feat(open-notebook): env contract — CPU guard, credential store, auth posture

The two knobs that keep the box alive: TTS_BATCH_SIZE=1 and
OPEN_NOTEBOOK_WORKER_MAX_TASKS=1. Upstream ships 5 x 5; frank-tts spawns one
~8 GiB, 8-thread engine process per synthesis request on a machine that also
serves two LLMs, so a five-way fan-out is a self-inflicted shutdown. The worker
knob is real, not decorative: the image's supervisord expands
${OPEN_NOTEBOOK_WORKER_MAX_TASKS:-5} into the worker command
(supervisord.conf:25).

Both ESPERANTO_* timeouts go above upstream's 300 s defaults, sized for CPU
synthesis (SHIM_TIMEOUT=600, LLAMA_TTS_THREADS=8) — one episode is dozens of
per-line /audio/speech calls and a timeout kills the episode, not the line.

API_URL is forced for the 5055 -> 5056 remap; SURREAL_URL addresses the database
by container name; CORS_ORIGINS is origin-form (scheme://host:port), the form
the app compares against. OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD stays absent here on purpose:
the app treats a set-but-empty value as auth-on.

Secrets stay placeholders in the tracked file and in dankclaw/.env.example, which
lists SURREAL_PASSWORD rather than SURREAL_PASS — the deployer derives the
surreal CLI's spelling from it when it seeds, so the app and the database cannot
be handed different values.

dankclaw/.env.example

@@ -79,3 +79,23 @@ MARRETA_APP_KEY=changeme
 # account on first boot from these values.
 MARRETA_ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@franksdank.cloud
 MARRETA_ADMIN_PASSWORD=changeme
+
+# open-notebook (podcast generator; internal-only, no vhost).
+# deploy-remote.sh seeds /home/dank/Containers/open-notebook/env from these
+# values (only if that file does not already exist) and refuses to start the
+# units while any of them is blank: a blank OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD means
+# authentication OFF, and a blank encryption key means no provider credential
+# can be saved. The seed writes SURREAL_PASS too — the spelling the `surreal`
+# CLI reads — from SURREAL_PASSWORD, so the app and the database cannot be
+# given different values.
+# OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENCRYPTION_KEY: encrypts the stored AI provider keys at rest.
+#   Generate: openssl rand -hex 32
+# Changing it after credentials are saved makes them undecryptable.
+OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENCRYPTION_KEY=changeme
+# UI/API password. Every API route — including the episode-audio download the
+# app serves without a session — is open to the LAN while this is unset.
+OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD=changeme
+# SurrealDB root password (the root user NAME comes from
+# scripts/open-notebook.env, so this file holds only the secret).
+#   Generate: openssl rand -base64 32
+SURREAL_PASSWORD=changeme

scripts/open-notebook.env

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+# open-notebook.env — configuration for **open-notebook**, the fleet's podcast
+# generator on Dankclaw (UI host port **8502**, API host port **5056**). Read by
+# BOTH Quadlet units (dankclaw/open-notebook/quadlet/) as the FIRST
+# EnvironmentFile= line, which is why every path and host name below is the
+# value the CONTAINER must see.
+#
+# TWO FILES, ONE ORDER. This file is tracked; it holds knobs, not credentials.
+# The three secret keys below are declared EMPTY on purpose — the `scripts/*.env`
+# gitignore exception exists for "paths and numbers, never credentials" — and the
+# real values live in the host file the deployer seeds at
+# /home/dank/Containers/open-notebook/env (mode 600, seeded from dankclaw/.env,
+# the same convention grafana/marreta/pihole follow). Both files are handed to
+# podman in EnvironmentFile= order and the LAST one wins (verified against the
+# generated run line), so the host file overrides these blanks. Do not reorder
+# the two lines.
+#
+# WHY THE DEPLOYER REFUSES TO START THESE UNITS WITHOUT THE SECRET FILE. An empty
+# OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD is not "unconfigured", it is **authentication off**, and
+# the episode-audio download is one of the routes the API serves without a
+# session; an empty SURREAL_PASS lets the database come up with different root
+# credentials than the app will present; an empty OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENCRYPTION_KEY
+# means no provider credential can be saved at all. So the guard is in
+# deploy-remote.sh (seed_open_notebook_env), not in the app's opinion.
+#
+# THE CPU-SHUTDOWN GUARD (the two knobs that matter most on this box). Defaults
+# are TTS_BATCH_SIZE=5 and OPEN_NOTEBOOK_WORKER_MAX_TASKS=5 — five parallel
+# synthesis requests from five parallel jobs. frank-tts answers each request by
+# spawning its own engine process (~8 GiB resident, 8 threads, measured in the
+# frank-tts CPU trial of 2026-10-18), so the defaults mean ~40 GiB and forty
+# threads aimed at a machine that also serves frank-dragoon and frank-zealot and
+# whose TTS engine runs on the SAME CPU. Both numbers are 1 here: one episode at
+# a time, one voice line synthesized at a time. That is a throughput choice, not
+# a correctness one — a podcast is a background job — and it is the difference
+# between a slow render and a box that stops answering the text endpoints
+# mid-sentence. Raise them only with a TTS engine that batches internally.
+#
+# THE TTS CLOCK. ESPERANTO_TTS_TIMEOUT is the worker's patience per DIALOGUE
+# LINE, not per episode: one episode is dozens of POSTs to /v1/audio/speech
+# (the app synthesises each speaker turn separately and concatenates the clips
+# with ffmpeg afterwards), and a CPU engine takes single-digit seconds for a
+# line, with the tail of a long turn well past the 300 s default. 600 matches
+# SHIM_TIMEOUT in scripts/frank-tts.env — the shim's own per-request ceiling —
+# so open-notebook never abandons a synthesis frank-tts is still finishing. An
+# abandoned request does not cancel the engine process; it just leaves the
+# episode stuck in "generating" while the audio arrives.
+#
+# THE SCRIPTWRITER. ESPERANTO_LLM_TIMEOUT is the app's own default (180 s), kept
+# visible beside the TTS number because both belong to one podcast run: the
+# outline call and the transcript call are the slow text work, and frank-zealot
+# answers them well inside 180. Provider choice is made in the UI, not here —
+# see [[Open Notebook]] for the one-time credential provisioning — and it is
+# frank-zealot on purpose: script writing asks for a JSON-schema response, which
+# the OpenAI-compatible llama.cpp endpoint is known to serve, while halogen's
+# structured-output behaviour on frank-dragoon is UNVERIFIED. halogen remains
+# the unproven alternative, not the fallback.
+#
+# THE DATABASE COORDINATES. SURREAL_URL addresses the sibling container BY NAME
+# on systemd-open-notebook (container DNS is scoped to the owning network, so
+# this is the only form that works). NAMESPACE/DATABASE/USER are plain names.
+# SURREAL_PASSWORD and SURREAL_PASS are ONE value under two spellings: the app
+# reads SURREAL_PASSWORD, the `surreal` CLI reads SURREAL_PASS. Keep them equal;
+# the deployer writes both into the seeded file from a single SURREAL_PASSWORD in
+# dankclaw/.env, so hand-editing one line is the only way to desync them.
+
+SURREAL_URL=ws://open-notebook-surrealdb:8000/rpc
+SURREAL_NAMESPACE=open_notebook
+SURREAL_DATABASE=open_notebook
+SURREAL_USER=open_notebook
+# Secrets — filled on the host, never here (see the header).
+SURREAL_PASSWORD=
+SURREAL_PASS=
+OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENCRYPTION_KEY=
+OPEN_NOTEBOOK_PASSWORD=
+
+# WHERE THE BROWSER FINDS THE API. The UI auto-detects `<host-you-opened>:5055`,
+# and 5055 on this host belongs to seerr, so the API leaves the container on 5056
+# and this line has to say so. Both origins are listed in CORS_ORIGINS because
+# the API is called cross-origin from the UI's own port: the LAN origin is the
+# normal one, the localhost one covers a browser opened on Dankclaw itself. The
+# app logs a warning at start while CORS_ORIGINS is unset and defaults to `*`,
+# which is a wildcard in front of an endpoint that serves every episode's audio.
+API_URL=http://192.168.0.143:5056
+CORS_ORIGINS=http://192.168.0.143:8502,http://localhost:8502
+
+# Concurrency: see "THE CPU-SHUTDOWN GUARD" above. Defaults are 5 and 5.
+TTS_BATCH_SIZE=1
+OPEN_NOTEBOOK_WORKER_MAX_TASKS=1
+
+# Timeouts: see "THE TTS CLOCK" and "THE SCRIPTWRITER" above.
+ESPERANTO_TTS_TIMEOUT=600
+ESPERANTO_LLM_TIMEOUT=180
+
+# Heavy extraction runtimes stay OFF, which is also what keeps boot fast: each
+# one installs a multi-gigabyte ML/Chromium stack into the image's venv on first
+# startup (cached on the /app/data volume after that). Podcast generation reads
+# notes and sources that are already text, so neither is needed here; enable one
+# deliberately, per the upstream docs, if source ingestion starts to matter.
+# OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENABLE_DOCLING=true
+# OPEN_NOTEBOOK_ENABLE_CRAWL4AI=true