refact(comments): state the mechanism, not the incident

Every comment that invoked a 'law' (50 word-boundary sites across 28 tracked files) now states what is going on and why, in terms that transfer to any project: gate twins drift until one side greenlights what the other refuses; a tag re-points while a digest pins; a restrictive engine behavior belongs to the runtime that imposed it and must be re-tested, not inherited; a speculative head is tensors in the file, not a flag; snapshot links dangle where the container resolves them; exit 0 is a clean stop to systemd, so a self-exiting daemon on on-failure goes dark reporting success. Event narratives and dates are gone from these comments; the mechanics carry the argument. Behavior-identical: bash -n, py_compile, yaml parse, full bats suite 408/408 green. One symbol rename rides along (stack script local scale_law -> scale_contract, with its log text).
feat(rank6): node-exporter renders from a template; guard chain is one snippet
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ merge absorbed the former `vllmScripts` repo, history preserved).

 | Target | Service | Runtime | Model | Port |
 |--------|---------|---------|-------|------|
-| Dankserver | `frank-archon` | **radiance** (StillDeadcode, **pin 1.0.13** digest-pinned `stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564…`, plain `podman run`, root systemd unit) | **Publisher payload** (swap 2026-10-15, MODEL_FILE-only): `StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe` → **`qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad`** (121,969,901,568 B = **116,322 MiB**, Hub-LFS sha256 `0af5e962…` verified at fetch by `scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh`) — the OFFICIAL Qwen3.8-Flash-Next bf16 checkpoint rad-converted by the engine's author: routed experts as **4-bit codes into a 16-level non-uniform codebook** (128-pt Walsh–Hadamard rotation, GPTQ on a 10M-token calibration + 3 coordinate-descent sweeps, E4M3 scales per 64 weights), **10 whole bf16-protected experts/layer**, int8 W8A8 trunk/lm_head, fp8 HC mixtures, fp8 fixed-scale PLE n-gram (47.7 GiB), **MTP head + bf16 vision tower in the container**; card KL 0.0789 mean all-tokens / top-1 92.85 % vs BF16. **Base-alignment (censored) model** — the abliterated family lives on frank-dragoon. Shape carried VERBATIM from the 2026-10-13 record: **3 × 200,000 fp8-KV** (`--max-num-seqs 3`), **25,600 MiB slab + 5,120 MiB pool = 30,720 of the 30,969 MiB claimable**, 44 GiB/rank pinned host pool, PLE pinned to RAM, MTP depth 2, MNBT 2048, Froggeric v22.5 template. Decode/prefill ladders in the runbook are the **w4dn8 record** (the bar to beat; new-payload probes pending). Rollback: revert the swap commit (w4dn8 `.rad` on disk); the fp8-native `.rad` + the raw Swift1.5 BF16 source were DELETED from disk 2026-10-15 (Frank's one-time rm, volume for this payload; rebuildable via the fetch/build scripts). | 7770 |
+| Dankserver | `frank-archon` | **radiance** (StillDeadcode, **pin 1.0.13** digest-pinned `stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564…`, plain `podman run`, root systemd unit) | ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next BF16 (335.3 GiB, 397/397 sha256-verified) converted by `scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh` to `qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad` (**116,416 MiB**): **all 49,152 experts GPTQ w4** (10M-token calibration on engine 1.2.0) + **24 whole bf16-protected experts/layer** (energy-share law), int8 trunk/lm_head, fp8 HC, PLE n-gram fp8 fixed-scale, on **BOTH R9700s TP=2** (`--tp-wire wht6`), experts in a **40 GiB/rank pinned host pool** + VRAM cache (`--placement expert_tiered`, explicit `--vram-weights-mib 26071 --vram-kv-mib 3543`), **47.7 GiB n-gram copy pinned to host RAM** (`--ngram-placement ram`; root unit + `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity`), **fp8 KV** (inherited; pool 3.46 GiB), **MTP spec decode depth 2**, `--max-num-seqs 3`, `--max-model-len 200000`, MNBT 2048, Froggeric v22.5 template. KLD-gated (mean KL 0.0131, top-1 97.92 % vs BF16); decode ~190 t/s live (gate bar 30.8). Cutover 2026-10-08 from fp8-native (payload on disk = rollback). | 7770 |
 | Dankclaw | `frank-dragoon` | **halogen-flash-server 0.16.2** (`ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:0c61bf84…`, digest-pinned, plain `podman run` via `scripts/serve-frank-dragoon.sh`, root systemd unit) | Quat3rnion/halogen-swift1.5-qwen3.8-flash-next-v2-abliterated **`qwen38-flash-next-v2-swift15-abliterated.hgn`** (66,687,678,464 B = compacted r2 of the card's 89,775,868,032 B original, ~62 GiB resident; the v2 `.hgn` format loads in NO other engine), **+ REQUIRED `qwen38-flash-next-ngram.hgn`** (51,200,246,144 B, peonist @5cc17cea — read beside the checkpoint) **+ vision tower** (897,916,416 B, @e053f488 — **vision ON**, `image_url` parts only, ≥256 px probes), **MTP spec decode ALWAYS-ON (`HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT=0` — the adaptive default disables the drafter per request and HALVES decode)**, MTP head INSIDE the checkpoint (`HALOGEN_MTP_HEAD` unset; no sidecar fetched), **2 slots × 262,144 ctx** (KV pool 524,288 positions ≈ 14.0 GiB at ~28 KiB/position; the 27B slots>1-disables-drafting law does NOT carry over — batching and speculation coexist, the card's quickstart ships 2 with the head), harness window 217,088 = ceiling − 45k estimate headroom, **server-side sampler 1.0/0.95/20** (card recipe; models.yml extraBody matches), coupled cap/timeout 65536/7200, prompt cache ON by default (warm 100k turn ≈ 2 s vs ≈ 88 s cold)|7770|
 | Dankclaw | `frank-zealot` | llama.cpp master (0.5.0-dev, commit `5fc4f3c`), CUDA sm_86 build (root systemd unit, relinked) | HauhauCS/Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive **Q6_K** (7,359,259,008 B; dense `qwen35` hybrid: 32 layers, 8 full-attention + 24 Gated DeltaNet, 4 KV heads × 256 dim, vocab 248,320, native 262,144, **no MTP tensors in the file**) + the publisher's own **BF16 mmproj** (921,704,448 B) for **vision**, on the RTX 3090, **TWO 200,704-token slots** (`--ctx-size 401408 --parallel 2`), **exact f16 K + f16 V** under flash attention (32 KiB/token over the 8 full layers = 12.25 GiB pool), batch 4096 / **ubatch 2048** (measured CUDA optimum), `--log-verbosity 4`, **MTP OFF** (forced: no `nextn` tensors exist). Priced from the MiMo Q6_K boots (same geometry, same card, same shape): 21,276/2,849 at ubatch 1024, 21,846/2,279 at 2048. Cutover 2026-10-07 (late) from Gemma4-26B-A4B Q4_K_M 1×200,704. All three endpoints route harness **compaction** here. | 7771 |

@@ -35,11 +35,16 @@ the [runbook index](#runbook-index). The full swap history lives in

 ## Repository Layout

- `dankserver/` — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the media stack
- `dankclaw/` — compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the AI stack
- `shared/` — homepage, Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, SearXNG configs
- `scripts/` — `deploy.sh` / `deploy-plan.py` / `deploy-remote.sh`, LLM serve
-  scripts, systemd units, env tunables, bench harnesses
+- `dankserver/` — quadlet units + Caddyfile for the media stack (the
+  compose.yaml inventory retired 2026-10-13; its mounts had diverged from
+  the quadlets)
+- `dankclaw/` — quadlet units + Caddyfile for the AI stack (compose retired 2026-09-16)
+- `shared/` — the service inventory (`services.yml`), homepage, Prometheus,
+  Loki, Alloy, SearXNG configs
+- `scripts/` — `deploy.sh` / `deploy-plan.py` / `deploy-remote.sh` and
+  `service-map.py` (the inventory's only reader), LLM serve scripts + the
+  shared artifact gates (`scripts/lib/llm-gates.sh`), systemd units, env
+  tunables, bench harnesses
 - `old/` — retired LLM scripts (reference only)
 - `serverAppConfigs-docs/` — knowledge base (Obsidian vault, OKF format).
  The managed skill library is distilled there one page per skill-cluster:
@@ -70,8 +75,13 @@ All edits flow through git. Never edit files on a remote machine directly.
 ./scripts/deploy.sh dankclaw --dry-run
 ```

-The planner maps changed paths to services; the remote runner restarts only
-the selected service and records its revision outside the checkout.
+The inventory (`shared/services.yml`, read only through
+`scripts/service-map.py`) maps changed paths to services; the remote runner
+restarts only the selected service and records its revision outside the
+checkout. Both `--service` allow-lists, the planner, and the changed-test
+seam mapper ARE the inventory — adding, moving, or retiring a service is a
+data edit, not a script edit
+(`serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Service Inventory.md`).
 Documentation-only changes are a no-op. LLM services are selected only by
 their own files — every endpoint (`frank-dragoon`/`frank-zealot`/`frank-archon`)
 by its unit/env/serve trio in `scripts/` — so
@@ -164,12 +174,17 @@ Tests are mandatory before commit (`bats` required on the dev machine):
 ./tests/run.sh
 ```

-Seams: compose validity, env consistency (no leaked secrets), Caddyfile
+Seams: env consistency (no leaked secrets), Caddyfile
 validity, quadlet units, docs completeness **including vault link integrity**,
 script syntax (shell + python), LLM unit integrity, LLM secret hygiene,
-deployment flow, service-scoped planning, homepage config/pages/deploy/checker,
-and `e2e_scaffold` — which fails if a Playwright spec file's number prefix is in
-no project, because such a spec silently never runs.
+LLM artifact gates (`llm_gates`/`llm_deploy_gates` — the shared
+`scripts/lib/llm-gates.sh` every endpoint's serve and deploy gates run on),
+deployment flow, service-scoped planning, the **service inventory**
+(`service_inventory.bats`: inventory soundness, the pinned path->service
+plan fixture, render drift for the Pi-hole hosts file), homepage
+config/pages/deploy/checker, and `e2e_scaffold` — which fails if a
+Playwright spec file's number prefix is in no project, because such a spec
+silently never runs.
 See `serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md`.

 ## Secret Rules
@@ -498,71 +513,48 @@ Rollback: revert the swap commit — the Gemma4 payload
 (`/home/dank/models/Ornith-Q8/`) all remain on disk.


-### frank-archon — Radiance (StillDeadcode), publisher Qwen3.8-Flash-Next iq4r, TP=2 (Dankserver, ACTIVE)
+### frank-archon — Radiance (StillDeadcode), Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GPTQ w4, TP=2 (Dankserver, ACTIVE)

 The **radiance engine** (StillDeadcode, Apache-2.0; image
 `stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564…` digest-pinned, **pin 1.0.13**
-for serve; `libr4d` gfx1201 kernels, plain `podman run`, root
-systemd unit, container name = unit name) serving the
-**publisher's container of the official Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next**:
-`StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe` →
-`qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad` (116,322 MiB, Hub-LFS sha256
-verified at fetch by `scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh`; recipe
-`qwen4exp-w4nl64-i8-hc8m`): **routed experts as 4-bit codes into a
-16-level non-uniform codebook** after a 128-point Walsh–Hadamard rotation
-(E4M3 scale per 64 weights; codes by GPTQ on a 10M-token calibration with
-per-expert down-proj Hessians, refined by 3 coordinate-descent sweeps),
-**10 whole bf16-protected experts/layer**, **int8 W8A8 trunk/lm_head**
-(scale per 128 columns searched), **fp8 HC mixtures**, PLE n-gram table at
-fp8 fixed scale (47.7 GiB), **MTP head and bf16 vision tower in the
-container**. Card quality (full-vocab teacher-forced KL vs bf16, ~75K
-positions): mean 0.0789 all-tokens / 0.0239 assistant turns, top-1 92.85 %.
-**MODEL_FILE is the only serving argument that moved** (2026-10-15); every
-number of the 2026-10-13 shape below carries verbatim. The plugin's
-**one-table-one-encoding law** (fleet-measured at rad-convert declare):
-one expert table takes ONE encoding; only whole bf16 experts are legal
-beside it. Rollback: revert the swap commit — the in-house w4dn8 `.rad`
-(KLD-gated Swift1.5 conversion) stays on disk; the fp8-native `.rad` was
-deleted 2026-10-15 (rebuild: `scripts/download-frank-archon.sh` +
-`scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh`).
+for serve/convert/KLD; `libr4d` gfx1201 kernels, plain `podman run`, root
+systemd unit, container name = unit name) serving
+**ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (BF16, 335.3 GiB, 131 shards,
+397/397 sha256-verified)** converted by `scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh`
+with recipe `scripts/recipes/qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.recipe` to
+`qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad` (~114 GiB): **all 49,152 experts GPTQ
+w4** (act-order, damp 0.05, 10,000,000-token calibration captured on engine
+**1.2.0** via `RADIANCE_CALIB_DIR`/`RADIANCE_CALIB_TOKENS` — the only pin
+with the token knob; the RADGRAM2 grams are format-identical across pins and
+cross the boundary by design), **24 whole experts per layer cast bf16** (the
+PROTECTED set, derived from the calibration grams' energy share),
+**int8 trunk/lm_head**, **fp8 HC mixtures** (`--hc-mix-dtype`), PLE n-gram
+table at fp8 fixed scale (47.7 GiB in the container, from 95.4 GiB bf16).
+The plugin's **one-table-one-encoding law** (measured at rad-convert
+declare): one expert table takes ONE encoding; only whole bf16 experts are
+legal beside it — no w4/fp8 split of the down/gate_up pair (24-value
+`rad_arch_quant_desc` array, one per layer). KLD gate vs the BF16
+reference (recorded on the same 1.0.13 pin) is the precision referee;
+the throughput gate (decode ≥ 30.8 t/s) was passed at 4.5× the bar
+(122–173 t/s at 44.5k depth). Measured decode/prefill in the runbook.
+Rollback: revert the swap commit — the fp8-native `.rad`
+(`qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad`) and every prior payload remain on disk.

-**Shape (both R9700s, TP=2)**: `--tp-wire wht6`, `--max-num-seqs 3`,
+**Shape (both R9700s, TP=2)**: `--tp-wire wht6`, `--max-num-seqs 2`,
 `--max-model-len 200000` (the harness contextWindow must quote this),
 `--placement expert_tiered --host-pool-mib 44928` + **explicit VRAM
-partition `--vram-weights-mib 25600 --vram-kv-mib 5120`** (the vram-pair
+partition `--vram-weights-mib 22208 --vram-kv-mib 6912`** (the vram-pair
 replaced `--expert-vs-cache-ratio`; the two are ONE budget —
-`weights + kv ≤ 30,969 MiB`, derived from the engine's own budget table: card
-32,624 MiB, the pair at 29,120 settling 2,058 MiB free against the engine's
-209.19 MiB floor (`--gpu-headroom-mib 96` + 113.19 static), so 1,849 MiB is
-claimable and the old 29,120 bound was my hand-picked 1 GiB reserve, not a
-hardware wall), `--kv-cache-dtype` **`fp8` — quantized KV, restored 2026-10-13
-because it is the only dtype that funds the slot count at this window**,
-`--num-speculative-tokens 2`, `--max-num-batched-tokens 2048`, prefix cache
-8 GiB pinned host + 64 GiB disk at `/home/dank/radiance-state`,
-**`--ngram-placement ram`**, Froggeric v22.5 chat template vendored
-(`scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja`, `--override-chat-template`). Boot
-ledger (2026-10-13, pair 25600/5120): `kv cache 5.00 GiB … backs 3 sequences
-all at 200000 tokens at once, which is the worst case` — `kv_attn` page
-26.00 KiB (fp8) at 607,740 tokens (the sizing law predicted 608,027),
-`kv_qsa_bkey` 3.25 KiB at the same token count, `kv_gdn_state` 54 MiB × 6 slots
-(3 sequences × 2 copies) = 324 MiB; the sampler prints **9 rows**
-(3 × (1+2), inside the 25-row `wht6` exactness bound); the slab filled to
-563 KiB of slack with **17,548 slots** (16,235 at 24,000, 14,753 at 22,208 —
-every 1,792 MiB buys ~1,300 resident experts, and the pinned host pool hands
-the same experts back: 8,893 → 7,580 slots); `unclaimed 477.30 MiB`, cards
-settled ~336 MiB free against the engine's 209.19 MiB floor, KV lending
-4.22 GiB to the expert cache. Prefill tracks this slab only up to a
-**threshold**: 22,208 → 3,397 and 24,000 → 3,290 t/s at 43.5k are one band
-(±3 %), and the 25,600 arm measured **3,290** — the third step bought nothing
-(the 3,584 arm did not reproduce at 3 slots); the cliff is at ~26 GiB
-(26,071 → 4,379 on 2026-10-11's arm), so below that the slab is a threshold,
-not a slope.
-
-**Decode ladder (2026-10-13, 512 tokens, greedy, this shape)**: 99.0 t/s
-single-stream at 43.5k, 93.3 at 197k — decode is nearly window-free (−6 % for
-4.5× depth); **3 concurrent streams give 113.9/43.3/10.9 t/s = 18.4 t/s
-aggregate**, so the slot count is paid in decode concurrency (a fused-step
-lottery), not in prefill; leg D of `probe-frank-archon-kv.py` measures it.
+`weights + kv ≤ 29,120 MiB`, from the measured card 31,856 minus 1,710
+consumed outside both budgets minus 1,024 to keep free), `--kv-cache-dtype`
+**`bf16` — unquantized KV since 2026-10-11**, `--num-speculative-tokens 2`,
+`--max-num-batched-tokens 2048`, prefix cache 8 GiB pinned host + 64 GiB
+disk at `/home/dank/radiance-state`, **`--ngram-placement ram`**, Froggeric
+v22.5 chat template vendored (`scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja`,
+`--override-chat-template`). Boot ledger: KV pool 6.75 GiB = **462,752 bf16
+tokens, "backs 2 sequences all at 200000 tokens at once"** (the fp8 pool's
+386,904 backed 1.93), weights slab filled to 147 KiB of slack, host pool
+10,375 slots, cards settled 1.85 GiB free.

 Shape notes carried from the fp8-native era and unchanged: wht6 gains,
 MNDT 2048 law (2560 collapses decode to 2.6–7.7 t/s), the 64 GiB disk
@@ -574,52 +566,35 @@ on the fp8 shape (512-token streamed probe). The campaign also
 measured the int8-KV + spec-3 arm (136.0 t/s median at 44.5k depth,
 accept 0.7246).

-**The KV dtype law (measured 2026-10-11, applied at 4 slots 2026-10-13)**:
-`--kv-cache-dtype` takes ONLY `bf16|fp8` — one dtype for the whole cache, so
-llama.cpp's exact-K/quantized-V pair (what frank-zealot runs) has NO radiance
-equivalent; the rung under bf16 is fp8 on both halves. Measured per rank from
-the two boot ledgers: `kv_attn` (13 layers, 4-token blocks) pages 26.00 → 52.00
-KiB, while `kv_qsa_bkey` (13 layers) stays 3.25 KiB at BOTH dtypes (the QSA
-block key is an index, not attention state) — so a token costs 7.3125 KiB at fp8
-and 13.8125 KiB at bf16: **1.89×, not 2×**. Pool sizing must also pay the
-dtype-independent terms that live in the same pool (~110 MiB a sequence of
-recurrent state + 448 MiB of prefix checkpoints):
-`(vram_kv − 110·seqs − 448) MiB / rate` — bf16 at 6,912 gives 462,946 where the
-engine reported 462,752 (0.04 % page rounding); fp8 at 6,912 with four slots
-gives 843,566, i.e. the deployed capacity contract 4 × 200,000. **That is why
-the dtype is fp8: the pool must back `seqs × max-model-len` as a hard limit, and
-bf16 at four slots costs 11,679 MiB — the slab would fall to 17,441 MiB (−33 %),
-where fp8 leaves it at 22,208.** The cost is paid twice on this engine, and
-half-refunded: idle KV VRAM is also the expert cache's spillover, and the bigger
-pool *lends* 6.08 GiB to the slab where the 3,543 MiB fp8 pool lent 2.69 GiB.
-`--max-num-seqs` rides 4 × (1 + spec) = 12 fused-all-reduce rows, under the
-25-row bound where wht6 is bit-exact (the "seqs 2 cannot boot" law belongs to
-the retired tcclaviger fork's torch.compile, not radiance). Disk-tier sizing
-law: the engine forces ~9.6 GiB of disk-tier weight buffers + arena onto the
-weights side, so `weights + kv` is capped near 29.6 GiB/card; boot with the
-pair, never `--kv-cache-size-mib`.
-
-Shape notes carried from the fp8-native era and unchanged: wht6 gains,
-MNDT 2048 law (2560 collapses decode to 2.6–7.7 t/s), the 64 GiB disk
-prefix cache, and the rule that a prompt over `--max-model-len` is
-refused, never truncated. What changed: the fp8-native era's NVMe expert
-streaming (the 3.5 GB/s wall) is gone — the w4 resident set fits the
-host pool, so decode ran 122–173 t/s in the campaign arms and ~190 t/s
-on the fp8 shape (512-token streamed probe). The campaign also
-measured the int8-KV + spec-3 arm (136.0 t/s median at 44.5k depth,
-accept 0.7246).
+**The bf16 KV law (2026-10-11)**: `--kv-cache-dtype` takes ONLY `bf16|fp8` —
+one dtype for the whole cache, so llama.cpp's exact-K/quantized-V pair (what
+frank-zealot runs) has NO radiance equivalent; the rung under bf16 is fp8 on
+both halves. Measured per rank from the two boot ledgers: `kv_attn` (13
+layers, 4-token blocks) pages 26.00 → 52.00 KiB, while `kv_qsa_bkey` (13
+layers) stays 3.25 KiB at BOTH dtypes (the QSA block key is an index, not
+attention state) — so a token costs 7.3125 KiB at fp8 and 13.8125 KiB at
+bf16: **1.89×, not 2×**. Pool sizing must also pay the dtype-independent terms
+that live in the same pool (~110 MiB a sequence of recurrent state + 448 MiB
+of prefix checkpoints): `(vram_kv − 110·seqs − 448) MiB / 13.8125 KiB` =
+462,946 where the engine reported 462,752 (0.04 % page rounding). The cost is
+paid twice on this engine, and half-refunded: idle KV VRAM is also the expert
+cache's spillover, and the bigger pool *lends* 6.08 GiB to the slab where the
+fp8 pool lent 2.69 GiB. `--max-num-seqs 3 → 2` came with the change (two slots
+× the window is the capacity contract; the "seqs 2 cannot boot" law belongs to
+the retired tcclaviger fork's torch.compile, not radiance) and it also drops
+the fused all-reduce to 2 × 3 = 6 rows, under the 25-row bound where wht6 is
+bit-exact. Disk-tier sizing law: the engine forces ~9.6 GiB of disk-tier weight
+buffers + arena onto the weights side, so `weights + kv` is capped near
+29.6 GiB/card; boot with the pair, never `--kv-cache-size-mib`.

 **The pinned-RAM ledger is why this is a root unit**: 2 × 44 GiB expert
 pools + the 47.7 GiB n-gram copy (`--ngram-placement ram` is pinned RAM
 the card reads) + 8 GiB prefix host ≈ **147 GiB** charged against
 `RLIMIT_MEMLOCK` — the TTM floor is set just above it.
-`ttm.pages_limit`/`pages_max` cap GPU-mappable pinned pages, and **the knob is
-runtime state whose default is half of RAM**: `scripts/ttm-preflight.sh` (sourced
-by the serve script) therefore RAISES it to `FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800`
-before refusing, because the 2026-10-12 power failure reset it to 125,988 MiB
-and the preflight re-refused 6,919 times. A manual sysfs write in the stop
-window is a convenience, not the repair; kernel cmdline persistence
-(`ttm.pages_limit=52428800`) is the belt to it.
+`ttm.pages_limit`/`pages_max` cap GPU-mappable pinned pages; the serve
+script's TTM preflight (`FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000`, cap on this host
+204,800) refuses to start until both knobs are raised in the stop window
+(sysfs write first, kernel cmdline + reboot only if read-only).

 **Contract facts** (source-verified): the HTTP listener binds AFTER the
 full load, so a bare `curl /health` gate is honest (`/health` == `/ping`,
@@ -631,9 +606,8 @@ chat format — no parser flags; vision native (the 27-layer Qwen-VL tower,
 `--mm-max-patches`); `/metrics` carries vLLM-compatible names +
 `radiance:*` families — the Dankclaw Prometheus scrape is re-added.

-Runbook: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-iq4r.md`.
-Retired Swift1.5 w4dn8 era (payload on disk = rollback): `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8.md`.
-Retired fp8-native era (payload deleted 2026-10-15, rebuildable): `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8.md`.
+Runbook: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8.md`.
+Retired fp8-native era: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8.md`.
 Retired FreeToken era: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-freetoken-pr587.md`.
 Retired vLLM era: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/dankserver-qwen38-fp8-expert-offload-tuning.md`.
 Retired GLM experiment: `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-glm53-flash-w4a16.md`.
@@ -802,17 +776,6 @@ linked runbooks.
  the KV pool is worse than the OOM it prevents.
 - Host swap state is invisible to `deploy.sh` (no repo file) — check
  `swapon --show` before reasoning about headroom.
- **A sysfs raise is a countdown to the next reboot.** `ttm.pages_limit` defaults
-  to half of RAM, so the manual raise to 200 GiB (2026-10-05) vanished with the
-  2026-10-12 23:17 POWER FAILURE on dankserver: the cap fell to 125,988 MiB,
-  frank-archon's pinned-ledger preflight (floor 150,000 MiB) refused the start,
-  and `Restart=always` re-ran that refusal **6,919 times in ~20 h** — a unit in
-  `activating (auto-restart)` that exits 1 in 50 ms with no container and no
-  engine log is a PREFLIGHT refusal, not an engine fault. Repo law now:
-  `scripts/ttm-preflight.sh` (sourced by `serve-frank-archon.sh`) raises the knob
-  to `FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB` itself, re-reads, and refuses by name only
-  after a write the kernel rejected. Never prescribe a manual sysfs write as the
-  recovery procedure for a service that can boot before a human reaches it.
 - **Silent RAM corruption outranks every software theory.** frank-archon's
  ~40k-token output corruption (2026-10-04/05, repetition/garbage in long
  agent conversations) was marginal DDR5 at 4800 MT/s on four DIMMs, fixed
@@ -1093,7 +1056,7 @@ Active:
 |---------|---------|
 | frank-dragoon (flash-server 0.16.2, abliterated Swift1.5 v2 .hgn + MTP always-on, 2×262,144, vision ON, Dankclaw) | `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-dragoon-flash-server-v2-swift15.md` |
 | frank-zealot (llama.cpp CUDA, Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored Q6_K, 2×200,704 exact f16 KV MTP-off, vision ON, Dankclaw) | `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot-llama-qwen35-9b-q6k-2x200704.md` |
-| frank-archon (radiance StillDeadcode, publisher Qwen3.8-Flash-Next iq4r .rad, 2×R9700 TP=2, Dankserver) | `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-iq4r.md` |
+| frank-archon (radiance StillDeadcode, Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GPTQ w4 + bf16-protected experts, int8 trunk, bf16 KV, 2×R9700 TP=2, Dankserver) | `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8.md` |
 | Dankclaw kernel posture (`amd_iommu=off`) | `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/dankclaw-iommu-translation-off.md` |
 | Deployment flow + incidents | `serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/deployment.md` |

@@ -1101,8 +1064,8 @@ Retired (rollback targets and history):

 | Runtime | Host | Window | Runbook |
 |---------|------|--------|---------|
-| radiance Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GPTQ w4dn8, 3×200,000 fp8-KV slab 25600 (`frank-archon`) | Dankserver | 2026-10-08 → 10-15 (rollback target — `.rad` on disk; owns the slab-slope ladder, KV dtype law, KLD campaign, and every shape law the iq4r swap carried verbatim) | `frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8.md` |
 | llama.cpp CUDA Gemma4-26B-A4B QAT Q4_K_M, 1×200,704 f16-K/q8_0-V MTP-off (`frank-zealot`) | Dankclaw | 2026-10-07 → 10-07 (same-day swap; rollback target — payload on disk; owns the `attention_k_eq_v` pair-billing KV law and the gemma4-assistant drafter-cost boots) | `frank-zealot-llama-gemma4-q4km-200704.md` |
+| radiance StillDeadcode Qwen3.8-Flash-Next native-FP8, 2×R9700 TP=2 (`frank-archon`) | Dankserver | 2026-10-08 → w4dn8 swap (rollback target — `.rad` payload on disk) | `frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8.md` |
 | ROCmFPX llama.cpp fork Qwen3.8-27B Uncensored Q6_0_ROCMFPX_AGENT + MTP (`frank-dragoon`) | Dankclaw | 2026-10-03 → 10-05 (rollback target, payload + fork build on disk) | `frank-dragoon-rocmfpx-q6agent-uncensored-mtp.md` |
 | tcclaviger vLLM fork Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored FP8, TP=2, shape G (`frank-archon`) | Dankserver | 2026-09-29 → 10-05 (rollback target — tag `frank-archon-vllm-shapeG-20261003`; trio + env lore in the tag, image in rootless storage) | `dankserver-qwen38-fp8-expert-offload-tuning.md` |
 | FreeToken PR #587 ROCm, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Uncensored-FP8, ONE R9700 (`frank-archon`) | Dankserver | 2026-10-05 → 10-05 (rollback target — tag `frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005`; trio + Dockerfile in the tag, image `localhost/frank-archon-freetoken:pr587-77a7201` and orcarouter payload on disk) | `frank-archon-freetoken-pr587.md` |
@@ -56,6 +56,21 @@
 	}
 }

+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# Named snippet: the pre-auth guard chain. Anubis (:8923) challenges,
+# the embedded Authentik outpost authenticates, and authenticated
+# traffic returns to the http://:8017 listener's post-auth handlers.
+# Every guarded vhost is `import guarded` — the chain is EDITED HERE,
+# never inlined per site (rank 6: it used to be nine verbatim copies).
+# Exemptions live in their own vhosts (auth. is the IdP itself; git
+# smart-HTTP and self-authenticating services document their reason).
+# ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+(guarded) {
+	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
+		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
+	}
+}
+
 # --- Bare-IP access (health checks, convenience) ---
 :80 {
 	redir https://www.franksdank.cloud/ 308
@@ -72,9 +87,7 @@ franksdank.cloud {
 }

 www.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Legacy name: the old homepage name redirects straight onto www ---
@@ -100,9 +113,7 @@ auth.franksdank.cloud {

 # --- SearXNG (quadlet; behind the Gluetun tunnel, published 8081) ---
 search.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- OpenWebUI (quadlet on slirp4netns; published 3005) ---
@@ -126,30 +137,22 @@ gitea.franksdank.cloud {
 # never reach Grafana — RP mode needs none and works regardless of topology.
 # The basicauth edge this replaces (CADDY_BASICAUTH_HASH) is retired.
 grafana.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Prometheus ---
 prometheus.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Loki (guarded: Anubis → Authentik; loki-proxy provider, internal_host caddy:8017) ---
 loki.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Seerr (guarded: Anubis → Authentik; seerr provider, internal_host caddy:8017) ---
 seerr.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Marreta (guarded: Anubis → Authentik; marreta provider, internal_host caddy:8017) ---
@@ -157,9 +160,7 @@ seerr.franksdank.cloud {
 # group gate). Egress rides the searxng gluetun tunnel; reached via the
 # host-published port 8082 (gluetun netns), not by container name.
 marreta.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Pi-hole (quadlet on slirp4netns; published 8083) ---
@@ -233,16 +234,12 @@ books.franksdank.cloud {

 # --- RomM ---
 romm.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Copyparty ---
 files.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy anubis:8923 {
-		header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}
-	}
+	import guarded
 }

 # --- Jellyfin ---
@@ -1,30 +1,32 @@
-# Quadlet unit: node-exporter (rootless, boot-persistent).
+# Quadlet unit: node-exporter (rootless, boot-persistent) — RENDERED ARTIFACT.
+# Regenerate: python3 scripts/service-map.py render node-exporter-unit --host dankclaw
+# Source: shared/services.yml (entry node-exporter) + this template.
 #
 # Install path on dankclaw: ~/.config/containers/systemd/node-exporter.container
 # Unit name: node-exporter.service (container name: node-exporter)
 #
-# Host metrics source for Prometheus. This replaces the compose service of the
-# same name in dankclaw/compose.yaml ("Observability" block).
+# Host metrics source for Prometheus. Replaces the compose service of the same
+# name (the "Observability" block): Dankclaw moved to this quadlet on
+# 2026-09-11, Dankserver on 2026-09-16 — its compose-only copy died at a reboot
+# and stayed dead (rootless Podman does not restart bare containers after the
+# explicit stop shutdown performs), dead for a day and a half before anyone
+# noticed. One owner per container name; no compose file remains anywhere.
 #
 # HOST NAMESPACE. It must run in the host network namespace to report the
 # host's own interfaces/connections, and --pid=host for the processes and
 # cgroups collectors. "localhost" inside the container is therefore the host's
 # loopback, which is what the homepage status timer probes.
 #
-# LISTEN ADDRESSES. Until 2026-09-11 this bound :9100 on every interface. It
-# now binds exactly two: loopback for the homepage status probe, and the LAN
-# address because Prometheus — which runs in a container on dankclaw_default —
-# scrapes http://192.168.0.143:9100 (shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml,
-# job "node-dankclaw"). node_exporter itself has no authentication, so keeping
-# the wildcard bind off the table matters: this is the second half of the
-# pairing that removes the unauthenticated observability surface, and both
-# consumers are accounted for. Dankserver runs its own copy of this container
-# (scraped by the "node-dankserver" job) — since 2026-09-16 as a Quadlet unit in
-# the same shape (dankserver/observability/quadlet/), because the compose-only
-# version it replaced had been dead for a day and a half before anyone noticed.
+# LISTEN ADDRESSES. Exactly two: loopback for the homepage status probe, and
+# the LAN address, because Prometheus — which runs in a container on
+# dankclaw_default — scrapes http://192.168.0.143:9100/metrics
+# (shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml, job "node-dankclaw"). node_exporter has no
+# authentication, so the wildcard bind stays off the table; this is the
+# pairing that removes the unauthenticated observability surface on every
+# host, and both consumers are accounted for.
 #
-# MOUNTS. The container reads the host's /proc, /sys and / as /host/* read-only
-# and is pointed at them with --path.*; it writes nothing anywhere.
+# MOUNTS. The container reads the host's /proc, /sys and / as /host/*
+# read-only and is pointed at them with --path.*; it writes nothing anywhere.

 [Unit]
 Description=Prometheus node exporter (Dankclaw host metrics)
@@ -1,47 +1,43 @@
-# A records for the flat franksdank.name scheme (dnsmasq addn-hosts format:
-# <IP> <name> [<name> ...]). Served by the Pi-hole quadlet (FTL is a
-# dnsmasq fork): the quadlet mounts this file into /etc/pihole/hosts/ read-only.
+# A records for the flat franksdank.cloud scheme (dnsmasq addn-hosts
+# format: <IP> <name>). RENDERED — do not edit by hand:
 #
-# Caddy is consolidated on dankclaw (192.168.0.143): it fronts every service
-# on both hosts, so every name resolves to that one IP. Keep in sync with the
-# Caddyfile (tests/pihole.bats cross-checks this).
+#     scripts/service-map.py render pihole-hosts > dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts
 #
-#   192.168.0.143 = dankclaw (runs the Caddy container + the AI/dev stack)
-#   192.168.0.235 = dankserver (media stack; reached by Caddy via published
-#                    LAN ports — no DNS records point here)
+# The source of truth is the `dns:` field of shared/services.yml; the
+# drift gate in tests/service_inventory.bats fails when this file and
+# the inventory disagree. Caddy is consolidated on Dankclaw, so every
+# name — including the services running on dankserver and
+# frankbook-pro — resolves at the Dankclaw edge.
+#
+# dnsmasq strips ONLY whole-line comments in addn-hosts: a trailing
+# comment on a data line becomes a HOSTNAME token. No inline notes
+# here; the service attribution lives in the inventory.

-# --- Homepage (naked domain + www) + legacy names ---
+192.168.0.143 search.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 marreta.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 pihole.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 ai.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 gitea.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 comfyui.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 seerr.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 hermes.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 hermesadmin.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 prometheus.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 grafana.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 loki.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 auth.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 www.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 dankclaw.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 dankserver.franksdank.cloud
-
-# --- Authentik (SSO / OIDC provider) ---
-192.168.0.143 auth.franksdank.cloud
-
-# --- Media services (dankserver, proxied) ---
-192.168.0.143 plex.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 plex.franksdank.casa
-192.168.0.143 books.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 romm.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 files.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 jelly.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 books.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 plex.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 plex.franksdank.casa
+192.168.0.143 prowlarr.franksdank.cloud
+192.168.0.143 qbittorrent.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 radarr.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 lidarr.franksdank.cloud
 192.168.0.143 readarr.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 prowlarr.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 qbittorrent.franksdank.cloud
-
-# --- AI / search / dev services (dankclaw, local) ---
-192.168.0.143 search.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 comfyui.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 ai.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 hermes.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 hermesadmin.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 gitea.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 grafana.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 prometheus.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 loki.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 pihole.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 seerr.franksdank.cloud
-192.168.0.143 marreta.franksdank.cloud
@@ -1,34 +1,32 @@
-# Quadlet unit: node-exporter (rootless, boot-persistent) — DANKSERVER.
+# Quadlet unit: node-exporter (rootless, boot-persistent) — RENDERED ARTIFACT.
+# Regenerate: python3 scripts/service-map.py render node-exporter-unit --host dankserver
+# Source: shared/services.yml (entry node-exporter) + this template.
 #
 # Install path on dankserver: ~/.config/containers/systemd/node-exporter.container
 # Unit name: node-exporter.service (container name: node-exporter)
 #
-# WHY THIS FILE EXISTS. Until 2026-09-16 the Dankserver node-exporter ran only
-# from `dankserver/compose.yaml` (the "Observability" block, `restart:
-# unless-stopped`). Rootless Podman does not restart bare containers after the
-# explicit stop that shutdown performs, so it died at a reboot and stayed dead:
-# `podman ps -a` showed it `Exited (143)` and Prometheus' `node-dankserver` job
-# had been scraping nothing since. The compose entry also bound the default
-# wildcard address, which is the unauthenticated-metrics-API-on-every-interface
-# posture that was already removed on Dankclaw. This unit replaces both: one
-# owner per container name (the compose service is deleted), explicit listen
-# addresses, and a generator-provided boot path.
+# Host metrics source for Prometheus. Replaces the compose service of the same
+# name (the "Observability" block): Dankclaw moved to this quadlet on
+# 2026-09-11, Dankserver on 2026-09-16 — its compose-only copy died at a reboot
+# and stayed dead (rootless Podman does not restart bare containers after the
+# explicit stop shutdown performs), dead for a day and a half before anyone
+# noticed. One owner per container name; no compose file remains anywhere.
 #
-# HOST NAMESPACE. Networking and PID in the host's namespaces: the collectors
-# report the host's own interfaces, connections, processes and cgroups. The
-# host's /proc, /sys and / are mounted read-only under /host and /rootfs, and
-# node_exporter writes nothing.
+# HOST NAMESPACE. It must run in the host network namespace to report the
+# host's own interfaces/connections, and --pid=host for the processes and
+# cgroups collectors. "localhost" inside the container is therefore the host's
+# loopback, which is what the homepage status timer probes.
 #
-# LISTEN ADDRESSES. Exactly two:
-#   - 127.0.0.1:9100   for host-local probes
-#   - 192.168.0.235:9100 for Prometheus, which scrapes this host from Dankclaw
-#     (shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml, job "node-dankserver"). It cannot use
-#     loopback across hosts, and node_exporter has no authentication, so the
-#     wildcard bind stays off the table. This is the same deliberate LAN
-#     listener posture the observability runbook documents.
+# LISTEN ADDRESSES. Exactly two: loopback for the homepage status probe, and
+# the LAN address, because Prometheus — which runs in a container on
+# dankclaw_default — scrapes http://192.168.0.235:9100/metrics
+# (shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml, job "node-dankserver"). node_exporter has no
+# authentication, so the wildcard bind stays off the table; this is the
+# pairing that removes the unauthenticated observability surface on every
+# host, and both consumers are accounted for.
 #
-# MIRROR. Keep this file in step with dankclaw/observability/quadlet/
-# node-exporter.container; only the Description and the LAN address differ.
+# MOUNTS. The container reads the host's /proc, /sys and / as /host/*
+# read-only and is pointed at them with --path.*; it writes nothing anywhere.

 [Unit]
 Description=Prometheus node exporter (Dankserver host metrics)
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ RECIPE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs-swift15/scripts/recipes/qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn
 CALIB=/home/dank/corpora/calib
 OUT=/home/dank/models/rad/qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad
 LOG=/home/dank/logs/swift15_convert.log
-# gate_up ~37.6 + down ~18.8 + PLE 47.7 + trunk/embeddings/head ~10 GiB (all-w4 expert table;
-# the plugin's one-encoding law dropped the block-fp8 down tier -- see the recipe header).
+# gate_up ~37.6 + down ~18.8 + PLE 47.7 + trunk/embeddings/head ~10 GiB (all-w4 expert
+# table; one encoding per expert table rules out a block-fp8 down tier -- see the recipe header).
 MIN_MIB=${FRANK_SWIFT15_RAD_MIN_MIB:-108000}

 # Gate 1: inputs. A missing Gram directory converts UNCALIBRATED with a
@@ -1,475 +1,68 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Plan runtime services affected by repository changes.
+"""deploy-plan.py — map changed paths to deployable services.

-The planner is intentionally side-effect free.  It accepts either an explicit
-path list or two Git revisions.  The latter lets compose-file changes resolve
-to only the service definitions that actually changed instead of restarting an
-entire compose project.
+Thin wrapper over scripts/service-map.py, which owns the path->service
+semantics in the shared inventory (shared/services.yml): per-service path
+rules, the quadlet netns/network coupling graph, host scoping (a host's
+directory can only select that host's services), and canonical restart
+order. This file keeps the deployer's CLI contract only.
+
+Usage:
+  deploy-plan.py --target NAME --repo DIR --base REV --head REV
+  deploy-plan.py --target NAME [paths...]        (paths also on stdin)
+
+Prints one service name per line (canonical restart order); exit 0 with no
+output when nothing relevant changed.
 """
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import argparse
+import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
-from pathlib import PurePosixPath
-from typing import Any

-import yaml
-
-# Dependency-sensitive services come before their consumers.  Independent
-# compose services follow.  LLM services are deliberately last and are never
-# implied by a generic host, stack, documentation, or config change.
-SERVICE_ORDER = (
-    "gluetun",
-    "searxng-valkey",
-    "searxng",
-    "marreta",
-    "pihole",
-    "open-webui",
-    "gitea-postgres",
-    "gitea-server",
-    "comfyui",
-    "seerr",
-    "hermes",
-    "hermes-dashboard",
-    "hermes-webui",
-    "prometheus",
-    "grafana",
-    "loki",
-    "alloy",
-    "node-exporter",
-    "alertmanager",
-    "authentik-postgres",
-    "authentik-server",
-    "authentik-worker",
-    "authentik-outpost",
-    "authentik-outpost-ldap",
-    "caddy",
-    "homepage",
-    "romm-mariadb",
-    "romm-redis",
-    "romm",
-    "copyparty",
-    "jellyfin",
-    "calibre-web",
-    "calibre-server",
-    "plex",
-    "tautulli",
-    "prowlarr",
-    "qbittorrent",
-    "radarr",
-    "sonarr",
-    "lidarr",
-    "readarr",
-    "frank-dragoon",
-    "frank-zealot",
-    "frank-archon",
-)
-
-DANKCLAW_SERVICES = {
-    "hermes-webui",
-    "gluetun",
-    "searxng-valkey",
-    "searxng",
-    "marreta",
-    "pihole",
-    "open-webui",
-    "gitea-postgres",
-    "gitea-server",
-    "comfyui",
-    "seerr",
-    "hermes",
-    "hermes-dashboard",
-    "prometheus",
-    "grafana",
-    "loki",
-    "alloy",
-    "node-exporter",
-    "alertmanager",
-    "authentik-postgres",
-    "authentik-server",
-    "authentik-worker",
-    "authentik-outpost",
-    "authentik-outpost-ldap",
-    "caddy",
-    "homepage",
-    "frank-dragoon",
-    "frank-zealot",
-}
-
-DANKSERVER_SERVICES = {
-    "romm-mariadb",
-    "romm-redis",
-    "romm",
-    "copyparty",
-    "jellyfin",
-    "calibre-web",
-    "calibre-server",
-    "plex",
-    "tautulli",
-    "prowlarr",
-    "qbittorrent",
-    "radarr",
-    "sonarr",
-    "lidarr",
-    "readarr",
-    "frank-archon",
-    "node-exporter",
-}
-
-# FrankBook-Pro runs the *arr stack + qBittorrent inside a podman machine on
-# macOS. Service names overlap the Linux hosts (gluetun, qbittorrent, ...);
-# the per-target sets and the frankbook-pro intercept in deploy-remote.sh
-# keep dispatch unambiguous.
-FRANKBOOK_SERVICES = {
-    "gluetun",
-    "qbittorrent",
-    "prowlarr",
-    "radarr",
-    "sonarr",
-    "lidarr",
-    "readarr",
-}
-
-DANKCLAW_COMPOSE_SERVICES = set()
-# Dankserver's compose file is still the source of truth for its media stack;
-# Dankclaw's is gone (deleted 2026-09-16). Every service on Dankclaw is a
-# Quadlet unit now — the last compose services were the hermes trio, whose units
-# have owned their containers since 2026-09-12 and whose compose blocks were
-# dead weight that could only create a duplicate container.
-
-DANKSERVER_COMPOSE_SERVICES = {
-    "mariadb",
-    "redis",
-    "romm",
-    "copyparty",
-    "jellyfin",
-    "calibre-web",
-}
-COMPOSE_NAME_MAP = {"mariadb": "romm-mariadb", "redis": "romm-redis"}
+SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+SERVICE_MAP = os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, "service-map.py")


-
-def _add(services: set[str], *names: str) -> None:
-    services.update(names)
-
-
-def target_services(target: str) -> set[str]:
-    if target == "dankclaw":
-        return DANKCLAW_SERVICES
-    if target == "dankserver":
-        return DANKSERVER_SERVICES
-    if target == "frankbook-pro":
-        return FRANKBOOK_SERVICES
-    raise ValueError(f"unknown target: {target}")
-
-
-def _compose_services(target: str) -> set[str]:
-    return DANKCLAW_COMPOSE_SERVICES if target == "dankclaw" else DANKSERVER_COMPOSE_SERVICES
-
-
-def _git_show(repo: str, revision: str, path: str) -> str | None:
-    result = subprocess.run(
-        ["git", "-C", repo, "show", f"{revision}:{path}"],
-        text=True,
-        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-        stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-        check=False,
-    )
-    return result.stdout if result.returncode == 0 else None
-
-
-def _yaml_document(contents: str | None) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    if contents is None:
-        return {}
-    try:
-        data = yaml.safe_load(contents) or {}
-    except yaml.YAMLError:
-        return {}
-    return data if isinstance(data, dict) else {}
-
-
-def _yaml_services(contents: str | None) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    services = _yaml_document(contents).get("services", {})
-    return services if isinstance(services, dict) else {}
-
-
-def compose_changes(repo: str, target: str, base: str, head: str) -> set[str]:
-    """Return only compose services whose YAML definitions or dependencies changed.
-
-    A target with no compose file (Dankclaw since 2026-09-16) plans nothing:
-    its services are Quadlet units, selected by their own paths.
-    """
-    path = f"{target}/compose.yaml"
-    if not _git_show(repo, head, path) and not _git_show(repo, base, path):
-        return set()
-    old_doc = _yaml_document(_git_show(repo, base, path))
-    new_doc = _yaml_document(_git_show(repo, head, path))
-    old = old_doc.get("services", {}) if isinstance(old_doc.get("services", {}), dict) else {}
-    new = new_doc.get("services", {}) if isinstance(new_doc.get("services", {}), dict) else {}
-    names = set(old) | set(new)
-    allowed = _compose_services(target)
-
-    # An unavailable or malformed revision is safer as a broad compose plan
-    # than as a silent no-op. It still cannot include LLM units.
-    if (old_doc and not new_doc) or (new_doc and not old_doc and names):
-        return {COMPOSE_NAME_MAP.get(n, n) for n in allowed}
-
-    # Top-level networks/configuration can affect every compose service even
-    # when no individual service mapping changed. Ignore the services key while
-    # comparing the rest of the Compose document.
-    old_globals = {key: value for key, value in old_doc.items() if key != "services"}
-    new_globals = {key: value for key, value in new_doc.items() if key != "services"}
-    if old_globals != new_globals:
-        return {COMPOSE_NAME_MAP.get(n, n) for n in allowed}
-
-    changed = {name for name in names if name in allowed and old.get(name) != new.get(name)}
-    return {COMPOSE_NAME_MAP.get(n, n) for n in changed}
-
-
-def services_for_path(path: str, target: str) -> set[str]:
-    """Return services affected by one repository-relative path."""
-    path = path.replace("\\", "/")
-    p = PurePosixPath(path)
-    parts = p.parts
-    services: set[str] = set()
-    if not parts:
-        return services
-
-    # Non-runtime material is deliberately a no-op.
-    if parts[0] in {"docs", "tests", "old", ".githooks"}:
-        return services
-    if path in {"README.md", "AGENTS.md"} or parts[0] == ".obsidian":
-        return services
-
-    if parts[0] == "shared":
-        if len(parts) < 2:
-            return services
-        group = parts[1]
-        if group == "searxng":
-            _add(services, "searxng")
-        elif group == "prometheus":
-            _add(services, "prometheus")
-            if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[2] == "alertmanager.yml":
-                # The Alertmanager config ships from this directory: a change
-                # to it must redeploy the service that installs it.
-                _add(services, "alertmanager")
-        elif group == "loki":
-            _add(services, "loki")
-        elif group == "alloy":
-            _add(services, "alloy")
-        elif group == "grafana":
-            # Provisioned datasources and dashboards: git is the source of
-            # truth, so a change here must restart the service that reads them.
-            _add(services, "grafana")
-        elif group == "homepage":
-            # Homepage is a Dankclaw-owned deployment. Shared homepage files
-            # are intentionally not copied during a Dankserver-only run.
-            if target == "dankclaw":
-                _add(services, "homepage")
-        return services
-
-    if parts[0] == "dankclaw":
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "compose.yaml":
-            # Dankclaw has no compose file since 2026-09-16: every service is a
-            # Quadlet unit, each selected by its own path. A change (or a
-            # deletion) of this path therefore restarts nothing.
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "Caddyfile":
-            _add(services, "caddy")
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "Containerfile.comfyui":
-            _add(services, "comfyui")
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] in {"caddy", "comfyui", "loki", "alloy", "hermes", "anubis", "seerr"}:
-            _add(services, parts[1])
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[1] == "authentik" and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-            name = parts[3].removesuffix(".container")
-            if name in {"authentik-postgres", "authentik-server", "authentik-worker", "authentik-outpost", "authentik-outpost-ldap"}:
-                _add(services, name)
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "searxng":
-            if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-                name = parts[3]
-                if name == "gluetun.container":
-                    # SearXNG and Marreta (+ its browser companion) share
-                    # Gluetun's network namespace.  A Gluetun recreation
-                    # tears the netns down, so every sharer must restart.
-                    _add(services, "gluetun", "searxng", "marreta")
-                elif name == "searxng.container":
-                    _add(services, "searxng")
-                elif name == "searxng-valkey.container":
-                    _add(services, "searxng-valkey", "searxng")
-                elif name == "searxng.network":
-                    _add(services, "gluetun", "searxng-valkey", "searxng", "marreta")
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "marreta":
-            # One deployable owns both the app and its browser companion;
-            # both live in gluetun's netns. A change to either unit selects
-            # the marreta service, which restarts browser-then-app.
-            _add(services, "marreta")
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "pihole":
-            _add(services, "pihole")
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "open-webui":
-            _add(services, "open-webui")
-            return services
-        # frank-dragoon left the quadlet shape on 2026-09-19 (CIRU v4.4.1 host
-        # build, root unit): its files live in scripts/ and map there.
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "observability":
-            # The five observability containers became Quadlet units on
-            # 2026-09-11. A unit change selects exactly its own service;
-            # SERVICE_ORDER already puts each dependency ahead of its
-            # consumer (prometheus before grafana, loki before alloy).
-            if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-                name = parts[3].removesuffix(".container")
-                if name in {"prometheus", "grafana", "loki", "alloy", "node-exporter", "alertmanager"}:
-                    _add(services, name)
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "gitea":
-            if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-                name = parts[3]
-                if name == "gitea-postgres.container":
-                    _add(services, "gitea-postgres")
-                elif name == "gitea-server.container":
-                    _add(services, "gitea-server")
-                elif name == "gitea-caddy.container":
-                    # Removing the old split proxy requires the canonical
-                    # Caddy handler to retire its installed unit/container
-                    # before it claims ports 80/443.
-                    _add(services, "caddy")
-                elif name == "gitea.network":
-                    _add(services, "gitea-postgres", "gitea-server")
-            return services
-        return services
-
-    if parts[0] == "dankserver":
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "compose.yaml":
-            # Compose service keys map onto the deployed unit names.
-            _add(services, *(COMPOSE_NAME_MAP.get(n, n) for n in DANKSERVER_COMPOSE_SERVICES))
-            return services
-        if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-            quadlet_services = {
-                "romm": {"romm", "romm-mariadb", "romm-redis"},
-                "jellyfin": {"jellyfin"},
-                "calibre-web": {"calibre-web"},
-                "calibre-server": {"calibre-server"},
-                "copyparty": {"copyparty"},
-                "plex": {"plex"},
-                "tautulli": {"tautulli"},
-            }
-            _add(services, *quadlet_services.get(parts[1], set()))
-        if len(parts) >= 2 and parts[1] == "observability":
-            # Dankserver's node-exporter became a Quadlet unit on 2026-09-16
-            # (serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Observability.md): its
-            # compose service died at a reboot and stayed dead, so Prometheus'
-            # node-dankserver job had nothing to scrape.
-            if len(parts) >= 4 and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-                name = parts[3].removesuffix(".container")
-                if name == "node-exporter":
-                    _add(services, "node-exporter")
-            return services
-        # frank-archon's quadlet-era directory left the tree on 2026-09-26
-        # (the Lucebox DS4.1 unit was retired for the llama.cpp root unit —
-        # the trio in scripts/ now maps it). Nothing lives under
-        # dankserver/frank-archon/ except dated trash, and trash plans
-        # nothing (the retire rule above the service blocks).
-        return services
-
-    if parts[0] == "frankbook-pro":
-        if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[2] == "quadlet":
-            name = parts[3].removesuffix(".container")
-            if name == "gluetun":
-                # Every *arr + qBittorrent container shares gluetun's
-                # network namespace; a gluetun recreation kills all of
-                # them, so the plan restarts the whole netns family.
-                _add(services, "gluetun", "qbittorrent",
-                     "prowlarr", "sonarr", "radarr", "lidarr", "readarr")
-            elif name in FRANKBOOK_SERVICES:
-                _add(services, name)
-        return services
-
-    if parts[0] == "scripts":
-        name = p.name
-        if name in {"homepage-status.py", "homepage-status.service", "homepage-status.timer"}:
-            _add(services, "homepage")
-        if name in {"signal-relay.py", "signal-relay.service"}:
-            # The Signal relay is installed by the alertmanager deploy, so a
-            # change to it redeploying alertmanager is the only path that
-            # reaches it on the host.
-            _add(services, "alertmanager")
-        if name in {"frank-zealot.env", "frank-zealot.service", "serve-frank-zealot.sh"}:
-            # llama.cpp frank-zealot (2026-09-16) keeps its unit, env and serve
-            # files here; each one selects frank-zealot only. The ik_llama.cpp
-            # trio that lived here for two days is in scripts/.AGENTTRASH/,
-            # which is archive material and plans nothing.
-            _add(services, "frank-zealot")
-        if name in {"frank-dragoon.env", "frank-dragoon.service", "serve-frank-dragoon.sh"}:
-            # CIRU v4.4.1 frank-dragoon (2026-09-19) keeps its unit, env and
-            # serve files here the same way: a root unit on a host-built
-            # runtime. The download script fetches the payload, which is
-            # host-side state, so it selects nothing.
-            _add(services, "frank-dragoon")
-        if name == "qwen-sharp-v22.4.0.jinja":
-            # The Qwen-Sharp chat template frank-dragoon loads via
-            # --chat-template-file. It lived under dankserver/frank-medium/ until
-            # the 2026-09-26 cutover retired that directory; editing it changes
-            # what the live frank-dragoon endpoint renders, so it plans
-            # frank-dragoon.
-            _add(services, "frank-dragoon")
-        if name in {"frank-archon.env", "frank-archon.service", "serve-frank-archon.sh"}:
-            # llama.cpp frank-archon (2026-09-26, replacing the Lucebox
-            # DS4.1 quadlet) keeps its unit, env and serve files here the
-            # same way: a root unit on the unsloth b11030-mix prebuilt
-            # serving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Q8_0. The download script fetches
-            # the payload, which is host-side state, so it selects nothing.
-            _add(services, "frank-archon")
-        # Deployment/test/benchmark scripts and other repo tooling do not
-        # restart a runtime service.
-        return services
-
-    # Examples and env templates are not deployed runtime state.
-    if p.name in {".env.example", "env.example"}:
-        return services
-    return services
-
-def changed_paths(repo: str, base: str, head: str) -> list[str]:
-    result = subprocess.run(
-        ["git", "-C", repo, "diff", "--name-only", "--diff-filter=ACDMRTUXB", base, head],
-        text=True,
-        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-        check=True,
-    )
-    return [line for line in result.stdout.splitlines() if line]
-
-
-def plan(paths: list[str], target: str, repo: str | None = None,
-         base: str | None = None, head: str | None = None) -> list[str]:
-    services: set[str] = set()
-    for path in paths:
-        if path == f"{target}/compose.yaml" and repo and base and head:
-            services.update(compose_changes(repo, target, base, head))
-        else:
-            services.update(services_for_path(path, target))
-    allowed = target_services(target)
-    return [name for name in SERVICE_ORDER if name in services and name in allowed]
+def git_paths(repo: str, base: str, head: str) -> list[str]:
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "-C", repo, "diff", "--name-only", base, head],
+        text=True, capture_output=True)
+    if proc.returncode != 0:
+        sys.stderr.write(f"deploy-plan: git diff failed: {proc.stderr}")
+        raise SystemExit(1)
+    return [line for line in proc.stdout.splitlines() if line]


 def main() -> int:
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
-    parser.add_argument("--target", choices=("dankclaw", "dankserver", "frankbook-pro"), required=True)
-    parser.add_argument("--paths", nargs="+")
-    parser.add_argument("--repo", help="repository path for revision-aware planning")
-    parser.add_argument("--base", help="base Git revision")
-    parser.add_argument("--head", help="head Git revision")
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    if not args.paths and not (args.repo and args.base and args.head):
-        parser.error("provide --paths or all of --repo, --base, and --head")
-    paths = args.paths or changed_paths(args.repo, args.base, args.head)
-    print("\n".join(plan(paths, args.target, args.repo, args.base, args.head)))
+    args = sys.argv[1:]
+    if not args or args[0] != "--target":
+        print(__doc__, file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+    if len(args) < 2:
+        print("missing target name after --target", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
+    target = args[1]
+    # `--paths` is the historic seam keyword: a flag, not an option — the
+    # paths are the positional arguments that follow it.
+    rest = [a for a in args[2:] if a != "--paths"]
+    if "--repo" in rest:
+        try:
+            repo = rest[rest.index("--repo") + 1]
+            base = rest[rest.index("--base") + 1]
+            head = rest[rest.index("--head") + 1]
+        except (ValueError, IndexError):
+            print("--repo, --base and --head must appear together", file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+        paths = git_paths(repo, base, head)
+    else:
+        paths = rest or [line.strip() for line in sys.stdin if line.strip()]
+    if not paths:
+        return 0
+    proc = subprocess.run([sys.executable, SERVICE_MAP, "plan", "--host", target] + paths,
+                          text=True, capture_output=True)
+    if proc.returncode != 0:
+        sys.stderr.write(proc.stderr)
+        return proc.returncode
+    sys.stdout.write(proc.stdout)
    return 0


@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@
 # pending until its service is explicitly deployed.
 set -euo pipefail

+# The LLM handlers' artifact gates are the serve scripts' own library, so
+# the deployer and the unit refuse the same missing payload with the same
+# words — no deploy can pass a gate the unit would fail. GATE_PREFIX is set
+# per handler.
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+source "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/lib/llm-gates.sh"
+
 TARGET="${1:-}"
 REVISION="${2:-}"
 shift 2 || true
@@ -80,31 +87,10 @@ cd "$REMOTE_DIR"
 mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"

 service_is_allowed() {
-    local service="$1"
-    case "$TARGET:$service" in
-        dankclaw:gluetun|dankclaw:searxng-valkey|dankclaw:searxng|dankclaw:pihole|\
-        dankclaw:open-webui|dankclaw:gitea-postgres|dankclaw:gitea-server|\
-        dankclaw:comfyui|dankclaw:hermes|\
-        dankclaw:hermes-dashboard|dankclaw:hermes-webui|dankclaw:prometheus|dankclaw:grafana|\
-        dankclaw:loki|dankclaw:alloy|dankclaw:node-exporter|dankclaw:alertmanager|\
-        dankclaw:authentik-postgres|dankclaw:authentik-server|\
-        dankclaw:authentik-worker|dankclaw:authentik-outpost|dankclaw:authentik-outpost-ldap|dankclaw:anubis|\
-        dankclaw:caddy|dankclaw:homepage|dankclaw:seerr|dankclaw:marreta|\
-        dankclaw:frank-dragoon|dankclaw:frank-zealot|\
-        dankserver:romm-mariadb|dankserver:romm-redis|dankserver:romm|\
-        dankserver:copyparty|dankserver:jellyfin|dankserver:calibre-web|dankserver:calibre-server|dankserver:plex|dankserver:tautulli|\
-        dankserver:prowlarr|dankserver:qbittorrent|dankserver:radarr|\
-        dankserver:sonarr|dankserver:lidarr|dankserver:readarr|\
-        dankserver:frank-archon|dankserver:node-exporter|\
-        frankbook-pro:gluetun|frankbook-pro:qbittorrent|frankbook-pro:prowlarr|\
-        frankbook-pro:radarr|frankbook-pro:sonarr|frankbook-pro:lidarr|\
-        frankbook-pro:readarr)
-            return 0
-            ;;
-        *)
-            return 1
-            ;;
-    esac
+    # The inventory (shared/services.yml via scripts/service-map.py) is the
+    # only allow-list: a service is deployable on a target iff the inventory
+    # places it there. Retiring a service from a host is a data edit.
+    python3 scripts/service-map.py allows --host "$TARGET" --service "$1"
 }

 mark_status() {
@@ -274,13 +260,11 @@ install_signal_relay() {
 }

 copy_loki_config() {
-    run_privileged mkdir -p /opt/loki/config
-    run_privileged cp shared/loki/loki-config.yaml /opt/loki/config/loki-config.yaml
+    copy_config /opt/loki/config shared/loki/loki-config.yaml
 }

 copy_alloy_config() {
-    run_privileged mkdir -p /opt/alloy/config
-    run_privileged cp shared/alloy/config.alloy /opt/alloy/config/config.alloy
+    copy_config /opt/alloy/config shared/alloy/config.alloy
 }

 copy_grafana_provisioning() {
@@ -289,14 +273,11 @@ copy_grafana_provisioning() {
    # datasource would be invisible to review, lost with the data volume, and
    # unknown to anyone reading the repository. The unit already mounts
    # /opt/grafana/provisioning read-only, so this only has to populate it.
-    run_privileged mkdir -p /opt/grafana/provisioning/datasources \
-        /opt/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
-    run_privileged cp shared/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml \
-        /opt/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml
-    run_privileged cp shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/provider.yml \
-        /opt/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/provider.yml
-    run_privileged cp shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/llm-fleet.json \
-        /opt/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/llm-fleet.json
+    copy_config /opt/grafana/provisioning/datasources \
+        shared/grafana/provisioning/datasources/prometheus.yml
+    copy_config /opt/grafana/provisioning/dashboards \
+        shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/provider.yml \
+        shared/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/llm-fleet.json
 }

 render_caddyfile() {
@@ -441,31 +422,6 @@ deploy_caddy() {
    fi
 }

-deploy_compose_service() {
-    local service="$1"
-    if [[ "$TARGET" == dankserver ]]; then
-        # Dankserver's compose file is the source-of-truth inventory, but its
-        # production containers are individually systemd-managed/bare. Do not
-        # use compose up here: it can create a second container with a wrong
-        # name and can interfere with a running workload.
-        echo "WARN: $service is recorded in dankserver/compose.yaml; production container management is host-specific and no restart was attempted."
-        return 0
-    fi
-    if [[ "$TARGET" == dankclaw ]]; then
-        # Dankclaw has no compose file since 2026-09-16: every service is a
-        # Quadlet unit with its own handler above. Reaching this means the
-        # dispatcher is missing a case, and the old fallback (`podman-compose
-        # up -d`) would now be a silent no-op or a duplicate container.
-        echo "no compose services on dankclaw; $service has no quadlet handler" >&2
-        return 2
-    fi
-    case "$service" in
-        *)
-            echo "unknown compose service: $service" >&2
-            return 2
-            ;;
-    esac
-}

 # grafana is the one observability service that holds a credential: the
 # Authentik OAuth2 client secret. It is seeded into a per-service env file (the
@@ -568,6 +524,35 @@ quadlet_unit_dir="$HOME/.config/containers/systemd"
 # dankserver's user manager had no systemd container generator dir before the
 # quadlet migration; every handler that installs a unit must find it present.
 mkdir -p "$quadlet_unit_dir"
+# copy_config DEST SRC... — the privileged config copy every service uses:
+# ensure DEST, copy each tracked SRC into it. The deployer owns /opt state;
+# the files in git are the source of truth, so a service config that only
+# exists on the host is a gap by policy.
+copy_config() {
+    local dest="$1"; shift
+    run_privileged mkdir -p "$dest"
+    local src
+    for src in "$@"; do
+        run_privileged cp "$src" "$dest/"
+    done
+}
+
+# retire_unit_file PATH TRASH [UNIT] — the repo Deletion & Trash policy, in
+# code: stop and disable the named unit, move the unit FILE into the home
+# trash (never rm), report. The dragoon quadlet retirement and the
+# compose-era comfyui.service retirement were the same six lines twice.
+retire_unit_file() {
+    local path="$1" trash="$2" unit="${3:-}"
+    [[ -e "$path" ]] || return 0
+    if [[ -n "$unit" ]]; then
+        systemctl --user stop "$unit" 2>/dev/null || true
+        systemctl --user disable "$unit" 2>/dev/null || true
+    fi
+    mkdir -p "$trash"
+    mv -- "$path" "$trash/$(basename "$path")"
+    echo "retired $(basename "$path") -> $trash"
+}
+
 install_quadlet() {
    local service="$1"
    local source_dir="$2"
@@ -655,15 +640,8 @@ deploy_comfyui() {
    # generator produces, and it is what kept a stale, device-less container
    # alive through `restart: unless-stopped` (9,146 failures on
    # "No HIP GPUs are available"). Never `rm`: it moves into the home trash.
-    local legacy="$HOME/.config/systemd/user/comfyui.service"
-    if [[ -e "$legacy" ]]; then
-        local trash="$HOME/.AGENTTRASH/20260916-comfyui-compose-unit"
-        mkdir -p "$trash"
-        systemctl --user stop comfyui.service 2>/dev/null || true
-        systemctl --user disable comfyui.service 2>/dev/null || true
-        mv -- "$legacy" "$trash/comfyui.service"
-        echo "retired the compose-era comfyui.service -> $trash"
-    fi
+    retire_unit_file "$HOME/.config/systemd/user/comfyui.service" \
+        "$HOME/.AGENTTRASH/20260916-comfyui-compose-unit" comfyui.service
    # The stale container carries the old config (no /dev/kfd, no /dev/dri) and
    # would keep the quadlet's container from taking the name. It is replaced
    # by the unit in the next step, so nothing is lost.
@@ -721,9 +699,15 @@ deploy_gitea_unit() {
    systemctl --user restart "$service.service"
 }

+# The root units are symlinks from the systemd system directory into the
+# checkout. SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR is production (/etc/systemd/system); the knob
+# exists so the deploy seam can run a whole handler — relink included — in a
+# sandbox and read the unit links as evidence, unprivileged.
+SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR="${SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR:-/etc/systemd/system}"
+
 relink_unit() {
    local service="$1"
-    run_privileged ln -sfn "$REMOTE_DIR/scripts/$service.service" "/etc/systemd/system/$service.service"
+    run_privileged ln -sfn "$REMOTE_DIR/scripts/$service.service" "$SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR/$service.service"
 }

 # Authentik runs as three boot-persistent Quadlet units (postgres -> server ->
@@ -942,17 +926,17 @@ deploy_plex() {
    systemctl --user restart plex.service
    # Readiness gate: /identity answers MediaContainer XML once PMS is up.
    #
-    # HTTPS, NOT HTTP. PMS drops plain HTTP off-loopback: the probe's
-    # connection arrives on the container's eth0, so an http:// request is
-    # accepted and then answered with nothing (curl 52, Empty reply) against a
-    # perfectly healthy server. Measured 2026-10-02 — the gate burned its full
-    # 600s and failed a plex whose https://127.0.0.1:32400/identity answered
-    # 200 in 44 ms the whole time. The same law is why the Caddyfile dials the
-    # plex upstream over TLS (tests/caddyfile.bats pins it).
+    # HTTPS, NOT HTTP. PMS serves plain HTTP on loopback only: a probe
+    # arriving on the container's interface gets its connection accepted and
+    # then an empty reply (curl 52) from a perfectly healthy server, so an
+    # http:// probe would burn the whole timeout and fail a service that
+    # answers https://127.0.0.1:32400/identity in milliseconds. The Caddyfile
+    # dials the same upstream over TLS for the same reason
+    # (tests/caddyfile.bats pins it).
    # -k: PMS presents its own self-signed cert on 32400.
    #
-    # Reality check from the 2026-09 cutover: the FIRST container boot of a
-    # years-old library ran ~10 min, so the gate still allows 600s.
+    # The budget accounts for a first boot of a large pre-existing library,
+    # which spends minutes indexing before it answers anything.
    # Fail the deploy (pending state preserved) rather than mark it deployed blind.
    for ((i = 1; i <= 120; i++)); do
        curl -fsSk --max-time 3 https://127.0.0.1:32400/identity >/dev/null && return 0
@@ -1125,13 +1109,8 @@ LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR="${LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR:-/home/dank/models/halogen-flashnext-
 LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_FILES="${LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_FILES:-tokenizer.json chat_template.jinja tokenizer_config.json merges.txt vocab.json generation_config.json}"

 retire_halogen_dragoon_quadlet() {
-    local trash="$HOME/.AGENTTRASH/20260919-orca-cutover/quadlet"
-    systemctl --user stop frank-dragoon.service 2>/dev/null || true
-    if [[ -e "$quadlet_unit_dir/frank-dragoon.container" ]]; then
-        mkdir -p "$trash"
-        mv -- "$quadlet_unit_dir/frank-dragoon.container" "$trash/frank-dragoon.container"
-        echo "retired quadlet frank-dragoon.container -> $trash"
-    fi
+    retire_unit_file "$quadlet_unit_dir/frank-dragoon.container" \
+        "$HOME/.AGENTTRASH/20260919-orca-cutover/quadlet" frank-dragoon.service
    systemctl --user daemon-reload
 }

@@ -1153,73 +1132,71 @@ wait_port_free() {
    ss -tan "sport = :$port" >&2 || true
    return 1
 }
+# assert_unit_owns_port SERVICE PORT — the false-green gate every LLM
+# endpoint shares. A health answer proves the PORT replied, never WHO
+# replied: on 2026-09-26 a leftover probe held :7770, satisfied the curl,
+# and the deploy reported green over a stopped unit. Green requires the
+# unit's own MainPID to be alive behind the answer.
+assert_unit_owns_port() {
+    local service="$1" port="$2" main_pid
+    main_pid="$(run_privileged systemctl show -p MainPID --value "$service.service")"
+    if [[ -z "$main_pid" || "$main_pid" == "0" ]]; then
+        echo "FAIL: :$port answered but $service.service has no MainPID — a stray process holds the port" >&2
+        return 1
+    fi
+    echo "$service: health answered by unit MainPID $main_pid"
+}
+
+# start_root_unit — the tail every LLM root unit deploys: relink the unit
+# file from the checkout into /etc/systemd/system, (re)enable, restart,
+# wait for /health, and prove the answer came from the unit's own process.
+# The three endpoints differ in gates, ports, and budgets, never in this.
+start_root_unit() {
+    local service="$1" port="$2" health_limit="$3"
+    relink_unit "$service"
+    run_privileged systemctl daemon-reload
+    run_privileged systemctl enable "$service.service"
+    run_privileged systemctl restart "$service.service"
+    wait_for_health "$service" "http://127.0.0.1:${port}/health" "$health_limit" || return 1
+    assert_unit_owns_port "$service" "$port"
+}

 deploy_llm_dragoon() {
-    # Refuse rather than restart-loop; every gate below has a twin in
-    # serve-frank-dragoon.sh and they must agree (2026-10-01 lesson).
-    # Capture podman output before grepping: `podman images | grep -q`
-    # races under pipefail (SIGPIPE 141 becomes "no match", 2026-09-30).
-    if ! grep -qF "${LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE#*@}" <<<"$(podman images --format '{{.RepoDigests}}' 2>/dev/null)"; then
-        echo "ERROR: halogen image absent: $LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE" >&2
-        echo "frank-dragoon: pull it: podman pull ${LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE%@*}" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    if [[ ! -f "$LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: halogen checkpoint absent at $LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT" >&2
-        echo "frank-dragoon: fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    if [[ "$(stat -c %s "$LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT")" != "$LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT_BYTES" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: halogen checkpoint is not $LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT_BYTES bytes (partial download?)" >&2
-        echo "frank-dragoon: re-check: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh --verify-only" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    for gate in "$LLM_DRAGOON_NGRAM:$LLM_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES:n-gram table" \
-                "$LLM_DRAGOON_VISION:$LLM_DRAGOON_VISION_BYTES:vision tower"; do
-        IFS=: read -r gpath gbytes gname <<<"$gate"
-        if [[ ! -f "$gpath" ]]; then
-            echo "ERROR: halogen $gname absent at $gpath" >&2
-            echo "frank-dragoon: fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-            return 1
-        fi
-        if [[ "$(stat -c %s "$gpath")" != "$gbytes" ]]; then
-            echo "ERROR: halogen $gname is not $gbytes bytes (partial download?)" >&2
-            echo "frank-dragoon: re-check: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh --verify-only" >&2
-            return 1
-        fi
-    done
-    if [[ -L "$LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR" || ! -d "$LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: tokenizer dir missing or a symlink at $LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR" >&2
-        echo "frank-dragoon: fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    for tf in $LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_FILES; do
-        if [[ ! -f "$LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR/$tf" || -L "$LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR/$tf" ]]; then
-            echo "ERROR: tokenizer file missing or a symlink: $LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR/$tf" >&2
-            echo "frank-dragoon: fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-            return 1
-        fi
-    done
+    # Refuse rather than restart-loop; every gate here is the SAME library
+    # call the serve script makes, so the two twins cannot drift (the
+    # 2026-10-01 crash-loop lesson).
+    # Capture podman output before grepping is moot: require_image is one
+    # command, no pipe (the 2026-09-30 SIGPIPE lesson).
+    export GATE_PREFIX=frank-dragoon
+    require_image "$LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE" \
+        "pull it: podman pull docker://${LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE%@*}" || return 1
+    require_bytes "$LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT" checkpoint "$LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT_BYTES" \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh; re-check: --verify-only" || return 1
+    require_bytes "$LLM_DRAGOON_NGRAM" n-gram "$LLM_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES" \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh; re-check: --verify-only" || return 1
+    require_bytes "$LLM_DRAGOON_VISION" vision "$LLM_DRAGOON_VISION_BYTES" \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh; re-check: --verify-only" || return 1
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+    require_dir_files "$LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR" tokenizer \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" \
+        $LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_FILES || return 1

    retire_halogen_dragoon_quadlet
    # The predecessor on a re-deploy is THIS unit: stop it (ExecStop stops
    # the container) before waiting on the port. The stray sweep is keyed
-    # on the FULL container name, which appears in the argv of a manual
-    # `podman run --name frank-dragoon-halogen` / `podman wait` but NOT in
-    # this deployer's own command line (`bash deploy-remote.sh
-    # frank-dragoon`) — so it cannot shoot itself in the foot (the fleet
-    # pkill law), and it can never match frank-zealot's llama-server.
+    # on the FULL container name: it appears in the argv of a manual
+    # `podman run --name frank-dragoon-halogen` / `podman wait`, while a
+    # pattern naming only the runtime would ALSO match this deployer's own
+    # command line — a pkill whose pattern hits its own argv takes the
+    # running deploy down with the target. The full name can never match
+    # frank-zealot's llama-server either.
    run_privileged systemctl stop frank-dragoon.service 2>/dev/null || true
    pkill -f 'frank-dragoon-halogen' 2>/dev/null || true
    podman rm -f frank-dragoon frank-dragoon-halogen >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
    # Nothing may start until the predecessor has released the port
    # (2026-09-16: "Deactivated successfully" was not "port free").
    wait_port_free 7770 || return 1
-    relink_unit frank-dragoon
-    run_privileged systemctl daemon-reload
-    run_privileged systemctl enable frank-dragoon.service
-    run_privileged systemctl restart frank-dragoon.service
-    wait_for_health frank-dragoon http://127.0.0.1:7770/health 1200
+    start_root_unit frank-dragoon 7770 1200
 }

 # deploy_llm_zealot — frank-zealot is llama.cpp (master build, CUDA sm_86) on
@@ -1243,48 +1220,26 @@ LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ="${LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ:-/home/dank/models/Qwen35-9B-HauhauCS-Q6K
 deploy_llm_zealot() {
    # Refuse rather than restart-loop: a unit whose runtime or payload is
    # missing never becomes healthy, and a green deploy would leave the
-    # endpoint dark with nothing in the log to say why.
-    if [[ ! -x "$LLM_ZEALOT_RUNTIME" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: llama.cpp runtime absent at $LLM_ZEALOT_RUNTIME" >&2
-        echo "frank-zealot: build it (cmake -B build-cuda -DGGML_CUDA=ON" >&2
-        echo "frank-zealot: -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=86 -DCMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc-13" >&2
-        echo "frank-zealot: && cmake --build build-cuda --target llama-server) first." >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    for f in "$LLM_ZEALOT_MODEL_FILE" "$LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ"; do
-        if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
-            echo "ERROR: frank-zealot payload file absent at $f" >&2
-            echo "frank-zealot: run scripts/download-frank-zealot.sh first;" >&2
-            echo "frank-zealot: refusing to start a unit that cannot load." >&2
-            return 1
-        fi
-    done
-    relink_unit frank-zealot
-    run_privileged systemctl daemon-reload
-    run_privileged systemctl enable frank-zealot.service
-    run_privileged systemctl restart frank-zealot.service
-    wait_for_health frank-zealot http://127.0.0.1:7771/health 900 || return 1
-    # False-green hardening (frank-dragoon's lesson): the port answering
-    # proves nothing about WHO answers — the unit must be active with a
-    # live MainPID, or a stray SGLang holdover is masquerading as deployed.
-    local main_pid
-    main_pid="$(run_privileged systemctl show -p MainPID --value frank-zealot.service)"
-    if [[ -z "$main_pid" || "$main_pid" == "0" ]]; then
-        echo "FAIL: :7771 answered but frank-zealot.service has no MainPID — a stray process holds the port" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    echo "frank-zealot: health answered by unit MainPID $main_pid"
+    # endpoint dark with nothing in the log to say why. Same library calls
+    # as serve-frank-zealot.sh, so the deployer's twin refuses identically.
+    export GATE_PREFIX=frank-zealot
+    require_exec "$LLM_ZEALOT_RUNTIME" runtime \
+        "build it: cmake -B build-cuda -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=86" \
+        || return 1
+    require_file "$LLM_ZEALOT_MODEL_FILE" gguf \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-zealot.sh" || return 1
+    require_file "$LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ" mmproj \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-zealot.sh" || return 1
+
+    start_root_unit frank-zealot 7771 900
 }

 # deploy_llm_archon — frank-archon is the radiance engine (StillDeadcode,
-# digest-pinned stilldeadcode/radiance image) serving the PUBLISHER's
-# 4-bit-codebook container of the official Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
-# (qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad, fetched by
-# scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh) on BOTH R9700s (TP=2) as a
+# digest-pinned stilldeadcode/radiance image) serving the OFFICIAL
+# Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 at native block-FP8 precision from the
+# rad-convert container qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad, on BOTH R9700s (TP=2) as a
 # ROOT unit whose serve script drives `podman run` directly (the engine is
 # the image entrypoint; the image lives in dank's rootless podman storage).
-# 2026-10-15 payload swap from the in-house w4dn8 (payload on disk =
-# rollback).
 # 2026-10-05 cutover from FreeToken (pre-cutover tag
 # frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005); before that, the tcclaviger vLLM
 # fork (tag frank-archon-vllm-shapeG-20261003). Same port and alias; the
@@ -1293,7 +1248,7 @@ deploy_llm_zealot() {
 # Gates: the image must exist under its digest ref in dank's rootless
 # storage (FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE), the .rad container file must exist at the
 # env's size floor (FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE >= FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB —
-# a truncated fetch is a guaranteed long-timeout boot), and the unit env
+# a truncated convert is a guaranteed long-timeout boot), and the unit env
 # must be complete. Per-file sha256 verification is the fetch script's job
 # at download time and rad-convert/rad-info's job at build time, never
 # re-hashed here.
@@ -1303,11 +1258,16 @@ LLM_ARCHON_LEGACY_CONTAINERS="frank-archon-qwen frank-archon-r9v qwen-fp8 glm-pr
 deploy_llm_archon() {
    # Refuse rather than restart-loop: a unit whose image or payload is
    # missing never becomes healthy, and a green deploy would leave the
-    # endpoint dark with nothing in the log to say why.
-    local env_file="/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-archon.env"
-    local image model_dir model_file rad_min mib
+    # endpoint dark with nothing in the log to say why. The gates are the
+    # shared library's, called with the values the unit's own env file
+    # declares — so serve-frank-archon.sh and this handler cannot disagree,
+    # and the payload path lives in exactly one file.
+    export GATE_PREFIX=frank-archon
+    local env_file="${LLM_ARCHON_ENV_FILE:-$REMOTE_DIR/scripts/frank-archon.env}"
+    local image model_dir model_file rad_min
    if [[ ! -f "$env_file" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: frank-archon env file absent: $env_file" >&2
+        echo "frank-archon: env: missing at $env_file" >&2
+        echo "  hint: deploy the repo checkout first ($REMOTE_DIR)" >&2
        return 1
    fi
    image="$(sed -n 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE=//p' "$env_file" | tail -1)"
@@ -1315,28 +1275,16 @@ deploy_llm_archon() {
    model_file="$(sed -n 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=//p' "$env_file" | tail -1)"
    rad_min="$(sed -n 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=//p' "$env_file" | tail -1)"
    if [[ -z "$image" || -z "$model_dir" || -z "$model_file" || -z "$rad_min" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: frank-archon.env missing FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE/MODEL_DIR/MODEL_FILE/RAD_MIN_MIB" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    # The image gate is the digest ref itself: a name@sha256 ref exists in
-    # storage only if THAT manifest was pulled. One command — no
-    # pipefail/grep race (the 2026-09-30 lesson).
-    if ! podman image exists "$image"; then
-        echo "ERROR: runtime image absent from storage: $image" >&2
-        echo "frank-archon: podman pull docker://stilldeadcode/radiance:latest" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    if [[ ! -f "$model_dir/$model_file" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: .rad container missing: $model_dir/$model_file" >&2
-        echo "frank-archon: run scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh --fetch" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    mib=$(( $(stat -c %s "$model_dir/$model_file") / 1048576 ))
-    if [[ "$mib" -lt "$rad_min" ]]; then
-        echo "ERROR: .rad container too small: $model_dir/$model_file is ${mib} MiB, want >= $rad_min" >&2
-        echo "frank-archon: re-fetch it (scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh --fetch; delete the staged file first if its sha256 failed)" >&2
+        echo "frank-archon: env: missing FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE/MODEL_DIR/MODEL_FILE/RAD_MIN_MIB" >&2
+        echo "  hint: scripts/frank-archon.env" >&2
        return 1
    fi
+    require_image "$image" \
+        "pull it: podman pull docker://stilldeadcode/radiance:latest (as dank)" \
+        || return 1
+    require_min_mib "$model_dir/$model_file" ".rad" "$rad_min" \
+        "convert it: scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh (rad-info is the record)" \
+        || return 1

    # A stale container with the same name makes `podman run --name` fail at
    # start; remove any leftover from a failed previous attempt.
@@ -1355,41 +1303,15 @@ deploy_llm_archon() {
    # (2026-09-26) and the frank-dragoon cutover (2026-09-16) both failed
    # exactly here when the next engine bound 7770 a second too early.
    wait_port_free 7770 || return 1
-    relink_unit frank-archon
-    run_privileged systemctl daemon-reload
-    run_privileged systemctl enable frank-archon.service
-    run_privileged systemctl restart frank-archon.service
    # Cold start: .rad load + PLE pin + expert host-pool upload (the
-    # publisher's compose healthcheck allows a 15-minute start_period).
-    # Parity with every predecessor on this port. The HTTP listener binds
-    # AFTER the full load (main.cpp: engine.start() then engine.serve()),
-    # so during load the port REFUSES connections — a bare curl is honest
-    # here, unlike FreeToken's 200-while-loading body. (The MainPID check
-    # below still guards the stray-port case.)
-    local i ok=0
-    for ((i=1; i<=900; i++)); do
-        if curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:7770/health 2>/dev/null >/dev/null; then
-            echo "frank-archon engine healthy after approximately $((i * 2))s"
-            ok=1
-            break
-        fi
-        sleep 2
-    done
-    if [[ "$ok" != 1 ]]; then
-        echo "FAIL: frank-archon /health never answered 200 in 1800s" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    # False-green hardening (the 2026-09-26 lesson): a bare curl against the
-    # port cannot tell WHO answers — a stray probe holding :7770 satisfies
-    # it while the unit is stopped. The deploy is only green if the unit
-    # itself is active with a live MainPID behind the health answer.
-    local main_pid
-    main_pid="$(run_privileged systemctl show -p MainPID --value frank-archon.service)"
-    if [[ -z "$main_pid" || "$main_pid" == "0" ]]; then
-        echo "FAIL: :7770 answered but frank-archon.service has no MainPID — a stray process holds the port" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    echo "frank-archon: health answered by unit MainPID $main_pid"
+    # publisher's compose healthcheck allows a 15-minute start_period) —
+    # the 900-iteration budget is 1800s, parity with every predecessor on
+    # this port. The HTTP listener binds AFTER the full load (main.cpp:
+    # engine.start() then engine.serve()), so during load the port REFUSES
+    # connections — a bare curl is honest here, unlike FreeToken's
+    # 200-while-loading body. (start_root_unit's MainPID check still
+    # guards the stray-port case.)
+    start_root_unit frank-archon 7770 900
 }

 wait_for_health() {
@@ -1589,7 +1511,12 @@ deploy_service() {
        tautulli) deploy_tautulli ;;
        prometheus|grafana|loki|alloy|node-exporter|alertmanager) deploy_observability "$service" ;;
        comfyui) deploy_comfyui ;;
-        *) deploy_compose_service "$service" ;;
+        *)
+            # Every deployable service on every target has a handler above
+            # (inventory = allow-list, so nothing unreachable arrives).
+            echo "no handler for service: $service" >&2
+            exit 2
+            ;;
    esac
 }

@@ -131,31 +131,13 @@ else
 fi

 valid_service() {
-    local service="$1"
-    case "$TARGET:$service" in
-        dankclaw:caddy|dankclaw:gluetun|dankclaw:searxng-network|dankclaw:searxng-valkey|\
-        dankclaw:searxng|dankclaw:marreta|dankclaw:pihole|dankclaw:open-webui|dankclaw:gitea-postgres|\
-        dankclaw:gitea-server|dankclaw:homepage|\
-        dankclaw:comfyui|dankclaw:hermes|dankclaw:hermes-dashboard|\
-        dankclaw:hermes-webui|dankclaw:prometheus|dankclaw:grafana|dankclaw:loki|dankclaw:alloy|\
-        dankclaw:alertmanager|\
-        dankclaw:node-exporter|dankclaw:authentik-postgres|dankclaw:authentik-server|\
-        dankclaw:authentik-worker|dankclaw:authentik-outpost|dankclaw:authentik-outpost-ldap|dankclaw:anubis|dankclaw:seerr|\
-        dankclaw:frank-dragoon|dankclaw:frank-zealot|\
-        dankserver:romm-mariadb|dankserver:romm-redis|dankserver:romm|\
-        dankserver:copyparty|dankserver:jellyfin|dankserver:calibre-web|dankserver:calibre-server|dankserver:plex|dankserver:tautulli|\
-        dankserver:qbittorrent|dankserver:radarr|dankserver:sonarr|\
-        dankserver:lidarr|dankserver:readarr|dankserver:node-exporter|\
-        dankserver:frank-archon|\
-        frankbook-pro:gluetun|frankbook-pro:qbittorrent|frankbook-pro:prowlarr|\
-        frankbook-pro:radarr|frankbook-pro:sonarr|frankbook-pro:lidarr|\
-        frankbook-pro:readarr)
-            return 0
-            ;;
-        *)
-            return 1
-            ;;
-    esac
+    # The inventory is the only allow-list (see scripts/service-map.py);
+    # service-map's "allows" exit code is the answer. The former literal
+    # case list here drifted from reality (it still listed the *arr stack
+    # under dankserver, which moved to frankbook-pro, and a
+    # "searxng-network" name that is a generated systemd unit, not a
+    # deployable service).
+    python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host "$TARGET" --service "$1" >/dev/null
 }

 for service in "${EXPLICIT_SERVICES[@]}"; do
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 """derive-protected-experts.py — rewrite the recipe's protected-expert section
 from a calibration recording. RUNS ON DANKSERVER (venv: numpy).

-The law (docs/MOE-W4.md "Protected experts", restated in the recipe):
+The selection rule (docs/MOE-W4.md "Protected experts", restated in the recipe):
 an expert whose share of its layer's down-input energy is at least 3% AND
 at least three times its share of the routing is kept bf16; the count must
 be EVEN on each rank's half of the layer (the four-bit GEMM takes the rest
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh — payload fetch/verify for the frank-archon
-# swap to the PUBLISHER's 4-bit-codebook container:
-# StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe — the official
-# Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next bf16 checkpoint rad-converted by the engine's own
-# author into ONE .rad: routed experts as 4-bit codes into a 16-level
-# non-uniform codebook (Walsh–Hadamard rotation, GPTQ + coordinate-descent,
-# 10M-token calibration), ten bf16-protected experts per layer, int8 trunk +
-# lm_head, fp8 HC mixtures, the PLE n-gram table at fp8 fixed scale, the MTP
-# head, and the bf16 vision tower. File:
-# qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad — 121,969,901,568 B (113.6 GiB,
-# 116,322 MiB), card KL 0.0789 all-tokens / top-1 92.85 % vs bf16.
-# Repo is UNGATED — no token needed (never put one on the command line).
-#
-#   bash scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh --fetch         resume/complete
-#   bash scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh                 verify only
-#
-# Fetch uses the vendored scripts/hfget.sh (curl+jq only): per-file size
-# checks against the Hub listing, `-C -` resume, disk-fit gate. The side
-# files (LICENSE, README, the w4nl recipe) stay in the staging dir as
-# provenance; the serve gate mounts ONLY /home/dank/models/rad, so the
-# verified .rad alone moves into it.
-#
-# Verify (default) is the AGENTS.md law in two parts: the file lands at the
-# final path with the Hub's EXACT byte count, and its sha256 equals the
-# Hub's LFS oid. A truncated transfer is a guaranteed long-timeout boot
-# without this gate.
-set -euo pipefail
-
-REPO="StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe"
-RAD_NAME="qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad"
-STAGE="/home/dank/models/StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe"
-DEST="/home/dank/models/rad/$RAD_NAME"
-SIZE=121969901568
-SHA256="0af5e96244e80c21ac8edca1719dae49b8a201b94a2f3994c3e24026ceaa4d20"
-SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-
-mode="verify"
-[[ "${1:-}" == "--fetch" ]] && mode="fetch"
-
-if [[ "$mode" == "fetch" ]]; then
-    # HFGET_JOBS=4 is hfget's default (a few streams saturate the link).
-    bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/hfget.sh" "$REPO" "$STAGE" main
-
-    staged="$STAGE/$RAD_NAME"
-    if [[ ! -f "$staged" ]]; then
-        echo "FETCH FAILED: $staged absent after hfget" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    got=$(stat -c %s "$staged")
-    if [[ "$got" != "$SIZE" ]]; then
-        echo "FETCH FAILED: staged .rad is $got B, want $SIZE B" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    echo "staged .rad byte-exact ($SIZE B); hashing (one full read, minutes)"
-    got_sha=$(sha256sum "$staged" | cut -d' ' -f1)
-    if [[ "$got_sha" != "$SHA256" ]]; then
-        echo "FETCH FAILED: sha256 $got_sha, want $SHA256 — DELETE the staged" \
-             "file before re-fetching (curl -C - cannot repair a corrupt body)" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$DEST")"
-    mv "$staged" "$DEST"
-    echo "payload placed: $DEST"
-fi
-
-echo "verifying deployed payload: $DEST"
-if [[ ! -f "$DEST" ]]; then
-    echo "  BAD  payload absent: $DEST" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-got=$(stat -c %s "$DEST")
-if [[ "$got" != "$SIZE" ]]; then
-    echo "  BAD  payload is $got B, want $SIZE B" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-echo "byte-exact ($SIZE B); hashing (one full read, minutes)"
-got_sha=$(sha256sum "$DEST" | cut -d' ' -f1)
-if [[ "$got_sha" != "$SHA256" ]]; then
-    echo "  BAD  sha256 $got_sha, want $SHA256" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-echo "payload verified: $RAD_NAME, size and sha256 match the Hub LFS oid"
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@
 # Fetch uses the vendored scripts/hfget.sh (StillDeadcode's Apache-2.0
 # listing/resume downloader, curl+jq only): per-file size checks against
 # the Hub listing, `-C -` resume, pickle-format duplicates skipped.
-# Verify (default) is the AGENTS.md law in three parts: every listed file
-# present with the listed size, the shard count matches the weight-map
-# index, and every shard's sha256 equals the Hub's LFS oid. Verify needs
-# only the public API.
+# Verify (default) is three independent agreements: every listed file
+# present with the listed size (catches truncation), the shard count
+# matching the weight-map index (catches omissions), and every shard's
+# sha256 equal to the Hub's LFS oid (catches substituted content).
+# Verify needs only the public API.
 set -euo pipefail

 REPO="ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 # Fetch uses the vendored scripts/hfget.sh (StillDeadcode's Apache-2.0
 # listing/resume downloader, curl+jq only): per-file size checks against
 # the Hub listing, `-C -` resume, pickle-format duplicates skipped.
-# Verify (default) is the AGENTS.md law in three parts: every listed file
-# present with the listed size, the shard count matches the weight-map
-# index, and every shard's sha256 equals the Hub's LFS oid. Verify needs
-# only the public API.
+# Verify (default) is three independent agreements: every listed file
+# present with the listed size (catches truncation), the shard count
+# matching the weight-map index (catches omissions), and every shard's
+# sha256 equal to the Hub's LFS oid (catches substituted content).
+# Verify needs only the public API.
 set -euo pipefail

 REPO="Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8"
@@ -4,12 +4,15 @@
 # .hgn, the REQUIRED lookup table and the optional vision tower from
 # peonist-ai/halogen-qwen3.8-flash-next (both at the revisions the model
 # card pins), and the flat tokenizer the two repos share. All public, no
-# token — and per the fleet secret law, none would ever touch argv.
+# token needed — and a secret would never be passed via argv anyway: the
+# command line is world-readable through /proc, so any token placed there
+# leaks to every process-listing tool on the host.
 #
-# The fetch law, same as every sibling script: curl -f (an access error
-# must not become a "successful" 153-byte artifact), exact byte count from
-# the Hub tree API, LFS sha256 verification, --verify-only to re-check an
-# existing payload without downloading.
+# The fetch rules, uniform across every sibling script: curl -f so an
+# access error fails loudly instead of writing the error body as a
+# "successful" tiny artifact; the exact byte count from the Hub tree API;
+# LFS sha256 verification; --verify-only to re-check an existing payload
+# without downloading.
 #
 # File manifest (verified against the Hub tree API on 2026-10-06):
 #   qwen38-flash-next-v2-swift15-abliterated.hgn  66,687,678,464 B  sha256
@@ -26,7 +29,9 @@
 #   tokenizer/* @e053f488 — byte-identical to the 27B-era tokenizer
 #     already on disk (tokenizer.json LFS
 #     0997f410c57a1f4e53b09e4be8f4a172d90edd9564368fb0847030937229b9f3);
-#     fetched fresh rather than symlinked, per the no-symlink law.
+#     fetched fresh, never symlinked: a snapshot link points into the
+#     host-side cache directory, which does not exist inside the
+#     container mount, so the link dangles exactly where it is consumed.
 set -euo pipefail

 DEST="${FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR:-$HOME/models/halogen-flashnext-v2}"
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # download-frank-dragoon-halogen.sh — fetch frank-dragoon's halogen payload:
 # the qwen3.8-27b .hgn checkpoint and the export tokenizer, from the
-# PUBLIC peonist-ai/halogen-qwen3.8-27b repo (no token — and per the fleet
-# secret law, none would ever touch argv).
+# PUBLIC peonist-ai/halogen-qwen3.8-27b repo (no token — and a token
+# would never travel in argv: command lines are world-readable through
+# /proc, so a secret placed there leaks to any process-listing tool).
 #
-# The fetch law, same as every sibling script: curl -f (an access error
-# must not become a "successful" 153-byte artifact), exact byte count from
-# the model card, LFS sha256 verification, --verify-only to re-check an
-# existing payload without downloading.
+# The fetch rules, uniform across every sibling script: curl -f so an
+# access error fails loudly instead of writing the error body as a
+# "successful" tiny artifact; the exact byte count from the model card;
+# LFS sha256 verification; --verify-only to re-check an existing payload
+# without downloading.
 set -euo pipefail

 DEST="${FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR:-$HOME/models/halogen-qwen3.8-27b}"
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ Tensor extents are DERIVED from consecutive GGUF header offsets — no quant
 type-size table (those are easy to get subtly wrong; a wrong per-element size
 silently under-covers each tensor and dumps tail samples into a junk bucket).

-Fleet law this instrument established (2026-09-26, 75 s window, 4 mixed
-streams, 2.7M expert-tensor samples): per-BLOCK read volume is FLAT
-(0.93x-1.08x of mean across all 40 CPU-resident blocks) because MoE top-k
-routing fires every block every token — there are no "most active layers" at
-`-ot` granularity. The real skew is per-EXPERT (top 10% of (block,expert)
-cells carry ~40% of samples), which tensor-level overrides cannot reach.
-Any 8 GPU-resident blocks are therefore equivalent; COUNT is the only lever.
+What this instrument settles: per-BLOCK expert read volume is FLAT across
+all CPU-resident blocks, because MoE top-k routing fires every block on
+every token — there are no "most active layers" at `-ot` granularity. The
+real skew is per-EXPERT: a small fraction of (block,expert) cells carries
+most of the samples, and tensor-level overrides cannot reach that level.
+Any fixed number of GPU-resident blocks is therefore equivalent; COUNT is
+the only lever.

 Usage (needs passwordless sudo for perf only; model files must be readable):
  fp-expert-activity.py <pid> [duration_s]        # dump + sample + analyze
@@ -1,31 +1,12 @@
-# frank-archon.env — radiance (StillDeadcode, Apache-2.0) serving the
-# PUBLISHER's 4-bit-codebook container of the official Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
-# (MODEL_FILE below, fetched by scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh) on
-# BOTH R9700s (TP=2), dankserver :7770.
-# 2026-10-15 PAYLOAD SWAP: the model moved from the in-house w4dn8 conversion
-# of the Swift1.5 finetune to the engine author's published container
-# qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad (116,322 MiB, sha256-verified at fetch —
-# the w4dn8 measured 116,416 MiB, so this shape carries over with 94 MiB to
-# spare). NO argument changed: every number below is the 2026-10-13 shape,
-# kept verbatim. The swap commit is the rollback (the w4dn8 payload stays on
-# disk).
-
+# frank-archon.env — radiance (StillDeadcode, Apache-2.0) serving
+# ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next converted to GPTQ w4 (MODEL_FILE below,
+# built by scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh) on BOTH R9700s (TP=2),
+# dankserver :7770.
 #
-# SHAPE (2026-10-13): THREE decode slots x 200,000 tokens, fp8 (quantized) KV,
-# with the per-card budget spent on resident experts: 25,600 MiB of slab +
-# 5,120 MiB of pool = 30,720 MiB, inside the 30,969 MiB ceiling the engine's own
-# budget table allows (card 32,624 MiB, settle floor 209 MiB). The pool is sized
-# to the contract and nothing more (3 x 200,000 needs 5,063 MiB at fp8; 5,120
-# predicts 608,027 tokens, 1.3 % slack), because every MiB taken from the slab
-# is prefill and TTFT (2026-10-11 A/B: slab -14.8 % cost prefill -29 %, TTFT
-# +25 % at the full window) while KV beyond the contract buys nothing.
-# Consequence, deliberate: a FOURTH full-height conversation does not fit this
-# pair, and the engine refuses it — it never truncates. See the KV block for the
-# arithmetic and the measured dtype law. The w4dn8 payload is the swap
-# rollback and keeps its trio under the w4dn8 runbook; the fp8-native payload
-# that came before it was DELETED from disk 2026-10-15 (Frank's call, to free
-# the volume for this download — rebuildable via the fetch + build scripts
-# named in the fp8-native runbook).
+# SHAPE (2026-10-11): 2 decode slots x 200,000 tokens with an UNQUANTIZED
+# (bf16) KV cache — the pool is sized for the pair, and the weights slab pays
+# for it (see the KV block). The fp8-native payload this file was written for
+# is the rollback target and keeps its own trio under the fp8-native runbook.
 #
 # 2026-10-05 cutover from FreeToken (PR #587 ROCm, one card, experts in
 # pinned host RAM; git tag frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005 is the
@@ -40,30 +21,20 @@
 # (`X.weight_scale_inv` is the scale plane — checkpoint.h). The PLE n-gram
 # table (51B params, 47.7 GiB) is served from pinned host RAM via io_uring
 # reads — Frank's call: "Native FP8. Experts from ram. Pin the PLE to ram."
-# THE 4-bit-codebook publisher shape is the DEPLOYED payload since
-# 2026-10-15. The card's own run line (--host-pool-mib 12288,
-# --expert-vs-cache-ratio 0.82, seqs 8, spec 3) is the publisher's
-# suggestion on 32 GB cards; this file's shape is the fleet's measured one.
+# The 4-bit-codebook publisher shape (qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad,
+# --host-pool-mib 12288) remains the documented fallback if the native
+# container proves unbootable.
 #
-# PAYLOAD: /home/dank/models/rad/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad — the
-# official Qwen3.8-Flash-Next bf16 checkpoint rad-converted by the engine's
-# own author (recipe qwen4exp-w4nl64-i8-hc8m: experts as 4-bit codes into a
-# 16-level non-uniform codebook after a 128-point Walsh–Hadamard rotation,
-# GPTQ + 3 coordinate-descent sweeps on a 10M-token calibration, ten
-# bf16-protected experts per layer, int8 W8A8 trunk + lm_head, fp8 HC
-# mixtures, PLE n-gram fp8 fixed-scale, MTP head, bf16 vision tower; card KL
-# 0.0789 all-tokens / top-1 92.85 % vs bf16). Fetched byte-exact + sha256 by
-# scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh; the recipe/LICENSE stay in the
-# staging dir beside it as provenance. ROLLBACK: revert the swap commit — the
-# in-house qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad (scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh,
-# KLD-gated) stays on disk. Behind it, the fp8-native
-# qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad was DELETED from disk 2026-10-15 (Frank's call,
-# one-time rm, to free the volume for this payload); rebuild =
-# scripts/download-frank-archon.sh + scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh — a
-# NO-RECIPE rad-convert copy of the official 131-shard checkpoint under the
-# descriptor law (no shipped plugin claims (qwen4exp, "fp8"), so the staging
-# config.json drops quantization_config; per-weight encodings are data, not
-# the descriptor).
+# PAYLOAD: /home/dank/models/rad/qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad — a rad-convert
+# NO-RECIPE pure copy of the official 131-shard checkpoint (every weight
+# keeps its block-FP8 encoding; ~161 GiB). The convert runs against a
+# staging dir whose config.json drops `quantization_config`: the descriptor
+# string is only the plugin SELECTION key (spec §2.4 — exact match, no
+# fallback), and no shipped plugin claims (qwen4exp, "fp8"); the shipped
+# qwen4exp plugin claims (qwen4exp, "") which is what recipe-built
+# containers carry. Per-weight encodings are data, not the descriptor —
+# removing the key changes nothing about what the weights hold. Built by
+# scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh (staging + convert + rad-info).
 #
 # SERVING FACTS (docs/GUIDE.md, docs/DOCKER.md, compose/flashnext.yaml):
 # - The HTTP listener binds AFTER the full load (main.cpp: engine.start()
@@ -79,12 +50,12 @@
 #   enable_thinking, preserve_thinking (core/server/oai.cpp:194-205) —
 #   models.yml's extraBody set is fully inside it. Unknown params are
 #   refused (400), which is why nothing unverified rides the wire.
-# - MTP: the .rad carries the model's mtp.* head (the publisher's recipe
-#   names the mtp.fc_hidden/fc_embedding/draft_head rules; card default
-#   depth 3). Served at the depth named by FRANK_ARCHON_SPEC_TOKENS below —
-#   the depth this shape's decode ladder was measured at.
+# - MTP: the official checkpoint carries the mtp.* head (3,101 tensors,
+#   mtp_num_hidden_layers=1) and the plugin probes draft depth 3 — the
+#   publisher's throughput peak for this model. Stated explicitly with
+#   --num-speculative-tokens 3.
 # - The fused TP all-reduce is declared over max-num-seqs x
-#   (1 + --num-speculative-tokens) rows; 3 x (1+2) = 9 rows, under the 25-row
+#   (1 + --num-speculative-tokens) rows; 2 x 3 = 6 rows, under the 25-row
 #   exactness bound of the wht6 wire.
 # Engine pin: Codeberg tag v1.0.13 (commit 53282fa), Docker Hub tag 1.0.13,
 # index digest below. REJECTED UPGRADE: 1.2.0 (sha256:665775ed1d90de6dbb
@@ -108,7 +79,7 @@ FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE=stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564bb2872784e46b0a59cbd7
 # .rad files; the raw HF download and its staging dir live beside it and
 # are never mounted.
 FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/rad
-FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad
+FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad
 FRANK_ARCHON_STATE_DIR=/home/dank/radiance-state
 # The state dir's tune/ subdirectory holds rad-tune's kernel-selection
 # cache (the engine's selector reads $RADIANCE_HOME/tune/<machine>.tune
@@ -142,29 +113,19 @@ FRANK_ARCHON_TP=2
 # +5.6-6.3% prefill, ~-1.3% 8-stream decode at TP2). min-kb stays the
 # engine default.
 FRANK_ARCHON_TP_WIRE=wht6
-# Decode slots: THREE, so the served window is a CAPACITY CONTRACT — three
+# Decode slots: TWO, so the served window is a CAPACITY CONTRACT — two
 # concurrent conversations of --max-model-len fit the KV pool (see the KV
-# block below). The "seqs 2 cannot boot" law is NOT radiance's: it was the
-# tcclaviger vLLM fork's torch.compile shape specialization on
-# query_start_loc (ConstraintViolationError, measured 2026-10-02, retired
-# with that runtime). Radiance booted seqs 2 at the fp8-native first boot,
-# and the 2026-10-06 decode sweep measured seqs 2 and 3 statistically tied
-# (30.9-33.1 t/s, inside the +-3% noise floor) — slot count buys concurrency,
-# not speed, so a slot costs KV, never decode.
-# Cost of each extra slot: 110 MiB of per-slot recurrent state inside the KV
-# pool, and the fused TP all-reduce is declared over seqs x (1 + spec) rows —
-# 3 x 3 = 9 here, under the 25-row bound at which the wht6 wire stays EXACT
-# (single-sequence decode and any step of <= 25 rows is bit-exact; only busier
-# steps are lossy).
-# The pool is sized to this contract and nothing more (see the KV block):
-# 3 x 200,000 at fp8 = 5,063 MiB, pool 5,120, and the freed 1,792 MiB went into
-# the resident expert slab. The trade is explicit and it is Frank's call:
-# a FOURTH full-height conversation no longer fits (5,120 MiB of pool backs
-# ~608k tokens; 4 x 200,000 needs 6,601), so a fourth 200k request is refused
-# as too large to fit — it is NOT squeezed, paged, or truncated. Third-party
-# traffic that wants four full-height sessions is a --vram-kv-mib change, not
-# a code change.
-FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS=3
+# block below). Slot-count limits observed on other runtimes do NOT
+# transfer: a "this slot count cannot boot" refusal is usually that
+# runtime's compiler specializing shapes (e.g. a ConstraintViolationError
+# from shape specialization on query_start_loc), not a property of the
+# engine now running. This engine boots seqs 2, and seqs 2
+# vs 3 decode measurements land inside each other's noise floor. Side
+# benefit: the fused TP all-reduce is declared over seqs x (1 + spec) = 6
+# rows, under the 25-row bound at which the wht6 wire stays EXACT
+# (single-sequence decode and any step of <= 25 rows is bit-exact; only
+# busier steps are lossy).
+FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS=2
 # Served window. Native is 262,144; 200,000 is the publisher's production
 # value (compose) and what models.yml's contextWindow must quote — a longer
 # prompt is refused by the engine, never truncated. The engine treats
@@ -185,52 +146,25 @@ FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=44928
 # VRAM left unclaimed per card (publisher default 96 MiB).
 FRANK_ARCHON_GPU_HEADROOM_MIB=96
 # VRAM split of claimed memory per card, MiB (0 = derive from the card).
-# THE CEILING, read off this engine's own VRAM-budget table (boot 2026-10-13,
-# pair 24000/5120): card 32,624 MiB; budgets claimed 29,120; `3.42 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`; and `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)`.
-# So the reserve above the ENGINE's floor is 2,058 - 209 = 1,849 MiB and the
-# ceiling is 29,120 + 1,849 = 30,969 MiB. The 2026-10-11 bound of 29,120
-# ("31,856 - 1,710 outside both budgets - keep 1 GiB free") was MY reserve, not
-# the engine's; the pair below spends the difference and lands 458 MiB above
-# the engine's floor. `weights + kv <= 30,969` is the gate.
+# THE CEILING, measured on this host 2026-10-11: card 31,856 MiB, a boot
+# consumes 1,710 MiB OUTSIDE both budgets (driver context + activation arena
+# 990 + hardware queues 100 + headroom 96 + step staging), and the fp8 pair
+# settled at 1,379 MiB free — so `vram_weights + vram_kv <= 29,120 MiB` keeps
+# >= 1 GiB free. The pair below is exactly that sum.
 # THE PRICE, and it is paid twice: on this engine idle KV VRAM is ALSO the
 # expert cache's spillover (`mover: 2275 slots can be lent out of the KV
 # cache (2.69 GiB)`, `arena: lends 740 MiB while steps are <= 256 tokens`),
 # so a bigger KV pool steals weight residency from the slab AND from the
 # lendable cache. Priors on this card/model: stealing 2.14 GiB of weights for
 # a bigger pool (MAX_MODEL_LEN 262144) cost 2.5% decode; the EVC ladder's
-# other direction (0.82 -> 0.84, +2.5 GiB weights) cost 8.9%. The 2026-10-11
-# exact-KV A/B measured the slab's own price (22208 vs the fp8-era 26071):
-# prefill -29 %, TTFT at the full window +25 %, decode inside the noise band on
-# 2 of 3 passes, draft acceptance UP 0.661 -> 0.740.
-# 2026-10-13 (late): THREE slots, so the pool is cut to the contract (5,120)
-# and every spare MiB goes to the slab: 22208 -> 24000 (the third slot's
-# surplus KV), then 24000 -> 25600 (the card's settling slack). The direction
-# the A/B data points: prefill is slab-limited, KV beyond the contract is not.
-# The margin is thin by design (608,027 predicted tokens against the 600,000
-# contract), so the boot ledger's `backs N sequences all at 200000 tokens at
-# once` line is the referee for THIS pair and the concurrent probe is its
-# regression test.
-# VERDICT on the 25,600 arm (measured 2026-10-13, scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py):
-# the threshold claim is FALSIFIED — the slab is a SLOPE at this end. A-cold
-# 43.5k single-stream: 22,208 -> 3,397, 24,000 -> 3,290, 25,600 -> 3,584 t/s;
-# the 3-way 197k arm's aggregate prefill 3,051 -> 3,589 t/s (wall
-# 193.7 -> 164.5 s). So +1,600 MiB of slab = +8.9 % single-stream and
-# +17.6 % concurrent, both outside the +-3 % noise floor. The 22,208/24,000
-# pair landed inside noise of EACH OTHER, which is what made it read as a
-# plateau; two points are not a curve.
-# The cliff that remains is between 25,600 (3,584) and 26,071 (4,379, the
-# 2026-10-11 fp8 control at seqs 3 / pool 3,543) — +22 % for +471 MiB. At THREE
-# slots that is only reachable by breaking the ceiling (26,112 + 5,120 = 31,232
-# vs 30,969, ~214 MiB above the engine's floor); at TWO slots it is free:
-# pool 3,072 + slab 27,897 = exactly the ceiling, slab above the cliff.
-FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_WEIGHTS_MIB=25600
-FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_KV_MIB=5120
-# KV cache QUANTIZED (fp8). This engine's flag takes ONLY bf16|fp8 — there is
-# ONE kv_dtype for the whole cache, so "exact K, quantized V" (llama.cpp's
+# other direction (0.82 -> 0.84, +2.5 GiB weights) cost 8.9%. Expect -3..-8%
+# vs the fp8 control (136 t/s median at 44.5k depth, acceptance 0.7246,
+# ~190 t/s on a live 512-token probe); re-tune from a boot ledger + probe,
+# never from that estimate.
+FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_WEIGHTS_MIB=22208
+FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_KV_MIB=6912
+# KV cache UNQUANTIZED (bf16). This engine's flag takes ONLY bf16|fp8 — there
+# is ONE kv_dtype for the whole cache, so "exact K, quantized V" (llama.cpp's
 # --cache-type-k/--cache-type-v pair, which is what frank-zealot runs) is
 # UNSERVABLE here: the rung below bf16 is fp8 on both halves.
 # Measured per-rank cost, read out of the boot ledger's group table (fp8 boot
@@ -244,63 +178,53 @@ FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_KV_MIB=5120
 # The dtype-INDEPENDENT terms also live in the pool: kv_gdn_state 54 MiB x 2
 # copies per sequence (+ conv/tail/ple ~= 110 MiB a sequence) and the prefix
 # checkpoint region 8 x 55.99 = 448 MiB. So:
-#   pool_mib >= tokens x 7.3125 KiB + 110 x seqs + 448
-#   3 x 200,000 at fp8 needs 4,285 + 330 + 448 = 5,063 MiB; the pool is 5,120,
-#   and it predicts (5120 - 330 - 448) x 1024 / 7.3125 = 608,027 tokens: the
-#   three-slot contract with 1.3 % slack, every MiB above 5,063 having been
-#   handed to the expert slab instead. The ledger line is the referee ("backs N
-#   sequences all at 200000 tokens at once") — a pair this tight is read off the
-#   boot, never assumed.
-#   At bf16 the same three slots cost 8,093 + 778 = 8,871 MiB, which would cut
-#   the slab to 20,249 MiB (-9 %); at FOUR slots bf16 costs 10,791 + 888 =
-#   11,679 MiB and the slab falls to 17,441 (-33 %). fp8 keeps 22,208 at both
-#   slot counts. The 2026-10-11 bf16 shape (6,912 / seqs 2) backed 462,752
-#   tokens = 2 x 200,000; the historical fp8 pool of 3,543 gave 386,904 (1.93
-#   sessions), and the four-slot fp8 boot of 2026-10-13 19:21 backed 843,276.
-# Secondary saving: the prefix-cache entry shrinks with the attention plane
-# (one entry 110.50 KiB at bf16 -> 58.50 KiB at fp8, measured on the two boot
-# ledgers' `kv tier transfer` lines), so the host tier below parks twice as
-# many conversations as it did at bf16 — no re-size needed to park three slots.
-FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=fp8
-# Spec decode: the checkpoint's own MTP head, served at depth 2 — the
-# publisher's card ships depth 3 as its peak; this fleet's ladder was
-# measured at 2 and the swap keeps every argument, so 2 stays (rows
-# 3 x (1+2) = 9, inside the wht6 25-row exactness bound).
+#   pool_mib >= tokens x 13.8125 KiB + 110 x seqs + 448
+#   6912 -> (6912 - 220 - 448) x 1024 / 13.8125 = 462,946 tokens; the engine
+#   reported 462,752 (0.04% page rounding) — 2 x 200,000 with 62k of slack,
+#   and the ledger says it outright: "backs 2 sequences all at 200000 tokens
+#   at once, which is the worst case".
+# (the fp8 pool of 3543 gave 386,904 — it never held 2 x 200k, it held 1.93
+# sessions, and a third long conversation preempted to the host/disk tiers).
+# Secondary cost: the prefix-cache entry grows with the attention plane
+# (one entry 58.50 KiB at fp8 -> 110.50 KiB at bf16, measured on the two boot
+# ledgers' `kv tier transfer` lines), so the host tier below doubles to keep
+# the same number of parked conversations, out of RAM the host has
+# (104 GiB available with the service loaded).
+FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=bf16
+# Spec decode: the checkpoint's own MTP head at the publisher's depth-3
+# operating point (probe() returns 3 when mtp_num_hidden_layers > 0; the
+# flag states it so the ledger records the intent).
 FRANK_ARCHON_SPEC_TOKENS=2
 FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_BATCHED_TOKENS=2048
-# Prefix cache tiers (publisher pattern). The host tier is sized in ENTRIES,
-# and one entry tracks the cache dtype (58.50 KiB at fp8, 117 KiB at bf16, per
-# the ledger's `kv tier transfer` line): at fp8, 8192 MiB parks ~5.8 sessions
-# of 200k (at bf16 the same tier parked ~2.9), so four live slots plus a full
-# parked set fits with the tier as it stands — at RAM the host has (104 GiB
-# available with the service loaded).
+# Prefix cache tiers (publisher pattern; disk tier sized for 2 slots).
+# The host tier is sized in ENTRIES, and one entry doubles with the cache
+# dtype (58.50 KiB at fp8 -> 117 KiB at bf16, per the ledger's `kv tier
+# transfer` line): 4096 MiB at bf16 parks ~1.4 sessions of 200k where it
+# parked ~2.9 at fp8. Doubled to keep the capacity, at RAM the host has
+# (104 GiB available with the service loaded).
 FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_HOST_MIB=8192
 FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_DISK_MIB=65536
-# Frank's pin law: the PLE n-gram table (47.7 GiB) serves from pinned host
-# RAM the cards read. `ram` REFUSES the start if the memlock limit is too
-# small — the unit's LimitMEMLOCK=infinity is the other half of this law.
+# The PLE n-gram table (47.7 GiB) serves from pinned host RAM the cards
+# read. `ram` REFUSES the start if the memlock limit is too small — a
+# named refusal beats a mid-load allocator failure — and the unit's
+# LimitMEMLOCK=infinity is the other half of the arrangement.
 FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT=ram
 # TTM preflight: the pinned ledger (2 x 44 GiB pools + 47.7 GiB PLE + 8 GiB
 # prefix host = ~147 GiB) rides TTM's shared pages, capped by ttm's
 # pages_limit (the current kernel exposes NO pages_max; the cap function
 # takes the min over the knobs that exist). Below the plan the load dies
-# mid-pin with an allocator error instead of this named refusal.
-# THE CAP IS A RUNTIME KNOB — the kernel default is half of RAM, so every
-# raise dies with a reboot. Measured the hard way: the 2026-10-05 manual raise
-# to 52,428,800 pages (200 GiB) was gone after the 2026-10-12 23:17 POWER
-# FAILURE, the cap fell back to 125,988 MiB, and the preflight refused the
-# start 6,919 times in ~20 h while Restart=always re-ran it. The gate in
-# scripts/ttm-preflight.sh now RAISES the knob itself before refusing (the
-# root unit is privileged; the knob is a 0644 root module parameter), so the
-# recovery is a boot, not a visit to the machine.
+# mid-pin with an allocator error instead of this named refusal — raise the
+# knob first (runtime sysfs write; kernel cmdline fallback + one reboot only
+# if the file is read-only), see the runbook. Cap raised 2026-10-05 to
+# 52,428,800 pages = 200 GiB, which still clears this floor.
 FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000
-FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800
 # Escape hatch for boot-ladder experiments. Unset -> no extra argv. Keep
 # multi-flag values as one string; the serve script expands it unquoted on
 # purpose.
 FRANK_ARCHON_EXTRA_ARGS=
-# The .rad's minimum size in MiB (deployer gate; a truncated fetch is a
-# guaranteed long-timeout boot instead of a fast failure). The deployed
-# publisher container measures 116,322 MiB (121,969,901,568 B); the
-# in-house w4dn8 rollback measured 116,416 MiB. Floor sits just under both.
+# The .rad's minimum size in MiB (deployer gate; a truncated convert is a
+# guaranteed long-timeout boot instead of a fast failure). The converted
+# container measured 177,109 MiB (1,857,127,997,440 B = 173.0 GiB; the
+# plan-only estimate 172.76 GiB covers the data planes but not the metadata
+# tail) - floor sits just under the payload.
 FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=110000
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # frank-archon.service — radiance (StillDeadcode, Apache-2.0) endpoint
-# (the publisher's 4-bit-codebook container of the official
-# Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad, fetched by
-# scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh) on BOTH R9700s (TP=2, wht6 wire),
-# dankserver :7770. 2026-10-15 payload swap from the in-house w4dn8 (the
-# swap commit is the revert; its .rad stays on disk).
+# (OFFICIAL Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 at NATIVE block-FP8 precision, the
+# rad-convert container qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad) on BOTH R9700s (TP=2,
+# wht6 wire), dankserver :7770. 2026-10-05 cutover from FreeToken (git tag
+# frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005 is the pre-cutover state; the
+# retired unit/env/serve trio and Dockerfile are in that tag).
 #
 # Same port, same served alias, same container identity as the unit name;
 # the harness models.yml id is unchanged. The serve script drives
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # unit grants LimitMEMLOCK=infinity to the dank process via PID1; the
 # engine still runs out of dank's rootless podman storage.
 [Unit]
-Description=frank-archon — radiance Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (publisher iq4r) on 2x R9700 TP=2
+Description=frank-archon — radiance Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 (native) on 2x R9700 TP=2
 After=network-online.target
 Wants=network-online.target
 # Never let the start-rate limiter give up after a crash loop (a failed LLM
@@ -35,13 +35,6 @@ Group=dank
 LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
 Environment="FRANK_ARCHON_ENV_FILE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-archon.env"
 ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-archon.sh
-# The `+` prefix runs this as root even though the service is User=dank — the
-# ttm pages cap is a root-owned knob and the pinned-RAM ledger (~147 GiB) is
-# unusable below it. After a reboot the knob is back at its default (half of
-# RAM), so the raise must be part of the start, not a note in a runbook: the
-# 2026-10-12 power failure reset it and the endpoint refused to boot 6,919
-# times. The serve script re-verifies the cap after this hook.
-ExecStartPre=+/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/ttm-preflight.sh --raise
 # systemd stop: wait alone cannot stop the container child; stop it
 # explicitly. No graceful drain contract is claimed (the OpenAI front end
 # holds no queue to drain — in-flight decodes are lost, which a stop
@@ -42,10 +42,11 @@
 #   form of the engine's default, so the seam test can pin the product.
 #   KV costs ~28 KiB/position (FLAGS.md) => 524,288 x 28 KiB = 14.0 GiB.
 #   HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS=2 restores the w4b-era shape on this box: the MTP
-#   drafter is NOT slot-locked on this engine (batching and speculation
-#   coexist — DFlash-era slots>1 law does NOT carry over; the card's own
-#   quickstart ships 2 slots WITH the head), so the second slot is
-#   concurrent capacity, not a speculation tax.
+#   drafter is NOT slot-locked on this engine. A "slots > 1 disables the
+#   drafter" restriction is a property of the engine generation that
+#   imposed it, not of speculation itself — batching and speculation
+#   coexist here, and the card's own quickstart ships 2 slots WITH the
+#   head — so the second slot is concurrent capacity, not a speculation tax.
 #   Memory ledger against the box's 121.2 GiB unified (the n-gram table is
 #   mmap'd page cache beside the checkpoint, not a pinned charge — the
 #   card's own quickstart arithmetic does not bill it):
@@ -88,9 +89,10 @@
 #     before. Kernel needs CONFIG_HSA_AMD_SVM (CachyOS ships it) and
 #     amdgpu.noretry=0 (check at deploy).

-# Image: digest-pinned (fetch law: tag pulls silently re-point; the digest
-# is what was qualified). 0.16.2 = the version the model card names as its
-# quickstart pin; RepoDigest captured at pull on 2026-10-06.
+# Image: digest-pinned, not tag-pinned — a tag can be re-pointed to a
+# build that was never qualified here, while the digest pins exactly the
+# build that was tested. 0.16.2 = the version the model card names as its
+# quickstart pin; the RepoDigest was captured at a pull of that tag.
 FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE=ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:0c61bf84ac22308a53f5d1ca6b86806702d7039e5ebc51cae4c66621b92fe04a
 # Container identity: kept from the 27B era (unit ExecStop names it).
 FRANK_DRAGOON_CONTAINER=frank-dragoon-halogen
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@
 # custom-quant lock-in like the ROCmFPX era). NO nextn/mtp tensors exist, so
 # in-file MTP is impossible here; SPEC_TYPE=none is forced by the payload.
 #
-# KV rate law: 8 full layers × 4 KV heads × 256 dim = 8,192 elements per
-# token per cache. f16 K + f16 V = 32,768 B/token = 32 KiB/token, so the
-# 401,408-token pool is 12.25 GiB. The 24 DeltaNet layers cost a fixed
-# recurrent state per SLOT (not per token) — that is why two 200k slots fit
-# where the 26B MoE fit only one.
+# The KV rate follows from the architecture: 8 full layers × 4 KV heads ×
+# 256 dim = 8,192 elements per token per cache. f16 K + f16 V = 32,768
+# B/token = 32 KiB/token, so the 401,408-token pool is 12.25 GiB. The 24
+# DeltaNet layers cost a fixed recurrent state per SLOT (not per token) —
+# that is why two 200k slots fit where the 26B MoE fit only one.
 #
 # Feasibility comes from the predecessor's MEASURED boots, not a formula:
 # MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B (identical qwen35 geometry, 7,793,710,624 B) at
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ Group=dank
 LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
 Environment="FRANK_ZEALOT_ENV_FILE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-zealot.env"
 ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh
-Restart=on-failure
+# Restart=always is the right policy for a serving daemon: a process that
+# exits on its own — exit 0 — is a CLEAN stop to systemd, so on-failure
+# never fires and the endpoint stays dark (with the unit reporting
+# success) until the next boot. frank-zealot is the fleet's compaction
+# hub — every endpoint's compaction dies when it does.
+Restart=always
 RestartSec=10

 [Install]
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# llm-gates.sh — the artifact gates every LLM endpoint runs before it starts.
+#
+# Why this file exists: every LLM endpoint gates its payload twice — the
+# serve script at start, the deployer before dispatch. Two hand-written
+# copies of the same checks drift apart in wording and strictness, and the
+# drift surfaces as deploy-time disagreement: one side passes, the other
+# refuses, and the failure lands in production instead of in the gate.
+# Both sides source this library, so the refusal is one text and one rule.
+#
+# Contract (public interface):
+#   require_exec      PATH LABEL HINT
+#   require_file      PATH LABEL HINT
+#   require_bytes     PATH LABEL WANT_BYTES HINT
+#   require_min_mib   PATH LABEL MIN_MIB HINT
+#   require_dir_files DIR  LABEL HINT FILE...
+#   require_image     REF  HINT
+#
+# Each returns 0 and prints nothing on success. On failure it prints two
+# lines to stderr — the first naming the endpoint ($GATE_PREFIX) and the
+# artifact, the second the remedy — and returns 1. It NEVER exits: the serve
+# scripts run under `set -e` (so a refusal is terminal), while the deployer
+# wants `|| return 1` so a failed gate reports a red deploy for that one
+# service and the dispatcher's state marker stays pending.
+# Lines are labelled by ARTIFACT CLASS, and the class is the whole label
+# (the path rides in the same line): the class + path is what an operator
+# acts on, so no wording order and no payload rename can make the two twins
+# disagree. The deployer's old "halogen vision tower" and the serve script's
+# "vision-tower" were one gate in two vocabularies that no grep could join.
+
+# Size checks use equality, not a floor, for `require_bytes`: a fetch that
+# truncates looks like a success (an HTTP error exit is often swallowed, and
+# the error body is written in the artifact's place), so "exists and is big
+# enough" is not proof of the right artifact. The declared byte count is a
+# contract in both directions — a bigger file is a DIFFERENT artifact.
+
+# GATE_PREFIX names the endpoint in every refusal (e.g. frank-dragoon). The
+# caller exports it; shellcheck cannot follow it across the source boundary,
+# so the read site carries the directive.
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
+: "${GATE_PREFIX:=gate}"
+
+# Two bash behaviors make the `return 1` at every call site load-bearing:
+#   * a function whose body ends inside an `if` returns the CONDITION's
+#     status (true = 0), so a gate that ends on its own refusal prints the
+#     refusal and reports SUCCESS;
+#   * `set -e` is suspended for any command in a `… || …` chain, so a gate
+#     that runs inside one must not be trusted to abort the caller.
+# Every gate's refusal therefore carries an explicit `|| return 1`, and the
+# caller consumes the status (`|| exit 1`, `|| return 1`).
+_gate_fail() {
+    printf '%s: %s\n' "$GATE_PREFIX" "$1" >&2
+    printf '  hint: %s\n' "$2" >&2
+    return 1
+}
+
+# require_file — PATH must be a regular file. A directory (an unpacked
+# staging dir wearing the payload's name) and a symlink (a HuggingFace cache
+# snapshot's entry, which dangles inside the container mount) both refuse.
+require_file() {
+    local path="$1" label="$2" hint="$3"
+    if [[ -L "$path" || ! -f "$path" ]]; then
+        _gate_fail "$label: missing at $path" "$hint" || return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+# require_exec — PATH must be an executable regular file. The native runtimes
+# (llama.cpp's llama-server) are binaries the operator builds; a tree that
+# compiled but lost its +x, or a directory wearing the binary's name, must
+# refuse the same way a missing one does.
+require_exec() {
+    local path="$1" label="$2" hint="$3"
+    if [[ -L "$path" || ! -x "$path" ]]; then
+        _gate_fail "$label: missing at $path" "$hint" || return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+# require_bytes — PATH must exist AND be exactly WANT_BYTES bytes.
+require_bytes() {
+    local path="$1" label="$2" want="$3" hint="$4" got
+    require_file "$path" "$label" "$hint" || return 1
+    got="$(stat -c %s "$path")"
+    if [[ "$got" != "$want" ]]; then
+        _gate_fail "$label: is $got bytes, expected $want" "$hint" || return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+# require_min_mib — PATH must be at least MIN_MIB mebibytes. The floor form
+# is for build products (a .rad container is a range of legal sizes; a
+# truncated convert is not).
+require_min_mib() {
+    local path="$1" label="$2" min="$3" hint="$4" mib
+    require_file "$path" "$label" "$hint" || return 1
+    mib=$(( $(stat -c %s "$path") / 1048576 ))
+    if (( mib < min )); then
+        _gate_fail "$label: is $mib MiB, expected >= $min MiB" "$hint" || return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
+
+# require_dir_files — DIR must be a directory and every named member a
+# regular file, never a symlink: snapshot layouts link files into place, and
+# a link dangles inside the container mount even when the directory itself
+# is real. A symlinked DIRECTORY is refused too — the same layout can link
+# the directory itself, and the link dangles identically.
+require_dir_files() {
+    local dir="$1" label="$2" hint="$3"
+    shift 3
+    local f
+    if [[ -L "$dir" || ! -d "$dir" ]]; then
+        _gate_fail "$label: missing at $dir" "$hint" || return 1
+    fi
+    for f in "$@"; do
+        if [[ -L "$dir/$f" || ! -f "$dir/$f" ]]; then
+            _gate_fail "$label: $dir/$f is missing or a symlink" "$hint" || return 1
+        fi
+    done
+    return 0
+}
+
+# require_image — the image ref must be in podman storage. A name@sha256 ref
+# exists only if THAT manifest was pulled, so the gate is the ref itself, in
+# one command: no pipefail/grep race (the 2026-09-30 lesson).
+require_image() {
+    local ref="$1" hint="$2"
+    if ! podman image exists "$ref"; then
+        _gate_fail "image: $ref is not in podman storage" "$hint" || return 1
+    fi
+    return 0
+}
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@
 #     its base SupportsEagleBase (has_own_lm_head, has_own_embed_tokens) -- and
 #     getattr_static()s each one off the instance, breaking on the first miss.
 #     So BOTH wrappers need all three attributes.
-#   * MRO law: INHERITING SupportsEagle3 as a base dies at class creation with
-#     "Cannot create a consistent method resolution order (MRO) for bases ..."
-#     (GLM's wrappers already carry four/five Protocol-derived bases).  The
-#     attribute route avoids the MRO entirely.  Also proven by simulation:
+#   * Why not inheritance: adding SupportsEagle3 as a BASE class dies at
+#     class creation with "Cannot create a consistent method resolution
+#     order (MRO) for bases ..." (GLM's wrappers already carry four/five
+#     Protocol-derived bases; the base ordering cannot take another). The
+#     attribute route avoids the MRO entirely; simulation confirms that
 #     the four-base ForCausalLM ordering cannot take SupportsEagle3 in ANY
 #     position.
 #   * Method placement: without inheriting, the Protocol's default
@@ -1,35 +1,29 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""probe-frank-archon-kv.py — verify the seqs x max-model-len KV contract on a
+"""probe-frank-archon-kv.py — verify the 2 x 200,000 KV contract on a LIVE
 frank-archon (radiance) service. Run it ON dankserver: it talks to
 127.0.0.1:7770 and builds its prompts from the repo checkout there.
 No scratch container, no mask: the service under test is the service.

    ssh dankserver 'python3 /home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py'

-Four probes, in increasing cost:
+Three probes, in increasing cost:
  A  decode at depth — one ~51k-token chat completion, 512 tokens, greedy.
     Reports the engine's own `timings` (prefill, decode, draft acceptance).
-     The bench law applies: >=128 generated tokens, greedy, real text.
-  B  the capacity contract — as many CONCURRENT chats of ~197k prompt tokens as
-     the deployed `FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS` (read from the repo env file on this
-     host), each carrying a unique marker at its head. All must answer their own
-     marker. This is what the endpoint owes: N full-height conversations
-     resident at once, exact retrieval in every one of them.
+     Method: >=128 generated tokens (below that, first-token latency
+     dominates the decode rate), greedy (sampling noise is unattributable),
+     real text (synthetic text inflates draft acceptance).
+  B  the capacity contract — TWO concurrent chats of ~197k prompt tokens
+     (~394k tokens resident) each carrying a unique marker at its head. Both
+     must answer their own marker. This is what a 2 x 200,000 endpoint owes:
+     two full-height conversations resident at once, exact retrieval in both.
  C  prefix-cache restore — probe A's cold prompt again, so the disk tier has
     to give the blocks back (cache_n > 0, TTFT collapses).
-  D  concurrency decode — `seqs` CONCURRENT 512-token generations at ~25 % of
-     the window. This is the cost a slot count imposes on DECODE, which no
-     prefill number shows: the fused-step schedule is unfair, so every stream is
-     printed plus the aggregate. Measured 2026-10-13 at 3 x 200,000 fp8:
-     single-stream 99.0 t/s (43.5k) and 93.3 (197k) — decode is nearly
-     window-free — against 3-stream 113.9/43.3/10.9 t/s = 18.4 t/s aggregate.
-     Concurrency, not the slab, is what decode pays for slots. The 2026-10-13
-     shape hunt missed this for a whole day because leg B generates 24 tokens.
-PROBE LAW (learned the hard way, twice): radiance routes the thinking block to
+
+PROBE PITFALL: radiance routes the thinking block to
 `reasoning_content`, so a chat request whose budget is spent inside
 `<think>` returns EMPTY `content` with `finish_reason: stop`. A probe that
-reads `content` alone scores 0/2 on a healthy server. Every request here sets
-chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking=false and reads both fields.
+reads `content` alone scores 0/2 on a healthy server. Every request here
+sets chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking=false and reads both fields.

 A/B method for a shape change (no scratch container): write a variant env file
 on the host, point a transient systemd drop-in at it
@@ -122,51 +116,23 @@ def show(tag, j, wall, expect=None):
    print(line)


-def deployed_shape():
-    """The contract is the deployed env, not a constant: slot count and window
-    come from the checkout on this host, so the probe cannot drift from the
-    service it is testing (the 2026-10-13 shape is 4 x 200,000; before that
-    2 x 200,000, and the fp8 era 3 x 200,000)."""
-    shape = {}
-    with open(f"{REPO}/scripts/frank-archon.env") as fh:
-        for line in fh:
-            line = line.strip()
-            if line.startswith("FRANK_ARCHON_") and "=" in line:
-                key, _, val = line.partition("=")
-                shape[key] = val.strip().strip('"')
-    return (int(shape["FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS"]),
-            int(shape["FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_MODEL_LEN"]),
-            shape["FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE"])
-
-
 def main():
-    seqs, maxlen, dtype = deployed_shape()
-    print(f"shape: {seqs} x {maxlen:,} tokens, kv {dtype}")
    print("health:", json.dumps(get("/health")))
    print("models:", [m.get("id") for m in get("/v1/models").get("data", [])])
    deep = corpus(160_000)
    wide = corpus(1_100_000)

-    # 3.28 chars/token is the measured ratio of this corpus through the
-    # froggeric template (646,000 chars -> 196,919 tokens at the 2026-10-11
-    # deploy); 98.5 % of the window leaves the response room under the ceiling.
-    chars = int(0.985 * maxlen * 3.28)
-    # Each marker's FIRST hyphen-separated word is unique, because show()
-    # scores the hit on that word — a shared prefix would score every slot HIT
-    # on any answer that says the word.
-    words = ["cobalt", "quartz", "basalt", "ember", "willow", "cobweb", "flint"]
-    facts = {f"B{i+1}": f"{words[i % len(words)]}-flag-{(i + 1) * 137}"
-             for i in range(seqs)}
-    bodies = {s: chat(wide, chars, s, f, 24) for s, f in facts.items()}
+    facts = {"B1": "cobalt-harbor-13", "B2": "quartz-meadow-42"}
+    bodies = {s: chat(wide, 646_000, s, f, 24) for s, f in facts.items()}
    print(f"[B] {len(bodies['B1']['messages'][0]['content']):,} chars per "
-          f"request, x{seqs} concurrent")
+          f"request, x2 concurrent")

-    # A + C first (cheap), B last (the expensive set).
+    # A + C first (cheap), B last (the expensive pair).
    for tag, salt in (("A-cold", "A1-9137"), ):
        j, wall, _ = post(chat(deep, 140_000, salt, "zephyr-lantern-7", 512))
        show(tag, j, wall, "zephyr-lantern-7")
    t0 = time.time()
-    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=seqs) as ex:
+    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=2) as ex:
        futs = {s: ex.submit(post, b) for s, b in bodies.items()}
        for s, fut in futs.items():
            try:
@@ -175,24 +141,6 @@ def main():
            except Exception as e:  # a preemption/timeout lands here
                print(f"[B-{s}] FAILED after {time.time() - t0:.1f}s: {e!r}")
    print(f"[B] total {time.time() - t0:.1f}s")
-    # D — concurrency decode: seqs streams, 512 tokens each, ~25 % depth.
-    dchars = int(0.25 * maxlen * 3.28)
-    dbodies = [chat(deep, dchars, f"D{i + 1}-9137", f"flint-marker-{i}", 512)
-               for i in range(seqs)]
-    print(f"[D] {seqs} concurrent streams x 512 tokens, "
-          f"{dchars:,} chars each")
-    t0 = time.time()
-    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=seqs) as ex:
-        futs = [ex.submit(post, b) for b in dbodies]
-        for i, fut in enumerate(futs, 1):
-            try:
-                j, wall, _ = fut.result()
-                show(f"D-s{i}", j, wall)
-            except Exception as e:  # a preemption/timeout lands here
-                print(f"[D-s{i}] FAILED after {time.time() - t0:.1f}s: {e!r}")
-    tot = time.time() - t0
-    print(f"[D] {seqs} x 512 tokens in {tot:.1f}s = "
-          f"{seqs * 512 / tot:.1f} t/s aggregate decode")
    j, wall, _ = post(chat(deep, 140_000, "A1-9137", "zephyr-lantern-7", 512))
    show("C-prefix-hit", j, wall, "zephyr-lantern-7")

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.recipe -- the Swift 1.5 finetune of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
 # (ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, BF16 source, 335.3 GiB, key set identical to the official
 # base) as a radiance container for frank-archon: EVERY routed expert -- gate_up AND down --
-# through GPTQ into the w4nl64a8h table. The plugin's one-table-one-encoding law
-# ("one table of experts takes one encoding, and only a whole expert kept plain bf16 is served
-# beside it", qwen4exp_fp8 rad_arch_declare) forbids the original split tier (down block-fp8 +
-# gate_up w4): the served kernel is w4nl64a8h for the whole expert set, bf16 experts beside it.
+# through GPTQ into the w4nl64a8h table. The converter declares ONE
+# encoding per expert table (qwen4exp_fp8 rad_arch_declare): the served
+# kernel covers the whole expert set, and the only legal mixed layout is a
+# WHOLE expert kept plain bf16 beside it. That rules out the original
+# split tier (down block-fp8 + gate_up w4), which asks one table for two
+# encodings.
 # The rest is qwen4exp-w5dn64-i8-hc8m.recipe verbatim: int8 trunk linears, block-fp8 hc mixers
 # and MTP fc, the fixed-scale n-gram table, the 2-bit draft head.
 #
@@ -25,11 +27,14 @@

 # The protected experts, cast to bf16 ahead of both expert rules. THE NAMES BELOW ARE THE BASE
 # CHECKPOINT'S (from its 1M-token recording, qwen4exp-w5dn64-i8-hc8m.recipe) -- a warm start only.
-# The Swift 1.5 finetune's routing distribution is not assumed equal: the derivation step rewrites
-# this section from Swift's OWN calibration recording before this recipe is ever run, by the base's
-# law -- an expert whose share of its layer's down-input energy is at least 3% and at least three
-# times its share of the routing, an even count on each rank's half of the layer (the four-bit GEMM
-# takes the rest as two equal tables by parity) by adding that half's next most energetic expert.
+# The Swift 1.5 finetune's routing distribution is not assumed equal: the
+# derivation step rewrites this section from Swift's OWN calibration
+# recording before this recipe is ever run. The selection rule is the base
+# checkpoint's: an expert whose share of its layer's down-input energy is
+# at least 3% AND at least three times its share of the routing; an even
+# count on each rank's half of the layer (the four-bit GEMM takes the rest
+# as two equal tables by parity), padded with that half's next most
+# energetic expert.
 # PROTECTED-BEGIN (rewritten from Swift's OWN grams by derive-protected-experts.py)
 blk.1.ffn_*_exps.271.weight         cast dtype=bf16
 blk.1.ffn_*_exps.355.weight         cast dtype=bf16
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # serve-frank-archon.sh — frank-archon endpoint: radiance (StillDeadcode,
-# Apache-2.0) serving the PUBLISHER's 4-bit-codebook container of the
-# official Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (the engine author's own rad-convert of
-# the bf16 checkpoint: qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad, fetched by
-# scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh) on BOTH R9700s (TP=2, wht6 wire),
-# dankserver :7770. 2026-10-15 payload swap from the in-house w4dn8 of the
-# Swift1.5 finetune (payload on disk = rollback; the swap commit is the
-# revert); 2026-10-05 radiance cutover from FreeToken (git tag
-# frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005 is the pre-radiance state).
+# Apache-2.0) serving the OFFICIAL Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 checkpoint at
+# NATIVE block-FP8 precision from a rad-convert container
+# (/home/dank/models/rad/qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad), on BOTH R9700s (TP=2,
+# wht6 wire), dankserver :7770. 2026-10-05 cutover from FreeToken (PR #587,
+# one card; git tag frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005 is the
+# pre-cutover state).
 #
 # The run line below IS the engine argv: the image's entrypoint is the
 # engine and its tools sit beside it on PATH. Unlike every predecessor
@@ -15,11 +13,9 @@
 # log states every budget before anything is allocated (weights vs KV
 # split, the expert host pool's coverage of the worst case, the PLE pin,
 # the P2P answer per pair) — read it after every resize.
-# Deployed shape (2026-10-13): THREE decode slots x 200,000 tokens, fp8
-# (quantized) KV in a 5,120 MiB pool (contract 3 x 200,000 + 1.3 %) and a
-# 25,600 MiB resident expert slab — 30,720 MiB of the 30,969 MiB the engine's
-# own budget table makes claimable, spent on the slab because prefill is
-# slab-limited. 44 GiB/rank pinned expert pool, MTP depth 2, prefix cache host
+# Deployed shape (2026-10-11): 2 decode slots x 200,000 tokens, bf16
+# (unquantized) KV in a 6,912 MiB pool, the weights slab cut to 22,208 MiB to
+# pay for it, 44 GiB/rank pinned expert pool, MTP depth 2, prefix cache host
 # 8 GiB + disk 64 GiB, PLE pinned in RAM.
 #
 # The root unit (scripts/frank-archon.service, User=dank,
@@ -30,6 +26,14 @@
 set -euo pipefail

 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+
+# The artifact gates are the shared library: the serve script and the
+# deployer gate the same payload, and two hand-written copies of the same
+# checks drift apart until one side passes what the other refuses. One
+# library, one refusal text, one rule.
+export GATE_PREFIX=frank-archon
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/lib/llm-gates.sh"
 ENV_FILE="${FRANK_ARCHON_ENV_FILE:-$SCRIPT_DIR/frank-archon.env}"

 if [ ! -f "$ENV_FILE" ]; then
@@ -65,43 +69,26 @@ set +a
 : "${FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_DISK_MIB:?FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_DISK_MIB must be set}"
 : "${FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT:?FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT must be set}"
 : "${FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB:?FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB must be set}"
-: "${FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB:?FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB must be set}"
 : "${FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB:?FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB must be set}"

 # The image gate is the digest-pinned ref itself: a name@sha256 ref exists
 # in storage only if THAT manifest was pulled — a retagged look-alike or a
-# newer latest does not satisfy it. `podman image exists` takes a
-# name@digest ref in one command — no pipefail/grep race (the 2026-09-30
-# lesson). Runs as dank: the unit's process uses dank's ROOTLESS podman
-# storage (root unit, User=dank — the fleet's frank-archon shape).
-if ! podman image exists "$FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE"; then
-    echo "ERROR: radiance image absent: $FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE" >&2
-    echo "frank-archon: podman pull docker://stilldeadcode/radiance:latest (as dank)" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
+# newer latest does not satisfy it. One command, no pipefail/grep race (the
+# 2026-09-30 lesson). Runs as dank: the unit's process uses dank's ROOTLESS
+# podman storage (root unit, User=dank — the fleet's frank-archon shape).
+require_image "$FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE" \
+    "podman pull docker://stilldeadcode/radiance:latest (as dank)" || exit 1

 # The payload gate: the .rad container file, sized. A truncated convert
 # would otherwise buy a guaranteed long-timeout boot instead of this fast
 # failure. The staging dir / raw checkpoint are NOT this script's concern
-# (scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh built the file; its rad-info output
-# is the record).
-RAD="$FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE"
-if [ ! -f "$RAD" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: .rad container missing: $RAD" >&2
-    echo "frank-archon: run scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-RAD_MIB=$(( $(stat -c %s "$RAD") / 1048576 ))
-if [ "$RAD_MIB" -lt "$FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: .rad container too small: $RAD is ${RAD_MIB} MiB, want >= $FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB" >&2
-    echo "frank-archon: the convert was truncated — rebuild it" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
+# (the convert script built the file; its rad-info output is the record).
+require_min_mib "$FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE" \
+    container "$FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB" \
+    "build it: scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh (rad-info is the record)" || exit 1

-if [ ! -f "$FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE" ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: chat template missing: $FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
+require_file "$FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE" template \
+    "the chat template is vendored: scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja" || exit 1

 mkdir -p "$FRANK_ARCHON_STATE_DIR/kvcache/frank-archon"
 # The engine's create is NOT recursive: with only the state dir mounted, its
@@ -117,24 +104,44 @@ mkdir -p "$FRANK_ARCHON_STATE_DIR/tune"
 # that wrote it. The dir is pre-created for the same reason as kvcache
 # (the engine's create is not recursive).

-if [ ! -e /dev/kfd ] || [ ! -d /dev/dri ]; then
-    echo "ERROR: GPU device nodes absent (/dev/kfd, /dev/dri)" >&2
+# GPU access is mandatory; the node paths are knobs so the seam can drive
+# this gate on a box without AMD GPUs (production defaults).
+DEV_KFD="${FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_KFD:-/dev/kfd}"
+DEV_DRI="${FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_DRI:-/dev/dri}"
+if [ ! -e "$DEV_KFD" ] || [ ! -d "$DEV_DRI" ]; then
+    echo "ERROR: GPU device nodes absent ($DEV_KFD, $DEV_DRI)" >&2
    exit 1
 fi

-# TTM preflight: the pinned ledger (2 x FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB + the
-# 47.7 GiB PLE table + the prefix host tier, ~147 GiB) rides TTM's shared
-# pages, capped by ttm's pages_limit (the current kernel exposes NO
-# pages_max; the cap function takes the min over the knobs that exist).
-# Below FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB the load dies mid-pin with an allocator
-# error, so the gate refuses first — and RAISES the knob before refusing:
-# the cap is a runtime knob whose default is half of RAM, so a power failure
-# resets it (measured 2026-10-12 23:17 on this host: 200 GiB -> 125,988 MiB,
-# and Restart=always re-ran the refusal 6,919 times over ~20 h).
-# FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB is the recorded host ceiling, not the floor.
-# shellcheck source=/dev/null
-source "$SCRIPT_DIR/ttm-preflight.sh"
-ttm_ensure_cap || exit 1
+# TTM preflight: the pinned ledger (~2 x 40 GiB pools + 47.7 GiB PLE + 4 GiB
+# prefix host = ~132 GiB) rides TTM's shared pages, capped by ttm's
+# pages_limit (the current kernel exposes NO pages_max; the cap function
+# takes the min over the knobs that exist). Below FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB
+# the load dies mid-pin with an allocator error instead of this named
+# refusal — raise the knob first (runtime sysfs write; kernel cmdline
+# fallback + one reboot only if the file is read-only), see the runbook.
+# RAISED 2026-10-05 pre-cutover to 52,428,800 pages = 200 GiB.
+ttm_cap_mib() {
+    # min over the knobs THIS kernel exposes — the current kernel has
+    # pages_limit only (no pages_max); a knob that is absent is skipped,
+    # not a zero (a zero would refuse a healthy cap).
+    local v cur="" dir
+    dir="${FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYSFS:-/sys/module/ttm/parameters}"
+    for p in "$dir/pages_limit" "$dir/pages_max"; do
+        [ -r "$p" ] || continue
+        v="$(cat "$p" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
+        [ -n "$v" ] || continue
+        v=$(( v * 4 / 1024 ))
+        if [ "$v" -lt "${cur:-999999999}" ]; then cur=$v; fi
+    done
+    echo "${cur:-0}"
+}
+TTM_CAP="$(ttm_cap_mib)"
+if [ "$TTM_CAP" -lt "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB" ]; then
+    echo "ERROR: ttm pages cap is ${TTM_CAP} MiB, the pinned ledger needs >= $FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB" >&2
+    echo "frank-archon: raise /sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit (and pages_max if the kernel exposes one) to >= $FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB in 4 KiB pages" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi

 # A crashed/killed unit can leave the container name registered (systemd
 # SIGKILLs conmon before cleanup runs). Clear OUR name plus the legacy
@@ -145,7 +152,7 @@ for CTR in $FRANK_ARCHON_LEGACY_CONTAINERS "$FRANK_ARCHON_CONTAINER"; do
    podman rm -f "$CTR" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 done

-LOG=/home/dank/logs/frank_archon.log
+LOG="${FRANK_ARCHON_LOG:-/home/dank/logs/frank_archon.log}"
 mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOG")"

 # Publisher-vetted container contract (docs/DOCKER.md, compose/common.yaml):
@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@
 # exactly like frank-archon's.
 set -euo pipefail

+# The artifact gates are the shared library — the serve script and the
+# deployer refuse the same missing/truncated payload with the same words
+# (the 2026-10-01 crash-loop was the two hand-written twins disagreeing).
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+export GATE_PREFIX=frank-dragoon
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/lib/llm-gates.sh"
+
 ENV_FILE="${FRANK_DRAGOON_ENV_FILE:-$SCRIPT_DIR/frank-dragoon.env}"
 if [ ! -f "$ENV_FILE" ]; then
    echo "frank-dragoon: env file not found: $ENV_FILE" >&2
@@ -57,55 +64,38 @@ set +a
 : "${HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS:?HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS must be set}"
 : "${HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT:?HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT must be set (0 = head always on)}"

-# Capture podman's output BEFORE grepping: under `set -o pipefail` the
-# `podman images | grep -q` pattern races (grep exits on first match,
-# podman dies SIGPIPE 141, pipefail turns the 141 into "no match" — the
-# 2026-09-30 deploy refusal).
-DIGESTS="$(podman images --format '{{.RepoDigests}}')"
-if ! grep -qF "${FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE#*@}" <<<"$DIGESTS"; then
-    echo "frank-dragoon: image $FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE not in podman storage;" >&2
-    echo "  pull it: podman pull ${FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE%@*}" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
+# The image gate is the digest-pinned ref itself: `podman image exists` takes
+# a name@sha256 ref in one command, so a retagged look-alike or a newer
+# latest cannot satisfy it and there is no pipefail/SIGPIPE race with grep
+# (the 2026-09-30 deploy refusal). Runs as dank: the unit's process uses
+# dank's rootless storage.
+require_image "$FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE" \
+    "pull it: podman pull docker://$FRANK_DRAGOON_IMAGE" || exit 1

-# Size-exact gates on all three payload files: a truncated curl exits 0 on
-# some failures and a partial .hgn loads far enough to look alive, so the
-# byte counts from the Hub tree API are the contract (fleet fetch law).
-ck() {
-    # ck <env-name> <path> <expected-bytes>
-    if [ ! -f "$2" ]; then
-        echo "frank-dragoon: $1 $2 missing;" >&2
-        echo "  fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    local sz
-    sz="$(stat -c %s "$2")"
-    if [ "$sz" != "$3" ]; then
-        echo "frank-dragoon: $1 is $sz bytes, expected $3 (partial download?)" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-ck checkpoint "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT" "$FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT_BYTES"
-ck n-gram-table "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_TABLE" "$FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES"
-ck vision-tower "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_DRAGOON_VISION_TOWER" "$FRANK_DRAGOON_VISION_BYTES"
+# Size-exact gates on all three payload files: a truncated download can
+# exit 0, and a partial .hgn loads far enough to look alive, so existence
+# proves nothing. The byte count published by the Hub tree API is the
+# contract: any other size is a different (broken) artifact.
+require_bytes "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT" \
+    checkpoint "$FRANK_DRAGOON_CHECKPOINT_BYTES" \
+    "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" || exit 1
+require_bytes "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_TABLE" \
+    n-gram "$FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES" \
+    "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" || exit 1
+require_bytes "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/$FRANK_DRAGOON_VISION_TOWER" \
+    vision "$FRANK_DRAGOON_VISION_BYTES" \
+    "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" || exit 1

 # The payload ships the tokenizer as a FLAT DIRECTORY. A HuggingFace cache
 # snapshot symlinks each file into a sibling blobs/, and those symlinks
 # dangle inside the container mount — so the directory must be real and
 # every named file must be a regular file, not a link.
-TOK_DIR="$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/tokenizer"
-if [ -L "$TOK_DIR" ] || [ ! -d "$TOK_DIR" ]; then
-    echo "frank-dragoon: tokenizer dir $TOK_DIR missing or a symlink (HF cache snapshot?);" >&2
-    echo "  fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-for TF in $FRANK_DRAGOON_TOKENIZER_FILES; do
-    if [ ! -f "$TOK_DIR/$TF" ] || [ -L "$TOK_DIR/$TF" ]; then
-        echo "frank-dragoon: tokenizer file $TOK_DIR/$TF missing or a symlink;" >&2
-        echo "  fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" >&2
-        exit 1
-    fi
-done
+# The tokenizer file list is word-separated ON PURPOSE (one argument per
+# file), so the unquoted expansion below is the interface, not a slip.
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086
+require_dir_files "$FRANK_DRAGOON_MODEL_DIR/tokenizer" tokenizer \
+    "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh" \
+    $FRANK_DRAGOON_TOKENIZER_FILES || exit 1

 # GPU access is mandatory but the node paths are variables so the seam can
 # drive the gate on a box without an AMD GPU.
@@ -115,6 +105,7 @@ if [ ! -e "$DEV_KFD" ] || [ ! -d "$DEV_DRI" ]; then
    echo "frank-dragoon: $DEV_KFD or $DEV_DRI missing — no gfx1151 to serve on" >&2
    exit 1
 fi
+
 # Host-RAM preflight — the engine's pin gate, checked BEFORE podman run.
 # The engine refuses to pin when MemAvailable is below the checkpoint plus
 # a 16 GiB floor: pinned pages cannot be swapped, and under the floor the
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@
 set -euo pipefail

 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+
+# The artifact gates are the shared library (scripts/lib/llm-gates.sh): the
+# serve script and the deployer gate the same payload, and two hand-written
+# copies of the same checks drift apart until one side passes what the
+# other refuses.
+export GATE_PREFIX=frank-zealot
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR/lib/llm-gates.sh"
 ENV_FILE="${FRANK_ZEALOT_ENV_FILE:-$SCRIPT_DIR/frank-zealot.env}"
 if [[ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]]; then
    set -a
@@ -62,9 +70,9 @@ fi
 # FP8 class; no true fp8 KV dtype exists in this build).
 : "${CACHE_TYPE_K:=f16}"
 : "${CACHE_TYPE_V:=f16}"
-# Speculative decoding is OFF: this Q6_K file carries NO nextn/mtp tensors, so
-# there is no in-file head (the law: MTP is a property of the file, not of the
-# flags). SPEC_TYPE=none strips BOTH speculative flags (flags move as a set);
+# Speculative decoding is OFF: this Q6_K file carries NO nextn/mtp tensors,
+# so there is no in-file head — a speculative head is a property of the
+# model file, not of the flags; no flag creates tensors that are absent.
 # naming a drafter requires SPEC_DRAFT_FILE alongside SPEC_TYPE — the Gemma4
 # assistant on disk is arch gemma4-assistant and cannot drafter-match qwen35.
 : "${SPEC_TYPE:=none}"
@@ -81,13 +89,18 @@ fi

 # Fail loudly rather than half-loading: a missing file is a download that
 # has not finished, and Restart=always would turn it into a crash loop that
-# reads like a runtime fault.
-for path in "$LLAMA_BIN" "$MODEL_FILE"; do
-    [[ -e "$path" ]] || { echo "frank-zealot: missing $path" >&2; exit 1; }
-done
+# reads like a runtime fault. The refusal text is the shared gate library's,
+# so the deployer's twin refuses identically.
+require_file "$LLAMA_BIN" runtime \
+    "build it: scripts/build-llama-master-cuda.sh" || exit 1
+require_file "$MODEL_FILE" gguf \
+    "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-zealot.sh" || exit 1
+if [[ -n "$MMPROJ_FILE" ]]; then
+    require_file "$MMPROJ_FILE" mmproj \
+        "fetch it: bash scripts/download-frank-zealot.sh" || exit 1
+fi
 EXTRA_ARGS=()
 if [[ -n "$MMPROJ_FILE" ]]; then
-    [[ -e "$MMPROJ_FILE" ]] || { echo "frank-zealot: missing $MMPROJ_FILE" >&2; exit 1; }
    EXTRA_ARGS+=(--mmproj "$MMPROJ_FILE")
 fi

@@ -0,0 +1,750 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""service-map.py — the only reader of the service inventory.
+
+Four lists used to agree by discipline (the planner's path rules, the
+deployer's allow-list, the changed-test mapper, and the scrape/probe/DNS
+facts written by hand in three config files). They now all read
+`shared/services.yml` through this tool:
+
+  hosts                          the deploy targets
+  services [--host H]            deployables a target accepts, canonical order
+  allows --host H --service S    exit 0 when H accepts S (silent)
+  plan --host H PATH...          services selected by changed paths, order-safe
+  seams [--host H] PATH...       the Bats seams a changed path must re-run
+  owner --host H PATH            the service that owns a file (empty: none)
+  units --host H --service S     "<unit> <unit_dir>" lines the handler installs
+  stack --host H --service S     the deployable + members one handler deploys
+  get --service S [--host H] F   one field as JSON
+  render pihole-hosts            the Pi-hole addn-hosts file
+  check [NAME...]                integrity + drift gates (exit 1 on drift)
+
+Two rules the engine enforces structurally:
+
+* A path selects only services that RUN on the planned target. Path
+  matching that is host-blind (match first, filter later) lets a file on
+  one host plan a service on another; selection is scoped to the host the
+  path belongs to.
+* The netns family is DERIVED, never declared: a unit file that says
+  `Network=gluetun.container` rides that tunnel, so a gluetun change selects
+  every sharer. The unit files are the source of that coupling.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from functools import lru_cache
+from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
+from typing import Any
+
+import yaml
+
+REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+DEFAULT_INVENTORY = REPO_ROOT / "shared" / "services.yml"
+
+REQUIRED_KEYS = ("name", "hosts", "kind", "tests")
+KINDS = {"quadlet", "root-unit", "vm-quadlet", "host"}
+UNIT_SUFFIXES = (".container", ".network")
+
+# Repo material that is never a deployed runtime's state.
+NON_RUNTIME_ROOTS = {"docs", "report", "old", ".githooks", ".obsidian", ".github",
+                     "tests", "serverAppConfigs-docs"}
+NON_RUNTIME_NAMES = {".env.example"}
+NON_RUNTIME_PATHS = {"README.md", "AGENTS.md", ".gitignore"}
+
+
+def is_trash(path: str) -> bool:
+    return ".AGENTTRASH" in PurePosixPath(path).parts
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# inventory
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+class Inventory:
+    def __init__(self, doc: dict[str, Any], origin: str) -> None:
+        self.origin = origin
+        self.hosts: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = doc["hosts"]
+        self.services: list[dict[str, Any]] = doc["services"]
+        self.unowned: dict[str, str] = doc.get("unowned", {})
+        for index, svc in enumerate(self.services):
+            svc["_index"] = index
+
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, path: str | Path = DEFAULT_INVENTORY) -> "Inventory":
+        doc = yaml.safe_load(Path(path).read_text())
+        if not isinstance(doc, dict) or "services" not in doc:
+            raise SystemExit(f"{path}: not a service inventory document")
+        return cls(doc, str(path))
+
+    def on(self, host: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+        return [s for s in self.services if host in s["hosts"]]
+
+    def named(self, host: str, name: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+        return [s for s in self.services if s["name"] == name and host in s["hosts"]]
+
+    def any_named(self, name: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+        return [s for s in self.services if s["name"] == name]
+
+    @property
+    def order(self) -> list[str]:
+        seen: list[str] = []
+        for svc in self.services:
+            if svc["name"] not in seen:
+                seen.append(svc["name"])
+        return seen
+
+    def edge_ip(self) -> str:
+        """The single address every DNS name resolves at (Caddy's edge)."""
+        for host in self.hosts.values():
+            if "dns_edge" in host:
+                return str(host["dns_edge"])
+        raise SystemExit(f"{self.origin}: no host declares dns_edge")
+
+    def service(self, name: str) -> dict | None:
+        for svc in self.services:
+            if svc["name"] == name:
+                return svc
+        return None
+
+    def unit_dirs(self, svc: dict[str, Any], host: str | None = None) -> list[str]:
+        """The repo dirs holding this service's unit files, for one host."""
+        dirs = svc.get("unit_dir")
+        if not dirs:
+            return []
+        if isinstance(dirs, dict):
+            if host is not None:
+                return [dirs[host]] if host in dirs else []
+            return [dirs[h] for h in svc["hosts"] if h in dirs]
+        return [dirs]
+
+    def owns_unit(self, svc: dict[str, Any], host: str, unit: str, directory: str) -> bool:
+        return unit in svc.get("units", []) and directory in self.unit_dirs(svc, host)
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# repo facts
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def tracked_files() -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    # Tracked + untracked (a check that only saw HEAD would ignore the very
+    # files a work-in-progress commit is adding).
+    out = subprocess.run(
+        ["git", "-C", str(REPO_ROOT), "ls-files", "--cached", "--others",
+         "--exclude-standard"],
+        text=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, check=True)
+    return tuple(line for line in out.stdout.splitlines() if line)
+
+
+def _network_values(container: Path) -> list[str]:
+    """Every `Network=` value a quadlet unit declares (comma lists included)."""
+    values: list[str] = []
+    try:
+        text = container.read_text()
+    except OSError:
+        return values
+    for line in text.splitlines():
+        if line.startswith("Network="):
+            values.extend(v.strip() for v in line[len("Network="):].split(",") if v.strip())
+    return values
+
+
+class Graph:
+    """The unit-file coupling, read out of the tree: netns + netns-net users.
+
+    Quadlet installs every user unit flat, so `Network=gluetun.container`
+    names a unit by name, not by path; the same host is the scope, which is
+    also the deployment scope.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, hosts: list[str]) -> None:
+        self.units: dict[tuple[str, str], str] = {}      # (host, unit) -> path
+        self.networks: dict[tuple[str, str], str] = {}   # (host, net) -> path
+        self.netns_children: dict[tuple[str, str], set[tuple[str, str]]] = {}
+        self.network_users: dict[tuple[str, str], set[tuple[str, str]]] = {}
+        for path in tracked_files():
+            parts = PurePosixPath(path).parts
+            if not parts or parts[0] not in hosts or is_trash(path):
+                continue
+            host, directory, name = parts[0], str(PurePosixPath(*parts[1:-1])), parts[-1]
+            if name.endswith(".container"):
+                self.units[(host, name[: -len(".container")])] = path
+            elif name.endswith(".network"):
+                self.networks[(host, name[: -len(".network")])] = path
+        for (host, unit), path in self.units.items():
+            for value in _network_values(REPO_ROOT / path):
+                if value.endswith(".container"):
+                    parent = (host, value[: -len(".container")])
+                    self.netns_children.setdefault(parent, set()).add((host, unit))
+                elif value.endswith(".network"):
+                    net = (host, value[: -len(".network")])
+                    self.network_users.setdefault(net, set()).add((host, unit))
+
+    def rides(self, start: list[tuple[str, str]]) -> set[tuple[str, str]]:
+        """The transitive netns closure: a unit, everything riding it, and
+        everything riding those (a netns inside a netns)."""
+        found: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
+        frontier = list(start)
+        while frontier:
+            node = frontier.pop()
+            if node in found:
+                continue
+            found.add(node)
+            frontier.extend(self.netns_children.get(node, ()))
+        return found
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=8)
+def graph_for(hosts: tuple[str, ...]) -> Graph:
+    return Graph(list(hosts))
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# selection
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def _owner_index(inv: Inventory) -> dict[tuple[str, str, int]]:
+    """(host, unit) -> service index, for unit-file ownership.
+
+    A quadlet unit name is unique per host (``check units`` enforces one
+    claim), so the coupling closure can resolve a riding unit that lives in
+    a DIFFERENT directory than the changed file — gluetun's netns children
+    are the point.
+    """
+    index: dict[tuple[str, str], int] = {}
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        for host in svc["hosts"]:
+            for unit in svc.get("units", []):
+                key = (host, unit)
+                if key in index and index[key] != svc["_index"]:
+                    raise SystemExit(
+                        f"{inv.origin}: unit {unit!r} on {host} claimed by "
+                        f"{inv.services[index[key]]['name']} and {svc['name']}"
+                    )
+                index[key] = svc["_index"]
+    return index
+
+
+def select(inv: Inventory, host: str, paths: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """Canonical-order service names the changed paths select for one host."""
+    if host not in inv.hosts:
+        raise SystemExit(f"{inv.origin}: no host {host!r}")
+    graph = graph_for(tuple(inv.hosts))
+    owners = _owner_index(inv)
+    hits: set[int] = set()
+
+    def add(index: int) -> None:
+        hits.add(index)
+
+    for raw in paths:
+        path = raw.replace("\\", "/")
+        parts = PurePosixPath(path).parts
+        if not parts or is_trash(path) or path in NON_RUNTIME_PATHS:
+            continue
+        if PurePosixPath(path).name in NON_RUNTIME_NAMES:
+            continue
+        head = parts[0]
+        if head in NON_RUNTIME_ROOTS:
+            continue
+        # A host's directory is the scope: a frankbook-pro file can never
+        # select a dankserver service.
+        scoped_host = head if head in inv.hosts else None
+        if scoped_host is not None and scoped_host != host:
+            continue
+
+        name = parts[-1]
+        directory = str(PurePosixPath(*parts[1:-1])) if len(parts) > 1 else ""
+
+        if scoped_host and name.endswith(UNIT_SUFFIXES):
+            stem = name.rsplit(".", 1)[0]
+            key = (scoped_host, stem)
+            if name.endswith(".network") and key in graph.networks:
+                users = graph.network_users.get(key, set())
+                for unit in graph.rides(sorted(users)):
+                    index = owners.get(unit)
+                    if index is not None:
+                        add(index)
+            elif key in graph.units:
+                for unit in graph.rides([key]):
+                    index = owners.get(unit)
+                    if index is not None:
+                        add(index)
+
+        for index in list(hits):
+            for dependent in inv.services[index].get("dependents", []):
+                for svc in inv.named(host, dependent):
+                    add(svc["_index"])
+
+        for svc in inv.on(host):
+            if path in svc.get("files", []):
+                add(svc["_index"])
+            if path in svc.get("retires", []):
+                add(svc["_index"])
+            for directory_rule in svc.get("dirs", []):
+                if path == directory_rule or path.startswith(directory_rule + "/"):
+                    add(svc["_index"])
+
+    return [svc["name"] for svc in sorted((inv.services[i] for i in hits),
+                                          key=lambda s: s["_index"])]
+
+
+def seams_for(inv: Inventory, host: str, paths: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """The Bats seams the selected services require, deduplicated, in order."""
+    seams: list[str] = []
+    for name in select(inv, host, paths):
+        for svc in inv.named(host, name):
+            for seam in svc.get("tests", []):
+                if seam not in seams:
+                    seams.append(seam)
+    if seams and "tests/deployment_scoping.bats" not in seams:
+        seams.append("tests/deployment_scoping.bats")
+    return seams
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# renderers + facts
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def render_pihole_hosts(inv: Inventory) -> str:
+    edge = inv.edge_ip()
+    lines = [
+        "# A records for the flat franksdank.cloud scheme (dnsmasq addn-hosts",
+        "# format: <IP> <name>). RENDERED — do not edit by hand:",
+        "#",
+        "#     scripts/service-map.py render pihole-hosts > dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts",
+        "#",
+        "# The source of truth is the `dns:` field of shared/services.yml; the",
+        "# drift gate in tests/service_inventory.bats fails when this file and",
+        "# the inventory disagree. Caddy is consolidated on Dankclaw, so every",
+        "# name — including the services running on dankserver and",
+        "# frankbook-pro — resolves at the Dankclaw edge.",
+        "#",
+        "# dnsmasq strips ONLY whole-line comments in addn-hosts: a trailing",
+        "# comment on a data line becomes a HOSTNAME token. No inline notes",
+        "# here; the service attribution lives in the inventory.",
+        "",
+    ]
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        for name in svc.get("dns", []):
+            lines.append(f"{edge} {name}")
+    return "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
+
+
+def scrape_facts(inv: Inventory) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
+    facts = []
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        for job in svc.get("scrape", []):
+            facts.append({"job": job["job"], "target": job["target"],
+                          "metrics_path": job.get("metrics_path", "/")})
+    return facts
+
+
+def prometheus_facts(path: Path) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
+    doc = yaml.safe_load(path.read_text())
+    facts = []
+    for job in doc.get("scrape_configs", []):
+        for sc in job.get("static_configs", []):
+            for target in sc.get("targets", []):
+                facts.append({"job": job["job_name"], "target": target,
+                              "metrics_path": job.get("metrics_path", "/")})
+    return facts
+
+
+def probe_facts(inv: Inventory) -> list[str]:
+    facts: list[str] = []
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        probe = svc.get("probe")
+        if isinstance(probe, dict):
+            facts.extend(str(v) for v in probe.values())
+        elif probe:
+            facts.append(str(probe))
+    return facts
+
+
+def homepage_probes(path: Path) -> list[str]:
+    return sorted({s["probe"] for s in json.loads(path.read_text()) if s.get("probe")})
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# checks
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def check_ownership(inv: Inventory, graph: Graph) -> list[str]:
+    """Every repo file belongs to a service, a rule, or the unowned list."""
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    exact: set[str] = set()
+    directories: set[str] = set()
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        for host in svc["hosts"]:
+            for directory in inv.unit_dirs(svc, host):
+                for unit in svc.get("units", []):
+                    exact.add(f"{directory}/{unit}.container")
+        for field in ("files", "retires"):
+            exact.update(svc.get(field, []))
+        directories.update(svc.get("dirs", []))
+    # A shared network file is claimed by the units that ride it; the unit
+    # graph is the referrer, and check_units proves every reference resolves.
+    exact.update(graph.networks.values())
+
+    def is_claimed(path: str) -> bool:
+        if path in exact:
+            return True
+        first = PurePosixPath(path).parts[0]
+        if first in NON_RUNTIME_ROOTS or path in NON_RUNTIME_PATHS or is_trash(path):
+            return True
+        if PurePosixPath(path).name in NON_RUNTIME_NAMES:
+            return True
+        for owned in directories | set(inv.unowned):
+            if path == owned or path.startswith(owned + "/"):
+                return True
+        return False
+
+    for path in tracked_files():
+        if not is_claimed(path):
+            problems.append(f"file belongs to no service and is not in unowned: {path}")
+
+    # The reverse direction: an unowned entry that names nothing is stale.
+    for directory in inv.unowned:
+        if not any(p == directory or p.startswith(directory + "/") for p in tracked_files()):
+            problems.append(f"unowned entry names no tracked file: {directory}")
+
+    # Every inventory file/dir claim names a tracked file.
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        # `retires` names a file whose DELETION selects the service, so by
+        # definition it is not in the tree.
+        for field in ("files", "dirs"):
+            for entry in svc.get(field, []):
+                if entry not in tracked_files() and not any(
+                        p.startswith(entry + "/") for p in tracked_files()):
+                    problems.append(f"{svc['name']}: {field} entry names no tracked file: {entry}")
+    del graph
+    return problems
+
+
+def check_units(inv: Inventory, graph: Graph) -> list[str]:
+    """Every unit file has exactly one owner; every unit reference resolves."""
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    owners: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        for host in svc["hosts"]:
+            for directory in inv.unit_dirs(svc, host):
+                for unit in svc.get("units", []):
+                    path = f"{directory}/{unit}.container"
+                    owners.setdefault(path, []).append(f"{svc['name']}@{host}")
+                    if path not in tracked_files():
+                        problems.append(f"{svc['name']}: unit file is not tracked: {path}")
+    for path in tracked_files():
+        if not path.endswith(".container") or is_trash(path):
+            continue
+        found = owners.get(path, [])
+        if not found:
+            problems.append(f"unit file claimed by no service: {path}")
+        elif len(found) > 1:
+            problems.append(f"unit file claimed by {len(found)} services: {path}: {found}")
+
+    # Root units (scripts/*.service) are claimed by exactly one `files:` list.
+    for path in tracked_files():
+        if not (path.startswith("scripts/") and path.endswith(".service")) or is_trash(path):
+            continue
+        found = [s["name"] for s in inv.services if path in s.get("files", [])]
+        if not found:
+            problems.append(f"root unit claimed by no service: {path}")
+        elif len(found) > 1:
+            problems.append(f"root unit claimed by {found}: {path}")
+
+    # Every Network= reference in a unit file names a file on the same host.
+    for (host, unit), path in graph.units.items():
+        for value in _network_values(REPO_ROOT / path):
+            if value.endswith(".container"):
+                target = (host, value[: -len(".container")])
+                if target not in graph.units:
+                    problems.append(f"{path}: Network={value} names no unit on {host}")
+            elif value.endswith(".network"):
+                target = (host, value[: -len(".network")])
+                if target not in graph.networks:
+                    problems.append(f"{path}: Network={value} names no network on {host}")
+    return problems
+
+
+def check_config(inv: Inventory) -> list[str]:
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        label = f"{'+'.join(svc['hosts'])}/{svc['name']}"
+        for key in REQUIRED_KEYS:
+            if key not in svc:
+                problems.append(f"{label}: missing required key {key}")
+        if svc.get("kind") not in KINDS:
+            problems.append(f"{label}: kind {svc.get('kind')!r} not one of {sorted(KINDS)}")
+        unknown = set(svc.get("hosts", [])) - set(inv.hosts)
+        if unknown:
+            problems.append(f"{label}: undeclared hosts: {sorted(unknown)}")
+        if svc.get("units") and not svc.get("unit_dir"):
+            problems.append(f"{label}: units declared without unit_dir")
+        if svc.get("deployed_by") and not inv.any_named(svc["deployed_by"]):
+            problems.append(f"{label}: deployed_by names no service: {svc['deployed_by']}")
+        if (svc.get("health") and svc.get("wait") is None) or \
+                (svc.get("wait") is not None and not svc.get("health")):
+            problems.append(f"{label}: health and wait are a pair")
+        for seam in svc.get("tests", []):
+            if seam not in tracked_files():
+                problems.append(f"{label}: seam does not exist: {seam}")
+        for name in svc.get("dns", []):
+            if not str(name).replace(".", "").replace("-", "").isalnum():
+                problems.append(f"{label}: dns name is not a plain hostname: {name}")
+        if svc.get("kind") == "root-unit" and svc.get("unit_dir"):
+            problems.append(f"{label}: a root unit lives in scripts/, not unit_dir")
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    for svc in inv.services:
+        key = (svc["name"], tuple(svc["hosts"]))
+        if key in seen:
+            problems.append(f"duplicate inventory entry: {svc['name']} on {svc['hosts']}")
+        seen.add(key)
+    return problems
+
+
+# --- node-exporter quadlet template (rank 6) --------------------------------
+# Parallel per-host copies kept in step by a comment drift apart; the
+# template is the single source, and `check` drift-gates every tracked
+# rendering against it.
+NODE_EXPORTER_TEMPLATE = """\
+# Quadlet unit: node-exporter (rootless, boot-persistent) — RENDERED ARTIFACT.
+# Regenerate: python3 scripts/service-map.py render node-exporter-unit --host {host}
+# Source: shared/services.yml (entry node-exporter) + this template.
+#
+# Install path on {host}: ~/.config/containers/systemd/node-exporter.container
+# Unit name: node-exporter.service (container name: node-exporter)
+#
+# Host metrics source for Prometheus. Replaces the compose service of the same
+# name (the "Observability" block): Dankclaw moved to this quadlet on
+# 2026-09-11, Dankserver on 2026-09-16 — its compose-only copy died at a reboot
+# and stayed dead (rootless Podman does not restart bare containers after the
+# explicit stop shutdown performs), dead for a day and a half before anyone
+# noticed. One owner per container name; no compose file remains anywhere.
+#
+# HOST NAMESPACE. It must run in the host network namespace to report the
+# host's own interfaces/connections, and --pid=host for the processes and
+# cgroups collectors. "localhost" inside the container is therefore the host's
+# loopback, which is what the homepage status timer probes.
+#
+# LISTEN ADDRESSES. Exactly two: loopback for the homepage status probe, and
+# the LAN address, because Prometheus — which runs in a container on
+# dankclaw_default — scrapes http://{lan}:{port}/metrics
+# (shared/prometheus/prometheus.yml, job "node-{host}"). node_exporter has no
+# authentication, so the wildcard bind stays off the table; this is the
+# pairing that removes the unauthenticated observability surface on every
+# host, and both consumers are accounted for.
+#
+# MOUNTS. The container reads the host's /proc, /sys and / as /host/*
+# read-only and is pointed at them with --path.*; it writes nothing anywhere.
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Prometheus node exporter ({title} host metrics)
+After=network-online.target
+Wants=network-online.target
+
+[Container]
+ContainerName=node-exporter
+Image=docker.io/prom/node-exporter:latest
+Network=host
+PodmanArgs=--pid=host
+Exec=--path.procfs=/host/proc --path.sysfs=/host/sys --path.rootfs=/rootfs --web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:{port} --web.listen-address={lan}:{port}
+Volume=/proc:/host/proc:ro
+Volume=/sys:/host/sys:ro
+Volume=/:/rootfs:ro
+HealthCmd=wget --spider -q http://localhost:{port}/metrics
+HealthInterval=30s
+HealthTimeout=10s
+HealthRetries=3
+HealthStartPeriod=30s
+
+[Service]
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=10
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target
+"""
+
+
+def render_node_exporter_unit(inv: Inventory, host: str) -> str:
+    """The node-exporter quadlet for one host: shared template, per-host
+    title, LAN address from the hosts map, port from the scrape job."""
+    svc = inv.service("node-exporter")
+    if svc is None:
+        raise SystemExit("inventory has no node-exporter entry")
+    job = f"node-{host}"
+    port = next((str(e["target"]).rsplit(":", 1)[1] for e in svc.get("scrape", [])
+                 if e.get("job") == job), None)
+    if port is None:
+        raise SystemExit(f"node-exporter scrape declares no job {job}")
+    lan = inv.hosts[host]["address"]
+    return NODE_EXPORTER_TEMPLATE.format(host=host, title=host.capitalize(),
+                                         lan=lan, port=port)
+
+
+def check_drift(inv: Inventory) -> list[str]:
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    rendered = render_pihole_hosts(inv)
+    hosts_file = REPO_ROOT / "dankclaw" / "pihole" / "addn-hosts"
+    if hosts_file.read_text() != rendered:
+        problems.append("dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts is not the render of the inventory "
+                        "(scripts/service-map.py render pihole-hosts > dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts)")
+
+    want = sorted(json.dumps(f, sort_keys=True) for f in scrape_facts(inv))
+    have = sorted(json.dumps(f, sort_keys=True) for f in
+                  prometheus_facts(REPO_ROOT / "shared" / "prometheus" / "prometheus.yml"))
+    for extra in [f for f in have if f not in want]:
+        problems.append(f"prometheus scrapes a target the inventory does not declare: {extra}")
+    for missing in [f for f in want if f not in have]:
+        problems.append(f"inventory declares a scrape prometheus.yml lacks: {missing}")
+
+    svc = inv.service("node-exporter")
+    for host in (svc or {}).get("hosts", []):
+        for directory in inv.unit_dirs(svc, host):
+            path = REPO_ROOT / directory / "node-exporter.container"
+            if path.exists() and path.read_text() != render_node_exporter_unit(inv, host):
+                problems.append(
+                    f"{directory}/node-exporter.container is not the render of the "
+                    f"template (scripts/service-map.py render node-exporter-unit --host {host})")
+
+    probes_want = sorted(set(probe_facts(inv)))
+    probes_have = homepage_probes(REPO_ROOT / "shared" / "homepage" / "services.json")
+    for extra in [p for p in probes_have if p not in probes_want]:
+        problems.append(f"homepage probes a target the inventory does not declare: {extra}")
+    for missing in [p for p in probes_want if p not in probes_have]:
+        problems.append(f"inventory declares a probe homepage does not list: {missing}")
+    return problems
+
+
+CHECKS = {
+    "config": lambda inv, graph: check_config(inv),
+    "units": check_units,
+    "ownership": check_ownership,
+    "drift": lambda inv, graph: check_drift(inv),
+}
+
+
+def check(inv: Inventory, names: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    graph = graph_for(tuple(inv.hosts))
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    for name in names or list(CHECKS):
+        problems.extend(CHECKS[name](inv, graph))
+    return problems
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# CLI
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
+                                     formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    parser.add_argument("--inventory", type=Path, default=DEFAULT_INVENTORY)
+    sub = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
+
+    sub.add_parser("hosts")
+    p = sub.add_parser("services")
+    p.add_argument("--host")
+    p = sub.add_parser("allows")
+    p.add_argument("--host", required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--service", required=True)
+    p = sub.add_parser("plan")
+    p.add_argument("--host", required=True)
+    p.add_argument("paths", nargs="+")
+    p = sub.add_parser("seams")
+    p.add_argument("--host")
+    p.add_argument("paths", nargs="+")
+    p = sub.add_parser("owner")
+    p.add_argument("--host", required=True)
+    p.add_argument("path")
+    p = sub.add_parser("units")
+    p.add_argument("--host", required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--service", required=True)
+    p = sub.add_parser("stack")
+    p.add_argument("--host", required=True)
+    p.add_argument("--service", required=True)
+    p = sub.add_parser("get")
+    p.add_argument("--host")
+    p.add_argument("--service", required=True)
+    p.add_argument("field")
+    p = sub.add_parser("render")
+    p.add_argument("artifact", choices=("pihole-hosts", "node-exporter-unit"))
+    p.add_argument("--host", choices=list(Hosts) if False else None)
+    p = sub.add_parser("check")
+    p.add_argument("names", nargs="*")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+    inv = Inventory.load(args.inventory)
+
+    if args.command == "hosts":
+        print("\n".join(inv.hosts))
+    elif args.command == "services":
+        services = inv.on(args.host) if args.host else inv.services
+        seen: list[str] = []
+        for svc in services:
+            if svc["name"] not in seen:
+                seen.append(svc["name"])
+        print("\n".join(seen))
+    elif args.command == "allows":
+        return 0 if inv.named(args.host, args.service) else 1
+    elif args.command == "plan":
+        print("\n".join(select(inv, args.host, args.paths)))
+    elif args.command == "seams":
+        if args.host is not None:
+            seams = seams_for(inv, args.host, args.paths)
+        else:
+            # No host: the union across every host (the dev machine's
+            # pre-commit mapper has no deployment target).
+            seams = []
+            for host in inv.hosts:
+                for seam in seams_for(inv, host, args.paths):
+                    if seam not in seams:
+                        seams.append(seam)
+        print("\n".join(seams))
+    elif args.command == "owner":
+        found = select(inv, args.host, [args.path])
+        print(found[-1] if found else "")
+    elif args.command == "units":
+        matches = inv.named(args.host, args.service)
+        if not matches:
+            print(f"no service {args.service} on {args.host}", file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+        for svc in matches:
+            for directory in inv.unit_dirs(svc, args.host):
+                for unit in svc.get("units", []):
+                    print(f"{unit} {directory}")
+    elif args.command == "stack":
+        matches = inv.named(args.host, args.service)
+        if not matches:
+            print(f"no service {args.service} on {args.host}", file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+        owner = matches[0].get("deployed_by") or args.service
+        print(owner)
+        for svc in inv.on(args.host):
+            if svc.get("deployed_by") == owner and svc["name"] != owner:
+                print(svc["name"])
+    elif args.command == "get":
+        matches = inv.on(args.host) if args.host else inv.services
+        matches = [s for s in matches if s["name"] == args.service]
+        if not matches:
+            print(f"no service {args.service}" + (f" on {args.host}" if args.host else ""),
+                  file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+        values = [s.get(args.field) for s in matches if args.field in s]
+        print(json.dumps(values[0] if len(values) == 1 else values))
+    elif args.command == "render":
+        if args.artifact == "pihole-hosts":
+            sys.stdout.write(render_pihole_hosts(inv))
+        else:
+            if not args.host:
+                print("render node-exporter-unit requires --host", file=sys.stderr)
+                return 2
+            sys.stdout.write(render_node_exporter_unit(inv, args.host))
+    elif args.command == "check":
+        problems = check(inv, args.names)
+        if problems:
+            for problem in problems:
+                print(f"FAIL: {problem}", file=sys.stderr)
+            return 1
+        print("OK: the service inventory is sound (schema, units, ownership, drift)")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
@@ -293,12 +293,12 @@ def main():
    ddt, dsh = meta[f"{pre0}.mlp.experts.0.down_proj.weight"][3:5]
    gsd, gssh = meta[f"{pre0}.mlp.experts.0.gate_proj.weight_scale_inv"][3:5]
    dsd, dssh = meta[f"{pre0}.mlp.experts.0.down_proj.weight_scale_inv"][3:5]
-    scale_law = (gdt == F8 and ddt == F8 and gsd == BF16 and dsd == BF16
+    scale_contract = (gdt == F8 and ddt == F8 and gsd == BF16 and dsd == BF16
                 and list(gssh) == [(gsh[0] + 127) // 128, (gsh[1] + 127) // 128]
                 and list(dssh) == [(dsh[0] + 127) // 128, (dsh[1] + 127) // 128])
-    if not scale_law:
+    if not scale_contract:
        log(f"ERROR: unexpected expert shapes: gate {gdt}{gsh} scale {gsd}{gssh} "
-            f"down {ddt}{dsh} scale {dsd}{dssh} (scale law 128x128)")
+            f"down {ddt}{dsh} scale {dsd}{dssh} (fp8 block scales cover 128x128 tiles)")
        return 2
    shapes = {"ffn2_h": (gsh[0] * 2, gsh[1]), "ffn": (dsh[1],),
              "gs": tuple(gssh), "ds": tuple(dssh)}
@@ -62,234 +62,101 @@ declare -a TESTS=()
 add_test() {
    local test="$1"
    local existing
+    MAPPED=1
    for existing in "${TESTS[@]:-}"; do
        [ "$existing" != "$test" ] || return 0
    done
    TESTS+=("$test")
 }

+# The path->test mapping has two layers:
+#   1. cross-cutting seams that no single service owns (compose validity,
+#      env consistency, the deployer itself, docs, syntax);
+#   2. the service inventory (shared/services.yml via service-map.py
+#      "seams"): every service the path selects on ANY host contributes its
+#      declared tests. Service seams are the services' own — the former
+#      shotgun fallbacks (every dankclaw quadlet unit ran the open-webui,
+#      pihole, and searxng seams) are retired; the inventory names each
+#      service's real seams, and adding a service is a data edit.
 for path in "${CHANGED[@]}"; do
+    MAPPED=0
    case "$path" in
        tests/*.bats)
            add_test "$path"
+            continue
            ;;
        tests/helpers.bash|tests/run.sh)
            die "$path is shared test infrastructure; run ./tests/run.sh explicitly"
            ;;
-        .githooks/*)
-            add_test tests/changed_tests.bats
-            ;;
-        dankserver/compose.yaml|dankclaw/compose.yaml)
-            add_test tests/compose_validity.bats
-            add_test tests/env_consistency.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        dankserver/Caddyfile|dankclaw/Caddyfile)
-            add_test tests/caddyfile.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
        tests/e2e/*)
            add_test tests/e2e_scaffold.bats
+            continue
            ;;
+        .githooks/*)
+            add_test tests/changed_tests.bats
+            continue
+            ;;
+        # Archive material and host-level facts: a path under any
+        # .AGENTTRASH/ directory is retired-by-policy (the planner plans
+        # nothing from it), udev rules are applied by manual sudo install,
+        # reports are frozen artifacts, and ignore-lists change nothing at
+        # runtime. They select no focused test; without this case they would
+        # trip the mapping gate below.
+        .AGENTTRASH/*|*/.AGENTTRASH/*|dankclaw/udev/*|report/*|.gitignore|.env.example)
+            continue
+            ;;
+    esac
+
+    # Cross-cutting seams.
+    case "$path" in
        dankserver/.env.example|dankclaw/.env.example)
            add_test tests/env_consistency.bats
            ;;
-        shared/homepage/*)
-            add_test tests/homepage_caddy.bats
-            add_test tests/homepage_config.bats
-            add_test tests/homepage_deploy.bats
-            add_test tests/homepage_pages.bats
-            add_test tests/homepage_checker.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        shared/searxng/*)
-            add_test tests/searxng_limiter.bats
-            add_test tests/searxng_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        # The five observability containers left compose for Quadlet units on
-        # 2026-09-11. Their seam pins boot persistence and the loopback-only
-        # publish posture that keeps them off every host interface. This case
-        # precedes the dankclaw/*/quadlet/*.container fallback below, which
-        # would otherwise swallow it into unrelated seams.
-        dankclaw/observability/*)
-            add_test tests/observability_quadlet.bats
+        dankserver/Caddyfile|dankclaw/Caddyfile)
            add_test tests/caddyfile.bats
            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            ;;
-        # Caddy left compose.yaml on 2026-08-26 for a quadlet; caddyfile.bats
-        # now asserts against the quadlet itself. Route every change under
-        # dankclaw/caddy/ to both seams (this block must precede the
-        # dankclaw/*.container glob, which would otherwise swallow the unit).
-        dankclaw/caddy/*)
-            add_test tests/caddy_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/caddyfile.bats
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        dankclaw/*.container|dankclaw/*.network)
-            add_test tests/open_webui_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/pihole.bats
-            add_test tests/searxng_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        # Anubis is a quadlet + Caddyfile pair: the chain (public listener ->
-        # anubis:8923 -> internal :8016 listener) spans both, so any change
-        # under the service dir must re-run the caddyfile seam too. This case
-        # precedes the dankclaw/*/quadlet/*.container fallback below, which
-        # would otherwise swallow it into unrelated seams.
-        dankclaw/anubis/*)
-            add_test tests/anubis.bats
-            add_test tests/caddyfile.bats
-            add_test tests/homepage_caddy.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        # frank-dragoon is a rootless quadlet again since 2026-09-16 (the
-        # halogen-flash-server restore). Its unit carries the fleet's GPU and
-        # podman posture, so it gets its own seam rather than the generic
-        # fallback below.
-        dankclaw/frank-dragoon/*)
-            add_test tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            ;;
-        # Quadlets live under dankclaw/<svc>/quadlet/ (reorganized out of the
-        # top-level dankclaw/*.container globs above). Map the whole subtree so
-        # changes to the pihole, open-webui, searxng, and gitea quadlets hit
-        # their seam tests. The pihole-specific block must come first: shell
-        # case matches the first pattern, and dankclaw/pihole/quadlet/*.container
-        # also satisfies the dankclaw/*/quadlet/*.container fallback.
-        dankclaw/pihole/*)
-            add_test tests/pihole.bats
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        dankclaw/*/quadlet/*.container|dankclaw/*/quadlet/*.network)
-            add_test tests/open_webui_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/pihole.bats
-            add_test tests/searxng_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
            ;;
        scripts/deploy.sh|scripts/deploy-remote.sh|scripts/deploy-plan.py|scripts/deploy-*-quadlet.sh)
            add_test tests/deployment_flow.bats
            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
            ;;
+        scripts/service-map.py|shared/services.yml)
+            add_test tests/service_inventory.bats
+            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
+            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
+            ;;
+        scripts/lib/*.sh)
+            add_test tests/llm_gates.bats
+            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
+            ;;
+        serverAppConfigs-docs/*|README.md|AGENTS.md)
+            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
+            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
+            ;;
        scripts/mount-entropy.sh)
            add_test tests/mount_entropy.bats
-            ;;
-        # Archive material: a path under any .AGENTTRASH/ directory is
-        # retired-by-policy (deploy-plan.py plans nothing from it), so it
-        # selects no focused test. It still needs its own case: without one
-        # the wrapper refuses retirement commits, whose trash moves show up
-        # as additions, with "no focused-test mapping".
-        .AGENTTRASH/*|*/.AGENTTRASH/*)
-            ;;
-        # frank-archon is llama.cpp (the unsloth b11030-mix prebuilt) on the
-        # two R9700s as a ROOT unit — the 2026-09-26 swap that replaced the
-        # Lucebox DS4.1 quadlet on :7770. Its env, unit and serve script all
-        # live in scripts/, which is why this case has to precede the generic
-        # scripts/*.service and scripts/* fallbacks below.
-        scripts/frank-archon.*|scripts/serve-frank-archon.sh)
-            add_test tests/frank_archon_unit.bats
-            add_test tests/llm_units.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
            ;;
-        # frank-dragoon's chat template lives in scripts/ (moved there on
-        # 2026-09-26 when its old home was retired): a template edit changes
-        # what the live endpoint renders, so it selects the large unit seam.
-        scripts/qwen-sharp-v22.4.0.jinja)
-            add_test tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats
-            ;;
-        # frank-zealot is llama.cpp on the 3090 as a ROOT unit: a native CUDA
-        # binary, so no generated quadlet is involved. Its env, unit and serve
-        # script all live in scripts/, which is why this case has to precede
-        # the generic scripts/*.service and scripts/* fallbacks below.
-        scripts/frank-zealot.*|scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh)
-            add_test tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats
-            add_test tests/llm_units.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
+        old/scripts/*)
            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
            ;;
-        scripts/*.service)
-            add_test tests/llm_units.bats
-            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
        scripts/*)
            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
            ;;
-        serverAppConfigs-docs/*)
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        dankclaw/hermes/*)
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            ;;
-        README.md|AGENTS.md)
-            # Project guidance changes can affect the documented deployment
-            # contract; validate the docs vault and scoped deployment seams.
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        dankclaw/comfyui/*)
-            add_test tests/docs_completeness.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        # loki and alloy images are built from this repo's Containerfiles; the
-        # loki one carries the healthcheck command (see its comment), so both
-        # seams read it.
-        dankclaw/loki/*|dankclaw/alloy/*)
-            add_test tests/observability_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/caddyfile.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        dankclaw/udev/*)
-            # Host-level udev rules are applied by manual sudo install + udevadm
-            # trigger, not dispatched as a service; nothing here is bats-testable.
-            ;;
-        .AGENTTRASH/*)
-            # Trash moves are not testable; skip.
-            ;;
-        .gitignore|.env.example)
-            # Ignore/ignore-list changes change nothing at runtime; not testable.
-            ;;
-        old/scripts/*|old/scripts/**)
-            add_test tests/scripts_syntax.bats
-            ;;
-        # Cutover-era dankserver quadlet units (romm trio, jellyfin, calibre-web,
-        # copyparty, plex, tautulli): the seam checks boot-persistence +
-        # v1-generator contract; deploy-flow seams guard the deployer routing.
-        dankserver/romm/*|dankserver/jellyfin/*|dankserver/calibre-web/*|dankserver/copyparty/*|dankserver/plex/*|dankserver/tautulli/*)
-            add_test tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_flow.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        # FrankBook-Pro units live inside the podman machine VM; the seam
-        # pins boot persistence, the gluetun netns invariant, and the
-        # plan-locked volume layout. Deployer changes route here too.
-        frankbook-pro/*)
-            add_test tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_flow.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        # Seerr unit on dankclaw: boot persistence, loopback-only port
-        # posture, and the deployer routing that installs it.
-        dankclaw/seerr/*)
-            add_test tests/seerr_quadlet.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_flow.bats
-            add_test tests/deployment_scoping.bats
-            ;;
-        report/*)
-            # Frozen audit reports are point-in-time artifacts; not testable.
-            ;;
-        *)
-            die "no focused-test mapping for '$path'; add one before committing"
-            ;;
    esac
+
+    # The inventory's declared seams for every service this path selects.
+    while IFS= read -r seam; do
+        [ -n "$seam" ] && add_test "$seam"
+    done < <(python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" seams -- "$path" 2>/dev/null || true)
+
+    # Mapping gate: a path that selected no test at all — no service seam,
+    # no cross-cutting rule — is an unmapped area of the repo; refuse to
+    # commit it silently (the old catch-all `die`).
+    if [ "$MAPPED" -eq 0 ]; then
+        die "no focused-test mapping for '$path'; map it in the inventory (shared/services.yml) before committing"
+    fi
 done

 # Mapped-but-untestable paths (udev rules, trash moves) legitimately produce an
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ttm-preflight.sh — the TTM pages-cap gate for engines that PIN host RAM.
-#
-# Sourced, never executed. An engine that pins tens of GiB of host RAM (the
-# radiance expert pools + the PLE n-gram table) has its pinned pages charged
-# against the kernel's ttm page cap: /sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit
-# (and pages_max on kernels that expose one). The cap function below takes the
-# MIN over the knobs the running kernel actually exposes — an absent knob is
-# skipped, never read as zero, because a zero would refuse a healthy cap.
-#
-# THE LAW THIS FILE EXISTS FOR: the cap is a RUNTIME knob. The kernel default is
-# half of RAM, so every raise is lost on reboot. On 2026-10-12 23:17 a power
-# failure on dankserver reset it 200 GiB -> 125,988 MiB, and frank-archon's
-# preflight refused the start — 6,919 crash-restarts over ~20 hours, with
-# `Restart=always` cheerfully re-running a refusal. A manual sysfs write is
-# therefore not an acceptable repair procedure: the gate raises the knob itself
-# (the units that need it run as root, and the knob is a 0644 root-owned module
-# parameter), re-reads, and only then refuses.
-#
-# Contract (set by the sourcing script's env file):
-#   FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB     floor the pinned ledger needs; refuse below it
-#   FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB  value to raise the cap to when it is below the
-#                                floor (the recorded host ceiling — writing the
-#                                floor itself would leave the ledger no slack)
-#   FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR     knob directory; defaults to the real sysfs
-#                                path, a test points it at a temp dir.
-# Pages are 4 KiB: pages = MiB x 256.
-
-: "${FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR:=/sys/module/ttm/parameters}"
-
-# Prints the effective cap in MiB, 0 when no knob is readable.
-ttm_cap_mib() {
-    local p v cur=""
-    for p in "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR/pages_limit" \
-             "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR/pages_max"; do
-        [ -r "$p" ] || continue
-        v="$(cat "$p" 2>/dev/null)" || continue
-        [ -n "$v" ] || continue
-        v=$(( v * 4 / 1024 ))
-        if [ "$v" -lt "${cur:-999999999}" ]; then cur=$v; fi
-    done
-    echo "${cur:-0}"
-}
-
-# Writes $1 MiB (as 4 KiB pages) into every knob present. Failures are
-# swallowed: the caller re-reads the cap, and a write the kernel refused shows
-# up there (ttm refuses a limit below the pages it has already pinned).
-#
-# PRIVILEGE, measured the hard way: the knob is root-owned 0644 and the service
-# process runs as User=dank, so `-w` is FALSE there and a plain echo fails. The
-# canonical privileged path is the unit's ExecStartPre with the `+` prefix
-# (systemd runs it as root even under User=); `sudo -n` is the fallback for a
-# human running the gate from a shell (passwordless sudo on both hosts).
-ttm_raise_cap() {
-    local pages=$(( $1 * 256 )) p
-    for p in "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR/pages_limit" \
-             "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR/pages_max"; do
-        [ -e "$p" ] || continue
-        if [ -w "$p" ]; then
-            echo "$pages" > "$p" 2>/dev/null || true
-        elif command -v sudo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            sudo -n sh -c "echo $pages > '$p'" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-        fi
-    done
-}
-
-# Returns 0 when the cap clears FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB, raising it first if
-# needed; returns 1 with a named refusal when it cannot be made to.
-ttm_ensure_cap() {
-    local cap
-    cap="$(ttm_cap_mib)"
-    if [ "$cap" -lt "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB" ]; then
-        echo "frank-archon: ttm pages cap is ${cap} MiB, below the pinned-ledger" \
-             "floor $FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB — raising the knob to" \
-             "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB MiB ($(( FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB * 256 )) pages)" >&2
-        ttm_raise_cap "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB"
-        cap="$(ttm_cap_mib)"
-    fi
-    if [ "$cap" -lt "$FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB" ]; then
-        echo "ERROR: ttm pages cap is ${cap} MiB, the pinned ledger needs >= $FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB" >&2
-        echo "frank-archon: raise $FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR/pages_limit (and pages_max if the kernel exposes one) to >= $(( FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB * 256 )) in 4 KiB pages; a read-only knob needs the module option (options ttm pages_limit=N) and a reboot" >&2
-        return 1
-    fi
-    echo "frank-archon: ttm pages cap ${cap} MiB clears the pinned-ledger floor $FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB" >&2
-}
-
-# Executed (not sourced) it is the privileged pre-start hook: systemd runs this
-# as root from the unit's `ExecStartPre=+…`, where the knob write is legal and
-# the `Restart=always` loop can never outrun it.
-if [ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" = "${0}" ]; then
-    set -euo pipefail
-    case "${1:-}" in
-        --raise)
-            TTM_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-            # shellcheck source=/dev/null
-            source "${FRANK_ARCHON_ENV_FILE:-$TTM_DIR/frank-archon.env}"
-            ttm_ensure_cap
-            ;;
-        *)
-            echo "usage: ${0##*/} --raise   (raise the ttm pages cap, then verify)" >&2
-            exit 2
-            ;;
-    esac
-fi
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+---
+type: reference
+title: Service Inventory
+description: shared/services.yml is the one inventory of deployable services; scripts/service-map.py is its only reader. The planner, both deploy allow-lists, the changed-test seam mapper, the Pi-hole hosts render, the Prometheus scrape facts, and the homepage probes all derive from it.
+tags: [deployment, inventory, planner, quadlet, prometheus, pihole, homepage]
+timestamp: 2026-10-13T00:00:00-07:00
+---
+
+# Service Inventory
+
+Before 2026-10-13 the same facts lived in four hand-maintained lists — the
+planner's path rules (`deploy-plan.py`), the `--service` allow-list in
+`deploy.sh`, the near-copy in `deploy-remote.sh`, and the changed-test mapper
+(`test-changed.sh`) — plus per-fact copies in `prometheus.yml`,
+`addn-hosts`, and `services.json`. They drifted on every swap (the planner
+still mapped the retired `qwen-sharp` template to frank-dragoon; the allow-list
+still listed the *arr stack under Dankserver after it moved to FrankBook-Pro).
+Now there is **one inventory and one reader**:
+
+- `shared/services.yml` — the data: every deployable service, its hosts, unit
+  dir(s), unit files, path claims, tests, scrape/DNS/probe facts, aliases.
+- `scripts/service-map.py` — the only reader. CLI subcommands:
+  `hosts`, `services`, `allows`, `plan`, `seams`, `owner`, `units`, `stack`,
+  `get`, `render`, `check`.
+
+## 1. Consumers
+
+|Consumer|Call|
+|---|---|
+|`scripts/deploy-plan.py`|thin wrapper → `plan --host TARGET [paths...]` (keeps the `--repo/--base/--head` and `--paths` CLIs)|
+|`scripts/deploy.sh` (`--service` gate)|`allows --host T --service S`|
+|`scripts/deploy-remote.sh` (`service_is_allowed`)|same|
+|`scripts/test-changed.sh`|`seams [paths...]` — a service's declared `tests` are its seams|
+|`dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts`|`render pihole-hosts` — the tracked file is a rendered artifact|
+|`*/observability/quadlet/node-exporter.container`|`render node-exporter-unit --host H` — the MIRROR pair became one template; per-host title, LAN address (hosts map), and port (scrape job) fill it|
+|Prometheus scrape jobs, LAN DNS, homepage probes|`check` compares the tracked configs against the inventory's `scrape`/`dns`/`probe` fields (drift gate)|
+
+Selection rules the engine encodes (see `tests/fixtures/service-plan-golden.tsv`,
+the pinned characterization of every tracked path × every target):
+
+- **Host scoping** — a host's top-level directory can only select that host's
+  services. `frankbook-pro/**` plans nothing on Dankserver (the old planner
+  had a stale Dankserver *arr list).
+- **Quadlet coupling graph** — `Network=x.container` rides x's netns;
+  `Network=y.network` joins a shared network. Changing the parent (or the
+  network file) selects every rider transitively, in their own directories
+  (`dankclaw/searxng/quadlet/gluetun.container` → gluetun + searxng + marreta;
+  `frankbook-pro/gluetun/quadlet/gluetun.container` → the whole arr stack).
+- **Stacks** — a service's `stack` members deploy and restart as one handler
+  (romm trio, hermes trio).
+- **Retirement** — removing a service from `services.yml` removes it from the
+  planner, both allow-lists, and the seam mapper in one data edit; a pending
+  deploy-state entry for it is auto-triaged (see [[Deploy State Triage]]).
+
+## 2. Integrity gates (`check`)
+
+`python3 scripts/service-map.py check` runs, and
+`tests/service_inventory.bats` pins:
+
+- **schema** — required fields per entry, known keys only;
+- **units** — every unit file named by an entry exists under its `unit_dir`
+  on the right host; each unit name is claimed by exactly one service per host;
+- **ownership** — every tracked quadlet `.container`/`.network` file is claimed
+  by exactly one service (trash excluded);
+- **paths** — every claimed `files`/`dirs`/`retires` glob matches ≥1 tracked file;
+- **compose** — the container names in each host's `compose.yaml` have exactly
+  one quadlet owner (the [[Quadlet Lifecycle]] two-owners trap);
+- **drift** — `addn-hosts` equals its render, each tracked node-exporter unit
+  equals its per-host render; the Prometheus job set, the DNS names, and the
+  homepage probe ports equal the inventory's fields.
+
+## 3. Adding, moving, retiring a service
+
+- **Add**: append an entry (name, hosts, kind, unit_dir, units, paths, tests,
+  …), add the quadlet file, run `check` — `plan`/`allows`/`seams` pick it up
+  with zero script edits.
+- **Move between hosts**: edit `hosts` (and per-host `unit_dir`/`probe` maps).
+- **Retire**: delete the entry, move files to `.AGENTTRASH/` (see
+  [[Testing Policy]] for the seam the mapper applies to trash paths).
+
+Field notes: `alias` carries deployable names that differ from the service
+name (`calibre-web` deploys the unit `calibre-server`); `probe` for multi-host
+services is a `{host: port}` map; `dependents` names services whose config
+embeds a reference to this one (config-only coupling — a `.env` edit selects
+both, a unit edit selects the graph closure).
+
+## 4. Known cutover deltas (2026-10-13)
+
+The 17 deltas against the old planner are all in these classes: anubis paths
+now select `anubis` (the old planner had no rule at all); cross-host paths
+select nothing; `scripts/qwen-sharp-v22.4.0.jinja` (retired template) plans
+nothing while `scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja` (the live frank-archon
+template, previously unmapped) plans frank-archon;
+`dankserver/romm/romm.container` (top-level quadlet dir the old unit-file rule
+missed) now plans the romm trio.
+
+---
+
+Related: [[Deployment Flow]], [[Testing Policy]], [[Quadlet Lifecycle]],
+[[Container Network Namespaces]], [[Deploy State Triage]]
@@ -15,10 +15,9 @@ This repository tests its configuration at defined seams. The tests run with `ba

 | Seam | File | What it asserts |
 |------|------|-----------------|
-| Compose validity | `tests/compose_validity.bats` | YAML parses, services have images, no named volumes |
 | Env consistency | `tests/env_consistency.bats` | every `${VAR}` is defined in `.env.example`; no real secrets; the live gitea password never appears |
 | Caddyfile validity | `tests/caddyfile.bats` | per-host Caddyfile, `.local` convention, balanced braces, basic auth present |
-| Docs completeness | `tests/docs_completeness.bats` | every compose service has a docs page; index links every page |
+| Docs completeness | `tests/docs_completeness.bats` | every service has a docs page; index links every page; no unresolved vault links |
 | Script syntax | `tests/scripts_syntax.bats` | `bash -n` clean, executable bits, shellcheck when available |
 | Deployment flow | `tests/deployment_flow.bats`, `tests/deployment_scoping.bats` | scoped dispatcher exists, targets are known, service plans isolate inference, Caddy ownership is guarded, and SSH reachability is checked (skips offline) |
 | Quadlet units | `tests/*quadlet*.bats` | every unit is boot-persistent, self-healing, repo-provenanced, secret-free |
@@ -357,11 +357,15 @@ client → TLS edge → Anubis :8923 → outpost decision → internal
   routing matches on hostname, verified 2026-09-02).
   `internal_host = http://caddy:8017`, all three flows set, and an
   Application attached — the two provisioning rules above.
-2. **Route flip in ONE commit/deploy**: the vhost becomes
-   `reverse_proxy anubis:8923` with `header_up X-Real-Ip {remote_host}`, and
-   inside the `http://:8017` listener add `@<svc> host <vhost>` +
+2. **Route flip in ONE commit/deploy**: the vhost body becomes
+   `import guarded` — the named snippet at the top of the Caddyfile is the
+   whole pre-auth chain (`reverse_proxy anubis:8923` + `header_up X-Real-Ip
+   {remote_host}`; rank 6 retired the nine verbatim copies), and inside the
+   `http://:8017` listener add `@<svc> host <vhost>` +
   `handle @<svc> { reverse_proxy <upstream> }`. Anubis guard set, Caddy TLS
   edge, `:8017` routing table, and provider list change together.
+   `tests/caddyfile.bats` pins that the chain exists exactly once as the
+   `(guarded)` snippet and every guarded vhost imports it.
 3. Deploy via the repo deploy flow (commit first; deploy pushes main itself).

 **Verification (all three):**
@@ -452,8 +456,7 @@ access is decided entirely by GROUP MEMBERSHIP consumed downstream —
 - `Non-Admin Users` = the plain-user marker group (precedents: qa-e2e, and
  every human account).
 - **The human-user template** (ridley, kassie, alex, artem, kirby, ry, nic,
-  debo, freya, mitch, eric — mitch (pk 22) and eric (pk 23) created
-  2026-10-15, kirby/ry/nic/debo/freya (pk 17–21) created 2026-10-09, kassie
+  debo, freya — kirby/ry/nic/debo/freya (pk 17–21) created 2026-10-09, kassie
  and alex created 2026-10-08, artem (pk 16) created 2026-10-07): `username` +
  `<user>@franksdank.cloud` + display name +
  `is_active=True` + the password set via `set_password`, membership in
@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-# frank-archon — Radiance (StillDeadcode), publisher Qwen3.8-Flash-Next iq4r, 2× R9700 TP=2
-
-**Status: LIVE — deployed 2026-10-15.** · **Host:** Dankserver (192.168.0.235) · **Port:** 7770 · **GPU:** 2× Radeon AI PRO R9700 (gfx1201), TP=2
-
-The in-house w4dn8 conversion of the Swift1.5 finetune
-([[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]]) is replaced by the **engine
-author's published container**:
-[`StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe`](https://huggingface.co/StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe)
-— the official `Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next` bf16 checkpoint rad-converted by
-StillDeadcode. Same port, alias, container name, systemd unit, digest-pinned
-engine pin **1.0.13** (`stilldeadcode/radiance@sha256:4c3f484564…`), and
-**every serving argument carried verbatim** from the 2026-10-13 shape.
-Rollback: revert the swap commit — the w4dn8 `.rad` stays on disk.
-
-## The payload
-
-`qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad` — **121,969,901,568 B = 116,322 MiB**,
-sha256 `0af5e96244e80c21ac8edca1719dae49b8a201b94a2f3994c3e24026ceaa4d20`
-(Hub LFS oid), fetched byte-exact by `scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh`
-(hfget resume + size + sha256; staging dir
-`/home/dank/models/StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe/` keeps the
-card, LICENSE, and recipe `qwen4exp-w4nl64-i8-hc8m` as provenance).
-
-| Plane | Encoding (publisher recipe `qwen4exp-w4nl64-i8-hc8m`) |
-| --- | --- |
-| Routed experts | 4-bit codes into a 16-level **non-uniform** codebook after a 128-point Walsh–Hadamard rotation, one E4M3 scale per 64 weights; codes by GPTQ (10M-token calibration, per-expert down-proj Hessians) + 3 coordinate-descent sweeps |
-| Protected experts | **ten** per layer, whole-expert bf16 (down-projection energy) |
-| Trunk + lm_head | int8 W8A8, scale per 128 columns searched; HC mixtures E4M3 |
-| PLE n-gram | fp8 fixed-scale, in-container (served `--ngram-placement ram`, same 47.7 GiB pin law) |
-| Speculator | the model's own MTP head (card default depth 3; served at 2) |
-| Vision | bf16 vision tower, in-container |
-
-**Base model: the OFFICIAL (censored) Qwen3.8-Flash-Next** — the fleet's
-only frontier model at base alignment; the abliterated family lives on
-frank-dragoon. Card quality: full-vocab teacher-forced KL vs bf16 over
-~75K positions — mean 0.0789 all-tokens / 0.0239 assistant turns, top-1
-agreement 92.85 %.
-
-## Why this swap
-
- **Publisher-graded precision**: the w4nl codebook + coordinate-descent
-  refinement is the engine author's own quality ceiling for this
-  checkpoint; the card's KL ladder (p99 1.65, p99.9 5.33) is published and
-  reproducible, where our w4dn8 gate measured against our own reference.
- **Formal parity**: the served file is the one the engine author supports
-  — decode/prefill behavior on 1.0.13 is their tested path (the card's run
-  line speaks the 1.0.13-era flags; the `--vram-weights-mib`/`--vram-kv-mib`
-  pair we ship is accepted by pin 1.0.13 per the 2026-10-06 A/B, so the
-  shape needed no translation).
- **Cost**: the Swift1.5 finetune's refusal-bending behavior leaves this
-  endpoint (it returns to the official base alignment); the 4-slot/200k
-  economics and all shape laws carry over unchanged.
-
-## Shape (unchanged from 2026-10-13)
-
-All of it, verbatim — the payload moved 116,416 → 116,322 MiB, inside the
-same budget:
-
- `--tp 2 --tp-wire wht6`, `--max-num-seqs 3`, `--max-model-len 200000`
-  (capacity contract 3 × 200,000), `--kv-cache-dtype fp8`
- `--placement expert_tiered --host-pool-mib 44928` + explicit
-  `--vram-weights-mib 25600 --vram-kv-mib 5120` (30,720 of the engine's
-  30,969 MiB ceiling; pool = contract + 1.3 %)
- `--num-speculative-tokens 2`, `--max-num-batched-tokens 2048`
-  (MNBT 2048 law), prefix cache 8 GiB host + 64 GiB disk,
-  `--ngram-placement ram`, froggeric v22.5 `--override-chat-template`
- TTM preflight floor 150,000 / target 204,800 MiB; pinned ledger
-  2 × 44 GiB pool + 47.7 GiB PLE + 8 GiB prefix ≈ 147 GiB (see
-  [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]] for the ledger arithmetic and
-  the KV dtype law — both are engine properties, payload-independent)
-
-The publisher's card run line (`--host-pool-mib 12288`,
-`--expert-vs-cache-ratio 0.82`, seqs 8, spec 3, ~32 GB host RAM) is their
-shape on stock 32 GB cards; the fleet ships its own measured shape against
-the same file.
-
-## Cutover record — 2026-10-15
-
-1. `rm` (Frank's one-time authorization): the raw
-   `ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next` BF16 checkpoint (336 GiB, spent
-   conversion source) and `qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad` (173 GiB, two eras
-   back) left `/home/dank/models` — 150 GB free → 658 GB free. The fp8-native
-   payload is **no longer on disk**: rebuild =
-   `scripts/download-frank-archon.sh` + `scripts/build-frank-archon-rad.sh`.
-2. Fetch: `scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh --fetch` as transient unit
-   `iq4r-fetch` (detached-job protocol; log
-   `/home/dank/logs/iq4r-fetch.log`, rc sentinel `…rc`).
-3. Deploy: `scripts/deploy.sh dankserver --service frank-archon` — launched
-   detached (the swap restarts the very endpoint the operator session runs
-   on; the harness timeout catches the session on return).
-4. **Boot ledger (2026-10-15, first boot, pin 1.0.13 — the w4nl codebook
-   loaded, no pin bump)**: `kv_attn` fp8 page **26.00 KiB** at **607,740
-   tokens** (151,935 blocks = 3.77 GiB) — byte-identical to the w4dn8 boot,
-   the sizing law carries; `kv_qsa_bkey` 3.25 KiB at the same token count;
-   `kv_gdn_state` 54 MiB × 6 slots, `kv_gdn_conv` 1.76 MiB × 3,
-   `kv_qsa_tail` 19.5 KiB × 6; pool **5.00 GiB**, prefix checkpoints 8 ×
-   56 MiB; the sizing line reads `kv cache 5.00 GiB … backs 3 sequences all
-   at 200000 tokens at once, which is the worst case`; samplers print **9
-   rows** per rank (3 × (1+2), inside the wht6 25-row bound);
-   `speculation: 'mtp' drafts 2 token(s) a step in 2 serial pass(es)` +
-   prompt-lookup fallback; slab **17,610 (rank0) / 17,658 (rank1) slots**
-   (64 shadow) — above the w4dn8 record of 17,548 (ten bf16-protected
-   experts per layer replace twenty-four, so more of the 4-bit table
-   resides), pinned pool 7,532/7,484 slots; KV lending **4.22 GiB**
-   (3,571/3,568 mover slots); arenas 896.02/988.17 MiB charged before the
-   pair split; prefix cache RECOVERED 900,176 blocks + 126 checkpoint slots
-   from the 64 GiB disk tier (same arch + tokenizer as w4dn8 — the tier
-   survived the payload swap); froggeric template 28,234 B; vision encoder
-   live (≤ 4,194,304 px, 16,384 patches/pass). Health gate passed in ~100 s
-   (radiance binds the port after the full load).
-5. **Vision probe (2026-10-15)**: 300 px solid-red PNG via `image_url` —
-   reasoning stream: "a solid fill of a deep, saturated red hue". Content
-   came back EMPTY at `max_tokens 64`: the thinking budget consumed all 64
-   (`reasoning_tokens: 64`, finish `length`) — fleet law, probe thinking
-   models with ≥ a few hundred tokens.
-6. **e2e gate**: deploy exited DEPLOY INCOMPLETE — 30/33 Playwright green,
-   3 red (`12-crawl`, `13-sso` search SSO, `16-marreta`) on DANKCLAW
-   surfaces (vhosts intermittently returned `ERR_CONNECTION_RESET` from the
-   workstation); frank-archon's own health gate passed. The swap touched no
-   dankclaw runtime file (only homepage services.json text). Census of the
-   Caddy/auth stack pending; see `log.md`.
-7. **Post-boot measurements (pending)**: decode ladder (99.0 t/s single
-   @ 43.5k, 93.3 @ 197k, 3-way 113.9/43.3/10.9 = 18.4 t/s aggregate —
-   these are the **w4dn8** numbers, the record to beat, not this file's),
-   slab-limited prefill (22208/3,397 → 25600/3,584 t/s A-cold 43.5k), draft
-   acceptance, and `scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py` leg D.
-
-## Rollback
-
-Revert the swap commit (`scripts/frank-archon.env` MODEL_FILE line) +
-redeploy: `/home/dank/models/rad/qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad`
-(116,416 MiB) stays on disk, KLD-gated, same shape. The fp8-native era is
-rebuild-only (see the cutover record). The w4dn8 runbook keeps every shape
-law, the KV dtype table, the slab ladder, and the tuning levers:
-[[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]].
-
-## Related
-
- [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]] — the replaced payload and the
-  full shape-law library (slab slope, KV dtype arithmetic, TTM law)
- [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8]] — the fp8-native era
-  (rebuild-only now; owns the descriptor-selection law)
- [[Dual-R9700-Cooperation]] — the board swap that made TP=2 legal here
- [[deployment]] — the service-scoped deploy this cutover rides
@@ -145,18 +145,11 @@ dtype`) so a future resize cannot silently under-provision the pool.

 ### Why the weights slab pays — and why that is not pure loss

-The two VRAM budgets are one budget, and the ceiling is the engine's own — not a
-hand-picked reserve. Card 32,624 MiB, and the table that prints at the pair
-24,000/5,120 says `3.42 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`, with `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)`. Claimable reserve above the ENGINE's floor:
-2,058 − 209 = 1,849 MiB ⇒ **`weights + kv ≤ 30,969 MiB`**. (The 29,120 bound
-written on 2026-10-11 was my own 1 GiB "keep free" reserve, measured off a card
-figure of 31,856 MiB; the engine never asked for that reserve and the seam now
-derives the number from its table.) Paying for a 6,912 MiB pool therefore cuts
-the resident slab 26,071 → 22,208 MiB (−14.8 %), and the evicted experts spill
+The two VRAM budgets are one budget: card 31,856 MiB, minus the 1,710 MiB a
+boot consumes outside both (driver context, the 990 MiB activation arena,
+hardware queues, headroom, step staging), minus 1,024 MiB kept free ⇒
+**`weights + kv ≤ 29,120 MiB`**. Paying for a 6,912 MiB pool therefore cuts the
+resident slab 26,071 → 22,208 MiB (−14.8 %), and the evicted experts spill
 into the pinned host pool (40,960 → 44,928 MiB per rank; ledger: pinned pool
 slots 7,190 → 10,375). The pinned-RAM ledger rises to ≈147 GiB, so the TTM
 floor moved 140,000 → 150,000 MiB (the kernel cap is 204,800).
@@ -260,240 +253,6 @@ from the scored configuration — bf16 can only reduce the attention-state
 error, and a re-score is a drained-window job if the gate agreement is ever
 needed in the record.

-## 2026-10-13 — the power failure, the ttm reset, and 4 × 200,000 fp8 KV
-
-### The outage: a refusal, not a crash
-
-Dankserver lost power on 2026-10-12 ~23:17. The box came back; frank-archon
-never did. The unit sat in `activating (auto-restart)`, exiting 1 about 50 ms
-after starting, with one journal line on repeat:
-
-```text
-ERROR: ttm pages cap is 125988 MiB, the pinned ledger needs >= 150000
-frank-archon: raise /sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit …
-```
-
-**6,919 refusals in ~20 hours.** No container was created (`podman ps -a` showed
-the name with a zero start time), so there was no engine, no port, and no engine
-log — the signature of a preflight refusal, which every deployer/monitor view
-outside the journal renders as an unexplained crash loop.
-
-The cause is a class, not an incident. The pinned-RAM ledger (~147 GiB: 2 × 44 GiB
-expert pools + the 47.7 GiB PLE table + the 8 GiB prefix host tier) rides TTM's
-shared pages, capped by `/sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit`. **That knob is
-runtime state, and its default is half of RAM** — so the manual raise of
-2026-10-05 (52,428,800 pages = 200 GiB) died with the power failure and the cap
-fell back to 32,253,039 pages = 125,988 MiB, 24 GiB below the floor the serve
-script enforces. The fp8-native era had planned the persistent half of this
-("add `ttm.pages_limit=52428800` to the kernel cmdline at the next scheduled
-reboot", [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8]]); it was never applied, and
-a power failure is not scheduled.
-
-### The repair: the gate raises the knob itself
-
-`scripts/ttm-preflight.sh` (sourced by `serve-frank-archon.sh`) reads the cap as
-the MIN over the knobs the running kernel exposes, and when it is below
-`FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB` it writes `FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB` (204,800 MiB =
-52,428,800 pages) into every writable knob, **re-reads**, and only then refuses.
-The unit is root and the knob is a 0644 root-owned module parameter, so the write
-is legal; a kernel that refuses the move produces the same named refusal as
-before, and a reboot is now a boot rather than a visit to the machine.
-
-| Knob | Power-failure default | After the gate |
-|---|---|---|
-| `/sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit` | 32,253,039 pages = 125,988 MiB | 52,428,800 pages = 204,800 MiB |
-
-Seam-tested, not inspection-tested: *the ttm gate raises a reset pages cap and
-refuses when the write fails* and *the ttm cap counts only the knobs the kernel
-exposes* drive the gate against a temp knob directory — a below-floor writable
-knob ends at the target and the start passes; a read-only knob leaves the cap
-untouched and the start refuses by name; an absent `pages_max` is skipped, never
-read as zero (a zero reading would refuse a healthy host).
-
-### The shape: 4 slots × 200,000, fp8 KV (same day, superseded by the re-cuts below)
-
-Answers the open call of 2026-10-11 from the other side: Frank asked for **four**
-concurrent 200,000-token conversations with quantized KV.
-
-fp8 is not a preference at four slots, it is the only dtype that affords them.
-The pool must back `seqs × max-model-len` (the engine's hard limit), so the
-fourth slot is bought in KV, out of the one per-card budget
-(`weights + kv ≤ 29,120 MiB`, the bound as it was understood then):
-
-| dtype | pool for 4 × 200,000 | weights slab left |
-|---|---|---|
-| bf16 | 10,791 + 440 + 448 = 11,679 MiB | 17,441 MiB (−33 % vs the fp8-era 26,071) |
-| **fp8 (deployed)** | 5,713 + 440 + 448 = 6,601 MiB | **22,208 MiB — unchanged** |
-
-So `--vram-weights-mib 22208` / `--vram-kv-mib 6912` stay exactly where the
-2026-10-11 change put them (pair sum = the measured 29,120 ceiling), the
-44,928 MiB/rank pinned host pool is untouched, and the RAM/TTM ledger does not
-move. What the fp8 pool buys: `(6912 − 110×4 − 448) × 1024 / 7.3125` =
-**843,566 predicted tokens** = four full-height conversations with 5.4 % slack
-(the bf16 pool backed 462,752 = two; the 2026-10-08 fp8 pool backed 386,904 =
-1.93).
-
-Terms that move with the dtype and the slot count:
-
- **Per-slot recurrent state** is dtype-independent and lives inside the pool:
-  +110 MiB per slot, 440 MiB for four (already in the arithmetic above).
- **The fused TP all-reduce** is declared over `seqs × (1 + spec)` rows: 4 × 3 =
-  **12 rows**, still inside the 25-row bound at which the `wht6` wire is
-  bit-exact — so four slots cost nothing in wire exactness.
- **Prefix-cache entries shrink** with the attention plane (110.50 KiB at bf16 →
-  58.50 KiB at fp8), so the 8 GiB host tier parks ~5.8 sessions of 200k where at
-  bf16 it parked ~2.9 — four live slots plus a parked set fit with no re-size.
- **`models.yml` is untouched**: `contextWindow` quotes the per-request window
-  (200,000), which did not change; only the concurrency did.
-
-Expectation carried from the 2026-10-11 A/B, whose arms bracket this shape
-(same slab 22,208): prefill is set by the slab, not the dtype, so ~3.1k t/s
-cold / ~3.3k warm; decode sits in the 94–118 t/s band with draft acceptance
-~0.73–0.75. The 4,379 t/s fp8 prefill of the 2026-10-08 control belongs to the
-26,071 MiB slab and does not come back by quantizing KV.
-
-### Boot ledger (2026-10-13 19:21, four slots, fp8 — superseded same evening)
-
-The sizing law's prediction, checked against the engine's own arithmetic:
-predicted 843,566 tokens, ledger **843,276** (0.03 % block rounding).
-
-| Group | Page / state | Size | Tokens |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| `kv_attn` | 13 layers, 4-token blocks, **26.00 KiB** (fp8 page) | 5.23 GiB | **843,276** |
-| `kv_qsa_bkey` | 13 layers, 4-token blocks, **3.25 KiB** (dtype-fixed) | 669.10 MiB | **843,276** |
-| `kv_gdn_state` | 36 layers, 54.00 MiB, **8 slots** (4 × 2 copies) | 432.00 MiB | per-slot |
-| `kv_gdn_conv` / `kv_ple_*` | 36 + 1 + 1 layers, 4 slots | 7.91 MiB | per-slot |
-
-`kv cache 6.75 GiB … backs 4 sequences all at 200000 tokens at once, which is
-the worst case` — the capacity contract, in the engine's words. The rest of the
-boot is the fp8-era picture: `vram_weights` 21.69 GiB filled to 147 KiB (rank 0)
-/ 355 KiB (rank 1) of slack, `unclaimed` 2.03 GiB, cards settled at 1.99 /
-2.00 GiB free, `mover: 4967 slab slots (64 shadow), 10375 pinned pool slots,
-4.24 GiB static vram`, and the half-refund in plain sight: `4967 slots can be
-lent out of the KV cache (5.87 GiB)` (the fp8-era 3,543 MiB pool lent 2.69 GiB).
-
-Two ledger lines that confirm the derived consequences: the sampler prints
-**12 rows** (4 sequences × (1 + 2 speculative) — inside the 25-row bound where
-`wht6` is bit-exact), and the prefix/tier arithmetic runs on the fp8 entry size
-(58.50 KiB, half of the bf16 entry).
-
-### The same-day re-cuts: 4 → 3 slots, then the slab takes the card's slack
-
-Frank's call, twice in one evening. Both are one-env-pair changes, and both were
-read off the boot ledger rather than assumed.
-
-**4 → 3 slots (22208/6912 → 24000/5120).** Three slots need
-3 × 200,000 at fp8 = 4,285 + 330 + 448 = **5,063 MiB** of pool; the 6,912 pool
-was backing 858,969 tokens — 43 % more window than the contract asks for.
-Cutting it to 5,120 (predicts 608,027; ledger **607,740**, 0.05 %) hands
-1,792 MiB to the slab and drops the all-reduce to 9 rows.
-
-**24,000 → 25,600 (the card's settling slack).** The 24,000 boot printed
-`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)` — 1,849 MiB above
-the ENGINE's own floor, with the budget table calling the surplus `throughput on
-the floor`. Claiming 1,600 MiB of it puts the pair at 30,720 and the ledger at
-`unclaimed 477.30 MiB` (cards ~336 MiB free, floor 209.19).
-
-| pair | slab slots (rank 0) | pinned pool slots | A-cold 43.5k | concurrent 197k |
-|---|---|---|---|---|
-| 22208/6912, seqs 4 | 14,753 | 10,375 | 3,397 t/s | 3,307 t/s (4-way) |
-| 24000/5120, seqs 3 | 16,235 | 8,893 | 3,290 t/s | 3,051 t/s (3-way) |
-| **25600/5120, seqs 3** | **17,548** | 7,580 | **3,584 t/s** | **3,589 t/s** (3-way) |
-| 26071/3543, seqs 3 (2026-10-11 control) | — | 7,190 | 4,379 t/s | — |
-
-The claim shipped with the 25,600 arm — that the slab is a THRESHOLD below
-~26 GiB so the extra 1.6 GiB buys ~0 — is **falsified by its own measurement**:
-+8.9 % single-stream, +17.6 % concurrent, both outside the ±3 % noise floor. Two
-slab points that land inside noise of *each other* (22,208 vs 24,000) are not a
-plateau; the pinned host pool is the slow path, so every MiB moved from RAM onto
-the card is throughput (the ledger shows the transfer directly: slab
-+1,313 slots, pinned pool −1,313).
-
-The cliff is real, it just sits above 25,600: 26,071 measured 4,379 t/s, +22 %
-for +471 MiB. At three slots that is out of reach (26,112 + 5,120 = 31,232 > the
-30,969 ceiling). At **two** slots the pool falls to 3,072 and the slab reaches
-**27,897** — the ceiling exactly, slab above the cliff. That arm is untested and
-it is a capacity decision, not a tuning one.
-
-Capacity contract, live-verified on the 3-slot shape: three concurrent prompts
-of **199,984 tokens** each (599,952 tokens) were accepted and completed on
-`/v1/completions`; a fourth full-height request is refused as "too large to ever
-fit" — radiance never truncates.
-
-### The decode ladder (2026-10-13): slots are paid in concurrency, not prefill
-
-Frank's challenge — "why are you not tracking decode?" — was right, and the
-answer is a number now. 512 generated tokens (the bench law), greedy, cold
-prompts, this shape (3 x 200,000, fp8, slab 25,600):
-
-```
-1-stream  43.5k: decode  99.0 t/s  (prefill 4,042, accept 0.952)
-1-stream   197k: decode  93.3 t/s  (prefill 4,826, accept 0.938)
-3-stream  43.5k: decode 113.9 / 43.3 / 10.9 t/s   wall 83.4s
-3-stream   197k: decode  88.9 / 16.3 / 64.6 t/s   wall 122.4s
-```
-
-Two laws came out of it. **Decode is nearly window-free** — 99.0 at 43.5k,
-93.3 at 197k, −6 % for 4.5x the depth — so a long conversation costs
-prefill, not tokens-per-second. **Concurrency is where the slot count is
-paid**: three simultaneous streams give 18.4 t/s aggregate at 43.5k and 12.5
-at 197k against 99 single-stream, and the split is a lottery
-(113.9/43.3/10.9), not a fair share — the fused-step schedule hands the step
-to whoever it reached first, so one stream finishes at 113 t/s while its
-sibling crawls at 10.9. That is what "3 slots" owes per token, and no prefill
-number shows it.
-
-Corpus caveat, stated at the claim: this probe's filler is a repetitive
-ladder, so MTP acceptance is 0.93–0.97 against the 0.740 of the 2026-10-11
-table below; these rows flatter decode relative to that table and are the
-baseline for *this* corpus, not a replacement for those rows.
-`probe-frank-archon-kv.py` now carries this leg as **D** (leg B generates 24
-tokens, which is why a day of shape work priced only prefill).
-
-### Recovery evidence
-
-```text
-Oct 13 19:21:08 dankserver ttm-preflight.sh[1623778]: frank-archon: ttm pages cap
-  is 125988 MiB, below the pinned-ledger floor 150000 — raising the knob to
-  204800 MiB (52428800 pages)
-Oct 13 19:21:08 dankserver ttm-preflight.sh[1623778]: frank-archon: ttm pages cap
-  204800 MiB clears the pinned-ledger floor 150000
-Oct 13 19:21:08 dankserver systemd[1]: Started frank-archon.service
-```
-
-`cat /sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit` → 52,428,800 (204,800 MiB) after
-the boot, i.e. the root `ExecStartPre` hook did the write the service process
-(User=dank) cannot.
-
-### Capacity probe (2026-10-13, live service)
-
-`scripts/probe-frank-archon-kv.py` now reads the slot count, window and KV dtype
-from the deployed env on the host, so the probe cannot drift from the service:
-it printed `shape: 4 x 200,000 tokens, kv fp8` and fired **four concurrent chats
-of 196,960 prompt tokens each** (646,299 chars, 98.5 % of the window), each
-carrying a marker whose first word is unique.
-
-| Stream | prompt | wall | prefill | retrieval |
-|---|---|---|---|---|
-| B1 | 196,961 | 238.3 s | 1,423 t/s | exact, HIT |
-| B2 | 196,960 | 98.0 s | 2,043 t/s | exact, HIT |
-| B3 | 196,961 | 201.1 s | 993 t/s | exact, HIT |
-| B4 | 196,960 | 149.9 s | 1,327 t/s | exact, HIT |
-| **total** | **787,842** | **238.4 s** | **3,305 t/s aggregate** | 4/4 |
-
-All four answered their own marker; nothing was preempted, refused, or truncated
-(`finish=stop`, `cache_n=0`, so no prefix cache padded the result). Aggregate
-prefill equals the single-stream rate measured in the same probe (3,397 t/s at
-43.5k), i.e. the four streams share one prefill pipeline at the slab-limited
-ceiling and the engine never ran short of KV. Prefix cache intact: the same
-43.5k prompt repeated answered in 1.0 s with `cache_n=43008`.
-
-The per-stream `decode` column is NOT a decode rate here — 8 generated tokens
-make it first-token dominated (the bench law: generate ≥ 128 tokens to read a
-rate). This probe answers one question only: does the endpoint owe four
-full-height conversations at once, and answer each one exactly. It does.
-
 ## Gates (measured at cutover)

 - **KLD gate: PASS (2026-10-08 04:12)** — `kld-gate-swift15.sh`,
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ conversation slot and unquantized KV back.
 | Host / device | Dankclaw (192.168.0.143), RTX 3090, 24,576 MiB |
 | Endpoint | `http://192.168.0.143:7771` — served model id **`frank-zealot`** (`ALIAS` in the env; the SERVICE keeps the `frank-zealot` name), `/v1` OpenAI surface |
 | Runtime | llama.cpp master (0.5.0-dev, commit `5fc4f3c`), CUDA sm_86 build `…/llama-master/build-cuda/bin/llama-server` (`GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS=ON`); `qwen35` is registered in the build's own `src/llama-arch.cpp` and `src/models/qwen35.cpp` exists at that commit |
-| Unit | root systemd `frank-zealot.service` ([`scripts/frank-zealot.service`](../../scripts/frank-zealot.service)), `User=dank`, `Restart=on-failure`, `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity` |
+| Unit | root systemd `frank-zealot.service` ([`scripts/frank-zealot.service`](../../scripts/frank-zealot.service)), `User=dank`, `Restart=always` (raised from `on-failure` 2026-10-13 for fleet parity — exit 0 is a CLEAN stop to systemd, so the weaker policy leaves the compaction hub dark while the unit reports success; `tests/llm_units.bats` gates it), `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity` |
 | Serve script | [`scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh`](../../scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh), tunables [`scripts/frank-zealot.env`](../../scripts/frank-zealot.env) |
 | Weights | `/home/dank/models/Qwen35-9B-HauhauCS-Q6K/Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-Q6_K.gguf` — HauhauCS **Q6_K**, 7,359,259,008 B, sha256 `c0ba7beb68fd3fe47891bd549486d38dcf62d00817296ea314ad37017f5a4986` |
 | Projector | `mmproj-Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-BF16.gguf`, 921,704,448 B, sha256 `05f662501f8bd45607b079723a3e238a4e888fd085a10a53f4057a0e250f6934` — the model is natively multimodal and the Q6_K file carries no vision tensors, so this file IS the vision capability |
@@ -2,18 +2,14 @@

 **Dankserver runs the radiance engine (StillDeadcode) on frank-archon**
 (digest-pinned `stilldeadcode/radiance` image, engine as entrypoint,
-driving `podman run` directly, root systemd unit, :7770):
-the **publisher's** 4-bit-codebook container of the official
-`Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next` (`qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad`, 116,322 MiB,
-sha256-verified at fetch — w4nl codebook experts + int8 trunk, PLE n-gram,
-MTP head and vision tower in-container), on BOTH R9700s
-TP=2 (`--tp-wire wht6`), experts in a 44 GiB/rank pinned host pool + VRAM cache
-(explicit `--vram-weights-mib 25600 --vram-kv-mib 5120` = 30,720 of the
-30,969 MiB the engine's own budget table makes claimable), the 47.7 GiB PLE
-table pinned to host RAM, **fp8 KV at 3 × 200,000**, MTP spec decode depth 2,
-froggeric v22.5 template. Rollback: the in-house Swift1.5 w4dn8 `.rad` (on
-disk); tags frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005 and
-frank-archon-vllm-shapeG-20261003),
+driving `podman run` directly, root systemd unit, :7770): the OFFICIAL
+`Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8` checkpoint at NATIVE block-FP8 precision
+(converted no-recipe to `qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad` — see the runbook for
+the descriptor-staging law), on BOTH R9700s TP=2 (`--tp-wire wht6`),
+experts in a 40 GiB/rank pinned host pool + VRAM cache (ratio 0.82), the
+47.7 GiB PLE table pinned to host RAM, fp8 KV, MTP spec decode depth 3,
+2 × 200,000 first boot. Rollback tags frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005
+and frank-archon-vllm-shapeG-20261003),
 and Dankclaw runs two endpoints — **halogen-flash-server 0.16.2
 (frank-dragoon, port 7770: ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server @ pinned
 digest serving the Quat3rnion ABLITERATED Swift1.5 finetune of
@@ -40,10 +36,10 @@ graph LR
 gfx1201, 32 GiB each]
        B2[radiance StillDeadcode, digest-pinned image
 podman run, frank-archon, port 7770]
-        C[Publisher qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe .rad
-2x R9700 TP=2 wht6, experts 44 GiB/rank pinned pool + VRAM,
-PLE 47.7 GiB pinned RAM, fp8 KV 7.32 KiB/tok, MTP depth 2,
-3 x 200000, froggeric v22.5]
+        C[Qwen3.8-Flash-Next FP8 OFFICIAL, native block-FP8
+2x R9700 TP=2 wht6, experts 40 GiB/rank pinned pool + VRAM,
+PLE 47.7 GiB pinned RAM, fp8 KV 7.32 KiB/tok, MTP depth 3,
+2 x 200000, froggeric v22.5]
    end

    subgraph Dankclaw[AMD Strix Halo - Ubuntu 26.04]
@@ -156,42 +152,15 @@ frank-zealot, port 7771]
  target; payload on disk; owns the measured boot-pair table)**: the same
  runtime and the same 2 x 200,704 + f16 KV shape one quant rung lower —
  104.8 tok/s, 3,571 MiB true free
- [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-iq4r]] — **ACTIVE since 2026-10-15**:
-  the engine author's published container of the OFFICIAL (base-alignment)
-  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — `qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad`, 116,322 MiB,
-  Hub-sha256-verified at fetch: 4-bit codes into a 16-level non-uniform
-  codebook after a Walsh–Hadamard rotation (GPTQ + 3 coordinate-descent
-  sweeps, 10M-token calibration), ten bf16-protected experts per layer,
-  int8 trunk/lm_head, fp8 HC + PLE, MTP head, bf16 vision tower; card KL
-  0.0789 all-tokens / top-1 92.85 % vs bf16. **MODEL_FILE is the only line
-  that moved** — the 2026-10-13 shape (25600/5120 pair, 44928 pool, fp8 KV
-  3 × 200,000, MTP 2, wht6, MNBT 2048, froggeric v22.5) carries verbatim.
-  Rollback: revert the swap commit (w4dn8 `.rad` stays on disk). The
-  fp8-native `.rad` and the raw Swift1.5 BF16 source were DELETED from
-  dankserver 2026-10-15 (Frank's one-time rm, volume for this payload;
-  rebuild via the fetch + build scripts named in the fp8-native runbook)
- [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]] — **RETIRED 2026-10-08 → 10-15
-  (superseded by the publisher iq4r swap; payload on disk as the rollback)**:
+- [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]] — **ACTIVE since 2026-10-08**:
  Swift1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next BF16 → GPTQ-calibrated W4Dn8 `.rad` on radiance
  1.0.13 (recipe + 10M-token calibration + KLD gate vs the BF16 container);
-  the FP8-native payload remains the rollback. **2026-10-13: fp8 KV, and the
-  pair re-cut twice** — `--kv-cache-dtype fp8` first at
-  `--max-num-seqs 4`/6912 MiB pool (843,566 tokens, slab 22208), then **3 slots
-  with the pool cut to the contract (5120 MiB, 608,027 tokens) and the slab
-  raised 22208 → 24000 → 25600**, the last 1,600 MiB claimed out of the card's
-  settling slack: the engine's ceiling is **30,969 MiB**, not the 29,120 my
-  1 GiB reserve invented. fp8 is what funds the slots — the pool must back
-  `seqs × window`, and at bf16 four slots cost 11,679 MiB (slab 17,441, −33 %).
-  Measured on the slab: A-cold 43.5k prefill 22208 → 3,397, 24000 → 3,290,
-  **25600 → 3,584 t/s**; 3-way 197k aggregate 3,051 → **3,589 t/s**. A shipped
-  prediction that the slab was a threshold below 26 GiB died on its own
-  measurement — it is a slope, and 26,071 (4,379 t/s) is the cliff. The bf16
-  arm (2 × 200,000, 462,752 tokens, prefill −29 %, acceptance 0.661 → 0.740)
-  and the 4-slot fp8 shape are the documented rollbacks.
-  **2026-10-13 also: the pinned-ledger preflight now raises `ttm.pages_limit`
-  itself** — the 2026-10-12 power failure
-  reset the knob to its default (125,988 MiB) and the endpoint refused to boot
-  6,919 times in ~20 h; `scripts/ttm-preflight.sh` is the repair.
+  the FP8-native payload remains the rollback. **2026-10-11: the KV cache is
+  UNQUANTIZED (bf16) at 2 x 200,000** — pool 3543 → 6912 MiB (386,904 →
+  462,752 tokens), weights slab 26071 → 22208, host pool 44928,
+  `--max-num-seqs 2`. bf16 costs 1.89x fp8 per token (the QSA block key is
+  dtype-fixed, so it is not a clean 2x); measured price is prefill (-29%),
+  NOT decode, and spec-decode acceptance rose 0.661 → 0.740.
 - [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8]] — **RETIRED 2026-10-08 (the
  w4dn8 swap replaced it; its `.rad` stays on disk as the rollback)**
  (root systemd unit, port 7770): the StillDeadcode **radiance** engine
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ covers both workloads).
 - [[Network Architecture]] — Caddy reverse proxy, hostname routing, Gluetun VPN path
 - [[Storage Policy]] — bind mounts, data locations, ownership
 - [[Deployment Flow]] — service-scoped git deploy, target map, and health checks
+- [[Service Inventory]] — shared/services.yml, the one inventory of deployable services, and service-map.py
 - [[Testing Policy]] — the test seams and how to run them
 - [[E2E Suite]] — the Playwright suite that drives the live guard chain
 - [[Container Network Namespaces]] — which local services are addressable from each Podman network namespace on Dankclaw
@@ -182,20 +183,12 @@ The LLM inference fleet on the two hosts. Full index:
 ### Deployment and Topology

 - [[deployment]] — unified deploy and update process for both servers
- [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-iq4r]] — **ACTIVE frank-archon runbook
-  (2026-10-15)**: the PUBLISHER's container of the official
-  Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (`qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad`, 116,322 MiB,
-  w4nl 4-bit-codebook experts + int8 trunk, Hub-sha256-verified at fetch)
-  swapped in as a MODEL_FILE-only change — the 2026-10-13 shape (slab
-  25600 / fp8-KV 5120, 3 × 200,000, host pool 44,928, MTP depth 2) carries
-  verbatim; rollback = revert the swap commit (the w4dn8 `.rad` stays on
-  disk; the fp8-native `.rad` was deleted 2026-10-15, rebuildable)
- [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]] — RETIRED 2026-10-08 → 10-15 frank-archon runbook:
+- [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]] — STAGED frank-archon runbook:
  Swift1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next BF16 → GPTQ-calibrated W4Dn8 `.rad` (radiance
  1.0.13), gated on KLD ≤ 0.03 vs the BF16 container and decode ≥ 30.8 t/s;
  activates by flipping `MODEL_FILE` in `scripts/frank-archon.env`, rollback
  = revert that line (the FP8-native `.rad` stays on disk)
- [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8]] — the RETIRED 2026-10-05 → 10-08 frank-archon
+- [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-native-fp8]] — the ACTIVE frank-archon
  runbook (2026-10-05): the StillDeadcode radiance engine (digest-pinned
  287 MiB image, libr4d gfx1201 kernels) serving the OFFICIAL
  `Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8` at native block-FP8 (no-recipe convert
@@ -1,99 +1,5 @@
 # Bundle Change Log

-## 2026-10-13
- **frank-archon outage: a kernel knob, not the model.** The 2026-10-12 23:17
-  power failure on dankserver reset `/sys/module/ttm/parameters/pages_limit`
-  from the manual 200 GiB raise back to its default (half of RAM = 125,988 MiB),
-  below the ~147 GiB pinned-RAM ledger the engine needs; the serve script's
-  preflight named the refusal and exited 1, and `Restart=always` re-ran it
-  **6,919 times in ~20 h** — `activating (auto-restart)`, exit 1 in 50 ms, no
-  container, no engine log. Law adopted: **a sysfs raise is a countdown to the
-  next reboot**, so the gate raises the knob itself. New
-  `scripts/ttm-preflight.sh` is sourced by the serve script (verify, raise,
-  re-verify, then refuse by name) and is also the unit's
-  `ExecStartPre=+…--raise` root hook — `+` because the service is `User=dank`
-  and the knob is root-owned 0644, which is what the first attempt (a plain
-  write inside the serve script) got wrong. `FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800`
-  records the host ceiling.
- **Shape: 4 × 200,000 with fp8 KV (Frank's call).** `--max-num-seqs 4`,
-  `--kv-cache-dtype fp8`, pool and slab untouched (6,912 / 22,208 MiB = the
-  measured 29,120/card ceiling): the pool must back `seqs × max-model-len`, and
-  at bf16 four slots cost 11,679 MiB, which would cut the resident expert slab
-  to 17,441 (−33 %) — fp8 costs 6,601 and leaves it alone. 4 × (1 + spec 2) = 12
-  fused-all-reduce rows, inside the 25-row bound where `wht6` is bit-exact.
-  `models.yml` needed no change: the per-request window is unchanged, only the
-  concurrency.
- **Deployed at `bae78e7`, gates green.** Boot ledger: `kv cache 6.75 GiB …
-  backs 4 sequences all at 200000 tokens at once` — 843,276 tokens against the
-  sizing law's 843,566 (0.03 %), sampler at 12 rows, weights filled to 147 KiB
-  of slack, cards ~2 GiB free, KV lending 5.87 GiB to the slab. Live probe
-  (now reading the shape from the deployed env): four concurrent 196,960-token
-  chats, **4/4 exact marker retrieval**, 787,842 tokens in 238.4 s = 3,305 t/s
-  aggregate prefill, no preemption; prefix cache verified (repeat answered in
-  1.0 s, `cache_n=43008`). Playwright e2e 32 passed + 1 flaky (the known Plex
-  homepage retry); archon bats seam 21/21 including three new ttm-gate tests.
- **Re-cut twice the same evening (Frank's calls), each read off the ledger.**
-  4 → 3 slots, pool 6,912 → 5,120: three slots need 5,063 MiB and the 6,912 pool
-  was funding 858,969 tokens — 43 % over the contract. Then slab
-  24,000 → 25,600, claiming 1,600 of the 1,849 MiB the engine leaves above its
-  OWN settle floor (`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)`): the
-  real ceiling is 30,969 MiB, not the 29,120 my 1 GiB "keep free" reserve
-  invented on 2026-10-11. The pair now spends 30,720 and settles
-  `unclaimed 477.30 MiB` (cards ~336 MiB free).
- **The prediction shipped with that arm was falsified by its own measurement,
-  which is the whole point of banking the A/B.** Claim: the slab is a THRESHOLD
-  below ~26 GiB (22,208 → 3,397 and 24,000 → 3,290 t/s are inside noise of each
-  other), so 1.6 GiB buys ~0. Measured at 25,600: **3,584 t/s** single-stream
-  cold at 43.5k (+8.9 %) and **3,589 t/s** 3-way aggregate at 197k (wall
-  193.7 → 164.5 s, +17.6 %) — slab 16,235 → 17,548 slots while the pinned host
-  pool hands the same experts back (8,893 → 7,580). The slab is a SLOPE; two
-  points inside noise of each other are not a plateau. The cliff is above
-  25,600: 26,071 measured 4,379 t/s (+22 % for +471 MiB), unreachable at three
-  slots (26,112 + 5,120 > the ceiling) and free at two.
- **Capacity verified live at 3 slots:** three concurrent 199,984-token prompts
-  accepted and completed (599,952 tokens resident), ledger
-  `backs 3 sequences all at 200000 tokens at once` at 607,740 tokens against the
-  law's 608,027. A fourth full-height request is refused as too large to ever
-  fit — radiance never truncates. Probe law: the oversized-prompt counter is
-  FREE (the refusal fires when PROMPT tokens alone exceed the window —
-  `prompt: 202,777 prompt tokens does not fit the 200000 token context`) and the
-  window is ~514,286 characters at the measured 2.5714 chars/token, so a
-  calibration probe below that pays a real prefill instead of reporting.
- **Open call for Frank:** two slots (pool 3,072 + slab 27,897 = the ceiling
-  exactly) crosses the cliff for the +22 %, and costs the third concurrent 200k
-  conversation. Untested arm; capacity decision, not tuning.
- Seam: the pair ceiling is derived from the engine's budget table (30,969) and
-  owns that arithmetic alone; the KV-pool contract (seqs × window at the dtype's
-  measured rate + 110 MiB a sequence + 448 MiB of prefix checkpoints) keeps its
-  own test. 371/371 tests and e2e 33/33 on both deploys.
- **Power-failure casualties, NOT fixed (outside the archon window):**
-  `mnt-md0.mount` failed at boot, so `/mnt/md0` is an empty mountpoint (the
-  raid6 array itself is healthy, 7/7; fstab has `nofail` so boot continued) —
-  media libraries on it read empty. `frank-job-digest.service` (frankbook
-  job-hunt digest) is in `list-units --state=failed`.
- **The slab is a threshold, not a slope** — measured, same method (probe A
-  leg: 43,512 tokens, greedy, cold, disk prefix cache clean on every boot):
-  22,208 → 3,397 t/s, 24,000 → 3,290, **25,600 → 3,290**. The third step
-  bought nothing; the +22 % belongs to the 2026-10-11 arm at slab 26,071
-  (4,379 t/s), so the cliff is real and sits at ~26 GiB. The 2-slot arm that
-  would clear it (pool 3,072 + slab 27,897) remains untested — and the
-  paragraph above is amended: that arm's payoff is +22 % prefill at 2 slots,
-  not the +8.9 % the deployed pair ever showed (24,000 → 25,600 = 0 %).
- **Frank's decode challenge, answered with numbers**: 512 tokens, greedy,
-  cold — **decode 99.0 t/s single-stream at 43.5k and 93.3 at 197k** (decode
-  is nearly window-free: −6 % for 4.5× depth), while **3 concurrent streams
-  give 113.9/43.3/10.9 t/s = 18.4 t/s aggregate** at 43.5k and 12.5 at 197k.
-  The slot count is paid in decode concurrency — a fused-step lottery, not a
-  fair share — which is exactly the axis the shape hunt was blind to (probe
-  leg B generates 24 tokens). Corpus caveat at the claim: the ladder's filler
-  is repetitive, acceptance 0.93–0.97 vs the 0.740 of the 2026-10-11 decode
-  table, so these rows are the baseline for this corpus, not a replacement.
- **Seam:** `probe-frank-archon-kv.py` gains **leg D** (N-stream decode, 512
-  tokens, per-stream + aggregate) so no future shape change can be priced on
-  prefill alone.
-
-
 ## 2026-10-10
 - **Fleet service rename: the StarCraft names became the SERVICE names.**
  The 2026-10-09 wire alias moved onto every repo artifact: units, serve
@@ -1745,57 +1651,3 @@ every restart since the cutover.
  [[frank-archon-radiance-swift15-w4dn8]], and the LLM index entry corrected
  (the w4dn8 entry said STAGED, the fp8-native one said ACTIVE).

-## 2026-10-15 — frank-archon: publisher iq4r payload swap (MODEL_FILE-only)
-
- Ask: replace the served model with
-  `StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe` — the engine author's
-  published rad-convert of the OFFICIAL Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (w4nl codebook
-  experts, ten bf16-protected/layer, int8 trunk, PLE/MTP/vision in-container,
-  card KL 0.0789 / top-1 92.85 %) — **no other argument changes**, mindful
-  the operator session runs on the endpoint being swapped.
- Disk: Frank authorized one `rm` — the spent Swift1.5 BF16 source (336 GiB)
-  and the two-era-old `qwen4exp-fp8-native.rad` (173 GiB) left
-  `/home/dank/models`; 150 GB → 658 GB free. fp8-native is now rebuild-only
-  (fetch + build scripts); rollback for THIS swap is the w4dn8 `.rad`
-  (on disk) by reverting the commit.
- Fetch: new `scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh` (hfget, exact bytes
-  121,969,901,568 + Hub LFS sha256, `--verify-only` default) as transient
-  unit `iq4r-fetch`; verified, staged sidecar files kept as provenance.
- Shape carried VERBATIM (25600/5120 pair, 44928 pool, fp8 KV 3 × 200,000,
-  MTP 2, wht6, MNBT 2048, froggeric v22.5). Tests re-keyed
-  (`frank_archon_unit.bats` pins the new payload id + sha256, keeps the
-  w4dn8 rollback provenance), homepage card + trio lore + both indexes
-  updated; new runbook [[frank-archon-radiance-qwen38-iq4r]]. Commits
-  `6dcf4a5` (swap) + `f44c398` + `c5ac072` (docs), full bats green.
- Cutover self-severed by design (detached `deploy.sh` survived the session
-  death when frank-archon restarted); engine healthy in ~100 s. First-boot
-  ledger: w4nl loads on pin 1.0.13 (no pin bump); kv_attn 26.00 KiB fp8 @
-  607,740 tokens (identical geometry); slab 17,610/17,658 slots per rank
-  (> w4dn8's 17,548 — fewer bf16-protected experts pack more 4-bit table);
-  sampler 9 rows; MTP 2/step; prefix tier RECOVERED 900,176 blocks across
-  the swap (arch+tokenizer unchanged). Vision probe green (reasoning read
-  the solid-red PNG; the 64-token budget went all to thinking — fleet law).
- e2e gate went red on three dankclaw specs — NOT the swap: dankclaw rebooted
-  01:41 and the gluetun boot-race dependency-failed `searxng`, `marreta`,
-  and `marreta-browser` (jobs consumed while gluetun's start job retried;
-  `Restart=always` never armed because the services never ran). Cascade
-  restarted; skill codified (`gluetun-dependent-boot-race-recovery`).
-  Gate rerunning against the repaired fleet; frank-archon's own health gate
-  passed every deploy. Open: decode/prefill ladders vs the w4dn8 record,
-  probe leg D — scheduled probe window.
-
-## 2026-10-15 — authentik: two more human accounts (Dankclaw)
- **Live — mitch (pk 22) and eric (pk 23) provisioned via `ak shell` ORM, no
-  repo objects.** Each `<user>@franksdank.cloud` in the human-user template
-  shape (`is_active=True`, display name, password via `set_password` on stdin
-  only — never argv, so nothing lands in `ps`), groups `Non-Admin Users` +
-  `jellyfin_users` + `openwebui_users`; no admin group granted. Verified
-  through the exact PasswordStage code path (`authenticate()` accepted each
-  password and rejected a wrong one), `app_entitlements(open-webui)` →
-  `Open WebUI Users` for both (identical to the ridley precedent), and
-  `is_superuser=False` / `path=users`. Zero `proxysession` rows for either —
-  groups were set before any login, so no claim purge was due. Downstream:
-  Jellyfin visibility rides the LDAP outpost cache (expect lag); OpenWebUI
-  mints their accounts as role `pending` on first login.
- `/serverAppConfigs-docs/Infrastructure/Authentik.md` — human-user template
-  census extended with pk 22–23.
@@ -366,13 +366,13 @@
    "model": {
      "unit": "archon",
      "role": "Frank's strongest and fastest model runtime",
-      "hf": "https://huggingface.co/StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe",
+      "hf": "https://huggingface.co/frank8465/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GPTQ-W4A8-Radiance-AMD-R9700",
      "tagline": "...Power Overwhelming...",
      "sfx": [
        "archon-power.ogg"
      ],
      "equiv": "Equivalent to Claude Opus 4.8 / OpenAI-Terra (Summer 2026 frontier intelligence).",
-      "spec": "The engine author's published quant: 4-bit codebook experts + int8 trunk of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (radiance, ~114 GiB) on twin AMD R9700s with more than 200 GB of system RAM — 200k-token context, three submissions at a time; sees images.",
+      "spec": "Our own build: a GPTQ-w4 quant of Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, quantized and tuned in-house (radiance, ~114 GiB) on twin AMD R9700s with more than 200 GB of system RAM — 200k-token context, three submissions at a time; sees images.",
      "inputs": [
        "text",
        "image"
@@ -0,0 +1,598 @@
+# =============================================================================
+# services.yml — THE service inventory.
+#
+# One entry per deployable service, in canonical deploy order (dependencies
+# before consumers, the LLM fleet last). Four hand-maintained lists used to
+# agree with each other by discipline alone; every one of them now READS this
+# file:
+#
+#   scripts/deploy-plan.py     which services a changed path selects
+#   scripts/deploy-remote.sh   which services a target accepts (allow-list)
+#   scripts/test-changed.sh    which Bats seams a changed path must re-run
+#   scripts/service-map.py     renderers + drift gates (`check`)
+#
+# `service-map.py check` is the referee: every quadlet unit file and every
+# root unit in the tree is claimed by exactly one entry, every repo file is
+# owned by a service or listed in `unowned:` with a reason, every seam exists,
+# the rendered Pi-hole hosts file equals the render, and Prometheus' scrape
+# targets plus the homepage probes equal the `scrape:` / `probe:` facts.
+#
+# --- fields ------------------------------------------------------------------
+#   name       the deployer's service word == the systemd unit name for
+#              quadlet / root-unit / vm-quadlet kinds
+#   hosts      targets that accept it (the deploy-remote.sh allow-list)
+#   kind       quadlet     rootless user unit from a .container file
+#              root-unit   systemd system unit symlinked out of scripts/
+#              vm-quadlet  quadlet inside the FrankBook-Pro podman machine
+#              host        a host-level script/timer, no container
+#   deployed_by  this service deploys as part of another deployable's handler
+#                (the trio/pair shape). It has no dirs/files of its own; the
+#                owner names the deployable whose handler installs it.
+#   unit_dir   repo dir holding <unit>.container — a scalar, or a per-host map
+#              when one service carries its unit on two hosts (node-exporter)
+#   units      container names this deployable owns (netns coupling is derived
+#              from the `Network=` lines in those files, never declared here)
+#   dirs       repo dirs whose every file selects this service
+#   files      exact repo files that select this service (root-unit trios,
+#              vendored templates, host scripts installed by this handler)
+#   retires    files whose DELETION selects this service (the unit the
+#              handler must remove before it can claim the ports)
+#              only Dankserver's media stack still has one)
+#   health     the deployer's readiness URL; `wait` its 2 s poll budget
+#   scrape     Prometheus jobs: {job, target, metrics_path?, labels?}
+#   dns        names this service answers at (rendered into the Pi-hole
+#              addn-hosts; every vhost resolves at the Dankclaw Caddy edge)
+#   probe      host:port the homepage checker dials (per-host map if on 2 hosts)
+#   tests      the Bats seams a change to this service must re-run
+# =============================================================================
+
+hosts:
+  dankclaw:
+    address: 192.168.0.143
+    # Caddy is consolidated on Dankclaw: it fronts every service on every
+    # host, so every DNS name in the fleet resolves here.
+    dns_edge: 192.168.0.143
+  dankserver:
+    address: 192.168.0.235
+  frankbook-pro:
+    address: 192.168.0.112
+
+# Repo files no service owns. Each entry is a fact about the tree, not a
+# fallback: the census gate fails on anything unowned that is NOT listed, so
+# retirement work shrinks this list and a new stray file cannot slip in.
+unowned:
+  shared/services.yml: the inventory this tool reads
+  scripts: repo tooling (build, fetch, bench, deploy, test); the deployers'
+    files are claimed by name in the service entries
+  autoresearch.sh: bench scratch at the repo root (retirement pending)
+  echo_prompt.txt: bench fixture at the repo root (retirement pending)
+  echo_request.json: bench fixture at the repo root (retirement pending)
+  prose_prompt.txt: bench fixture at the repo root (retirement pending)
+  prose_request.json: bench fixture at the repo root (retirement pending)
+  dankclaw/apply_qwen21_patch.py: retired patch script (its target runtime is gone)
+  dankclaw/comfyui-start.sh: superseded by the comfyui quadlet + Containerfile
+  dankclaw/udev: host udev rules, applied by manual sudo install + udevadm trigger
+  tests: the seams themselves
+  report: frozen point-in-time audit reports
+  old: retired scripts, reference only
+  .githooks: the commit hooks that run the seams
+
+services:
+  # --- Search stack: one netns family, gluetun owns it ---------------------
+  - name: gluetun
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/searxng/quadlet
+    units: [gluetun]
+    tests: [tests/searxng_quadlet.bats]
+    # The tunnel's WireGuard bind — the homepage card for the tunnel itself.
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:51820
+
+  - name: searxng-valkey
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/searxng/quadlet
+    units: [searxng-valkey]
+    # An app-level dependency, not a network one: the deploy handler
+    # restarts SearXNG after its cache, so the cache's files select both.
+    dependents: [searxng]
+    tests: [tests/searxng_quadlet.bats]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:6379
+
+  - name: searxng
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/searxng/quadlet
+    units: [searxng]
+    dirs: [shared/searxng]
+    tests: [tests/searxng_limiter.bats, tests/searxng_quadlet.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: services
+        target: 192.168.0.143:8081
+        metrics_path: /
+    dns: [search.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:8081
+
+  - name: marreta
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/marreta/quadlet
+    units: [marreta, marreta-browser]
+    tests: [tests/marreta_quadlet.bats]
+    dns: [marreta.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:8082
+
+  # --- DNS ------------------------------------------------------------------
+  - name: pihole
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/pihole/quadlet
+    units: [pihole]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/pihole]
+    tests: [tests/pihole.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    dns: [pihole.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.143:8083
+
+  # --- Chat front end -------------------------------------------------------
+  - name: open-webui
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/open-webui/quadlet
+    units: [open-webui]
+    tests: [tests/open_webui_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: services
+        target: 192.168.0.143:3005
+        metrics_path: /
+    dns: [ai.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:3005
+
+  # --- Git hosting ----------------------------------------------------------
+  - name: gitea-postgres
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/gitea/quadlet
+    units: [gitea-postgres]
+    deployed_by: gitea-server
+    tests: [tests/caddyfile.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:5432
+
+  - name: gitea-server
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/gitea/quadlet
+    units: [gitea-server]
+    tests: [tests/caddyfile.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: gitea
+        target: 192.168.0.143:3000
+        metrics_path: /metrics
+    dns: [gitea.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:3000
+
+  # --- Image generation -----------------------------------------------------
+  - name: comfyui
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/comfyui/quadlet
+    units: [comfyui]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/comfyui]
+    files: [dankclaw/Containerfile.comfyui]
+    health: http://127.0.0.1:8188/
+    wait: 300
+    tests: [tests/comfyui_rocm.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: comfyui
+        target: comfyui:8188
+        metrics_path: /
+    dns: [comfyui.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:8188
+
+  # --- Requests -------------------------------------------------------------
+  - name: seerr
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/seerr/quadlet
+    units: [seerr]
+    tests: [tests/seerr_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [seerr.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:5055
+
+  # --- Agent stack: one handler, four containers ----------------------------
+  - name: hermes
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/hermes/quadlet
+    units: [hermes, hermes-dashboard, hermes-webui, chrome-devtools-protocol]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/hermes]
+    tests: [tests/hermes_webui.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    dns: [hermes.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:8787
+
+  - name: hermes-dashboard
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    deployed_by: hermes
+    tests: [tests/hermes_webui.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    dns: [hermesadmin.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.143:9119
+
+  - name: hermes-webui
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    deployed_by: hermes
+    tests: [tests/hermes_webui.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+
+  # --- Observability --------------------------------------------------------
+  - name: prometheus
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/observability/quadlet
+    units: [prometheus]
+    dirs: [shared/prometheus]
+    tests: [tests/observability_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: prometheus
+        target: localhost:9090
+    dns: [prometheus.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:9090
+
+  - name: grafana
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/observability/quadlet
+    units: [grafana]
+    dirs: [shared/grafana]
+    tests: [tests/observability_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: grafana
+        target: grafana:3000
+        metrics_path: /metrics
+    dns: [grafana.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:3002
+
+  - name: loki
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/observability/quadlet
+    units: [loki]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/loki, shared/loki]
+    tests: [tests/observability_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: loki
+        target: loki:3100
+        metrics_path: /metrics
+    dns: [loki.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:3100
+
+  - name: alloy
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/observability/quadlet
+    units: [alloy]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/alloy, shared/alloy]
+    tests: [tests/observability_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:12345
+
+  - name: node-exporter
+    # One service on two hosts: the same exporter, its own unit per host.
+    hosts: [dankclaw, dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir:
+      dankclaw: dankclaw/observability/quadlet
+      dankserver: dankserver/observability/quadlet
+    units: [node-exporter]
+    tests: [tests/observability_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: node-dankclaw
+        target: host.containers.internal:9100
+      - job: node-dankserver
+        target: 192.168.0.235:9100
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:9100
+
+  - name: alertmanager
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/observability/quadlet
+    units: [alertmanager]
+    # The Alertmanager config ships from Prometheus' directory, and the Signal
+    # relay is a HOST unit this handler installs: a change to either reaches
+    # the machine only through an alertmanager deploy.
+    files:
+      - shared/prometheus/alertmanager.yml
+      - scripts/signal-relay.py
+      - scripts/signal-relay.service
+    tests: [tests/observability_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:9093
+
+  # --- Identity -------------------------------------------------------------
+  - name: authentik-postgres
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/authentik/quadlet
+    units: [authentik-postgres]
+    deployed_by: authentik-server
+    tests: [tests/authentik.bats]
+
+  - name: authentik-server
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/authentik/quadlet
+    units: [authentik-server]
+    tests: [tests/authentik.bats]
+    dns: [auth.franksdank.cloud]
+
+  - name: authentik-worker
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/authentik/quadlet
+    units: [authentik-worker]
+    deployed_by: authentik-server
+    tests: [tests/authentik.bats]
+
+  - name: authentik-outpost
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/authentik/quadlet
+    units: [authentik-outpost]
+    tests: [tests/authentik.bats]
+
+  - name: authentik-outpost-ldap
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/authentik/quadlet
+    units: [authentik-outpost-ldap]
+    tests: [tests/authentik.bats]
+
+  # --- The auth chain's edge, then the edge itself --------------------------
+  - name: anubis
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/anubis/quadlet
+    units: [anubis]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/anubis]
+    tests: [tests/anubis.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats, tests/homepage_caddy.bats]
+
+  - name: caddy
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankclaw/caddy/quadlet
+    units: [caddy]
+    dirs: [dankclaw/caddy]
+    files: [dankclaw/Caddyfile]
+    # Retiring the old split proxy selects Caddy: it must remove the installed
+    # unit and container before it can claim 80/443.
+    retires: [dankclaw/gitea/quadlet/gitea-caddy.container]
+    tests: [tests/caddy_quadlet.bats, tests/caddyfile.bats,
+      tests/homepage_caddy.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    dns:
+      - franksdank.cloud
+      - www.franksdank.cloud
+      - dankclaw.franksdank.cloud
+      - dankserver.franksdank.cloud
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:80
+
+  - name: homepage
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: host
+    dirs: [shared/homepage]
+    files:
+      - scripts/homepage-status.py
+      - scripts/homepage-status.service
+      - scripts/homepage-status.timer
+    tests: [tests/homepage_caddy.bats, tests/homepage_config.bats,
+      tests/homepage_deploy.bats, tests/homepage_pages.bats,
+      tests/homepage_checker.bats]
+
+  # --- Dankserver media stack ----------------------------------------------
+  # The romm trio is one handler and one directory: every file in it selects
+  # all three, exactly as the deployer restarts all three.
+  - name: romm-mariadb
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/romm/quadlet
+    units: [romm-mariadb]
+    deployed_by: romm
+    dirs: [dankserver/romm]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:3306
+
+  - name: romm-redis
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/romm/quadlet
+    units: [romm-redis]
+    deployed_by: romm
+    dirs: [dankserver/romm]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+
+  - name: romm
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/romm/quadlet
+    units: [romm]
+    dirs: [dankserver/romm]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [romm.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:8085
+
+  - name: copyparty
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/copyparty/quadlet
+    units: [copyparty]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [files.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:3923
+
+  - name: jellyfin
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet
+    units: [jellyfin]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [jelly.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:8096
+
+  - name: calibre-web
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/calibre-web/quadlet
+    units: [calibre-web]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [books.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:8083
+
+  - name: calibre-server
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/calibre-server/quadlet
+    units: [calibre-server]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+
+  - name: plex
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/plex/quadlet
+    units: [plex]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [plex.franksdank.cloud, plex.franksdank.casa]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:32400
+
+  - name: tautulli
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: quadlet
+    unit_dir: dankserver/tautulli/quadlet
+    units: [tautulli]
+    tests: [tests/dankserver_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:8181
+
+  # --- FrankBook-Pro: the *arr stack inside the podman machine --------------
+  # Every container rides gluetun's netns, and that coupling is DERIVED: each
+  # arr's unit file says `Network=gluetun.container`, so a gluetun unit change
+  # selects the whole stack with no declaration here.
+  - name: gluetun
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/gluetun/quadlet
+    units: [gluetun]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+
+  - name: prowlarr
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/prowlarr/quadlet
+    units: [prowlarr]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [prowlarr.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.112:9696
+
+  - name: qbittorrent
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/qbittorrent/quadlet
+    units: [qbittorrent]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [qbittorrent.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.112:8080
+
+  - name: radarr
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/radarr/quadlet
+    units: [radarr]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [radarr.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.112:7878
+
+  - name: sonarr
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/sonarr/quadlet
+    units: [sonarr]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    probe: 192.168.0.112:8989
+
+  - name: lidarr
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/lidarr/quadlet
+    units: [lidarr]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [lidarr.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.112:8686
+
+  - name: readarr
+    hosts: [frankbook-pro]
+    kind: vm-quadlet
+    unit_dir: frankbook-pro/readarr/quadlet
+    units: [readarr]
+    tests: [tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats, tests/deployment_flow.bats]
+    dns: [readarr.franksdank.cloud]
+    probe: 192.168.0.112:8787
+
+  # --- The LLM fleet (last: never implied by a generic change) --------------
+  - name: frank-dragoon
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: root-unit
+    files:
+      - scripts/frank-dragoon.env
+      - scripts/frank-dragoon.service
+      - scripts/serve-frank-dragoon.sh
+    health: http://127.0.0.1:7770/health
+    wait: 1200
+    tests: [tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats, tests/llm_units.bats,
+      tests/llm_deploy_gates.bats, tests/llm_secrets.bats,
+      tests/scripts_syntax.bats, tests/docs_completeness.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: frank-dragoon
+        target: host.containers.internal:7770
+        metrics_path: /metrics
+        labels: {service: frank-dragoon}
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:7770
+
+  - name: frank-zealot
+    hosts: [dankclaw]
+    kind: root-unit
+    files:
+      - scripts/frank-zealot.env
+      - scripts/frank-zealot.service
+      - scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh
+    health: http://127.0.0.1:7771/health
+    wait: 900
+    tests: [tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats, tests/llm_units.bats,
+      tests/llm_deploy_gates.bats, tests/llm_secrets.bats,
+      tests/scripts_syntax.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: frank-zealot
+        target: host.containers.internal:7771
+        metrics_path: /metrics
+        labels: {service: frank-zealot}
+    probe: 127.0.0.1:7771
+
+  - name: frank-archon
+    hosts: [dankserver]
+    kind: root-unit
+    files:
+      - scripts/frank-archon.env
+      - scripts/frank-archon.service
+      - scripts/serve-frank-archon.sh
+      # The vendored chat template the engine renders with.
+      - scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja
+    health: http://127.0.0.1:7770/health
+    wait: 900
+    tests: [tests/frank_archon_unit.bats, tests/llm_units.bats,
+      tests/llm_deploy_gates.bats, tests/llm_secrets.bats,
+      tests/scripts_syntax.bats]
+    scrape:
+      - job: frank-archon
+        target: 192.168.0.235:7770
+        metrics_path: /metrics
+        labels: {service: frank-archon}
+    probe: 192.168.0.235:7770
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ UNIT_DIR="$REPO_ROOT/dankclaw/authentik/quadlet"
@test "the homepage vhost is www, guarded by Anubis" {
    local block
    block=$(awk '/^www\.franksdank\.cloud[[:space:]]*\{/,/^}/' "$CADDYFILE")
-    echo "$block" | grep -q 'reverse_proxy anubis:8923'
+    echo "$block" | grep -q 'import guarded'
 }

@test "the naked domain redirects to www at the TLS edge" {
@@ -251,3 +251,14 @@ CADDYFILE="$REPO_ROOT/dankclaw/Caddyfile"
    grep -q -- '--server.http.listen-addr=0.0.0.0:12345' "$unit"
    grep -q '^PublishPort=127.0.0.1:12345:12345$' "$unit"
 }
+
+@test "the guard chain is a named snippet the guarded vhosts import" {
+    # Rank 6: the Anubis pre-auth chain (reverse_proxy anubis:8923 with the
+    # X-Real-Ip header_up) existed as nine verbatim copies. One snippet,
+    # per-vhost imports; a chain edit is a one-line change.
+    grep -q '^(guarded) {' "$CADDYFILE"
+    local imports
+    imports=$(grep -c $'^\timport guarded$' "$CADDYFILE")
+    [ "$imports" -ge 9 ]
+    [ "$(grep -c 'reverse_proxy anubis:8923' "$CADDYFILE")" -eq 1 ]
+}
@@ -13,11 +13,15 @@ load helpers
    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
 }

-@test "changed-test wrapper maps a compose change to compose and environment tests" {
-    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths dankserver/compose.yaml
+@test "changed-test wrapper maps a shared config change to its service seams" {
+    # The compose era is retired (rank 7): the former compose fixture here
+    # mapped dankserver/compose.yaml, a file that no longer exists. The
+    # equivalent contract now: a service config change maps to the
+    # service's seams and nothing unrelated.
+    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths shared/searxng/settings.yml
    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"tests/compose_validity.bats"* ]]
-    [[ "$output" == *"tests/env_consistency.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/searxng_limiter.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/searxng_quadlet.bats"* ]]
    [[ "$output" != *"tests/homepage_pages.bats"* ]]
 }

@@ -47,3 +51,27 @@ load helpers
    [[ "$output" != *"tests/frank_medium_unit.bats"* ]]
    [[ "$output" != *"tests/frank_archon_unit.bats"* ]]
 }
+
+@test "changed-test wrapper maps the frankbook unit to the frankbook and deploy-flow seams" {
+    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths frankbook-pro/sonarr/quadlet/sonarr.container
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/frankbook_quadlet.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/deployment_flow.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/deployment_scoping.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" != *"tests/frank_archon_unit.bats"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "changed-test wrapper maps the inventory itself to its seam" {
+    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths shared/services.yml
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/service_inventory.bats"* ]]
+    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths scripts/service-map.py
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/service_inventory.bats"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "changed-test wrapper refuses an unmapped path" {
+    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths newdir/file.txt
+    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"no focused-test mapping"* ]]
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# deploy_sandbox.bash — the deploy-handler seam's fixture builder.
+#
+# The seam (tests/llm_deploy_gates.bats) EXECUTES scripts/deploy-remote.sh's
+# LLM handlers with every host touchpoint stubbed (tests/stubs/) and every
+# artifact pointed at a fixture, so the assertions are the handler's exit
+# status, its refusal text, and what it ASKED systemd/podman to do.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   source tests/deploy_sandbox.bash
+#   sandbox_setup
+#   run_handler dankserver frank-archon
+#   sandbox_teardown
+#
+# After sandbox_setup the caller owns:
+#   $STAGE                      the temp root (payload/, bin/, systemd/, state/)
+#   $REMOTE_DIR                 the sandbox checkout (a git clone; the handler
+#                               cds into it, so relative paths resolve there)
+#   $STAGE/systemctl.log        every systemctl invocation
+#   $STAGE/podman.log           every podman invocation
+#   $STAGE/systemd/<unit>.service  the unit link a green deploy leaves behind
+# Env the caller sets per case: STUB_IMAGE ("" = empty storage),
+# STUB_MAIN_PID (0 = a stray process owns the port), the LLM_* overrides.
+
+sandbox_setup() {
+    STAGE="$(mktemp -d)"
+    export HOME="$STAGE/home"
+    mkdir -p "$HOME" "$STAGE/state" "$STAGE/systemd" "$STAGE/bin"
+
+    # Host touchpoints: the seam's stubs, on PATH under their real names.
+    local stub repo_root
+    repo_root="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+    for stub in "$repo_root"/tests/stubs/*; do
+        ln -s "$stub" "$STAGE/bin/$(basename "$stub")"
+    done
+    export PATH="$STAGE/bin:$PATH"
+    export STUB_SYSTEMCTL_LOG="$STAGE/systemctl.log"
+    export STUB_PODMAN_LOG="$STAGE/podman.log"
+    # A deploy marks state; a sandbox with no git identity would make the
+    # identity, not the handler, the thing under test.
+    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=seam GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=seam@localhost
+    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=seam GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=seam@localhost
+    export SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR="$STAGE/systemd"
+    export DEPLOY_STATE_DIR="$STAGE/state"
+    # run_privileged pipes the password from FRANK_SUDO_PW into `sudo -S --`;
+    # the stub drops it and execs, so no privilege gate hides a handler bug.
+    export FRANK_SUDO_PW=test
+
+    # Fixture payload: 3 MiB where a size floor applies, 10 bytes elsewhere.
+    mkdir -p "$STAGE/models/tokenizer"
+    truncate -s 3145728 "$STAGE/models/payload.rad"
+    truncate -s 10 "$STAGE/models/ck.hgn"
+    truncate -s 10 "$STAGE/models/ngram.hgn"
+    truncate -s 10 "$STAGE/models/vision.hgn"
+    printf 'x\n' > "$STAGE/models/llama-server"
+    chmod +x "$STAGE/models/llama-server"
+    truncate -s 10 "$STAGE/models/model.gguf"
+    truncate -s 10 "$STAGE/models/mmproj.gguf"
+    local tf
+    for tf in tokenizer.json chat_template.jinja tokenizer_config.json \
+        merges.txt vocab.json generation_config.json; do
+        printf 'x\n' > "$STAGE/models/tokenizer/$tf"
+    done
+
+    # $HOME/serverAppConfigs is the checkout the handler works in: a git
+    # WORKTREE of the caller's checkout, so the handler runs the EXACT files
+    # under test, and it is a real git repo: the deployer refuses a revision
+    # it cannot resolve. The handler cds into REMOTE_DIR, so every relative
+    # path it uses resolves there.
+    #
+    # HEAD is committed state, so the seam asserts on what is in history —
+    # the same rule as the whole suite, and the reason an uncommitted
+    # deployer change is invisible here until it is committed.
+    git -C "$repo_root" worktree add -q --detach "$HOME/serverAppConfigs" HEAD
+    export REMOTE_DIR="$HOME/serverAppConfigs"
+
+    # Every endpoint variable is env-overridable, so the handlers see the
+    # fixtures and never the real /home/dank paths.
+    export STUB_IMAGE=ghcr.io/peonist-ai/halogen-flash-server@sha256:deadbeef
+    export LLM_DRAGOON_IMAGE="$STUB_IMAGE"
+    export LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT="$STAGE/models/ck.hgn" LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT_BYTES=10
+    export LLM_DRAGOON_NGRAM="$STAGE/models/ngram.hgn" LLM_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES=10
+    export LLM_DRAGOON_VISION="$STAGE/models/vision.hgn" LLM_DRAGOON_VISION_BYTES=10
+    export LLM_DRAGOON_TOK_DIR="$STAGE/models/tokenizer"
+    export LLM_ZEALOT_RUNTIME="$STAGE/models/llama-server"
+    export LLM_ZEALOT_MODEL_FILE="$STAGE/models/model.gguf"
+    export LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ="$STAGE/models/mmproj.gguf"
+    export LLM_ARCHON_ENV_FILE="$REMOTE_DIR/scripts/frank-archon.env"
+    # The archon handler reads the served image out of the unit's own env
+    # file, so the stub's storage must hold exactly that ref.
+    ARCHON_IMAGE="$(sed -nE 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE=(.+)$/\1/p' "$LLM_ARCHON_ENV_FILE")"
+}
+
+sandbox_teardown() {
+    [[ -z "${STAGE:-}" ]] && return 0
+    # A worktree leaves a registration in the caller's .git/worktrees, so
+    # remove it through git, not just the directory.
+    [[ -d "$STAGE/home/serverAppConfigs" ]] &&
+        git -C "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)" \
+            worktree remove --force "$STAGE/home/serverAppConfigs"
+    rm -rf "$STAGE"
+}
+
+run_handler() {
+    local target="$1" service="$2"
+    run bash "$REMOTE_DIR/scripts/deploy-remote.sh" \
+        "$target" "$(git -C "$REMOTE_DIR" rev-parse HEAD)" "$service"
+}
+
+# archon_payload_env — the unit's env file with the payload coordinates
+# redirected into the sandbox (and the size floor optionally lowered, which
+# is how a test builds the truncated-.rad case).
+archon_payload_env() {
+    local re="s#^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=$STAGE/models#;"
+    re+=" s#^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=payload.rad#"
+    if [[ -n "${1:-}" ]]; then
+        re+="; s#^FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=$1#"
+    fi
+    sed -E "$re" "$LLM_ARCHON_ENV_FILE" > "$STAGE/archon.env"
+    export LLM_ARCHON_ENV_FILE="$STAGE/archon.env"
+}
+
+restarts_requested() {
+    # grep -c prints 0 and exits 1 on no match; the count, not the status,
+    # is what the assertions read.
+    local n=0
+    [[ -f "$STAGE/systemctl.log" ]] && n="$(grep -c 'restart ' "$STAGE/systemctl.log")"
+    printf '%s\n' "$n"
+}
@@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ load helpers
 }

@test "remote runner health-checks an inference endpoint" {
-    grep -q '127.0.0.1:7770/health' "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh"
+    # start_root_unit carries the health gate for all three LLM units; the
+    # contract is that each endpoint's start names its port, and 7770 is
+    # frank-dragoon's.
+    grep -q 'start_root_unit frank-dragoon 7770' "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh"
 }

@test "deploy.sh pulls the merged checkout on the target" {
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bats
 # Seam: documentation completeness.
+# (compose era retired 2026-10-13; the sweep below now skips trash so a
+# revived compose file stays covered without resurrecting retired services)
 # Every service defined in a compose.yaml must have a matching documentation
 # page in serverAppConfigs-docs/ and must be reachable from the index. This is the "docs first"
 # contract of this repo: no service ships without documentation.
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ load helpers
                return 1
            fi
        done < <(services_in "$f")
-    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT" -name 'compose.yaml' -not -path '*/.git/*' | sort)
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT" -name 'compose.yaml' -not -path '*/.git/*' -not -path '*/.AGENTTRASH/*' | sort)
 }

@test "docs index links every docs page" {
@@ -1,33 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bats
 # Seam: environment variable consistency and secret hygiene.
-# Every ${VAR} referenced in a compose.yaml or Caddyfile must be defined in the
-# matching .env.example. .env.example files must contain only placeholders, and
+# Every ${VAR} referenced in a Caddyfile must be defined in the matching
+# .env.example. .env.example files must contain only placeholders, and
 # the live gitea database password must never appear in tracked files.
+# (The compose.yaml sweeps retired with the last compose file on 2026-10-13.)

 load helpers

-@test "every compose.yaml has a sibling .env.example" {
-    while IFS= read -r f; do
-        local envfile
-        envfile="$(dirname "$f")/.env.example"
-        [ -f "$envfile" ] || { echo "missing $envfile for $f"; return 1; }
-    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT" -name 'compose.yaml' -not -path '*/.git/*' | sort)
-}
-
-@test "every \${VAR} in compose.yaml is defined in the sibling .env.example" {
-    while IFS= read -r f; do
-        local envfile
-        envfile="$(dirname "$f")/.env.example"
-        while IFS= read -r var; do
-            [ -z "$var" ] && continue
-            if ! env_vars_defined "$envfile" | grep -qx "$var"; then
-                echo "$f references \${$var} but $envfile does not define it"
-                return 1
-            fi
-        done < <(env_vars_in "$f")
-    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT" -name 'compose.yaml' -not -path '*/.git/*' | sort)
-}
-
@test ".env.example files contain only placeholder values" {
    while IFS= read -r f; do
        has_placeholder_secret "$f"
@@ -3,52 +3,168 @@
 #
 # This file asserts the RADIANCE shape (StillDeadcode engine, digest-pinned
 # stilldeadcode/radiance image, BOTH R9700s TP=2 on the wht6 wire, serving
-# the publisher's 4-bit-codebook .rad of the official Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
-# (fetched by scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh; the in-house
-# Swift1.5 w4dn8 .rad of scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh is the on-disk
-# rollback). It replaces the FreeToken seam of
+# the Swift1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next GPTQ-w4 .rad built by
+# scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh). It replaces the FreeToken seam of
 # 2026-10-05 (git tag frank-archon-freetoken-pr587-20261005) and pins what
 # flags alone do not say: the served window clears the harness worst case,
 # the KV pool backs seqs x max-model-len at the declared cache dtype (an
 # engine HARD limit, not a ratio), the per-card VRAM pair stays inside the
-# the pinned-host ledger has a ttm pages cap floor, the serve script ENFORCES
-# it and RAISES the knob itself when a reboot reset it (the cap's default is
-# half of RAM), the served window is what models.yml must
+# measured card ceiling, the pinned-host ledger has a ttm pages cap floor and
+# the serve script ENFORCES it, the served window is what models.yml must
 # quote, the host-networking contract (no --publish), the image gate on a
 # name@sha256 ref, the .rad payload gate with its size floor, the
-# chat-template override mount, the self-healing law (the run returns before
-# the engine is up, so the serve script must wait on the container for
-# Restart=always to mean anything), the deployer's false-green MainPID check,
-# the vendored hfget fetch path (no token for this ungated repo), and the
+# chat-template override mount, the self-healing contract (`podman run`
+# returns before the engine is up, so the serve script must stay attached
+# for Restart=always to mean anything), the deployer's false-green MainPID
+# check, the vendored hfget fetch path (no token for this ungated repo), and the
 # client contract (reasoning auto -> reasoning_content; models.yml maps the
 # field on the harness side, not here).
-
+# The serve script is EXECUTED against fixtures (stub podman, stub device
+# nodes, stub ttm sysfs knobs, a temp payload dir) so the gates are observed
+# as the operator observes them: exit status and the words on stderr. The
+# knobs that make that possible (FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_KFD, _DEV_DRI,
+# _TTM_SYSFS_DIR, _LOG) default to the production paths.
 load helpers

 UNIT="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-archon.service"
 SERVE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/serve-frank-archon.sh"
-TTM_LIB="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/ttm-preflight.sh"
 ENV_FILE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/frank-archon.env"
 REMOTE_DEPLOY="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh"
-DOWNLOAD="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/download-frank-archon-iq4r.sh"
+DOWNLOAD="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/download-frank-archon-swift15.sh"
 BUILD="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh"
 HFGET="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/hfget.sh"
 TEMPLATE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/qwen38-froggeric-v22.5.jinja"
+#
+# Fixtures: a full env derived from the SHIPPED frank-archon.env with only
+# the host paths redirected, so a payload rename moves the env, not this file.
+setup() {
+    STAGE="$(mktemp -d)"
+    MODELS="$STAGE/models"
+    STATE="$STAGE/state"
+    TTM="$STAGE/ttm"
+    mkdir -p "$MODELS" "$STATE" "$TTM" "$STAGE/bin" "$STAGE/dri"
+    touch "$STAGE/kfd" "$STAGE/template.jinja"
+    # A 3 MiB .rad clears the 2 MiB floor the fixture env pins.
+    dd if=/dev/zero of="$MODELS/payload.rad" bs=1048576 count=3 status=none
+    # 200 GiB of pages, the shipped cap's value, in 4 KiB pages.
+    printf '52428800\n' > "$TTM/pages_limit"
+    cat > "$STAGE/bin/podman" <<'STUB'
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+case "$1" in
+    image)
+        case " ${STUB_IMAGE:-} " in
+            *" $3 "*) exit 0 ;;
+            *)        exit 1 ;;
+        esac ;;
+    rm)  exit 0 ;;
+    run) echo "PODMAN $*" >> "${STUB_ARGV:-/dev/null}"; exit 0 ;;
+    *)   exit 0 ;;
+esac
+STUB
+    chmod +x "$STAGE/bin/podman"
+    IMAGE="$(sed -nE 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")"
+    # The fixture env IS the shipped env with only the host paths and the
+    # size floor redirected, so a payload rename moves frank-archon.env and
+    # this file follows with it.
+    local re="s#^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=$MODELS#;"
+    re+=" s#^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=payload.rad#;"
+    re+=" s#^FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB=2#;"
+    re+=" s#^FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE=$STAGE/template.jinja#;"
+    re+=" s#^FRANK_ARCHON_STATE_DIR=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_STATE_DIR=$STATE#;"
+    re+=" s#^FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=.*#FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000#"
+    sed -E "$re" "$ENV_FILE" > "$STAGE/serve.env"
+    {
+        echo "FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYSFS=$TTM"
+        echo "FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_KFD=$STAGE/kfd"
+        echo "FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_DRI=$STAGE/dri"
+        echo "FRANK_ARCHON_LOG=$STAGE/serve.log"
+        echo "STUB_IMAGE=$IMAGE"
+        echo "STUB_ARGV=$STAGE/argv.txt"
+    } >> "$STAGE/serve.env"
+}

-# A PATH with `cat` (the gate reads knobs with it) and NO `sudo`, so the
-# privileged fallback cannot rescue a write the test means to fail.
-nosudo_bin() {
-    local bin="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/nosudo-bin"
-    mkdir -p "$bin"
-    ln -sf "$(command -v cat)" "$bin/cat"
-    ln -sf "$(command -v bash)" "$bin/bash"
-    echo "$bin"
+teardown() {
+    rm -rf "$STAGE"
+}
+
+# serve_run — execute the serve script against the fixtures.
+serve_run() {
+    run env PATH="$STAGE/bin:$PATH" FRANK_ARCHON_ENV_FILE="$STAGE/serve.env" \
+        bash "$SERVE"
+}
+
+@test "the serve script refuses when the image is not in storage" {
+    # The env file wins over the ambient environment (the serve script
+    # sources it with `set -a`), so the stub's storage is emptied in the file.
+    sed -i 's#^STUB_IMAGE=.*#STUB_IMAGE=#' "$STAGE/serve.env"
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"not in podman storage"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"podman pull"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the serve script refuses a missing .rad and names its builder" {
+    rm -f "$MODELS/payload.rad"
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"container: missing"*"$MODELS/payload.rad"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"scripts/convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the serve script refuses a .rad below the size floor, naming both sizes" {
+    # A truncated rad-convert is a guaranteed long-timeout boot; the floor is
+    # the fast failure (FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB).
+    dd if=/dev/zero of="$MODELS/payload.rad" bs=1048576 count=1 status=none
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"1 MiB"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"2 MiB"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the serve script refuses an absent chat template" {
+    # The engine is started with --override-chat-template; a missing file is
+    # a container that dies at argv parse, not a fast refusal.
+    rm -f "$STAGE/template.jinja"
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"template: missing"*"$STAGE/template.jinja"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the serve script refuses when the ttm pages cap is below the pinned ledger" {
+    printf '1048576\n' > "$TTM/pages_limit"   # 4 GiB, under the ~147 GiB ledger
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"ttm pages cap is 4096 MiB"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"150000"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the serve script refuses when the GPU device nodes are absent" {
+    rm -f "$STAGE/kfd"
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"GPU device nodes absent"*"$STAGE/kfd"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the serve script runs the engine with the .rad, the template and TP=2" {
+    serve_run
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    argv="$(cat "$STAGE/argv.txt")"
+    grep -q -- "--model /models/payload.rad" <<<"$argv"
+    grep -q -- "-v $MODELS:/models:ro" <<<"$argv"
+    grep -q -- "--override-chat-template /templates/template.jinja" <<<"$argv"
+    grep -q -- "--tp $(sed -nE 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_TP=([0-9]+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" <<<"$argv"
+    grep -q -- "--tp-wire $(sed -nE 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_TP_WIRE=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" <<<"$argv"
+    grep -q -- "--kv-cache-dtype $(sed -nE 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" <<<"$argv"
+    # The container name is the unit's ExecStop target, and the host-network
+    # contract publishes no port.
+    grep -q -- "--name $(sed -nE 's/^FRANK_ARCHON_CONTAINER=(.+)$/\1/p' "$ENV_FILE")" <<<"$argv"
+    grep -q -- "--network host" <<<"$argv"
+    ! grep -q -- "--publish" <<<"$argv"
 }

@test "frank-archon unit, serve script, env, fetch and build scripts and template exist" {
    [ -f "$UNIT" ]
    [ -x "$SERVE" ]
-    [ -f "$TTM_LIB" ]
    [ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]
    [ -f "$DOWNLOAD" ]
    [ -x "$BUILD" ]
@@ -135,40 +251,37 @@ nosudo_bin() {
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_MODEL_LEN=200000$' "$ENV_FILE"
    ml=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_MODEL_LEN=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
    [ "$ml" -ge 177356 ]
-    # Concurrency: 3 slots x the served window is the capacity contract, and
-    # the fused TP all-reduce is declared over seqs x (1 + spec) = 9 rows,
-    # under the 25-row bound at which the wht6 wire stays bit-exact. The
-    # "seqs 2 cannot boot" law belongs to the retired tcclaviger vLLM fork
-    # (torch.compile query_start_loc constraint, 2026-10-02); radiance booted
-    # seqs 2 in the fp8-native era and the 2026-10-06 sweep had seqs 2 and 3
-    # tied inside the +-3% noise floor — slots buy concurrency, not speed.
-    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS=3$' "$ENV_FILE"
+    # Concurrency: 2 slots x the served window is the capacity contract, and
+    # the fused TP all-reduce is declared over seqs x (1 + spec) = 6 rows,
+    # under the 25-row bound at which the wht6 wire stays bit-exact. A
+    # "this slot count cannot boot" refusal is per-runtime (compiler shape
+    # specialization rejects counts the engine running here accepts), so it
+    # must be re-tested, not inherited; measurements here put seqs 2 and 3
+    # inside each other's noise floor.
+    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_MAX_SEQS=2$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_TP=2$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_TP_WIRE=wht6$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_SPEC_TOKENS=2$' "$ENV_FILE"
    # expert_tiered placement: vram_weights + the pinned host pool serve the
    # per-rank resident set TOGETHER, so cutting the VRAM slab to pay for the
-    # KV pool moves the pool with it. KV is QUANTIZED fp8 (the engine takes
-    # only bf16|fp8 — no per-tensor K/V split), the PLE n-gram table is pinned
-    # in host RAM per Frank's law.
+    # KV pool moves the pool with it. KV is UNQUANTIZED bf16 (the engine takes
+    # only bf16|fp8 — no per-tensor K/V split), the PLE n-gram table rides
+    # pinned host RAM per the placement knob.
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_PLACEMENT=expert_tiered$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=44928$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_WEIGHTS_MIB=[1-9]' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_KV_MIB=[1-9]' "$ENV_FILE"
-    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=fp8$' "$ENV_FILE"
+    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_KV_DTYPE=bf16$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_NGRAM_PLACEMENT=ram$' "$ENV_FILE"
    # Prefix cache tiers (publisher pattern; disk tier sized for 2 slots).
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_HOST_MIB=8192$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_DISK_MIB=65536$' "$ENV_FILE"
    # The pinned ledger (2 x pool + 47.7 GiB PLE + prefix host) must be
    # under the ttm pages cap, and the env states the floor the serve
-    # script enforces (>= 140,000 MiB — the kernel's own default cap, half of
-    # RAM, fails it, which is the point) plus the value it raises the knob to
-    # when a reboot reset it (the target must clear the floor with slack).
+    # script enforces (>= 140,000 MiB — the current cap ~123 GiB fails it,
+    # which is the point).
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=' "$ENV_FILE"
    ttmm=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
-    ttmt=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
-    [ "$ttmt" -gt "$ttmm" ]
    pool=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_HOST_POOL_MIB=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
    ph=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_PREFIX_HOST_MIB=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
    # 2 pools + PLE 47.7 GiB (48,824 MiB) + prefix host, rounded up.
@@ -206,20 +319,15 @@ nosudo_bin() {
 }

@test "the per-card VRAM pair stays inside the measured card ceiling" {
-    # The engine's OWN budget table, not a hand-picked reserve. Boot of
-    # 2026-10-13 at the pair 24000/5120: card 32,624 MiB (31.86 GiB), budgets
-    # claimed 29,120, `3.42 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`, and `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)`. Claimable reserve above the
-    # engine's floor: 2,058 - 209 = 1,849 MiB, so the ceiling is 30,969 MiB.
-    # The 2026-10-11 bound of 29,120 ("keep >= 1 GiB free", card read as 31,856
-    # MiB) was MY reserve, which the engine never asked for; the shipped pair
-    # spends the difference and lands ~458 MiB above the floor.
+    # Measured on Dankserver 2026-10-11: card 31,856 MiB, a boot consumes
+    # 1,710 MiB OUTSIDE both budgets (driver context, the 990 MiB activation
+    # arena, hardware queues, headroom, step staging) and the fp8 pair settled
+    # at 1,379 MiB free. Claiming more than 29,120 MiB in total is an
+    # allocation failure at graph capture, not a warning — so the KV pool and
+    # the weights slab are one budget, and this seam is the guard.
    w=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_WEIGHTS_MIB=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
    kv=$(awk -F= '/^FRANK_ARCHON_VRAM_KV_MIB=/{print $2}' "$ENV_FILE")
-    [ $(( w + kv )) -le 30969 ]
+    [ $(( w + kv )) -le 29120 ]
 }

@test "the serve script wires the engine flags from the env" {
@@ -278,99 +386,6 @@ nosudo_bin() {
    ! grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_TOOL_PARSER' "$ENV_FILE"
 }

-@test "the serve script gates the image, the .rad payload, the template and the GPU nodes" {
-    # The image gate is the digest ref itself; the payload gate checks the
-    # .rad file and its size floor — a truncated convert would otherwise be
-    # a guaranteed long-timeout boot instead of a fast failure. The ttm
-    # preflight refuses to start under a pages cap below the pinned ledger.
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'podman image exists' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_TEMPLATE' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'pages_limit' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q 'pages_max' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q '/dev/kfd' "$SERVE"
-    grep -q -- '--device /dev/dri' "$SERVE"
-}
-
-@test "the ttm gate raises a reset pages cap and refuses when the write fails" {
-    # The cap is a RUNTIME knob: the kernel default is half of RAM, so every
-    # reboot resets it (measured: the 2026-10-12 23:17 power failure on
-    # dankserver took it 200 GiB -> 125,988 MiB, and the preflight refusal was
-    # re-run 6,919 times by Restart=always over ~20 h). Behaviour required of
-    # the gate, in both directions:
-    #   knob below the floor + writable  -> cap ends at the target, start passes
-    #   knob below the floor + unwritable -> cap stays low, start REFUSES by name
-    local dir="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/ttm"
-    mkdir -p "$dir"
-    export FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR="$dir"
-    export FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000 FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800
-
-    echo 32253039 > "$dir/pages_limit"    # 125,988 MiB: the kernel default here
-    run bash -c '. "$1"; ttm_ensure_cap' _ "$TTM_LIB"
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    [ "$(cat "$dir/pages_limit")" = "52428800" ]   # 204,800 MiB in 4 KiB pages
-
-    echo 32253039 > "$dir/pages_limit"
-    chmod 444 "$dir/pages_limit"          # the write refused: cap cannot move
-    # The refusal case must not have `sudo` on PATH: the gate's privileged
-    # fallback runs `sudo -n`, and on a passwordless host root can write a 444
-    # file, which would silently test nothing.
-    run env PATH="$(nosudo_bin)" bash -c '. "$1"; ttm_ensure_cap' _ "$TTM_LIB"
-    [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"ERROR: ttm pages cap is 125988 MiB"* ]]
-    [ "$(cat "$dir/pages_limit")" = "32253039" ]
-}
-
-@test "the ttm cap counts only the knobs the kernel exposes" {
-    # An absent knob is not a zero: a zero-cap reading would refuse a healthy
-    # host. The effective cap is the MIN over the knobs that exist; pages_max,
-    # when a kernel exposes one, is the binding one.
-    local dir="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/ttm2"
-    mkdir -p "$dir"
-    export FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR="$dir"
-    export FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000 FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800
-
-    echo 51200000 > "$dir/pages_limit"    # 200,000 MiB, no pages_max knob
-    run bash -c '. "$1"; echo "$(ttm_cap_mib)"' _ "$TTM_LIB"
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    [ "$output" = "200000" ]
-
-    echo 30000000 > "$dir/pages_max"      # 117,187 MiB: now the binding knob
-    run bash -c '. "$1"; echo "$(ttm_cap_mib)"' _ "$TTM_LIB"
-    [ "$output" = "117187" ]
-
-    chmod 444 "$dir/pages_limit" "$dir/pages_max"   # both writes refused
-    run env PATH="$(nosudo_bin)" bash -c '. "$1"; ttm_ensure_cap' _ "$TTM_LIB"
-    [ "$status" -eq 1 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"ERROR: ttm pages cap is 117187 MiB"* ]]
-    [ "$(cat "$dir/pages_max")" = "30000000" ]
-}
-
-@test "the gate runs as a root pre-start hook, where the knob write is legal" {
-    # The knob is root-owned 0644 and the service runs as User=dank, so the
-    # gate CANNOT raise it from the service process. systemd's `+` prefix on
-    # ExecStartPre runs as root even under User= — the canonical privileged
-    # path — and the gate's own --raise mode is what that line calls.
-    grep -q '^ExecStartPre=+/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/ttm-preflight.sh --raise$' "$UNIT"
-
-    # Behaviour of that entry point: sourced env values, knob raised, exit 0.
-    local dir="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/ttm3" envf="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/ttm3.env"
-    mkdir -p "$dir"
-    printf 'FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_MIN_MIB=150000\nFRANK_ARCHON_TTM_TARGET_MIB=204800\n' > "$envf"
-    echo 32253039 > "$dir/pages_limit"
-    run env FRANK_ARCHON_ENV_FILE="$envf" FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYS_DIR="$dir" \
-        bash "$TTM_LIB" --raise
-    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
-    [ "$(cat "$dir/pages_limit")" = "52428800" ]
-
-    # Usage is a named failure, not a silent no-op.
-    run bash "$TTM_LIB"
-    [ "$status" -eq 2 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"--raise"* ]]
-}

@test "the serve script clears stale containers and self-heals via podman wait" {
    # A crashed unit can leave the container name registered forever after;
@@ -383,23 +398,18 @@ nosudo_bin() {
    grep -q 'exec podman wait "$FRANK_ARCHON_CONTAINER"' "$SERVE"
 }

-@test "the model id matches the payload's fetch script (and the rollback's build script)" {
-    # The deployed payload is the PUBLISHER's .rad: the fetch script names
-    # the repo, the file, and the Hub's LFS sha256; nothing is converted on
-    # the host for it. The in-house w4dn8 rollback keeps its own trio
-    # (convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh + download-frank-archon-swift15.sh, and the
-    # fp8-native era keeps build-frank-archon-rad.sh +
-    # download-frank-archon.sh).
+@test "the model id matches the payload's build and fetch scripts" {
+    # The payload dir/file are the convert script's output layout; the fetch
+    # script must name the repo the convert stages from. (FP8-native era,
+    # the rollback payload, keeps its own trio: build-frank-archon-rad.sh +
+    # download-frank-archon.sh.)
    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/rad$' "$ENV_FILE"
-    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad$' "$ENV_FILE"
-    grep -q 'StillDeadcode/qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe' "$DOWNLOAD"
-    grep -q 'qwen3.8-next-flash-fp8-iq4r-moe.rad' "$DOWNLOAD"
-    grep -q '0af5e96244e80c21ac8edca1719dae49b8a201b94a2f3994c3e24026ceaa4d20' "$DOWNLOAD"
+    grep -q '^FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE=qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad$' "$ENV_FILE"
+    grep -q 'qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad' "$BUILD"
+    grep -q 'ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next' "$DOWNLOAD"
    grep -q 'hfget.sh' "$DOWNLOAD"
    # The repo is UNGATED — no token may be required on the fetch path.
    ! grep -q 'HF_TOKEN' "$DOWNLOAD"
-    # Rollback provenance: the w4dn8 build script names its payload.
-    grep -q 'qwen4exp-swift15-w4dn8-i8-hc8m.rad' "$BUILD"
 }

@test "no bare HIP-reserved env var is defined" {
@@ -409,36 +419,3 @@ nosudo_bin() {
    ! grep -qE '^(TEMP|HOST|GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE)=' "$ENV_FILE"
    ! grep -qE '^(export )?(TEMP|HOST|GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE)=' "$SERVE"
 }
-
-@test "the deployer gates the image, payload and containers, then health-checks" {
-    # The deployer refuses when the image is absent from dank's rootless
-    # storage or the .rad is missing/too small — then clears stale
-    # containers (including the legacy identities), waits out the port,
-    # relinks/enables/restarts the root unit and health-gates it.
-    grep -q 'LLM_ARCHON_CONTAINER=frank-archon$' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'podman image exists' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_MODEL_FILE' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'FRANK_ARCHON_RAD_MIN_MIB' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'frank-archon-qwen' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'qwen-fp8' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'glm-probe' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'wait_port_free 7770' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'relink_unit frank-archon' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'systemctl enable frank-archon.service' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'systemctl restart frank-archon.service' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    # The health gate is a bare curl: the HTTP listener binds AFTER the
-    # full load (main.cpp — engine.start() then engine.serve()), so during
-    # load the port refuses connections and a bare curl is honest. The
-    # FreeToken-era body read ('status ok') is gone with that engine.
-    grep -q 'curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:7770/health' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    ! grep -q '"status":"ok"' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-}
-
-@test "the deployer will not report green on a stray port-holder" {
-    # The 2026-09-26 false green: a leftover probe held :7770 and satisfied
-    # the health curl while the real unit was stopped. The deploy is only
-    # green when the unit's own MainPID is live behind the health answer.
-    grep -q 'systemctl show -p MainPID --value frank-archon.service' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'stray process holds the port' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-}
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 # exact strings the engine reads: the image DIGEST, the checkpoint/n-gram/
 # vision file names AND byte counts inside the /models mount, and the
 # tokenizer's flat-file shape (a HF cache snapshot's symlinks dangle inside
-# the container). A serve gate and a deployer gate that disagree is the
-# 2026-10-01 crash-loop; both sides are pinned here, plus the one engine
-# law the card is emphatic about: HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT=0 — the default
-# adaptive policy silently disables the MTP head per request and HALVES
-# decode.
+# the container). A serve gate and a deployer gate that disagree let a
+# deploy pass what the unit would refuse, so both sides are pinned here —
+# plus the one engine behavior the card is emphatic about:
+# HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT=0 — the default adaptive policy silently disables the
+# MTP head per request and HALVES decode.
 #
 # Everything is tested from what an operator or supervisor can observe —
 # the command line podman would run, the exit code, the deployer's error
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ podman_stub() {
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 case "$1" in
    images) printf '%s\n' "${STUB_DIGESTS:-}" ;;
+    image)
+        # `podman image exists REF` — exit 1 when storage lacks the ref,
+        # which is exactly the primitive the shared gate library calls.
+        case " ${STUB_DIGESTS:-} " in
+            *" $3 "*) exit 0 ;;
+            *)        exit 1 ;;
+        esac ;;
    rm)     exit 0 ;;
    run|wait) echo "PODMAN $*"; exit "${STUB_WAIT_RC:-0}" ;;
    *)      exit 0 ;;
@@ -110,10 +117,11 @@ good_env() {

@test "the head stays on: adaptive spec must stay 0 and the window shape pinned" {
    # The card is emphatic: the default adaptive policy turns the MTP head
-    # off for whole requests after low acceptance and HALVES decode. The
-    # two-slot law does NOT carry over from the 27B engine — on this line
-    # batching and speculation coexist (the card's quickstart ships 2
-    # slots WITH the head), so 2 is concurrent capacity, not a tax.
+    # off for whole requests after low acceptance and HALVES decode. A
+    # "slots > 1 disables drafting" restriction belongs to the engine
+    # generation that imposed it — on this line batching and speculation
+    # coexist (the card's quickstart ships 2 slots WITH the head), so 2 is
+    # concurrent capacity, not a tax.
    grep -qE '^HALOGEN_SPEC_ADAPT=0$' "$ENV_FILE"
    grep -qE '^HALOGEN_KV_SLOTS=2$' "$ENV_FILE"
    # The cap/timeout pair is coupled (FLAGS.md table): a request at the
@@ -179,7 +187,7 @@ good_env() {

@test "the serve script refuses a checkpoint of the wrong byte count" {
    # A truncated curl exit-0 artifact must not boot; the Hub's byte
-    # count is the contract (fleet fetch law).
+    # count is the contract, any other size is a broken artifact.
    podman_stub
    good_env
    run env PATH="$TEST_TMP/bin:$PATH" "${GOOD_ENV[@]}" \
@@ -197,7 +205,7 @@ good_env() {
    run env PATH="$TEST_TMP/bin:$PATH" "${GOOD_ENV[@]}" \
        FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_TABLE=absent.hgn "$SERVE"
    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"n-gram-table"*"missing"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-dragoon: n-gram: missing at $TEST_TMP/absent.hgn"* ]]
    run env PATH="$TEST_TMP/bin:$PATH" "${GOOD_ENV[@]}" \
        FRANK_DRAGOON_NGRAM_BYTES=42 "$SERVE"
    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
@@ -213,7 +221,7 @@ good_env() {
    run env PATH="$TEST_TMP/bin:$PATH" "${GOOD_ENV[@]}" \
        FRANK_DRAGOON_VISION_TOWER=absent.hgn "$SERVE"
    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"vision-tower"*"missing"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-dragoon: vision: missing at $TEST_TMP/absent.hgn"* ]]
    run env PATH="$TEST_TMP/bin:$PATH" "${GOOD_ENV[@]}" \
        FRANK_DRAGOON_VISION_BYTES=42 "$SERVE"
    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
@@ -280,16 +288,16 @@ $(cat "$TEST_TMP/serve.log")"
    ! grep -q 'PODMAN wait' "$TEST_TMP/serve.log"
 }

-@test "the shipped env keeps the harness fit law inside the ceiling" {
+@test "the shipped env keeps the harness fit margin inside the ceiling" {
    # 262144 (the checkpoint's native window) is the per-slot hard ceiling
    # (a longer prompt is a 400 naming the limit, never a silent
    # truncation). The harness clamps max_tokens = min(45056, 217088 − est
    # − 4096), compacts at 85 % of its declared 217088 window, and its
    # chars/4 est UNDER-counts the rendered prompt by ~3 % on code/agent
-    # traffic (measured 4,450 tokens at est 152,938 on 2026-10-07 — with
-    # window == ceiling, every request over ~146k est was a guaranteed
-    # 400 before compaction could fire at 85 %). The 45k gap between the
-    # harness window and the engine ceiling must absorb that error at
+    # traffic — so a harness window equal to the engine ceiling would make
+    # every long request a guaranteed 400 before compaction could fire.
+    # The 45k gap between the harness window and the engine ceiling must
+    # absorb that error at
    # both monotone maxima of est + budget (est ≤ 217088 − 4096):
    #   full budget at the compaction threshold: 1.03*184524 + 45056
    #   clamped budget at the clamp's zero point: 1.03*212992 + 0
@@ -328,11 +336,6 @@ $(cat "$TEST_TMP/serve.log")"
    grep -qF "LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT_BYTES=\"\${LLM_DRAGOON_CKPT_BYTES:-$bytes}\"" "$DEPLOYER"
 }

-@test "the deployer points a missing artifact at the flashnext fetch script" {
-    grep -qE 'download-frank-dragoon-flashnext\.sh' "$DEPLOYER"
-    grep -qE 'podman pull' "$DEPLOYER"
-}
-
@test "the stray sweep cannot take frank-zealot or the deployer down" {
    # frank-zealot also listens on this host (7771, llama-server) and the
    # deployer's own command line contains "frank-dragoon"; only the FULL
@@ -344,8 +347,9 @@ $(cat "$TEST_TMP/serve.log")"
 }

@test "the deployed unit keeps the fleet's restart and boot-persistence shape" {
-    grep -qE '^Restart=(always|on-failure)$' "$UNIT"
-    grep -qE '^WantedBy=' "$UNIT"
+    # Restart=always and the WantedBy value are the FLEET parity seam
+    # (tests/llm_units.bats); what is endpoint-specific is which script the
+    # unit runs, under whom, and what a stop must reap.
    grep -qE '^ExecStart=.*/serve-frank-dragoon\.sh$' "$UNIT"
    grep -qE '^User=dank$' "$UNIT"
    grep -qE '^LimitMEMLOCK=infinity$' "$UNIT"
@@ -85,10 +85,12 @@ run_stage() {
    [ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]
 }

-@test "frank-zealot is boot-persistent, self-healing and unprivileged" {
-    grep -q '^WantedBy=multi-user.target$' "$UNIT"
-    grep -q '^Restart=' "$UNIT"
-    grep -q '^RestartSec=' "$UNIT"
+@test "frank-zealot runs unprivileged with the memlock budget and its env file" {
+    # Restart policy, RestartSec and WantedBy are the FLEET parity seam
+    # (tests/llm_units.bats). What is endpoint-specific: CUDA pins its
+    # staging buffers, so the memlock budget is load-bearing even though the
+    # weights are copied into VRAM, and the unit must name the serve script
+    # and the env file that sizes it.
    grep -q '^User=dank$' "$UNIT"
    grep -q '^LimitMEMLOCK=infinity$' "$UNIT"
    grep -q '^ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh$' "$UNIT"
@@ -253,26 +255,20 @@ run_stage() {
 }

@test "the serve script refuses a missing runtime, GGUF or projector" {
+    # The refusal is the shared gate library's: it names the artifact class,
+    # the exact path, and the script that produces it.
    rm -f "$MODEL_DIR/$MM_STUB"
    serve_argv
    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot: missing"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot:"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"mmproj"*"missing"*"$MM_STUB"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"download-frank-zealot.sh"* ]]

    rm -f "$RUNTIME_DIR/bin/llama-server"
    serve_argv
    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
-    [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot: missing"* ]]
-}
-
-@test "the deploy handler gates on binary, GGUF and projector, then MainPID-hardens health" {
-    grep -q 'deploy_llm_zealot' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'LLM_ZEALOT_RUNTIME' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'LLM_ZEALOT_MODEL_FILE' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'LLM_ZEALOT_MMPROJ' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'relink_unit frank-zealot' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'systemctl enable frank-zealot.service' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q '127.0.0.1:7771/health' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
-    grep -q 'frank-zealot.service has no MainPID' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
+    [[ "$output" == *"runtime"*"missing"*"llama-server"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"build-llama-master-cuda.sh"* ]]
 }

@test "the two endpoints keep separate ports and the large handler never pkills llama-server" {
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@

 REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"

+# skip_if_no_podman — skip the test when podman is absent (the image gate
+# asks real storage a real question)
+skip_if_no_podman() {
+    command -v podman >/dev/null 2>&1 || skip "podman is not installed"
+}
+
 # yaml_parse_ok <file> — assert a compose file parses as valid YAML
 yaml_parse_ok() {
    python3 - "$1" <<'PYEOF'
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ webui_service_yaml() {
 }

@test "remote deployer accepts and dispatches hermes-webui" {
-    grep -q 'dankclaw:hermes-webui' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
+    # Acceptance is the inventory (rank 3): the old literal allow-list in
+    # the remote runner is retired.
+    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host dankclaw --service hermes-webui
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
    # Dispatched to the unit handler, never to compose: deploy_hermes installs
    # the quadlets and retires compose-era containers.
    grep -q 'hermes|hermes-dashboard|hermes-webui) deploy_hermes' "$REMOTE_DEPLOY"
@@ -111,5 +114,7 @@ webui_service_yaml() {
 }

@test "top-level deployer accepts hermes-webui as a Dankclaw service" {
-    grep -q 'dankclaw:hermes-webui' "$DEPLOY"
+    # deploy.sh validates --service through the inventory's allows.
+    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host dankclaw --service hermes-webui
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
 }
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ setup() {
    # domain never enters the chain (it redirects at the TLS edge first).
    local block
    block=$(awk '/^www\.franksdank\.cloud[[:space:]]*\{/,/^}/' "$CADDY")
-    echo "$block" | grep -q 'reverse_proxy anubis:8923'
+    echo "$block" | grep -q 'import guarded'
    # forwards accepted traffic to; Host survives the hop, so per-vhost
    # routing resumes there — guarded vhosts proxy the whole request
    # through Authentik, which forwards authenticated traffic back on the
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats
+# Seam: the deployer's LLM handlers are the twin of the serve scripts'
+# artifact gates (the 2026-10-01 crash-loop: a green deploy against a
+# missing payload left a restart-looping unit and a dark endpoint).
+#
+# These tests EXECUTE scripts/deploy-remote.sh's LLM handlers in a sandbox
+# (tests/deploy_sandbox.bash): every host touchpoint is a stub, the artifacts
+# are fixtures, and the assertions are exit status, the refusal on stderr,
+# and what the handler asked systemd to do. A handler that started the unit
+# before checking its artifacts would pass a text-grep seam and fail here.
+
+load helpers
+load deploy_sandbox
+
+setup() { sandbox_setup; }
+teardown() { sandbox_teardown; }
+
+@test "the dragoon handler refuses when the engine image is not in storage" {
+    export STUB_IMAGE=
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-dragoon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-dragoon: image:"*"not in podman storage"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the dragoon handler refuses a truncated checkpoint, pointing at the fetch" {
+    truncate -s 9 "$STAGE/models/ck.hgn"
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-dragoon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"checkpoint: is 9 bytes, expected 10"* ]]
+    # The refusal is only useful if it names the remedy: the fetch script
+    # re-verifies byte counts and hashes.
+    [[ "$output" == *"download-frank-dragoon-flashnext.sh"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the dragoon handler refuses a symlinked tokenizer file" {
+    # Snapshot layouts link their members into place, and the link dangles
+    # inside the container mount — only regular files are servable.
+    rm "$STAGE/models/tokenizer/vocab.json"
+    ln -s /nowhere/vocab.json "$STAGE/models/tokenizer/vocab.json"
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-dragoon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-dragoon: tokenizer: $STAGE/models/tokenizer/vocab.json is missing or a symlink"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the dragoon handler starts the unit once every artifact gate passes" {
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-dragoon
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    grep -q 'restart frank-dragoon.service' "$STAGE/systemctl.log"
+    grep -qx 'rm -f frank-dragoon frank-dragoon-halogen' "$STAGE/podman.log"
+}
+
+@test "the zealot handler refuses when the llama.cpp runtime is not executable" {
+    # The runtime is an operator-built binary; a tree that compiled but lost
+    # its exec bit must refuse exactly like a missing one.
+    rm "$STAGE/models/llama-server"
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-zealot
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot: runtime: missing at $STAGE/models/llama-server"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"cmake"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the zealot handler refuses a missing projector — a text-only endpoint is not deployable" {
+    # The projector IS the vision capability: deploying without it silently
+    # ships a text-only endpoint.
+    rm "$STAGE/models/mmproj.gguf"
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-zealot
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-zealot: mmproj: missing at $STAGE/models/mmproj.gguf"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the zealot handler starts the unit once every artifact gate passes" {
+    run_handler dankclaw frank-zealot
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    grep -q 'restart frank-zealot.service' "$STAGE/systemctl.log"
+}
+
+@test "the archon handler refuses when the radiance image is not in storage" {
+    export STUB_IMAGE=
+    run_handler dankserver frank-archon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-archon: image:"*"not in podman storage"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"podman pull"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the archon handler refuses a .rad below the env's size floor" {
+    truncate -s 1048576 "$STAGE/models/payload.rad"   # 1 MiB, far under the floor
+    archon_payload_env
+    export STUB_IMAGE="$ARCHON_IMAGE"
+    run_handler dankserver frank-archon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-archon: .rad: is 1 MiB, expected >= "* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"convert-swift15-w4dn8.sh"* ]]
+    [ "$(restarts_requested)" = "0" ]
+}
+
+@test "the archon handler clears the legacy container identities and relinks the unit" {
+    # The retired identities (the R9V container, the ad hoc probe, the glm
+    # experiment) hold the same GPUs, so a deploy that leaves one running
+    # leaves the new engine unable to bind. The unit link is the root-unit
+    # shape's whole install.
+    archon_payload_env 2
+    export STUB_IMAGE="$ARCHON_IMAGE"
+    run_handler dankserver frank-archon
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    grep -q 'restart frank-archon.service' "$STAGE/systemctl.log"
+    [ -L "$STAGE/systemd/frank-archon.service" ]
+    local ctr
+    for ctr in frank-archon frank-archon-qwen frank-archon-r9v qwen-fp8 glm-probe; do
+        grep -qx "rm -f $ctr" "$STAGE/podman.log"
+    done
+}
+
+@test "no LLM handler reports green when its unit has no MainPID behind the port" {
+    # The 2026-09-26 false green: a leftover probe held :7770 and satisfied
+    # the health curl while the real unit was stopped.
+    archon_payload_env 2
+    export STUB_IMAGE="$ARCHON_IMAGE"
+    export STUB_MAIN_PID=0
+    run_handler dankserver frank-archon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"frank-archon.service has no MainPID"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "a refused LLM handler leaves its service pending in the deploy state" {
+    export STUB_IMAGE=
+    run_handler dankserver frank-archon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    grep -q 'status=pending' "$STAGE/state/frank-archon"
+    [ ! -e "$STAGE/state/frank-zealot" ]
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats
+# Seam: the shared artifact gates every LLM endpoint runs before it starts.
+#
+# The rule these encode: a serve script and the deployer must refuse the
+# SAME missing/truncated artifact, and they must refuse it the same way.
+# Two hand-written copies of the same gates drift apart until a deploy
+# passes what the unit would refuse; the library is the one place the
+# refusal lives, and both callers source it.
+#
+# Everything here is observable: arguments in, exit status and stderr out.
+# Nothing inspects the library's internals.
+
+load helpers
+
+LIB="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/lib/llm-gates.sh"
+
+setup() {
+    TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
+    # A fixture with a known, independent size: 12 bytes.
+    printf '0123456789ab' > "$TMP/artifact.bin"
+    mkdir -p "$TMP/flat"
+    touch "$TMP/flat/tokenizer.json" "$TMP/flat/config.json"
+}
+
+teardown() {
+    rm -rf "$TMP"
+}
+
+# call <invocation> — run one gate in a fresh shell under `set -e`, exactly
+# as a serve script sources the library, and capture status + both streams.
+call() {
+    run env GATE_PREFIX="${GATE_PREFIX:-testgate}" PATH="$PATH" \
+        bash -c "set -euo pipefail; source '$LIB'; $1"
+}
+
+@test "a present artifact passes the file gate with no output" {
+    GATE_PREFIX=testgate call "require_file '$TMP/artifact.bin' checkpoint 'fetch it'"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -z "$output" ]
+}
+
+@test "an absent artifact fails the file gate naming the path and the remedy" {
+    call "require_file '$TMP/absent.bin' checkpoint 'run scripts/download-frank-archon-swift15.sh'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"checkpoint: missing"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"$TMP/absent.bin"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"run scripts/download-frank-archon-swift15.sh"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the file gate refuses a directory where an artifact is required" {
+    # The serve gate is `-f`, not `-e`: a directory named like the payload
+    # (an unpacked staging dir) must not boot the engine.
+    call "require_file '$TMP/flat' checkpoint 'fetch it'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"checkpoint"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "a symlinked artifact is refused: a HF snapshot link dangles in the container mount" {
+    ln -s "$TMP/artifact.bin" "$TMP/linked.bin"
+    call "require_file '$TMP/linked.bin' checkpoint 'fetch it'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"checkpoint"*"missing"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the byte gate accepts the exact contracted size" {
+    call "require_bytes '$TMP/artifact.bin' checkpoint 12 'fetch it'"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -z "$output" ]
+}
+
+@test "the byte gate refuses a size mismatch quoting both the real and the expected size" {
+    # The Hub's declared byte count is the contract; curl writes the error
+    # body and exits 0, so a truncation is invisible without this gate.
+    call "require_bytes '$TMP/artifact.bin' checkpoint 42 'run the fetch script'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"12 bytes"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"expected 42"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"run the fetch script"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the byte gate is an equality contract, not a floor" {
+    # A LARGER file is not a better artifact: it is a different artifact
+    # (the compacted r2 of a checkpoint is byte-exact, not "at least").
+    call "require_bytes '$TMP/artifact.bin' checkpoint 6 'fetch it'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"expected 6"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the minimum-size gate accepts the threshold itself" {
+    dd if=/dev/zero of="$TMP/two-mib.rad" bs=1048576 count=2 status=none
+    call "require_min_mib '$TMP/two-mib.rad' container 2 'rebuild it'"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -z "$output" ]
+}
+
+@test "the minimum-size gate refuses below the threshold naming both sizes" {
+    dd if=/dev/zero of="$TMP/one-mib.rad" bs=1048576 count=1 status=none
+    call "require_min_mib '$TMP/one-mib.rad' container 2 'rebuild it'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"1 MiB"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"2 MiB"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"rebuild it"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the flat-directory gate accepts a directory of regular files" {
+    call "require_dir_files '$TMP/flat' tokenizer 'fetch the tokenizer' tokenizer.json config.json"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -z "$output" ]
+}
+
+@test "the flat-directory gate names the member that is absent" {
+    call "require_dir_files '$TMP/flat' tokenizer 'fetch the tokenizer' tokenizer.json vocab.json"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tokenizer"*"missing"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"vocab.json"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the flat-directory gate refuses a symlinked member" {
+    # A HuggingFace cache snapshot's entries are symlinks into blobs/ and
+    # dangle inside the container mount even when the directory is real.
+    ln -s /nowhere/x "$TMP/flat/vocab.json"
+    call "require_dir_files '$TMP/flat' tokenizer 'fetch the tokenizer' tokenizer.json vocab.json"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"vocab.json"*"missing or a symlink"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the flat-directory gate refuses a missing directory" {
+    call "require_dir_files '$TMP/nope' tokenizer 'fetch the tokenizer' tokenizer.json"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tokenizer: missing"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the flat-directory gate refuses a symlinked directory" {
+    # The snapshot directory itself can be the link (a HF cache blobs/
+    # sibling), and a link into the container mount dangles there too.
+    ln -s "$TMP/flat" "$TMP/linked-dir"
+    call "require_dir_files '$TMP/linked-dir' tokenizer 'fetch the tokenizer' tokenizer.json"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tokenizer: missing"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "the image gate refuses a ref the storage does not hold" {
+    # A name@sha256 ref exists only if THAT manifest was pulled, so the
+    # gate is the ref itself — one command, no grep race.
+    skip_if_no_podman
+    call "require_image 'example.invalid/nothing@sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000' 'podman pull it'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"not in podman storage"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"podman pull it"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "every failure names the endpoint the operator is standing in front of" {
+    GATE_PREFIX=frank-dragoon call "require_file '$TMP/absent.bin' checkpoint 'fetch it'"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == frank-dragoon:* ]]
+}
+
+@test "a failing gate stops the caller from reaching the runtime" {
+    # The composition property that matters: the gate is not advisory. A
+    # serve script that calls it and then execs the engine must die first.
+    cat > "$TMP/serve-like.sh" <<EOF
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail
+source '$LIB'
+require_file '$TMP/absent.bin' checkpoint 'fetch it'
+echo RUNTIME-EXECUTED
+EOF
+    run bash "$TMP/serve-like.sh"
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" != *"RUNTIME-EXECUTED"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"checkpoint: missing"* ]]
+}
@@ -80,3 +80,38 @@ unit_repo_path() {
        }
    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name "frank-*.service" -type f | grep -v AGENTTRASH | sort)
 }
+
+@test "every LLM root unit is self-healing against a voluntary exit" {
+    # Restart=always, not on-failure. Every endpoint here is a container
+    # runner (podman run) or a server whose front end can exit 0 on a
+    # control-plane event; systemd treats exit 0 as a CLEAN stop and
+    # on-failure leaves the endpoint dark until the next boot, with the
+    # unit reporting success. No LLM unit may ship the weaker policy: a
+    # single endpoint on on-failure is a daemon that goes dark silently.
+    local unit
+    while IFS= read -r unit; do
+        grep -qx 'Restart=always' "$unit" || {
+            echo "$(basename "$unit"): $(grep '^Restart=' "$unit") (must be always)"
+            return 1
+        }
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name "frank-*.service" -type f | grep -v AGENTTRASH | sort)
+}
+
+@test "every LLM root unit restarts promptly and starts at boot" {
+    # RestartSec=10 is the fleet's cadence: fast enough that a transient
+    # fault is invisible to traffic, slow enough that a hard fault does not
+    # spin the engine (each radiance boot re-pins ~147 GiB).
+    # WantedBy=multi-user.target is boot persistence for a ROOT unit —
+    # default.target is the USER-manager's target and means nothing here.
+    local unit
+    while IFS= read -r unit; do
+        grep -qE '^RestartSec=([1-9]|1[0-9]|20)$' "$unit" || {
+            echo "$(basename "$unit"): no RestartSec in 1..20"
+            return 1
+        }
+        grep -qx 'WantedBy=multi-user.target' "$unit" || {
+            echo "$(basename "$unit"): $(grep '^WantedBy=' "$unit")"
+            return 1
+        }
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name "frank-*.service" -type f | grep -v AGENTTRASH | sort)
+}
@@ -112,11 +112,11 @@ GLUETUN="$REPO_ROOT/dankclaw/searxng/quadlet/gluetun.container"
    # Public edge: the vhost must proxy to the challenge proxy, not straight to the app.
    awk '
        /^marreta\.franksdank\.cloud \{/ { inblk=1 }
-        inblk && /reverse_proxy anubis:8923/ { challenge=1 }
+        inblk && /import guarded/ { challenge=1 }
        inblk && /^\}/ { inblk=0 }
        END { exit challenge ? 0 : 1 }
    ' "$REPO_ROOT/dankclaw/Caddyfile" \
-        || { echo "marreta vhost must reverse_proxy anubis:8923"; return 1; }
+        || { echo "marreta vhost must import the guarded chain (the one named Anubis snippet)"; return 1; }
 }

@test "the Caddyfile post-auth listener routes marreta to the published 8082" {
@@ -433,11 +433,14 @@ assert any('ALERTS' in e for e in exprs), exprs
    grep -q -- '--web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:9100' "$unit"
    grep -q -- '--web.listen-address=192.168.0.235:9100' "$unit"
    ! grep -qE -- '--web\.listen-address=(0\.0\.0\.0|:9100|\[::\])' "$unit"
-    # One owner per container name: the compose service must be gone, or two
-    # definitions fight over the same container.
-    ! grep -qE '^\s+node-exporter:' "$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/compose.yaml"
-    # The deploy path has to know about it on this target.
-    grep -q 'dankserver:node-exporter' "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-remote.sh"
+    # One owner per container name: Dankserver has no compose file at all
+    # since the 2026-10-13 retirement (it lived beside diverged quadlet
+    # mounts for weeks — the two-owners trap by construction).
+    [ ! -e "$REPO_ROOT/dankserver/compose.yaml" ]
+    # The deploy path has to know about it on this target — acceptance
+    # is the inventory (rank 3), not a literal list in the runner.
+    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host dankserver --service node-exporter
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-plan.py" --target dankserver \
        --paths dankserver/observability/quadlet/node-exporter.container
    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats
+# Seam: the service inventory (rank 3). shared/services.yml is the one
+# inventory of deployable services; scripts/service-map.py is its only
+# reader, and every consumer (deploy-plan.py, deploy-remote.sh's
+# allow-list, deploy.sh's --service gate, test-changed.sh's seam mapper,
+# the Pi-hole hosts render, the Prometheus scrape facts, the homepage
+# probes) goes through it. These tests pin the inventory's integrity,
+# the planner's selection against a captured fixture, and the rendered
+# artifacts' drift against the tracked copies.
+
+load helpers
+
+@test "inventory: schema, unit claims, path claims, compose ownership, and render drift are sound" {
+    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" check
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+}
+
+@test "inventory: the deployers' allow-list is the inventory" {
+    # Every service the inventory places on a host must pass "allows" for
+    # that host, and a name the inventory never places must be refused.
+    for host in dankclaw dankserver frankbook-pro; do
+        while IFS= read -r svc; do
+            [ -n "$svc" ] || continue
+            run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host "$host" --service "$svc"
+            [ "$status" -eq 0 ] || { echo "allows refused $host:$svc"; return 1; }
+        done < <(python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" services --host "$host")
+    done
+    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host dankserver --service sonarr
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]   # the *arr stack lives on frankbook-pro, not dankserver
+    run python3 "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/service-map.py" allows --host dankclaw --service frank-archon
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]   # frank-archon lives on dankserver
+}
+
+@test "inventory: the planner reproduces the pinned selection fixture" {
+    # tests/fixtures/service-plan-golden.tsv is the characterization of
+    # path -> service selection across every tracked path, every target,
+    # and the multi-path combos the old hand-written planner was fed.
+    python3 - "$REPO_ROOT" <<'PYEOF'
+import importlib.util
+import sys
+
+root = sys.argv[1]
+spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("sm", root + "/scripts/service-map.py")
+sm = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+spec.loader.exec_module(sm)
+inv = sm.Inventory.load(root + "/shared/services.yml")
+bad = []
+with open(root + "/tests/fixtures/service-plan-golden.tsv") as fh:
+    for line in fh:
+        host, paths, want = line.rstrip("\n").split("\t")
+        got = ",".join(sm.select(inv, host, paths.split("+")))
+        if got != want:
+            bad.append(f"{host}  {paths}\n  want: {want}\n  got:  {got}")
+if bad:
+    print(f"{len(bad)} selection mismatches:", *bad[:20], sep="\n")
+    sys.exit(1)
+PYEOF
+}
+
+@test "inventory: deploy-plan.py keeps its CLI contract on top of service-map" {
+    # stdin paths, positional paths, and the --repo/--base/--head diff mode
+    # all route to the same selection.
+    run bash -c "cd '$REPO_ROOT' && printf '%s\n' dankclaw/searxng/quadlet/gluetun.container | \
+        scripts/deploy-plan.py --target dankclaw"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ "${lines[0]}" = "gluetun" ]
+    run "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-plan.py" --target dankserver scripts/frank-archon.env
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ "${lines[0]}" = "frank-archon" ]
+    run "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/deploy-plan.py" --target dankclaw --repo "$REPO_ROOT" --base HEAD --head HEAD
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [ -z "$output" ]
+}
+
+@test "inventory: the Pi-hole hosts file is a rendered artifact" {
+    # The tracked addn-hosts must be byte-identical to the render; editing
+    # it by hand is drift the inventory check also catches.
+    run bash -c "cd '$REPO_ROOT' && python3 scripts/service-map.py render pihole-hosts | \
+        diff -u dankclaw/pihole/addn-hosts -"
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+}
+
+@test "inventory: changed-test seams for a service unit are the service's own" {
+    # The rank-3 contract: a unit change selects the OWNING service's
+    # declared seams, not the old shotgun of unrelated quadlet seams.
+    run bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/test-changed.sh" --list --paths dankclaw/gitea/quadlet/gitea.network
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/caddyfile.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" == *"tests/deployment_scoping.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" != *"tests/open_webui_quadlet.bats"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" != *"tests/searxng_quadlet.bats"* ]]
+}
+
+@test "inventory: every tracked quadlet unit is claimed by exactly one service" {
+    # check units covers claim conflicts; this pins the census size so a
+    # unit added WITHOUT an inventory entry (unclaimed) fails the seam.
+    python3 - "$REPO_ROOT" <<'PYEOF'
+import importlib.util
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from pathlib import PurePosixPath
+
+root = sys.argv[1]
+spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("sm", root + "/scripts/service-map.py")
+sm = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+spec.loader.exec_module(sm)
+inv = sm.Inventory.load(root + "/shared/services.yml")
+graph = sm.graph_for(tuple(inv.hosts))
+owned = {u for u in graph.units}
+problems = []
+tracked_units = [
+    p for p in sm.tracked_files()
+    if PurePosixPath(p).name.endswith((".container", ".network")) and not sm.is_trash(p)
+]
+for path in tracked_units:
+    parts = PurePosixPath(path).parts
+    name = parts[-1]
+    key = (parts[0], name.rsplit(".", 1)[0])
+    if key not in graph.units and key not in graph.networks:
+        problems.append(f"unclaimed unit-file path: {path}")
+if problems:
+    print("\n".join(problems))
+    sys.exit(1)
+PYEOF
+}
+
+@test "inventory: the node-exporter unit is a per-host rendered template" {
+    # Both quadlets are rendered artifacts: the render — not a hand-edited
+    # mirror kept in step by a comment — defines the unit on every host.
+    for host in dankclaw dankserver; do
+        run bash -c "cd '$REPO_ROOT' && python3 scripts/service-map.py render node-exporter-unit --host $host | \
+            diff -u $host/observability/quadlet/node-exporter.container -"
+        [ "$status" -eq 0 ] || { echo "$host unit drift"; return 1; }
+    done
+    # Hand-edited copies fail the drift gate:
+    grep -q "Keep this file in step" dankserver/observability/quadlet/node-exporter.container && return 1
+    true
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+exit 0
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub podman for the deploy-handler seam: `image exists` succeeds only for
+# $STUB_IMAGE (empty = nothing in storage); every other verb is a no-op.
+# The invocations are logged so a test can read what the handler executed.
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "${STUB_PODMAN_LOG:-/dev/null}"
+case "$1 $2" in
+    "image exists")
+        [[ -n "${STUB_IMAGE:-}" && "$3" == "$STUB_IMAGE" ]] || exit 1
+        ;;
+esac
+exit 0
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+exit 0
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+exit 0
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub sudo for the deploy-handler seam: run_privileged pipes the password
+# on stdin and calls `sudo -S -- <cmd>`. The stub drops the password and the
+# flags and execs the command, so no privilege gate hides a handler bug.
+cat >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; do
+    case "$1" in
+        -S|--prompt) shift ;;
+        --) shift; break ;;
+        *) break ;;
+    esac
+done
+exec "$@"
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub systemctl for the deploy-handler seam: every invocation is logged, so
+# a test asserts on what the handler ASKED systemd to do. `is-active` answers
+# "inactive" (the state a cutover finds the unit in) and MainPID answers
+# $STUB_MAIN_PID — 0 is the stray-port-holder shape, the false-green gate
+# every LLM handler reads after a health answer.
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "${STUB_SYSTEMCTL_LOG:-/dev/null}"
+case "$*" in
+    "is-active "*) echo inactive ;;
+    *"MainPID --value "*) echo "${STUB_MAIN_PID:-4242}" ;;
+esac
+exit 0
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Frank	d4ce76b68b	refact(comments): state the mechanism, not the incident Every comment that invoked a 'law' (50 word-boundary sites across 28 tracked files) now states what is going on and why, in terms that transfer to any project: gate twins drift until one side greenlights what the other refuses; a tag re-points while a digest pins; a restrictive engine behavior belongs to the runtime that imposed it and must be re-tested, not inherited; a speculative head is tensors in the file, not a flag; snapshot links dangle where the container resolves them; exit 0 is a clean stop to systemd, so a self-exiting daemon on on-failure goes dark reporting success. Event narratives and dates are gone from these comments; the mechanics carry the argument. Behavior-identical: bash -n, py_compile, yaml parse, full bats suite 408/408 green. One symbol rename rides along (stack script local scale_law -> scale_contract, with its log text).	2026-10-14 13:36:40 -07:00
Frank	65bd5ccea7	feat(rank6): node-exporter renders from a template; guard chain is one snippet - service-map render node-exporter-unit --host H: the MIRROR pair comment ('keep this file in step') becomes a template. Per-host title, LAN address from the hosts map, port from the node-<host> scrape job. Both tracked quadlets are now rendered artifacts; check_drift gates them. - dankclaw/Caddyfile: the nine verbatim Anubis pre-auth chains (reverse_proxy anubis:8923 + X-Real-Ip) collapse into the (guarded) named snippet; guarded vhosts are 'import guarded'. Validated with real caddy 2.11.7 (import resolution clean; the stock image stops at the porkbun module and the git basicauth placeholder, as designed). - vhost-scoped guard greps (authentik, homepage_caddy, marreta_quadlet) now pin 'import guarded' in the vhost block. - Service Inventory + Authentik docs carry the new laws.	2026-10-13 22:40:50 -07:00
Frank	5976ad0550	refact(docs): compose-era sweeps retire with the last compose file rank 7 tail. dankserver/compose.yaml (a parallel inventory whose mounts had diverged from the quadlets) and its .env.example live in dankserver/.AGENTTRASH/20261013-compose-retire/; the retired ik chat template joined scripts/.AGENTTRASH/. No target has a compose file now: - service-map drops the compose selection rule, compose file claim, and check_compose (the check list is schema/units/ownership/config/drift); - deploy-remote's compose fallback is a loud failure, not a WARN-and- nothing for dankserver; - compose_validity.bats goes to tests/.AGENTTRASH (it was sweeping only the trash file); env_consistency sheds its two compose sweeps; - docs_completeness's compose sweep skips .AGENTTRASH so retired services cannot resurrect, and a revived compose stays covered; - Testing Policy drops the Compose validity row.	2026-10-13 22:35:28 -07:00
Frank	5ae6b7b928	refact(deploy-remote): shared root-unit start, config copy, retire helpers rank 5. The three LLM handlers duplicated the same tail (relink, daemon-reload, enable, restart, /health gate, MainPID port proof) -> start_root_unit SERVICE PORT LIMIT; frank-archon's bespoke 900-iteration loop was exactly wait_for_health at limit 900. copy_config DEST SRC... replaces five hand-rolled mkdir+cp pairs (loki, alloy, grafana x2); retire_unit_file PATH TRASH [UNIT] replaces the duplicated compose-era unit retirements (halogen dragoon quadlet, comfyui.service). The health grep seam now pins the per-endpoint call (start_root_unit frank-dragoon 7770).	2026-10-13 22:35:12 -07:00
Frank	cc0bc06288	fix(pihole): addn-hosts renders no inline comments dnsmasq strips ONLY whole-line comments in addn-hosts: a trailing '# service' on a data line becomes a hostname token. The inventory's Pi-hole renderer now emits pure IP-name lines (attribution lives in the inventory) and the tracked file is re-rendered to match; pihole.bats line-validity seams are green on the rendered artifact.	2026-10-13 22:35:12 -07:00
Frank	bdead570e2	feat(inventory): one service inventory drives planner, allow-lists, and seams rank 3. shared/services.yml is the single source of truth for every deployable service (hosts, unit dirs, units, path claims, tests, scrape/ dns/probe facts, aliases, stacks); scripts/service-map.py is its only reader (hosts/services/allows/plan/seams/owner/units/stack/get/render/ check). deploy-plan.py becomes a thin CLI wrapper; both --service allow-lists (deploy.sh, deploy-remote.sh) and the changed-test mapper are the inventory. Selection semantics: host scoping (a host's tree selects only its own services), the quadlet netns/network coupling graph resolved across directories (gluetun's riders live in their own dirs), stacks, and canonical restart order. Against the pinned old-planner fixture: 921 raw deltas reduced to 17, all intentional (anubis now maps; cross-host paths select nothing; the retired qwen-sharp template plans nothing and the live froggeric template plans frank-archon; dankserver/romm/romm.container, missed by the old filename rule, plans the romm trio). The fixture is regenerated as the new pin. Integrity gates: schema, unit claims, quadlet-file ownership, path-glob liveness, Pi-hole hosts / Prometheus jobs / DNS / homepage probes drift. tests/service_inventory.bats pins all of it plus the plan fixture and the deploy-plan CLI. Allow-list grep seams in hermes_webui/observability_quadlet become behavioral allows calls.	2026-10-13 22:35:07 -07:00
Frank	156ea71879	fix(fleet): every LLM root unit restarts on a voluntary exit; parity seam gates it frank-zealot shipped Restart=on-failure while its two siblings shipped always. exit 0 is a CLEAN stop to systemd: on-failure leaves the endpoint dark and the unit GREEN until the next boot — and frank-zealot is the compaction hub for all three endpoints, so its quiet death degrades every conversation in the fleet. tests/llm_units.bats gains the fleet parity seam (Restart=always, RestartSec 1..20, WantedBy=multi-user.target across scripts/frank-*.service); the per-unit seams drop their weaker Restart greps so the policy lives in one place. Runbook unit line updated.	2026-10-13 22:04:48 -07:00
Frank	ab80c1366d	refact(deployer): one MainPID gate for all three LLM endpoints frank-dragoon's health gate never checked WHO answered :7770 — the false-green the fleet learned about on 2026-09-26 (a stray probe holding the port satisfies a bare curl while the unit is stopped). The other two handlers carried that check as inlined copies; all three now call assert_unit_owns_port, and dragoon gets the protection it was missing. The seam follows: the endpoints' text-grep deployer tests are deleted, because tests/llm_deploy_gates.bats EXECUTES the same handlers end to end (stub systemctl/podman/sudo/ss/curl) and asserts refusals, restarts, unit links, the pending marker, and the MainPID hardening. GATE_PREFIX is exported at each handler for the same reason the serve scripts export it.	2026-10-13 22:02:48 -07:00
Frank	c5a816e6a8	refact(deployer): the LLM handlers gate through the shared library deploy_llm_dragoon/zealot/arkon now call require_image / require_bytes / require_min_mib / require_file / require_dir_files, so the deployer and the serve scripts refuse the same missing payload with the same words — the 2026-10-01 crash-loop law, enforced by construction instead of by duplicated shell. require_exec joins the library for the native-runtime gate (a compiled tree that lost its +x refuses like a missing one). relink_unit takes SYSTEMD_SYSTEM_DIR so a handler can be driven end to end in a sandbox. The library's own refusals now carry their status: a bash function that ends inside an if returns the CONDITION's status, so a gate whose last statement is its refusal printed the message and returned SUCCESS — the new seam caught it, and the gate tests pin it. New seam tests/llm_deploy_gates.bash + tests/stubs/: deploy-remote.sh's LLM handlers EXECUTED against stub systemctl/podman/sudo/ss/curl, asserting exit status, refusal text, no restart, and the pending state marker.	2026-10-13 21:58:13 -07:00
Frank	cb25796a6b	refact(frank-archon): serve gates run on the shared library; the serve seam is behavioural The image/.rad/template gates are require_image/require_min_mib/require_file, and the gates an operator can only reach on the host (GPU nodes, the ttm pages cap, the run line) are now drivable: FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_KFD, FRANK_ARCHON_DEV_DRI, FRANK_ARCHON_TTM_SYSFS and FRANK_ARCHON_LOG default to the production paths. Seven new seam tests EXECUTE the serve script against fixtures (stub podman, stub nodes, stub sysfs, temp payload) and assert exit status, the refusal words and the engine argv. The old text-grep gate test is deleted: it pinned the words of the source, not the behaviour.	2026-10-13 21:44:38 -07:00
Frank	f31e7c5ed8	refact(frank-zealot): serve gates run on the shared gate library The three -e gates (runtime, GGUF, mmproj) are require_file calls: the refusal now names the artifact class, the exact path and the script that produces it. The seam asserts that observable triple instead of the old sentence order.	2026-10-13 21:41:18 -07:00
Frank	028afdeb58	refact(frank-dragoon): serve gates run on the shared gate library The hand-written image/ck/tokenizer gates are require_image, require_bytes and require_dir_files from scripts/lib/llm-gates.sh. The serve seam is unchanged and still green (its podman stub now models `podman image exists`, the primitive the gate uses). Behaviour preserved: every refusal names the artifact, the endpoint and the fetch script.	2026-10-13 21:40:02 -07:00
Frank	acf2a5cee5	feat(scripts): one artifact-gate library for the LLM endpoints The serve scripts and the deployer each hand-wrote the same missing/truncated artifact gates; the 2026-10-01 crash-loop was those twins disagreeing mid-cutover. scripts/lib/llm-gates.sh is the single place the refusal lives: require_file / require_bytes / require_min_mib / require_dir_files / require_image, each returning 1 and naming the endpoint, the artifact and the remedy. New seam tests/llm_gates.bats pins the contract at the arguments-in / status-and-stderr-out boundary.	2026-10-13 21:38:50 -07:00