docs: distill the managed skill library into the vault (waves 1-7)

All ~173 managed skills read in full and merged, one polished reference
page per skill-cluster:

- LLM cross-cutting (17 pages): GGUF Compatibility, Llama Cpp Serving
  Sizing, Llama Cpp Multi-Device Splits, PCIe Link and Atomics, RDNA4
  Container Serving, RDNA4 MoE Expert Offload VRAM Budget, vLLM Boot
  Forensics, vLLM Porting and Compile Triage, LLM Bench Windows, LLM
  Performance Diagnosis, Model Swap and Rollback, Tcclaviger Fork Ops,
  Heterogeneous Split Triage, FreeToken Builds + deltas folded into the
  retired runbooks (GLM DFlash2 port laws, Lucebox dual-R9700, R9V
  qualification pipeline, FLM pack registration, ik hybrid envelope,
  frank-medium split rebalance, llama.cpp GGUF preflight, batch-ubatch
  split section, bench-window D-state/stale-read notes, second-endpoint
  bring-up).
- Architecture (3): Stale Signal Audit, Quadlet Lifecycle, Deploy State
  Triage.
- Operations (6 + index): Remote Job Runner, Payload and Disk Reclaim,
  Container Host Reachability, Fleet Ops Playbook, Fleet Audit and
  Posture, SSH and Remote Access.
- Infrastructure: Observability Provisioning + Homepage Status Probes;
  updates to Authentik, Anubis, LAN-DNS (per-client DoH bypass, Porkbun
  zone ops), Swap Configuration, OpenWebUI, Hermes (pre-existing page
  preserved and extended).
- FrankBook-Pro: ARR-Stack filled (API split, schema-first probing,
  auth-posture, auth-config trap); qBittorrent E2E verification.
- Desktop/Agent/Research: Noctalia and Niri, OMP Harness, Agent Docs and
  Edits, Command Center Dotfiles, PICO-8 Asset Standards.
- Indexes: LLM Cross-Cutting References section, Operations/ and Agent/
  index pages, root-index Skill Distillation section, AGENTS.md pointer.
- log.md carries the wave plan.

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@@ -5,3 +5,115 @@ description: "The *arr automation stack (Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Reada
tags: [arr-stack, prowlarr, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, readarr, qbittorrent, frankbook-pro, dankserver]
timestamp: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z
---
# *arr Stack
The *arr automation stack runs on **FrankBook-Pro** (the Mac mini) as quadlets
inside its podman machine; all egress rides the gluetun WireGuard netns. The
per-service pages ([[Prowlarr]], [[Sonarr]], [[Radarr]], [[Lidarr]],
[[Readarr]], [[qBittorrent]]) carry deployment facts; this page holds the
cross-cutting API and auth-posture procedures.
## API version split (memorize before any *arr HTTP call)
- Sonarr/Radarr: `/api/v3/…`; Lidarr/Readarr/Prowlarr: `/api/v1/…`.
- Prowlarr is port **9696** — 8090 is Jackett.
- **Empty body = endpoint absent**, not a failure: probe endpoints by status
code first; v1 has no `/api/v1/profile` endpoint at all.
- `PUT /downloadclient` and `PUT /indexer/{id}` take a SINGLE resource object
(GET it, patch `settings`, PUT the whole object back). An array body fails
with `Path: $ | BytePositionInLine: 1`.
- API keys live in each container's config:
`podman exec <svc> grep -o "<ApiKey>[^<]*" /config/config.xml | cut -d">" -f2`.
They are local-only secrets — they stop being secret the moment a vhost
serves the API unauthenticated.
## Schema-first probing (validators are free documentation)
Send the FULL schema template object with fields filled; v1 validators reject
partials, and each error names the next required field — peel validators one
live call at a time instead of guessing payload shapes:
- `'Fields' must not be empty` → send a full schema copy, not `fields:[]`.
- `'Base Url' must not be empty` when keys were camelCase → **PascalCase is
required** (`BaseUrl`, `ApiKey`) — schema keys, not the JSON wire keys.
- `DefaultMetadataProfileId must be > 0` → fetch real ids from
`GET /api/v1/metadataprofile` (rows like `(1,'Standard')`);
`GET /api/v1/qualitydefinition` returns the quality CATALOG — ids ≠
profiles.
- `targetType null` → configContract not registered in that build (this
Prowlarr build has no Prowlarr-plugin indexer; integration is
Torznab-family only).
- `testingPackageId` in a PUT body downgrades validation failures to
warnings.
- `syncLevel` is enum `ApplicationSyncLevel` — omit it or use the int; a
string is rejected.
**Verification rules:** `POST /downloadclient` returns the COLLECTION, not
the created object — verify via GET. Test endpoints return verdicts in the
BODY at HTTP 200 (`{}` = pass, a list = fail) — judge from bodies, not
status codes. Command POSTs (`MoviesSearch`, `ApplicationSync`) run
server-side and respond only when the work finishes: curl `-m` timeouts
(HTTP 000) during a search are NOT failures — poll queue/history afterward
instead of re-firing; warm small commands (`RefreshMonitoredDownloads`)
answer in ~20 ms, so a hang means live work in progress, not a dead API.
**DB as arbiter:** when endpoint shapes are opaque, stop the container and
edit `/opt/prowlarr/config/prowlarr.db` with `sudo python3` sqlite directly,
then start. The indexers table columns are
Id/Name/Implementation/Settings/ConfigContract/Enable/Priority/Added — the
enable flag column is `Enable` (not `EnableRss`). Prowlarr's real application
settings values live in `prowlarr.db` → `Applications.Settings` JSON (the
`/api/v1/applications` GET responses carry `fields: []`).
## Auth posture probe (ground truth is behavior, not config flags)
`AuthenticationMethod=None` + `AuthenticationRequired=Enabled` in
`config.xml` is ambiguous on paper; on the wire it means a login screen with
**zero users** — first-account-wins.
1. **Confirm which host runs the service before probing** (`podman ps` on
the target, not the box you ssh'd into first — the arrs live on
FrankBook-Pro).
2. Probe an API endpoint that bypasses the SPA shell, locally and through
any vhost: `curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}"
http://<host>:<port>/api/v3/system/status`. **SPA roots (`/`) always
serve a 200 shell — never conclude "open" or "gated" from `/`.**
401 = gated; 200 + JSON = API fully open (anyone on the net can drive it
with curl).
3. For config truth, dump the whole file
(`podman exec <svc> cat /config/config.xml`), not a piped
`grep | sed -n 2p`: **`sed -n Np` exits 0 on zero matches**, so the
pipeline hides a miss and you conclude "empty field" when the grep itself
failed.
4. Decision framing: when posture = gated-with-zero-users, present it as a
decision menu (None behind the front-door wall vs External/authentikarr),
not a silent change — first-account-wins means whoever logs in first owns
the instance.
## The `None` + `Enabled` auth-config trap (v1 .NET apps)
`<AuthenticationMethod>None</AuthenticationMethod>` +
`<AuthenticationRequired>Enabled</AuthenticationRequired>` is
self-contradictory: the UI Save is permanently disabled, and any save throws
`DryIoc.ScopedItemException` in `AuthorizationMiddleware` → 500 on every
page after restart. The valid no-auth representation is **absence of the
`<AuthenticationRequired>` key**, not the literal string `Disabled`. Fix =
delete the key from `/config/config.xml`
(`sed -i "/<AuthenticationRequired>/d"`), restart the container. Tell-tale:
one v1 app boots clean while siblings 500-sprawl → diff their config.xml
auth blocks; the healthy one shows the correct shape. (Prowlarr runs
`Forms` + `Enabled` healthily — the crash combo is `None`+`Enabled` only.)
General rules that saved the session these came from: container
`State=running` ≠ app serving — read `podman logs --tail 12 <c>` before
theorizing; when a UI gate blocks saving, go under it (these apps keep
plaintext XML config on disk — read/edit via `podman exec`).
## See Also
- [[Prowlarr]] — indexer feeds and the v2 sync model
- [[Sonarr]] · [[Radarr]] · [[Lidarr]] · [[Readarr]] — the managers
- [[qBittorrent]] — download client, 4.6.7 pin, E2E verification
- [[FrankBook-Pro]] — the host and its podman machine
- [[Homepage Status Probes]] — how the e2e gate treats this sleeping host
@@ -111,6 +111,90 @@ Restart=always
probe one ssh-context out returns the residential IP — a false leak alarm.
- Ensure umask is set to `022` so downloaded files are readable by arr apps.
## E2E verification after any pipeline change
Run after ANY change to the torrent pipeline — WireGuard credential rotation,
qB version change, gluetun reconfig, category re-seeding. Proves the full
grab path (tunnel egress → qB download → category save path → clean
removal). All commands from a dev box via `ssh frankbook-pro`; inside the
Mac shell export `PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"` for
`podman machine ssh`.
**Access note (2026-09-21):** the Mac's login user is **dank**@192.168.0.112
(NOT core — `core` is the podman-machine VM user, reached only via
`podman machine ssh`). blankpad has key auth for `dank@` (bootstrapped
2026-09-21) and a `frankbook-pro` alias in `~/.ssh/config`. macOS sshd has a
low MaxAuthTries: when password-bootstrapping use `-o
PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no
-o IdentitiesOnly=yes` or the key offers exhaust the attempts before the
password is tried.
**1. Egress gate — MUST run inside gluetun:**
```bash
podman machine ssh 'podman exec gluetun wget -qO- https://ipinfo.io/json'
```
Require `org` = AS9009 (M247 — ProtonVPN Panama PA-12 config); judge by org,
never country alone. NEVER run this one ssh-context out (bare `wget` on the
Mac host): it silently returns the residential Comcast IP and reads as a
hard-gate leak that does not exist. A residential reading ⇒ re-run inside
the container before diagnosing.
**2. Login — generic cookie parse.** The QPW fetch is flaky (~1 in N returns
empty); assert length before use — an empty-password run once produced a
Forbidden loop that cost hours:
```bash
QPW=$(podman machine ssh 'cat /home/core/Containers/qbittorrent/env' | grep QBIT_WEBUI_PASSWORD | cut -d= -f2)
[ ${#QPW} -eq 20 ] || exit 1
SID=$(curl -si --data-urlencode "username=admin" --data-urlencode "password=$QPW" \
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/v2/auth/login \
| grep -oE '[A-Za-z_]*SID[A-Za-z0-9_]*=[^;[:space:]]*' | head -1)
curl -b "$SID" … # pass the WHOLE match
```
WebUI from the LAN: `http://192.168.0.112:8080` (published on the gluetun
unit). Username `admin`; password = the machine-local `QBIT_WEBUI_PASSWORD`
(20 chars, generated once at provisioning by the deploy handler — never in
the repo). Parse-bug 403s never reach qB as failed logins — no ban accrues;
server-side truth is `/Volumes/COMPLETE/qbittorrent-data/qBittorrent/config/qBittorrent/logs/qbittorrent.log`
(`WebAPI login success/failure` + source IP). Repeated REAL failures accrue
toward qB's 5-failures/3600 s IP ban.
**3. Add a legal test torrent.** Blender open-movie torrents (~300 MB, e.g.
Big Buck Bunny) via `POST /torrents/add` with the raw `.torrent` file
(`-F "file=@…"`) and `category=Finished Torrents`. Never leave a real-looking
grab behind.
**4. Poll and verify.** Poll `GET /torrents/info` (~20 s): state
`downloading` → `moving` (INCOMPLETE→COMPLETE move) → `stalledUP`/`uploading`
at progress=1. `save_path` must be `/Volumes/COMPLETE/Finished Torrents`
(qB 4.x auto-creates unknown categories at DefaultSavePath; 5.x did NOT
inherit category paths — one more reason for the 4.6.7 pin). Confirm on
disk: `ls "/Volumes/COMPLETE/Finished Torrents/"`. Throughput ~17 MB/s is
normal for the tunnel.
**5. Cleanup — delete only your artifact:**
```bash
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -b "$SID" \
--data-urlencode "hashes=<literal-hash>" \
--data-urlencode "deleteFiles=true" \
http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/v2/torrents/delete # expect 200
```
Target the known hash literally — the user's real grabs share the directory
and MUST be untouched. Verify: hash absent from `/torrents/info`, your dir
gone, all other entries intact.
**Version-coupling constraints:** qB is pinned to 4.6.7 (Readarr's EOL
client rejects qB ≥ 5's `204` login at runtime — see the pin rationale
above). Do not unpin while Readarr exists. After ANY qB version flip,
regenerate the `WebUI\Password_PBKDF2` line fresh (same password, 100k
iterations) — a 5.x-written hash line makes 4.6.7 reject every login.
Rewrite while qB is stopped.
## See Also
- [[ARR-Stack]] — full *arr stack documentation