Frank
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A 17-hour calibration tap on 2026-10-29/30 wrote ZERO bytes: the runner booted FRANK_ARCHON_IMAGE (1.8.1) for every mode, and RADIANCE_CALIB_DIR/TOKENS only arms the expert tap on the 1.2.x line. 1.8.1 still carries the plugin strings and the "calibration wrote layer Hessians" message, /health answered, /stats showed 1,700 documents and 118 tok/s, and nothing anywhere said the tap was dead. Four gates, each with the measurement that motivated it: - CALIB_IMAGE pins the 1.2.0 digest for calib mode (stilldeadcode/radiance @sha256:665775ed…), overridable only by naming --image deliberately. Proven by the engagement test: `calibration wrote layer Hessians after 10207 tokens`. - The tap dir's filesystem must have >= 60 GiB free (Q38_CALIB_MIN_FREE_MIB). One seal wrote 39.4 GiB in seconds; pointed at a 37 GiB root it filled the filesystem to zero and every later write came back short. - restore() kills orphaned `radiance` processes still holding /dev/kfd before it starts the service. `podman rm -f` does not kill the engine: an orphan made production's ar_oneshot_2rank_wht6 init fail `device error`, and the unit restarted 100 times with /health never answering. - FRANK_QWEN38_CALIB_DIR / Q38_WINDOW_TRASH_ROOT make the tap dir and the bank target configurable, so the tap lives on /mnt/entropy instead of the root fs.
Server App Configs
AI Disclosures:
- Slop rating: 2/5 - Actively using, actively de-slopping, repository mostly human owned, lacks formal process.
- Completeness: Unfinished, planning planned, no plan yet
- Datacenter model/spend: Less than $20 of Deepseek 4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash
- Local model: Qwen 3.8 Flash Next
slop rating of 2 or lower indicates human reading is a worthwhile exercise, and that Frank has read the code and knows the architecture.
slop rating of 2 indicates that while this project is human owned, no human contribution process exists and/or release is agentically driven.
The single repository for the two homelab servers: the Podman container stacks and the LLM inference fleet. One repo, one checkout per host, one deploy script.
2026-08-22: the former
vllmScriptsrepository (LLM fleet) is merged into this repo with its full git history. See AGENTS.md for the merge note.
Targets
| Host | User | IP | Podman stack | LLM service | LLM port |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dankserver | dank | 192.168.0.235 | media and library | frank-medium (ROCmFPX llama.cpp, Qwen3.8-27B AGENT) | 7770 |
| dankclaw | dank | 192.168.0.143 | AI, search, development, observability | frank-dragoon (gufo, Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q8_K_XL) | 7770 |
Active Services
| Service | Host | Hostname | Port |
|---|---|---|---|
| RomM | dankserver | romm.dankserver.local | 8085 |
| Copyparty | dankserver | files.dankserver.local | 3923 |
| Calibre-Web | dankserver | books.dankserver.local | 8083 |
| frank-medium | dankserver | — (bare endpoint) | 7770 |
| SearXNG | dankclaw | search.dankclaw.local | 8081 |
| ComfyUI | dankclaw | comfyui.dankclaw.local | 8188 |
| OpenWebUI | dankclaw | chat.dankclaw.local | 3000 |
| Hermes | dankclaw | hermes.dankclaw.local | 8090 |
| Gitea | dankclaw | gitea.dankclaw.local | 3001 |
| Grafana | dankclaw | grafana.dankclaw.local | 3002 |
| Prometheus | dankclaw | prometheus.dankclaw.local | 9090 |
| frank-dragoon | dankclaw | — (bare endpoint) | 7770 |
Structure
dankserver/— compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankserver stackdankclaw/— compose.yaml + Caddyfile + .env.example for the Dankclaw stackshared/— homepage, prometheus config, deploy helpersscripts/—deploy.shanddeploy-remote.sh(service-scoped deployment), the planner, LLM serve scripts, systemd units, env tunables, and bench harnessesold/— retired PP/NPU-era LLM scripts (reference only)serverAppConfigs-docs/— project knowledge base (Obsidian vault, wikilinks).serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/is the LLM fleettests/— bats test suite (see Testing Policy)
Deployment
See serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Deployment Flow.md
and serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/deployment.md. Run
./scripts/deploy.sh <dankclaw|dankserver> after committing changes. It
plans and deploys only the changed services. Use --service NAME for an
explicit single-service retry; inference is restarted only when its own files
(or the shared chat template) changed.
Knowledge Base
The serverAppConfigs-docs/ directory is an Obsidian vault. Start at
serverAppConfigs-docs/index.md. The LLM fleet knowledge base lives at
serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/index.md.
Testing
Run ./tests/run.sh before every push. See
serverAppConfigs-docs/Architecture/Testing Policy.md.