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The vault was 155 pages / 31,210 lines, most of it measurement ledgers for payloads that no longer run. A throughput figure for a runtime nobody operates is not a record: AI moves faster than the vault, so the number is wrong before anyone reads it, and a wrong number in a runbook gets believed. Per the new purpose test in `AGENTS.md` → *Documentation Policy*, it is destroyed. Gone (`.AGENTTRASH/20261019-destruction/`, KILL-LIST.txt is the manifest): - the `frank-medium` endpoint and its five era pages, `frank-npu`, FastFlowLM, the ikllama/kingjones/dealign/frank-redo eras, the ling/swift15/freetoken/ubatch campaign pages, qwen3.8 spec-matrix and strix-optimizations, the two "Running Qwen3.6 …" pages; - the whole `Pipeline Parallelism/` folder (no live script passes a pipeline flag) and the multi-device/x4-pair/hybrid/offload experiment pages; - every vLLM page — no vLLM endpoint exists on this fleet; - `LLM/deployment.md` (`Architecture/Deployment Flow.md` is the test-referenced owner) and the external surveys (SGLang, Lemonade, llama.cpp forks/diff, self-hosted app census, the TTS survey) that were obsolete by construction; - `log.md`, 2,380 lines. Git holds the chronology; a causal law belongs to the page that owns the thing it governs, never to a diary. Survivors: 101 pages, 17,542 lines, 0 OKF violations, 0 unresolved links. Eras tables keep the window, payload, runtime, reason and rollback pointer; the rate columns are blanked. The live shapes stay verbatim — those numbers are what the deployer and `models.yml` consume.
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type: reference
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title: Prowlarr
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description: "Indexer management for the *arr stack: feed routes, the sync model, the API surface, and verified live gotchas."
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tags: [prowlarr, arr-stack, frankbook-pro]
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timestamp: 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z
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---
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# Prowlarr
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Prowlarr is the indexer management layer for the *arr stack. It hosts the
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indexer definitions and exposes them as Torznab feeds and downloads;
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Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, and Readarr query those feeds and receive results.
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**Host:** FrankBook-Pro (podman machine) — **Access:** direct port `9696` (no
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reverse-proxy vhost; the *arr stack is exempt by construction from the Anubis
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guard chain) — **Docs:** https://wiki.servarr.com/prowlarr
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## Facts
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| Item | Value |
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|------|-------|
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| Image | `lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:latest` (runs v2.5.2 line) |
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| Port | 9696 (host) → 9696 (container) |
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| Env | `PUID=0`, `PGID=0`, `TZ=America/Los_Angeles`, `UMASK_SET=022` |
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| Config root | `/Volumes/COMPLETE/prowlarr-data:/config` |
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| Min RAM | 256 MB |
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| Auth | Forms (web UI) + API key (`/api/v1/...` and feed routes) |
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## Deployment (current)
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Quadlet unit `prowlarr.container` from this repo
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(`frankbook-pro/prowlarr/quadlet/`), installed inside the podman machine at
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`/home/core/.config/containers/systemd/prowlarr.service` by the frankbook-pro
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handler in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`:
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```ini
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[Container]
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ContainerName=prowlarr
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Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:latest
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Environment=PUID=0
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Environment=PGID=0
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Environment=TZ=America/Los_Angeles
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Environment=UMASK_SET=022
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Volume=/Volumes/COMPLETE/prowlarr-data:/config
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PublishPort=9696:9696
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[Service]
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TimeoutStartSec=900
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Restart=always
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```
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## Live wiring (verified end-to-end 2026-08-30)
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Indexer queries flow **through** Prowlarr; a grab hands off to the querying
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app's own qBittorrent download client. Feeds are per-indexer:
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```
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http://prowlarr:9696/{indexerId}/api?apikey={GLOBAL_KEY}&t=caps|search|tvsearch|movie|music|book&...
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http://prowlarr:9696/{indexerId}/download?link=...&file=... (torrent handoff)
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```
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| App | Indexer row | Prowlarr id | Categories | Status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Radarr | Prowlarr-YTS | 7 | [2000] | ✅ grabbed + imported 2160p Dark Knight 2026-08-30 |
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| Sonarr | Prowlarr-Nyaa | 4 | [5000] | ✅ connection validated (202) |
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| Lidarr | Prowlarr-Nyaa | 4 | [3000] | ✅ connection validated (202) |
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| Readarr | Prowlarr-Byrutor | 3 | [7000] | indexer valid; download client parked |
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The global API key is in `config.xml` (`<ApiKey>`); per-application keys are
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only used by Prowlarr's own sync calls, NOT by the feeds. The arr download
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clients authenticate to qBittorrent with the permanent WebUI password stored
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in `/home/dank/.qbpass` (mode 600, owner `dank`) on Dankserver —
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[[qBittorrent]] for why that password must be pinned in the conf file.
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**Readarr caveat:** Readarr is abandoned upstream; its qBittorrent client
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cannot authenticate against newer qB Web-API versions (`Authentication
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failure` on the connection test while Sonarr/Lidarr/Radarr pass with the same
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credentials — root cause: qB ≥ 5's 204 empty-body login success, fixed fleet-
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wide by pinning qB to 4.6.7). The books pipeline is parked pending a Readarr
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successor; the indexer row itself is healthy.
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## Gotchas (verified live 2026-08-30)
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- **The feed route is `/{indexerId}/api`.** There is no `/torznab/{id}/feed`
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— that path (and any other unmatched path) hits the Forms-auth catch-all
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and gets `302 → /login?returnUrl=…`. An arr following the redirect parses
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the login HTML and fails with a cryptic
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`'/' is an unexpected token … Line 54` XML error that looks like an auth
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problem. It is a path typo. Source: `NewznabController`
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(`[HttpGet("{id:int}/api")]` + absolute
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`/api/v1/indexer/{id}/newznab`).
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- **The arr's Torznab joiner is `TrimEnd(baseUrl,'/') + apiPath` with NO
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separator.** `baseUrl="…/7/" + apiPath="api"` silently becomes `…/7api`.
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Either keep the leading slash on `apiPath` (`"/api"`) or end the baseUrl
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with `/api`.
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- Categories in the indexer row must be a subset of what the feed's `caps`
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advertises; extras log "does not support the following categories" and
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some feeds reject them.
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- **A freshly created indexer row defaults to all-off.** If `enableRss`
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`enableAutomaticSearch`, or `enableInteractiveSearch` aren't set, the
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app logs `Searching indexers for [X]. 0 active indexers` (Lidarr,
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verified). Search proves TV + music chains 2026-08-30: Sonarr returned
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76 live releases for an anime term, Lidarr 18 for YOASOBI – THE BOOK,
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all via the Prowlarr-Nyaa feed.
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- The v1 API collection is `/api/v1/applications` (not `/api/v1/app`)
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GET responses carry `fields: []` — real settings values live in
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`prowlarr.db` → `Applications.Settings` JSON (read-only inspection).
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- Instance name/`InstanceName=Prowlarr` in `config.xml` does NOT prefix the
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API/feed routes on this build (they answer at root; the `/Prowlarr/...`
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prefix 302s to the SPA).
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- **Application auto-sync model (v2):** Applications are first-class rows in
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the `Applications` table; each of the four app rows (sonarr/radarr/lidarr/
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readarr) carries the real baseUrl+apiKey with `SyncLevel=FullSync`. The
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earlier v1-era failure where `POST /api/v1/applications/test` threw
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`Unable to cast object of type 'NzbDrone.Core.Thing…'` (v1 could not
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deserialize Radarr 6.3's newer response types) is historical — it was the
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reason the manual Torznab rows were created in the first place.
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- Prowlarr runs `AuthenticationMethod=Forms` + `AuthenticationRequired=Enabled`
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healthily — the DryIoc crash combo was `None`+`Enabled` only (see
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[[radarr]] auth notes).
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## See Also
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- [[ARR-Stack]] — full *arr stack documentation
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- [[Radarr]] · [[Sonarr]] · [[Lidarr]] · [[Readarr]] · [[qBittorrent]]
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