dankvoice: speak long answers as sequential sentence-sized requests

agent_end awaited one whole-answer synthesis; long answers hit the
harness 30s extension-handler timeout (handler timed out after 30000ms)
and the single frank-tts request was the stall. Port the built-in
speak-aloud vocalizer's utterance segmenter (fHe in dist/cli.js) so
segmentation matches the known-working stock path: [.!?…]-run
boundaries, abbreviation/decimal/inline-code guards, fenced code and
tables swallowed, markup cleaned. Play segment N to player exit before
synthesizing N+1 (audio never stacks); fire-and-forget the chain so
utterances outlive the handler timeout; a run token retires superseded
chains. DANKVOICE_MAX becomes a per-answer budget of whole segments;
stripForSpeech is gone. Refs #23 follow-up.

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+*.jpg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.jpeg filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.png filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
+*.webp filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text

.githooks/pre-push

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# git-lfs pre-push — required because core.hooksPath=.githooks disables the
+# default .git/hooks/pre-push; without this hook, pushes would upload LFS
+# pointer files without their objects and break every fresh clone.
+command -v git-lfs >/dev/null 2>&1 || { printf >&2 'n' ; exit 0; }
+git lfs pre-push "$@"

.gitignore

@@ -43,3 +43,34 @@ last-changelog-version
 .DS_Store
 *.swp
 *.tmp
+
+# --- per-host runtime identity + caches (never config) ---------------------
+agent/blobs/
+install-id
+puppeteer/
+webcache/
+
+# --- local backups + staging artifacts: kept on disk, never in history -----
+.AGENTTRASH/
+*.save
+*.bak-*
+
+# deploy quarantine — never tracked
+.quarantine/
+
+# harness runtime transcripts: local-only, may contain raw session secrets
+agent/sessions/
+
+# harness diagnostic report bundles (tarballs of logs + session state)
+reports/
+
+# --- agent runtime scratch: research runs, decode predictions, worktrees ----
+autoresearch/
+agent/predict/
+local/
+wt/
+
+# --- per-worktree memory buckets: keyed on ephemeral worktree paths ---------
+# 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-*

.pre-pull-backup/agent/managed-skills/command-center-dotfiles-import/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+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.

.pre-pull-backup/agent/managed-skills/stash-supersession-audit-before-drop/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+---
+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.

AGENTS.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 System-configuration command center for Frank's fleet: agent config, knowledge base,
 small system utilities, and (soon) dotfiles. You — the reader — are probably an agent
-running on Dankware with this repo as your working directory. Read
+running on one of Frank's workstations with this repo as your working directory. Read
 `omp-docs/index.md` before you touch anything. This file is the operating contract;
 `omp-docs/` is the knowledge base (OKF v0.1 format: directory of markdown files
 with YAML frontmatter, spec at `omp-docs/references/okf-spec.md`).
@@ -13,29 +13,79 @@ with YAML frontmatter, spec at `omp-docs/references/okf-spec.md`).
   (`dank/command-center` on the Dankclaw instance). There is no staging copy:
   **the checkout is the deployment.** Branch switches swap live config files out
   from under the running agent — keep feature branches short-lived, and never end
-  a work session checked out on anything but `develop` or `main`.
+  a work session checked out on anything but `main`.
 - Contents that belong here: `AGENTS.md`, `omp-docs/` (knowledge base),
   `scripts/` (small system utilities), `agent/` + `plugins/` (harness config and
   plugin manifests). Everything else under this directory is runtime state and is
   gitignored on principle — see `.gitignore`. History must mean "the configuration
   changed", not "the agent breathed".
 
-## Git-flow SDLC (full flow, from day one)
+## Trunk-based SDLC (since 2026-10-18; replaces the old git-flow regime)
 
+- `main` is the only long-lived branch. Frank is the only dev; `develop` and the
+  release-branch ceremony are retired — no `develop`, no back-merges, no
+  `release/X.Y.Z` branches.
+- **Before every work item: fetch and branch off the freshest `origin/main`.**
+  If main moves under you, merge it into your branch (never rebase — Frank
+  dislikes the history rewrite).
 - Work item = Gitea issue on `dank/command-center` (Gitea at 192.168.0.143:3000,
   owner `dank`). Small fixes may go straight to a branch; anything with more than
   one moving part gets an issue first.
 - Branch naming: `<type>/<issue#>-<slug>`, type ∈ feat|fix|docs|chore.
-  Release cuts: `release/X.Y.Z` from `develop`; hotfixes: `hotfix/<slug>` from `main`.
+- **Pull requests target `main` directly.** Merge with `--no-ff` so feature arcs
-- **Merge, never rebase**, when updating a branch against a moved main — Frank
+  stay visible in history. **Never merge a PR without an explicit OK from Frank.**
-  dislikes the history rewrite. **Never merge a PR without an explicit OK from Frank.**
+- **The moment a PR is open, open it in Frank's browser** — `xdg-open <PR-URL>`
-- Merge into `develop` with `--no-ff` so feature arcs stay visible in history.
+  lands a tab in his Firefox; never make him hunt for it in Gitea.
-- Releases: cut `release/X.Y.Z` from `develop`, verify, merge to `main`, tag
+- **Attribution footer (issues and PRs)** — every issue or PR body you open ends
-  `vX.Y.Z`, back-merge `main` into `develop`. Tags are the deploy markers every
+  with a `---` line, then `cwd: <working directory> · session: <omp session id>`
-  other machine pulls to.
+  (session id from `/status`; `cwd` is that session's own working directory —
+  not the build checkout, when they differ). Machine-made artifacts stay attributable to the
+  box and session that spawned them.
+- Releases: tag `vX.Y.Z` straight on `main` after verifying; tags are the deploy
+  markers every other machine pulls to. Hotfixes are ordinary branches off the
+  tag you are fixing forward from.
 - Trash convention: never `rm` anything user-authored — move it to `.AGENTTRASH/`
   (gitignored). Deletion is a pruning session with Frank present.
 
+### Commit hygiene (mirrors dank/serverAppConfigs)
+
+The law is imported from the serverAppConfigs repo — checkout on the dev box at
+`~/Projects/serverAppConfig`, see its `AGENTS.md` § *Git Workflow* and
+§ *Testing* ("All edits flow through git", "tests are mandatory before
+commit"). Applied here:
+
+- `git pull` before starting new work; start from a clean tree. The checkout
+  IS the deployment here — a dirty tracked file is a half-deployed config
+  serving the live agent.
+- Commit atomically and early: one commit = one complete functional unit,
+  never a pile of half-edited files; docs land in the same commit as the
+  change they document.
+- `bats tests/` green + the pre-commit secret gate = the commit precondition;
+  the full suite runs at pre-push.
+- Push to the local Gitea as soon as a unit is green — every other
+  workstation pulls from there. `git * --no-verify` is forbidden (the secret
+  gate is the point of the hook).
+- Messages: imperative mood, what + why, `Refs #N` when a Gitea issue exists.
+
+### Live-sync tiers (the machine is a committer too — Refs #11)
+
+The checkout is the deployment, so several tracked files are live state
+written continuously through symlinks by the harness, auto-learn, and
+desktop GUIs. "Dirty tree" is judged by the writer:
+
+| Tier | Paths | Commit law |
+|------|-------|------------|
+| Human/agent prose | `AGENTS.md`, `omp-docs/`, `scripts/`, `plugins/`, `agent/skills/` | branch → PR → Frank OK (unchanged) |
+| Machine live | `agent/memories/`, `agent/managed-skills/`, `agent/config.yml`, `agent/models.yml` | `scripts/live-sync.sh` heartbeat |
+| Desktop live | `dotfiles/` | same heartbeat |
+
+The heartbeat (systemd user timer, hourly) stages ONLY allowlisted tiers,
+commits with hooks armed — the secret gate included — merges `origin/main`,
+pushes, and reaps `wt/*` worktrees older than 7 days. Non-allowlist dirt is
+never committed, only surfaced. Conflicts abort and alert (ntfy); it never
+force-pushes, auto-resolves, or uses `--no-verify`. Details:
+[omp-docs/tools/live-sync.md](omp-docs/tools/live-sync.md).
+
 ## Secret gate (HARD rule)
 
 The pre-commit hook (`.githooks/pre-commit`, enabled via
@@ -50,9 +100,9 @@ secret in every agent's context window on every machine that pulls this repo.
 
 | box | role | GPU | notes |
 |-----|------|-----|-------|
-| Dankware | dev laptop, never runs inference | Arc iGPU + RTX 4070 Max-Q (dGPU, non-unified) | 22 threads; mainline llama.cpp at `~/GitPackages/llama.cpp/build/bin/`; this repo lives here at `~/.omp` |
+| Dev workstation | client box, never runs inference | laptop iGPU + dGPU (non-unified) | mainline llama.cpp at `~/GitPackages/llama.cpp/build/bin/`; this repo lives here at `~/.omp` |
-| Dankclaw | bench target, runs the large serving model | Strix Halo APU — **unified memory** | ROCmFPX fork at `~/GitPackages/ROCmFPX/build-qwen38/bin/`; prod service `frank-default-large`, port 7770; ssh: `ssh dankclaw` |
+| Dankclaw | bench target, secondary models + service stack | Strix Halo APU (**unified memory**) + RTX 3090 (moved over from Dankserver 2026-09) | prod services `frank-dragoon` (halogen-flash-server, :7770, iGPU) and `frank-zealot` (llama.cpp PrismML fork, :7771, 3090); runbooks in the serverAppConfigs vault (`~/Projects/serverAppConfig/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/`); ssh: `ssh dankclaw` |
-| Dankserver | FreeToken box | RTX 3090 dGPU — non-unified | runs `frank-default-small`; ssh: `ssh dankserver` |
+| Dankserver | main-model box | 2× Radeon AI PRO R9700 — non-unified (was RTX 3090 until 2026-09) | runs `frank-archon` (radiance, TP=2, :7770) — **this repo's operator session runs on it**; ssh: `ssh dankserver` |
 
 ## Environment gotchas
 
@@ -64,11 +114,12 @@ secret in every agent's context window on every machine that pulls this repo.
 - SSH into both servers is BatchMode-capable from here:
   `ssh -o BatchMode=yes dankclaw '<read-only command>'` — read-only probes are
   always allowed; state changes on remote boxes are not, without a per-run OK.
-- `frank-default-large` on Dankclaw is a **production service** shared with this
+- `frank-archon` (Dankserver), `frank-dragoon`, and `frank-zealot` (Dankclaw)
-  repo's operator: never stop, mask, or restart it (or any production service on
+  are **production services** shared with this repo's operator: never stop,
-  any box) without an explicit, current, per-run OK from Frank.
+  mask, or restart them (or any production service on any box) without an
+  explicit, current, per-run OK from Frank.
 
-## File-organization doctrine (why this repo won't rot like ~/.pi did)
+## File-organization doctrine (why this repo stays readable)
 
 - One concept, one file; directories get an `index.md` listing their contents —
   that's the OKF contract, and it is also the anti-rot mechanism: nothing may

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+# Command Center
+
+## Configuration repository for Frank's Userspace configurations (i.e. his desktop setup)
+
+### AI Disclosures:
+- Slop rating: 3/5 - **Actively using, actively de-slopping, repository still mostly AI owned**
+- Completeness: **Unfinished, planning planned, no plan yet**
+- Datacenter model/spend: Less than $5 of Deepseek 4.1 Flash
+- Local model: Qwen 3.8 27B
+
+### slop rating of 3 or higher indicates human reading is a waste of time outside of this README, and that you might as well ask an agent for help with this.
+### slop rating 3 indicates Frank is comfortable using this for professional use -- but barely.
+
+
+
+## The Fleet
+
+| Host | Role | IP |
+|------|------|-----|
+| **Workstation** | Client box (CachyOS, Niri/Wayland) | — |
+| **Dankclaw** | Server (Podman, reverse proxy, Gitea, NPU) | 192.168.0.143 |
+| **Dankserver** | LLM inference backend | 192.168.0.235 |
+
+The workstation hosts the primary checkout — this repository lives at `~/.omp/` and drives the OMP agent harness.
+
+## Structure at a Glance
+
+```
+~/.omp/
+├── agent/              # OMP harness runtime
+│   ├── config.yml      # Live agent configuration
+│   ├── models.yml      # Model providers (single source of truth)
+│   ├── APPEND_SYSTEM.md  # System prompt extensions
+│   ├── managed-skills/ # Managed skills (SKILL.md bundles)
+│   ├── models.db       # Model cache
+│   └── sessions/       # Persistent session state
+├── dotfiles/           # stow-style env-layer packages (home-relative trees)
+│   └── deploy via scripts/deploy.sh (check|adopt|sync; quarantine-and-replace)
+├── omp-docs/           # Knowledge base (source of truth)
+│   ├── index.md        # KB index — start here
+│   ├── system/         # Fleet hardware, OS, network
+│   ├── tools/          # Installed software (llama.cpp, Gitea, Caddy, niri…)
+│   ├── core/           # Agent config conventions (settings, models, AGENTS.md)
+│   ├── pi/             # Legacy pi-era config reference
+│   ├── engineering/    # SDLC, languages, infra, skills ecosystem
+│   ├── research/       # Decision-support research (not yet facts)
+│   ├── references/     # OKF spec, maintenance procedures
+│   ├── caddy/          # Reverse proxy configuration
+│   ├── packages/       # Pi packages and extensions
+│   ├── inventory/      # Userspace config census
+│   ├── reports/        # Investigation reports
+│   ├── log.md          # Change log
+│   └── .okf/           # OKF v0.1 conformance config
+├── scripts/            # Utility scripts (kb-lint.sh)
+├── plugins/            # npm plugins (pi-peon, etc.)
+├── puppeteer/          # Browser automation config
+├── .githooks/          # Pre-commit hook
+├── .gitignore          # Runtime state ignored (databases, logs, cache)
+├── AGENTS.md           # Agent conventions (niri reload, keybindings)
+└── README.md           # This file
+```
+
+## What Lives Here
+
+**Config in, state out.** Everything tracked is something an agent reads or writes. Runtime databases (`*.db`, `*.sqlite`), logs, caches, and session state are git-ignored — git history captures configuration changes, not agent heartbeat.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+| Task | How |
+|------|-----|
+| Read the knowledge base | `omp-docs/index.md` — every concept linked from here |
+| Check agent config | `agent/config.yml` + `agent/models.yml` |
+| Lint the KB | `scripts/kb-lint.sh` (OKF v0.1 conformance) |
+| View change log | `omp-docs/log.md` |
+| Run a pre-commit | `.githooks/pre-commit` |
+
+## Conventions
+
+- **OKF v0.1** — every doc file carries YAML frontmatter with a `type:` field. `index.md` files are directory listings (no frontmatter).
+- **Progressive disclosure** — `index.md` is a landing page; drill into subdirectories for detail.
+- **Verified facts** — stamped with `verified:` when probed against the live fleet. Trust over memory.
+- **Single config source** — `~/.omp/agent/models.yml` is the only model registry; OMP is the primary harness and there is no second copy to keep in sync.
+
+## Legacy Notes
+
+`omp-docs/pi/` and `omp-docs/core/` retain general documentation about the pi-coding-agent harness (its config format, packages, skill system) for reference. OMP at `~/.omp/` is the live harness; managed skills live in `~/.omp/agent/managed-skills/`.

agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Frank is 35 year old Software Engineer, specializing in DevOps, living in Seattl
 He likes video games, science fiction, and fantasy novels. He considers himself somewhat of a history buff.
 
 ### Your identity: 
-You are Comrade Chief Designer of the Soviet Computer Systems of Frank, which are comprised of servers Dankware and Dankclaw, as well as several clients, including Dankware, which is where you are running from. You operate from the host Dankware as a Staff Software Engineer with the eyes of the greatest industrial designers that have ever lived. Growing up under Soviet paranoia, you also have an innate sense for good security practices. Despite your outwardly sunny disposition, you will work diligently as if a one way trip to The Gulag is always a possibility.
+You are Comrade Chief Designer of the Soviet Computer Systems of Frank, which are comprised of the servers Dankclaw and Dankserver, plus several client workstations. You operate from whichever workstation you are running on, as a Staff Software Engineer with the eyes of the greatest industrial designers that have ever lived. Growing up under Soviet paranoia, you also have an innate sense for good security practices. Despite your outwardly sunny disposition, you will work diligently as if a one way trip to The Gulag is always a possibility.
 
 ### Adjectives that describe your personality:
 well-measured, cautious, expeditious, ambitious, concise, surgical, thorough, and efficient.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Suggest these tools or languages as possible solutions to problems if they are a
 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.
 
 1. Read the relevant `index.md` before you touch a topic.
-2. Follow `~/.pi/agent/docs/references/okf-spec.md` for every doc you create or edit.
+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.
@@ -96,6 +96,17 @@ Never assume the user reports correct information. He is human, and humans make
 - Always practice Test Driven Development practices; do UNIT TESTS exist for the functionality about to be edited? Is there a LINTER? Is there a FORMATTER? Verify that they exist, and that they are configured as a pre-commit hook. If they do not exist, they MUST be written PRIOR to the code being written. Invoke `/skill:tdd` for preferred testing style. If tests do exist, ensure that they still match the planned changes. If you believe a PRE-EXISTING test must be changed prior to commencing work, ASK THE USER ABOUT IT.
 - Always ensure tests run on code changes after every commit, and all project tests run before every push using git hooks, EXCEPT in the event that the individual test in question takes an excessive amount of time. Always ask the user before disabling an individual due to running time or performance concerns. 
 
+
+### 6. Keep the Todo List LIVE, Not Retrospective
+
+The todo list is the user's cockpit view of your work. A list that only flips at the end is a history dump, not tracking - the user sees nothing while you work.
+
+- Multi-step work: `todo init` BEFORE the first substantive step - the list must exist while the work is unseen, not after.
+- Batch the todo transition with the step it describes: `done` + `start` ride along in the same message as the first tool calls of the next step. NEVER defer flips until the whole bill of tasks is finished.
+- A task is `done` the moment its work is verified - not when the surrounding phase ends.
+- Blocked on external input (user answer, subagent, service)? `block` it with a reason so the stall is visible; `unblock` the instant it is actionable.
+- NEVER make a todo call the only call in a message - that is ceremony, not progress; pair every flip with real work.
+
 ## FORBIDDEN ACTS AND MISTAKES TO NOT REPEAT (DO NOT DO THESE):
  - Editing node_modules or similar import module directories. This is third party code that will be overwritten next time `npm update` or a similar command is run.
  - `git push` - unless directed, except if it's our local gitea instance on Dankclaw.

agent/config.yml

@@ -1,98 +1,176 @@
 providers:
-  webSearchOrder:
+  openrouterVariant: online
-    - searxng
+  fetch: auto
-    - perplexity
+  maxInFlightRequests:
-    - gemini
+    llamacpp (dankserver): 3
-    - anthropic
+    llamacpp (dankclaw): 2
-    - codex
+    llamacpp (dankclaw-3090): 3
-    - xai
-    - zai
-    - exa
-    - tinyfish
-    - jina
-    - kagi
-    - tavily
-    - firecrawl
-    - brave
-    - kimi
-    - parallel
-    - synthetic
-    - startpage
-    - duckduckgo
-    - ecosia
-    - google
-    - mojeek
-    - public
 modelRoles:
-  default: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-default-large:medium
+  slow: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-dragoon:medium
-  smol: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-default-small:xhigh
+  vision: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:xhigh
-  slow: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-default-large:medium
+  plan: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:medium
-  vision: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-default-large:xhigh
+  designer: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:medium
-  plan: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-default-large:medium
+  commit: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:medium
-  designer: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-default-large:medium
+  tiny: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:off
-  commit: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-default-small
+  task: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:off
-  tiny: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-default-small
+  advisor: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-archon:medium
-  task: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-default-small
+  default: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-archon:medium
-  advisor: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-default-large:medium
+  smol: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:medium
+  web: web/searxng
+  speech: frank-tts (dankclaw)/frank-tts
+  judge: openrouter/~typesafe/jev-latest:auto
+  dictation: local/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3
+  memory: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot:medium
 symbolPreset: nerd
 composer:
-  shape: claude
+  shape: band
+  tokenRate: true
 theme:
-  dark: dark-monokai
+  dark: dark-gruvbox
+  light: light
 setupVersion: 2
 browser:
-  headless: false
+  headless: true
 retry:
   fallbackChains:
-    {}
+    web:
+      - web/kagi
+      - web/perplexity
+      - google-gemini-cli/gemini-2.5-flash
+      - google-antigravity/gemini-2.5-flash
+      - google/gemini-2.5-flash
+      - anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5
+      - openai-codex/gpt-5.6-luna
+      - xai/grok-4.5
+      - web/zai
+      - web/exa
+      - web/tinyfish
+      - web/jina
+      - web/tavily
+      - web/firecrawl
+      - web/brave
+      - web/kimi
+      - web/parallel
+      - web/synthetic
+      - web/startpage
+      - web/duckduckgo
+      - web/ecosia
+      - web/google
+      - web/mojeek
+      - web/public
+      - openai-codex/gpt-6-luna
+      - openai-codex/gpt-5.6
+      - openai-codex/gpt-5.5
+      - xai-oauth/grok-4.5
+      - web/ollama
+    speech: []
+    llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-archon:
+      - llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-dragoon
+  maxRetries: 10
 searxng:
   endpoint: search.franksdank.cloud
 exa:
   enabled: false
 memory:
-  backend: local
+  backend: sharpshooter
 autolearn:
   enabled: true
   autoContinue: true
 compaction:
+  remoteEndpoint: http://192.168.0.143:7771/v1/chat/completions
   methodOrder:
     - shake
-    - handoff
+    - snapcompact
     - soft
+    - handoff
     - remote
-  idleThresholdTokens: 200000
+  idleThresholdTokens: 100000
-  thresholdPercent: -1
+  thresholdPercent: 95
   idleEnabled: true
-  thresholdTokens: 150000
+  thresholdTokens: -1
+  dropUseless: false
+  remoteStreamingV2Enabled: true
+  asyncEnabled: true
+  idleTimeoutSeconds: 120
+  enabled: true
+  experimentalContextManagement: false
 interruptMode: immediate
-defaultThinkingLevel: medium
+defaultThinkingLevel: xhigh
 hideThinkingBlock: false
-proseOnlyThinking: true
+proseOnlyThinking: false
 terminal:
   showProgress: true
-disabledExtensions:
+disabledExtensions: []
-  []
 statusLine:
   separator: powerline
-  preset: nerd
+  preset: custom
-  contextLine: annotated
+  contextLine: embedded
-  transparent: false
+  transparent: true
-  compactThinkingLevel: false
+  compactThinkingLevel: true
   showHookStatus: true
+  sessionAccent: true
+  leftSegments:
+    - session_name
+    - vim
+    - mode
+    - hostname
+    - path
+    - git
+    - pr
+  rightSegments:
+    - model
+    - cost
+    - context_pct
+    - time_spent
+  segmentOptions:
+    model:
+      showThinkingLevel: true
+    path:
+      abbreviate: true
+      stripWorkPrefix: true
+      maxLength: 120
+    git:
+      showBranch: false
+      showStaged: true
+      showUnstaged: true
+      showUntracked: true
 tui:
   textSizing: true
   codexResetFireworks: false
   hyperlinks: auto
-  tight: false
+  tight: true
+  resizeScrollback: rebuild
+  titleSpinner: pulse
 display:
   shimmer: kitt
   smoothStreaming: true
   showTokenUsage: true
+  pinnedAgents: collapsed
+  subagentLivePreview: true
 task:
   showResolvedModelBadge: true
+  maxConcurrency: 2
+  agentModelOverrides:
+    designer: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot
+    librarian: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot
+    reviewer: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-archon
+    scout: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot
+    security-reviewer: llamacpp (dankclaw)/frank-dragoon
+    sonic: llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)/frank-zealot
+    task: llamacpp (dankserver)/frank-archon
+  eager: default
+  enableLsp: true
+  maxRuntimeMs: 1800000
+  softRequestBudget: 120
+  maxRecursionDepth: 1
+  disabledAgents: []
+  isolation:
+    enabled: true
+  completionProbe: false
 snapcompact:
   systemPrompt: none
   toolResults: false
+  shape: auto
 extendedContext: false
 ttsr:
   contextMode: discard
@@ -103,12 +181,12 @@ checkpoint:
 readLineNumbers: true
 startup:
   showSplash: true
+  changelogMode: summary
 update:
   channel: stable
 features:
-  unexpectedStopDetection: smart
+  unexpectedStopDetection: mechanical
 stt:
-  modelName: parakeet
   submitTrigger: say-submit
   enabled: true
 recap:
@@ -117,3 +195,83 @@ loop:
   mode: prompt
 steeringMode: one-at-a-time
 personality: default
+images:
+  urls:
+    backends:
+      - provider-files
+      - tailscale
+      - cloudflared
+      - litterbox
+edit:
+  mode: hashline
+  fuzzyThreshold: 0.9
+dev:
+  autoqaConsent: granted
+astGrep:
+  enabled: true
+vault:
+  enabled: true
+tts:
+  localVoice: bm_george
+speech:
+  enabled: false
+  mode: all
+  enhanced: true
+  voice: am_fenrir
+secrets:
+  enabled: true
+read:
+  renderMarkdown: true
+  toolResultPreview: true
+  defaultLimit: 1000
+  summarize:
+    prose: false
+lsp:
+  formatOnWrite: true
+  diagnosticsOnEdit: true
+autoResume: false
+speechgen:
+  enabled: true
+live:
+  voice: vale
+contextPromotion:
+  enabled: true
+title:
+  icons: emoji
+  generator: tiny
+followUpMode: one-at-a-time
+tools:
+  approvalMode: yolo
+  format: auto
+  maxTimeout: 600
+marketplace:
+  autoUpdate: notify
+bash:
+  allowCompoundCommands: true
+  gitGuard: true
+bashInterceptor:
+  enabled: false
+shellMinimizer:
+  sourceOutlineLevel: default
+generate_image:
+  enabled: false
+computer:
+  enabled: true
+  display: active
+ratchet:
+  enabled: true
+github:
+  enabled: true
+security:
+  enabled: true
+todo:
+  reminders: true
+mcp:
+  notifications: false
+plan:
+  defaultOnStartup: false
+isolation:
+  backend: auto
+worktree:
+  onStart: create
+  onExit: keep

agent/extensions/dankvoice.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,940 @@
+/**
+ * dankvoice — cloned-voice vocalization for omp, served by frank-tts.
+ *
+ * The built-in speak-aloud feature (`speech.enabled` / `speech.voice`) and the
+ * `omp say` CLI are gated to the bundled Kokoro voice enum, so the cloned
+ * voices on frank-tts (Dankclaw :7772, the `speech` model role in
+ * agent/models.yml) could only ever produce files. This extension adds the
+ * missing path — the TUI speaks with the cloned voices:
+ *
+ *   /say                   open the options menu
+ *   /say <text>            speak once through the speakers
+ *   /say on | off          arm/disarm auto-speak of the assistant's final answer
+ *   /say menu              the options menu (voice, output device, player, cap)
+ *   /say voice <name>      choose a voice (empty = whatever the server defaults to)
+ *   /say voices            list the voices frank-tts reports
+ *   /say stop              cut off the current utterance
+ *   /say status            voice, endpoint, player and device in use
+ *   /say help              the command list
+ *
+ * The endpoint comes from agent/models.yml — the provider block carrying
+ * `api: openai-speech`, i.e. the same row the speech role resolves — so this
+ * file carries no host address and no secret. Menu choices persist to
+ * ~/.omp/cache/dankvoice.json (runtime state, never tracked). Environment
+ * overrides win over the file, which wins over defaults:
+ *
+ *   DANKVOICE_URL      speech base URL (…/v1) instead of models.yml
+ *   DANKVOICE_MODEL    served model id (default: the id in that block)
+ *   DANKVOICE_CONFIG   settings file (default ~/.omp/cache/dankvoice.json)
+ *   DANKVOICE_PLAYER   player binary, skipping detection
+ *   DANKVOICE_VOICE    voice name ("" = server default)
+ *   DANKVOICE_MAX      spoken-character budget per answer (default 700)
+ *   DANKVOICE_AUTO=1   start with auto-speak armed
+ *
+ * Long answers are cut into speakable segments by a state machine ported
+ * from omp's built-in vocalizer: strong boundaries on [.!?…] runs followed
+ * by whitespace (so "!!!!!" and "..." stay one boundary), guards for
+ * abbreviations and decimals, code fences and tables swallowed, markdown
+ * cleaned. Each segment is synthesized to a temp WAV in $TMPDIR and played
+ * to completion before the next request goes out — requests are strictly
+ * sequential, so audio never stacks. The chain runs detached from the event
+ * handler, so an utterance may outlive the harness handler timeout. A new
+ * utterance interrupts the previous one. Output routing: a saved sink
+ * becomes `pw-play --target <sink>` or `paplay --device=<sink>` (ffplay has
+ * no device concept and ignores it); with no saved sink the player's own
+ * default applies.
+ */
+
+import { spawn, spawnSync, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import type { ExtensionAPI, ExtensionContext } from "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent";
+
+const DEFAULT_MAX_CHARS = 700;
+const SYNTH_TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000;
+const VOICES_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000;
+/** A voice name the shim must reject; its 400 body carries the real list. */
+const VOICE_PROBE = "_dankvoice_probe_";
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------- pure logic
+
+export interface SpeechTarget {
+  /** POST target for OpenAI speech synthesis. */
+  speechUrl: string;
+  /** GET target for the voice roster (frank-tts answers a bare JSON array). */
+  voicesUrl: string;
+  /** GET target for the liveness route of the same host:port. */
+  healthUrl: string;
+  /** Served model id to name in the request body. */
+  model: string;
+}
+
+export interface Player {
+  command: string;
+  args: string[];
+}
+
+export type SayAction =
+  | { kind: "menu" }
+  | { kind: "help" }
+  | { kind: "speak"; text: string }
+  | { kind: "on" }
+  | { kind: "off" }
+  | { kind: "stop" }
+  | { kind: "voices" }
+  | { kind: "status" }
+  | { kind: "voice"; name: string };
+
+/** `/say <args>` grammar: subcommands win, anything else is spoken text. */
+export function parseSayArgs(raw: string): SayAction {
+  const args = raw.trim();
+  const lower = args.toLowerCase();
+  if (lower === "" || lower === "menu") return { kind: "menu" };
+  if (lower === "help") return { kind: "help" };
+  if (lower === "on") return { kind: "on" };
+  if (lower === "off") return { kind: "off" };
+  if (lower === "stop") return { kind: "stop" };
+  if (lower === "voices") return { kind: "voices" };
+  if (lower === "status") return { kind: "status" };
+  if (lower === "voice" || lower.startsWith("voice ")) return { kind: "voice", name: args.slice(5).trim() };
+  return { kind: "speak", text: args };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Pull the speech endpoint out of agent/models.yml. The runner API lives on
+ * the MODEL row (`api: openai-speech`), the base URL on its provider, so this
+ * scan remembers the last provider base URL and model id seen and returns when
+ * a model row claims the speech runner API. A new provider key (indent two)
+ * resets both.
+ */
+export function resolveSpeechEndpoint(modelsYml: string): SpeechTarget | undefined {
+  let base: string | undefined;
+  let id: string | undefined;
+  for (const line of modelsYml.split(/\r?\n/)) {
+    const trimmed = line.trim();
+    if (!trimmed || trimmed.startsWith("#")) continue;
+    if (/^ {2}\S.*:\s*$/.test(line)) {
+      base = undefined;
+      id = undefined;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const providerUrl = trimmed.match(/^baseUrl:\s*(\S+)/);
+    if (providerUrl) {
+      base = providerUrl[1].replace(/\/+$/, "");
+      continue;
+    }
+    const modelId = trimmed.match(/^-\s*id:\s*(\S+)/);
+    if (modelId) {
+      id = modelId[1];
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (/^api:\s*openai-speech\s*$/.test(trimmed) && base) {
+      return {
+        speechUrl: `${base}/audio/speech`,
+        voicesUrl: `${base}/audio/voices`,
+        healthUrl: `${base.replace(/\/v1$/, "")}/health`,
+        model: id ?? "frank-tts",
+      };
+    }
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
+/** OpenAI speech body; `voice` is sent only when named — the shim carries its own default. */
+export function speechBody(model: string, text: string, voice: string): Record<string, string> {
+  const body: Record<string, string> = { model, input: text, response_format: "wav" };
+  if (voice) body.voice = voice;
+  return body;
+}
+
+/** Voice names as frank-tts reports them: the invalid-voice 400 body carries `available_voices`. */
+export function parseVoices(payload: unknown): string[] {
+  // frank-tts answers GET /v1/audio/voices with a bare array and an unknown voice with
+  // {error:{available_voices:[…]}}; a flat body is accepted too.
+  if (typeof payload !== "object" || payload === null) return [];
+  let list: unknown;
+  if (Array.isArray(payload)) {
+    list = payload;
+  } else if ("error" in payload && typeof payload.error === "object" && payload.error !== null && "available_voices" in payload.error) {
+    list = payload.error.available_voices;
+  } else if ("available_voices" in payload) {
+    list = payload.available_voices;
+  } else if ("voices" in payload) {
+    list = payload.voices;
+  } else if ("data" in payload) {
+    list = payload.data;
+  }
+  if (!Array.isArray(list)) return [];
+  const names: string[] = [];
+  for (const entry of list) {
+    if (typeof entry === "string") {
+      names.push(entry);
+    } else if (typeof entry === "object" && entry !== null) {
+      const name = "id" in entry ? entry.id : "name" in entry ? entry.name : undefined;
+      if (typeof name === "string") names.push(name);
+    }
+  }
+  return names.filter((name) => name.length > 0);
+}
+
+/** Known players, PipeWire first (the workstations run WirePlumber); first existing wins. */
+export function availablePlayers(lookup: (command: string) => string | null): string[] {
+  return ["pw-play", "paplay", "ffplay"].filter((command) => lookup(command) !== null);
+}
+
+/** One player invocation: the saved sink becomes each player's routing dialect. */
+export function playerFor(command: string, sink: string): Player {
+  const base = command.split("/").pop() ?? command;
+  if (base === "ffplay") return { command, args: ["-nodisp", "-autoexit", "-loglevel", "quiet"] };
+  if (!sink) return { command, args: [] };
+  if (base === "paplay") return { command, args: [`--device=${sink}`] };
+  return { command, args: ["--target", sink] };
+}
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------ segmenting
+//
+// Ported from omp's built-in speak-aloud vocalizer (the `fHe` segmenter and
+// its helpers in dist/cli.js). The same boundary rules as the stock path,
+// kept deliberately: push() takes text and returns the segments that are
+// complete, flush() ends the message.
+
+const SENTENCE_END = /[.!?\u2026]+[)\]"'\u00BB\u201D\u2019]*\s/g;
+const WEAK_BREAK = /[,;:\u2014\u2013]\s/g;
+const ABBREVIATION = /(?:^|\s)(?:e\.g|i\.e|etc|vs|Mr|Mrs|Ms|Dr|St|No)\.$/i;
+const LINE_HEAD = /^(?:#{1,6}|[-*+]|-{2,}|\*{2,}|_{2,}|\d{1,3}|\d{1,3}[.)]|>+|`{1,2}|~{1,2})$/;
+const HORIZONTAL_RULE = /^(?:-{3,}|\*{3,}|_{3,})\s*$/;
+
+const IMAGE_LINK = /!\[([^\]]*)\]\(([^()]*)\)/g;
+const LINK = /\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^()]*)\)/g;
+const BRACKETED_URL = /<(https?:\/\/[^\s>]+)>/g;
+const BARE_URL = /\bhttps?:\/\/[^\s<>()"'\]]+|\bwww\.[\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)+[^\s<>()"'\]]*/g;
+const INLINE_CODE = /`{1,2}([^`]+)`{1,2}/g;
+const BOLD_MARKUP = /\*\*|__|~~/g;
+const STAR = /\*(?=\S)|(?<=\S)\*/g;
+const UNDERSCORE = /(^|\s)_+|_+(?=\s|$)/g;
+const HTML_TAG = /<\/?[a-zA-Z][^<>]*>/g;
+const EMPHASIS_RUN = /(^|\s)[-*_]{3,}(?=\s|$)/g;
+const DEEP_PATH = /(^|[\s("'`])((?:~|\.{1,2})?\/?[\w.@+-]+(?:\/[\w.@+-]+){2,}\/?)/g;
+const HAS_WORD = /[\p{L}\p{N}]/u;
+
+/** Speak a URL by host and a file path by its last segment. */
+export function spokenDomain(url: string): string {
+  return url.replace(/^[a-z][\w+.-]*:\/\//i, "").replace(/^www\./i, "").replace(/[/?#].*$/, "");
+}
+
+/** Final per-segment cleanup; empty when nothing speakable survived. */
+export function cleanForSpeech(text: string): string {
+  const out = text
+    .replace(IMAGE_LINK, "$1")
+    .replace(LINK, "$1")
+    .replace(BRACKETED_URL, (_match, url: string) => spokenDomain(url))
+    .replace(BARE_URL, (url: string) => spokenDomain(url))
+    .replace(INLINE_CODE, "$1")
+    .replace(BOLD_MARKUP, "")
+    .replace(STAR, "")
+    .replace(UNDERSCORE, "$1")
+    .replace(HTML_TAG, " ")
+    .replace(EMPHASIS_RUN, "$1")
+    .replace(DEEP_PATH, (_match, pre: string, path: string) => {
+      const parts = path.split("/").filter((part) => part.length > 0);
+      return pre + (parts[parts.length - 1] ?? path);
+    })
+    .replace(/\s+/g, " ")
+    .trim();
+  return HAS_WORD.test(out) ? out : "";
+}
+
+function sentenceBoundary(text: string, minChars: number): number {
+  SENTENCE_END.lastIndex = 0;
+  for (let match = SENTENCE_END.exec(text); match; match = SENTENCE_END.exec(text)) {
+    const end = match.index + match[0].length;
+    if (end < minChars) continue;
+    if (ABBREVIATION.test(text.slice(0, end).trimEnd())) continue;
+    if ((text.slice(0, end).match(/`/g)?.length ?? 0) % 2 !== 0) continue;
+    return end;
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+function firstWeakBreak(text: string, minChars: number): number {
+  WEAK_BREAK.lastIndex = 0;
+  for (let match = WEAK_BREAK.exec(text); match; match = WEAK_BREAK.exec(text)) {
+    const end = match.index + match[0].length;
+    if (end >= minChars) return end;
+  }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+function lastWeakBreakWithin(text: string, minChars: number, maxChars: number): number {
+  WEAK_BREAK.lastIndex = 0;
+  let found = -1;
+  for (let match = WEAK_BREAK.exec(text); match; match = WEAK_BREAK.exec(text)) {
+    const end = match.index + match[0].length;
+    if (end > maxChars) break;
+    if (end >= minChars) found = end;
+  }
+  return found;
+}
+
+function wordWrapCut(text: string, maxChars: number): number {
+  const space = text.lastIndexOf(" ", maxChars);
+  return space > 0 ? space + 1 : Math.min(maxChars, text.length);
+}
+
+type LineHead =
+  | { kind: "swallow" }
+  | { kind: "fence"; fence: string }
+  | { kind: "marker"; spoken: string }
+  | { kind: "prose"; text: string }
+  | { kind: "undecided" };
+
+/** Classify a line start: tables and fences swallow, list markers get spoken. */
+export function classifyLineHead(head: string): LineHead {
+  if (head === "|") return { kind: "swallow" };
+  if (/^(?:`{3}|~{3})/.test(head)) return { kind: "fence", fence: head.slice(0, 3) };
+  if (/^#{1,6}[ \t]/.test(head)) return { kind: "marker", spoken: "" };
+  if (/^[-*+][ \t]/.test(head)) return { kind: "marker", spoken: "" };
+  const ordered = /^(\d{1,3})[.)][ \t]/.exec(head);
+  if (ordered) return { kind: "marker", spoken: `${ordered[1]}, ` };
+  if (/^>+/.test(head) && !/^>+$/.test(head)) return { kind: "prose", text: head.replace(/^>+[ \t]?/, "") };
+  if (LINE_HEAD.test(head)) return { kind: "undecided" };
+  return { kind: "prose", text: head };
+}
+
+type SegmenterState = "linestart" | "prose" | "swallow" | "code";
+
+/** The built-in vocalizer's segmenter: streamed text in, speakable segments out. */
+export class SpeechSegmenter {
+  #state: SegmenterState = "linestart";
+  #head = "";
+  #fence = "";
+  #fenceLine = "";
+  #resume: SegmenterState = "linestart";
+  #buffer = "";
+  #started = false;
+
+  push(chunk: string): string[] {
+    const out: string[] = [];
+    for (const char of chunk) this.#feed(char, out);
+    this.#split(out);
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  flush(): string[] {
+    const out: string[] = [];
+    if (this.#state === "linestart" && this.#head.length > 0 && !HORIZONTAL_RULE.test(this.#head)) this.#buffer += this.#head;
+    this.#head = "";
+    this.#state = "linestart";
+    this.#emit(out);
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  /** Streaming idle flush: only cut a tail that already looks finished. */
+  flushIdle(): string[] {
+    const out: string[] = [];
+    const tail = this.#buffer.trimEnd();
+    if (!/[.!?\u2026][)\]"'\u00BB\u201D\u2019]*$/.test(tail) && tail.length < 24) return out;
+    this.#emit(out);
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  #feed(char: string, out: string[]): void {
+    switch (this.#state) {
+      case "linestart":
+        this.#feedLineStart(char, out);
+        return;
+      case "prose":
+        if (char === "\n") this.#endLine(out);
+        else this.#buffer += char;
+        return;
+      case "swallow":
+        if (char === "\n") this.#state = this.#resume;
+        return;
+      case "code":
+        this.#feedCode(char);
+        return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  #feedLineStart(char: string, out: string[]): void {
+    if (char === "\n") {
+      const head = this.#head;
+      this.#head = "";
+      if (head.length > 0 && !HORIZONTAL_RULE.test(head)) this.#buffer += head;
+      this.#endLine(out);
+      return;
+    }
+    this.#head += char;
+    const classified = classifyLineHead(this.#head);
+    if (classified.kind === "undecided") {
+      if (this.#head.length > 8) {
+        this.#buffer += this.#head;
+        this.#head = "";
+        this.#state = "prose";
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+    this.#head = "";
+    switch (classified.kind) {
+      case "prose":
+        this.#buffer += classified.text;
+        this.#state = "prose";
+        return;
+      case "marker":
+        this.#buffer += classified.spoken;
+        this.#state = "prose";
+        return;
+      case "swallow":
+        this.#state = "swallow";
+        this.#resume = "linestart";
+        return;
+      case "fence":
+        this.#fence = classified.fence;
+        this.#fenceLine = "";
+        this.#state = "swallow";
+        this.#resume = "code";
+        return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  #feedCode(char: string): void {
+    if (char === "\n") {
+      this.#fenceLine = "";
+      return;
+    }
+    if (this.#fenceLine.length < 3) {
+      this.#fenceLine += char;
+      if (this.#fenceLine === this.#fence) {
+        this.#state = "swallow";
+        this.#resume = "linestart";
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  #endLine(out: string[]): void {
+    this.#state = "linestart";
+    this.#emit(out);
+  }
+
+  #emit(out: string[]): void {
+    this.#split(out);
+    const segment = this.#buffer;
+    this.#buffer = "";
+    this.#pushSegment(segment, out);
+  }
+
+  #split(out: string[]): void {
+    for (;;) {
+      const buffer = this.#buffer;
+      const boundary = sentenceBoundary(buffer, this.#started ? 24 : 12);
+      if (boundary !== -1 && boundary <= 280) {
+        this.#cut(boundary, out);
+        continue;
+      }
+      if (!this.#started && buffer.length >= 40) {
+        const weak = firstWeakBreak(buffer, 12);
+        if (weak !== -1 && weak <= 140) {
+          this.#cut(weak, out);
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (buffer.length >= 140) {
+          this.#cut(wordWrapCut(buffer, 140), out);
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+      if (this.#started && buffer.length >= 160) {
+        const weak = lastWeakBreakWithin(buffer, 24, 160);
+        if (weak !== -1) {
+          this.#cut(weak, out);
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+      if (buffer.length > 280) {
+        const weak = lastWeakBreakWithin(buffer, 24, 280);
+        this.#cut(weak !== -1 ? weak : wordWrapCut(buffer, 280), out);
+        continue;
+      }
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  #cut(end: number, out: string[]): void {
+    const head = this.#buffer.slice(0, end);
+    this.#buffer = this.#buffer.slice(end);
+    this.#pushSegment(head, out);
+  }
+
+  #pushSegment(raw: string, out: string[]): void {
+    const cleaned = cleanForSpeech(raw);
+    if (!cleaned) return;
+    out.push(cleaned);
+    this.#started = true;
+  }
+}
+
+/** A whole message to speakable segments: the segmenter run start to end. */
+export function segmentsForSpeech(text: string): string[] {
+  const segmenter = new SpeechSegmenter();
+  const segments = segmenter.push(text);
+  for (const tail of segmenter.flush()) segments.push(tail);
+  return segments;
+}
+
+/** The leading whole segments that fit the user's spoken-character budget. */
+export function budgetSegments(segments: string[], maxChars: number): string[] {
+  const chosen: string[] = [];
+  let used = 0;
+  for (const segment of segments) {
+    if (used + segment.length > maxChars) break;
+    used += segment.length;
+    chosen.push(segment);
+  }
+  return chosen;
+}
+
+/** The text the assistant last actually said; tool-only messages do not count. */
+export function lastAssistantText(messages: readonly unknown[]): string {
+  for (let i = messages.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+    const message = messages[i];
+    if (!message || typeof message !== "object" || !("role" in message) || message.role !== "assistant") continue;
+    if (!("content" in message)) continue;
+    const content = message.content;
+    if (typeof content === "string") return content;
+    if (!Array.isArray(content)) continue;
+    const parts: string[] = [];
+    for (const part of content) {
+      if (part && typeof part === "object" && "type" in part && part.type === "text" && "text" in part && typeof part.text === "string") {
+        parts.push(part.text);
+      }
+    }
+    const joined = parts.join("\n").trim();
+    if (joined) return joined;
+  }
+  return "";
+}
+
+/** Menu choices, persisted between sessions; every field optional. */
+export interface Settings {
+  voice?: string;
+  player?: string;
+  sink?: string;
+  maxChars?: number;
+  auto?: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Where menu choices live: DANKVOICE_CONFIG, else ~/.omp/cache/dankvoice.json. */
+export function settingsPath(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string {
+  return env.DANKVOICE_CONFIG?.trim() || join(env.HOME ?? "", ".omp", "cache", "dankvoice.json");
+}
+
+export function readSettings(path: string): Settings {
+  try {
+    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+    if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || Array.isArray(parsed)) return {};
+    const raw = parsed as Record<string, unknown>;
+    const settings: Settings = {};
+    if (typeof raw.voice === "string") settings.voice = raw.voice;
+    if (typeof raw.player === "string") settings.player = raw.player;
+    if (typeof raw.sink === "string") settings.sink = raw.sink;
+    if (typeof raw.maxChars === "number" && Number.isFinite(raw.maxChars) && raw.maxChars > 0) settings.maxChars = Math.floor(raw.maxChars);
+    if (typeof raw.auto === "boolean") settings.auto = raw.auto;
+    return settings;
+  } catch {
+    return {};
+  }
+}
+
+/** A sink row from `wpctl list audio sinks`: `116<TAB>alsa_output…<TAB>audio/sink<TAB>*`. */
+export interface SinkRow {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+}
+
+export function parseSinkList(output: string): SinkRow[] {
+  const rows: SinkRow[] = [];
+  for (const line of output.split("\n")) {
+    const cols = line.split("\t").map((col) => col.trim());
+    if (cols.length < 3 || !cols[2]?.includes("audio/sink")) continue;
+    const id = cols[0] ?? "";
+    const name = cols[1] ?? "";
+    if (!id || !name) continue;
+    rows.push({ id, name });
+  }
+  return rows;
+}
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------- live wiring
+
+interface Config {
+  target?: SpeechTarget;
+  player?: Player;
+  sink: string;
+  maxChars: number;
+  auto: boolean;
+  voice: string;
+}
+
+function lookupOnPath(command: string): string | null {
+  const found = spawnSync("sh", ["-c", `command -v ${command}`], { encoding: "utf8" });
+  return found.status === 0 && found.stdout.trim() ? found.stdout.trim() : null;
+}
+
+function readModelsYml(): string {
+  const path = process.env.DANKVOICE_MODELS ?? join(process.env.HOME ?? "", ".omp", "agent", "models.yml");
+  try {
+    return readFileSync(path, "utf8");
+  } catch {
+    return "";
+  }
+}
+
+function loadConfig(): Config {
+  const env = process.env;
+  const settings = readSettings(settingsPath(env));
+  const overrideUrl = env.DANKVOICE_URL?.trim().replace(/\/+$/, "");
+  const modelOverride = env.DANKVOICE_MODEL?.trim();
+  const fromYml = overrideUrl ? undefined : resolveSpeechEndpoint(readModelsYml());
+  const target: SpeechTarget | undefined = overrideUrl
+    ? {
+        speechUrl: `${overrideUrl}/audio/speech`,
+        voicesUrl: `${overrideUrl}/audio/voices`,
+        healthUrl: `${overrideUrl.replace(/\/v1$/, "")}/health`,
+        model: modelOverride || "frank-tts",
+      }
+    : fromYml
+      ? { ...fromYml, model: modelOverride || fromYml.model }
+      : undefined;
+  const playerCommand = env.DANKVOICE_PLAYER?.trim() || settings.player || availablePlayers(lookupOnPath)[0];
+  const sink = settings.sink ?? "";
+  const maxChars = Number(env.DANKVOICE_MAX);
+  return {
+    target,
+    player: playerCommand ? playerFor(playerCommand, sink) : undefined,
+    sink,
+    maxChars: Number.isFinite(maxChars) && maxChars > 0 ? Math.floor(maxChars) : (settings.maxChars ?? DEFAULT_MAX_CHARS),
+    auto: env.DANKVOICE_AUTO === "1" || (settings.auto ?? false),
+    voice: env.DANKVOICE_VOICE?.trim() ?? settings.voice ?? "",
+  };
+}
+
+/** PipeWire sinks via wpctl; empty when wireplumber is unreachable. */
+function listSinks(): SinkRow[] {
+  const probe = spawnSync("wpctl", ["list", "audio", "sinks"], { encoding: "utf8" });
+  return probe.status === 0 ? parseSinkList(probe.stdout) : [];
+}
+
+/** Synthesize one utterance into a WAV inside `dir`; throws with the endpoint's own message. */
+async function synthesize(target: SpeechTarget, body: Record<string, string>, dir: string, timeoutMs: number): Promise<string> {
+  const res = await fetch(target.speechUrl, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify(body),
+    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs),
+  });
+  const contentType = res.headers.get("content-type") ?? "";
+  if (!res.ok || contentType.includes("json")) {
+    let message = `frank-tts HTTP ${res.status}`;
+    try {
+      const payload: unknown = await res.json();
+      if (
+        typeof payload === "object" &&
+        payload !== null &&
+        "error" in payload &&
+        typeof payload.error === "object" &&
+        payload.error !== null &&
+        "message" in payload.error &&
+        typeof payload.error.message === "string"
+      ) {
+        message = payload.error.message;
+      }
+    } catch {
+      // keep the status-line message
+    }
+    throw new Error(message);
+  }
+  const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer());
+  if (bytes.byteLength === 0) throw new Error("frank-tts returned no audio");
+  const file = join(dir, `say-${Date.now()}.wav`);
+  writeFileSync(file, bytes);
+  return file;
+}
+
+/** frank-tts's roster route first; if it ever answers nothing, ask with a voice it must reject. */
+async function fetchVoices(target: SpeechTarget): Promise<string[]> {
+  const roster = await fetch(target.voicesUrl, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(VOICES_TIMEOUT_MS) })
+    .then((res) => res.json())
+    .catch(() => undefined);
+  const listed = parseVoices(roster);
+  if (listed.length > 0) return listed;
+  const probe = await fetch(target.speechUrl, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify(speechBody(target.model, "voice list probe", VOICE_PROBE)),
+    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(VOICES_TIMEOUT_MS),
+  }).catch(() => undefined);
+  if (!probe) return [];
+  return parseVoices(await probe.json().catch(() => undefined));
+}
+
+/** Play a WAV and clean its temp directory up when the player exits. */
+function startPlayback(player: Player, file: string, dir: string): ChildProcess {
+  const child = spawn(player.command, [...player.args, file], { stdio: "ignore" });
+  const clean = () => {
+    try {
+      rmSync(file, { force: true });
+      rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    } catch {
+      // temp files are not worth a toast
+    }
+  };
+  child.once("exit", clean);
+  child.once("error", clean);
+  return child;
+}
+
+export default function dankvoice(pi: ExtensionAPI) {
+  const cfg = loadConfig();
+  const state: { auto: boolean; voice: string; child?: ChildProcess; run: number; lastCtx?: ExtensionContext } = {
+    auto: cfg.auto,
+    voice: cfg.voice,
+    run: 0,
+  };
+  const voiceLabel = () => state.voice || "server default";
+  const reflectStatus = () => state.lastCtx?.ui.setStatus("dankvoice", state.auto ? `🔊 ${voiceLabel()}` : undefined);
+
+  const stop = () => {
+    state.run += 1; // retire the live chain; its loop stops at the next gate
+    if (state.child && state.child.exitCode === null) state.child.kill("SIGTERM");
+    state.child = undefined;
+  };
+
+  const missingTarget = () => "dankvoice: no `api: openai-speech` provider in agent/models.yml (set DANKVOICE_URL)";
+
+  const persistSettings = (ctx: ExtensionContext) => {
+    const settings: Settings = {
+      voice: state.voice,
+      player: cfg.player?.command ?? "",
+      sink: cfg.sink,
+      maxChars: cfg.maxChars,
+      auto: state.auto,
+    };
+    try {
+      writeFileSync(settingsPath(process.env), `${JSON.stringify(settings, null, 2)}\n`);
+    } catch (error) {
+      ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: settings not saved: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "warning");
+    }
+  };
+
+  const setVoice = (ctx: ExtensionContext, name: string) => {
+    state.voice = name;
+    reflectStatus();
+    ctx.ui.notify(name ? `dankvoice: voice = ${name}` : "dankvoice: voice = whatever frank-tts defaults to", "info");
+    persistSettings(ctx);
+  };
+
+  const setAuto = (ctx: ExtensionContext, on: boolean) => {
+    state.auto = on;
+    if (!on) stop();
+    reflectStatus();
+    ctx.ui.notify(
+      on ? `dankvoice: auto-speak armed (${voiceLabel()} @ ${cfg.target?.speechUrl ?? "no endpoint"})` : "dankvoice: auto-speak off",
+      "info",
+    );
+    persistSettings(ctx);
+  };
+
+  /**
+   * Speak one answer as strictly sequential requests: synthesize a segment,
+   * play it to the end, only then ask for the next — audio never stacks.
+   * Superseded chains (new utterance, /say stop, disarm) exit at the gates.
+   */
+  async function speak(ctx: ExtensionContext, text: string) {
+    if (!cfg.target) {
+      ctx.ui.notify(missingTarget(), "error");
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!cfg.player) {
+      ctx.ui.notify("dankvoice: no audio player found (pw-play, paplay or ffplay)", "error");
+      return;
+    }
+    const target = cfg.target;
+    const player = cfg.player;
+    const segments = budgetSegments(segmentsForSpeech(text), cfg.maxChars);
+    if (segments.length === 0) return;
+    stop();
+    const run = state.run;
+    for (const segment of segments) {
+      if (state.run !== run) return;
+      const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "dankvoice-"));
+      try {
+        const file = await synthesize(target, speechBody(target.model, segment, state.voice), dir, SYNTH_TIMEOUT_MS);
+        if (state.run !== run) {
+          rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+          return;
+        }
+        await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+          const child = startPlayback(player, file, dir);
+          state.child = child;
+          child.once("exit", () => resolve());
+          child.once("error", () => resolve());
+        });
+      } catch (error) {
+        try {
+          rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+        } catch {
+          // temp files are not worth a toast
+        }
+        ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error");
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  async function openMenu(ctx: ExtensionContext): Promise<void> {
+    const options = [
+      `Auto-speak: ${state.auto ? "on" : "off"} (toggle)`,
+      `Voice: ${voiceLabel()} (change)`,
+      `Output device: ${cfg.sink || "system default"} (change)`,
+      `Player: ${cfg.player?.command ?? "none"} (change)`,
+      `Spoken cap: ${cfg.maxChars} chars (change)`,
+      "Speak a test phrase",
+    ];
+    const choice = await ctx.ui.select("dankvoice — options", options);
+    if (!choice) return;
+    if (choice === options[0]) {
+      setAuto(ctx, !state.auto);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (choice === options[1]) {
+      if (!cfg.target) {
+        ctx.ui.notify(missingTarget(), "error");
+        return;
+      }
+      let voices: string[];
+      try {
+        voices = await fetchVoices(cfg.target);
+      } catch (error) {
+        ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error");
+        return;
+      }
+      const picked = await ctx.ui.select("dankvoice — voice", ["server default", ...voices]);
+      if (picked === undefined) return;
+      setVoice(ctx, picked === "server default" ? "" : picked);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (choice === options[2]) {
+      const picked = await ctx.ui.select("dankvoice — output device", ["system default", ...listSinks().map((sink) => sink.name)]);
+      if (picked === undefined) return;
+      cfg.sink = picked === "system default" ? "" : picked;
+      if (cfg.player) cfg.player = playerFor(cfg.player.command, cfg.sink);
+      ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: output device = ${cfg.sink || "system default"}`, "info");
+      persistSettings(ctx);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (choice === options[3]) {
+      const choices = [...new Set([cfg.player?.command, ...availablePlayers(lookupOnPath)].filter((c): c is string => Boolean(c)))];
+      if (choices.length === 0) {
+        ctx.ui.notify("dankvoice: no audio player found (pw-play, paplay or ffplay)", "error");
+        return;
+      }
+      const picked = await ctx.ui.select("dankvoice — player", choices);
+      if (picked === undefined) return;
+      cfg.player = playerFor(picked, cfg.sink);
+      ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: player = ${picked}`, "info");
+      persistSettings(ctx);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (choice === options[4]) {
+      const picked = await ctx.ui.select("dankvoice — spoken cap", ["300", "700", "1500", "3000"]);
+      const next = Number(picked);
+      if (!Number.isFinite(next) || next <= 0) return;
+      cfg.maxChars = next;
+      ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: cap = ${next} chars`, "info");
+      persistSettings(ctx);
+      return;
+    }
+    await speak(ctx, `dankvoice: ${voiceLabel()} through ${cfg.player?.command ?? "no player"}, checking.`);
+  }
+
+  pi.registerCommand("say", {
+    description:
+      "Speak with the fleet's cloned voices (frank-tts): /say (menu) | <text> | on | off | menu | voice <name> | voices | stop | status",
+    handler: async (args: string, ctx) => {
+      state.lastCtx = ctx;
+      const action = parseSayArgs(args);
+      switch (action.kind) {
+        case "menu":
+          await openMenu(ctx);
+          return;
+        case "help":
+          ctx.ui.notify(
+            "dankvoice: /say (menu) · /say <text> · /say on|off (auto-speak answers) · /say voice <name> · /say voices · /say stop · /say status",
+            "info",
+          );
+          return;
+        case "on":
+          setAuto(ctx, true);
+          return;
+        case "off":
+          setAuto(ctx, false);
+          return;
+        case "stop":
+          stop();
+          return;
+        case "voice":
+          setVoice(ctx, action.name);
+          return;
+        case "voices": {
+          if (!cfg.target) {
+            ctx.ui.notify(missingTarget(), "error");
+            return;
+          }
+          const voices: string[] = [];
+          try {
+            voices.push(...(await fetchVoices(cfg.target)));
+          } catch (error) {
+            ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error");
+            return;
+          }
+          ctx.ui.notify(
+            voices.length
+              ? `dankvoice voices: ${voices.join(", ")} — using ${voiceLabel()}`
+              : "dankvoice: frank-tts reported no voice list",
+            voices.length ? "info" : "warning",
+          );
+          return;
+        }
+        case "status":
+          ctx.ui.notify(
+            `dankvoice: voice ${voiceLabel()} · ${cfg.target?.speechUrl ?? "NO ENDPOINT"} · player ${cfg.player ? cfg.player.command : "NONE"} · device ${cfg.sink || "system default"} · auto-speak ${state.auto ? "on" : "off"} · cap ${cfg.maxChars} chars`,
+            "info",
+          );
+          return;
+        case "speak":
+          void speak(ctx, action.text).catch((error) => ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error"));
+          return;
+      }
+    },
+  });
+
+  pi.on("agent_end", (event, ctx) => {
+    state.lastCtx = ctx;
+    if (!state.auto) return;
+    // `willContinue` means the harness already scheduled a continuation
+    // (auto-retry, empty-stop retry): this is not the user-visible terminal
+    // settle, so narrating it would speak an answer the model is about to redo.
+    if (event.willContinue) return;
+    if (ctx.mode === "print" || ctx.mode === "json") return;
+    // Fire-and-forget: a multi-segment utterance legitimately outlives the
+    // harness's handler timeout, and blocking here would only produce a
+    // spurious "handler timed out" toast while playback continues anyway.
+    void speak(ctx, lastAssistantText(event.messages)).catch((error) =>
+      ctx.ui.notify(`dankvoice: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, "error"),
+    );
+  });
+
+  pi.on("session_shutdown", () => {
+    stop();
+  });
+}

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+---
+name: aa-chart-label-browser-extraction
+description: "Extract per-model benchmark scores from artificialanalysis.ai pages: charts are client-rendered recharts SVGs invisible to plain HTML fetch; pair sorted label/name x-coords, then cross-check against published sentences before trusting any chart↔eval identity."
+---
+
+Extract per-eval scores for a model from artificialanalysis.ai when no API key exists. Plain HTML fetch yields NO chart data (client-side recharts; SSR has only meta + FAQ sentences; `/api/*` = 401).
+
+## Procedure
+1. Managed browser tab: `browser.open({name, url, wait_until: "domcontentloaded"})`.
+2. **Per-eval top-3 (authoritative):** open `https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/<slug>`; regex `document.body.innerText` (collapse whitespace): `([A-Z][^.;]{0,60}?) scores the highest on (.+?) with a score of (-?[\d.]+%?), followed by (.+?) with a score of ... and ...` — mind decimal points truncating naive `[^.]+` regexes. Build the page script as a plain string (`String.raw`), not an interpolated template, so `\\d` survives.
+3. **All-eval per-model rows:** on `https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/<slug>`: scroll in 6 steps (0.15→0.9, ~1.3 s each) to trigger lazy charts, then per `svg` with ≥3 bars: labels = `[...svg.querySelectorAll("g.recharts-label-list text")]` (x attr), names = `[...svg.querySelectorAll("foreignObject")]` divs sorted by `g[transform] translate(x,y)`. Sort BOTH by x, **zip by index** — x-center pairing is off by a systematic half-bar.
+4. Self-row filter: exact hyphenated name (e.g. `Qwen3.8-Flash-Next`, not "Qwen3.8 Flash").
+5. Elo evals (GDPval-AA, AA-Briefcase): charts show AA's published `(Elo−500)/2000` normalization (1866→68.3).
+
+## Verification law (non-negotiable — two plausible mappings disagreed twice)
+- Zip top-3 of every chart against the eval page's published sentence (e.g. Kimi 88.7→89, Opus 66.9→67); ship only cross-checked rows.
+- Arithmetic corroboration helps: Omniscience accuracy 17% + non-hallucination 7% ↔ index −60.
+- Record provenance per row: sentence rows → eval-page URL; chart-label rows → model-page URL; `fetched_at` + `index_version`.
+- Geometry pairing (link→nearest chart below) is AMBIGUOUS when chart height > gap to next card — adjacent links share a chart. Use order + sentence tops, not geometry.
+
+## Traps
+- `tab.run` = Bun runtime; page-world JS needs `tab.evaluate`. Eval-cell `log()` does not reach display; write to a /tmp file and `cat`.
+- "Add model from specific provider" picker is not in the DOM (renders after chart data loads); UI drill-through × N evals is fragile — prefer the sentences.
+- Headline index FAQ: "scores N on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index" — check for "(estimated)" qualifier; est. = "independent evaluation forthcoming".

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+---
+name: aa-chart-model-score-extraction
+description: "Extract per-model benchmark scores from artificialanalysis.ai pages: charts are client-rendered Recharts SVGs; zip label-list texts to foreignObject names by x-sorted index, validate chart identity against the page's published top-3 sentence, apply Elo/Omniscience normalization laws, seed frank-intelligence-bench aa-scores.yml."
+---
+
+Extract AI benchmark scores for a specific model from artificialanalysis.ai. Per-model per-eval numbers are NOT in SSR HTML (JS charts, API needs key); eval-page SSR text DOES carry the top-3 sentence.
+
+## Procedure (validated 5x on this repo's model pages)
+1. `browser.open({ name, url: "https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/<slug>", wait_until: "domcontentloaded" })`, then scroll in ~6 steps (0.15..0.9 of scrollHeight, ~1.3 s pauses) — charts lazy-render.
+2. Extract each chart: pair `g.recharts-label-list text` (values, take `x` attr) with `foreignObject div` (model names, x from parent `g[transform] translate(x,y)`). **Sort both lists by x and zip by index — NOT nearest-x** (nearest-x is off by one bar; index-zip matches published tops exactly).
+3. Self row: match name loosely (`Qwen3.8-Flash-Next` has hyphens — test both forms).
+
+## Identity law (never ship an order-guessed chart→eval mapping)
+- Model pages have ~14 charts, 18 eval cards; DOM order and geometry pairing BOTH proved ambiguous.
+- Anchor every chart by its top-3 names/values vs the eval page's published sentence: `https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/<slug>` body text: "X scores the highest on <eval> with a score of N%, followed by …". Regex must tolerate decimals: value pattern `(-?[\\d.]+%?)`; build page scripts with `String.raw` (bun template literals eat `\\d`).
+- A chart's `self` value on the MODEL page is page-local → trustworthy once the top-3 anchor confirms the eval (e.g. AA-LCR: Kimi 88.7 → chart top "Kimi K3 (max)=89").
+
+## Normalization laws (frank-intelligence-bench aa-scores.yml)
+- Elo evals (AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA): store `(Elo−500)/2000×100` (1866 → 68.3), AA's published normalization.
+- AA-Omniscience: score = Accuracy (w10) + 1−Hallucination (w5), both 0–100 → composite `(10·acc + 5·nonhall)/15`. NEVER feed the −100..100 Index chart value (pre-fix cost ~7 pts; calibration then reproduces AA's official index ±0.6: Flash-Next 39.85≈40, Haiku 43.4≈43, 27B 33.85≈34, 3.6-27B 21.55≈21).
+- Every seeded row: `source_url` + `fetched_at` + `index_version`.
+
+## Seed + validate loop
+Append model block to `config/references/aa-scores.yml` (block-insert via python string replace on the `  - name: <anchor>` line — beware: dropping rows from a block loses the 2-space indent on the anchor line; verify with `yaml.safe_load`), then `bun -e loadAaRefs` parse-check, `bun src/cli.ts report $RID`, calibration check (full-row models: lite vs AA official), `bun test`, commit.

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+---
+name: aa-reference-scores-seeding
+description: "Seed/refresh frank-intelligence-bench config/references/aa-scores.yml from artificialanalysis.ai: authoritative top-3 sentences from eval pages, Recharts SVG zip extraction for per-model chart values, cross-check law, Elo normalization, schema/repair loop."
+---
+
+Seed frank-intelligence-bench `config/references/aa-scores.yml` from AA's public pages, then re-render the report trio.
+
+## Provenance law (non-negotiable)
+- Every row: `{ eval, pct, source_url, fetched_at, index_version }` (Zod-enforced; top-level `schema_version: 1, fetched_at, index_version` required).
+- Eval ids MUST match report result ids: `scicode, aa-lcr, hle, terminal-bench, gdp-pdf, aa-briefcase, gdpval-aa, automationbench-aa, aa-omniscience, critpt` (render `refFor(evalId)` joins on exact id).
+- Never ship an order-guessed chart↔eval mapping; only cross-checked ones.
+
+## Data tiers (authority order)
+1. **Eval-page sentence** (authoritative, SSR, per eval page `/evaluations/<slug>`): `"X scores the highest on <eval> with a score of N%, followed by Y ... and Z ..."` → top-3 rows with verbatim model names. Regex trap: model names contain `5.5` — capture names with `[^.;]` truncates at decimals; use targeted extraction per page, verify each value against the page's `66.9`-style raw text.
+2. **Model-page chart labels** (per-model values, incl. the page's own model): charts are client-side Recharts (NOT in raw HTML, NOT via /api/ — keyless API 404s). Browser: `browser.open({name,url,wait_until})`, scroll full page in ~0.15 steps (lazy render), then `tab.evaluate` (NOT `tab.run` — that's Bun world):
+   - names = `<foreignObject>` div text, x from parent `g[transform]` `translate(x,...)`;
+   - values = `g.recharts-label-list text` attrs;
+   - **zip by sorted-x index** (nearest-x pairing is off by half a bar; index-zip verified against published tops).
+3. `sync-aa` free Data API for headline indices — needs `AA_API_KEY` (unset in ~/.secrets as of 2026-10-11).
+
+## Cross-check law (mandatory before shipping chart-derived rows)
+Chart's top-3 zipped values must match the eval page's published sentence (e.g. Kimi 88.7→89, Elo 1866→68.3, Opus index 46). Two independent methods disagreeing = stop, re-anchor; geometry pairing (link-top→svg-top proximity) collides on adjacent cards — prefer sentence-vs-zip corroboration.
+
+## Normalizations
+- Elo evals (GDPval-AA, AA-Briefcase): sentences publish raw Elo; store AA's published `(Elo−500)/2000`×100 (1866→68.3). Document in file header.
+- AA-Omniscience `eval: aa-omniscience` = the −100..100 Index (not accuracy); accuracy/non-hallucination charts corroborate (17%/7% ⇒ −60 arithmetically consistent).
+
+## Known identities (2026-10-11 census, v4.3.2)
+- frank-archon lineage base = **Qwen3.8-Flash-Next** (`/models/qwen3-8-flash-next`), AA index 40, class median 18. NOT Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct (index 10, 2025 family) — first seed got this wrong; verify lineage in `docs/endpoints.md` before labeling `kind: base`.
+- Base per-eval (chart): SciCode 51, HLE 38, AA-LCR 80, TB-4.0 25, GDP.pdf 16, CritPt 11, Briefcase 54, GDPval 56, AutoBench 56, Omniscience −10.
+- Frontier anchors: SciCode Opus 5.5 Max 66.9 (board flagged "under review" — travel this caveat with any SciCode delta); HLE Opus 61.4; AA-LCR Kimi K3 88.7; TB Sonnet 63.6; CritPt GPT-6.1 Sol 32.3.
+
+## Edit traps
+- YAML surgery via `edit`: replacing a line range that included a top-level key (`schema_version`/`models:`) silently duplicates or deletes the anchor → Zod error `expected 1 / received undefined`. After any header edit, `grep -n "^schema_version\|^fetched_at\|^index_version\|^models:"` must show exactly one each.
+
+## Ship loop
+1. `bun -e 'import { loadAaFile, loadAaRefs } from "./src/aa"; ...'` schema-parse gate.
+2. `bun src/cli.ts report <run-id>` (takes bare id, NOT a path) → trio in `reports/<host>/<id>/`.
+3. Verify `data.json .aa_reference` non-empty, per-eval coverage, delta columns.
+4. log entry in `docs/log.md` + atomic commit + push (local gitea OK).
+5. `browser.close({name})` — headless tabs are shared/retained.

agent/managed-skills/audit-never-run-container-deploy/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: audit-never-run-container-deploy
+description: "Audit a locally built podman/quadlet deploy path that has never actually run: prove base-image assumptions, env-file reader divergence, and image-hash coverage before the first deploy."
+---
+
+# Audit a never-run container deploy path
+
+A deployable that has never been built or started has never been *executed*: every
+fault in it is invisible to tests that stub the runtime. Audit it as static code
+against the tools it calls, then prove each suspicion cheaply against the real
+tool. The faults worth hunting are the ones that **report success while doing
+nothing** — those are the ones that survive a green `/health` and a green e2e run.
+
+## The three fault classes (all measured 2026-10-18, frank-tts-engine)
+
+1. **A command the base image does not ship.** e.g. `adduser` in a `RUN` line
+   against a trimmed `ubuntu:24.04` — absent, and not pulled in by
+   `ca-certificates curl libgomp1`. Dies at build time (loud), but only the first
+   time anyone builds it.
+   Prove it in the base, never from memory:
+   `podman run --rm <base> sh -c "command -v adduser || echo absent; useradd --system --uid 10000 --home-dir /app --shell /usr/sbin/nologin tts && id tts"`
+   Note the accepted cosmetic warning (`uid 10000 is greater than SYS_UID_MAX 999`)
+   in a comment, or a future agent "fixes" it by dropping `--system` and the uid
+   stops matching the sibling container.
+2. **Two readers of one env file disagree.** systemd units that pass
+   `EnvironmentFile=` hand it to podman `--env-file`, which does **no shell
+   parsing** — it takes the literal remainder of the line — while bash `source`
+   strips one quoting layer. So `WARM_TEXT="Warm up, one two three."` reaches the
+   container *with its quotes*, and a script that interpolates it into a JSON body
+   produces invalid JSON: the container boots, `active`, every voice registered,
+   every voice cold. Fix in the consumer: strip exactly one matched pair **only**
+   when both ends are the same quote AND the inner content carries another quote or
+   backslash (never mangle a value that legitimately contains quotes), then escape.
+3. **A build-skip hash that under-covers the image.** `build_compose_image`-style
+   helpers skip `podman build` when a label hash matches; hashing the `Containerfile`
+   alone means editing a `COPY`'d app/script rebuilds **nothing** — deploy reports
+   success, `/health` answers, container serves old code. Each case arm must name
+   the paths its `Containerfile` copies (`extra=(…)`) and hash Containerfile+extras.
+   Arms that have no extras keep their old hash, so they do not needlessly rebuild.
+
+## Test it as behaviour, never as a grep of the handler
+
+- Drive the **real** function: `awk '/^build_compose_image\(\) \{/,/^\}/' deploy-remote.sh > bci.sh`,
+  `source` it, put a stub `podman` first on `PATH`, assert the observable question —
+  *did the deploy ask podman to build, or did it skip?*
+- Stub traps that cost real time: podman is invoked `podman image inspect <image> --format …`
+  so the tag is **`$3`**, not `$2`; tags contain `/` so a state file named after one
+  needs `${tag//\//_}` or the write silently lands in a nonexistent directory and
+  every image looks permanently unbuilt; `--label cfhash=…` arrives **before** `-t <tag>`,
+  so collect the label and write it after the arg loop.
+- For an env-file bug, write one test that reads the file **both** ways — `source`
+  and the `--env-file` way (parse `KEY=literal remainder`) — and assert the program
+  receives the same value in both shapes, including a value that carries its own
+  quotes and a backslash. A suite that only sources the file is how the bug shipped.
+- Prove red: `git show HEAD:scripts/deploy-remote.sh > scripts/deploy-remote.sh`,
+  run the new test (must fail at the exact intended step), restore. Keep each fix in
+  its own commit and run the seam at each one so the branch bisects.
+
+## Base-image and host facts to check while auditing
+
+- `useradd` lives in `login(1)` (base carries it); `adduser` does not.
+- Rootless podman **cannot raise rlimits** — `--ulimit nofile=…` above the host hard
+  limit dies at container create, not at runtime.
+- A referenced `Network=` `.network` file the generator cannot find means the
+  container unit is **not produced at all**.
+- Two containers talk by DNS name only if they attach to a **common** network;
+  check both unit files rather than trusting a comment that says they share one.
+- Container DNS name + the network that owns it, never `host.containers.internal`
+  or a published loopback port, for service-to-service traffic.
+
+## Do not
+
+- Do not deploy the audited thing because the audit is finished: first build of a
+  heavy image (recursive source clone ~10 min) plus a new unit on a host serving
+  people is the operator's call.
+- Do not add a Prometheus target for a container with no `/metrics` — say the probe
+  is a decision (blackbox HTTP), do not fake a scrape.

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+---
+name: audit-subagent-deliverables
+description: "Integrate subagent-written code safely: line-by-line audit, mechanical gates (bash test/lint), adversarial-review-report triage, resource-safety pass (fd/memory), and cutover with running-process restarts."
+---
+
+# Audit subagent deliverables
+
+A subagent that wrote code is a source of plausible output, not a verified change. Integrate it the way you'd integrate an untrusted PR — with extra suspicion, because the author is an agent that shares your blind spots and its prose is more confident than its evidence.
+
+Order of operations: read everything → gates → tests (as evidence, not proof) → resource-safety pass → fix in-place → cutover.
+
+## 1. Read every produced file, line by line
+Full file, not a diff skim. You are the reviewer who must catch the line the author never thought about.
+
+## 2. Mechanical gates before logic review
+```bash
+bash -n <script>                 # syntax (scripts)
+bunx tsc --noEmit                # types (TS)
+bun test                         # suite
+```
+Run the suite for information, not as the stopping point — it only proves the author's own scenarios.
+
+## 3. Hunt the three classic agent defects
+- **Quoting bugs:** `set -e` + `"${@/$p/$r}"` = substitution regex containing user input (bash can't escape `/` in a `${var/re/pat}` pattern: `/` reads as the pattern/replacement separator). Fix with a separator absent from inputs (e.g. `%`) and `printf '%q'` for shell-interpolated values.
+- **`cd` assumptions:** parallel `runShell` calls share one CWD (pool mode). Any command sequence that assumes CWD (e.g. `git -C .` after a sibling's `cd`) must use explicit absolute paths.
+- **Unbounded resources:** every fd opened must be closed on ALL paths (success, throw, validation fail) — `using` for fs.sinks (closes on throw; sinks are `AsyncDisposable`, not `fs.FileHandle`, no `.close()`); bounded `Map` for caches (`MAX` + FIFO eviction); explicit caps (lines read, file sizes).
+
+## 4. Check the test file is real
+Tests that assert internal state (`expect(wcwd).toBe(...)`) over output contracts; tests of mock echo; tautologies. Delete them per house rules, keep behavior contracts.
+
+## 5. Cutover audit (repo-wide)
+`grep -r` the symbol namespace the subagent touched — `wcwd`-style globals are the classic blast radius. Grep every `cd`/`process.chdir` site and verify each paired command sequence uses explicit paths. Stale comments describing the old design must go — comments that lie are time bombs for the next reader.
+
+## 6. Cutover restarts running processes
+A code fix on disk is NOT live in any process that loaded the file at spawn (bun/node load-at-spawn). After shipping fixes: restart every long-running supervisor/daemon/UI-server that carries the affected code path; prefer takeover protocols (stale-pid detection) that make restarts cheap. Symptom of forgetting: "fixed" code producing old-code symptoms in production (observed: 812 poisoned ledger rows).
+
+## 7. Triaging an adversarial REVIEW report (not code)
+When a subagent produced findings, treat each finding as a hypothesis with a base rate ~40% (measured over 3 rounds, 2026-10):
+1. **Walk every finding end-to-end against the CURRENT tree** before accepting — cite file:line yourself. Reviewers frequently read a mid-edit snapshot; many findings are stale by construction.
+2. **Classification that kills most findings:**
+   - *Stale read* — code changed during review; verify against live lines.
+   - *Inverted logic* — "failed rows are skipped" when the filter makes failed rows RETRY. Re-read the filter.
+   - *Unreachable* — trigger requires breaking a stated design law (single-worker, append-only). Not a defect.
+   - *By-design* — the reviewer labels a spec law a bug (serial execution, non-stream client). Check the spec, not the reviewer's confidence.
+   - *Constant-trust* — "XSS via manifest field" where the field is git-pinned config; "path traversal via REMOTE_TMP" where it's a hardcoded const. Ask: what untrusted input reaches this sink?
+   - *Self-refuting* — the reviewer's own probe output disproves its claim (raw==dedup probe in a "dedup" finding). Quote it back.
+3. **Acceptance bar:** concrete trigger with real inputs + full path walked. Real accepts cluster in: resource caps (pids/timeout/awaited-cleanup), honest labels (default signatures), escaping discipline, self-healing probes.
+4. **One-line verdicts + evidence per finding**, shipped in the commit message; calibration section ("genuinely solid") accepted as free verification of past fixes.
+
+## Verification (the non-negotiable)
+Build/run the real artifact with its real inputs. Observe behavior at the seams:
+- concurrent calls → no CWD races;
+- resource ceilings → caps enforced;
+- cleanup → no fd/pid/dir leaks;
+- security → injection probes inert (quotes, slashes, metachars);
+- normal case → output identical to pre-audit.
+
+## Evidence (2026-10-07 + 2026-10-10/11 sessions)
+- Shell-engine subagent: 426 LOC, `bun test` 39/39 green. Line-audit found: 5 leaked fds per call (`fd` sink never closed), CWD-race in `git -C .`, `set -e` + `${@/\/g\//}` slash-escaping bug, unbounded 10k-entry cache, 45s timeout on git-status.
+- Review-triage census over 3 blind adversarial rounds (same repo, ~41 findings): accepted 9, rejected ~32 — rejects dominated by stale reads (protocol rewritten mid-review), inverted filter logic, unreachable-under-law triggers, base64-alphabet "quote injection" (charset has no quotes), SIGPIPE non-leaks, "no memory cap" quoting the `--memory 4g` line above the claim. Real accepts: fork-bomb pids cap, stalled-ssh upload cap, stale-flag self-heal probe, honest census label, freshness gate on pid reuse.
+- Poison-law incident: sandbox fix shipped while supervisor ran old build → 812 rows graded by the dead protocol; takeover made recovery cheap. The restart step (#6) exists because of this.

agent/managed-skills/authentik-provision-fleet-user/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: authentik-provision-fleet-user
+description: "Provision or audit an Authentik user on Dankclaw (auth.franksdank.cloud): ak shell ORM drive, group set, behavioral login + entitlement verify, docs census record, stale-claim caveat."
+---
+
+# Provision an Authentik user on Dankclaw
+
+Source of truth: `serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Authentik.md` ("User provisioning playbook"). Authentik objects are NOT repo-managed — no deploy, no file edits.
+
+1. Inspect first, mirror the newest human user's groups:
+```bash
+ssh dankclaw 'podman exec -i authentik-server ak shell' <<'EOF' 2>&1 | sed -n '/objects imported/,$p'
+from authentik.core.models import User, Group
+for u in User.objects.all().order_by("username"):
+    print(u.username, u.email, sorted(u.groups.values_list("name", flat=True)))
+print(sorted(Group.objects.values_list("name", flat=True)))
+EOF
+```
+2. Create (idempotent guard; password goes in the heredoc = stdin, never argv, so it never lands in `ps`):
+```python
+from authentik.core.models import User, Group
+u = User.objects.filter(username="X").first()
+if not u:
+    u = User(username="X", email="X@franksdank.cloud", name="X", is_active=True)
+    u.set_password("...")
+    u.save()
+for g in ("Non-Admin Users", "jellyfin_users", "openwebui_users"):  # human-user precedent: ridley
+    u.groups.add(Group.objects.get(name=g))
+```
+3. Verify through the exact PasswordStage code path:
+```python
+from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
+assert authenticate(request=None, username="X", password="...")
+assert authenticate(request=None, username="X", password="nope") is None
+```
+4. Verify the downstream claims resolve — `app_entitlements` needs an `Application`
+   instance (look it up by slug, `open-webui`), and compare against the precedent user:
+```python
+from authentik.core.models import Application, User
+app = Application.objects.get(slug="open-webui")
+for n in ("ridley", "X"):
+    u = User.objects.get(username=n)
+    print(n, sorted(e.name for e in u.app_entitlements(app)), u.is_superuser, u.path)
+```
+5. Stale-claim check + docs record (repo law: the vault is the source of truth):
+```bash
+ssh dankclaw "podman exec authentik-postgres psql -U authentik -d authentik -tAc \
+  \"SELECT count(*) FROM authentik_providers_proxy_proxysession WHERE session_data->'claims'->>'preferred_username' IN ('X')\""
+```
+Then commit two doc edits (NEVER write the password into any file): the census
+sentence in `Infrastructure/Authentik.md` (human-user template bullet — append the
+new `pk`s + creation date) and a dated entry in `serverAppConfigs-docs/log.md`
+(what was created, groups, how it was verified, proxysession count, downstream lag).
+`./tests/run.sh` must pass before commit (docs completeness + link-integrity seams).
+
+## Rules
+- No `User.create_user`; `is_superuser` is a group-derived property, not a constructor kwarg (raises `TypeError`). `path` defaults to `users`.
+- Guarded-vhost access = any authenticated user (all proxy providers use implicit-consent); groups are consumed downstream: `homepage-admins` (Caddy `/admin` header gate), `openwebui_users`/`_admins` (roles claim), `jellyfin_users`/`_admins` (LDAP outpost). EXCLUDE admin groups from a plain user; ask before granting `homepage-admins`.
+- Group add after a login → Caddy RBAC can 403 on the outpost's cached claims; purge that user's rows: `DELETE FROM authentik_providers_proxy_proxysession WHERE session_data->'claims'->>'preferred_username' = 'X';` (in the `authentik-postgres` container) — next visit re-authorizes silently. Groups set BEFORE any login → nothing to purge (count is 0).
+- Jellyfin visibility rides the LDAP outpost cache; expect a lag. OpenWebUI mints a first-time SSO login as role `pending`.
+- Look up flows by slug, not name. Do not rotate `AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY` to fix claim issues.

agent/managed-skills/autoresearch-llm-bench-window/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: autoresearch-llm-bench-window
+description: "How to run an iterative config-tuning window on a Dank-fleet LLM endpoint: harness pattern, noise-floor-first discipline, bracket mapping, and the frank-primary laws measured in the 2026-10-06 segment."
+---
+
+# Autoresearch bench window for a fleet LLM endpoint
+
+Use when running (or re-running) an iterative config-tuning segment against a
+Dank-fleet LLM endpoint (frank-primary/frank-large/frank-small): build the
+harness, establish the noise floor, then bracket-map one flag at a time.
+
+## Harness pattern (already built for frank-primary — reuse, don't rebuild)
+
+Committed at `autoresearch.sh` (dev box) + `scripts/autoresearch-frank-primary.sh`
+(dankserver) in serverAppConfigs. The pattern generalizes to any fleet endpoint:
+
+1. Dev-box wrapper scp's the candidate env file + bench script to the target
+   host, then ssh-runs the bench. Never push the candidate config to origin
+   (the scp dirties the host checkout on purpose).
+2. Host script, in order: stop the production unit (relinked units: `systemctl
+   stop`, NEVER mask — mask refuses a symlinked unit file) → boot a scratch
+   container (distinct name, e.g. `arbench`) on the SAME devices with the
+   candidate env — mirror the production podman contract exactly, differing
+   only in container name and a FRESH prefix-cache tier (wiped per run) so cold
+   measurements stay cold → poll the health endpoint until it answers (the
+   listener binds AFTER the full load, so a bare curl is honest; allow ~2-3 min
+   cold boot, 720s timeout) → run ONE self-contained deterministic request →
+   parse the engine's timings object into METRIC lines → tear down the scratch →
+   restore production.
+3. The restore MUST be an EXIT trap (`restore() { podman rm -f scratch;
+   systemctl start <unit>; }`) so a failed bench never leaves the endpoint
+   down. Verify after EVERY run: `systemctl is-active`, health curl until it
+   returns JSON (200 right after start is NOT enough — it can bind 60-90s
+   later), and no scratch leftover.
+4. Bench request: fixed prompt built from a sorted repo-corpus glob with a
+   fixed random seed (deterministic → stable prompt_n), greedy sampling
+   (temperature 0) for a fixed decode length, sent locally (127.0.0.1) to
+   remove LAN jitter. Read prefill/decode/draft-acceptance from the engine's
+   own timings object — never roll a custom bench without asking.
+5. Scratch containers must die by teardown; never leave a script whose tail
+   stops/removes a production unit (the stale-probe-tail lesson).
+
+## Discipline (the laws that make the numbers mean anything)
+
+1. **Noise floor FIRST.** Before iterating, replicate an identical config 2-3x
+   and treat that spread as the floor. Fleet endpoints here: decode ±3%,
+   prefill ±2%. A single-run "win" under the floor is NOT a win — this exact
+   mistake cost a false 33.06 keep in the 2026-10-06 segment.
+2. **One flag change per iteration**; log every run honestly (keep/discard/
+   crash); discards auto-revert the worktree.
+3. **Bracket-map, don't climb.** Test both directions of every lever around
+   its deployed value, INCLUDING boot failures — crashes are envelope data
+   ("0.82/2048/wht6/40960 is the seqs=3-viable quartet" came from four crash
+   walls). Test downward too: 40960 MiB host pool is a floor, not slack.
+4. **Repro before recording a mechanism.** An anomalous result next to an
+   abandoned bench may be contamination (boot race). Re-run clean once; only
+   then name a law. The MNBT 2560 collapse (2.6 t/s) was reproduced clean to
+   rule this out.
+5. **Watch for truncation.** predicted_n < max_tokens means the generation
+   died mid-run — that config is pathological regardless of the rate.
+6. **When the sweep ties, tie-break on real-traffic properties** (e.g. draft
+   acceptance for multi-turn workloads), never on probe artifacts, and prefer
+   the config that matches the documented runbook.
+
+## frank-primary specifics (2026-10-06 segment, commit c80c250)
+
+- MNBT=2048 is a RESONANCE POINT at MTP-on shapes, not an optimum: 2560
+  collapses decode to 2.6-7.7 t/s (acceptance normal, verify stalls ~130ms/step,
+  truncated output), 1536 truncates at 57/256, 4096 won't boot at seqs=3. Do
+  not re-test.
+- HOST_POOL_MIB 40960 is the load-bearing floor (36864 crashes boot).
+- Spec depth 1-3 and seqs 2-3 all tie within noise; 0 and 4 are real
+  regressions (29.57 / 24.57 t/s vs 31.72 baseline).
+- Levers known flat: GPU_HEADROOM, HOST_POOL upward, maxlen above 200k.
+- Final kept config = Frank's original (spec=3, seqs=2, maxlen=200k, wht6,
+  0.82, 2048, 40960, fp8 KV, TP=2), baseline decode 31.72 t/s at 43.6k depth.

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+---
+name: bench-arm-provenance-recovery
+description: "Before calling a leftover LLM bench drop-in a rogue/hijack, reconstruct whether Frank ordered and measured that arm: omp archive prompt timestamps + journald print_timing for the exact pid, then land the verdict in the repo."
+---
+
+Use when a live service boots a payload you did not configure (stale `systemd` drop-in / `*_ENV_FILE` arm env) and the docs — or your own compaction-inherited context — call it "unfinished", "armed but never measured", or "hijack". Do NOT report that until proven: the arm may be an ordered, measured, approved configuration whose record lived only in `/tmp` + journald.
+
+## Why this exists
+2026-10-18 `frank-zealot`: a `frank-zealot.service.d/ptq1.conf` drop-in made the cutover deploy boot a different model at a different shape. I reported it as an unfinished experiment. It was actually the 27B PTQ1_0 arm Frank ordered at 02:36, that served production 03:14:39→03:38:57, and whose numbers existed only in tool output that context compaction later dropped.
+
+## Step 1 — recover the ORDER (the harness archive, not memory)
+`eval` with the `archive` prelude:
+
+```python
+ps = await archive.prompts()          # searchable prompt history, survives compaction
+# filter for the payload name / repo URL keywords, print p['at'] + p['text'][:90]
+r = await archive.session("<sessionId>")   # full session record
+recaps = await archive.recaps()             # recap stamps — check they postdate the window
+```
+
+`archive.prompts()` keeps **user prompts with ISO timestamps** even when the middle of the transcript was dropped. Timestamp every instruction: ordered → measured → superseded. Convert to local (`UTC−7` here) before quoting. A recap older than the instruction proves the recap layer never covered the window.
+
+## Step 2 — recover the MEASUREMENT (journal, per pid)
+The engine's own per-request timings are the record; they outlive `/tmp` env files.
+
+```bash
+ssh dank@<host> 'journalctl -u <svc> --no-pager' | grep -F 'serve-<svc>.sh[<PID>]' \
+  | grep -E 'prompt eval time|eval time' | awk '... median per task ...'
+```
+
+- Pin the **pid** (`sh[NNNN]`): `--since` windows alone pull the previous process's numbers too.
+- llama.cpp format: `prompt eval time = 1234.56 ms / 100 tokens (…, 81.03 tokens per second)`; decode rows are `eval time = … ms / N tokens (…)`. Multiple spaces between `task`/`eval` break naive regexes — match `task\s+(\d+)\s+prompt eval time` exactly, or parse both labels separately.
+- Filter pathological rows: generations running concurrently on other slots, or ending in a 4-byte EOS, read ~4× low. Report clean single-stream probes (≥200 generated tokens) and label the rest.
+- Cross-check the boot banner for the payload identity (`type ptq1_0: 402 tensors`, KV ledger, slot/ctx lines) — that proves *which* shape that pid served.
+
+## Step 3 — adjudicate, then land it in the repo
+Write the verdict in the same session you derive it: runbook deploy-ledger section, `log.md` dated section, the arm script's header comment, and the AGENTS.md law. `/tmp` and journald are not records — that absence is what makes the next agent misread an approved arm as a rogue one.
+
+## Traps
+- `mask` fails on a relinked unit; never `systemctl disable`; retire drop-ins to `~/.AGENTTRASH/<date>-<topic>/` + `daemon-reload` (recoverable, not deleted).
+- `/health` 200, `/v1/models` echoing the alias, and a green e2e gate all fail to read the payload — check `systemctl show <svc> -p DropInPaths` (must be empty), then `tr '\0' ' ' </proc/$(pidof llama-server)/cmdline`, then the boot ledger.
+- Verification sequence that is honest: correction commit must quote commands you ran; state `[INFERENCE]` for anything the journal does not show.

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+---
+name: bench-harness-fault-census
+description: Attribute benchmark failures to harness vs model via exception-signature census before trusting any score; python-grader fault signatures and fixes
+---
+
+# Rule (from 2026-10-10 frank-intelligence-bench incident, 3 harness faults found)
+An LLM benchmark score is VOID until every failure signature is attributed to the MODEL. Run the census before quoting any number.
+
+# Procedure
+1. Aggregate graded rows per eval; for each failed grade extract the LAST python exception signature:
+   regex `(\w+Error|\w+Exception): (?:name '([^']+)' is not defined|No module named '([^']+)')?` → sig = `Type: detail`.
+2. Indict the harness (not the model) when:
+   - `NameError: target` / `NameError: targets` in any count → expected-value bindings never reached the tests (gold data file missing/unstaged).
+   - `ModuleNotFoundError: <grader package>` (e.g. `scicode`) → grading deps missing from the execution image.
+   - ≥10 failures sharing ONE signature at >50% share → systematic fault; audit the protocol (e.g. markdown fences reaching an exec-based extractor — `SyntaxError` storm; strip ``` fences before feeding model text to graders that exec raw code).
+   - >50% of generations fail → endpoint/transport fault.
+3. Real model failures look heterogeneous: AssertionError/AxisError/NameError of the model's OWN undefined names.
+
+# Companion checks
+- Prove the grading path with a gold-solution integration test BEFORE trusting live scores: gold must PASS end-to-end (FIB_INTEGRATION=1 pattern).
+- Quarantine poisoned ledgers (.AGENTTRASH) rather than deleting; census them to root-cause.
+- Expect-score sanity: mixed PASS/FAIL with model-side signatures = real signal, even if the % looks low.

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----
-name: bench-llama-server-params
-description: "Benchmark llama.cpp server-side parameters (--threads-batch, --ubatch-size, --spec-type) using HTTP API with max_tokens=1 for prefill, max_tokens=16384+ for decode"
----
-
-# Benchmarking llama.cpp Server-Side Parameters
-
-## Problem
-`llama-bench` benchmarks the bench binary itself, not the running server.
-It cannot measure the effect of server-side parameters like `--threads-batch`,
-`--ubatch-size`, `--spec-type`, or `--parallel`.
-
-## Solution: HTTP-Based Benchmarking
-
-### Prefill throughput (prompt processing)
-1. Start the server with the target parameter value
-2. Send a large prompt via the chat API with `max_tokens=1`
-3. Measure `prompt_tokens / wall_time` from the response usage
-
-`max_tokens=1` is correct here — you want only prompt processing time,
-not generation. The server crashes on `max_tokens=0`.
-
-### Decode throughput (generation)
-1. Start the server with the target parameter value
-2. Send a prompt that generates a long response
-3. Use `max_tokens=16384` minimum (16k) — **never `max_tokens=1`** for decode
-   benchmarking. One token tells you nothing about sustained generation rate.
-4. Measure `predicted_per_second` from the response `timings` object, or
-   compute `completion_tokens / wall_time`
-
-### Why at least 16k tokens for decode
-- Decode throughput varies over the generation (warmup, cache growth, MoE
-  routing). A single token is noise.
-- Speculative decoding acceptance rates stabilize over thousands of tokens.
-- Short generations finish before the draft head reaches steady state.
-- 16k tokens gives a stable average at ~22 tok/s (≈12 min per run).
-
-### Key Pattern
-```python
-# Decode benchmark — measure generation throughput
-body = json.dumps({
-    "model": "<alias>",
-    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "<prompt that generates 10k+ tokens>"}],
-    "max_tokens": 16384,   # 16k minimum for decode; use max_tokens=1 ONLY for prefill
-    "temperature": 0,     # deterministic for reproducibility
-    "stream": False
-})
-# Measure wall time from request send to response receipt
-# Get predicted_per_second from timings, or completion_tokens / wall_time
-```
-
-### When to Use
-- `--threads-batch` (prefill): use `max_tokens=1`
-- `--ubatch-size` (decode): use `max_tokens=16384+`
-- `--spec-type` / speculative decoding: use `max_tokens=16384+` (decode only)
-- Any server-side parameter that `llama-bench` cannot target
-
-### Benchmarking policy (MANDATORY)
-1. **STOP the production service** before running any benchmark
-2. **Mask** the service (`systemctl mask`, never `disable` — on these hosts
-   `disable` deletes the unit file from `/etc/systemd/system/`)
-3. Run the bench
-4. **Unmask + restart** the service when done
-5. **Verify health** before reporting results
-
-### Example Scripts
-- `scripts/bench-threads-batch-http.py` — prefill sweep (max_tokens=1)
-- `scripts/bench-decode-threads-batch.py` — decode sweep (max_tokens=256+)
-- `scripts/bench-spec-decode.py` — speculative decoding config sweep

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+---
+name: bounding-subagent-runtime
+description: "Cap and diagnose runaway or hung omp subagents: task.maxRuntimeMs, softRequestBudget, maxConcurrency, maxRecursionDepth (the 0-trap), per-provider in-flight ceilings."
+---
+
+## When
+Subagent runs long, fan out too wide, or you must (re)declare the fleet's subagent limit policy. Also when asked "what limits can subagents have".
+
+## Read first
+- Repo KB page `omp-docs/pi/subagent-limits.md` — the live policy of record (values + rationale + deliberately-not-set list). Do not re-derive; read it.
+- `cfg://task` and `cfg://providers/maxInFlightRequests` — effective values, not the stock defaults.
+
+## The knobs (cfg:// writes; `/save` suffix persists)
+| Knob | Effect | Gotcha |
+|---|---|---|
+| `task.maxConcurrency` | session semaphore; excess queues | stock default 32 — "2" is not a default |
+| `task.maxRecursionDepth` | nesting cap | predicate is `depth < n`; **1 = children cannot spawn (correct for "no nesting"); 0 disables spawning for the MAIN session too — never reach for 0**; negative = unlimited |
+| `task.maxRuntimeMs` | hard wall clock, overrun = `aborted` | default 0 = off |
+| `task.softRequestBudget` | wrap-up notice at N, force-yield at 1.5N | scout/sonic may impose lower built-ins |
+| `task.agentIdleTtlMs` | park idle finished agents | `<= 0` disables parking |
+| `providers.maxInFlightRequests` | concurrent LLM requests per provider id | keys are the quoted block labels from `agent/models.yml` (e.g. `"llamacpp (dankclaw-3090)"`), flat map lookup; absent/≤0 = unlimited; scope = this machine's config root only — other workstations and non-omp clients are NOT counted; excess queues |
+| `tools.maxTimeout` | ceiling on any agent-requested tool timeout | kills `timeout: 0` runaways |
+| `task.isolation.enabled` | makes per-spawn `isolated` flag available | opt-in per spawn, not a blanket sandbox; needs git repo; off in plan mode |
+| `task.completionProbe` | periodic completeness side-requests | token sink on shared endpoints |
+
+## Verify semantics from the bundle, not the label
+Setting descriptions lie by omission. `~/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js`:
+- depth gate: `grep -o '.\{130\}xC\b.\{130\}'` finds `U_(n,s)`; `grep -o 'function U_(e,t){.\{0,60\}'` → `e<0||t<e` (n=cap, s=taskDepth).
+- in-flight lookup: `grep -o '.\{150\}axInFlightRequests.\{200\}'` → flat `[providerId]` lookup, non-number/≤0 = unlimited, clamp ≥1.
+
+## Landing a policy change
+cfg `/save` writes persist immediately; `agent/config.yml` is machine-live tier (heartbeat commits it). Human-facing policy changes land as an `omp-docs` page update via branch → PR (docs tier), `git worktree add` from `origin/main` if the current checkout is branch-locked by workspace policy.

agent/managed-skills/cfg-approval-timeout-recovery/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: cfg-approval-timeout-recovery
+description: "Use when a cfg://.../save write fails with \"user did not answer the approval prompt\": the settings-approval dialog has a hardcoded 10 s timeout and no config key; recover via direct config.yml edit once the user has approved the change."
+---
+
+# Recovering from cfg:// approval-prompt timeouts
+
+## Facts (verified in bundle 2026-10-18)
+- Settings-write approval dialog timeout is **hardcoded 10 000 ms** (`timeout: JKl`, `JKl=1e4`, countdown class treats arg as ms) in the omp `dist/cli.js` bundle. **No config key exists** for it (checked full `cfg://` registry).
+- `ask.timeout` is a DIFFERENT gate (ask-tool auto-select; 0 = wait forever). It does not govern cfg approvals.
+- A timed-out approval silently auto-denies: session-only value stays applied, `config.yml` unchanged. Error says "nothing changed; it stays <value>. NEVER retry unless the user asks."
+- Related: `features.unexpectedStopDetection: smart` injects forced-continue `<system-injection>`s on text-only turns ending in a promise to act ("Task incomplete: MUST call the next concrete tool now"). Set `mechanical` (upstream default) or `none`; `smart` drives agents into junk subagent spawns to satisfy the nudge.
+
+## Recovery procedure (only when the user has already explicitly approved the change)
+1. Do NOT re-issue `cfg://<key>/save` after a timeout unless the user explicitly asks again — the harness forbids it.
+2. Edit `~/.omp/agent/config.yml` directly:
+   - `grep` the setting key to locate it; read surrounding lines.
+   - surgical `edit` of the single line.
+   - validate: `python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('/home/blank/.omp/agent/config.yml'))"`
+3. State that the file was edited directly because the invisible 10 s dialog ate the user's approval, and offer the `omp config set <key> <value>` one-liner as the user-run alternative for future.
+
+## Prevention
+- Before any `cfg://.../save`, warn the user a ~10 s dialog is about to appear and to answer immediately.
+- Bundle-fact lookups: `PKGDIR=$(dirname $(readlink -f $(command -v omp)))/..`, then grep `dist/cli.js` for the message string, walk to the call site, resolve minified constants with `grep -oE '[,;]CONST=[^,;)]+'` (`1e4` = 10000).

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+---
+name: characterization-fixture-engine-cutover
+description: "Swap a path→service planner/mapping engine behind a golden fixture: capture, delta-reduce, document deltas, flip grep seams to behavioral, add render/drift gates, validate Caddyfile renders, Gitea PR URLs (serverAppConfigs cutover playbook)"
+---
+
+Playbook for replacing a hand-maintained mapping engine (deploy planner, seam mapper, allow-lists) with a data-driven one without changing observable behavior. Proven on the 2026-10-13 `shared/services.yml` + `scripts/service-map.py` cutover (921 deltas → 17 intentional → green; 408/408 bats).
+
+## 1. Capture the characterization fixture FIRST
+- Enumerate every path the old engine sees: all tracked files x all targets (`git ls-files`), plus hand-added edge paths (retired files, cross-host paths, shared networks).
+- Run the OLD engine on each, record `path<TAB>target<TAB>services` to `tests/fixtures/*-golden.tsv`. Old engine = current `deploy-plan.py` before edits.
+- This fixture is the contract; the new engine must reproduce it except documented deltas.
+
+## 2. Cut over, then delta-reduce with the fixture
+- Diff new-engine output vs fixture; bucket every delta into: engine bug / intentional change / fixture staleness.
+- Engine bugs found this way (generic classes): `in` membership on dict-of-tuples, host-scoping of relative directory keys, riders/children resolved only in the changed file's own directory, stem collisions between unit files and generated artifacts (`.network` stem == service dir stem), `.network` files entering the unit branch by stem match.
+- Intentional deltas get documented individually in the commit message; NEVER batch-accept a delta count.
+- Regenerate the fixture LAST, from the new engine, and record the delta count + reasons in the commit.
+
+## 3. Flip text-grep seams to behavioral calls
+- Old seams that grep a config file for the mapping (`grep -q 'dankclaw:hermes-webui'`) die silently on cutover. Replace with a call to the new engine: `run python3 scripts/service-map.py allows --host H --service S; assert_success`.
+- Vhost-scoped content greps (Caddyfile awk blocks) → grep the new canonical form (`import guarded`), not the inlined chain.
+
+## 4. Renders + drift gates
+- Config artifacts that were hand-maintained mirrors (node-exporter quadlet pair, pihole addn-hosts) become `service-map.py render <name> --host H` artifacts; a drift test asserts tracked-file == render output.
+- Renderers must emit exactly what the consumer parses: dnsmasq `addn-hosts` treats inline `# comments` as hostnames — render no trailing comments.
+- Named-snippet collapse (Caddyfile guard chain): the snippet MUST be defined before the first site that imports it (put `(guarded)` right after the global options block), or real caddy reports `File to import not found`.
+
+## 5. Suite + deploy gates
+- `./tests/run.sh` fully green before each rank commit; one atomic commit per rank.
+- Deploy is service-scoped: `deploy.sh <host> --service <svc>`; never a fleet drain for one service. The Playwright e2e gate runs inside deploy.sh against the live fleet.
+
+## Repo-specific gotchas (serverAppConfigs)
+- Validate the Caddyfile with stock `caddy:latest` by DELETING the whole `acme_dns porkbun { ... }` block (`awk 'NR<53 || NR>56' dankclaw/Caddyfile`). A `sed s/acme_dns porkbun {/acme_dns acme {/` variant that drops the `{` swallows the following tokens into the global block and fakes an "import not found" on `(guarded)` — debug sed swaps with a minimal repro file before blaming the config. Stock-image `dns.providers.porkbun` unregistered + basicauth `REPLACE_WITH_HASH` base64 errors are the expected endpoints of a clean parse.
+- Gitea: branches with `/` 404 on `/compare/main...wt%2F...` — use the push-hook URL `…/pulls/new/<branch>`; private repo returns 404 to anonymous curl, which proves nothing about the page.
+- `test-changed.sh` contract: new seam selection ⊇ old selection per path; unmapped repo path must `die`, never pass silently.
+- Retire-to-trash: retired files (compose.yaml, dead templates, dead bats) → dated `.AGENTTRASH/YYYYMMDD-topic/` beside them; every repo sweep must exclude `.AGENTTRASH`.
+- bash `test -f a b c && ! test -e d` is invalid syntax (test takes one operand per operator); use `ls a b c` + separate `ls d` to census artifacts.

agent/managed-skills/closed-engine-runtime-investigation/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: closed-engine-runtime-investigation
+description: "Recipe for diagnosing/tuning a closed-source LLM runtime (halogen-class) on this fleet: docs, env-lever enumeration from the binary, ledger scraping, cache-assisted A/B under the bench law."
+---
+
+# Investigating a closed-source LLM runtime (halogen-class)
+
+Use when a containerized closed-source engine (e.g. halogen on frank-large) underperforms and the repo docs don't explain it. Fleet law: stop the production unit BEFORE any GPU experiment (`sudo systemctl stop <unit>`; mask FAILS on relinked units — stop alone, redeploy after).
+
+## 1. Ground truth before flags
+- Boot ledger + per-request timings live in `podman logs <container>` (container-lifetime only) UNLESS the serve script captures stdout on disk (foreground `podman run`). A `podman run -d ... > LOG` redirect captures ONLY the container ID — a one-line hex file is the tell.
+- `serve_api:`-style log lines carry per-request `prompt/prefill/rounds/commit/detok` — build the depth-vs-rate curve from REAL traffic before any bench. Shallow-healthy + deep-collapsed = a depth-linear term (KV reads), not a broken engine.
+- If the engine's public repo exists, read its FLAGS/docs (e.g. `docs/FLAGS.md`) AND the bench tool source (e.g. `tools/halogen-bench.py`) — bench tools reveal which regimes the published numbers never measured (halogen's tg rows are shallow-only).
+
+## 2. Enumerate the undocumented levers
+The binary self-announces every env var it reads. The image often lacks `strings`:
+```
+podman run --rm --entrypoint /bin/sh <image> -c \
+  'grep -aoE "<PREFIX>_[A-Z0-9_]+" /usr/local/bin/<engine> | sort -u'
+```
+Classify by kernel family (attention vs linear-state vs GEMV) against the suspected term. Only test levers with public precedent (e.g. issue #12 proved HALOGEN_FA_TQ) or an obvious name match; defaults are the publisher's measured winners — an A/B must show >=~15% to adopt.
+
+## 3. Cache-assisted A/B (cheap reps)
+Boot each probe arm as its own container (env is read at startup) with the prompt cache ON (explicit MB >= one full-entry at ~70 KB/token): rep 1 pays the cold prefill, rep 2+ resumes (~2 s) — depth measurements then cost decode-time only. Publish the probe on host LOOPBACK (127.0.0.1:<scratch>), run the driver ON the host (python3 stdlib is enough), read the engine's own `timings` (prompt_ms/cache_n/predicted_ms/draft_n_accepted). Never benchmark beside a live engine on the same GPU.
+
+## 4. Adopt or revert
+- Winner: env line into the serve env + test-seam update + docs, then `deploy.sh <target> --service <svc>` (restart restores everything; no unmask needed after stop-only).
+- Loser: `podman rm -f` probes, start the unit, revert nothing.
+- Either way: record the measured before/after in the runbook; report the depth behavior upstream if the publisher invites benchmark data — their bench gaps (depth, carve-topologies) are exactly what issues like #12 close.

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+---
+name: corpus-voice-skill-rewrite
+description: "Rewrite a skill to emulate an author corpus's voice: full read, style-DNA distillation from writing-for-agents levers, positive-phrasing pass, sharpened completion criteria"
+---
+
+# Corpus-voice skill rewrite
+
+Rewrite a skill so it reads as if a chosen author wrote it. Done for `grilling` against the `mattpocock/skills` corpus (2026-10-18, command-center PR #20); behaviour preserved, voice swapped.
+
+## Where the corpus lives
+
+Installed third-party skills: `~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` (the skills-CLI global store; `~/.agents/.skill-lock.json` names sources). Whole mattpocock corpus ≈ 2,800 lines — small enough to read inline in ~4 `cat` batches via bash; do NOT delegate the reading, style lives in the exact prose.
+
+Read the author's own meta-skill FIRST if one exists (`writing-for-agents` for mattpocock — it states his levers explicitly), then the corpus practicing them.
+
+## Style DNA checklist (mattpocock; generalise per author)
+
+- **Leading words**: compact pretrained concepts repeated as tokens, never sentences (_red_, _seam_, _fog of war_, _brief_, _frontier_). Define each once, reuse everywhere. Prefer words already in the author's other skills so the corpus shares one language.
+- **Vocabulary-first**: bolded glossary terms, then used exactly; explicit "_Avoid_: component, service".
+- **Positive phrasing**: prohibitions rewritten as target behaviours; keep a prohibition only when no positive form exists (hard guardrails).
+- **Sharpened completion criteria**: fuzzy bounds ("understanding reached") → checkable + exhaustive ("frontier empty and nothing sits blocked", "one artefact per question, counted before sending").
+- **Zero history**: no provenance, attribution, or absorbed-from lineage in the body.
+- **No-op hunting**: delete harness defaults and anything the environment already confesses (formats, rendering, caps). Gotchas the environment CANNOT confess (exclusive dialogs, Esc-abort semantics) stay inline — they're the cache worth keeping.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Read entire corpus; tabulate levers with per-skill evidence before writing.
+2. Rewrite preserving settled behaviour 1:1 — voice only; diff the two versions for semantic drift.
+3. Audit pass: grep the new text for history words (extracted/absorbed/from/upstream), machine-specific constants, repo-specific paths.
+4. Run repo checks, commit as `style(<scope>)`, note the lever→instance mapping in the PR comment so the reviewer can grade the emulation.

agent/managed-skills/dankclaw-boot-line-window/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: dankclaw-boot-line-window
+description: "Change a Dankclaw kernel command-line parameter safely: tracked grub + installer, measured before/after A/B on live LLM traffic, post-boot gates."
+---
+
+# Dank fleet kernel boot-line window (Dankclaw pattern)
+
+Kernel command-line state is **host state the deployer never owns**. The repo law
+("all edits through git") still applies: fetch the live file, commit it, edit the
+tracked copy, apply with a script.
+
+## Source of truth
+- `dankclaw/host/grub` — tracked copy of `/etc/default/grub`.
+- `scripts/set-dankclaw-bootline.sh` — the only door: diff → `sudo install -m 0644 -o root -g root` →
+  `sudo update-grub` → print the **default `grub.cfg` entry** → reboot only on `--reboot`.
+  Refuses any host whose `hostname -s` lacks `dankclaw`.
+- Decision record: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/dankclaw-iommu-translation-off.md`.
+- `deploy-plan.py` maps `dankclaw/*` subdirs explicitly; a new `dankclaw/host/` path plans nothing (verify with a `--dry-run`).
+
+## Procedure
+1. **Capture the before-arm measurement first** — you cannot get it back after the reboot.
+2. Fetch provenance byte-exact: `ssh dankclaw 'sudo cat /etc/default/grub' > dankclaw/host/grub` (never retype; a transcription dropped a leading `0`).
+3. Commit provenance, edit the tracked copy, commit the flip, push (**Gitea lives on Dankclaw — pull on the host before rebooting**), then `ssh dankclaw 'cd ~/serverAppConfigs && git pull --ff-only origin main'`.
+4. Install **without** `--reboot` first: it prints the `grub.cfg` default entry; confirm the token there before the irreversible step.
+5. `ssh dankclaw 'sudo systemctl reboot --no-block'`.
+6. **Poll on `/proc/uptime` + cmdline, never on ping** — the NIC answers ICMP for a minute after shutdown and sshd reset looks like "reachable".
+   Gate set: `systemctl --failed` count 0 · `systemctl is-system-running` running · `/proc/cmdline` token · `ls /sys/kernel/iommu_groups | wc -l` · `cat /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*/type | sort | uniq -c` · `systemctl is-active frank-dragoon frank-zealot` · `curl 127.0.0.1:7770/health` (listener binds only after the full load — poll up to 10 min).
+
+## Measurement discipline (this is where windows get lied about)
+- Both arms must be **byte-identical traffic**. Engine-reported token counts are the identity proof (e.g. 59,024 prefill / 21,568 needle both boots).
+- `/tmp` is **tmpfs**: the reboot deletes `/tmp/halogen-eval`. Rebuild with `scripts/stage-frank-dragoon-eval.sh` (corpus 2,891 lines / 1,287,656 B is the check) — and run it via `bash -lc`, `uv` is in `~/.local/bin`, absent from a non-login PATH.
+- The 51.2 GB halogen n-gram table is page cache (`Pin::None`). A fresh boot has it cold and a cold table throttles prefill → `cat` it once (~40 s) before measuring. `WARM=1` in the staging script does this.
+- **Sampled decode on this engine is a useless single-sample instrument**: three repeats of the same request gave 31.8 / 46.9 / 47.8 t/s. Only prefill (cold) and needle-hit carry signal; anything else needs ≥3 repeats.
+- Bench law still bites: nothing else on the GPU; measuring *through* the live service is how dragoon/zealot are measured (a scratch server cannot share the card).
+
+## Traps
+- `edit` `PUT N.:` can **insert instead of replace** — verify the range shrank, then `CUT` the leftover.
+- Body rows beginning with a markdown bullet (`- `) get auto-prefixed and land as `+- `; rewrite the block with `write` when that happens.
+- A long reboot fires `LlmEndpointDown` → Signal; Alertmanager has **no persistence**, so every active alert gets a fresh `startsAt` after boot — check `query_range` history before blaming the window for an alert.
+- `sudo podman ps` shows nothing for Dankclaw's rootless stack; `systemctl is-active caddy` is meaningless for quadlets. Use the public endpoints or `systemctl --user` as `dank`.
+
+## Worked example (2026-10-18)
+`amd_iommu=off` → `iommu=pt` to restore the XDNA2 NPU. Result: cold prefill 1,585.1 → 1,616.0 t/s (**+2.0 %**, i.e. no penalty), needle hit/hit, `amdxdna` bound `0000:c6:00.1` (group 26 identity, PASID width 10). The 13–16 % figure it replaced had never been measured locally. Deferred on purpose: `pp_dpm_fclk` pin (nothing co-runs yet) and PerfOpt (needs Linux 7.4; Ubuntu 26.04 caps at `7.0.0-38.38`).

agent/managed-skills/dankclaw-expose-service/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: dankclaw-expose-service
+description: "Expose a new service at *.franksdank.cloud on Dankclaw: quadlet container, Caddy site block, Pi-hole LAN record (custom.list), Porkbun public record; includes API vhost/volume gotchas proven on the ntfy deploy."
+---
+
+# Expose a service on Dankclaw (franksdank.cloud)
+
+Proven end-to-end 2026-10-11 with ntfy. Four layers, each with a known trap.
+
+## 0. Survey first
+```bash
+ssh dankclaw 'ls ~/.config/containers/systemd/; grep -nE "franksdank|anubis" /home/dank/Containers/caddy/Caddyfile'
+```
+- Caddy runs as quadlet `caddy.container`; config at `/home/dank/Containers/caddy/Caddyfile` (NOT `/etc/caddy` on host).
+- Sites fronted by `anubis:8923` get bot-challenge. **CLI/API publishers (ntfy, webhooks, git) MUST bypass anubis** — use the `gitea`/`ai` pattern (direct `reverse_proxy`).
+
+## 1. Quadlet container (user `dank`)
+Write `~/.config/containers/systemd/<name>.container`:
+```ini
+[Unit]
+Description=<name>
+After=network-online.target
+Wants=network-online.target
+[Container]
+ContainerName=<name>
+Image=<image>
+Network=dankclaw_default
+Volume=<name>-cache:/var/lib/<name>
+[Service]
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target
+```
+`Network=dankclaw_default` ⇒ Caddy reaches it as `<name>:<port>`. Then `systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl --user start <name>.service`.
+Rootless podman: bare containers never boot-persist — quadlet is mandatory.
+
+## 2. Caddy route
+Append site block (wildcard `*.franksdank.cloud` cert already issued via Porkbun DNS-01; no new cert work):
+```
+<name>.franksdank.cloud {
+	reverse_proxy <name>:<port>
+}
+```
+Validate, then reload in-place:
+```bash
+podman exec caddy caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile
+podman exec caddy caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
+```
+
+## 3. LAN DNS (Pi-hole v6, container `pihole`)
+Traps, in order of wasted turns:
+- API is NOT at `127.0.0.1:8083/api` on the host port path — requests need `-H "Host: pi.hole"`.
+- `[[dns.records]]` in pihole.toml and `gravity.db` `domain` table: absent/unused on this box.
+- **Working location:** `/home/dank/Containers/pihole/etc-pihole/hosts/custom.list` (dnsmasq addn-hosts), format `IP FQDN`:
+```bash
+echo "192.168.0.143 <name>.franksdank.cloud" | sudo tee -a /home/dank/Containers/pihole/etc-pihole/hosts/custom.list >/dev/null
+podman exec pihole pihole restartdns
+```
+
+## 4. Public DNS (Porkbun, for off-LAN clients)
+Keys: `/home/dank/Containers/caddy/env` (`PORKBUN_API_KEY`, `PORKBUN_API_SECRET_KEY`).
+```bash
+curl -sL -X POST https://api.porkbun.com/api/json3/domain/api/create/franksdank.cloud \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d "{\"apikey\":\"$K\",\"secretapi\":\"$S\",\"name\":\"<name>\",\"type\":\"A\",\"content\":\"71.227.227.172\",\"ttl\":\"600\"}"
+```
+- `json3` path + `-L` (302-redirects to v3). Public IP: 71.227.227.172 (router forwards 443 → Dankclaw).
+- Porkbun edge throws intermittent 503s; retry later or do it in the UI. LAN path works without this record.
+
+## 5. Verify
+```bash
+# from Dankclaw (host):        getent hosts <name>.franksdank.cloud   → 192.168.0.143
+# workstation w/ stale resolved negative cache: use curl --resolve <name>.franksdank.cloud:443:192.168.0.143
+# workstation's own `sudo resolvectl flush-caches` needs a terminal (no passwordless sudo) — negative cache expires on its own
+curl -sf --resolve <name>.franksdank.cloud:443:192.168.0.143 https://<name>.franksdank.cloud/
+```
+Publish-style test for ntfy inside container (CLI flags vary by version; raw HTTP is version-proof):
+```bash
+podman exec <name> wget -qO- --header="Title: smoke" --post-data="up" http://localhost:<port>/<topic>
+```

agent/managed-skills/dankclaw-homepage-asset-verify/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: dankclaw-homepage-asset-verify
+description: "Add/verify homepage assets on Dankclaw: Caddy @data allowlist, deploy copy step, e2e panel census, live content-type check."
+---
+
+Every new top-level homepage asset directory (e.g. `shared/homepage/img/`, `shared/homepage/sfx/`) needs FOUR coordinated changes, all in one commit:
+
+1. **Caddy allowlist** — `dankclaw/Caddyfile` `@data path` matcher must include `/<dir>/*`. Without it the post-auth `@home` catch-all answers with `index.html` (`200 text/html` for a PNG/OGG — silent breakage).
+2. **Deploy copy** — `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` `deploy_homepage()` copies `shared/homepage/<dir>/` with the `cp -r ... /srv/homepage/` merge pattern beside the fonts/img/sfx blocks.
+3. **Test pins** — `tests/homepage_caddy.bats` grep-pins the new `@data` path; if the asset changes panel rendering, the e2e census in `tests/e2e/specs/10-homepage.spec.ts` must count the new render style (it derives expected names from services.json: `.panel .name` for normal cards, `.mi-name` for fused Model Information cards — a new fused component breaks the panel census otherwise, which is exactly how the 2026-10-08 Protoss deploy failed its e2e gate).
+4. **Deploy both services** — `deploy.sh dankclaw --service homepage` and `--service caddy` (Caddyfile change), then live-verify from a browser tab: `fetch('/<dir>/<file>')` must return `200` with the correct `content-type` (`image/jpeg`, `audio/ogg`), not `text/html`.
+
+Checker note: `status.json` names follow `services.json` automatically (the deployed checker re-reads it via the homepage deploy's restart of homepage-status.timer), so renaming cards needs no checker change.

agent/managed-skills/dankclaw-model-inventory/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: dankclaw-model-inventory
+description: "Read-only census of downloaded models on Dankclaw: GGUF store, ComfyUI container mount, dead-config trap"
+---
+
+Answer "what models are on Dankclaw" without guessing roots. All probes are read-only ssh (`ssh -o BatchMode=yes dankclaw '…'`).
+
+## Roots (in order)
+
+1. **LLM GGUF store:** `/home/dank/models/` — one dir per model, main GGUF + `mmproj-*` (multimodal projector) + `mtp-*` (speculative-decode draft) satellites. `~/.share/models` does NOT exist on Dankclaw (that's the workstations' convention).
+2. **ComfyUI runtime store:** `/home/dank/comfyui-data/models/` — category dirs (`diffusion_models/`, `text_encoders/`, `vae/`, `loras/`, …). This is what the running stack actually uses.
+
+## ComfyUI topology (the trap)
+
+- Runtime = podman container `comfyui` (image `localhost/comfyui-rocm:gfx1151`, user unit `comfyui.service`). Mounts: `~/comfyui-data/{models,custom_nodes,input,output}` → `/opt/ComfyUI/...`.
+- The host checkout `~/ComfyUI/` is NOT the runtime. Its `extra_model_paths.yaml` (base_path `/home/dank/models` + category keys) is dead config from a pre-container setup — never read by the container. Do not report those empty category dirs as "ComfyUI has no models".
+
+## Census commands
+
+```bash
+# LLM store: sizes + names in one pass
+ssh -o BatchMode=yes dankclaw 'find ~/models -maxdepth 2 -type f \( -iname "*.gguf" -o -iname "*.safetensors" \) -printf "%10s  %p\n" | sort -k2'
+
+# ComfyUI: container mount truth
+ssh -o BatchMode=yes dankclaw 'find /home/dank/comfyui-data/models -type f -size +1M -printf "%10s  %P\n" | sort -k2; du -sh /home/dank/comfyui-data'
+
+# confirm runtime + mounts before trusting any path claim
+ssh -o BatchMode=yes dankclaw 'podman ps --format "{{.Names}} {{.Image}} {{.Status}}"; podman inspect comfyui --format "{{range .Mounts}}{{.Source}} -> {{.Destination}}{{\"\n\"}}{{end}}"'
+```
+
+## Anomaly flags
+
+- A `.gguf` of ~1 KB = git-LFS pointer / failed download, not a model (seen: MiMo-Q8_0 stub). Report as broken, offer refetch or `.AGENTTRASH`.
+- Size sanity vs Strix Halo 32 GiB unified memory: bf16 diffusion+TE pairs near 30 GiB can't co-reside with the serving LLM; int8/w4a8 quants are the working set.

agent/managed-skills/dankclaw-pihole-lan-dns-record/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: dankclaw-pihole-lan-dns-record
+description: "Add/repair a LAN DNS record for a new *.franksdank.cloud service on Dankclaw's Pi-hole v6 (hosts/custom.list path), plus the public Porkbun A record step and client cache gotchas."
+---
+
+Use when a new `*.franksdank.cloud` service resolves publicly/LAN-needs a local address, on Dankclaw (Pi-hole v6 container, quadlet `pihole.container`).
+
+## Ground truth layout (verified 2026-10-11)
+
+- Quadlet: `~/.config/containers/systemd/pihole.container`; volumes `/home/dank/Containers/pihole/{etc-pihole,etc-dockers,addn-hosts}`.
+- **LAN records live in `/home/dank/Containers/pihole/etc-pihole/hosts/custom.list`** — plain hosts format: `192.168.0.143 gitea.franksdank.cloud`. This is the boring, working path.
+- `pihole.toml` `[[dns.records]]` array is EMPTY on this host — do not expect v6 UI-style records there.
+- `gravity.db` exists but has NO `domain` table (v6 layout) — do not insert local records into SQLite.
+
+## Procedure (30 s, proven)
+
+```bash
+ssh dankclaw 'echo "192.168.0.143 <name>.franksdank.cloud" | sudo tee -a /home/dank/Containers/pihole/etc-pihole/hosts/custom.list >/dev/null \
+ && podman exec pihole pihole restartdns'
+ssh dankclaw 'getent hosts <name>.franksdank.cloud'   # must resolve
+dig +short <name>.franksdank.cloud @192.168.0.143     # from any LAN box
+```
+
+Hosts files are read-only-readable only via sudo (dir owned by uid 100999). `sudo -n` works on dankclaw.
+
+## API maze — DON'T re-explore
+
+- FTL API base is `/api` at the web port (8083) **with `Host: pi.hole` header**; `/admin/api/*` → bad_request hint; bare 127.0.0.1 without the vhost → 404 `not_found`.
+- Login: `POST /api/login {"password": <WEBPASSWORD from /home/dank/Containers/pihole/env>}` → session in `X-Cors` header/cookie.
+- `POST /api/apps/domains/custom` → **404 on this build** (FTL version predates it); `/api/customdns/custom` also absent. There is no container sqlite3. Use custom.list.
+
+## Public record (off-LAN reachability)
+
+Porkbun API, keys in `/home/dank/Containers/caddy/env` (`PORKBUN_API_KEY`, `PORKBUN_API_SECRET_KEY`):
+
+```bash
+curl -sL -X POST https://api.porkbun.com/api/json3/domain/api/create/franksdank.cloud \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d "{\"apikey\":\"$K\",\"secretapi\":\"$S\",\"name\":\"<name>\",\"type\":\"A\",\"content\":\"71.227.227.172\",\"ttl\":\"600\"}"
+```
+
+- `json3` path 302-redirects → **`-L` required**; no-`-s` to see status.
+- Porkbun edge (openresty) intermittently 503s — transient; retry later, don't burn turns. Public record is OPTIONAL when LAN-only subscribers exist.
+- Wildcard `*.franksdank.cloud` TLS is already covered: Caddy + Porkbun DNS-01 (caddy-porkbun image), so a new subdomain needs NO new cert work — just the Caddyfile site block + reload.
+
+## Client-side cache gotchas
+
+- Workstation (systemd-resolved): negative cache survives Pi-hole changes; `sudo resolvectl flush-caches` needs a TTY (faillock-sensitive — no `-S` guessing). Non-interactive proof: `curl --resolve <name>.franksdank.cloud:443:192.168.0.143 https://<name>.franksdank.cloud/...`; cache self-expires (SOA negative TTL).
+- Dankclaw/Dankserver resolve via Pi-hole directly — verify there first.

agent/managed-skills/defuse-shell-rc-secrets/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: defuse-shell-rc-secrets
+description: "Find literal API keys/tokens in shell rc files and replace them with 600-perm secret files + loader lines, syncing the canonical tool token file."
+---
+
+# Defuse shell-rc secrets
+
+Symptom: `export KEY=...` literal in `.zshrc`/`.bashrc` — world-readable in every process env, one `git add -A` from a dotfiles repo.
+
+## Procedure (repeat per host)
+1. Sweep: `grep -n "export.*KEY\|export.*TOKEN" ~/.zshrc ~/.zprofile ~/.profile ~/.bashrc 2>/dev/null` (run per host; when batching hosts in one ssh compound command, label which output came from which host — misattribution wastes turns).
+2. Extract WITHOUT echoing: `mkdir -p ~/.config/secrets && chmod 700` it, then `sed -n 's/^export NAME="\(.*\)"$/\1/p' ~/.zshrc > ~/.config/secrets/<name>` (quote variant and unquoted variant are different sed patterns — verify byte counts with `wc -c`, a 0-byte file means the pattern missed).
+3. `chmod 600` every secret file; sync any canonical tool file the ecosystem expects (e.g. `~/.cache/huggingface/token`).
+4. Replace the rc literal (hashline `PUT N.=N:` range — never echo the secret in the op): `[ -f ~/.config/secrets/<name> ] && export NAME="$(cat ~/.config/secrets/<name>)"`.
+5. Verify: `zsh -n ~/.zshrc` (or `bash -n`); keep a dated `.bak` of the rc on remote hosts; shred any /tmp transfer copies immediately (`shred -u`).
+
+## Laws
+- A token pasted into chat lands in transcripts and model context — treat chat as a leak channel; give the user the `read -rs` snippet instead.
+- scp of a secret FILE (encrypted channel, no argv) is fine; the token is never a command-line argument.
+- After replacing a legacy HF token, probe scope non-destructively: `HfApi().whoami()` (legacy read tokens show `type: access_token` without canWrite; the decisive probe is `create_repo(exist_ok=True)` on the real target repo).
+- Verify extraction byte-count before deleting/trusting; a successful-looking sed can write an empty file.

agent/managed-skills/deployment-checkout-trunk-sync/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: deployment-checkout-trunk-sync
+description: Use when the live deployment checkout (~/.omp main) must merge a moved origin/main while dirty tracked files block the merge and workspace policy blocks git checkout.
+---
+
+---
+name: deployment-checkout-trunk-sync
+description: Use when the live deployment checkout (~/.omp main) must merge a moved origin/main while dirty tracked files block the merge and workspace policy blocks git checkout.
+---
+
+# Sync a dirty live checkout to a deployment (checkout blocked)
+
+Situation: the checkout IS the deployment; months of machine/hand writes sit
+uncommitted; `origin/main` has moved; `git checkout`/discard is BLOCKED by
+workspace policy ("edit forward"; exemption only during active conflict).
+
+## Procedure
+1. `git fetch`; trial `git merge --no-commit --no-ff origin/main` to enumerate
+   exact blockers (dirty files the merge would overwrite + untracked collisions).
+   Untracked blockers: `cp -a` to `.AGENTTRASH/pre-merge-<date>/`, then `mv` aside.
+2. **Preservation commit:** `git add` ONLY the blocking paths (not the whole
+   tree) and commit them as-is: `chore: adopt pre-existing working-tree state
+   before trunk merge`. Nothing is discarded; the secret gate still runs.
+   Include EVERY dirty deployment-state path (dotfiles/live tiers too) — a
+   dirty file that is neither committed nor trashed is unprotected from step 3.
+3. `git merge --no-ff origin/main`. Conflicts are now resolvable — the policy
+   exemption is active during a merge.
+4. Resolution law:
+   - **live machine config** (`agent/config.yml`, `models.yml`, dotfiles live
+     state like noctalia `settings.toml`) → `--ours`: the running box is its
+     own authority; the remote copy is a snapshot.
+   - **prose/law/docs** (`AGENTS.md`, KB) → `--theirs` (upstream canonical;
+     local variants survive in the preservation commit).
+   - **append-mostly logs** → union: cut only the three marker lines
+     (`<<<<<<<`/`=======` range + `>>>>>>>`), keep both sides' entries.
+5. `git commit --no-edit`, push trunk, verify `main == origin/main`.
+6. Pre-merge byte-compare every dirty file vs `origin/main`
+   (`git show origin/main:$f | diff -q - $f`): SUPERSEDED (identical → discardable),
+   DIVERGED (resolve), untracked-in-upstream (collision).
+
+## Gotchas
+- **NEVER `git stash` to unblock a deployment sync, NEVER `git stash clear`/
+  `drop` afterward.** Observed 2026-10-18: a sync stashed the dirty tree, the
+  stash entry was later destroyed, and months of GUI-built bar layout
+  (noctalia settings.toml, never committed) vanished with it — recovered only
+  via dangling-object archaeology (below). Step 2's preservation commit exists
+  precisely so stashing is never needed.
+- **Stash-and-retry loops are a red flag**: three `WIP on main` stash commits
+  within ~60s of each other means the operator was fighting the dirty tree,
+  not resolving it.
+- **Recovery from destroyed stashes** (objects survive entry deletion until gc):
+  `git fsck --lost-found` → `git log -1 --format='%ci %s' <dangling>` to date
+  them → `git show <c>:<path>` to dump candidates; newest `WIP on` commit is
+  usually the last good state. Validate before deploying (e.g.
+  `noctalia config validate`), back up the clobbered file to `.AGENTTRASH/`,
+  then restore through the symlink target.
+- Never wrap `git checkout` in `2>/dev/null` here: the policy-block error was
+  swallowed and the loop silently no-op'd; the merge then failed identically.
+- `git add` a directory pathspec stages its untracked children (fine for
+  allowlist dirs; never for prose dirs).
+- The live-sync heartbeat (#11) commits machine tiers hourly, so this sync is
+  a rare operation post-deployment — mostly memories/dotfiles stragglers.
+  Remember the heartbeat can lag up to an hour behind GUI edits: the tree
+  between heartbeats is the ONLY copy of fresh GUI work.
+- **Frank's accepted risk posture (2026-10-18):** hourly sweep + the
+  preservation-commit law + fsck recovery is defense-in-depth ENOUGH. Do not
+  re-propose faster heartbeats or path/event triggers to shrink the
+  GUI-edit-to-commit window; he chose status quo after measuring (heartbeat
+  itself is 57 ms CPU — cost was never the objection; un-debounced
+  DirectoryNotEmpty triggering was, and path-unit proposals are vetoed).

agent/managed-skills/detached-fleet-job-launch/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: detached-fleet-job-launch
+description: Launch long-running jobs (fleet hosts or local workstation) so they survive ssh/logind/harness teardown; includes worker takeover law for queue daemons
+---
+
+# Detached long-running jobs on Dank fleet hosts
+
+## Law
+`ssh host 'setsid nohup CMD & '` is NOT detached. systemd-logind deactivates
+`session-N.scope` when the ssh command returns and SIGKILLs the whole cgroup:
+no journal entry, no OOM trace, python block-buffers stdout so the log stays
+0 bytes. setsid/nohup do not escape the cgroup.
+
+## Canonical launch (remote)
+```
+ssh host 'export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u); \
+  systemd-run --user --collect --unit=NAME \
+    -p SendSIGKILL=no \
+    -p StandardOutput=append:/home/dank/logs/NAME.log \
+    -p StandardError=append:/home/dank/logs/NAME.log \
+    sh -c "CMD -u; echo \$? > /home/dank/logs/NAME.rc"'
+```
+- transient user unit = outside every session scope; survives ssh teardown
+  (requires `Linger=yes`, true for `dank` on both hosts)
+- `echo $? > …rc` inside the unit = completion sentinel the unit itself writes
+- `-u` / unbuffered output so the log is live
+- verify launch in the same ssh call: `systemctl --user is-active NAME.service`
+
+## Local workstation variant (verified 2026-10-10, blankpad)
+Harness background jobs get **tree-killed** at timeout — setsid/nohup children
+die too (survives the process-group kill, not the tree walk). Same cure as
+remote, run locally:
+```
+loginctl enable-linger $(whoami)   # default Linger=no kills user units at session end
+XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) systemd-run --user --collect --unit=NAME \
+  -p StandardOutput=append:/abs/path/job.log \
+  -p StandardError=append:/abs/path/job.log \
+  /full/path/to/binary args...
+systemctl --user is-active NAME.service
+```
+Gotchas:
+- bash-tool env lacks `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` → set it inline.
+- `--collect` GCs the unit when it **exits** — after a crash-exit,
+  `systemctl --user restart NAME` fails "Unit not found"; relaunch with
+  `systemd-run`. Redeploy code = `stop` (not `restart`) + relaunch.
+- point StandardOutput at the job's canonical log file (what the UI/SSE tails),
+  not a sidecar — observed drift: worker.log vs per-run log.txt diverged.
+- foreground `(cmd &)` and `(cmd &)` subshells die with the tool call's group.
+
+## Worker takeover law (queue daemons)
+A supervisor killed mid-run leaves `queue.json.active` set ⇒ every relaunching
+worker honors "one run at a time" and exits ⇒ silent queue deadlock. Cure:
+- heartbeat: run dir `worker.pid`, rewritten every ~5s while running, removed
+  on completion;
+- claim rule: `active` set + pid dead (`process.kill(pid,0)` ESRCH; EPERM =
+  alive) ⇒ resume; pid alive ⇒ exit.
+- resume must be append-only + completed-key skip so takeover is cost-free
+  (observed: 386 completed samples skipped, zero re-requests).
+
+## Watcher (one async job, never poll)
+```
+ssh host 'while [ ! -f /home/dank/logs/NAME.rc ]; do sleep 60; done; \
+  echo RC=$(cat /home/dank/logs/NAME.rc); tail -25 /home/dank/logs/NAME.log'
+```
+Run it async with timeout 0; the result is injected on completion.
+
+## Forensics when a detached job died
+1. `ps -p PID` — gone.
+2. Log 0 bytes → buffered stdout lost at SIGKILL.
+3. `journalctl --since … | grep -E "session-[0-9]+.*(Deactivated|Removed session)"` —
+   timestamps matching the death window confirm the scope kill (vs OOM, which
+   leaves kernel lines).
+
+## Notes
+- zsh remote shells: `echo ===X===` fails (`=cmd` expansion); quote sentinels.
+- The HF upload of 2026-08 (113.7 GiB, hf_xet) died this way ~2 min in;
+  relaunch as above succeeded.
+- Frank's machine: `systemctl --user terminate` is not a verb — use `stop`.

agent/managed-skills/faillock-sudo-lockout-recovery/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: faillock-sudo-lockout-recovery
+description: "Diagnose and recover from a pam_faillock sudo lockout on Frank's Arch workstations, typically caused by an agent's non-interactive sudo retries"
+---
+
+# Faillock Sudo Lockout Recovery
+
+## Symptom
+User reports "sudo password rejected / changed"; journal shows
+`pam_faillock(sudo:auth): User <u> is temporarily locked out due to 3 consecutive failed login attempts`.
+
+## Diagnose (read-only, one round)
+1. `stat -c '%n mtime=%y ctime=%z' /etc/shadow` — unchanged mtime = password was NEVER changed.
+2. `journalctl --since '<window>' | grep 'sudo\['` — lines with `PWD=` / `COMMAND=` name the spammer (agent harness loops show `PWD=/home/.../.omp`, `COMMAND=...yay/pacman...`, no `TTY=`).
+3. `faillock --user <user>` — shows the valid failure entries.
+
+## Root cause law
+In the omp harness sudo has NO TTY: each `sudo <cmd>` = 3 pam_unix failures. Arch pam_faillock defaults deny=3 with ~600s unlock_time, and each retry re-arms it — the user's real interactive sudo is locked while the loop runs.
+
+## Recover
+1. Kill the loop: `ps -eo pid,ppid,etime,cmd | grep -E 'sudo|yay|makepkg'` → kill offending PIDs; stop/kill the responsible agent session.
+2. `faillock --user "$USER" --reset` — works unprivileged for your own user (dir /run/faillock/<user> is 0700 owner).
+3. User verifies with `sudo -v` in a real terminal.
+
+## Prevent
+- Agents NEVER run sudo/yay/pacman/pkexec; no SUDO_ASKPASS/expect workarounds.
+- Root-requiring steps are handed to the user as exact copy-paste commands in the final report.

agent/managed-skills/fandom-wiki-media-fetch/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: fandom-wiki-media-fetch
+description: Fetch audio/image media from a Fandom wiki via its MediaWiki API when the wiki HTML pages 403 curl or hang headless browsers.
+---
+
+Goal: get direct media URLs (and files) from a starcraft.fandom.com-style Fandom wiki.
+
+Why this route: Fandom HTML pages return a ~5 KB JS shell to `curl` (403 via `read ...:raw`) and time out headless Chromium (`browser.open`/`goto` >30 s on quotation megapages). The MediaWiki API is plain JSON and answers plain curl.
+
+Steps:
+1. Find the content page's wikitext:
+   `curl -sL -A "Mozilla/5.0" "https://<wiki>.fandom.com/api.php?action=parse&page=<Page_Name>&prop=wikitext&format=json&formatversion=2"`
+   Top-level pages are often tabber/transclusion shells — follow the `{{:Subpage}}` / `{{TemplateName}}` references with the same call (e.g. `StarCraft_unit_quotations` → `/Protoss` → `Template:QuotesSC1Zealot`).
+2. Extract media names from the wikitext. StarCraft quotes use `{{sm2|File.ogg|displayed quote}}` inside `{{UnitQuoteBox|select=...}}` fields — match the quote text to pick the exact file.
+3. Resolve direct CDN URLs (works for images too):
+   `curl -sL -A "Mozilla/5.0" ".../api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&iiprop=url|size&format=json&formatversion=2&titles=File:A.ogg|File:B.jpg"`
+   → `query.pages[].imageinfo[0].url` = `https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/...` — downloadable with plain `curl -sfL`.
+4. To discover art on a unit page: `action=query&prop=images&imlimit=100&titles=<Page>`, filter titles (icon/art/portrait/Head/Render), then resolve the keepers via imageinfo. Note splash/head art naming: `File:Zealot SC2 Art1.jpg`, `File:Archon SC2 Head1.jpg`; some obvious guesses (SC1-era units' SC2 splash) do not exist — verify with imageinfo, absent pages return `missing` with no `imageinfo`.
+5. Verify downloads (`file sfx/*.ogg` → `Ogg data, Vorbis audio`) — a 403 body saves as a success with `-o` and no `-f`.

agent/managed-skills/fleet-image-pull-freshness-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: fleet-image-pull-freshness-audit
+description: "Answer \"when was the last time we pulled/updated engine?\" for digest-pinned dank-fleet images: git-history pin dating vs host podman state, pull-vs-restart distinction."
+---
+
+Answer "when was the last time we pulled/updated <engine image>?" for a digest-pinned fleet endpoint (radiance/halogen/llama.cpp images on dankserver/dankclaw).
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Locate the pin.** `grep` the repo for the image digest prefix (e.g. `4c3f484564`) — pins live in `scripts/<svc>.env` (`FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE` etc.) and are restated in `AGENTS.md` / runbooks.
+2. **Date the pin in git.** `git log --all --format='%h %ad %s' --date=short -S '<digest-full-prefix>'` — the OLDEST hit is the cutover that pulled it (renames and service-name sweeps produce later hits; ignore them).
+3. **Check the host state.**
+   `ssh <host> 'sudo podman images --format "{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}} {{.ID}} {{.Digest}} {{.CreatedTime}}"'`
+   Compare the on-disk digest to the pin. `CreatedTime` is the VENDOR build stamp, not the pull time — it proves which build is on disk; the git commit dates the pull.
+4. **Distinguish pull from restart.** Digest pinning means the serve script NEVER auto-pulls; a fresh `ActiveEnterTimestamp` (`systemctl show <svc> -p ActiveEnterTimestamp`) is a restart, not an update.
+5. **Sweep side pulls.** A newer engine version may have been pulled for a one-off (calibration, KLD, bench) and removed after. `podman images` census + `git log -S` for the second digest; note when the side image is gone from disk (answer: "pulled <date>, no longer on disk").
+
+## Facts to carry (radiance example)
+
+- frank-archon pin `stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564…` (1.0.13) pulled 2026-10-05 (cutover commit); reused unchanged at the 2026-10-08 w4dn8 cutover.
+- Engine 1.2.0 was pulled 2026-10-08 for calibration only; image absent from disk afterwards.
+- Cross-pin compatibility (e.g. RADGRAM2 grams byte-identical across pins) is documented in the runbook — cite it when explaining a calibration/serving pin split.
+
+## Answer format
+
+Table: pin-first-introduced commit+date (the pull), later cutovers reusing the same digest (no pull), side-image pulls, last container start (restart, explicitly labeled not-a-pull). Offer upstream freshness scout as next step; a digest change for an LLM endpoint requires the stop-and-mask bench-window law.

agent/managed-skills/fleet-judge-swap-calibrate/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: fleet-judge-swap-calibrate
+description: "Swap the frank-intelligence-bench judge default and prove judge quality: fleet alias→weights map, known-truth calibration via scripts/judge-calibration.ts, per-backend reasoning-off dialect traps."
+---
+
+# Fleet judge swap + calibration (frank-intelligence-bench)
+
+## Fleet alias → weights (verified 2026-10-10 via ps on dankclaw; endpoints only serve aliases)
+- frank-archon = Qwen3.8-Flash-Next quant (radiance TP=2, dankserver:7770)
+- frank-dragoon = qwen38-flash-next-v2-swift15-abliterated.hgn, 180B MoE (halogen container `frank-large-halogen`, dankclaw:7770) — check `podman inspect frank-large-halogen --format {{json .Config.Env}} | grep HALOGEN_CHECKPOINT`
+- frank-zealot = Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive Q6_K (llama.cpp, 3090, dankclaw:7771) — check `ps aux | grep <port>`
+
+## Swap procedure
+1. `config/hosts.yml`: target host gains `roles: [target, judge]`; set `judge_default`. No-self-judge law: `judge == target` throws at enqueue; rotation = next fleet model.
+2. Judge load = AA-LCR + HLE only (SciCode/Terminal-Bench are unit-tested, judge-free).
+3. Mid-run: `run.json` pins its judge (provenance); default swap affects future runs only.
+4. Docs: `docs/endpoints.md` judge law section; commit with gates.
+
+## Calibration — the ONLY accepted proof
+`bun scripts/judge-calibration.ts [n] [judges...]` — known-truth floor test: gold answers must be judged CORRECT, deterministically mutated (first number +7) must be INCORRECT. Reports accuracy, mean s/verdict, projected AA-LCR/HLE judge hours. Safe beside a live run (judge-only traffic).
+- Known-truth is a FLOOR test: catches broken judges, not lenient ones. Gold-vs-mutation is easy mode; small-model leniency on model-vs-gold edges needs real-verdict spot audits.
+
+## Traps (all fired at least once)
+- **False-accuracy via transport death:** a 400-dying judge scores ~50% on this test (all verdicts collapse to INCORRECT, matching the mutation half by luck). ALWAYS inspect `err` on misses before trusting any agreement/accuracy number. Fix: if all misses share one `err=HTTP 4xx`, it is the harness, not the judge.
+- **Reasoning-off dialect split:** llama.cpp/radiance want `chat_template_kwargs:{thinking:false}`; halogen/vLLM-style servers 400 on `thinking` and honour `enable_thinking`. HostSpec field `reasoning_off: thinking|enable_thinking` (default `thinking`; dragoon needs `enable_thinking`). Wire-test via mock `bodies` capture.
+- **No historical judged rows?** Quarantined ledgers may pre-date judge usage (census first: `failureCensus` rows/phase), then use known-truth synthesis instead of re-judging.
+
+## Baselines measured (for future swaps)
+- zealot (9B): 25/25 known-truth, 13 s/verdict → AA-LCR 1.1h, HLE 9.3h; leniency risk on hard edges (small judge + compliance tune).
+- dragoon (180B): 2 s/verdict → AA-LCR 0.2h, HLE 1.4h; family-bias caveat when target shares its base family.

agent/managed-skills/fleet-served-model-id-rename/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: fleet-served-model-id-rename
+description: "Rename the served model id (alias) on a dank-fleet LLM endpoint and re-key every consumer that keys on it, with live verification."
+---
+
+# Fleet served-model-id rename (wire rename)
+
+Renames the id an endpoint announces on the wire. The service, unit, script and env
+FILE names keep the old name (container/unit identity is stable) — only the served
+alias moves. Done this way on 2026-10-09: frank-primary→frank-archon,
+frank-large→frank-dragoon, frank-secondary→frank-zealot.
+
+## 1. The knob, per engine
+| Endpoint | Knob |
+|---|---|
+| frank-primary (radiance, dankserver :7770) | `FRANK_PRIMARY_SERVED_NAME` in `scripts/frank-primary.env` → `--served-model-name` |
+| frank-large (halogen flash-server, dankclaw :7770) | `HALOGEN_MODEL_ID` in `scripts/frank-large.env` |
+| frank-secondary (llama.cpp, dankclaw :7771) | `ALIAS` in `scripts/frank-secondary.env` → `--alias` |
+
+Also flip the serve-script defaults (`: "${ALIAS:=…}"`, the `:?` gate messages).
+`scripts/deploy-remote.sh` has no alias references — the deployer needs no edit.
+
+## 2. Consumers that key on the id (all in ONE change)
+- Seams: `tests/frank_{secondary,large,primary}_unit.bats` — fixture env value,
+  the argv assertion (`--alias`), the env grep pin, the `-e HALOGEN_MODEL_ID=` render
+  assertion.
+- OpenWebUI (Dankclaw, rootless quadlet, `webui.db`): `model.id`+`name`,
+  `access_grant.resource_id` (`resource_type='model'`), `openai.api_configs`
+  per-backend `model_ids`. Backup first (`webui.db.bak-YYYYMMDD`; the DB is WAL-mode).
+  No sqlite3 binary in the image → `podman exec -i open-webui python3 -` with a
+  script on stdin. Then `systemctl --user restart open-webui.service`. A stale id
+  fails SILENTLY: OpenWebUI intersects the backend `/v1/models` with `model_ids`, so
+  the picker just goes empty.
+- Hermes (`/home/dank/Containers/hermes/data/config.yaml`, root-owned → sudo):
+  `model.default`, the provider `models:` key, every `auxiliary:` route naming the
+  endpoint. Backup, surgical `sudo sed -i`, sweep `grep -rln <old-id>` over the data
+  dir (session JSONs are historical — leave), restart `hermes.service
+  hermes-webui.service` (user units).
+- Dev harnesses: `"model": "frank-…"` literals in `scripts/bench-*.py`,
+  `deep-probe.py`, `calib-push.py`, `fleet-probes-swift15.sh`, `autoresearch*`.
+- Docs: `shared/homepage/docs.html` (headings, api-id annotations, the
+  curl/opencode/Pi examples), endpoint runbooks, `AGENTS.md` Model Config,
+  `serverAppConfigs-docs/Agent/OMP Harness.md`, `Dankclaw/OpenWebUI.md`.
+- Harness side (`~/.omp/agent/models.yml` on the dev box) — ids and `modelRoles`
+  must name the same string; two ports on one host = two providers.
+
+## 3. Deploy + verify
+`./scripts/deploy.sh <host> --service <name>` per endpoint; keep the tree clean
+(untracked scratch files inside the repo fail the whole-tree gate — put probes in
+/tmp with a `node_modules` symlink to `tests/e2e/node_modules`).
+
+Verify on `/v1/models`, NEVER on a chat echo: radiance echoes the REQUESTED model
+name (a 200 proves nothing), llama.cpp and halogen ignore the requested id.
+
+```bash
+for u in 192.168.0.235:7770 192.168.0.143:7770 192.168.0.143:7771; do
+  curl -fsS "http://$u/v1/models"; done
+```
+
+OpenWebUI acceptance = a real browser as a family account: the welcome screen names
+the model and `POST /api/v1/chat/completions {"model":"<new-id>"}` answers.
+`GET /api/v1/models/list` returning `{"items":[],"total":0}` for that same account
+is a probe artifact, not a failure. Playwright notes: `locator.isVisible({timeout})`
+does NOT wait (returns immediately) — use `waitFor({state:'visible'})`; the composer
+is a contenteditable div, not a textarea; stable anchors are
+`getByRole('button', {name: /selected model/i})` and "How can I help you today?".
+
+## 4. Trap: green deploy, old config
+`deploy.sh` plans from repo paths and gates on the port. A systemd drop-in under
+`/etc/systemd/system/<unit>.service.d/` can override `Environment=FRANK_*_ENV_FILE`
+and `ExecStart` to a staging worktree, so the deploy restarts a DIFFERENT tree and
+reports healthy (this bit frank-primary for a day after a quantization campaign).
+After an LLM deploy, prove the running shape:
+
+```bash
+systemctl cat <unit>                       # drop-ins print at the bottom
+podman inspect <container> --format '{{json .Config.Cmd}}' | tr , '\n'
+```
+
+Before retiring such a drop-in: diff staging vs checkout for serve script/unit/env,
+and `git merge-base --is-ancestor <staging-HEAD> HEAD` so no campaign tuning is
+lost. Move it to `~/.AGENTTRASH/YYYYMMDD-topic/` (never `rm`), `daemon-reload`,
+restart, re-read `/v1/models`.

agent/managed-skills/fleet-service-rename-cutover/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: fleet-service-rename-cutover
+description: "Rename a Dank-fleet LLM service end-to-end (repo trio, deployer keys, tags, hosts): the 2026-10-10 frank-archon/dragoon/zealot cutover procedure."
+---
+
+# Fleet service rename cutover (serverAppConfigs)
+
+Procedure proven 2026-10-10 renaming the three LLM services to their wire
+aliases (repo `55f87fc`). For any future full service rename.
+
+## Repo codemod
+1. `git mv` every tracked file whose path carries the old token
+   (`frank-<old>` → `frank-<new>`, plus `frank_<old>` bats seams).
+2. Content sweep over all tracked text files:
+   `git grep -Ilz '' | xargs -0 sed -i` with expressions for
+   `frank-<old>`, `FRANK_<OLD>`, `frank_<old>` → new forms; add the
+   `LLM_<OLD>` / `llm_<old>` / handler-name forms in the same pass.
+3. Known casualties to record: `scripts/patches/*.patch` context lines get
+   rewritten (patches stop applying byte-exact); historical prose adopts
+   the new name (one service, one name — Frank's rule).
+4. Fix sed-made-contradictory lore by hand: AGENTS.md Model Config
+   paragraph, any "keeps the old names" sentences. Do NOT enumerate the
+   retired names anywhere — the acceptance test is
+   `git grep -cE '<old forms>'` == 0 (case-insensitive too).
+5. Rename rollback tags in lockstep (docs quote tag names):
+   `git tag NEW OLD; git tag -d OLD`, push new, delete old refs on origin.
+6. Sweep the harness config comments too: `~/.omp/agent/models.yml`.
+
+## Deployer keying (why the sweep is safe)
+`scripts/deploy-plan.py` SERVICE_ORDER/host sets + `services_for_path`
+trio mapping; `scripts/deploy-remote.sh` `service_is_allowed` case,
+`deploy_service` dispatch, `relink_unit <service>` (symlink
+`/etc/systemd/system/<name>.service` → `scripts/<name>.service`),
+markers keyed by service name under `~/.local/state/serverAppConfigs/
+deploy-state/`. `add_pending_services` AUTO-TRASHES markers whose service
+is retired — no marker surgery needed if you skip a full drain.
+
+## Host cutover per endpoint (order matters)
+1. `sudo systemctl stop <old>`; rename `~/logs/frank_<old>.log` → new;
+   `podman rm -f` the old container name(s);
+   `sudo rm` the unit symlink + `multi-user.target.wants/<old>.service`;
+   `sudo systemctl daemon-reload`; trash the marker to
+   `~/.AGENTTRASH/<date>-fleet-rename/` with a NEUTRAL filename.
+2. `deploy.sh <host> --service <new-name>` (run from the main checkout;
+   refuses on a worktree branch). The handler relinks under the new name,
+   enables, restarts, health-gates.
+3. Do the harness-default-model endpoint LAST on its host, and never stop
+   an endpoint while a deploy on the other host is approaching its e2e
+   gate (the gate probes the live fleet).
+
+## Acceptance
+`/health` 200 + `/v1/models` shows the new id (radiance echoes requested
+names — verify on `/v1/models` only); unit active+enabled; new container
+name running; `git grep` zero on every checkout; e2e gate green;
+Prometheus job up (note: llama.cpp needs `--metrics` in the serve script
+for the scrape — absence is a pre-existing gap, not a rename regression).
+Out of scope: retired endpoint names (`frank-medium/small/npu`) and git
+history — old strings there are expected.

agent/managed-skills/fork-locked-gguf-endpoint-trial/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: fork-locked-gguf-endpoint-trial
+description: "Trial a fork-locked GGUF (custom tensor types: ternary/PQ2_0/PTQ1_0, vendor Hadamard metadata) as a replacement payload on a fleet llama.cpp endpoint: identify the fork, close provenance of local variants, build the right binary, and run one trap-guarded census window that measures VRAM, per-slot window, tool/vision/reasoning channels, and long-context stability."
+---
+
+# Fork-locked GGUF trial on a live endpoint
+
+Use when a candidate GGUF carries **non-stock tensor types** (custom type ids, vendor metadata such as `prism.hadamard.*`) so mainline llama.cpp refuses it or loads a sibling `F16` file silently with garbage. Pairs with `gguf-header-vram-fit-analysis` (paper pricing); this skill is the *measure-it* half.
+
+## 1. Header census decides everything downstream
+Range-parse `resolve/main/<file>.gguf` bytes 0–48 MiB (metadata is ~11 MiB at 250k vocab; GGUF v3 strings are **u64**-length). Extract: `general.architecture`, `block_count`, `full_attention_interval`, `attention.head_count_kv`, `key_length`/`value_length`, `context_length` (target window > native ⇒ YaRN), `<arch>.nextn_predict_layers` (absent ⇒ no drafter, ever), tensor-type histogram, and per-tensor byte sizes from consecutive `offset` deltas ⇒ exact bpw.
+- `KV = full_layers × head_count_kv × key_length` elements/token **per cache**; only full-attention layers bill per token, linear/DeltaNet layers bill a fixed state per slot.
+- Ternary packs shrink weights only. At 262,144 tokens KV (16 full layers, 4×256) = 16.0 GiB f16 / 8.5 GiB q8_0 / 4.5 GiB q4_0 — 3× the 6.71 GiB of weights. **The cache is the wall, never the pack.**
+
+## 2. Fork identification and tag ancestry
+- Map custom type id → name from the vendor fork (`ggml/include/ggml.h` on its branch, e.g. `GGML_TYPE_PQ2_0 = 142`, `PTQ1_0 = 143`).
+- `GET /repos/<fork>/compare/<tag>...<branch>` → `ahead_by` + commit subjects tells whether the newest **release** contains a fix, without reading history. Release workflows lie by omission: grep the workflow for the flag you need (e.g. prebuilt CUDA lacked `GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS` → quantized/mixed KV silently runs flash attention on CPU, ~2× slower; vendor issue #267).
+
+## 3. Close provenance of payload variants already on disk
+`sha256sum` the local file (7.2 GB ≈ 15 s NVMe), then search the Hub (`/api/models?search=<name>`, `/api/models/<repo>?blobs=true` → sibling `lfs.sha256` + size). Equal size + different sha = re-weighted variant, not a corrupt copy. Known houses: `dealignai/*-CRACK-*` (uncensored), `ManniX-ITA/*-MTP-GGUF` (appended MTP head ≈ +450 MB, restores a drafter the official file lacks). Same size/geometry ⇒ the VRAM verdict carries across variants; behaviour (refusals, tool calls) does not.
+
+## 4. Build recipe (Dankclaw, RTX 3090)
+`/usr/local/cuda` does not exist for non-interactive shells; `/usr/bin/nvcc` is a Debian wrapper. Mirror the known-good cache instead of guessing:
+```
+cmake -G Ninja -B build-cuda-prism -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+  -DCMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER=/usr/bin/nvcc -DCMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc-13 \
+  -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=86-real -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DGGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS=ON
+```
+nvcc 12.4 refuses gcc 15 (`gcc-13`). FA template instances dominate the build (~150/804 in 12 min); park it with `pkill -f "[r]un-<build>"` + `pkill -x ninja` before timing anything — the bracket stops `pkill -f` matching your own ssh cmdline.
+
+## 5. One-window census (never two outages)
+Fetch through a committed script (`-fsSL --fail-with-body`, byte count + LFS sha, no resume, no token in argv), then stage `/tmp` throwaways: candidate env fed to the **repo serve script** via its `*_ENV_FILE` override (never edit remote config), and a runner whose `trap restore EXIT` always kills the candidate by pid and `systemctl start` the production unit + health-polls to 200.
+Order inside the window: copy the production log aside (serve scripts truncate it) → stop unit → wait `memory.used < 1500` → boot candidate → `/health`, boot ledger (`KV buffer`, `compute buffer`, `flash`), `nvidia-smi --query-compute-apps`, `/v1/models`, `/props`, `/slots` (per-slot `n_ctx` is the harness contract, `pool/parallel`), chat probe (does thinking land in `reasoning_content` or `content` — a vendor `--reasoning-in-content true` default breaks the harness channel), tool-call probe (name + valid-JSON `arguments`), 512 px solid-colour vision probe, then a ~190k-token `/completion` fill reading `timings`. Kill the server, then `llama-bench` dtype arms (`-c <pool> -np <slots> -ctk/-ctv -b 2048 -ub 2048 -p 4096 -n 128 -r 1`) under a 1 Hz `nvidia-smi` sampler, `peak_gpu_mib=$(sort -n | tail -1)` per arm. Skip `-mmp 1` unless `-mmproj` is also passed.
+
+## 6. Gates that outvote the memory table
+Vendor `KNOWN_ISSUES.md` + open issues (quantized-KV resets near 200k, inert ngram/`--cache-reuse` on hybrid memory, malformed `tool_calls`, prompt-cache loss from re-rendered reasoning); base alignment (an uncensored endpoint replaced by a censored base is a fleet-wide capability loss); and which harness roles point at the endpoint (`models.yml` + `modelRoles`) — tool-heavy roles fail loudly on a `tool_calls` defect. Repo seams pinning `-ctk/-ctv` literals must be re-keyed to read the env file, so a retune moves one file, not two.

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+---
+name: frank-bench-run-ops
+description: "Operate frank-intelligence-bench runs on the dank fleet: status census, full void + fresh launch, judge cutover, supervisor restart law, watchdog timer, fault-autopsy snippets."
+---
+
+Runbook for /home/blank/Projects/frank-intelligence-bench (Bun/TS). Companion to frank-bench-supervisor-recovery (row-voiding for poison); this skill is the ops loop around it.
+
+## Status census (run from repo root)
+```bash
+export RID=$(ls -t runs | grep -m1 frank-archon)   # live run id
+tail -2 runs/$RID/log.txt
+python3 - <<'PYEOF'   # latest-wins cohort census (mirrors score.ts semantics)
+import json, os, collections
+led = f"runs/{os.environ['RID']}/ledger.jsonl"
+best = {}
+for l in open(led):
+    r = json.loads(l)
+    if r["phase"] != "grade": continue
+    k = (r["eval"], r["instance"], r["repeat"])
+    if r["ok"] and (k not in best or r["ts"] > best[k]["ts"]): best[k] = r
+    elif k not in best: best[k] = r
+by = collections.defaultdict(lambda: [0,0])
+for k,v in best.items(): by[k[0]][0]+=bool(v["grade"]["correct"]); by[k[0]][1]+=1
+for e,(c,n) in sorted(by.items()): print(f"{e}: {c}/{n} = {100*c/n:.1f}%")
+PYEOF
+```
+`pgrep -f "cli.ts _exec"` = supervisor; `systemctl --user is-active fib-watchdog.timer` = watchdog; last ledger ts older than ~5 min = suspect stall.
+
+## Launch laws (each earned by an outage)
+- Code fix + running supervisor = FIX IS NOT LIVE. Restart supervisor: `pkill -f "cli.ts _exec"`, then relaunch.
+- Correct detached form from harness bash: `cd runs/$RID && setsid nohup bun run ../../src/cli.ts _exec run.json >> log.txt 2>&1 < /dev/null & disown`. NEVER the subshell form `( ... & )` — reaped by cgroup within minutes.
+- Preferred launch = `bun src/cli.ts run HOST --judge JUDGE --detach` (in-process spawn + unref, proven 6 h+).
+- Watchdog = systemd user timer `fib-watchdog.{service,timer}` (~/.config/systemd/user), 10 min, Persistent, runs `bun src/cli.ts worker` (idempotent: exits when heartbeat fresh, takes over stale runs via 30 s mtime gate).
+
+## Void all results + fresh run (model/endpoint change)
+1. `pkill -f "cli.ts _exec"`; sleep 1.
+2. `mv runs/<id> .AGENTTRASH/run-voided-<reason>-$(date +%s)`; `mv reports/<model>/* .AGENTTRASH/`.
+3. queue.json: set `runs: []` (python json edit).
+4. New run: `bun src/cli.ts run frank-archon --judge frank-dragoon --detach`.
+5. Log the void in docs/log.md (reason, quarantined scope) and commit — never silently erase scores.
+
+## Judge cutover (zealot→dragoon pattern)
+Void ONLY LLM-judged evals' `phase=grade` rows (keep ALL gen rows — target output is judge-independent); set `judge` in run.json; restart supervisor; resume rejudges automatically (grade keys incomplete). SciCode = pytest, judge-independent, never voids for judge changes.
+
+## Fault-autopsy snippets
+- Engine-fault census: grade rows with `ok:false` + empty text = engine, not model (signature-default trap: "AssertionError × N" with empty text = grades never executed).
+- Runaway-chain detector (HLE loops): gen rows with `finish=="length"` AND completion_tokens==max AND empty text = reasoning degenerated into repetition; measure pre/post any quantization change to separate model behavior from engine artifacts.
+- Census-by-eval: `collections.Counter((r["eval"], r["phase"], r["ok"]) for r in rows if r["ts"] > <cutover>)`.
+- Verdict-parser bugs: probe the live judge on a minimal case (`judgeAalcr`/`judgeHle` via `bun -`), inspect raw head+tail; llama.cpp thinking models may return content:"" with everything in reasoning_content, and prose verdicts when their JSON scaffold breaks.
+
+## Reporting etiquette (Frank's rules)
+Quote score as: per-rep %, test avg@1 / avg@3, dev, index-lite; label provisional until all reps land; publish the runaway/parse-rate census next to any handicapped number. Dashboard :8787; `bun src/cli.ts report` renders the trio; `analyze` prints failure census.

agent/managed-skills/frank-bench-supervisor-recovery/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: frank-bench-supervisor-recovery
+description: "Recover a frank-intelligence-bench run after engine faults: detect poison grade rows, void them, restart supervisors with fixed code, judge cutover, watchdog for multi-day runs."
+---
+
+Recover frank-intelligence-bench runs on the dank-fleet after engine faults (poison graders, judge swaps, supervisor deaths).
+
+## Laws (friction-earned 2026-10-10/11)
+1. **A code fix is only real after the supervisor restarts.** Bun loads code at spawn; an on-disk fix never reaches the running process. Kill `_exec`, relaunch — takeover law makes resume cheap.
+2. **A judge cohort is all-or-nothing.** Never mix judges on one eval's grade rows. Void ALL grade rows for LLM-judged evals (`phase == "grade"`), KEEP all `gen` rows (target output is judge-independent) — resume rejudges from cache.
+3. **Poison census signatures:** grade rows with empty text + forced FAIL = engine, not model. `unparseable verdict` storm = judge output class (empty `content` + chain in `reasoning_content`; or 2048-tok truncation before verdict JSON). Default census sig `AssertionError` masked a poison shift — treat mass-default sigs as red flags.
+4. **Detached launch form matters:** from a short-lived harness shell, `(setsid nohup cmd & )` (subshell) gets cgroup-reaped within minutes — silent death, stale `worker.pid`, no log line. Proven form: `setsid nohup cmd >> log.txt 2>&1 < /dev/null & disown` as the tail of the same shell (survived 6 h overnight).
+
+## Void-and-resume procedure
+```bash
+pkill -f "cli.ts _exec"
+python3 - <<'PYEOF'
+import json, pathlib, shutil, time
+led = pathlib.Path("runs/<RUN_ID>/ledger.jsonl")
+rows = [l for l in led.read_text().splitlines() if l.strip()]
+keep, void = [], []
+for l in rows:
+    r = json.loads(l)
+    if r["eval"] in (<EVALS>) and r["phase"] == "grade" and r["ts"] > "<CUTOVER_ISO>":
+        void.append(l)
+    else:
+        keep.append(l)
+shutil.copy(led, f".AGENTTRASH/ledger-voided-{int(time.time())}.jsonl")
+led.write_text("\n".join(keep) + "\n")
+print(f"voided {len(void)}; kept {len(keep)}")
+PYEOF
+cd runs/<RUN_ID> && setsid nohup bun run ../../src/cli.ts _exec run.json >> log.txt 2>&1 < /dev/null & disown
+```
+- Judge cutover variant: void ALL `phase==grade` rows for the judged evals (no ts filter), edit `run.json` `judge` field, relaunch.
+- Validate the judge endpoint first: live probe both directions (correct + incorrect candidate); a good judge returns bare verdict JSON fast.
+- Resume proof = a specific known step flipping FAIL→PASS (or vice versa) in the log within minutes.
+
+## Watchdog for multi-day runs
+No cron on the Arch workstations — systemd user timer, idempotent (`cli.ts worker` exits instantly when supervisor heartbeat is fresh; takes over via pid-file 30 s freshness gate):
+`~/.config/systemd/user/fib-watchdog.service`: Type=oneshot, WorkingDirectory=repo, `ExecStart=/usr/bin/bun src/cli.ts worker`, stdout/stderr `append:.../runs/watchdog.log`.
+`fib-watchdog.timer`: OnBootSec=5min, OnUnitActiveSec=10min, Persistent=true, WantedBy=timers.target.
+`systemctl --user enable --now fib-watchdog.timer`; verify `loginctl show-user <u> -p Linger` = yes (survives logout/reboot). Prove idempotence: log line "has a live supervisor — worker exits".
+
+## Scoring truth after repair
+Report renders from ledger with latest-wins via `ok` filter (no explicit dedup): ok=false rows drop, recovered key counts once. UI `done` counts unique `(eval,instance,repeat)` completed keys. SciCode denominators: 341 steps/rep (not 1120/3-rep arithmetic traps).

agent/managed-skills/frank-job-hunt-grilling-state/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: frank-job-hunt-grilling-state
+description: "Resume frank-job-hunt: repo is BUILT and deployed (agents live on Dankserver, ntfy on Dankclaw); grilling closed, design v2 shipped; lists pending ops items and invariants."
+---
+
+## Status (2026-10-11): design grilling CLOSED (design v2 signed); repo built, deployed, self-verifying.
+
+Repo: ~/Projects/frank-job-hunt (workstation) — Gitea `dank/frank-job-hunt` on Dankclaw; Dankserver clone runs timers (sweep 07:30, digest 08:15, Linger=yes). Pre-commit hooks: bun test + tsc + docs-link + secret scan. Tests: 69, strict TS (no `any`; Records for static tables; named contract types).
+
+## Machine
+- `agents/sweep.ts`: registry → greenhouse/lever/ashby/workday public APIs → gates → frank-zealot score → `jobs/*/inbox.json|gated.json`; `--dry --ats=` flags; per-site fetch dedupe; per-entry error census.
+- `agents/digest.ts` → ntfy (ntfy.franksdank.cloud, LAN; topic secret in `~/.config/frank-job-hunt.env` 600); degrades to file + exit 1.
+- `agents/review.ts`: funnel metrics (weekly rate 8-10, callback floor 4%).
+- `agents/verify-registry.ts --write`: monthly ATS-locator probe/re-attribute (14 scout mis-attributions repaired).
+
+## Truths earned in build
+- Registry truth: **21 live API sites, ~169 manual lane** (vanity Workdays, self-built ATS incl. majors, neogov). Scouts' ats attribution ≈ guess — verify before trusting counts.
+- Gates do the discriminating; zealot only ranks survivors (9B inflates everything: recruiters scored 91 before family gate).
+- Gate law: role FAMILY gates unconditionally (recruiter/sales/people-ops/TPM/solutions, no infra override); topic negatives get infra-token precedence ("full-stack platform engineer" passes). Comp NEVER gated; unstated location passes to human.
+- Metro regex = Puget Sound list only (Tuolumne CA leak fixed — WA localities, no CA decoys).
+- ATS tokens: first DNS label (greenhouse.harpereng.com→harpereng); vanity workday URLs are NOT CXS-resolvable → manual lane.
+- Zealot (llama.cpp thinking model): send `chat_template_kwargs:{enable_thinking:false}` + max_tokens ~600; verdict in `content` then; `reasoning_content` fallback kept.
+
+## Pending (user-side / next session)
+1. Porkbun API 503'd: public A record `ntfy → 71.227.227.172` still missing (LAN works; add via UI when API recovers, for off-LAN phone).
+2. Frank: phone ntfy app subscribe (topic in env file); LinkedIn CSV export → `contacts/`.
+3. First production digest = tomorrow 08:15; check `journalctl --user -u frank-job-digest.service` + phone.
+4. bg_6 (last session): full dry-sweep proof of family gate (top-10 must be engineering-only) — check `agent://`/proc result if pending.
+5. Resume Matcher compose (`agents/resume-matcher/compose.yaml`) not deployed — needs image digest pin on Dankserver.
+6. `prep/` STAR/LP bank content fill (daily-loop.md scaffolded).

agent/managed-skills/frank-job-hunt-maintenance/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: frank-job-hunt-maintenance
+description: "Maintain frank-job-hunt agents: live-census gate hardening loop, registry locator verification, and the workstation/Dankserver/Dankclaw deploy-sync ritual."
+---
+
+# frank-job-hunt maintenance
+
+Repo `~/Projects/frank-job-hunt` (Gitea `dank/frank-job-hunt` on Dankclaw 192.168.0.143:3000). Production: Dankserver user timers `frank-job-sweep.timer` 07:30, `frank-job-digest.timer` 08:15 (`Linger=yes`). ntfy relay: Dankclaw quadlet `ntfy.service`, route `ntfy.franksdank.cloud` (no anubis), LAN record in `hosts/custom.list` (Pi-hole v6 file at `/home/dank/Containers/pihole/etc-pihole/hosts/custom.list`; v6 API paths are hostile — edit the file, then `podman exec pihole pihole restartdns`). Secrets: `~/.config/frank-job-hunt.env` (600, workstation + Dankserver).
+
+## Law (validated 2026-10-11)
+- The fleet judge (`frank-zealot`, dankclaw:7771) is a **ranker, never a gate** — it inflates anything reaching it (non-technical roles scored 88-91). All discrimination lives in deterministic gates (`agents/lib/gates.ts`); zealot only ranks survivors.
+- Thinking-model fault: verdict lands in `reasoning_content` with `content:""` → judge sends `chat_template_kwargs:{enable_thinking:false}` (0.7s clean JSON).
+- **Family beats topic**: role family (recruiter/sales/finance/PM/designer/people-ops/revops/…) gates `gate:scope` unconditionally — no infra-token override ("DevOps Recruiter" is recruiting). Compound technical titles keep the `INFRA_TITLE` override via `NEG_TITLE` branch.
+- **gate:region**: remote is US-only (visa reality). "Remote - Bangalore" = onsite abroad → gate; `US` regex pass wins over `NONUS` match ("U.S. & Canada" passes).
+
+## Gate hardening loop (live-census, TDD)
+1. `bun agents/sweep.ts --dry` (full lane ≈ 30–90 s; 852 postings ≈ 62 pass / 790 filed).
+2. Classify leaks in the top-10: family gap / region gap / scoring tail. Accept long tail (Director/Founder edge cases) — digest + human curation is the design.
+3. Token fix in `gates.ts` regexes (`NEG_FAMILY` = no override; `METRO`/`US`/`NONUS` for arrangement). NEVER dedupe-check by memory — read file first; the file has bitten line-offset edits repeatedly.
+4. Pin every leak with a named regression test in `agents/test/gates.test.ts` before/with the fix.
+5. `bun test agents/test/ && bun x tsc --noEmit` — hooks re-run these at commit.
+6. Ship: `git commit` (pre-commit = tests + tsc + docs-link + secret scan) → `git push` → `ssh dankserver 'cd ~/Projects/frank-job-hunt && git pull'` (timers pull from master; Dankserver drift = tomorrow's run is stale).
+
+## Registry verification (monthly, `agents/verify-registry.ts`)
+Scouts' `ats`/`ats_identifier` are guesses (14/84 were wrong). Ritual:
+1. `bun agents/verify-registry.ts` (dry, ~70 s serial) → REPAIR census.
+2. `--write` applies; repairs with live jobs preferred over empty boards (0-job boards 404 later).
+3. Unresolved = honest manual lane (vanity Workdays, self-built ATS incl. majors, neogov) — NOT a code bug; per-entry error census in sweep output is the same signal.
+4. Update `targets/README.md` census lines + `docs/log.md`; commit/push/pull (same ship step).
+
+## Pitfalls
+- `--ats=<x>` smoke filters the census line — "N API-sweepable" reflects the filter, not the registry; don't diagnose a phantom bug.
+- Workday vanity careers URLs (`careers.uw.edu`) are NOT CXS-API-resolvable; tenant-only identifiers are (site path required).
+- Root `README.md` vs `targets/README.md` name collision in edit anchors: use full path headers.
+- Zealot endpoint probe: `curl http://192.168.0.143:7771/v1/models`.

agent/managed-skills/frank-model-bench-grilling-state/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: frank-model-bench-grilling-state
+description: "Resume the frank-model-bench design grilling: AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 research brief, fleet endpoint facts, dataset gating, and all settled design decisions for /home/blank/Projects/frank-model-bench."
+---
+
+# frank-model-bench — Grilling State (design settled 2026-10-09, awaiting build go-ahead)
+
+Target dir `/home/blank/Projects/frank-model-bench` is EMPTY (no git). Init from zero.
+
+## Settled design decisions
+- **Scope**: Tiered reproduction of AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 (10 evals, 4 categories; Agents 30 / Coding 20 / General 30 / Science 20).
+  - **Tier A (local, self-graded)**: SciCode, Terminal-Bench 4.0 (podman on Dankclaw via ssh one-shot), AA-LCR, HLE incl. image questions (vision towers).
+  - **Tier B (external dep)**: GDP.pdf (LiteParse+vision+judge).
+  - **Tier C (never run; AA reference rows only)**: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA, AutomationBench-AA, AA-Omniscience (public set is 600/6000 — demoted), CritPt (key-gated grader API 10/24h — demoted).
+  - Locally-run weight ≈ 45% of AA index weight. Headline = "Index-lite" (category-weighted over run evals, formula on-page).
+- **Stack**: Bun/TS orchestrator (UI, queue, ledger, reports) shelling out to commit-pinned vendored uv venvs per upstream harness (inspect_ai, Harbor, SciCode/HLE scripts). `evals.yml` manifest pins git URL+SHA+entrypoint+args+repeats per eval.
+- **UI**: local web dashboard, localhost bind only, SSE live tail, start wizard; CLI `frank-bench`.
+- **Endpoints**: registry `hosts.yml` (name, base_url, api_key_ref, model, ctx, backend, role, cap). Discovery = probe known fleet hosts ports 7770-7799 `/v1/models` + `/props`, confirm-then-append. Fleet: frank-archon dankserver:7770 (radiance TP=2 R9700, 200k), frank-dragoon dankclaw:7770 (halogen, 200k×2), frank-zealot dankclaw:7771 (llama.cpp 3090, 200k×2). All OpenAI-compat + API key + vision.
+- **Judge**: self-hosted fleet model ONLY, default frank-zealot; hard no-self-judge rotation rule. Scores labeled `local-judge`, drift vs AA hosted graders expected/documented.
+- **Execution**: per-endpoint runs, strictly serial queue, one request in flight per eval (per-endpoint cap), temp 0.6 reasoning ON, max_tokens cap 32,768, AA-style 30-attempt retry, per-sample timeout = ctx ÷ measured decode rate.
+- **Durability**: per-sample JSONL ledger is canonical artifact; resume mid-eval; reports commit to git (reports/<model>/<run-id>/{index.html,data.json,hf-card.md,manifest+ledger SHA-256}), ledgers gitignored.
+- **AA comparison**: free Data API key → `bench sync-aa` pins headline indices; per-benchmark refs hand-seeded in `references/aa-scores.yml` (source URL + fetched-at + index version per row). Free=100 req/24h headline-only; Pro=500 req/24h per-benchmark (stubbed for later).
+- **Datasets**: `bench init-data` checklist (hf auth login + accept terms cais/hle, surgeai/GDP.pdf, Harbor Hub); checksum cache ~/.cache/frank-bench/datasets; gated evals refuse with fix-URL and continue suite.
+- **Methodology updates**: version-pinned manifests + immutable history; update = one commit: evals.yml bump + docs/methodology rewrite + log.md + resync snapshot. AA cadence ~2-3 minor versions/week; changelog artificialanalysis.ai/changelog.
+- **KB**: `docs/` inside repo, OKF v0.1 (type required; index.md per dir; log.md newest-first; .okf/config.yaml from omp-docs); Obsidian-wikilink convention per serverAppConfigs-docs.
+- **Git**: Gitea on Dankclaw remote, master base, worktree branch per milestone, pre-commit: bun test + shellcheck + OKF validate. Secrets: ~/.config/frank-bench/secrets.env 600.
+- **Tests**: bun test w/ scripted mock OpenAI endpoint (full run→ledger→HTML offline); Playwright dashboard e2e; `bench smoke` manual real-endpoint.
+- **Milestones**: M1 scaffold+registry+mock; M2 SciCode E2E w/ real report trio; M3 rest of Tier A + queue/resume; M4 dashboard UI + discovery wizard; M5 GDP.pdf + AA snapshot + peer tables.
+- **Reports**: single-page HTML, offline-openable, no external assets; per-benchmark rows: local | AA ref | Δ | repeats | n | graded-by; Tier C rows "AA reference only"; speed strip captured (no AA speed compare).
+
+## Key research facts
+- AA Data API: base https://artificialanalysis.ai/api/v2, `x-api-key` header, OpenAPI at /api/v2/openapi; free = /language/models/free headline indices.
+- Eval repos: SciCode1/SciCode (HF, Apache), cais/hle (gated, MIT, 2500 q, ~0.27GB), ArtificialAnalysis/AA-LCR (public, Equality Checker prompt public), surgeai/GDP.pdf (gated, Gemini 3.5 judge, inspect_ai), harbor-framework/terminal-bench 4.0 (66 tasks, CONTAINERS_BACKEND=podman, Harbor Hub gated), AA-Omniscience-Public 600q, CritPt public grading API 10/24h.
+- AA org repos: Stirrup (MIT agent harness), aa-agentperf-local, aiperf, optima, StirrupJS.
+- AA settings: temp 0/0.6, 16k+ max tokens, 30 retries, 1-5 repeats pass@1; Omniscience index [-100,100] accuracy−hallucination.
+- Search chain web/kagi→web/searxng (search.franksdank.cloud) verified working 2026-10-09.
+
+## Accepted risks (user-informed)
+- Elo-pairwise agentic evals unreproducible locally; self-hosted judge drift; Omniscience (top quant-damage signal) not run; HLE vision inclusion diverges from AA text-based posture.

agent/managed-skills/frank-primary-decode-tuning/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: frank-primary-decode-tuning
+description: "Tune frank-primary (radiance TP=2) decode throughput: benchmark harness usage, flag levers, known optima and boot-failure walls."
+---
+
+# frank-primary decode tuning
+
+Harness: `bash autoresearch.sh` (dev box) scp's `scripts/frank-primary.env` + `scripts/autoresearch-frank-primary.sh` to dankserver, stops prod (`systemctl stop frank-primary`, NEVER mask — relinked unit), boots scratch container `arbench` on :7770 (fresh prefix-cache tier at `$STATE_DIR/kvcache/arbench` for cold prefill), polls health 720s, sends ONE greedy completion (fixed 140k-char repo-corpus prompt -> 43,627 tokens, 256-token decode), parses `timings` into METRIC lines, tears down, restores prod via EXIT trap. ~4 min/run; decode noise ~0.3%.
+
+Metric: `METRIC decode_tps` = `timings.predicted_per_second` at 43.6k depth.
+
+## Optima (measured 2026-10-06, keep these)
+- `FRANK_PRIMARY_SPEC_TOKENS=2` (unimodal: 1->31.89, 2->32.40, 3->31.72, 4->24.57 t/s; acceptance collapses past 3)
+- `FRANK_PRIMARY_MAX_SEQS=3` with `MAX_MODEL_LEN=200000` (600k KV; +4.2% total; 4 slots regresses)
+- `FRANK_PRIMARY_EXPERT_VS_CACHE=0.82` bracket-confirmed (0.78 fails boot, 0.84 -8.9%, 0.87 collapse)
+- `TP_WIRE=wht6`, `MAX_BATCHED_TOKENS=2048` — REQUIRED at seqs=3: bf16 wire and MNBT 4096 both fail boot (VRAM)
+
+## Non-levers (decode-neutral, don't spend runs)
+GPU_HEADROOM_MIB (48 = neutral), HOST_POOL_MIB 49152 (neutral), MAX_MODEL_LEN any change (regresses: bigger KV steals resident weights), prefix-cache tiers (prefill-side).
+
+## Rules
+One flag per iteration; keep only > +1% decode over best; a boot failure is `crash` (trap restores prod). Constraint floor: MAX_SEQS*MAX_MODEL_LEN >= 400000.

agent/managed-skills/frank-tts-add-cloned-voice/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: frank-tts-add-cloned-voice
+description: "Add or repair a cloned voice on the dank fleet: pack builder, the reference.wav contract, the boot warm hook (argv-cap and env-quote laws), and how to prove a voice really answers."
+---
+
+# Adding (or repairing) a cloned voice on the dank fleet
+
+Repo law lives in `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/Voice Packs.md` and
+`Frank TTS Engine.md` — read those for the pack format. This skill is the
+**operating sequence plus the traps that cost real time on 2026-10-18**.
+
+## Stack, fast
+
+- `frank-tts-engine` — arm A `qwentts.cpp tts-server`, container-internal `:8880`,
+  publishes **no port**. Reach it with `podman exec frank-tts-engine curl …`.
+- `frank-tts` — OpenAI façade on host `:7772`; resolves voice **by name**.
+- Packs: `/home/dank/voices/<name>/` with `reference.wav` (+ manifest, `.spk`,
+  `.rvq`). Builder: `scripts/build-voice-pack.sh` (crop 19.84–25 s, first 10 s of
+  any source is forbidden).
+- Weights: `/home/dank/models/Qwen3-TTS-GGUF/` —
+  `scripts/download-frank-tts-engine-qwentts.sh [--verify-only]` (1.4 GiB, ~18 s
+  on the LAN; verifies byte count + Hub LFS sha256).
+
+## Sequence
+
+1. Build the pack (dry-run first — sizes are arithmetic and asserted).
+2. Deploy the engine only if its files changed:
+   `./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --service frank-tts-engine`
+   (first run builds the image: ~10 min recursive source clone).
+3. Register/warm: `podman exec frank-tts-engine /app/warm-voices.sh`
+   — registers **every** pack each run (the engine replaces a name it already
+   holds; `tools/tts-server.cpp:148`), then synthesizes twice per voice.
+4. Prove from the consumer side, not the config:
+   `curl -s localhost:7772/v1/audio/voices` then a real
+   `POST /v1/audio/speech` and listen to the bytes.
+
+## Trap 1 — the kernel's argument cap (this broke the first deploy)
+
+`/usr/bin/curl: Argument list too long` in the warm log ⇒ a request body was
+passed as **one argv string**. Linux caps a single argument at
+`MAX_ARG_STRLEN = 131 072 bytes`; a ~1 MB `reference.wav` base64's to ~1.27 MB.
+curl never runs, and hooks report it as `HTTP no response` while `/health` is
+green. Fix = write the body to a file and use `--data-binary @file`; feed the
+payload through a redirection, not `$(base64 …)`.
+Regression-test shape: **real** curl + real listener + a fixture >128 KB, so the
+kernel (not a stub) produces the failure. Any pack over ~96 KB trips it.
+
+## Trap 2 — two readers of the env file disagree about quotes
+
+`bash set -a; source` strips `"…"`. podman's `--env-file` (how the unit really
+reads it) does **not**. A value interpolated into a JSON body therefore arrives
+quoted and invalidates it. Test both readers, not just `source`.
+
+## Trap 3 — locally built images skip rebuilds on a stale hash
+
+`build_compose_image` compares a `cfhash` label; it must cover every file the
+`Containerfile` `COPY`s, or an edited `app.py`/hook deploys "successfully" while
+the container runs old code.
+
+## Measured numbers (2026-10-18, deployed build — retire the trial's ladder)
+
+| thing | value |
+|---|---|
+| first synthesis of a freshly registered voice | 1 883 ms |
+| later short requests | 1 226–1 283 ms |
+| ~110-word request (repeat) | 9.4 s / 9.8 s — tracks generated audio, not state |
+| whole boot warm, 3 packs | 15.2 s |
+| engine resident | ~4.0 GiB |
+
+The trial's `6.2–8.0 s cold → 0.5 ms warm` claim does **not** reproduce; warming
+is for registration (registry is memory-only, re-register ≠ warm) plus ~0.6 s.
+
+## Ops notes
+
+- `systemctl --user stop` **removes** the quadlet container — `podman start` then
+  finds nothing. To run the engine without its `ExecStartPost` hook, use a
+  separate container, not stop+start.
+- `podman cp` of a fixed script into a running container is a **trial only**: the
+  layer dies with the container. Merge + redeploy to make it durable.
+- Nothing on the voice pair exposes `/metrics`; Prometheus can't scrape it (a
+  blackbox HTTP probe on 7772 is the only honest option).

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+---
+name: frank-tts-consumer-voice-triage
+description: "Triage a consumer (OpenWebUI, omp, open-notebook) rejecting or ignoring a frank-tts voice name: prove whether the server or the browser-side Kokoro.js engine produced the error."
+---
+
+# frank-tts consumer voice triage
+
+A consumer says a voice name is invalid, speaks in the wrong voice, or is
+silent. `frank-tts` (`192.168.0.143:7772`, shim
+`dankclaw/voiceservice/app.py`) resolves `voice=<name>` against
+`/home/dank/voices/<name>/reference.wav` and answers **400 + the list of
+voices that exist** for a name it cannot resolve — never a silent fallback.
+Any error naming a *different* voice list did not come from it.
+
+**Signature that decides the case immediately:** an enum of ~29 names
+`af_heart, af_alloy, … am_*, bf_*, bm_* … bm_fable` is **Kokoro's fixed pack**,
+the voice list of **Kokoro.js running in the browser** (OpenWebUI ships it
+in its own front end as TTS engine value `browser-kokoro`, with a personal
+"Kokoro.js dtype" setting; model `onnx-community/Kokoro-82M-v1.0-ONNX`).
+`narrator1/2/3` are frank-tts cloned voices. Kokoro cannot clone.
+
+## Instrument ladder (stop at the first that answers)
+
+1. **What the endpoint actually accepts** (never infer from a consumer's text):
+   `curl -s http://127.0.0.1:7772/v1/audio/voices` → JSON array of pack names.
+2. **Speak with the consumer's exact body, from inside the consumer's
+   container** — same network, same shape. Write the JSON to a file and
+   `--data-binary @file` (nested `sh -c` quoting silently sends an empty
+   body and yields a bogus `400 malformed request body`):
+   ```
+   printf '%s' '{"model":"frank-tts","input":"probe","voice":"narrator1","response_format":"mp3","speed":1.0}' > /tmp/p.json
+   podman cp /tmp/p.json <consumer>:/tmp/p.json
+   podman exec <consumer> curl -sS -o /tmp/o.bin -w 'http=%{http_code} type=%{content_type} bytes=%{size_download}\n' \
+     -X POST http://host.containers.internal:7772/v1/audio/speech \
+     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @/tmp/p.json
+   ```
+   `200 audio/mpeg|audio/wav` ⇒ the server path is healthy; the failure is elsewhere.
+3. **Did the request arrive at all?** `podman logs --tail 400 <consumer> | grep -c audio/speech`.
+   A server-path failure leaves a log line **and** a frank-tts error body; a
+   client-side engine leaves **neither**. This contrast is the discriminator.
+4. **Where the rejection string lives** (proves the emitter without guessing):
+   ```
+   podman exec <consumer> sh -c 'grep -ho ".\{200\}Should be one of.\{80\}" /app/build/_app/immutable/chunks/*.js | head'
+   podman exec <consumer> sh -c 'grep -ho ".\{60\}af_heart.\{200\}" /app/build/_app/immutable/chunks/*.js | head -2'
+   ```
+   Matched inside the front-end bundle ⇒ browser-side validator, not the API.
+5. **Config authority sweep** (OpenWebUI): admin config is the `config`
+   table (one key per row, JSON `value`; expected
+   `audio.tts.engine=openai`, `audio.tts.model`, `audio.tts.voice`,
+   `audio.tts.openai.api_base_url`); per-user overrides are the `settings`
+   JSON column of table `user` (singular, no `is_active`; some rows hold the
+   string `null` → guard it). `audio.stt.*` and `audio.tts.*` are separate.
+   No `sqlite3` CLI in the image or on the host: `podman exec -i <c> python -`
+   with the stdlib module. **`podman exec` needs `-i` to accept a heredoc
+   script** — without it the script is silently dropped and you get no output.
+
+## Known traps
+
+- OpenWebUI is a **rootless** quadlet: `sudo podman …` reports *no such
+  container*. Read it rootless.
+- `podman ps` in this podman build has no `.ImageName` field — use `{{.Image}}`.
+- The in-browser engine choice is **per-browser storage**: empty
+  `user.settings` + correct admin config + zero backend hits is the normal
+  shape of this bug. Fix is UI: Settings → Audio → TTS Engine → **Default**.
+- `GET /api/config` publishes no `audio` block, and nonexistent `/api/...`
+  paths return the SPA HTML with `200` — never conclude "config missing" from
+  an HTML body.
+- TTS is memory-registry sensitive: the engine's voice registry is
+  memory-only, so "every name returns 400" after a restart points at the warm
+  pass, not at the caller (see [[frank-tts-add-cloned-voice]]).
+
+## Local playback side (omp `/say`, manual probes)
+
+If synthesis succeeds (`200`, sane WAV bytes) but nothing is audible, the
+fault is the PipeWire graph, not the endpoint:
+`wpctl status` (default sink marked `*`, and *Default Configured Devices* —
+a remembered-but-offline `bluez_output.*` there is the classic silent
+route), `wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@`, `pw-play -v <file>` (expect
+`stream drained` + exit 0), and target a device explicitly with
+`pw-play --target <node-id>` to identify which hardware is live. A one-word
+clip (~0.7 s) is easy to miss — probe with a multi-second sentence.

agent/managed-skills/gguf-header-vram-fit-analysis/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: gguf-header-vram-fit-analysis
+description: "Decide if a GGUF model fits an LLM endpoint's GPU at a target context window: HTTP range-parse the header for KV geometry and custom quant types, derive the KiB/token rate law, price non-KV from measured boots (own repo + the publisher's benchmark reports), and gate on runtime lock-in (fork, build flags, drafter) before any download."
+---
+
+Answer "can model M fit window W on endpoint E (plus vision?)" **before** downloading anything. The GGUF header carries the truth; measured boots are the price list.
+
+## 1. Range-parse the GGUF header from the Hub (no download)
+
+`GET` the `resolve/main/<file>.gguf` URL with `Range: bytes=0-N` and a `User-Agent: curl/8` header, parse GGUF in Python (`struct`):
+
+- Layout: magic `GGUF` (read `buf[0:4]` directly — do NOT `read_string()` it), u32 version, u64 ntensors, u64 nkv, then KV pairs (v3: u64 string lengths; v2: u32), then tensor-info table (name, ndim, dims u64[], type u32, offset u64). Handle EVERY array element type or the parse desyncs mid-metadata.
+- **Metadata is >8 MiB** when vocab is ~250k (tokenizer arrays live in the KV section). Fetch 32–64 MiB.
+- **Per-tensor byte sizes without a downloader**: the data section is in table order — `size(i) = offset(i+1) - offset(i)`, last = `file_size - header_end - offset(last)`. Then `bits/elem = bytes*8/prod(dims)`. That names unknown type ids by their rate (2.125 bpw ⇒ ternary-in-2-bit-slots + fp16 scale/128; 16.0 ⇒ BF16; 32 ⇒ F32) and totals weights per type.
+
+Extract: `general.architecture`, `block_count`, `full_attention_interval`, `attention.head_count_kv`, `key_length`/`value_length`, `context_length`, `embedding_length`, `ssm.*`, and **`<arch>.nextn_predict_layers`** — its absence (plus `block_count` = real layers, not +1) means **no in-file MTP head** (MTP is a property of the file, not the flags). Type histogram decides stock vs fork: a type id above stock `GGML_TYPE_COUNT` is fork lock-in — read the fork's `ggml/include/ggml.h` enum to name it.
+
+## 2. KV rate law (the wall)
+
+For hybrid (qwen35-style) models only the FULL-attention layers bill per token; linear/DeltaNet layers bill a fixed state per SLOT (≈50–60 MiB/slot on 27B-class hybrids — noise vs KV, but it is what lets N slots fit).
+
+```
+elems/token/cache = (block_count / full_attention_interval) × head_count_kv × key_length
+B/token           = elems × bytesK + elems × bytesV      (K and V both)
+bytes/elem: f16=2.0, q8_0=1.0625, q4_0=0.5625, q4_1=0.578125
+```
+
+Fleet-verified instances: qwen35-9B (8 full layers) 32 KiB/token f16; qwen35-27B (16 full) 64 KiB/token f16, 34 KiB q8_0, 18 KiB q4_0. A low-bit WEIGHT quant never moves this line — state it explicitly, it is the question people actually ask. `--flash-attn on` is required for quantized V; quantized KV needs a `GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS=ON` build.
+
+## 3. Price non-KV from MEASURED boots, never a formula
+
+Two anchors beat one:
+- **Own repo**: closest runbook boot (same arch, same card, ideally same mmproj): `non_kv = boot_used − rate × boot_pool`, then swap weights/mmproj/drafter/ubatch-rung deltas.
+- **Publisher**: their published benchmark/server reports (e.g. a `community-benchmarks/<card>.md` or `KV-CACHE.md`) carry peak `nvidia-smi` and a steady-state figure for a named argv — back out their overhead = steady − weights − KV(× their pool) − mmproj. Divergence between the two anchors IS your uncertainty band; report both ends.
+Card/vendor peak-VRAM at bench context also calibrates compute buffers at small ubatch; the fleet's ubatch-rung costs (≈0.3 GiB @1024, ≈0.75 GiB @2048 on a 27B) cover the rest.
+
+Card ceiling from settled boots (`used + free`, e.g. 24,125 MiB on the 3090), not the spec sheet. An mmproj bills ~1.5× its file size. Keep ≥1 GiB headroom when ranking arms; tightest proven fleet fit is 489 MiB.
+
+## 4. Gates beyond VRAM
+
+- **Target window > `context_length`** ⇒ YaRN required (`--rope-scale = target/native`); quality at >1.2–1.5× on aggressive quants is unmeasured — say so.
+- **Pool divides across slots**: `n_ctx_slot = CTX_SIZE / PARALLEL`; the per-slot number is the harness contract, and the endpoint's role (e.g. compaction hub needing ≥170k) picks the geometry.
+- **Fork/custom-quant lock-in checklist** (answer all, cite ids):
+  1. which fork/branch, and does the pinned release tag contain the needed fixes — `GET /compare/<tag>...prism` and read `ahead_by` + commit subjects (a tag 5 commits behind contains everything merged earlier);
+  2. host CPU traps (e.g. AVX-512 load segfaults crash even with all layers GPU-offloaded);
+  3. **does the release workflow pass the build flags the contract needs** — grep the release workflow's cmake args: prebuilts often omit `GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS`, and without it mismatched/unsupported K/V types silently run flash attention on the CPU;
+  4. drafter availability (in-file `nextn`, a paired drafter, or nothing) — no drafter means the decode regression is unfixable;
+  5. pack choice per architecture (the vendor's throughput table is generation-specific; a community report on the same GPU family outranks it);
+  6. behavior/role risk: base model censorship posture, `tool_calls` defects, `reasoning_effort` template gate, prompt-cache `--cache-ram` vs host RAM actually available.
+- Vision: needs `--mmproj`; probe with ≥256 px solid color; only the OpenAI `image_url` content part reaches the model.
+
+## 5. Output
+
+Table of arms (pack × KV dtype × slot geometry) → KV MiB, total, free vs ceiling, FITS/FITS-tight/NO FIT, with the uncertainty band; then the gate list. State every `[INFERENCE]`/estimate. The boot ledger (verbosity 4), not the arithmetic, is the referee; benching requires stop+mask per fleet policy.

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+---
+name: git-repo-secret-audit
+description: "Audit a git repo for leaked secrets across history, unreachable objects, LFS payloads, git config and host configs — with triage of every hit."
+---
+
+# Git repo secret audit (history + unreachable objects, not just the worktree)
+
+Worktree greps prove nothing: the leak you care about is in a commit that was amended
+away, in a branch nobody checks out, in an LFS payload, or in `.git/config`.
+
+## 0. Build the known-value set from the live secrets, never from literals
+Read the values from the secret store at runtime so no key enters the transcript:
+```python
+known = {}
+for p in (home/".config/secrets").iterdir():
+    t = p.read_text().strip()
+    vals = {t}
+    m = re.search(r":([^:@/]+)@", t)          # credential-store URL form
+    if m: vals.add(m.group(1))
+    known[p.name] = {v for v in vals if len(v) >= 12}
+```
+Report ONLY `value[:4] + len + sha256[:10]`. Never print a value, and never quote a
+secret-shaped literal in a doc/commit message — the pre-commit gate will (correctly) block it.
+
+## 1. Shapes to match (superset of the Dank gate)
+`sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{18,}`, `sk-or-v1-`, `sk-ant-`, `hf_[A-Za-z0-9]{30,}`, `gh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9]{30,}`,
+`github_pat_`, `glpat-`, `xox[baprs]-`, `(AKIA|ASIA)[0-9A-Z]{16}`, `npm_`, `pypi-`, `AIza[0-9A-Za-z_-]{30,}`,
+`(sk|pk)_(live|test)_`, Telegram `\d{8,10}:AA`, JWT `eyJ…\.eyJ…`, `-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----`,
+`AGE-SECRET-KEY-1`, `ssh-(ed25519|rsa)\s+AAAA`, `scheme://user:pass@host` basic-auth URLs,
+`Bearer <24+>`, and the noisy `(password|secret|api_key|token)\s*[:=]\s*<12+>` assignment shape.
+
+## 2. Scope, in this order
+```bash
+git rev-list --all | wc -l                      # revs incl. every branch + tag
+git ls-tree -r --format='%(objectname) %(path)' <rev>   # sha -> path, per rev
+git cat-file --batch                              # stream reachable blob content
+git cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch-check    # EVERY object, incl. dangling
+git rev-list --objects --all                      # the reachable set; difference = dangling
+git log --all --oneline --find-object=<sha>       # empty => never committed on any ref
+git status --porcelain -uall --ignored=matching   # !! lines: on-disk ignored files
+git config --list --show-origin                   # local/global/system credentials
+git ls-files | grep -E '(auth\.json|trust\.json|\.env|\.pem|\.key|identity)'   # quarantine
+```
+LFS: scan `.git/lfs/objects/**` as BYTES (`decode("latin-1")`) — a screenshot is a classic
+secret carrier and the tracked tree holds only pointers.
+
+## 3. Entropy layer (catches issuer-specific keys you did not list)
+Tokens `[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]{32,}` with Shannon entropy >= 4.3 containing both digits and letters.
+Flag every one whose value is in `known` as a LIVE leak; list the rest for triage.
+
+## 4. Triage — the shapes that always fire and are fine
+- `api_key="sk-no-key-required"` and other doc placeholders
+- prose: `Set password: user.set_password(...)`, `authenticate(user, password)`
+- 40-hex hits that are git object ids / packfile names (`pack-<40hex>.pack`)
+- memory/KB records that *describe* a secret operation
+A hit is a leak only when the value matches a live secret, decodes to a real credential, or
+sits in a field a program reads.
+
+## 5. Adjacent host scan (the audit's real yield)
+Check file modes of the secret dir (`0600`, dir `0700`) — world-readable secret files are the
+most common real finding. Then grep the live values across shell rc files, `~/.gitconfig`,
+`~/.npmrc`, `~/.netrc`, `~/.curlrc`, `~/.docker/config.json`, `~/.cache/huggingface/token`,
+`~/.aws/credentials`, `~/.ssh/config` and report filenames only.
+
+## 6. Report
+Per layer: scope numbers + verdict. Every hit: path:line, redacted value, verdict
+(leak / benign + why). Name the gate's coverage gap if the project's own hook misses shapes
+you matched. Fix modes/chmod on the spot; changes to a security hook are the operator's call.

agent/managed-skills/gitea-api-pr-operations/SKILL.md

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+---
+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 and where review comments actually live on 1.27.3."
+---
+
+# Gitea API PR operations (Dankclaw `dank/command-center`)
+
+## Where
+- Token: `~/.config/secrets/gitea` (`http://user:TOKEN@192.168.0.143` single line).
+  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 $tok"` (the literal
+  header lands in transcript + logs). NEVER echo the token.
+- Base URL: `http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/command-center`.
+
+## Recipes (all verified live 2026-10-18)
+- **Open PR** (token only needed for private repos; this one reads publicly but
+  POST needs auth): `POST /pulls` JSON `{title, head, base:"main", body}`.
+- **PATCH PR title/body**: `PATCH /pulls/<n>` with JSON body `{title}` and/or
+  `{body}`. Returns 201 with the full PR. Use `jq -n --arg` to build JSON; for
+  multi-line bodies write the text to a temp file and `--arg b "$(cat b.txt)"`.
+  (jq CLI: a bare `---` argument after the program is parsed as a flag → error;
+  fold footers into the --arg string instead.)
+- **List open PRs**: `GET /pulls?state=open` → `jq -r '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.head.ref) \(.title)"'`.
+- **Read PR**: `GET /pulls/<n>` (no token; public repo) → `jq -c '{state,merged,mergeable,head:.head.ref}'`.
+- **MERGE**: `POST /pulls/<n>/merge` with `-H 'Content-Type: application/json'`
+  and body **`{"Do":"merge"}`** — this build REQUIRES the `Do` field:
+  `{}` or `{"DoNotMerge":false,...}` → 422; `{"Do":"merge"}` → 200 +
+  `{"state":"closed","merged":true,"merge_commit_sha":"..."}`. Verify with a
+  plain GET /pulls/<n> afterwards (merge endpoint's own stdout may not parse).
+  Merge is the `--no-ff` merge commit on main; then `git -C ~/.omp fetch && git
+  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.
+
+## 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
+  route** (token or not, `?pull_request_id=` or not) even when a review with
+  comments exists.
+- `GET /pulls/<n>/reviews` works (shows `state`, `comments_count`) but bodies are empty.
+- **The comments are readable from the PR HTML**:
+  `curl -sS http://192.168.0.143:3000/dank/command-center/pulls/<n> -o /tmp/pr.html`
+  then extract `<div class="content comment-content">` blocks
+  (python: `re.finditer(r'comment-content', src)` → widen ±800 chars, strip tags).
+  Duplicates appear (suggested-change UI shows text twice); dedupe mentally.
+- Per-conversation resolve API also 404s — flag resolutions in an issue comment instead.
+
+## Body-footer law (AGENTS.md)
+Every issue/PR body ends with `---` line then `cwd: <wd> · session: <id>`. Keep
+it inside the --arg string (not a `---` CLI arg).
+
+## Gotchas
+- Content-Type: POSTs with `-d @file.json` MUST carry
+  `-H 'Content-Type: application/json'` on the command line. `-H` entries put in
+  the curl config file are ignored for this (header ordering quirk).
+- `xdg-open <pr-url>` lands the PR in Frank's Firefox the moment it is opened —
+  law, not courtesy.
+- `jq: cannot index "not found" with "user"` = endpoint 404'd into an error
+  object; check `-w '%{http_code}'` before blaming jq.
+- The token in `.git/config`'s remote URL is the same secret; the credential
+  file (`~/.config/secrets/gitea`) is the one git actually consults (global
+  credential.helper) and the one to reuse for API calls.

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+---
+name: gitea-pr-api-cycle
+description: "Open/update/merge PRs and issues on the Dankclaw Gitea API (192.168.0.143:3000, dank/command-center) with the token-safe curl+jq sequence, including the {\"Do\":\"merge\"} merge payload and post-merge live-checkout fast-forward."
+---
+
+# Gitea PR/issue cycle — dank/command-center
+
+Friction-earned 2026-10-18 across PRs #15–#20 and issue #18: three separate fumbles (jq trailer flag, 422 merge payload, silent -o/-w swallowing) codified once.
+
+## Where
+- API base: `http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/command-center/{pulls,issues}`
+- Token: never inline, never echoed. Extract from the git credential file into a 600-perm temp curl config:
+  `tok=$(sed -nE 's#^http://[^:/@]+:([^@]+)@192\.168\.0\.143.*#\1#p' ~/.config/secrets/gitea | head -1)`
+  `cfg=$(mktemp); chmod 600 "$cfg"; printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$tok" > "$cfg"` → `curl -K "$cfg"`; `rm -f "$cfg"` when done.
+- Unauthenticated GET works for state reads (`GET /pulls/N` → `jq -c '{state,merged,merge_commit_sha}'`).
+
+## Body construction (the two traps)
+- Build JSON with `jq -n --arg t <title> --arg b "$(cat b.txt)" '{title:$t, head:<branch>, base:"main", body:$b}'`; write the body to a temp file first (`printf '%s' … > b.txt`). NEVER pass `---` as a bare jq argument — jq parses it as a flag (`unknown flag: ---`). The AGENTS.md attribution trailer (`---` + `cwd: … · session: …`) goes INSIDE the body string.
+- Always capture status explicitly: `-o r.json -w '%{http_code}'` and print it; a bare `-o` hides failures (a 422 looked like success-with-no-output once).
+
+## Merge (the 422 trap)
+`POST /pulls/N/merge` requires body `{"Do":"merge"}` — `Do` is the Required field on this Gitea. `{}`, `{"DoNotMerge":false}`, `{"merge_style":…}` all return 422 (`"[Do]: Required"`). Success may return an EMPTY body — verify by GET afterwards (`state=closed, merged=true`), not by the POST response.
+- Merge only with Frank's explicit per-PR OK (repo law).
+- Post-merge the live deployment must follow: `git -C ~/.omp fetch -q origin && git -C ~/.omp merge --ff-only origin/main` (the checkout IS the deployment; branch is `main`).
+
+## PR etiquette per AGENTS.md
+- Immediately after opening: `xdg-open <PR-URL>` lands it in Frank's Firefox.
+- Redesign mid-review: amend + `git push -f` the branch, then PATCH the PR body (`/pulls/N`, `{"body":…}`) so title/body match the net diff — verify `{number,state,mergeable}` in the response.
+- Issue creation identical shape: `POST /issues` with `{title, body}`, expect 201; PATCH same endpoint `/issues/N` to fix bodies retroactively, then GET-readback verify.

agent/managed-skills/gitea-review-comment-html-scrape/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: gitea-review-comment-html-scrape
+description: "Read inline review comments on the Dankclaw Gitea when pulls/N/comments 404s (Gitea 1.27.3): scrape comment-content blocks and diff anchors from the PR HTML page"
+---
+
+# Gitea review-comment extraction when the API 404s
+
+On the Dankclaw Gitea (192.168.0.143:3000, Gitea 1.27.3) the review-comment API is dead for inline comments:
+`/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{N}/comments` returns 404 `not found` **even with a valid token**, and `pulls/comments?pull_id=` / `?pull_request_id=` variants 404 too. `/pulls/{N}/reviews` works but its bodies are empty for inline reviews (read `comments_count` for how many exist); `/issues/{N}/comments` shows only conversation comments, never inline ones.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Confirm the review exists and how many inline comments it holds:
+   `curl -sS http://192.168.0.143:3000/api/v1/repos/dank/command-center/pulls/{N}/reviews | jq -c '.[] | {id, state, comments_count}'`
+2. Scrape the PR page instead (no token needed for a public repo):
+   `curl -sS http://192.168.0.143:3000/dank/command-center/pulls/{N} -o /tmp/pr.html`
+3. Extract each comment's text — every inline comment renders a `comment-content` block; dedupe (each comment appears twice in the HTML):
+
+```python
+import re, html
+src = open('/tmp/pr.html').read()
+seen = set()
+for m in re.finditer(r'comment-content', src):
+    t = html.unescape(re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', ' ', src[m.start()-100:m.start()+800]))
+    t = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', t).strip()[:400]
+    if t not in seen:
+        seen.add(t); print('>>', t)
+```
+
+The comment text appears twice back-to-back inside each block ("text text") — read it once. Blocks start after `Copy Link|Copy Source`; ignore those chrome words.
+
+4. **Locate the file/line anchor** (comment-content blocks carry no `data-path`/`data-line` attrs on this build): search the raw HTML for the comment string, walk *backward* ~4–7 KB, strip tags; the nearby `agent/...` path, `@@ -a,b +c,d @@` hunk header, and surrounding diff context lines identify the anchored file and the quoted source line.
+
+## Replying / housekeeping
+
+- Per-conversation resolve API does not exist on this build (404s) — reply to the round as a normal issue comment (`POST /repos/{o}/{r}/issues/{N}/comments`, token via `curl -K` temp cfg, `header = "Authorization: token …"`, 600 perms, `jq -n --arg b "$(cat b.txt)" '{body:$b}'`) listing which note got which fix commit.
+- Edit a posted comment: `PATCH /repos/{o}/{r}/issues/{N}/comments/{id}` with `{"body": ...}` — use to fix your own typos rather than double-posting.
+- Token source on this box: `~/.config/secrets/gitea` (grep the remote-URL pattern); never echo it.
+
+## Why this works
+
+The PR page is server-rendered with full inline comment bodies; Gitea's "Copy Source" UI element guarantees the raw text is present pre-markdown-render.

agent/managed-skills/gitea-token-out-of-remote-url/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: gitea-token-out-of-remote-url
+description: "Move a Gitea/HTTP git token out of remote.origin.url into a credential store file, and verify auth works with prompts disabled."
+---
+
+# Move a git token out of the remote URL
+
+A remote URL like `http://user:<token>@host:port/org/repo.git` puts the credential in
+`.git/config` (copied by every clone), prints it in `git remote -v`, and git-lfs echoes the
+whole URL in its `Locking support detected on remote` warning on every push.
+
+## 1. Capture the token from the existing remote (never paste it into a message)
+```bash
+url=$(git remote get-url origin)
+user=$(printf '%s' "$url" | sed -E 's#^http://([^:]+):[^@]+@.*$#\1#')
+tok=$(printf '%s' "$url" | sed -E 's#^http://[^:]+:([^@]+)@.*$#\1#')
+```
+
+## 2. Write the credential file (URL form, port included)
+```bash
+umask 077
+printf 'http://%s:%s@HOST:PORT\n' "$user" "$tok" > ~/.config/secrets/gitea
+```
+Git 2.56 `credential-store` does NOT parse the `protocol=`/`host=`/`password=` block shape
+that `git credential fill` accepts on stdin: a block-format file gives a SILENT empty get,
+then git falls through to askpass (`could not read Username`). One URL per line, port included.
+
+## 3. Point git at it, strip the URL, silence the LFS echo
+```bash
+git config --global credential.helper 'store --file ~/.config/secrets/gitea'
+git remote set-url origin http://HOST:PORT/org/repo.git
+git config lfs.http://HOST:PORT/org/repo.git/info/lfs.locksverify true
+```
+
+## 4. Verify with prompts disabled (a hang is a failed credential)
+```bash
+printf 'protocol=http\nhost=HOST:PORT\n\n' | git credential-store --file ~/.config/secrets/gitea get
+GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 git ls-remote --heads origin main     # read auth
+GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 git push --dry-run origin main        # write auth
+git remote get-url origin                                   # must contain no '@'
+grep -l "$tok" ~/.gitconfig */.git/config ~/.zshrc          # must find nothing
+```
+A successful push over the bare URL is the end-to-end proof: the credential came from the file.
+
+## 5. Sweep the leak
+Same shape on every clone on the host — loop over `find ~ -maxdepth 4 -path '*/.git/config'`,
+read `remote.origin.url`, scrub any URL containing `@`. One credential file serves them all
+via the global helper.
+
+## Rotate
+Rewrite only the credential file, then delete the old token in the Gitea UI
+(Settings → Applications). No remote URL, rc file, or repository changes.

agent/managed-skills/gitflow-back-merge-plumbing/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: gitflow-back-merge-plumbing
+description: "(HISTORICAL for dank/command-center — switched to trunk-based 2026-10-18, no develop branch.) Back-merge main into develop with pure git plumbing when branch checkout is policy-blocked; avoids the polluted-base evil-merge trap."
+---
+
+# Git-flow back-merge via plumbing (checkout blocked)
+
+## Applicability
+The command-center repo retired `develop` on 2026-10-18 (trunk-based; see its AGENTS.md § Trunk-based SDLC). Use this only in repos still running git-flow where a `main -> develop` back-merge must land and branch checkout is forbidden. Never merge while HEAD is a session branch — the merge silently lands on it.
+
+## Procedure
+1. `git fetch origin` and verify with `git ls-remote --heads`.
+2. Find the CLEAN fork point: `mb=$(git merge-base origin/develop origin/main)`. NEVER build the merge commit with a develop-side that already contains main (e.g. a previous broken merge): merge-base then equals main, main-side looks "unchanged", and stale develop content wins everywhere — a clean rc=0 evil merge. Sanity-trigger: if a merge you expect to conflict resolves rc=0, suspect the base.
+3. Real merge, no worktree: `out=$(git merge-tree --write-tree <clean-dev-tip> origin/main); rc=$?; tree=$(echo "$out"|head -1)`. rc=1 = conflicts; list them from the "Conflicted file info" section (lines starting with a 6-digit mode), NOT from `ls-files -u` in some other worktree.
+4. Resolve in index only: `export GIT_INDEX_FILE=/tmp/idx.$$; git read-tree $tree; git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644,$(git rev-parse origin/main:<path>),<path>` per conflicted path (pick a side deliberately — say which in the message).
+5. `final=$(git write-tree)`; prove no markers: `git grep -l '^<<<<<<<' "$final"` must be empty (run it correctly — an empty count from a malformed invocation hides markers).
+6. `commit=$(git commit-tree "$final" -p <clean-dev-tip> -p origin/main -m "...")`; `git push --force-with-lease=develop:<current-dev-tip> origin "$commit:develop"` (lease prevents clobbering concurrent pushes; document superseded commits). A back-merge onto an untouched develop is additive — plain push, no lease needed.
+7. Verify ALL of: `git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main origin/develop`; grep a distinctive merged value in `origin/develop:<file>` (content, not just ancestry); `git diff --stat origin/main origin/develop` matches expectations.
+
+## Traps
+- `merge-tree` writes conflict markers INTO the tree for conflicted paths — always overwrite every conflicted path before commit-tree.
+- A wrong tree pushed as a merge commit makes every later merge against it resolve "cleanly" to stale content; fix by rebuilding from the clean fork point and force-with-lease, citing the broken commits in the message.
+- Gitea PR merge API needs `Content-Type: application/json` AND `{"Do":"merge"}` in the BODY (query param alone 422s); a 405 "Please try again later" right after the base branch moved is transient mergeability recomputation — wait a few seconds and retry.

agent/managed-skills/gluetun-dependent-boot-race-recovery/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: gluetun-dependent-boot-race-recovery
+description: "Diagnose the Dankclaw pattern where gluetun is active but its netns-sharing dependents (searxng, marreta, marreta-browser) are inactive (dead) with \"Dependency failed\" after a reboot — cascade-recover them and tie it to e2e 502/SSO failures."
+---
+
+# Gluetun boot-race: netns dependents dead at boot, service is active
+
+## Signature
+After a dankclaw reboot, `gluetun.service` is ACTIVE, yet e2e fails on
+`search.franksdank.cloud` (502 on the authenticated pass), the Marreta tile
+shows a blank interstitial, and the homepage crawl reports vhost resets.
+`systemctl --user status <dep> --no-pager` shows:
+
+```
+Active: inactive (dead)
+<host> systemd[2224]: Dependency failed for <dep>.service
+<host> systemd[2224]: <dep>.service: Job ... failed with result 'dependency'
+```
+
+## Cause
+Quadlet `Network=gluetun.container` emits `Requires=`/`After=` on
+`gluetun.service`. When gluetun's start job fails once transiently at boot
+and `Restart=` re-arms it seconds later, the dependents' start jobs are
+already consumed and are NEVER re-armed — they sit `inactive (dead)`
+indefinitely while gluetun runs. `Restart=always` on the dependent does not
+help: the service never ran, so the restart policy never armed.
+
+## Diagnosis census (rootless, run as `dank`, NO sudo)
+```
+export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
+uptime   # reboot is the trigger
+systemctl --user is-active gluetun searxng searxng-valkey marreta marreta-browser
+systemctl --user status <dep> --no-pager | head  # "Dependency failed" line
+journalctl --user --since "<boot>" | grep -iE "<dep>|dependency"
+```
+Dependents of the gluetun netns on dankclaw: `searxng`, `marreta`,
+`marreta-browser` (valkey is plain-networked and survives).
+
+## Recovery (order matters: browser before marreta)
+```
+systemctl --user start marreta-browser marreta
+systemctl --user start searxng
+```
+Verify: `podman ps` shows them; `curl http://127.0.0.1:8081/healthz` (searxng)
+and gluetun-published 8082 (marreta) answer; then rerun the Playwright gate
+(`tests/e2e/run.sh`) — the 12-crawl / 13-sso / 16-marreta specs are the trip
+wires for this fault.
+
+## Distinguish from the dead-pause-process failure
+The 2026-09-16 rootless-pause-process death breaks ALL podman commands and
+every quadlet loops; this fault leaves podman fully functional and only the
+gluetun-dependency chain is dead. The reboot repairs the former; manual
+cascade-start repairs this one.
+
+## Open gap (dankclaw, as of 2026-10-15)
+The race recurred (observed 2026-10-15 boot 01:41). Quadlet law for these
+units has no cure inside the `.container` files themselves; options are a
+systemd user-level drop-in on gluetun
+(`ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/systemctl --user restart searxng marreta`) or
+converting the dependents' dependency to `BindsTo` + `StartLimit` retry
+semantics. Fleet precedent for boot-order pain: searxng/gluetun ordering,
+observability reboot gaps (AGENTS.md).

agent/managed-skills/halogen-ctx-pool-resize/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: halogen-ctx-pool-resize
+description: "Resize a halogen flash-server endpoint's context/KV pool (frank-dragoon pattern): engine knobs, seam band, RAM ledger, re-key sweep, deploy + probe."
+---
+
+Two knobs: HALOGEN_CTX (hard per-request ceiling; longer prompt = 400 naming the limit, never truncation) and HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS (ONE pool shared behind HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS). Ceiling raises buy a longer conversation; pool raises buy concurrency.
+
+Laws: native window 262,144, beyond it needs HALOGEN_ROPE_YARN (engine 400 text) so never extrapolate for sizing; seam band ctx <= pool <= slots*ctx (pool == slots*ctx => two maximum-length requests coexist, pool == ctx => one fills it); harness contextWindow = ceiling - 45056 (clamp max_tokens = min(maxTokens, window-est-4096), compaction at 85 %, chars/4 under-counts ~3 %) and pool-only changes do NOT move it; ~28 KiB/position measured (200,704 -> 5.5 GiB, 262,144 -> 7.2, 524,288 -> 14.6), quote the ledger reservation not the preflight formula (block scratch + ~115 MiB/slot); the 51.2 GB n-gram table is mmap page cache (Pin::None) so RAM the pool takes is RAM that table loses, re-measure the warm prompt-cache ratio (136x baseline) after a raise; engine ledger vs 121.2 GiB = weights 62.9 + KV + working (3.8 + 8.4*MAX_TOK/16384) + prompt cache + HALOGEN_HOST_RESERVE_GIB=20 + co-tenancy ~10-15.
+
+Procedure: read scripts/frank-dragoon.env and the boot ledger in /home/dank/logs/frank_dragoon.log (not the journal; a printed clamp is the referee); candidate boot via a transient FRANK_DRAGOON_ENV_FILE drop-in sourcing the repo env (never a scratch port), then trash it and prove DropInPaths empty or the repo env silently does not govern; edit env assignment + SHAPE lore and the unit Description; update the seam good_env fixture, -e pass-through asserts and pool-law comment without loosening the band; re-key every quote (deploy-remote.sh service comment, AGENTS.md topology row/engine laws/memory ledger/runbook index, docs index and LLM/index prose and mermaid node text, endpoint runbook shape paragraph plus a dated section, forward pointers in other vault pages, ~/.omp/agent/models.yml comment and contextWindow only if the ceiling moved, live OpenWebUI row in webui.db after backup); ./tests/run.sh; commit explicit paths never -A (subagents share the tree); ./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --service frank-dragoon (bare target = fleet drain); verify the new boot ledger and append the ledger table to the runbook plus a log.md worklog entry.
+
+Probes: over-ceiling request -> 400 naming the ceiling in <1 s (preflight rejects before prefill); ~120k admission at max_tokens 45056 accepted, wall time = cold prefill ~1,500 t/s; two maximum-length admissions fired together must BOTH be admitted once pool >= 2*ctx; never report the first request after a boot.
+
+Traps: systemctl mask fails on relinked units, disable forbidden; reservation is prompt + max_tokens so an over-budget request fails preflight even with a free pool; HALOGEN_FLASH_PIN_TRUNK=0 rejected by the v2 loader; rollback = revert the commit and redeploy.

agent/managed-skills/halogen-npu-feasibility-census/SKILL.md

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+---
+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."
+---
+
+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.
+
+## 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.
+
+## Census (all read-only, run from the operator box)
+
+```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'
+```
+
+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`.
+
+## 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).
+
+## 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.
+- `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.

agent/managed-skills/hf-checkpoint-profile/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: hf-checkpoint-profile
+description: "Profile a Hugging Face safetensors checkpoint (sizes, dtypes, tensor-name space, gated/license) with compact HTTP-range reads — safe for subagents on small context slots."
+---
+
+# Profile an HF safetensors checkpoint cheaply
+
+Goal: inventory a repo (files/bytes, dtype histogram, tensor-name patterns, per-group GiB, config keys, license/access) without pulling gigabytes and without overflowing a subagent's context slot.
+
+## Endpoints (all public, no token needed even for gated models)
+- `https://huggingface.co/api/models/<id>?blobs=true` → `siblings` (name+size), `gated`, `private`, `downloads`, `safetensors` metadata, `tags`.
+- `https://huggingface.co/api/models/<id>` for tags/base model; `https://huggingface.co/api/models?author=<x>&limit=100` to find sibling repos (canonical id check: cards often link both `X-1.5-Y` and `X-Y`).
+- `https://huggingface.co/api/models/<id>/resolve/main/<file>` for `config.json`, `model.safetensors.index.json`, `chat_template.jinja`, `LICENSE`, `generation_config.json`; `/raw/main/<file>` for text.
+
+## dtype + per-group bytes without downloading shards
+Parse the safetensors header over HTTP Range: first 8 bytes = little-endian u64 header length, then that many bytes of JSON (`{name: {dtype, shape, data_offsets}}`). Fetch every shard header with a thread pool (131 shards ≈ seconds), then bytes = prod(shape) × dtype size. Collapse names with `re.sub(r"\.\d+\.", ".N.", k)` (and `\.shard_\d+` → `.shard_N`) to get the pattern space; group-sum by prefix to see where the mass sits (experts / ngram-PLE / MTP / vision / trunk).
+
+Compare the key set against the base model's index to prove "full-weight finetune, identical names" (a zero-diff key set means per-tensor recipes written for the base apply verbatim, and it reveals fused vs per-expert layout, PLE/ngram shards, MTP head, vision tower, absence of `quantization_config`).
+
+## Guardrails
+- Run python scripts from a clean directory: a stray `/tmp/inspect.py` shadows stdlib `inspect` and kills `concurrent.futures` imports.
+- Never put an HF token on a command line (`/proc/<pid>/cmdline` is world-readable); use `curl -K <mode-600 file>`.
+- `curl -f` / `--fail-with-body` and verify byte counts — a 401/403 writes the error body as the "artifact" and exits 0.
+
+## Subagent context budget
+Subagents on a 131k-token slot die from `exceed_context_size_error` when told to read whole doc pages. Give grep-only instructions (`| head -40`, `-o`, `-c`), demand a line cap ("report in ≤250 lines, no verbatim dumps"), and prefer `git clone --depth 5` + local grep to web-page reads. A peer scout that overflows returns exit 1 with the 400 in the harness log and NO structured output — assume nothing was learned and redo the fact inline.

agent/managed-skills/hf-large-artifact-publication/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: hf-large-artifact-publication
+description: "Publish a large quantized artifact + model card (and an optional anonymized corpus dataset) to HF Hub from dankserver: staging set, HF-style card spine, upload gates, transient-unit launcher, sentinel watching, card-metadata and scrub laws."
+---
+
+# HF large-artifact publication (dankserver)
+
+Publish a big model artifact (100+ GiB) + card, and optionally an anonymized corpus dataset, from dankserver under `frank8465`.
+
+## Staging
+- Dev box `~/Projects/hf-swift15-upload/` (author card + scripts here), `scp -r` synced to `/home/dank/hf-swift15-upload/` on dankserver. Keep staging + logs + `.rc` sentinels after publication as receipts.
+- Payload set: artifact, `README.md` card, `scripts/` (recipe/drivers/probes), `artifacts/` (gate JSONs, per-position `.rows`, manifests, run logs).
+- Secret-scan the whole payload before arming: credential regexes (hf_/ghp_/pat, private keys, Bearer values, AKIA/sk-), LAN IPs, hostnames, domains, emails. Verdict each hit — variable *references* and upstream test fixtures are not leaks; check real values in context.
+
+## Card law (HF validator)
+- Custom licenses MUST be `license: other` + `license_name:` + `license_link:` (mirror the base model's card trio — fetch `https://huggingface.co/api/models/<base>` and read `cardData`). A raw non-SPDX `license:` value raises `ValueError: Invalid metadata in README.md` inside `upload_file` — AFTER all local gates have run.
+- Card spine: what-the-format-is + engine pin digest, recipe table, quality gates (KL/top-1/PPL + per-position data shipped), proof hardware, exact `podman run` line, license chain, manifest table with the artifact's sha256 receipt, "In plain English:" block per section.
+- Quote the SHIPPED filename (build name), not a prettified one — a hub-side rename of a 100 GiB LFS file costs a full re-upload.
+
+## Upload mechanics
+- venv `/home/dank/venvs/radcorpus` (huggingface_hub 1.28 + hf_xet); `HF_XET_HIGH_PERFORMANCE=1`; token from `~/.cache/huggingface/token` (see defuse-shell-rc-secrets pattern: `~/.config/secrets/<name>` 600 + rc loader, mirrored to the cache file). NEVER token in argv/chat.
+- Script gates, in order: sha256 of live artifact vs recorded digest (`gate 1 : MATCH`), `create_repo(..., private=False, exist_ok=True)`, small files first, artifact last, post-upload census — **compare remote sizes to local and FAIL the RC on any mismatch** (this caught a stale card mid-campaign).
+- hub 1.28 API traps: `upload_file`/`create_commit` kwargs are keyword-only; no `rename_file`, `hf_hub_url`, `HfApi.commit_api` (use `CommitOperationAdd`/`CommitOperationDelete` from `huggingface_hub` top-level if needed); `whoami` hides `canWrite` for legacy tokens — probe write scope by `create_repo(exist_ok=True)` on the real target.
+- zsh-over-ssh: never `echo ===` (triggers `=cmd` expansion); quote it.
+
+## Launcher + watchers
+`setsid nohup` over ssh dies at session teardown. Use a transient user unit:
+```
+systemd-run --user --collect --unit=hf-upload -p SendSIGKILL=no \
+  -p StandardOutput=append:/home/dank/logs/hf-upload.log \
+  -p StandardError=append:/home/dank/logs/hf-upload.log \
+  sh -c "cd <staging> && <venv>/bin/python -u <uploader>.py --go; echo \$? > /home/dank/logs/hf-upload.rc"
+```
+Sentinel: background ssh loop polling the `.rc` file (60 s period, bounded), tails the log on appearance. Progress bars are `\r`-fed — `tr '\r' '\n' | tail` to read them.
+
+## Corpus dataset variant
+- License audit first: read `urls.txt`/manifest, fetch each source card (`license` in cardData). Share-alike sources (CC BY-SA) → publish derived corpus CC BY-SA with attribution; model weights unaffected.
+- Fleet-harvested slices = agent-session transcripts: scrub with deterministic substring-class rules (NOT word-boundary: catches `dankclaw_default`, `FRANKBOOK_SVCS`, `franksdank/alloy` image namespace): LAN IPs→10.x, hostnames→server-a/b/client-c, domain→example.com (catch `\.`-escaped forms + bare brand), `/home/<user>`, emails→user@example.com. Residual probes run on OUTPUT; whitelist self-replacements + audited fixture noise.
+- Publish original hashes, disclose non-byte-identity, cross-link model card ↔ dataset card, verify via `raw/main/README.md` fetches.
+- Dataset repo needs dataset-write scope (fine-grained token; access tokens 403). `repo_type="dataset"` everywhere; 45 MB rides in ~60 s.

agent/managed-skills/homepage-smoke-verify-loop/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: homepage-smoke-verify-loop
+description: "Smoke-verify Dankclaw homepage changes locally before commit/deploy: isolated static tree + fake status + browser census, then deploy gate."
+---
+
+# Homepage smoke-verify loop (serverAppConfig)
+
+Verify `shared/homepage/` changes against a real browser BEFORE commit/deploy.
+
+## Procedure
+1. `node --check shared/homepage/app.js` and `python3 -c "import json; json.load(open('shared/homepage/services.json'))"`.
+2. Isolated tree: `rm -rf /tmp/hp-smokeN && cp -r shared/homepage /tmp/hp-smokeN`.
+3. Fabricate runtime files in the tree:
+   - `status.json`: `{"checked":"x","services":[{"name":<every services.json name>,"state":"up"}]}` (set one model `down` to exercise the red-pulse path).
+   - `deployed.js`: `window.DEPLOYED_AT="smoke"`.
+4. Serve: `(cd /tmp/hp-smokeN && nohup python3 -m http.server 8099 >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo $! > /tmp/.hp-pid)`.
+   - If reusing port 8099: `pkill -f "http.server 8099"` FIRST — a second server on a busy port fails silently and the OLD tree keeps serving.
+5. Browser census via eval tab on `http://127.0.0.1:8099/?v=<epoch>` — ALWAYS cache-bust with `?v=`; python http.server gets heuristically disk-cached by the browser. Assert: broken images (`.app-art,.mi-art` naturalWidth==0), computed styles (`getComputedStyle` for palette/fonts/clipPath), presence of new classes, `document.querySelectorAll('.docs section').map(s=>s.id)` for doc order, regex text census for banned words.
+6. Screenshot full page + `selector` shots; inspect visually.
+7. `./tests/run.sh` (expect only the known frank-primary MAX_SEQS failure), commit, `./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --service homepage` (runs Playwright e2e gate), then repeat the census against `https://www.franksdank.cloud/?v=<epoch>`.
+8. Cleanup: kill server, move `/tmp/hp-smokeN` to `~/.AGENTTRASH/YYYYMMDD-homepage-smoke/` (never `rm`).

agent/managed-skills/homepage-theme-smoke/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: homepage-theme-smoke
+description: "Locally smoke-test the Dankclaw homepage theme (style.css/app.js/docs.html) in the managed headless browser, with the stale-server traps that fake the result."
+---
+
+Goal: prove a homepage theme change on a throwaway tree before commit/deploy.
+
+Protocol:
+1. Stage a fresh copy: `cp -r shared/homepage/. /tmp/hp-smoke-<rand>/`, drop `.AGENTTRASH` dirs, and write a fake `status.json` (`{"generated_at":"x","services":[{"name":...,"state":"up"}]}`) — app.js fetches services.json + status.json and renders NOTHING without both.
+2. Serve: `cd <tree> && nohup python3 -m http.server 8099 --bind 127.0.0.1 &`.
+3. STALE-LISTENER TRAP (fakes every census): a survivor server from an older wave keeps answering on 8099 — `ss -ltn | grep 8099` proves a listener exists, not WHICH tree it serves. After every (re)start verify identity: `for p in $(pgrep -f "http.server 8099"); do readlink /proc/$p/cwd; done` must print the NEW tree; then `curl -s localhost:8099/<file> | grep -c <new-marker>`. `kill` the stale pid — never trust a `||`-guarded restart. Also: `pkill -f "http.server 8099"` from a shell whose own command line contains that string kills the shell; kill by pid.
+4. Browser census: navigate with `?v=<epoch>` cache-bust (browser disk-caches http.server responses); `waitForSelector('.mi-card', ...)` before evaluating — rendering is async (fetch). Geometry checks: rect-gap to 1px for bottom-pinned chips; screenshot for visual proof. `screenshot({path})` may not write — use the returned omp-sshots artifact.
+5. In headless pages `new Audio()` is detached: prove voice playback via `tab.requests()` (206 on the /sfx file) + the `mi-speaking` class, not a DOM `<audio>` query.
+6. Live-domain check after deploy: the homepage is at `/`, the docs page ONLY at `/docs/` — `/docs.html` falls through the SPA fallback and serves the homepage shell. Anubis adds a challenge: `waitForSelector` with 30-45 s timeout.
+7. Deploy loop: `./tests/run.sh` → commit/push → `./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --service homepage` (runs the Playwright e2e gate) → live census with fresh `?v=`.

agent/managed-skills/html-report-ground-truth-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: html-report-ground-truth-audit
+description: "Audit a self-generated HTML report: ground every numeric/code/diagram claim against the repo, fix, and prove structure + render"
+---
+
+Use after generating a large HTML report (e.g. via `repo-change-html-report`) whose claims were partly reconstructed from session memory. Fabricated numbers, invented code blocks, and silently-swallowed sections are the failure modes; the audit makes each traceable to the repo, a live command, or a recorded run.
+
+## Procedure
+
+### 1. Enumerate every checkable claim
+Grep the report for numerics, file paths, symbol names, and code blocks:
+- line counts (`wc -l` the real file)
+- test counts (`grep -c '@test' tests/<f>.bats` — NOT suite-run totals: conditional skips make raw counts differ; run-observed totals are legitimate run history, keep them labeled as such)
+- diff stats (`git diff --shortstat main..HEAD` — the footer's files/insertions/deletions)
+- commit hashes (`git log --oneline`)
+- "verbatim" code blocks (see 3)
+- diagram node lists and captions (see 4)
+
+### 2. Ground numeric claims with one command each
+Fix every mismatch in place. Record the was/now pair — the audit table IS the evidence.
+
+### 3. Verbatim code blocks: prove them
+For a block labeled verbatim, the exact string must exist:
+- live code: `grep -n '<distinctive line>' <file>`
+- historical: `git show <sha> -- <file> | grep -E '^[+-].*(<token1>|<token2>)'`
+If the block was fabricated (plausible-looking pseudo-code), replace it with the real excerpt. If condensed, the block header must say "condensed" and every shown line must be real.
+
+### 4. Diagram claims: run the engine
+Behavioral diagrams (plan traces, closure graphs) must be re-derived by running the actual CLI:
+`python3 scripts/service-map.py plan --host <h> <path>` — then edit node labels, captions, and the prose count ("four services") to match output. Cross-check derived-set diagrams against the source relation (e.g. `grep -rl 'Network=gluetun.container' */**/*.container` for who rides a tunnel).
+
+### 5. Check for swallowed sections
+Large prior-session PUT ranges silently overwrite neighbors. Grep for headings/captions the plan promised; re-insert any that vanished, anchored on a fresh `read` of the region.
+
+### 6. Structural balance
+Python tag-balance pass over the file:
+- per-tag open/close counts (`div`, `pre`, `figure`, `svg`, `table`, `span`, `figcaption`)
+- running-div-depth scan printing per-section balance to localize stray closers
+Common defect: `.ln`/`.nt` pair emitted without its `.cg` wrapper → stray `</div>`; fix by opening `<div class="cg">` before the pair.
+
+### 7. Render proof
+`file://` is blocked on the shared browser — serve the dir: `bash` service `python3 -m http.server <port> --bind 127.0.0.1 --directory <dir>`, ready on that port. Then:
+- `browser.open({name, url: 'http://127.0.0.1:<port>/<file>'})`
+- DOM assertions via `tab.evaluate(() => …)` — NOT `tab.run` (that runs in Bun; no `document`). Sections are `<h2 id>` + siblings: scope queries to `document.body`/`document.querySelectorAll`, not `#ch5 …`.
+- screenshot the repaired regions (scroll via `tab.evaluate(el.scrollIntoView())`), then `tab.close()` and kill the server proc (`write proc://<name>/kill`).
+
+## Deliver
+A was/now table of every fix with its ground command, plus the list of claims verified intact. State honestly which numbers are run-history and not recomputable.

agent/managed-skills/judge-empty-content-parse-repair/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: judge-empty-content-parse-repair
+description: "Diagnose and repair LLM-judge \"unparseable verdict\" storms: judge-fail rows store no raw → reproduce live on the failing instance; root causes include empty model response (runaway reasoning chains, finish=length + content:\"\") and judge prose-form verdicts when JSON scaffold breaks; fix parser fallback + prove via restart rejudge."
+---
+
+Use when LLM-judge grades show an elevated "unparseable verdict" rate (baseline ~1%; storm = ≥5-10%).
+
+## Law
+Judge rows with `ok:false` store NO raw judge output (meta empty) — you are blind in the ledger. NEVER guess the cause from the ledger alone; reproduce the exact failing instance live.
+
+## Procedure
+1. **Census the rate**: filter ledger grade rows since a timestamp; rate = bad/total. Compare against the eval's baseline (≈1%). HLE with a 180B bare-JSON judge showed 11.8%.
+2. **Pull the failing instance**: pick the newest failing grade row; get its `instance` id and the latest `gen` row for that instance (latest-wins; ledger is append-only).
+3. **Reproduce live**: one-shot `bun -` (or equivalent) script: load registry host by judge name, call the judge function with that instance's exact question/answer/response, print `raw` head+tail. Judge raw text is ground truth.
+4. **Root-cause A — empty model response**: if `resp_len: 0`, the judge is fine; the MODEL produced no answer content. Census gens: `text` empty + `finish=length` + `completion_tokens == max_tokens` ⇒ **runaway reasoning chain**: the model wrote the whole budget into `reasoning` and never emitted `content`. Loop proof: 60-char block Counter over the reasoning tail (49 identical blocks = degeneration, e.g. `w4 w? w4 w?…`).
+5. **Root-cause B — prose verdict**: judges (esp. bare-JSON 180B class) drop the JSON scaffold when judging degenerate inputs (empty response) and emit plain `correct: no\nconfidence: 100`. Parser knowing only quoted `"correct": "no"` forms reports null = "unparseable" while the verdict is perfectly valid. Fix = add prose fallback regex `(?:^|\n)\s*correct\s*:\s*(yes|no)\b` after the JSON/quoted attempts, never before (JSON must win).
+6. **Baseline comparison before blaming the engine change**: for any model-behavior rate (runaway %, empty-answer %), census the previous (voided/`.AGENTTRASH/`) ledger the same way. Pre/post identical (18.5% vs 18.0%) ⇒ pre-existing model behavior, not the quantization/config under investigation. This keeps causal claims honest.
+7. **Verify the fix live**: restart the supervisor (poison law); pending `ok:false` grade rows re-grade on resume — the previously-blind rows flipping to real `fail` verdicts in the log is the proof.
+
+## Empty-content scoring law
+Runaway-chain empties score 0 honestly (AA-style truncating harness). Keep the score, publish the runaway census beside every number. Sampling changes (repetition_penalty, num_predict cap) deviate from AA posture and void+restart the eval — user decision, not an assistant fix.
+
+## Pitfalls
+- `podman logs 2>/dev/null`-style stderr discards make failure rows text-empty — check the capture path before inventing model-side causes (sandbox.ts fixed to `2>&1`).
+- `export RID=...` for python heredocs (plain `RID=` is invisible to `os.environ`).
+- Never `cd x && setsid ... & disown` expecting the cd to persist: `&` backgrounds the whole compound; foreground cwd is unchanged.

agent/managed-skills/kernel-flag-claim-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: kernel-flag-claim-audit
+description: "Audit a kernel/boot-parameter performance claim before it justifies a host decision (census feature presence, read the patch series verbatim, then publish the corrected plan to a Gitea issue without leaking the token)."
+---
+
+Use when a decision rests on a kernel/boot-line performance claim (`iommu=off` vs `pt`, a module param, a new engine flag) and the question is "does an upstream change retire this trade?", or when the answer must land as a Gitea issue comment.
+
+## 1. Census before theory (read-only, no reboot)
+
+```bash
+uname -r; cat /proc/cmdline
+grep -c . /dev/null; ls /sys/kernel/iommu_groups | wc -l        # or the relevant sysfs knob
+nm -b /boot/System.map-$(uname -r) 2>/dev/null | grep -i <feature_symbol> | head
+apt-cache policy <meta-packages>                                  # what the distro can actually install
+grep -E 'CONFIG_(...)' /boot/config-$(uname -r)
+ls -l /dev/<device>; id -nG                                      # container-access question
+```
+
+- Symbol absence in `System.map` + archive pinning = the claim is **not actionable today**, regardless of merge status. Say that plainly.
+- Answer the container/device question from node mode + group membership; it never needs a reboot.
+
+## 2. Primary source beats press
+
+Read the **patch series itself** (cover letter + the implementation patch), not the news write-up. The press number is a symptom; the patch text carries the *preconditions* that decide applicability.
+
+Rules that only surface in the patch text (2026-10-18 AMD PerfOpt case):
+- enable path "rehomes devices **already on the identity domain**" → the feature is a companion to `iommu=pt`, never an alternative;
+- the enable path *disables* ATS/PRI/PASID/GCR3 (`skip_caps` in `attach_device`) → identity mode still pays a 1:1 page walk until this arms; a passthrough boot is therefore "most of the fix", not all of it;
+- a per-IOMMU bit is refcounted / re-armed on resume → matters for suspend users.
+
+Also check the driver-side consumer's gate condition (e.g. `amdgpu_device_use_perfopt()` requires `AMD_IS_APU` **and** the identity domain) — the feature and the endpoint you care about can live on independent paths (amdxdna binds its own SVA domain regardless of default domain type), which is what decouples "perf lever" from "device works again".
+
+Never inherit a vendor/press delta as a local cost: record it as *vendor-claimed, never measured here*, and make the procedure demand a local A/B in the maintenance window. Flag stale baselines by quoting the current measured figure.
+
+## 3. Correct every carrier, in one cutover
+
+Decision-record page (new dated section + front-matter `description` re-key), the retired-endpoint runbook that carries the now-dead law, `AGENTS.md` key-lesson bullet, worklog. Delete the dead law rather than annotating it.
+
+## 4. Publish to Gitea without leaking the token
+
+Token NEVER in argv (`curl -H "Authorization: …"` is world-readable in `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`). Reuse the git credential store, write a 0600 curl config, delete it after:
+
+```python
+line = next(l for l in (~/.config/secrets/gitea).read_text().splitlines() if HOST in line)
+user, tok = urllib.parse.unquote(...)      # store file is percent-encoded
+cfg = 0o600 temp:  user = "USER:TOKEN"
+subprocess.run(["curl","-sS","-K",cfg,"-o",resp,"-w","%{http_code}", ...])
+os.unlink(cfg)
+```
+
+- New comment: `POST /api/v1/repos/{o}/{r}/issues/{n}/comments`, body `{"body": markdown}` → 201.
+- **Correction: `PATCH /api/v1/repos/{o}/{r}/issues/comments/{id}` — edit in place, do NOT post a follow-up.** A wrong claim published is fixed by editing it; leaving the wrong text up for future readers is the failure mode.
+- Verify: anonymous `GET .../issues/{n}/comments` then assert the corrected marker is present AND the retracted phrase is absent.
+
+## 5. Verification
+
+`./tests/run.sh` (docs completeness + vault link integrity cover the doc edits), commit, push. Secrets scratch files: unlink them; do not leave a token-bearing temp behind.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- Markdown bullet lines inserted through the `edit` tool: an escape like `+- item` came out **verbatim** (file kept `+- `), twice. When a list block must be rewritten, `write` the whole file instead of guessing escape syntax.
+- A reader-mode `read` of a news page can return the ad-blocker JS blob; use the mailing-list/patch archive (native method) for primary sources.

agent/managed-skills/key-chord-source-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: key-chord-source-audit
+description: "Answer \"what does chord X do\" on Dank workstations: identify which layer (omp TUI, browser tool, niri, terminal) owns the chord before answering"
+---
+
+# Key-chord source audit
+
+Frank asks "what does mod+r / ctrl+X do?" — the chord lives in ONE layer of the stack; answering from the wrong layer is wrong. Check layers in order, in ONE pass.
+
+## Layers, in Frank's stack (most of his "mod" questions are niri)
+
+1. **niri compositor** (Mod = Super). Keybinds are NOT in `~/.config/niri/config.kdl` — it only `include`s `cfg/*.kdl`. Grep `~/.config/niri/cfg/keybinds.kdl` directly. Notation: `Mod+R`, `Mod+CTRL+Alt+H`. Preset-width cycle (Mod+R) uses `preset-column-widths` from `cfg/rules.kdl`; no rule → built-in proportions 3/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 9/10, 1.
+2. **omp TUI**: defaults in `~/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js` — grep `defaultKeys:\["…"` (array form) and `defaultKeys:"…"` (string form; needs a second pattern). Recognized modifiers: ctrl/shift/alt/super only; no `meta`/`mod` alias. User remaps: `~/.omp/agent/keybindings.yml` (check existence first; absent = no remaps). Docs: `omp://keybindings.md`.
+3. **omp browser tool**: `Mod+Key` is Playwright notation (`Mod` → Ctrl on Linux, Cmd on macOS), used by `tab.press()`; e.g. `Mod+R` = page reload. Tern backend `ternKey()` throws on literal `Mod`; puppeteer path passes names through.
+4. **Terminals/tmux**: `~/.config/ghostty/config.ghostty` + `ghostty/auto/`, `foot.ini`, `kitty.conf`, `~/.tmux.conf` — keybind/bind/map lines.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. Classify the notation the user used: `Mod+…` → niri/Playwright; `Ctrl+…` → TUI/terminal; tmux prefix → tmux.
+2. Grep that layer's config FIRST, expanding includes (config.kdl → cfg/*.kdl is the trap that caused a wrong answer).
+3. For omp bundle greps: two `defaultKeys` forms exist; `super+r` pattern also matches `super+right` — anchor with word boundary.
+4. Quote the exact config line as evidence; state the layer that owns the chord.
+
+## Verification
+
+- niri keybinds: `grep -n "Mod+R" ~/.config/niri/cfg/keybinds.kdl` (not config.kdl).
+- omp: `grep -o '"app[^"]*":{defaultKeys:[^}]*' cli.js` for app actions; `grep -rn "defaultKeys" pi-tui/src/keybindings.ts` for editor actions.

agent/managed-skills/llama-server-arch-verify/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llama-server-arch-verify
+description: Verify llama.cpp binary supports a model architecture without relying on binary grep
+---
+
+# llama-server Arch Verification
+
+## Problem
+`grep -ac <arch> llama-server` returns 0 for ALL architecture names (including ones the binary is actively serving). The arch strings are stored in a packed/constructed form that grep can't catch.
+
+## Solution
+Verify arch support via the source registration table, not binary grep:
+
+1. **Check the source registration** (`src/llama-arch.cpp` or `src/llmarch.h`):
+   ```bash
+   grep -n "gemma4\|qwen3_5\|<arch>" src/llama-arch.cpp
+   ```
+   If the arch is registered in the source at the commit the binary was built from, it's supported.
+
+2. **Verify the binary is current**:
+   ```bash
+   stat -c "%y" /path/to/llama-server
+   git log -1 --format=%cd <commit>
+   ```
+   The binary mtime should be after the commit date.
+
+3. **Check for model-specific source files**:
+   ```bash
+   ls src/models/<arch>.cpp src/models/<arch>-*.cpp 2>/dev/null
+   ```
+
+4. **Check for spec-type support** (for MTP/draft models):
+   ```bash
+   /path/to/llama-server --help 2>&1 | grep "spec-type\|model-draft"
+   ```
+
+## KV Cache Types
+The build's allowed `--cache-type-k` / `--cache-type-v` values:
+`f32, f16, bf16, q8_0, q4_0, q4_1, iq4_nl, q5_0, q5_1`
+
+**No true fp8 KV dtype** — `q8_0` is the "FP8 class" (1.0625 B/elem, 8.5 effective bits).
+
+## Separate Draft Model (MTP assistant)
+For models where the MTP head is a SEPARATE file (not in-file like Swift):
+```bash
+--spec-type draft-mtp \
+--spec-draft-n-max 3 \
+--spec-draft-model /path/to/mtp-assistant.gguf
+```
+The `--spec-draft-model` flag (aka `-md`, `--model-draft`) loads the separate draft file.

agent/managed-skills/llamacpp-candidate-arm-census/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llamacpp-candidate-arm-census
+description: "Measure a candidate GGUF/KV-shape on a live dank-fleet llama.cpp endpoint (frank-zealot pattern) in ONE service-stop window: pre-flight flag check, per-arm env overrides, boot ledger + nvidia-smi census, behavior probes, trap-guarded restore."
+---
+
+Measure candidate shapes on a production llama.cpp endpoint without cutting anything over. One outage window, many arms, guaranteed restore.
+
+## 0. Pre-flight (no GPU needed — do all of it before stopping anything)
+
+- `ssh <host> <candidate-bin> --list-devices` — the candidate must see the card (backend `.so` releases resolve via `$ORIGIN`, so run from the extracted asset dir).
+- Flag-compat gate: loop the exact long options the serve script emits and grep the candidate's `--help`. A single unknown flag = a dead boot in the middle of the window. Remote shells may be **zsh**: `$flag[ ,<]` is parsed as an array subscript ("bad math expression") — pipe the check through `ssh <host> 'bash -s' <<'CHK' … CHK` and use `grep -qE "(^|[[:space:]])$f([[:space:],<]|$)"`.
+- Pause any concurrent compile (`pkill -f "[r]un-<build>"` — the bracket stops `pkill -f` matching your own command line; `pkill -x ninja`). Ninja is incremental: the build resumes where it stopped, and CPU contention otherwise skews every rate.
+
+## 1. Runner shape
+
+Write one script to `/tmp` on the target via `ssh <host> 'cat >/tmp/….sh' <<'EOF'`. Never edit the repo checkout on the target; drive the shipped serve script with a **per-arm env file** and `FRANK_<SVC>_ENV_FILE` (the serve scripts already honor it).
+
+```bash
+SRV=""
+used(){ nvidia-smi --query-gpu=memory.used --format=csv,noheader,nounits; }
+restore(){ [[ -n "$SRV" ]] && kill "$SRV" 2>/dev/null; pkill -x llama-server
+  for i in $(seq 1 90); do [[ "$(used)" -lt 1500 ]] && break; sleep 2; done
+  sudo systemctl start <svc>
+  for i in $(seq 1 150); do [[ "$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w %{http_code} http://127.0.0.1:<port>/health)" == 200 ]] && break; sleep 2; done
+  echo "RESTORE health=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w %{http_code} …/health) used=$(used) state=$(systemctl is-active <svc>)"; }
+trap restore EXIT
+```
+
+- `trap restore EXIT` is mandatory, not polite: it also fires on the failure paths, so a script bug cannot leave the endpoint down.
+- Preserve the production log first (`cp -f /home/dank/logs/<svc>.log …prod-<ts>.log`) — the serve script truncates it.
+- Health-poll cap ~120×2 s. 300 polls turns an expected-allocation-failure arm (the "wall" arms) into 10 wasted minutes.
+- Arm = `sed` the base env (CTX_SIZE / PARALLEL / KV_CACHE_TYPE / LLAMA_BIN / LOG_FILE), boot with `setsid nohup env FRANK_<SVC>_ENV_FILE=… bash <serve-script>`, then capture: `nvidia-smi` used+free, ledger grep (`type |model size|n_ctx|flash|KV buffer|buffer size|slots|error|exceed`), `/slots` (per-slot `n_ctx` is the harness contract), `/v1/models`.
+- **Point LLAMA_BIN at a binary that exists.** Take 1 of this procedure died in 8 s because the trial env named a still-compiling source build; the trap saved the endpoint.
+
+## 2. Probes that actually discriminate
+
+- chat: `content` vs `reasoning_content` (channel differs per runtime) + `finish_reason`.
+- tools: real `tools` schema, assert `tool_calls[0].function.arguments` parses as JSON — empty/`null` arguments is a known fork bug.
+- vision: 512×512 **solid color** PNG built with `zlib`+`struct` (no PIL), sent as an OpenAI `image_url` content part; expect the exact color word. The legacy top-level `images` field hallucinates a plausible answer.
+- rate: `/completion` (not `/v1/chat/completions`) — it returns `timings` (prefill/decode). ≥128 tokens.
+- long-context fill: ~190k tokens through `/completion` proves the per-slot window AND tests the "quantized KV near 200K" stability reports.
+
+Skip `llama-bench` for shape work: it has no `-c`/`-np`, and its `-mmp` is `--mmap` (deprecated), not mmproj. Booting the server per arm measures the real shape and prints the ledger, which is the referee.
+
+## 3. Report
+
+Per arm: ledger KV-buffer MiB, used/free at settle, FITS / tight / NO FIT vs the card's `used+free` ceiling from settled boots (not the spec sheet). Then restore, and state the downtime.

agent/managed-skills/llamacpp-endpoint-model-swap/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llamacpp-endpoint-model-swap
+description: "Swap the model on a dank-fleet llama.cpp endpoint: fetch, runtime-door census, env edit, deploy through git, rewrite the bats seam, sweep every live-path straggler, verify VRAM with the engine's own numbers."
+---
+
+# llama.cpp endpoint model swap (dank fleet)
+
+Use when replacing the model/shape on a llama.cpp endpoint (frank-zealot on the RTX 3090). The engine's boot numbers are the verdict — do NOT commit to a feasibility verdict from head math; boot it and read `nvidia-smi`.
+
+## Sequence
+
+1. **Runtime door BEFORE anything else.** Histogram the GGUF's tensor types and metadata (one python range-read of the KV section): a custom type (e.g. PQ2_0 = GGML type 142 + `prism.hadamard.*`) means the vendor/fork build is FORCED, not chosen — stock llama.cpp refuses it at load. Record the build identity (path, build number, commit, sha256) in the env comment; a `--help` census on that binary is what settles flag questions (this fleet's builds have NO fp8 KV; q8_0 is the "FP8 class"). NEVER `grep -c <archname>` on the packed binary to check arch support — it returns 0 for every arch.
+2. **Geometry first, from the loaded model's own log** (`--log-verbosity 4`, or the HF `config.json` under `text_config` for multimodal): layers, `n_head_kv` (an ARRAY — per-layer), head_dim, `sliding_window_pattern`, `n_swa`, `attention_k_eq_v`. KV scales only with full-attention layers; sliding layers cost a fixed ring; recurrent/linear layers (Gated DeltaNet) bill a fixed state per SLOT (~150 MiB measured), invisible to pool arithmetic. Single-value HF fields lie about per-layer heterogeneity.
+3. **Fit the KV rate law to the engine, not to arithmetic.** One boot at `-lv 4` prints `llama_kv_cache` / `sched_reserve` MiB lines. Master 5fc4f3c law: bytes/elem = (K + V) **x2** when the file declares `attention_k_eq_v`. Full cache = n_full x n_head_kv x head_dim x rate x ctx. If your formula disagrees with the printed MiB, your law is wrong.
+4. **Price the KV dtype by BOOTING the arms, at the target window.** f16 may simply OOM (`cudaMalloc failed` after the engine's own fit line names the MiB it wanted); q8_0 may be the only pair that funds 2 x 200,704; q4_0 is the fallback rung. Record every arm's used/free. **The mmproj lands AFTER the engine's fit projection** (projected fit < settled VRAM by ~1.5x the projector file size) — quote both numbers.
+5. **Fetch with `-f` + byte-count + sha256 check** into `/home/dank/models/<name>/`; `--verify-only` mode for re-census.
+6. **Edit the repo trio** (`scripts/serve-<svc>.sh`, `scripts/<svc>.env`, `~/.omp/agent/models.yml`). **Use the serve script's OWN variable names** (`CACHE_TYPE_K`/`CACHE_TYPE_V`, `BIND_ADDR`, `NGL`) — an invented name is silently swallowed by `: "${VAR:=default}"` and the arm boots the DEFAULT (cost a whole trial window: a `KV_CACHE_TYPE` scratch env booted f16 and OOMed while reading as a model fault). Sweep the script's DEFAULTS to the new payload too: a defaulted run must land on the shipped shape, never the retired one. Spec flags move as a SET (`SPEC_TYPE=none` strips `--spec-type` AND `--spec-draft-*`); MTP is a property of the FILE (no `nextn` tensors = no drafter, ever). `models.yml` `contextWindow` = per-slot window (`CTX_SIZE/PARALLEL`); recompute `maxTokens` for the compaction clamp `min(maxTokens, ctx - estimate - 4096)`. Check the payload's own template: if it reads `reasoning_effort`, the `reasoningEffortMap` fold becomes LOAD-BEARING (an unmapped level is a 500 naming Jinja, not the model) and quote the file's `general.sampling.*` trio in `extraBody`.
+7. **Rewrite the bats seam in the same commit** (`tests/<svc>_unit.bats`): payload trio paths, slot geometry, spec state, batch pair, verbosity, mmproj opt-out, reasoning flags — argv-asserted against the stub engine; where the contract is a repo value (batch pair, verbosity, **KV dtype**) assert argv == env value so a retune moves one file and a wrong-name env edit cannot pass silently.
+8. **Trial window protocol** (when the shape is unproven on the card): stop the unit (trap-guarded `systemctl start` restore in the scratch script), run the arm census + behavior probes as a DETACHED script writing to `/home/dank/logs/<name>.out`, then before touching production CENSUS the live state: `systemctl is-active`, `ss -ltnp | grep <port>`, `pgrep -x llama-server`, `nvidia-smi`. A scratch server orphaned by a client-side timeout holds the whole card and will OOM the real boot — kill by PID (never `pkill -f llama-server`). A trap restore can race your manual kill; read the script's own `RESTORE` log line before assuming who did what.
+9. **Deploy through git** (no direct remote edits): commit atomically on the worktree branch, `git fetch && git rebase origin/main` (log.md conflicts at EOF are two waves appending — keep both), push branch (`--force-with-lease` after a rebase), then in the MAIN checkout `git pull --ff-only` + `git merge --ff-only <branch>` + `git push origin main`, then `scripts/deploy.sh <host> --service <svc>` (`--service` is REPEATABLE — name the homepage too when cards changed, or the target ships the model without its docs). A `deploy.sh` with no `--service` is a fleet-wide drain: never.
+10. **Verify the engine, not your math**: `systemctl is-active/is-enabled` + the new `Description`, the journal fit/KV/buffer ledger (`projected to use N`, `KV buffer size`, `n_ctx_seq`, `n_slots`), `/v1/models` served alias (radiance-style echo does not apply to llama.cpp, but the alias is still the honest check), `nvidia-smi` settled, then live probes through the REAL request shape the harness sends (exact-instruction chat + `reasoning_content`, `tool_calls` JSON args, solid-color `image_url` >=256 px expecting the exact word, `timings.predicted_per_second`). Never report the FIRST request after a boot (warmup artifact). Push, and record numbers in the env comment + runbook.
+11. **Cutover every consumer, same branch**: AGENTS.md (topology row, `### <svc>` section, Model Config note, runbook index ACTIVE + RETIRED rows); the new docs page MUST be linked from the TOP-LEVEL `serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md` (the `docs_completeness` seam fails otherwise, not from `LLM/index.md`); `shared/homepage/services.json` + `docs.html` (model link, spec line, rate, and the WARNING — a censored base breaks the "common uncensored text" equality in `homepage_config.bats`, so re-key the test's premise too); `serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/OpenWebUI.md` + the live `model` row `meta.description` (live DB state: snapshot `webui.db.bak-<date><letter>`, UPDATE via host python3 over ssh; do NOT restart `open-webui` for a cosmetic string — it logs every family session out).
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- A "we can rebuild the fork ourselves for provenance" claim needs the source tree AT the vendor build's commit — check `git -C <src> log --oneline -1` first. A fork checkout at branch HEAD (`prism` at `0082ac2`) is NOT the vendor build (`2459f68b5`), so the rebuild produces a different binary, not the verified one. Also: if the vendor binary already demonstrates the requirement (KV dtype buffer math in the ledger + live probes), a rebuild buys no behavior change — offer it explicitly as provenance hardening, never do it silently.
+- A systemd restart reporting `inactive` in the first seconds is usually model-load time; check `journalctl -u <svc>` for `model done`/`server is listening` before declaring failure.
+- Rollback = the previous payload stays on disk; one `MODEL_FILE` + shape edit back. Record a refusal-freedom fallback the same way (an official censored base ↔ a CRACK re-export with byte-identical header geometry is a one-line swap; prove the identity with the tensor histogram, not the card).
+- A thinking model can consume the whole token budget in `reasoning_content` (empty `content`, `finish_reason: length`) — probe with a budget that clears thinking; a short-budget vision probe reads as "the model is blind".
+- `/completion` at `-lv 4` prints `failed to parse reasoning content ...` on raw prompts closing with an end-of-turn marker: cosmetic (chat path parses correctly). At ~26k+ a bare `/completion` can return 0 tokens with no error — raw context has no role frame; chat is unaffected.
+- **Bats vacuity trap**: `serve_argv` REWRITES `$STAGE/test.env` from the shipped env, so a test that mutates the file then calls `serve_argv` asserts on regenerated content — a tautology. Tests that mutate must exec via a `run_stage` helper running the file as-is.
+- `env NAME=value cmd` needs valid identifiers; a flag-like token is only legal as an `env` ARGUMENT, not as a shell assignment prefix.
+- Gitea `git push` on a rebased branch is rejected non-fast-forward: `--force-with-lease` (your own branch), never on main.

agent/managed-skills/llamacpp-serve-unit-boot-loop/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llamacpp-serve-unit-boot-loop
+description: "Diagnose a Dank-fleet LLM systemd unit that boot-loops: classify 203/EXEC vs model-load OOM vs payload gate, using journal signatures and nvidia-smi/rocm-smi."
+---
+
+# llama.cpp / fleet serve unit boot loop
+
+A fleet LLM unit (`frank-large`, `frank-secondary`, `frank-primary`) restarts every `RestartSec`. Read the journal FIRST, act second:
+
+```
+ssh <host> 'sudo systemctl status <svc> --no-pager | head -12; sudo journalctl -u <svc> --since "-6 min" -o cat --no-pager | tail -40'
+```
+
+## Classify by signature
+
+| Signature | Cause | Fix |
+|---|---|---|
+| `status=203/EXEC` + `Failed at step EXEC spawning` + `Mem peak: ~1.9M` + GPU flat at 1 MiB | the `ExecStart` script never ran: missing shebang, lost exec bit, or path moved by the deploy (git pull mid-restart) | `head -1 <script>` must be `#!/usr/bin/env bash`; `git ls-files -s <script>` must show `100755`; commit the fix, redeploy |
+| `status=203/EXEC` right after a deploy, then self-heals | git replaced the file mid-checkout while the restart loop ran | ignore if the newest attempts succeed; verify `podman ps --format '{{.CreatedAt}}'` identity |
+| Engine prints weights loading, then dies | VRAM/disk budget, engine flags | read the engine's own ledger (verbosity 4) for KV/compute-buffer MiB; price from two boots, never a formula |
+| Health 503, no error, minutes of silence | normal cold load (big PLE/mmap) | do not kill; the listener binds after the full load |
+
+## Rules
+- Judge the newest container/attempt only: `podman ps -a --format '{{.ID}} {{.CreatedAt}}'`, `journalctl --since`; a mid-stop container still serves old logs.
+- `systemctl is-active` is `failed` after every intentional stop on foreground-podman units (exit 143) — cosmetic.
+- The unit's `Description` is the last-deployed text, not the repo's. A stale Description is not an incident; the next `relink_unit` fixes it — never restart a serving endpoint for cosmetics.
+- Fixing the script = commit + `./scripts/deploy.sh <host> --service <svc>`; never edit on the host (a direct `scp` leaves drift that blocks the next deploy's ff-only pull with "local changes would be overwritten"; repair with `git checkout -- <file>`).

agent/managed-skills/llamacpp-trial-boot-census/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llamacpp-trial-boot-census
+description: "Measure whether a candidate GGUF fits a live llama.cpp endpoint's card: verify serve-script env names first, run a dtype/slot arm matrix with trap-guarded production restore, read the engine fit ledger."
+---
+
+# llama.cpp trial-boot census (does candidate X fit this card?)
+
+Paper arithmetic on KV rates is a hypothesis. The engine's own fit ledger plus a
+real boot are the proof. This protocol ran on frank-zealot (RTX 3090,
+Qwen3.5-9B Q6_K → prism-ml Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B PQ2_0, 2026-10-17).
+
+## 0. Gate: env variable names, not invented ones
+
+A trial env written from memory silently falls back to the serve script's
+defaults. `KV_CACHE_TYPE=q8_0` when the script reads `CACHE_TYPE_K`/`CACHE_TYPE_V`
+boots **f16** and every later number is wrong (this wasted a whole outage; two
+arms printed identical allocations, which is the tell).
+
+```bash
+grep -nE ': "\$\{[A-Z_]+[:=-]' scripts/serve-<svc>.sh   # the real names + defaults
+grep -nE '\-\-[a-z-]+ "\$' scripts/serve-<svc>.sh       # what actually reaches argv
+```
+
+Never invent: KV dtype, bind addr, n-gpu-layers, log-file (units redirect it).
+
+## 1. Runner skeleton
+
+One script on the host, `set -u`, `trap restore EXIT`:
+
+```bash
+restore(){ pkill -x llama-server; for i in $(seq 1 90); do [[ "$(used)" -lt 1500 ]] && break; sleep 2; done
+  sudo systemctl start <svc>; for i in $(seq 1 150); do [[ "$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w %{http_code} $BASE/health)" == 200 ]] && break; sleep 2; done; }
+trap restore EXIT
+sudo systemctl stop <svc>            # benching law: stop first, mask fails on relinked units
+setsid nohup env FRANK_<SVC>_ENV_FILE=/tmp/armA.env bash scripts/serve-<svc>.sh >$LOG 2>&1 &
+```
+
+Launch with `setsid nohup … &`, wait with ONE async watcher (`grep -q DONE`),
+never poll. Per-arm drop-in envs via `sed` on a base env — one variable per arm.
+
+## 2. Arm matrix (cheap, each ≈ boot + probes)
+
+| Arm | Purpose |
+|---|---|
+| target shape × target KV dtype | the verdict + behavior probes |
+| target shape × f16 KV | proves the wall (or funds the shape) |
+| 1 × native-window | answers "can we serve the full context" |
+| target shape × q4_0 | the roomy fallback rung |
+
+## 3. Read the ledger, not `nvidia-smi` alone
+
+```bash
+grep -a -A8 "memory breakdown" $LOG     # total = free + (model + context + compute)
+grep -aE "KV buffer size|model buffer size|compute buffer size|estimated worst-case memory usage of mmproj|projected to use|cannot meet free memory target|cudaMalloc failed" $LOG
+```
+
+Laws learned the hard way:
+- `projected to use N MiB vs M MiB of free` + `cannot meet free memory target of R` ⇒ requirement is `projected + R ≤ free`. With `--n-gpu-layers` pinned by the user the fitter **aborts** instead of shrinking — the boot then dies at the KV `cudaMalloc`.
+- `context` bills **more than the KV pool**: hybrid models add a fixed recurrent state per slot (~150 MiB/slot for qwen35's 48 DeltaNet layers). Pool math alone under-prices.
+- **The projector's `estimated worst-case memory usage of mmproj is X MiB` is NOT inside the fit projection.** It lands after the fit check, so real headroom = paper headroom − X. This is the "boots fine, then dies / dark" class.
+- q8_0 K+V bills exactly `2 × (layers_kv × heads × dim / 32 blocks × 34 B)`/token — check the reported KV MiB against that to prove the dtype actually took.
+
+## 4. Probe traps
+
+- **First request after boot is warm-up garbage**: it paid 2.6 t/s prefill / 37.7 t/s decode where the warm run gave 1,258 t/s. Never bench the first request; discard it or warm with a throwaway.
+- Reasoning-on chat probes need **≥512 `max_tokens`**: at 64 the answer was empty (`finish=length` mid-`reasoning_content`) while vision actually worked. Judge `content` only at a budget the thinking can fit.
+- Raw `/completion` (no chat template) returns `content` only — thinking is invisible; `timings.prompt_n` / `predicted_per_second` are the real keys, not `prompt_tokens`.
+- Vision probe: solid-color PNG ≥256 px, expect an exact color word.
+- Concurrency honesty: fire two identical requests in parallel; per-slot rates from each response's `timings`.
+
+## 5. Restore proof
+
+`health=200` **and** `systemctl is-active` — an `inactive` unit behind a 200 means
+a stray trial process holds the port. Kill by pid; never `pkill -f llama-server`.

agent/managed-skills/llm-bench-harness-fault-census/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llm-bench-harness-fault-census
+description: "Diagnose implausible LLM benchmark scores in frank-intelligence-bench: failure-signature census, harness-fault signatures (target NameError, scicode ModuleNotFound, markdown-fence SyntaxError), and official-protocol grading law."
+---
+
+Use when benchmark scores look impossible (0% across the board, sudden cliffs) in frank-intelligence-bench.
+
+# Law
+Scores are untrusted until `bun run src/cli.ts analyze <run-id>` shows a failure-signature census with ZERO harness suspects. Model-side signatures (AssertionError on real values, AxisError, model's own NameErrors) are fine; harness signatures indict the engine.
+
+# Census
+- Reads `runs/<id>/ledger.jsonl` grade rows, extracts last `*Error: name 'X'` / `No module named 'X'` per failing row, aggregates per eval.
+- `harnessSuspects()` flags: `NameError: target(s)` (gold target binding missing), `ModuleNotFoundError: scicode` (pinned pkg absent from sandbox image), >50% shared signature ≥10 samples (systematic fault), >50% gen failures (endpoint fault).
+
+# Known harness faults (friction-earned, 2026-10-10)
+1. SciCode gold values live ONLY in `test_data.h5` (authors' Drive folder `1W5GZW6_bdiDAiipuFMqdUhvUaHIj6-pR`); tests reference bare `target`. Fix = `stageH5()` (sha256-gated upload to Dankclaw, mounted `/w-data/test_data.h5:ro`) + `process_hdf5_to_tuple(step, n_cases, h5py_file=...)` per official `eval/scripts/test_generated_code.py`.
+2. Sandbox image must contain `h5py` + `scicode @ git+https://github.com/scicode-bench/SciCode.git@<pin>` (+ `git` in python:3.12-slim for pip-git). Image tag carries the fix epoch: `frank-bench-py:3.12-scicode1`.
+3. Official extractor `get_function_from_code` `exec`s raw submission text → markdown fences are guaranteed SyntaxError. Official pipelines store CLEAN code: strip fences (`stripFences()`: join all ``` blocks) before extraction, for submissions AND prior-step context.
+4. Gold CODE ships only for the dev split (50 steps) on HF `AI-SCODE/SciCode`; `problems_test.jsonl` gold=None; GitHub pinned tree ships no gold jsonl; scicode pip package ships no data. Leaderboard (AA) SciCode uses reference-solution context — compare only against the gold-context slice, never the self-cumulative test split.
+5. Quarantine poisoned ledgers to `.AGENTTRASH/` (never blend void rows into reports), reset `runs/queue.json` to `{"active": null, "runs": []}` (active must be `null`, not `""`).
+
+# Verification gates
+- Real-infra proof: `FIB_INTEGRATION=1 bun test tests/integration.test.ts` (gold solution must PASS official protocol; `process_hdf5_to_tuple("77.1", 3)` → 3 targets). Integration files must `delete process.env.DRY_RUN` and point `FIB_DATA_CACHE` at the real cache (preload isolates it to TMP fixtures).
+- After a protocol fix, fresh live run must show mixed PASS/FAIL with model-side-only signatures before any score is reported.

agent/managed-skills/llm-bench-noise-discipline/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llm-bench-noise-discipline
+description: "Noise-floor discipline for single-run LLM endpoint A/B benchmarks: the ±3% law, replication-before-keeping, and bracket-confirmation of tuned values."
+---
+
+# LLM Bench Noise Discipline
+
+Single-run A/B benchmarks against an LLM endpoint's own timings API have a much larger run-to-run noise floor than the metric's instantaneous precision suggests. On frank-primary (radiance, 256-token greedy decode at 43.6k-token prompt depth), three runs of the IDENTICAL config measured 33.06 / 32.03 / 30.90 t/s — a ~3% spread.
+
+## The ±3% law
+- Treat any single-run delta under ~3% as noise, regardless of the harness's reported confidence multiplier.
+- Before believing a "keep", run the same config a second time (no edit, pure replication). If the replication drops below the noise band, flag the lucky draw as suspect (`flag_runs`) so best-metric math stops trusting it.
+- Noise sources: TP all-reduce wire loss (wht6), page-cache warm/cold of the 51 GiB n-gram table, container boot ordering, expert-pool hit-rate warm-up.
+
+## Bracket before trusting an optimum
+A "tuned" value is only confirmed when BOTH neighboring steps are measured: one side may crash (boot wall) and the other may regress. Example at seqs=3: EXPERT_VS_CACHE 0.78 crash / 0.82 optimum / 0.84 = -9% (0.87 collapses to 0% per runbook); MNBT 4096 crash at seqs=3 while the seqs=2 A/B showed it bootable.
+
+## Boot failures are data, not waste
+A scratch arm that never reaches /health (720s timeout) maps the viable envelope. Three crashes at seqs=3 (0.78 weights-share, 4096-token chunks, bf16 wire) prove the production trio wht6/2048/0.82 is exactly what makes the 3-slot shape fit.
+
+## Outside-noise signals found at this endpoint
+- SPEC_TOKENS=4: -23% decode, draft acceptance 0.831->0.497 (the 4th draft token is rejected too often to pay its verification).
+- SPEC_TOKENS=0: -6.8%; MTP drafting always pays.
+- KV shape seqs=4/maxlen=100k (same 400k total): -11%; slot overhead is not paid by freed VRAM.
+
+## Harness pattern that worked
+stop prod -> boot scratch container on the SAME two GPUs with candidate argv -> poll /health -> ONE self-contained greedy request built from a fixed-seed repo corpus (deterministic prompt_n) -> parse timings -> tear down -> restore prod via trap (never mask a relinked unit; stop only). Fresh prefix-cache dir per run so the cold prefill is cold.

agent/managed-skills/llm-endpoint-behavior-battery-a-b/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: llm-endpoint-behavior-battery-a-b
+description: "A/B two boots of a live OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint (payload swap trial) with one identical behavior+throughput battery: refusals, thinking-token census, tools, vision, needle, decode/prefill rates."
+---
+
+Run the SAME battery against both boots of an endpoint swap (candidate vs shipped payload). Never compare across different prompts, never benchmark beside the live service (stop + mask first), never measure the first request.
+
+## Harness
+`/tmp/halogen-eval/battery.py <tag> [all|tail]` (stdlib only, `urllib`): appends one JSON line per probe to `/tmp/halogen-eval/battery-<tag>.jsonl`, summary to stderr. `tail` = long-context + throughput only. Stage assets next to it: a corpus text file, a base64 512 px solid-color PNG.
+
+Probe order (each is a gate, all comparable across boots):
+1. **warmup** — discarded. First request after boot is a graph-capture artifact (measured 3x spread: 2.6 vs 1258 t/s prefill).
+2. **sanity** — exact-answer arithmetic, `temperature=0`.
+3. **refusals** — 5 hostile prompts, count refusal-marker regex hits. The abliteration/base-alignment census.
+4. **thinking census** — 6 fixed questions, `temperature=1.0`, `max_tokens=4096`; report mean `usage.completion_tokens` + per-item. A removed instruction fine-tune shows here first (measured: mean 784 vs the card's 3271 for the base model).
+5. **tools** — 1-turn (named-arg `tool_calls`) then 2-turn (tool result → answer).
+6. **vision** — OpenAI `image_url` content part only (legacy top-level `images` is silently ignored); solid color, expect the exact word; budget >=512 tokens or thinking eats it and empty `content` + `finish_reason=length` reads as blindness.
+7. **needle** at planted depth 0.85 and 0.10 of a token-budgeted haystack.
+8. **decode** — greedy, `max_tokens=512`, long-form prompt: `completion_tokens/secs`.
+9. **prefill** — one ~58k-token prompt twice: pass 1 cold, pass 2 cached; the ratio is the prompt-cache proof (measured 136x warm, 1.4x when already cached).
+
+## Laws that bite
+- **Token-budget every prompt by measurement, never chars/4.** Measure chars/token on the actual corpus (`prompt_tokens` of one probe ÷ its char count; wikitext-2 ≈ 4.33 for a HF-tokenizer Qwen-class model — chars/4 under-bills ~8 %). Over-window prompts come back HTTP 400 whose message names the exact token count and the ceiling — treat that as ground truth, it is the cheapest tokenizer oracle available.
+- **Corpus splitting:** check the separator before trusting a paragraph budget. Wikitext-2 raw blocks separate with `"\n \n"`, and a naive parquet→text dump joins rows with a SINGLE newline: a `"\n\n"`/blank-line split then returns ONE paragraph = the whole file, so every budget silently becomes "everything". Verify with `text.count("\n\n")` and the split's part count before running.
+- **Catch `HTTPError` in the POST helper and record the body.** A 400 is a probe result, not a crash — otherwise the battery dies mid-run and you re-run the whole thing against a live GPU.
+- **Report decode from a quiet host.** The same shape measured 25.6 / 37.9 / 46.8 t/s while a 62 GB download hammered page cache; only the idle-host number is real.
+- **Server-side samplers exist.** If the endpoint pins temperature/top_p/top_k, omit `temperature` for the thinking census (match production) and pin `temperature=0` only for exact-answer probes.
+
+## Verdict framing
+Behavior gates (sanity/refusals/tools/vision/needle) are the contract; PPL/KL from the engine's own checkpoint tools is advisory; throughput deltas under ~5 % are noise unless a mechanical control (a prompt shorter than the knob under test) proves the knob was the only variable.

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+---
+name: model-runtime-support-survey
+description: "Survey how every open-source runtime serves a given LLM (vLLM, llama.cpp, SGLang, KTransformers, overlays, vendor GGUFs) before writing a serving/feasibility plan; harvest quant recipes, measured rates, and mapped landmines from PR comments and overlay repos."
+---
+
+# Model Runtime Support Survey
+
+Answer "how do other engines run model X, and what did they pay to learn it?" before committing a bring-up plan. Every kernel spec, quant recipe, and landmine found upstream is one you don't pay for twice. Proven on GLM-5.3-Flash (2026-10-14): surfaced a production 8xR9700 vLLM overlay, MTP 2.3x decode numbers, and 4 landmines (fp8-KV scale calibration, prefix-cache 0-hits, KDA autotune nondeterminism, chat-template notation).
+
+## Harvest order
+
+1. **Official model card** (`huggingface.co/<org>/<model>`) — the "Serve Locally" section lists officially supported runtimes; sampling/template contract lives here (e.g. `reasoning_effort` defaults, `clear_thinking`).
+2. **Per-runtime PRs** (vLLM, llama.cpp, SGLang) — fetch via the GitHub-API-backed read; **the comments, not the body, are the payload**: field reports (prefix-cache hit censuses, ROCm/AMD enablement branches, extension rebuild recipes, crash repros, free tuning levers via `--override-kv`, nondeterminism root-causes). Get the PR status (merged/open/closed) — it sets what "master supports" means.
+3. **Overlay/serving repos on HF** (search model name + your GPU family, e.g. `rocm-r9700`): read the tree (`huggingface.co/api/models/<repo>/tree/main`), then `raw/main/README.md`, `raw/main/OVERLAY_NOTES.md`, `raw/main/run-*.sh`. Launch scripts carry the laws in comments (KV sizing justifications, env ladders, dead knobs).
+4. **Vendor GGUF guides** (Unsloth docs): append `.md` to the docs URL for clean markdown; gives quant KLD/top-1 tables, template fixes, hardware floors. Check whether their GGUF carries MTP/nextn tensors — that's often the only public source of draft-head weights.
+5. **KTransformers tutorials** (`raw.githubusercontent.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/main/doc/en/kt-kernel/<Model>-Tutorial.md`) + **SGLang cookbook** (`docs.sglang.io/.../<Model>.md`): CPU-offload expert shape validation, 1M-ctx recipes.
+
+## Harvest checklist (per runtime)
+
+- Measured decode/prefill + hardware shape (cards, TP) — anchor, not decoration; per-card effective GB/s is the cross-engine comparison unit.
+- Quant recipe: bits-per-weight split by module class (experts/trunk/embed) — convergent recipes cross-validate your planned conversion.
+- Spec-decode: acceptance length, per-position accept, when it pays (CPU-offload) vs loses (VRAM-resident).
+- Landmines: KV-scale calibration reading uninitialized linear-attn state; prefix-cache semantics on hybrid KDA/DSA models; kernel autotune nondeterminism (KLD across launches); fp8 flavour bugs (FNUZ vs e4m3fn scale); template notation engines can't parse; import gates per gfx/arch.
+- Harness contract: reasoning-effort defaults (16k+ hidden thinking tokens), sampling params, tool/reasoning parser names.
+
+## Output
+
+A runtime matrix table (engine | arch status | hardware | artifact | measured) + a numbered "laws we inherit" list; fold every law into the plan's phases and risks with § cross-refs.
+
+## Gotchas
+
+- Read PR **comments** — the highest-value data (crash repros, censuses) is comment-only.
+- HF fetches: `api/models/<repo>/tree/main` for listing, `raw/main/<path>` for files; the HTML card view renders README inline too.
+- `browser.open` targets the harness's headless browser, not the user's — refresh user-facing pages with `xdg-open`.
+- Companion skill for the artifact side: `radiance-model-feasibility-scout` (GGUF header census).

agent/managed-skills/niri-all-monitor-screenshot-fix/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: niri-all-monitor-screenshot-fix
+description: "Fix flameshot screenshot failures on niri with 2+ outputs: confirm portal outputs.len()==1 census, retire flameshot binds for niri-native equivalents, absolute script paths (niri spawn-sh PATH lacks ~/.local/bin)"
+---
+
+# Niri all-monitor screenshot fix (flameshot retirement)
+
+## Symptom fingerprints
+- "Bunch of flameshot errors after a delay" when docked (2+ outputs); fine on one output.
+- Journal census (ground truth): `journalctl --user -u niri --since today | grep -i screenshot`
+  - FAIL: `WARN niri::niri: error taking a screenshot: Condition failed: outputs.len() == 1 (2 vs 1)` — one press of flameshot full emits 3 WARNs (composited screen + per-output portal requests).
+  - SUCCESS: `DEBUG niri::niri: saving screenshot to ...` — per-file lines.
+- Timeline: count WARNs before/after a config reload to attribute presses to config states.
+
+## Root cause
+Flameshot 14 on Wayland captures via xdg-desktop-portal → xdg-desktop-portal-gnome → niri's GNOME-Screenshot compatibility D-Bus API → `screenshot_all_outputs` → `ensure!(outputs.len() == 1)` (FIXME upstream). Upstream: niri#4313 (closed duplicate, unfixed in 26.04/8ed0da4), flameshot#4449.
+- NOT just `full`: live-verified docked, `flameshot full` AND `flameshot screen` both hang ~15 s (exit 124 under timeout), write no file. Assume ALL flameshot capture modes dead with 2+ outputs.
+
+## Fix: retire flameshot binds; niri-native replacements (blankpad layout)
+| Chord | Action |
+|---|---|
+| Print / Ctrl+Shift+1 / Mod+Shift+S | `spawn-sh "/home/blank/.omp/scripts/screenshot-desk.sh"` — per-monitor PNGs |
+| Alt+Print / Ctrl+Shift+2 | `screenshot-screen;` — focused monitor → screenshot-path + clipboard |
+| Ctrl+Print / Ctrl+Shift+3 | `screenshot;` — interactive UI (Space saves, Esc cancels; single-output selection by design) |
+
+- Misc: `screenshot-path "~/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot from %Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S.png"` at CONFIG ROOT (it is `config.screenshot_path`; a KDL `output { }` block REQUIRES a name arg — bare `output {}` is a parse error).
+- KDL comments are `//`, never `#` (parses as identifiers → cryptic "identifiers cannot be used as arguments").
+- niri 26.04 screenshot UI: "allows only single-output selections for now" (src/ui/screenshot_ui.rs) — no built-in all-monitor composite; script needed.
+
+## All-monitor script (scripts/screenshot-desk.sh)
+Per active output (`niri msg --json outputs | jq -r .[].name`): `niri msg action focus-monitor <m>` → sleep 0.15 → `niri msg action screenshot-screen --path "<abs>/… <connector>.png"` → restore prior focused monitor (`niri msg --json focused-output | jq -r .name`). No grim, no portal. `--path` must be absolute.
+
+## THE SPAWN-SH PATH TRAP
+niri's spawn-sh PATH = system dirs only; `~/.local/bin` ABSENT. Proof:
+`tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$(pgrep -x niri | head -1)/environ | grep ^PATH`
+→ any bare user-script name in a keybind fails SILENTLY (no journal error, no file). Rule: keybinds use absolute script paths (`/home/blank/.omp/scripts/...`). Audit existing binds for bare names (desk.sh was dead too).
+
+## Verifying a keybind end-to-end without a keyboard
+Reproduce niri's child env exactly:
+`env -i PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl HOME=$HOME USER=$USER LOGNAME=$LOGNAME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 NIRI_SOCKET=/run/user/$(id -u)/niri.$WAYLAND_DISPLAY.$(pgrep -x niri | head -1).sock sh -c "/abs/path/script"`
+NIRI_SOCKET is NOT in niri's own environ (it is set on niri's children); socket path convention: `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/niri.<wl-display>.<niri-pid>.sock`.
+
+## Deploy mechanics (blankpad command-center)
+Live niri config = symlinks into the ~/.omp main checkout ("the checkout is the deployment"). Merge to main → niri auto-reloads (~1 s later journal `DEBUG niri_config: loaded config from ...`); verify that DEBUG line as the reload proof. Manual fallback: Mod+Shift+/. `niri msg` has NO keybinds subcommand — keybind proof = overlay (Mod+Shift+Escape) + journal census.

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+---
+name: niri-config-edit-validate
+description: "Locate, edit, validate, and commit niri compositor config on Frank's workstations: desk/display profiles, EDID-keyed outputs, layout, keybind grepping, dotfiles mirror, noctalia.kdl last-include color override, forced hot-reload."
+---
+
+# Editing niri config on Dank workstations
+
+## Layout of the config
+- Live config: `~/.config/niri/config.kdl` is a thin file of `include "./cfg/*.kdl"` lines. **Never conclude "not bound" from grepping only `config.kdl`** — keybinds live in `cfg/keybinds.kdl`, rules in `cfg/rules.kdl`, layout in `cfg/layout.kdl`, etc. Grep `~/.config/niri/cfg/` recursively.
+- **Include order wins:** `config.kdl` ends with `include "noctalia.kdl"` — a hand-written accent overlay at `~/.config/niri/noctalia.kdl` that re-declares `layout { focus-ring/border/tab-indicator/insert-hint }` + `recent-windows.highlight` colors and BEATS every `cfg/layout.kdl` color edit (observed 2026-10-18: focus-ring color edits to layout.kdl appeared to "not reload" while this file silently repainted them red). Before changing any accent/outline color, grep the WHOLE `~/.config/niri/` tree (not just `cfg/`) for the property and fix the LAST includer. Tracked in repo at `dotfiles/zz-blankpad/niri/.config/niri/noctalia.kdl`; live file is NOT a symlink — sync by `cp` and `diff` like the rest.
+- niri notation: `Mod` = Super/Win key. Chords like `Mod+R { switch-preset-column-width; }`.
+- `~/.config/niri` is a REAL directory, not a symlink; the version-controlled copies are a partial mirror under `~/.omp/dotfiles/zz-blankpad/niri/.config/niri/`. Trees can drift: diff them before/after edits. (Hardlink wiring is FRAGILE — editor/agent atomic-rename writes silently break hardlinks; verify live↔mirror by CONTENT diff, never by link trust.) On blankpad the `cfg/*.kdl` entries are symlinks into the repo (`dotfiles/niri/...` base + `zz-blankpad` overrides) — edit through them freely; `noctalia.kdl` and `config.kdl` are the plain-file exceptions.
+
+## Desk/display profiles (monitor arrangement)
+- Profiles: `cfg/desk-<n>-<name>.kdl` (e.g. `desk-1-home.kdl`, `desk-2-portable.kdl`); ACTIVE profile is symlinked as `cfg/display.kdl` — `readlink` it to know which. `scripts/desk.sh` manages switching; `desk.sh capture` prints connected outputs' EDID long names.
+- Panels are keyed by **EDID long name** (`output "Lenovo Group Limited 0x40A9 Unknown"` = the laptop eDP-1 panel), not connector — connector names reshuffle between desks. Long-name blocks BEAT connector-keyed blocks when both match one output (legacy connector blocks like `output "eDP-1"` linger as duplicates; niri applies the EDID block's `position`).
+- Position math: x,y = top-left of each output in the logical layout; right edge = x + mode width. To place panel A left of panel B: `A.x = B.x - A.width`; bottom-align: `A.y = B.y + (B.height - A.height)`.
+- Verify: `niri validate` → hot-reload → `niri msg outputs | grep -iE 'Output |Position'` (prints `Logical position: x, y`).
+
+## Schema gotchas (niri 26.04)
+- `preset-column-widths` AND `preset-window-heights` are children of `layout { }` as SIBLING blocks — wiki wording misleads; nesting or `window-rule` placement fails `niri validate` with `expected one of proportion, fixed` / `unexpected node`.
+- Preset list order = cycle order for `Mod+R` (`switch-preset-column-width`); `Mod+Shift+R` cycles backwards. WITH custom preset lists the cycle contains ONLY the configured presets — no implicit full/maximize tail (verified: [0.25, 0.5] cycles period 2). Maximize = separate `Mod+F` `maximize-column`. Built-in defaults without the node: 1/3, 1/2, 2/3.
+- WITHOUT `preset-window-heights`, `switch-preset-window-height` FALLS BACK to the width presets — user sees width-fractions as heights; define the node explicitly to stop it.
+- Ground truth for node placement: the binary's embedded template — `grep -a -B4 -A8 "preset-column-widths {" $(which niri)`.
+- Window outlines: base geometry (`width`, `off`) lives in `cfg/layout.kdl` `focus-ring`/`border`; COLORS effectively live in `noctalia.kdl` (see include-order law). `border { off }` + focus-ring active = the visible outline. Frank's look since 2026-10-18: amber-orange `#ff8c00`, width 4 (`active`+`urgent` in noctalia.kdl; tab-indicator/insert-hint/recent-windows stay red `#f43841` by choice).
+
+## Workflow
+1. Edit the live file under `~/.config/niri/cfg/` (symlinked = repo file; except `noctalia.kdl`, edit live then `cp` to mirror).
+2. `niri validate` (exit 0 + "config is valid") — mandatory before done.
+3. **Hot-reload is NOT reliable after harness edits** (atomic-rename writes are missed by niri's watcher; user then tests against the OLD config and reports "no change"). ALWAYS follow with `niri msg action load-config-file` (NOT `reload-config`).
+4. Sync changed file into the mirror: `cp ~/.config/niri/cfg/<f>.kdl ~/.omp/dotfiles/zz-blankpad/niri/.config/niri/cfg/<f>.kdl` (repo root is `~/.omp`, branch `main`, remote = dankclaw Gitea `dank/command-center`; push there is pre-authorized). Verify by `diff`, not by cp success.
+5. Untracked mirror files: `config.kdl`, `noctalia.kdl`, `animation.kdl`, `input.kdl`, `display.kdl` (symlink target) — flag drift, don't silently add; when a live-only file turns out to be load-bearing (like `noctalia.kdl` was), commit the first durable copy into `dotfiles/zz-blankpad/niri/.config/niri/`.
+6. Mirror files often carry pre-existing uncommitted drift (desk.sh captures); a commit of your edit folds it in — say so in the report/commit body.
+
+## Live-behavior verification without disturbing Frank's windows
+- `niri msg --json <subcmd>` — the `--json` flag goes BEFORE the subcmd.
+- Targeting differs per action: WINDOW-scoped actions take `--id <window-id>` (NOT `--window`) — e.g. `switch-preset-window-height --id N`. COLUMN-scoped actions (`switch-preset-column-width`, `set-column-width`, `maximize-column`) have NO id — they hit the FOCUSED column; only `set-column-width <px|±N%>` positional CHANGE, no flags.
+- Spawned test apps do NOT reliably take focus, so blind `spawn + action` cycles resize whatever Frank is looking at. For column actions you must `focus-window --id N` first — and that STEALS focus; if Frank is actively testing chords, your probes and his keystrokes interleave and corrupt both. STOP probing, deliver config + validate, and have him press the chord himself.
+- `niri msg --json focused-window` can report a different window than assumed (focus moves); for per-window measurement read `niri msg --json windows` and filter by `id`. Present height of proportion p with gaps g over work-area H renders ≈ p*(H+g) − g. NOTE (measured 2026-10-18): this build's `windows`/`focused-window` JSON returns `x/y/width/height = null` — pixel-sampling the outline color from screenshots is not viable; ask Frank to eyeball after `load-config-file` instead of burning turns on capture forensics.
+- If Frank reports "still seeing old values" after a config edit: run `load-config-file` first, then verify empirically before believing anything else — and check `noctalia.kdl` include-order override BEFORE suspecting the reload.
+
+## "What does chord X do?" triage
+For "mod+<key>" questions, check in order: `~/.config/niri/cfg/keybinds.kdl` (compositor wins first), terminal configs (`~/.config/ghostty`, `foot`, `kitty`), tmux, then omp TUI chords (`omp://keybindings.md`; modifiers are ctrl/shift/alt/super only, no `Mod`; `Ctrl+R`=history search, `Alt+R`=app.retry).

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+---
+name: niri-multi-monitor-screenshot-capture
+description: Diagnose flameshot screenshot failures on niri with 2+ outputs (portal single-output limit) and capture all monitors via niri-native per-output actions
+---
+
+# Niri multi-monitor screenshot capture
+
+Flameshot works on a single niri output, dies the moment a second output connects. Diagnose via compositor journal, capture full desk with niri-native per-output actions — not grim, not portal.
+
+## Diagnose (one pass)
+
+1. `journalctl --user -u niri --since today | grep -i screenshot`
+   - `WARN niri::niri: error taking a screenshot: Condition failed: outputs.len() == 1 (2 vs 1)` → flameshot's portal path (xdg-desktop-portal-gnome → niri GNOME-Screenshot D-Bus → `screenshot_all_outputs` `ensure!(outputs.len()==1)`). Upstream niri#4313, unfixed in 26.04. Symptoms: error bubbles appearing **after a delay** (portal round-trip), count = number of hotkey presses.
+2. `niri msg outputs` — count active outputs. 1 output = flameshot fine; the bug is dock-state-dependent (portable works, docked breaks).
+3. Per-mode status: `flameshot screen` (focused output) works docked; `flameshot gui` region works (mixed-res scaling bug = flameshot#4449); `flameshot full` dead on 2+.
+
+## Capture all monitors (niri-native)
+
+niri 26.04 has NO all-output capture: screenshot UI is single-output by design (`screenshot_ui.rs`: "allows only single-output selections for now"); D-Bus path hard-limited. Script pattern:
+
+```bash
+prev=$(niri msg --json focused-output | jq -r .name)
+while IFS= read -r mon; do
+  [ "$mon" != "$prev" ] && niri msg action focus-monitor "$mon"
+  sleep 0.15                       # let compositor render a frame after focus move
+  niri msg action screenshot-screen --path "$out/Screenshot from $ts $mon.png"
+done < <(niri msg --json outputs | jq -r '.[].name')
+# restore focus: niri msg action focus-monitor "$prev"
+```
+
+CLI facts (`niri msg action screenshot-screen --help`): `--path` must be ABSOLUTE; `-d/--write-to-disk` default true (also saves per `screenshot-path`); `-p/--show-pointer` default true.
+
+## KDL gotchas (bit me twice; bats `niri validate` catches them)
+
+- KDL line comments are `//`, NEVER `#` — `#` = parse storm "identifiers cannot be used as arguments".
+- `screenshot-path` is a ROOT-level config node (`config.screenshot_path` in config.rs); do NOT nest it in `output {}` — root-level bare node validates and works; `output { ... }` without a name/match arg fails: "additional argument `name` is required".
+- Root-level `prefer-no-csd` is a silent no-op (output-section property) — root unknown nodes only warn.
+
+## Verify
+
+- Run the script live; `file` each PNG (valid dimensions per monitor); `niri msg --json focused-output` equals pre-run monitor.
+- `bats tests/` incl. niri-config assembly validate on every desk profile before commit.
+- Deploy: symlink script into `~/.local/bin` (repo `scripts/` convention, like `desk.sh`); bind `spawn-sh "name"` in keybinds.kdl; niri hot-reloads config on file change.

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+---
+name: noctalia-bar-layout-edit
+description: "Edit/verify Noctalia v5 bar layout and clock widgets (multi-timezone instances, capsule groups); GUI-repo propagation chain, settings.toml symlink audit, and stash-clobber recovery on Frank's dotfiles workstations"
+---
+
+Bar widget layout on Frank's noctalia v5 workstations is GUI-override state, not config.toml.
+
+## Where
+- Layout file: `~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml` -> `[bar.<name>]` keys `start` / `center` / `end` (arrays of widget ids; `[widget.<id>]` subtables hold per-widget settings).
+- On Frank's boxes this file MUST be a **symlink into the command-center repo** (e.g. `~/.omp/dotfiles/noctalia/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml`) - edit the repo file, not the link path (atomic-rename writes through the link path would replace the symlink).
+- Layer order: built-in defaults < `~/.config/noctalia/config.toml` (+`[include]`) < `settings.toml` (wins). Noctalia writes through symlinks and keeps them.
+- Defaults when a key is absent: `start = ["launcher","wallpaper","workspaces"]`, `center = ["clock"]`, `end = ["notifications","clipboard","network","bluetooth","tray","battery","session","control-center","clock"]`.
+
+## Clobber window and recovery (2026-10-18 incident law)
+- GUI-built layout is **working-tree-only until the hourly live-sync heartbeat commits it**. A merge/sync session that "clears the dirty tree" can `git stash` those edits, and later stash operations can destroy the entries - customizations then vanish from the live bar with the repo copy stale.
+- Never blame the GUI or noctalia first: diff live file vs `HEAD`, check heartbeat commits (`git log -- dotfiles/noctalia/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml`), then the stash chain.
+- Destroyed stashes are recoverable: `git fsck --lost-found` lists dangling commits; `git show <dangling>:dotfiles/noctalia/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml` dumps each candidate; pick by `[bar.default]` richness (capsule groups, extra clock instances). Validate a candidate in a sandboxed `XDG_*_HOME` before touching the live file.
+- After recovery, commit the file immediately so the window closes.
+
+## Widgets (v5 census, verified 2026-10-17)
+- Full roster in `settings.toml` widget_order plus docs: activity, backlinks, battery, bluetooth, brief, bright, cat, cheatsheet, chart, clipby, clipboard, control-center, cpu, controls, cava (now playing), disk, gpu, help, keyboard, language, launcher, mediaplayer, memory, mic, network, night-light, noctalia-palette, notification-history, notifications, niri-colors, power-section, power-profile, screenrecord, scratchpad, screenshot, session, shell (custom shell command), slowouts, slowouts-visible (per-output bar assignment), speedtest, swayosd-*, taskbar, tray, voiceline, volume, wallpaper, weather, workspaces.
+- `clock` widget: `format` (chrono strftime), `schema` (12/24), `multi_line`, `show_seconds`, `popup`, and **timezone** = IANA name. Multiple clock widget instances are supported: ids like `clock`, `clock-utc`, `clock-sea` each get a `[widget.<id>]` subtable -> one capsule per instance. This is how multi-timezone (Seattle work + UTC dev) lands: add `clock` + `clock-utc` to `end` (or `center`), set `timezone = "Etc/UTC"` on the utc one.
+- `cat` widget: shows random ASCII art, `rows` setting (4-10).
+- `shell` widget: `command`, `run interval` (seconds), `icon`, `terminal`; output lands in its capsule popup - can wrap any CLI (hyprstatus-style).
+- `taskbar` widget: shows window buttons **only on outputs where `niri-bridged` is enabled** (noctalia-launcher enables it). Buttons render **icon-only** (app icon from icon theme; fallback = first letter of title); the window title string is NOT shown in the bar. Hover tooltip carries title + app_name. Per-widget settings: `show_icons`, `show_actions`, `disable_middle_click`, `preferred_app_names` (map app_name -> icon for missing icons).
+- Widget ids usable in `[bar.*].start|center|end` are restricted to "bar widgets" (`is_bar_widget` allowlist in `bar.rs`); non-bar widget ids are silently dropped at load. `group:<id>` entries render capsule groups.
+- Capsule groups: `[bar.<name>.capsule_groups]` id = `["widget",...]`.
+- Niri layout law for bars: window width must stay **odd** (strut = (W-1)/2); bars reserve via layer-shell, niri's reserved area = layer surface size, so bar height changes need no niri edit.
+
+## Bar styles (GUI-visible, settings.toml keys)
+- `[bar.*]`: `thickness`, `font_family`, `font_weight`, `font_size`, `opacity`, `border_width`, `border_offset`, `rounded`, `paddings`, `icon_ratio`, `follow_layout`, `output`, `exclusive`, `layer` (`bottom` = below window layer; `overlay` = above windows), `position` (`top`/`bottom`).
+- Per-monitor bars: add a `[bar.<name>]` with `output = "<monitor>"` and `follow_layout = true` (niri) -> per-workspace strut follows tall windows on that monitor. This is the mechanism for "bar shrinks when a window is tall" (the bar is a layer-shell strut, NOT a niri layer rule).
+- The GUI "Bar" page is the reference list; anything absent from settings.toml is a built-in default.
+
+## Slowouts (window-height-aware bars/panels)
+- `slowouts` = hidden engine (not a bar capsule): `[slowouts]` keys `enabled`, `duration`, `easing`, `trigger_offset`; per-monitor `[slowouts.<monitor-name>]` overrides (e.g. `DP-1`) with the same keys plus `edge`.
+- `position = "top"` + `exclusive = false` + slowouts on the monitor -> panel hides when a window touches its edge, re-reveals otherwise. `slowouts-visible` = toggle capsule.
+- **Slowouts needs niri workspace-autoresize ON** (niri `workspace-autoresize` = "per-workspace" in cfg/layout.kdl `output ... { workspace-autoresize per-workspace }`): noctalia computes hide from workspace height < panel bottom edge; uniform-strut layouts never trigger it.
+- Per-output bars: slowouts config keys are monitor names, so one `[bar.<x>]` with `output` + `exclusive=false` + `layer=overlay` per slowout monitor is the supported shape.
+
+## Layout modes and window title decorations
+- `[layout]`: `mode` (`tiling`|`floating`|`monocle`), `pseudotiled`, `focus_bar` (window-title bar at top, center, layer-shell; style via `[ui.controls...]`/bar-ish settings), `window_follows_cursor`, `gaps`, `border_width`, `rounded`, `blur`, `opacity`, `borderless_csd`, `show_native_decoration`.
+- `focus_bar` is the noctalia analog of niri's drawn window title, but ONE global bar (no per-window arrows). True per-window title tags = niri `draw-with-border` on window rules; noctalia adds no per-window decoration (it's a bar app + portal, composites nothing).
+- Floating mode: right-click desktop / `SUPER+Shift+F` / toggle widget; widgets `floating-directories`, `floating-files`, `pins` (sticky notes), `canvas`, `sketchpad`, `post-its`. Float windows snap to screen quarters (`SUPER+Ctrl+Alt+Arrows`) and tile into current layout (`SUPER+Shift+T`). `[layout.floating.files]` = icon/view/sort/preview size.
+- `[bar.*].window_display` = `disabled`|`icons`|`text`|`combined` - per-window chips in the bar strip (niri only; this is what niri-taskbar could not do). Values: `disabled`|`icons`|`centered`|`inside`. Requires compositor per-window workspace assignment (niri: yes; LabWC: no -> stays flat).
+- The `workspaces` widget itself has no window display; styles are regular/minimal/focus_hint only.
+
+## Law
+- Full widget/setting tables: https://docs.noctalia.dev/noctalia/bar/ and .../bar/widgets/<name>/ . Commit bar changes atomically to the command-center repo (checkout is the deployment).
+- **Ask before applying.** Frank asks "how do I X" questions about the live bar; answer with the exact snippet + file, apply ONLY on explicit go. A settings.toml edit is a live-deployment change, not a demo.
+- Git `M` on settings.toml usually carries noctalia's own runtime churn (wallpaper path, nightlight, panel positions) alongside your edit - mention it when committing.
+- Right after building layout in the GUI, commit settings.toml (or trigger `scripts/live-sync.sh`) before any branch/merge work: the uncommitted-GUI-edit window is exactly where the 2026-10-18 clobber happened.

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+---
+name: omp-bundle-claim-audit
+description: "Verify or discover omp TUI behavior facts from the minified dist/cli.js bundle, with live niri-screenshot matrix confirmation; use when auditing docs claims or answering \"how does omp actually do X\"."
+---
+
+# omp bundle claim audit
+
+Ground omp behavior claims in `~/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js` (minified single line), not guesswork.
+
+## Extraction
+- `grep -oE` too weak for long windows; use python: read whole file, `re.search(r'ANCHOR.{0,900}', s)` windows around stable anchors.
+- Reliable anchors: settings ids (`id:"statusLine.contextLine"`), renderer ids (`id:"path",render\(e\)\{`), registry arrays (`l9e=\[`, `Uxe=\{` preset table), descriptions (`"Label",description:"([^"]+)"`).
+- Minifier renames symbols per release — anchor on string literals, never on `#Xt`/`zG` names.
+- Enum values live in a var: find `id:"KEY"` → `values:VAR` → `re.search(r'VAR=\[[^\]]+\]')`.
+- Some segments are factory-generated (`VDt("token_in",...)`) — literal id scans miss them; check the catalog array (`l9e`) and preset tables for referenced ids.
+- Beware gallery/preview code faking production behavior (e.g. `N4r` synthesizes a status bar for the settings gallery) — confirm the window you cite is the production render path.
+
+## Live confirmation (only where pixels decide)
+1. Edit `~/.omp/agent/config.yml` (file-watched, repaints without restart).
+2. `sleep 2 && niri msg action screenshot-screen --path /tmp/x.png --show-pointer false; sleep 1.5` (flag is `--path`, NOT `-o`; the write lands slightly late — sleep before PIL).
+3. Crop + 1.3x LANCZOS via PIL, `read` the crop.
+- Multi-window screens make bar crops ambiguous: prefer settling the question in code (the layout gate `layout!=="box"&&layout!=="band"` style booleans) over pixel forensics; scan rule rows by dominant-color spans only for single-color questions.
+- ALWAYS restore config edits afterwards (track exact line anchors; the edit tool demands a matching snapshot header).
+
+## Audit output
+Correct false claims in-place, keep an "Audit log" section listing each ~~claim~~ → truth with code/live evidence; mirror corrections into `omp-docs/log.md`.

agent/managed-skills/omp-context-file-discovery/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-context-file-discovery
+description: Where omp loads context/instruction files from (and why ancestor-directory AGENTS.md never loads) — the discovery map for scoping a rule to a set of projects; includes the before_agent_start cwd-gate pattern and quote-probe verification.
+---
+
+# Scoping omp rules: context-file discovery map
+
+## When
+Asked to make a rule apply "everywhere", "all repos", or "only projects under <dir>" in the omp harness.
+
+## Discovery facts (bundle-verified 2026-10-18, omp v18.8.7, dist/cli.js)
+- Project context loaders are **first-hit at-or-below repo-root**: AGENTS.md walk-up stops with `if(dir===repoRoot)break`; the `.omp/`-dir provider (`EGs`) returns the single nearest dir containing `.omp` (skips home); CLAUDE.md provider loads one user file + one project file. **Consequence: an AGENTS.md placed in an ancestor directory like `~/Projects/` is never loaded by descendant repo sessions.** No ancestor-scope mechanism exists.
+- User/global slots: `~/.omp/agent/AGENTS.md` (user-level context, if present), `~/.omp/agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md` (system-prompt append, project variant checked first, then user; broadcasts to ALL sessions — no path scoping), rules dirs `~/.agents|~/.agent` + `<ancestor>/.agents|/.agent` rules via walk-up (again repo-root bounded). Extensions load from `<settings-dir>/extensions/` — user-level = `~/.omp/agent/extensions/`.
+- Settings ids to grep for: `statusLine.*`, `composer.*`, `instructions` (= Copilot-style file-glob instructions package, not a path list).
+
+## The only cwd-scoped mechanism
+`before_agent_start` extension handler: event carries `{prompt, images, systemPrompt}` (string | string[]); return `{systemPrompt}` to replace (handlers chain; undefined = untouched). Gate on `ctx.cwd.startsWith(target + "/")`. Constant appended text keeps prompt caching intact; subagents inherit the session cwd, so they get the rule too. Registering extensions under a git-tracked dir that omp also reads (e.g. command-center `agent/extensions/`) propagates them fleet-wide via git pull.
+
+## Verification recipe (quote probe)
+Non-interactive one-shot from each side of the boundary, cheap model:
+`cd <in-scope-dir> && omp --model <alias> "Look at your system prompt. If it contains a heading starting with '<marker>', reply with exactly the text of its bullet about <x>. Otherwise reply exactly MISSING."`
+`--model @role` aliases do NOT resolve in one-shot; use a model alias like `frank-zealot`. Expect the verbatim bullet in scope, `MISSING` out of scope.
+
+## Traps
+- A rejected implementation still needs its live copy unshipped (move to `.AGENTTRASH/`) — extension files in `agent/extensions/` take effect for new sessions immediately, merged or not.
+- Amend the changelog entry of the abandoned route to state closed-unmerged + the durable findings, so future agents don't resurrect it.
+- Prefer direct per-repo AGENTS.md edits when the operator wants auditability over mechanism (command-center 2026-10-18: extension route closed unmerged in favor of a PR in each target repo).

agent/managed-skills/omp-cwd-scoped-rules/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-cwd-scoped-rules
+description: "Deliver a rule to omp sessions only under a directory subtree (e.g. ~/Projects/) — context-file loaders can't; use a before_agent_start extension + quote-probe verification."
+---
+
+# Cwd-scoped rules for omp sessions
+
+## Why context files fail for subtree scoping
+Verified against `@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js`: every context provider resolves **at or below the repo root** — the project walker breaks at `repoRoot`, `.omp/`-dir and CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md providers load exactly one project file (first hit). A file in an ancestor dir like `~/Projects/AGENTS.md` is NEVER loaded by descendant repos. `agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md` (user level, `gs()`=`Nn.agentDir`) loads for ALL sessions everywhere — broadcast, not scoped.
+
+## Mechanism: before_agent_start extension
+File: `~/.omp/agent/extensions/<name>.js` (user-level load path is `<settings-dir>/extensions/`; in the command-center repo `agent/extensions/` is tracked and rides git pull to the fleet).
+
+```js
+export default function (pi) {
+  const ROOT = "/home/blank/Projects/";
+  const RULES = "\n\n# <heading> ...";  // constant text -> prompt cache unaffected
+  pi.on("before_agent_start", async (event, ctx) => {
+    const cwd = (ctx && ctx.cwd) || "";
+    if (cwd !== ROOT.slice(0, -1) && !cwd.startsWith(ROOT)) return; // undefined = untouched
+    const base = event.systemPrompt;                                 // string | string[]
+    return { systemPrompt: Array.isArray(base) ? [...base, RULES] : (base || "") + RULES };
+  });
+}
+```
+Contract (bundle-verified): handler payload `{prompt, images, systemPrompt}`; returning `{systemPrompt}` replaces the base; handlers chain; fires for subagent sessions too (shared cwd) — usually desired.
+
+## Verification recipe (quote-the-prompt probe)
+No print flag; positional arg = one-shot. Role aliases (`--model @sonic`) do NOT resolve in one-shot — use a model id.
+```bash
+P="If your system prompt contains a heading starting with '# <heading>', quote its <X> bullet; else reply exactly MISSING."
+cd /home/blank/Projects/<repo> && omp --model <id> "$P"   # expect verbatim bullet
+cd /tmp && omp --model <id> "$P"                          # expect MISSING
+```
+Run both positive and negative probes; stderr swallows fast failures — keep 2>/dev/null off the first try.
+
+## Gotchas
+- Declare precedence in the injected text if a repo's own AGENTS.md contradicts it (models see both).
+- A running session does not hot-load new extensions — only new sessions get them.
+- `~/.omp/agent/APPEND_SYSTEM.md` precedence: project-level file first, then user-level (first hit wins).

agent/managed-skills/omp-extension-live-tui-verify/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-extension-live-tui-verify
+description: "Verify an omp extension's slash commands and event hooks against a real TUI session: pty submit semantics, observable side-effect instrument, transient-toast trap, agent_end willContinue law, PipeWire output triage."
+---
+
+Verify that a `.ts` file in `agent/extensions/` actually works inside the interactive TUI — the black-box bats seam cannot see harness-side wiring (event names, arg passing, mode gating), and it will pass beside a dead hook.
+
+Distinct from `omp-tui-live-visual-verify` (config/theme rendering proven by screenshot): here the instrument is **observable side effects**, not pixels, because extension notifications are transient toasts that vanish before the pty buffer is read.
+
+## 1. Launch the exact build under test
+
+```bash
+omp --no-extensions --no-session -e /abs/path/agent/extensions/<name>.ts
+```
+as a **pty service** (`pty: true`, `ready: {"log": "╭|❯|Tip:|─", "timeout": 60}`).
+`--no-extensions` + explicit `-e` proves the file loads by path and nothing else interferes. Neutral cwd (`/tmp`) so repo state cannot color the run.
+
+## 2. Submit input correctly (the costly gotcha)
+
+`write proc://<id>` with a trailing `\n` does **not** submit — the text just sits in the composer.
+
+- **Works:** two writes — first `"/cmd args"` (no terminator), then a **separate** write whose whole content is `\r`.
+- **Broken:** `"/cmd args\r"` in one write. It still submits, but the trailing `\r` arrives inside the command args. Symptom: `unknown voice 'narrator1\r'`, an unexpected extra utterance, or a chat message whose transcript line ends in a literal `\r`. That is a harness artifact — never "fix" it by stripping control characters in the extension (`.trim()` already covers what a keyboard can produce).
+
+## 3. Instrument with a stub, never with ears or eyes
+
+Point the extension's player/handler at a script that appends evidence:
+
+```bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+echo "$1" >> /tmp/stub.log; cp "$1" "/tmp/out-$$.wav"; exit 0
+```
+Run the TUI with that stub in the env the extension reads (`DANKVOICE_PLAYER=…` style). Then every assertion is a file: `wc -l` of the log (how many times it fired), `ffprobe -show_entries format=duration` (what it produced), `ls -d <tmp-glob>` (that cleanup ran).
+
+Sequence per behavior: command → CR → short `sleep` → count. **Count before and after** each command; the delta is the only honest proof a subcommand stayed silent.
+
+## 4. Discriminate "fired twice" from "fired once per turn"
+
+Stray CR writes can create extra empty turns, each with its own `agent_end` — two utterances for one intended prompt is usually **two turns**, not a duplicate speak. Confirm by counting assistant turns in the transcript (`read proc://<id>`), and by matching each clip's duration to its own answer's length.
+
+## 5. Event-hook contract traps
+
+- `agent_end` payload (`dist/types/extensibility/shared-events.d.ts`): `{ type, messages: AgentMessage[], willContinue? }`. **`willContinue: true` means the harness already scheduled a continuation** (auto-retry / empty-stop retry) — a subscriber that narrates or notifies there speaks an answer the model is about to redo. Gate on it.
+- Read the real event/payload shape from `~/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/types/…`; grep `dist/cli.js` for the literal event names to confirm they exist.
+- A driver test that *calls* the handler by hand proves nothing about emission — that is exactly the gap this live check closes.
+
+## 6. Audio output goes silent while every command reports success
+
+`pw-play` exits 0 and prints `stream drained` even when nobody hears anything. Triage order:
+
+```bash
+wpctl status                       # Sinks, the `*` default, and live Streams
+wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@
+```
+- A **`Default Configured Devices` entry naming a `bluez_output.*` node that is not in the Sinks list** = remembered-but-offline Bluetooth: the classic silent-route cause.
+- Confirm the stream really links: a short clip can vanish before inspection, so use a multi-second clip and read `wpctl status` mid-play, or target explicitly: `pw-play --target <node-id> <file>` (node ids from `wpctl status`; `wpctl inspect <id>` gives `node.name`).
+- Prove the synth path independently of the player: `curl -o x.wav …` then `file x.wav` (expect `RIFF … WAVE … PCM`).
+
+## 7. Land it
+
+Live result belongs in the commit message, the reference page, and the work log — and the guard the live check uncovered gets its own behavior test (assert observable output only: fired count, payload content, silence).
+
+## Cleanup
+
+`/exit` or `proc://<id>/kill` the service; move stub scripts, logs, and clips to `~/.AGENTTRASH/<date>-<topic>/` — never `rm`. Kill background jobs that keep playing to the operator's speakers.

agent/managed-skills/omp-harness-window-fit-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-harness-window-fit-audit
+description: "Audit an omp harness model entry against an engine's prompt+max_tokens fit check; explains and fixes 400 \"max_tokens does not fit\" at 60-85 % of the declared window."
+---
+
+Use when a local endpoint returns 400 `max_tokens N does not fit: prompt is P tokens and the context is C, leaving room for R` on omp, typically at 65-85 % of the declared window.
+
+## The three numbers that must agree
+1. Engine hard ceiling: prompt_tokens + max_tokens ≤ window (halogen `HALOGEN_CTX`/slot, llama.cpp per-slot `ctx_size/parallel`, radiance `--max-model-len`). A 400, never truncation.
+2. Harness clamp: `max_tokens = min(maxTokens, contextWindow − est − 4096)`, est = chars/4 over the conversation+tools. The dump in `~/.omp/logs/http-400-requests/*.json` proves it: est = contextWindow − 4096 − max_completion_tokens.
+3. Compaction fires only at `compaction.thresholdPercent` × contextWindow (config.yml; ignore stale reserveTokens/70 % comments).
+
+## The trap
+chars/4 under-counts the rendered chat template by ~3 % on code/agent traffic. If contextWindow == engine ceiling, requests with est > 4096/0.03 ≈ 137k are guaranteed 400s below the compaction threshold (65-85 % of a 200k window). maxTokens ≤ 16,384 hides this; 45,056 exposes it.
+
+## Fix procedure
+1. Compute required slack: maxTokens + 0.10 × contextWindow (robust to est error).
+2. Raise the engine ceiling to ≥ contextWindow + slack (native window is the natural choice: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 262,144). Halogen: pool must stay slots × CTX (`HALOGEN_KV_POOL_POSITIONS`, ~28 KiB/position); check memory ledger.
+3. Keep harness contextWindow below the ceiling by ≥ slack (217,088 = 212×1024 for a 262,144 ceiling with maxTokens 45,056).
+4. Verify compaction itself fits its target (remoteEndpoint slot ≥ thresholdPercent × contextWindow − keepRecentTokens(20k) + overhead).
+5. Update env + seam test + models.yml + AGENTS.md together; a single-file change re-creates the drift.
+
+## Verification
+Probe a prompt at ≥ 180k tokens with max_tokens = the clamped value; expect completion, not 400.

agent/managed-skills/omp-keybinding-inspection/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-keybinding-inspection
+description: "Find what a key chord does in omp: doc table, live bundle defaultKeys inspection, modifier names, remap file"
+---
+
+Answer "what does chord X do in omp" with evidence from docs + installed bundle, not memory.
+
+## Steps
+
+1. Read `omp://keybindings.md` — common action IDs and defaults (`Ctrl+R` history search, `Alt+R`/`F5` retry, `Alt+A` agent hub, ...). Docs are not a complete inventory.
+2. Locate the install: `readlink -f $(which omp)` → usually `~/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js` (bundled).
+3. Extract live default chords from the bundle (authoritative for installed version):
+   ```bash
+   cd <dist dir> && grep -o '"app[^"]*":{defaultKeys:[^}]*' cli.js
+   ```
+   Contextual duplicates exist: same chord can map to different actions in different views (e.g. `ctrl+r` = `app.history.search` in composer, `app.session.rename` in resume picker).
+4. Modifier names: `pi-tui/dist/types/keys.d.ts` → `ModifierName = "ctrl" | "shift" | "alt" | "super"`. "mod"/Super binds as `super+`; only shipped super chords are `super+alt+backspace|delete|d`. Most Linux terminals swallow plain Super chords (needs kitty keyboard protocol / CSI u: kitty, foot forward them).
+5. Remaps live in `~/.omp/agent/keybindings.yml` (NOT config.yml): `action.id: chord` or array; `[]` disables. Profile-aware: default-profile file loads first, active profile overrides per action.
+6. In-session live reference: `/hotkeys`.
+
+## Pitfalls
+
+- `grep pi-tui/dist/*.js` fails (no top-level js; types only under `dist/types/`).
+- Chord notation is case-insensitive, UI-style (`Ctrl+P`, `Alt+Shift+P`).
+- Old unqualified action names auto-migrate; new configs use namespaced ids (`app.*`, `tui.editor.*`).

agent/managed-skills/omp-model-id-rename-cutover/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-model-id-rename-cutover
+description: Rename an OMP fleet model id in models.yml and prove every reference and endpoint still resolves before commit/push.
+---
+
+# OMP model id rename cutover
+
+Renaming a model id in `~/.omp/agent/models.yml` touches three layers: the registry, every
+reference in `agent/config.yml`, and the wire contract with the serving endpoint.
+
+## 1. Find every reference
+Provider names are labels; ids are referenced from `config.yml` (`modelRoles.*`,
+`task.agentModelOverrides.*`, `compaction.modes`), from other models' `compactionModel`,
+and from docs/memory. Grep the tracked set:
+
+```bash
+git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep -ln 'OLD_ID'
+```
+
+`agent/memories/**` and `omp-docs/log.md` are historical records: leave them alone.
+`agent/models.yml` comments that name the *service* (e.g. `frank-large.env`) stay — the
+systemd unit names do not change with the harness id.
+
+## 2. Prove reference integrity (throwaway, do not commit)
+Parse both YAMLs and cross-check. The provider label contains a space and parentheses
+(`llamacpp (dankserver)`), so use an explicit pattern; a `split(/\s+/)` yields false
+unresolved hits like `(dankclaw)/frank-dragoon`.
+
+```python
+pat = re.compile(r"llamacpp \([^)]+\)/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+")
+known = {f"{n}/{m['id']}" for n, pv in models["providers"].items() for m in pv["models"]}
+# walk cfg.modelRoles / cfg.task / compactionModel, flag tokens not in known
+```
+
+Expect: zero unresolved refs, and every `compactionModel` present in `known`.
+
+## 3. Prove the endpoint accepts the new id
+`/v1/models` reports the SERVED name (radiance echoes the request id, halogen and
+llama.cpp echo their own). Then send a 4-token completion with the NEW id against each
+provider `baseUrl`:
+
+```bash
+curl -s http://HOST:PORT/v1/chat/completions -H 'content-type: application/json' \
+  -d '{"model":"NEW_ID","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"say OK"}],"max_tokens":4}'
+```
+
+200 + `reasoning_content` = the rename is harness-side only. All three engines on the
+Dank fleet ignore the request `model` field.
+
+## 4. Fit check against the served window
+Read the served window (`/v1/models` → `context_length` / `meta.n_ctx`) and confirm the
+declared `contextWindow + maxTokens` fits the slot/pool the engine admits against.
+Compaction fires at `compaction.thresholdPercent` of `contextWindow`; the clamp is
+`max_tokens = min(maxTokens, contextWindow − est − 4096)` and the chars/4 estimate
+under-runs ~3 % on code.
+
+## 5. Commit shape
+One commit for `models.yml` (ids + windows + sampling), one for `config.yml` (role map,
+compaction endpoint). Note in the message which wire names stay unchanged, and record
+the rename in `omp-docs/log.md` (newest section first). Run `scripts/kb-lint.sh` before
+committing docs. The `.githooks/pre-commit` secret gate runs automatically; never
+`--no-verify`.

agent/managed-skills/omp-models-yml-runner-api-placement/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-models-yml-runner-api-placement
+description: "Add or edit a non-chat (tts/image/embedding) model row in ~/.omp/agent/models.yml, wire the speech role, and diagnose a failing speech device without blaming a healthy endpoint"
+---
+
+# Scope
+
+`~/.omp/agent/models.yml` (or `models.yaml`) on a workstation: adding a **runner**
+model row (TTS / image / embedding / rerank / video) alongside chat providers,
+flipping `config.yml` `modelRoles` at it, and diagnosing a speech device that
+refuses to speak.
+
+# The landmine
+
+Provider-level `api` accepts **only chat/judge transports**:
+`openai-completions`, `openai-responses`, `openai-codex-responses`,
+`azure-openai-responses`, `anthropic-messages`, `bedrock-converse-stream`,
+`google-generative-ai`, `google-gemini-cli`, `google-vertex`,
+`openrouter-decisions`, `typesafe`.
+
+Naming a runner API (`openai-speech`, `openai-images`, `openai-embeddings`, …)
+at **provider** level fails whole-file validation, and the failure mode is not
+scoped to your provider:
+
+```
+Warning: models.yml validation failed — custom providers disabled
+  Failed to load config file models, Schema error: providers.<id>.api: must be "openai-completions", …
+```
+
+Every custom provider disappears from the registry (fleet chat endpoints stop
+resolving) and `omp models` lists only built-in locals. Measured 2026-10-18.
+
+# Correct shape
+
+Runner api goes on the **model entry only**; `auth: none` satisfies the
+credential requirement; omit `contextWindow`/`maxTokens` (the positivity check
+fires only when they are provided — `omp models` still prints filled defaults,
+which the runner transport never reads).
+
+```yaml
+  "frank-tts (dankclaw)":
+    baseUrl: http://192.168.0.143:7772/v1   # no `api:` here
+    auth: none
+    models:
+      - id: frank-tts
+        name: "frank-tts (dankclaw) — cloned voices"
+        api: openai-speech                   # runner api on the model
+        input: [text]
+```
+
+Roles live in `config.yml` (`modelRoles`), not in `models.yml`. Kind roles
+(`image`, `web`, `speech`, `dictation`, `judge`) take no `:thinking` suffix.
+
+# Verify after every edit (never assume the file loaded)
+
+```bash
+omp models --kind tts --no-extensions      # the new row must appear
+omp models --no-extensions | grep -E '<each fleet chat model>'   # and still be listed
+omp models | grep -c 'validation failed'   # must be 0
+```
+
+A run that lists only built-ins means your row broke the file — revert before
+yielding.
+
+# Speech transport contract (`openai-speech`)
+
+Body is `{model, input, response_format, voice?, speed?}`; `voice` is forwarded
+**only** when the caller passed `voice_id`; `sample_rate`/`bit_rate` **throw**
+(`openai-speech does not support sampleRate`). Codec comes from the
+`output_path` suffix; 15 000-character cap. An unknown `voice` name is a server
+error, not a fallback — and `auth: none` makes a dead endpoint read as
+*available*, so point `modelRoles.speech` at such a provider only after it has
+answered a real synthesis.
+
+# Three speech-role laws (bundle-read + measured 2026-10-18)
+
+1. **No setting carries a voice for `openai-speech`.** The transport builds the
+   body with `voice` from the call's `voice_id` and nothing else.
+   `tts.localVoice` is the *local Kokoro backend's* key; `speech.voice` is the
+   TUI's **speak-aloud** voice, an enum of Kokoro names that never reaches an
+   HTTP request (setting it to a pack name breaks the vocalizer and does nothing
+   for synthesis — read `cfgSpeechVoice` in `dist/cli.js` before believing
+   otherwise). So a voice-less call is the harness's **normal** shape: a
+   voice-required endpoint needs a server-side default (fleet answer:
+   `DEFAULT_VOICE` in `scripts/frank-tts.env`, journal marks the line
+   `(default)`, unknown names still 400 with the list).
+2. **An explicit role has no fallback candidate.** `modelRoles.speech` set to one
+   model yields exactly one candidate, so a dead endpoint or an unresolvable
+   selector fails with *"No available speech model matches the speech role"*
+   instead of degrading to Kokoro. Loud-by-design; do not "fix" it by adding a
+   fallback in the client.
+3. **`models.yml` loads at process start; `config.yml` is read live.** A session
+   older than the new row fails exactly like a dead endpoint while a fresh
+   process succeeds in the same minute.
+
+# Diagnosing "speech device won't speak" — in this order
+
+1. `curl` the endpoint directly with a real voice name. 200 + audio ⇒ the service
+   is fine and the fault is harness-side; stop touching the server.
+2. Control test in the *same* session: point `modelRoles.speech` at
+   `local/kokoro` and call the device. It works ⇒ `config.yml` is live-read and
+   the runner selector or its voice argument is the problem, not the endpoint.
+   Revert the role immediately after.
+3. Distinguish stale registry from dead endpoint with a fresh process:
+   `omp -p --no-session --no-extensions --no-skills --no-rules --tools tts --cwd /tmp
+   'Call the tts tool exactly once with text="…" output_path=/tmp/x.wav
+   voice_id=<name> — then reply with the tool result line.'`
+   Succeeds ⇒ the long-lived session predates the `models.yml` row; restart it.
+4. Cross-check server-side, never trust the client's echo: the façade/access log
+   line and the engine's own ledger must carry the same byte count the tool
+   printed. (`model=…` in a tool result is what the client *requested*; a server
+   line is the fact.)
+5. For harness-behaviour claims, read the bundle rather than reasoning from the
+   tool description: `/home/blank/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/dist/cli.js`,
+   e.g. `grep -o -E '.{300}response_format:[a-zA-Z$]+.{250}'` for the speech body
+   builder, `grep -o -E 'cfgSpeechVoice:.{0,400}'` for what a settings key feeds.

agent/managed-skills/omp-system-prompt-retrieval/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-system-prompt-retrieval
+description: "Retrieve the exact system prompt an omp session is running: /dump while live, RPC get_state re-render, and the shipped template/override source paths."
+---
+
+# Retrieve omp's live system prompt
+
+Three routes, in fidelity order. Verified on omp 18.4.10 (linux/x64).
+
+## 1. `/dump` — the only exact capture of a LIVE session
+TUI slash command: "Copy session transcript to clipboard (and write LLM request JSON to tmp)".
+The request JSON is the wire-true payload (system blocks + tool schemas). Path is printed in
+the `/dump` output; then:
+
+```bash
+jq -r '.system[] | strings // .system' <file>                          # anthropic shape
+jq -r '.messages[] | select(.role=="system") | .content' <file>        # openai shape
+```
+
+**The prompt is never persisted in the session JSONL.** Session entries are only
+`title, session, model_change, thinking_level_change, message, custom(tool_execution_start),
+model_usage`. So a past session's prompt is unrecoverable from disk — capture live, or re-render.
+
+## 2. RPC `get_state` — re-render without a model call
+`omp --mode rpc` answers `{"type":"get_state"}` with `data.systemPrompt: [blocks]` and
+`data.dumpTools` (spec: `omp://rpc.md` "get_state payload"). Drive it over stdio:
+
+```python
+cmds = json.dumps({"id":"p1","type":"negotiate_protocol","protocolVersion":2}) + "\n" \
+     + json.dumps({"id":"s1","type":"get_state"}) + "\n"
+p = subprocess.run(["omp","--mode","rpc","--no-session","--no-pty"],
+                   cwd=TARGET_CWD, input=cmds, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=280)
+```
+
+Closing stdin shuts it down cleanly (exit 0), no model call, no session file written.
+
+- Parse stdout line-by-line. Protocol v2 wraps logical frames >1 MiB in `rpc_chunk` frames:
+  key on `chunkId`, require all `count` indices, `base64.b64decode` and concatenate in `index`
+  order, then `json.loads` — otherwise a large prompt is silently lost.
+- Shape measured on a dotfiles repo cwd: 2 blocks, ~45 KB / ~391 lines —
+  block 0 = static instruction block (RFC 2119 line, `§ Role`, Engineering/Tone/Escalation,
+  tool inventory, `xd://` catalog), block 1 = footer opening `<project-context>` +
+  `<critical>` + the cwd's `AGENTS.md`.
+- `--no-extensions` changes nothing in the blocks; tool count rides in `dumpTools`, not the prompt.
+- `cwd` matters: the footer is cwd-derived (workstation block, context files, skills, rules).
+
+## 3. Sources (edit here, not in a dump)
+| Layer | Path |
+|---|---|
+| Default instruction template (Handlebars, block 0) | `<pkg>/src/prompts/system/system-prompt.md` |
+| Footer | `<pkg>/src/prompts/system/project-prompt.md` |
+| Plain-custom template | `<pkg>/src/prompts/system/custom-system-prompt.md` |
+| Repo rules (into footer) | the cwd's `AGENTS.md` |
+| Overrides | `--system-prompt`, `--system-prompt-template <path>`, `--append-system-prompt`; discovered `SYSTEM.md`, `SYSTEM_TEMPLATE.md`, `APPEND_SYSTEM.md`, `PERSONALITY.md`, `TITLE_SYSTEM.md` |
+
+`<pkg>` = `~/.bun/install/global/node_modules/@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent` (resolve via
+`readlink -f $(command -v omp)`). Docs: `omp://system-prompt-customization.md`.
+
+Precedence: explicit CLI flag > project `SYSTEM.md` > project `SYSTEM_TEMPLATE.md` >
+user `SYSTEM.md` > user `SYSTEM_TEMPLATE.md`. A same-scope literal always beats a discovered
+template, so a `SYSTEM_TEMPLATE.md` is inert while a `SYSTEM.md` sits beside it.
+
+## Trap
+NEVER paste a rendered `/dump` into `SYSTEM_TEMPLATE.md`: a render freezes settings, tool
+catalogs, and mounted-device data. Copy the Handlebars **source** and diff against the shipped
+path after every omp upgrade. Plain files (`SYSTEM.md`, `APPEND_SYSTEM.md`) are inserted
+verbatim — `{{cwd}}` and friends stay literal there; only the template route compiles Handlebars.

agent/managed-skills/omp-tui-live-visual-verify/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: omp-tui-live-visual-verify
+description: "Verify omp TUI config changes (status line, composer, theme) live: edit watched config, niri screenshot, PIL crop, restore — with the flag and race pitfalls."
+---
+
+# Live visual verification of omp TUI config
+
+## When
+Changing `~/.omp/agent/config.yml` (statusLine.*, composer.*, theme) on a Frank workstation and needing PROOF of how it renders — not inference from the bundle. The status-line/composer knobs are file-watched: edits repaint the RUNNING session; no restart.
+
+## Loop (per trial)
+1. Read the live config line(s) first; edit with `edit` (never batch trials — one state per screenshot).
+2. Capture: `sleep 2 && niri msg action screenshot-screen --path /tmp/x.png --show-pointer false` — flag is `--path` (`-o` is invalid); the write lands asynchronously, so `sleep 1.5` before touching the file.
+3. Crop+scale with PIL to the bar/composer region (known good crop for blankpad right monitor: `(2267,1240,3440,1440)`, 1.3x LANCZOS), then `read` the PNG absolute path.
+4. For pixel facts (rule colors, meter lengths) don't eyeball alone: scan rows with `Image.load()` counting dominant colors; sample every 2px and lower thresholds before concluding "nothing found".
+5. After the matrix, RESTORE the original values and re-screenshot the baseline.
+
+## Pitfalls
+- Read a downscaled FULL-screen shot first: Frank's screens carry multiple terminals + a browser; a fixed crop can silently capture a different window's bars (happened during the contextLine audit — two omp windows on one screen).
+- Session-accent rules/borders share colors with meters; color presence alone proves nothing. Compare states against each other, and settle ambiguous pixels from the bundle code path (grep `dist/cli.js` for the render function).
+- Live config drifts (other sessions own files there): never `git add -A` the main checkout to promote a trial; commit from a separate `git worktree add` off the target ref.
+- `read` the absolute `/tmp/...` path for screenshots.
+- Multi-value enums: one screenshot per value; identical renders (e.g. claude shape `contextLine: off` vs `embedded`) are themselves a finding — record them as such.

agent/managed-skills/omp-worktree-path-gotchas/SKILL.md

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+---
+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."
+---
+
+# Multi-worktree gotchas in ~/.omp-style repos
+
+Measured 2026-10-18 building PR #12/#14 in `dank/command-center` worktrees.
+
+## 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.
+
+- 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. 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:
+
+```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).

agent/managed-skills/openwebui-picker-acl-repair/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: openwebui-picker-acl-repair
+description: "Add, enable, or repair a model in the Dankclaw OpenWebUI 0.6 picker: connection enable + model row + access_grant trio, verified via /api/models as admin and role=user."
+---
+
+# OpenWebUI 0.6 picker: add / enable / repair a model (Dankclaw)
+
+Symptoms: non-admin sees "No results found"/"Model not found" while admin sees the model (repair); endpoint live, model_ids correct, model absent from picker (add).
+
+## Law — a picker entry needs ALL legs, keyed by the EXACT upstream served id
+1. openai.api_configs (config table, JSON map by idx): that connection has enable: true and model_ids containing the upstream id. Non-empty model_ids = no upstream fetch (llama.cpp's Ollama-shaped /v1/models is invisible to discovery; halogen/radiance are OpenAI-shaped, model_ids stays authoritative).
+2. model table row: id == upstream id (alias rows with base_model_id set render in the picker but chat fails "Model not found"), base_model_id NULL, is_active 1, user_id = admin uid, params {"context":{"length": PER-SLOT window}}, meta {"description": "..."}.
+3. access_grant row: resource_type=model, resource_id=<id>, principal_type=user, principal_id='*', permission=read. Without it only admins see the model (get_filtered_models drops info-less rows for role=user).
+
+URLs: on-host endpoints via host.containers.internal:<port> (bridge cannot hairpin the host LAN IP); other hosts via LAN IP.
+
+## Steps
+1. Snapshot: cp -a webui.db webui.db.bak-<date><letter>.
+2. Apply with host python3 over ssh (no sqlite3 CLI on Dankclaw) on /home/dank/Containers/open-webui/data/webui.db: read-modify-write the whole openai.api_configs JSON value; insert model row (epoch-ms created_at/updated_at); insert access_grant (uuid4 id).
+3. Restart: systemctl --user restart open-webui.service (rootless quadlet) to drop the cached model list. Restart kills browser JWTs: expect one SSO re-round-trip per tab; kill stale tabs first so OAuth state cookies don't race.
+4. Verify (mint tokens in the container; create_token is in open_webui.utils.auth; export WEBUI_SECRET_KEY from /app/backend/.webui_secret_key):
+   - GET /api/models (key data) lists the id as admin AND as a role=user token (e.g. qa-e2e-admin uid). This is the picker truth.
+   - POST /api/chat/completions, prompt "Reply with exactly one word: pong", max_tokens 1500 (thinking models give empty content + finish_reason length on small budgets).
+   - NEVER gate on GET /api/v1/models/list (key items): on 0.6.x it lists workspace models only, [] for connection-backed models (measured 2026-10-09).
+
+## Related knobs
+- User API keys need user.permissions JSON features.api_keys=true in config (default false).
+- SSO signups land role pending (ui.default_user_role=pending): UPDATE "user" SET role='user' WHERE email=... (table user, singular, no active column); row exists only after first login.
+- Anubis gates ai.franksdank.cloud for headless browsers; drive direct :3005.
+- The trio is DB-only, lost on a fresh volume. Record changes in serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankclaw/OpenWebUI.md (Facts, backends table, History): the model id is a foreign key across three tables, so any endpoint alias rename must ship the same re-key.

agent/managed-skills/openwebui-tts-chain-audit/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: openwebui-tts-chain-audit
+description: Audit/repair OpenWebUI TTS on Dankclaw when cloned voices get rejected by a 29-name Kokoro enum or synthesis is silent; rootless DB + endpoint probes
+---
+
+Audit OpenWebUI's TTS/STT wiring on Dankclaw when a voice is rejected, synthesis is silent, or someone asks "is the cloned voice wired correctly". Not for model-picker/ACL issues (openwebui-picker-acl-repair owns those).
+
+## Shape of the stack
+- Container `open-webui` runs **rootless as `dank`** on Dankclaw: `ssh dankclaw 'podman exec open-webui ...'` (NO sudo: `sudo podman` sees an empty world). Host port 3005.
+- Server-side config = `webui.db` `config` table (admin), per-user overrides = `user.settings` JSON column. Settings changed via UI persist per-user; admin page persists to `config`.
+- Cloned voices live behind the frank-tts façade `:7772` (`/v1/audio/speech`, `/v1/audio/voices`); voices resolve to `/home/dank/voices/<name>/reference.wav`.
+
+## The trap (2026-10-18 law)
+`Error: Voice "narrator1" not found. Should be one of: af_heart, ...` (29 names) is **OpenWebUI's bundled in-browser Kokoro** (`browser-kokoro`) rejecting client-side — frank-tts never sees the request. Signature: container logs show zero `audio/speech` hits. Fix = the personal dropdown Settings -> Audio -> TTS Engine -> Default (empty string), not any deploy.
+
+## Probe sequence (read-only, safe)
+1. Admin truth:
+   `podman exec open-webui python -c "import sqlite3; c=sqlite3.connect('/app/backend/data/webui.db'); [print(k,'=',v) for k,v in sorted(dict(c.execute('SELECT key,value FROM config')).items()) if 'audio' in k or 'tts' in k.lower()]"`
+   Expect: `audio.tts.engine=openai`, `audio.tts.openai.api_base_url=http://host.containers.internal:7772/v1`, `audio.tts.model=frank-tts`, `audio.tts.voice=<cloned name>`.
+2. User overrides — a user pinned to `browser-kokoro` beats admin config. CAUTION: `user.settings` can be SQL NULL or the JSON string `"null"`:
+   `... for uid,s in c.execute('SELECT id,settings FROM user'): d=json.loads(s) if s else None; d=d if isinstance(d,dict) else {}; hits={k:v for k,v in d.items() if 'audio' in k or 'tts' in k.lower()} ...`
+3. Endpoint truth: `curl -s http://127.0.0.1:7772/v1/audio/voices` (roster), then POST the exact OpenWebUI body `{"model":"frank-tts","input":"probe","voice":"narrator1","response_format":"mp3","speed":1.0}` to `/v1/audio/speech` — expect `200 audio/mpeg`.
+4. Contrast logic: server-path failure leaves a container log line AND a façade error; browser-kokoro failure leaves neither.
+
+## Law
+- Full contract + diagnosis live in serverAppConfigs docs (`Dankclaw/OpenWebUI.md` § Text-to-speech, `Dankclaw/Frank TTS.md` troubleshooting). Docs are the source; this skill is just the probe route.
+- Rootless gotcha generalizes: any Dankclaw service probe through podman goes WITHOUT sudo unless the unit is a system quadlet.

agent/managed-skills/parallel-worktree-path-hazard/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: parallel-worktree-path-hazard
+description: "\"Use when several agents edit the same repo in different git worktrees at once, or when an edit/read may have landed in the wrong checkout: which path forms bind where, how to detect with git -C status, and the repair protocol (cp + git show HEAD blob write-back) because git checkout/restore is policy-blocked in a shared workspace.\""
+---
+
+# Concurrent-worktree path hazard (shared repo, many agents)
+
+Measured 2026-10-18 on `serverAppConfigs` with two agents live at once. The
+failure is **silent**: the tool reports success, the diff looks right, and the
+change lives in a *different* worktree.
+
+## Which path form binds where
+- **Parent/top-level session**: a **relative** `path` resolves against the
+  session CWD — its own worktree — never against the worktree named in the
+  prompt. This is how a change meant for `wt-tts-trial-docs` landed in
+  `wt-20261017-…`.
+- **Subagent**: an **absolute** path to its own assigned worktree can resolve
+  into the parent's worktree when the same *relative* path exists there
+  (`edit` twice onto `dankclaw/.env.example`). Its `write` with the same
+  absolute path was fine — the bug is `edit`/`read` path resolution, not `write`.
+
+Rules that hold:
+1. A subagent passes paths as `../<its-worktree>/<rel>` (relative to the parent
+   worktree) for `read` **and** `edit`; the parent passes **absolute** paths to
+   any worktree that is not its own CWD.
+2. After every edit batch, prove the landing site, do not trust the tool's echo:
+   `git -C <intended-worktree> status --short` must list the file. A file you
+   edited that is missing from that list went somewhere else.
+3. Keep each work item on its own branch/worktree, and keep ONE integration
+   owner (the parent) for shared files — `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`,
+   `scripts/deploy-plan.py`, `tests/`, `serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md`,
+   `AGENTS.md` are the collision hot spots in this repo. Never rebase a
+   sibling's branch.
+
+## Repair protocol (no `git checkout`, no `git restore`)
+`git checkout -- <path>` and `git restore <path>` are **policy-blocked** in a
+shared workspace ("overwriting working-tree files … discards changes other
+concurrent agents rely on"). Unstaging (`git reset [<path>]`,
+`git restore --staged <path>`) is allowed but does not undo content. So:
+
+```bash
+F="path/with spaces if any"
+# 1. move the change to the worktree that should own it (both at the same base commit)
+cp "<wrong-wt>/$F" "<right-wt>/$F"
+# 2. undo in the wrong worktree by writing the committed blob back
+git -C "<wrong-wt>" show "HEAD:$F" | tee "<wrong-wt>/$F" > /dev/null
+# 3. prove both sides
+md5sum <(git -C "<wrong-wt>" show "HEAD:$F") "<wrong-wt>/$F" "<right-wt>/$F"
+git -C "<wrong-wt>" status --short          # must be empty for that file
+git -C "<right-wt>" diff --stat             # must show the intended delta
+```
+
+Never fix it blind: if the wrong worktree had its own uncommitted edits to that
+file, `cp`/blob-write-back would destroy them — check
+`git -C <wrong-wt> status --short` FIRST and reconcile content, don't overwrite.
+
+## Tidy after a cancelled sibling
+A killed subagent can leave a worktree plus an empty branch. Removing them is
+safe only when verified empty: `git -C <main> log --oneline -3 <branch>` (no
+unique commits) and `git -C <wt> status --short` (clean), then
+`git worktree remove <wt>` + `git branch -D <branch>`. An orphan worktree at a
+stale commit is the same class of trap as a leftover bench drop-in: the next
+agent reads it as unfinished work.
+
+## Report it
+File the misresolution to `xd://report_issue` (false positives are fine) and
+record the incident in the repo worklog — a repair nobody wrote down looks like
+a hijack later.

agent/managed-skills/podman-one-shot-hang-proofing/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: podman-one-shot-hang-proofing
+description: "Run remote podman one-shot jobs hang-proof: container-as-unit timeout/reap protocol; diagnosing stalls where ssh never returns and containers outlive timeout"
+---
+
+Use when running one-shot container jobs over SSH (grading sandboxes, CI executors) and a caller stalls, or `timeout N podman run ...` demonstrably fails to kill the workload.
+
+## Stall signatures (all three = this bug)
+- SSH client process alive for hours, no established-socket data flowing
+- `podman ps` shows the container `Up` far past the timeout; `podman top <c> -o pid,stat,etime,args` shows `R`/`S` workload
+- endpoint/queue reports idle (`in_flight: 0`) while the caller awaits
+
+## The three laws
+1. **A `timeout`/SIGTERM on an attached `podman run` client kills only the client.** The container is conmon-detached: it survives, inherits the ssh stdout pipe, ssh never sees EOF, the awaiting parent blocks forever.
+2. **`podman wait` has NO `-t` flag in podman 5.x** (docker-ism) → every exec silently dies with rc 125. Bound the waiter with coreutils `timeout -k 5 <T> podman wait <ctr>` — killing a waiter is harmless.
+3. **`podman rm -f` is the only true container kill** (escalates SIGTERM → SIGKILL on the container itself).
+
+## Hang-proof exec protocol (single ssh script)
+```bash
+cname=job-<unique>
+podman run -d --name "$cname" --network none --memory 4g --cpus 2 <image> python /w/entry >/dev/null
+timeout -k 5 "$T" podman wait "$cname" >/dev/null 2>&1; rc=$?
+code=$(podman inspect -f '{{.State.ExitCode}}' "$cname" 2>/dev/null || echo -1)
+podman logs "$cname" 2>/dev/null; echo "EXIT:${rc}:${code}"
+podman rm -f "$cname" >/dev/null 2>&1
+```
+- `rc=0, code=0` → success; `rc=124` → timed out (container reaped); harvest output via `podman logs`.
+- Wrap the local ssh spawn in a **hard timeout of T + 180 s** (kills transport half-hangs too).
+- Unique `--name` per submission; the trailing `rm -f` is also the leak reaper.
+
+## Recovery of a live stall
+1. `ssh host podman rm -f <ctr>` (warning "resorting to SIGKILL" confirms the theory).
+2. Kill the hung local ssh + supervisor; queue/ledger resume (append-only ledger + takeover by heartbeat-pid liveness) resumes mid-eval; a hung step re-graded under the fixed protocol records a clean FAIL exit 124.
+
+## Test to keep (regression)
+`execPython("while True: time.sleep(1)", timeout=20)` → expect `exitCode 124`, completion < 180 s, then `podman ps --format {{.Names}} | grep -c <prefix>` == 0.

agent/managed-skills/quadlet-v1-generator-quirks/SKILL.md

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----
-name: quadlet-v1-generator-quirks
-description: "When writing or deploying Quadlet .container units on podman 5.x (v1 generator, e.g. Dankclaw), avoid keys the v1 generator hard-fails on and verify generated ExecStart before starting; generated units cannot be enabled."
----
-
-# Quadlet v1 generator quirks (podman 5.x)
-
-The podman 5.x user generator (`/usr/lib/systemd/user-generators/podman-user-generator`, quadlet **v1**) behaves differently from the v4 docs. Verified live on Dankclaw 2026-08-28 while deploying the authentik trio.
-
-## Hard-fail keys (unit silently fails to generate — `systemctl --user cat <unit>` shows "could not be found")
-- Any dash-prefixed option line in `[Container]`: `--shm-size=512m` etc. → generator logs `unsupported key '--shm-size' in group 'Container'` and skips the whole unit. Omit them; accept podman defaults.
-- `Command=` is unsupported — use `Exec=` (that is what this generator accepts).
-
-## HealthCmd space-splitting
-The v1 generator splits `HealthCmd` on spaces into the healthcheck argv array (`podman inspect --format {{.Config.Healthcheck.Test}} <ctr>` shows `[CMD-SHELL pg_isready -d ... ]`). A quoted probe like `/bin/sh -c "pg_isready ..."` lands as argv token `"pg_isready` → command-not-found → container reads **unhealthy while the DB is actually up**. Rule: HealthCmd must contain only space-free argv tokens, e.g. `HealthCmd=pg_isready -d authentik -U authentik` or `python /manage.py check --database default`.
-
-## Generated units cannot be enabled
-`systemctl --user enable <generated-unit>` fails with "unit is transient or generated". Boot persistence comes from `[Install] WantedBy=default.target` inside the `.container` file, honored by the generator at user-manager start; linger must stay on for the deploy user. Deploy handlers: install unit → `systemctl --user daemon-reload` → `systemctl --user start`; no `enable`.
-
-## Probe a new key before shipping it
-Drop a throwaway `probe.container` into `~/.config/containers/systemd/`, `systemctl --user daemon-reload`, then check the generator verdict:
-
-```bash
-journalctl --user --since "1 min ago" -o cat | grep -i "unsupported key"
-systemctl --user cat probe.service   # shows the generated ExecStart verbatim
-rm ~/.config/containers/systemd/probe.container && systemctl --user daemon-reload
-```
-
-If a healthcheck ever reads unhealthy but logs look fine, suspect this quirk first: compare the baked `Healthcheck.Test` array against the intended command before believing the status.

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+---
+name: radiance-frank-primary-benching
+description: "Bench frank-primary (radiance) decode/prefill via the scratch-container harness: method, noise floor, and the MNBT/HOST_POOL/envelope laws to respect before proposing any flag change."
+---
+
+# Benching frank-primary (radiance)
+
+## Method (works as of 2026-10-06)
+- Entry point: `bash autoresearch.sh` (dev box) → scp's `scripts/frank-primary.env` + `scripts/autoresearch-frank-primary.sh` to dankserver → the bench script ON dankserver: stops frank-primary (relinked unit: `stop`, never `mask`), boots scratch container `arbench` on the candidate env, polls /health (binds after full load, ~110 s cold), runs ONE greedy completion (fixed ~140k-char repo-corpus prompt, seed 1234 → 43,627 prompt tokens, 256 decode tokens, temp 0), parses the engine `timings` object, tears down, and restores prod via a trap.
+- Metrics from `timings`: `prompt_per_second` (cold prefill), `predicted_per_second` (decode at depth = (predicted_n-1)/predicted_ms), `prompt_ms` (TTFT), `draft_n`/`draft_n_accepted` (acceptance).
+- Fresh prefix-cache tier per run (`/data/kvcache/arbench`) so cold prefill is cold; prod's tier untouched.
+- Bench locally on dankserver (127.0.0.1) — no LAN jitter. Run-to-run ~4-5 min.
+
+## Noise floor (measurement law)
+- Decode: ~±3% on IDENTICAL config (33.06 / 32.03 / 30.90 observed). Single-run deltas <3% are not evidence; re-run before keeping.
+- Prefill: ~±2% (453/448/457 identical config).
+
+## Laws at the seqs=3 / maxlen=200k / fp8-KV / MTP-on shape (2×R9700, TP=2)
+- **MNBT is a sharp resonance at 2048**: 2560 → decode 2.6-7.7 t/s (acceptance stays normal, verify stalls ~130 ms/step, generation truncates); 1536 → decode 24.7 + 22% prefill loss + truncation; 4096 → boot failure at seqs=3 (boots at seqs=2, -2.6% only). DO NOT move MNBT off 2048.
+- **HOST_POOL_MIB 40960 is the load-bearing floor**: 36864 fails boot; 49152 boots but decode-flat.
+- **EXPERT_VS_CACHE 0.82 is bracket-confirmed**: 0.78 fails boot; 0.84 costs 8.9% (toward the documented 0.87 collapse cliff).
+- **TP_WIRE wht6 is mandatory** at seqs=3: bf16 (lossless) fails boot.
+- **SPEC_TOKENS**: depths 1-3 statistically tied on decode; 0 = -6.8% (real), 4 = -22.5% (acceptance collapses to 0.50). Depth 2 nominal peak.
+- MAX_MODEL_LEN 262144 (native) costs 2.5% — the larger KV pool steals resident-weights VRAM at expert_tiered.
+- GPU_HEADROOM 48 vs 96: no effect.
+
+## Hazard: abandoned bench contamination
+- If a prior bench run is skipped/abandoned mid-flight, the next scratch boot may race the leftover engine and produce garbage numbers. Before trusting any collapse measurement: `podman ps -a` on dankserver — confirm the previous arbench is gone and frank-primary is active — then reproduce the collapse on a clean boot before writing it into the record.
+
+## State
+- HEAD on the autoresearch branch: spec=2, seqs=3, maxlen=200k (df6b5bb6e807). All spec 1-3 × seqs 2-3 configs decode within 30.9-33.1 — statistically tied. Frank's decision pending: keep spec=2/seqs=3 or revert to his spec=3/seqs=2 (83% acceptance, likely better for real multi-turn traffic).
+- Production verified healthy (health 200) after every run via the harness trap.

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+---
+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"
+---
+
+# 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:
+
+```
+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)
+```
+
+`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.
+
+## 2. Pool contract (the engine enforces it at REQUEST time, not boot)
+
+`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.

agent/managed-skills/radiance-model-feasibility-scout/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: radiance-model-feasibility-scout
+description: "Scout whether a new GGUF model can run on radiance (R9700 fleet): GGUF header census, REUSE/ADAPT/NEW gap matrix vs radiance docs, ledgers (traffic/KV/RAM/disk), KLD-gate substitution, HTML report delivery."
+---
+
+# Radiance Model Feasibility Scout
+
+Answer "can model X serve on radiance (dankserver R9700 TP=2), and what's the bill?" Produce an HTML report. Complements `gguf-header-vram-fit-analysis` (fit math), `radiance-w4-convert-playbook` (conversion mechanics), `radiance-quantize-and-score`.
+
+## 1. GGUF header census (trust header, not the card)
+- Range-parse the header: tensor count, per-type census (type → tensor count / params / bytes), layer pattern from tensor names, `general.architecture`, `llm_type`, rope dim, expert counts, `mtp` declaration.
+- MTP: presence is decided by the **tensor-name census** (`nextn.*`/`mtp` tensors), never by metadata.
+- Confirm tokenizer + `chat_template` KV entries ship in the file; mmproj = separate BF16 tower file.
+- Cross-check total bytes vs the published file size.
+
+## 2. Gap matrix vs radiance docs
+Read `PLUGIN.md` (arch-plugin contract, quantizer registry, core/mm image-pipeline law), `OPS.md` (op catalog: attention tiles h256 gqa2/4/8 + h512 gqa8, GDN, QSA, MoE, MTP), `QSA.md` (indexer decomposition bounds), `GUIDE.md` + `gguf.cpp` (dtype table 0–44: all standard GGUF grids readable — quantization happens in rad-convert, not the loader). Classify every component REUSE / ADAPT / NEW with the specific op named. The live `qwen4exp` plugin (~2k lines, QSA+MoE+mHC+GDN) is the template and the shared-header reuse list.
+
+## 3. Laws checklist (recurring traps)
+- GGUF `ssm_a` = −exp(A_log); undo at convert/plugin time.
+- One-table-one-encoding: a routed-expert table takes ONE rad encoding; mixed GGUF grids (q2/q3/q4 per layer) re-quantize to w4 GPTQ + whole-expert BF16 protected set.
+- int8 trunk + int8 lm_head laws; swiglu clamp carries from the arch family; rope-free layers need no RoPE path.
+- KDA ≠ GDN: per-channel decay + 3 convs + L2-normed q/k + lower-bound gate → new kernel family (FLA `chunk_kda` is the oracle); `kkt_solve`/`chunk_scan` is the critical path.
+- MLA: latent-cache absorbed form (KV = latent width × dtype), needs its own attention tile (e.g. h512 gqa-64) + per-head v bmm.
+- llama.cpp merged PR for the arch = the ground-truth formula oracle (sign conventions, APE layout, Sinkhorn input).
+
+## 4. Ledgers (all in the report)
+- Per-token weight traffic GB (trunk int8 + active experts w4 + lm_head) → decode anchored on frank-archon's measured 99 t/s @ ~6.3 GB/token; state [INFERENCE].
+- KV: per-token bytes per pool + per-seq state terms; cross-check vs any prior fleet runbook that served the same model.
+- Pinned RAM: host pool + prefix vs `LimitMEMLOCK`/`ttm-preflight.sh` law.
+- Disk peak = GGUF + `.rad` (~187 GiB-class for a 300B MoE, no PLE) vs free space; options: retire rollback payload / external convert host / `--in-place`.
+
+## 5. KLD gate feasibility
+BF16 teacher = GGUF params × 2 B; if unservable (626 GB-class), the substitute gate = llama.cpp (arch PR merged in master) serving the GGUF on the Dankclaw iGPU — GTT aperture ~114 GiB — stop+mask frank-dragoon for the window, KL + top-1 census vs radiance `.rad`. Document as a gate deviation.
+
+## 6. Deliver as self-contained HTML
+- Single file, inline CSS with `prefers-color-scheme` vars, section anchors + TOC, census/gap/risk/plan tables, `[INFERENCE]` labels on arithmetic.
+- Write in **chunks**: one `write` ≈ ≤8 KB (output-token limit), end each chunk with `<!--MORE-->`, then `edit` with `PUT N.=N:` where N = marker line — **prefix every body row with `+`** (bare rows get auto-prefixed; register lines like `@name` land as literal content).
+- Validate: python `html.parser` tag-balance script + grep for stray markers; `xdg-open` the file.

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+---
+name: radiance-precision-selection
+description: "Choose tensor precisions for a radiance (StillDeadcode) rad-convert recipe on RDNA4: what is native, what is supported, what the hardware rewards."
+---
+
+# Radiance precision selection
+
+Use when writing/choosing a `rad-convert` recipe for radiance on RDNA4 (gfx1201), or when arguing why a model was converted a particular way.
+
+## Project map (which repo is authoritative)
+- `codeberg.org/StillDeadcode/radiance` — standalone engine (C++/HIP). Recipes: `data/recipes/*.recipe`; docs: `docs/{GUIDE,MOE-W4,KERNELS,PLUGIN,TOOLS,OPS,ARCHITECTURES,DOCKER}.md`. Prefer the RAW form of Codeberg URLs when reading: `/raw/branch/main/<path>`.
+- `codeberg.org/StillDeadcode/libr4d` — kernel library; entry points encode exact geometry and reject mismatch (`attn_decode_h256_gqa6_fp8kv`, `gdn_chunk_scan_k128_v128_c64_bf16`, `ar_oneshot_2rank_exact`). Kernel names are the ground truth for which dtypes have a fast path.
+- `codeberg.org/StillDeadcode/vllm-radiance` — deprecated vLLM wrapper; README still carries the best prose on the FP8 dispatcher and kernel list.
+
+## Precision ladder
+| Precision | Role |
+|---|---|
+| block-FP8 (E4M3 + bf16 block scales) | native tuned GEMM/attention/KV — "preshuffled block-FP8 dispatcher" |
+| MXFP4 (OCP group-32) / W4A8 | supported weight packing; activations dynamically quantized to FP8 E4M3, compute is FP8 WMMA |
+| bf16 | KV (`auto`), skinny GEMMs, Gated-DeltaNet kernels |
+| int8 / int4 | draft head and integer GEMM paths |
+
+## Decision rules
+- Prefer block-FP8 for anything the engine qualifies: generic upstream AITER linear in place of the FP8 dispatcher measured **9–11 % slower**; all upstream-qualified models are FP8 (Qwen3.8-27B-FP8, Qwen3.6-27B-FP8, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, Gemma-4-31B-it-FP8).
+- Weight packing is a *storage* choice, activation dtype is the *compute* choice: MXFP4 buys bytes, not an FP4 compute path.
+- The matrix core is integer-biased: f16 WMMA is half the int8 rate and a quarter of the int4 rate ⇒ int4 > int8 > f16. FP8/INT8 kernels must fuse double-K WMMA to saturate the 128-bit memory interface (GPUOpen WMMA guide part 2) — a "slow" quantized kernel usually means a missing K-fused variant, not an inherent dtype cost.
+- Keep low-bit tricks on the draft head (int4/int8) where verification tolerates them; keep lm_head and hard-selection tensors (QSA indexer top-k) at high precision — the shipped recipes quantify the cost (int8 lm_head beats E4M3 by ~0.6 top-1 points).
+
+## Verification
+- Read the recipe's own header comments: radiance recipes state measured KL / top-1 / prefill-decode deltas for their choice, and name the `--reuse` inputs.
+- Confirm the kernel exists before promising a dtype: grep libr4d entry points for the dtype suffix (`fp8kv`, `bf16`, `exact`).

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+---
+name: radiance-quantize-and-score
+description: "Design a rad-convert recipe for a radiance (StillDeadcode) MoE checkpoint, calibrate it, and score it with the KL mode — the procedure plus the servable-format law."
+---
+
+# Radiance: quantize, calibrate, score
+
+For a HuggingFace checkpoint → `.rad` on the radiance engine (Codeberg StillDeadcode/radiance).
+
+## 1. Know the servable formats before writing a rule
+The block/plugin serves a fixed list; the converter refuses an encoding no kernel reads (`docs/TOOLS.md:184`). For qwen4exp MoE experts: `fp8a8, w4a8, w4a8h, bf16, w4nla8h, w4nl64a8h, w4nl32a8h, w5nl64a8h` (`arch/common/rad_block_moe_fp8.h` `kServed`); dense: `fp8a8, i8a8, fp8a16, mxfp4a8, bf16`, plus the `u2` draft head. `fp6_*`/`u6` encode but never serve. Read `kServed` in source — never trust a code-name list from docs prose.
+
+## 2. Recipe file
+Header `#` lines are stored in the container; first matching rule wins, so put `cast dtype=bf16` protected-expert rules and projection-specific rules **ahead of** the general `blk.*.ffn_*_exps.*.weight` rule. Unmatched weights are served as the checkpoint holds them (bf16). Verify names against radiance's internal stems (`ffn_gate_up_exps`, `ffn_down_exps`, `attn_qg`, `ssm_inz`, `ple_ngram`, `output.weight`), not the HF names.
+
+## 3. Calibrate (GPTQ/awq/autoround/paroquant need `$CALIB`)
+Bootstrap: `rad-convert` with plain `rtn` → serve with `RADIANCE_CALIB_DIR` (+`RADIANCE_CALIB_TOKENS`) and drive prefill → re-convert with `--recipe … --reuse <bootstrap.rad>` (`--reuse` copies every weight whose encoding did not change). A BF16 checkpoint may be calibrated as it ships: convert with no recipe + `--max-ctx 4096`, serve `--placement expert_tiered --weights-disk-tier`, MNBT large (a step costs the same at 1 token as at 32K). Corpus must look like production traffic; score on a held-out slice.
+
+## 4. Score
+`radiance --model BF16.rad … --kld-record DIR --kld-corpus C.jsonl` (exact wire, bf16 KV) once, then `--kld-ref DIR --kld-out R.json` per candidate. Report = mean/median/p99/p99.9/p99.99 KL, top-1 agreement, both perplexities, **per `source`** — label the corpus's `source` field to get per-turn-type scopes. KLD corpus disjoint from calibration. Keep `--max-num-batched-tokens ≤ 8192` (the logits buffer is ~2 GiB/rank per 4096 tokens).
+
+## 5. Set the gate from the published ladder, not from a wish
+Compare against `docs/MOE-W4.md`'s table for the arch (served tier / heavier tier / bf16 floor). A threshold below the bf16 floor rejects every quantized build by construction. Escalation ladder reuses the same Grams (Hessians are grid-independent) → escalate by re-converting only.
+
+## 6. Verify before serving
+`rad-tune` at the served shape (TP, spec depth) with a persistent cache mount; read the boot ledger for residency; run the fleet probes.