POST --data '{"labels":[4]}' \
+  "http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/franksign/issues/18/labels"
+```
+
+200 returns the assigned label array. Resolve label names→ids via `GET /repos/{o}/{r}/labels` (franksign canonical five: ids 2–6; `ready-for-agent` = 4).
+
+## Verification law
+
+Both traps fail *successfully*. After any label/PR write, GET the resource and check the field changed; never trust the status code alone.
+
+## Cleanup
+
+`rm -f` the temp config + body files (config holds the token).
@@ -1,75 +1,26 @@
 ---
 name: gitea-merge-form-encoded
-description: "Use when a Gitea API merge on Dankclaw (192.168.0.143:3000) returns HTTP 422 \"[Do]: Required\" or 405 \"Please try again later\" — the merge endpoint needs form-encoded fields with the lowercase field name do, and a behind-main branch must be merged forward before it will merge."
+description: "Merge a Dankclaw Gitea PR with form-encoded do=merge — and the two body failures: 422 [Do]: Required (JSON body) and jsontext invalid character 'd' (form body with Content-Type: application/json header)."
 ---

-Gitea on Dankclaw (192.168.0.143:3000) — merge quirks, measured 2026-10-19 on `dank/serverAppConfigs` and again on `dank/dankvoice`, re-earned the same day on serverAppConfigs PR #27.
+# Gitea merge on Dankclaw: form-encoded, and nothing else

-## 1. The payload: form-encoded, lowercase `do`
+`POST /api/v1/repos/<owner>/<repo>/pulls/<n>/merge` with `-d 'do=merge&merge_style=no-ff'`.

-Creating a PR accepts a JSON body. **Merging does not**: `POST /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{n}/merge` with a JSON body (`{"merge_style":"no-ff", ...}`) or with those values as request headers returns `422 {"message":"[Do]: Required"}` — four variants of that all fail identically, so do not "fix" it by changing the style name or moving the headers around.
+## The two body failures

-**The field name is lowercase `do`.** `--data-urlencode 'Do=merge'` (capital D, which the error message spells) returns the same `422 [Do]: Required`. Do not retry with case variants — the web-UI form field is `do`.
+1. **JSON body** → `422 {"message":"[Do]: Required"}`. The endpoint reads FORM fields, not JSON.
+2. **Form body but a `Content-Type: application/json` header** (e.g. left over in the curl `-K` config file from an earlier PR-body PATCH on the same request setup) → `422 {"message":"[]: jsontext: invalid character 'd' at start of value"}` — Gitea tries to parse `do=merge...` as JSON.

-Working call (form-encoded):
+## Working pattern

-```bash
-tok=$(sed -n 's|^https\{0,1\}://[^:]*:\([^@]*\)@192\.168\.0\.143.*$|\1|p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)   # git credential.helper store file
-curl -sS -X POST -w 'http %{http_code}\n' -K <(printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$tok") \
-  --data-urlencode 'do=merge' \
-  --data-urlencode 'merge_style=no-ff' \
-  http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/<repo>/pulls/<N>/merge
-# 200 with an empty body == merged
+Keep TWO curl config files when a session both patches PR bodies (JSON) and merges (form):
 ```
-
- `merge_style` values are the dashed names: `no-ff`, `merge`, `rebase`, `squash`.
- Keep the token out of argv: `-K <(printf …)` feeds the `Authorization` header through stdin (a `-H "Authorization: token …"` lands in `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`, world-readable — the 2026-09-16 HF-token leak class).
- Verify by fast-forwarding a checkout (`git fetch && git merge --ff-only origin/main`) rather than re-reading the PR.
- Fleet law still applies: never merge without an explicit current OK from Frank, and open the PR URL in his browser (`xdg-open`) the moment it exists.
-
-## 2. `405 {"message":"Please try again later"}` = the branch is behind main
-
-A correctly formed merge call returns **405**, not 422, when Gitea cannot test-merge the head into the base. Read it as "merge main forward", not "retry later" — no sleep-retry ever clears it.
-
-Confirm first: `GET /pulls/{n}` shows `"mergeable": false` (and `merged: false`, `state: open`) for exactly this state.
-
-The fix is the repo's own trunk-based law — merge forward, never rebase:
-
-```bash
-git worktree add ../wt-prN -B prN <head-branch>
-cd ../wt-prN && git merge --no-edit origin/main      # resolve, see below
-./tests/run.sh                                       # the seam is the arbiter, run it on the RESOLVED tree
-git push -q origin prN:refs/heads/<head-branch>      # same branch name; Gitea reuses the open PR
-# then re-POST the merge — 200 this time
+# merge.cfg — auth ONLY, no Content-Type
+header = "Authorization: token $TOKEN"
 ```
+`curl -s -K merge.cfg -X POST -d 'do=merge&merge_style=no-ff' http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/<o>/<r>/pulls/<n>/merge`

-Notes earned on PR #27 (2026-10-19):
-
- A `git worktree` per PR keeps the deployed checkout untouched; clean up with `git worktree remove --force ../wt-prN && git branch -D prN`.
- `git status --short` during a merge lists every incoming file as staged — that is the merge commit's content, not a dirty tree.
- Push a local branch to the PR's branch name with an explicit refspec (`prN:refs/heads/docs/…`); the push output prints `Visit the existing pull request`, which is how you confirm you hit the right head.
- Gitea needs a few seconds after the push to recompute mergeability; a `sleep 3` before re-POSTing avoids a second 405.
-
-## 3. Resolving vault conflicts against a compaction wave
-
-When main has run a docs compaction (page deletions, description shortening), two conflict shapes recur:
-
- **`description:`** — `scripts/check-okf.py` enforces **DESC: ≤ 120 chars**. A branch's longer description must be shortened, not argued for; keep main's shape and fold the new topic into the wording.
- **A `[[Page]]` link whose target page main destroyed** — `git ls-tree -r --name-only origin/main -- serverAppConfigs-docs | grep -i '<page>'` settles it. Drop the dead link; do not resurrect a page. Compaction left link-stripped stub bullets behind (`-  the compile fix for …`, dash + two spaces): `git grep -nE '^-  [A-Z]' origin/main -- 'serverAppConfigs-docs/**/*.md'` counts them, and the seam cannot see them because a stub is no longer a link to validate.
-
-After any frontmatter change, regenerate: `./scripts/gen-vault-index.py serverAppConfigs-docs` and commit the index rows — the `vault indices are generated, not hand-carried` seam diffs regeneration against the checkout. The sub-index sync can emit one extra space after `|` for a quoted description; commit what the generator emits, since the seam compares against the generator.
-
-## Credential-store token extraction (same file, adjacent trap)
-
-`~/.config/secrets/gitea` holds one line shaped `http://user:token@192.168.0.143:3000`. Splitting it with `awk -F'/'` puts the host in `$3`, not `$2`, and `awk -F'/' '{print $NF}'` yields the host+path, not the token — an empty/garbage token makes **private repos answer `404 not found`** (Gitea hides them from anonymous), which reads like a wrong URL rather than an auth failure. Extract with:
-
-```bash
-tok=$(sed -n 's|^https\{0,1\}://[^:]*:\([^@]*\)@192\.168\.0\.143.*$|\1|p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)
-echo "token length: ${#tok}"   # 40 — print the length, never the value
-```
-
-Other API quirks measured the same day:
-
- `GET /pulls?state=open` can return an error object where `state=all` returns the list; `state=all` list entries may omit `head`/`base` — fetch `/pulls/{n}` for those.
- POST `/pulls` for a head/base pair that already has a PR → `409` naming `issue_id: N`; the PR number is that `issue_id`, so PATCH it instead of POSTing again.
- Issues and PRs share the issue index per repo, so `#36`-style numbers are repo-scoped: a footer fix aimed at `dank/command-center#36` 404s when pointed at `dank/dankvoice`.
+- Success = **HTTP 200 with an empty body**; verify by landing a checkout (`git ls-remote origin main`), never by re-reading the PR.
+- PATCH `/pulls/<n>` (title/body) is the opposite: JSON body WITH the Content-Type header.
+- Token from `~/.config/secrets/gitea` via a 600-perm `-K` file, never `-H` (`/proc/<pid>/cmdline` is world-readable).
@@ -1,30 +1,36 @@
 ---
 name: gitea-pr-api-cycle
-description: "\"Open/update/merge PRs and issues on the Dankclaw Gitea API (192.168.0.143:3000) with the token-safe sequence, the form-encoded merge field, the empty-token-returns-404 trap, and post-merge live-checkout fast-forward plus the plugin-package-name upgrade gotcha.\""
+description: "\"Open/update/comment/merge PRs and issues on the Dankclaw Gitea API (192.168.0.143:3000) with the token-safe sequence (POST /pulls rejects Basic with 'token is required'), numeric label ids, the form-encoded merge field, the async 405 'try again later' merge trap, the empty-token-returns-404 trap, and post-merge live-checkout fast-forward plus the plugin-package-name upgrade gotcha.\""
 ---

 # Gitea PR/issue cycle — Dankclaw API

-Friction-earned 2026-10-18 (PRs #15–#20, issue #18) and re-earned 2026-10-19 on `dank/dankvoice` PRs #4–#6: the merge payload claim below was wrong, and an empty token masqueraded as a missing repo.
+Friction-earned 2026-10-18 (PRs #15–#20, issue #18), re-earned 2026-10-19 on `dank/dankvoice` PRs #4–#6 (the merge payload claim was wrong; an empty token masqueraded as a missing repo), and re-earned 2026-10-20 on `dank/command-center` PRs #55…#57 (the 405 recalculation trap). Re-earned again 2026-10-20 on `dank/dankvoice` #25 (merge gate loop worked; suite verdict delivered as an issue comment). Re-earned 2026-10-21 on `dank/command-center` issue #58 / PR #59 (issue labels are numeric ids; the `<type>/<issue#>-<slug>` branch name has to be right *before* the first push). Same day on `dank/serverAppConfigs` #64: the Basic-vs-token split below cost two wasted POSTs.

 ## Where
 - API base: `http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/<repo>/{pulls,issues}` — repo varies (`command-center`, `dankvoice`, `serverAppConfigs`); numbering is per-repo, so a footer citing `#36` means nothing without the repo.
+- Web UI pages under `/dank/<repo>/pulls/N` are session-auth private: a plain URL fetch answers **404** even when the API and `xdg-open` work. Merge state questions go through the API (`GET /pulls/N` → `state`, `merged`, `merge_commit_sha`) — never conclude from a failed page fetch.
+- **Basic vs token split**: the `username=`/`password=` fields of `~/.config/secrets/gitea` as `Authorization: Basic …` work for **reads and issue/PR comment writes**, but `POST /pulls` refuses them with `403 token is required`. Pull-request lifecycle writes need the **token** header. Use the token for everything PR-shaped; never conclude "API is broken" from a Basic 403 on `/pulls`.
 - Token: never inline, never in argv (`-H "Authorization: token …"` lands in `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`, world-readable). Extract into a 600-perm curl config and hand it to curl with `-K`:
  ```bash
  tok=$(sed -nE 's#^https?://[^:/@]+:([^@]+)@192\.168\.0\.143.*#\1#p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)
-  [ "${#tok}" -ge 40 ] || { echo "token extraction failed"; exit 1; }
+  echo "tok len ${#tok}"   # 40 — assert before use
  cfg=$(mktemp); chmod 600 "$cfg"; printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$tok" > "$cfg"
-  curl -sS -K "$cfg" … ; shred -u "$cfg"
+  curl -sS -K "$cfg" http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/<repo>/labels
+  rm -f "$cfg"
  ```
 - **Empty token answers `404 {"message":"not found"}`, NOT 401** — Gitea hides the private repo. A 404 on a path you have used before means auth, not a typo'd repo. The trap that produces the empty token: `awk -F'/' … '{print $NF}'` on the store line (`scheme://user:token@host/`) — the host is in `$3`, the match never fires, you get a silent empty variable. Always assert the length before POSTing.
 - Multi-line bodies: build JSON in python (`json.dumps({"title":…, "body":open(f).read(),…})`) or `jq -n --arg b "$(cat b.txt)"`. NEVER pass `---` as a bare jq argument (parsed as a flag). Escaped quotes inside `python3 -c '…'` break on `\"` — write the script to a file or use a heredoc.
- Always capture status: `-o r.json -w '%{http_code}'`; a bare `-o` hides failures.
+- Always capture status: `-o r.json -w '%{http_code}'`; a bare `-o` hides failures. A `201` response piped straight into `python3 -c` that prints `None None` means you parsed an **error** body (missing `number`) — print `message` too.

 ## Create
-`POST /pulls` with `{title, body, base:"main", head:<branch>}` — JSON is accepted here (unlike merge).
+`POST /pulls` with `{title, body, base:"main", head:<branch>}` — JSON is accepted here (unlike merge). Plain `<branch>` works; the `owner:branch` fork form is unnecessary on same-repo branches.
 - **409 `pull request already exists for these targets [issue_id: N, …]`** — a PR for that head/base exists already. Common cause: the push message printed `/pulls/new/<branch>` and someone (Frank, or an `xdg-open` you ran) clicked Create. `GET /pulls?state=all`, find it, then `PATCH /pulls/N` with your title+body instead of re-posting.
 - `GET /pulls?state=all` on this Gitea omits `head`/`base` per entry — read `/pulls/N` for those, or key off `number`/`user`.
- Issues: same shape, `POST /issues` `{title, body}`; `PATCH /issues/N` fixes a body retroactively (works for PRs too, since a PR is an issue).
+- Issues: same shape, `POST /issues` `{title, body}`; `PATCH /issues/N` fixes a body retroactively (works for PRs too, since a PR is an issue) — used to correct a false verification claim in a PR that had already been merged. Body update returns **201**, not 200; confirm by reading `body` back, not by status code.
+- **Issue labels are numeric ids, not names.** `POST /issues` with `"labels":["ready-for-human"]` answers `422 {"message":"[]: json: cannot unmarshal JSON string into Go int64 within \"/labels/0\""}`. Resolve first: `GET /labels` → pick `id` by `name` → post `"labels":[20]`. (PRs take no `labels` field on create; label afterwards via `/issues/N/labels` with `{"labels":[id]}`.)
+- Comments (the channel for late-arriving evidence, e.g. a test-suite verdict posted after PR creation): `POST /issues/N/comments` with JSON `{body}` — works for PRs too, returns **201**.
+- **Open the issue before the first commit**, so `Refs #N` fits the message, and get the branch name right before the first push. `git branch -m <new>` + `git push -u origin <new>` + `git push origin --delete <old>` is a clean rename with no PR yet; do it rather than ship a branch that violates `<type>/<issue#>-<slug>` (a `docs/…` branch carrying a `fix:` commit is the common slip, and `git grep` on the old name still shows it).

 ## Merge (the 422 trap) — corrected
 `POST /pulls/N/merge` needs **form-encoded** fields; the merge form field name is lowercase **`do`**:
@@ -32,22 +38,49 @@ Friction-earned 2026-10-18 (PRs #15–#20, issue #18) and re-earned 2026-10-19 o
 ```bash
 curl -sS -X POST -K "$cfg" \
  --data-urlencode 'do=merge' --data-urlencode 'merge_style=no-ff' \
-  http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/<repo>/pulls/N/merge
+  http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/command-center/pulls/N/merge
 ```

 JSON `{"Do":"merge"}` (what this skill used to claim) and header variants all return `422 {"message":"[Do]: Required"}`. `merge_style` ∈ `no-ff|merge|rebase|squash`. Success returns **200 with an empty body**; verify by landing a checkout rather than re-reading the PR. Merge only with Frank's explicit per-PR OK.

+### The async 405 when several PRs merge in a row
+Merge #55, then #56 and #57 back-to-back, and #56/#57 answered:
+
+```
+405 {"message":"Please try again later","url":"http://dankclaw:3000/api/swagger"}
+```
+
+That is not a failure and not rate limiting: merging one PR moves `main`, which invalidates every other PR's cached mergeability, and Gitea recalculates it asynchronously. A merge attempt during recalculation is refused. Remedy — bounded poll on the PR, merge when the flag is true:
+
+```bash
+for attempt in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
+  m=$(curl -sS -K "$cfg" "$api/pulls/$n" | python3 -c \
+      'import json,sys;d=json.load(sys.stdin);print(d.get("mergeable"),d.get("merged"))')
+  case "$m" in *True*) <merge POST>; break ;; *) sleep 4 ;; esac
+done
+```
+
+All three landed within ~5 s of retrying. Treat `mergeable` as a readiness gate, not a report. Match `*True*` on the pair defensively: `False True` means already merged — stop, don't merge again.
+
+### Verifying a merge without touching the deployment
+`GET /pulls/N` → `state: closed`, `merged: true`, `merge_commit_sha`. Then prove content from the bare repo, not the working tree: `git fetch -q origin && git show origin/main:<path> | grep -n <key line>` and `git log --oneline --graph -4 origin/main` (two parents = the `--no-ff` Frank asks for). A number you deliberately destroyed can legitimately reappear once — quoted in `omp-docs/log.md` as the wrong value; `git grep -c <badvalue> origin/main` naming only the log page is the pass condition, not a leftover. `Closes #N` in the PR body auto-closes the issue; confirm with `GET /issues/N` → `state`.
+
+## Stacked PRs (no rebase)
+When two open branches edit the same section of the same file, merge the sibling branch into the later one (`git merge docs/other-branch`) instead of rebasing — Frank rejects the history rewrite. Consequences to state in the PR body: merging the lower PR first reduces the upper diff to just its own work; merging the upper first makes the lower an already-contained no-op. Either order is clean; `git branch -d` on the lower branch refuses until its commits reach `main`, because `-d` checks against the current HEAD.
+
 ## Post-merge landing
- Command-center: the checkout IS the deployment — `git -C ~/.omp fetch -q origin && git -C ~/.omp merge --ff-only origin/main`.
+- Command-center: the checkout IS the deployment — `git -C ~/.omp fetch -q origin && git -C ~/.omp merge --ff-only origin/main`. This refuses if **any** incoming path is dirty in the worktree — see `land-merged-pr-with-blocked-tree-ops` for the shared-workspace case where `checkout` and `stash` are both policy-blocked.
+- serverAppConfigs: `deploy.sh` pushes the dev checkout's branch first — if the checkout's `main` is behind a merge you just made (via the API), the deploy dies with `error: failed to push some refs`. `git merge --ff-only origin/main` in the deploy checkout BEFORE running `deploy.sh` after any externally-merged PR.
+- **A PR that changes a path you edited live adds that path to the discard list.** Tonight: the live dotfile fix was dirty *and* incoming, so landing needed `git -C ~/.omp checkout -- <that file>` as well as the usual file. Discard is content-free only when you proved byte identity first (`cmp` the branch file against the live one before merging) — say so in the PR body, and note that if `live-sync.sh` commits the dirty file first the merge stays clean because both sides hold identical bytes.
 - Package repos (`~/Projects/<pkg>`): same `--ff-only`, then reinstall (`omp plugin upgrade <name>`) and `cmp` the installed `dist/index.js` against the repo `dist/index.js` to prove the live artifact is the merged one. Check `ls -ld node_modules` after landing anything that touched it.
 - **`omp plugin upgrade` takes the npm package name, not the short name.** `omp plugin upgrade dankvoice` fails with `Failed to upgrade dankvoice: dankvoice is not installed` while the plugin is plainly installed; the package is `omp-dankvoice`. Find the truth with `ls ~/.omp/plugins/node_modules` or `find ~/.omp -path '*<name>/dist/index.js' -not -path '*/Projects/*'` — the installed tree is unscoped (`~/.omp/plugins/node_modules/omp-dankvoice/dist/index.js`), not `@dank/dankvoice`.
 - **`cmp` exiting 1 BEFORE the upgrade is the expected state** (installed bundle is the pre-merge build, diff reported at some char/line). Do not treat it as a failed deploy and do not "fix" the build; run the upgrade, then `cmp` again for byte identity, and grep the new bundle for a string only the merged code contains (e.g. `grep -c "Heckle instead of summarizing"`) as a second, semantic confirmation.
- Prune: `git worktree remove --force <path>` (force: untracked deps link), `git branch -D`, `git push origin --delete <branch>` (allowed: local Gitea).
+- Prune: `git worktree remove --force <path>` (force: untracked deps link), `git branch -D`, `git push origin --delete <branch>` (allowed: local Gitea). Before removing a worktree, check no live process has a cwd inside it (`ls -l /proc/*/cwd | grep -c "wt/<name>"`) — same guard `live-sync.sh` uses — and copy any file you moved into a gitignored `.AGENTTRASH/` there to its permanent home first, or the removal destroys the only copy.

 ## Attribution footer (AGENTS.md)
 Every issue/PR body ends with `---`, then `cwd: <session cwd> · session: <session id>`. Read the real values, never invent an id.
 - **The session id is the UUID suffix of the LIVE transcript `.jsonl`, not the session directory name.** Transcript dirs are keyed by cwd (e.g. `-.omp-wt-wt-20261019-020309-6d1fc1f`) and ONE cwd can hold several sessions (resume / continuation forks), so `ls -t ~/.omp/agent/sessions/` cannot tell you which is yours and `ls -t <dir>` is equally blind. Pick the file being appended to right now: `ls -l --time-style=+%H:%M:%S <dir>/*.jsonl` beside `date +%H:%M:%S` — the mtime that equals the current second is the live session. The id is the part after `_` in `<timestamp>_<uuid>.jsonl`.
- A `history.db` query for `session_id` filtered by `cwd` usually agrees, but it is not authoritative for WHICH of several sessions in that cwd is live — use the jsonl mtime test.
+- A `history.db` query for `session_id` filtered by `cwd` usually agrees, but it is not authoritative for WHICH of several sessions in this cwd is live — use the jsonl mtime test.
 - `local/` does NOT disambiguate: a forked transcript dir carries copies of the same `local://` artifacts, so matching artifact names proves nothing about which session is live.
 - `cwd` is that session's own working directory (the path the harness states), **not** the build worktree you committed in — when they differ, name the build worktree inside the body and keep `cwd` the session's.
 - Resolve `local://<name>.md` with `read local://<name>.md` (its header prints the absolute path) instead of guessing the directory.
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
 name: gitea-token-from-http-credential-store
-description: "Extract the Dankclaw Gitea token from ~/.config/secrets/gitea for API calls to PRIVATE repos, and diagnose the empty-token 404 that looks like a missing repo."
+description: "Extract the Dankclaw Gitea token from ~/.config/secrets/gitea (it is the URL password, not key=value lines) for API calls, and diagnose the silent empty-token trap that makes public-repo reads pass while writes fail."
 ---

-The Gitea credential store line on Frank's boxes is **http** (not https) with a percent-encoded port:
+The Gitea credential store line on Frank's boxes is **http** (not https) with a percent-encoded port, and the **token is the URL password** — there are NO `username=`/`password=` lines:

 ```
 http://dank:<40-char-token>@192.168.0.143%3a3000
@@ -13,14 +13,27 @@ http://dank:<40-char-token>@192.168.0.143%3a3000

 ```bash
 tok=$(sed -nE 's#^[a-z]+://[^:]+:([^@]+)@.*#\1#p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)
-curl -s -H "Authorization: token $tok" http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/<path>
+curl -s -K <600-perm cfg file> http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/<path>
 ```

-Common wrong pattern (silent failure): an `awk`/`grep` anchored on `https://` or on `@192.168.0.143:` matches nothing, leaving `tok=""` — verify with `echo "tok len ${#tok}"` before believing any API result.
+## `git credential-store --file … fill` answers EMPTY — do not debug it

-## The 404 trap
+Tried 2026-10-21 while opening `dank/command-center` PR #61: the obvious extraction

-`dank/command-center` is **public**: an empty token still returns real issue data. `dank/dankvoice` is **private**: the same empty token returns `404` on `/api/v1/repos/<owner>/<repo>` and `{}`-shaped bodies (`title: undefined`) on issues. A 404 with a zero-length token is an auth problem, NOT a missing repo — confirm by printing the token length first, then re-check.
+```bash
+printf 'protocol=http\nhost=192.168.0.143\nport=3000\n\n' | git credential-store --file ~/.config/secrets/gitea fill
+```
+
+prints **nothing**, with no error. It is not a permissions problem and not a wrong path: the stored line encodes the port inside the host field (`@192.168.0.143%3a3000`), so a `host=`+`port=` query can never match it. Add `path=` or drop `port=` and it still answers empty. Read the file with `sed` (recipe above) and move on — the chain `TOKEN=$(…) && [ -n "$TOKEN" ] && …` fails silently at the test, which reads like a curl failure if the `&&` hides it.
+
+## The silent-empty-token trap (bit 2026-10-21, cost a debug detour)
+
+An `awk -F= '/^username=/{...}'` parse of this file yields `tok=""` **silently** — and reads still appear to work when the repo is **public**: `dank/serverAppConfigs` and `dank/command-center` return real issue/label data unauthenticated, so every census "passes" until the first **write** (issue comment, label, PR create/merge) fails with `{"message":"token is always required"}`-style errors or 404s (private repos 404 on an empty token — that is an auth problem, NOT a missing repo).
+
+- `echo "tok len ${#tok}"` (must be 40) before believing ANY API result — reads included.
+- `curl -s -K <600-perm file>` carrying `header = "Authorization: token $tok"` — never `-H` on argv (`/proc/<pid>/cmdline` is world-readable; this leaked an HF token once).
+- Prove auth once per session: `GET /api/v1/user` → `"login":"dank"`.
+- The temp `-K` config holds a live token: `rm -f` it in the same session that made the calls, and never `cat` it.

 ## Other notes

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+---
+name: grafana-provisioned-dashboard-verify
+description: "Author and verify repo-provisioned Grafana dashboards on Dankclaw live: staging to the host provider path, the Grafana-13 unified-storage false-negative on grafana.db, the authenticated /api/search check, per-panel PromQL/LogQL validation before shipping, and the Loki $__auto shell-expansion trap in test harnesses."
+---
+
+Verify or ship Grafana dashboards that are provisioned from the repo (`shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/*.json`, auto-loaded by the `fleet` file provider). Use when adding/staging a dashboard, or when asked to confirm provisioned dashboards actually load.
+
+## Paths (Dankclaw)
+- Repo source: `shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/` (git is the owner).
+- Host provider dir: `/opt/grafana/provisioning/dashboards` (root-owned), bind-mounted `:ro` into the container at `/etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards` (from `dankclaw/observability/quadlet/grafana.container`: `Volume=/opt/grafana/provisioning:/etc/grafana/provisioning:ro`).
+- Provider reload interval = 30s, so a staged file appears within ~35s.
+
+## Stage on the host (canonical install is `deploy.sh dankclaw --service grafana` after merge)
+```
+scp -q <files>.json dankclaw:/tmp/
+ssh dankclaw 'for f in <names>; do sudo install -m644 -o root -g root /tmp/$f.json /opt/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/$f.json; done'
+```
+
+## Verification — what DOES and DOESN'T work
+
+**DO NOT trust the sqlite `dashboard` table.** Grafana 13 uses **unified storage**: file-provisioned dashboards do NOT live in the legacy `dashboard` table. Reading `grafana.db` (`sudo python3 - <<PY ... select ... from dashboard`) returns **total dashboards: 0** even when everything is provisioned correctly — a false negative. There is also no `sqlite3` binary in the grafana image or on the host. Grafana logs **no** line on a successful provider load (only errors), so a clean `podman logs grafana` proves only "no error", not "loaded".
+
+**The authoritative check is `/api/search` through an authenticated browser session.** No admin password is configured and anonymous is off — do NOT reset the Grafana admin to do a read check. Drive the RP SSO login with the Playwright `qa-e2e` storage state, then GET the API:
+```js
+const ctx = await b.newContext({ storageState: '.auth/qa-e2e.json', userAgent: "<chrome UA>" });
+const p = await ctx.newPage();
+await p.goto('https://grafana.franksdank.cloud/', { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+for (let i=0;i<30;i++){ const t=await p.locator('body').innerText(); if(!t.includes('not a bot')) break; await p.waitForTimeout(3000);}   // clear Anubis PoW
+await p.goto('https://grafana.franksdank.cloud/login/generic_oauth', { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+await p.waitForTimeout(6000);
+const r = await ctx.request.get('https://grafana.franksdank.cloud/api/search?type=dash-db&limit=50');  // 200 + [{uid,title}...] = provisioned
+```
+Run it from the checkout that has `tests/e2e/node_modules` + `.auth` + `.env.local` (a fresh worktree lacks them; symlink `node_modules` and copy `.auth` + `.env.local`). Throwaway `_*.cjs`, then move to `.AGENTTRASH/`.
+
+## Validate every panel query BEFORE shipping (catch empty / mis-scaled panels)
+Query Prometheus (`http://127.0.0.1:9090/api/v1/query`) and Loki (`http://127.0.0.1:3100/loki/api/v1/query`) on Dankclaw loopback and confirm non-empty. Real traps found here:
+- **Unit mislabel**: `sum by(job,mode)(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode!="idle"}[5m]))` returns **cores per mode** (up to #cores) — unit `short`, NOT `percentunit`. For a per-host busy fraction use `1 - avg by(job)(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m]))`.
+- **Missing metrics**: `scrape_duration_seconds_bucket` and `prometheus_*`-prefixed self metrics may be absent — confirm from `/api/v1/label/__name__/values?match[]=<metric>` before building a panel; `prometheus_target_interval_length_seconds` (a summary with a `quantile` label) exists.
+- **Alertmanager** runs on :9093 but is **NOT a Prometheus scrape target** → its metrics are unavailable; don't build panels on it (they read empty).
+- **Loki streams**: journal arrives as `{job="systemd-journal"}`; `container_name` is a **parsed JSON field, not a stream label** → group at query time: `sum by (container_name)(count_over_time({job="systemd-journal"} | json [$__auto]))`.
+- **Shell trap in test harnesses**: `$__auto` inside a double-quoted ssh/curl string is eaten by the local shell → empty query → Loki returns empty (looks like a broken panel, is a harness bug). For live validation substitute a concrete `[5m]` window, and drive Loki queries with an on-host Python `urllib` client to avoid quoting hell entirely.
+
+## Datasource uids
+`prometheus` (uid `prometheus`), `loki` (uid `loki`); reference as `"datasource": {"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"}` in panel JSON.
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+---
+name: grep-secret-gate-hook-traps
+description: "Write a zero-dependency grep-based pre-commit secret gate that fails closed: the GNU grep -- one-shot trap, POSIX ERE limits, bracket collating elements, and rc=2-as-success in command substitution."
+---
+
+# Fail-closed grep secret gate (pre-commit hook)
+
+Use when writing/auditing a bash pre-commit hook (or any CI tripwire) that scans
+staged content with `grep -E` for credential shapes — no gitleaks available.
+
+## The four traps (all personally earned; each silently PASSES bad content)
+
+1. **`--` is a ONE-SHOT end-of-options marker.** `grep -nE -- 'p1' -- 'p2' 'p3'`
+   takes the later `--` and patterns as FILE names → rc=2, errors on stderr.
+   Correct multi-pattern form: repeat `-e` for every pattern; never `--`.
+2. **`if hits=$(... | grep ...)` treats rc=2 as success.** Any non-zero-but-not-1
+   (broken pattern, unreadable file) enters the `then` branch with EMPTY output.
+   Never branch on the substitution's truthiness. Capture rc explicitly:
+   `hits=$(...); rc=$?` then: `rc>=2` → BLOCK (fail closed — a dead regex is
+   worse than none), `rc==1` → clean, `rc==0` → hits.
+3. **POSIX ERE (`grep -E`) has no `(?:...)` groups.** Use plain `(...)`.
+4. **`[:-]` inside a bracket expression starts a collating element** →
+   `grep: repetition-operator operand invalid` (rc=2, see trap 2). Put `-` FIRST
+   in every class: `[-A-Za-z0-9/+=_.:+]`.
+
+## Gate structure that works
+
+- Scan **staged content**, not the working tree: `git show ":$f"` over
+  `git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACM`.
+- Denylist doc/fixture paths (`README`, `docs?/`, `tests?/`, `*.example`) — else
+  the hook blocks its own patterns and every test fixture.
+- Report `BLOCKED <file>:<line>` only — never echo the matched secret.
+- Wire with tracked `hooks/pre-commit` + `git config core.hooksPath hooks`
+  (lives in the COMMON git dir config → one set in the main checkout covers
+  every worktree). Fresh clones are unprotected until it's set; document it.
+- Worktrees lacking `hooks/` while `core.hooksPath` is set: git dies on commit
+  (`cannot run ... No such file or directory`) — merge main in, don't unset.
+- Do NOT ship the hook in an npm plugin artifact (`files`): node_modules never
+  runs git; pin its ABSENCE in the pack test instead.
+
+## Test it red-first through the real seam (bats)
+
+`git init` a fixture repo, `cp` the real hook in, `git config core.hooksPath hooks`,
+then drive REAL `git commit` and assert:
+- credential-shaped `.env` (RFC-2606 domains / all-zero ids as inert fixtures) →
+  non-zero AND `git log` count unchanged (blocks, not warns);
+- PEM header line → blocked;
+- clean prose → passes;
+- the hook committing ITSELF → passes (trap 1/3/4 usually die here);
+- exit-code masking: `bats ... | tail` returns tail's rc — never `&& commit`
+  behind a piped suite, or you commit on red.
@@ -1,48 +1,53 @@
 ---
 name: halogen-npu-feasibility-census
-description: "Census whether halogen-flash-server's NPU small-model path can run on a Strix Halo host: image gate, amdxdna/XRT presence, IOMMU and fabric-clock blockers, enablement deltas."
+description: "Census whether halogen-flash-server's NPU small-model path can run and swap models on a Strix Halo host: image gate, amdxdna/XRT presence, IOMMU and fabric-clock blockers, enablement deltas, boot-set-only model loading (no live reload), and the silent-fallback-to-Flash trap for unarmed chat-class NPU models."
 ---

-Use when asked whether halogen/halogen-flash-server can use the XDNA2 NPU (embeddings, rerank, moderation/guard, decider, `qwen3.5-2b` generation, `flux2-klein-4b` images, `qwen3-asr-*`) on a Ryzen AI Max / Strix Halo host, or before proposing to enable it.
+Use when asked whether halogen/halogen-flash-server can use the XDNA2 NPU (embeddings, rerank, moderation/guard, decider, `qwen3.5-2b` generation, `flux2-klein-4b` images, `qwen3-asr-*`) on a Ryzen AI Max / Strix Halo host, before proposing to enable it, or when asked whether it can **hot-swap / live-reload** NPU models like FastFlowLM does.

 ## What the feature is (not a speed knob)

-The Flash trunk stays on the iGPU. `HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS=<names>` starts a second engine in the SAME container and on the SAME API port; the request's `model` field picks the executor. Unset → server identical to before. Each NPU model is a precompiled AIE-ML program (`devices/devices.hnpm`, per-partition `devices/u<N>.elf`, `devices/consts.hnpb`, `<id>.hnpw` weights, `tokenizer/tokenizer.json`), loaded via the HOST's XRT → kernel `amdxdna` → `/dev/accel/accel0`. One pass at a time; `HALOGEN_NPU_QUEUE` 64, overflow queues server-side, then `503 engine_busy`. Entry `entrypoint.sh` validates every file's bytes + sha256 against `/opt/halogen/npu/models.txt` before anything starts. NPU models run only in single-container "all" mode, NOT the `engine`/`api` split.
+The Flash trunk stays on the iGPU. `HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS=<names>` starts a second engine in the SAME container and on the SAME API port; the request's `model` field picks the executor. Unset -> server identical to before. Each NPU model is a precompiled AIE-ML program (`devices/devices.hnpm`, per-partition `devices/u<N>.elf`, `devices/consts.hnpb`, `<id>.hnpw` weights, `tokenizer/tokenizer.json`), loaded via the HOST's XRT -> kernel `amdxdna` -> `/dev/accel/accel0`. One pass at a time; `HALOGEN_NPU_QUEUE` 64, overflow queues server-side, then `503 engine_busy`. Catalog in the 0.16.2 image: `decider-0.8b`, `qwen3-embedding-0.6b`, `qwen3-reranker-0.6b`, `qwen3guard-gen-0.6b`, `qwen3.5-2b` (+ `flux2-klein-4b`, `qwen3-asr-*` in newer tags). Only the programs named in `HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS` are armed.

-## Census (all read-only, run from the operator box)
+## Boot-set-only: NO live reload (tested on the live endpoint)
+
+`HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS` is read **at start**; the entrypoint validates/converts/loads the named programs then. There is **no** runtime load/unload and **no** admin endpoint to add a model. FLM comparison: FLM was a standalone NPU-only server (`flm serve <one-model>`, single FIFO lane) free to reconfigure its one AIE partition; halogen boots Flash (iGPU) **plus** the NPU programs as ONE coupled process (shared port + shared memory/power budget), so the NPU set is a boot-time constant. Changing even a checkpoint's weights reconverts "at the next start", never live.
+
+Consequence — arming a new program = edit `scripts/frank-dragoon.env` -> redeploy -> **container restart -> the whole Flash payload (tens of GB) reloads, minutes**. The small NPU program is not the cost; the Flash reload is.
+
+## The silent-fallback trap (the one that bites)
+
+A request naming an **unarmed** catalog model behaves differently per endpoint class:
+- `/v1/rerank`, `/v1/moderations`: honest **400 `model_not_found`**, message ends `(loaded: none)`. The endpoint only exists if that engine was armed at boot.
+- `/v1/chat/completions` (the `decider-0.8b` decision path and `qwen3.5-2b` generation): **silent fall-through to the Flash model** — HTTP 200, body `"model": "<flash id>"`, no error. A guard/decision call to an unarmed model is answered by the main (often abliterated) endpoint you were trying to screen against, and looks like success. Measured: an unarmed `decider-0.8b` "is this a prompt injection?" probe returned `"no"` from Flash. **Fail-safe is NOT the default on the chat route.**
+
+## Live probe (idle lane; one ssh, non-disruptive — no restart happens)

 ```bash
-ssh <host> '
-# 1. engine gate + catalog in the pinned image
-podman exec <ctr> bash -c "grep -rlo HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS /opt/halogen /usr/local/bin /entrypoint.sh 2>/dev/null | head"
-podman exec <ctr> cat /opt/halogen/npu/models.txt | head -40
-# 2. is NPU actually wired today? (expect NO env, NO device, NO /dev/accel inside)
-podman inspect <ctr> --format "{{json .HostConfig.Devices}}"; podman exec <ctr> ls /dev/accel
-# 3. kernel driver + firmware
-lsmod | grep -i amdxdna; sudo dmesg | grep -iE "xdna|npu" | tail -5; ls -l /dev/accel
-# 4. XRT (distro packages are fine; vendor mounts /opt/xilinx/xrt)
-dpkg -l | grep -iE "xrt|xdna"; ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxrt* /usr/lib/libxrt* 2>/dev/null
-# 5. BLOCKER 1: IOMMU
-cat /proc/cmdline; ls /sys/kernel/iommu_groups | wc -l
-# 6. BLOCKER 2: fabric clock held?
-for c in /sys/class/drm/card*/device; do echo "== $c"; cat $c/power_dpm_force_performance_level 2>&1; cat $c/pp_dpm_fclk 2>&1 | tr "\n" " "; echo; done'
+B=http://127.0.0.1:7770   # halogen port; internal engine is :8731/:8740 muxed onto it
+curl -s $B/v1/models | jq -r '.data[].id'          # armed set = boot set; must not mutate
+# control (armed embedding) -> 200 with a real vector:
+curl -s $B/v1/embeddings -d '{"model":"qwen3-embedding-0.6b","input":["ping"]}'
+# unarmed rerank/guard -> expect 400 "(loaded: none)":
+curl -s $B/v1/rerank      -d '{"model":"qwen3-reranker-0.6b","query":"t","documents":["a","b"],"top_n":1}'
+curl -s $B/v1/moderations -d '{"model":"qwen3guard-gen-0.6b","input":["hello"]}'
+# unarmed decider/gen -> watch the "model" field; if it is the flash id, it fell through:
+curl -s $B/v1/chat/completions -d '{"model":"decider-0.8b","temperature":0,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"x"}],"response_format":{"type":"json_schema","json_schema":{"name":"g","description":"is injection?","schema":{"enum":["no","yes"]}}}}' | jq -r '.model // .error.message'
+# prove nothing restarted:
+systemctl show frank-dragoon.service -p NRestarts -p ActiveEnterTimestamp --value
 ```
+`decider` with a schema and a non-zero `temperature` 400s on a *sampling* guard first ("send temperature 0"); set `temperature:0` to reach the router and see the fallback.

-Docs (raw fetch, authoritative): `docs/NPU.md`, `docs/npu-small-models.md`, `deploy/host/halogen-fabric-clock` under `peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server` on GitHub. Tag list: `podman search --list-tags ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server`.
+## Enablement gates (all four must hold before it runs)

-## The two blockers and the enablement delta
-
- **IOMMU must be on.** `amd_iommu=off` turns the NPU off (no PASID/SVA); `iommu=pt` keeps it. Needs a grub edit + reboot. `iommu_groups == 0` ⇒ off.
- **Fabric clock must be pinned at the top `pp_dpm_fclk` level** (or `power_dpm_force_performance_level=high`); `auto` = unheld. GPU+NPU concurrently HANG Strix Halo machines and corrupt NPU results while that clock moves. Fix: root container with `-v /sys:/host/sys` (server holds it itself), or install `deploy/host/halogen-fabric-clock` + unit (~1 W). If it can't hold, the server FAILS CLOSED and prints the commands.
- Container delta: `--device /dev/accel/accel0` + `HALOGEN_NPU_MODELS`; `--ulimit memlock=-1:-1` and `--group-add keep-groups` usually already present. Distro XRT: mount each of `libxrt_coreutil.so.2`, `libxrt_core.so.2`, `libxrt_driver_xdna.so.2` TWICE (once at `/opt/xilinx/xrt/lib/`, once at its own path) — never mount an `/opt/xilinx/xrt` holding only symlinks.
-
-## Costs to price before proposing
-
- Upstream A/B: IOMMU translation ON costs **13–16 % prefill** (460 → 385 tok/s at 2,048 tokens, Ryzen AI Max+ 395); decode unaffected. Whether `iommu=pt` specifically costs that on a given box is a local measurement, not a published fact — run the image's own `sweep` after the reboot.
- A few GB host RAM per NPU model (+8 GB FLUX, +1.6/4 GB ASR), and trunk decode drops while the NPU works (shared bus + power).
+1. Kernel `amdxdna` loaded + `/dev/accel/accel0` present; the node must be world-open (`0666` via a udev rule) or a **rootless** container cannot open it — `serve-frank-dragoon.sh` refuses if the mode bit 02 is clear.
+2. Host XRT with the NPU plugin (`libxrt_coreutil.so.2`, `libxrt_core.so.2`, `libxrt_driver_xdna.so.2`); on Arch/CachyOS mount each lib twice (image XRT path + its own `/usr/lib` path), never an `/opt/xilinx/xrt` of dangling links.
+3. **Fabric clock held at top** (`halogen-fabric-clock` root unit) — GPU+NPU at once can hang Strix Halo / corrupt NPU results while that clock changes; the server refuses to start if it can't hold it.
+4. **IOMMU on**: `amd_iommu=off` kills the NPU; `iommu=pt` keeps it.

 ## Laws / traps

- Never probe the NPU beside the live service: stop + mask first (fleet benchmarking policy); this host class has a precedent of a concurrent GPU experiment needing a power cycle. Distinguish off vs wedged with `ip neigh show <ip>` from a peer.
- `/dev/accel/accel0` existing and `amdxdna` probing cleanly does NOT mean the NPU works — with IOMMU off the failure is at context/PASID creation, not at the device node. Do not trust older notes claiming the node itself is missing.
+- Never probe the NPU beside the live service: stop + mask first (fleet benchmarking policy); this host class has a precedent of a concurrent GPU experiment needing a power cycle. Distinguish off vs wedged with `ip neigh show <ip>` from a peer. A single embedding/decision request on an already-armed idle production lane is a normal request, not a benchmark — safe.
+- `/dev/accel/accel0` existing and `amdxdna` probing cleanly does NOT mean the NPU works - with IOMMU off the failure is at context/PASID creation, not at the device node. Do not trust older notes claiming the node itself is missing.
 - `dmesg` lines like `Failed to alloc dev bo memory, ret -28` while large NPU models take turns at NPU memory are benign (vendor-documented); the server recovers.
+- NPU model RSS is host-side, bypassing the container cgroup (GTT/shared pool), like all Strix Halo GPU memory — container stats under-report the true footprint.
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+---
+name: harden-precommit-secret-gate
+description: "Fix or build a pre-commit secret-scan hook that actually blocks leaks: scope hole, fail-closed, quarantine list, and the self-trip that kills an automated committer."
+---
+
+Fix or build a pre-commit secret-scan hook that actually blocks leaks: scope hole, fail-closed, quarantine list, and the self-trip that kills an automated committer. Use when a secret gate is wrong (misses a leak) or too right (rejects an inert example and bricks the heartbeat).
+
+## The two failure directions
+
+A gate can be **too weak** (misses a real key) or **too strong** (rejects its own documentation and takes down an automated committer). Both are outages; the second is silent.
+
+## Audit recipe for an existing gate
+
+1. Read the hook and list what it actually inspects. The classic scope hole: `git diff --cached -- '*.env' '*.pem'` — an extension whitelist. A credential in `agent/config.yml`, a quadlet unit, or a SKILL.md is then invisible to the gate. The rule that survives: scan **the entire staged diff**, every path, and let only binary content out.
+2. Test fail-closed behaviour: can the hook be made to print nothing and still exit 0? Common escapes — running outside a git repo, unreadable staged diff, a hook that pipes through `grep` and inherits `grep`'s exit code from the wrong stage, or `set -e` swallowing the verdict. Verdict must be: unknown ⇒ **block**.
+3. Quarantine list, never tracked: `.env`, `auth.json`, `trust.json`, `*.pem`, `*.key`, `identity*` — and the `.gitignore` policy must quarantine env files **at any depth under any name** (`**/.env*`, not `.env`), or `config/prod.env` slips past.
+4. Escape hatch must be explicit, per-commit, and loud: `ALLOW_SECRETS=1 git commit …`, and the hook says so when it honours it.
+5. Gate the gate: a test that commits a fixture repo through the hook and asserts it blocks. `tests/secret_gate.bats` here covers: shape in an unexpected extension, bcrypt hash, JWT, placeholder/indirection allowed, prose allowed, binary ignored, unreadable diff refused, deletion of a credential never blocked, `ALLOW_SECRETS` override.
+
+## Self-trip: the gate rejects its own example (live 2026-10-21)
+
+Symptom: a systemd timer that commits machine-written files fails **every hour**, and the journal shows the gate's own refusal:
+
+```
+SECRET GATE: staged diff contains 1 secret-shaped string(s):
+  agent/managed-skills/git-secret-gate-hook/SKILL.md
+    Fake secrets must be inert (RFC 2606 domains, all-zero ids, `AKIA0000000000000EXAMPLE`) AND must not
+```
+
+The offender is the AWS **documentation** example key — entirely inert — and `AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}` cannot tell it from a leak. So the gate's own advice about writing an inert fake is uncommittable by the gate. Auto-learned skills describe credential shapes for a living, so this recurs by construction, and an automated committer cannot use `ALLOW_SECRETS=1`: that would blind the gate for the *other* 64 staged files.
+
+Diagnose, in this order:
+
+```bash
+journalctl --user -u live-sync.service -b --no-pager | tail -25   # which file, which line
+git -C ~/.omp status --short | head                                # how much is queued behind it
+# then scan the WHOLE staged queue, not just the reported file:
+git diff --cached -U0 | awk '/^diff --git/{f=$3;sub("^a/","",f)} /^\+/ && !/^\+\+\+/ {
+  l=substr($0,2)
+  if (l ~ /sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{16,}|ghp_[A-Za-z0-9]{20,}|github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{20,}|glpat-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{16,}|AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}|xox[baprs]-[A-Za-z0-9-]{10,}|eyJ[A-Za-z0-9_-]{20,}\.[A-Za-z0-9_-]{10,}\.|-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----/)
+    print f": "substr(l,1,90) }'
+```
+
+The second count is the decision input: one hit ⇒ fix the line; many ⇒ the gate needs an exemption channel before anything lands.
+
+Fixes, in order of preference:
+
+1. **Describe the shape instead of printing a matching literal** — `AKIA` followed by zeroes and `EXAMPLE`, spelled out in prose, cannot match. One line, the gate stays strict, the next timer run drains the queue.
+2. **Per-line allow marker** honoured by the hook (e.g. a trailing `secret-gate: allow` on the flagged line) — durable, keeps documentation honest, still fail-closed everywhere else. Needs a test both ways: a marked line passes, an unmarked one still blocks. Note the risk honestly: an attacker-adjacent string can self-authorise, so the marker belongs in review-able prose tiers, not in a diff that also touches secrets config.
+3. Never widen the regex to skip markdown, never run the automation with the override env var set.
+
+Inert-fake rule for anything that must *show* a credential shape: RFC 2606 domains, all-zero ids, the word `EXAMPLE` — and if the shape itself trips the gate, describe it in prose rather than print it.
+
+## Prose must not be collaterally blocked
+
+Markdown explaining credential handling is the bulk of what a knowledge repo commits. `xox` inside a sentence about Slack token prefixes, or a `sk-` prefix discussed abstractly, must pass; the shapes are anchored long-suffix patterns for exactly that reason. When a gate fires on prose, that is a bug in the gate — but if the prose contains a *literal* matching token, the fix is the prose (option 1 above), not the pattern.
+
+## Verifying a gate change
+
+Write the fixture repo in a temp dir, commit through the hook, assert block/allow for each case. Do not test the regex by grepping the hook's source for the pattern — a copy of the pattern in a comment is not a gate that runs.
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+---
+name: harness-model-config-wire-capture
+description: "Verify what the omp harness actually sends to a local inference endpoint (reasoning_effort, sampler keys, thinking-off) by pointing a scratch HOME at a logging proxy, instead of inferring it from models.yml comments."
+---
+
+A `models.yml` comment claiming "the wire sends X" is a claim about the harness, not the engine, and the harness rewrites between the two: compat maps pass unmapped values through, effort ladders clamp before the map applies, and a "disable reasoning" role flag can be implemented as *send the lowest effort* rather than a switch. Read only the wire.
+
+## Recipe (minutes, no production state touched)
+
+1. **Logging proxy** — python `ThreadingHTTPServer` on `127.0.0.1:7799` forwarding body+path to the real engine and appending the request body's interesting keys (`model, reasoning_effort, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, chat_template_kwargs`) as one JSON line per request. Run it as a named bash service with `ready.port` so the port is proven before use.
+2. **Scratch HOME** — `mkdir -p /tmp/omph/.omp/agent`, copy the *candidate* `models.yml` + `config.yml` there, rewrite that provider's `baseUrl` to `http://127.0.0.1:7799/v1`. Never edit `~/.omp/agent/` — in `dank/command-center` the checkout is the deployment.
+3. **One-shot runs** — `HOME=/tmp/omph omp --model '<provider>/<id>:<effort>' --no-tools --no-session --no-skills --no-rules --no-extensions --no-pty --no-lsp -p 'Reply with exactly: OK'`, once per effort (`off minimal low medium high xhigh max`). Add `--print-thoughts` when the question is "did thinking actually happen".
+4. Read the log, and assert the value **after** the change. A config edit that never engaged is the failure mode this exists to catch.
+
+## Traps found doing this on frank-dragoon (2026-10-21)
+
+- `--model X:off` does **not** mean `reasoning_effort: off` on the wire. Reasoning is switched through `compat.reasoningDisableMode` (enum includes `lowest-effort`, `none-effort`, `qwen-enable-thinking-false`, `qwen-template-false`, `chat-template-thinking-false`); the default derives from `thinkingFormat`, and `lowest-effort` quietly keeps thinking alive (`:off` arrived as `"minimal"`, with a canned 26-token thinking block on every "off" request). `none-effort` sent `"none"` → `reasoning_tokens: 0`.
+- Effort levels are clamped to the harness's per-model ladder **before** `reasoningEffortMap` applies, so a map row for a level the ladder lacks is inert (`:max` arrived as `xhigh` even with `max: max`). Capture before promising a level works.
+- Map lookup is `compat.reasoningEffortMap?.[effort] ?? thinking?.effortMap?.[effort] ?? effort` — removing a row is a pass-through, never a 400. Claims about rejection must be proven against the engine.
+- Engine-side claims: ask for a deliberately bad value and read its 400 — the engine prints its own accepted set (`reasoning_effort 'maximum' unsupported; use minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|max|none`).
+
+## Engine-side probes that transfer to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
+
+- **Accepted parameters**: `{model, messages, max_tokens:1, <param>:<value>}` → status + `error.message`. Acceptance is not honouring: report it as acceptance.
+- **Level honoured?** same prompt at `max_tokens 2048` per level, compare `usage.completion_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens`. Equal values across levels = the parameter is ignored; `reasoning_closed_at` reveals a per-level thinking ceiling.
+- **Thinking off**: `chat_template_kwargs {"enable_thinking": false}` and top-level `enable_thinking: false` → expect `reasoning_tokens: 0`.
+- **Vision**: build a solid-colour PNG in-script (`zlib`+`struct`, no PIL), 512×512, ask for the colour in one word **with thinking disabled** — otherwise the answer is cut off by the thinking block and the probe is inconclusive. A 1×1 image only proves token accounting.
+
+## Teardown
+
+Kill the proxy service, remove the scratch HOME, the proxy script and its log. Never leave copies of `config.yml`/`models.yml` in `/tmp`: they carry provider endpoints and sometimes tokens.
@@ -1,27 +1,50 @@
 ---
 name: land-merged-pr-with-blocked-tree-ops
-description: "Use when a merged PR must land in a checkout whose working tree is dirty and workspace policy blocks git switch/restore/stash/reset-to-commit: prove identity, commit forward, merge, verify."
+description: "Use when a merged PR must land in a checkout whose working tree is dirty and workspace policy blocks checkout/stash — prove the delta content-free, hand the operator the two-liner, verify via live config meanwhile."
 ---

-# Landing a merged PR into a checkout with blocked tree operations
+Landing a merged PR when the deployment checkout is dirty **and** workspace policy blocks `git checkout`/`git stash`. Use when `git merge --ff-only origin/main` aborts with "Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge" in a SHARED workspace where other agents have work in flight. Earned 2026-10-20 on `dank/command-center` (the checkout IS the deployment).

-Shared-workspace policy can block `git switch`, `git checkout <branch>`, `git restore`, `git stash`, and `git reset <commit>` ("uncommitted changes other concurrent agents rely on"). A `git pull --ff-only` then aborts with *"Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge"* — **even when the local content is byte-identical to the incoming commit**, because git compares the index, not intent. Observed twice on 2026-10-19 (dank/command-center, dank/dankvoice).
+# Land a merged PR with blocked tree ops
+
+## Why it blocks
+
+`--ff-only` refuses when **any** incoming path is dirty in the worktree — it checks dirtiness against the *old* HEAD, not whether your content matches the target. Proven: overwriting the file so it is **byte-identical to the target commit** (`cmp` clean against `git show origin/main:<path>`) still aborts with the same message. So "make the file match main" is not a way in, and neither is `git merge` from another worktree (the branch is checked out in the dirty one).
+
+The blocking set is what you must know, exactly:
+
+```bash
+comm -12 <(git diff --name-only HEAD..origin/main | LC_ALL=C sort -u) \
+         <(git status --porcelain | awk '{print $NF}' | LC_ALL=C sort -u)
+```
+
+`LC_ALL=C sort` matters — git's own output order trips `comm: file N is not in sorted order` and you get garbage overlap lists. In the case this was earned on, 12 incoming paths and 57 dirty ones intersected in exactly **one** file.

 ## Procedure

-1. **Prove identity first — never assume it.**
-   `git fetch && git diff --stat origin/main -- <the dirty paths>` → **empty output** means the working tree already equals the merged result, so committing it forward destroys nothing. If it is not empty, stop: there is real local work; do not proceed.
-2. **Commit forward** the identical paths (message says exactly that, e.g. *"land merged #N content; policy blocks restore/stash, so the identical copies are committed rather than discarded"*). Hooks still run.
-3. **Merge, don't ff:** `git merge --no-edit origin/main` (ort resolves identical changes on both sides cleanly). `--ff-only` is impossible once step 2 created a commit.
-4. **Untracked-collision case:** if the abort says *"Please move or remove them before you merge"*, an untracked local file occupies a path the merge adds. `mv` it aside, merge, then `cmp` the restored file against the copy — identical → drop the copy (if the copy came from `.AGENTTRASH`, delete it and `rmdir`, since the file is now tracked).
-5. **Verify:** repo lint/tests, `git status --porcelain -- <paths>` empty, and `git rev-parse --short HEAD origin/main` equal **after a fresh `git fetch`**.
+1. **Fetch, don't merge yet.** List incoming commits (`git log --oneline HEAD..origin/main`) so you can show what is waiting.
+2. **Compute the blocking set** with the `comm` above (both inputs `LC_ALL=C sort -u`).
+3. **Prove the local delta is content-free**, in the direction that matters — lines the working tree has that `main` does not:
+   ```bash
+   diff <(git show origin/main:<path>) <path> | grep -c '^>'   # local-unique lines
+   ```
+   Zero means the working tree is a strict subset of what was merged: discarding loses nothing.
+4. **Preserve before you touch:** copy the current file to `~/.AGENTTRASH/` (snapshot), and copy anything you had moved into a gitignored `.AGENTTRASH/` inside a build worktree to its permanent home in the deployment — otherwise pruning the worktree destroys the only copy of a quarantined page.
+5. **Do NOT work around the policy.** `git checkout -- <path>`, `git stash`, and `git stash push -- <path>` are all blocked in a shared workspace and the block is correct: it protects other agents' in-flight work. Do not reach for `git reset --soft` + `git restore --staged` to slide the pointer past it either — that leaves the index holding staged *reverts* of every incoming path, one careless `git commit -a` away from undoing the merge.
+6. **Hand the operator the two-liner** and keep working on what does not depend on it:
+   ```bash
+   git -C ~/.omp checkout -- <path> && git -C ~/.omp merge --ff-only origin/main
+   ```
+   Say why it is safe (step 3's number, plus where the snapshots live) and what it unblocks.

-## Gotchas
+## Why waiting is not free

- `git merge … | tail -3` masks the exit status — `tail` always exits 0 and an `&&` chain then continues past an aborted merge. Run the merge unmasked, or check `${PIPESTATUS[0]}`.
- Immediately after a push, `git rev-list --count main..origin/main` can report phantom commits-behind from a stale remote-tracking snapshot. Re-`fetch` and compare `rev-parse` before believing any drift.
- Do not push redundant commits into a *deployment* checkout without checking the repo's tier law: machine/live tiers commit straight to `main`, human/agent prose goes by PR.
+`scripts/live-sync.sh` merges with a plain `git merge --no-edit origin/main` (its line ~88), so the hourly heartbeat hits the identical wall and raises its ntfy alert `merge conflict with origin/main — local commit kept; needs you at the keyboard`. Report that consequence: the dirt is not merely untidy, it alerts.

-## Never
+Also note for later: `git branch -d <merged-branch>` **refuses until the commits reach `main`** — `-d` checks against the current HEAD, not `origin/main` — so local branch deletion goes on the post-landing list, not the pruning list.

-No `--no-verify`, no `reset --hard`, no `checkout -- <path>`, no "temporary" stash: those are exactly the operations the policy blocks because they discard other agents' work.
+## What you CAN do while it waits
+
+- **Verify the merged behaviour through the live config, not the branch pointer.** Merged prompt/config changes take effect from the deployment's files: spawn a fresh session/subagent and have it read and quote the changed file back. That proves the change is live even while `main` is behind.
+- Prune your own build worktrees, but check nothing is running inside them first: `ls -l /proc/*/cwd 2>/dev/null | grep -c "wt/<name>"` (the same guard `live-sync.sh` uses).
+- Delete the merged remote branches (`git push origin --delete <branch>`, allowed on the local Gitea).
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+---
+name: locale-c-multibyte-awk-silent-loss
+description: "Debug generated output that silently loses data under LC_ALL=C — a regex quantifier on a multibyte character in awk/grep, plus the locale-dependent red test it produces."
+---
+
+# LC_ALL=C kills multibyte regex quantifiers — silently
+
+Symptom: a generator emits a **complete, exit-0, missing-a-third-of-the-page** artifact in
+cron / systemd user units / agent shells, and the same command looks perfect in the user's
+terminal. Companion symptom: a repo test is red for the agent and green for the operator.
+
+## Probe (do these in order, they are 5 seconds apart)
+
+```bash
+echo "LANG=[$LANG] LC_ALL=[$LC_ALL]"   # LC_ALL overrides LANG — en_US.UTF-8 + LC_ALL=C is byte-wise
+locale -a | grep -iE 'utf-?8' | head    # which UTF-8 locale actually exists on this box
+```
+
+Then test the suspect pattern alone, under both locales, with the literal character:
+
+```bash
+printf '%s\n' '    // ─── Applications ───' | awk '/─+ / { print "QUANT MATCHED" }'
+printf '%s\n' '    // ─── Applications ───' | awk '/─/    { print "LITERAL MATCHED" }'
+printf '%s\n' '    // ─── Applications ───' | LC_ALL=C.utf8 awk '/─+ / { print "QUANT MATCHED under UTF-8" }'
+```
+
+Literal matches everywhere; the quantifier matches only under a UTF-8 locale. That asymmetry IS
+the bug: gawk under `LC_ALL=C` matches bytes, so `─+` means "the last byte of U+2500, repeated" —
+a byte sequence that never occurs. mawk/busybox/Go regexp have the same class of failure
+(quantifier or bracket class spanning a multibyte char).
+
+## Fix
+
+Match and strip the multibyte literal with no quantifier:
+
+```awk
+/^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*─/ {          # literal gate
+  s = $0; sub(/^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*/, "", s); sub(/[[:space:]]+$/, "", s)
+  if (s ~ /─ .*─/) { gsub(/─/, "", s); gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, " ", s); sub(/^ /, "", s); ... }
+  next
+}
+```
+
+**Never pin `LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8` to "fix" it** — that locale often does not exist (a CachyOS box
+here shipped only `C.utf8`), so the script then breaks on another machine. Make the matcher
+byte-safe instead.
+
+## Pin it with a test
+
+`run env LC_ALL=C "$GEN" "$IN"` + assert the lost content is present. The operator's UTF-8 terminal
+can never catch this class of bug, so the explicit C-locale run is the only durable guard.
+
+## Suite-verification law (how this got missed)
+
+NEVER judge `bats tests/` from `tail` output — a failure at test 28 is invisible in a 25-line
+window ending at test 109. Always:
+
+```bash
+out=$(bats tests/ 2>&1); echo "$out" | grep -cE '^ok'; echo "$out" | grep -E '^not ok' || echo GREEN
+```
+
+Run it under `LC_ALL=C` too: that is the environment every automated caller inherits. Same rule
+for `| grep -c` on a multi-line JSON field — count what you claim to have counted.
+
+## Related, do not confuse
+
+- `bats-assertion-trust` — vacuously-passing assertions (green that proves nothing). This skill is
+  the mirror case: correct assertions that are only red in one locale.
+- `gitea-pr-api-cycle` — unrelated; landed here only because the PR work is where this surfaced.
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+---
+name: new-fleet-service-checklist
+description: "Add a new deployable service to serverAppConfigs: the four registration touch-points (two allowlists, planner, router) whose drift breaks the first-ever deploy."
+---
+
+# Adding a new service to the serverAppConfigs deployer
+
+A new `--service <name>` target must be registered in **four** files or the first deploy fails at a gate. Two fleet services (cadvisor, gpu-exporter) shipped with the client gate missed within a day of each other; the failure mode is `Service 'X' is not deployed on <target>` from `deploy.sh`, exit 2 — before SSH.
+
+## The four touch-points (per target host)
+
+1. `scripts/deploy.sh` → `valid_service()` case: add `<target>:<svc>`. **Client gate** — the one people forget.
+2. `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` → `service_is_allowed()` case: add `<target>:<svc>`, **and** the dispatcher `case` branch `<svc>) deploy_<svc> ;;`.
+3. `scripts/deploy-plan.py`: the name in the target's service set (`DANKCLAW_SERVICES` / `DANKSERVER_SERVICES`) + `SERVICE_ORDER`, plus a path map so edits to the service's own files select it (for `scripts/<svc>.*` host processes, map the exact filenames like the signal-relay/gpu-exporter maps do).
+4. `scripts/test-changed.sh`: route the service's files to its seam, else focused test runs skip it (full `tests/run.sh` still covers).
+
+Sanctioned exception: `dankclaw:searxng-network` is client-only (network unit, no remote handler) — the drift test exempts it.
+
+## Enforcement + local verification
+
+`tests/deployment_flow.bats` test "the client and remote allowlists agree per target" diffs the two extracted lists. Verify before pushing:
+
+```bash
+grep -oE 'dank(claw|server):[a-z0-9-]+' <(sed -n '/^valid_service()/,/^}/p' scripts/deploy.sh) \
+  | grep -v dankclaw:searxng-network | sort -u > /tmp/cli
+grep -oE 'dank(claw|server):[a-z0-9-]+' <(sed -n '/^service_is_allowed()/,/^}/p' scripts/deploy-remote.sh) \
+  | sort -u > /tmp/rem
+diff /tmp/cli /tmp/rem   # must be empty
+```
+
+Also: a `# comment` after a trailing `\` inside a bash `case` pattern list **breaks line continuation** (syntax error) — annotate on its own line above.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- Merge ≠ deploy: `deploy.sh <host> --service <svc>` must still be run per host; a merged service is dead code until then (GPU stats "not showing" was exactly this).
+- `deploy.sh` refuses to run anywhere but a clean `main` checkout: the canonical dev checkout is `/home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig` (not the session `~/.omp/wt/...` worktree, not the build worktree).
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+---
+name: niri-monitor-flap-refresh-triage
+description: "Diagnose niri/amdgpu monitor failures on blankpad — panel dropping, wrong refresh rate, black/flickering output — and fix the refresh without reloading the compositor or logging Frank out."
+---
+
+# niri monitor triage: flaps, phantom modes, 60 Hz fallback
+
+Frank's reaction to a broken display is immediate and loud; the fix must never log him out.
+Box: `blankpad` (Cezanne APU, `card1`, s2idle only), compositor `niri --session` as a user unit.
+
+## Step 1 — separate three different diseases (do this before touching anything)
+
+```bash
+niri msg outputs                          # name, mode, position, full mode list per output
+for c in /sys/class/drm/card*-*/status; do echo "$(basename $(dirname $c)) $(cat $c)"; done
+systemctl --user show niri.service -p ExecMainStartTimestamp -p NRestarts   # did niri restart?
+journalctl --user -b --no-pager | grep -iE 'disconnecting connector|new connector|Page flip commit failed|DMCUB|falling back to preferred'
+journalctl -k -b --no-pager  | grep -iE 'amdgpu|PM: suspend exit|\*ERROR\*'
+```
+
+Reading it:
+
+- `disconnecting connector: "X"` then `new connector: X` → **link-level drop** (cable/dock/monitor/driver). Count them: `grep -c 'disconnecting connector'`.
+- `Page flip commit failed … EINVAL` bursts + kernel `dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error` right after `PM: suspend exit` → **amdgpu display-engine state broken by s2idle resume**. Only a reboot clears it; never reboot without an explicit per-run OK.
+- `configured mode M could not be found, falling back to preferred` → **config asks for a mode the panel does not offer**; the panel silently runs at EDID-preferred (usually 60 Hz). This is the one you can fix instantly.
+- Config mtimes older than the symptom + no `niri` restart ⇒ the config did not cause it. Say so explicitly; agents get blamed for display problems they didn't cause.
+
+## Step 2 — the phantom-mode trap (niri fails soft, so it looks like hardware)
+
+`output { mode "…" }` with a refresh the EDID never advertised does **not** error. niri logs a WARN and drops to `preferred` on every connect → janky 60 Hz ultrawide, blamed on the monitor.
+
+Compare the requested mode against the panel's real list:
+
+```bash
+niri msg outputs | sed -n '/<monitor name>/,/^$/p' | grep -E '^\s+[0-9]+'
+```
+
+## Step 3 — apply the mode WITHOUT a config reload (the no-logout path)
+
+```bash
+niri msg output "<EDID output name from niri msg outputs>" mode "WxH@refresh"
+niri msg outputs | grep -A1 '<monitor>'      # confirm the new mode
+pgrep -c niri                                # compositor still alive, same PID
+```
+
+`niri msg output …` is documented as temporary ("not saved into the config file") — it changes one output and cannot log the session out. Avoid `niri action reload-config` when Frank is working: it reloads his whole config.
+
+## Step 4 — persist, and check you edited the file that is actually live
+
+Live niri config is a symlink chain: `~/.config/niri/config.kdl` → `cfg/display.kdl` → `cfg/desk-<profile>.kdl`, and `cfg/desk-*.kdl` are symlinks into the repo:
+
+```bash
+ls -l ~/.config/niri/cfg/display.kdl          # -> desk-1-home.kdl
+grep -n '239\|180' ~/.config/niri/cfg/display.kdl   # prove YOUR edit is in the live chain
+niri validate                                  # parses the live config; touches nothing
+```
+
+`dotfiles/` is on the `live-sync.sh` heartbeat allowlist, so an edited tracked dotfile stays dirty until the hourly heartbeat commits it — that is the designed state, do not commit it on `main` yourself.
+
+Desk config law (its own header): panels keyed by **EDID identity**, not connector name — but connector-keyed leftovers (`DP-1`, `DP-2`) survive in `desk-1-home.kdl`, and a reconnect that comes back without an EDID string hits those instead. Align them to the same mode, or a flap silently changes your refresh rate.
+
+## Escalate honestly
+
+Reboot clears DMCUB/EINVAL state → schedule it, don't take it. Persistent drops after a reboot → cable / dock / monitor DP-version setting, i.e. hardware, not config. Report which of the three diseases you found and which you did **not** fix.
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+---
+name: observability-stack-live-census
+description: "Census the Dankclaw observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Alloy/Alertmanager/signal-relay) live and audit per-endpoint alert coverage; reconcile against the owner page and rule-file comments, which go stale."
+---
+
+# Observability stack — live census + alert-coverage audit
+
+Use when asked "status of the observability stack" on Dankclaw, or before claiming a service is/isn't monitored. Everything runs rootless on Dankclaw: `ssh dankclaw bash -s <<'EOF' … EOF`. Verify live; the owner page (`serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Observability.md`) and `shared/prometheus/rules/llm-fleet.yml` comments go stale.
+
+## Loopback ports (do NOT probe the wrong one)
+- Prometheus `127.0.0.1:9090` · Alertmanager `127.0.0.1:9093` · Loki `127.0.0.1:3100` · Alloy `127.0.0.1:12345` · signal-relay `192.168.0.143:18093`
+- **Grafana host port is `127.0.0.1:3002`** (→ container :3000). Host `:3000` is a `rootlessport` for some *other* rootless container and answers 200-on-`/` but 404-on-`/api/health`. Probing :3000 and seeing 404 is a false alarm — always use 3002 for Grafana. `GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL=https://grafana.franksdank.cloud`.
+
+## Units + containers
+`for u in prometheus grafana loki alloy alertmanager node-exporter blackbox signal-relay; do systemctl --user is-active $u.service; systemctl --user is-enabled $u.service; done`
+- Quadlet units report `generated` (healthy), not `enabled`; signal-relay is a real host unit (`enabled`).
+- `blackbox` = `not-found`/inactive → the known gap (no blackbox exporter).
+- `podman ps` for `Up N days (healthy)`.
+
+## Prometheus — targets / rules / alerts
+- Targets: `GET :9090/api/v1/targets` → `.data.activeTargets[] | .health, .labels.job, .lastError`. Expect ~8 up / 4 down. **The 4 downs are structural, not outages:** `comfyui` + two `services` (HTML content-type, no real /metrics) and `gitea` (404, metrics disabled). Root remedy = deploy a blackbox exporter (not yet present).
+- Rules: `GET :9090/api/v1/rules` → count `.data.groups[].rules`. The `llm-fleet` group is **4 alert + 2 recording** (6 total). **AGENTS.md saying "5 alert + 1 recording" is wrong** — trust the rule file.
+- Firing: `GET :9090/api/v1/alerts`; Alertmanager: `GET :9093/api/v2/alerts` and `/api/v2/silences`.
+
+## Alert-coverage per runtime — the sharp step (catches real blind spots)
+The `llm-fleet` perf alerts (`LlmRequestsQueueing`/`LlmPrefixCacheCollapse`/`LlmSpecDecodeOff`) key on the **`llamacpp:*`** family. Which endpoints actually emit it:
+```
+GET :9090/api/v1/query?query=count by (job)({__name__=~"llamacpp:.+"})
+GET :9090/api/v1/query?query=up{job=~"frank-.*"}
+GET :9090/api/v1/query?query=count by (__name__)({job="frank-archon"})   # what archon really exports
+```
+Ground truth (2026-10-20):
+- **frank-zealot** (llama.cpp) → `llamacpp:*` (17 series) → perf alerts cover it.
+- **frank-dragoon** (halogen) → still emits `llamacpp:*` (10 series; halogen re-uses the names) → perf alerts cover it.
+- **frank-archon** (radiance) → exports the **`vllm:*`** family (`vllm:num_requests_waiting`, `vllm:gpu_prefix_cache_hit_rate`, `vllm:num_preemptions_total`, **`vllm:time_to_first_token_seconds_bucket`** = a real latency histogram), **not `llamacpp:*`** → **NO perf alert fires on archon**; only `LlmEndpointDown` (`up{job=~"frank-.*"}`) catches it. Up/down yes, perf/queueing/prefix/p95 = collected but unalerted.
+- The rule-file header comment claims "frank-archon LEFT the scrape set 2026-10-05, FreeToken exports no /metrics" — **stale/false**: archon (radiance) is `up` and exports `vllm:*`. `LlmEndpointDown`'s description repeats the same stale claim. Never assert coverage from a comment; query the families.
+
+## Log pipeline emptiness test
+Loki is "configured, healthy, empty": `GET :3100/loki/api/v1/labels` → `{"status":"success"}` with **no `data` array** = 0 label names = 0 streams. Confirm: `find /opt/loki/data -name '*.tsm' -o -name 'chunks-*' | wc -l` → 0 chunks (≈8 WAL/bookkeeping files only). Alloy ships 0 lines (journal counter 0, both file globs refused per the page — a config bug, not capacity). No Loki datasource in Grafana. Report the log half as non-functional, not merely "healthy."
+
+## Reporting posture
+- Metrics half works (up/down for all 3 endpoints + node-exporter + self-scrape); log half dead-on-arrival; blackbox + archon-perf-alerts + Loki-datasource + Alertmanager-vhost are the open gaps.
+- Grafana provisioning is file-based — check `podman exec grafana ls /etc/grafana/provisioning/{datasources,dashboards}` (expect `prometheus.yml`, `llm-fleet.json`) rather than fighting the API for creds.
+- Alertmanager has no persistence: a reboot re-stamps `startsAt` on long-firing alerts.
+- Flag stale facts (AGENTS.md rule split, archon-rejoin comments) but let the user decide whether to fix docs.
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+name: omp-background-job-deadline-debug
+description: "Diagnose a background bash job/service killed mid-run (\"Command timed out after Ns\") in omp: find which deadline owned it (tools.maxTimeout cap vs async default), prove it from the bundle, and launch long jobs uncapped as ready-log services."
+---
+
+# Omp background-job deadline forensics
+
+Symptom: an async `bats`/build job dies with `[Command timed out after 300s|600s]`
+while the same launch once ran 18+ min ("no deadline").
+
+## Cause map (proven against the pinned bundle)
+Resolver in `dist/cli.js`: `let v=n??300, R=v===0, k=R?void 0:ep("bash",v,x)` where
+`qx.bash={default:300,min:1,max:3600}` and `x` = config key `tools.maxTimeout`
+("Maximum timeout in seconds the agent can set for any tool", default 0).
+- Request absent → `qx.bash.default` 300 s.
+- Request > 0 → clamped by `tools.maxTimeout` when set (e.g. 600 caps a 1800 request).
+- Request 0 → meant "no deadline", but `0` sometimes arrives as missing (falsy drop
+  upstream of the resolver) → silently 300 s. Filed as tool issue; treat any
+  async job over ~5 min as untrustworthy.
+
+## Diagnose in three moves
+1. `grep -o 'qx={bash:{[^}]*}' <omp bundle>` — policy table (`command -v omp` →
+   `readlink -f` → `dist/cli.js`).
+2. `read cfg://tools` — live `maxTimeout` (value ≠ 0 explains any hard cap).
+3. Compare kill notices: the number in "killed once it has run Ns" is the resolved
+   deadline; 300 = default reached (request dropped), other values = your request
+   or the config cap.
+
+## Launching jobs longer than the cap
+- Named **services are not deadline-capped**: `bash(name:"x", pty:false, command:"…; echo DONE >> log", ready:{log:"DONE", timeout:900})`.
+  Readiness fires on the log pattern; result does NOT auto-deliver — `wait` on it or read `proc://x` after the supervisor notice.
+- NEVER end the service command with `echo "EXIT $?" >> log` and trust the
+  supervisor's exit code — the trailing echo masks it (supervisor reports 0 while
+  the log says EXIT 1). The log line is the truth; grep the log for the recorded
+  code and `^not ok` before believing any "exit code 0".
+- Do not raise `tools.maxTimeout` unasked: session-scoped `write cfg://tools/maxTimeout`
+  needs user approval and may be declined — respect it, use the service route.
+
+## Multi-suite hazard
+Suites that rebuild shared artifacts per test (e.g. dankvoice bats rebuilds `dist/`)
+must not run concurrently — one suite at a time, or per-worktree copies only.
@@ -1,29 +1,48 @@
 ---
 name: omp-extension-stale-module-audit
-description: "Diagnose recurring omp extension handler timeouts/silence when the on-disk fix is already deployed: harness has no extension hot-reload, so running sessions freeze the module at session start (zombie modules)."
+description: "Diagnose omp extension misbehavior (handler timeouts/silence, cross-instance arbitration failures like simultaneous speech) when the on-disk fix is already deployed: running sessions hold pre-upgrade in-memory bundles; compare ps lstart against artifact mtimes and merge dates."
 ---

-Use when a fix for an omp extension is merged/deployed yet the SAME errors persist ("handler timed out after 30000ms", silence, wrong behavior) in running sessions.
+# Stale in-memory omp extension bundles

-**Core fact:** the harness loads extension `.ts` modules at session start and never reloads them (no `/reload` for extensions; bundle `reload` hits are LSP/MCP/browser only). A session older than the fix keeps executing stale code regardless of the file on disk.
+Symptom class: an extension behaves as if unfixed even though the disk artifact
+contains the fix — recurring handler timeouts, silence, or (multi-instance
+coordination features) arbitration failures that look like code bugs. Root
+cause: **omp loads the bundle at session start; `omp plugin upgrade` on disk
+does not touch the code already running in live sessions.**

-**Procedure:**
-1. Census the errors from logs, not guesses — timeout lines carry the culprit pids:
-   `grep -h "handler timed out" ~/.omp/logs/omp.<today>*.log | python3 -c 'import sys,json; rows=[json.loads(l) for l in sys.stdin]; rows.sort(key=lambda r:r["timestamp"]); [print(r["timestamp"], r["event"], r["pid"]) for r in rows]'`
-   (`~/.omp/logs/omp.<date>.<pid>.log` — the pid in the filename is the session.)
-2. Session start times vs deployed file versions:
-   `ps -eo pid,lstart,args | grep '[o]mp'`
-   `git log --format='%h %ad %s' --date=format:'%m-%d %H:%M' -- <extension path>`
-   `git reflog --format='%gd %ad %gs' --date=format:'%m-%d %H:%M' | grep merge` (live-sync pull times = when the file content changed).
-   Any session whose start time precedes the fix's arrival has the stale module.
-3. Confirm the stale revision actually contains the bad pattern — read what that session loaded, not HEAD:
-   `git show <old-rev>:<path> | grep -n 'await speak\|async (event'`
-   (e.g. an `async agent_end` awaiting a >30 s chain is exactly what the harness's per-handler `Kzc` 30 s race logs; fire-and-forget `void` is fine — detached promises are NOT tracked by the dispatch window.)
-4. Optional empirical proof when static analysis says "impossible": probe extensions through the real harness:
-   `omp -p --no-extensions -e /tmp/probe.ts "Reply OK"` with a probe that logs handler start/return and `void`s a 40 s detached promise + spawns a long child. Fast exit + no timeout log ⇒ detachment is untracked ⇒ blame stale modules, not the harness.
-5. Remediation: restart the affected sessions (kill the listed pids or their terminals — the operator session itself may be one of the zombies; say so explicitly). There is no other fix.
+## Recipe 1: date the sessions against the artifact

-**Gotchas:**
- Per-handler attribution in the log is accurate per dispatch; don't blame other extensions before checking the pid's start time.
- Endpoints healthy + silence persisting usually means TWO stacked bugs (e.g. stale awaiting module in old sessions AND a mute bug in current code) — diagnose each pid cohort separately.
- Extension chain code must use self-owned `AbortSignal.timeout(...)`, never a ctx-scoped signal: harness dispatch signals die when the dispatch window closes.
+```bash
+date
+stat -c '%y %n' ~/.omp/plugins/node_modules/<pkg>/dist/index.js   # last upgrade
+ps -eo pid,lstart,etime,args | grep 'omp' | grep -v grep          # each session's boot
+```
+
+Any session whose START predates the artifact mtime holds an older bundle —
+for it, the "fix" never shipped. When the feature landed in git, compare
+against the merge date, not the last upgrade (`git log --format='%h %cI %s'
+main | grep -i <feature>`): a session can predate the feature *existing*.
+
+Fix is always: restart (`/quit`, then `omp --resume <id>`) — resume is
+lossless. It is the user's live session; never kill it yourself.
+
+## Recipe 2: cross-process arbitration — a bypasser explains "simultaneous X"
+
+When a feature serializes across sessions via files (e.g. dankvoice stage:
+`~/.cache/dankvoice/stage/` with `lease.json` = `{holder,pid,expires}`, one
+`<ISO>-<session>.json` entry per queued item, FIFO = filename order, lease TTL
+6 s), overlap between two actors proves **at least one actor never consults
+the directory** — the mechanism can't serialize against a bypasser. Census the
+queue live (`watch -g -d 'ls <dir>; cat <dir>/lease.json'`): a live, renewing
+lease proves the new sessions coordinate; then Recipe 1 finds the bypasser.
+
+Known residual hazard to note, not silently fix: a lease heartbeat is a timer
+on the holder's own event loop; a stall longer than the TTL lets a peer steal
+the lease mid-action. Mitigation = pid-liveness check in the steal path.
+
+## Verification
+
+After restarts, the symptom must vanish while the queue shows traffic. If it
+persists, look for actors on OTHER hosts (file arbitration is per-box), or
+the TTL-steal hazard above.
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+---
+name: omp-search-provider-fallback-debug
+description: "Diagnose why the omp harness web_search silently uses a fallback provider (e.g. Kagi) instead of the configured primary (SearXNG): the fallbackChains masking pattern, the searxng.endpoint base-URL scheme/guard-chain trap, and the cli.js + content-type probes that prove it."
+---
+
+# omp web_search silently using the wrong provider
+
+Symptom: agent searches return results from a fallback provider (e.g. **Kagi**) even though
+`modelRoles.web` is set to the intended primary (e.g. `web/searxng`). The primary errors
+every time and the failure is invisible because a fallback answers successfully.
+
+## The masking mechanism (always check this first)
+
+`~/.omp/agent/config.yml`:
+- `modelRoles.web:` is the primary (e.g. `web/searxng`).
+- `retry.fallbackChains.web:` is an ordered list tried when the primary throws. The FIRST
+  entry silently serves whenever the primary errors. In this fleet it is `web/kagi`, so any
+  SearXNG error == Kagi answers and you never see an error.
+
+So "searches go through Kagi" almost always means "SearXNG is failing", not a routing mistake.
+
+## The SearXNG endpoint trap (the usual root cause here)
+
+`searxng.endpoint` in config.yml must be a **full base URL pointing at the direct JSON port**,
+used **verbatim** by omp (no scheme auto-added, no normalize — confirmed in `cli.js`). Two ways
+it breaks:
+
+1. **Bare host** (e.g. `search.franksdank.cloud`, no scheme): omp does `new URL(\`${endpoint}/search\`)`
+   → **throws** immediately (URL needs a scheme). SearXNG never contacted.
+2. **The guarded vhost** (`https://search.franksdank.cloud`): returns Anubis' **"Making sure
+   you're not a bot!"** challenge page at HTTP **200 `text/html`**. omp calls `o.json()`
+   unconditionally regardless of content-type → throws on the leading `<`. There is
+   deliberately NO API path through the guard chain (JS challenge + UA denylist).
+
+**Correct value** (direct published port, http scheme preserved — reachable from the LAN only):
+
+```yaml
+searxng:
+  endpoint: http://192.168.0.143:8081   # Dankclaw; NOT the vhost, NOT schemeless
+```
+
+The published port source (192.168.x/loopback/LAN) is in SearXNG's `pass_ip`, so it bypasses
+the JSON rate limiter (hardcoded `API_MAX=4`/IP/hr, not settable except via `pass_ip`).
+
+## Prove it (don't guess)
+
+1. Content-type probe, both paths — the decisive check:
+   ```
+   curl -sk -o /tmp/vh -w "vhost ct=%{content_type}\n" "https://search.franksdank.cloud/search?q=test&format=json"   # expect text/html (Anubis)
+   curl -s  -o /tmp/dp -w "direct ct=%{content_type}\n" "http://192.168.0.143:8081/search?q=test&format=json"          # expect application/json
+   ```
+   vhost = `text/html` + direct = `application/json` confirms the trap.
+2. Code path, in the installed omp dist (NOT a worktree):
+   `/home/blank/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js`
+   (find install: `dirname $(readlink -f $(which omp))`). Grep the SearXNG provider:
+   - `searxng.endpoint` config def → description "Base URL of a self-hosted SearXNG instance".
+   - the request builder `...=e.replace(/\/+$/,""),new URL(\`${r}/search\`)...` → endpoint is
+     verbatim, scheme NOT added.
+   - `X2c`/`J2c` → `if(!o.ok)throw` then `return await o.json()` → HTML 200 passes `.ok` and
+     blows up in `.json()`.
+
+## Apply + verify
+
+- Fix is a harness config edit (`cfg://searxng/endpoint` prompts the user, or edit config.yml).
+  Confirm with the user first — it is their live harness config.
+- Verification after applying: fire a real `web_search` and confirm it returns
+  `provider:"searxng"` (not `"searxng"`-then-fallback / not `"kagi"`).
+
+## Related gotcha (same masking, different cause)
+
+If SearXNG answers JSON but returns empty `results` with `unresponsive_engines` (VPN-exit-IP
+CAPTCHA/429 on google/brave), omp's `vcs` throws a 503 → Kagi again. That's an engine-health
+problem, fix in `[[SearXNG]]`/`[[SearXNG Providers]]`, not the endpoint.
+
+## Hardening option
+
+Drop or reorder `web/kagi` / `web/perplexity` in `retry.fallbackChains.web` so primary failures
+surface instead of silently spending a paid Kagi credit. Flag to user before editing.
@@ -1,49 +1,22 @@
 ---
 name: omp-worktree-path-gotchas
-description: "Use in ~/.omp (or any multi-worktree repo) when an edit lands in the wrong checkout, git checkout is policy-refused, or an omp session id is needed — relative-path tool resolution, shared-worktree branch law, session-id lookup, edit auto-prefix trap."
+description: "Multi-worktree edits/tests land in the wrong checkout: bash persistent-cwd drift, phantom file reverts, which tree a tool really touched"
 ---

-# Multi-worktree gotchas in ~/.omp-style repos
+## Purpose
+Answer "why did my file/tests revert or behave differently than what I just wrote?" in repos with several worktrees (e.g. `~/.omp`, `~/Projects/wt-*`, `~/.omp/wt/*`).

-Measured 2026-10-18 building PR #12/#14 in `dank/command-center` worktrees.
+## Failure modes and fixes

-## 1. Relative paths resolve to the SESSION worktree — always edit by absolute path
-`edit`/`read`/`write` with a relative `path` resolve against the session CWD
-(the harness worktree you were spawned in), NEVER the worktree you `cd`'d into
-via bash. Identical file content in sibling worktrees yields identical
-`[path#tag]` hashes, so an edit can "succeed" against the WRONG checkout with
-no warning; only a rejected stale-hash edit reveals it.
+1. **Bash tool persistent-cwd drift** (the expensive one): the persistent shell keeps its cwd across calls; a call *without* an explicit `cwd` runs in whatever the *previous* call left, which after interleaved work may be a DIFFERENT worktree. Result: reads/greps/appends hit tree A while `git`/`bats` hit tree B — symptoms are "file keeps reverting to HEAD", duplicate test names at shifting line numbers, scenario `CALLS 0` for scenarios that exist, mismatched `grep -n` vs tool-reported line numbers.
+   - **Diagnose:** `pwd` in the same call as the failing command; `wc -l <file>` in BOTH candidate worktrees; compare md5s. The file is not flapping — two files exist and commands alternate between them.
+   - **Fix/prevent:** pass an explicit `cwd` on EVERY bash call once two or more checkouts are in play; never trust a read taken without one as evidence about "the" file.

- When working in a second worktree, ALL file-tool paths: absolute.
- Symptom seen: edit rejected "hash #X is not from this session" while the
-  bash-side `git status` showed the file clean — two different files, two
-  worktrees. Recovery: revert the stray edit (CUT the inserted lines) in the
-  wrong tree, re-read the right tree, redo with absolute header.
+2. **Symlinked or stale `git` state**: `git status` in a worktree shows a clean tree while the disk file differs from what you intended — the corruption is already committed. Audit committed blobs (`git log --oneline -- <file>`; per-commit `git show <c>:<path> | grep -c <sentinel>`) instead of re-reading the disk copy repeatedly.

-## 2. Branching: shared worktrees refuse git checkout
-Workspace policy blocks `git checkout` (branch switches AND `--` discards) in
-harness-managed worktrees — concurrent agents depend on them. To start a
-branch off fresh trunk:
+3. **Same-name files across worktrees** (`tests/behavior.bats` exists in each): a `find`/`grep` rooted above the worktrees mixes copies; anchor the search path to one worktree root.

-```bash
-git -C ~/.omp worktree add -q -b <type>/<issue#>-<slug> ~/.omp/wt/<name> origin/main
-```
-
-Never force past the refusal; the new-worktree route is strictly safer.
-Custom worktrees not matching `wt/wt-*` are invisible to the live-sync reaper —
-prune them by hand after merge (`git worktree remove`, `git branch -d`).
-
-## 3. omp session id for attribution footers
-Fleet law requires `session:` in issue/PR bodies. Authoritative source:
-`~/.omp/agent/sessions/<cwd-slug>/<timestamp>_<UUID>.jsonl` — the `<UUID>` is
-the session id. Pick the newest file whose first `{"type":"title"}` line names
-this conversation to prove the id is yours. The `wt/<ts>-<hash>` dir suffix is
-NOT the session id (it persists across sessions per cwd).
-
-## 4. edit-tool auto-prefix trap (recurring)
-A body row written bare (intending it as the "original line" anchor or as
-context) is AUTO-PREFIXED with `+` and INSERTED — leaving the old line plus a
-duplicate. `PUT n.=n:` therefore behaves like insert, not replace, whenever
-the anchor row lacks an explicit marker. After any `PUT` where the response
-warns "Auto-prefixed bare body row(s)", immediately `CUT` the stale line number
-shown in the response (descending order for multiple CUTs).
+## Repair recipe for a corrupted-but-committed test file
+- Inventory both versions: `grep -o '@test "[^"]*"' | sort` and `grep -o 'case "[a-z]*":' | sort -u`; `comm` the sets to find lost scenarios and duplicate tests.
+- Rebuild from the committed copy (`git show HEAD:<path> > <path>`, no checkout), then re-apply only the true deltas: restore missing scenario blocks from the last clean base, dedupe imports, rename scratch-dir mkdtemp prefixes that collide with a test's own orphan-census glob (e.g. `dankvoice-stage-` matching `dankvoice-*`).
+- Re-run the targeted tests, then the full suite single-process.
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+name: parallel-suite-shared-db-flake
+description: "Diagnose test suites that pass isolated but fail only under concurrent/uncached runs against a shared database: cross-file teardown wipes, FK-cascaded sessions, wildcard LIKE deletes."
+---
+
+# Flaky only under concurrency on a shared DB
+
+Symptom: a suite passes `vitest run <file>` alone, fails under `turbo run test --force`
+(or any concurrent uncached runner) with impossible errors — 401 where 404 was
+expected, rows vanishing mid-test, sessions dying between two awaited requests.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Reproduce the concurrency, not the file.** Isolated runs prove nothing.
+   `bun x turbo run test --force --output-logs=errors-only` (or run the two suspect
+   files simultaneously). Never conclude "flake" from one green isolated run.
+2. **Map the impossible state to a vanished row.** 401/auth failures where the
+   session was created milliseconds earlier = the session/user row was DELETED
+   under the test, not expired. Look for writers, not readers.
+3. **Grep every suite's teardown for shared-namespace deletes:**
+   `grep -rn "TRUNCATE\|DELETE FROM\|LIKE" <pkg>/src/*.test.*`
+   The classic killer: two test files sign users up under the same domain
+   (`%@studio.test`) and each `afterAll` runs a wildcard `DELETE ... LIKE '%@...'`.
+   With parallel files on one DB, whichever file finishes first cascades away the
+   other's live rows (user FK cascades kill sessions mid-flight).
+4. **Fix = scope, never coordinate.** Each suite deletes only rows it created:
+   per-file email/id prefixes (`auth*` vs `rel*`), or track created keys and
+   `WHERE email = ANY(...)`. Timing tricks (sleeps, retry) hide the collision.
+5. **Prove stability:** 3 consecutive `--force` uncached runs green, then the
+   full gate. Cache makes everything look green; only uncached concurrent runs
+   re-exercise the collision window.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- Error signatures lie: `expected 401 to be 404` reads as an auth bug but is a
+  deleted-row cascade.
+- Supertest `cookieOf`-style helpers that THROW on missing cookies prove signup
+  succeeded — so the session died after creation; keep hunting for the deleter.
+- Shared dev DBs (one Postgres for all workspaces/worktrees) make every wildcard
+  teardown a cross-suite weapon. Suite teardowns on a shared box MUST scope to
+  rows the suite created.
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+---
+name: pdf-lib-determinism-moddate-leak
+description: "Diagnose pdf-lib output that isn't byte-identical across fetches: PDFDocument.load restamps /ModDate; fake-clock determinism test; inflate object streams to diff."
+---
+
+# pdf-lib byte-identical output: the /ModDate clock leak
+
+## Symptom
+A "reconstruct-on-read, byte-identical forever" PDF endpoint passes its back-to-back refetch test but returns **different bytes when fetches cross a wall-clock second**. Same-second fetches match; a fetch 1s later differs (often a different stream `/Length`, e.g. object stream 411→420 bytes).
+
+## Root cause
+`PDFDocument.load()` has its own `updateMetadata` option (**defaults true**) and stamps `/Info /ModDate` from the wall clock **at load time**, not just at save. `doc.save({updateMetadata:false})` on its own is not enough (and in pdf-lib 1.17 `updateMetadata` isn't even in the `SaveOptions` type — only in `PDFOptions` on `load`); passing it to `save` also fails typecheck.
+
+## Fix
+```ts
+const doc = await PDFDocument.load(templateBytes, { updateMetadata: false });
+// ... fill, stamp print layer ...
+return doc.save(); // save never stamps when load didn't
+```
+Output becomes a pure function of (template bytes, values).
+
+## Determinism test law
+A determinism test MUST straddle a time boundary. Back-to-back fetches/fills are structurally blind to per-second stamping.
+- Unit: fake the clock (`@sinonjs/fake-timers` or `vi.useFakeTimers`) → fill → jump +2 months → re-fill → `expect(Buffer.from(second)).toEqual(first)`. No sleeps, no flake window. Faking `Date` outside a test framework requires patching `globalThis.Date` BEFORE the module import that uses it.
+- Prove it red first against the old code (expect the byte/length drift).
+
+## Byte-diff forensics (when lengths differ)
+1. Dump the differing region raw: `Buffer.subarray(idx-60, idx+60)` rendered latin1 with non-printables stripped — locate the exact field (`D:YYYYMMDDHHmmss` = clock leak).
+2. If the diff is inside a compressed object stream, inflate and compare streams:
+```ts
+import { inflateSync } from "node:zlib";
+// find /Type /ObjStm ... stream chunks, inflateSync each, string-compare
+```
+3. pdf-lib escapes text-show operands — inflate + unescape `\\(\\[()\\\\]\\)` before substring-asserting printed values.
+
+## Live proof recipe
+Seed a submission, then fetch both retrieval doors at t, t+1.5s, t+3s; `sha256sum` all three → one hash. Same-second comparisons prove nothing. And kill any long-running dev service holding the app port first — a live :3000-style stack can hang or false-fail an e2e gate.
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+---
+name: pdf-widget-layer-census
+description: "Census a real-world \"flat\" PDF before assuming it needs field injection: Quartz/Preview exports often already carry an AcroForm widget layer under underscore rules; also audits pdf-lib flatten residue."
+---
+
+# Real-PDF census (widget-first, then judge)
+
+A PDF that *looks* flat (`pdftotext` shows `____` fill rules) may already contain a
+full AcroForm widget layer — macOS Preview/Quartz exports write widgets with
+transparent rects under drawn underscores. Injecting fields into such a file
+duplicates/shadows widgets. Always census before touching the pipeline.
+
+## Steps
+
+1. **Surface facts** (host):
+   ```bash
+   pdfinfo file.pdf            # "Form: AcroForm" hints at a widget layer
+   pdftotext -layout file.pdf -  # label lines + underscore rules = intended fields
+   ```
+2. **Widget census** — authoritative check. With the franksign sidecar image,
+   the image ENTRYPOINT *is* `inject_fields.py`; override it:
+   ```bash
+   podman run --rm --entrypoint python -v ~/Downloads:/in:z \
+     localhost/franksign-pdf-field-sidecar:local -c "
+   import pymupdf
+   d = pymupdf.open('/in/file.pdf')
+   for p in d.pages():
+       for w in p.widgets():
+           print(w.field_name, w.field_type_string, [round(v) for v in w.rect])
+   print('widgets:', sum(1 for p in d.pages() for _ in p.widgets()),
+         'annots:', sum(1 for p in d.pages() for _ in p.annots()))
+   "
+   ```
+3. **Fill test**: if widgets exist, `fillTemplate()` (pdf-lib) consumes the file
+   AS-IS — spec.json + sidecar are unnecessary for it. Flatten-verify below.
+
+## Flatten audit gotchas
+
+- `pdfinfo` prints `Form: AcroForm` even on correctly flattened pdf-lib output —
+  pdf-lib `flatten()` removes every *widget/annotation* but leaves the field
+  *dictionary*. Truth = MuPDF widget enumeration (0), not the pdfinfo line.
+- `describeForm(bytes, specJson)` in `packages/pdf` parses the SPEC, not the
+  PDF, for the field list — pass a spec or skip it; calling it spec-less throws
+  `JSON Parse error`.
+
+## Decision rule
+
+- widgets > 0 → the widget layer IS the spec (names/types/rects, flip y to
+  bottom-left origin); NEVER run `inject_fields.py` over it.
+- widgets = 0 → genuine flat form: sidecar injection with a spec (position
+  detection = issue #14 territory: underscore-run rects, label-derived names).
+- Missing signature widget is normal ("please sign" is prose); franksign
+  decision 19: the typed full name is the signature.
+
+## Privacy
+
+Real documents are personal: scratch copies in /tmp, placeholder fill values,
+destroy scratch (`rm /tmp/*` is fine OUTSIDE the repo; repo deletions still go
+to `.AGENTTRASH/`). Never commit the document, a spike script touching it, or
+its extracted text into the vault.
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+---
+name: radiance-decode-prefill-interference-census
+description: "Diagnose decode collapsing while another session prefills on a radiance endpoint: phase-ratio step counters, lag test, metric-prefix and scrape traps, and which knob acts on the measured mechanism."
+---
+
+Read `core/config.cpp` (help table + validator) in the PINNED image source before writing any radiance flag, enum member, or metric name into a runbook: `config_parse` refuses unknown enum values at boot, so a remembered name can make the recorded arm undeployable. Enumerate members from the validator's error string, never from memory.
+
+**Run the census on the pinned build's own metric set.** An older pin ranks the wrong mechanism: on radiance 1.0.13 the bucket table put a "collapse" on a shape whose counters did not exist yet, because every counter resets at a restart and the metric set changes with the build. Prove the window is one shape (`up`, or the first sample of a counter only the current build exports) before ranking buckets.
+
+## Step ledger first, knobs second
+
+Three counters decide which mechanism you are looking at, and none of them is a rate:
+
+- `radiance:engine_step_seconds_decode_total / engine_steps_decode_total` = mean **decode-only** step.
+- `(engine_step_seconds_total - engine_step_seconds_decode_total) / (engine_steps_total - engine_steps_decode_total)` = mean **chunk step** (a chunk alone, or a chunk with decode rows beside it).
+- `engine_steps_held_total` — if it is zero, nothing is protecting decoders.
+
+If decode-only steps stay ~15 ms while the rate collapses, the mechanism is **step-time sharing** (a decode row in a chunk step waits the chunk's whole time), and any eviction/residency story is worth ~10 % of one step. The residency half is not censusable: the arena / expert slab / heat engine / prefill stager have **no metric at all** — they are read from the boot ledger, `/stats`, and `/diagnostics`.
+
+## Bucket, then lag-test, before believing a cause
+
+Bucket `radiance:decode_tokens_per_second` by `radiance:prefill_tokens_per_second` from the *same* scrape, step ≤ 30 s (a 15 s scrape against a 120 s step samples one in eight). Per-stream rate = decode gauge ÷ `vllm:num_requests_running`; the tps gauges are ~1 s decayed batch-pooled windows.
+
+Then shift the prefill series by lags and re-bucket:
+
+- lag-0-only ⇒ step-time sharing — the chunk is holding the device.
+- a lagged tail (2–14 min) ⇒ something evicted (arena loan, expert slab, KV).
+- bursts in `vllm:num_preemptions_total` ⇒ a preempted sequence stopped and is re-prefilling from token 0: a stall, not sludge.
+
+Also bucket TTFT (`histogram_quantile` over `vllm:time_to_first_token_seconds_bucket`) by the same series: the decode gauge only sees sequences already running, so an arriving request pays the same steps and shows in no decode number.
+
+## Metric traps
+
+- **Latency is `vllm:`, cadence is `radiance:`.** TTFT / inter-token / per-output-token / e2e / decode-time histograms and the running/waiting gauges exist only under the vLLM compatibility prefix. Preemption is `vllm:num_preemptions_total` (counter); `radiance:num_requests_preempted` is the *instant* depth. A `radiance:`-only query finds no latency and no preemption and reads as "the endpoint never stalls anyone".
+- **A 2-minute mean step time dilutes the chunk** — if ~5 % of steps carry a third of the step time, `step_seconds/steps` cannot move. Use the phase ratio.
+- **`prefix_hit_cut_tokens_total` is prefill load you created yourself**: on a hybrid (linear + paged) model a hit reuses only to the last linear-state checkpoint, so cached tokens replay as prefill. A high prefill rate is not always a client sending new tokens.
+- Radiance's own step-detail histograms (`prefill_steps_duration`, `prefill_step_tokens`, `token_queue_wait`) may be exported but unscraped; per-request forensics then mean `curl localhost:7770/stats` on the endpoint's host, and `/diagnostics` answers "is the *box* the limit" in one call (configuration drift, VRAM split, per-card link chain and clocks, findings with fixes).
+- Rootless container logs: read as the deploy user (`podman logs <svc>`), never `sudo podman logs`; check where the serve script redirects before trusting a log file.
+- In a temporary/remote shell, zsh aborts on a non-matching glob — quote or guard `/sys/...` wildcards.
+
+## Knob semantics (radiance 1.8.x, GUIDE §4.5; pinned source is referee)
+
+- `--prefill-interleave N` — the **decoder dial**: N decode-only steps follow any chunk step taken beside decoders; held steps admit nothing. Costs the prefilling prompt's TTFT and a queued request its first step. Counts as `engine_steps_held_total`.
+- `--busy-prefill-chunk` — a **prefill-speed dial**, not decoder protection: `auto` reserves 1+spec rows per decoding sequence and 1/8 of the budget per waiting request, and the source refuses to halve for decode rows alone. Never below the prefill stager's smallest pass (named on the boot line) — below it every routed layer reads its pooled experts synchronously.
+- `--prefill-span N` — needs `--max-num-batched-tokens` = N intervals; re-funds a *lone* prefill only, so it cannot buy back held steps while decoders run, and its extra intervals land on the arena that the expert slab loses.
+- `--checkpoint-policy` — retention only, three names (`geometric-backoff` | `tip-only` | `keep-all`); snapshot writes happen at every interval whatever the policy says (only `--prefill-span` skips them), so `keep-all` buys a bounded replay for pinned host RAM and no extra PCIe. Shortening `--checkpoint-interval` does NOT fix deep divergence: the geometric ladder's coarsest scale is the largest `interval × 2^k` under the depth, so the deepest gap stays ≈ half the prompt while every cut multiplies the writes.
+- `--checkpoint-slots` is a **total**, `auto` = policy `held()` + 1, per `--max-num-seqs`, within an eighth of host RAM; `--max-num-batched-tokens` is the blunt rung — it raises the arena the slab loses and its resonance on an expert-tiered payload can be violent.
+
+## Verify an arm, don't assume it
+
+Flags may be passed conditionally by the serve script, so prove the flag reached argv (`tr '\0' ' ' < /proc/$(pidof <engine>)/cmdline`), then the counter the knob moves (`engine_steps_held_total` must leave zero), then the bucket pair. A deploy is not evidence a knob engaged. Rollback for each of these is its env line, not a rebuild.
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+---
+name: radiance-flag-truth-from-pinned-source
+description: "Before writing a radiance flag, value, or metric name into a runbook, prove it against the pinned image's source and the engine's own boot ledger — catches invented option names and stale defaults."
+---
+
+# Radiance flag truth from the pinned source
+
+Use when a radiance (`codeberg.org/StillDeadcode/radiance`) flag, its admitted values, a resolved
+default, or a `/metrics` name is about to go into a vault page, env comment, or arm proposal — or when
+a claim about one is being repeated from memory. Docs and old vault pages go stale; the pinned tree and
+the boot ledger do not.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Get the tree at the running version, not at master.** Read the pin:
+   `grep -E 'FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE' scripts/frank-archon.env` (digest), then
+   `ssh dank@192.168.0.235 'podman images --no-trunc | grep radiance'`.
+   `git clone --branch <ver>` (or checkout the tag) into `/tmp/rad-<ver>`. A `--depth 1` clone makes
+   every `git log -S` report its own tip — never date a flag's introduction from a shallow clone.
+2. **Flag table is the admitted set.** `core/config.cpp` holds the help strings (each option's legal
+   names/units live in the value column) and the validator branch refuses anything else at boot, e.g.
+   `--checkpoint-policy` → `geometric-backoff | tip-only | keep-all`. `core/rad_core.h` carries the
+   struct with the compiled-in defaults. `tests/config_test.cpp` asserts the admitted set — it is the
+   fastest oracle for "is `lru` a policy?".
+3. **Live argv beats the repo env.** `sudo tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pidof radiance)/cmdline` — proves the
+   knob actually reached the engine (an env var typo is invisible from the repo).
+4. **Boot ledger is the referee for every resolved number.** The engine prints its own arithmetic:
+   `ssh dank@192.168.0.235 'podman logs frank-archon 2>&1 | grep -iE "checkpoint|chunk geometry|pools|arena|stager"'`
+   (root unit, but podman storage is dank's — **no sudo**, sudo reads empty root storage). Lines like
+   *"checkpoint slots: auto: 20 … geometric-backoff keeps 9 for a 200000-token session at a 2048-token
+   interval"* are exact; quote them.
+5. **Reproduce the engine's arithmetic to check you understood it.** Reimplement the policy/geometry
+   function in a throwaway Python eval (`select()` / `held()` in `core/mem/prefix.cpp`, `plan_chunk` in
+   `core/sched/scheduler.cpp`) and confirm the numbers match the ledger line from step 4. Agreement
+   means the rule is understood; disagreement means the read is wrong. Delete the scratch after.
+6. **Metric names: query the live target, not the guide.** Latency histograms and preemption live under
+   the **`vllm:`** compatibility prefix, cadence under **`radiance:`**; preemption is the counter
+   `vllm:num_preemptions_total` while `radiance:num_requests_preempted` is an instant gauge. Enumerate
+   with `curl -s localhost:7770/metrics | grep '^# HELP'` on Dankserver, or
+   Prometheus `/api/v1/label/__name__/values?match[]={job="frank-archon"}`.
+
+## Traps that produced real errors here
+
+- A policy name invented from prose (`--checkpoint-policy floor`) would be a boot refusal; a stale
+  resolved default (`auto` = 512) had been copied between pages. Both survived only in the vault.
+- `--checkpoint-policy` governs **retention only**; snapshots are written at every interval regardless
+  (only `--prefill-span` skips writes). Read the call site (`retain()` in `core/mem/prefix.cpp`), not
+  the flag help.
+- Guide/`GUIDE.md` inside an image can be newer or older than the binary; `/diagnostics`
+  `configuration` and the ledger print the running truth.
+- Facts belong to the vault page that owns the endpoint (`serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon.md`) —
+  this skill owns the *procedure*, not the numbers.
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+---
+name: radiance-knob-arm-live-verify
+description: "Arm a radiance scheduler/cadence knob on a live endpoint and prove it engaged: per-knob /metrics meter, argv-vs-default truth, the three behaviour probes, no bench."
+---
+
+# Arming a radiance knob on a live endpoint (no bench)
+
+Use for a one-flag change on a radiance endpoint (e.g. `PREFILL_INTERLEAVE=0→1`,
+`BUSY_PREFILL_CHUNK`, `CHECKPOINT_POLICY`) under the "swap, don't instrument" law:
+edit the trio → deploy the one service → prove the flag reached the engine, the
+engine's own counter moved, and behaviour survived. Never a bench unless Frank orders one.
+
+## Before you set a value
+- **Unset means default, and the engine prints what it resolved.** Grep
+  `/proc/$(pidof radiance)/cmdline` (`sudo tr '\0' ' ' < …`) *and* the container ledger
+  (`podman logs <svc>` as the deploy user — rootless storage, `sudo podman` finds nothing).
+  The ledger line names the resolved value and whether a budget clamped it
+  (`--checkpoint-slots 20 [auto] … of a budget of 31.5 GiB, bound by None`).
+- **Prove the flag exists in the pinned build** before promising it: `--help` from the
+  running container image, not from a vendored tree. Inventing a name (`floor`) cost a
+  doc rewrite; `config_parse` refuses unknown enums at boot.
+- Some flags are conditional in the serve script (e.g. `--prefill-interleave` is passed
+  only when the env value is `> 0`), so a zero→nonzero arm adds argv; re-check argv after deploy.
+
+## Meter map (`/metrics`, names carry the `radiance:` prefix)
+| change | meter that must move |
+|---|---|
+| `--prefill-interleave` | `engine_steps_held_total` (read 0 for a 34.7 h boot while the knob sat at 0; 126 within 4 min of arming) |
+| `--busy-prefill-chunk` | `engine_prefill_chunks_capped_total` |
+| step-time contention generally | decode-only `engine_step_seconds_decode_total/engine_steps_decode_total` vs `(step_seconds_total − step_seconds_decode_total)/(steps_total − steps_decode_total)` |
+| prefix retention | `prefix_hit_cut_tokens_total` (labels: `no_snapshot`), `vllm:num_preemptions_total` |
+
+Trap: **latency lives under `vllm:`, cadence under `radiance:`.** A `radiance:`-only query
+finds no TTFT/ITP and no preemption and reads as "nothing stalls". The arena / expert slab /
+heat engine / prefill stager have **no metric at all** — that half is boot ledger + `/stats`.
+
+## Post-deploy proof, in order
+1. argv contains the flag (or the ledger shows the resolved value).
+2. `/health` 200 (`in_flight`, `queue_cap` come back in the body).
+3. Three probes on the endpoint itself: exact-reply chat (`temperature 0`, expect the
+   literal word — reasoning tokens are normal in `reasoning_content`); a `tools` call
+   expecting a real `tool_calls` object; a **solid-colour PNG via `image_url`** (never the
+   legacy top-level `images` field) with `max_tokens ≥ 512` or thinking eats the budget and
+   a thinking model reads as blind.
+4. The knob's meter left zero-state. If it didn't move, the arm did nothing — say so.
+5. Effect is judged later from real traffic buckets, not from a synthetic load.
+
+## Deploy cycle gotchas that cost the most time
+- `deploy.sh` must run from the dev checkout literally on `main`, tree clean including
+  untracked files; it pushes its own `main`. Never from an agent worktree or the target.
+- Name the service (`--service <svc>`); a bare `deploy.sh <host>` is a fleet-wide drain.
+- Health binds only after the full load (~100 s here, gate budget much larger) — 503 during
+  load is not a fault.
+- Post-deploy for a recently-benched LLM service: `systemctl show <svc> -p DropInPaths`
+  must be empty before believing anything.
+
+## Rollback
+One env line back to the previous value + redeploy the same service. Write the meter and
+the rollback into the endpoint's vault page (that page is the owner), never into a new page.
@@ -1,111 +1,39 @@
 ---
 name: radiance-kv-cache-resize
-description: "Resize the KV cache / VRAM pair on a radiance (StillDeadcode) endpoint: engine-budget-table ceiling, pool contract arithmetic, slab-slope law, ledger-first verification, free token-count probes"
+description: "Resize a radiance endpoint's KV cache/VRAM: the resolver's funding formula, which knob actually moves the carve, the pinned-RAM ledger to recompute, and the boot-ledger lines that referee the result."
 ---

-# Radiance KV / VRAM pair resize
-
-Use when changing `--vram-kv-mib`, `--vram-weights-mib`, `--max-num-seqs`,
-`--max-model-len` or `--kv-cache-dtype` on a radiance endpoint
-(frank-archon pattern), or when asked "what can we do with the free VRAM".
-
-## 1. The ceiling is the engine's, never a hand-picked reserve
-
-`rocm-smi` free space is NOT spare capacity. The boot prints a `VRAM budget,
-per card` table; read it:
+## Method
+- The endpoint is sized by ONE env file (`scripts/<svc>.env`) plus the serve script; the boot ledger prints the split before allocating anything: `VRAM budget, per card` → `claimable` → `elastic` → `experts / kv cache`, then `kv: the cache can grow to X a card -- N tokens of context, M sessions at W`.
+- **`--vram-weights-mib` / `--vram-kv-mib` no longer exist (1.8.1).** The engine REFUSES to start on them (`core/config.cpp`), so this skill has no direct KV knob; the budget resolver derives everything from the cache bound (`--max-num-seqs` x `--max-model-len`), `--gpu-headroom-mib` and `--host-pool-mib`.

+## The funding formula (radiance 1.8.1, source-cited — re-read the pinned tree before trusting it against another build)
 ```
-card total          31.86 GiB
-vram_weights        25.00 GiB   stated by --vram-weights-mib
-vram_kv              5.00 GiB   stated by --vram-kv-mib
-unclaimed            477.30 MiB  the headroom, the unusable above, rounding
-W VRAM budgets total 30.00 GiB of the card's 31.86 GiB, so 1.86 GiB is neither
-  budgeted nor accounted. The driver's context, the activation arena and
-  --gpu-headroom-mib come out of it; anything past those is throughput on the floor
-W card 0 settled at 2.01 GiB free against 209.19 MiB (the 96.00 MiB
-  --gpu-headroom-mib and 113.19 MiB kept for the static region)
+capacity = card_total - already_held - drift - headroom - arena - step_staging - hw_queues - prefetch
+elastic  = capacity - static_weights
+expert_floor = min(plane+spare, max(plane + 2*unit_max - host_room, 0))   # planner.cpp expert_vram_floor
+host_room  = host_pool_mib * MiB  (less the file tier's staging when disk tiering is on)
+kv_cap     = max_num_seqs * max_model_len          # DEMAND, in tokens
+kv         = min(kv_cap, elastic - expert_floor)   # what it actually gets
+tokens     = min over paged groups of n_blocks*block_size   # the printed number
 ```
+Read consequence: **`--max-num-seqs` raises demand, `--host-pool-mib` raises supply, and both are the same lever** — every MiB added to the host pool lowers the expert floor one-for-one and the cache takes it (up to `kv_cap`); the leftover returns to the experts. `--max-num-seqs` alone does nothing to capacity: it raises demand while the floor is unchanged, so the printed tokens stay put. The page's "funds ~91 % of demand" table rows are that cap, not a policy percentage.
+- Derive the plane from a live ledger instead of guessing: `plane + 2*unit ≈ printed_experts + host_pool_bytes`.
+- `--gpu-headroom-mib` lowers go to the cache but the engine's settle floor is built from it — 48 MiB measured decode-neutral, 24 untested. 48 is the first rung.

-`ceiling = (settled_free_MiB - engine_floor_MiB) + current_pair_sum`.
-Worked (dankserver, 2026-10-13): 29,120 + (2,058 − 209) = **30,969 MiB/card**.
-A pair at the ceiling settles ~330 MiB free at worst case. If a bound cannot be
-traced to a ledger line, it is a personal reserve — label it and put it in the
-bats gate as such.
+## Procedure
+1. Read `scripts/<svc>.env` for the current pool: `GPU_HEADROOM_MIB` (96), `HOST_POOL_MIB` (44,928 per rank), `MAX_SEQS` x `MAX_MODEL_LEN` (demand), `HOST_POOL_MIB`, `PLACEMENT`.
+2. Compute the target as tokens: tokens x bytes/token-per-card, where bytes/token = (cache_given_bytes / tokens) from the latest ledger. If the target exceeds `elastic - expert_floor`, ALSO lower `expert_floor` via `--host-pool-mib` (up = more room = fewer resident experts) — a bigger host pool buys cache only while experts remain on the card; once the host absorbs the whole plane, more host RAM buys nothing (measured: +640 MiB moved `vram_kv` byte-identical).
+3. Edit ONE knob (`GPU_HEADROOM_MIB`), deploy service-scoped: `./scripts/deploy.sh <host> --service <svc>`. The engine reloads everything (~2-4 min); the deployer's `LLM_WAIT` covers it.
+4. Re-read the ledger: `vram_kv` must be the new number, byte-exact or the knob lost to another claim; `mover: N slots can be lent` tells what the expert slab re-borrowed from the enlarged pool — that steal is the decode cost of the resize.
+5. Re-run the probe (`scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py`): depth 1.75x tokens, then the 2x refusal. Update `<svc>.md` Laws with the measured pair (tokens, given, backing %).
+6. Under-funded? Raise `HOST_POOL_MIB` in 1,024-MiB steps and redeploy; never touch demand to fake the number.

-## 2. Pool contract (the engine enforces it at REQUEST time, not boot)
+## Pinned-RAM ledger to recompute BEFORE booting (this is where a resize kills the host)
+`total_pin = tp * HOST_POOL_MIB + PLE/n-gram table + PREFIX_CACHE_MIB + (statics + arena ~2,048) + checkpoint_store`, with `checkpoint_store = slots * 111.98 MiB` and `--checkpoint-slots auto` = `max_num_seqs * (1 + what the retention policy keeps)` — **it grows with the slot count**, so a slot bump raises the pin ledger twice (state + store). The repo's bats guard recomputes this and asserts `TTM_MIN_MIB >= ledger`; when you change pool or slots, update `TTM_MIN_MIB` (and that guard) in the same commit, or the seam fails. The serve script's own gate refuses to start below `TTM_MIN_MIB`; `ttm-preflight.sh` raises the knob to `TTM_TARGET_MIB`, so the target must clear the new floor with slack.

-`pool_mib >= seqs*max_model_len*rate + 110*seqs + 448`
-
- rate/token/rank: **7,488 B fp8**, **14,144 B bf16** (1.89×, not 2× — the QSA
-  block key is 3.25 KiB at BOTH dtypes; it is an index, not attention state).
- +110 MiB a sequence of recurrent state (`kv_gdn_state` 54 MiB × 2 copies +
-  conv/tail/ple) and 448 MiB of prefix checkpoints, dtype-independent.
-
-A pool that fails this **boots, serves short chats, then 400s every long
-request** as `does not fit the 200000 token context, which leaves nothing to
-generate into` — radiance refuses, never truncates. Encode it as a bats gate.
-
-`--kv-cache-dtype` takes ONLY `bf16|fp8`, one dtype for the whole cache (no
-llama.cpp-style exact-K/quantized-V pair).
-
-## 3. Slab and KV are one budget; the slab is a SLOPE
-
- Idle KV VRAM is the expert cache's spillover: ledger
-  `mover: N slots can be lent out of the KV cache (X GiB)`. A bigger pool steals
-  residency twice over.
- Slab MiB ↔ resident experts is linear (~1,300 slots per 1,792 MiB measured);
-  the pinned host pool hands back the same slot count as the slab grows
-  (16,235→17,548 slab with 8,893→7,580 pool). The pinned RAM path is the slow
-  path, so slab MiB = throughput.
- Measured law (fp8, 43.5k single-stream, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next w4):
-  22,208 → 3,397, 24,000 → 3,290, 25,600 → **3,584**, 26,071 → **4,379 t/s**.
-  Two points inside the ±3 % noise band are NOT a plateau — never infer a
-  threshold from two arms.
- **Decode is a separate axis.** It follows KV dtype/bandwidth and draft
-  acceptance, not the slab: fp8/slab 26,071 decoded 124.1 t/s cold where
-  bf16/slab 22,208 decoded 94.1 (512 tokens, 51.5k). Slot count moves the
-  batch-shared per-stream floor (3 concurrent ≈ 6 t/s; solo ≈ 90–120).
-
-## 4. Verify: ledger first, then live probes (no scratch server)
-
-1. Deploy the service; read `podman logs <svc>`: `backs N sequences all at
-   M tokens at once` is the capacity referee; check slab slots, `unclaimed`,
-   `sampler: ... R rows` (= seqs × (1+spec), must stay inside the 25-row wht6
-   exactness bound), `settled at … free against … floor`.
-2. Boundary probe: N concurrent prompts sized to `max_model_len - gen`, each
-   with a unique marker at the head; expect N/N marker retrieval.
-3. Prefill/decode probe: repo `scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py` (reads the
-   shape from the deployed env, so it self-resizes).
-
-### Free token-count calibration (no prefill burned)
-
-`/v1/completions` refuses when **prompt tokens alone** exceed the window —
-`prompt: 202,777 prompt tokens does not fit the 200000 token context` — and the
-refusal names the count BEFORE any prefill. It does NOT fire on
-prompt + max_tokens. Corpus ratio measured: **2.7617 chars/token** (2.5714 for
-the fox filler), so a 200,000-token window ≈ 514,286–552,286 chars. Calibrate
-with a probe ABOVE the window; below it the request is accepted and pays real
-prefill (~22 s).
-
-### Probe traps that produced false results
-
- Generate **≥128 tokens** (512 preferred) for any decode number; at 8–9 tokens
-  `inter_token` is first-token noise — rates like 92.7 vs 85.8 are noise.
- Radiance `timings` can carry `null` rates — `(t.get(k) or 0)`, and
-  `j.get("timings") or {}`.
- The disk prefix cache (64 GiB) survives restarts; put a random nonce at the
-  HEAD of a "cold" prompt. A warm 197k prefill returns in ~10 s and looks like
-  a 60,000 t/s miracle.
- With thinking enabled, a small `max_tokens` yields empty `content` +
-  `finish_reason: stop` on a healthy server; set
-  `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking=false` in probes.
- `echo ===` in an ssh'd zsh dies on `=`-expansion; it silently truncates the
-  command chain.
-
-## 5. Ship
-
-`scripts/<svc>.env` pair + header, serve-script header, bats gates (pair ≤
-ceiling; pool ≥ contract), docs (runbook, `AGENTS.md` fleet row, LLM index,
-log.md), `./tests/run.sh`, `deploy.sh <host> --service <svc>`, then the probes.
-Record every prediction as falsifiable in the env comment and write the verdict
-there when the probe lands — including when it kills the prediction.
+## Traps
+- The cache is ELASTIC: the ledger's `kv cache` line is the ceiling, and `mover: ... slots can be lent out of the activation arena` (987 MiB) means the slab borrows arena first, then cache blocks. A bigger ceiling only helps if the heat engine stops re-borrowing it — check `flex_bytes`/`flex_capacity` movement after load, not just the budget line.
+- A resize that shrinks the pool mid-session preempts live sequences (`vllm:num_preemptions_total` jumps); a resize that grows it cannot retroactively un-preempt. Deploy at low traffic.
+- Do not resize the KV pool AND the expert placement in one deploy: the `experts` and `kv cache` lines move together and the attribution dies.
+- The `claimable` arithmetic (`capacity`) is computed ONCE before allocation; `card total` differs per card (26.0 vs 26.68 GiB on dankserver), so the SLOWER card's number is the budget — read the `[0]` and `[1]` `pools:` lines separately, not just the shared budget table.
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+---
+name: react-prod-state-mismatch-bisection
+description: Diagnose React SPA prod-build state mismatches (state-derived props update but sibling output stays stale) by driving a real browser and bisecting per-render state via throwaway source instrumentation.
+---
+
+# Prod React state-mismatch bisection
+
+Use when a built SPA shows an internally inconsistent DOM — e.g. `aria-current` flips
+while a sibling conditional slot stays stale, a click handler runs with zero network
+activity, jsdom tests pass but the prod journey fails. Reasoning from source fails
+here; only per-render state truth resolves it.
+
+## Steps
+
+1. **Drive the real browser, not tests.** Throwaway `@playwright/test` chromium script
+   beside the package that installs it (e.g. `tests/`), seeded via direct API calls +
+   cookie injection:
+   ```js
+   import { chromium } from "@playwright/test";   // resolve from tests/ node_modules
+   const ctx = await browser.newContext();
+   await ctx.addCookies([{ name, value, domain: "127.0.0.1", path: "/" }]);
+   page.on("console", ...); page.on("pageerror", ...); page.on("request", ...);
+   ```
+   Run it from that directory; a script at repo root or /tmp hits
+   `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` for workspace deps.
+
+2. **Fiber prop probe** — call the handler outside React events to split
+   "delegation dead" from "handler wrong", and read the props the fiber holds:
+   ```js
+   await page.evaluate(() => {
+     const el = document.querySelector('[data-testid^="thing-"]');
+     const key = Object.keys(el).find((k) => k.startsWith("__reactProps$"));
+     el[key].onClick();          // or .onChange({target:{value:"x"}})
+   });
+   ```
+
+3. **If props updated but output is inconsistent, suspect falsy-equality, not React.**
+   `undefined === undefined` yields `"true"` for `el.id === selectedId` highlights —
+   a fake "state updated" signal. Dump the slot's raw `innerHTML`, don't trust the
+   derived attribute.
+
+4. **Instruments beats deduction:** insert temporary `console.log`s in the component
+   source (one in each state-mutating callback, one at render logging the state),
+   rebuild, restart the server, re-run the script. Compare *per-render* values — the
+   render where the value is `undefined` instead of the id names the root cause
+   (usually a server payload keyed differently than the client type, e.g. DB row key
+   `orgId` crossing HTTP where the contract says `id`).
+
+5. **Also grep every suite teardown for broad `DELETE ... LIKE`/`TRUNCATE` on the
+   shared DB when a test flakes only under uncached concurrent runs
+   (`turbo run test --force`) and passes isolated:** parallel vitest files on one DB —
+   the suite that finishes first FK-cascades away the other's live sessions; the
+   symptom is a spurious 401 (or missing row) in the still-running file. Fix by
+   namespacing emails/ids per suite and scoping teardowns to rows the suite created.
+
+## Cleanup
+
+Remove instrumentation, move the throwaway script to `.AGENTTRASH/`, never commit the
+debug script. Verified on franksign: `GET /api/orgs` leaked `orgId` where the client
+contract was `id` (fake aria-current true, silent auto-select failure).
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+---
+name: real-pdf-acroform-census
+description: "Census a real-world PDF before running it through a flat→AcroForm pipeline: check for hidden widget layers, prove fill/flatten, avoid the pdfinfo ghost."
+---
+
+Census recipe for a real-world PDF arriving at a flat-form pipeline (e.g. franksign's sidecar that injects AcroForm widgets). Run BEFORE assuming the document is flat.
+
+## Sequence
+
+1. **Metadata**: `pdfinfo file.pdf` — note `Form:` line, producer (`macOS ... Quartz PDFContext` = Preview/Preview-era export), page size.
+2. **Text layer**: `pdftotext -layout file.pdf -` — underscore rules (`____`) look "flat".
+3. **Widget census (the decisive probe)** — never trust the looks:
+   ```bash
+   podman run --rm --entrypoint python -v ~/Downloads:/in:z <sidecar-image>:local -c "
+   import pymupdf
+   d = pymupdf.open('/in/file.pdf')
+   for p in d.pages():
+       for w in p.widgets():
+           print(w.field_name, w.field_type_string, [round(v) for v in w.rect])
+   print('annots:', sum(1 for p in d.pages() for _ in p.annots()))
+   ```
+   Traps: a custom ENTRYPOINT script swallows `python` as argv — override with `--entrypoint python`. Mount a directory, not a single file (MuPDF atomic-save EBUSY).
+4. **Fill live-fire**: pass the file through the fill step as-is with placeholder values; verify with `pdftotext -layout` that values land on the rules.
+5. **Flatten audit**: re-run the widget census on the output (expect 0) — do NOT read `pdfinfo`.
+
+## Laws learned
+
+- macOS Preview/Quartz exports (and most print-to-PDF paths) **already embed AcroForm widgets** under transparent rects over their drawn underscore rules. Field names are human-meaningful (`date_today`, ...). Injecting widgets over them duplicates/shadows fields — the design-time injection stage must be skipped when a widget layer exists (widget-first detection).
+- pdf-lib `flatten()` removes every **widget** but leaves the AcroForm **field dictionary**: `pdfinfo` keeps printing `Form: AcroForm` on a fully flattened file. Widget enumeration (MuPDF) is the only truth; pdfinfo is the ghost.
+- Underscore rules in the text layer are drawings, not fields; the text layer alone cannot tell flat from widget-bearing.
+
+## Verdicts
+
+- Widgets present → fill as-is; detection spec = widget layer (names, types, rects; flip top-left→bottom-left origin if the pipeline spec uses bottom-left).
+- Zero widgets → true flat form; needs position detection (underscore runs + nearest preceding label) before injection.
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+---
+name: recover-externally-reverted-file
+description: "Rebuild a worktree file that an external process (stale editor buffer, watcher) keeps reverting mid-session: idempotent script rebuild, verify, immediate commit, cat-file restore instead of checkout."
+---
+
+# Recovering a File an External Process Keeps Reverting
+
+Symptom: edits to one file flip-flop under you — grep/wc/read return two different
+versions minutes apart; tool edit warnings say "file modified externally" repeatedly;
+committed content disagrees with reads of the same path. Typical cause on Frank's
+boxes: an IDE window with a stale buffer auto-saving the old version, or another
+agent's git operation in a sibling worktree.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Stop editing surgically.** Line-anchored `edit` calls are unsafe when the disk
+   identity of the file is unstable. Take one snapshot:
+   `cp <file> /tmp/obs1.bats` (twice, a few seconds apart; differing hashes confirm the flapping).
+2. **Write an idempotent rebuild script** (`/tmp/rebuild-*.py`) that transforms
+   whichever known version is on disk into the target:
+   - every patch is `sub_if_present(pattern, exact_replacement)` /
+     `insert_before(anchor, block)` / `insert_after(anchor, block)`;
+   - each helper first checks whether the block is already present and skips;
+   - anchors must be taken from the committed/original file text, re-grepped,
+     never from memory of an edit that may have been reverted;
+   - print `ok/skip/FAIL` per patch so a mismatch is visible.
+3. **Apply + verify + commit in ONE bash invocation**:
+   `python3 /tmp/rebuild.py && <syntax check e.g. bats -c / tsc> && git add <file> && git commit ...`
+   The commit is the stable artifact; the disk is not.
+4. **Restore from git without checkout** (workspace policy blocks `git checkout/reset`
+   in shared checkouts): `git cat-file blob HEAD:<path> > <path>`.
+   Never `git checkout -- <path>` blindly — it silently nukes uncommitted work.
+5. **Run consumers immediately after the restore/commit** (tests etc. in the same
+   invocation where practical); re-check content with one hash compare
+   (`md5sum <path>; git cat-file blob HEAD:<path> | md5sum`) when results look impossible.
+6. If duplicates crept in from double-application (flapping + reruns), dedupe by
+   occurrence span (`src.find(marker)` twice, cut the second span) — full-block dedupe
+   fails when the two copies differ in a byte of comment text.
+
+## Distinguishing real failure from flapping evidence
+
+If a test fails, re-run the exact command once before believing it: the failing read
+may have run against the reverted file, not the committed one. Verify what the runner
+saw (`git hash-object <path>` vs `git rev-parse HEAD:<path>`).
+
+## Afterward
+
+Flag the reverter to the user (open editor buffer / watcher / sibling agent); do not
+fight it — commits and cat-file restores make it harmless.
@@ -1,28 +1,27 @@
 ---
 name: recover-subagent-yield-payload
-description: "Recover a subagent's full structured report when it exited without yielding (SYSTEM WARNING) — extract aborted yield payloads from the session JSONL, including harness double-encode and split-JSON quirks."
+description: "Recover or salvage subagent deliverables: missing yields, payloads misrouted to xd://report_issue, and degraded TAKEN-list echoes."
 ---

-Use when a subagent ends with "exited without yielding" yet the transcript shows it repeatedly calling `yield` (each reply "…[+N]" — payload too big for display). The research is usually COMPLETE; only the yield serialization failed. Known harness quirk: the yield `arguments` get wrapped as `{"data": "<json string>"}`, so an object payload is validated as a string → "expected object, received string" retry loop until the agent dies.
+# Recovering subagent deliverables

-## 1. Locate the session JSONL
-Transcript header prints the path: `~/.omp/agent/sessions/<cwd-slug>/<session-id>/<AgentName>.jsonl` (worktrees: cwd slug like `-.omp-wt-wt-...`).
+Three failure modes seen with scout bulk-content tasks, in order of frequency.

-## 2. Extract every aborted yield payload (Python via eval — shell quoting will mangle these)
- Parse each line with `json.loads` guarded by try/except (lines may be non-JSON).
- Keep `message.role == "assistant"` messages; in `content`, keep entries with `type == "toolCall"` and `name == "yield"`; collect their `arguments`.
- Unwrap: `arguments` may be a dict containing `data` (a JSON string) or a plain string; `json.loads` it.
+## 1. Misrouted payload: scout wrote the deliverable to `xd://report_issue`
+Symptom: yield summary says "delivered to `xd://report_issue`" instead of containing the content. That device is write-only (a bug-report channel); the response "Noted, thanks!" fooled the scout into thinking delivery worked.

-## 3. Tolerate broken JSON
-Naive `json.loads` on `data` can fail "Extra data: line 1 column ~4600" — the payload is a complete object followed by `, "architecture": ..., "report": ...}` (agent emitted a structure whose early brace-closure ended the first object). Recover with `json.JSONDecoder().raw_decode`:
-1. `part1, end = dec.raw_decode(data.strip())`
-2. `rest = data[end:].strip()` — if it starts with `,`, parse `part2 = dec.raw_decode('{' + rest.lstrip(', '))[0]`
-3. `merged = {**part1, **part2}`
-Do this for ALL yields and keep the largest merged dict (attempts evolve; keys seen: `summary`, `files`, `report`, `architecture`).
+**Salvage path (often impossible — decide fast, ≤2 probes):**
+- Transcript jsonl: `~/.omp/agent/sessions/*/*/Tan-*/Tan-*.jsonl` (glob by agent id).
+- Streamed `toolCall` blocks store only **partial arg fragments** of big writes (`arguments.content` is chunked/empty; `partialArgs` holds deltas). Reassembly of a 140-line write across ~100 fragment rows has never worked — if `content` on the toolCall rows is empty or truncated, **abandon salvage**.
+- Only reliable in-file content: final assistant text blocks — walk rows for `message.role=="assistant"`, `content[].type=="text"`, filter lines against the delivery contract regex.

-## 4. Persist and deliver
-Write the recovered `report`/`summary` to a durable file (memory dir or `local://`), then continue synthesis — never re-run the research the dead scout already did.
+**Prevention (put in scout prompts for bulk content):** "Return the deliverable as plain lines in your FINAL OUTPUT TEXT. NEVER write it to `xd://report_issue`, files, or eval state."

-## Prevention (do this first next time)
- While the agent is still alive and looping: write to `agent://<Name>` steering it to "yield immediately, wrap in minimal object or raw markdown, schema-invalid yield acceptable — I read the transcript anyway." It often still can't (the failure is in the harness wrapper, not the agent) → let it be killed and use the extraction above.
- Scout default schema wants objects; terse yields from `scout` agents hit this most. Keep expected reports slice-sized.
+## 2. Degenerate echo: scout returns the TAKEN/dedupe examples verbatim
+Symptom: candidate lines repeat the "already used" examples given in the prompt, in looping blocks. Write off that batch entirely — do not re-prompt (it repeats). Cover the cluster inline yourself.
+
+## 3. No yield at all (hung/force-stopped)
+`history://<agent-id>` renders the transcript but compresses tool payloads to "1 line" — useless for payloads, fine for status. Try `write agent://<id>` with a one-line re-emit instruction ("end your turn by yielding the lines verbatim; do not re-research") exactly once; if the reply is garbage, abandon.
+
+## Rule of thumb for bulk creative content
+Scouts add value for *terminology research* (search the universe's rank/offices vocabulary, 2-5 searches), not for drafting hundreds of lines — models echo, spin variants ("dune-mentat of the X" ×14), and misroute. Pattern: scout researches → parent drafts.
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+---
+name: repo-agent-handoff-doc
+description: "Use when asked to write or refresh a standing handoff/status doc so agents landing in a repo can continue work isolated from other directories; sections that code cannot reveal, plus moving untracked docs onto a branch without dirtying a shared checkout."
+---
+
+# Standing agent handoff doc for a repo
+
+"Put a complete handoff on project X in its directory so agents there can work
+isolated" is not a changelog request. The value is the knowledge the code cannot
+reveal. Discover the repo's own conventions first, then write one **living** file.
+
+## 0. Fit the repo, do not invent a layout
+
+`ls -a` + `grep -n '^##' README.md` + `find docs -maxdepth 2` before writing:
+- existing `docs/` conventions (dated `docs/decisions/*.md` records vs flat pages),
+- whether an `AGENTS.md`/`CLAUDE.md` auto-loads (if not, the README is the only
+  entry point → the handoff MUST be linked from it, same commit),
+- the exact numbers you will quote: per-file `grep -c '^@test'`, `package.json`
+  `scripts`, module list from `ls src/`. Never write a test count or command from
+  memory.
+
+## 1. Section checklist (point of use — each answers a question the next agent hits)
+
+1. **State line**: the commit it describes (`main` at `<sha>`, "after PRs #N") +
+   the rule that whoever leaves work updates it in the same commit. A stale
+   handoff is worse than none: it gets believed.
+2. **Commands** — build/typecheck/test with real runtime, plus concurrency
+   hazards (e.g. a suite that rebuilds `dist/` in `setup()` → two `bats` runs
+   corrupt each other's byte-identical pin).
+3. **Test seam and how to add a test** — where the harness mock lives, scenario
+   names, how scripted UI answers are consumed, env dials that are *ignored*
+   (a `setup()` that clobbers your override), and the red-first rule with the
+   one exception (a characterization test that says so in a comment).
+4. **The laws, each with the test that holds it** — table form. Distinguish
+   load-bearing invariants from incidental behaviour; this is the section that
+   stops a confident agent "fixing" a chosen design.
+5. **Worktree/dev-dir recipe** — symlinked deps, gitignore rule that keeps the
+   symlink untracked, why the shared checkout stays clean.
+6. **Ship path** — branch → tests → rebuild committed artifact → PR → merge on the
+   owner's OK → land with `--ff-only` → deploy (the gotcha that the upgrade target
+   is the PACKAGE name, not the directory alias) → `cmp` the live artifact against
+   the merged build → prune. Include the auth traps of the forge (token via a
+   600 curl `-K` file, empty token answering 404 not 401, form-encoded merge).
+7. **Live verification** — the instrument that produces evidence (stub player,
+   log line counts, pty submit semantics), and explicitly what is NOT a check
+   (print-mode invocation, screen reads of transient toasts, single-take audio
+   comparisons).
+8. **Environment reality not visible from this code** — the live endpoints,
+   measured limits, refusals; crosslink the README if it owns the table.
+9. **Open items** — numbered, each actionable alone, each saying who decides if a
+   human must; name the repo a fix belongs in when it is NOT this one.
+10. **History** — one line per issue/PR. No tables of metrics.
+
+One owner per fact: link the README/decision records instead of restating knob
+tables or rationale.
+
+## 2. Tree hygiene (the costly step)
+
+Writing straight into a shared checkout leaves an untracked file on `main` — a
+half-deployed state where the checkout is the deployment, and a dirty tree for
+everyone else. Move it onto a branch without switching anyone's HEAD:
+
+```bash
+mv <repo>/docs/handoff.md /tmp/handoff.md
+git -C <repo> fetch -q origin
+git -C <repo> worktree add -q -b docs/<slug> ~/Projects/wt-<topic> origin/main
+ln -s <repo>/node_modules ~/Projects/wt-<topic>/node_modules   # if deps are needed
+mv /tmp/handoff.md ~/Projects/wt-<topic>/docs/handoff.md
+git -C <repo> status --porcelain                              # shared checkout clean again
+```
+
+README pointer edit happens **in the worktree** (an edit there is a separate
+checkout; editing the shared one dirties a tracked file). Then commit, run the
+suite, push, open the PR, and merge only on the owner's explicit OK.
+
+## 3. Voice rules
+
+Prose in the repo's own style (match an existing decision record). State reasons
+and consequences, not bookkeeping. No measured numbers for things that drift;
+keep the law, drop the figure.
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+---
+name: rescue-loose-home-scripts
+description: "Promote a durable loose $HOME script into dank/command-center: archive-first, black-box bats red-first with env seams, docs page + index + log entry, one atomic commit per instrument, PR to main."
+---
+
+Rescue a throwaway-looking `$HOME` script into the command-center repo as a maintained instrument. Used for `remote-job.sh` + `scripts/probes/*.hip` (PR #54, Refs #53); the archive still holds ~120 candidates.
+
+## 1. Archive first, never delete
+
+Loose scripts at `$HOME` root move to `~/.AGENTTRASH/home-scripts-<date>/` (`rm` is forbidden; deletion is a pruning session with Frank). Consolidate bulk media separately (`~/audiosamples`). Then check the archive for **instruments**, not convenience: something that answers a question you will ask again, or that carries a trap you paid for.
+
+## 2. Tests first, and black-box
+
+Write `tests/<name>.bats` before the script; confirm red (`bats tests/<name>.bats` → all `not ok` because the script is absent).
+
+- Assert **output, exit codes, and on-disk ordering** only — never internals, never "variable X equals Y".
+- A test that asserts a race outcome (file exists immediately after a detached `start`) is wrong: assert the *contract* instead (`status` reports RUN/PENDING and exits 1). Rewrite the test, not the code, when the failure is your own assumption.
+- Design env seams **so the untestable path becomes testable off the target hardware**: `*_SYSFS`, `*_KFD`, `*_HIPCC`, `*_SRC`, `*_BUILD`. A refusal that can only be exercised on a card box is an untested refusal. Stub the toolchain in `$PATH`/via env to drive build-failure and busy-device paths.
+
+## 3. Safety law in the tool, not the docs
+
+Anything that measures a GPU must **refuse before it builds or runs** when the device is busy (`gpu_busy_percent` over threshold, or any process holding `/dev/kfd`) and must **stop nothing**: unloading a production endpoint is a human decision (`--force`). Pin the refusal-before-build ordering in a test — otherwise a reordered guard silently reintroduces contention beside a live service.
+
+Exit-code taxonomy worth reusing: `0` did the work · `2` usage/missing inputs · `3` refused (would have contended) · `4` toolchain/build failure. A client box without the SDK must exit 4 loudly, never report an empty success.
+
+## 4. An instrument that crashes is not an instrument
+
+`hipGetDeviceProperties` **segfaults** on the fleet's ROCm build while `hipGetDeviceCount` works fine. The shipped probes called it only to print device name + PCI bus id — replaced by the sysfs topology block the driver prints (`current_link_width`/`current_link_speed` vs `max_*`). Record the trap as a comment in the sources so it is not reintroduced.
+
+## 5. Docs, three places, in the same commit as the code
+
+- `omp-docs/tools/<name>.md` — frontmatter per OKF (`type: reference`, title, description, tags, `verified`, `timestamp`); sections: contract (command table + exit status), the law + why, how to read the output, failure-modes table, test seams. Point-of-use only: measured numbers do **not** live here (they belong with the endpoint's runbook vault).
+- `omp-docs/tools/index.md` — one alphabetical bullet per page.
+- `omp-docs/log.md` — dated entry above the newest one: what changed + the durable laws, a few lines.
+
+Gates before commit: `bash scripts/kb-lint.sh` (0 violations) and full `bats tests/` green.
+
+## 6. Land it
+
+One commit per instrument (stage that page's index line only — re-add the next page's line for its own commit), message = imperative what + why + `Refs #N`, hooks armed (never `--no-verify`). Push to the local Gitea, open the PR with `gitea-pr-api-cycle` (token from `~/.config/secrets/gitea` via curl `-K`; body ends with `---` then `cwd: <session cwd> · session: <live transcript UUID>`), then `xdg-open <PR-URL>`. **Never merge without Frank's explicit OK.**
+
+## 7. Report the gap you could not close
+
+Verification on a client box proves the guard/refusal/usage paths only. If compile-or-run needs the hardware box, say so in the PR under "Not done here" and offer the exact low-risk command rather than implying the artifact is proven.
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+---
+name: rng-pool-sweep-blackbox-test
+description: "Prove membership/absence in a randomly sampled pool (epithets-style) from black-box tests: prime-cycled Math.random sweeps every index; pool-first probe for setting precedence."
+---
+
+# Deterministic pool sweeps for random-sampling black-box tests
+
+When a built bundle samples uniformly at random from a curated pool (epithet-style) and tests must prove a setting admits/excludes whole classes of pool entries, do NOT write probabilistic sampling tests. Two proven designs:
+
+## 1. Full-pool sweep (class membership, distinct counts)
+
+In the test driver (the process that imports the built bundle), before firing utterances:
+
+```ts
+let seed = 0;
+Math.random = () => (seed++ % PRIME) / PRIME; // PRIME > pool size, e.g. 1009
+```
+
+The extension calls `Math.random()` at speak time, so the patch applies regardless of import order. Picks are `floor(random * poolSize)`; with N=PRIME samples the step is `< 1`, so **every index of every pool ≤ PRIME is visited exactly once**. Observable per-utterance text (e.g. the fixture server logs the synthesized `input=`) then reveals the entire sampling pool:
+
+- distinct picks == pool size exactly (pin the total only if it is itself law);
+- a sentinel name from class X appears / must never appear per mode — deterministic, zero flake;
+- absence proofs are exhaustive, not lucky.
+
+Drive one narration per iteration and gate the loop on the fixture's call counter advancing (`while (speechCount() < before + expected) await nap(2)`), otherwise typed/coalescing paths collapse iterations and counts drift.
+
+**Wall-clock budget:** one sweep ≈ 20–40 s per pool; bats serializes and jobs cap at 600 s — run at most two sweeps per backgrounded bats `-f` selection, or launch full suites with `timeout: 0`.
+
+## 2. Pool-first probe (setting precedence, milliseconds)
+
+With the same patched RNG, the FIRST pick is `pool[0]`. Run each config mode with exactly one utterance and compare the first spoken name:
+
+- mode-A setting vs env-mode-A → equal (settings key honored);
+- env-X overriding file-Y → equals env-X's pick (precedence law);
+- pick strings are pool literals that live in exactly one class (e.g. `comrade operator`).
+
+Avoid: regex scans over spoken text (possessives/compounds false-fire), probabilistic "absent in 300 samples" tests (flake floor unless the block is contiguous), and reading source internals (white-box).
+
+Red-first check: the sweep test for a not-yet-filtered pool must fail by SPEAKING the forbidden sentinel — if a "new mode" test passes pre-implementation, the probe accidentally tautologized (e.g. old pool[0] == new pool[0]); pick probe literals whose values differ between old and new behavior. Beware bats `setup()` rebuilding the bundle per test file: a long first sweep lets mid-session src edits leak into later tests' "red" proof — prove red from a pristine tree before implementing.
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+---
+name: rootless-to-root-quadlet-journal-read
+description: "Convert a rootless Podman Quadlet (e.g. Alloy) to a ROOT system service so it can read the host journal — the machine-id mount, Network=host for loopback-published Loki, root image mirror, and the user-unit cutover. Use when an sd_journal/loki.source.journal reader ships zero lines with a green health check."
+---
+
+# Rootless→root Quadlet so a container can read the host journal
+
+Symptom: a rootless Quadlet that scrapes the systemd journal (`loki.source.journal`,
+any `sd_journal` reader) ships **zero** lines — silently, `health` green,
+`loki_source_journal_*_lines_total 0`, no error in the log.
+
+## Why (proven)
+- Journal files are `root:systemd-journal 0640` (`group:adm`, `other::---`). A rootless
+  container spawns with no supplementary groups → `sd_journal` opens an empty view.
+  Proof a rootless read is denied: `podman run --rm -v /var/log/journal:...:ro busybox
+  cat /var/log/journal/*/*.journal` → `DENIED`.
+- Rootless Quadlet **container** logs also live in `user-<uid>.journal` (journald log
+  driver), not `ctr.log`. A system-journal-only read misses them.
+
+## The shape that works (root, not rootless)
+Run it as a **root system Quadlet** (`/etc/containers/systemd/<svc>.container`,
+`WantedBy=multi-user.target`). Root's DAC override opens every journal file, so one
+`loki.source.journal` reads `system.journal` **and** `user-*.journal` together.
+
+Four load-bearing bits (all validated on Dankclaw Alloy 2026-10-20):
+1. **`Volume=/etc/machine-id:/etc/machine-id:ro`** — the single biggest gotcha.
+   `sd_journal` locates the journal dir by the *local* machine id; without it the
+   container opens **nothing** and reads exactly 0 lines, health green. A root probe
+   without it = 0; with it = 31,825 lines in 20s.
+2. **`Network=host`** — if the sink (Loki) publishes `127.0.0.1:3100` (loopback), no
+   bridge container (root or rootless) can reach the host loopback; `host.containers.internal`
+   and the LAN IP are both refused. Host network + push to `http://127.0.0.1:3100`.
+   Side effect: bind the app UI to `127.0.0.1` (no `PublishPort`) so it stays loopback-only.
+3. **`/var/log/journal` + `/run/log/journal`** mounted `:ro`.
+4. **Image must be in the ROOT store.** A root `podman build` runs in the build
+   container's own resolver and fails DNS here. Build rootless, then mirror:
+   `podman save -o t.tar <ref> && sudo podman load -i t.tar`. Compare image ids so a
+   rebuild actually re-lands (stale root tag is a silent footgun).
+
+## Deployer cutover (retire the rootless unit FIRST)
+Both the user and system managers generate `<svc>.service`; two containers named
+`<svc>` both binding the same loopback port cannot coexist. Before starting the system
+unit: `systemctl --user stop <svc>.service`; `mv` the user quadlet out of
+`~/.config/containers/systemd/` (it regenerates from there) to `~/.AGENTTRASH/<date>-<svc>-root-cutover/`;
+`systemctl --user daemon-reload`. Then install to `/etc/containers/systemd/`,
+`sudo systemctl daemon-reload`, `sudo systemctl restart <svc>.service`. Generated
+(system) units cannot be `enable`d here — boot persistence is the `[Install]` section.
+
+## Probe the exact command BEFORE writing the unit
+`sudo podman run --rm --net=host -v /etc/machine-id:...:ro -v journal mounts
+  <image> run --server.http.listen-addr=127.0.0.1:<free-port> <config>` — pick a FREE UI
+port (the deployed instance already owns the real one; a bind conflict reads as
+"reads 0 lines", not "port in use"). A squashed one-line River/HCL block is invalid —
+attributes need newline terminators, or the probe dies before reading anything.
+
+## Verify (query gotchas that caused false "empty" reads)
+- `loki_source_journal_target_lines_total` must climb.
+- Loki `/loki/api/v1/query_range` returns `values` as `["<ts_ns>","<line>"]` **arrays** —
+  grep `"ts"` finds nothing; the data is there. `/series` defaults to a short index window
+  and can read empty while recent data is queryable. Use a wide `start`/`end`, no `direction`.
+- A fresh journal reader replays the whole persistent journal from the oldest; Loki
+  `reject_old_samples` + the per-tenant rate limit discard old/throttled entries
+  (`loki_discarded_samples_total{reason="rate_limited"}`) without counting as writer
+  drops. It self-clears once it reaches the tail; raise the ingestion rate to speed it or
+  start at the head to skip.
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+---
+name: rotate-fleet-service-host-secret
+description: "Rotate a Dank-fleet rootless-quadlet service's host-side secret (e.g. open-notebook OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD) safely: confirm the deployer's secret seeder is idempotent first so a future deploy won't clobber the new value, change ONLY the target line while holding encryption keys byte-identical, then restart the user unit and prove the rotation (new token 200, old token 401, no token 401). Not for git/Gitea tokens or LLM endpoint secrets."
+---
+
+# Rotate a fleet service's host-side secret safely
+
+Host secrets live OUTSIDE the repo, in `/home/dank/Containers/<svc>/env` (mode 600). The repo only holds the knobs (`scripts/<svc>.env`, secrets declared EMPTY). Changing a secret = edit the host file, never the repo.
+
+## 1. First: prove the deployer won't clobber it (MANDATORY)
+`deploy-remote.sh` seeds some secrets from `dankclaw/.env`. Confirm the seed fn is **idempotent** before editing, or a later `deploy.sh` overwrites your value. In `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`, `seed_<svc>_env` must look like open-notebook's:
+
+```bash
+for var in A B C D; do grep -q "^${var}=." "$dest" 2>/dev/null || missing=1; done
+[[ "$missing" == 0 ]] && return 0          # all present → leaves the file untouched
+if [[ ! -e "$dest" ]]; then ...seed from dankclaw/.env...; fi
+```
+
+If it returns-early on all-present, editing `$dest` directly is deploy-safe. If it seeds unconditionally, edit BOTH the host file and `dankclaw/.env` instead.
+
+## 2. Read, then rewrite only the target line
+`read ssh://<host>/home/dank/Containers/<svc>/env` (never print secrets to chat — they leak into the transcript). Then `write ssh://...` overwriting with **all** lines, changing only the one secret. **Hold encryption keys byte-identical** (e.g. `OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENCRYPTION_KEY`): a DB-encrypted credential store is unreadable if that key changes. Then `chmod 600`.
+- ssh:// `read` emits NO edit tag, so the `edit` tool can't target it — use `write` (full overwrite) with the exact values from the read.
+
+## 3. Restart the right unit
+Rootless quadlets are USER units: `ssh <host> systemctl --user restart <svc>.service`. (systemctl --user works over plain ssh here — linger + bus are set up.) Restart only the app unit; DB password unchanged means the DB unit needs no restart.
+
+## 4. Prove the rotation behaviorally (this is the smoke test)
+Hit a protected API route three ways, expecting **new=200 / old=401 / none=401**. Pass the bearer via a mode-600 curl config + `-K` (never `-H "Bearer …"` — argv leak):
+
+```bash
+ssh <host> 'cfg=$(mktemp); chmod 600 "$cfg"
+printf "header = \"Authorization: Bearer %s\"\n" "<new-or-old>" > "$cfg"
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -K "$cfg" http://127.0.0.1:5056/api/<protected>'
+```
+
+## Gotchas that bit
+- **Health is on the API loopback port, not the web port.** open-notebook: `/health` answers on **127.0.0.1:5056** (the FastAPI), NOT `:8502` (Next.js, which 404s `/health`). Probing the wrong port reads as "service failed" when it's up and `healthy`. Excluded/auth-free paths (`/`, `/health`, `/docs`, `/openapi.json`, `/redoc`) — everything else needs the bearer.
+- **`OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD` unset = auth OFF** for anything that can reach the port (other containers dial it by name on `dankclaw_default`), so it's mandatory, not cosmetic; deployer refuses to start on blank.
+- Browser/clients keep the old secret in localStorage → they 401 on next call and re-prompt. Expected.
+- **Harness command-parser gotcha:** adjacent/interleaved single+double quotes in one bash line (`'...'"$x"'...'`) crash `pi-natives:command: unterminated quote`. Build a curl-config `header=` line with the proven single-quoted printf (`printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$tok"`) and put long bodies in a file via the `write` tool + `jq --rawfile`, not a giant inline `$(printf …)`.
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+---
+name: run-e2e-specs-from-isolated-worktree
+description: "Run serverAppConfigs Playwright e2e specs against the live fleet from a feature branch when git checkout is workspace-policy-blocked — isolated worktree + symlinked deps, with the variadic --project and gitignored-auth traps."
+---
+
+## When
+
+You are authoring/verifying a `tests/e2e/*.spec.ts` change for `dank/serverAppConfigs` and the shared workspace blocks `git checkout` / branch switch (concurrent-agent safety). You must run the new specs against the LIVE fleet (they are guard-chain tests: Anubis PoW + authentik outpost + app) but a fresh worktree has no `node_modules`, no `.auth`, and no `.env.local`.
+
+This is NOT `deploy.sh` (which runs the full e2e gate itself from the main-tracking checkout — see `serverappconfigs-deploy-execution-context`). Use this to iterate/verify individual specs on a branch before opening a PR.
+
+## Setup the worktree
+
+The main deploy checkout (has the deps + auth state) is `/home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig`. Branch off `origin/main` into a throwaway worktree:
+
+```bash
+git -C <repo> worktree add -b feat/<topic> /tmp/wt-<topic> origin/main
+ME=/home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig/tests/e2e
+ln -sfn "$ME/node_modules" /tmp/wt-<topic>/tests/e2e/node_modules
+cp -r "$ME/.auth"          /tmp/wt-<topic>/tests/e2e/.auth
+cp    "$ME/.env.local"     /tmp/wt-<topic>/tests/e2e/.env.local   # gitignored
+```
+
+- **`.env.local` is mandatory** — without it the config throws `missing E2E_STANDARD_USER — set it in tests/e2e/.env.local or the environment` at load, even for `--list`. It is gitignored (a bats seam forbids tracking it), so a fresh worktree never has it.
+- `.auth` holds `qa-e2e.json` / `qa-e2e-admin.json` (the `standard`/`admin`/`guest` storage states); copying it avoids re-login, though the `setup` project refreshes it anyway.
+- The node_modules symlink resolves fine for playwright.
+
+## Validate wiring before running
+
+```bash
+cd /tmp/wt-<topic>/tests/e2e && npx playwright test --list
+```
+
+Confirms your new spec's NUMBER PREFIX is matched into a project. **A spec whose prefix is not in any project's `testMatch` silently never runs** — a green suite with a test that does not exist. The gate is the bats seam `tests/e2e_scaffold.bats` → "every e2e spec is matched by a playwright project". So a new spec `21-foo.spec.ts` MUST also edit `playwright.config.ts`'s `standard` (or other) `testMatch: /(10|12|...|21)-.*\.spec\.ts/`.
+
+## Running — the `--project` trap
+
+`--project` is **variadic**: the space form swallows the positional filters as extra project names.
+
+```bash
+# WRONG: "21-notebook" parsed as a second project → Project(s) not found
+npx playwright test --project standard 21-notebook 22-foo
+
+# RIGHT: equals form, then positional title/file filters
+npx playwright test --project=standard 21-notebook 22-foo
+npx playwright test --project=guest 14-guard -g "notebook.franksdank.cloud is gated"
+```
+
+`standard`/`admin`/`guest`/`frankbook` all `dependencies: ["setup"]`, so `00-auth.setup.ts` runs first and logs in the qa-e2e accounts (~24 s each). Expect ~50 s wall for a couple of specs.
+
+## Verify the spec is meaningful, not vacuous
+
+These specs prove the guard chain handed off to the **app**, so assert a positive app marker (title / app content string / the app's own API returning `status:"success"`), never just `status < 500` or "not the IdP shell" — the latter passes on a 404 or a parked login wall (the 13-sso / 17-hermes class of silent-green bug).
+
+## Cleanup
+
+```bash
+git -C <repo> worktree remove --force /tmp/wt-<topic>   # symlink + copied auth are throwaway; branch already pushed
+```
+
+Full `./tests/run.sh` (bats, incl. `e2e_scaffold`) must pass before commit; the deploy's own Playwright gate is the canonical live run after merge.
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+---
+name: serverappconfigs-deploy-execution-context
+description: "Run scripts/deploy.sh for serverAppConfigs from the correct checkout: must be a clean dev-side main branch, never a feature worktree, and how to get there when the session worktree sits on another branch."
+---
+
+# Run scripts/deploy.sh from the correct checkout
+
+`deploy.sh` hard-refuses outside a clean `main` checkout (`FAIL: deploy.sh must run from the main branch.`, exit non-zero) — and this box has several serverAppConfigs checkouts.
+
+## The map (dev box, verified 2026-10-21)
+
+- **Canonical dev main checkout: `/home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig`** — the ONLY place `deploy.sh` may run. It holds the `main` branch worktree (git refuses the same branch checked out twice, so session worktrees can never satisfy the gate).
+- `~/.omp/wt/wt-<...>` session worktrees: often parked on unrelated feature branches with uncommitted work — never deploy from here; do not `git checkout` here (workspace policy blocks it in shared trees).
+- `/tmp/wt-*` build worktrees: correct place to edit/test/PR, wrong place to deploy (branch != main by design).
+
+## Procedure
+
+```bash
+cd /home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig
+git pull --ff-only origin main          # deployer must carry the merged commit
+./scripts/deploy.sh <target> --service <svc>
+```
+
+Merge lands on origin/main first — deploy runs AFTER the PR is merged (ff-pull picks it up). Each invocation costs ~2 min (e2e gate ≈ 1 min + health gates); chaining several `--service` runs in one bash call is fine, but background it (`| tail` per service) so the harness doesn't stall the turn.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- `worktree add -b main /tmp/...` fails (`a branch named 'main' already exists` / `already used by worktree at /home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig`) — that IS the answer: don't mint a main clone, use the canonical path. Prune leftovers: `git -C /home/blank/Projects/serverAppConfig worktree prune`.
+- The remote runner updates its OWN checkout (embedded ff-only pull before dispatch), so shipping a brand-new service handler works: the remote gate is evaluated against freshly pulled code. Only the CLIENT gate (deploy.sh `valid_service`) can veto a first-ever deploy — see skill `new-fleet-service-checklist`.
+- Bare `deploy.sh <target>` = fleet-wide drain (restarts every lagging service marker). Always `--service`.
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+---
+name: shell-suite-green-locale-proof
+description: "Proving a bats/shell suite is actually green (grep, never tail) and debugging generated output that silently loses content under LC_ALL=C (multibyte quantifiers in awk/grep). Use when reporting \"suite green\", or when a generator emits partial output with exit 0."
+---
+
+# Proving a suite is green, and locale-blind generators
+
+Two failure modes earned on `dank/command-center` (2026-10-20): a false "all tests pass"
+report, and a generator that silently dropped a third of its output.
+
+## 1. Never report green from a `tail` window
+
+`bats tests/ | tail -25` shows the last tests, not the failures — `not ok` lines print
+inline at their position and vanish off the top. A "109 ok, 0 failures" claim built this
+way was wrong; the claim had to be corrected in the merged PR's body.
+
+```bash
+out=$(bats tests/ 2>&1)
+printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -cE '^ok'        # passing count
+printf '%s\n' "$out" | grep -E '^not ok'     # THIS is the claim; empty == green
+```
+
+Also: a suite can be green under the operator's terminal and red under a C locale, so
+run both before writing "green" in a PR body:
+
+```bash
+env -u LC_ALL bats tests/    # operator's locale (LANG from the desktop session)
+LC_ALL=C bats tests/         # cron, systemd user units, agent shells
+```
+
+State which locale each number came from. Agent shells in this fleet run `LC_ALL=C`
+even when `LANG=en_US.UTF-8` — `LC_ALL` overrides everything.
+
+## 2. Multibyte quantifiers silently truncate generated output
+
+A quantifier on a multibyte character (`─+`, `━+`, `→*`) breaks under `LC_ALL=C`: gawk
+matches byte-wise, so `─+` means "the last byte of U+2500, repeated", which never occurs
+in real text. Symptom: output loses *every* match — sections, headers, rows — with
+**exit status 0**. No error, no partial-write warning.
+
+```bash
+# broken under C
+awk '/^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*─+ (.+) ─+[[:space:]]*$/'
+# byte-safe in every locale: match the multibyte char as a LITERAL, no quantifier
+/^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*─/ {
+  s = $0; sub(/^[[:space:]]*\/\/[[:space:]]*/, "", s)
+  if (s ~ /─ .*─/) { gsub(/─/, "", s); gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, " ", s) }
+}
+```
+
+Do NOT "fix" it by pinning a locale (`LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8`) — that locale may not be
+installed; a CachyOS box here shipped only `C.utf8`. Make the matcher locale-independent.
+
+## 3. Prove the loss, don't infer it
+
+Diff old vs new against real input in both locales, with counts, before claiming a fix:
+
+```bash
+git show origin/main:scripts/gen-keybinds.sh > /tmp/old.sh
+for L in C C.utf8; do
+  printf '%s: old=' "$L"; LC_ALL=$L bash /tmp/old.sh "$REAL" | grep -c '^## '
+  printf        ' new=';       LC_ALL=$L scripts/gen-keybinds.sh "$REAL" | grep -c '^## '
+done   # old printed 0 sections vs 12 under C, 120 rows intact, exit 0
+```
+
+Check whether a *committed generated artifact* was produced by a bad run — if it has the
+full content, it came from a UTF-8 shell and needs no regeneration.
+
+## 4. Gates must not demand deletion
+
+Repo linters walking `.AGENTTRASH/` (quarantined, gitignored) turn green only once the
+quarantined page is deleted — an incentive to destroy history. Skip any path containing
+`.AGENTTRASH` in both the linter and the coverage checker, and pin it with a test.
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+---
+name: single-work-log-bundle-rule
+description: "A bundle keeps ONE work log — the entry law, the one-file rule, and the kb-lint gate that fails a second log.md. Use before writing any log entry or creating log.md/NOTES.md/PROGRESS.md/worklog anywhere."
+---
+
+A bundle keeps ONE work log. Before writing any log entry, or creating any file named `log.md` / `NOTES.md` / `PROGRESS.md` / `STATUS.md` / `worklog/`, use this: the entry law, the one-file rule, and the `kb-lint.sh` gate that fails a second log. Law earned 2026-10-20 on `dank/command-center` PR #57, after an agent had once kept logs in fifty-odd files and none of them was the place to look.
+
+# One work log per bundle
+
+## The rule
+
+- **One file, at the bundle root.** In `dank/command-center` that is `omp-docs/log.md`. In another repo, the change-log page its docs index names. A subdirectory NEVER keeps its own log, and no run/branch/feature gets a private one.
+- **Write it in the same commit as the change it describes; read it before starting** to recover where things stand.
+- **Entry = what changed + the durable lesson, a few lines.** No per-file inventories, no run-by-run numbers, no transcripts, no re-expanding an old entry in place — `git log --follow <log>` is the transcript.
+- **No log page in the KB?** Add one at its root and list it in the index. That is the fix — never a log somewhere else.
+- Measured numbers in a log still have to pass the purpose test (`agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md` § 1): a figure for a model/runtime/hardware config that is neither deployed nor being compared is dead weight — delete it, do not archive it.
+
+## The gate
+
+`scripts/kb-lint.sh` reports any `log.md` that is not the bundle root's:
+
+```
+a bundle has one work log, log.md, at the bundle root; found: core/log.md, log.md
+```
+
+`scripts/kb-coverage.py` enforces the other half of "one place to look": every directory has an `index.md` and that index links its siblings. Both gates skip any path containing `.AGENTTRASH` — quarantined pages are not bundle content, and a gate that only goes green once the quarantined copy is deleted is a gate that deletes history.
+
+Run both before committing a docs change:
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/kb-lint.sh omp-docs && python3 scripts/kb-coverage.py omp-docs
+```
+
+## Folding a second log in (the procedure)
+
+1. **Prove it is redundant, don't assert it.** Read the candidate: its entries are usually migration bookkeeping (file moved, directory created, log created) — every one recoverable from `git log`, so it carries no fact git lacks.
+2. **Check whether the copies disagree.** The two logs in command-center gave the same OKF conversion two different dates (2026-07-15 vs 2026-01-15) while git dated the rebuild 2026-08-28: duplicated logs do not preserve facts, they multiply errors.
+3. **Fix what pointed at it.** The stale page stays in circulation because an index links it — repoint `core/index.md` (or whichever index) at the root log in the same change.
+4. **Quarantine, never `rm`:** `mkdir -p <dir>/.AGENTTRASH && mv <dir>/log.md <dir>/.AGENTTRASH/log.md`, then `git add -A <dir>` so git records the deletion while the copy waits for a pruning session with Frank.
+5. **Write the entry in the surviving log**, law-first: what changed, then the durable lesson, then links to the spec pages now carrying the law.
+
+## Traps
+
+- The spec called `log.md` a *reserved* name and maintenance said every bundle "has one" — which reads as "any directory may have one". Reserved ≠ replicable; say **exactly one, at the root** wherever the spec is stated, or the sprawl regrows from the spec itself.
+- An OKF maintenance page teaching "one line per change with file path" (exampled as `/docs/ghostty.md — Updated keybind table`) produces manifests that duplicate git and absolute links the linter cannot resolve. Replace the instruction; do not add a second, conflicting one beside it.
+- Trashing a page turns gates red if they walk `.AGENTTRASH/` (frontmatter demanded of a quarantined page, an index demanded *for the trash dir*). Fix the gates; never delete the quarantined copy to go green.
+- Deleting the log file in a worktree does not preserve it: a copy moved into a gitignored `.AGENTTRASH/` inside a worktree is destroyed when the worktree is removed. Copy it to the deployment (or `~/.AGENTTRASH/`) before pruning.
+- Verify the rule is actually live in a fresh session — a subagent reading `~/.omp/agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md` and quoting the law back proves the deployment, which the current session cannot do for itself (its prompt was built before the change).
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+---
+name: verify-subagent-review-findings
+description: "Before presenting subagent code-review findings, mechanically verify each claim against the repo; scouts fabricate confident findings (fake spec quotes, misread listings, pre-diff code called new)."
+---
+
+# Verify subagent review findings before aggregating
+
+Parallel review subagents (standards/spec axes) return confident, fabricated findings. Never launder them into the report unverified. Observed failures: listing existing story files "as the missing ones"; quoting an unrelated log line as "the spec line"; flagging an endpoint that predates the diff range as scope creep.
+
+## Recipe (per finding, cheap mechanical checks first)
+
+1. **Existence claims** (missing file, missing story, missing endpoint): `ls` the directory / grep the route table. A passing repo seam that enforces the law (e.g. a pairing-law test that ran green today) disproves any "law violated" claim outright.
+2. **Newness claims** ("the diff introduced X"): `git log <fixed-point>..HEAD -S "symbol" --oneline` — empty result means the code predates the diff; the finding is out of scope. Also `git show <fixed-point>:<path> | grep -c symbol`.
+3. **Spec-quote claims**: the quoted text must appear in the actual issue/spec body fetched from the tracker. Fabricated citations discredit the whole finding — discard.
+4. **Behavioral claims** (X differs from Y): check for existing live proof (sha comparisons, test runs) before reporting.
+
+## Aggregate honestly
+
+- Report surviving findings only; list refuted claims in a marked "REFUTED" block with the disproving check — do not silently drop them (the user may have acted on the raw scout output).
+- If an earlier artifact of yours (issue comments, docs) repeated a now-refuted claim, correct it in place and note the correction.
+- Refutation cost is minutes: one `ls`, one `git log -S`, one grep of the spec body. Do it before, not after, the user trusts the report.
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+---
+name: xdg-open-tab-proof-niri
+description: "Prove an xdg-open URL actually landed a tab in Frank's Firefox on niri, instead of reporting the law-compliant \"opened in your browser\" blind."
+---
+
+AGENTS.md (`dank/command-center`) requires opening every PR in Frank's browser with `xdg-open <PR-URL>`. `xdg-open` exits 0 whether or not a tab appeared, and its stderr is easy to swallow (`>/dev/null 2>&1 &`), so "opened in your browser" is normally an unverified claim. Prove it before saying it.
+
+## The proof that works
+
+```bash
+export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
+export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-wayland-1}
+niri msg windows | grep -iA2 'firefox\|gitea\|pull'
+```
+
+Expected — the tab title is the page title, so it doubles as confirmation you opened the right object:
+
+```
+Title: "#61 - fix(#60): checks that lied… - command-center - Frank's Dank Gitea… — Mozilla Firefox"
+  App ID: "firefox"
+  PID: 1150647
+```
+
+## Why the obvious checks fail here
+
+- **The computer/AX window list does not list Firefox.** `computer.windows()` on this Wayland backend returned only ghostty windows — Firefox exposes no ATSPI top-level unless accessibility is already active inside it — so an empty list is **not** evidence the tab is missing.
+- `capture: false`, `displayCount: 0` in `computer.capabilities()` mean screenshots are unavailable (display asleep); a blank screenshot proves nothing either way.
+- `wmctrl -l` / `hyprctl` do not exist on niri. `niri msg windows` is the window census, and `niri msg outputs` is the output census.
+- `pgrep -af firefox` only shows the process tree (one parent + `-contentproc` children); a tab never appears there.
+- The web page itself is not proof: Gitea's `/dank/<repo>/pulls/N` HTML answers **404** without a session cookie even though the API and the browser both work.
+
+## Dispatch recipe (when nothing is running, or nothing landed)
+
+```bash
+XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) WAYLAND_DISPLAY="${WAYLAND_DISPLAY:-wayland-1}" \
+  xdg-open https://gitea.franksdank.cloud/dank/<repo>/pulls/N
+```
+
+Give it the **`https://gitea.franksdank.cloud/…`** form, not the LAN `192.168.0.143:3000` form the API returns — that is the host Frank's bookmarks and cert expectations use. A running Firefox receives the URL as a new tab in the existing instance; re-dispatching opens a second tab, which is a cheap, idempotent way to recover from a swallowed failure.
+
+Related: `gitea-pr-api-cycle` (the API cycle whose final step this verifies), `omp-tui-live-visual-verify` (same rule for terminal UIs: observe the real surface).
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
 - Hermes (Dankclaw) model routing as of 2026-09-05: main default = frank-large (Dankclaw 192.168.0.143:7770/v1), small/aux routes = frank-small (Dankserver 192.168.0.235:7770/v1), vision + title_generation route to the exact FLM registry tag gemma4-it:e4b (192.168.0.143:7771/v1). The pre-rename aliases frank-default-large/-small/-sightsound are dead since the 2026-09-03 rename cutover — never route on them. Live config lives at /home/dank/Containers/hermes/data/config.yaml (owned by uid 109999; needs sudo to read/edit); the repo's dankclaw/hermes/config.yaml.example is a sanitized backup and can lag live, so diff live first before editing either. Signal adapter is currently disabled in live config (platforms.signal.enabled: false).
 - On the guarded franksdank.cloud vhosts (Caddy → Anubis :8923 → Authentik outpost), every unauthenticated request — roots and deep paths alike — is answered with HTTP **200** and an HTML challenge page (titleMaking sure you're not a bot!/title), not a 4xx. Verifying guard health by status code alone is meaningless; assert on leakage markers instead (copyparty UI title, homepage id="grid", services.json "category" JSON shape). Non-JS clients (curl/wget/WebDAV) can never solve the PoW challenge, so they are permanently parked at the challenge page — this is the entire security boundary for copyparty, which serves authenticated traffic with anonymous read perms (-v /w::r:ra,dank). Pinned by tests/e2e/specs/15-unauth-fetch.spec.ts (guest project, empty storage state): any guard-route regression that lets app bytes answer fails loudly; any gate implementation passes.
 - On Dankclaw's Pi-hole (FTL v6.7, quadlet at /home/dank/Containers/pihole), /etc/pihole/hosts/custom.list (host path /home/dank/Containers/pihole/etc-pihole/hosts/custom.list) is a LIVE-ONLY Custom-DNS source NOT tracked in the repo — it held ~22 A records pointing every *.franksdank.cloud vhost at 192.168.0.143, including names with no public Porkbun record. gravity.db's domainlist table has zero custom-DNS rows on this build, and the pihole CLI's sqlite path (pihole-FTL sqlite3) works but the web API auth was failing at discovery time, so retiring a name from LAN DNS requires editing custom.list directly (sudo sed -i '/name/d') followed by podman exec pihole pihole restartdns reload; deleting only the repo-managed addn-hosts record is not sufficient. Verify with dig +short name @192.168.0.143 → empty answer.
- Pi-hole admin panel at pihole.franksdank.cloud has two auth layers: Caddy basicauth (edge, username dankuser + hash) and Pi-hole internal password (CivetWeb, set via pihole setpassword). The Pi-hole internal password was the actual failure point, not the Caddy hash. Pi-hole resolves to 192.168.0.143 via addn-hosts (all 28 names point here), making it a LAN service behind Caddy's public TLS edge. Options to remove public exposure: (1) remove the Caddy vhost entirely — LAN clients hit Pi-hole quadlet directly on :8083; (2) keep Caddy vhost but remove the Porkbun A record so external DNS won't resolve pihole.franksdank.cloud. Current state: Caddy basicauth hash = $2b$14$cJm.hbvDi1dEh7x0XRMnseaIdvIrRyH.AcTL56jGJf3wd54qvEb9K (dankuser, password pihole2026); Pi-hole internal password = pihole.2026 (set via pihole setpassword, survives restart).
+- Pi-hole admin panel at pihole.franksdank.cloud has two auth layers: Caddy basicauth (edge, username dankuser + hash) and Pi-hole internal password (CivetWeb, set via pihole setpassword). The Pi-hole internal password was the actual failure point, not the Caddy hash. Pi-hole resolves to 192.168.0.143 via addn-hosts (all 28 names point here), making it a LAN service behind Caddy's public TLS edge. Options to remove public exposure: (1) remove the Caddy vhost entirely — LAN clients hit Pi-hole quadlet directly on :8083; (2) keep Caddy vhost but remove the Porkbun A record so external DNS won't resolve pihole.franksdank.cloud. Current state: Caddy basicauth hash and the Pi-hole internal password are BOTH redacted (2026-10-20, issue #40) — they sat here in plaintext, which means they are in git history on every machine that ever pulled this repo, so both need rotation before this note is trustworthy; the live values are the Dankclaw host `.env` (`CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH`) and `pihole setpassword`, never this file.
 - Pi-hole admin at pihole.franksdank.cloud has two auth layers: (1) Caddy basicauth edge (username dankuser, hash in rendered Caddyfile from CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH in .env), (2) Pi-hole internal CivetWeb password (stored in cli_pw as bcrypt hash, set via pihole setpassword CLI). The env file WEBPASSWORD is used at container start but the CLI hash is what the running web server validates. When "I can't get into Pi-hole admin" returns 403 even after Caddy basicauth passes, the Pi-hole internal password is the likely culprit. Fix: podman exec pihole pihole setpassword newpw to update the CLI hash, then verify podman exec pihole cat /etc/pihole/cli_pw shows updated value. Verify by curling with basicauth: curl -sk -H 'Authorization: Basic ZGFua3VzZXI6...' https://pihole.franksdank.cloud/admin/ should return 302 (not 401 or 403).
- Pi-hole admin panel at pihole.franksdank.cloud uses Caddy basicauth (not Pi-hole's own CivetWeb login). The hash is shared across services (RomM, Copyparty, Pi-hole) via CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH in the host .env. The rendered Caddyfile at /home/dank/Containers/caddy/Caddyfile is mounted into the Caddy container — updates are picked up by Caddy's file watcher without restart. Password reset: generate bcrypt hash with python3 + bcrypt (hashpw + gensalt), update the rendered Caddyfile line directly or update .env + deploy. Caddy accepts both $2a$ and $2b$ bcrypt variants. _(context: Pi-hole admin password reset session: discovered Caddy basicauth (not Anubis), could not find matching password in common candidates, reset to pihole2026, updated rendered Caddyfile directly, synced repo .env files, Caddy file watcher handled hot-reload.)_
+- Pi-hole admin panel at pihole.franksdank.cloud uses Caddy basicauth (not Pi-hole's own CivetWeb login). The hash is shared across services (RomM, Copyparty, Pi-hole) via CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH in the host .env. The rendered Caddyfile at /home/dank/Containers/caddy/Caddyfile is mounted into the Caddy container — updates are picked up by Caddy's file watcher without restart. Password reset: generate bcrypt hash with python3 + bcrypt (hashpw + gensalt), update the rendered Caddyfile line directly or update .env + deploy. Caddy accepts both $2a$ and $2b$ bcrypt variants. _(context: Pi-hole admin password reset session: discovered Caddy basicauth (not Anubis), could not find matching password in common candidates, reset to the current password [redacted 2026-10-20, issue #40], updated rendered Caddyfile directly, synced repo .env files, Caddy file watcher handled hot-reload.)_
 - On the FrankBook-Pro *arr fleet (current lsio images: Sonarr v4/Radarr v5 API v3, Lidarr v2/Readarr API v1), the download-client validation endpoints are NOT usable via API: POST /api/{v}/downloadclient/test/{id} and .../test?forceTest=true both return 405, and POST .../downloadclient/action/getTest exists but 400s without a bespoke body. To prove download-client health after changing a qB host/port, skip the API test route and prove behaviorally instead: podman exec arr curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:8080/ (expect 200) plus a real qB login from inside the container (curl --data-urlencode username=admin --data-urlencode password=$QBIT_PW .../api/v2/auth/login, expect 200), then confirm /api/{v}/health shows no DownloadClient-*/wbrrelated warnings. Also: arr APIs redact stored client passwords as ******** (sonarr/radarr/lidarr) — PUT the object back with the sentinel untouched to preserve the stored value; readarr (v1) returns the plaintext. When editing via the edit tool, body rows must be prefixed with +, not : — : prefixes get written literally into the file. _(context: Capture turn after the arr→qB loopback repoint (2026-09-04): app-side download-client test endpoints were unreachable, so client health was proven behaviorally instead.)_
 - The *arr fleet (Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, qBittorrent) runs ONLY on FrankBook-Pro (192.168.0.112, Mac podman machine) since 2026-09-04 — the dankserver compose copy was removed (config roots in ~/.AGENTTRASH/20260904-dankserver-arr-teardown, 22 MB, awaiting purge approval). Fleet invariant, enforced by tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats: ALL six containers share gluetun's netns (Network=gluetun.container, Wants/After gluetun.service) and publish NO ports; the gluetun unit publishes the union (8080, 6881 tcp+udp, 9696, 8989, 7878, 8686, 8787), so all egress exits ProtonVPN by construction (AllowedIPs=0.0.0.0/0; proven: netns egress 51.179.177.14 vs residential 71.227.227.172). deploy-plan.py couples gluetun → all six joiners (a gluetun recreate kills the whole family). Consequences: (1) the old arr→qB addressing hack 10.88.0.1:8080 (podman-bridge gateway) routes INTO the tunnel from inside the netns — download clients must use 127.0.0.1:8080 (done via arr APIs, verified by real qB login from inside sonarr's container); same rule for any future Prowlarr Application rows (baseUrl 127.0.0.1:arr port). (2) Caddy arr vhosts and homepage probes target 192.168.0.112:port (host-side published ports unaffected by netns changes). (3) Known defects as of 2026-09-04: Prowlarr's Applications table is EMPTY (the four rows from 2026-08-30 were lost — prowlarr→arr sync broken until rebuilt); readarr's qB proxy auth defect needs retest post-move; EZTV/1337x "CloudFlare-blocked" parking is stale (egress now VPN — retest before enabling). (4) E2E lesson: playwright specs 11-admin/12-crawl now derive expected open-link counts from services.json (showLink) instead of hardcoded counts — keep new registry entries consistent. Also: deploy.sh --service X dispatches ONLY X on frankbook (path-coupling applies to changed-path planning); gluetun restart self-heals all netns joiners via Restart=always so a single gluetun deploy converges the family. _(context: 2026-09-04 operator decision session: dankserver arr compose copy (booted that morning) removed after Frank chose FrankBook-Pro as the sole arr deployment; netns consolidation + test seam + loopback repoint executed same session. Commits 4c7465d, df4339a.)_
 - Rootless podman on Dankserver (5.7.0, verified 2026-09-04 via /proc/pid/uid_map across 7 containers): the DEFAULT user namespace maps container uid 0 → host uid 1000 (dank) and container uid N → host 100000+N-1 (e.g. calibre-web PUID=1000 writes as 100999). Consequences: (1) PUID=0 + data roots owned 1000:1000 is the complete fleet recipe — NO UserNS/userns_mode key is needed on quadlets or compose services; the plex quadlet works without one. (2) NEVER add userns_mode: host to a podman-compose service: podman-compose 1.5.0 runs every compose service inside a pod and podman hard-rejects the combo (--userns and --pod cannot be set together), leaving the stack down with no recreate path. (3) Diagnostics: podman exec c id always shows uid=0 inside any mapping — meaningless; ground truth is /proc/container-pid/uid_map, host-side ps -o user= -p pid, or ownership of freshly-written files. (4) *arr boot-crash signature: UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/config/...' at logger init = data root not writable (e.g. root-owned dir created by sudo mkdir); the app exits before binding its port, so the port probe reads "dead" rather than "crashed" — check podman logs tail for "Press enter to exit" before assuming an outage has an infra cause. (5) NEVER pkill -f rootlessport on these hosts: it kills the port-forward helper of EVERY published container simultaneously (2026-09-03 outage); restart the owning systemd units instead. _(context: Dankserver *arr stack restore session, 2026-09-04: stack committed 2026-08-29 never booted (Sentry crash, dead ports read as outage); userns_mode: host fix was a red herring — rejected by podman-compose pods; real fix was chown 1000:1000 of /opt config dirs. Commit e454159 (revert), 8a63624 (docs).)_
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+	"v": 1,
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792536631688
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
 	"v": 1,
-	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792526055797
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792557324990
 }
@@ -3,4 +3,12 @@
 - Typed intro: "Update, [randomly generated epithet]!"
 - Heckle mode option
 - Typed outro: "More later, over and out!"
- Generation frequency control
+- Generation frequency control
+
+## Documentation Flow
+
+- Put any created docs in the existing knowledgebase instead of creating a new one
+
+## Log Organization
+
+- Logs kept explicitly to one file inside the knowledge base
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
 	"v": 1,
-	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792524641573,
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792572225299,
 	"lastResult": {
-		"at": 1792452243238,
+		"at": 1792557082020,
 		"sessions": 1,
-		"deltas": 4,
+		"deltas": 1,
 		"model": "frank-zealot"
 	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+## Admin Side
+- Endpoints reside on the admin side
+- Loki is reachable
+- Ensure that prometheus is not firing off any more alerts
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
-## Handoff Location
- put it at ~/Projects
+## Variables
+- narrator1 = wilwheaton, narrator2 = vaati, narrator3 = dr.kern
+- frank-dragoon context = 200k
+
+## Dashboard
+- Dashboard includes GPU metrics
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
 	"v": 1,
-	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792534456791,
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792572021650,
 	"lastResult": {
-		"at": 1792532921161,
+		"at": 1792571693973,
 		"sessions": 1,
 		"deltas": 1,
 		"model": "frank-zealot"
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+## Templates
+- Template submissions proceed as an agentically-assisted process.
+## Agent Skills
+- 16 is a project level agent skill, rather than a strict application thing
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 {
 	"v": 1,
-	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792534385325
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792572038693,
+	"lastResult": {
+		"at": 1792556461435,
+		"sessions": 1,
+		"deltas": 1,
+		"model": "frank-zealot"
+	}
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+## Data flow
+- Information is dropped, not queued
+- Compaction applied
+- The suite shouldn't loop through every epithet
+
+## Testing behavior
+- Tests play ONE random Epithet
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+	"v": 1,
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792572210019,
+	"lastResult": {
+		"at": 1792566095222,
+		"sessions": 1,
+		"deltas": 1,
+		"model": "frank-zealot"
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+	"v": 1,
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792536921764
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## Product Scope
+
+* allocate 4 slots with exactly 700k pool budget
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{"v":1,"kind":"correction","statement":"stop it! it works!","source":"explicit_user","evidence":"stop it! it works!","friction":{"corrective":true,"regression":true,"subtle":false},"sessionId":"01a15cbe-157e-7527-b4b5-22f3d2feea00","ts":1792563942225}
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+	"v": 1,
+	"lastConsolidatedAt": 1792563926234,
+	"lastResult": {
+		"at": 1792562981651,
+		"sessions": 1,
+		"deltas": 1,
+		"model": "frank-zealot"
+	}
+}
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ providers:
    auth: none
    models:
      - id: frank-archon
-        # Model id renamed from frank-archon on 2026-10-08 (official
+        # Model id renamed from frank-medium on 2026-10-08 (official
        # unit-name scheme; the systemd service, scripts and runbooks keep
        # the frank-archon name — service names are unchanged).
        # Server-side compaction routes to compaction.remoteEndpoint in
@@ -82,9 +82,11 @@ providers:
    auth: none
    models:
      - id: frank-dragoon
-        # Model id renamed from frank-dragoon on 2026-10-08 (official
+        # Model id renamed from frank-large on 2026-10-08 (official
        # unit-name scheme; the service/unit/scripts keep the frank-dragoon
-        # name — service names are unchanged).
+        # name — service names are unchanged). The pre-rename id is
+        # `frank-large`, recorded here because the callsign rename overwrote
+        # its own explanation and left "renamed from frank-dragoon".
        name: "frank-dragoon (dankclaw-gpu)"
        # Server-side compaction runs on the compaction.remoteEndpoint in
        # config.yml (192.168.0.143:7771 — frank-zealot's 3090); this steers the
@@ -111,31 +113,80 @@ providers:
        maxTokens: 45056
        reasoning: true
        # VISION ON as of 2026-10-06: the v2 vision tower loads beside the
-        # checkpoint (HALOGEN_VISION_TOWER; red-PNG probe verified on the
-        # card). image_url content parts only — the legacy top-level
-        # images field is the frank-zealot trap, do not repeat it here.
+        # checkpoint (HALOGEN_VISION_TOWER; priced at 0.8 GiB in the boot
+        # ledger, and re-probed 2026-10-21 — a 512 px solid-red PNG comes back
+        # "Red" at 282 prompt tokens). image_url content parts only — the
+        # legacy top-level images field is the frank-zealot trap, do not
+        # repeat it here.
        input: [text, image]
        compat:
          # flash-server emits thinking as `reasoning_content` — same
          # field as every engine this endpoint has run, no harness
          # change needed.
          reasoningContentField: "reasoning_content"
-          # Same Qwen3.8 template family (it ships inside the tokenizer
-          # bundle): any reasoning_effort outside {xhigh, medium, low} is
-          # rejected, not clamped — the fold stays mandatory.
+          # flash-server validates reasoning_effort against its own list and
+          # 400s anything else, naming it: "reasoning_effort 'maximum'
+          # unsupported; use minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|max|none" (measured
+          # 2026-10-21). Every omp level is already spelled by the engine, so
+          # the map is identity — it exists to record that, not to fold. An
+          # earlier version rewrote high->xhigh and minimal->low to stop
+          # rejections that do not exist, and the rewrite asked the engine for
+          # a different thinking budget than the caller named. Levels really do
+          # differ here: thinking length on one prompt at max_tokens 2048
+          # measured low 766 tokens, xhigh 614, max 1049 with the block closed
+          # at 1024 (reasoning_closed_at). The harness passes an unmapped level
+          # through verbatim (`compat.reasoningEffortMap?.[effort] ?? effort`),
+          # so removing an entry is a pass-through, never a 400.
+          #
+          # `max` still does not reach the engine, and the map is not why: the
+          # harness clamps the requested effort to the model's own effort ladder
+          # before the map applies, and its ladder for this model tops out at
+          # xhigh — captured on the wire 2026-10-21, `:max` left as
+          # `reasoning_effort: "xhigh"` with this identity map in place. The
+          # `max` row below is the engine-side half of the contract; it takes
+          # effect the moment the harness ladder gains `max`, and nothing here
+          # can force it sooner.
+          #
+          # Thinking OFF needs an explicit mode. The default disable mode sends
+          # the LOWEST effort rather than a switch — `:off` left the wire as
+          # `reasoning_effort: "minimal"` (captured), and minimal still thinks:
+          # a canned 26-token block on every "off" request. `none-effort` makes
+          # the harness send `reasoning_effort: "none"`, which this engine
+          # honours as a real switch: `reasoning_tokens: 0`, answer only, no
+          # thinking block in the rendered output (both verified 2026-10-21).
+          #
+          # Re-measure before changing any of it. The allow-list, in the
+          # engine's own words:
+          #   curl -s :7770/v1/chat/completions -H 'content-type: application/json' \
+          #     -d '{"model":"frank-dragoon","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"x"}],
+          #          "reasoning_effort":"maximum"}'
+          #   -> 400 "reasoning_effort 'maximum' unsupported; use
+          #      minimal|low|medium|high|xhigh|max|none"
+          # and read usage.completion_tokens_details.reasoning_tokens at
+          # max_tokens 2048 to see the levels separate. The wire itself is
+          # settled by pointing a scratch HOME at a logging proxy on :7799 that
+          # forwards to :7770 and running `omp --model …:off` — config claims
+          # are worth exactly what their last capture says.
+          reasoningDisableMode: none-effort
          reasoningEffortMap:
-            minimal: low
+            minimal: minimal
            low: low
            medium: medium
-            high: xhigh
-            max: xhigh
-          # The card's thinking recipe, on the wire. The flash-server
-          # engine HAS a server-side sampler (HALOGEN_TEMPERATURE/TOP_P/
-          # TOP_K = 1.0 / 0.95 / 20 in frank-dragoon.env) — these match it,
-          # so per-request values are consistent, not load-bearing.
+            high: high
+            xhigh: xhigh
+            max: max
+          # The card's thinking recipe, on the wire. The flash-server engine
+          # HAS a server-side sampler (HALOGEN_TEMPERATURE/TOP_P/TOP_K =
+          # 1.0 / 0.95 / 20 in frank-dragoon.env), but an omitted parameter is
+          # the engine's choice, not a pinned one: top_k is sent explicitly so
+          # the recipe survives someone editing HALOGEN_TOP_K. The engine
+          # accepts top_k, min_p, presence_penalty and repetition_penalty
+          # (measured 2026-10-21, all 200) — only the values this endpoint is
+          # meant to run are pinned here.
          extraBody:
            temperature: 1.0
            top_p: 0.95
+            top_k: 20

  "llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)":
    baseUrl: http://192.168.0.143:7771/v1
@@ -143,7 +194,7 @@ providers:
    auth: none
    models:
      - id: frank-zealot
-        # Model id renamed from frank-zealot on 2026-10-08 (official
+        # Model id renamed from frank-small on 2026-10-08 (official
        # unit-name scheme; the service/unit/scripts keep the
        # frank-zealot name — service names are unchanged).
        name: "frank-zealot (dankclaw-3090)"
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ window-size=(360, -1)

 [org/gnome/desktop/background]
 picture-options='zoom'
-picture-uri='file:///home/dank/.config/background'
-picture-uri-dark='file:///home/dank/.config/background'

 [org/gnome/desktop/interface]
 color-scheme='prefer-dark'
@@ -26,14 +24,6 @@ default-visible-columns=['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified']
 default-folder-viewer='list-view'
 migrated-gtk-settings=true

-[org/gnome/nautilus/window-state]
-initial-size=(890, 550)
-initial-size-file-chooser=(890, 550)
-maximized=false
-
-[org/gnome/portal/filechooser/firefox]
-last-folder-path='/home/dank/Downloads'
-
 [org/gtk/gtk4/settings/file-chooser]
 show-hidden=false
 sort-directories-first=false
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-// ────────────── Output Configuration ──────────────
-output "Samsung Electric Company Odyssey G75F HNTY601056" {
-    mode "3840x2160@60"
-    scale 1
-    transform "normal"
-    position x=0 y=0
-}
-
-output "DP-1" {
-    transform "90"
-    position x=0 y=0
-}
-
-output "DP-3" {
-    transform "270"
-    position x=1200 y=0
-}
-
-output "eDP-1" {
-    // no position — auto-placed to the right of DP-* outputs
-}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
				`@@ -0,0 +1 @@`
				`{"v":1,"kind":"correction","statement":"stop it! it works!","source":"explicit_user","evidence":"stop it! it works!","friction":{"corrective":true,"regression":true,"subtle":false},"sessionId":"01a15cbe-157e-7527-b4b5-22f3d2feea00","ts":1792563942225}`