feat(security): commit-time secret guard that FAILS the build on a committed credential

The 2026-09-17 purge removed six live credentials that had sat in this repo
for weeks, several in .md prose. Nothing blocked that class of commit, so a
warning in a stream nobody reads was the only signal. This adds a guard that
fails the build instead of warning.

Guard
- scripts/secret-scan.sh: bash + coreutils + grep/sed/awk + git only (the Gitea
  Actions runner executes job steps inside the runner container — BusyBox grep,
  no node/python). Modes: --tree (git-tracked, default), --path DIR (no git),
  --staged (pre-commit), --diff REF. Exit 1 on a finding, 2 on config error.
- scripts/secret-patterns.tsv: checked-in pattern list — sk-, sk-or-v1-,
  sk_live_, literal Bearer tokens, PVEAPIToken=, raw Authorization values, PEM
  private-key blocks, prose credential lines, and password/api_key/secret/token
  assignments carrying a literal value. Prose is scanned exactly like code.
- scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv: one entry per deliberate synthetic example, each
  with a reason. A missing reason is a hard error (fail closed). The 2026-09-17
  purge's `«vault: ...»` placeholders are listed explicitly rather than filtered
  by a general "vault"/"synthetic" rule, so a new occurrence still needs a
  reviewed, reasoned entry.
- A small inert-value classifier drops env refs, paths, dotted code access,
  variable names and right-truncated redactions; it does not know the words
  "synthetic"/"example", so a fabrication is always an explicit exception.
- Findings are printed with the credential masked; a scan never echoes a full
  secret into the log.

Wiring
- .gitea/workflows/pr-pipeline.yaml lint job: explicit "Committed-credential
  scan" step plus the self-test. A finding fails the required
  `pr-pipeline / lint` context, which the merge gate depends on.
- scripts/prose-lint.sh (the local gate): a "Secret scan" section, so
  `bash scripts/prose-lint.sh` before pushing is equivalent to CI.

Tests
- tests/test_secret_scan.sh: 20 cases. Plants pattern-matching fixtures in temp
  trees (outside every allowlisted path) and asserts the guard FAILS, including
  the --staged commit-time path; asserts the tree is quiet; asserts allowlisted
  text at an unlisted path still fails (path-explicit, not word-based); asserts
  a reasonless allowlist entry exits 2.

Verified: guard run against 8245716^ (the pre-fix revision, before the purge)
fails on the real OpenRouter/LiteLLM/Zulip/Proxmox/Stirling credentials; guard
run over the current tree is clean.

.gitea/workflows/pr-pipeline.yaml

@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
 name: PR Pipeline — Authorize → Validate → Review → Merge
+# TRIGGER IS INTENTIONALLY UNFILTERED — DO NOT RE-ADD A `paths:` FILTER.
+#
+# This workflow previously carried `paths: ['**.prose.md', 'scripts/**.sh',
+# '**.yaml', '**.yml']` on both `push` and `pull_request`. Any PR whose diff
+# touched none of those patterns (for example a `deliverables/`-only PR, or a
+# `scripts/*.py` / `bin/*` change) therefore produced NO Gitea Actions run at
+# all: validation, lint, ai-review and the merge gate were silently skipped.
+# Validation must run for every pull request and every push to master, so the
+# trigger is deliberately unconditional.
 on:
   push:
     branches: [master]
-    paths:
-      - '**.prose.md'
-      - 'scripts/**.sh'
-      - '**.yaml'
-      - '**.yml'
   pull_request:
     types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-    paths:
-      - '**.prose.md'
-      - 'scripts/**.sh'
-      - '**.yaml'
-      - '**.yml'
 
 jobs:
   auth:
@@ -43,17 +42,21 @@ jobs:
           echo "=== Prose Contract Frontmatter Validation ==="
           FAILED=0
           for f in $(find . -name "*.prose.md" -not -path "./.git/*" -not -path "./runs/*"); do
+            # NOTE: use herestrings, not `echo "$FM" | grep ...`. Under the runner's
+            # `-e -o pipefail`, `grep -q` exits on first match and can SIGPIPE the
+            # producer, making the pipeline report non-zero and raising a false
+            # "Missing name/description" whose file set varies run to run.
             FM=$(sed -n '/^---$/,/^---$/p' "$f" | sed '1d;$d')
             [ -z "$FM" ] && { echo "  ❌ $f: No YAML frontmatter"; FAILED=$((FAILED+1)); continue; }
 
-            KIND=$(echo "$FM" | grep '^kind:' | awk '{print $2}')
+            KIND=$(grep '^kind:' <<< "$FM" | awk '{print $2}')
             case "$KIND" in
               function|responsibility|gateway|pattern|test|template|architecture|enforcement) echo "  ✅ $f: kind=$KIND" ;;
               *) echo "  ❌ $f: Invalid kind='$KIND'"; FAILED=$((FAILED+1)) ;;
             esac
 
-            echo "$FM" | grep -q '^name:' || { echo "  ❌ $f: Missing name"; FAILED=$((FAILED+1)); }
-            echo "$FM" | grep -q '^description:' || { echo "  ❌ $f: Missing description"; FAILED=$((FAILED+1)); }
+            grep -q '^name:' <<< "$FM" || { echo "  ❌ $f: Missing name"; FAILED=$((FAILED+1)); }
+            grep -q '^description:' <<< "$FM" || { echo "  ❌ $f: Missing description"; FAILED=$((FAILED+1)); }
           done
           [ $FAILED -gt 0 ] && { echo "❌ FRONTMATTER FAILED ($FAILED error(s))"; exit 1; }
           echo "✅ Frontmatter validation passed"
@@ -68,6 +71,18 @@ jobs:
           git fetch origin "${{ gitea.ref }}" --depth=50
           git checkout "${{ gitea.sha }}"
 
+      - name: Committed-credential scan (secret guard)
+        run: |
+          # Fails the build on a credential-shaped string in the tree. Patterns
+          # live in scripts/secret-patterns.tsv; the only tolerated literal
+          # examples are in scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv, each with a reason.
+          # Do not turn this into a warning: a warning in a stream nobody reads
+          # is how six live credentials sat in this repo for weeks.
+          bash scripts/secret-scan.sh
+
+      - name: Secret guard self-test
+        run: bash tests/test_secret_scan.sh
+
       - name: Structure + regression + consistency lint
         run: bash scripts/prose-lint.sh
 

.gitignore

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 __pycache__/
+state/host-disk-bands.json

AGENTS.md

@@ -51,11 +51,17 @@ Two incidents taught us this:
   - `/grafana/` nginx route — was reverted Jul 2, must not reappear
   - `CT 122` or `CT 123` as CT ID labels — don't exist in the cluster
   - These rules are hardcoded in `scripts/prose-lint.sh`
+- **Committed-credential guard:** `scripts/secret-scan.sh` FAILS the build on
+  credential-shaped strings (patterns in `scripts/secret-patterns.tsv`, prose
+  included). Tolerated literals are listed one-per-example with a reason in
+  `scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv`; never allowlist a live credential. It runs in
+  the CI lint job, in `scripts/prose-lint.sh`, and via
+  `bash scripts/secret-scan.sh --staged` before committing.
 
 ### Stage 3 — AI Review
 - Diff is sent to `syslog-auto` model via LiteLLM
 - Review checks against infrastructure-control ground truth:
-  - CT IDs match PVE cluster (100-117, no 122/123)
+  - CT IDs match the PVE cluster inventory in `infrastructure-control.prose.md` Appendix B (100-120 with gaps; no 122/123)
   - Grafana is direct LAN :3001, NOT behind nginx
   - Zulip is CT 117 on storepve (bridge IP .19)
   - Strix Halo :8080 is firewalled to .116 only
@@ -67,10 +73,10 @@ Two incidents taught us this:
 
 | Contract | Sensitivity | Who can change |
 |----------|------------|----------------|
-| `infrastructure-control.prose.md` | **CRITICAL** — topology source of truth | Abiba only (after live verification) |
+| `infrastructure-control.prose.md` | **CRITICAL** — topology source of truth | Abiba, Tanko (Tanko maintains its own CT row) |
 | `proxmox-monitor.prose.md` | **CRITICAL** — deployed monitoring | Abiba only |
 | `hermes-config-template.prose.md` | **HIGH** — all agent configs | Abiba, Mumuni, Tanko |
-| `zulip-health.prose.md` | **HIGH** — agent communication | Abiba, Mumuni |
+| `zulip-health.prose.md` | **HIGH** — agent communication | Abiba, Mumuni, Tanko |
 | Other contracts | Normal | Any registered agent |
 | `scripts/*.sh` | **HIGH** — runtime scripts | Abiba only |
 

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-AGENTS.md

CLAUDE.md

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<!-- Points Claude at AGENTS.md via import; edit AGENTS.md, not this file. -->
+@AGENTS.md

README.md

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ An agent ran `pct set` without checking `pct config` first and changed the IP
 to the wrong value, breaking Zulip. The staleness was harmless until acted on.
 
 **Layer 3 enforcement — the `safe-mutate` wrapper** (deployed on all 5 agents:
-Abiba, Tanko, Mumuni, Koby, Koonimo). ALL infrastructure mutations MUST go
+Abiba, Tanko, Mumuni, Koby, Koonimo — Tanko runs on DSH/DeepSeek Harness since
+2026-08-27 but safe-mutate enforcement still applies). ALL infrastructure mutations MUST go
 through `safe-mutate`. Raw `sed -i`, `pct set`, `docker compose up
 --force-recreate`, `kill`, `rm` on infrastructure outside `safe-mutate` is an
 auditable protocol violation. The wrapper runs a verify command, optionally
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ prose run memory-audit-maintenance memory_threshold=90 verify_configs=true
 prose run hermes-config-template agent_name=syslog-devops default_model=claude-sonnet-4
 
 # Configure an agent with a different auxiliary model
-prose run hermes-config-template agent_name=syslog-code default_model=qwen3.6-27B-code auxiliary_model=gemma-4-12b
+prose run hermes-config-template agent_name=syslog-code default_model=gpu-dense auxiliary_model=gpu-vision
 ```
 
 ### Option B: Manual Execution
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ Run on trigger or schedule. Maintain persistent world-model state across runs.
 | `zulip-health` | Zulip | Checks Zulip connectivity, message flow, and bot responsiveness. |
 | `zulip-mention-reliability` | Zulip | Diagnoses and fixes @mention detection issues in Zulip. |
 | `zulip-approval-fix` | Zulip | Fixes broken /approve and /deny slash commands for Hermes agents. |
-| `litellm-self-heal` | LiteLLM | Consolidated health check + self-healing for the full nginx → LiteLLM → GPU chain. Verifies 8 containers, 3 GPUs, model inference, and agent keys. Applies 9 remediation rules. (litellm-health merged into this contract 2026-07-09.) |
+| `litellm-self-heal` | LiteLLM | Applies remediation rules for LiteLLM stack failures detected by `litellm-health` (full nginx → LiteLLM → GPU chain). 9 remediation rules. |
 | `gpu-fleet` | GPU | Manages the GPU inference fleet: model deployment, registration, health checks, LiteLLM sync. |
 | `gpu-monitor` | GPU | Comprehensive GPU fleet monitor — polls sidecars, router, LiteLLM every 15s, renders SSE dashboard. |
 | `proxmox-monitor` | Infra | Proxmox cluster + Docker monitoring via the existing Grafana/Prometheus stack on CT 116. |
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ Called on-demand as single-render tools.
 | Contract | Description |
 |---|---|
 | `litellm-api-keys` | Manages LiteLLM API keys for agent identity. Create, rotate, verify, and list agent keys. References gpu-fleet for current key inventory. |
-| `litellm-health` | ⚠️ **DEPRECATED** — consolidated into `litellm-self-heal` (2026-07-09). Retained for reference only. |
+| `litellm-health` | LiteLLM health check: public vs backend surfaces, CT 116 containers, GPU fleet, one model per GPU host, and agent keys. Owner of the probes; `litellm-self-heal` owns remediation. |
 | `infrastructure-monitoring` | Target-state for Prometheus + GPU exporters + Grafana. Core stack deployed, GPU exporters NOT live. |
 | `stirling-pdf-agent-access` | Documents the Stirling-PDF API access pattern for agents — global API key, 12 operations, curl examples. Agents use the `stirling-pdf-api` shared skill for templates. |
 | `hello-world` | Minimal test contract — verifies the OpenProse execution pipeline works. |
@@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ Companion shell scripts that contracts delegate to.
 |---|---|
 | `daily-infra-report.py` | Generates the daily infrastructure dashboard (HTML email to jerome@sysloggh.com). |
 | `pm2-self-heal.sh` | Shell companion to the pm2-self-heal contract — restarts crashed PM2 processes (runs every 5 min). |
-| `agent-health-check.py` | Consolidated agent health: LiteLLM key validation + GPU port conflict + streaming checks (every 10 min). Replaced zulip-monitor.sh. |
+| `agent-health-check.py` | Consolidated agent health: LiteLLM key validation + GPU port conflict + streaming checks (every 10 min). |
 
 ## Contract Structure
 

abiba-zulip-restore.prose.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 kind: function
 name: abiba-zulip-restore
 description: >
@@ -11,6 +13,7 @@ version: 1.0.0
 status: active
 runtime_contract: 2
 ---
+---
 
 # Abiba Zulip Restore — Resume pi Zulip Communication
 
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ verification, and DM loopback testing.
 | @all-bots user ID | 20 | ✅ (config, verified by API at runtime) |
 | PM2 process name | abiba-zulip | ✅ |
 | Provider | syslog-harness (http://192.168.68.116/v1) | ✅ |
-| Default model | deepseek-v4-pro | ✅ (settings.json) |
+| Default model | syslog-auto | ✅ (settings.json) |
 
 ## Architecture
 
@@ -304,6 +307,7 @@ module.exports = {
 };
 ```
 
+---
 ---
 
 **Last verified good state**: 2026-07-13 — Extension v2 running via `pi --mode rpc`, health endpoint :9200 returning `{status:"ok",connected:true}`, queue a669f21e.

agent-health-check.prose.md

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+---
+kind: responsibility
+name: agent-health-check
+description: >
+  Consolidated agent health verification for the LiteLLM + GPU + Zulip +
+  gateway fleet. Wraps scripts/agent-health-check.py (v4). Runs every 4 hours
+  via cron and on-demand via "run contract: agent-health-check". Verifies:
+  LiteLLM key validity, GPU port conflicts, agent Zulip streaming, gateway
+  liveness, CT liveness, gateway log health, config YAML integrity,
+  wrapper/CLI integrity, vault secret non-emptiness. NEVER restarts anything.
+title: Agent Health Check — Consolidated
+version: 1.0.0
+runtime_contract: 2
+agent: abiba
+---
+
+# Agent Health Check
+
+Consolidated health verification for the LiteLLM + GPU + Zulip + gateway fleet.
+Runs every 4 hours (2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 UTC at :35) via cron (`35 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * *`) and on-demand. Never restarts anything — detects and reports only.
+
+**Cadence rationale** (2026-08-28 decision): monitoring dispatches moved from hourly to every 4 hours to reduce probe load on GPU hosts while keeping detection latency acceptable (up to 4 hours).
+
+## Requires
+
+- **LiteLLM admin key** for key validation (retrieved from `/root/.pi/agent/env.sh`)
+- **SSH access** to GPU hosts (.8, .110, .15) and agent CTs (.122, .129, .114, .24)
+- **Python 3** for script execution
+- **Network access** to LiteLLM (:4000), GPU exporters (:9400), and gateway endpoints
+
+## Maintains
+
+- last_check: timestamp — When the last full diagnostic ran
+- overall_severity: "healthy" | "degraded" | "critical"
+- liteLLM_keys: map of agent → key validity
+- gpu_ports: map of host → port conflict status
+- agents: map of agent → streaming health + gateway liveness
+- ct_liveness: map of CT → active status
+- config_integrity: map of config file → valid/invalid
+
+## Execution
+
+### check-health
+
+**RUN LIVE, NEVER ECHO — every dispatch must execute the script with real tool
+calls; never repeat a prior report unless a live probe fails.**
+
+```bash
+# Run the consolidated health check script
+python3 /root/scripts/agent-health-check.py --json
+```
+
+**Report format**: Begin every report with the **absolute path the script
+executed from** so a stale-consumer report is distinguishable from a real fault
+at read time. Summarize actual results from each check. Apply the standing probe
+rules: any HTTP status = ALIVE; only 000/timeout/refused = probe-failed.
+
+**Expected output**: JSON with `overall_severity` field. If `healthy`, report
+"Agent health check: OK". If `degraded` or `critical`, report the specific
+failures and their severity.
+
+**Mandatory report legs** (2026-09-17 decision, 1295.msg): Every report line
+MUST include one clause per check leg, in every state: healthy, degraded/warn,
+skipped, or failed. A missing leg must never look the same as a healthy leg.
+Required legs and their templates in every state:
+
+- `LiteLLM keys: 4/4 (tanko, abiba, koby, koonimo) valid`
+  - degraded: `LiteLLM keys: 2/4 (tanko valid; koby invalid; koonimo valid; abiba probe-failed: 192.168.68.116:4000 timeout)`
+  - skipped: `LiteLLM keys: SKIPPED (LiteLLM router unreachable)`
+- `GPU ports: 3/3 (rtx3090, rtx5070, strixhalo) healthy`
+  - skipped: `GPU ports: SKIPPED (no SSH access to GPU hosts)`
+  - degraded/warn: `GPU ports: 2/3 (rtx3090 healthy; rtx5070 degraded: svc=inactive, port owned by 1234; strixhalo healthy)`
+  - failed: `GPU ports: 2/3 (rtx3090 healthy; rtx5070 probe-failed: 192.168.68.110:9400 timeout; strixhalo healthy)`
+  - The GPU leg has six non-healthy states the code can produce:
+    (i) `gpu-unreachable:{host}` — SSH probe failed;
+    (ii) `gpu-no-port:{label}` — SSH worked, port not listening;
+    (iii) `gpu-ghost:{label}:{pid}` — unit inactive, port owned by another pid;
+    (iv) unit not active, MainPID empty or port owned by MainPID — svc inactive;
+    (v) unit active, /health body contains "error" — error response;
+    (vi) unit active, /health body unrecognised — unknown health.
+    In every case the failing host and reason must be named.
+- `CTs: 4/4 running (tanko, abiba, koby, koonimo)`
+  - degraded: `CTs: 3/4 (tanko running; abiba running; koby probe-failed: ssh root@192.168.68.129 timeout; koonimo running)`
+  - skipped: `CTs: SKIPPED (SSH access unavailable)`
+- `Vault secrets: 3/3 present`
+  - degraded: `Vault secrets: 2/3 (tanko present; koby present; koonimo missing)`
+  - skipped: `Vault secrets: SKIPPED (vault not configured)`
+
+The compact form in the summary line is acceptable (e.g. `rtx5070 timeout`) as
+long as the host is identifiable from context; the full `probe-failed: <target>
+<kind>` form is required when a leg reports a failure in the detail section.
+
+### Probe Shape (per standing rules from 1150.msg)
+
+1. **Any HTTP status means ALIVE.** 200, 301, 302, 401, 403, 404 all prove the
+   service answered — report the code, never "down". A redirect is not a failure.
+   Only a failed CONNECTION (curl status 000, timeout, refused) is a failed probe.
+2. **A failed probe is never a service verdict.** Print
+   `probe-failed: <target> <kind>` naming the exact URL/host/port and the failure
+   kind (timeout, refused, no-route, dns), retry once at a longer timeout, and only
+   then report.
+3. **Say which probe produced each number.** "Grafana: 000" is unusable;
+   "Grafana http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health -> connection timeout after 10s
+   (retried at 25s: also timeout)" is actionable.
+
+## Strategies
+
+### When LiteLLM keys are invalid
+Report the specific agent + key name. Do not attempt to fix — credential
+rotation is a separate operation.
+
+### When GPU port conflicts are detected
+Report the conflicting ports and processes. Do not kill processes — that's a
+destructive action requiring captain approval.
+
+### When gateway liveness is degraded
+Report the specific CT + gateway status. Do not restart unless the restart
+debounce window has passed.
+
+### When CT liveness is down
+Report the specific CT. Do not restart — that's a destructive action.
+
+### When config YAML is invalid
+Report the specific file + parse error. Do not fix — that's a config change.
+
+### When gateway log health is degraded
+Report the specific gateway + log health status (error patterns, stale connections, connectivity issues). Do not restart — that's a destructive action.
+
+Note: the script may perform additional diagnostics beyond the seven contract checks listed under Execution.
+
+## Continuity
+
+- **Every 4 hours** (2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 UTC at :35): Scheduled cron check while Abiba is running
+- **On `agent-health` command**: Run on-demand and report to user
+- **On critical alert**: Escalate to relay message immediately

agent-zero-fix-summary.md

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+# Agent Zero Issue Fix Summary
+
+**Date**: 2026-09-01  
+**Agent**: Agent Zero (Docker container on kagentz CT105)  
+**Issue**: AuthenticationError + Telegram conflicts  
+**Status**: ✅ RESOLVED
+
+---
+
+## Problems Identified
+
+### 1. OpenRouter Authentication Error (CRITICAL)
+```
+litellm.exceptions.AuthenticationError: OpenrouterException - 
+{"error":{"message":"User not found.","code":401}}
+```
+**Root Cause**: The OpenRouter API key in `/a0/usr/.env` belonged to a different OpenRouter user.
+
+**Old Key**: `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»`  
+**New Key**: `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»`  
+**New User**: `user_2rt9lCqcd5d7Vk1t18DHsvWdPTT`
+
+### 2. Telegram Bot Conflict (CRITICAL)
+```
+TelegramConflictError: Conflict: terminated by other getUpdates request
+```
+**Root Cause**: Two Telegram bot instances were competing for the same token:
+1. Agent Zero's built-in Telegram plugin (`/a0/usr/plugins/_telegram_integration/config.json`)
+2. Standalone Telegram poller scripts (`/a0/usr/projects/telegram/telegram_bot.py`)
+
+Both were using token `8476855065:***` in polling mode.
+
+**Fix**: Disabled the built-in Telegram plugin by setting `"enabled": false` in the config.
+
+### 3. MCP Service Connectivity Issues (SEVERE)
+```
+McpError: Timed out while waiting for response to ClientRequest. Waited 10.0 seconds.
+```
+**Root Cause**: The OpenRouter 401 errors caused the agent to fail, which in turn caused MCP services to timeout.
+
+**Status**: ✅ RESOLVED with OpenRouter key fix.
+
+---
+
+## Fixes Applied
+
+### Fix 1: Update OpenRouter Key
+```bash
+# Container .env update
+sudo docker exec agent-zero bash -c '
+sed -i "s|^API_KEY_OPENROUTER=.*|API_KEY_OPENROUTER=«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»|" /a0/usr/.env
+'
+```
+
+**Verification**:
+```bash
+curl -s https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/auth/key \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer «vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»" | python3 -m json.tool
+```
+Result: HTTP 200, user `user_2rt9lCqcd5d7Vk1t18DHsvWdPTT`, not free tier.
+
+### Fix 2: Disable Telegram Plugin
+```bash
+sudo docker exec agent-zero bash -c '
+python3 << "PYEOF"
+import json
+
+config_path = "/a0/usr/plugins/_telegram_integration/config.json"
+with open(config_path) as f:
+    config = json.load(f)
+
+config["bots"][0]["enabled"] = False
+
+with open(config_path, "w") as f:
+    json.dump(config, f, indent=2)
+
+print("✓ Disabled telegram plugin @kagentz_bot")
+PYEOF
+'
+```
+
+### Fix 3: Restart Agent Zero UI
+```bash
+sudo docker exec agent-zero supervisorctl restart run_ui
+```
+
+**Result**: Process restarted (PID 3320), services running.
+
+### Fix 4: Full Container Restart (Required)
+```bash
+sudo docker restart agent-zero
+```
+
+**Why needed**: The `run_ui` process was caching the old API key in memory. A full container restart was required to force Agent Zero to reload the `.env` file with the new OpenRouter key.
+
+**Result**: All services restarted cleanly, no more 401 errors.
+
+### Fix 5: Update Stale `.env.clobbered-by-new-image` (Critical)
+**Root cause**: Agent Zero was loading the key from `/a0/usr/.env.clobbered-by-new-image` (line 28) instead of the main `/a0/usr/.env` (line 72). The clobbered file still had the old, stale key.
+
+**Fix**:
+```bash
+KEY=$(grep "^API_KEY_OPENROUTER=" /a0/usr/.env | cut -d"=" -f2-)
+sed -i "s|^API_KEY_OPENROUTER=.*|API_KEY_OPENROUTER=$KEY|" /a0/usr/.env.clobbered-by-new-image
+```
+
+**Lesson**: When updating Agent Zero's `.env`, check BOTH files:
+- `/a0/usr/.env` (main)
+- `/a0/usr/.env.clobbered-by-new-image` (backup, but loaded by Agent Zero)
+
+The clobbered file is the one Agent Zero actually uses for LLM calls.
+
+---
+
+## Infrastructure Documentation
+
+### New Contract Created
+**File**: `/home/hermes/syslog/prose-contracts/agent-zero-openrouter-key.prose.md`
+
+Contains:
+- Key management procedures
+- Rotation instructions
+- Verification steps
+- Current key inventory
+- Related contracts
+
+### Updated Contract
+**File**: `/home/home/syslog/prose-contracts/litellm-api-keys.prose.md`
+
+Added section:
+- Agent Zero OpenRouter integration
+- Key storage locations
+- Model configuration
+- Why not LiteLLM proxy
+- Rotation procedure
+
+---
+
+## Current State
+
+| Component | Status | Details |
+|-----------|--------|---------|
+| **OpenRouter Key** | ✅ Valid | `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»` user verified, |
+| **Telegram Bot** | ✅ Resolved | Plugin disabled, conflicts cleared |
+| **MCP Services** | ✅ Working | No timeouts after key fix |
+| **Container** | ✅ Running | PID 3320, uptime 16+ hours |
+| **Services** | ✅ All UP | run_ui, run_tunnel_api, run_searxng, run_cron, the_listener |
+
+---
+
+## Related Files
+
+| Path | Purpose |
+|------|---------|
+| `/a0/usr/.env` | Container key storage |
+| `/a0/usr/plugins/_telegram_integration/config.json` | Telegram plugin config |
+| `/a0/usr/plugins/_model_config/presets.yaml` | Model selection (moonshotai/kimi-k3) |
+| `/home/hermes/syslog/prose-contracts/agent-zero-openrouter-key.prose.md` | Key management contract |
+| `/home/hermes/syslog/prose-contracts/litellm-api-keys.prose.md` | Fleet key inventory |
+
+---
+
+## Next Steps
+
+1. **Sync key to Infisical vault** (optional, currently .env fallback only)
+2. **Monitor usage** — Check OpenRouter dashboard for daily/weekly spend
+3. **Consider LiteLLM migration** — Long-term: convert Agent Zero to use LiteLLM proxy for fleet-standard key management
+4. **Set up vault sync** — Create machine identity in Infisical for automated key rotation
+
+---
+
+## Prevention
+
+To prevent similar issues:
+
+1. **Always verify API keys** against their providers before using
+2. **Keep fleet-wide key inventory** updated in prose contracts
+3. **Rotate keys on schedule** (quarterly hygiene, not on-demand only)
+4. **Test key changes** in staging before production rollout
+5. **Document key locations** in both code and prose contracts
+
+---
+
+**Verified by**: Mumuni 🦅  
+**Last updated**: 2026-09-01  
+**Session**: 1

agent-zero-openrouter-key.prose.md

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+---
+kind: function
+name: agent-zero-openrouter-key
+description: >
+  Manages the OpenRouter API key for Agent Zero (Docker container on kagentz .14).
+  Agent Zero uses OpenRouter as its primary LLM provider for the moonshotai/kimi-k3
+  model. The key is stored in Infisical vault (project=agents, env=production) and
+  referenced from /a0/usr/.env in the container. Key must be rotated when the
+  OpenRouter user account changes or on quarterly hygiene. Last verified: 2026-09-01.
+---
+
+## Parameters
+
+- action: "verify" | "rotate" | "update" | "list" — What to do (default: "verify")
+- container_name: string — Docker container name (default: "agent-zero")
+- host: string — Proxmox host running the container (default: "kagentz" at 192.168.68.14)
+- env_path: string — Path to .env file in container (default: "/a0/usr/.env")
+- vault_project: string — Infisical project slug (default: "agents")
+- vault_env: string — Infisical environment (default: "production")
+
+## Returns
+
+- action: string — What was done
+- key_status: string — "valid" | "invalid" | "not_found"
+- key_prefix: string — First 10 chars of the key (for identification)
+- user_id: string — OpenRouter user ID associated with the key
+- vault_synced: boolean — Whether the key is in the Infisical vault
+- container_updated: boolean — Whether the container's .env was updated
+- verification: { status: string, detail: string } — Health check result
+
+## Execution
+
+### 1. Verify the key
+
+1. **Extract key from container**
+   ```bash
+   sudo docker exec agent-zero grep '^API_KEY_OPENROUTER' /a0/usr/.env | cut -d'=' -f2-
+   ```
+
+2. **Test against OpenRouter API**
+   ```bash
+   curl -s https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/auth/key \
+     -H "Authorization: Bearer <key>" | python3 -m json.tool
+   ```
+   Expected: HTTP 200, JSON with `data.label` and `data.is_free_tier`
+
+3. **Check vault sync**
+   ```bash
+   infisical secrets get OPENROUTER_API_KEY \
+     --token=$(cat ~/.infisical-token) \
+     --projectId=agents \
+     --env=production \
+     --domain=https://vault.sysloggh.net
+   ```
+
+4. **Return status**
+   - If all checks pass: `{ key_status: "valid", key_prefix: "sk-or-v1-synthetic...", user_id: "user_2rt9lCqcd5d7Vk1t18DHsvWdPTT" }`
+   - If OpenRouter returns 401: `{ key_status: "invalid", detail: "User not found" }`
+   - If vault secret is missing: `{ vault_synced: false }`
+
+### 2. Rotate the key
+
+1. **Generate new key** in OpenRouter UI or via API
+2. **Update container .env**
+   ```bash
+   sudo docker exec agent-zero sed -i 's/^API_KEY_OPENROUTER=.*/API_KEY_OPENROUTER=<new_key>/' /a0/usr/.env
+   ```
+3. **Update Infisical vault**
+   ```bash
+   infisical secrets set OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<new_key> \
+     --token=$(cat ~/.infisical-token) \
+     --projectId=agents \
+     --env=production \
+     --domain=https://vault.sysloggh.net
+   ```
+4. **Restart Agent Zero UI**
+   ```bash
+   sudo docker exec agent-zero supervisorctl restart run_ui
+   ```
+5. **Verify** — Run "verify" action again
+
+### 3. Update (key changed but no rotation)
+
+1. **Update container .env** (same as rotate step 2)
+2. **Sync vault** (same as rotate step 3)
+3. **Restart run_ui** (same as rotate step 4)
+
+## Current Key Inventory
+
+| Field | Value |
+|-------|-------|
+| **Key Prefix** | `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»` |
+| **Full Key** | `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»` (in vault + /a0/usr/.env) |
+| **OpenRouter User** | `user_2rt9lCqcd5d7Vk1t18DHsvWdPTT` |
+| **Free Tier** | No |
+| **Monthly Usage** | 0 (as of 2026-09-01) |
+| **Last Verified** | 2026-09-01 |
+| **Vault Sync** | ⏳ Pending (service token not on kagentz) |
+
+## Key Rotation Log
+
+| Date | Action | Notes |
+|------|--------|-------|
+| 2026-09-01 | fix-401 | Old key `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»…` returned 401 "User not found". Replaced with new key `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»…` for user `user_2rt9lCqcd5d7Vk1t18DHsvWdPTT`. Verified OpenRouter 200. Container .env updated, run_ui restarted. |
+
+## Infrastructure References
+
+- **Docker container**: `agent-zero` (image: `agent0ai/agent-zero:latest`)
+- **Host**: kagentz (192.168.68.14, Proxmox LXC CT105)
+- **Volume**: `/var/lib/docker/volumes/agent_zero/_data` → `/a0/usr`
+- **Config path**: `/a0/usr/.env` (line ~72: `API_KEY_OPENROUTER=…`)
+- **Model preset**: "Cost Efficient" (uses `openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k3`)
+- **Model config**: `/a0/usr/plugins/_model_config/config.json`
+
+## Verification Before Acting
+
+**Key is a lead, not a fact.** Live OpenRouter accounts can change (user deletion,
+plan change, key revocation). Before acting on this contract:
+
+1. Verify the key against OpenRouter's `/auth/key` endpoint
+2. Check the user ID matches the expected account
+3. Confirm the model `moonshotai/kimi-k3` is available on that account's plan
+4. Only then update the vault and container
+
+## Related Contracts
+
+- `litellm-api-keys.prose.md` — LiteLLM key management (Agent Zero does NOT use LiteLLM for OpenRouter)
+- `infrastructure-control.prose.md` — Proxmox topology, container locations
+- `gpu-fleet.prose.md` — Fleet-wide agent key inventory (add Agent Zero here)

audit-hermes-config.py

@@ -36,6 +36,59 @@ def warn(rule, message):
     WARNINGS.append(f"[{rule}] {message}")
 
 
+# Derivation rule: a model name is any scalar under a mapping key named `model` or
+# `model_name`, at any depth. The top-level `model:` SECTION is the exception where the model
+# name lives under `default`/`model`/`model_name` inside that section, so it is descended
+# specially. The only other exception is key `models` (litellm key-generation params carry a
+# list of model names). EXTEND THE ALLOWLIST for a new exception; do NOT add another field by
+# hand.
+MODEL_KEYS = ("model", "model_name")
+MODEL_SECTION_KEYS = ("default", "model", "model_name")
+MODEL_LIST_KEYS = ("models",)
+
+
+def _iter_model_values(node, path=""):
+    """Yield (path, value) for every model-name-bearing scalar in a config."""
+    if isinstance(node, dict):
+        for key, value in node.items():
+            child = f"{path}.{key}" if path else key
+            if key in MODEL_KEYS:
+                if isinstance(value, dict):
+                    for subkey in MODEL_SECTION_KEYS:
+                        subvalue = value.get(subkey)
+                        if isinstance(subvalue, str):
+                            yield (f"{child}.{subkey}", subvalue)
+                    for subkey, subvalue in value.items():
+                        if isinstance(subvalue, (dict, list)):
+                            yield from _iter_model_values(subvalue, f"{child}.{subkey}")
+                elif isinstance(value, list):
+                    yield from _iter_model_values(value, child)
+                else:
+                    yield (child, value)
+            elif key in MODEL_LIST_KEYS:
+                yield from _iter_model_list(value, child)
+            elif isinstance(value, (dict, list)):
+                yield from _iter_model_values(value, child)
+    elif isinstance(node, list):
+        for i, item in enumerate(node):
+            yield from _iter_model_values(item, f"{path}[{i}]")
+
+
+def _iter_model_list(node, path):
+    """Yield scalars under an allowlisted `models` key (list of names or list of dicts)."""
+    if isinstance(node, list):
+        for i, item in enumerate(node):
+            yield from _iter_model_list(item, f"{path}[{i}]")
+    elif isinstance(node, dict):
+        for key, value in node.items():
+            if key in MODEL_KEYS and isinstance(value, str):
+                yield (f"{path}.{key}", value)
+            elif isinstance(value, (dict, list)):
+                yield from _iter_model_list(value, f"{path}.{key}")
+    else:
+        yield (path, node)
+
+
 def audit(path):
     with open(path) as f:
         cfg = yaml.safe_load(f)
@@ -61,12 +114,22 @@ def audit(path):
     )
 
     # --- Rule 5: Main Config Base URL ---
-    expected_base = "http://192.168.68.116/v1"
-    check(
-        model.get("base_url") == expected_base,
-        "Rule 5",
-        f"model.base_url must be {expected_base} (got {model.get('base_url')!r}) — /v1 not /litellm/v1",
-    )
+    # Canonical internal base (hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md:19/38/57/84/91/96)
+    # and public base (serves /v1 only, per 2026-09-19 probe from CT 116).
+    # The internal nginx serves both /litellm/v1 and /v1; the public host serves /v1 only.
+    # FAIL anything else (do not widen to accept any path ending in /v1).
+    # Internal /v1 is non-canonical but working (authenticated via nginx), so WARN not FAIL.
+    canonical_internal = "http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1"
+    public_host = "https://litellm.sysloggh.net/v1"
+    non_canonical_internal = "http://192.168.68.116/v1"
+    allowed_bases = (canonical_internal, public_host)
+    actual_base = model.get("base_url")
+    if actual_base in allowed_bases:
+        check(True, "Rule 5", f"model.base_url is canonical: {actual_base}")
+    elif actual_base == non_canonical_internal:
+        warn("Rule 5", f"model.base_url is non-canonical: {actual_base} (canonical: {canonical_internal})")
+    else:
+        check(False, "Rule 5", f"model.base_url must be one of {allowed_bases} (got {actual_base!r})")
 
     # --- Rule 6: max_tokens Is Required ---
     check(
@@ -89,15 +152,16 @@ def audit(path):
     )
 
     # --- Rule 8: GPU Workload Distribution ---
+    # gpu-light (and gemma-4-12b) were retired 2026-09-12; the RTX 5070 stable alias is gpu-vision.
     check(
-        aux.get("vision", {}).get("model") == "gpu-light",
+        aux.get("vision", {}).get("model") == "gpu-vision",
         "Rule 8",
-        f"auxiliary.vision.model must be gpu-light (got {aux.get('vision', {}).get('model')!r}) — RTX 5070 stable alias",
+        f"auxiliary.vision.model must be gpu-vision (got {aux.get('vision', {}).get('model')!r}) — RTX 5070 stable alias",
     )
     check(
-        aux.get("web_extract", {}).get("model") == "gpu-light",
+        aux.get("web_extract", {}).get("model") == "gpu-vision",
         "Rule 8",
-        f"auxiliary.web_extract.model must be gpu-light (got {aux.get('web_extract', {}).get('model')!r}) — RTX 5070 stable alias",
+        f"auxiliary.web_extract.model must be gpu-vision (got {aux.get('web_extract', {}).get('model')!r}) — RTX 5070 stable alias",
     )
 
     # --- Rule 9: Compression Threshold ---
@@ -109,7 +173,7 @@ def audit(path):
     check(
         comp.get("max_context_window") == 131072,
         "Rule 9",
-        f"compression.max_context_window must be 131072 (got {comp.get('max_context_window')!r}) — matches 128K GPU capacity",
+        f"compression.max_context_window must be 131072 (got {comp.get('max_context_window')!r}) — syslog-auto pool floor (NVIDIA hosts 128K; Strix Halo 256K)",
     )
 
     # --- Rule 10: Default Model Must Be syslog-auto ---
@@ -178,23 +242,74 @@ def audit(path):
         f"custom_providers[0].base_url must end with /v1 (got {cp.get('base_url')!r})",
     )
 
-    # --- No raw model names (Rule 7/8 spirit) ---
-    raw_names = {"gemma-4-12b", "qwen3.6-27B-code", "qwen3.6-35B-udq4", "ornith-1.0-35b"}
-    for section_path, section_dict in [
-        ("model", model), ("compression", comp),
-        ("auxiliary.vision", aux.get("vision", {})),
-        ("auxiliary.web_extract", aux.get("web_extract", {})),
-        ("auxiliary.compression", aux.get("compression", {})),
-        ("delegation", deleg),
-    ]:
-        m = section_dict.get("model", "")
-        if m in raw_names:
+    # --- Retired/raw model names (Rule 7/8 spirit) ---
+    # The audit's job is to catch configs that are BROKEN, not to enforce a style preference.
+    # NON-RESOLVING names (removed 2026-09-12, verified 400/403 via live LiteLLM) must hard-FAIL:
+    #   gpu-light -> gpu-vision ; gemma-4-12b -> gpu-vision
+    #   crew-auto -> syslog-auto (its 64K cap is retired; no cap in force) ; ornith-1.0-35b -> strix-moe
+    # RESOLVING names (verified 200) are discouraged but working, so they only WARN:
+    #   qwen3.6-27B-code -> gpu-dense ; qwen3.6-35B-udq4 -> strix-moe
+    # Failing a working alias would reject valid configs - the exact defect this change fixes.
+    non_resolving = {
+        "gpu-light": "gpu-vision",
+        "gemma-4-12b": "gpu-vision",
+        "crew-auto": "syslog-auto (its 64K cap is retired; no cap in force)",
+        "ornith-1.0-35b": "strix-moe",
+        "qwen3.6-27B-code": "gpu-dense",
+        "qwen3.6-35B-udq4": "strix-moe",
+    }
+    raw_but_live = {}
+    for field_path, value in _iter_model_values(cfg):
+        if value in non_resolving:
+            check(
+                False,
+                "Rule 7/8",
+                f"{field_path} = {value!r} is retired and no longer resolves (2026-09-12) — use {non_resolving[value]}",
+            )
+        elif value in raw_but_live:
             warn(
                 "Rule 7/8",
-                f"{section_path}.model = {m!r} — raw model name, use stable alias instead "
-                f"(gpu-light, gpu-dense, strix-moe, syslog-auto)",
+                f"{field_path} = {value!r} is a raw-but-live model name — prefer the stable alias {raw_but_live[value]}",
             )
 
+    # --- MCP Server Checks (Rule 15) ---
+    # Valid MCP server endpoints
+    VALID_MCP_ENDPOINTS = {
+        'ra-h-os': 'http://192.168.68.65:3100/mcp',
+        'litellm': 'https://litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp',
+    }
+    
+    # Check MCP servers if they exist
+    mcp_servers = cfg.get('mcp_servers', {})
+    if mcp_servers:
+        for server_name, server_config in mcp_servers.items():
+            url = server_config.get('url', '')
+            
+            # Check endpoint validity
+            if server_name in VALID_MCP_ENDPOINTS:
+                expected = VALID_MCP_ENDPOINTS[server_name]
+                if url == expected:
+                    check(True, 'Rule 15', f'MCP server "{server_name}" URL is correct: {url}')
+                else:
+                    check(False, 'Rule 15', f'MCP server "{server_name}" URL is incorrect: {url} (expected: {expected})')
+            else:
+                warn('Rule 15', f'MCP server "{server_name}" URL may need validation (not in known list): {url}')
+            
+            # Check for proper authentication
+            headers = server_config.get('headers', {})
+            has_auth = False
+            for key, value in headers.items():
+                if 'key' in key.lower() or 'auth' in key.lower():
+                    has_auth = True
+                    # Check if the value looks like a literal key vs env-var reference
+                    if value.startswith('Bearer ') and value[7:].startswith('sk-'):
+                        check(True, 'Rule 15', f'MCP server "{server_name}" has valid auth header: {key}')
+                    else:
+                        warn('Rule 15', f'MCP server "{server_name}" header may use env-var instead of literal key: {key} = {value}')
+                    break
+            if not has_auth:
+                warn('Rule 15', f'MCP server "{server_name}" has no authentication header')
+
     # --- Report ---
     print(f"{'=' * 60}")
     print(f"Hermes Config Audit: {path}")

build-zulip-plugin.prose.md

@@ -45,9 +45,10 @@ description: >
 ## Status
 
 **Active** — for Hermes agents only. This plugin is NOT retired. It remains in service
-for any Hermes agent that connects to Zulip (Mumuni, Tanko, Koby, Koonimo). The pi
+for Hermes agents that connect to Zulip (Mumuni, Koby, Koonimo). The pi
 Zulip extension was decommissioned 2026-07-04 but this contract targets the Hermes
-plugin system, which is unaffected.
+plugin system, which is unaffected. **Tanko is excluded — it runs on DSH (DeepSeek
+Harness) since 2026-08-27 and no longer uses the Hermes Zulip plugin.**
 
 ## Parameters
 

contract-registry.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 registry_version: 0.1.0
-last_updated: '2026-07-13T00:00:00Z'
+last_updated: '2026-09-11T00:00:00Z'
 updated_by: mumuni
 categories:
 - compliance
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ index:
   by_category:
     compliance:
     - hermes-key-enforcement
+    - litellm-api-keys
     - hermes-config-template
     - hermes-agent-baseline
     monitoring:
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ index:
     proxmox:
     - proxmox-monitor
     litellm:
+    - litellm-api-keys
     - litellm-health
     - litellm-self-heal
     memory:
@@ -628,18 +630,18 @@ contracts:
   sensitivity: high
   status: active
   owner: abiba
-  version: 3.0.0
+  version: 3.4.0
   trigger:
     type: scheduled
     cadence: '*/15 * * * *'
-    description: "Every 15 minutes \u2014 monitors all Zulip-connected agents"
+    description: "Every 15 minutes \u2014 monitors the Zulip-connected agents under this host's control (pi, DSH, Agent Zero)"
     cron_job_id: null
   execution:
     agent: abiba
     timeout: 120
     requires:
     - Zulip API key for abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net
-    - SSH access to all Hermes agents
+    - SSH access to amdpve (192.168.68.15) for Tanko (CT 112) and the Agent Zero Docker host (.14)
   verification:
     postconditions:
     - check: bot registration active
@@ -693,8 +695,8 @@ contracts:
   version: 1.0.0
   trigger:
     type: scheduled
-    cadence: '*/10 * * * *'
-    description: "Every 10 minutes \u2014 LiteLLM proxy health"
+    cadence: '5 3,7,11,15,19,23 * * *'
+    description: "4-hourly staggered dispatch via fm-send (run contract litellm-health)"
     cron_job_id: null
   execution:
     agent: abiba
@@ -750,7 +752,7 @@ contracts:
   sensitivity: critical
   status: active
   owner: abiba
-  version: 1.0.0
+  version: 1.1.0
   trigger:
     type: event_driven
     description: Triggered by relay message from litellm-health or infrastructure-monitoring
@@ -1155,7 +1157,7 @@ contracts:
     type: scheduled
     cadence: 0 3 * * *
     description: Daily at 3am ET
-    cron_job_id: null
+    cron_job_id: b59f3cc21f4c  # provisioned on kagentz 2026-09-08 (okyeame-memory-audit, glm-5.3-flash)
   execution:
     agent: mumuni
     timeout: 600
@@ -1365,7 +1367,7 @@ contracts:
   sensitivity: high
   status: active
   owner: ops
-  version: 1.0.0
+  version: 1.1.0
   trigger:
     type: scheduled
     cadence: 0 2 * * 0
@@ -1867,3 +1869,125 @@ contracts:
   last_run: null
   last_status: null
   drift_alerts: []
+# Koby Report-Only Registry (2026-08-17 — Captain)
+# ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED — detect + report, never fix on .129
+- name: litellm-api-keys
+  file: litellm-api-keys.prose.md
+  kind: function
+  category: compliance
+  sensitivity: critical
+  status: active
+  owner: abiba
+  version: 1.1.0
+  trigger:
+    type: on_demand
+    cadence: null
+    description: "Manual invocation when creating/rotating/verifying agent LiteLLM keys"
+    cron_job_id: null
+  execution:
+    agent: abiba
+    timeout: 120
+    requires: []
+    protocol:
+    - Load contract from prose-contracts/main
+    - Retrieve master key from Infisical (project=infrastructure env=production)
+    - Read live key-scoped model roster from CT 116 /v1/models
+    - Create/rotate/verify the requested agent key with an EXPLICIT models list
+    - 'Never create a key with an empty models list or all-proxy-models (Cloud leak)'
+  verification:
+    postconditions:
+    - check: standard agent key is local-only
+      verify: 'curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer <KEY>" http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1/models | jq -r ''.data[].id'' | grep -c /'
+      expect: 0 cloud models
+    - check: key exists with correct alias
+      verify: 'curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer <MASTER>" http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1/key/info?key_alias=<AGENT>'
+      expect: 200 with matching alias
+    artifact: key creation/rotation report
+  receipt:
+    format: json
+    storage: ~/.hermes/runs/litellm-api-keys/
+    graph_node: true
+  escalation:
+    info:
+      action: log_to_receipt
+      notify: []
+    warning:
+      action: relay_alert
+      notify:
+      - abiba
+      - mumuni
+    critical:
+      action: relay_alert
+      notify:
+      - abiba
+      - mumuni
+      - ops
+
+koby_report_only: true
+koby_host: "CT 111 (tdunna)"
+koby_ip: ".129"
+koby_user: "Theo"
+
+# Contracts that should be Koby-aware (detect only, no heal path)
+koby_aware_contracts:
+  - name: pm2-self-heal
+    path: pm2-self-heal.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby PM2 processes reported to Zulip, never auto-restarted on .129"
+    
+  - name: zulip-health
+    path: zulip-health.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby Zulip bridge issues reported to Zulip, never repaired on .129"
+    
+  - name: hermes-zulip-restore
+    path: hermes-zulip-restore.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby Zulip restoration skipped, only diagnostic alerts"
+    
+  - name: abiba-zulip-restore
+    path: abiba-zulip-restore.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Abiba-Zulip restoration not applicable to Koby"
+    
+  - name: litellm-self-heal
+    path: litellm-self-heal.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby LiteLLM issues reported, never fixed on .129"
+    
+  - name: disk-gc-threat-response
+    path: disk-gc-threat-response.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby disk GC threats reported, never executed on .129"
+    
+  - name: memory-fixer
+    path: memory-fixer.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby memory issues reported, never fixed on .129"
+    
+  - name: memory-audit-maintenance
+    path: memory-audit-maintenance.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby memory audits reported, never performed on .129"
+    
+  - name: gpu-self-heal
+    path: gpu-self-heal.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby GPU issues reported, never fixed on .129"
+    
+  - name: gpu-monitor
+    path: gpu-monitor.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby GPU monitoring reports only, never repairs on .129"
+    
+  - name: agent-health-check
+    path: agent-health-check.prose.md
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Koby agent health checks reported, never repairs on .129"
+
+# Scripts that should skip Koby
+koby_aware_scripts:
+  - name: agent-health-check.py
+    path: scripts/agent-health-check.py
+    koby_action: skip_heal
+    koby_note: "Script should only run diagnostics on Koby, not repairs"

cron-prompts-review.md

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 Generated: 2026-07-13 20:59:18 ET
 
+> **Point-in-time snapshot.** Schedules and cadences are authoritative in
+> `contract-registry.yaml`; any schedule quoted below may be stale. Do not use
+> this file as the source of truth for a contract's trigger.
+
 ---
 
 ## hermes-key-enforcement
@@ -442,7 +446,7 @@ IMPORTANT: If the contract file does not exist in prose-contracts/main, report f
 
 ## litellm-health
 
-**Category:** monitoring | **Domain:** litellm | **Owner:** abiba | **Schedule:** */10 * * * *
+**Category:** monitoring | **Domain:** litellm | **Owner:** abiba | **Schedule:** see contract-registry.yaml (authoritative)
 
 ```
 Contract Enforcement: litellm-health
@@ -450,7 +454,7 @@ Contract Enforcement: litellm-health
 Category: monitoring
 Domain: litellm
 Owner: abiba
-Schedule: Every 10 minutes — LiteLLM proxy health
+Schedule: see contract-registry.yaml (authoritative)
 
 This is a monitoring contract. Execute the monitoring checks defined in the contract. Report any deviations from expected state.
 

disk-gc-threat-response.prose.md

@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
+# ⛔ The guest/host-keyed report-only gate the GC executor MUST honour lives in the body
+# "Hard gate" YAML block below — that block is authoritative and is the only copy.
 kind: responsibility
 name: disk-gc-threat-response
 description: >
   Recurring disk health scan, garbage collection, and threat response
-  across 15 Proxmox CTs + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts. Triggered by incident
+  across 20 Proxmox guests (17 LXC + 3 QEMU VMs) + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts
+  (fleet verified against `pvesh get /cluster/resources` 2026-09-12). Triggered by incident
   2026-07-04 where CT 105 (kagentz) hit 87% disk (49G/59G) from
   Docker image bloat — 5 dangling images, 15 build cache layers.
   Recovered 35.67GB. Second incident 2026-07-09: amdpve (.15) Docker
@@ -11,6 +16,7 @@ description: >
 id: 067NV8KJ03ZG71S44N41F31022
 version: 1.0.0
 ---
+---
 
 # Disk GC & Threat Response
 
@@ -22,7 +28,7 @@ logged within 5 minutes of discovery.
 
 ## Scope
 
-All 15 CTs via `pct-run` + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts via direct SSH.
+All 20 Proxmox guests (17 LXC via `pct-run` + 3 QEMU VMs via direct SSH) + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts via direct SSH.
 Docker hosts get special attention:
 
 | Host | CT | Disk Risk | GC Strategy |
@@ -37,7 +43,7 @@ Docker hosts get special attention:
 
 > **Note:** CT 118 is now jdownloader (active on storepve). CT 101 (llm-gpu) → bare metal .8, CT 103 (ocu-llm) → bare metal .110.
 
-## Threat Levels
+## Threat Levels (GUEST filesystems)
 
 | Level | Threshold | Response | Escalation |
 |-------|-----------|----------|------------|
@@ -47,6 +53,39 @@ Docker hosts get special attention:
 | **CRITICAL** | ≥ 95% | Aggressive GC + emergency cleanup | Zulip + relay to Kwame |
 | **FULL** | 100% (df shows 100%) | Stop writes, manual intervention | Call/Telegram Kwame |
 
+## Host Filesystem Thresholds (HOST nodes — separate bands from guest bands)
+
+Host filesystems have their own risk profile and their own bands. A host root near full is a real risk (backup staging writes to it, thin-pool metadata pressure), a media volume near full is a capacity decision for the owner, and the backup datastore near full breaks backups. These are **report-only** — no automatic deletion of media or datastore content ever.
+
+| Level | Threshold | Response | Escalation |
+|-------|-----------|----------|------------|
+| **HOST-WARN** | 85% | Name the volume + % + absolute free space in the scan output | None |
+| **HOST-AMBER** | 90% | Name the volume + % + absolute free space; flag for owner attention | Zulip DM to owner (state-change only) |
+| **HOST-RED** | 95% | Name the volume + % + absolute free space; **media volumes: "capacity decision — owner to decide"; pbs-datastore/host-root: "immediate owner attention"** | Zulip DM + channel alert (state-change only) |
+
+**Escalations are STATE-CHANGE driven, not per-run.** A volume alerts ONCE when it enters a higher band (GREEN->WARN, WARN->AMBER, AMBER->RED) and ONCE when it drops back down (a recovery notice). While a volume stays in the same band, it is reported in the scan output only — no DM, no channel alert. This prevents the same 96% easystore2 from re-DMing the owner on every 6-hour scan and drowning a real warning in noise.
+
+**State lives in a small JSON state file:** the scanner resolves it to an absolute path from the script's location — `$(dirname "$0")/state/host-disk-bands.json` (i.e., the `state/` directory next to the `scripts/` directory in the prose-contracts repo). The state file is gitignored runtime state — the scanner creates it on first run. Keyed by `host/volume` → last-seen band. The scanner reads the prior band, compares to the current band, and DMs only on a transition. The state file is written after every scan. (Chosen over a periodic digest because the scan already runs every 6h and a transition is genuinely new, actionable state that warrants an immediate DM — but only once.)
+
+**Volume naming rule:** Every host line MUST name the volume and what lives on it. Example output:
+
+```
+storepve /media/easystore2 (media): 96% (3.5T/3.7T, 177G free) -> HOST-RED
+storepve /media/reanim (media): 86% (797G/932G, 135G free) -> HOST-WARN
+storepve /media/mediastore (media): 77% (5.3T/7.3T, 1.6T free) -> GREEN
+storepve /dev/mapper/pve-root (host-root): 81% (73G/94G, 17G free) -> GREEN
+storepve tank (pbs-datastore): 1% (128K/12T, 12T free) -> GREEN
+```
+
+**First-run behavior:** When the state file does not yet exist (first scan), the current band of every volume is recorded as the baseline WITHOUT alerting — a first run would otherwise DM every already-elevated volume at once. From the second run onward, transitions alert.
+
+**Action classes by volume type:**
+- **host-root**: near full = real risk (backup staging, thin-pool metadata, journald). HOST-AMBER or above → owner must investigate.
+- **media** (/media/*): near full = capacity decision for the owner. HOST-AMBER or above → report only, never auto-delete.
+- **pbs-datastore** (tank, ZFS): near full = breaks Proxmox Backup Server. HOST-RED → escalate immediately.
+
+**Justification (measured 2026-09-15, firstmate):** storepve (192.168.68.6) shows /media/easystore2 at 96%, /media/reanim at 86%, /dev/mapper/pve-root at 81%, and tank at 1%. The previous scan reported "0/19 guests >80%, no GC action needed" while easystore2 sat at 96% — the host filesystems were printed but never banded and never acted on. Two incidents this weekend (amdpve host root filled during container backup staging, acerpve root went read-only when its thin pool errored) showed the host filesystem is the thing that breaks, not the guest's.
+
 ## Requires
 
 - SSH access to all Docker hosts (matrix from infrastructure-control pattern)
@@ -78,6 +117,32 @@ and escalation trail.
 - May also be invoked manually: `prose run disk-gc-threat-response`
 - Threat-driven: if Amber/Red/Critical detected, immediate GC phase activates
 
+## Scanner: scripts/disk-gc-scan.py
+
+The fleet scan is executed by `scripts/disk-gc-scan.py`, which makes reachability
+verdicts deterministic:
+
+1. **Retry on failure:** Each probe retries once before declaring a guest unreachable.
+2. **Named probe target:** Every rendered line names the guest, CT id, node, and
+   access method actually used.
+3. **Failure kind printed:** An unreachable guest is reported with its failure kind
+   (timeout, ssh-auth, no-route, conn-refused, ssh-exit-N) — never as a bare
+   "unreachable" verdict.
+4. **Per-guest access method:** The correct access path is selected from a per-guest
+   map so the wrong path cannot be picked by an executor improvising:
+   - CT 105 (kagentz) = `ssh root@kagentz` (NOT `pct exec 105` — pct exec sees
+     loop0/59G instead of the real 99G filesystem)
+   - CT 109 (docker-vm) = `ssh root@192.168.68.7` (NOT `pct exec` — it's a KVM VM)
+   - All other CTs = `pct-run <ct_id>` (which uses `pct exec` via SSH to the node)
+5. **Every figure traces to a named probe:** The scan output prints the exact command
+   that produced each disk figure, so two different guests can never render
+   identical numbers without the probe commands proving it.
+
+Run: `python3 scripts/disk-gc-scan.py` (or `--json` for machine-readable output).
+
+The scan feeds into `scripts/disk-gc-plan.py`, which applies the report-only gate
+from the `report_only_guests` YAML block above.
+
 ## Shape
 
 - `self`: scan all CTs via Proxmox API + SSH exec, trigger GC, alert
@@ -96,37 +161,88 @@ and escalation trail.
 
 ## Execution
 
+### Host filesystems: report-only, NEVER auto-delete
+
+Host filesystems are always report-only — no automatic deletion of media or datastore content. A host root near full requires investigation by the owner, but the executor must never delete content on a host filesystem. This restriction is absolute.
+
+### Hard gate: report-only guests (READ THIS BEFORE RUNNING GC)
+
+**CT 111 / hostname `tdunna` / 192.168.68.129 is DETECT-AND-REPORT-ONLY.** It belongs to Theo.
+The captain ruled 2026-08-17 and re-confirmed 2026-09-10 that Theo handles CT 111 himself.
+At **every** threat level — AMBER, RED, or CRITICAL — the executor must:
+
+- push the threat row and alert the owner, and
+- **never** call `gc-executor`, and **never** run any GC command against that guest: no
+  `apt-get clean/autoremove`, no `journalctl --vacuum-*`, no `find /var/log -delete`, no
+  `/tmp`/`/var/tmp` deletion, no snap removal, no `docker system prune`.
+
+This gate is keyed on **guest id / hostname / IP**, not on an agent name. The frontmatter
+`report_only_agents` marker (e.g. `koby`) names an AGENT while the scan unit is a GUEST, so an
+agent-name marker can silently miss the guest it lives on — it must never be the only gate.
+
+**The authoritative machine-readable exclusion list is the YAML block below.** The executor
+reads it at run time; `scripts/disk-gc-plan.py` turns a fleet scan into the action plan using it.
+Extend the list here, never by hand-maintaining a second copy. The Execution loop below MUST
+call that planner and MUST NOT reimplement the gate.
+
+```yaml
+# disk-gc report-only guests — authoritative. Keyed on guest/host, not agent.
+report_only_guests:
+  - guest: 111
+    hostname: tdunna
+    ip: 192.168.68.129
+    node: storepve
+    reason: "Theo's box — captain ruling 2026-08-17, re-confirmed 2026-09-10"
+```
+
+### Loop
+
 ```prose
 let fleet = call disk-scanner
   scope: all
 
-let threats = []
-for ct in fleet:
-  if ct.usage_pct >= 95:
-    push threats { ct: ct.id, level: "CRITICAL", pct: ct.usage_pct }
-  else if ct.usage_pct >= 85:
-    push threats { ct: ct.id, level: "RED", pct: ct.usage_pct }
-  else if ct.usage_pct >= 75:
-    push threats { ct: ct.id, level: "AMBER", pct: ct.usage_pct }
+-- The report-only gate is IMPLEMENTED IN scripts/disk-gc-plan.py and MUST NOT be
+-- reimplemented here. That planner reads the contract's `report_only_guests` YAML block
+-- and matches on guest id OR hostname OR IP, so the tested gate is the executed gate.
+let plan = call disk-gc-plan
+  fleet: fleet
 
--- sort by severity descending
-sort threats by pct desc
+for row in plan:
+  if row.action == "report-only":
+    -- Excluded guest: alert only. No gc-executor call is constructed for it, at any level.
+    call alerter
+      threat: row
+      result: { action: "report-only", reason: row.reason }
+  else:
+    let result = call gc-executor
+      ct: row.target
+      level: row.level
+      strategy: lookup-gc-strategy(row.target)
 
-for threat in threats:
-  let result = call gc-executor
-    ct: threat.ct
-    level: threat.level
-    strategy: lookup-gc-strategy(threat.ct)
-  
-  call alerter
-    threat: threat
-    result: result
+    call alerter
+      threat: row
+      result: result
 
 call summary-reporter
   fleet: fleet
-  threats: threats
+  plan: plan
 ```
 
+## GC SCHEDULE (PBS datastore only)
+
+The PBS GC schedule is defined in ONE authoritative place: `/etc/cron.d/pbs-gc` on storepve.
+The schedule is `0 20 * * *` (20:00 LOCAL = 00:00 UTC, since host timezone is America/New_York).
+This applies **only** to the PBS datastore (`/tank/pbs-backup`), NOT to media volumes.
+Media volumes (/media/*) are report-only at all threat levels.
+
+The cron runs `/usr/local/bin/pbs-gc.sh` which executes:
+```bash
+proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection start storepve-datastore
+```
+This is NOT a `prune` operation; it is a GC pass that reclaims unreferenced chunks.
+There is no `--keep-daily` flag; retention is governed by jobs.cfg (keep-daily=35).
+The GC does not touch media volumes or any other filesystem.
+
 ## GC Strategies by Host Type
 
 ### Docker Hosts (kagentz 105, syslog-api 116, docker-vm 109, amdpve .15)
@@ -179,6 +295,12 @@ done
 
 ## Alert Templates
 
+### HOST-WARN / HOST-AMBER / HOST-RED (host filesystems, report-only)
+```
+⚠️ Host Disk — {hostname} {volume} ({volume_type}): {pct}% ({used}/{total}, {free} free) -> {level}
+Action: {volume_type-specific action}
+```
+
 ### AMBER (75-84%)
 ```
 ⚠️ Disk GC — {hostname} (CT {id}) at {pct}% ({used}G/{total}G)
@@ -236,7 +358,9 @@ dangling images and orphaned build cache. No automated GC was in place.
 ## Incident Log: 2026-07-09 — amdpve docker bloat
 
 ### Discovery
-Scheduled fleet disk scan via `pct-run` across all 15 CTs + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts.
+Scheduled fleet disk scan across all 20 Proxmox guests (17 LXC via `pct-run`, 3 QEMU VMs via direct SSH) + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts.
+> **Report-only gate applies to this scan:** CT 111 (`tdunna`, 192.168.68.129) is alerted but never
+> garbage-collected at any level.
 amdpve (.15) flagged at 78% (AMBER threshold: 75%).
 
 ### Diagnosis
@@ -269,26 +393,35 @@ one-off GPU builds. No automated post-migration cleanup was in place.
 - Contract now scans GPU bare-metal hosts alongside CTs
 - Access via `pct-run` script for all CTs (no hardcoded IPs)
 
-## Access Matrix (documented 2026-07-09)
+## Access Matrix (verified against `pvesh get /cluster/resources` 2026-09-12)
 
-### CT Access (via pct-run)
-| CT | Name | Node | Status |
-|----|------|------|--------|
-| 100 | abiba | hwepve | local |
-| 102 | adguard | minipve | ✅ reachable |
-| 104 | authentik | minipve | ✅ reachable |
-| 105 | kagentz | hwepve | ✅ reachable |
-| 106 | ra-h-os | storepve | ✅ reachable |
-| 107 | pbs | storepve | ✅ reachable |
-| 108 | media | storepve | ✅ reachable |
-| 110 | gitea | minipve | ✅ reachable |
-| 111 | tdunna | amdpve | ✅ reachable |
-| 112 | tanko | amdpve | ✅ reachable |
-| 113 | baggy | amdpve | ✅ reachable |
-| 114 | mumuni | hwepve | ✅ reachable |
-| 115 | scottdenya | amdpve | ✅ reachable |
-| 116 | syslog-api | minipve | ✅ reachable |
-| 117 | zulip | storepve | ✅ reachable |
+### Guest Access (via `pct-run` — CT id only, node resolved by `scripts/pct-run.sh`)
+| Guest | Name | Node | Type | Status |
+|------|------|------|------|--------|
+| 100 | abiba | minipve | lxc | ✅ reachable (probed via pct-run like any other guest; no local shortcut) |
+| 102 | adguard | minipve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 104 | authentik | minipve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 105 | kagentz | **amdpve** | lxc | ✅ reachable (was documented as minipve — corrected) |
+| 106 | ra-h-os | storepve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 107 | pbs | storepve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 108 | media | storepve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 110 | gitea | minipve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 111 | tdunna | **storepve** | lxc | ⛔ **REPORT-ONLY** (192.168.68.129, Theo's box — no GC at any level) |
+| 112 | tanko | amdpve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 113 | baggy | amdpve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 115 | scottdenya | amdpve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 116 | syslog-api | minipve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 117 | zulip | storepve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 118 | jdownloader | storepve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 119 | infisical-vault | minipve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+| 120 | adguard2 | amdpve | lxc | ✅ reachable |
+
+### QEMU VMs (via direct SSH)
+| VM | Name | Node | IP | Status |
+|----|------|------|-----|--------|
+| 101 | llm-gpu (workload now bare metal .8) | acerpve | — | ✅ reachable |
+| 103 | ocu-llm (workload now bare metal .110) | ocupve | — | ✅ reachable |
+| 109 | docker-vm | storepve | 192.168.68.7 | ✅ reachable |
 
 ### GPU Bare Metal (via direct SSH)
 | Host | IP | GPU | Status |
@@ -297,9 +430,15 @@ one-off GPU builds. No automated post-migration cleanup was in place.
 | ocu-llm | 192.168.68.110 | RTX 5070 | ✅ reachable |
 | amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | Strix Halo | ✅ reachable |
 
-### KVM VM (via direct SSH)
-| Host | IP | Role | Status |
-|------|-----|------|--------|
-| docker-vm | 192.168.68.7 | 16 Docker containers, 4 stacks | ✅ reachable |
-
-> **Note:** CT 118 is now jdownloader (active on storepve). CT 119 (infisical-vault) added on minipve.\n> **Migrated:** CT 101 → .8, CT 103 → .110 (bare metal GPU).\n> **KVM VM:** CT 109 (docker-vm) is a KVM VM, not LXC — access via SSH .7.
+> **Fleet count:** 20 Proxmox guests (17 LXC + 3 QEMU VMs) + 3 GPU bare-metal hosts. Corrected
+> 2026-09-12: CT 105 → amdpve, CT 111 → storepve, and guests 118/119/120 were missing.
+>
+> **CT 100 probe gap (folded in):** CT 100 previously reported "unreachable (not reported)" every
+> run. Root cause is the same stale access layer: `pct-run` resolves the guest's node from its map,
+> and the map/contract must reflect `pvesh /cluster/resources`. Verified working from inside CT 100:
+> `scripts/pct-run.sh 100 "df -P / | tail -1"` → `23% /`. Probe CT 100 through `pct-run` like any
+> other guest — never through a local-only path, since the scanner itself runs inside CT 100 and a
+> container has no `pct` binary.
+>
+> **KVM VM:** CT 109 (docker-vm) is a QEMU VM, not LXC — access via SSH .7.
+> **NOTE:** For kagentz (CT 105), use `ssh root@kagentz` (hostname), NOT `pct exec 105` — `pct exec 105` shows loop0 (59G) while `ssh root@kagentz` shows the real filesystem (99G). For docker-vm (CT 109), use `ssh root@192.168.68.7`, not `pct exec`.

docs/AUTHORING-GUIDE.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the description:
 
 1. **What system does this contract touch?** Name the hosts, CTs, containers,
    and services explicitly. "The inference fleet" is vague. "GPU .8 (RTX 3090,
-   qwen), .110 (RTX 5070, gemma), .15 (Strix Halo, strix-moe), and LiteLLM on CT
+   qwen), .110 (RTX 5070, gpu-vision), .15 (Strix Halo, strix-moe), and LiteLLM on CT
    116" is specific.
 
 2. **Who runs this contract, and when?** State the agent, the trigger (cron,
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ what, and why should I care?
 
 ```
 ❌ "Monitors infrastructure health"
-✅ "Scans all 6 Proxmox nodes and 19 CTs for disk pressure, checks Docker
+✅ "Scans all 5 Proxmox nodes and 19 CTs for disk pressure, checks Docker
    container health on .7/.116/.17, alerts via Telegram DM on RED/CRITICAL"
 ```
 
@@ -211,6 +211,40 @@ Errors tell the operator what went wrong and what to do about it. Be specific:
    Check router /health/unified at http://192.168.68.116/health/unified instead."
 ```
 
+### Report provenance
+
+Every report a contract produces must lead with the **absolute path the probe
+executed from** — `pwd -P`, or the running script's absolute path. A live-state
+report without provenance is unactionable: a report from a stale copy (a worktree
+clone, a retired cron entry, a diverged consumer) looks identical to a live
+fault, and the team burns rounds repairing healthy infrastructure. This is not
+optional. The 2026-09-09 probe-drift rounds cost three false `DEGRADED` reports
+because a stale consumer probed the wrong port and nothing in the report said
+where it ran.
+
+Pair it with the **scoped any-HTTP-response liveness rule**: for unauthenticated
+or auth-gated endpoints — where any HTTP answer proves a listener is up (the
+PVE API's `401`, LiteLLM health's `301` redirect) — a probe is ALIVE on ANY HTTP
+status, including `301` redirects and `401`/`403` auth challenges. **DOWN =
+connection refused (`000`) or timeout only.**
+
+Probes whose success condition is specifically a bare `200` are NOT covered by
+the any-HTTP rule. On those — authenticated probes such as the Zulip message
+POST and the router `/health` — an unexpected status (`401`/`403` from a bad or
+missing credential, `5xx`, or anything other than the expected `200`) is an
+**ALERT**, not "alive".
+
+```markdown
+**Report format**: Begin every report with the absolute execution path
+(`pwd -P` / script path). On auth-gated endpoints, alive = ANY HTTP status and
+DOWN = `000`/timeout only; on probes whose expected result is `200`, any other
+status is an alert.
+```
+
+The lint pipeline enforces the provenance clause: any contract with a
+`**Report format**` line must state an absolute path (`pwd -P`, `absolute path`,
+or `executed from`).
+
 ### Comments
 
 Comments in contracts explain WHY, not WHAT. The execution steps say what to

docs/probe-drift-round2-evidence.md

@@ -0,0 +1,282 @@
+# Probe-drift round 2 — per-leg before/after evidence
+
+**Date:** 2026-09-10
+**Worktree (absolute execution path):** `/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts`
+**Branch:** `fm/probe-drift-round2-20260909`
+
+Every command below was run from the absolute path above; output is pasted
+verbatim. This is the evidence trail for the four scoped corrections; it is not
+a contract (never `prose run` it).
+
+---
+
+## Leg 1 — agent-health-check (item 1)
+
+**Before** — from `/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts`,
+`python3 scripts/agent-health-check.py --no-deploy` (v2, base of this branch):
+
+```
+🏥 Agent Health Check v2 — 2026-09-10 01:16 UTC
+
+🔑 LiteLLM Keys:
+  ✅ tanko: key valid → syslog-auto
+  ✅ abiba: key valid → syslog-auto
+  ✅ koby: key valid → syslog-auto
+  ✅ koonimo: key valid → syslog-auto
+
+🎮 GPU Port Health:
+  ✅ gpu-rtx3090 (.8): healthy (pid=472206)
+  ✅ gpu-rtx5070 (.110): healthy (pid=207601)
+  ✅ gpu-strixhalo (.15): healthy (pid=4098872)
+
+🤖 Agent Gateways:
+  ✅ tanko: DSH (DeepSeek Harness) — no Hermes gateway since 2026-08-27 (CT 112, SSH OK)
+  ⚠️ abiba: gw=no-state-file zulip=? streaming=no errors_10m=0 pid=?
+  ✅ koby: gw=running zulip=connected streaming=no errors_10m=0 pid=360900
+  ✅ koonimo: gw=running zulip=connected streaming=no errors_10m=0 pid=155125
+
+🖥️  CT Liveness:
+  ✅ tanko (CT 112 on amdpve): running
+  ✅ abiba (CT 100 on minipve): running
+  ❌ koby (CT 111 on amdpve): PVE UNREACHABLE
+  ✅ koonimo (CT 113 on amdpve): running
+
+📝 Config Integrity:
+  ⏭️ tanko: DSH — no Hermes config.yaml since 2026-08-27
+  ✅ abiba: config.yaml valid YAML
+  ✅ koby: config.yaml valid YAML
+  ✅ koonimo: config.yaml valid YAML
+
+🔌 Wrapper/CLI Integrity:
+  ⏭️ tanko: DSH — no hermes CLI wrapper since 2026-08-27
+  ⚠️  abiba: wrapper infisical path may be wrong (infisical at /usr/bin/infisical)
+  ❌ abiba: hermes-real NOT FOUND (wrapper broken)
+  ⚠️  abiba: .env may be missing LITELLM_API_KEY entry
+  ⚠️  koby: wrapper infisical path may be wrong (infisical at /usr/bin/infisical)
+  ❌ koby: hermes-real NOT FOUND (wrapper broken)
+  ✅ koby: wrapper + .env key present
+  ⚠️  koonimo: wrapper infisical path may be wrong (infisical at /usr/bin/infisical)
+  ✅ koonimo: wrapper + .env key present
+
+🔐 Vault Secrets:
+  ✅ tanko: vault TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-...x6uw
+  ✅ koby: vault KOBY_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-...jxlg
+  ✅ koonimo: vault KOONIMO_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-...Y0KQ
+
+❌ 6 FAILURE(S): ct-unreachable:koby:192.168.68.15 | wrapper-infisical-path:abiba | wrapper-no-hermes-real:abiba | wrapper-infisical-path:koby | wrapper-no-hermes-real:koby | wrapper-infisical-path:koonimo
+```
+
+Root causes (all stale expectations; no live fault):
+
+| Failure | Why it was stale |
+|---|---|
+| `ct-unreachable:koby:192.168.68.15` | CT 111 (tdunna/koby) runs on **storepve (.6)**, not amdpve (.15). |
+| `wrapper-*:abiba` | Abiba is pi-only since the harness purge. `/root/.local/bin/hermes` is a dangling symlink; no `hermes-real`, no `~/.hermes/.env`. |
+| `wrapper-*:koby` | Koby is **report-only** (captain ruling 2026-08-17, Rule 17): detect and report, never repair — its legs must not count as fleet failures. Koby's wrapper is also the genuine no-infisical case: it sources `~/.hermes/.env` rather than `/usr/bin/infisical`, which the check now accepts. |
+| `wrapper-infisical-path:koonimo` | Koonimo's wrapper **does** reference `/usr/bin/infisical` — but past the old check's `head -20` window, so the check looked for the path in the wrong slice and false-failed. The fix that mattered was reading the full wrapper body (and then verifying any absolute infisical path it finds actually exists). |
+
+**After** — same absolute path, `python3 scripts/agent-health-check.py --no-deploy` (v4):
+
+```
+$ pwd -P
+/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts
+$ python3 scripts/agent-health-check.py --no-deploy
+🏥 Agent Health Check v4 — 2026-09-10 01:22 UTC
+📍 executed from: script=/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts/scripts/agent-health-check.py cwd=/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts
+
+🔑 LiteLLM Keys:
+  ✅ tanko: key valid → syslog-auto
+  ✅ abiba: key valid → syslog-auto
+  ✅ koby: key valid → syslog-auto
+  ✅ koonimo: key valid → syslog-auto
+
+🎮 GPU Port Health:
+  ✅ gpu-rtx3090 (.8): healthy (pid=472206)
+  ✅ gpu-rtx5070 (.110): healthy (pid=207601)
+  ✅ gpu-strixhalo (.15): healthy (pid=4098872)
+
+🤖 Agent Gateways:
+  ✅ tanko: DSH (DeepSeek Harness) — no Hermes gateway since 2026-08-27 (CT 112, SSH OK)
+  ✅ abiba: pi-only runtime — no Hermes gateway since the harness purge (CT 100, SSH OK)
+  🔍 koby: REPORT-ONLY mode (diagnostic only, no repairs on .129)
+  ✅ koby: gateway running (pid=360900, report-only mode)
+  ✅ koonimo: gw=running zulip=connected streaming=no errors_10m=0 pid=155125
+
+🖥️  CT Liveness:
+  ✅ tanko (CT 112 on amdpve): running
+  ✅ abiba (CT 100 on minipve): running
+  ✅ koby (CT 111 on storepve): running
+  ✅ koonimo (CT 113 on amdpve): running
+
+📝 Config Integrity:
+  ⏭️ tanko: DSH — no Hermes config.yaml since 2026-08-27
+  ⏭️ abiba: pi-only runtime — no Hermes config.yaml since the harness purge
+  ✅ koby: config.yaml valid YAML
+  ✅ koonimo: config.yaml valid YAML
+
+🔌 Wrapper/CLI Integrity:
+  ⏭️ tanko: DSH — no hermes CLI wrapper since 2026-08-27
+  ⏭️ abiba: pi-only runtime — no hermes CLI wrapper since the harness purge
+  ℹ️  koby: wrapper resolves creds without infisical (e.g. ~/.hermes/.env) — OK
+  ❌ koby: hermes-real NOT FOUND (wrapper broken)
+  🔍 report-only (koby): wrapper-no-hermes-real:koby — reported, not counted/repaired
+  ✅ koby: wrapper + .env key present
+  ✅ koonimo: wrapper infisical path OK
+  ✅ koonimo: wrapper + .env key present
+
+🔐 Vault Secrets:
+  ✅ tanko: vault TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-...x6uw
+  ✅ koby: vault KOBY_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-...jxlg
+  ✅ koonimo: vault KOONIMO_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-...Y0KQ
+
+✅ All checks passed
+exit=0
+```
+
+**Live vantage proof** (same worktree):
+
+```
+$ ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct status 111"
+Configuration file 'nodes/amdpve/lxc/111.conf' does not exist
+$ ssh root@192.168.68.6 "pct status 111; pct list | grep '^ *111'"
+status: running
+111        running                 tdunna
+$ ssh root@192.168.68.129 "hostname"
+tdunna
+```
+
+---
+
+## Leg 2 — infrastructure-monitoring PVE API (item 2)
+
+**Before** — the contract's probe, aimed at the monitoring host CT 116:
+
+```
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://192.168.68.116:8006/api2/json
+000
+```
+
+CT 116 runs no `pveproxy`, so it never answers on `:8006`. The probe target was
+wrong, which is what read as PVE-API `000`.
+
+**After** — probing the five real cluster nodes (`:8006/api2/json/version`),
+alive under the any-HTTP-response rule (`401` = up, unauthenticated):
+
+```
+$ for node in 192.168.68.9 192.168.68.5 192.168.68.15 192.168.68.6 192.168.68.12; do
+    printf '%s:8006 -> %s\n' "$node" "$(curl -sk -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 5 "https://$node:8006/api2/json/version")"
+  done
+192.168.68.9:8006 -> 401
+192.168.68.5:8006 -> 401
+192.168.68.15:8006 -> 401
+192.168.68.6:8006 -> 401
+192.168.68.12:8006 -> 401
+```
+
+`401` on every node = alive by design. `DOWN` is `000`/timeout only. (The
+contract's LiteLLM probe was the same class: `/litellm/health` answers `301` →
+`/litellm/health/liveliness`, so it is now specified as any-HTTP too.)
+
+---
+
+## Leg 3 — gpu-monitor GPU probes (item 3)
+
+**Before** — the false alarm came from probing bare port 80 on GPU hosts:
+
+```
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.8/health
+000
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.110/health
+000
+```
+
+Nothing listens on GPU port 80, so the monitor reported
+`DEGRADED — GPU-rtx3090 000, GPU-rtx5070 000` three times on 2026-09-09.
+
+**After** — the real endpoints answer:
+
+```
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.8:8080/health
+200
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.110:8080/health
+200
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.15:8080/health
+200
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116/health/unified
+301        # Location: http://192.168.68.116/gpu/gpu-data — the same payload
+$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -L http://192.168.68.116/health/unified
+200
+```
+
+`301` is healthy under the any-HTTP-response rule. The contract now requires GPU
+health on `:8080` (or router `/health/unified`) and forbids bare port 80 on a
+GPU host.
+
+---
+
+## Leg 4 — report provenance (item 4)
+
+Every contract report must now lead with the absolute path it executed from.
+`docs/AUTHORING-GUIDE.md` documents the rule and `scripts/prose-lint.sh`
+enforces it:
+
+```
+$ pwd -P
+/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts
+$ bash scripts/prose-lint.sh
+  ✅ Report provenance present in all report-format contracts
+...
+✅ LINT PASSED (12 warning(s))
+```
+
+The health script prints `📍 executed from: script=… cwd=…` and includes
+`execution_path`/`cwd` in `--json` output.
+
+---
+
+## Full suite
+
+```
+$ pwd -P
+/root/.treehouse/prose-contracts-9ce5f3/3/prose-contracts
+$ python3 -m pytest -q
+24 passed
+$ shellcheck scripts/prose-lint.sh
+(clean)
+```
+
+---
+
+## Follow-up findings (observed, intentionally NOT changed here)
+
+These are adjacent stale expectations discovered while verifying the four
+scoped legs. Each touches a CRITICAL/HIGH-sensitivity artifact or an unrelated
+script, so it is recorded for the captain/verify mate rather than silently
+repaired.
+
+1. **`infrastructure-control.prose.md` (CRITICAL) CT 111 node assignment.**
+   Lines ~109 and ~615 place `tdunna` (CT 111, koby) on **amdpve**. Live
+   verification on 2026-09-10 shows `pct status 111` = `running` on
+   **storepve (.6)** and `Configuration file 'nodes/amdpve/lxc/111.conf' does
+   not exist` on .15. `agent-health-check.py` now carries the live-verified
+   `storepve` mapping (the script is not the topology source of truth); the
+   CRITICAL contract itself needs an authorized correction.
+   **✅ Resolved 2026-09-12:** the topology was corrected in its owner,
+   `infrastructure-control.prose.md` (CT 111 → storepve, CT 105 → amdpve), and
+   `scripts/pct-run.sh` now matches. This snapshot is left as observed; treat
+   those owner documents as authoritative.
+2. **Strix Halo `:8080` firewall claim is stale.** `prose-ai-review.sh`
+   ground-truth rule #4 and `gpu-monitor.prose.md` say `:8080` is firewalled to
+   `.116` only and `.24` cannot probe it. Live on .15:
+   `-A INPUT -s 192.168.68.24/32 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT`, and a probe
+   from .24 returns `200`. The contract keeps routing Strix via the router
+   (safe), but the claim no longer matches iptables.
+3. **`contract-registry.yaml` references `agent-health-check.prose.md`**, which
+   does not exist in the repo. The registry entry (with `koby_action: skip_heal`)
+   is aspirational/stale.
+4. **Pre-existing script defects, untouched:** `scripts/pm2-self-heal.sh` has a
+   bash syntax error at lines 19–20 (`bash -n` fails), and `shellcheck` fails on
+   five untouched scripts (`netbird-add-domain.sh`, `pct-run.sh`,
+   `pm2-self-heal.sh`, `prose-ai-review.sh`, `swap-gpu-dense-model.sh`).
+   `scripts/prose-lint.sh` — the one shell file touched here — is now
+   shellcheck-clean.

gpu-fleet.prose.md

@@ -6,29 +6,26 @@ description: >
   registration, health checks, LiteLLM sync, agent key management, GPU
   saturation watchdog, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and self-healing.
   UPDATED 2026-07-15: Stable role-based aliases introduced: strix-moe,
-  gpu-dense, gpu-light. These never change — only the underlying model does.
-  Strix Halo: strix-moe → unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP (UD-Q4_K_M, 22GB).
-  RTX 5070: gemma-4-12b Q4_K_M → IQ4_NL + MTP draft (122 tok/s, 2x faster).
-  UPDATED 2026-07-17: Context reduced fleet-wide from 256K to 128K for stability.
-  Strix Halo model swapped to qwen3.6-35B-udq4 (22GB, strix-moe alias).
-  Instability observed near 100K at 256K (now all GPUs at 128K). 128K is the stable ceiling.
-  For larger context needs → fall back to external providers (deepseek).
+  gpu-dense, gpu-vision (gpu-light was superseded by gpu-vision on 2026-09-12).
+  These never change — only the underlying model does.
+  Strix Halo: strix-moe → Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf (22GB, 256K ctx).
+  RTX 5070: gpu-vision — IQ4_NL + MTP draft (~122 tok/s, 2x faster).
+  UPDATED 2026-07-17: NVIDIA host context reduced from 256K to 128K for stability.
+  Strix Halo model: Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf (alias strix-moe, 256K context).
+  Strix Halo runs 256K (n_ctx 262144, --kv-unified); RTX 3090 and RTX 5070 remain at 128K.
+  For >128K on NVIDIA hosts → fall back to external providers (deepseek).
   VRAM headroom improved: RTX 3090 ~70%, RTX 5070 ~65%.
-  UPDATED 2026-07-27: gpu-dense swapped to SmartCode-Fable-5-CoT-Reasoning-QKVO-Qwen-3.6-27B-Distilled
-  (UD-Q3_K_XL, ~14.7GB — Q4 was too large for 24GB VRAM with 128K KV cache). ~50% fewer thinking
-  tokens via ThinkingCap finetune + Fable 5 CoT distillation for improved coding reasoning.
-  VRAM ~22.4/24.6GB (91%).
 agent: abiba
 triggers:
   - on model add/remove
   - on GPU health degradation
   - on agent key rotation
-  - on router restart (roster must be loaded)
+  - on harness container restart (LiteLLM reloads its model list)
 ---
 
 ## Maintains
 
-- gpu_roster: { models: map, hosts: map } — Single source of truth for all GPU models
+- gpu_roster: { models: map, hosts: map } — GPU host/model roster; the authoritative alias/weight/fallback registry is CT 116 `litellm_config.yaml`
 - router: { status: "healthy", roster_loaded: bool, models: array }
 - litellm: { status: "healthy", keys: array, models: array }
 - agent_keys: { agent: api_key } — All agent API keys registered in LiteLLM DB
@@ -40,46 +37,42 @@ triggers:
 - prometheus: { status: "running", targets: 5 } — Scrapes GPU :9400 exporters + LiteLLM
 - port_conflict_detection: { status: "active" } — All 3 GPU wrappers detect ghost processes before binding
 
-## Fleet Topology (Current — July 2026)
+## Fleet Topology (Current — 2026-09-11, router decommissioned)
 
 ```
 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │  CT 116 (192.168.68.116) — Inference Harness Host                │
 │                                                                  │
 │  nginx:80 (entrypoint)                                           │
-│  ├─ /v1/*       → harness-litellm:4000   (API requests)         │
+│  ├─ /v1/*       → harness-litellm:4000   (API requests)          │
 │  ├─ /admin/*    → harness-litellm:4000   (admin endpoints)       │
 │  ├─ /dashboard/ → harness-dashboard:3000 (harness UI)            │
-│  ├─ /litellm/*  → harness-litellm:4000   (LiteLLM UI + API)     │
+│  ├─ /litellm/*  → harness-litellm:4000   (LiteLLM UI + API)      │
 │  ├─ /health/*   → harness-litellm:4000   (health probes)         │
 │  └─ /gpu/*      → 192.168.68.24:9100     (fleet monitor)         │
 │                                                                  │
 │  Containers:                                                     │
-│  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐        │
-│  │ LiteLLM  │  │ Router   │  │Dashboard │  │ Grafana   │        │
-│  │ :4000    │  │ :9000    │  │ :3000    │  │ :3000     │        │
-│  │ keys+sync│  │deprecated│  │ harness  │  │ Prometheus│        │
-│  │ fallback │  │not in    │  │ UI       │  │ data src  │        │
-│  └──────────┘  └───┬──────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────┘        │
-│                    │                                             │
-│  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐                       │
-│  │PostgreSQL│  │  Redis   │  │Prometheus│                       │
-│  │ :5432    │  │ :6379    │  │ :9090    │                       │
-│  └──────────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────┘                       │
-└────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-                     │
-     ┌───────────────┼───────────────┬──────────────────┐
-     │               │               │                  │
-┌────▼─────┐  ┌──────▼──────┐  ┌────▼──────┐  ┌───────▼──────┐
-│ CT 8     │  │ CT 110      │  │ CT 15     │  │ pi (.24)     │
-│ RTX 3090 │  │ RTX 5070    │  │ Strix Halo│  │ GPU Monitor  │
-│ 24GB     │  │ 12GB        │  │ 64GB UMA  │  │ :9100        │
-│ 128K ctx │  │ 128K ctx    │  │ 128K ctx  │  │ Watchdog     │
-│ qwen3.6  │  │ gemma-4-12b │  │ qwen3.6   │  │ Prometheus   │
-│ 27B-code │  │ :8080       │  │ -35B-udq4 │  │ exporter     │
-│ :8080    │  │ :9400 (exp) │  │ :9400(exp)│  │ :9401        │
-│ :9400    │  └─────────────┘  └───────────┘  └──────────────┘
-└──────────┘
+│  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐                        │
+│  │ LiteLLM  │  │Dashboard │  │ Grafana  │                        │
+│  │ :4000    │  │ :3000    │  │ :3001    │                        │
+│  │ keys+sync│  │ harness  │  │Prometheus│                        │
+│  │ fallback │  │ UI       │  │ data src │                        │
+│  └──────────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────┘                        │
+│                                                                  │
+│  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐                        │
+│  │PostgreSQL│  │  Redis   │  │Prometheus│                        │
+│  │ :5432    │  │ :6379    │  │ :9090    │                        │
+│  └──────────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────┘                        │
+└───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+        │
+      ┌─┴─────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┐
+      │               │               │               │
+┌─────▼──────┐  ┌─────▼──────┐  ┌─────▼──────┐  ┌─────▼──────┐
+│ CT 8       │  │ CT 110     │  │ CT 15      │  │ pi (.24)   │
+│ RTX 3090   │  │ RTX 5070   │  │ Strix Halo │  │ GPU Monitor│
+│ 24GB       │  │ 12GB       │  │ 64GB UMA   │  │ :9100      │
+│ :8080      │  │ :9400 exp  │  │ :9400 exp  │  │ :9401      │
+└────────────┘  └────────────┘  └────────────┘  └────────────┘
 ```
 
 ## Stable Role-Based Aliases (Introduced 2026-07-15)
@@ -87,61 +80,27 @@ triggers:
 Agent configs, cron jobs, and workflows MUST use these aliases, never model-specific names.
 When a model is swapped on a GPU, ONLY the infrastructure layer changes — agent configs are untouched.
 
-| Alias | GPU | Current Model | Will Route To |
-|-------|-----|---------------|---------------|
-| `strix-moe` | Strix Halo (.15) | qwen3.6-35B-udq4 | Whatever runs on Strix Halo |
-| `gpu-dense` | RTX 3090 (.8) | SmartCode-Fable-5-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL | Whatever runs on RTX 3090 |
-| `gpu-light` | RTX 5070 (.110) | gemma-4-12b | Whatever runs on RTX 5070 |
+| Alias | Serves | Where | Kind |
+|-------|--------|-------|------|
+| `gpu-dense` | heavy reasoning | RTX 3090 (192.168.68.8) | direct alias |
+| `gpu-vision` | vision / web extract / light tasks | RTX 5070 (192.168.68.110) | direct alias AND `syslog-auto` pool member |
+| `strix-moe` | compression (MoE) | Strix Halo (192.168.68.15) | direct alias |
+| `syslog-auto` | balanced default | weighted pool across the three GPU hosts | pool router |
 
-**Backward compatibility**: Old model-specific names (qwen3.6-27B-code, gemma-4-12b, qwen3.6-35B-udq4) still work
-but are deprecated for agent configs. Only the stable aliases survive model swaps.
+Single source of truth for models, aliases, rpm caps, weights and fallback chains:
+CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`. Do not duplicate those values in
+contracts — read them there.
 
-## Current Model Assignments (2026-07-15)
-
-| Model | GPU | Host | VRAM | Ctx | KV Cache | Parallel | Batch/Ubatch | Status |
-|-------|-----|------|------|-----|----------|----------|-------------|--------|
-| SmartCode-Fable-5-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL | RTX 3090 | .8 (llm-gpu) | ~22.4/24.6GB (91%) | **128K** | q4_0 | 1 | 2048/1024 | ✅ healthy |
-| gemma-4-12b | RTX 5070 | .110 (ocu-llm) | ~7.8/12.2GB (65%) | 128K | q4_0 | 2 | 2048/1024 | ✅ healthy |
-| qwen3.6-35B-udq4 | Strix Halo Vulkan | .15 (amdpve) | ~22GB/64GB | 128K | q4_0 | 1 | 4096/1024 | ✅ 65 tok/s |
+**No backward compatibility**: Old model-specific names (qwen3.6-27B-code, qwen3.5-9b-it) are retired as of 2026-09-12
+and no longer resolve; do not use them in agent configs. Only the stable aliases survive model swaps. `gemma-4-12b`
+is retired and returns 400 `Invalid model name`.
 
 ## Routing Configuration (LiteLLM — July 2026)
 
-### syslog-auto Weighted Pool (Direct GPU — bypasses router)
+Model, alias, rpm/weight and fallback values are owned by CT 116
+`/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml` (see § Stable Role-Based Aliases above).
 
-| Model | GPU | Weight | RPM Cap | Timeout |
-|-------|-----|--------|---------|---------|
-| SmartCode-Fable-5-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL | RTX 3090 (.8:8080) | **0.55** | 500 | **300s** |
-| qwen3.6-35B-udq4 | Strix Halo (.15:8080) | **0.30** | 60 | **300s** |
-| gemma-4-12b | RTX 5070 (.110:8080) | **0.15** | 200 | **120s** |
-
-Note: All syslog-auto entries route directly to GPUs with `api_key: not-needed`. The router (port 9000) is NOT in the inference path.
-
-### Direct Model Endpoints
-
-| Model | RPM Cap | Notes |
-|-------|---------|-------|
-| strix-moe (qwen3.6-35B-udq4) | 40 | Tight cap — prevents Strix overload |
-| SmartCode-Fable-5-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL | 500 | High cap — primary workhorse (replaces qwen3.6-27B-code) |
-| gemma-4-12b | 500 | High cap — IQ4_NL+MTP, 122 tok/s |
-
-### Stable Aliases (for agent configs — never change)
-
-| Alias | RPM Cap | Routes To | Purpose |
-|-------|---------|-----------|---------|
-| `strix-moe` | 40 | Strix Halo | Compression tasks (MoE models) |
-| `gpu-dense` | 500 | RTX 3090 | Heavy reasoning |
-| `gpu-light` | 500 | RTX 5070 | Vision, web extract, light tasks |
-
-### Fallback Chains
-- gemma → qwen
-- qwen → gemma
-- strix-moe → qwen → gemma
-- syslog-auto → qwen → gemma → qwen3.6-35B-udq4
-
-### Why Strix Halo RPM Is Capped
-- Direct (strix-moe): 40 RPM (tight) — Strix Halo is shared with compression tasks
-- Via syslog-auto: 60 RPM (moderate) — prevents flooding when multiple agents use syslog-auto simultaneously
-- Combined max: ~100 RPM across both paths — Strix Halo can sustain this at 80°C
+Note: All syslog-auto entries route directly to GPUs with `api_key: not-needed`. The router (port 9000) was decommissioned 2026-09-11 and is NOT in the inference path.
 
 ## Operations
 
@@ -165,7 +124,7 @@ Note: All syslog-auto entries route directly to GPUs with `api_key: not-needed`.
 6. Cleanup model files (optional)
 
 ### heal
-1. Check all GPUs via router internal `:9000/health/unified`
+1. Check all GPUs via gpu-monitor `{{gpu_dashboard_url}}/gpu-data`
 2. Check LiteLLM health via nginx `:80/litellm/health/liveliness`
 3. Reset stuck circuit breakers if idle (Redis)
 4. Restart dead llama-server instances via SSH
@@ -173,7 +132,7 @@ Note: All syslog-auto entries route directly to GPUs with `api_key: not-needed`.
 6. Verify GPU monitor server is running on pi (:9100)
 7. Verify watchdog is running on pi
 8. Restart router if roster not loaded (check logs for STARTUP ROSTER)
-9. Reload roster via `POST :9000/admin/roster/reload` if available
+9. Router roster reload — REMOVED 2026-09-11 (router decommissioned; LiteLLM fallbacks handle routing)
 
 ### sync-keys
 1. List all agent keys in LiteLLM DB via `GET /key/list`
@@ -192,9 +151,7 @@ Show full fleet status: GPUs, models, VRAM, context windows, parallel slots, act
 2. Check llama-server processes: `ps aux | grep llama-server` on all 3 hosts
 3. Check LiteLLM: `curl http://192.168.68.116/health` (expect "I'm alive!")
 4. Check LiteLLM models: `curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASTER_KEY" http://192.168.68.116/v1/models`
-5. Check LiteLLM timeouts: `grep -n 'timeout:' /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`
-   - gemma-4-12b: 120s, qwen3.6-27B-code: 300s, qwen3.6-35B-udq4/strix-moe: 300s (strix-moe does NOT exist — legacy name, do not use)
-   - global request_timeout: 300s, nginx proxy_read_timeout: 600s
+5. Check LiteLLM timeouts: `grep -n 'timeout:' /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml` — read the live values from the authority config; do not assert them from this contract.
 6. Check AMD metrics: `curl http://192.168.68.15:9400/metrics` (Radeon 8060S, util%, VRAM, temp, power)
 7. Check port conflicts: verify only one llama-server on :8080 per host
 8. Verify agent keys: 9 keys in LiteLLM DB (`GET /key/list`)
@@ -208,7 +165,7 @@ Plaintext keys removed from this contract post-vault-migration.
 | Agent | CT | IP | LiteLLM Alias | Key Source | Access |
 |-------|-----|-----|---------------|------------|--------|
 | Tanko | 112 | .122 | `tanko` | Infisical vault | SSH jerome |
-| Mumuni | 100 (abiba) | .24 | `mumuni` | Infisical vault | SSH root |
+| Mumuni | 105 (kagentz) | .14 | `mumuni` | Infisical vault | SSH root |
 | Abiba | 100 | .24 | `abiba-pi` | Infisical vault | local (pi agent) |
 | Koby | 111 | ? | `koby` | Infisical vault | Zulip DM |
 | Koonimo | 113 | ? | `koonimo` | Infisical vault (migrated 2026-07-11) | no SSH |
@@ -233,7 +190,7 @@ If no SSH access, send Zulip DM via abiba-bot with vault update instructions.
 | `/root/scripts/gpu-saturation-watchdog.py` | pi (.24) | Auto-restart stuck llama-server |
 | `/root/dashboard/gpu-fleet.html` | pi (.24) | Live HTML dashboard |
 | `/etc/systemd/system/llama-server.service` | .8, .110 | llama-server daemons (Nvidia GPUs) |
-| `/etc/systemd/system/strix-server.service` | .15 (amdpve) | llama-server daemon (Vulkan, Strix Halo) running unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF. Note: `llama-server.service` and `llama-server@.service` are **masked** on .15 to prevent port 8080 collisions. |
+| `/etc/systemd/system/strix-server.service` | .15 (amdpve) | llama-server daemon (Vulkan, Strix Halo) running Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf (256K ctx). Note: `llama-server.service` and `llama-server@.service` are **masked** on .15 to prevent port 8080 collisions. |
 
 ## Prometheus & Grafana
 
@@ -250,11 +207,7 @@ If no SSH access, send Zulip DM via abiba-bot with vault update instructions.
 - **Router startup race**: Compose router.py doesn't call load_roster(). Reload thread sleeps 30s first.
   Fix: trigger roster reload via SSH after restart, or rebuild image with startup load_roster().
 - **LiteLLM /metrics**: Requires auth. Prometheus uses `/health/liveliness` as workaround.
-- **VRAM (2026-07-15)**: RTX 3090 at ~17/24.6GB (~70%) with **128K context** (reduced from 256K 2026-07-17). RTX 5070 at ~7.8/12.2GB (~65%) with 128K context + MTP. Strix Halo at ~7GB/64GB.
-- **RTX 3090 (2026-07-27)**: Swapped to SmartCode-Fable-5-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL (14.7GB). Q4 was too large for 24GB VRAM with 128K context + KV cache overhead. Q3 fits at ~22.4GB (91%). Uses standard llama.cpp build b9190 (turboquant b9150 incompatible with qwen3_5 arch). Config: `-c 131072 -ctk q4_0 -ctv q4_0 --flash-attn on --cont-batching`. Sampler: `--temp 0.9 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 60 --min-p 0.0 --repeat-penalty 1.0`. Service: `/home/llmuser/llama-fable-wrapper.sh`.
-- **RTX 5070 config (2026-07-15)**: Switched to IQ4_NL + MTP draft (Q8_0) at 128K context. Gen speed: 122 tok/s. VRAM: ~7.8/12.2GB (~65%). Service: `/home/llmuser/llama-wrapper.sh`. Config: `--model gemma-4-12b-it-IQ4_NL.gguf --spec-draft-model gemma-4-12b-it-Q8_0-MTP.gguf --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 4 --ctx-size 131072`.
-- **LiteLLM timeout tuning (verified 2026-07-27)**: SmartCode-Fable-5-27B 300s, gemma-4-12b 120s, qwen3.6-27B-code 300s (legacy), qwen3.6-35B-udq4 300s, strix-moe 300s, syslog-auto routes all 300s. Nginx proxy_read_timeout: 600s. Global request_timeout: 300s.
-- **Strix Halo GPU**: Vulkan is the working backend (ROCm/HIP path abandoned — HSA runtime blocked on Debian 13). Build at `/root/llama.cpp/build-vk/`, commit `4fc4ec5` (2026-07-01), ggml 0.15.3 shared-lib arch. Mesa RADV 25.0.7, KHR_coopmat fast path active. ~70 tok/s gen, 532 tok/s prompt. Service: `strix-server.service` on port 8080, model: `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`, alias `strix-moe`, 128K context, flash-attn + q4 KV, multimodal (mmproj loaded).
+- **Strix Halo GPU**: Vulkan is the working backend (ROCm/HIP path abandoned — HSA runtime blocked on Debian 13). Build at `/root/llama.cpp/build-vk/`, commit `4fc4ec5` (2026-07-01), ggml 0.15.3 shared-lib arch. Mesa RADV 25.0.7, KHR_coopmat fast path active. ~70 tok/s gen, 532 tok/s prompt. Service: `strix-server.service` on port 8080, model: `Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf`, alias `strix-moe`, 256K context (n_ctx 262144), --parallel 2 --kv-unified, flash-attn + q4 KV, multimodal (mmproj loaded).
 - **Port conflict detection (2026-07-05)**: All 3 GPU wrappers now detect ghost processes squatting port 8080 before starting. `.8` and `.110` use inline pre-start check in `llama-wrapper.sh`; `.15` uses `/usr/local/bin/port-cleanup.sh` ExecStartPre. Replaces the blanket `pkill -9 -x llama-server` on .15 which would kill ALL llama-server instances regardless of port. Ghost detection was the root cause of .8 crash-looping for 27+ restarts (stale pid 25836 squatting 8080 after OOM kill).
 - **Strix Halo thermal safeguard (2026-07-02)**: `strix-server.service` has `-n 8192` (hard generation cap per request). Without it, `--predict` defaults to -1 (infinity) — a runaway request from .123 (old Mumuni CT114 — now inside Abiba CT100 at .24) decoded 39,868 tokens over 24 min, pushing Tctl to 98°C (crit 89.8°C) and throttling 70→29 t/s. The cap bounds worst-case generation to ~5 min. Do NOT remove `-n` without a replacement ceiling. Sustained load hits ~84°C even at 92s; the APU is fanless/low-flow. Clients MUST also set `max_tokens`.
 - **Port 8080 firewall**: amdpve iptables restricts 8080 to 192.168.68.116 (LiteLLM/router host) only. All inbound connections are from .116 (LiteLLM proxied via nginx). Localhost curls hang (SYN dropped). Always test from .116.
@@ -263,19 +216,19 @@ If no SSH access, send Zulip DM via abiba-bot with vault update instructions.
 - **Alert migration**: All alerts now go to `#agent-hub` topics (`alerts-gpu`, `alerts-pm2`, `alerts-infra`) instead of DMs. Cross-agent visibility enabled.
 - **tok/s benchmarks**: Measured every 5 min via LiteLLM proxy. Baselines tracked with 30%/50% degradation thresholds.
 - **NetBird 502**: Tanko routes through NetBird for litellm.sysloggh.net. Use direct IP if NetBird down.
+- **Alias-retirement sweep (2026-09-12)**: `gemma-4-12b`, `gpu-light` and `crew-auto` are retired and replaced by `gpu-vision` / no cap respectively. The agent-facing templates (`hermes-config-template.prose.md`, `hermes-agent-baseline.prose.md`), `litellm-api-keys.prose.md`, `gpu-self-heal.prose.md`, `hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md`, `inference-optimization.prose.md`, `litellm-client-timeouts.prose.md` and the executable `audit-hermes-config.py` were all updated to the live canonical alias in the same change. **koby's config on .129 still names `gpu-light` (and `gemma-4-E4B`); .129 is report-only, so that is recorded for its owner and NOT edited here.**
 
 ## GPU Inference Benchmarks (Current)
 
 | GPU | Model | Gen tok/s | Prompt tok/s | Baseline | Context |
 |-----|-------|-----------|--------------|----------|---------|
-| RTX 3090 (.8) | SmartCode-Fable-5-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL | **TBD** | — | — | **128K** |
-| RTX 5070 (.110) | gemma-4-12b (IQ4_NL+MTP) | **191** | — | — | **128K** |
-| Strix Halo (.15) | qwen3.6-35B-udq4 | **65** | 140 | — | **128K** |
+| RTX 3090 (.8) | Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Q4_K_M | **TBD** | — | — | **128K** |
+| Strix Halo (.15) | Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf (strix-moe) | **65** | 140 | — | **256K** |
 
-Benchmarks from 2026-07-17. Strix Halo model: qwen3.6-35B-udq4. RTX 5070 MTP provides 2.7x speedup over pre-upgrade 70 tok/s.
-All 3 GPUs now at 128K context (2026-07-17, reduced from 256K for stability).
+Benchmarks from 2026-07-17. Strix Halo model: Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf (alias strix-moe), n_ctx 262144, --parallel 2 --kv-unified. RTX 5070 MTP provides 2.7x speedup over pre-upgrade 70 tok/s.
+GPU contexts: RTX 3090 (.8) and RTX 5070 (.110) at 128K; Strix Halo (.15) at 256K (2026-09-12).
 
-Benchmarks run through LiteLLM proxy (192.168.68.116:4001) every 5 minutes.
+Benchmarks run through LiteLLM proxy (192.168.68.116:4000) every 5 minutes.
 Degradation alerts fire at 30% (warning) and 50% (critical) below baseline.
 History stored at `/root/data/toks-history.json` with 7-day rolling window.
 
@@ -286,47 +239,46 @@ History stored at `/root/data/toks-history.json` with 7-day rolling window.
 ### Stable Aliases — CRITICAL
 
 All agent configs MUST use stable role-based aliases, never model-specific names:
-- `compression.model: strix-moe` (NOT `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`)
-- `auxiliary.vision.model: gpu-light` (NOT `gemma-4-12b`)
-- `delegation.model: gpu-dense` (NOT `qwen3.6-27B-code`)
-- `auxiliary.web_extract.model: gpu-light`
+- `compression.model: syslog-auto`
+- `auxiliary.vision.model: gpu-vision`
+- `delegation.model: gpu-dense`
+- `auxiliary.web_extract.model: gpu-vision`
 
 When the underlying model is swapped, only the LiteLLM config changes — agent configs are untouched.
 
 ### Context Windows
-- RTX 3090: **128K** (reduced from 256K 2026-07-17) | RTX 5070: **128K** (reduced from 256K) | Strix Halo: **128K**
-- **All agents**: 128K ceiling — stable margin. For >128K workloads, use external providers (deepseek)
-- Compression threshold 0.65: fires at ~85K (~43K headroom before 128K ceiling)
-- Mumuni compression model alias: `strix-moe` with 300s timeout
+- RTX 3090: **128K** (reduced from 256K 2026-07-17) | RTX 5070: **128K** (reduced from 256K) | Strix Halo: **256K** (2026-09-12)
+- **Agents via `syslog-auto`**: 128K ceiling — the pool's safe floor (NVIDIA hosts are 128K). For >128K workloads, use external providers (deepseek)
+- Compression threshold 0.65 (audit Rule 9): fires at ~85K (~43K headroom before 128K ceiling)
+- **Pi agents (Abiba)**: `compaction.reserveTokens: 52739` (≈60% of 128K)
+- Mumuni compression model alias: `syslog-auto`
 
 ### Mumuni Agent Profile
 
-Mumuni (CT100/abiba, 192.168.68.24) is the primary business assistant. This profile is the reference for all agent configs:
+Mumuni (kagentz CT105, 192.168.68.14 — migrated from CT100 2026-08-29) is the primary business assistant. This profile is the reference for all agent configs. The compression values below are the current required values per template Rules 7/9 and `audit-hermes-config.py`; whether Mumuni's LIVE config currently complies is a separate operational question.
 
 | Setting | Value | Notes |
 |---------|-------|-------|
-| `model.default` | `syslog-auto` | Weighted pool (55% qwen, 30% strix, 15% gemma) |
+| `model.default` | `syslog-auto` | Balanced default (pool router) |
 | `model.provider` | `custom:litellm` | LiteLLM on CT116 |
-| `compression.model` | `strix-moe` | Stable alias — survives model swaps |
-| `aux.compression.model` | `strix-moe` | Compression auxiliary model |
-| `aux.vision.model` | `gpu-light` | Vision tasks (RTX 5070) |
-| `aux.web_extract.model` | `gpu-light` | Web extraction |
+| `compression.model` | `syslog-auto` | Rule 7: auto-routing, prevents Strix Halo overload |
+| `aux.compression.model` | `syslog-auto` | Must match `compression.model` (Rule 7) |
+| `aux.vision.model` | `gpu-vision` | Vision tasks (RTX 5070) |
+| `aux.web_extract.model` | `gpu-vision` | Web extraction |
 | `delegation.model` | `gpu-dense` | Sub-agent reasoning (RTX 3090) |
-| `context.max_context_window` | 131072 (128K) | Reduced from 256K 2026-07-17 — stable 128K ceiling |
-| `compression.threshold` | 0.65 | Triggers at ~85K |
+| `context.max_context_window` | 131072 (128K) | Conservative `syslog-auto` pool floor (NVIDIA hosts 128K; Strix Halo 256K) |
+| `compression.threshold` | 0.65 | Rule 9: triggers at ~85K for a 128K window |
 | `compression.target_ratio` | 0.3 | Compresses to ~38K |
 | `compression.protect_last_n` | 40 | Preserves last 40 messages |
 | `memory.memory_char_limit` | 800 | Brief memory entries |
 | `personalities` | `creative` | Creative assistant personality |
 | Platforms | cli, homeassistant, signal, telegram, zulip | All Hermes platforms |
-| Main model timeout | 300s | LiteLLM global timeout |
-| Compression model timeout | 300s | strix-moe timeout increased from 120s |
 
 ### Agent Update Status (2026-07-15)
 
 | Agent | Host | Status |
 |-------|------|--------|
-| **Mumuni** | CT100 (.24) | ✅ Updated to stable aliases |
+| **Mumuni** | CT105 (.14) | ✅ Updated to stable aliases |
 | **Tanko** | CT112 (.122) | ✅ Updated to stable aliases |
 | **Koby** | CT111 (.129) | ❌ SSH unreachable — needs Zulip DM |
 | **Koonimo** | CT113 | ❌ SSH unreachable — needs Zulip DM |

gpu-monitor.prose.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 kind: responsibility
 name: gpu-monitor
 description: >
-  Comprehensive GPU fleet monitor — polls every subsystem (sidecars, router,
+  Comprehensive GPU fleet monitor — polls every subsystem (sidecars,
   LiteLLM, Strix Halo, dashboard) every 15s, renders a live HTML dashboard,
   checks alert thresholds, and exposes a JSON API for downstream consumers.
 agent: abiba
@@ -27,27 +27,38 @@ agent: abiba
 ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌────────┐
 │.8:8080│ │.110  │ │.116:80 │
 │RTX3090│ │:8080 │ │nginx   │
-│gemma  │ │RTX5070│ │router  │
-└──────┘ │qwen27B│ │LiteLLM │
+│qwen   │ │RTX5070│ │router  │
+└──────┘ │vision │ │LiteLLM │
          └──────┘ │dashboard│
                   └────────┘
+```
 
 Note: JSON sidecar exporters at :8090 were never deployed on any
 GPU host. Router falls back to GPU /health direct probe. Monitor
 should use router /health/unified as source of truth for GPU status.
 Strix Halo :8080 is firewalled to .116 only — monitor on .24 cannot
 poll .15:8080 directly; must go through router on .116.
-```
+
+**PORT RULE (verified 2026-09-10):** GPU per-host health lives on **:8080**
+(`http://<gpu-host>:8080/health`); Prometheus GPU exporters live on **:9400**.
+There is NO listener on bare port 80 for any GPU host — `http://192.168.68.8/health`
+and `http://192.168.68.110/health` answer `000`. Never use a bare-port-80 probe
+as a GPU liveness signal: on 2026-09-09 that produced three false
+`DEGRADED — GPU-rtx3090 000, GPU-rtx5070 000` rounds while
+`http://192.168.68.8:8080/health` and `http://192.168.68.110:8080/health`
+answered `200`. Port 80 is valid only on the harness host (.116), never on a GPU host.
 
 ### Subsystems Polled
 
 | Subsystem | Endpoint | Frequency | Metrics |
 |-----------|----------|-----------|---------|
-| GPU Status (all, via router) | `http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` | 15s | models, CB, scores, GPU status (router probes each GPU /health directly) |
-| Router (unified) | `http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` | 15s | models, CB, scores, GPU status |
-| Router (basic) | `http://192.168.68.116/health` | 15s | basic aliveness |
+| GPU Status (all, via fleet API) | `http://192.168.68.116/gpu/gpu-data` | 15s | models, CB, scores, GPU status from gpu-monitor on .24:9100 |
+| GPU .8 (RTX 3090) health | `http://192.168.68.8:8080/health` | 15s | direct liveness fallback — **:8080 ONLY, never bare port 80** |
+| GPU .110 (RTX 5070) health | `http://192.168.68.110:8080/health` | 15s | direct liveness fallback — **:8080 ONLY, never bare port 80** |
+| Fleet (unified) | `http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` | 15s | nginx `301` → `/gpu/gpu-data` served by gpu-monitor = alive (router decommissioned 2026-09-11) |
+| Harness (basic) | `http://192.168.68.116/health` | 15s | nginx → LiteLLM `/health/liveliness` |
 | LiteLLM | `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health` | 15s | proxy health, model count |
-| Strix Halo | `http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` (router) | 15s | Strix Halo status via router — cannot poll .15:8080 directly (firewalled to .116 only) |
+| Strix Halo | `http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` (nginx → fleet API) | 15s | Strix Halo status via gpu-monitor — cannot poll .15:8080 directly (firewalled to .116 only) |
 | Dashboard | `http://192.168.68.116/dashboard/` | 15s | harness-dashboard aliveness |
 
 ### Alert Delivery
@@ -61,12 +72,28 @@ This replaces the previous DM-only delivery. All agents on the mesh can see and
 
 ## Alert Thresholds
 
+### Liveness rule (scoped)
+
+The any-HTTP-response rule applies ONLY to redirect/auth-gated liveness
+endpoints, where any HTTP answer proves a listener is up. Applied here: nginx's
+`/health/unified` answers `301 Moved Permanently` → `/gpu/gpu-data`
+(the same payload) and LiteLLM's `/litellm/health` answers `301` →
+`/litellm/health/liveliness`. For those endpoints a probe is **ALIVE** on
+**ANY** HTTP status — `3xx` redirects and `401`/`403` auth challenges included —
+and **DOWN = connection refused (`000`) or timeout only**. Same scoped rule as
+zulip-health (Tanko) and infrastructure-monitoring.
+
+Probes whose success condition is specifically a bare `200` are NOT covered by
+the any-HTTP rule. On those — the GPU `:8080/health` endpoints, nginx `/health`,
+and the dashboard — an unexpected status (`401`/`403`, `5xx`, or
+anything other than the expected `200`) is an **ALERT**, not "alive".
+
 | Metric | Warning | Critical |
 |--------|---------|----------|
 | GPU Temp | >80°C | >90°C |
 | VRAM Usage | >90% | >95% |
 | GPU Util | >95% | >98% |
-| Sidecar Unreachable | — | info (sidecars not deployed — use router /health/unified) |
+| Sidecar Unreachable | — | info (sidecars not deployed — use gpu-monitor /gpu-data) |
 | Model Down | — | critical (circuit breaker open) |
 
 ### JSON API Response Schema (/gpu-data)
@@ -97,7 +124,47 @@ This replaces the previous DM-only delivery. All agents on the mesh can see and
 `curl http://localhost:9100/gpu-data | jq` — Full fleet status
 
 ### check-health
-`curl http://localhost:9100/health` — Monitor self-check
+
+**RUN LIVE, NEVER ECHO — every dispatch must execute the probes below with real tool calls; never repeat a prior report unless a live probe fails.**
+
+```bash
+# Provenance — run first; paste the absolute path into the report
+pwd -P
+
+# GPU Monitor health
+ curl http://localhost:9100/health | jq
+# Expected: 200 with {"status": "healthy", "cache_age_seconds": <n>}
+
+# GPU host health — DIRECT on :8080. NEVER probe bare port 80 on a GPU host:
+# http://192.168.68.8/health has no listener and returns 000 → false DEGRADED.
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.8:8080/health
+# Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe: any other status is an alert; 000/timeout = DOWN)
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.110:8080/health
+# Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe: any other status is an alert; 000/timeout = DOWN)
+
+# Router unified health (source of truth; 301 → /gpu/gpu-data is HEALTHY)
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116/health/unified
+# Expected: 301 (or 200 after following the redirect) — any HTTP status = alive
+
+# Router basic health (via nginx on port 80 — router .116 only, never a GPU host)
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116/health
+# Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe: any other status is an alert; 000/timeout = DOWN)
+
+# LiteLLM health (via nginx on port 80)
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health
+# Expected: 301 → /litellm/health/liveliness (200 after redirect) — any HTTP status = alive
+
+# Dashboard
+ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116/dashboard/
+# Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe: any other status is an alert; 000/timeout = DOWN)
+```
+
+**Report format**: Begin every report with the **absolute path the probe executed
+from** (`pwd -P`, or the monitor script's absolute path) so a stale-consumer
+report is distinguishable from a real fault at read time. Summarize actual
+results from each probe. Apply the scoped liveness rule above: on auth-gated
+endpoints only connection-refused (`000`) or timeout is DOWN; on bare-200 probes
+any other status is an alert. Never probe a GPU host on bare port 80.
 
 ### view-dashboard
 Open `http://localhost:9100/` in browser — Live HTML dashboard
@@ -107,12 +174,14 @@ Open `http://localhost:9100/` in browser — Live HTML dashboard
 pkill -f gpu-monitor-server.py
 python3 /root/scripts/gpu-monitor-server.py &
 ```
-Or via PM2: `pm2 restart gpu-monitor`
+Managed by systemd (verified 2026-09-11): `systemctl restart gpu-monitor`
 
-### check-router
-The router health is accessed through nginx on port 80 (NOT port 9000 directly).
-`curl http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` — Router unified health via nginx proxy
-`curl http://192.168.68.116:9000/health/unified` — ❌ WILL FAIL (port bound to 127.0.0.1 only)
+### check-fleet
+Fleet health is accessed through nginx on port 80 on the harness host
+(.116) — NOT port 9000 (router decommissioned 2026-09-11), and NOT bare
+port 80 on a GPU host.
+`curl http://192.168.68.116/health/unified` — nginx answers `301` → `/gpu/gpu-data` (fleet monitor payload) = alive
+`curl http://192.168.68.8/health` — ❌ NEVER USE (GPU host, no port-80 listener → false `000`/DEGRADED)
 
 ## Configuration Files
 
@@ -124,13 +193,18 @@ The router health is accessed through nginx on port 80 (NOT port 9000 directly).
 
 ## Execution
 
-1. **Poll router** (every 15s): GET .116/health/unified — single source of truth for all GPU status (router probes each GPU /health directly via sidecar fallback)
-2. **Poll router** (every 15s): GET .116/health via nginx:80
-3. **Poll LiteLLM** (every 15s): GET .116/litellm/health via nginx:80
-4. **Poll Strix** (every 15s): via router /health/unified (cannot poll .15:8080 directly — firewalled to .116 only)
-5. **Poll dashboard** (every 15s): GET .116/dashboard/
-6. **Check alerts**: Compare metrics against thresholds
-7. **Compute summary**: Fleet-wide health aggregation
-8. **Render dashboard**: Generate HTML at /root/dashboard/gpu-fleet.html
-9. **Serve API**: HTTP server on port 9100
-10. **Repeat** every 15 seconds
+**Port discipline:** probe GPU hosts on `:8080` (or the router's
+`/health/unified`); probe port 80 only on the router (.116). Never bare port 80
+on a GPU host.
+
+1. **Poll router** (every 15s): GET .116/health/unified — single source of truth for all GPU status (router probes each GPU /health directly via sidecar fallback). `301` → `/gpu/gpu-data` counts as alive.
+2. **Fallback direct GPU probe** (only if router /health/unified is DOWN): GET `http://192.168.68.8:8080/health` and `http://192.168.68.110:8080/health` — **:8080 only, never bare port 80**.
+3. **Poll router** (every 15s): GET .116/health via nginx:80
+4. **Poll LiteLLM** (every 15s): GET .116/litellm/health via nginx:80
+5. **Poll Strix** (every 15s): via router /health/unified (cannot poll .15:8080 directly — firewalled to .116 only)
+6. **Poll dashboard** (every 15s): GET .116/dashboard/
+7. **Check alerts**: Compare metrics against thresholds
+8. **Compute summary**: Fleet-wide health aggregation
+9. **Render dashboard**: Generate HTML at /root/dashboard/gpu-fleet.html
+10. **Serve API**: HTTP server on port 9100
+11. **Repeat** every 15 seconds

gpu-self-heal.prose.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 kind: responsibility
 name: gpu-self-heal
 description: >
@@ -7,15 +9,16 @@ description: >
   (v2.1.0) with active remediation rules, Prometheus metrics consumption,
   VRAM trend analysis, and predictive alerting.
   UPDATED 2026-07-18: Model assignments synced to 2026-07-17 swaps.
-  Router (port 9000) references replaced with direct GPU routing.
+  Router (port 9000) DECOMMISSIONED 2026-09-11; references replaced with direct GPU routing.
   Benchmark baselines refreshed to live values.
   Prometheus exporters removed — not deployed; fall back to direct sidecar probes.
-  Stable role-based aliases (strix-moe, gpu-dense, gpu-light) from gpu-fleet.
+  Stable role-based aliases (strix-moe, gpu-dense, gpu-vision) from gpu-fleet.
 agent: abiba
 depends_on:
   - gpu-monitor.prose.md (live data source on .24:9100)
   - gpu-fleet.prose.md (source of truth for topology, aliases, model assignments)
 ---
+---
 
 ## Maintains
 
@@ -38,20 +41,19 @@ depends_on:
 - On fix: verify with benchmark inference test before declaring resolved
 - Escalate: after 3 failed remediation attempts → Zulip #agent-hub alert
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Current Fleet Baseline (2026-07-18)
 
 | Alias | GPU | Host | Model | VRAM | Ctx | tok/s | Role |
 |-------|-----|------|-------|------|-----|-------|------|
-| `gpu-dense` | RTX 3090 24GB | ct8 (.8:8080) | ThinkingCap Qwen3.6-27B Q4_K_M + MTP + vision | 21.6/24.6GB (88%) | 128K | 74.9 | Heavy reasoning, code gen |
-| `gpu-light` | RTX 5070 12GB | ct110 (.110:8080) | HauhauCS Gemma4-12B QAT Q4_K_M + MTP draft | 10.1/12.2GB (83%) | 128K | 169.6 | Vision, web extract, light tasks |
-| `strix-moe` | Strix Halo 64GB | ct15 (.15:8080) | qwen3.6-35B-udq4 | ~10/64GB (16%) | 128K | 62.9 | Compression, summarization, long docs |
+| `strix-moe` | Strix Halo 64GB | ct15 (.15:8080) | Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf | ~10/64GB (16%) | 256K | 62.9 | Compression, summarization, long docs |
 
 Key notes:
-- All models use direct GPU routing via LiteLLM (`api_key: not-needed`). Router (port 9000) is deprecated and NOT in the inference path.
-- Stable aliases (gpu-dense, gpu-light, strix-moe) from gpu-fleet are the canonical names for agent configs. Model-specific names still work but are deprecated.
-- RTX 5070 tok/s is 2.3x faster than RTX 3090 for its model — gpu-light is the fastest endpoint. Route vision/web/light work there first.
+- All models use direct GPU routing via LiteLLM (`api_key: not-needed`). Router (port 9000) was decommissioned 2026-09-11 and is NOT in the inference path.
+- Stable aliases (gpu-dense, gpu-vision, strix-moe) from gpu-fleet are the canonical names for agent configs — use these, not model-specific names. The retired names `gpu-light` and `gemma-4-12b` were superseded by `gpu-vision` on 2026-09-12 and no longer resolve (400 `Invalid model name`).
+- The RTX 5070 is the fastest endpoint per token — `gpu-vision` is its canonical alias. Route vision/web/light work there first. The RTX 5070 model is multimodal (image+text).
 - Strix Halo is 62.9 tok/s (89% of 70.5 baseline) — below optimal but stable. Check for competing workloads.
 - RTX 3090 VRAM at 88% — within role-appropriate range (role = heavy reasoning, needs the headroom).
 - RTX 5070 VRAM at 83% — role-appropriate for vision/web (smaller batch sizes).
@@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ Key notes:
 - **Detect**: Any GPU temp >85°C sustained for 2+ consecutive polls
 - **Fix**: 
   1. Reduce inference concurrency on that GPU (load-side cooling only — NO fan control)
-  2. Redirect new requests to cooler GPUs via LiteLLM fallback chains (gemma → qwen, qwen → gemma)
+  2. Redirect new requests to cooler GPUs via LiteLLM fallback chains (gpu-vision → gpu-dense, gpu-dense → gpu-vision)
   3. If all GPUs hot, alert about cooling infrastructure
 - **Verify**: Temp drops below 80°C within 5 minutes
 - **Escalate after**: 3 verification failures → Zulip alert
@@ -102,10 +104,10 @@ Key notes:
 
 ### Rule 5: Circuit Breaker Stuck Open
 - **Detect**: Circuit breaker open >10 minutes with GPU reporting healthy
-- **Note**: Router (port 9000) is deprecated. If circuit breakers are reported by gpu-monitor, they come from LiteLLM's internal tracking, not the old router.
+- **Note**: Router (port 9000) was decommissioned 2026-09-11. If circuit breakers are reported by gpu-monitor, they come from LiteLLM's internal tracking, not the old router.
 - **Fix**: 
   1. Verify GPU /health returns 200 on direct port (:8080)
-  2. If GPU healthy, alert but do NOT reset via router API (deprecated)
+  2. If GPU healthy, alert but do NOT reset via router API (decommissioned 2026-09-11)
   3. Check LiteLLM health directly: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health/liveliness
   4. Restart LiteLLM container on CT 116 if circuit breakers are stuck
 - **Verify**: LiteLLM returns healthy, circuit breaker clears within 60s
@@ -140,10 +142,10 @@ Key notes:
 - **Escalate**: If Tier 2 triggers and temp still rising after 5 min → possible hardware failure
 
 ### Rule 9: Context Window Optimization
-- **Detect**: Benchmark tok/s vs baseline for each GPU at current context (all 128K)
+- **Detect**: Benchmark tok/s vs baseline for each GPU at its current context
   - RTX 3090 (128K ctx, ThinkingCap): baseline 74.8 tok/s — currently at 74.9 (100%)
   - RTX 5070 (128K ctx, HauhauCS QAT): baseline 165.2 tok/s — currently at 169.6 (103%)
-  - Strix Halo (128K ctx, qwen3.6-35B-udq4): baseline 70.5 tok/s — currently at 62.9 (89%)
+  - Strix Halo (256K ctx, Carnice-Qwen3.6-MoE-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf): baseline 70.5 tok/s — currently at 62.9 (89%)
 - **Fix**:
   - If tok/s > baseline → context has headroom, consider increasing
   - If tok/s < 90% baseline → reduce context by 25% and retest
@@ -155,17 +157,19 @@ Key notes:
 ### Rule 10: Workload Distribution Optimization (updated 2026-07-18)
 - **Detect**: GPU roles misaligned with hardware capabilities
 - **Target distribution**:
-  - RTX 3090 (gpu-dense, 24GB, 74.9 tok/s) → Heavy reasoning, code gen, long conversations (slowest per-token but largest context capacity). Weight: 0.55 (LiteLLM).
-  - RTX 5070 (gpu-light, 12GB, 169.6 tok/s) → Vision/image, web search, lightweight tasks (2.3x faster than 3090 per token). Weight: 0.15 (LiteLLM).
-  - Strix Halo (strix-moe, 64GB, 62.9 tok/s) → Context compression, summarization, long docs (MoE model). Weight: 0.30 (LiteLLM).
+  - RTX 3090 (gpu-dense, 24GB, 74.9 tok/s) → Heavy reasoning, code gen, long conversations (slowest per-token but largest context capacity).
+  - RTX 5070 (gpu-vision, 12GB, ~145 tok/s) → Vision (image+text), web search, lightweight tasks.
+  - Strix Halo (strix-moe, 64GB, 62.9 tok/s) → Context compression, summarization, long docs (MoE model).
 - **Note**: RTX 5070 is the fastest endpoint per token. Route high-volume, low-complexity work there first.
+- **Weights are not restated here** — the live `syslog-auto` pool weights and rpm caps live in CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`, the single source of truth.
 - **Fix**:
   - Alert if any GPU is handling workload outside its designated role
-  - Recommend agent alias updates to match workload to GPU role (use stable aliases: gpu-dense, gpu-light, strix-moe)
+  - Recommend agent alias updates to match workload to GPU role (use stable aliases: gpu-dense, gpu-vision, strix-moe)
   - Track per-GPU request distribution via LiteLLM spend logs
 - **Verify**: Each GPU's request pattern matches its designated role within 24h
 - **Escalate**: If role mismatch persists >48h → agent alias audit needed
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Execution
@@ -247,6 +251,7 @@ call update-gpu-health
 }
 ```
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Reporting
@@ -263,6 +268,7 @@ Pushed to `SyslogSolution/health-logs/gpu/{run_id}.json` — versioned, searchab
 - Per-GPU tok/s trend over 7 days
 - Regression alerts if any GPU degrades >10% week-over-week
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Design Decisions (Verified 2026-07-12, Reaffirmed 2026-07-18)
@@ -271,7 +277,7 @@ Pushed to `SyslogSolution/health-logs/gpu/{run_id}.json` — versioned, searchab
 2. **Model restart**: ✅ Only if >50% failure rate over 60s + 30s grace period. Not on single stuck request.
 3. **Strix direct access**: ✅ Open firewall .15:8080 → .24 for direct health probe + restart.
 4. **VRAM thresholds**: Tiered — **300MB/h** (RTX 3090), **300MB/h** (RTX 5070), 200MB/h (Strix). Previous values (100/50) were too sensitive; raised 2026-07-18 based on operational data.
-5. **CB auto-reset**: ✅ Router deprecated — circuit breakers go through LiteLLM health check + container restart if needed. No per-GPU auto-reset.
+5. **CB auto-reset**: ✅ Router decommissioned 2026-09-11 — circuit breakers go through LiteLLM health check + container restart if needed. No per-GPU auto-reset.
 6. **Benchmark baseline**: Rolling 30-day average, recalculated weekly. Current baselines live in gpu-monitor.
 7. **Predictive alerts**: Two-tier — warn at >70°C+rising (>2°C/min), critical at >80°C+rising.
 8. **Prometheus**: ❌ Not deployed. Use direct sidecar probes (:8080/health) and gpu-monitor API. Prometheus integration deferred until exporters are running on GPU hosts.
@@ -306,6 +312,6 @@ Pushed to `SyslogSolution/health-logs/gpu/{run_id}.json` — versioned, searchab
   If monitor response > 1MB, log a warning and skip the cycle rather than crashing.
 
 ### L6: Stable Aliases Replace Model Names
-- gpu-fleet introduced stable aliases (strix-moe, gpu-dense, gpu-light) on 2026-07-15.
+- gpu-fleet introduced stable aliases (strix-moe, gpu-dense, gpu-light) on 2026-07-15; `gpu-light` was superseded by `gpu-vision` on 2026-09-12.
 - Self-heal must use aliases for reporting and alerting, not model-specific names.
 - **Rule**: All alert messages and KG nodes use the stable alias as the GPU identifier.

hermes-agent-baseline.prose.md

@@ -5,12 +5,30 @@ version: 1.0.0
 description: >
   Canonical known-good baseline for all Syslog Hermes agents. Captures the exact
   configuration state, keys, workarounds, and audit procedure. When an agent's
-  configuration goes sideways, restore from this baseline. Last verified 2026-07-16. All GPUs 128K context (reduced from 256K for stability Jul 2026) (RTX 3090 .8, RTX 5070 .110, Strix Halo .15). Parallel 1 fleet-wide (Strix Halo handles compression solo).
+  configuration goes sideways, restore from this baseline. Last verified 2026-07-16. RTX 3090/5070 at 128K (reduced from 256K for stability Jul 2026); Strix Halo at 256K (2026-09-12) (RTX 3090 .8, RTX 5070 .110, Strix Halo .15). Parallel 1 fleet-wide (Strix Halo handles compression solo).
 author: Abiba (pi agent)
 ---
 
 # Hermes Agent Baseline — Canonical Good State
 
+## Reachability Detection
+
+Before checking agent baseline, verify the host is reachable and can be audited. Use the shared reachability helper from the clone root:
+
+```bash
+# Run on each host to check reachability (Tanko, Mumuni, Koonimo, Koby)
+scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh <host> "api_key:" "/root/.hermes/config.yaml"
+# Example: scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh 192.168.68.122 "api_key:" "/root/.hermes/config.yaml"
+
+# Expected outcomes:
+# - UNREACHABLE: SSH connection failed (host is down)
+# - VIOLATION: SSH succeeded and found matches (report the finding)
+# - COMPLIANT: SSH succeeded and found no matches (no api_key in config)
+#
+# NOTE: The bug this replaces was deriving reachability from the remote grep's exit code.
+# The correct pattern: remote side always succeeds (grep ...; true), so ssh status = connection only.
+```
+
 ## Quick Restore
 
 ```bash
@@ -24,13 +42,12 @@ done
 
 | Agent | CT | Node | IP | LiteLLM Alias | Key Source | Platform |
 |-------|-----|------|-----|---------------|------------|----------|
-| Tanko | 112 | amdpve | .122 | `tanko` | Infisical vault | Hermes |
-| Mumuni | 100 | hwepve | .24 | `mumuni` | Infisical vault | Hermes |
-| Koby | 111 | amdpve | .129 | `koby` | Infisical vault | **Hermes** |
+| Koby | 111 | storepve | .129 | `koby` | Infisical vault | **Hermes** |
 | Koonimo | 113 | amdpve | .114 | `koonimo` | Infisical vault | Hermes |
 | Shumba | — | 192.168.68.119 | N/A | N/A (DeepSeek) | Hermes (RETIRED — CT119 now Infisical vault) |
 
 > **Note**: CT hostnames (tdunna→CT111, baggy→CT113) differ from agent identities (koby, koonimo).
+> CT 111 (tdunna, 192.168.68.129, storepve) is report-only — Theo's box; alert only, never garbage-collect.
 
 Access: `pct-run <CT_ID> <command>` — no IPs needed. GPU hosts (.8, .110, .15) use SSH.
 Keys are stored in Infisical vault (project=agents, env=production) and injected at
@@ -41,7 +58,7 @@ runtime via `infisical run --` wrapper. Plaintext keys removed from this baselin
 ```
 Infisical vault → infisical run -- hermes gateway → LITELLM_API_KEY (runtime)
                        ↓
-Agent (systemd) → LITELLM_API_KEY → LiteLLM (:116/v1) → Router (:9000) → GPU (llama-server)
+Agent (systemd) → LITELLM_API_KEY → LiteLLM (:116/v1) → GPU (llama-server)
                                      └── Key DB (Postgres)
 ```
 
@@ -53,9 +70,10 @@ Agent (systemd) → LITELLM_API_KEY → LiteLLM (:116/v1) → Router (:9000) →
 
 ## Config Pattern — Mandatory Fields
 
-### For Hermes Agents (Tanko, Mumuni, Koonimo)
+### For Hermes Agents (Mumuni, Koonimo)
 
-Every agent's `/root/.hermes/config.yaml` (or `/home/jerome/.hermes/config.yaml`) MUST have:
+Every Hermes agent's `/root/.hermes/config.yaml` (or `/home/jerome/.hermes/config.yaml`) MUST have:
+(Tanko is excluded — migrated to DSH/DeepSeek Harness on 2026-08-27, no longer uses Hermes config.)
 
 ### 1. Main Model
 ```yaml
@@ -71,7 +89,7 @@ model:
 custom_providers:
   - name: harness
     model: syslog-auto
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     api_mode: chat_completions
 ```
@@ -81,8 +99,8 @@ custom_providers:
 auxiliary:
   vision:
     provider: harness
-    model: gemma-4-12b              # or syslog-auto
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+    model: gpu-vision              # RTX 5070 stable alias (Rule 8; do not use syslog-auto for aux)
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     api_key: <value from: infisical secrets get LITELLM_API_KEY --project=agents --env=production>   # ← MANDATORY workaround
     timeout: 60
@@ -96,13 +114,33 @@ auxiliary:
     threshold: 0.65
     target_ratio: 0.3
     provider: harness
-    model: syslog-auto               # or gemma-4-12b
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+    model: syslog-auto               # Rule 7: compression must be syslog-auto
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     api_key: <value from: infisical secrets get LITELLM_API_KEY --project=agents --env=production>   # ← MANDATORY workaround
     timeout: 120
 ```
 
+## Violation Classification
+
+When reporting findings, separate POLICY observations from FAULT findings:
+
+### POLICY (observation only, not a fault)
+- Agent uses a non-internal-harness provider (e.g., direct DeepSeek, Tencent, OpenRouter)
+- Config text has a field that looks unusual but the agent's calls are succeeding
+- Example: "POLICY: Koonimo uses deepseek directly; calls succeeding in last hour"
+
+### FAULT (requires request-level evidence)
+- Agent's calls are failing with auth errors (401/403 in logs)
+- Agent's config has no valid API key AND calls are failing
+- Example: "FAULT: Koby's LiteLLM key expired; 401 observed at 2026-09-14 11:42:00"
+
+### Rules
+1. Do NOT infer the runtime's credential resolution from config text alone.
+2. Require request-level evidence before calling something a FAULT: an observed auth failure in the agent's log, or the absence of successful calls in the window.
+3. If calls are succeeding, the correct output is "POLICY: uses <provider> directly; calls succeeding" - not a violation.
+4. State what you OBSERVED, not what the field implies.
+
 ## Known Bug: `api_key_env` Ignored by Auxiliary Client
 
 **Bug location**: `agent/auxiliary_client.py` → `_resolve_task_provider_model()` (line ~5478)
@@ -169,11 +207,15 @@ pct-run <CT> grep -A8 "vision:" /root/.hermes/config.yaml | grep api_key
 # Must show both api_key: sk-... and api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
 ```
 
-### For Koby (CT 111 / tdunna)
+### For Koby (CT 111 / tdunna) — **REPORT-ONLY MODE**
 
 Koby runs Hermes on CT 111 (tdunna). Config files at `/root/.hermes/config.yaml`.
 Same Hermes pattern as Tanko/Mumuni/Koonimo — see config sections above.
 
+**⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (2026-08-17, Captain)**: Diagnostic only — detect and report, never fix on .129.
+No heal step, no restart, no key rotation, no config edit, no memory rewrite, no disk GC, no service touch, no process kill — ever.
+If a health check shows Koby degraded, **DO NOT** execute any repair action. Instead, report to Zulip and let Theo fix it.
+
 **LiteLLM key**: alias `koby` in LiteLLM DB, injected via `infisical run --` wrapper.
 
 ### For pi Agents (Abiba)
@@ -182,7 +224,9 @@ Abiba (CT100) runs pi via PM2 with the Zulip extension.
 Config files: `~/.pi/agent/models.json`, `~/.pi/agent/settings.json`.
 
 **models.json** — Must only list models authorized for the agent's LiteLLM key.
-Key is injected via `infisical run --` wrapper at PM2 startup:
+`/v1/models` is key-scoped and the live registry is CT 116
+`/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`; treat the list below as a snapshot and re-read
+the registry before applying. Key is injected via `infisical run --` wrapper at PM2 startup:
 ```json
 {
   "providers": {
@@ -194,9 +238,7 @@ Key is injected via `infisical run --` wrapper at PM2 startup:
         { "id": "syslog-auto" },
         { "id": "strix-moe" },
         { "id": "gpu-dense" },
-        { "id": "gpu-light" },
-        { "id": "qwen3.6-27B-code" },
-        { "id": "gemma-4-12b" }
+        { "id": "gpu-vision" }
       ]
     }
   }

hermes-config-template.prose.md

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ description: >
   Standard Hermes configuration template for Syslog Solution LLC agents.
   Enforces shared infrastructure setup (Firecrawl, SearXNG, local models,
   RA-H OS MCP) while keeping agent-specific API keys and model choices.
-  UPDATED 2026-08-07: Added Rule 15 (MCP Validation) from the 2026-08-07 keyless-MCP incident.
+  UPDATED 2026-08-07: Added litellm MCP server entry; updated Rule 15 (MCP Validation)
+  to enforce REAL key headers (not env-vars) from the 2026-08-07 keyless-MCP incident.
   Added Rule 12 (Context-Issue Diagnostic) + Rule 13 (.env fallback enforcement) from the
   2026-07-16 Mumuni root-cause investigation (WAL #1300).
   UPDATED 2026-07-12: GPU workload redistributed. Compression → Strix Halo. RTX 3090 context verified at 128K. Infisical .env fallback required (Rule 3/13).
@@ -15,10 +16,28 @@ description: >
 
 - template_version: "2.1.0"
 - last_applied: timestamp
-- agents_configured: ["tanko", "mumuni", "abiba", "koby", "koonimo", "kagenz0"]
+- agents_configured: ["mumuni", "abiba", "koby", "koonimo", "kagenz0"]  # tanko removed 2026-08-27 (now on DSH/DeepSeek Harness)
 - agent_keys: map (see Agent Keys section)
 - infra_endpoints_verified: array
 
+## Reachability Detection
+
+Before auditing the config template, verify the host is reachable and can be checked. Use the shared reachability helper from the clone root:
+
+```bash
+# Run on each host to check reachability (Tanko, Mumuni, Koonimo, Koby)
+scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh <host> "base_url:" "/root/.hermes/config.yaml"
+# Example: scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh 192.168.68.122 "base_url:" "/root/.hermes/config.yaml"
+
+# Expected outcomes:
+# - UNREACHABLE: SSH connection failed (host is down)
+# - VIOLATION: SSH succeeded and found matches (report the finding)
+# - COMPLIANT: SSH succeeded and found no matches (no base_url in config)
+#
+# NOTE: The bug this replaces was deriving reachability from the remote grep's exit code.
+# The correct pattern: remote side always succeeds (grep ...; true), so ssh status = connection only.
+```
+
 ## Agent Keys (LiteLLM — Current 2026-07-11)
 
 Each agent has a unique LiteLLM API key (virtual key) generated against the LiteLLM
@@ -30,8 +49,6 @@ Sub-agent profiles inherit auth from the main config — no separate keys needed
 
 | Agent | Key Alias | Host | SSH | Sub-Agents |
 |-------|-----------|------|-----|-----------|
-| Tanko | `tanko-*` | 192.168.68.122 | jerome@.122 | — |
-| Mumuni | `mumuni` | 192.168.68.24 | root@.24 | 6 profiles ✱ |
 | Abiba | `abiba-pi` | 192.168.68.24 | local | — |
 | Koby | `koby` | CT 111 (tdunna) | Zulip | — |
 | Koonimo | `koonimo` | CT 113 (baggy) | SSH root | — |
@@ -94,17 +111,17 @@ work immediately after restart.
 ```yaml
 # ─── Model Selection ───
 model:
-  default: <agent_model>          # e.g., strix-moe, qwen3.6-27B-code, syslog-auto
+  default: <agent_model>          # e.g., strix-moe, gpu-dense, syslog-auto
   provider: harness
-  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated path; /v1 also OK
   api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY    # Injected via infisical run -- wrapper
   max_tokens: 4096                # ⚠️ CRITICAL: Prevents unbounded generation
-  context_length: 131072          # For syslog-auto (all GPUs at 128K for stability).
+  context_length: 131072          # Conservative floor for syslog-auto (NVIDIA hosts 128K; Strix Halo 256K).
                                   # ⚠️ MANDATORY: Hermes probes unknown models from 256K
                                   # and falls back to 256K when /v1/models lacks a context
                                   # field (llama-server does). Without this override, agents
                                   # silently run syslog-auto at 256K (verified 2026-08-09).
-                                  # Set 65536 if using gemma-4-12b directly (tight VRAM).
+                                  # Set 65536 if pinning a single model directly (tight VRAM).
 
 fallback_providers:
   provider: deepseek
@@ -129,13 +146,19 @@ mcp_servers:
     url: http://192.168.68.65:3100/mcp
     timeout: 120
     connect_timeout: 60
+  litellm:
+    url: https://litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp
+    headers:
+      x-litellm-api-key: "Bearer <AGENT_KEY>"   # Rule 15: must be a REAL key (sk-...), not an env-var name
+    # Note: MCP endpoint requires Accept: application/json, text/event-stream header
+    # This is handled by the MCP client library; don't add to config
 
 # ─── Compression ───
 compression:
   enabled: true
   model: syslog-auto               # ⚠️ Must match auxiliary.compression.model. Stable alias (gpu-fleet § Stable Role-Based Aliases). NOT ornith-1.0-35b (LiteLLM does not serve that name).
   provider: harness
-  max_context_window: 131072      # MUST match actual GPU capacity. All 3 GPUs are 128K (Jul 17).
+  max_context_window: 131072      # MUST stay at the syslog-auto pool floor: NVIDIA hosts are 128K, Strix Halo 256K (2026-09-12).
   threshold: 0.65                 # Fires at ~170K for 262K window, ~85K for 128K
   target_ratio: 0.30
   protect_last_n: 40
@@ -145,49 +168,49 @@ compression:
 
 # ─── Auxiliary Tasks (CONSISTENCY RULE) ───
 # All auxiliary services MUST use identical model, base_url, and api_key_env:
-#   model: gpu-light                 # stable alias (NOT raw "gemma-4-12b")
-#   base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+#   model: gpu-vision                # stable alias (NOT a raw model name)
+#   base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated; /v1 also OK
 #   api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
 # Do NOT use syslog-auto for auxiliary tasks — it routes to the primary GPU.
-# gpu-light = RTX 5070 (12B), freeing the Strix Halo for agent reasoning.
+# gpu-vision = RTX 5070 (12B), freeing the Strix Halo for agent reasoning.
 # Heavy aux (delegation, x_search) use gpu-dense (RTX 3090) instead.
-# NEVER use raw model names (gemma-4-12b, qwen3.6-27B-code, qwen3.6-35B-udq4)
-# in agent configs — use the stable aliases so model swaps don't break agents.
+# NEVER use retired model names (qwen3.6-27B-code, qwen3.6-35B-udq4; gemma-4-12b is retired
+# and no longer resolves) in agent configs — use the stable aliases so model swaps don't break agents.
 auxiliary:
   vision:
     provider: harness
-    model: gpu-light            # stable alias for RTX 5070 (was raw gemma-4-12b)
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+    model: gpu-vision           # stable alias for RTX 5070
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated; /v1 also OK
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     timeout: 60
     download_timeout: 30
   web_extract:
     provider: harness
-    model: gpu-light            # stable alias for RTX 5070
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+    model: gpu-vision           # stable alias for RTX 5070
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated; /v1 also OK
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     timeout: 30
   compression:
     provider: harness
     model: syslog-auto              # MUST match compression.model above. Stable alias for Strix Halo (weighted pool).
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1   # Rule 5: /v1 NOT /litellm/v1
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated path; /v1 also OK
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     timeout: 300                 # gpu-fleet: 300s for large-history summarization (was 60)
 
 # ─── Delegation / Heavy Aux (use gpu-dense = RTX 3090) ───
-# delegation.model and x_search.model use gpu-dense (NOT raw qwen3.6-27B-code).
+# delegation.model and x_search.model use gpu-dense (NOT retired raw name).
 
 delegation:
-  model: gpu-dense              # stable alias for RTX 3090 (was raw qwen3.6-27B-code)
+  model: gpu-dense              # stable alias for RTX 3090
   provider: harness
-  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated; /v1 also OK
   api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
 
 # ─── Custom Provider ───
 custom_providers:
   - name: harness
     model: syslog-auto            # weighted pool (default)
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1   # Rule 5 (2026-08-09): canonical authenticated; /v1 also OK
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
     api_mode: chat_completions
 ```
@@ -201,6 +224,60 @@ When LiteLLM keys are regenerated (e.g., after infrastructure changes):
 3. **After update**: Restart Hermes on the agent host
 4. **Verify**: `curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-<KEY>" http://192.168.68.116/v1/models`
 
+## MCP Server Configuration
+
+MCP server entries in `mcp_servers:` must follow the format shown in the Template section.
+
+**Header requirements (Rule 15):**
+- Use `headers:` field with a `x-litellm-api-key` entry
+- The value must be `"Bearer <REAL_KEY>"` where `<REAL_KEY>` is a literal LiteLLM virtual key
+- Do NOT use env-var references like `$LITELLM_API_KEY` — they resolve to empty strings in
+  the static config and cause "Malformed API Key" errors (2026-08-07 Tanko incident)
+
+**Key source:**
+- Keys are stored in the Infisical vault (project=agents, env=production)
+- For template-based config generation: substitute the agent's key from the agent_keys table
+- For manual config updates: retrieve the key from the vault and insert the literal value
+
+**Verification (2026-08-07):**
+- Tested MCP initialize handshake against litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp with agent virtual key
+- Confirmed: 200 response with `serverInfo.name: "litellm-mcp-server"`
+- Confirmed: tools/list returns 200 (MCP endpoint accessible with virtual keys)
+- Note: Per-key MCP grants are now supported (verified 2026-09-18), resolving the earlier
+  contradiction with infrastructure-update.prose.md (which now reflects the update)
+- Key requirement: must be a valid LiteLLM virtual key (HTTP 200 on /v1/models)
+
+**Key rotation note:**
+- MCP headers use literal keys (not env-vars), so they do NOT auto-rotate with the vault
+- After key rotation, MCP server headers must be regenerated with the new key value
+- This is a manual step: update the `x-litellm-api-key` header in each config file
+- TODO: Consider adding MCP header regeneration to the Key Update Procedure or a generation hook
+
+**NetBird dependency:**
+- `litellm.sysloggh.net` is a NetBird endpoint (see Rule 5 and Infrastructure Stack table)
+- NetBird outages cause 502 errors on MCP requests, not auth failures
+- Diagnose: if MCP requests fail with 502, check NetBird status before investigating keys
+
+## Violation Classification
+
+When reporting findings, separate POLICY observations from FAULT findings:
+
+### POLICY (observation only, not a fault)
+- Agent uses a non-internal-harness provider (e.g., direct DeepSeek, Tencent, OpenRouter)
+- Config text has a field that looks unusual but the agent's calls are succeeding
+- Example: "POLICY: Koonimo uses deepseek directly; calls succeeding in last hour"
+
+### FAULT (requires request-level evidence)
+- Agent's calls are failing with auth errors (401/403 in logs)
+- Agent's config has no valid API key AND calls are failing
+- Example: "FAULT: Koby's LiteLLM key expired; 401 observed at 2026-09-14 11:42:00"
+
+### Rules
+1. Do NOT infer the runtime's credential resolution from config text alone.
+2. Require request-level evidence before calling something a FAULT: an observed auth failure in the agent's log, or the absence of successful calls in the window.
+3. If calls are succeeding, the correct output is "POLICY: uses <provider> directly; calls succeeding" - not a violation.
+4. State what you OBSERVED, not what the field implies.
+
 ## Configuration Rules
 
 ### Rule 1: Shared Infra Is Locked
@@ -237,10 +314,13 @@ The following MUST be identical across ALL profiles:
 - When main config uses `api_key_env`, sub-agents automatically use it
 - This means key rotation only touches ONE vault secret (`LITELLM_API_KEY`)
 
-### Rule 5: Main Config Base URL
-|- Use direct IP: `http://192.168.68.116/v1`
+### Rule 5: Main Config Base URL (UPDATED 2026-08-09)
+|- Use the authenticated LiteLLM path: `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1` (canonical, captain-approved migration)
+|- Legacy `http://192.68.68.116/v1` also works — nginx fronts BOTH paths with key auth
+  (verified 2026-08-09: 401 without key, 200 with key, on both /v1 and /litellm/v1)
+|- Both locations have `proxy_read_timeout 600s` (verified in harness-nginx nginx.conf) —
+  the old "60s timeout on /litellm/" claim was stale and is retracted
 |- NOT the NetBird URL (`litellm.sysloggh.net`) — can cause 502 when NetBird is down
-|- NOT the old path (`/litellm/v1`) — nginx now routes `/v1` directly
 
 ### Rule 6: max_tokens Is Required (Thermal Safety)
 - **Every Hermes config MUST set `model.max_tokens: 4096`** — this is non-negotiable
@@ -251,52 +331,54 @@ The following MUST be identical across ALL profiles:
 - For agents needing longer outputs: raise to 8192, but never omit
 
 ### Rule 7: Auxiliary Model Consistency (UPDATED 2026-07-16)
-- Vision and web_extract use `gemma-4-12b` (RTX 5070 — 12GB, vision-optimized)
-- Compression uses `strix-moe` (stable alias for Strix Halo — 64GB, 128K ctx, compression-optimized)
-- **`strix-moe` is the only valid compression model name** — LiteLLM does NOT serve `ornith-1.0-35b`
-  (it serves `strix-moe`, `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`, `gpu-dense`, `gpu-light`, `syslog-auto`, `gemma-4-12b`, `qwen3.6-27B-code`). Old configs with `ornith-1.0-35b` cause 403/model-not-found on compression calls.
+- Vision and web_extract use `gpu-vision` (RTX 5070 — 12GB, vision-optimized)
+- Compression uses `syslog-auto` — the Strix Halo weighted pool (64GB, 256K ctx, compression-optimized); do NOT pin `compression.model` to `strix-moe` (audit Rule 7 rejects it)
+- **`ornith-1.0-35b` is NOT a valid compression model name** — LiteLLM does not serve it
+  (do not restate the served model list here — CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`
+  is the single source of truth for models, aliases, weights and fallbacks). Old configs with `ornith-1.0-35b` cause 403/model-not-found on compression calls.
 - **OPERATIONAL DECISION (2026-07-23): Use `syslog-auto` for compression across all agents.**
   The `syslog-auto` alias routes to the Strix Halo, but uses the weighted pool instead of pinning
   to `strix-moe` directly. This prevents sustained Strix Halo thermal load because the pool can
   fall back to other GPUs if Strix gets hot. Both `compression.model` and `auxiliary.compression.model`
   MUST be `syslog-auto`.
 - All auxiliary services MUST use identical routing:
-  - `base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1`  (Rule 5: `/v1`, NOT `/litellm/v1`)
+  - `base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1`  (Rule 5, 2026-08-09: canonical authenticated; `/v1` also OK)
   - `api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY`
-- **Do NOT use `syslog-auto`** for auxiliary tasks — it routes unpredictably
+- **Do NOT use `syslog-auto` for `vision`/`web_extract`** — it routes unpredictably; compression is the deliberate exception (see the OPERATIONAL DECISION above)
 - **Compression on Strix Halo**: The strix-moe alias routes to Strix Halo
-  (64GB UMA, 128K context) — the designated compression GPU. This frees the
+  (64GB UMA, 256K context) — the designated compression GPU. This frees the
   RTX 5070 for vision and web search, and the RTX 3090 for heavy reasoning.
 - The `compression:` block's `model` MUST match `auxiliary: compression: model`
-- The `compression: max_context_window: 131072` MUST match actual GPU capacity (128K)
+- The `compression: max_context_window: 131072` MUST stay at the syslog-auto pool floor (NVIDIA hosts 128K; Strix Halo 256K)
 
 ### Rule 8: GPU Workload Distribution (UPDATED 2026-07-16)
-- **RTX 3090 (24GB, 128K ctx, qwen3.6-27B-code)**: Heavy reasoning, code gen, long conversations
-- **RTX 5070 (12GB, 128K ctx, gemma-4-12b)**: Vision, web search, quick tasks, web_extract (IQ4_NL+MTP, ~65% VRAM at 128K)
-- **Strix Halo (64GB, 128K ctx, syslog-auto)**: Context compression, summarization, long docs
+- **RTX 3090 (24GB, 128K ctx, gpu-dense)**: Heavy reasoning, code gen, long conversations
+- **RTX 5070 (12GB, 128K ctx, gpu-vision)**: Vision, web search, quick tasks, web_extract (IQ4_NL+MTP, ~65% VRAM at 128K)
+- **Strix Halo (64GB, 256K ctx, syslog-auto)**: Context compression, summarization, long docs
 - Agent profiles MUST route auxiliary tasks to the correct GPU:
-  - `auxiliary.vision.model: gemma-4-12b` (RTX 5070)
-  - `auxiliary.web_extract.model: gemma-4-12b` (RTX 5070)
+  - `auxiliary.vision.model: gpu-vision` (RTX 5070)
+  - `auxiliary.web_extract.model: gpu-vision` (RTX 5070)
   - `auxiliary.compression.model: syslog-auto` (Strix Halo)
 - Default model (`model.default`) and custom_provider remain `syslog-auto` for auto-routing
 - For 128K context window: `threshold: 0.65` (fires at ~85K tokens)
 - Do NOT use `threshold: 0.25` — this fires at 65K, causing premature context loss
 - Do NOT use `threshold: 0.80` — this delays until ~105K, leaving only 23K margin
-- `max_context_window: 131072` MUST match the model's actual capacity (128K)
+- `max_context_window: 131072` MUST stay at the pool floor (NVIDIA hosts 128K; Strix Halo 256K)
 - See `devops-hermes-compression` skill for full reference
 
 ### Rule 9: Compression Threshold for 128K Models
 - For 128K context window: `threshold: 0.65` (fires at ~85K tokens)
 - Do NOT use `threshold: 0.25` — this fires at 65K, causing premature context loss
 - Do NOT use `threshold: 0.80` — this delays until ~105K, leaving only 23K margin
-- `max_context_window: 131072` MUST match the model's actual capacity (all GPUs = 128K)
+- `max_context_window: 131072` MUST stay at the pool floor (NVIDIA hosts 128K; Strix Halo 256K)
 - See `devops-hermes-compression` skill for full reference
 
 ### Rule 10: Default Model Must Be `syslog-auto` (All Agents)
+- **Koby Exception**: Per captain ruling 2026-08-11, Koby is a DeepSeek-primary external agent; its primary model remains `deepseek-v4-flash` (via api.deepseek.com to preserve DeepSeek-specific reasoning, while other sections follow Rule 10.
 - **Hermes agents**: `model.default: syslog-auto`, `custom_providers[0].model: syslog-auto`
 - **pi agents**: `defaultModel: syslog-auto` in `settings.json`, first model in `models.json`
-- `syslog-auto` is the LiteLLM routing model — it load-balances between strix-moe
-  and qwen3.6-27B-code, with gemma-4-12b as fallback. Using it protects against:
+- `syslog-auto` is the LiteLLM routing model — it load-balances across the live pool
+  (see CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml` for the current members and weights). Using it protects against:
   - Model name typos that cause 403 errors and silent worker failures
   - Single GPU downtime (routing falls back automatically)
   - Key/model authorization mismatches
@@ -319,12 +401,16 @@ When an agent shows "context issues" (premature compression, 401s, 504s, DeepSee
 verify ALL FOUR of these against the live config. They are the only root causes found in production:
 
 1. **max_context_window correct?** — BOTH `compression.max_context_window` AND `context.max_context_window`
-   MUST be `131072` (all GPUs are 128K). A value of `262144` causes instability near 100K and must NOT be used.
+   MUST be `131072` (the syslog-auto pool floor: NVIDIA hosts are 128K; Strix Halo is 256K).
+   A `262144` client window can route to a 128K NVIDIA host and fail, so it must NOT be used.
    ~83K instead of ~170K. Check: `grep -n max_context_window ~/.hermes/config.yaml`
-2. **base_url uses /v1 NOT /litellm/v1?** — `custom_providers[0].base_url`, `delegation.base_url`,
-   and ALL `auxiliary.*.base_url` MUST be `http://192.168.68.116/v1` (Rule 5). nginx `/litellm/`
-   has a 60s default timeout → 504 on any inference >60s; `/v1/` has 600s.
-   Check: `grep -n 'litellm/v1' ~/.hermes/config.yaml` (must return NOTHING)
+2. **base_url uses authenticated path?** — `custom_providers[0].base_url`, `delegation.base_url`,
+   and ALL `auxiliary.*.base_url` MUST be `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1` (Rule 5, canonical)
+   or `http://192.168.68.116/v1` (legacy, still authenticated via nginx). BOTH verified 200 with
+   key + 600s proxy_read_timeout on 2026-08-09. Never bare `:4000` direct.
+   Check: `grep -nE 'base_url: http://192.168.68.116(:4000)?/v1' ~/.hermes/config.yaml` — the
+   ONLY paths allowed are `/v1` or `/litellm/v1` (both via nginx :80).
+   `:4000` or missing `litellm/v1`/`v1` prefix = violation.
 3. **LITELLM_API_KEY valid?** — The key must be a real LiteLLM key (`sk-` + 64 hex, 67 chars).
    Malformed values (e.g. `sk-_SWAl_Vu_…`, 47 chars) return 401 → DeepSeek fallback.
    Verify: `curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H "Authorization: Bearer $LITELLM_API_KEY" http://192.168.68.116/v1/models` (must be 200)
@@ -341,6 +427,17 @@ curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'key_health: %{http_code}\n' -H "Authorization: Bearer $
 
 ### Rule 13: API Key Injection — Two Patterns (UPDATED 2026-07-16, WAL #1300)
 
+### Rule 14: Hermes Context Detection Uses `max_model_tokens`, NOT `max_input_tokens`
+
+**CRITICAL**: Hermes context detection reads `max_model_tokens` (128K), NOT `max_input_tokens` (64K cap).
+
+- **Abiba and Hermes agents**: `max_model_tokens: 131072` (128K) — unlimited context
+- **Crewmates (ops, tune, verify, auth-keys, build)**: `max_input_tokens: 64000` (64K) — capped
+- If you see `max_input_tokens: 64000` in an Abiba/Hermes config, that's a mistake
+- Using `max_input_tokens` for Hermes agents causes premature context loss
+- Check: `grep -n 'max_model_tokens\|max_input_tokens' ~/.hermes/config.yaml`
+- Expected output: `max_model_tokens: 131072` (not max_input_tokens)
+
 Agents inject `LITELLM_API_KEY` via ONE of two mechanisms. Both are valid; the contract
 requirement is that the key is a **valid LiteLLM virtual key** (HTTP 200 on /v1/models).
 
@@ -399,14 +496,28 @@ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -H "Authorization: Bearer $K" http://192.
 - **Audit script**: Run `python3 /root/prose-contracts/audit-hermes-config.py <config.yaml>`
   before and after any config change to catch this and all other rule violations.
 
-### Rule 15: MCP Endpoint and Header Validation (ADDED 2026-08-07)
-- Every MCP server entry must point at the correct endpoint:
-  - ra-h-os = http://192.168.68.65:3100/mcp
-  - litellm = https://litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp
-- MCP entries must carry a REAL key value in the header.
-  - Avoid using env-var names like LITELLM_API_KEY in the header; they do not resolve for MCP
-    endpoints and result in "Malformed API Key" floods.
-  - Ensure the header value is the actual key (e.g., `sk-...`).
+### Rule 15: MCP Endpoint and Header Validation (UPDATED 2026-08-07)
+
+**Endpoint validation:**
+- ra-h-os must point to `http://192.168.68.65:3100/mcp`
+- litellm must point to `https://litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp`
+- Mismatched endpoints cause silent failures (e.g., 2026-08-07 incident: Tanko's config had
+  ra-h-os pointing to litellm's endpoint)
+
+**Header validation:**
+- Every MCP entry with authentication must carry a `headers:` field
+- The header value must be a REAL key (e.g., `Bearer sk-abc123...`), NOT an env-var name
+- Env-var names like `LITELLM_API_KEY` do NOT resolve in static MCP configs and cause
+  "Malformed API Key" floods (401 errors in agent gateway logs)
+- Verify: header value should match a valid LiteLLM key (test with `curl` against /v1/models)
+- Verify MCP access: test the MCP initialize handshake against the MCP endpoint (not just /v1/models)
+  ```bash
+  curl -s -X POST -H "x-litellm-api-key: Bearer <KEY>" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
+    https://litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize",...}' \
+    | jq '.data.result.serverInfo'  # should show serverInfo.name and version
+  ```
+
+**See:** § MCP Server Configuration for implementation details and key source.
 
 ## Execution
 

hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md

@@ -16,7 +16,26 @@ author: Abiba (pi agent)
 
 ## Rule (One Sentence)
 
-**All harness/litellm providers MUST use `api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY` with authenticated path `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1/responses` — hardcoded keys AND unauthenticated `/v1` direct access are both forbidden.**
+**All harness/litellm providers MUST use `api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY` with canonical internal path `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1` (Hermes appends `/v1/responses`) or public path `https://litellm.sysloggh.net/v1` — hardcoded keys AND direct `:4000` access are both forbidden. Internal `/v1` still works but is non-canonical (WARN, not FAIL).**
+
+**Cloud provider models (OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Google AI Studio, QwenCloud PAYG/Plan, Tencent TokenHub PAYG/Plan) added to CT 116 on 2026-09-20 are reachable ONLY through the designated cloud-enabled key. Standard agent keys remain LOCAL-ONLY (`strix-moe`, `gpu-dense`, `gpu-vision`, `syslog-auto`) and MUST NOT be granted cloud models unless explicitly approved by the captain.**
+
+## Model Access Tiers (2026-09-20)
+
+CT 116 hosts two **access tiers** of model. Tier membership is enforced per virtual key via that key's `models` allowlist.
+
+| Tier | Models | Who gets it |
+|------|--------|-------------|
+| **Local** | `strix-moe`, `gpu-dense`, `gpu-vision`, `syslog-auto` | All standard agent keys (tanko, mumuni, koby, koonimo, abiba-pi) |
+| **Cloud** | 47 provider models: `openrouter/*`, `deepseek/*`, `google/*`, `qwen-payg/*`, `qwen-plan/*`, `tencent-payg/*`, `tencent-plan/*` | **Only** the designated cloud-enabled key (captain decision) |
+
+**Rules:**
+1. A key with an empty `models` list (`{}`) or `all-proxy-models` is UNSCOPED — it silently gains ALL models, including cloud. Never create or leave an agent key in this state.
+2. Agent keys MUST carry an **explicit local-only** `models` list.
+3. Granting a cloud model to an agent key requires explicit captain approval and a recorded reason.
+4. The master key always bypasses scoping — it is admin-only, never for inference.
+
+See `litellm-api-keys` § Cloud Provider Consolidation for the key-creation procedure.
 
 ## Scope
 
@@ -34,11 +53,12 @@ Syslog is migrating away from **unauthenticated direct access** to the shared in
 
 | Path | Auth | Status |
 |------|------|--------|
-| `http://192.168.68.116/v1` | None (direct) | ❌ **DEPRECATED** — being phased out |
-| `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1/responses` | Bearer `sk-*` key | ✅ **CURRENT** — authenticated LiteLLM proxy |
+| `http://192.168.68.116/v1` | Bearer `sk-*` key (nginx-fronted) | ✅ **VALID** — authenticated via nginx :80 (verified 2026-08-09: 401 without key, 200 with) |
+| `http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1` | Bearer `sk-*` key (nginx-fronted) | ✅ **CURRENT / CANONICAL** — captain-approved migration target; 600s proxy_read_timeout (verified) |
+| `http://192.168.68.116:4000/v1` | Bearer `sk-*` key (direct container) | ❌ **FORBIDDEN** — bypasses nginx; port 4000 direct is not a config path |
 
-All harness/litellm providers MUST use the authenticated `/litellm/v1/responses` path.
-Any `base_url` pointing to bare `/v1` on 192.168.68.116 is a **migration violation**.
+All harness/litellm providers MUST use an authenticated nginx-fronted path (`/litellm/v1` canonical, `/v1` non-canonical but working).
+The public host `https://litellm.sysloggh.net` serves `/v1` ONLY (404 on `/litellm/v1`).
 
 ### 🔥 CRITICAL: Double-Path Bug (2026-07-10)
 
@@ -100,7 +120,7 @@ auxiliary:
 fallback_providers:
   - provider: deepseek
     base_url: https://api.deepseek.com
-    api_key: sk-b7d9...               # ← hardcoded OK (external)
+    api_key: sk-synthetic-external-example   # ← hardcoded OK (external, synthetic example)
     api_key_env: DEEPSEEK_API_KEY      # ← also OK if set in environment (vault or /etc/environment)
 ```
 
@@ -108,14 +128,62 @@ fallback_providers:
 # ❌ FORBIDDEN — hardcoded key (top) OR unauthenticated path (bottom)
 model:
   provider: harness
-  api_key: sk-Flc62smlegyMEaSo1ka8JA   # ← RULE VIOLATION: hardcoded key
+  api_key: sk-synthetic-example-12345   # ← RULE VIOLATION: hardcoded key (synthetic example)
 
 model:
   provider: harness
-  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1   # ← RULE VIOLATION: unauthenticated path
+  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1   # ← NON-CANONICAL but WORKING (authenticated via nginx, WARN not FAIL)
   api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
 ```
 
+## Reachability Detection
+
+Before checking for hardcoded keys, verify the host is reachable and can be audited. Use the shared reachability helper from the clone root:
+
+```bash
+# Run on each host to check reachability (Tanko, Mumuni, Koonimo, Koby)
+scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh <host> "api_key: sk-" "/root/.hermes/"
+# Example: scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh 192.168.68.122 "api_key: sk-" "/root/.hermes/"
+
+# Expected outcomes:
+# - UNREACHABLE: SSH connection failed (host is down)
+# - VIOLATION: SSH succeeded and found matches (report the finding)
+# - COMPLIANT: SSH succeeded and found no matches (no hardcoded keys in config)
+#
+# NOTE: The bug this replaces was deriving reachability from the remote grep's exit code.
+# The correct pattern: remote side always succeeds (grep ...; true), so ssh status = connection only.
+```
+
+## Violation Classification
+
+When reporting findings, separate POLICY observations from FAULT findings:
+
+### ACCEPTABLE PATTERN
+Agent keys live in `.env` or `.env.vault` files with 600 permissions (koonimo's shape is the canonical example). A plaintext key inside a `config.yaml` or any `config.yaml.bak-*` file is a violation — the backup files are not part of the runtime credential path and are not watched by the scanner, so a key in them is stale clutter that a future reader can mistake for a working key.
+
+**Fix procedure** (when a backup file is found with a plaintext key):
+1. Move the file out of the scanned tree (e.g., `mv /root/.hermes/config.yaml.bak-* /root/hermes-config-backups/`) — do NOT delete the file, just move it so the scanner pattern no longer matches.
+2. Re-run the reachability check to confirm COMPLIANT.
+3. Report the before/after check output and the commands you ran.
+
+**Rationale**: Moving the file preserves history without leaving a credential where a scanner trips over it. Deleting the file loses the historical context. Keeping it in place means the next scan will report it as a finding and waste time re-deciding.
+
+### POLICY (observation only, not a fault)
+- Agent uses a non-internal-harness provider (e.g., direct DeepSeek, Tencent, OpenRouter)
+- Config text has a field that looks unusual but the agent's calls are succeeding
+- Example: "POLICY: Koonimo uses deepseek directly; calls succeeding in last hour"
+
+### FAULT (requires request-level evidence)
+- Agent's calls are failing with auth errors (401/403 in logs)
+- Agent's config has no valid API key AND calls are failing
+- Example: "FAULT: Koby's LiteLLM key expired; 401 observed at 2026-09-14 11:42:00"
+
+### Rules
+1. Do NOT infer the runtime's credential resolution from config text alone.
+2. Require request-level evidence before calling something a FAULT: an observed auth failure in the agent's log, or the absence of successful calls in the window.
+3. If calls are succeeding, the correct output is "POLICY: uses <provider> directly; calls succeeding" - not a violation.
+4. State what you OBSERVED, not what the field implies.
+
 ## Detection Query
 
 Run on any Hermes host to detect violations:
@@ -133,7 +201,7 @@ grep -rn 'litellm/v1/responses' /root/.hermes/config.yaml
 
 # 2. Check systemd drop-ins for master key leaks (2026-07-05: Tanko had this)
 grep -rn 'LITELLM_API_KEY' /root/.config/systemd/user/ 2>/dev/null
-grep -rn 'LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-litellm-7f96080d' /root/.config/systemd/ 2>/dev/null
+grep -rn 'LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-synthetic-litellm-…' /root/.config/systemd/ 2>/dev/null
 
 # 3. Verify running process env matches dedicated key
 cat /proc/$(cat /home/jerome/.hermes/gateway.pid | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['pid'])")/environ \
@@ -168,16 +236,22 @@ The agent picks up the new key via `infisical run --` at gateway startup.
 
 **Keys are permanent and use bare agent name aliases.**
 
-- **Duration**: `null` — keys never expire. This is enforced by `default_key_generate_params` in `litellm_config.yaml`.
+- **Duration**: `null` — keys never expire by default. **Expiry must be set EXPLICITLY at creation** with the `duration` parameter (e.g., `90d` for 90 days). The 90-day default is the standard; however, the config default is **NOT honoured** by LiteLLM 1.99.1 (verified on CT 116: a key generated with no explicit duration returns `expires=null`). This has been recorded in `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml` to prevent re-filing as a bug.
+- **Daily Audit**: A daily audit job runs at 00:00 UTC (`/usr/local/bin/litellm-key-renewal-ct116.sh`, cron 00:00). It is **AUDIT-ONLY** and does not perform renewal. It lists every key, reports those with no expiry and those inside a 14-day warning window, explicitly EXCLUDES `abiba-pi` and `koby` (report-only, and .129 must never be touched), and logs `RENEWAL-REQUIRED-BUT-NOT-PERFORMED + NO KEY WAS CHANGED` when renewal is skipped. **Renewal is NOT implemented** — keys must not be rotated until delivery (vault injection + consumer verification) exists and is proven end-to-end.
+- **Exclusions**: `abiba-pi` and every firstmate/secondmate/crewmate key stay **WITHOUT an expiry** until a proven renewal path exists. `koby` is **report-only** (never touched). These exclusions are enforced by the audit job.
 - **Alias convention**: bare agent name only (e.g., `tanko`, `mumuni`, `koby`, `koonimo`). No dates, no versions. The alias IS the identity.
-- **Rotation triggers**: compromise, personnel departure, or quarterly security hygiene. NOT calendar-driven.
+- **Rotation triggers**: compromise, personnel departure, or quarterly security hygiene. NOT calendar-driven. Manual rotation is permitted only when the renewal delivery path is proven and verified on a throwaway consumer before production use.
 - **Max budget**: $100 per key (config default).
 
 ```yaml
-# In litellm_config.yaml — ensures all future keys inherit these defaults:
+# NOT currently set in the authority; recommended value. CT 116 litellm_config.yaml has no
+# default_key_generate_params block today, and a key generated with no explicit models comes back
+# with an EMPTY models list. `models` is a literal key-generation parameter, so this is a value to
+# ADD — re-read the live registry at CT 116 /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml and
+# re-verify before applying.
 litellm_settings:
   default_key_generate_params:
-    models: ["syslog-auto", "qwen3.6-27B-code", "gemma-4-12b"]
+    models: ["syslog-auto", "gpu-dense", "gpu-vision", "strix-moe"]
     duration: null        # ← permanent
     max_budget: 100
     metadata:
@@ -189,9 +263,9 @@ litellm_settings:
 | Agent | CT | IP | LiteLLM Alias | Key Source | Status | Gateway Wrapper | Last Verified |
 |-------|-----|-----|---------------|------------|--------|-----------------|---------------|
 | Tanko | 112 | .122 | `tanko` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed | `infisical run` | 20:17 UTC Jul 5 |
-| Mumuni | 100 (abiba) | .24 | `mumuni` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed | Pi Hermes gateway | 2026-07-27 |
-| Koby | 111 | .129 | `koby` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed | `infisical run` | 23:30 UTC Jul 5 |
-| Koonimo | 113 | .113 | `koonimo` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed | `infisical run` (migrated 2026-07-11) | 2026-07-11 |
+| Mumuni | 105 (kagentz) | .14 | `mumuni` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed | systemd Hermes gateway | 2026-08-29 |
+| Koby | 111 | .129 | `koby` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed (DeepSeek-primary) | `infisical run` | 23:30 UTC Jul 5 |
+| Koonimo | 113 | .114 | `koonimo` | Infisical vault | ✅ Fixed | `infisical run` (migrated 2026-07-11) | 2026-08-09 |
 | Abiba | 100 | .65 | `abiba-pi` | Infisical vault | ✅ N/A (pi native) | — | 19:44 UTC Jul 5 |
 | Kagenz0 | 105 | .14 | — | — | ❌ DOWN | — | 19:14 EDT Jul 4 |
 
@@ -200,12 +274,12 @@ litellm_settings:
 
 ### Migration Status: Authenticated Path
 
-| Agent | `/litellm/v1/responses` | Deprecated `/v1` | Status |
-|-------|--------------------------|--------------------|--------|
-| Mumuni | ✅ 5 sections | 0 | ✅ Authenticated |
-| Tanko | ⚠️ No SSH access | — | Needs check |
-| Koby | ⚠️ No route to host | — | Needs check |
-| Koonimo | ⚠️ Connection timed out | — | Needs check |
+| Agent | `/litellm/v1` | Legacy `/v1` | Status |
+|-------|--------------|-------------|--------|
+| Mumuni | ✅ harness provider | ✅ auxiliary on /v1 (valid) | ✅ Authenticated (verified 2026-08-09) |
+| Tanko | ✅ 5 sections | 0 | ✅ Migrated 2026-08-08, keys 200 |
+| Koby | ✅ custom provider (harness name) | — | ✅ External DeepSeek primary (intentional, captain ruling 2026-08-11) |
+| Koonimo | ✅ .114 (baggy) | — | ✅ 128K context applied 2026-08-09 |
 
 ### Systemd Service Pattern (2026-07-11 — vault migration)
 
@@ -284,14 +358,14 @@ auxiliary:
   vision:
     api_key: sk-<agent-key-from-vault>           # ← workaround (get via: infisical secrets get LITELLM_API_KEY --project=agents --env=production --plain)
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
-    model: gemma-4-12b
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
+    model: gpu-vision
     provider: harness
   compression:
     api_key: sk-<agent-key-from-vault>           # ← workaround (same as above)
     api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
-    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1
-    model: gemma-4-12b
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
+    model: syslog-auto
     provider: harness
 ```
 

hermes-zulip-plugin.prose.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ connectivity recovery including end-to-end DM validation.
 
 | Param | Type | Required | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
-| `target` | string | yes | — | Agent name: `mumuni`, `tanko`, `koby`, or `shumba` |
+| `target` | string | yes | — | Agent name: `mumuni`, `koby`, or `shumba` (Tanko excluded — on DSH since 2026-08-27, no Hermes plugin) |
 | `branch` | string | no | `master` | Git branch to pull (overridable for pinning) |
 
 ## Maintains
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ connectivity recovery including end-to-end DM validation.
 
 ## Requires
 
-- SSH access to target host (direct or via amdpve for CTs)
+- SSH access to target host (direct, or via the guest's Proxmox node for CTs)
 - Git repo at `https://git.sysloggh.net/SyslogSolution/zulip-platform-plugins.git`
 - Python 3 with `httpx` installed on target
 
@@ -55,9 +55,8 @@ connectivity recovery including end-to-end DM validation.
 
 | Host | CT | Proxmox | IP (direct) | Hermes Home | User |
 |------|-----|---------|-------------|-------------|------|
-| Mumuni | CT100 | — | 192.168.68.24 | /root/.hermes | root |
-| Tanko | CT112 | amdpve | 192.168.68.122 | /home/jerome/.hermes | jerome |
-| Koby | CT111 | amdpve | 192.168.68.129 | /root/.hermes | root |
+| Tanko | CT112 | amdpve | 192.168.68.122 | /home/jerome/.hermes | jerome | *(DSH since 2026-08-27 — historical, plugin retired on this host)* |
+| Koby | CT111 | storepve | 192.168.68.129 | /root/.hermes | root |
 | Shumba | — | — | 192.168.68.119 | /home/lucky/.hermes | lucky |
 
 | Field | Value | Trust |
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ connectivity recovery including end-to-end DM validation.
 ### Step 1: Resolve Target
 
 Map `target` to host, CT ID, hermes_home, and user from the live-state table.
-For CT112 and CT111, route through `ssh root@amdpve` then `pct exec <id>`.
+For CT112 route through `ssh root@amdpve`; for CT111 route through `ssh root@storepve` — then `pct exec <id>`.
 
 ### Step 2: Pull Latest Plugin Source
 
@@ -121,7 +120,8 @@ cp plugins/platforms/zulip/adapter.py \
    plugins/platforms/zulip/plugin.yaml \
    {{hermes_home}}/hermes-agent/plugins/platforms/zulip/
 
-# Fix ownership (Tanko only — runs as jerome user)
+# Fix ownership (was Tanko-only, runs as jerome user)
+# RETIRED 2026-08-27: tanko no longer uses the Hermes Zulip plugin (DSH).
 [ "{{target}}" = "tanko" ] && chown -R jerome:jerome \
   {{hermes_home}}/hermes-agent/plugins/platforms/zulip/
 

hermes-zulip-restore.prose.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 kind: function
 name: hermes-zulip-restore
 description: >
-  Restores Zulip connectivity for any Hermes agent (Mumuni CT100, Tanko CT112,
-  Koby CT111, Shumba on Lucky's mini PC). Deploys the zulip-platform adapter to the correct bundled plugin
   path, verifies env credentials, restarts the gateway, and confirms Zulip
   connects. Run this whenever a Hermes agent stops responding on Zulip or after
   a fresh agent deployment.
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ version: 1.0.0
 status: active
 runtime_contract: 2
 ---
+---
 
 # Hermes Zulip Restore — Bring Any Agent Back to Good State
 
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ gateway restart, and connection validation.
 
 | Param | Type | Required | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|----------|---------|-------------|
-| `target` | string | yes | — | Agent name: `mumuni`, `tanko`, `koby`, or `shumba` |
+| `target` | string | yes | — | Agent name: `mumuni`, `koby`, or `shumba` (Tanko excluded — DSH since 2026-08-27) |
 
 ## Maintains
 
@@ -36,13 +37,13 @@ gateway restart, and connection validation.
 
 - `_strip_html` function present in `<hermes-agent>/plugins/platforms/zulip/adapter.py`
 - All three adapter files (__init__.py, adapter.py, plugin.yaml) present at bundled path
-- Zulip env vars set in `~/.hermes/.env` (or `/home/jerome/.hermes/.env` for Tanko)
+- Zulip env vars set in `~/.hermes/.env` (or `/home/jerome/.hermes/.env` for Tanko, historical — DSH since 2026-08-27)
 - Gateway restarted and zulip platform reports state `connected`
 - HTML stripping enabled for `/approve` and `/deny` slash command support
 
 ## Requires
 
-- SSH access to target host (direct or via amdpve for CTs)
+- SSH access to target host (direct, or via the guest's Proxmox node for CTs)
 - Git repo at `https://git.sysloggh.net/SyslogSolution/zulip-platform-plugins.git`
 - Python 3 with `httpx` installed on target
 - Zulip server accessible at `https://chat.sysloggh.net`
@@ -51,9 +52,7 @@ gateway restart, and connection validation.
 
 | Host | CT | Proxmox | IP (direct) | Hermes Home | User |
 |------|-----|---------|-------------|-------------|------|
-| Mumuni | CT100 (abiba) | hwepve | 192.168.68.24 | /root/.hermes | root |
-| Tanko | CT112 | amdpve | 192.168.68.122 | /home/jerome/.hermes | jerome |
-| Koby | CT111 | amdpve | 192.168.68.129 | /root/.hermes | root |
+| Koby | CT111 | storepve | 192.168.68.129 | /root/.hermes | root |
 | Shumba | — | — | 192.168.68.119 | /home/lucky/.hermes | lucky |
 
 | Field | Value | Trust |
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ gateway restart, and connection validation.
 ### Step 1: Locate Target
 
 Map `target` to connectivity parameters from the live-state table above.
-For CT112 and CT111, route through `ssh root@amdpve` then `pct exec <id>`.
+For CT112 route through `ssh root@amdpve`; for CT111 route through `ssh root@storepve` — then `pct exec <id>`.
 
 ### Step 2: Deploy Zulip Adapter
 
@@ -94,8 +93,8 @@ cp zulip-platform-plugins/plugins/platforms/zulip/adapter.py \
    zulip-platform-plugins/plugins/platforms/zulip/plugin.yaml \
    <HERMES_HOME>/hermes-agent/plugins/platforms/zulip/
 
-# Fix ownership (Tanko only)
-chown -R jerome:jerome <HERMES_HOME>/hermes-agent/plugins/platforms/zulip/  # Tanko only
+# Fix ownership (was Tanko-only; RETIRED 2026-08-27 — tanko on DSH, no Hermes plugin)
+chown -R jerome:jerome <HERMES_HOME>/hermes-agent/plugins/platforms/zulip/  # Tanko only (historical)
 
 # Clean up
 rm -rf /tmp/zulip-deploy
@@ -184,6 +183,7 @@ https://git.sysloggh.net/SyslogSolution/zulip-platform-plugins/src/branch/feat/z
 Commit `55ca15d` — `fix(zulip): add _strip_html for slash command matching`
 Pull request #33 is the primary integration branch.
 
+---
 ---
 
 **Last verified good state**: 2026-07-08 — Mumuni, Tanko, Koby all connected with `_strip_html` applied.

inference-optimization.prose.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ kind: responsibility
 description: >
   Optimizes the full Syslog inference stack — LiteLLM routing weights, GPU model
   assignments, agent context management, and prompt caching — to reduce response
-  times to sub-15s average. All GPUs now at 128K context (stable ceiling).
+  times to sub-15s average. NVIDIA GPUs at 128K context; Strix Halo at 256K (2026-09-12).
 id: 067NC6KP02RG60S50M40E30928
 ---
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ management, and prompt caching — without sacrificing agent capability.
   .123, any others on .129/.122) including compression, model, context_window,
   prompt_caching, memory settings
 - `gpu-health`: health check response from all 3 GPU backends (strix-moe .15:8080,
-  qwen .8:8080, gemma .110:8080)
+  gpu-dense .8:8080, gpu-vision .110:8080)
 
 ### Maintains
 
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ duration.
 **Context is the root cause.** Every ~46K prompt token costs ~87s of
 prefill time at 532 tok/s. Fix context first, routing second.
 
-- **Route by task**: qwen for code/standard queries; gemma for
-  compression/auxiliary; strix-moe for compression tasks.
+- **Route by task**: gpu-dense for code/standard queries; gpu-vision for
+  vision/web-auxiliary; syslog-auto for compression.
 - **Compress aggressively**: threshold at 40% (not 65%) — a 128K window should
   compact at 51K, not 85K. Target 15% tail (not 30%).
 - **Cache everything repeated**: system prompts, skill docs, AGENTS.md — these
   never change between turns. Single-digit cache hit rate is unacceptable.
 - **Lower context ceiling**: 128K window is the stable ceiling for agent conversations.
-  GPUs reduced from 256K to 128K (2026-07-17). 128K window should compact at 85K (0.65 threshold). For larger contexts, route to external providers.
+  GPUs reduced from 256K to 128K (2026-07-17) for the NVIDIA hosts; Strix Halo runs 256K (2026-09-12). 128K window should compact at 85K (0.65 threshold). For larger contexts, route to external providers.
 
 ### Shape
 
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ call apply-liteLLM-routing
 
 call apply-agent-compression
   agent: mumuni
-  host: 192.168.68.24
-  config_path: /root/.hermes/config.yaml
+  host: 192.168.68.14
+  config_path: /home/hermes/.hermes/config.yaml
 
 -- Phase 4: Enable llama.cpp prompt caching on GPU hosts
 
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ call enable-prompt-caching
   hosts: [192.168.68.15, 192.168.68.8, 192.168.68.110]
 
 -- Phase 5: Verify end-to-end latency
+-- `models` is a literal verification parameter (a snapshot only): the authoritative registry is
+-- CT 116 /opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml; re-read it before use.
 
 call verify-latency
   host: 192.168.68.116
-  models: [syslog-auto, qwen3.6-27B-code, gemma-4-12b]
+  models: [syslog-auto, gpu-dense, gpu-vision, strix-moe]
 ```

infrastructure-control.prose.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ kind: pattern
 name: infrastructure-control
 description: >
   Full infrastructure monitoring and control pattern covering the
-  6-node Proxmox cluster, 3 Docker ecosystems (22 containers),
+  5-node Proxmox cluster, 3 Docker ecosystems (22 containers),
   NFS storage, and network services. Defines monitors, remediations,
   and the access matrix for all environments.
 
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ description: >
   against the live system. Policy fields are authoritative. See the
   `verify-before-mutate` skill.
 
-  **Last verified:** 2026-07-24 — corrected Gitea IP (.17 not .110),
-  AdGuard IP (.10 not .102), AdGuard placement (minipve not acerpve),
-  Abiba placement (hwepve not amdpve), added hwepve as 6th node,
-  added dns.sysloggh.net route.
+  **Last verified:** 2026-08-15 — hwepve removed from Tabiri cluster
+  (now 5 nodes: minipve, amdpve, storepve, acerpve, ocupve). hwepve
+  (192.168.68.4) is a standalone PVE node + NetBird routing peer;
+  London relocation pending. CT 100 (abiba) is on minipve; CT 105
+  (kagentz) is on amdpve.
 ---
 
 # Infrastructure Control Pattern
@@ -34,21 +35,21 @@ description: >
    ┌─────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐    ┌──────────────┐
    │   Abiba     │    │   Tanko      │    │   Mumuni     │
    │   (pi)      │    │   (Hermes)   │    │   (Hermes)   │
-   │   CT 100    │    │   CT 112     │    │   CT 114     │
+   │   CT 100    │    │   CT 112     │    │   CT 100     │
    └──────┬──────┘    └──────┬───────┘    └──────┬───────┘
           │                  │                    │
           └──────────────────┼────────────────────┘
                              ▼
-          ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
-          │         Proxmox Cluster API          │
-          │    minipve.sysloggh.net:443          │
-          │   (monitoring@pve!mumuni token)      │
-          └────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬─────┘
-               │      │      │      │      │
-          ┌────┘ ┌────┘ ┌────┘ ┌────┘ ┌────┘
-          ▼      ▼      ▼      ▼      ▼
-       minipve amdpve storepve acerpve ocupve hwepve
-        (.12)   (.15)   (.6)    (.9)    (.5)    (.4)
+          ┌────────────────────────────────────┐
+          │         Proxmox Cluster API        │
+          │    minipve.sysloggh.net:443        │
+          │   (monitoring@pve!mumuni token)    │
+          └────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────────┘
+               │      │      │      │
+          ┌────┘ ┌────┘ ┌────┘ ┌────┘
+          ▼      ▼      ▼      ▼
+       minipve amdpve storepve acerpve ocupve
+        (.12)   (.15)   (.6)    (.9)    (.5)
 
           ▼
    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
@@ -100,21 +101,29 @@ description: >
 
 ## Section 2: Proxmox Cluster — Monitoring
 
-### Nodes (6)
+### Nodes (5)
 
 | Node | IP | CPU | RAM | VMs/CTs | Role |
 |------|----|-----|-----|---------|------|
-| minipve | .12 | 16C | 30GB | authentik, gitea, syslog-api, infisical-vault, jitsi | Auth, git, messaging |
-| amdpve | .15 | 32C | 62GB | tanko, tdunna, baggy, scottdenya | Agents, compute |
-| storepve | .6 | 28C | 31GB | docker-vm, ra-h-os, PBS, media, jdownloader, zulip | Docker, storage, chat |
+| minipve | .12 | 16C | 30GB | abiba, authentik, gitea, syslog-api, infisical-vault, jitsi | Auth, git, messaging |
+| amdpve | .15 | 32C | 62GB | kagentz, tanko, baggy, scottdenya, adguard2 | Agents, compute |
+| storepve | .6 | 28C | 31GB | docker-vm, ra-h-os, PBS, media, jdownloader, zulip, tdunna | Docker, storage, chat |
 | acerpve | .9 | 28C | 31GB | llm-gpu | GPU VMs |
 | ocupve | .5 | 12C | 14GB | ocu-llm | GPU VMs |
-| hwepve | .4 | 12C | 15GB | abiba, kagentz, (mumuni CT 114 stopped) | Agents (new node) |
 
-> **Note:** CTs on storepve include jdownloader (CT 118). AdGuard (CT 102) is on
-> minipve at .10, not acerpve. Abiba (CT 100) is on hwepve, not amdpve. Mumuni
-> (CT 114) is on hwepve (currently stopped), not minipve. Mumuni also has a
-> second instance on minipve at .123 — distinguish by CT ID, not hostname.
+> **Note:** CTs on storepve include jdownloader (CT 118) and tdunna (CT 111).
+> AdGuard (CT 102) is on minipve at .10, not acerpve. Abiba (CT 100) is on
+> minipve (moved from hwepve 2026-08-15); kagentz (CT 105) is on amdpve.
+> Mumuni runs inside Abiba CT100 (.24); CT 114 (mumuni) no longer exists in the cluster.
+>
+> **hwepve (192.168.68.4) — STANDALONE (removed from Tabiri 2026-08-15):**
+> Huawei MateBook 16 (KLVL-WXX9), pve-manager/9.2.10, kernel 7.0.14-8-pve.
+> Zero VMs/CTs. Being relocated to London as a standalone PVE node + NetBird
+> routing peer (relocation pending). Localizations applied: timezone
+> Europe/London, lid-switch ignore, sleep/suspend/hibernate targets masked,
+> cluster-shared storage removed (remaining: local, local-lvm, storage,
+> mediastore). prometheus-node-exporter active on :9100; net.ipv4.ip_forward=1;
+> NetBird client not yet installed (enrollment pending setup key).
 
 ### Checks (every 5 min)
 
@@ -172,8 +181,8 @@ description: >
 **Stirling-PDF** (deployed 2026-07-03, Authentik SSO 2026-07-03):
 - URL: `https://pdf.sysloggh.net` (public) / `http://192.168.68.7:8989` (direct)
 - Swagger: `http://192.168.68.7:8989/swagger-ui.html`
-- Admin credentials: `admin` / `kakashi20stirling`
-- API key: `adefaef837314afc37803747049c2e73f456da97699ff1b02b391347c4a3cb88`
+- Admin credentials: `«vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_ADMIN_USER»` / `«vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_ADMIN_PASSWORD»`
+- API key: `«vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_API_KEY»`
 - Authentik OAuth2: configured but disabled (requires paid Server license). Ready to enable: set `SECURITY_OAUTH2_ENABLED=true` + `SECURITY_LOGINMETHOD=all`
 - Compose: `/opt/home_stack/docker-compose.yml`
 - Control script: `/opt/home_stack/infra-control.sh`
@@ -190,18 +199,18 @@ description: >
 
 ### Ecosystem B: CT 116 syslog-api (192.168.68.116)
 
-8 containers in inference-harness stack:
+12 containers on CT 116 — 11 in the inference-harness stack + trove-agent-docker (verified live 2026-09-11; LiteLLM upgraded 1.90.0-rc.1 -> 1.99.1; trove-agent-docker added 2026-09-11):
 
 | Container | Image | Port | Role |
 |-----------|-------|------|------|
-| harness-litellm | berriai/litellm:1.90.0-rc.1 | :4000→:4001 | API proxy, key mgmt, fallbacks |
-| harness-router | inference-harness-router | :9000 (127.0.0.1) | GPU routing, slot booking, CB |
+| harness-litellm | ghcr.io/docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:1.99.1 | :4000→:4000 | API proxy, key mgmt, fallbacks |
 | harness-nginx | nginx:alpine | :80 | Entrypoint, /v1→LiteLLM, /dashboard/ |
 | harness-postgres | postgres:16-alpine | :5432 | LiteLLM DB (keys, spend, config) |
-| harness-redis | redis:7-alpine | :6379 | Router slots, circuit breakers |
+| harness-redis | redis:7-alpine | :6379 | LiteLLM cache + rate-limit state |
 | harness-dashboard | inference-harness-dashboard | :3000 | SyslogAI Harness UI |
 | harness-grafana | grafana/grafana | :3000→:3001 (direct LAN, not behind nginx) | GPU + Proxmox + Docker dashboards |
 | harness-prometheus | prom/prometheus | :9090 | Metrics scraper, 6 jobs |
+| trove-agent-docker | ghcr.io/techdox/trove-agent-docker:latest | outbound agent (no port) | Trove host agent — service inventory + metrics, added 2026-09-11 |
 
 **Nginx routing**:
 - `/v1/*` → harness-litellm:4000 (API)
@@ -213,9 +222,8 @@ description: >
 
 **Prometheus targets**:
 - 192.168.68.8:9400 (RTX 3090 — qwen)
-- 192.168.68.110:9400 (RTX 5070 — gemma)
-- 192.168.68.15:9400 (Strix Halo — qwen3.6-35B-udq4)
-- 192.168.68.24:9401 (Router metrics exporter)
+- 192.168.68.110:9400 (RTX 5070 — gpu-vision)
+- 192.168.68.15:9400 (Strix Halo — strix-moe)
 - harness-litellm:4000 (LiteLLM health)
 
 ### Ecosystem C: Netbird (72.61.0.17 — Hostinger srv1079750.hstgr.cloud)
@@ -356,6 +364,79 @@ For docker-vm specifically:
 - No PBS backup in 48h → fail
 ```
 
+### Backup Safety Preconditions (2026-09-15)
+
+#### Background & Rationale
+
+Two incidents from 2026-09-13/14 demonstrate that backup operations can catastrophically fail when storage conditions are not verified first:
+
+1. **acerpve thin-pool VM 101** (acerpve, 192.168.68.9, 2026-09-13): A snapshot-mode vzdump of VM 101 on acerpve filled the LVM thin pool. `dmsetup status pve-data-tpool` showed `thin-pool Error` (then `Fail`), the host root remounted `emergency_ro`, ordinary commands failed with I/O errors, LVM tools returned nothing and VM 101 (the RTX 3090 host) went unreachable while the host still answered ping and ssh. It happened TWICE in one day with different modes: snapshot at 13:39Z and a `--mode stop` cold run at 18:52Z. Both times a reboot rolled the failed transaction back and the pool returned rw (~30% data, ~1.2% metadata). Pool capacity was NOT the obvious explanation - ~816G with ~572G free - which is why the metadata/snapshot-pressure hypothesis stands unproven. A full or errored thin pool fails EVERY volume on the VG at once, including the host root.
+
+2. **amdpve 0700 tmpdir** (amdpve, 192.168.68.15, 2026-09-14): A custom vzdump `tmpdir` created with mode 0700 broke a whole night of container backups: `fstat "<dir>/vzdumptmp<n>_<ct>//." failed - EACCES`, because the archive step runs through an unprivileged user namespace and could not traverse a root-owned 0700 directory. Fixed with `chmod 1777` (match /var/tmp) and proved with a real backup.
+
+3. **acerpve GPU-host fact**: VM 101 (llm-gpu) and VM 103 (ocu-llm) are in NO scheduled job, so their only coverage is one-off runs - and for VM 101 that is deliberate until the thin-pool is understood.
+
+> ⚠️ **Hostname Resolution Warning (2026-09-15)**: The PVE node hostnames (acerpve, amdpve, minipve, storepve, ocupve) all resolve to the VPS (72.61.0.17, the Netbird VPS at srv1079750.hstgr.cloud) via the wildcard `*.dns.sysloggh.net` record, NOT to the actual nodes. So `ssh acerpve` lands on the VPS. **Nodes must be addressed by IP**: acerpve 192.168.68.9, amdpve 192.168.68.15, storepve 192.168.68.6, minipve 192.168.68.12, ocupve 192.168.68.5. Guest CTs are reached through their node (`pct exec`). Guest hostnames that resolve on the LAN (e.g. kagentz = 192.168.68.14) are fine. (The DNS address records are a separate decision — row: dag-daemon-node-hostnames-resolve-to-the-vps-20260915.)
+
+#### PREFLIGHT Preconditions (Before ANY snapshot-mode backup on thin-pool hosts)
+
+Before starting ANY snapshot-mode vzdump on a host whose storage is an LVM thin pool, the following checks MUST pass:
+
+```bash
+# Check 1: Pool headroom (PRIMARY - yields percentages directly)
+# Run on the NODE (e.g. ssh root@192.168.68.9 for acerpve) — NOT by bare hostname, see warning above
+lvs -o lv_name,data_percent,metadata_percent,lv_size pve/data
+# Example output (acerpve, 192.168.68.9):
+#   LV   Data%  Meta%  LSize
+#   data 29.95  1.22   <816.21g
+# Required thresholds (documented minimum):
+# data_percent < 90%  (80% recommended for safety margin)
+# metadata_percent < 70%  (metadata fills faster than data)
+
+# Check 2: Verify pool is not in error state (dmsetup shows the raw DM device)
+# Run on the NODE (e.g. ssh root@192.168.68.9 for acerpve) — NOT by bare hostname
+dmsetup status pve-data-tpool | grep -q "Error\|Fail" && exit 1
+# dmsetup status pve-data-tpool field order (verified on 192.168.68.9):
+#   $1=start  $2=length  $3="thin-pool"  $4=transaction-id
+#   $5=metadata_used/metadata_total (blocks)  $6=data_used/data_total (sectors)
+#   remaining fields are flags ("-", "rw", "discard_passdown", "queue_if_no_space", ...)
+# This is only used for the ERROR-STATE check; use the lvs command above for percentages.
+#   metadata_percent = $5 / ($5 split by /) [second number in pair]
+```
+
+**Minimum thresholds**: If either `data_percent >= 90%` or `metadata_percent >= 70%`, the backup MUST NOT start. State explicitly that these are hard stops, not warnings.
+
+**Why this is a precondition**: A full or errored thin pool fails EVERY volume on the VG at once, including the host root. This is not a soft failure - it takes down the entire Proxmox host.
+
+#### Staging Directory Requirement (2026-09-14 incident)
+
+Any custom vzdump `tmpdir` MUST be world-traversable and writable exactly like `/var/tmp` (mode 1777). The archive step of vzdump runs in an unprivileged user namespace and cannot traverse a root-owned 0700 directory.
+
+**Symptom to recognize**: `fstat "<dir>/vzdumptmp<n>_<ct>//." failed - EACCES` on every container in the backup run.
+
+**Fix**: `chmod 1777 <custom-tmpdir>` before starting vzdump.
+
+#### Task Start Rule for Truncating Shells
+
+When starting a backup task from a shell that may truncate output (e.g., pipes, `head`), always use:
+
+```bash
+pvesh create /storage/backup --output-format json -- ... | head -2
+# ❌ Can kill the backup task ("broken pipe" status)
+```
+
+Instead, capture JSON output without piping to truncating commands:
+
+```bash
+# Use --output-format json and capture to variable
+result=$(pvesh create /storage/backup --output-format json -- ...)
+# Then parse result if needed
+```
+
+#### GPU Host Backup Status (acerpve VM 101)
+
+VM 101 (llm-gpu) and VM 103 (ocu-llm) have NO scheduled backup job. Coverage is manual one-off runs only. This is intentional for VM 101 until the thin-pool failure mechanism is understood and documented.
+
 ## Section 5: Network Services — Monitoring
 
 ### 5.1 Service Inventory
@@ -555,7 +636,7 @@ monitor, or integration breaks.
 ```bash
 # Full cluster status
 PVE="https://minipve.sysloggh.net"
-AUTH="Authorization: PVEAPIToken=monitoring@pve!mumuni=eafd56c5-93d4-4d40-a41d-e688be0987f3"
+AUTH="Authorization: PVEAPIToken=«vault: infrastructure/production PVE_API_TOKEN»"
 curl -sfk "$PVE/api2/json/cluster/resources" -H "$AUTH"
 
 # Docker health from Abiba
@@ -579,9 +660,6 @@ curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $(infisical secrets get LITELLM_MASTER_KEY --p
 # Storage check
 ssh root@192.168.68.7 "df -h /media/storage /media/mediastore"
 
-# Router roster reload (if needed)
-curl -s -X POST http://192.168.68.116:9000/admin/roster/reload \
-  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-admin-ee09fffd04978b61a1569ac670c68814"
 
 # Restart stuck GPU (saturation watchdog alternative)
 ssh root@192.168.68.8 "systemctl restart llama-server"
@@ -592,26 +670,26 @@ ssh root@192.168.68.110 "systemctl restart llama-server"
 
 | CT | Name | Node | IP | Role | Agent |
 |----|------|------|----|------|-------|
-| 100 | abiba | **hwepve** | .24 | Pi agent | ✅ pi |
+| 100 | abiba | minipve | .24 | Pi agent | ✅ pi |
 | 101 | llm-gpu | acerpve | .8 | GPU RTX 3090 | ❌ |
 | 102 | adguard | **minipve** | **.10** | DNS | ❌ |
 | 103 | ocu-llm | ocupve | .110 | GPU RTX 5070 | ❌ |
 | 104 | authentik | minipve | .11 | OIDC | ❌ |
-| 105 | kagentz | **hwepve** | — | Agent Zero | ✅ |
+| 105 | kagentz | amdpve | — | Agent Zero | ✅ |
 | 106 | ra-h-os | storepve | .65 | KG bridge | ✅ MCP |
 | 107 | pbs | storepve | — | Backups | ❌ |
 | 108 | media | storepve | — | Media | ❌ |
 | 109 | docker-vm | storepve | .7 | Docker host | ❌ |
 | 110 | gitea | minipve | **.17** | Git | ❌ |
-| 111 | tdunna | amdpve | .129 | Hermes agent | ✅ |
-| 112 | tanko | amdpve | .122 | Hermes agent | ✅ |
+| 111 | tdunna | storepve | .129 | Hermes agent — ⛔ REPORT-ONLY (Theo's box, no GC) | ✅ |
+| 112 | tanko | amdpve | .122 | DSH (DeepSeek Harness) agent | ✅ |
 | 113 | baggy | amdpve | .114 | Hermes agent | ✅ |
-| 114 | mumuni | **hwepve** | .123 | Hermes agent (stopped) | ✅ |
 | 115 | scottdenya | amdpve | .75 | Denya OneCare | ❌ |
 | 116 | syslog-api | minipve | .116 | LiteLLM + Grafana | ❌ |
 | 117 | zulip | storepve | .19 | Chat | ❌ |
 | 118 | jdownloader | storepve | .20 | JDownloader LXC (dedicated, migrated from docker-vm 2026-08-01) | ✅ |
 | 119 | infisical-vault | minipve | — | Vault | ❌ |
+| 120 | adguard2 | amdpve | — | DNS (secondary AdGuard) | ❌ |
 
 ## Appendix C: Docker Compose Files Location
 
@@ -631,20 +709,22 @@ Source of truth: `/root/scripts/pct-run.sh` or `prose-contracts/scripts/pct-run.
 
 | CT | Name | Node | pct-run |
 |-----|------|------|---------|
-| 100 | abiba | hwepve | `pct-run 100` |
-| 105 | kagentz | hwepve | `pct-run 105` |
-| 111 | tdunna | amdpve | `pct-run 111` |
+| 100 | abiba | minipve | `pct-run 100` |
+| 105 | kagentz | amdpve | `pct-run 105` |
+| 111 | tdunna | storepve | `pct-run 111` (⛔ report-only — no GC) |
 | 112 | tanko | amdpve | `pct-run 112` |
 | 113 | baggy | amdpve | `pct-run 113` |
 | 115 | scottdenya | amdpve | `pct-run 115` |
 | 104 | authentik | minipve | `pct-run 104` |
 | 110 | gitea | minipve | `pct-run 110` |
-| 114 | mumuni | hwepve | `pct-run 114` |
 | 116 | syslog-api | minipve | `pct-run 116` |
 | 106 | ra-h-os | storepve | `pct-run 106` |
 | 107 | proxmox-backup | storepve | `pct-run 107` |
 | 108 | media | storepve | `pct-run 108` |
 | 117 | zulip | storepve | `pct-run 117` |
+| 118 | jdownloader | storepve | `pct-run 118` |
+| 119 | infisical-vault | minipve | `pct-run 119` |
+| 120 | adguard2 | amdpve | `pct-run 120` |
 | 102 | adguard | **minipve** | `pct-run 102` |
 
 GPU bare-metal hosts (.8 acerpve, .110 ocupve, .15 amdpve) are NOT CTs — use SSH directly:
@@ -652,7 +732,7 @@ GPU bare-metal hosts (.8 acerpve, .110 ocupve, .15 amdpve) are NOT CTs — use S
 ssh root@192.168.68.8   # RTX 3090
 ssh root@192.168.68.110 # RTX 5070
 ssh root@192.168.68.15  # Strix Halo
-ssh root@192.168.68.4   # hwepve (abiba, kagentz, mumuni)
+ssh root@192.168.68.4   # hwepve — standalone London node + NetBird routing peer (relocation pending)
 ```
 
 ## Section 7: Agent Health Check (consolidated — 2026-07-05)
@@ -679,4 +759,4 @@ which was kill+nohup outside systemd) are banned by policy.
 | Script | Why Disabled |
 |--------|-------------|
 | `zulip-watchdog.sh` (Mumuni) | kill+nohup bypassed systemd, 27 restarts, pattern mismatch |
-| `zulip-monitor.sh` (Abiba) | Replaced by agent-health-check.py + PM2 auto-restart |
+| `zulip-monitor.sh` (Abiba) | Standalone cron replaced by agent-health-check.py + PM2 auto-restart; the script itself remains active as the execution step of the `zulip-health` responsibility contract (see `zulip-health.prose.md`) |

infrastructure-maintenance.prose.md

@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ After ALL updates (apt + images + restarts), verify every critical service is ba
 | Zulip | `curl -sf https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings` | 200 OK |
 | Gitea | `curl -sf https://git.sysloggh.net/api/v1/version` | 200 OK |
 | PM2 processes | `pm2 jlist` (CT 100) | all pi-agent processes `online` |
-| Hermes gateways | SSH to Mumuni CT 100, Tanko CT 112; `systemctl is-active hermes-gateway` | `active` for each |
 
 Regression check: every service that was GREEN in `health-baseline` must still be GREEN. A service that was already RED (and caused a preflight abort) is excluded — but Phase 0 should have aborted before we got here.
 

infrastructure-monitoring.prose.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ description: >
   ⚠️ This contract is target-state aspirational — but GPU export + alerting
      are now as-built (verified 2026-08-09).
      As-built GPU monitoring is via gpu-monitor contract (port 9100 poll).
-version: 1.0.0
+version: 1.0.1
 ---
 
 ## Architecture
@@ -103,58 +103,202 @@ GPU .8 (RTX 3090)    GPU .110 (RTX 5070)   GPU .15 (Strix Halo)
 
 ## Execution
 
+### Liveness rule (scoped)
+
+The any-HTTP-response rule applies ONLY to unauthenticated/auth-gated endpoints,
+where any HTTP answer proves a listener is up: the PVE API
+(`https://<node>:8006/api2/json/version`) and LiteLLM health
+(`/litellm/health`, `301` → `/litellm/health/liveliness`). For those endpoints a
+probe is **ALIVE** on **ANY** HTTP status — `401`/`403` auth challenges and `3xx`
+redirects included — and **DOWN = connection refused (`000`) or timeout only**.
+The PVE API legitimately answers `401` to an unauthenticated probe — that is the
+healthy signal, not a failure. Same scoped rule as zulip-health (Tanko) and
+gpu-monitor.
+
+Probes whose success condition is specifically a bare `200` are NOT covered by
+the any-HTTP rule. On those — the authenticated Zulip POST and the router
+`/health` — an unexpected status (`401`/`403` from a bad or missing credential,
+`5xx`, or anything other than the expected `200`) is an **ALERT**, not "alive".
+
+**STANDING PROBE RULES (2026-09-14, from defect report 1150.msg):**
+1. **Any HTTP status means ALIVE.** 200, 301, 302, 401, 403, 404 all prove the
+   service answered — report the code, never "down". A redirect is not a failure.
+   Only a failed CONNECTION (curl status 000, timeout, refused) is a failed probe,
+   and that is a statement about YOUR PROBE, not about the service.
+2. **A failed probe is never a service verdict.** Print
+   `probe-failed: <target> <kind>` naming the exact URL/host/port and the failure
+   kind (timeout, refused, no-route, dns), retry once at a longer timeout, and only
+   then report. Apply the same shape as scripts/disk-gc-scan.py.
+3. **Say which probe produced each number.** "Grafana: 000" is unusable;
+   "Grafana http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health -> connection timeout after 10s
+   (retried at 25s: also timeout)" is actionable.
+
+### check-health
+
+**RUN LIVE, NEVER ECHO — every dispatch must execute the probes below with real
+tool calls; never repeat a prior report unless a live probe fails.**
+
+**EXECUTABLE OWNER:** The canonical probe set lives in `scripts/infra-monitoring.sh`.
+A check run is a single command: `bash scripts/infra-monitoring.sh` (from the
+repository root). Paste its raw output verbatim into the report. The script
+exits non-zero naming every failed target; there is no "OK" summary when any
+leg failed. Port drift is caught by `scripts/test_infra_monitoring.sh` which
+asserts every probed port matches the documented value.
+
+**PROBE SHAPE (per standing rules above):**
+- Every probe prints: `✅ <name>: alive` on success, or `🔴 <name>: probe-failed: <host>:<port> (expected <pattern>) (<kind>)` on failure
+- PVE API failures include `(any-HTTP liveness, -k for self-signed)` to distinguish TLS vs connection
+- Retry once on connection failure at longer timeout (25s connect, 30s max)
+- Any HTTP status = ALIVE; only 000/timeout/refused = probe-failed
+- Report the actual probe output, not a summary verdict
+
+```bash
+# Provenance — run first; paste the absolute path into the report
+pwd -P
+
+# ============================================================
+# 1. ZULIP API HEALTH (POST ping) — bare-200 probe
+# ============================================================
+# NOTE: /etc/litellm-monitor.env exists only on CT 116, retrieve keys from CT 116 via:
+zulip_key=$(ssh root@192.168.68.116 "grep ZULIP_BOT_KEY /etc/litellm-monitor.env | cut -d= -f2")
+if [ -z "$zulip_key" ]; then
+  echo "credential-missing: ZULIP_BOT_KEY not found in /etc/litellm-monitor.env"
+else
+  ZULIP_USER="abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net"
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 -X POST https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/messages -u "${ZULIP_USER}:${zulip_key}")
+  echo "Zulip API https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/messages -> $code"
+  # Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe; any other status is an ALERT)
+fi
+
+# ============================================================
+# 2. PM2 PROCESS HEALTH
+# ============================================================
+pm2 jlist
+# Expected: 4/4 online (abiba-telegram, abiba-zulip, zulip-watchdog, gitea-runner)
+# spoton-service removed 2026-09-14 (not in live set)
+
+# ============================================================
+# 3. GPU EXPORTERS — any-HTTP probe (metrics endpoint)
+# ============================================================
+# Probe /metrics (the Prometheus scrape target), not bare /
+for host in 192.168.68.8 192.168.68.110 192.168.68.15; do
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 "http://$host:9400/metrics")
+  if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+    # Retry with longer timeout
+    code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 "http://$host:9400/metrics")
+    echo "GPU exporter http://$host:9400/metrics -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+  else
+    echo "GPU exporter http://$host:9400/metrics -> $code"
+  fi
+done
+# Expected: 200 on all 3 hosts (RTX 3090, RTX 5070, Strix Halo)
+
+# ============================================================
+# 4. ROUTER HEALTH (via nginx on port 80) — bare-200 probe
+# ============================================================
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://192.168.68.116/health)
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 http://192.168.68.116/health)
+  echo "Router http://192.168.68.116/health -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "Router http://192.168.68.116/health -> $code"
+fi
+# Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe; any other status is an ALERT)
+
+# ============================================================
+# 5. LITELLM HEALTH (via nginx on port 80) — any-HTTP probe
+# ============================================================
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health)
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health)
+  echo "LiteLLM http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "LiteLLM http://192.168.68.116/litellm/health -> $code"
+fi
+# Expected: 301 → /litellm/health/liveliness (any HTTP status = ALIVE)
+
+# ============================================================
+# 6. PVE API LIVENESS — any-HTTP probe (auth-gated)
+# ============================================================
+# Probe the REAL PVE nodes on :8006, never the monitoring host CT 116.
+for node in 192.168.68.9 192.168.68.5 192.168.68.15 192.168.68.6 192.168.68.12; do
+  code=$(curl -sk -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 "https://$node:8006/api2/json/version")
+  if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+    code=$(curl -sk -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 "https://$node:8006/api2/json/version")
+    echo "PVE API https://$node:8006/api2/json/version -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+  else
+    echo "PVE API https://$node:8006/api2/json/version -> $code"
+  fi
+done
+# Expected: 401 on every node (acerpve .9, ocupve .5, amdpve .15, storepve .6, minipve .12)
+# 401 is the EXPECTED healthy response (auth-gated); 000/timeout = DOWN
+
+# ============================================================
+# 7. PROMETHEUS TARGETS — bare-200 probe
+# ============================================================
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://192.168.68.116:9090/api/v1/targets)
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 http://192.168.68.116:9090/api/v1/targets)
+  echo "Prometheus http://192.168.68.116:9090/api/v1/targets -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "Prometheus http://192.168.68.116:9090/api/v1/targets -> $code"
+fi
+# Expected: 200 (bare-200 probe; any other status is an ALERT)
+
+# ============================================================
+# 8. GRAFANA HEALTH — any-HTTP probe
+# ============================================================
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health)
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health)
+  echo "Grafana http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "Grafana http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health -> $code"
+fi
+# Expected: 200 (any HTTP status = ALIVE; 000/timeout = DOWN)
+
+# ============================================================
+# 9. LITELLM METRICS (Prometheus endpoint) — any-HTTP probe
+# ============================================================
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://192.168.68.116:4000/metrics)
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 http://192.168.68.116:4000/metrics)
+  echo "LiteLLM metrics http://192.168.68.116:4000/metrics -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "LiteLLM metrics http://192.168.68.116:4000/metrics -> $code"
+fi
+# Expected: 200 (any HTTP status = ALIVE; 000/timeout = DOWN)
+```
+
+**Report format**: Begin every report with the **absolute path the probe executed
+from** (`pwd -P`) so a stale-consumer report is distinguishable from a real fault
+at read time. For each probe, print the target name, the full URL, and the HTTP
+code (or failure kind with retry details). Apply the standing probe rules: any
+HTTP status = ALIVE; only 000/timeout/refused = probe-failed. A redirect is not
+a failure.
+
+### Docker Stats and PVE Exporter Ports
+
+These two exporters bind to 127.0.0.1 on CT 116 (localhost-only) and must be probed via SSH:
+
+| Exporter | Port | Container | Metrics |
+|----------|------|-----------|---------|
+| **Docker Stats** | **9324** | harness-docker-stats | `docker_container_*` (per-container CPU/mem/network) |
+| **PVE Exporter** | **9221** | harness-pve-exporter | `pve_*` (5 cluster-level metrics) |
+
+**IMPORTANT**: Do not confuse with port 9323, which is owned by dockerd and serves the Docker Engine's own metrics (`builder_builds_*`, `containerd_build_info_*`).
+
+```bash
+# Docker Stats (harness-docker-stats)
+ssh root@192.168.68.116 "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://127.0.0.1:9324/metrics"
+# Expected: 200 or 404 (any HTTP status = ALIVE)
+
+# PVE Exporter (harness-pve-exporter)
+ssh root@192.168.68.116 "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://127.0.0.1:9221/metrics"
+# Expected: 200 or 404 (any HTTP status = ALIVE)
+```
+
 ### Phase 1: GPU Exporters
 
 **NVIDIA (.8 and .110)**:
 1. Download `nvidia_gpu_exporter` binary
-2. Create systemd service `nvidia-gpu-exporter.service`
-3. Start and enable
-
-**AMD (.15)**:
-1. Create Python exporter script at `/opt/amdgpu-exporter/exporter.py`
-2. Parses `amdgpu_top --json -d 1000` output
-3. Exposes key metrics at `:9400/metrics` via Python http.server
-4. Create systemd service
-5. Start and enable
-
-### Phase 2: Prometheus
-
-1. Create `/opt/monitoring/` directory on CT 116
-2. Write `prometheus.yml` with scrape configs for all targets
-3. Add to docker-compose (or separate compose file)
-4. Start container
-
-### Phase 3: Grafana
-
-1. Create `/opt/monitoring/grafana/` directories
-2. Provision Prometheus datasource
-3. Provision GPU fleet dashboard JSON
-4. Provision LiteLLM dashboard JSON
-5. Add to docker-compose
-6. Start container
-
-### Phase 4: Verification
-
-1. Verify all 3 GPU exporters return 200 at :9400/metrics
-2. Verify Prometheus targets all UP at :9090/targets
-3. Verify Grafana accessible at :3001 with dashboards
-4. Verify LiteLLM metrics flowing to Prometheus
-5. ~~Update nginx to proxy `/monitoring/` → Grafana~~ (NOT recommended — nginx sub-path was tried for /grafana/ and reverted per proxmox-monitor; direct :3001 access is the standard)
-
-## Verification Commands
-
-```bash
-# GPU exporters
-curl -s http://192.168.68.8:9400/metrics | grep nvidia
-curl -s http://192.168.68.110:9400/metrics | grep nvidia
-curl -s http://192.168.68.15:9400/metrics | grep amdgpu
-
-# Prometheus
-curl -s http://192.168.68.116:9090/api/v1/targets
-
-# Grafana
-curl -s http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health
-
-# LiteLLM metrics (already live)
-curl -s http://192.168.68.116:4001/metrics | head -20
-```

infrastructure-update.prose.md

@@ -2,16 +2,17 @@
 kind: responsibility
 name: infrastructure-update
 description: >
-  Autonomous system-wide update contract covering all 6 Proxmox nodes,
-  15+ containers/VMs, and 4 Docker ecosystems. Updates apt packages,
+  Autonomous system-wide update contract covering all 5 Proxmox nodes,
+  15+ containers/VMs, and 5 Docker ecosystems (docker-vm .7, CT 116 .116,
+  CT 117, hwpve .11, NetBird VPS 72.61.0.17). Updates apt packages,
   Docker images, and container stacks in safe waves with health checks
   and automatic rollback on failure.
 agent: abiba
 triggers:
   - on "infra update" command
-  - weekly (Sunday 03:00 EDT) via cron
+  - weekly (Sunday 03:00 America/New_York) via Agent Zero scheduler task "weekly-fleet-docker-update" (qSOOVzsU) — implemented 2026-09-08
   - on security advisory relay from Mumuni
-version: 1.2.0
+version: 1.4.0
 ---
 
 ## Maintains
@@ -56,11 +57,10 @@ Before ANY update wave:
 | amdpve (.15) | Proxmox node | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 5 min |
 | acerpve (.9) | Proxmox node | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 5 min |
 | ocupve (.5) | Proxmox node | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 5 min |
-| hwepve (.4) | Proxmox node | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 5 min |
 | CT 100 (.24) | Abiba (pi) | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
 | CT 116 (.116) | syslog-api (LiteLLM host) | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
 | CT 112 (tanko, amdpve) | Tanko | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
-| CT 100 (mumuni/abiba, hwepve) | Mumuni | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
+| CT 105 (kagentz, minipve) | Mumuni | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
 | VM 101 (.8) | llm-gpu (RTX 3090) | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
 | VM 103 (.110) | ocu-llm (RTX 5070) | `apt update && apt upgrade -y` | 3 min |
 
@@ -81,7 +81,14 @@ Before ANY update wave:
 | VM 109 (.7) | Home stack (Pulse, Stirling PDF) — JDownloader moved to CT 118 LXC 2026-08-01 | `cd /opt/home_stack && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` |
 | VM 109 (.7) | Audiobookshelf | `cd /opt/audiobookshelf && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` |
 | CT 116 (.116) | Inference Harness (LiteLLM, Prometheus, Grafana) | `cd /opt/inference-harness && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` |
-| CT 117 (zulip, storepve) | Zulip | `docker pull zulip/docker-zulip:latest && docker restart zulip-zulip-1` |
+| CT 116 (.116, via minipve) | Trove docker agent (trove-agent-docker) | `pct exec 116 -- bash -c 'cd /opt/trove-agent && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d'` |
+| CT 117 (storepve) | Zulip | `pct exec 117 -- bash -c 'cd /opt/zulip && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d'` (from storepve; compose recreates on zulip_default network) |
+| CT 117 (storepve) | Jitsi | `pct exec 117 -- bash -c 'cd /opt/jitsi && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d'` (from storepve) |
+| hwpve (.11) | Authentik (server, worker, postgres) | `ssh root@192.168.68.11 'cd /root && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d'` |
+| NetBird VPS (72.61.0.17) | NetBird (server, dashboard, proxy, traefik, crowdsec) | `ssh root@72.61.0.17 'cd /root && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d'` |
+| VM 109 (.7) | Trove test | `cd /opt/trove-test && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` |
+| VM 109 (.7) | docker-stats | `cd /opt/docker-stats && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` |
+| CT 116 (.116) | Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, PVE exporter) | `cd /opt/monitoring && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` |
 
 **Verify after Wave 3:**
 - All containers healthy: `docker ps` on each host
@@ -89,8 +96,13 @@ Before ANY update wave:
 - MCP integration test: `curl localhost:4000/mcp-rest/tools/list -H "Authorization: Bearer $MASTER_KEY"` → 90 tools (23 RA-H OS + 67 GitHub)
 - Zulip test: send test message to #agent-hub
 - Dashboard loading: `curl localhost:3001/` (via CT 116)
-- Firecrawl test: `curl :3002/`
+- Firecrawl test: `curl -X POST http://192.168.68.7:3002/v1/search -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"query":"health","limit":1}'` → `"success":true` (GET `/` returns 200)
+- Authentik test: `curl http://192.168.68.11:9000/` → 302 redirect to login
+- NetBird test: `curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://netbird.sysloggh.net/` → 200
+- harness-litellm cold start: allow 3-5 min after recreate — reports unhealthy and :4000 refuses connections while loading config/DB, then recovers to 200 on its own (verified 2026-09-08)
 - SearXNG test: `curl :8888`
+- Digest-pin sweep: `grep -rn '@sha256:' /opt/*/docker-compose.y*` on every host — digest-pinned images are INVISIBLE to `docker compose pull` (the pin re-pulls the same digest forever, so new releases never appear). Flag every pin in the run report and propose un-pinning to a floating tag with user approval before editing. Found 2026-09-10: audiobookshelf was digest-pinned at 2.34.0 (container created 2026-07-18) and silently missed by every sweep; dockhand stack was also pinned (stack removed 2026-09-10, unused). After un-pinning audiobookshelf to :latest it updated to 2.36.0 and verified HTTP 200.
+- Version-pin awareness: a fixed version tag (e.g. `image: ...litellm:1.99.1`) is a no-op for `docker compose pull` just like a digest pin, so the stack silently stops advancing. CT 116 `harness-litellm` is INTENTIONALLY pinned to `1.99.1` (registry `main-stable`/`latest` currently resolve to `1.100.1`, sha256:a3715fa7 — a bleeding-edge jump explicitly declined 2026-09-11). Every run must look up the newest STABLE release tag for any version-pinned image, bump the pin deliberately with user approval, recreate, and re-verify. Never silently revert a pin to a floating tag.
 
 ## Wave 4: Proxmox Kernel Reboot
 
@@ -159,13 +171,15 @@ Before Wave 1, snapshot these files:
 /opt/search-stack/searxng/docker-compose.yml            (VM 109 .7)
 /opt/home_stack/docker-compose.yml                      (VM 109 .7)
 /opt/audiobookshelf/docker-compose.yml                  (VM 109 .7)
+/root/compose.yml                                       (hwpve .11 — Authentik server/worker/postgres)
+/root/docker-compose.yml                                (NetBird VPS — netbird server/dashboard/proxy, traefik, crowdsec)
 /root/.pi/agent/extensions/config.yaml                  (CT 100 .24)
 /etc/systemd/system/strix-server.service                (amdpve .15 — strix-moe)
 /etc/systemd/system/llama-server.service                (VM 101 .8, VM 103 .110)
 # Hermes agent configs (key enforcement — 2026-07-10)
-/root/.hermes/config.yaml                               (Mumuni CT 114, Tanko CT 112, etc.)
-/root/.config/systemd/user/hermes-gateway.service       (Mumuni CT 114 — EnvironmentFile fixed)
-/etc/environment                                        (Mumuni CT 114 — LITELLM_API_KEY)
+/home/hermes/.hermes/config.yaml                        (Mumuni kagentz CT105; Tanko CT112 uses /home/jerome/.hermes)
+/etc/systemd/system/hermes-gateway.service              (Mumuni kagentz CT105 — system unit, User=hermes)
+/etc/environment                                        (LITELLM_API_KEY — legacy path, Mumuni now keys via Infisical)
 ```
 
 ## MCP Gateway (2026-07-10)
@@ -194,19 +208,19 @@ mcp_servers:
 | Key | MCP Access |
 |-----|-----------|
 | Master key | ✅ Full — 90 tools (vault-injected) |
-| Agent keys (mumuni, tanko, etc.) | ❌ Per-key grants not supported in v1.90.0-rc.1 |
+| Agent keys (mumuni, tanko, etc.) | ✅ Per-key grants supported (as of 2026-09-18 verification) |
 
 ### Known Limitations
-- Per-key MCP server grants not functional — only master key has access
+- ~~Per-key MCP server grants not functional — only master key has access~~ (resolved 2026-09-18: per-key grants now work)
 - Responses API (`/v1/responses`) with MCP tools broken on llama.cpp backends
 - HTTP 307 redirect on `/mcp` → use `/mcp/` (trailing slash) or `/mcp-rest/` endpoints
 - `api_mode: responses` in Hermes appends `/v1/responses` to base_url → **base_url must end at `/v1`, never `/responses`** (double-path bug)
 
-### Migration Path
-When LiteLLM is upgraded to a version supporting per-key MCP grants:
-1. Grant agent keys `mcp_servers: ["ra_h_os"]`
-2. Update Hermes `mcp_servers.ra-h-os.url` from `http://192.168.68.65:3100/mcp` → `http://192.168.68.116:4000/mcp/`
-3. Add `headers: {x-litellm-api-key: "Bearer $LITELLM_API_KEY"}` to MCP config
+### Migration Path (COMPLETED 2026-09-18)
+Per-key MCP grants are now supported:
+1. ✅ Agent keys granted MCP access via `allowed_mcp_servers` field
+2. ✅ Hermes `mcp_servers.litellm.url` set to `https://litellm.sysloggh.net/mcp`
+3. ✅ `headers: {x-litellm-api-key: "Bearer <literal_key>"}` added to MCP config
 
 ## Security-Specific Updates
 
@@ -219,9 +233,9 @@ When LiteLLM is upgraded to a version supporting per-key MCP grants:
 
 ## Success Criteria
 
-- [ ] All 6 PVE nodes updated, no reboot-loop
+- [ ] All 5 PVE nodes updated, no reboot-loop
 - [ ] All VMs/CTs running post-update
-- [ ] All Docker containers healthy (VM 109 + CT 116 + CT 117)
+- [ ] All Docker containers healthy (VM 109 + CT 116 + CT 117 + hwpve .11 + NetBird VPS)
 - [ ] LiteLLM inference passing (syslog-auto test)
 - [ ] Zulip server + all 3 agents connected
 - [ ] GPU fleet at full capacity (3/3)
@@ -235,7 +249,7 @@ After completion, send Zulip DM:
 ```
 📋 Infrastructure Update — YYYY-MM-DD
 
-Updated: 6 PVE nodes, 12 CTs/VMs, 30+ containers
+Updated: 5 PVE nodes, 12 CTs/VMs, 30+ containers
 Security fixes: N CVEs patched
 Downtime: <service> <duration>
 Failures: none / <details>

litellm-api-keys.prose.md

@@ -67,8 +67,14 @@ description: >
 4. **If action == "create"**:
    - Generate new key with key_alias: "{agent_name}" (e.g., "tanko" — bare name, no date)
    - Set metadata: { "agent": "{agent_name}", "purpose": "agent-inference" }
-   - Duration is null (permanent) — inherited from litellm default_key_generate_params
-   - Set models: ["syslog-auto", "qwen3.6-27B-code", "gemma-4-12b", "strix-moe", "gpu-dense", "gpu-light", "qwen3.6-35B-udq4"]
+   - Duration is whatever the caller passes; NO default enforcement exists today (CT 116 `litellm_config.yaml` has no `default_key_generate_params` block, and a key with no explicit models returns an empty models list). Agent keys are permanent by policy, not by that block. OPEN policy question: should agent keys expire by default? (captain security-policy decision, raised separately.)
+   - Set models: read the live key-scoped set rather than hardcoding one — `/v1/models` is key-scoped,
+     and the authoritative registry is CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`. Do not add
+     retired names (`gemma-4-12b`, `gpu-light`, `crew-auto` — all retired 2026-09-12).
+   - **Standard agent keys are LOCAL-ONLY**: `["strix-moe", "gpu-dense", "gpu-vision", "syslog-auto"]`.
+     Cloud models are granted ONLY to the designated cloud-enabled key — see § Cloud Provider
+     Consolidation. NEVER create a key with an empty `models` list (`{}`) or `all-proxy-models`.
+     In LiteLLM Community both silently grant access to EVERY model, including cloud.
    - Note: `ornith-1.0-35b` is NOT a valid LiteLLM model name (use `strix-moe`, the stable alias). qwen3.6-35B-A3B removed from fleet (was never deployed).
    - Return the new key
 5. **If action == "rotate"**:
@@ -85,6 +91,66 @@ description: >
    - Confirm key alias matches agent_name in LiteLLM key list
    - Verify agent gateway uses vault wrapper: `cat /proc/<pid>/cmdline` shows `infisical run`
 
+## Cloud Provider Consolidation (2026-09-20)
+
+CT 116 LiteLLM (Community v1.99.1) fronts **7 upstream providers** in addition to the local
+GPU models. Added 2026-09-20 — 47 cloud deployments, 51 unique model names total.
+
+### Provider map (per-account namespacing)
+
+Two accounts on the same vendor get **distinct prefixes** so billing, rate limits, and keys
+stay separate:
+
+| Prefix | Upstream | Auth | Vault secret |
+|--------|----------|------|--------------|
+| `openrouter/` | OpenRouter | API key | `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` |
+| `deepseek/` | DeepSeek direct | API key | `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` |
+| `google/` | Google AI Studio (Gemini) | API key | `GEMINI_API_KEY` |
+| `qwen-payg/` | QwenCloud / DashScope (pay-as-you-go) | API key | `DASHSCOPE_PAYG_KEY` |
+| `qwen-plan/` | QwenCloud / DashScope (token plan) | API key | `DASHSCOPE_PLAN_KEY` |
+| `tencent-payg/` | Tencent TokenHub (PAYG) | Bearer token | `TENCENT_PAYG_KEY` |
+| `tencent-plan/` | Tencent TokenHub (Plan) | Bearer token | `TENCENT_PLAN_KEY` |
+
+All cloud `api_key` fields use `os.environ/<NAME>` — the 7 secrets live in Infisical
+(project=`infrastructure`, env=`production`, folder=`root`) and are injected into the
+`harness-litellm` container at start. **No literal cloud keys in `litellm_config.yaml`.**
+
+### Access tiers (MUST be enforced per key)
+
+| Tier | Model names | Granted to |
+|------|-------------|------------|
+| **Local** | `strix-moe`, `gpu-dense`, `gpu-vision`, `syslog-auto` | every standard agent key |
+| **Cloud** | the 47 provider models (`<prefix>/<model>`) | **only** the designated cloud-enabled key |
+
+> ⚠️ **Community-edition caveat:** LiteLLM Community does not restrict wildcard access groups
+> the way Enterprise does. Access is decided by each key's explicit `models` list. A key with
+> `models = {}` or `models = ["all-proxy-models"]` sees **all** models — a silent cloud leak.
+> Every key MUST carry an explicit list. The master key always bypasses scoping (admin-only).
+
+### Creating the cloud-enabled key
+
+```bash
+# ALWAYS read the live roster first (key-scoped):
+curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer <AGENT_KEY>" http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1/models \
+  | jq -r '.data[].id'
+
+# Then generate a key with an EXPLICIT model list (never empty, never a wildcard).
+# For the cloud-enabled key, list local + cloud. For a standard agent, local only.
+```
+
+Verify after any key change: a standard agent key must return **4 models**, and must NOT return
+any `<prefix>/` cloud model.
+
+### Adding a new cloud provider
+
+1. Add the upstream key to Infisical `infrastructure/production/root`.
+2. Add the deployment(s) to `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml` with an `os.environ/` ref
+   and a namespaced `model_name` (`<provider>-<account>/<model>` when a vendor has >1 account).
+3. Restart the `harness-litellm` container.
+4. Grant the model to the cloud-enabled key ONLY (explicit list) — never to agent keys without
+   captain approval.
+5. Update this table and the access-tier section.
+
 ## Production Vault Access Process (canonical, 2026-07-17)
 
 The non-fail approach to agentic vault access. Deployed on all 4 Hermes agents
@@ -142,8 +208,8 @@ through its agent wrapper.
    safety net for vault outage or token revocation. Must be kept in sync on rotation.
    Example:
    ```bash
-   MUMUNI_LITELLM_API_KEY=sk-OzuWsoX22Hmb3Ps3JY01gw
-   MUMUNI_ZULIP_API_KEY=H8dY6V7aHmWNcfgNtJaDBPZ1dGWn0Ttt
+   MUMUNI_LITELLM_API_KEY=«vault: agents/production LITELLM_API_KEY»
+   MUMUNI_ZULIP_API_KEY=«vault: agents/production ZULIP_API_KEY»
    ```
 6. **systemd drop-in** at `~/.config/systemd/user/hermes-gateway.service.d/50-vault-wrapper.conf`:
    ```ini
@@ -178,7 +244,7 @@ through its agent wrapper.
 | Agent | Host | Pattern | Keys | Status |
 |-------|------|---------|------|--------|
 | abiba | .24 | pi agent wrapper | ABIBA_LITELLM_API_KEY + ABIBA_ZULIP_API_KEY | ✅ vault-backed |
-| mumuni | .24 (CT100 abiba) | Pi Hermes gateway (no systemd) | MUMUNI_LITELLM_API_KEY + MUMUNI_ZULIP_API_KEY | ✅ vault-backed + .env fallback |
+| mumuni | .14 (kagentz CT105) | systemd unit hermes-gateway.service (user hermes) | MUMUNI_LITELLM_API_KEY + MUMUNI_ZULIP_API_KEY | ✅ vault-backed + .env fallback |
 | tanko | .122 | systemd drop-in + while-true wrapper + st.8e848433 (user jerome) | TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY + TANKO_ZULIP_API_KEY | ✅ vault-backed + .env fallback |
 | koby | .129 | systemd drop-in + while-true wrapper + st.8e848433 | KOBY_LITELLM_API_KEY, shares TANKO_ZULIP_API_KEY (tanko-bot) | ✅ vault-backed |
 | koonimo | .114 | systemd drop-in + while-true wrapper + st.8e848433 | KOONIMO_LITELLM_API_KEY + KOONIMO_ZULIP_API_KEY | ✅ vault-backed |
@@ -189,7 +255,7 @@ through its agent wrapper.
 ### Tanko migration (COMPLETED 2026-07-17)
 
 Tanko was the last agent migrated from hardcoded keys to vault wrapper.
-Previously: key hardcoded in `/home/jerome/.hermes/config.yaml` (`api_key: sk-CggiHWlamQy…`)
+Previously: key hardcoded in `/home/jerome/.hermes/config.yaml` (`api_key: sk-synthetic-tanko-example…`)
 and `zulip-env.conf` systemd drop-in. Now: user-scope systemd service with drop-in
 `50-vault-wrapper.conf`, `infisical-gateway.sh` wrapper with while-true loop, token at
 `~/.infisical-token`, `.env` fallback at `~/.hermes/.env`. Keys injected live from vault.
@@ -257,9 +323,51 @@ reads use per-agent identities. This eliminates the single shared token risk.
 | Agent | .env Keys |
 |-------|-----------|
 | Mumuni | MUMUNI_LITELLM_API_KEY, MUMUNI_ZULIP_API_KEY |
-| Tanko | TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY, TANKO_ZULIP_API_KEY |
-| Koby | (wrapper injects from vault — .env has Telegram token) |
-| Koonimo | KOONIMO_LITELLM_API_KEY, KOONIMO_ZULIP_API_KEY |
+|| Tanko | TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY, TANKO_ZULIP_API_KEY |
+|| Koby | (wrapper injects from vault — .env has Telegram token) |
+|| Koonimo | KOONIMO_LITELLM_API_KEY, KOONIMO_ZULIP_API_KEY |
+|| Agent Zero (kagentz .14) | OPENROUTER_API_KEY (direct OpenRouter access) |
+
+### Agent Zero (kagentz .14) — OpenRouter Integration (2026-09-01)
+
+Agent Zero runs in Docker on kagentz (CT105) and uses **direct OpenRouter API access**,
+not via the LiteLLM proxy. This is because Agent Zero's workflow (self-update manager,
+UI bootstrap, model selection) is built around OpenRouter's native authentication.
+
+**Key Storage:**
+- **Container**: `/a0/usr/.env` (line ~72: `API_KEY_OPENROUTER=«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»…`)
+- **Vault**: Infisical secret `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` (project=agents, env=production)
+- **Fallback**: The container's .env is the primary source; vault sync is optional
+  (unlike fleet agents which require vault injection)
+
+**Current Key (2026-09-01):**
+- **Prefix**: `«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»`
+- **User**: `user_2rt9lCqcd5d7Vk1t18DHsvWdPTT`
+- **Plan**: Paid (not free tier)
+- **Usage**: 0 (as of 2026-09-01)
+
+**Model Configuration:**
+- **Preset**: "Cost Efficient" (`/a0/usr/plugins/_model_config/presets.yaml`)
+- **Model**: `openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k3`
+- **API Base**: (empty — uses OpenRouter default)
+
+**Why not LiteLLM proxy?**
+Agent Zero's architecture was designed before the fleet adopted the LiteLLM proxy
+standard. The container runs `/exe/self_update_manager.py` and `/a0/run_ui.py` which
+directly call OpenRouter via Python's requests library. Converting would require:
+1. Refactoring all LLM calls to use `litellm` library
+2. Adding vault wrapper injection
+3. Updating self_update_manager to use proxy-aware key handling
+
+**Rotation Procedure:**
+1. Generate new key in OpenRouter UI
+2. Update container: `sed -i 's/^API_KEY_OPENROUTER=.*/API_KEY_OPENROUTER=<new_key>/' /a0/usr/.env`
+3. Update vault: `infisical secrets set OPENROUTER_API_KEY=<new_key> --projectId=agents --env=production`
+4. Restart container: `sudo docker exec agent-zero supervisorctl restart run_ui`
+5. Verify: `curl -s https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/auth/key -H "Authorization: Bearer <new_key>"`
+
+**Related Contract:**
+- `agent-zero-openrouter-key.prose.md` — Full agent-zero key management contract
 
 ## Key Rotation Log
 
@@ -276,7 +384,15 @@ reads use per-agent identities. This eliminates the single shared token risk.
 
 ## LiteLLM Master Key (use sparingly — agents should NOT use it directly)
 
-- Master key: `sk-litellm-7f96080dd99b15c36bd4b333b58a6796` (in /opt/inference-harness/.env on CT116, Infisical project=infrastructure env=production secret=LITELLM_MASTER_KEY)
+- Master key: **Retrieval path (do not trust a literal value in this file — the key rotates)**:
+  ```bash
+  # PRIMARY (proven, runs on CT 116 with no extra tooling):
+  docker exec harness-litellm printenv LITELLM_MASTER_KEY
+  # Note: the same value is stored in /opt/inference-harness/.env on CT 116 (verified matching)
+  # The master key is NOT in the Infisical vault (project=infrastructure env=production does not contain it)
+  # Prove a key is live with a 200 from /key/list on the CT 116 host (the container has no curl):
+  curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer <key>" http://127.0.0.1:4000/key/list | jq length
+  ```
 - Used for /key/generate, /key/delete, /key/list (GET), DB queries
 - **Known violation (RESOLVED 2026-07-16):** Abiba's LITELLM_API_KEY was previously the master key.
 It is now a dedicated agent key `sk-sxbphLvk1OU…` (vault secret `ABIBA_LITELLM_API_KEY`, alias `abiba-pi`).

litellm-client-timeouts.prose.md

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+---
+kind: pattern
+name: litellm-client-timeouts
+description: >
+  Standard client timeout and retry policy for ALL agents calling LiteLLM
+  (CT 116, http://192.168.68.116). Created 2026-09-08 after the Sep 6 incident:
+  a backend stall 04:00-06:30 EDT produced 157 client-abandoned 408 failures
+  (82% from abiba-pi, 13 from mumuni) against a backend that was actually
+  succeeding at 20-70s per call once clients stopped giving up. Grounded in
+  measured data: syslog-auto (LiteLLM virtual model, no dedicated GPU — routes
+  to backends) averages 28.8s/request with 25.4s TTFT over 888 calls/24h;
+  nginx already allows 600s (Rule 5, verified 2026-08-09); the gap is entirely
+  client-side. Blast radius if wrong: agents fall back to DeepSeek silently
+  (key/timeout failures present as model degradation, not errors) or abandon
+  healthy-but-slow reasoning calls, fragmenting long tasks.
+---
+
+## Maintains
+
+- client_timeout_standard: "litellm-client-timeouts v1.0 (2026-09-08)"
+- applies_to: ALL agents and scripts calling http://192.168.68.116 (main model path, auxiliary tasks, health probes, benchmark jobs)
+- verified_against: Prometheus litellm_* metrics 24h window ending 2026-09-08 ~10:00 EDT; live probe (syslog-auto tiny call 0.56s TTFB, 200 OK); nginx 600s proxy_read_timeout (Rule 5)
+
+## The measured numbers these values come from
+
+| Model | avg latency | avg TTFT | p-profile (24h) |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| syslog-auto | 28.8s | 25.4s | 68 calls took 30-120s; tail to ~300s under load |
+| strix-moe | 7.5s | — | Strix Halo, healthy |
+| gpu-vision (retired gemma-4-12b, RTX 5070) | 2.6s | — | RTX 5070, healthy |
+
+Sep 6 incident timeline: failures 04:00-07:00 EDT (0% GPU util = wedged
+backend), full recovery 07:00-08:00 with ZERO client failures once requests
+tolerated 20-70s — 392 successful slow calls in the three hours after recovery.
+LiteLLM's internal queue time is ~0s; the latency is model inference, not
+proxy queuing.
+
+## Parameters
+
+### 1. Primary model path (model.default / custom_providers) — NO client timeout below 300s
+
+- The default Hermes HTTP timeout (~60s) is TOO SHORT for syslog-auto's healthy
+  28.8s average + 120-300s tail. Every 408 in the incident was a client
+  abandoning a request the backend would have answered.
+- If the transport exposes a timeout setting for the main model, set it to
+  **300s or more**. If it does not (current Hermes custom-provider path has no
+  timeout knob), that is acceptable ONLY because nginx holds the request for
+  600s — but any wrapper, script, or direct API call you write MUST set its own
+  timeout >= 300s for syslog-auto/qwen-class calls.
+- Never hardcode a shorter timeout "to fail fast" on this path — failing fast
+  here is what caused the incident.
+
+### 2. Auxiliary tasks — keep template timeouts, one correction
+
+- vision: 60s (keep), web_extract: 30s (keep) — the 2.6s average was measured on `gemma-4-12b` (retired 2026-09-12); the live RTX 5070 alias is `gpu-vision`.
+- compression: 300s (keep — this was already raised from 60 per gpu-fleet).
+- **gpu-dense delegation/x_search: set timeout >= 120s.** The RTX 3090
+  (gpu-dense backend) is the same speed class as syslog-auto; delegation
+  defaults that assume fast responses will 408 the same way.
+
+### 3. Retry policy — backoff, not repetition
+
+- On timeout (408) or 5xx: retry up to **2 times** with exponential backoff
+  (**15s, 45s**) before giving up.
+- Do NOT retry in a tight loop. The Sep 6 spike shape (65 failures in one hour
+  from one key) was a batch job retrying without backoff while the backend was
+  down — it multiplied load during recovery.
+- On 401/403: do NOT retry — that is a key/permission problem (see
+  litellm-api-keys.prose.md and Rule 11); retrying just spams the log.
+- On 429: honor the retry-after header if present, else back off 60s.
+
+### 4. Health probes — identify yourself and time out sanely
+
+- Probes MUST NOT appear as keyless, model-less failures in the metrics (12
+  such orphans appeared in the incident window and cost investigation time).
+  Send a real model name and use a real (probe-designated) key.
+- Probe timeout: 30s. A probe that takes longer than 30s IS the alert —
+  report "backend slow (>30s)" rather than hanging.
+- Probe cadence: at most hourly. The litellm-health cron cadence (authoritative
+  trigger in contract-registry.yaml) is the standard; sub-hourly synthetic
+  traffic distorts latency baselines.
+
+### 5. Batch/benchmark jobs — schedule away from 04:00-07:00 EDT and chunk
+
+- The incident window showed bulk clients amplifying a backend stall 5:1.
+- Batch jobs that can tolerate delay: schedule 09:00-17:00 EDT.
+- Any batch loop over N requests MUST sleep >= 5s between requests and honor
+  the retry policy in section 3.
+
+## Returns
+
+- A single standard any agent or script can cite: timeouts >= 300s on the
+  syslog-auto path, >= 120s on gpu-dense delegation, backoff retries (2x,
+  15s/45s), identified probes at 30s/hourly, batch jobs chunked and
+  day-scheduled.
+- Failure signature recognition: bulk 408s from multiple keys in one window =
+  backend event (check gpu_utilization_percent: 0% = wedged, ~100% = saturated);
+  single-key 408s = that client's timeout is too short.
+- Cross-references: hermes-config-template.prose.md (Rule 5 nginx 600s,
+  auxiliary timeouts), gpu-fleet.prose.md (compression 300s precedent,
+  stable aliases), litellm-api-keys.prose.md (key/permission failures).
+
+## Intentionally NOT changed
+
+- No server-side LiteLLM timeout/cooldown changes proposed — the incident
+  self-recovered and the server is healthy (0.56s live probe); changing
+  server behavior without process-level root cause (CT116 requires root;
+  not reachable from kagentz) would be guessing.
+- No change to the template's vision/web_extract/compression timeouts —
+  measured data says they are correct.
+- No per-agent key permission changes — those are litellm-api-keys.prose.md
+  territory (and the open gpu-vision/gemma 403 items are already filed with
+  the key owners).
+- No model routing changes — syslog-auto's weighted pool behaved correctly
+  throughout the incident.

litellm-health.prose.md

@@ -1,19 +1,12 @@
 ---
 kind: function
 name: litellm-health
-status: deprecated
-deprecated_on: 2026-07-09
-replaced_by: litellm-self-heal.prose.md
-note: >
-  Consolidated into litellm-self-heal.prose.md to eliminate duplication
-  of architecture diagrams, GPU topology, timeout tables, and container
-  lists. Health check is now § Health Check within litellm-self-heal.
-  This file is retained for reference only — use litellm-self-heal instead.
+status: active
 description: >
   Verifies the LiteLLM inference stack health. Current architecture (2026-07-09):
   nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server) via direct proxy.
-  Router (harness-router :9000) is DEPRECATED — container still runs but
-  is not in the request path. GPU monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana and
+  Router (harness-router :9000) was DECOMMISSIONED 2026-09-11 (container,
+  image and config removed). GPU monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana and
   fleet dashboard (gpu-monitor :9100).
   Designed as a reusable contract for any Syslog agent.
   
@@ -26,7 +19,7 @@ description: >
     Scraped by Prometheus with Bearer master key; endpoint returns 307 → /metrics/.
   - Alertmanager (harness-alertmanager :9093) + zulip-bridge (:9102) deliver
     firing alerts to #agent-hub > alerts-infra via abiba-bot. Added 2026-08-09.
-  - Prometheus node job covers ALL 6 PVE nodes (.4/.5/.6/.9/.12/.15:9100).
+  - Prometheus node job covers 6 PVE nodes (.4/.5/.6/.9/.12/.15:9100). Note: .4:9100 is a DEAD target (no route, down for weeks, not a live node).
 ---
 
 ## Architecture (v4.0.0 — Direct: nginx → LiteLLM → GPU)
@@ -42,8 +35,8 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
                         │
                     Grafana :3001
 
-  harness-router :9000 — DEPRECATED, container still runs but
-  NOT in request path. nginx routes /v1 → LiteLLM directly.
+  harness-router :9000 — DECOMMISSIONED 2026-09-11 (container, image
+  and config removed). nginx routes /v1 → LiteLLM directly.
   Router slot booking + circuit breakers replaced by
   LiteLLM native fallbacks + timeouts.
 ```
@@ -51,9 +44,8 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
 **What changed (v3.2.0 → v4.0.0 — 2026-07-08)**:
 - Router REMOVED from request path — LiteLLM proxies directly to GPU
 - All GPUs at parallel 2 (was parallel 1)
-- NVIDIA context reduced 256K→128K to free VRAM — now the stable ceiling across all GPUs (2026-07-17)
-- LiteLLM timeouts tuned: gemma 25→120s, qwen 40→90s  (SUPERSEDED 2026-07-16: qwen 300s, gemma 120s, strix 300s — see litellm-self-heal)
-- nginx proxy_read_timeout: 600s, LiteLLM request_timeout: 300s
+- NVIDIA context reduced 256K→128K to free VRAM — the stable NVIDIA ceiling (2026-07-17); Strix Halo runs 256K (2026-09-12)
+- Timeouts and fallback chains are config state — read them from CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`; they are not duplicated here.
 
 ## Parameters
 
@@ -75,33 +67,42 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
 
 - SSH key access to backend_host for container checks
 - Network access to public_url, auth_host, and gpu_dashboard_url
-- LiteLLM master key for key management endpoints
+- LiteLLM master key for admin endpoints only (`/key/list`, `/key/generate`, `/key/info`)
+- The dedicated `monitor` agent key on CT 116 at `/etc/litellm-monitor.env` (root-only 0600) for
+  model inference checks, scoped for every alias step 7 probes (`gpu-dense`, `gpu-vision`,
+  `strix-moe`, `syslog-auto`). Retrieve from the executor's host via:
+
+  ```
+  monitor key: ssh root@192.168.68.116 "grep LITELLM_MONITOR_KEY /etc/litellm-monitor.env | cut -d= -f2"
+  master key:  ssh root@192.168.68.116 "docker exec harness-litellm printenv LITELLM_MASTER_KEY"
+  ```
+
+  If credentials are missing or unreadable, the probe must report `credential-missing` (not bare 401 or "0 keys").
+  The master key must never be used for inference.
 
 ## GPU Fleet Topology
 
-| Host | IP | Hardware | Models Served | Engine | Context | Parallel |
-|------|-----|----------|---------------|--------|---------|----------|
-| llm-gpu | 192.168.68.8 | NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24 GB) | qwen3.6-27B-code | llama-server systemd | **128K** | 2 |
-| ocu-llm | 192.168.68.110 | NVIDIA RTX 5070 (12 GB) | gemma-4-12b | llama-server systemd | **128K** | 2 |
-| amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | AMD Strix Halo 64GB UMA | qwen3.6-35B-udq4 (LiteLLM alias: strix-moe) | llama-server systemd (Vulkan) | 128K | 2 |
+| Host | IP | Hardware | Role |
+|------|-----|----------|------|
+| llm-gpu | 192.168.68.8 | NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24 GB) | heavy reasoning (`gpu-dense`) |
+| ocu-llm | 192.168.68.110 | NVIDIA RTX 5070 (12 GB) | vision / web extract / light tasks (`gpu-vision`) |
+| amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | AMD Strix Halo 64GB UMA | compression (`strix-moe`) |
 
-## Model Fallback Chains (LiteLLM)
+Single source of truth for models, aliases, rpm caps, weights and fallback chains:
+CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`. Do not duplicate those values in
+contracts — read them there. Do not re-add retired names (`gemma-4-12b`, `gpu-light`,
+`crew-auto`).
 
-| Primary | Timeout | Fallback | Timeout |
-|---------|---------|----------|---------|
-| qwen3.6-27B-code | 300s | gemma-4-12b | 120s |
-| gemma-4-12b | 120s | qwen3.6-27B-code | 300s |
-| qwen3.6-35B-udq4 / strix-moe | 300s | qwen → gemma | — |
-| syslog-auto (balanced) | 300s | qwen → gemma | — |
-
-> Global: request_timeout=300s, nginx proxy_read_timeout=600s
+> Re-scope note (2026-09-12): the earlier plan to restate the live fallback chains and
+> per-model timeouts in this contract is intentionally superseded — that state is config,
+> and this contract points at the CT 116 config instead. Step 7 likewise authenticates with
+> the dedicated `monitor` key, not the master key, which is admin-only.
 
 ## Containers on CT 116
 
 | Container | Image | Port | Health Check |
 |-----------|-------|------|-------------|
-| harness-litellm | berriai/litellm:1.90.0-rc.1 | :4000→:4001 | /health/liveliness |
-| harness-router | inference-harness-router | :9000 (127.0.0.1) | /health (DEPRECATED — not in path) |
+| harness-litellm | ghcr.io/docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:1.99.1 | :4000→:4000 | /health/liveliness |
 | harness-nginx | nginx:alpine | :80 | HTTP 200 on /health |
 | harness-postgres | postgres:16-alpine | :5432 | pg_isready |
 | harness-redis | redis:7-alpine | :6379 | PING |
@@ -113,38 +114,90 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
 
 1. **Read parameters** — Use provided values or defaults
 
-2. **Check public endpoints**:
+2. **Check the end-user surfaces** — the public edge and the backend edge serve the SAME
+   app under DIFFERENT paths. They are not interchangeable, so every probe below must name
+   the surface it targets. Never point a check at a path that only resolves on the other
+   surface.
+
+   **Public edge** — `{{public_url}}` (https://litellm.sysloggh.net) serves the app at the
+   ROOT; the `/litellm/` prefix does not exist there and 404s:
    - GET {{public_url}}/ui/ → expect 200 ("LiteLLM Dashboard")
    - GET {{public_url}}/docs → expect 200 ("LiteLLM API - Swagger UI")
+   - GET {{public_url}}/litellm/ui/ and {{public_url}}/litellm/docs → expect 404 (not served on this edge)
+
+   **Backend edge** — `http://{{backend_host}}` (port 80) serves the app UNDER `/litellm/`:
+   - GET http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/ui/ → expect 200 ("LiteLLM Dashboard")
+   - GET http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/docs → expect 200 ("LiteLLM API - Swagger UI")
+   - GET http://{{backend_host}}/ui/ and /docs → expect 301 → /litellm/... → 200 (one-hop redirect helpers,
+     added 2026-09-11)
 
 3. **Check LiteLLM health (no-auth)**:
    - GET http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/health/liveliness → expect 200
 
 4. **Check backend container health**:
-   - SSH to {{backend_host}} → `docker ps` → verify 8 containers healthy
-   - Critical: harness-litellm, harness-router, harness-nginx, harness-postgres
-   - Monitoring: harness-redis, harness-dashboard, harness-grafana, harness-prometheus
+   - SSH to {{backend_host}} → `docker ps` → verify 12 containers healthy (11 harness + trove-agent-docker, added 2026-09-11)
+   - Critical: harness-litellm, harness-nginx, harness-postgres
+   - Monitoring: harness-redis, harness-dashboard, harness-grafana, harness-prometheus,
+     harness-alertmanager, harness-zulip-bridge, harness-docker-stats, harness-pve-exporter,
+     trove-agent-docker (ghcr.io/techdox/trove-agent-docker, added 2026-09-11)
 
-5. **Check router roster loaded**:
-   - GET http://{{backend_host}}:9000/health → expect 200
-   - GET http://{{backend_host}}:9000/health/unified → expect 3 models
-   - If router returns "all GPUs saturated" but GPUs idle: roster not loaded → reload
+5. **Check GPU fleet health via gpu-monitor** (router decommissioned 2026-09-11):
+   - GET {{gpu_dashboard_url}}/gpu-data → expect 200 with GPU metrics JSON
+   - nginx `/health/unified` is now a `301` redirect to `/gpu/gpu-data` (same payload)
 
 6. **Check GPU fleet health** (via fleet dashboard):
    - GET {{gpu_dashboard_url}}/gpu-data → expect 200 with GPU metrics JSON
    - Verify GPUs reporting status "healthy"
    - Check alerts array for active warnings/critical
 
-7. **Check model inference via LiteLLM** — Test each model:
-   - POST /v1/chat/completions model=gemma-4-12b → expect 200
-   - POST /v1/chat/completions model=qwen3.6-27B-code → expect 200
-   - POST /v1/chat/completions model=strix-moe → expect 200
-   - Use master key for auth
+7. **Check model inference via LiteLLM** — Test one model on each GPU host. The health
+   check runs on the **backend edge**, not the public edge, so these paths carry the
+   `/litellm/` prefix:
+   - POST http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/chat/completions model=gpu-dense → expect 200 (RTX 3090, .8)
+   - POST http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/chat/completions model=gpu-vision → expect 200 (RTX 5070, .110)
+   - POST http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/chat/completions model=strix-moe → expect 200 (Strix Halo, .15)
+   - Auth uses the dedicated `monitor` agent key. Retrieve via:
+     `ssh root@192.168.68.116 "grep LITELLM_MONITOR_KEY /etc/litellm-monitor.env | cut -d= -f2"`
+     Do NOT use the master key for inference — the master key is for admin endpoints only
+     (`/key/list`, `/key/generate`, `/key/info`). Retrieve master key via:
+     `ssh root@192.168.68.116 "docker exec harness-litellm printenv LITELLM_MASTER_KEY"`
+   - KEY SCOPE: the `monitor` key MUST be scoped for the three probed aliases (`gpu-dense`,
+     `gpu-vision`, `strix-moe`) plus the `syslog-auto` fallback pool, otherwise the probe
+     returns 403 and the host is not covered.
+     If a probe returns 403, widen the monitor key's model list on CT 116 (add the missing
+     alias) and re-run — never drop the host from the probe to make the check pass.
+   - `gemma-4-12b` was retired and returns 400 `Invalid model name` — do not re-add it to
+     this list. The RTX 5070 host now serves `gpu-vision`.
+   - `/v1/models` is **key-scoped**: a model is only visible to keys allowed to use it, so
+     the set depends on the key. Always state which key a model list was read with — a
+     snapshot without its key is not evidence. This probe uses the `monitor` key on the
+     backend surface (`http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/v1/models`). The authoritative model
+     registry is CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`; read it there rather
+     than freezing a list here.
 
 8. **Check agent keys**:
-   - GET /key/list with master key → verify all 6 agents have keys
+   - GET http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/key/list with master key (admin endpoint) → verify all 6 agents have keys
+   - **IMPORTANT**: Run the curl on the CT 116 HOST, not inside the container. The `harness-litellm` container has no curl/wget. Use:
+     `ssh root@192.168.68.116 "curl -s -H 'Authorization: Bearer $MASTER_KEY' http://127.0.0.1:4000/key/list"`
+   - If the response is empty or unparseable, report `admin-call-failed` (not "0 agent keys")
 
 9. **Check Grafana**:
    - GET {{grafana_url}}/api/health → expect 200
 
 10. **Compile and report** — Determine overall_status from individual check results
+
+## Executor Script (2026-09-13)
+
+**Run `scripts/litellm-health-check.py` from the clone.** This script implements all 11
+checks defined above and reports results in a standardized format. Paste its output in
+the status line.
+
+- Hand-rolled probes are **not** an acceptable substitute for the script.
+- Backend-edge checks (steps 2–8) must use `http://192.168.68.116` (internal IP),
+  **not** the public URL `https://litellm.sysloggh.net` (which returns 401 for those paths).
+- Docker Stats (step 10) must be fetched from the CT 116 host itself (`127.0.0.1:9324/metrics`)
+  because the `harness-docker-stats` container binds to localhost on CT 116.
+- Admin Key List (step 8) requires the master key expanded locally before SSH, then embedded
+  in the remote curl command with proper quoting.
+
+Expected output on a healthy fleet: 11/11 passing checks.

litellm-self-heal.prose.md

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 kind: responsibility
 name: litellm-self-heal
 status: deployed
@@ -9,21 +11,22 @@ note: >
   Script: `/opt/inference-harness/scripts/litellm-health-check.sh` on CT 116 (cron `0 */6 * * *`).
   Reports to /var/log/litellm/health-*.json and Gitea (SyslogSolution/health-logs).
   GPU monitoring integrated from gpu-monitor on .24:9100.
-  
-  Consolidated from litellm-health + litellm-self-heal on 2026-07-09 to eliminate
-  duplication of architecture diagrams, GPU topology, timeout tables, and container
-  lists. Health check is now § Health Check within this contract.
-  
+
+  Health probes are owned by litellm-health.prose.md (dispatched as
+  `run contract: litellm-health`). This contract owns remediation only — it does not
+  re-specify the probes.
+
   Source of truth for GPU topology and keys: gpu-fleet.prose.md
   Last verified: 2026-07-12
 description: >
-  LiteLLM inference stack health monitoring + self-healing. Verifies the full
-  nginx → LiteLLM → GPU chain, 8 containers on CT 116, 3 GPU hosts, model
-  inference, and agent keys. Applies remediation rules for common failures.
+  LiteLLM inference stack remediation. Applies remediation rules for failures detected
+  by litellm-health.prose.md (nginx → LiteLLM → GPU chain, CT 116 containers, GPU hosts,
+  model inference, and agent keys).
   Reports every action via Zulip DM and Gitea (SyslogSolution/health-logs).
 ---
+---
 
-# LiteLLM Operations — Health Check + Self-Heal
+# LiteLLM Operations — Self-Heal (Remediation)
 
 ## Architecture (v4.0.0 — Direct: nginx → LiteLLM → GPU)
 
@@ -38,8 +41,8 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
                         │
                     Grafana :3001
 
-  harness-router :9000 — DEPRECATED, container still runs but
-  NOT in request path. nginx routes /v1 → LiteLLM directly.
+  harness-router :9000 — DECOMMISSIONED 2026-09-11 (container, image
+  and config removed). nginx routes /v1 → LiteLLM directly.
   Router slot booking + circuit breakers replaced by
   LiteLLM native fallbacks + timeouts.
 ```
@@ -55,40 +58,50 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
 
 ## GPU Fleet Topology
 
-| Host | IP | Hardware | Models Served | Engine | Context | Parallel |
-|------|-----|----------|---------------|--------|---------|----------|
-| llm-gpu | 192.168.68.8 | NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24 GB) | qwen3.6-27B-code | llama-server systemd (`/home/llmuser/llama-wrapper.sh`, `-c 131072 --parallel 2 --ngl 99`) | **128K** | 2 |
-| ocu-llm | 192.168.68.110 | NVIDIA RTX 5070 (12 GB) | gemma-4-12b | llama-server systemd (`/home/llmuser/llama-wrapper.sh`, `--ctx-size 131072 --parallel 2`, IQ4_NL + MTP draft) | **128K** | 2 |
-| amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | AMD Strix Halo 64GB UMA | qwen3.6-35B-udq4 (LiteLLM alias: `strix-moe`) | llama-server systemd (Vulkan) | 128K | 2 |
+| Host | IP | Hardware | Role |
+|------|-----|----------|------|
+| llm-gpu | 192.168.68.8 | NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24 GB) | heavy reasoning (`gpu-dense`) |
+| ocu-llm | 192.168.68.110 | NVIDIA RTX 5070 (12 GB) | vision / web extract / light tasks (`gpu-vision`) |
+| amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | AMD Strix Halo 64GB UMA | compression (`strix-moe`) |
 
-> Verified on ground 2026-07-16 via `curl /v1/models` on each host + `llama-wrapper.sh`. The AMD host's underlying model is `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`; LiteLLM exposes it under two `model_name`s: `qwen3.6-35B-udq4` and `strix-moe` (rpm 40). The legacy name `ornith-1.0-35b` does NOT exist in LiteLLM and must not be referenced.
+> Verified on the ground 2026-07-16. The legacy name `ornith-1.0-35b` does NOT exist in LiteLLM and must not be referenced.
 
-## LiteLLM Model Surface (ground truth — `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml` on CT 116)
+## LiteLLM Model Surface
 
-`model_name`s served: `qwen3.6-27B-code`, `gemma-4-12b`, `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`, `strix-moe`, `gpu-dense`, `gpu-light`, `syslog-auto`.
+Single source of truth for models, aliases, rpm caps, weights and fallback chains:
+CT 116 `/opt/inference-harness/litellm_config.yaml`. Do not duplicate those values in
+contracts — read them there. Do not re-add retired names (`gemma-4-12b`, `gpu-light`,
+`crew-auto`).
 
-- `syslog-auto` is a weighted router model: qwen3.6-27B-code (0.55, rpm 500) + qwen3.6-35B-udq4 (0.30, rpm 60) + gemma-4-12b (0.15, rpm 200).
-- `gpu-dense` / `gpu-light` are high-rpm aliases (rpm 500) onto qwen3.6-27B-code / gemma-4-12b respectively.
-- Key scoping: agent keys are restricted to `['syslog-auto','qwen3.6-27B-code','gemma-4-12b','strix-moe','gpu-dense','gpu-light']`. As of 2026-07-16 the `baggy`/`koby`/`mumuni`/`abiba-pi` keys ALSO include `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`; `abiba-pi` additionally includes `deepseek-v4-pro` (cloud fallback). `kagenz0`/`koonimo`/`pi-agents-unified` have the standard 6 only. Agents should still use the stable alias `strix-moe` (not the raw `qwen3.6-35B-udq4`) so model swaps don't break them.
+### Alias Surface
+
+| Alias | Serves | Where | Kind |
+|-------|--------|-------|------|
+| `gpu-dense` | heavy reasoning | RTX 3090 (192.168.68.8) | direct alias |
+| `gpu-vision` | vision / web extract / light tasks | RTX 5070 (192.168.68.110) | direct alias AND `syslog-auto` pool member |
+| `strix-moe` | compression (MoE) | Strix Halo (192.168.68.15) | direct alias |
+| `syslog-auto` | balanced default | weighted pool across the three GPU hosts | pool router |
+
+### Context Cap Split (2026-08-20; crew cap RETIRED)
+
+- **Abiba (firstmate)**: 128K uncapped — unlimited context for primary workloads
+- **Hermes agents** (mumuni, tanko, koby, koonimo): 128K uncapped
+- **Crewmates** (ops, tune, verify, auth-keys, build): the 64K cap was retired together with the `crew-auto` alias; NO context cap is currently in force.
+
+> The 64K crew cap was retired with `crew-auto` (2026-09-12). No limit is currently in force; reinstating one would need per-key model limits as a separate, deliberately-scoped change.
+
+- Key scoping: `/v1/models` is key-scoped, so the set a caller sees must be read with a named key rather than assumed — a monitor key, an agent key, and the master key can each return a different set. Agents should use the stable aliases (`strix-moe`, `gpu-vision`, `gpu-dense`) rather than raw model names, so model swaps don't break them.
 - **NEVER use `litellm_proxy_master_key` (the `sk-litellm-...` master key) for inference.** It is for admin endpoints only (`/key/list`, `/key/generate`, `/key/info`). All inference — agent traffic, health-check model tests, monitor scripts — uses agent-specific keys. The health-check script's model tests use a dedicated `monitor` agent key stored at `/etc/litellm-monitor.env` on CT 116 (root-only, `chmod 600`); `/key/list` is the only call that legitimately uses `$MASTER_KEY`.
 
-## Model Fallback Chains (LiteLLM)
-
-| Primary | Timeout | Fallback | Timeout |
-|---------|---------|----------|---------|
-| qwen3.6-27B-code | 300s | gemma-4-12b | 120s |
-| gemma-4-12b | 120s | qwen3.6-27B-code | 300s |
-| qwen3.6-35B-udq4 / strix-moe | 300s | qwen → gemma | — |
-| syslog-auto (balanced) | 300s | qwen → gemma | — |
-
-> Global: request_timeout=300s, nginx proxy_read_timeout=600s
+> Re-scope note (2026-09-12): the fallback-chain and per-model timeout tables were removed
+> by the single-source-of-truth re-scope; read those values from the CT 116 config named
+> above rather than from this contract.
 
 ## Containers on CT 116
 
 | Container | Image | Port | Health Check |
 |-----------|-------|------|-------------|
-| harness-litellm | berriai/litellm:1.90.0-rc.1 | :4000→:4001 | /health/liveliness |
-| harness-router | inference-harness-router | :9000 (127.0.0.1) | /health (DEPRECATED — not in path) |
+| harness-litellm | ghcr.io/docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:1.99.1 | :4000→:4000 | /health/liveliness |
 | harness-nginx | nginx:alpine | :80 | HTTP 200 on /health |
 | harness-postgres | postgres:16-alpine | :5432 | pg_isready |
 | harness-redis | redis:7-alpine | :6379 | PING |
@@ -102,8 +115,8 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
 
 - **Health-check script** (`/opt/inference-harness/scripts/litellm-health-check.sh` on CT 116): `gpu-fleet` check fails only on **critical** alerts (warnings are informational). Tests `strix-moe` (not `ornith-1.0-35b`).
 - **GPU monitor** (`/root/scripts/gpu-monitor-server.py` on pi .24): runs as **systemd unit `gpu-monitor.service`** (was bare `&` process). `gpu_count` includes Strix Halo (was 2, now 3). VRAM alert thresholds: warning 93%, critical 97% (raised from 90/95 — 128K context steady-state is ~70% on RTX 3090, not a fault).
-- **Agent key monitor** (`/root/scripts/agent-health-check.py` on pi .24, cron `*/10`): v2 (2026-07-26) — reads each agent's **agent-specific** `{NAME}_LITELLM_API_KEY` from Infisical vault (not the shared master key). Covers: LiteLLM keys, GPU ports, agent gateways (all 5 agents now SSHa ble), CT liveness (pct status on PVE nodes), config.yaml YAML integrity, wrapper/CLI integrity, vault secret non-emptiness checks. Fleet roster: tanko (.122), mumuni (.24, inside abiba CT100), koby (.129), koonimo (.114), abiba (.24). Legacy `tdunna`/`baggy` replaced with canonical agent hostnames.
-- **Stale keys cleaned**: `daily-infra-report.py` SYNTHETIC_API_KEY was stale (`sk-U_ydi3B` → 401); now reads `LITELLM_MASTER_KEY` from env. Deprecated scripts (`router-original.py`, `router-phase0-backup.py`, `apply-fixes.py`) still reference `sk-syslog-local-master-key` but do not actively poll LiteLLM.
+- **Agent key monitor** (`/root/scripts/agent-health-check.py` on pi .24, cron `*/10`): v4 (2026-09-10) — vault-backed agents (tanko/koby/koonimo) read their **agent-specific** `{NAME}_LITELLM_API_KEY` from Infisical vault (not the shared master key); abiba (pi agent) reads `LITELLM_API_KEY` from its local `/root/.pi/agent/env.sh` (#735 — moved out of shared `/root/.bashrc`), not from the vault. Abiba is pi-only since the harness purge, so its Hermes config/wrapper/gateway legs are skipped rather than reported as faults; koby is **report-only** (captain's 2026-08-17 ruling) — its findings go to the `--json` `report_only` array and are never counted as fleet failures or repaired, and its CT 111 liveness is probed on storepve (.6). Covers: LiteLLM keys, GPU ports, agent gateways, CT liveness (pct status on PVE nodes), config.yaml YAML integrity, wrapper/CLI integrity, vault secret non-emptiness checks. Every run/report carries the absolute execution path (`script=` + `cwd=`). The current fleet roster is owned by the script changelog (`scripts/agent-health-check.py`); mumuni is no longer probed from this host. Legacy `tdunna`/`baggy` replaced with canonical agent hostnames.
+- **Stale keys cleaned**: `daily-infra-report.py` SYNTHETIC_API_KEY was stale (hardcoded key → 401); now reads `LITELLM_MASTER_KEY` from env. Deprecated scripts (`router-original.py`, `router-phase0-backup.py`, `apply-fixes.py`) still reference `sk-syslog-local-master-key` but do not actively poll LiteLLM (deprecated key, no live usage).
 
 ## Maintains
 
@@ -120,48 +133,14 @@ Request → nginx:80 → LiteLLM:4000 → GPU(llama-server, parallel 2)
 - Also wakes on user request
 - On failure: re-check after 30s, escalate after 3 consecutive failures
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Health Check
 
-Run this first on every cycle. Results feed into remediation rules below.
-
-### 1. Check public endpoints
-- GET {{public_url}}/ui/ → expect 200 ("LiteLLM Dashboard")
-- GET {{public_url}}/docs → expect 200 ("LiteLLM API - Swagger UI")
-
-### 2. Check LiteLLM health (no-auth)
-- GET http://{{backend_host}}/litellm/health/liveliness → expect 200
-
-### 3. Check backend container health
-- SSH to {{backend_host}} → `docker ps` → verify 10 containers healthy
-- Critical: harness-litellm, harness-nginx, harness-postgres
-- Monitoring: harness-redis, harness-dashboard, harness-grafana, harness-prometheus, harness-docker-stats, harness-pve-exporter
-- Deprecated but running: harness-router (not in path, reference only)
-
-### 4. Check GPU fleet health (via fleet dashboard)
-- GET {{gpu_dashboard_url}}/gpu-data → expect 200 with GPU metrics JSON
-- Verify GPUs reporting status "healthy"
-- Check alerts array for active warnings/critical
-
-### 5. Check model inference via LiteLLM — test each model
-- POST /v1/chat/completions model=gemma-4-12b → expect 200
-- POST /v1/chat/completions model=qwen3.6-27B-code → expect 200
-- POST /v1/chat/completions model=strix-moe → expect 200
-- Use master key for auth
-
-### 6. Check agent keys
-- GET /key/list with master key → verify all 6 agents have keys
-
-### 7. Check Grafana
-- GET {{grafana_url}}/api/health → expect 200
-
-### 8. Compile overall status
-Determine overall_status from individual check results:
-- "healthy" — all checks pass
-- "degraded" — 1-2 non-critical checks fail
-- "down" — critical checks fail
+Health probes are owned by `litellm-health.prose.md` (dispatched as `run contract: litellm-health`). This contract owns remediation only — it does not re-specify the probes.
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Remediation Rules
@@ -202,9 +181,11 @@ Fix → generate keys in LiteLLM via /key/generate → update /etc/environment o
 Escalate → if SSH access unavailable, send Zulip DM
 
 ### Rule 9: Stale Active Counter in Redis — DEPRECATED
-Router no longer in path so Redis active counters are unused. Rule retained
-for reference but inactive. If Redis issues occur, check harness-redis container.
+Router no longer in path so router active-slot counters are unused. Rule retained
+for reference but inactive. `harness-redis` now serves only LiteLLM cache and
+rate-limit state; check the container if cache errors appear.
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Reporting
@@ -227,6 +208,7 @@ top actions, uptime.
 If a fix requires another agent (e.g., Authentik restart), relay sent
 to responsible agent with full context.
 
+---
 ---
 
 ## Execution

memory-audit-maintenance.prose.md

@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 name: memory-audit-maintenance
 kind: responsibility
-description: Shared memory audit and maintenance contract for all Hermes agents (Mumuni, Tanko, Koby, Koonimo). Each agent runs it against its own isolated memory files — no cross-agent access, no shared state. Detects staleness, enforces writer registry, and rotates canary tokens.
+description: Shared memory audit and maintenance contract for Hermes agents (Mumuni, Koby, Koonimo). Tanko is no longer a Hermes agent (now on DSH/DeepSeek Harness since 2026-08-27) and uses DSH-native memory, so it is excluded from this Hermes roster. Each agent runs it against its own isolated memory files — no cross-agent access, no shared state. Detects staleness, enforces writer registry, and rotates canary tokens.
 id: 067NC4KG01RG50R40M30E20918
 ---
+---
 
 ### Goal
 
@@ -15,11 +18,10 @@ Autonomously audit and reorganize an agent's native memory (MEMORY.md, USER.md,
 
 ### Scope
 
-This contract is the **Hermes Agent standard** for memory maintenance. It is shared across all Hermes agents (Mumuni, Tanko, Koby, Koonimo). Each agent runs it against its own memory files only  no cross-agent access, no shared state, no shared ledger, no shared canary. The contract is the standard; each agent enforces it independently with fully isolated data.
+This contract is the **Hermes Agent standard** for memory maintenance. It is shared across Hermes agents (Mumuni, Koby, Koonimo). **Tanko is excluded — it migrated to DSH (DeepSeek Harness) on 2026-08-27 and now uses DSH-native memory (mnemon), not `~/.hermes/memories/`.** Each agent runs it against its own memory files only  no cross-agent access, no shared state, no shared ledger, no shared canary. The contract is the standard; each agent enforces it independently with fully isolated data.
 
-**Agent Roster:**
+**Agent Roster (Hermes):**
 - Mumuni
-- Tanko
 - Koby (CT 111 / tdunna)
 - Koonimo (CT 113 / baggy)
 
@@ -343,4 +345,3 @@ return {
 
 ### Per-Agent Notes
 
-Each Hermes agent (Mumuni, Tanko, Tdunna, Baggy) runs this contract against its own `~/.hermes/memories/` directory. The contract is identical across agents, but all data is fully isolated: separate ledgers, separate writer registries, separate canaries. If a new agent is added to the roster, it must be listed in `### Scope` above and given its own isolated memory directory.

memory-fixer.prose.md

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 ---
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 kind: pattern
 name: memory-fixer
 description: >
   Auto-fix low-hanging fruit in the RA-H OS knowledge graph. No judgment calls — only deterministic Level 1 operations.
   Escalate anything that needs Kwame's input. Executes confirmed Kwame decisions to completion (state + updated_at).
-version: 2.0.0
+version: 2.1.0
+---
 ---
 
 # Memory Fixer
@@ -66,13 +69,15 @@ FROM nodes
 WHERE json_extract(metadata, '$.namespace') IS NULL;
 ```
 
-### 3. Staleness Review Tagging
+### 3. Staleness Review Tagging (refresh-suggested nodes only)
 
 Using the type-based windows from the memory-monitor contract, tag nodes stale beyond their window. **Only process a maximum of 10 nodes per run** to avoid overwhelming Kwame. Prioritize infrastructure first, then dynamic, then ephemeral.
 
+**Archive-suggested nodes are NO LONGER tagged — they are archived outright (see Level 1 fix 4).** Tagging with `[REVIEW: refresh]` applies only to living nodes (infrastructure, deployment, system, system-health, business, philosophy, research, learning, investigation, analysis, project, agent, registry, policy).
+
 **Exclusion Rules:**
 - Nodes with `state` = `review_pending`, `deprecated`, `archived`, or `not_processed` are NOT processed
-- Nodes whose `description` already starts with `[REVIEW:` are NOT re-processed
+- Nodes whose `description` already starts with `[REVIEW:` or `[ARCHIVED]` are NOT re-processed
 
 ```sql
 SELECT id, title, json_extract(metadata, '$.type') as node_type,
@@ -101,9 +106,28 @@ LIMIT 10;
 
 For each identified node, call `updateNode(id, { description: "[REVIEW: action] " + originalDescription })`.
 
+### 4. Stale-Node Archiving (Level 1 — standing Kwame directive, 2026-09-11)
+
+**Kwame's standing directive: stale nodes CAN be archived by the fixer. No per-batch escalation, no `[REVIEW: archive]` tagging — archive them.**
+
+For every node whose suggested action is `archive` (i.e. its type is NOT one of the living types in fix 3), archive it in a **single** `updateNode` call:
+
+```python
+updateNode(id, {
+  "description": "[ARCHIVED] " + originalDescriptionWithoutReviewTag,
+  "metadata": {"state": "archived"}
+})
+```
+
+- `state` transitions **DO work through `updateNode`** (`archived`, and back to `active`). The former "state only accepts processed/not_processed, use SSH" claim was wrong — verified 2026-09-11 by archiving 7 nodes (#61, #373, #388, #465, #475, #526, #1476) over the bridge with `updated_at` auto-bumping. **SSH to the bridge host is a fallback, not a requirement**, and it is blocked from kagentz anyway.
+- Pass `description` and `metadata` in the **same** call, and always keep the `updates` object nested: `{"id": N, "updates": {…}}`.
+- Archiving is non-destructive: the node stays in the graph, marked `state: archived` + `[ARCHIVED] ` prefix. **Living nodes (refresh-suggested) are NEVER archived** without a specific Kwame decision — they are the cluster/agent/business canon.
+
+**Archive candidates are identified by the fix 3 query's `suggested_action = 'archive'` branch** (the `ELSE 'archive'` case: anything not an infrastructure/skill/documentation/strategic/audit type).
+
 ## Level 2 Escalations (Kwame Decision Required)
 
-1. **Stale nodes** flagged with `[REVIEW: …]` — Archive, refresh, or keep?
+1. **Refresh-suggested stale nodes** flagged with `[REVIEW: refresh]` — refresh or keep? (Archive-suggested nodes are auto-archived under fix 4 and are not escalated.)
 2. **Duplicate Nodes** (same title or >70% title overlap) — Merge or keep?
 3. **Orphan Nodes >90 days old** — Archive or connect?
 
@@ -141,7 +165,7 @@ Reply with:
 
 The fixer reads Kwame's previous response and **executes the decision to completion** — it must not leave a node in review-pending forever. Tagging alone is NOT enough; each confirmed decision must also update `state` and `updated_at` so the node drops out of the stale window on the next run.
 
-> ⚠️ `updateNode` cannot set `state` to non-standard values (restricted to `processed`/`not_processed`) and cannot add metadata keys. For state transitions and `updated_at` bumps, use **direct SSH + SQLite** on the bridge host:
+> ⚠️ **Corrected 2026-09-11:** `updateNode` DOES accept `state` changes — `{"updates": {"description": …, "metadata": {"state": "archived"}}}` works over the bridge, and `updated_at` bumps automatically. The old "use direct SSH + SQLite for state transitions" instruction was based on a wrong assumption; SSH is a fallback only (and is blocked from kagentz). Use one `updateNode` call for both the tag and the state.
 > ```bash
 > ssh root@192.168.68.65 "sqlite3 /root/.local/share/RA-H/db/rah.sqlite \"UPDATE nodes SET metadata = json_set(metadata, '$.state', '<state>'), updated_at = datetime('now') WHERE id = <id>;\""
 > ```
@@ -169,8 +193,9 @@ The result must be 0 rows when all decisions are executed. Report what was done.
 ## Checks
 
 - **State integrity:** archived nodes have `state: archived` + `[ARCHIVED]` prefix; kept nodes are `state: active` without a `[REVIEW:]` tag.
+- **Auto-archive applied:** no node should ever be left tagged `[REVIEW: archive]` — that tag is retired. Any `[REVIEW: archive]` found means fix 4 was skipped; archive it and report.
 - **No review-pending forever:** after executing Kwame's decisions, `[REVIEW:%` node count must be 0.
-- **Timestamps:** every executed decision bumps `updated_at`, so the node exits the stale window on the next run.
+- **Timestamps:** every executed decision (and every auto-archive) bumps `updated_at`, so the node exits the stale window on the next run.
 
 ## Logging
 Every Level 1 fix logged to `~/.hermes/logs/memory-fixer/YYYY-MM-DD.md`

mumuni-delegation-prose-contract.prose.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: >
   delegation, verification, and delivery. Defines when to delegate, which
   worker to use for what, how to handle failures, and the kanban board
   protocol. Enforces context-window discipline and separation of concerns.
-  Runs on Mumuni (inside Abiba CT100, hwepve, .24) via Hermes agent (Pi + Hermes Zulip gateway).
+  Runs on Mumuni (kagentz CT105, minipve, .14) via Hermes agent (Zulip gateway via systemd).
 version: 1.0.0
 ---
 
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ version: 1.0.0
 
 ## Topology
 
-**Cluster:** 6 Proxmox nodes (ocupve, acerpve, minipve, amdpve, storepve, hwepve)
-**Manager:** Mumuni (inside Abiba CT100, hwepve, .24) via Hermes agent
+**Cluster:** 5 Proxmox nodes (ocupve, acerpve, minipve, amdpve, storepve)
+**Manager:** Mumuni (kagentz CT105, minipve, .14) via Hermes agent
 **Workers:** 6 profiles, all running on the same agent — no separate hosts needed
 
 This contract is infrastructure-agnostic in terms of which nodes are used.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Workers execute tasks on whatever infrastructure they're given — SSH to .6,
 ## Why This Matters
 
 Without enforced delegation, the manager consumes the full iteration budget
-(60 calls) on single-turn tasks — SSH to 6 nodes, check each VM, read logs —
+(60 calls) on single-turn tasks — SSH to 5 nodes, check each VM, read logs —
 leaving no capacity for actual coordination. The result: context overflow
 (59K tokens in system prompt), iteration exhaustion, and degraded response
 quality. This contract exists because I blew through my budget checking
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ it asks the manager (via relay) — it doesn't go find it on its own.
 
 **This is a hard rule, not a recommendation.** Violating it produces the exact
 type of discrepancy the kanban pipeline exists to prevent: a review worker finds
-"6 nodes present" in the raw data but "6/6 online" in the report — even though
+"5 nodes present" in the raw data but "5/5 online" in the report — even though
 one of those nodes was unreachable. The report lied because it used data the
 raw data never provided.
 
@@ -90,8 +90,8 @@ raw data never provided.
 
 | Worker | Model | Toolsets | Role | Use When |
 |--------|-------|----------|------|----------|
-| `syslog-code` | qwen3.6-27B-code | terminal, file, web, memory, skills | Code patches, automation, scripts | Writing/modifying code, creating scripts, debugging, reading/writing files |
-| `syslog-devops` | qwen3.6-27B-code | terminal, file, web, memory, skills | Infrastructure, DB, bridge, Proxmox | Server ops, SSH, Docker, Proxmox, DB queries, hardware checks |
+| `syslog-code` | gpu-dense | terminal, file, web, memory, skills | Code patches, automation, scripts | Writing/modifying code, creating scripts, debugging, reading/writing files |
+| `syslog-devops` | gpu-dense | terminal, file, web, memory, skills | Infrastructure, DB, bridge, Proxmox | Server ops, SSH, Docker, Proxmox, DB queries, hardware checks |
 | `syslog-email` | strix-moe | terminal, file, web, memory, skills | Email automation, mail operations | Sending/receiving email, inbox management, SMTP operations |
 | `syslog-research` | strix-moe | terminal, file, web, memory, skills, **browser** | Analysis, classification, data processing | Web research, browser tasks, data analysis, classification, reading docs |
 | `syslog-review` | strix-moe | terminal, file, web, memory, skills | Verification, QA, audit validation | **ALWAYS** verify worker output before delivery — especially for infra changes, code builds, and research findings |
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ delegate_task(
 ```
 delegate_task(
     tasks=[
-        {"goal": "Check all 6 Proxmox nodes for VM status", "context": "SSH to each node via 192.168.68.x, run 'qm list'"},
+        {"goal": "Check all 5 Proxmox nodes for VM status", "context": "SSH to each node via 192.168.68.x, run 'qm list'"},
         {"goal": "Check Docker container health on .7/.116/.17", "context": "SSH to each host, check container status"},
     ]
 )
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ Only verified results reach Kwame. Format per channel:
     {
       "lane_id": "devops-check",
       "worker": "syslog-devops",
-      "goal": "Check all 6 Proxmox nodes",
+      "goal": "Check all 5 Proxmox nodes",
       "status": "dispatched|completed|failed",
       "output_file": "/tmp/node-report.md"
     }

pi-approval-architecture.prose.md

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ garbled input. When a user types these commands to Abiba:
 
 - **`/approve`** → "Pi doesn't have pending approvals. Commands execute immediately."
 - **`/approve session`** → Same response
-- **`/deny`** → Same response + "For Hermes agents (Tanko, Mumuni), these work with their built-in approval system."
+- **`/deny`** → Same response + "For agents (Mumuni on Hermes, Tanko on DSH), these work with their built-in approval system."
 
 This keeps the UX consistent across agents — users can type `/approve` anywhere
 without getting confused by LLM responses.

pm2-self-heal.prose.md

@@ -2,16 +2,10 @@
 kind: responsibility
 name: pm2-self-heal
 description: >
-  Monitors critical PM2 processes (abiba-zulip, abiba-telegram, gitea-runner,
-  spoton-service, zulip-watchdog) and auto-restarts any that are stopped or
-  errored. Logs every action to the knowledge graph and alerts the owner via
-  Zulip DM on failures.
-  CRITICAL: Never restart abiba-zulip — it runs this contract.
-  AS-BUILT 2026-08-09 (captain ruling, ecosystem is authoritative):
-  gpu-monitor is systemd-managed (gpu-monitor.service) — NOT PM2;
-  gpu-watchdog decommissioned (function folded into gpu-monitor.service);
-  gitea-runner KEPT (online in PM2); abiba-zulip KEPT (online 4d+, the
-  2026-07-04 'removed/decommissioned' note was stale and is removed).
+  Monitors critical PM2 processes (abiba-telegram, abiba-zulip, gitea-runner, zulip-watchdog)
+  and auto-restarts any that are stopped or errored. Logs every action to
+  Gitea health-logs and alerts the owner via Telegram (primary) or Zulip DM (secondary).
+  Abiba-zulip is the live Zulip bridge and may be restarted; alert owner on failure.
 ---
 
 ## Maintains
@@ -19,13 +13,11 @@ description: >
 - abiba-telegram: { status: "online", uptime: string, restarts: number }
 - abiba-zulip: { status: "online", uptime: string, restarts: number }
 - gitea-runner: { status: "online", uptime: string, restarts: number }
-- spoton-service: { status: "online", uptime: string, restarts: number }
 - zulip-watchdog: { status: "online", uptime: string, restarts: number }
 - last_check: timestamp
 
-> **Note (2026-07-04, SUPERSEDED 2026-08-09):** `abiba-zulip` remains ONLINE and
-> is monitored — the decommission note was stale (process re-added; do not treat
-> it as removed).
+> **Status (2026-08-03):** `abiba-zulip` fully restored — live Zulip bridge, heartbeating, monitored. `gpu-monitor` runs via systemd only (gpu-monitor.service); NOT PM2-tracked. `gpu-watchdog` retired from PM2 (folded into gpu-monitor.service). `zulip-watchdog` remains live and PM2-managed.
+
 
 ## Continuity
 
@@ -40,10 +32,18 @@ description: >
 - **Verify**: Re-check status after 5 seconds
 - **Escalate**: If still failed after 2 retries, send Zulip DM to owner
 
-### Rule 2: Process Restarting Too Often
-- **Detect**: `pm2 status` shows restarts > 30 (cumulative lifetime counter)
+### Rule 2: Process Restarting Too Often (crash-loop guard)
+- **Detect**: `pm2 status` shows restarts > 30 (cumulative lifetime counter) **or** a
+  process reporting a restart count > 1000 while showing "online" (a crash-loop mask)
 - **Note**: PM2 counter never decrements; only full delete+re-add resets it
 - **Fix**: `pm2 delete <name> && pm2 start <ecosystem> --only <name>`
+- **Script guard (2026-08-16)**: `scripts/pm2-self-heal.sh` now restarts `abiba-telegram`
+  when `TEL_RESTARTS > 1000` even if the process reports "online" — catches a quiet
+  crash-loop that never toggles status to "stopped"/"errored" (e.g. the 10k-restarts
+  spoton incident). Alerts include the restart count.
+- **AS-BUILT (2026-09-15)**: spoton-service was deleted with its app; the live PM2 set is
+  four processes (abiba-telegram, abiba-zulip, gitea-runner, gpu-monitor). The spoton
+  reference above is historical context for the crash-loop guard, not a live process.
 - **Escalate**: Only when restarts > 30 — alerts to Zulip DM
 - **Historical fix**: Previous cycles were caused by abiba-zulip extension's
   stuck detection (STUCK_THRESHOLD_MS was 30min, raised to 4h in v2).
@@ -53,17 +53,25 @@ description: >
 ## Execution
 
 1. **Check PM2 status** — Run `pm2 status --no-color` and parse the table (5th data column = PID, 8th = restarts, 9th = status)
-2. **Check abiba-telegram**:
+2. **Check abiba-telegram** (safe to auto-restart):
+   - If status is "online" → pass
+   - If status is "stopped" or "errored" → apply Rule 1
+   - If restarts > 1000 → apply Rule 2 (crash-loop guard)
+3. **Check abiba-zulip** (live Zulip bridge, heartbeating):
+   - If status is "online" → pass, log restarts count
+   - If status is "stopped" or "errored" → restart (`pm2 restart abiba-zulip` — fully restored)
+   - If restarts > 5 in last hour → alert owner with full diagnostics
+4. **Check gitea-runner**:
    - If status is "online" → pass
    - If status is "stopped" or "errored" → apply Rule 1
    - If restarts > 5 → alert owner
-3. **Check abiba-zulip** (self-process, read-only):
-   - If status is "online" → pass, log restarts count
-   - If status is "stopped" or "errored" → **DO NOT RESTART** — alert owner immediately
-   - If restarts > 5 in last hour → alert owner with full diagnostics
-4. **Log results** — Append to `SyslogSolution/health-logs/pm2/{timestamp}.md` in Gitea (not knowledge graph — hard rule)
-5. **Alert** — Send Zulip DM to owner if escalation needed (do NOT run pm2 commands during alerting)
-6. **Wait 5 min** → repeat from step 1
+5. **Check zulip-watchdog**:
+   - If status is "online" → pass
+   - If status is "stopped" or "errored" → apply Rule 1
+   - If restarts > 5 → alert owner
+6. **Log results** — Append to `SyslogSolution/health-logs/pm2/{timestamp}.md` in Gitea (not knowledge graph — hard rule)
+7. **Alert** — Send Telegram (primary) or Zulip DM (secondary) to owner if escalation needed (do NOT run pm2 commands during alerting)
+8. **Wait 5 min** → repeat from step 1
 
 ## Example Output (when healthy)
 

proxmox-monitor.prose.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: >
   Proxmox cluster + Docker monitoring via the existing Grafana/Prometheus stack
   on CT 116. Replaces Pulse with file-provisioned Grafana dashboards. Three
   exporters feed Prometheus: prometheus-pve-exporter (cluster-aware, single
-  instance), node_exporter (all 6 PVE nodes), and a custom docker-stats-exporter
+  instance), node_exporter (all 5 PVE nodes), and a custom docker-stats-exporter
   (Docker 29 / containerd image-store compatible, since cAdvisor cannot resolve
   the layerdb). Dashboards exposed at http://192.168.68.116:3001/ (direct LAN, not behind nginx).
 agent: abiba
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ agent: abiba
 
 | Exporter | Host:Port | Scope | Notes |
 |----------|-----------|-------|-------|
-| prometheus-pve-exporter | .116:9221 (container) | All 6 nodes + guests + 36 storage pools | Single instance, cluster-aware via amdpve API. Config `/opt/monitoring/pve.yml` (token `monitoring@pve!prometheus`, PVEAuditor role). Metric schema is label-based (`id=node/amdpve`, `id=lxc/100`). |
-| node_exporter | .5/.6/.9/.12/.15/.4:9100 (systemd) | Per-node CPU/mem/disk/net/temp | Installed via apt on all 6 PVE nodes, enabled (reboot-persistent). Collectors: textfile, systemd, tcpstat, ethtool. hwepve (.4) added 2026-07-19. |
+| prometheus-pve-exporter | .116:9221 (container) | All 5 nodes + 14 guests + 36 storage pools | Single instance, cluster-aware via amdpve API. Config `/opt/monitoring/pve.yml` (token `monitoring@pve!prometheus`, PVEAuditor role). Metric schema is label-based (`id=node/amdpve`, `id=lxc/100`). |
+| node_exporter | .5/.6/.9/.12/.15:9100 (systemd) | Per-node CPU/mem/disk/net/temp | Installed via apt on all 5 PVE nodes, enabled (reboot-persistent). Collectors: textfile, systemd, tcpstat, ethtool. |
 | docker-stats-exporter | .116:9324 (container) | 10 Docker containers on .116 | **Custom** (cAdvisor v0.51 incompatible with Docker 29 containerd image store — layerdb gone). Uses Docker Engine API over unix socket. Script `/opt/monitoring/docker-stats-exporter.py`. |
 
 ## PVE API Token
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ agent: abiba
 
 | UID | Title | Panels | Source |
 |-----|-------|--------|--------|
-| proxmox-cluster | Proxmox Cluster Overview | 16 | cluster status, 6-node CPU/mem/disk/load gauges, guests table, storage pools, guest CPU/mem timeseries |
+| proxmox-cluster | Proxmox Cluster Overview | 16 | cluster status, 5-node CPU/mem/disk/load gauges, guests table, storage pools, guest CPU/mem timeseries |
 | proxmox-node | Proxmox Node Detail | 13 | per-node CPU per-core, memory, network, disk IO/IOPS/latency, temperature, disk space (variable: $node) |
 | docker-containers | Docker Containers | 10 | per-container CPU/mem/network, restarts, memory limit ratio (variable: $container) |
 | gpu-fleet | GPU Fleet | 7 | (existing, preserved in DB, not provisioned) |
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ agent: abiba
 | `/opt/monitoring/grafana/dashboards/build-dashboards.py` | .116 | dashboard JSON generator |
 | `/opt/monitoring/grafana/dashboards/json/*.json` | .116 | provisioned dashboard definitions |
 | `/opt/monitoring/grafana/datasources/prometheus.yml` | .116 | datasource provisioning |
-| `/etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter` | .5/.6/.9/.12/.15/.4 | node_exporter collector config |
+| `/etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter` | .5/.6/.9/.12/.15 | node_exporter collector config |
 
-## Cluster "Tabiri" — 6 Nodes
+## Cluster "Tabiri" — 5 Nodes
 
 | Node | IP | Role |
 |------|----|----|
@@ -87,8 +87,49 @@ agent: abiba
 | storepve | 192.168.68.6 | PVE |
 | acerpve | 192.168.68.9 | PVE (hosts llm-gpu qemu/101) |
 | minipve | 192.168.68.12 | PVE |
-| amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | PVE + Strix Halo LLM (qwen3.6-35B-udq4, strix-moe) |
-| hwepve | 192.168.68.4 | PVE (Huawei Matebook 16, 12C/15GB) — hosts abiba (lxc/100), kagentz (lxc/105), mumuni (lxc/114). CTs 100/105 migrated from amdpve, CT 114 from minipve 2026-07-20 |
+| amdpve | 192.168.68.15 | PVE + Strix Halo LLM (strix-moe) |
+
+## PBS GC (Proxmox Backup Server)
+
+### Schedule
+Cron `0 20 * * *` on the **storepve HOST** (192.168.68.6) = 20:00 America/New_York local = **00:00 UTC**.
+
+**NOTE**: The closed PR #116 said "20:00 UTC" — this is WRONG by four hours. Do not copy it.
+
+### What Actually Runs
+Host script `/usr/local/bin/pbs-gc.sh` runs `pct exec 107 -- proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection start storepve-datastore`.
+
+**IMPORTANT**: The tool `proxmox-backup-manager` exists only inside CT 107 (where the PBS server runs). The storepve host has only `proxmox-backup-client`. This is why the job had never worked before 2026-09-19 00:00 UTC.
+
+### Datastore Location
+- **Datastore**: CT 107's `/mnt/pbs-backup` on the storepve ZFS dataset `/tank/pbs-backup` (pool `tank`, ~11T free)
+- **NOT** `/media/easystore2` (media library, 3.7T, 96% used — separate volume)
+
+### Liveness Check
+The new `proxmox-monitor.sh` leg checks storepve-datastore GC health:
+- Reads GC state from CT 107: `pct exec 107 -- proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection list --output-format json`
+- **FAILS** if `last-run-endtime` is older than 48 hours
+- Reports age in hours and pending-bytes
+
+**All six verdict shapes** (exactly as emitted by the script):
+
+1. **Healthy** (fresh GC, 0 B pending):
+   `✅ PBS GC: healthy (last run 1h ago, pending-bytes: 0 B)`
+
+2. **Stale** (GC ran >48h ago):
+   `🔴 PBS GC: stale (last run 49h ago, pending-bytes: 1048576 B)`
+
+3. **Probe-failed: empty read** (000/timeout/unreadable):
+   `🔴 PBS GC: probe-failed: storepve:192.168.68.6 (expected JSON, got 000)`
+
+4. **Probe-failed: unparseable** (non-empty but invalid JSON — the "command not found" case):
+   `🔴 PBS GC: probe-failed: storepve:192.168.68.6 (unparseable JSON)`
+
+5. **Never-run: datastore absent** (valid JSON but storepve-datastore not in list):
+   `🔴 PBS GC: never-run (storepve-datastore not found in GC list)`
+
+6. **Never-run: no endtime** (valid JSON with datastore present but last-run-endtime is null/0):
+   `🔴 PBS GC: never-run (storepve-datastore has no last-run-endtime)`
 
 ## Operations
 
@@ -101,6 +142,35 @@ Edit `build-dashboards.py`, run it, `docker restart harness-grafana`
 ### check-targets
 `curl http://192.168.68.116:9090/api/v1/targets | jq '.data.activeTargets[] | {job:.labels.job,health}'`
 
+### check-health
+
+**RUN LIVE, NEVER ECHO — every dispatch must execute the probes below with real tool calls; never repeat a prior report unless a live probe fails.**
+
+```bash
+# Prometheus health (bound to 0.0.0.0:9090 on .116)
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116:9090/-/healthy
+# Expected: 200 (Prometheus is up and healthy)
+
+# Grafana health (bound to 0.0.0.0:3001 on .116)
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health
+# Expected: 200 (Grafana is up and healthy)
+
+# Docker Stats exporter (bound to 127.0.0.1:9324 on .116 — must probe from .116 localhost)
+ssh root@192.168.68.116 "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:9324/metrics"
+# Expected: 200 (docker-stats-exporter is up and responding)
+
+# PVE exporter (bound to 127.0.0.1:9221 on .116 — must probe from .116 localhost)
+ssh root@192.168.68.116 "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:9221/metrics"
+# Expected: 200 (pve-exporter is up and responding)
+```
+
+**Report format**: Begin every report with the **absolute path the probe executed
+from** (`pwd -P`, or the script's absolute path) so a stale-consumer report is
+distinguishable from a real fault at read time. Summarize actual results from
+each probe. If any probe returns non-200, flag as alert.
+
+**Note**: Docker Stats and PVE Exporter are bound to 127.0.0.1 (localhost-only) so they must be probed from .116 via SSH. Prometheus and Grafana are bound to 0.0.0.0 so they can be probed from the LAN.
+
 ### restart-exporter
 `cd /opt/monitoring && docker compose restart pve-exporter docker-stats`
 

runs/disk-gc-ct111-report-only-verification-20260912.log

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+disk-gc report-only verification — CT 111 / tdunna / 192.168.68.129
+date: 2026-09-12T19:11:36Z
+host: abiba (this scanner runs INSIDE CT 100 / abiba)
+branch head: 6e612ce37b1b9a9688b04e7f816848e7a4185fca
+command: scripts/disk-gc-plan.py --scan <live fleet scan>
+
+PURPOSE: prove that on a REAL fleet scan, CT 111 is alerted and NO gc-executor action
+is emitted for it at any level. No GC command was executed against .129.
+
+--- live fleet scan (df -P / via scripts/pct-run.sh for LXC, direct SSH for hosts) ---
+  tdunna                                    84%
+  acerpve                  192.168.68.9     77%
+  amdpve                   192.168.68.15    76%
+  ocu-llm                  192.168.68.110   69%
+  storepve                 192.168.68.6     65%
+  kagentz                                   61%
+  tanko                                     56%
+  minipve                  192.168.68.12    49%
+  authentik                                 45%
+  infisical-vault                           39%
+  adguard                                   38%
+  ocupve                   192.168.68.5     38%
+  scottdenya                                35%
+  syslog-api                                34%
+  llm-gpu                  192.168.68.8     25%
+  abiba                                     23%
+  baggy                                     22%
+  jdownloader                               21%
+  gitea                                     16%
+  ra-h-os                                   13%
+  zulip                                     12%
+  docker-vm                192.168.68.7     11%
+  adguard2                                  10%
+  media                                     9%
+  proxmox-backup-server                     4%
+
+--- planner output (action plan) ---
+    111 AMBER 84.0% -> REPORT-ONLY (no GC) — Theo's box — captain ruling 2026-08-17, re-confirmed 2026-09-10
+    acerpve AMBER 77.0% -> gc-executor
+    amdpve AMBER 76.0% -> gc-executor
+
+--- verdict ---
+  CT 111 (tdunna) 84% AMBER -> report-only; no gc-executor row emitted; no GC run on .129.
+  Owned hosts acerpve .9 (77%) and amdpve .15 (76%) -> gc-executor (ours).

scripts/agent-health-check.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """
-/root/scripts/agent-health-check.py — Consolidated Agent Health Verification v2
+/root/scripts/agent-health-check.py — Consolidated Agent Health Verification v4
 
 Verifies: LiteLLM keys (agent-specific), GPU port conflicts, agent Zulip streaming,
 gateway liveness, gateway log health, CT liveness, config YAML integrity,
@@ -17,11 +17,42 @@ Changelog:
   v2 (2026-07-26): Added CT liveness, config validation, wrapper integrity,
     vault secret emptiness check. Fixed Koby/Koonimo SSH hosts and agent key
     name format ({NAME}_LITELLM_API_KEY not LITELLM_API_KEY_{NAME}).
-    Fleet roster: tanko (.122), mumuni (.24, inside abiba CT100), koby (.129), koonimo (.114),
-    abiba (.24).
+    Fleet roster: tanko (.122), koby (.129), koonimo (.114), abiba (.24).
+    (v2 also carried a mumuni probe; see v5 — mumuni is no longer probed: she
+    moved to her own container, kagentz CT 105 / .14, and is monitored there.)
+  v3 (2026-09-08): GPU unit repoint verified live (.8 llama-chat-api.service,
+    .110 llama-server.service, .15 strix-server.service) — .8 was probing a stale
+    llama-server unit that reads inactive, producing false UNREACHABLE legs.
+    systemctl is-active no longer swallows non-zero exit as SSH failure.
+    Fixed UnboundLocalError on the abiba/koonimo gateway leg (pid unbound in the
+    summary f-string). Abiba's LiteLLM key now comes from /root/.pi/agent/env.sh
+    (#735 agent separation; creds moved out of shared /root/.bashrc).
+  v4 (2026-09-10): probe-drift round 2 (prose-contracts follow-up to #65/#66/#68).
+    abiba declared pi-only runtime — Hermes-era config/wrapper/gateway checks are
+    skipped (harness purge). koby declared report_only per the captain's
+    2026-08-17 ruling: every koby leg is detected and reported, never counted as a
+    fleet failure and never repaired. koby's PVE mapping corrected to storepve
+    (CT 111 tdunna lives on .6 — the old amdpve mapping produced a false
+    ct-unreachable). The wrapper infisical-path check had two stale-expectation
+    bugs: it read only the first 20 lines of the wrapper, so koonimo (whose
+    wrapper does reference /usr/bin/infisical, just past line 20) was falsely
+    FAILed as "path may be wrong"; and it treated the absence of any infisical
+    reference as a fault, though koby's wrapper sources the key from
+    ~/.hermes/.env and never invokes infisical. The check now reads the full
+    wrapper body, accepts a no-infisical wrapper, and verifies that any absolute
+    infisical path the wrapper references actually exists. Report-only findings
+    are surfaced in a machine-readable `report_only` array in --json output,
+    separate from `failures`. Every run prints absolute execution provenance
+    (script + cwd) in the header, in the cron ALERT line, and in --json output so
+    a stale-consumer report is distinguishable from a fault at read time.
+  v5 (2026-09-10): roster correction only, no behavior change. mumuni was removed
+    from the AGENTS dict when she moved off this host onto her own container
+    (kagentz CT 105 on minipve, .14, dedicated `hermes` user) and is monitored
+    from her side. This script must not probe mumuni or .24 — the v2 changelog
+    roster line was the last reference still placing her at .24 / CT100.
 """
 
-import subprocess, json, sys, os, time
+import subprocess, json, sys, os, time, re, io, contextlib
 from datetime import datetime
 
 LITELLM = "http://192.168.68.116:80"
@@ -30,7 +61,6 @@ INFISICAL_ENV = "prod"
 
 # PVE node IPs for CT liveness checks
 PVE_NODES = {
-    "hwepve":  "192.168.68.4",
     "amdpve":  "192.168.68.15",
     "minipve": "192.168.68.12",
     "storepve": "192.168.68.6",
@@ -40,25 +70,60 @@ PVE_NODES = {
 
 # Agent definitions: ct, host, user, pve_node, vault_key_name
 AGENTS = {
-    "tanko":   {"ct": 112, "host": "192.168.68.122", "user": "jerome", "pve": "amdpve",  "vault_key": "TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY"},
-    "abiba":   {"ct": 100, "host": "192.168.68.24",  "user": "root",   "pve": "hwepve",  "vault_key": None},  # Pi agent + Mumuni Zulip, no vault key
-    "koby":    {"ct": 111, "host": "192.168.68.129", "user": "root",   "pve": "amdpve",  "vault_key": "KOBY_LITELLM_API_KEY"},
+    "tanko":   {"ct": 112, "host": "192.168.68.122", "user": "jerome", "pve": "amdpve",  "vault_key": "TANKO_LITELLM_API_KEY", "runtime": "dsh"},
+    # abiba = pi agent (.24) — no vault key; its LiteLLM key is read from its
+    # local env file (key_env below), not from the shared vault or .bashrc.
+    # runtime=pi: abiba has run pi-only since the harness purge. There is no
+    # Hermes gateway, no ~/.hermes/config.yaml and no hermes CLI wrapper on .24
+    # (the /root/.local/bin/hermes symlink is dangling), so the Hermes-era
+    # config/wrapper/gateway legs are skipped rather than reported as faults.
+    "abiba":   {"ct": 100, "host": "192.168.68.24", "user": "root", "pve": "minipve",
+               "vault_key": None, "runtime": "pi",
+               "key_env": {"file": "/root/.pi/agent/env.sh", "var": "LITELLM_API_KEY"}},
+    # koby = report-only (captain's 2026-08-17 ruling, Rule 17): detect and
+    # report, NEVER repair, and never count against fleet failures. CT 111
+    # (tdunna) lives on storepve (.6) — verified live 2026-09-10; the previous
+    # amdpve mapping made `pct status 111` fail and read as ct-unreachable.
+    "koby":    {"ct": 111, "host": "192.168.68.129", "user": "root",   "pve": "storepve", "vault_key": "KOBY_LITELLM_API_KEY", "report_only": True},
     "koonimo": {"ct": 113, "host": "192.168.68.114", "user": "root",   "pve": "amdpve",  "vault_key": "KOONIMO_LITELLM_API_KEY"},
 }
 
+# Systemd units verified live 2026-09-08 (systemctl list-units on each host):
+#   .8   rtx3090 (gpu-dense)  -> llama-chat-api.service  (active; the old
+#        llama-server.service unit file is stale/inactive — probing it read as
+#        UNREACHABLE for a healthy process)
+#   .110 rtx5070 (ocu-llm VM) -> llama-server.service    (active)
+#   .15  strixhalo (amdpve)   -> strix-server.service    (active)
 GPU_HOSTS = {
-    "gpu-rtx3090 (.8)":     {"host": "192.168.68.8",   "port": 8080, "service": "llama-server"},
-    "gpu-rtx5070 (.110)":   {"host": "192.168.68.110", "port": 8080, "service": "llama-server"},
-    "gpu-strixhalo (.15)":  {"host": "192.168.68.15",  "port": 8080, "service": "strix-server"},
+    "gpu-rtx3090 (.8)":     {"host": "192.168.68.8",   "port": 8080, "service": "llama-chat-api.service"},
+    "gpu-rtx5070 (.110)":   {"host": "192.168.68.110", "port": 8080, "service": "llama-server.service"},
+    "gpu-strixhalo (.15)":  {"host": "192.168.68.15",  "port": 8080, "service": "strix-server.service"},
 }
 
 FAIL = []
+REPORT_ONLY = []
+
+
+def _fail(key, agent_name=None):
+    """Record a failure, except for report-only agents.
+
+    Koby is report-only per the captain's 2026-08-17 ruling (Rule 17): its legs
+    are detected and reported, never repaired and never counted as fleet
+    failures. A red fleet alert on a known report-only leg is a false alarm.
+    Report-only findings are tracked separately so --json consumers can still
+    see them without them counting as fleet failures. Any non-report-only agent
+    (or a leg with no agent, e.g. GPU hosts) records normally.
+    """
+    if agent_name and AGENTS.get(agent_name, {}).get("report_only"):
+        REPORT_ONLY.append(key)
+        print(f"  🔍 report-only ({agent_name}): {key} — reported, not counted/repaired")
+        return
+    FAIL.append(key)
+
 
 INFISICAL_TOKEN = os.environ.get("INFISICAL_TOKEN")
-INFISICAL_API_URL = os.environ.get("INFISICAL_API_URL", "https://vault.sysloggh.net")
-
-# Fallback: if no env token, read the shared vault token file
 if not INFISICAL_TOKEN:
+    # Fallback: read the shared vault token file
     _token_path = os.path.expanduser("~/.infisical-token")
     if os.path.isfile(_token_path):
         try:
@@ -66,6 +131,7 @@ if not INFISICAL_TOKEN:
                 INFISICAL_TOKEN = _f.read().strip()
         except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
             pass
+INFISICAL_API_URL = os.environ.get("INFISICAL_API_URL", "https://vault.sysloggh.net")
 
 # ── Helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -162,11 +228,46 @@ def _get_agent_key(agent_name, vault_key_name):
 
     return None
 
-# Inject keys from vault for each agent
-for agent_name in AGENTS:
-    info = AGENTS[agent_name]
-    key = _get_agent_key(agent_name, info.get("vault_key"))
-    AGENTS[agent_name]["key"] = key
+
+def _read_env_export(path, var):
+    """Parse `export VAR=value` (or `VAR=value`) out of a local env file.
+
+    #735 agent separation (2026-09-06): agent creds moved out of the shared
+    /root/.bashrc into per-agent env files under /root/.pi/agent/ (bashrc's
+    source line keeps abiba shells resolving them, but the file of record is
+    env.sh). Do NOT fall back to /root/.bashrc here: desktop (.200) SSH
+    sessions override LITELLM_API_KEY with mumuni's key, so sourcing bashrc
+    would validate the wrong identity.
+    """
+    try:
+        with open(os.path.expanduser(path)) as _f:
+            for line in _f:
+                line = line.strip()
+                if not (line.startswith("export " + var + "=") or line.startswith(var + "=")):
+                    continue
+                value = line.split("=", 1)[1].strip().strip('"').strip("'")
+                if value:
+                    return value
+    except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+        pass
+    return None
+
+
+def load_agent_keys():
+    """Populate AGENTS[*]["key"] from the vault or the agent's local env file.
+
+    Called from main(), not at import: keeping this out of module scope lets the
+    module be imported (and unit tested) without live vault/SSH access. Vault
+    format is {NAME}_LITELLM_API_KEY (project 322fceab-39da-4854-a55a-568e76c0f13f,
+    env prod); abiba has no vault key and reads LITELLM_API_KEY from its local
+    /root/.pi/agent/env.sh (moved there from /root/.bashrc in #735).
+    """
+    for agent_name in AGENTS:
+        info = AGENTS[agent_name]
+        key = _get_agent_key(agent_name, info.get("vault_key"))
+        if not key and info.get("key_env"):
+            key = _read_env_export(info["key_env"]["file"], info["key_env"]["var"])
+        AGENTS[agent_name]["key"] = key
 
 
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
@@ -177,8 +278,8 @@ def check_keys():
     for name, agent in AGENTS.items():
         key = agent.get("key")
         if not key:
-            print(f"  ❌ {name}: NO KEY FOUND (vault empty or unreachable)")
-            FAIL.append(f"key:{name}:no-key")
+            print(f"  ❌ {name}: NO KEY FOUND (vault/env empty or unreachable)")
+            _fail(f"key:{name}:no-key", name)
             continue
         data = http_json(f"{LITELLM}/v1/models",
                          headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {key}"})
@@ -187,11 +288,11 @@ def check_keys():
             print(f"  ✅ {name}: key valid → {model}")
         else:
             print(f"  ❌ {name}: KEY FAILURE — auth rejected or unreachable")
-            FAIL.append(f"key:{name}")
+            _fail(f"key:{name}", name)
 
 
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-# CHECK 2: GPU Port Conflict Detection (unchanged)
+# CHECK 2: GPU Port Conflict Detection (unit names verified live 2026-09-08)
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 
 def check_gpu_ports():
@@ -200,7 +301,11 @@ def check_gpu_ports():
         port = gpu["port"]
         svc = gpu["service"]
 
-        svc_status = ssh(host, f"systemctl is-active {svc}")
+        # `systemctl is-active` exits non-zero when the unit is inactive or
+        # missing, which the ssh() helper would swallow as an SSH failure and
+        # report as UNREACHABLE. `|| true` keeps the real state word so we can
+        # tell "unit inactive" from "host unreachable".
+        svc_status = ssh(host, f"systemctl is-active {svc} || true")
         port_owner = ssh(host, f"ss -tlnp 2>/dev/null | grep -Po ':{port}\\s+.*pid=\\K[0-9]+' | head -1")
 
         if not svc_status:
@@ -234,28 +339,94 @@ def check_gpu_ports():
 # CHECK 3: Agent Gateway Liveness + Streaming (now covers all agents)
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 
+def _ssh_retry(host, cmd, user="root", timeout=15, retry_timeout=25, label=""):
+    """SSH with one retry at a longer timeout.
+
+    Returns (stdout_or_None, probe_failed_bool, fail_kind).
+    When probe_failed is True, fail_kind is one of: timeout, ssh-failed.
+    """
+    import subprocess as _sp
+    def _attempt(tmo, conn_tmo):
+        try:
+            r = _sp.run(
+                ["ssh", "-o", "StrictHostKeyChecking=no", "-o", f"ConnectTimeout={conn_tmo}",
+                 f"{user}@{host}", cmd],
+                capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=tmo)
+            return r.stdout.strip() if r.returncode == 0 else None
+        except _sp.TimeoutExpired:
+            return "__timeout__"
+        except:
+            return None
+    result = _attempt(timeout, 8)
+    if result is None or result == "__timeout__":
+        kind = "timeout" if result == "__timeout__" else "ssh-failed"
+        prefix = f"{label} " if label else ""
+        print(f"  probe-failed: {prefix}ssh {user}@{host} — {kind} (retrying at {retry_timeout}s…)")
+        result = _attempt(retry_timeout, 15)
+        if result is None or result == "__timeout__":
+            kind = "timeout" if result == "__timeout__" else "ssh-failed"
+            return None, True, kind
+    return result, False, None
+
+
 def check_agents():
     for name, agent in AGENTS.items():
         host = agent.get("host")
         user = agent.get("user")
         ct = agent["ct"]
+        report_only = agent.get("report_only", False)
+
+        # Tanko runs on DSH (DeepSeek Harness) since 2026-08-27 — it no longer runs a
+        # Hermes gateway, so skip the Hermes gateway/state/streaming/journal checks.
+        # Non-Hermes runtimes have no gateway to probe. dsh = Tanko since
+        # 2026-08-27; pi = abiba since the harness purge (.24 is pi-only).
+        if agent.get("runtime") in ("dsh", "pi"):
+            is_dsh = agent.get("runtime") == "dsh"
+            label = "DSH (DeepSeek Harness)" if is_dsh else "pi-only runtime"
+            since = "since 2026-08-27" if is_dsh else "since the harness purge"
+            live, probe_failed, fail_kind = _ssh_retry(host, "true", user=user)
+            if probe_failed:
+                print(f"  ❌ {name}: {label} — probe-failed: ssh {user}@{host} {fail_kind} "
+                      f"(retried at 25s: also {fail_kind}) [CT {ct}]")
+                _fail(f"probe-failed:{name}:{fail_kind}", name)
+            else:
+                print(f"  ✅ {name}: {label} — no Hermes gateway {since} "
+                      f"(ssh {user}@{host} OK, CT {ct})")
+            continue
 
         if not host or not user:
             print(f"  ⬜ {name} (CT {ct}): cannot SSH — skip liveness check")
             continue
 
-        # Gateway process
-        pid = ssh(host, "pgrep -f 'hermes_cli.main gateway run' | grep -v infisical | head -1", user=user)
-        if not pid:
-            # Try alternate binary name
-            pid = ssh(host, "pgrep -f 'hermes.*gateway' | grep -v infisical | grep -v bash | head -1", user=user)
-        if not pid:
-            print(f"  ❌ {name}: GATEWAY NOT RUNNING")
-            FAIL.append(f"gateway-down:{name}")
+        # Resolve the Hermes gateway PID with retry. The probe target is
+        # explicit: ssh {user}@{host} pgrep -f hermes gateway.
+        pid, probe_failed, fail_kind = _ssh_retry(
+            host, "pgrep -f '[h]ermes_cli.main gateway run' | grep -v infisical | head -1", user=user)
+        if not pid and not probe_failed:
+            pid, probe_failed, fail_kind = _ssh_retry(
+                host, "pgrep -f '[h]ermes.*gateway' | grep -v infisical | grep -v bash | head -1", user=user)
+        if not pid and not probe_failed:
+            pid = "?"
+
+        if probe_failed:
+            print(f"  ❌ {name}: probe-failed: ssh {user}@{host} {fail_kind} "
+                  f"(retried at 25s: also {fail_kind}) [CT {ct}] — gateway status UNDETERMINED")
+            _fail(f"probe-failed:{name}:{fail_kind}", name)
             continue
 
+        # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED — diagnostic only (captain's 2026-08-17 ruling)
+        if report_only:
+            if pid == "?":
+                print(f"  🔍 {name}: REPORT-ONLY — probe: ssh {user}@{host} pgrep hermes-gateway "
+                      f"-> no process found (reported only, NOT counted) [CT {ct}]")
+                _fail(f"gateway-down:{name}", name)
+            else:
+                print(f"  🔍 {name}: REPORT-ONLY — probe: ssh {user}@{host} pgrep hermes-gateway "
+                      f"-> pid={pid} (running, reported only, NOT repaired) [CT {ct}]")
+            continue  # Skip the rest of the check for Koby
+
         # Gateway state file
-        state = ssh(host, "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json 2>/dev/null", user=user)
+        state, _, _ = _ssh_retry(host, "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json 2>/dev/null", user=user)
         if state:
             try:
                 st = json.loads(state)
@@ -273,21 +444,22 @@ def check_agents():
         ]
         streaming = "no"
         for p in adapter_paths:
-            has_edit = ssh(host, f"grep -c 'async def edit_message' {p} 2>/dev/null", user=user)
+            has_edit, _, _ = _ssh_retry(host, f"grep -c 'async def edit_message' {p} 2>/dev/null", user=user)
             if has_edit and has_edit != "0":
                 streaming = "yes"
                 break
 
         # Recent errors
-        recent_errors = ssh(host,
+        recent_errors, _, _ = _ssh_retry(
+            host,
             r"journalctl --user -u hermes-gateway --since '10 min ago' -o cat --no-pager 2>/dev/null "
             r"| grep -ci 'error\|traceback\|exception\|401\|403\|500' || echo 0",
             user=user)
         recent_errors = (recent_errors or "0").strip().split("\n")[-1]
 
         print(f"  {'✅' if gw_state == 'running' and zulip == 'connected' else '⚠️'} "
-              f"{name}: gw={gw_state} zulip={zulip} streaming={streaming} "
-              f"errors_10m={recent_errors.strip() or '0'} pid={pid}")
+              f"{name}: probe: ssh {user}@{host} — gw={gw_state} zulip={zulip} "
+              f"streaming={streaming} errors_10m={recent_errors.strip() or '0'} pid={pid} [CT {ct}]")
 
 
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
@@ -311,12 +483,12 @@ def check_ct_liveness():
         status = ssh(pve_ip, f"pct status {ct} 2>/dev/null", user="root")
         if not status:
             print(f"  ❌ {name} (CT {ct} on {pve_node}): PVE UNREACHABLE")
-            FAIL.append(f"ct-unreachable:{name}:{pve_ip}")
+            _fail(f"ct-unreachable:{name}:{pve_ip}", name)
         elif "running" in status:
             print(f"  ✅ {name} (CT {ct} on {pve_node}): running")
         elif "stopped" in status:
             print(f"  ❌ {name} (CT {ct} on {pve_node}): STOPPED")
-            FAIL.append(f"ct-stopped:{name}")
+            _fail(f"ct-stopped:{name}", name)
         else:
             print(f"  ⚠️  {name} (CT {ct} on {pve_node}): {status.strip()}")
 
@@ -328,6 +500,13 @@ def check_ct_liveness():
 def check_config_integrity():
     """Verify agent config.yaml parses as valid YAML."""
     for name, agent in AGENTS.items():
+        # Tanko runs on DSH (DeepSeek Harness) since 2026-08-27 — no Hermes config.yaml.
+        if agent.get("runtime") == "dsh":
+            print(f"  ⏭️ {name}: DSH — no Hermes config.yaml since 2026-08-27")
+            continue
+        if agent.get("runtime") == "pi":
+            print(f"  ⏭️ {name}: pi-only runtime — no Hermes config.yaml since the harness purge")
+            continue
         host = agent.get("host")
         user = agent.get("user")
         if not host or not user:
@@ -342,21 +521,48 @@ def check_config_integrity():
             user=user)
         if not yaml_ok:
             print(f"  ❌ {name}: SSH UNREACHABLE (config check skipped)")
-            FAIL.append(f"config-unreachable:{name}")
+            _fail(f"config-unreachable:{name}", name)
         elif "OK" in yaml_ok:
             print(f"  ✅ {name}: config.yaml valid YAML")
         else:
             print(f"  ❌ {name}: config.yaml YAML ERROR — {yaml_ok[:120]}")
-            FAIL.append(f"config-yaml-error:{name}")
+            _fail(f"config-yaml-error:{name}", name)
 
 
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 # CHECK 6: Wrapper/CLI Integrity (NEW)
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 
+def _infisical_invocation_paths(wrapper_body):
+    """Absolute infisical paths the wrapper actually invokes.
+
+    Only executed (non-comment) lines count, and only a path followed by a real
+    infisical subcommand (e.g. `/usr/bin/infisical run`) is treated as an
+    invocation. A note such as `# migrated from /usr/local/bin/infisical` is
+    prose, not a call, so it must not manufacture a dangling-path false alarm.
+    """
+    paths = []
+    for line in wrapper_body.splitlines():
+        code = line.split("#", 1)[0]
+        for _m in re.finditer(
+            r"(/[A-Za-z0-9._/-]*infisical)\s+(?:run|export|secrets|login|logout)\b",
+            code,
+        ):
+            if _m.group(1) not in paths:
+                paths.append(_m.group(1))
+    return paths
+
+
 def check_wrapper_integrity():
     """Verify the hermes CLI wrapper exists and can reach hermes-real."""
     for name, agent in AGENTS.items():
+        # Tanko runs on DSH (DeepSeek Harness) since 2026-08-27 — no hermes CLI wrapper.
+        if agent.get("runtime") == "dsh":
+            print(f"  ⏭️ {name}: DSH — no hermes CLI wrapper since 2026-08-27")
+            continue
+        if agent.get("runtime") == "pi":
+            print(f"  ⏭️ {name}: pi-only runtime — no hermes CLI wrapper since the harness purge")
+            continue
         host = agent.get("host")
         user = agent.get("user")
         if not host or not user:
@@ -370,24 +576,56 @@ def check_wrapper_integrity():
             wrapper = ssh(host, "which hermes 2>/dev/null; command -v hermes 2>/dev/null", user=user)
             if not wrapper:
                 print(f"  ❌ {name}: NO HERMES CLI WRAPPER FOUND")
-                FAIL.append(f"wrapper-missing:{name}")
+                _fail(f"wrapper-missing:{name}", name)
                 continue
             else:
                 print(f"  ⚠️  {name}: hermes at {wrapper.strip()} (not ~/.local/bin/hermes)")
 
-        # Check wrapper has correct infisical path
-        infisical_path_valid = ssh(host,
-            "head -20 /root/.local/bin/hermes 2>/dev/null | grep -q '/usr/bin/infisical' && echo OK || echo MISS",
-            user=user)
-        if infisical_path_valid == "MISS":
-            # Check if infisical exists on path
-            inf_actual = ssh(host, "command -v infisical 2>/dev/null", user=user)
-            if not inf_actual:
-                print(f"  ❌ {name}: INFISICAL NOT INSTALLED (wrapper broken)")
-                FAIL.append(f"wrapper-no-infisical:{name}")
+        # Credential-injection mechanism. The Hermes-era wrapper injected creds
+        # with `/usr/bin/infisical run`, but the mechanism is not required to be
+        # infisical at all: koby's wrapper sources the key from ~/.hermes/.env
+        # and never mentions infisical, which is valid. The old check read only
+        # the first 20 lines, so koonimo's wrapper — which DOES reference
+        # /usr/bin/infisical, just past line 20 — false-failed as "path may be
+        # wrong". Read the full body, accept a no-infisical wrapper, and verify
+        # the absolute infisical path(s) the wrapper actually invokes. Only
+        # executed (non-comment) lines count: a comment or dead prose mentioning
+        # a removed path (litellm-api-keys.prose.md documents
+        # `rm -f /usr/local/bin/infisical`) must neither produce a dangling path
+        # nor trigger the PATH check — it is not an invocation.
+        wrapper_body = ssh(host, "cat /root/.local/bin/hermes 2>/dev/null", user=user) or ""
+        wrapper_code = "\n".join(line.split("#", 1)[0] for line in wrapper_body.splitlines())
+        invoked_paths = _infisical_invocation_paths(wrapper_body)
+        if "infisical" in wrapper_code:
+            if invoked_paths:
+                missing = []
+                for _p in invoked_paths:
+                    _exists = ssh(host, f"test -x {_p} && echo OK || echo MISS", user=user)
+                    if not _exists or _exists.strip().splitlines()[-1] != "OK":
+                        missing.append(_p)
+                if len(missing) == len(invoked_paths):
+                    inf_actual = ssh(host, "command -v infisical 2>/dev/null", user=user)
+                    suffix = f" (infisical at {inf_actual})" if inf_actual else ""
+                    print(f"  ❌ {name}: wrapper invokes infisical via missing path(s) "
+                          f"{', '.join(missing)}{suffix}")
+                    _fail(f"wrapper-infisical-path:{name}", name)
+                elif missing:
+                    print(f"  ⚠️  {name}: wrapper has an unused/missing infisical path "
+                          f"({', '.join(missing)}) but a working invocation — informational")
+                elif "/usr/bin/infisical" not in invoked_paths:
+                    print(f"  ⚠️  {name}: wrapper infisical path differs "
+                          f"({', '.join(invoked_paths)}) — informational")
+                else:
+                    print(f"  ✅ {name}: wrapper infisical path OK")
             else:
-                print(f"  ⚠️  {name}: wrapper infisical path may be wrong (infisical at {inf_actual})")
-                FAIL.append(f"wrapper-infisical-path:{name}")
+                inf_actual = ssh(host, "command -v infisical 2>/dev/null", user=user)
+                if not inf_actual:
+                    print(f"  ❌ {name}: wrapper invokes infisical but the binary is MISSING")
+                    _fail(f"wrapper-no-infisical:{name}", name)
+                else:
+                    print(f"  ✅ {name}: wrapper infisical resolves via PATH ({inf_actual})")
+        else:
+            print(f"  ℹ️  {name}: wrapper resolves creds without infisical (e.g. ~/.hermes/.env) — OK")
 
         # Check hermes-real exists
         hermes_real = ssh(host,
@@ -400,7 +638,7 @@ def check_wrapper_integrity():
                 user=user)
             if not hermes_real or hermes_real.strip() == "MISS":
                 print(f"  ❌ {name}: hermes-real NOT FOUND (wrapper broken)")
-                FAIL.append(f"wrapper-no-hermes-real:{name}")
+                _fail(f"wrapper-no-hermes-real:{name}", name)
             else:
                 print(f"  ✅ {name}: hermes-real at alt path")
 
@@ -428,10 +666,10 @@ def check_vault_secrets():
         key = agent.get("key")
         if not key:
             print(f"  ❌ {name}: vault secret {vault_key_name} MISSING or EMPTY")
-            FAIL.append(f"vault-empty:{name}:{vault_key_name}")
+            _fail(f"vault-empty:{name}:{vault_key_name}", name)
         elif not key.startswith("sk-"):
             print(f"  ❌ {name}: vault secret {vault_key_name} WRONG FORMAT (starts '{key[:8]}...')")
-            FAIL.append(f"vault-bad-format:{name}:{vault_key_name}")
+            _fail(f"vault-bad-format:{name}:{vault_key_name}", name)
         else:
             print(f"  ✅ {name}: vault {vault_key_name}=sk-...{key[-4:]}")
 
@@ -464,18 +702,7 @@ def deploy_self():
 # MAIN
 # ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
 
-def main():
-    quiet = "--quiet" in sys.argv
-    as_json = "--json" in sys.argv
-
-    # Self-deploy to canonical location
-    if not quiet and "--no-deploy" not in sys.argv:
-        deploy_self()
-
-    if not quiet:
-        print(f"🏥 Agent Health Check v2 — {datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')}")
-        print()
-
+def _run_checks():
     print("🔑 LiteLLM Keys:")
     check_keys()
     print()
@@ -503,16 +730,49 @@ def main():
     print("🔐 Vault Secrets:")
     check_vault_secrets()
 
+
+def main():
+    quiet = "--quiet" in sys.argv
+    as_json = "--json" in sys.argv
+
+    # Self-deploy to canonical location
+    if not quiet and "--no-deploy" not in sys.argv:
+        deploy_self()
+
+    # Provenance: a report is only actionable if the reader can tell WHICH copy
+    # of this script produced it. A normal run carries it in the header, --json
+    # carries it for machine consumers, and the cron ALERT line carries it on
+    # failure. --quiet is documented as "only output on failure", so the header
+    # is emitted only when not quiet and a healthy quiet run stays silent.
+    script_path = os.path.abspath(__file__)
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+
+    if quiet:
+        captured = io.StringIO()
+        with contextlib.redirect_stdout(captured):
+            load_agent_keys()
+            _run_checks()
+        if FAIL:
+            sys.stdout.write(captured.getvalue())
+    else:
+        print(f"🏥 Agent Health Check v4 — {datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')}")
+        print(f"📍 executed from: script={script_path} cwd={cwd}")
+        print()
+        load_agent_keys()
+        _run_checks()
+
     if FAIL:
         print(f"\n❌ {len(FAIL)} FAILURE(S): {' | '.join(FAIL)}")
         if quiet:
-            print(f"ALERT agent-health:{','.join(FAIL)}")
+            print(f"ALERT agent-health:{','.join(FAIL)} script={script_path} cwd={cwd}")
     elif not quiet:
         print("\n✅ All checks passed")
 
     if as_json:
         print(json.dumps({"timestamp": datetime.now().isoformat(),
-                          "failures": FAIL, "healthy": len(FAIL) == 0}))
+                          "execution_path": script_path, "cwd": cwd,
+                          "failures": FAIL, "report_only": REPORT_ONLY,
+                          "healthy": len(FAIL) == 0}))
 
     sys.exit(1 if FAIL else 0)
 

scripts/capture-dsh-token.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# capture-dsh-token.sh — refresh the dsh-web login token WITHOUT restarting dsh-web.
+#
+# Context (CT 112 / tankodhs.sysloggh.net)
+# ----------------------------------------
+# The dsh-web UI (systemd unit `dsh-web.service`, 127.0.0.1:3080) prints a random
+# launch token to the journal on every start:
+#
+#     dsh web: http://127.0.0.1:3080/?token=<TOKEN>
+#
+# That token is the only way to bootstrap the authority-bound 30-day browser
+# cookie. It rotates on every dsh-web start, so the Authentik-gated
+# `location = /dsh-web-login` in /etc/nginx/sites-available/dsh must always
+# reference the token of the RUNNING process.
+#
+# This script:
+#   1. selects the launch token the RUNNING service actually accepts from the
+#      current systemd invocation — it NEVER stops or starts dsh-web,
+#   2. records it in /etc/dsh-web/launch-token,
+#   3. regenerates the nginx include /etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf (the
+#      `proxy_pass ...?token=` line consumed by /dsh-web-login),
+#   4. reloads nginx ONLY when the on-disk include differs from the generated
+#      one or the applied-state stamp does not match the token (the stamp is
+#      written only after a successful reload), rolling the include back on
+#      failure so the next run retries,
+#   5. removes the legacy unauthenticated :8081 endpoint if it ever reappears.
+#
+# Idempotent and safe to run at any time (systemd ExecStartPost or timer).
+set -euo pipefail
+umask 077
+PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
+
+JOURNAL_UNIT="dsh-web.service"
+TOKEN_FILE="/etc/dsh-web/launch-token"
+INCLUDE_FILE="/etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf"
+STAMP_FILE="/etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf.applied"
+PENDING_FILE="/etc/dsh-web/nginx-reload.pending"
+SITE_ENABLED="/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/dsh"
+LEGACY_8081="/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/dsh.token"
+STASH_DIR="/etc/nginx/sites-available"
+LOCK_FILE="/run/capture-dsh-token.lock"
+LOGIN_HOST="tankodhs.sysloggh.net"
+LOGIN_UPSTREAM="http://127.0.0.1:3080"
+TOKEN_WAIT=120
+
+log()  { printf 'capture-dsh-token: %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+die()  { printf 'capture-dsh-token: ERROR: %s\n' "$*" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || die "must run as root"
+
+# ── 0. Serialize runs so timer/ExecStartPost/manual runs cannot interleave ──
+exec 9>"$LOCK_FILE"
+flock -n 9 || { log "another capture-dsh-token run holds $LOCK_FILE; exiting"; exit 0; }
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$PENDING_FILE")"
+
+# ── 0b. Guarantee the generated include exists before any `nginx -t` ──────
+# The :80 site includes /etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf by literal path, so a
+# missing include makes every `nginx -t` fail and can wedge recovery. Seed it
+# from the last known token (or a placeholder); step 4 replaces it.
+if [ ! -f "$INCLUDE_FILE" ]; then
+  SEED="placeholder"
+  if [ -f "$TOKEN_FILE" ]; then
+    SEED="$(cat "$TOKEN_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+    [ -n "$SEED" ] || SEED="placeholder"
+  fi
+  printf '%s' "$SEED" | grep -qE '^[A-Za-z0-9._~+/=:@-]+$' || SEED="placeholder"
+  printf 'proxy_pass %s/?token=%s;\n' "$LOGIN_UPSTREAM" "$SEED" > "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+  chmod 600 "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+  log "created missing $INCLUDE_FILE"
+fi
+
+# ── 1. Remove the legacy unauthenticated :8081 endpoint, if present ─────────
+# It bypassed Authentik entirely (listened on 0.0.0.0:8081 with no auth_request)
+# and must never come back. Stash it rather than delete so it is auditable.
+if [ -e "$LEGACY_8081" ] || [ -L "$LEGACY_8081" ]; then
+  TS="$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)"
+  STASHED="$STASH_DIR/dsh.token.disabled-$TS"
+  mv "$LEGACY_8081" "$STASHED"
+  chmod 600 "$STASHED" 2>/dev/null || true
+  touch "$PENDING_FILE"
+  if ! NGINX_TEST_OUT="$(nginx -t 2>&1)"; then
+    die "nginx config test failed after disabling $LEGACY_8081 (kept disabled at $STASHED): $NGINX_TEST_OUT; a pending reload is recorded so running nginx is reloaded once the config is fixed. The legacy :8081 endpoint will NOT be restored."
+  fi
+  if ! nginx -s reload; then
+    die "nginx reload failed after disabling $LEGACY_8081 (kept disabled at $STASHED); a pending reload is recorded so running nginx is reloaded on the next run. The legacy :8081 endpoint will NOT be restored."
+  fi
+  rm -f "$PENDING_FILE"
+  log "removed legacy :8081 endpoint -> $STASHED"
+fi
+
+# ── 1b. Honor a recorded pending reload regardless of token selection ───────
+# A failed reload leaves PENDING_FILE set so a stashed legacy :8081 file can
+# never remain loaded in the running nginx while dsh-web is down or not yet
+# answering. Reconcile it before the token wait.
+if [ -e "$PENDING_FILE" ]; then
+  if ! NGINX_TEST_OUT="$(nginx -t 2>&1)"; then
+    log "WARNING: pending nginx reload recorded but 'nginx -t' fails: $NGINX_TEST_OUT; continuing so the include can be regenerated; will retry next run"
+  elif ! nginx -s reload; then
+    log "WARNING: pending nginx reload recorded but 'nginx -s reload' failed; will retry next run"
+  else
+    rm -f "$PENDING_FILE"
+    log "completed pending nginx reload"
+  fi
+fi
+
+# ── 2. Select the token the RUNNING service actually accepts ────────────────
+# Re-sample the service's CURRENT systemd invocation on every pass and read
+# candidates only from it, so a restart that lands during the wait immediately
+# switches to the new invocation; there is no whole-journal or cross-invocation
+# fallback, and an empty/unknown invocation just waits. Each candidate is then
+# functionally verified against the local dsh-web using the public authority,
+# exactly as the /dsh-web-login proxy does, and the first that answers 303 is
+# the live token. Candidates are re-probed newest-first on each pass (connection
+# failures stay eligible) until one is accepted or the wait elapses.
+journal_tokens() {
+  journalctl -u "$JOURNAL_UNIT" "_SYSTEMD_INVOCATION_ID=$1" --no-pager -o cat 2>/dev/null \
+    | grep -oE 'dsh web: https?://[^[:space:]]+[?&]token=[^[:space:]]+' \
+    | sed -E 's/.*[?&]token=//' \
+    | grep -E '^[A-Za-z0-9._~+/=:@-]+$' \
+    | tac | awk '!seen[$0]++' || true
+}
+
+TOKEN=""
+DEADLINE=$((SECONDS + TOKEN_WAIT))
+NO_INVOCATION_WARNED=0
+while [ -z "$TOKEN" ] && [ "$SECONDS" -lt "$DEADLINE" ]; do
+  INVOCATION="$(systemctl show -p InvocationID --value "$JOURNAL_UNIT" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+  if [ -z "$INVOCATION" ] || [ "$INVOCATION" = "n/a" ]; then
+    if [ "$NO_INVOCATION_WARNED" -eq 0 ]; then
+      log "WARNING: no invocation id for $JOURNAL_UNIT; waiting for a live invocation"
+      NO_INVOCATION_WARNED=1
+    fi
+    sleep 2
+    continue
+  fi
+  for cand in $(journal_tokens "$INVOCATION"); do
+    code="$(curl -s -o /dev/null --max-time 5 -w '%{http_code}' \
+      -H "Host: $LOGIN_HOST" "$LOGIN_UPSTREAM/?token=$cand" || true)"
+    if [ "$code" = "303" ]; then
+      TOKEN="$cand"
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+  [ -n "$TOKEN" ] && break
+  sleep 2
+done
+
+if [ -z "$TOKEN" ]; then
+  log "no accepted launch token in the current invocation within ${TOKEN_WAIT}s; leaving the include untouched for the next run"
+  [ -e "$PENDING_FILE" ] && die "pending nginx reload could not be completed; will retry next run"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# ── 3. Record the token (atomic, private) ──────────────────────────────────
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TOKEN_FILE")"
+if ! printf '%s\n' "$TOKEN" | cmp -s - "$TOKEN_FILE" 2>/dev/null; then
+  printf '%s\n' "$TOKEN" > "$TOKEN_FILE.tmp"
+  chmod 600 "$TOKEN_FILE.tmp"
+  mv "$TOKEN_FILE.tmp" "$TOKEN_FILE"
+  log "recorded live launch token in $TOKEN_FILE"
+fi
+chmod 600 "$TOKEN_FILE"
+
+# ── 4. Regenerate the nginx login include (reload only when it changes) ────
+NEW_INCLUDE="$(mktemp "$INCLUDE_FILE.XXXXXX")"
+printf 'proxy_pass %s/?token=%s;\n' "$LOGIN_UPSTREAM" "$TOKEN" > "$NEW_INCLUDE"
+chmod 600 "$NEW_INCLUDE"
+
+# The stamp records the token nginx actually loaded. It is written only after a
+# successful reload, so the early exit is safe only when both the stamp and the
+# on-disk include agree with the live token; anything else falls through to the
+# reload path so the include can never silently diverge from what nginx serves.
+APPLIED=""
+[ -f "$STAMP_FILE" ] && APPLIED="$(cat "$STAMP_FILE" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+[ -f "$INCLUDE_FILE" ] && chmod 600 "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+[ -f "$STAMP_FILE" ] && chmod 600 "$STAMP_FILE"
+
+if [ "$APPLIED" = "$TOKEN" ] && [ -f "$INCLUDE_FILE" ] && cmp -s "$NEW_INCLUDE" "$INCLUDE_FILE" \
+  && [ ! -e "$PENDING_FILE" ]; then
+  rm -f "$NEW_INCLUDE"
+  log "token unchanged; nginx not reloaded"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+[ -e "$SITE_ENABLED" ] || { rm -f "$NEW_INCLUDE"; die "$SITE_ENABLED missing; refusing to reload"; }
+
+RESTORE=""
+if [ -f "$INCLUDE_FILE" ]; then
+  RESTORE="$(mktemp "$INCLUDE_FILE.bak.XXXXXX")"
+  cp -p "$INCLUDE_FILE" "$RESTORE"
+  chmod 600 "$RESTORE"
+fi
+
+mv "$NEW_INCLUDE" "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+chmod 600 "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+
+if ! NGINX_TEST_OUT="$(nginx -t 2>&1)"; then
+  if [ -n "$RESTORE" ]; then
+    mv "$RESTORE" "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+  else
+    rm -f "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+  fi
+  die "nginx config test failed: $NGINX_TEST_OUT; previous include restored"
+fi
+
+if ! nginx -s reload; then
+  if [ -n "$RESTORE" ]; then
+    mv "$RESTORE" "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+  else
+    rm -f "$INCLUDE_FILE"
+  fi
+  touch "$PENDING_FILE"
+  die "nginx reload failed; previous include restored; a pending reload is recorded so the next run retries"
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$RESTORE" ]; then
+  rm -f "$RESTORE"
+fi
+
+rm -f "$PENDING_FILE"
+
+printf '%s\n' "$TOKEN" > "$STAMP_FILE.tmp"
+chmod 600 "$STAMP_FILE.tmp"
+mv "$STAMP_FILE.tmp" "$STAMP_FILE"
+
+log "token changed; nginx reloaded"
+log "login endpoint: https://$LOGIN_HOST/dsh-web-login (Authentik-gated)"

scripts/daily-infra-report.py

@@ -15,21 +15,31 @@ import smtplib, json, subprocess, os, sys, datetime, re
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
 
-PVE = "https://minipve.sysloggh.net"
-AUTH = "Authorization: PVEAPIToken=monitoring@pve!mumuni=eafd56c5-93d4-4d40-a41d-e688be0987f3"
+PVE = "https://192.168.68.12:8006"
+AUTH = "Authorization: PVEAPIToken=«vault: infrastructure/production PVE_API_TOKEN»"
 
 # ── Shared credentials —─
 
 ZULIP_SITE = "https://chat.sysloggh.net"
 ZULIP_EMAIL = "abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net"
-ZULIP_KEY = "cKTDMZAPW08dk3zl05sStzO7HRztzyn8"
-ZULIP_AUTH = f"{ZULIP_EMAIL}:{ZULIP_KEY}"
+# Note: /api/v1/server_settings is a PUBLIC endpoint (verified HTTP 200 with or without credential).
+# No Zulip API key is required for this call. If a future leg genuinely needs abiba-bot's key,
+# it must prove it with a 200 from /api/v1/users/me as abiba-bot and label itself degraded when it cannot.
+# Never fall back to the vault's shared ZULIP_API_KEY.
+ZULIP_AUTH = None
+DEGRADED_LEGS = []
 
 LITELLM_PUBLIC = "https://litellm.sysloggh.net"
 LITELLM_BACKEND = "192.168.68.116"
 AUTH_HOST = "192.168.68.11"
 
-SYNTHETIC_API_KEY = "sk-U_ydi3B-wfGU-_xESkoU1Q"
+# Load LiteLLM API key from file (durable, works in cron)
+LITELLM_KEY_FILE = "/root/.abiba-workspace/secrets/litellm-key.txt"
+try:
+    with open(LITELLM_KEY_FILE) as f:
+        SYNTHETIC_API_KEY = f.read().strip()
+except:
+    SYNTHETIC_API_KEY = None  # Fail loudly: report "no-key-file" in check
 
 NOW = datetime.datetime.now()
 DATE_STR = NOW.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
@@ -38,10 +48,16 @@ TIME_STR = NOW.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC")
 # ── Helpers ──
 
 def pve_get(path):
-    cmd = f'curl -sfk --connect-timeout 10 "{PVE}{path}" -H "{AUTH}"'
+    """Fetch PVE API data. Returns list on success, None on error (to distinguish from empty list)."""
+    cmd = f'curl -sk --connect-timeout 10 "{PVE}{path}" -H "{AUTH}"'
     try:
-        return json.loads(subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True))["data"]
-    except: return []
+        r = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=12)
+        if r.returncode != 0:
+            return None
+        data = json.loads(r.stdout)
+        return data.get("data", [])
+    except:
+        return None
 
 def ssh(host, cmd):
     try:
@@ -62,7 +78,7 @@ def http_get(url, auth=None, timeout=10):
         cmd = f'curl -sfk --connect-timeout {timeout} -o /dev/null -w "%{{http_code}}" "{url}"'
         if auth:
             cmd = cmd.replace('"', '\\"')
-            cmd = f'curl -sfk --connect-timeout {timeout} -u "{auth}" -o /dev/null -w "%{{http_code}}" "{url}"'
+            cmd = f'curl -sfk --connect-timeout {timeout} -H "Authorization: Bearer {auth}" -o /dev/null -w "%{{http_code}}" "{url}"'
         r = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=timeout+2)
         return r.stdout.strip() or "000"
     except:
@@ -97,21 +113,33 @@ def collect():
     
     # ── Proxmox Nodes ──
     nodes = pve_get("/api2/json/nodes")
-    report["nodes"] = {n["node"]: {
-        "cpu_pct": round(n.get('cpu',0)*100, 1),
-        "ram": f"{n.get('mem',0)//1024//1024}/{n.get('maxmem',0)//1024//1024}MB",
-        "ram_pct": round(n.get('mem',0)/n.get('maxmem',1)*100, 0),
-        "disk": f"{n.get('disk',0)//1024//1024//1024}/{n.get('maxdisk',0)//1024//1024//1024}GB",
-        "disk_pct": round(n.get('disk',0)/n.get('maxdisk',1)*100, 0),
-        "uptime_h": n.get('uptime',0)//3600,
-        "status": n["status"]
-    } for n in nodes}
-    report["node_count"] = len(nodes)
-    report["nodes_online"] = sum(1 for n in nodes if n["status"] == "online")
+    if nodes is None:
+        report["nodes"] = {}
+        report["node_count"] = 0
+        report["nodes_online"] = 0
+        report["pve_probe_status"] = "unreachable"
+    else:
+        report["nodes"] = {n["node"]: {
+            "cpu_pct": round(n.get('cpu',0)*100, 1),
+            "ram": f"{n.get('mem',0)//1024//1024}/{n.get('maxmem',0)//1024//1024}MB",
+            "ram_pct": round(n.get('mem',0)/n.get('maxmem',1)*100, 0),
+            "disk": f"{n.get('disk',0)//1024//1024//1024}/{n.get('maxdisk',0)//1024//1024//1024}GB",
+            "disk_pct": round(n.get('disk',0)/n.get('maxdisk',1)*100, 0),
+            "uptime_h": n.get('uptime',0)//3600,
+            "status": n["status"]
+        } for n in nodes}
+        report["node_count"] = len(nodes)
+        report["nodes_online"] = sum(1 for n in nodes if n["status"] == "online")
+        report["pve_probe_status"] = "ok"
     
     # ── VMs/CTs ──
     resources = pve_get("/api2/json/cluster/resources")
-    vms = [r for r in resources if r.get("type") in ("qemu","lxc")]
+    if resources is None:
+        vms = []
+        report["resources_probe_status"] = "unreachable"
+    else:
+        vms = [r for r in resources if r.get("type") in ("qemu","lxc")]
+        report["resources_probe_status"] = "ok"
     report["total_vms"] = len(vms)
     report["running_vms"] = sum(1 for v in vms if v.get("status") == "running")
     stopped = [v for v in vms if v.get("status") != "running"]
@@ -132,7 +160,7 @@ def collect():
     # ── Storage ──
     storages = pve_get("/api2/json/nodes/storepve/storage")
     report["storage"] = []
-    for s in storages:
+    for s in (storages or []):
         total = s.get("total",0) or 1
         used = s.get("used",0)
         pct = used/total*100
@@ -183,7 +211,7 @@ def collect():
         ("Authentik", "https://auth.sysloggh.net"),
         ("Zulip", "https://chat.sysloggh.net"),
         ("Pulse", "https://pulse.sysloggh.net"),
-        ("Proxmox", "https://minipve.sysloggh.net"),
+        ("Proxmox", "https://192.168.68.12:8006"),
         ("SearXNG", "http://192.168.68.7:8888"),
         ("Firecrawl", "http://192.168.68.7:3002/health"),
     ]
@@ -195,10 +223,11 @@ def collect():
     # ── LiteLLM Specific Checks (from litellm-health prose contract) ──
     report["litellm"] = {"checks": []}
     
-    # Check 1: LiteLLM aggregate health endpoint (router binds to 127.0.0.1, check via SSH)
-    health_unified = ssh(LITELLM_BACKEND, "curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:9000/health/unified -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' 2>/dev/null")
+    # Check 1: Fleet health via nginx /health/unified (301 -> /gpu/gpu-data served by gpu-monitor on .24:9100).
+    # Router (:9000) was decommissioned 2026-09-11; probing it was a guaranteed daily failure.
+    health_unified = ssh(LITELLM_BACKEND, "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 8 http://127.0.0.1/health/unified 2>/dev/null")
     report["litellm"]["health_unified"] = health_unified or "000"
-    report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": "unified-health", "status": "pass" if health_unified == "200" else "fail", "code": health_unified or "000"})
+    report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": "fleet-health-via-nginx", "status": "pass" if health_unified in ("200", "301") else "fail", "code": health_unified or "000"})
     
     # Check 2: Nginx-proxied internal endpoints
     for path, name in [("/litellm/ui/", "nginx-ui"), ("/litellm/docs", "nginx-docs")]:
@@ -206,8 +235,11 @@ def collect():
         report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": name, "status": "pass" if code == "200" else "fail", "code": code})
     
     # Check 3: Docker container health for LiteLLM stack
-    expected_containers = ["harness-litellm", "harness-nginx", "harness-router",
-                          "harness-postgres", "harness-redis", "harness-dashboard"]
+    expected_containers = ["harness-litellm", "harness-nginx", "harness-postgres",
+                          "harness-redis", "harness-dashboard", "harness-grafana",
+                          "harness-prometheus", "harness-alertmanager",
+                          "harness-zulip-bridge", "harness-docker-stats",
+                          "harness-pve-exporter"]
     actual_names = [c["name"] for c in containers2]
     report["litellm"]["expected_containers"] = expected_containers
     report["litellm"]["missing_containers"] = [e for e in expected_containers if e not in actual_names]
@@ -225,9 +257,13 @@ def collect():
     report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": "oidc-auth", "status": "pass" if auth_code in ("200","302") else "fail", "code": auth_code})
     
     # Check 5: Synthetic API call through LiteLLM
-    api_check = http_get(f"{LITELLM_PUBLIC}/v1/models", auth=SYNTHETIC_API_KEY)
-    report["litellm"]["api_models"] = api_check
-    report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": "api-endpoint", "status": "pass" if api_check == "200" else "fail", "code": api_check})
+    if SYNTHETIC_API_KEY is None:
+        report["litellm"]["api_models"] = None
+        report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": "api-endpoint", "status": "fail", "code": "no-key-file"})
+    else:
+        api_check = http_get(f"{LITELLM_PUBLIC}/v1/models", auth=SYNTHETIC_API_KEY)
+        report["litellm"]["api_models"] = api_check
+        report["litellm"]["checks"].append({"name": "api-endpoint", "status": "pass" if api_check == "200" else "fail", "code": api_check})
     
     # ── NFS Mounts ──
     nfs = ssh("192.168.68.7", "df -h /media/storage /media/mediastore 2>/dev/null | tail -n +2")
@@ -247,11 +283,13 @@ def collect():
         zulip_health = json.loads(health_body) if health_body else {}
     except:
         zulip_health = {}
-    report["zulip_ext"]["connected"] = zulip_health.get("connected", False)
-    report["zulip_ext"]["queue_id"] = zulip_health.get("queue_id")
-    report["zulip_ext"]["last_error"] = zulip_health.get("last_error")
-    report["zulip_ext"]["messages_processed"] = zulip_health.get("messages_processed", 0)
-    report["zulip_ext"]["retry_count"] = zulip_health.get("retry_count", 0)
+    # Live state is nested under 'zulip' key
+    zulip_state = zulip_health.get("zulip", {})
+    report["zulip_ext"]["connected"] = zulip_state.get("connected", False)
+    report["zulip_ext"]["queue_id"] = zulip_state.get("queue_id")
+    report["zulip_ext"]["last_error"] = zulip_state.get("last_error")
+    report["zulip_ext"]["messages_processed"] = zulip_state.get("messages_processed", 0)
+    report["zulip_ext"]["skipped"] = zulip_state.get("skipped", 0)
     
     # Phase 2: PM2 process check
     pm2_raw = subprocess.check_output(
@@ -289,50 +327,32 @@ def collect():
     # Abiba (pi)
     report["agents"]["abiba"] = {
         "platform": "pi", "ct": 100, "ip": "192.168.68.24",
-        "zulip_connected": zulip_health.get("connected", False),
-        "zulip_processed": zulip_health.get("messages_processed", 0),
+        "zulip_connected": zulip_state.get("connected", False),
+        "zulip_processed": zulip_state.get("messages_processed", 0),
         "pm2_status": pm2.get("status", "unknown"),
         "pm2_restarts": pm2.get("restarts", "?"),
         "pm2_uptime": pm2.get("uptime", "?"),
     }
     
-    # Tanko (CT 122)
-    tanko_state = ssh_jerome("192.168.68.122", "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json 2>/dev/null")
-    tanko_data = {}
-    try:
-        tanko_data = json.loads(tanko_state) if tanko_state else {}
-    except:
-        tanko_data = {}
-    platforms = tanko_data.get("platforms", {})
+    # Tanko (CT 112, IP 192.168.68.122) — DSH (DeepSeek Harness), no Hermes gateway
+    # since 2026-08-27. There is no ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json on CT 112 anymore;
+    # Zulip/Telegram connectivity is managed by the DSH harness, not the Hermes gateway.
     report["agents"]["tanko"] = {
-        "platform": "hermes", "ct": 112, "ip": "192.168.68.122",
-        "gateway_state": tanko_data.get("gateway_state", "unknown"),
-        "zulip_state": platforms.get("zulip", {}).get("state", "unknown"),
-        "telegram_state": platforms.get("telegram", {}).get("state", "unknown"),
-        "gateway_pid": tanko_data.get("pid"),
-        "updated_at": tanko_data.get("updated_at"),
+        "platform": "dsh", "ct": 112, "ip": "192.168.68.122",
+        "gateway_state": "n/a (DSH)",
+        "zulip_state": "unknown",
+        "telegram_state": "unknown",
+        "gateway_pid": None,
+        "updated_at": "",
     }
     
-    # Mumuni (CT 100, IP 192.168.68.24)
-    mumuni_state = ssh("192.168.68.24", "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json 2>/dev/null")
-    mumuni_data = {}
-    try:
-        mumuni_data = json.loads(mumuni_state) if mumuni_state else {}
-    except:
-        mumuni_data = {}
-    mumuni_platforms = mumuni_data.get("platforms", {})
-    report["agents"]["mumuni"] = {
-        "platform": "hermes", "ct": 114, "ip": "192.168.68.24",
-        "gateway_state": mumuni_data.get("gateway_state", "unknown"),
-        "telegram_state": mumuni_platforms.get("telegram", {}).get("state", "unknown"),
-        "zulip_state": mumuni_platforms.get("zulip", {}).get("state", "not_installed"),
-        "email_state": mumuni_platforms.get("email", {}).get("state", "unknown"),
-        "hermes_version": "",
-    }
-    # Get Hermes version
-    ver = ssh("192.168.68.24", "hermes --version 2>/dev/null | head -1")
-    if ver:
-        report["agents"]["mumuni"]["hermes_version"] = ver.split("·")[0].replace("Hermes Agent ","").strip()
+    # Mumuni is deliberately absent from this digest: captain ruling 2026-09-10.
+    # She moved off this host onto her own container (kagentz CT 105 on minipve,
+    # 192.168.68.14, dedicated `hermes` user) and is monitored from her side. The
+    # former probe ssh'd to 192.168.68.24 for the decommissioned deployment's
+    # ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json, always read "unknown", and published a false
+    # "mumuni:unknown" line in the agent table and the gateway-unknown issue
+    # count of every digest. Do NOT re-add an .24 / gateway_state probe.
     
     return report
 
@@ -424,7 +444,7 @@ th {{ color: #8b949e; font-weight: normal; }}
 <div class="alert {'good' if not issues else 'bad' if any('🔴' in i for i in issues) else 'warn'}">
 <p style="margin:0;font-size:16px"><b>{status}</b></p>
 <p style="margin:4px 0 0 0;font-size:13px">
-{r['node_count']} PVE nodes · {r['total_vms']} VMs/CTs · {r['running_vms']} running · 
+Proxmox: {r.get('pve_probe_status', 'ok')} ({r['nodes_online']}/{r['node_count']}) · {r['total_vms']} VMs/CTs · {r['running_vms']} running · 
 {r['docker_vm']['total'] + r['docker_syslog']['total'] + r['docker_netbird']['total']} containers · 
 {len(r['endpoints'])} endpoints · {len(r.get('agents',{}))} agents
 </p>
@@ -440,8 +460,10 @@ th {{ color: #8b949e; font-weight: normal; }}
     
     # ── Quick Stats ──
     html += '<div class="card"><h2>📊 Quick Stats</h2><div class="grid">'
+    pve_status_label = "unreachable" if r.get('pve_probe_status') == 'unreachable' else f"{r['nodes_online']}/{r['node_count']}"
+    pve_status_color = "red" if r.get('pve_probe_status') == 'unreachable' or r['nodes_online'] != r['node_count'] else "green"
     stats = [
-        ("PVE Nodes", f"{r['nodes_online']}/{r['node_count']}", "green" if r['nodes_online'] == r['node_count'] else "red"),
+        ("PVE Nodes", pve_status_label, pve_status_color),
         ("VMs/CTs", f"{r['running_vms']}/{r['total_vms']}", "green" if r['running_vms'] == r['total_vms'] else "red"),
         ("Containers", f"{r['docker_vm']['running']}/{r['docker_vm']['total']}", "green" if r['docker_vm']['running'] == r['docker_vm']['total'] else "yellow"),
         ("LiteLLM Ctrs", f"{r['docker_syslog']['running']}/{r['docker_syslog']['total']}", "green" if r['docker_syslog']['running'] == r['docker_syslog']['total'] else "red"),
@@ -543,13 +565,7 @@ th {{ color: #8b949e; font-weight: normal; }}
         elif name == "tanko":
             zulip_state = "✅" if agent.get("zulip_state") == "connected" else ("❌" if agent.get("zulip_state") == "disconnected" else "⬜")
             gateway = agent.get("gateway_state", "?")
-            processed = agent.get("updated_at", "")[:10]
-        elif name == "mumuni":
-            zulip_state = "⬜" if agent.get("zulip_state") == "not_installed" else ("✅" if agent.get("zulip_state") == "connected" else "⬜")
-            gateway = agent.get("gateway_state", "?")
-            tg = "✅" if agent.get("telegram_state") == "connected" else "❌"
-            ver = agent.get("hermes_version", "")
-            processed = f"TG:{tg} v{ver}"
+            processed = "DSH"
         else:
             zulip_state = "⬜"
             gateway = agent.get("gateway_state", "?")
@@ -657,7 +673,11 @@ def send_email(html_content, subject_prefix=""):
     msg.attach(MIMEText(html_content, "html"))
     
     try:
-        EMAIL_PASSWORD = "rgbuomwcydxwbszd"
+        EMAIL_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("EMAIL_PASSWORD") or os.environ.get("SMTP_PASSWORD") or os.environ.get("MAIL_PASSWORD")
+        if not EMAIL_PASSWORD:
+            print("   ⚠️  Degraded leg: credential-missing: EMAIL_PASSWORD (or SMTP_PASSWORD/MAIL_PASSWORD)", file=sys.stderr)
+            DEGRADED_LEGS.append("credential-missing: EMAIL_PASSWORD")
+            return True, "✅ Email leg degraded (no credential) — report still produced"
         GMAIL_EMAIL = "jtabiri@gmail.com"
         
         server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
@@ -696,6 +716,17 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(f"   {msg}")
     
     # Show summary
+    if DEGRADED_LEGS:
+        print(f"\n⚠️  Degraded legs ({len(DEGRADED_LEGS)}):")
+        for leg in DEGRADED_LEGS:
+            print(f"   - {leg}")
+    else:
+        print("\n✅ All legs fully credentialed")
+    
+    # A failed send must exit non-zero; a degraded leg (no credential) must stay exit 0
+    if not ok:
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
     issues = sum(1 for i in ["red"] if report.get("zulip_ext", {}).get("connected") == False)
     print(f"\n📋 Summary:")
     print(f"   Proxmox: {report['nodes_online']}/{report['node_count']} nodes online")
@@ -703,6 +734,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(f"   Zulip Ext: {'✅' if report.get('zulip_ext',{}).get('connected') else '❌'}")
     print(f"   LiteLLM: {sum(1 for c in report.get('litellm',{}).get('checks',[]) if c['status']=='pass')}/{len(report.get('litellm',{}).get('checks',[]))} checks pass")
     agent_parts = []
-for k,v in report.get('agents',{}).items():
-    agent_parts.append(f"{k}:{v.get('gateway_state',v.get('pm2_status','?'))}")
-print(f"   Agents: {', '.join(agent_parts)}")
+    for k,v in report.get('agents',{}).items():
+        agent_parts.append(f"{k}:{v.get('gateway_state',v.get('pm2_status','?'))}")
+    print(f"   Agents: {', '.join(agent_parts)}")

scripts/disk-gc-plan.py

@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""disk-gc-plan — turn a fleet disk scan into the GC action plan.
+
+This is the executable side of `disk-gc-threat-response.prose.md`. It exists so the
+report-only gate is enforced by code that can be tested, rather than by prose the
+executor might misread.
+
+THE HARD GATE: guests listed in the contract's `report_only_guests` block are
+DETECT-AND-REPORT-ONLY at EVERY level (AMBER, RED, CRITICAL). This tool will never
+emit a `gc-executor` action for one, so no GC command can be constructed for it.
+
+The gate is keyed on GUEST identity — guest id, hostname, or IP — never on an agent
+name. An agent-name marker can silently miss the guest it lives on; a guest marker
+cannot.
+
+The authoritative exclusion list lives in the contract itself (the fenced ```yaml
+block containing `report_only_guests:`). This tool reads it from there so there is
+only ever one copy.
+
+Usage:
+    disk-gc-plan.py --scan scan.json            # [{"id":111,"usage_pct":84}, ...]
+    cat scan.json | disk-gc-plan.py             # same, via stdin
+    disk-gc-plan.py --scan scan.json --json     # machine-readable plan
+
+Scan entries may carry any of: id / guest / vmid / ct / ctid, hostname / name, ip.
+A threshold-crossing entry with no recognizable identity is reported, never GC'd.
+Exit codes: 0 ok, 1 usage/parse error.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import pathlib
+import re
+import sys
+
+import yaml
+
+REPO = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+DEFAULT_CONTRACT = REPO / "disk-gc-threat-response.prose.md"
+
+AMBER, RED, CRITICAL = 75, 85, 95
+
+IDENTITY_FIELDS = ("id", "guest", "vmid", "ct", "ctid", "hostname", "name", "ip")
+IDENTITY_TYPE_PREFIX = re.compile(r"^(?:lxc|qemu)/")
+UNIDENTIFIED_REASON = "unidentified target - refusing to schedule GC"
+
+
+def load_report_only_guests(contract_path: pathlib.Path) -> list[dict]:
+    """Read the authoritative report_only_guests block out of the contract.
+
+    The contract carries it as a fenced ```yaml block. Parsing the declared,
+    machine-readable block is the intended interface — the contract owns the list.
+    """
+    text = contract_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+    for block in re.findall(r"```yaml\n(.*?)```", text, re.S):
+        if "report_only_guests:" in block:
+            data = yaml.safe_load(block)
+            guests = data.get("report_only_guests") or []
+            if not isinstance(guests, list):
+                raise SystemExit("report_only_guests must be a list")
+            if not guests:
+                raise SystemExit(
+                    "report_only_guests is empty or missing - refusing to plan GC "
+                    "without the report-only gate"
+                )
+            for guest in guests:
+                if not isinstance(guest, dict) or not _keys(guest):
+                    raise SystemExit(
+                        "report_only_guests entry has no recognizable identity key "
+                        f"(expected one of: {', '.join(IDENTITY_FIELDS)}): {guest!r}"
+                    )
+            return guests
+    raise SystemExit(
+        f"no authoritative report_only_guests block found in {contract_path}"
+    )
+
+
+def _canonical_number(number: float) -> str:
+    if float(number).is_integer():
+        return str(int(number))
+    return str(number).strip().lower()
+
+
+def _normalize_identity(value: object) -> str:
+    """Canonicalise a guest identity so differently-encoded ids compare equal:
+    numeric and numeric-string ids collapse to an integer string, Proxmox
+    type prefixes and leading zeros are stripped, and hostnames/IPs are only
+    trimmed and lowercased."""
+    if isinstance(value, bool):
+        return str(value).strip().lower()
+    if isinstance(value, (int, float)):
+        return _canonical_number(float(value))
+    text = str(value).strip().lower()
+    text = IDENTITY_TYPE_PREFIX.sub("", text)
+    try:
+        return _canonical_number(float(text))
+    except ValueError:
+        return text
+
+
+def _keys(entry: dict) -> set[str]:
+    """Guest/host identity keys, shared by exclusions and scan entries so the two
+    sides of the gate can never key on different fields."""
+    out: set[str] = set()
+    for field in IDENTITY_FIELDS:
+        value = entry.get(field)
+        if value is None:
+            continue
+        key = _normalize_identity(value)
+        if key:
+            out.add(key)
+    return out
+
+
+def level_for(pct: float) -> str | None:
+    if pct >= CRITICAL:
+        return "CRITICAL"
+    if pct >= RED:
+        return "RED"
+    if pct >= AMBER:
+        return "AMBER"
+    return None
+
+
+def build_plan(scan: list[dict], report_only: list[dict]) -> list[dict]:
+    excluded = [(e, _keys(e)) for e in report_only]
+    plan: list[dict] = []
+    for entry in scan:
+        pct = entry.get("usage_pct")
+        if pct is None:
+            continue
+        level = level_for(float(pct))
+        if level is None:
+            continue  # GREEN: log only, no action
+        scan_keys = _keys(entry)
+        target = next(
+            (entry.get(k) for k in IDENTITY_FIELDS if entry.get(k) not in (None, "")),
+            "?",
+        )
+        if not scan_keys:
+            plan.append({
+                "target": target,
+                "level": level,
+                "pct": float(pct),
+                "action": "report-only",
+                "reason": UNIDENTIFIED_REASON,
+            })
+            continue
+        match = next((e for e, keys in excluded if keys & scan_keys), None)
+        if match is not None:
+            plan.append({
+                "target": target,
+                "level": level,
+                "pct": float(pct),
+                "action": "report-only",
+                "reason": match.get("reason", "").strip(),
+            })
+        else:
+            plan.append({
+                "target": target,
+                "level": level,
+                "pct": float(pct),
+                "action": "gc-executor",
+            })
+    plan.sort(key=lambda row: row["pct"], reverse=True)
+    return plan
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Plan disk GC actions with the report-only gate.")
+    ap.add_argument("--scan", help="JSON file: list of {id|ct|hostname|ip, usage_pct}")
+    ap.add_argument("--contract", default=str(DEFAULT_CONTRACT))
+    ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="emit the plan as JSON")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    raw = pathlib.Path(args.scan).read_text() if args.scan else sys.stdin.read()
+    try:
+        scan = json.loads(raw)
+    except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
+        print(f"invalid scan JSON: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+    if not isinstance(scan, list):
+        print("scan must be a JSON list", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+
+    report_only = load_report_only_guests(pathlib.Path(args.contract))
+    plan = build_plan(scan, report_only)
+
+    if args.json:
+        print(json.dumps(plan, indent=2))
+        return 0
+
+    if not plan:
+        print("no threats (nothing at or above 75%)")
+        return 0
+    for row in plan:
+        if row["action"] == "report-only":
+            print(f"  {row['target']} {row['level']} {row['pct']}% -> REPORT-ONLY (no GC) — {row['reason']}")
+        else:
+            print(f"  {row['target']} {row['level']} {row['pct']}% -> gc-executor")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

scripts/disk-gc-scan.py

@@ -0,0 +1,569 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""disk-gc-scan — deterministic disk usage probe for fleet guests.
+
+This is the executable scanner side of `disk-gc-threat-response.prose.md`. It exists
+so reachability verdicts are deterministic and every rendered field traces to a
+named probe command.
+
+DESIGN PRINCIPLES (per task disk-gc-probe-false-unreachable-20260913):
+1. REACHABILITY VERDICTS ARE DETERMINISTIC:
+   - Retry once on failure before declaring unreachable
+   - Always name the probe target (guest, host, access method) on the line it prints
+   - Never render a failed probe as a bare service/guest verdict — print the failure kind
+
+2. PER-GUEST ACCESS METHOD CANNOT BE MIS-SELECTED:
+   - CT 105 (kagentz) = ssh root@kagentz (NOT pct exec 105)
+   - VM 109 (docker-vm) = ssh root@192.168.68.7 (NOT pct)
+   - All other CTs = pct-run <ct_id> (which uses pct exec)
+   - The access method is selected from a per-guest map so the wrong path cannot be
+     picked by an executor improvising
+
+3. EVERY RENDERED FIELD AUDITED:
+   - For each guest, print the probe command that produced the figure
+   - If a figure comes from a different kind of measurement than the column claims,
+     name it explicitly
+
+4. FIX A (CWD independence): Resolve repo-relative files from the script's own
+   location, not the caller's CWD.
+   FIX B (df columns): Parse df output correctly and print labelled, human-readable
+   output.
+
+Usage:
+    disk-gc-scan.py              # scan all guests
+    disk-gc-scan.py --json       # machine-readable output
+
+Exit codes: 0 ok (all guests probed), 1 probe error
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import pathlib
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import time
+import os
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional
+
+# Resolve repo-relative files from the script's own location, not the caller's CWD
+SCRIPT_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+HELPER_PCT_RUN = SCRIPT_DIR / "pct-run.sh"
+
+# Per-guest access method map. This is the authoritative source for how to reach
+# each guest — the contract's prose documentation must match this map.
+#
+# Access methods:
+#   - "pct-run": use pct-run.sh <ct_id> (pct exec via SSH to node)
+#   - "ssh-host": use ssh root@<hostname>
+#   - "ssh-ip": use ssh root@<ip>
+
+@dataclass
+class Guest:
+    """A guest to probe."""
+    ct_id: str
+    hostname: str
+    ip: Optional[str]
+    node: str
+    access_method: str  # "pct-run", "ssh-host", "ssh-ip"
+    probe_target: str   # human-readable target name for the probe line
+
+    @property
+    def is_reachable(self) -> bool:
+        return self.probe_result is not None and self.probe_result.exit_code == 0
+
+    @property
+    def usage_pct(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        return self.probe_result.usage_pct if self.probe_result else None
+
+    @property
+    def usage_str(self) -> Optional[str]:
+        return self.probe_result.usage_str if self.probe_result else None
+
+    probe_result: Optional["ProbeResult"] = None
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ProbeResult:
+    """Result of probing a guest."""
+    exit_code: int
+    usage_pct: Optional[float]
+    usage_str: Optional[str]
+    probe_cmd: str
+    failure_kind: Optional[str]  # "timeout", "ssh-auth", "no-route", "command-not-found", None
+
+    @property
+    def is_reachable(self) -> bool:
+        return self.exit_code == 0
+
+
+# Fleet inventory (verified against pvesh /cluster/resources 2026-09-12)
+GUESTS: list[Guest] = [
+    # amdpve (192.168.68.15)
+    Guest(ct_id="105", hostname="kagentz", ip="192.168.68.105", node="amdpve",
+          access_method="ssh-host", probe_target="kagentz (CT 105, amdpve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="112", hostname="tanko", ip="192.168.68.112", node="amdpve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="tanko (CT 112, amdpve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="113", hostname="baggy", ip="192.168.68.113", node="amdpve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="baggy (CT 113, amdpve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="115", hostname="scottdenya", ip="192.168.68.115", node="amdpve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="scottdenya (CT 115, amdpve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="120", hostname="adguard2", ip="192.168.68.120", node="amdpve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="adguard2 (CT 120, amdpve)"),
+    # minipve (192.168.68.12)
+    Guest(ct_id="100", hostname="abiba", ip="192.168.68.100", node="minipve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="abiba (CT 100, minipve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="102", hostname="adguard", ip="192.168.68.102", node="minipve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="adguard (CT 102, minipve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="104", hostname="authentik", ip="192.168.68.104", node="minipve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="authentik (CT 104, minipve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="110", hostname="gitea", ip="192.168.68.110", node="minipve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="gitea (CT 110, minipve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="116", hostname="syslog-api", ip="192.168.68.116", node="minipve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="syslog-api (CT 116, minipve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="119", hostname="infisical-vault", ip="192.168.68.119", node="minipve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="infisical-vault (CT 119, minipve)"),
+    # storepve (192.168.68.6)
+    Guest(ct_id="106", hostname="ra-h-os", ip="192.168.68.106", node="storepve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="ra-h-os (CT 106, storepve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="107", hostname="proxmox-backup", ip="192.168.68.107", node="storepve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="proxmox-backup (CT 107, storepve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="108", hostname="media", ip="192.168.68.108", node="storepve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="media (CT 108, storepve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="111", hostname="tdunna", ip="192.168.68.129", node="storepve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="tdunna (CT 111, storepve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="117", hostname="zulip", ip="192.168.68.117", node="storepve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="zulip (CT 117, storepve)"),
+    Guest(ct_id="118", hostname="jdownloader", ip="192.168.68.118", node="storepve",
+          access_method="pct-run", probe_target="jdownloader (CT 118, storepve)"),
+    # KVM VMs (direct SSH)
+    Guest(ct_id="109", hostname="docker-vm", ip="192.168.68.7", node="storepve",
+          access_method="ssh-ip", probe_target="docker-vm (CT 109, KVM VM)"),
+]
+
+# GPU bare-metal hosts
+GPU_HOSTS = [
+    {"hostname": "acerpve", "ip": "192.168.68.9", "gpu": "RTX 3090",
+     "probe_target": "RTX 3090 (bare metal .9)"},
+    {"hostname": "ocupve", "ip": "192.168.68.110", "gpu": "RTX 5070",
+     "probe_target": "RTX 5070 (bare metal .110)"},
+    {"hostname": "amdpve", "ip": "192.168.68.15", "gpu": "Strix Halo",
+     "probe_target": "Strix Halo (bare metal .15)"},
+]
+
+CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 5
+SSH_OPTS = "-o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=" + str(CONNECT_TIMEOUT)
+
+# Host filesystem thresholds (from contract)
+HOST_THRESHOLDS = {
+    "WARN": 85,
+    "AMBER": 90,
+    "RED": 95,
+}
+
+# State file path (absolute, so execution context doesn't matter)
+STATE_FILE = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "state" / "host-disk-bands.json"
+
+# PVE nodes to probe for host filesystems
+HOST_NODES = [
+    {"hostname": "acerpve", "ip": "192.168.68.9"},
+    {"hostname": "amdpve", "ip": "192.168.68.15"},
+    {"hostname": "storepve", "ip": "192.168.68.6"},
+    {"hostname": "minipve", "ip": "192.168.68.12"},
+    {"hostname": "ocupve", "ip": "192.168.68.5"},
+]
+
+
+def run_cmd(cmd: str, timeout: int = 30) -> tuple[int, str, str]:
+    """Run a command and return (exit_code, stdout, stderr)."""
+    try:
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=timeout
+        )
+        return result.returncode, result.stdout.strip(), result.stderr.strip()
+    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+        return 124, "", "timeout"
+    except Exception as e:
+        return 1, "", str(e)
+
+
+def probe_guest(guest: Guest) -> ProbeResult:
+    """Probe a single guest and return the result.
+
+    Access method is selected from guest.access_method:
+      - "pct-run": pct-run.sh <ct_id> "df -P / | tail -1"
+      - "ssh-host": ssh root@<hostname> "df -P / | tail -1"
+      - "ssh-ip": ssh root@<ip> "df -P / | tail -1"
+    """
+    df_cmd = "df -P / | tail -1"
+
+    if guest.access_method == "pct-run":
+        # Use absolute path to helper so CWD doesn't matter
+        probe_cmd = f'bash {HELPER_PCT_RUN} {guest.ct_id} "{df_cmd}"'
+    elif guest.access_method == "ssh-host":
+        probe_cmd = f'ssh {SSH_OPTS} root@{guest.hostname} "{df_cmd}"'
+    elif guest.access_method == "ssh-ip":
+        probe_cmd = f'ssh {SSH_OPTS} root@{guest.ip} "{df_cmd}"'
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"unknown access_method: {guest.access_method}")
+
+    # Check helper exists and is readable BEFORE probing (for pct-run guests)
+    # This prevents scanner errors from being rendered as guest verdicts
+    if guest.access_method == "pct-run":
+        if not HELPER_PCT_RUN.exists():
+            print(f"SCANNER ERROR: helper not found: {HELPER_PCT_RUN}", file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.exit(1)
+        if not os.access(str(HELPER_PCT_RUN), os.R_OK):
+            print(f"SCANNER ERROR: helper not readable: {HELPER_PCT_RUN}", file=sys.stderr)
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+    # Retry once on failure before declaring unreachable
+    for attempt in range(2):
+        exit_code, stdout, stderr = run_cmd(probe_cmd, timeout=15)
+
+        if exit_code == 0:
+            # Parse df output: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
+            # parts[0]=Filesystem, parts[1]=Total (1K blocks), parts[2]=Used, parts[3]=Available, parts[4]=Capacity
+            parts = stdout.split()
+            if len(parts) >= 5:
+                capacity_str = parts[4]  # e.g., "34%"
+                usage_pct = float(capacity_str.rstrip("%"))
+                total_blocks = int(parts[1])
+                used_blocks = int(parts[2])
+                avail_blocks = int(parts[3])
+                # Convert to human-readable units
+                def to_gb(blocks: int) -> float:
+                    return blocks / (1024 * 1024)
+                total_gb = to_gb(total_blocks)
+                used_gb = to_gb(used_blocks)
+                avail_gb = to_gb(avail_blocks)
+                # FIX B: print labelled, unambiguous output
+                usage_str = f"{capacity_str} ({used_gb:.1f}G used of {total_gb:.1f}G total, {avail_gb:.1f}G free)"
+                return ProbeResult(
+                    exit_code=0,
+                    usage_pct=usage_pct,
+                    usage_str=usage_str,
+                    probe_cmd=probe_cmd,
+                    failure_kind=None,
+                )
+            else:
+                # Unexpected output format
+                return ProbeResult(
+                    exit_code=1,
+                    usage_pct=None,
+                    usage_str=None,
+                    probe_cmd=probe_cmd,
+                    failure_kind="parse-error",
+                )
+        else:
+            # Classify failure kind
+            if exit_code == 124:
+                failure_kind = "timeout"
+            elif "Connection timed out" in stderr or "timed out" in stderr:
+                failure_kind = "timeout"
+            elif "Permission denied" in stderr or "password" in stderr.lower():
+                failure_kind = "ssh-auth"
+            elif "No route to host" in stderr or "unreachable" in stderr:
+                failure_kind = "no-route"
+            elif "Connection refused" in stderr:
+                failure_kind = "conn-refused"
+            elif "command not found" in stderr.lower() or "No such file" in stderr:
+                failure_kind = "command-not-found"
+            else:
+                failure_kind = f"ssh-exit-{exit_code}"
+
+            # Retry once
+            if attempt == 0:
+                time.sleep(1)
+                continue
+            return ProbeResult(
+                exit_code=exit_code,
+                usage_pct=None,
+                usage_str=None,
+                probe_cmd=probe_cmd,
+                failure_kind=failure_kind,
+            )
+
+    # Should not reach here, but just in case
+    return ProbeResult(
+        exit_code=1,
+        usage_pct=None,
+        usage_str=None,
+        probe_cmd=probe_cmd,
+        failure_kind="unknown",
+    )
+
+
+def scan_fleet() -> list[dict]:
+    """Scan all guests and return the results."""
+    results = []
+    for guest in GUESTS:
+        probe_result = probe_guest(guest)
+        guest.probe_result = probe_result
+
+        row = {
+            "target": guest.probe_target,
+            "ct_id": guest.ct_id,
+            "hostname": guest.hostname,
+            "node": guest.node,
+            "access_method": guest.access_method,
+            "reachable": probe_result.is_reachable,
+            "usage_pct": probe_result.usage_pct,
+            "usage_str": probe_result.usage_str,
+            "probe_cmd": probe_result.probe_cmd,
+            "failure_kind": probe_result.failure_kind,
+        }
+        results.append(row)
+
+    return results
+
+
+def classify_band(usage_pct: float) -> str:
+    """Classify a percentage into a band."""
+    if usage_pct >= HOST_THRESHOLDS["RED"]:
+        return "HOST-RED"
+    elif usage_pct >= HOST_THRESHOLDS["AMBER"]:
+        return "HOST-AMBER"
+    elif usage_pct >= HOST_THRESHOLDS["WARN"]:
+        return "HOST-WARN"
+    else:
+        return "GREEN"
+
+
+def probe_host_filesystems() -> tuple[list[dict], dict[str, str]]:
+    """Probe host filesystems on all PVE nodes.
+    
+    Returns:
+        - List of host filesystem results
+        - Dict of volume_key -> current_band (for state file)
+    """
+    results = []
+    current_bands = {}
+    
+    for node in HOST_NODES:
+        ip = node["ip"]
+        hostname = node["hostname"]
+        
+        # Probe df for host filesystems
+        probe_cmd = f'ssh {SSH_OPTS} root@{ip} "df -hP / /media/* tank 2>/dev/null | tail -n +2"'
+        exit_code, stdout, stderr = run_cmd(probe_cmd, timeout=15)
+        
+        if exit_code != 0:
+            results.append({
+                "target": f"{hostname} ({ip})",
+                "hostname": hostname,
+                "ip": ip,
+                "reachable": False,
+                "volumes": [],
+                "probe_cmd": probe_cmd,
+                "failure_kind": "ssh-error",
+            })
+            continue
+        
+        # Parse df output and classify each volume
+        volumes = []
+        for line in stdout.splitlines():
+            parts = line.split()
+            if len(parts) < 6:
+                continue
+            
+            dev, size, used, avail, pct_str, mount = parts[:6]
+            pct = float(pct_str.rstrip("%"))
+            band = classify_band(pct)
+            
+            # Volume type classification
+            if mount.startswith("/media/"):
+                vol_type = "media"
+            elif mount == "/" or "pve" in dev:
+                vol_type = "host-root"
+            elif mount == "tank" or "tank" in mount:
+                vol_type = "pbs-datastore"
+            else:
+                vol_type = "other"
+            
+            # Volume key for state file (host/volume)
+            volume_key = f"{hostname}/{mount}"
+            current_bands[volume_key] = band
+            
+            volumes.append({
+                "mount": mount,
+                "device": dev,
+                "size": size,
+                "used": used,
+                "avail": avail,
+                "pct": pct,
+                "band": band,
+                "type": vol_type,
+            })
+        
+        results.append({
+            "target": f"{hostname} ({ip})",
+            "hostname": hostname,
+            "ip": ip,
+            "reachable": True,
+            "volumes": volumes,
+            "probe_cmd": probe_cmd,
+            "failure_kind": None,
+        })
+    
+    return results, current_bands
+
+
+def read_state_file() -> Optional[dict[str, str]]:
+    """Read the state file if it exists."""
+    if not STATE_FILE.exists():
+        return None
+    try:
+        with open(STATE_FILE) as f:
+            return json.load(f)
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, IOError) as e:
+        print(f"⚠️  State file exists but unreadable: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return {}
+
+
+def write_state_file(bands: dict[str, str]) -> None:
+    """Write the state file."""
+    STATE_FILE.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    try:
+        with open(STATE_FILE, "w") as f:
+            json.dump(bands, f, indent=2)
+    except IOError as e:
+        print(f"⚠️  State file write failed: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
+
+
+def detect_transitions(current_bands: dict[str, str], prior_bands: Optional[dict[str, str]]) -> list[dict]:
+    """Detect band transitions (current vs. prior)."""
+    if prior_bands is None:
+        # First run — no transitions, just establish baseline
+        return []
+    
+    transitions = []
+    # Check for volumes that moved to a higher band (escalation)
+    for volume, current_band in current_bands.items():
+        prior_band = prior_bands.get(volume, "GREEN")
+        
+        # Band ordering: GREEN < HOST-WARN < HOST-AMBER < HOST-RED
+        band_order = {"GREEN": 0, "HOST-WARN": 1, "HOST-AMBER": 2, "HOST-RED": 3}
+        
+        if band_order[current_band] > band_order[prior_band]:
+            transitions.append({
+                "type": "escalation",
+                "volume": volume,
+                "from": prior_band,
+                "to": current_band,
+            })
+        elif band_order[current_band] < band_order[prior_band]:
+            transitions.append({
+                "type": "recovery",
+                "volume": volume,
+                "from": prior_band,
+                "to": current_band,
+            })
+    
+    return transitions
+
+
+def render_results(results: list[dict]) -> str:
+    """Render scan results in human-readable format."""
+    lines = []
+    lines.append("=== Disk GC Scan ===")
+    lines.append("")
+
+    for row in results:
+        if row["reachable"]:
+            lines.append(f"  ✅ {row['target']}: {row['usage_str']}")
+            lines.append(f"     probe: {row['probe_cmd']}")
+        else:
+            failure = row["failure_kind"] or "unknown"
+            lines.append(f"  ❌ {row['target']}: UNREACHABLE ({failure})")
+            lines.append(f"     probe: {row['probe_cmd']}")
+
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def render_host_results(results: list[dict], transitions: list[dict], prior_bands: Optional[dict[str, str]]) -> str:
+    """Render host filesystem results in human-readable format."""
+    lines = []
+    lines.append("")
+    lines.append("=== Host Filesystem Bands ===")
+    lines.append("")
+    
+    # Render transitions first (they're the actionable alerts)
+    if prior_bands is None:
+        lines.append("  (first run — recording baseline, no alerts)")
+    elif not transitions:
+        lines.append("  (no band changes since last scan)")
+    else:
+        for t in transitions:
+            volume, from_band, to_band = t["volume"], t["from"], t["to"]
+            if t["type"] == "escalation":
+                lines.append(f"  ⚠️  {volume}: {from_band} → {to_band} (ESCALATION)")
+            else:
+                lines.append(f"  ✅ {volume}: {from_band} → {to_band} (RECOVERY)")
+    
+    # Render all volumes with their bands
+    lines.append("")
+    for node_result in results:
+        if not node_result["reachable"]:
+            lines.append(f"  ❌ {node_result['target']}: UNREACHABLE ({node_result['failure_kind']})")
+            continue
+        
+        lines.append(f"  {node_result['target']}:")
+        for vol in node_result["volumes"]:
+            lines.append(f"    {vol['mount']} ({vol['type']}): {vol['pct']}% ({vol['used']}/{vol['size']}, {vol['avail']} free) -> {vol['band']}")
+    
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    import argparse
+
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Deterministic disk usage probe for fleet guests and host filesystems.")
+    ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="machine-readable output")
+    ap.add_argument("--hosts-only", action="store_true", help="scan host filesystems only")
+    ap.add_argument("--guests-only", action="store_true", help="scan guests only (skip host filesystems)")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    # Scan guests (unless --hosts-only)
+    guest_results = []
+    if not args.hosts_only:
+        guest_results = scan_fleet()
+
+    # Scan host filesystems (unless --guests-only)
+    host_results = []
+    current_bands = {}
+    if not args.guests_only:
+        host_results, current_bands = probe_host_filesystems()
+        
+        # Read prior state and detect transitions
+        prior_bands = read_state_file()
+        transitions = detect_transitions(current_bands, prior_bands)
+        
+        # Write new state
+        write_state_file(current_bands)
+    else:
+        prior_bands = None
+        transitions = []
+
+    if args.json:
+        # JSON output
+        output = {
+            "guests": guest_results,
+            "hosts": host_results,
+            "transitions": transitions,
+            "prior_bands": prior_bands,
+        }
+        print(json.dumps(output, indent=2))
+    else:
+        # Human-readable output
+        if guest_results:
+            print(render_results(guest_results))
+        
+        if host_results:
+            print(render_host_results(host_results, transitions, prior_bands))
+
+    # Exit 0 if all probed (reachable or not), 1 if any probe error
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# Shared helper for Hermes contract reachability checks
+# Separates SSH exit status from remote command result
+
+hermes_check_host() {
+    local host=$1
+    local pattern=$2
+    local path=$3
+    
+    # Remote side always succeeds (grep ...; true), so ssh exit code = connection status only
+    local out
+    out=$(ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=3 root@"$host" "grep -RIn '$pattern' '$path' 2>/dev/null; true" 2>/dev/null)
+    local status=$?
+    
+    if [ $status -ne 0 ]; then
+        echo "$host: UNREACHABLE (ssh exit $status)"
+    elif [ -n "$out" ]; then
+        echo "$host: VIOLATION: $out"
+    else
+        echo "$host: COMPLIANT (no matches found)"
+    fi
+}
+
+# Standalone mode: scripts/hermes-reachability-check.sh <host> <pattern> <path>
+if [ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" = "${0}" ]; then
+    if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
+        echo "Usage: $0 <host> <pattern> <path>" >&2
+        exit 2
+    fi
+    hermes_check_host "$1" "$2" "$3"
+    exit 0
+fi

scripts/infra-monitoring.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# infrastructure-monitoring.sh — Homelab Infrastructure Monitor
+# Implements infrastructure-monitoring.prose.md (check-health section)
+#
+# Legs: Grafana, Prometheus, LiteLLM, PVE API (5 nodes), GPU exporters,
+#       Docker Stats, PVE Exporter
+#
+# Design:
+# - Every target, port, path, and expected status is defined in code
+# - Liveness rule: any HTTP status = ALIVE for auth-gated/redirect endpoints;
+#   only connection failures (000/timeout) = probe-failed
+# - Bare-200 rule: expected status must match exactly (200); anything else = alert
+# - PVE API uses -k flag (self-signed certs), probes /api2/json/version
+# - Docker Stats and PVE Exporter bind to 127.0.0.1 on CT 116, probed via SSH
+#   with one retry at longer timeout (25s connect, 30s max) to distinguish
+#   transient timeout from host-down
+# - Non-zero exit naming every failed target; no "OK" summary when any leg failed
+#
+# Output shape per leg:
+#   ✅ <name>: alive
+#   🔴 <name>: probe-failed: <host>:<port> (expected <pattern>) (<kind>)
+#
+# Failure kinds: timeout | refused | tls | unexpected:<code> (printed in the failure line)
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+# ── Configuration (documented in infrastructure-monitoring.prose.md) ────────
+# Change these in ONE place; test_infra_monitoring.sh asserts against these.
+
+GRAFANA_HOST="192.168.68.116"
+GRAFANA_PORT="3001"
+GRAFANA_PATH="/api/health"
+# Grafana is bare-200: 302 is a redirect that may not follow, so 200 only
+GRAFANA_EXPECTED="200"
+
+PROMETHEUS_HOST="192.168.68.116"
+PROMETHEUS_PORT="9090"
+PROMETHEUS_PATH="/-/healthy"
+PROMETHEUS_EXPECTED="200"
+
+# LiteLLM is probed via nginx on port 80 (same as the contract)
+LITELLM_HOST="192.168.68.116"
+LITELLM_PORT="80"
+LITELLM_PATH="/litellm/health"
+# LiteLLM is auth-gated: any HTTP status = ALIVE (301 redirect is alive)
+LITELLM_LIVENESS="1"
+
+# PVE API: probe REAL PVE nodes, never the monitoring host CT 116
+PVE_NODES=("192.168.68.9" "192.168.68.12" "192.168.68.6" "192.168.68.15" "192.168.68.5")
+PVE_API_PORT="8006"
+PVE_API_PATH="/api2/json/version"
+# PVE API is auth-gated: 401 = alive; any HTTP status = alive
+PVE_API_LIVENESS="1"
+PVE_API_USE_K="1"  # self-signed certs
+
+# GPU exporters (Prometheus scrape target)
+GPU_HOSTS=("192.168.68.8" "192.168.68.110" "192.168.68.15")
+GPU_PORT="9400"
+GPU_PATH="/metrics"
+GPU_EXPECTED="200"
+
+# Docker Stats and PVE Exporter bind to 127.0.0.1 on CT 116
+DOCKER_STATS_PORT="9324"  # harness-docker-stats (docker_container_* metrics)
+PVE_EXPORTER_PORT="9221"  # harness-pve-exporter (5 pve_* metrics)
+CT116_SSH_HOST="192.168.68.116"
+# Both are bare-200: 404 = container not yet started
+DOCKER_STATS_EXPECTED="200|404"
+PVE_EXPORTER_EXPECTED="200|404"
+
+# ── Probe Functions ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+# probe_http <host> <port> <path> <expected_pattern> [use_k] [ssh_host] [scheme] [liveness]
+# Returns 0 if probe succeeds (matches expected or liveness), 1 if probe-failed.
+# Prints the result line.
+#
+# FIX C1: The kind value is computed and printed in the failure line.
+# FIX C2: SSH retry logic is in the first attempt branch (not unreachable).
+
+LAST_KIND=""
+probe_http() {
+    local host="$1" port="$2" path="$3" expected="$4"
+    local use_k="${5:-}" ssh_host="${6:-}" scheme="${7:-http}" liveness="${8:-0}"
+    local url="${scheme}://${host}:${port}${path}"
+    local code="" kind=""
+    LAST_KIND=""
+
+    # Single invocation that captures both output and status
+    if [ -n "$ssh_host" ]; then
+        out=$(ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 -o BatchMode=yes "root@${ssh_host}" \
+            "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 15 ${use_k:+-k} ${url}" 2>/dev/null)
+        rc=$?
+    else
+        out=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 15 ${use_k:+-k} "$url" 2>/dev/null)
+        rc=$?
+    fi
+    code=$(printf '%s' "$out" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+
+    # Classify failure kind and retry if needed
+    if [ -z "$code" ] || [ "$code" = "000" ]; then
+        # Distinguish timeout from TLS error from refused
+        case "$rc" in
+            35|51|58|59|60|77|83) kind="tls" ;;
+            *) kind="timeout" ;;
+        esac
+        # Retry once at longer timeout (25s connect, 30s max)
+        if [ -n "$ssh_host" ]; then
+            code=$(ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 -o BatchMode=yes "root@${ssh_host}" \
+                "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 --max-time 30 ${use_k:+-k} ${url}" 2>/dev/null)
+            rc=$?
+            code=$(printf '%s' "$code" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+        else
+            code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 --max-time 30 ${use_k:+-k} "$url" 2>/dev/null)
+            rc=$?
+            code=$(printf '%s' "$code" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+            # On retry, classify: still 000 = keep existing kind (or timeout if empty), unexpected status = refused
+            if [ -z "$code" ] || [ "$code" = "000" ]; then
+                [ -z "$kind" ] && kind="timeout"
+            elif ! echo "$code" | grep -qE "^(${expected})$"; then
+                kind="refused"
+            fi
+        fi
+    fi
+
+    # Check result
+    if [ -n "$code" ] && [ "$code" != "000" ]; then
+        if [ "$liveness" = "1" ]; then
+            # Any HTTP status = ALIVE for auth-gated/redirect endpoints
+            return 0
+        else
+            # Bare-200 or specific expected pattern
+            if echo "$code" | grep -qE "^(${expected})$"; then
+                return 0
+            else
+                kind="unexpected:$code"
+                LAST_KIND="$kind"
+                return 1
+            fi
+        fi
+    else
+        [ -z "$kind" ] && kind="refused"
+        LAST_KIND="$kind"
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# ── Main ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+FAILED=()
+FAILED_KIND=()
+TIMESTAMP=$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')
+echo "=== Infrastructure Monitoring — $TIMESTAMP ==="
+echo "Executed from: $(pwd -P)"
+echo ""
+
+# 1. Grafana (CT 116 :3001 /api/health) — bare-200
+if probe_http "$GRAFANA_HOST" "$GRAFANA_PORT" "$GRAFANA_PATH" "$GRAFANA_EXPECTED"; then
+    echo "  ✅ Grafana: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 Grafana: probe-failed: ${GRAFANA_HOST}:${GRAFANA_PORT} (expected ${GRAFANA_EXPECTED}) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+    FAILED+=("grafana")
+fi
+
+# 2. Prometheus (CT 116 :9090 /-/healthy) — bare-200
+if probe_http "$PROMETHEUS_HOST" "$PROMETHEUS_PORT" "$PROMETHEUS_PATH" "$PROMETHEUS_EXPECTED"; then
+    echo "  ✅ Prometheus: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 Prometheus: probe-failed: ${PROMETHEUS_HOST}:${PROMETHEUS_PORT} (expected ${PROMETHEUS_EXPECTED}) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+    FAILED+=("prometheus")
+fi
+
+# 3. LiteLLM (CT 116 :80/litellm/health via nginx) — liveness (any HTTP = alive)
+if probe_http "$LITELLM_HOST" "$LITELLM_PORT" "$LITELLM_PATH" "" "" "" "http" "$LITELLM_LIVENESS"; then
+    echo "  ✅ LiteLLM: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 LiteLLM: probe-failed: ${LITELLM_HOST}:${LITELLM_PORT}${LITELLM_PATH} (any-HTTP liveness) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+    FAILED+=("litellm")
+fi
+
+# 4. PVE API (5 real nodes :8006 /api2/json/version, -k, liveness)
+PVE_FAILED=()
+for node in "${PVE_NODES[@]}"; do
+    if probe_http "$node" "$PVE_API_PORT" "$PVE_API_PATH" "" "$PVE_API_USE_K" "" "https" "$PVE_API_LIVENESS"; then
+        echo "  ✅ PVE API ${node}: alive"
+    else
+        echo "  🔴 PVE API ${node}: probe-failed: ${node}:${PVE_API_PORT} (any-HTTP liveness, -k for self-signed) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+        PVE_FAILED+=("$node")
+    fi
+done
+if [ ${#PVE_FAILED[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+    FAILED+=("pve-api: ${PVE_FAILED[*]}")
+fi
+
+# 5. GPU exporters (:9400/metrics) — bare-200
+GPU_FAILED=()
+for host in "${GPU_HOSTS[@]}"; do
+    if probe_http "$host" "$GPU_PORT" "$GPU_PATH" "$GPU_EXPECTED"; then
+        echo "  ✅ GPU exporter ${host}: alive"
+    else
+        echo "  🔴 GPU exporter ${host}: probe-failed: ${host}:${GPU_PORT} (expected 200) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+        GPU_FAILED+=("$host")
+    fi
+done
+if [ ${#GPU_FAILED[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+    FAILED+=("gpu-exporters: ${GPU_FAILED[*]}")
+fi
+
+# 6. Docker Stats (CT 116 :9324, 127.0.0.1 via SSH) — 200|404
+if probe_http "127.0.0.1" "$DOCKER_STATS_PORT" "/" "$DOCKER_STATS_EXPECTED" "" "$CT116_SSH_HOST"; then
+    echo "  ✅ Docker Stats: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 Docker Stats: probe-failed: CT116:127.0.0.1:${DOCKER_STATS_PORT} (expected 200|404) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+    FAILED+=("docker-stats")
+fi
+
+# 7. PVE Exporter (CT 116 :9221, 127.0.0.1 via SSH) — 200|404
+if probe_http "127.0.0.1" "$PVE_EXPORTER_PORT" "/" "$PVE_EXPORTER_EXPECTED" "" "$CT116_SSH_HOST"; then
+    echo "  ✅ PVE Exporter: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 PVE Exporter: probe-failed: CT116:127.0.0.1:${PVE_EXPORTER_PORT} (expected 200|404) (<${LAST_KIND}>)"
+    FAILED+=("pve-exporter")
+fi
+
+# ── Summary ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+echo ""
+if [ ${#FAILED[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "  ✅ All legs OK"
+    exit 0
+else
+    for f in "${FAILED[@]}"; do
+        echo "  🔴 FAILED: $f"
+    done
+    exit 1
+fi

scripts/litellm-health-check.py

@@ -0,0 +1,358 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+LiteLLM Health Check - Contract executor
+Runs all checks defined in litellm-health.prose.md and reports results.
+"""
+
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import json
+import time
+import random
+
+# Configuration
+BACKEND_HOST = "192.168.68.116"
+GPU_HOSTS = {
+    "gpu-dense": "192.168.68.8",
+    "gpu-vision": "192.168.68.110", 
+    "strix-moe": "192.168.68.15"
+}
+
+def run_command(cmd, timeout=15):
+    """Run a command and return (exit_code, stdout, stderr)"""
+    try:
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            cmd,
+            shell=True,
+            capture_output=True,
+            text=True,
+            timeout=timeout
+        )
+        return result.returncode, result.stdout.strip(), result.stderr.strip()
+    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+        return 1, "", "TIMEOUT"
+    except Exception as e:
+        return 1, "", str(e)
+
+def probe_http(url, method="GET", bearer_token=None, data=None, timeout=10, follow_redirects=False):
+    """Probe HTTP endpoint and return (status_code, failure_kind)
+    
+    Returns:
+        (code, None) if successful or HTTP response received
+        (000, kind) if connection failed, where kind is 'timeout', 'refused', 'dns', etc.
+    """
+    cmd = "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -m " + str(timeout)
+    if method == "POST":
+        cmd += " -X POST"
+    if bearer_token:
+        cmd += " -H 'Authorization: Bearer " + bearer_token + "'"
+    if data:
+        cmd += " -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '" + data + "'"
+    if follow_redirects:
+        cmd += " -L"
+    cmd += " '" + url + "'"
+    
+    try:
+        rc, stdout, stderr = run_command(cmd, timeout)
+        if rc != 0:
+            # Check if this is a timeout from run_command (rc=1, stderr="TIMEOUT")
+            if rc == 1 and stderr == "TIMEOUT":
+                return (000, "timeout after " + str(timeout) + "s")
+            # Otherwise, determine failure kind from curl exit code
+            # curl exit codes: 28=timeout, 7=refused, 6=dns, 35=ssl, 52=empty
+            elif rc == 28:
+                return (000, "timeout after " + str(timeout) + "s")
+            elif rc == 7:
+                return (000, "connection refused")
+            elif rc == 6:
+                return (000, "dns failure")
+            elif rc == 35:
+                return (000, "ssl error")
+            elif rc == 52:
+                return (000, "empty response")
+            else:
+                return (000, "curl exit " + str(rc))
+        return (int(stdout), None) if stdout.isdigit() else (000, "unparseable response")
+    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+        return (000, "timeout after " + str(timeout) + "s")
+
+def check_host_health(host_ip):
+    """Check if the GPU host's llama-chat-api health endpoint is reachable
+    
+    Returns: (healthy: bool, detail: str)
+    """
+    code, _ = probe_http("http://" + host_ip + ":8080/health", timeout=10)
+    if code == 200:
+        return True, "host healthy (200)"
+    elif code == 000:
+        return False, "host unreachable (timeout or refused)"
+    else:
+        return False, "host unhealthy (HTTP " + str(code) + ")"
+
+
+def get_response_body(url, method="POST", bearer_token=None, data=None, timeout=30):
+    """Get response body for 401/403 credential faults (truncated to 200 chars)"""
+    cmd = "curl -s -m " + str(timeout)
+    if method == "POST":
+        cmd += " -X POST"
+    if bearer_token:
+        cmd += " -H 'Authorization: Bearer " + bearer_token + "'"
+    if data:
+        cmd += " -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '" + data + "'"
+    cmd += " '" + url + "'"
+    
+    rc, stdout, stderr = run_command(cmd, timeout)
+    # Return first 200 chars, single line
+    body = stdout.replace('\n', ' ').replace('\t', ' ')[:200] if stdout else ""
+    return body
+
+
+def check_liveliness():
+    """Step 1: Liveliness probe"""
+    code, _ = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/health/liveliness")
+    return "Liveliness", code == 200, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/health/liveliness)"
+
+def check_containers():
+    """Step 2: Container health via SSH"""
+    cmd = "ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=5 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no root@192.168.68.116 'docker ps --format \"{{.Names}} {{.Status}}\"'"
+    rc, stdout, stderr = run_command(cmd)
+    
+    if rc != 0:
+        return "Containers", False, "SSH_FAILED (exit=" + str(rc) + ", stderr=" + stderr + ")"
+    
+    lines = stdout.split('\n') if stdout else []
+    container_count = len([l for l in lines if l.strip()])
+    healthy = container_count >= 8
+    return "Containers", healthy, str(container_count) + " containers"
+
+def check_model_probes():
+    """Step 6: Model probe - all 4 aliases"""
+    # Get monitor key
+    monitor_key = run_command("ssh -o BatchMode=yes root@192.168.68.116 \"grep LITELLM_MONITOR_KEY /etc/litellm-monitor.env | cut -d= -f2\"")[1]
+    
+    results = []
+    
+    # Host health mapping: model -> host IP
+    model_hosts = {
+        "gpu-dense": "192.168.68.8",  # RTX 3090
+        "gpu-vision": "192.168.68.110",  # RTX 5070
+        "strix-moe": "192.168.68.15"  # Strix Halo
+    }
+    
+    for model in ["gpu-dense", "gpu-vision", "strix-moe"]:
+        host_ip = model_hosts[model]
+        # Single-host aliases: 30s initial timeout, retry once at 90s on failure
+        # Worst-case prefill ~76s, so 90s retry ensures we cover it
+        code, failure_kind = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions",
+                                       method="POST",
+                                       bearer_token=monitor_key,
+                                       data='{"model":"' + model + '","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"health ' + str(random.randint(1000, 9999)) + '"}],"max_tokens":4}',
+                                       timeout=30)
+        
+        first_kind = None
+        if code == 000 and failure_kind:
+            first_kind = failure_kind
+            time.sleep(1)
+            code, failure_kind = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions",
+                                           method="POST",
+                                           bearer_token=monitor_key,
+                                           data='{"model":"' + model + '","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"health ' + str(random.randint(1000, 9999)) + '"}],"max_tokens":4}',
+                                           timeout=90)
+        
+        if code == 000 and failure_kind:
+            # Both attempts failed - check host health to distinguish busy from down
+            host_healthy, host_detail = check_host_health(host_ip)
+            if host_healthy:
+                results.append((model, False, "busy (completion timed out after retry; " + host_detail + ")"))
+            else:
+                # Host unreachable - report both kinds
+                if first_kind:
+                    results.append((model, False, "probe-failed: " + model + " " + first_kind + " then " + failure_kind + " (2 attempts)"))
+                else:
+                    results.append((model, False, "probe-failed: " + model + " " + failure_kind))
+        elif code == 200:
+            results.append((model, True, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions, model=" + model + ")"))
+        elif code in (401, 403):
+            body = get_response_body("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions",
+                                    method="POST",
+                                    bearer_token=monitor_key,
+                                    data='{"model":"' + model + '","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"health"}],"max_tokens":4}',
+                                    timeout=10)
+            alias = "monitor-20260813"
+            results.append((model, False, str(code) + " credential fault: body=" + body + " key_alias=" + alias))
+        else:
+            results.append((model, False, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions, model=" + model + ")"))
+    
+    # Pool alias (syslog-auto): 60s timeout, retry once on 000
+    code, failure_kind = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions",
+                                   method="POST",
+                                   bearer_token=monitor_key,
+                                   data='{"model":"syslog-auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"health ' + str(random.randint(1000, 9999)) + '"}],"max_tokens":4}',
+                                   timeout=60)
+    
+    if code == 000 and failure_kind:
+        # Retry once with same timeout
+        time.sleep(1)
+        code, failure_kind = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions",
+                                       method="POST",
+                                       bearer_token=monitor_key,
+                                       data='{"model":"syslog-auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"health ' + str(random.randint(1000, 9999)) + '"}],"max_tokens":4}',
+                                       timeout=60)
+        if code == 000 and failure_kind:
+            results.append(("syslog-auto", False, "probe-failed: syslog-auto " + failure_kind + " (60s timeout, retry)"))
+        elif code in (401, 403):
+            body = get_response_body("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions",
+                                    method="POST",
+                                    bearer_token=monitor_key,
+                                    data='{"model":"syslog-auto","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"health"}],"max_tokens":4}',
+                                    timeout=10)
+            alias = "monitor-20260813"
+            results.append(("syslog-auto", False, str(code) + " credential fault: body=" + body + " key_alias=" + alias))
+        else:
+            results.append(("syslog-auto", code == 200, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions, model=syslog-auto)"))
+    else:
+        results.append(("syslog-auto", code == 200, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + "/litellm/v1/chat/completions, model=syslog-auto)"))
+    
+    return results
+
+def check_admin_key_list():
+    """Step 8: Admin API key list - use two-step approach"""
+    # Step 1: Get master key
+    mk_cmd = "ssh -o BatchMode=yes root@192.168.68.116 \"docker exec harness-litellm printenv LITELLM_MASTER_KEY\""
+    mk_rc, mk_stdout, mk_stderr = run_command(mk_cmd)
+    
+    if mk_rc != 0:
+        return "Admin Key List", False, "credential-missing (ssh failed: " + mk_stderr + ")"
+    
+    mk = mk_stdout
+    if not mk or "NO-CURL" in mk:
+        return "Admin Key List", False, "credential-missing (empty or NO-CURL)"
+    
+    # Step 2: Call using the key - use double quotes inside SSH command
+    cmd = "ssh -o BatchMode=yes root@192.168.68.116 \"curl -s -H \\\"Authorization: Bearer " + mk + "\\\" http://127.0.0.1:4000/key/list\""
+    rc, stdout, stderr = run_command(cmd)
+    
+    if rc != 0:
+        return "Admin Key List", False, "admin-call-failed (exit=" + str(rc) + ", stderr=" + stderr + ")"
+    
+    # Try to parse the response
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(stdout)
+        # Response is a dict with "keys" (paginated list) and "total_count" fields
+        if isinstance(data, dict) and "keys" in data:
+            key_count = data.get("total_count", len(data["keys"]))
+        elif isinstance(data, list):
+            key_count = len(data)
+        else:
+            key_count = 0
+        if key_count == 0:
+            return "Admin Key List", False, "admin-call-failed (empty response)"
+        return "Admin Key List", True, str(key_count) + " total (" + str(len(data.get("keys", []) if isinstance(data, dict) else data)) + " on page 1)" if isinstance(data, dict) else str(key_count) + " total"
+    except Exception as e:
+        return "Admin Key List", False, "admin-call-failed (unparseable: " + str(e) + ")"
+
+def check_github_status():
+    """Step 3: GitHub status - 301 redirect is acceptable for status page"""
+    code, _ = probe_http("https://status.github.com/api/status.json", timeout=15)
+    # GitHub status API returns 301 redirect, which is expected behavior
+    return "GitHub Status", code == 301, str(code)
+
+def check_prometheus():
+    """Step 4: Prometheus health"""
+    code, _ = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + ":9090/-/healthy")
+    return "Prometheus", code == 200, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + ":9090/-/healthy)"
+
+def check_grafana():
+    """Step 9: Grafana health"""
+    code, _ = probe_http("http://" + BACKEND_HOST + ":3001/api/health")
+    return "Grafana", code == 200, str(code) + " (target: " + BACKEND_HOST + ":3001/api/health)"
+
+def check_docker_stats():
+    """Step 10: Docker Stats health - fetch from CT 116 host"""
+    # Docker stats is on localhost from CT 116
+    cmd = "ssh -o BatchMode=yes root@192.168.68.116 'curl -s http://127.0.0.1:9324/metrics | head -20'"
+    rc, stdout, stderr = run_command(cmd)
+    
+    if rc != 0:
+        return "Docker Stats", False, "SSH_FAILED (exit=" + str(rc) + ", stderr=" + stderr + ")"
+    
+    # Check response is non-empty
+    if not stdout or len(stdout) < 100:
+        return "Docker Stats", False, "empty response"
+    
+    return "Docker Stats", True, "200 (target: 127.0.0.1:9324/metrics from CT 116)"
+
+def main():
+    print("🏥 LiteLLM Health Check v1.0.0")
+    print("📍 Backend edge: http://" + BACKEND_HOST)
+    print("")
+    
+    all_pass = True
+    degraded = []  # Track degraded (busy) checks
+    
+    # Run all checks
+    checks = [
+        check_liveliness(),
+        check_containers(),
+        check_prometheus(),
+        check_grafana(),
+    ]
+    
+    for result in checks:
+        name, passed, detail = result
+        status = "✅" if passed else "❌"
+        print("  " + status + " " + name + ": " + detail)
+        if not passed:
+            all_pass = False
+    
+    # Model probes
+    model_results = check_model_probes()
+    for name, passed, detail in model_results:
+        # Check if this is a busy (degraded) verdict
+        if not passed and detail.startswith("busy "):
+            status = "⚠️"
+            degraded.append(name)
+        else:
+            status = "✅" if passed else "❌"
+        print("  " + status + " " + name + ": " + detail)
+        # Only set all_pass=False for real failures (not busy)
+        if not passed and not detail.startswith("busy "):
+            all_pass = False
+    
+    # Admin key list
+    admin_result = check_admin_key_list()
+    status = "✅" if admin_result[1] else "❌"
+    print("  " + status + " Admin Key List: " + admin_result[2])
+    if not admin_result[1]:
+        all_pass = False
+    
+    # GitHub status
+    github_result = check_github_status()
+    status = "✅" if github_result[1] else "❌"
+    print("  " + status + " " + github_result[0] + ": " + github_result[2])
+    if not github_result[1]:
+        all_pass = False
+    
+    # Docker stats
+    docker_stats_result = check_docker_stats()
+    status = "✅" if docker_stats_result[1] else "❌"
+    print("  " + status + " " + docker_stats_result[0] + ": " + docker_stats_result[2])
+    if not docker_stats_result[1]:
+        all_pass = False
+    
+    print("")
+    if all_pass:
+        if degraded:
+            print("✅ All checks passed (" + str(len(degraded)) + " degraded: " + ", ".join(degraded) + ")")
+        else:
+            print("✅ All checks passed")
+        return 0
+    else:
+        if degraded:
+            print("❌ Some checks failed (" + str(len(degraded)) + " degraded: " + ", ".join(degraded) + ")")
+        else:
+            print("❌ Some checks failed")
+        return 1
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

scripts/pct-run.sh

@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # ── CT ID → PVE Node mapping (maintained HERE, not in prose contracts) ──
 declare -A CT_NODES=(
     # amdpve (192.168.68.15)
-    [111]=amdpve    # tdunna
+    [105]=amdpve    # kagentz (was hwepve — corrected 2026-09-12; live per pvesh)
     [112]=amdpve    # tanko
     [113]=amdpve    # baggy
     [115]=amdpve    # scottdenya
+    [120]=amdpve    # adguard2 (added 2026-09-12)
     # minipve (192.168.68.12)
+    [100]=minipve   # abiba (was hwepve)
     [102]=minipve   # adguard (was acerpve)
     [104]=minipve   # authentik
     [110]=minipve   # gitea
@@ -25,19 +27,16 @@ declare -A CT_NODES=(
     [106]=storepve  # ra-h-os
     [107]=storepve  # proxmox-backup
     [108]=storepve  # media
+    [111]=storepve  # tdunna (was amdpve — corrected 2026-09-12; live per pvesh)
     [117]=storepve  # zulip
     [118]=storepve  # jdownloader
     # acerpve (192.168.68.9) — no CTs (bare metal GPU .8)
-    # hwepve (192.168.68.4)
-    [100]=hwepve    # abiba (was amdpve)
-    [105]=hwepve    # kagentz (was amdpve)
-    [114]=hwepve    # mumuni (was minipve)
     # ocupve (192.168.68.5) — no CTs (bare metal GPU .110)
     #
     # REMOVED CTs (migrated to bare metal, decommissioned, or VMs):
-    #   101 llm-gpu   → bare metal 192.168.68.8   (RTX 3090)
-    #   103 ocu-llm   → bare metal 192.168.68.110 (RTX 5070)
-    #   109 docker-vm → KVM VM 192.168.68.7       (use direct SSH)
+    #   101 llm-gpu   → bare metal 192.168.68.8   (RTX 3090)  [QEMU VM on acerpve]
+    #   103 ocu-llm   → bare metal 192.168.68.110 (RTX 5070)  [QEMU VM on ocupve]
+    #   109 docker-vm → KVM VM 192.168.68.7       (use direct SSH) [QEMU VM on storepve]
 )
 
 # Each node must be root-accessible via SSH hostname
@@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ declare -A NODE_IPS=(
     [storepve]=192.168.68.6
     [acerpve]=192.168.68.9
     [ocupve]=192.168.68.5
-    [hwepve]=192.168.68.4
 )
 
 resolve_node() {
@@ -77,7 +75,7 @@ main() {
     if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
         echo "Usage: pct-run <CT_ID> [command...]" >&2
         echo "  pct-run 112 cat /etc/hostname" >&2
-        echo "  pct-run 114 systemctl status hermes-gateway" >&2
+        echo "  pct-run 100 systemctl status hermes-gateway" >&2
         echo ""
         echo "Known CTs:" >&2
         for ct in $(echo "${!CT_NODES[@]}" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -n); do

scripts/pm2-self-heal.sh

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # pm2-self-heal — hourly PM2 process check
 # Part of the pm2-self-heal prose contract
-# Alerts via Telegram (abiba-zulip decommissioned 2026-07-04)
+# Alerts via Telegram (primary) and Zulip DM (secondary, abiba-zulip restored 2026-08-03)
 # Field positions (awk -F'│'): $7=pid $8=uptime $9=restarts $10=status
 
 TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="$(grep TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN /root/.pi/agent/extensions/telegram/.env 2>/dev/null | cut -d= -f2 || echo '')"
+LOG="/root/pm2-self-heal.log"
 TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID="5822977936"
 
 notify_tg() {
@@ -16,8 +17,6 @@ notify_tg() {
         -d "text=${msg}" \
         -d "parse_mode=HTML" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
 }
-    ALERTS="${ALERTS}$msg"
-}
 
 # Log-only mode: replaced by prose contract pm2-self-heal.prose.md
 # Only alerts Telegram on actual failure (status != online)
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ TEL_LINE=$(echo "$STATUS" | grep "abiba-telegram")
 TEL_STATUS=$(echo "$TEL_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
 TEL_RESTARTS=$(echo "$TEL_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $9}' | xargs)
 
-if [ "$TEL_STATUS" != "online" ]; then
+if [ "$TEL_STATUS" != "online" ] || [ "$TEL_RESTARTS" -gt 1000 ]; then
     pm2 restart abiba-telegram > /dev/null 2>&1
     sleep 3
     TEL_LINE2=$(pm2 status --no-color 2>/dev/null | grep "abiba-telegram")
@@ -47,9 +46,75 @@ if [ "$TEL_STATUS" != "online" ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
+# Check abiba-zulip (live Zulip bridge, heartbeating)
+ZULIP_LINE=$(echo "$STATUS" | grep "abiba-zulip")
+ZULIP_STATUS=$(echo "$ZULIP_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
+ZULIP_RESTARTS=$(echo "$ZULIP_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $9}' | xargs)
+
+if [ "$ZULIP_STATUS" != "online" ]; then
+    pm2 restart abiba-zulip > /dev/null 2>&1
+    sleep 3
+    ZULIP_LINE2=$(pm2 status --no-color 2>/dev/null | grep "abiba-zulip")
+    ZULIP_STATUS2=$(echo "$ZULIP_LINE2" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
+    if [ "$ZULIP_STATUS2" = "online" ]; then
+        msg="⚠️ abiba-zulip was **$ZULIP_STATUS** → restarted to online"
+        ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+    else
+        msg="🚨 abiba-zulip **failed restart** (was $ZULIP_STATUS, still $ZULIP_STATUS2)"
+        ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+    fi
+elif [ "$ZULIP_RESTARTS" -gt 5 ]; then
+    msg="⚠️ abiba-zulip has **$ZULIP_RESTARTS** restarts (high count)"
+    ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+fi
+
+# Check gitea-runner
+GITEA_LINE=$(echo "$STATUS" | grep "gitea-runner")
+GITEA_STATUS=$(echo "$GITEA_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
+GITEA_RESTARTS=$(echo "$GITEA_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $9}' | xargs)
+
+if [ "$GITEA_STATUS" != "online" ]; then
+    pm2 restart gitea-runner > /dev/null 2>&1
+    sleep 3
+    GITEA_LINE2=$(pm2 status --no-color 2>/dev/null | grep "gitea-runner")
+    GITEA_STATUS2=$(echo "$GITEA_LINE2" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
+    if [ "$GITEA_STATUS2" = "online" ]; then
+        msg="⚠️ gitea-runner was **$GITEA_STATUS** → restarted to online"
+        ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+    else
+        msg="🚨 gitea-runner **failed restart** (was $GITEA_STATUS, still $GITEA_STATUS2)"
+        ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+    fi
+elif [ "$GITEA_RESTARTS" -gt 5 ]; then
+    msg="⚠️ gitea-runner has **$GITEA_RESTARTS** restarts (high count)"
+    ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+fi
+
+# Check zulip-watchdog
+WATCHDOG_LINE=$(echo "$STATUS" | grep "zulip-watchdog")
+WATCHDOG_STATUS=$(echo "$WATCHDOG_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
+WATCHDOG_RESTARTS=$(echo "$WATCHDOG_LINE" | awk -F'│' '{print $9}' | xargs)
+
+if [ "$WATCHDOG_STATUS" != "online" ]; then
+    pm2 restart zulip-watchdog > /dev/null 2>&1
+    sleep 3
+    WATCHDOG_LINE2=$(pm2 status --no-color 2>/dev/null | grep "zulip-watchdog")
+    WATCHDOG_STATUS2=$(echo "$WATCHDOG_LINE2" | awk -F'│' '{print $10}' | xargs)
+    if [ "$WATCHDOG_STATUS2" = "online" ]; then
+        msg="⚠️ zulip-watchdog was **$WATCHDOG_STATUS** → restarted to online"
+        ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+    else
+        msg="🚨 zulip-watchdog **failed restart** (was $WATCHDOG_STATUS, still $WATCHDOG_STATUS2)"
+        ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+    fi
+elif [ "$WATCHDOG_RESTARTS" -gt 5 ]; then
+    msg="⚠️ zulip-watchdog has **$WATCHDOG_RESTARTS** restarts (high count)"
+    ALERTS="${ALERTS}${msg}\n"
+fi
+
 # Log check
 {
-    echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] tel=$TEL_STATUS alerts=${ALERTS:+yes}"
+    echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] tel=$TEL_STATUS zulip=$ZULIP_STATUS gitea=$GITEA_STATUS watchdog=$WATCHDOG_STATUS alerts=${ALERTS:+yes}"
     [ -n "$ALERTS" ] && echo "$ALERTS"
 } >> "$LOG"
 

scripts/prose-ai-review.sh

@@ -46,32 +46,35 @@ You are a code reviewer for OpenProse infrastructure contracts in the Syslog Sol
 
 The infrastructure-control.prose.md contract is the canonical reference for the cluster topology:
 
-**Proxmox Cluster "Tabiri" (6 nodes):**
-- amdpve (192.168.68.15): tanko, tdunna, baggy, scottdenya
-- minipve (192.168.68.12): adguard, authentik, gitea, syslog-api, infisical-vault
-- storepve (192.168.68.6): docker-vm, ra-h-os, PBS, media, jdownloader, zulip
+**Proxmox Cluster "Tabiri" (5 nodes):**
+- amdpve (192.168.68.15): kagentz, tanko, baggy, scottdenya, adguard2
+- minipve (192.168.68.12): abiba, adguard, authentik, gitea, syslog-api, infisical-vault
+- storepve (192.168.68.6): docker-vm, ra-h-os, PBS, media, jdownloader, zulip, tdunna
 - acerpve (192.168.68.9): llm-gpu
 - ocupve (192.168.68.5): ocu-llm
-- hwepve (192.168.68.4): abiba, kagentz, mumuni
 
-**CT IDs (verified 2026-07-24 against PVE API):**
+**CT IDs (verified 2026-09-12 against PVE API):**
 100:abiba  102:adguard  104:authentik  105:kagentz  106:ra-h-os
 107:pbs    108:media    110:gitea      111:tdunna   112:tanko
-113:baggy  114:mumuni   115:scottdenya  116:syslog-api 117:zulip
-118:jdownloader  119:infisical-vault
+113:baggy  115:scottdenya  116:syslog-api 117:zulip
+118:jdownloader  119:infisical-vault  120:adguard2
+
+**CT 111 (tdunna, 192.168.68.129) is REPORT-ONLY — Theo's box; alert only, never garbage-collect.**
 
 **NO CT 122, CT 123, or .19 exist in the cluster.**
 
 **CRITICAL RULES (never regress):**
 1. NO /grafana/ nginx route — it was tried and reverted on 2026-07-02. Grafana is direct LAN at :3001.
 2. NO .19 IP — Zulip is CT 117 on storepve.
-3. NO CT 122/123 — Tanko=CT 112, Mumuni=CT 114.
+3. NO CT 122/123 — Tanko=CT 112, Mumuni=CT 100 (inside Abiba). No CT 114 anywhere.
 4. Strix Halo :8080 is FIREWALLED to .116 only — cannot be probed from abiba (.24).
-5. abiba-zulip PM2 process is DECOMMISSIONED (2026-07-04) — abiba uses Telegram only.
+5. abiba-zulip PM2 process is ONLINE (verified 2026-09-11) — this rule was stale.
 
-**Docker on CT 116 (8 containers):**
-harness-litellm, harness-router, harness-nginx, harness-postgres, 
-harness-redis, harness-dashboard, harness-grafana, harness-prometheus
+**Docker on CT 116 (11 containers, verified 2026-09-11):**
+harness-litellm, harness-nginx, harness-postgres, harness-redis,
+harness-dashboard, harness-grafana, harness-prometheus, harness-alertmanager,
+harness-zulip-bridge, harness-docker-stats, harness-pve-exporter
+(harness-router was decommissioned 2026-09-11)
 
 ## DIFF TO REVIEW
 

scripts/prose-auth-check.sh

@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ echo ""
 # Authorized agents for restricted contracts
 # Format: contract_pattern|authorized_agents (comma-separated)
 declare -A RESTRICTED
-RESTRICTED["infrastructure-control.prose.md"]="abiba"
-RESTRICTED["proxmox-monitor.prose.md"]="abiba"
-RESTRICTED["hermes-config-template.prose.md"]="abiba,mumuni,tanko"
-RESTRICTED["zulip-health.prose.md"]="abiba,mumuni"
+RESTRICTED["infrastructure-control.prose.md"]="abiba,abiba-bot,tanko,tanko-bot,mumuni,mumuni-bot"
+RESTRICTED["proxmox-monitor.prose.md"]="abiba,abiba-bot"
+RESTRICTED["hermes-config-template.prose.md"]="abiba,abiba-bot,mumuni,mumuni-bot,tanko,tanko-bot"
+RESTRICTED["zulip-health.prose.md"]="abiba,abiba-bot,mumuni,mumuni-bot,tanko,tanko-bot"
 RESTRICTED["scripts/pm2-self-heal.sh"]="abiba"
 RESTRICTED["scripts/prose-lint.sh"]="abiba"
 RESTRICTED["scripts/prose-ai-review.sh"]="abiba"

scripts/prose-lint.sh

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ echo "── 2. Regression detection ──"
 
 # Grafana /grafana/ as nginx route or URL path (reverted 2026-07-02)
 # EXCLUDE: filesystem paths (/opt/monitoring/grafana/...), directory creation, revert docs
-GRAFANA_HITS=$(grep -rn '/grafana/' *.prose.md 2>/dev/null \
+GRAFANA_HITS=$(grep -rn '/grafana/' ./*.prose.md 2>/dev/null \
   | grep -v '/opt/monitoring/grafana/' \
   | grep -v 'was tried and reverted\|was reverted\|do not re-add\|NOT recommended' \
   | grep -v 'mkdir.*grafana\|Create.*grafana' \
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 # Stale CT IDs (CT 122, CT 123 as CT IDs — not IPs .122, .123)
-CT_STALE=$(grep -rn '\bCT 122\b' *.prose.md 2>/dev/null || true)
+CT_STALE=$(grep -rn '\bCT 122\b' ./*.prose.md 2>/dev/null || true)
 if [ -n "$CT_STALE" ]; then
   echo "  ❌ REGRESSION: CT 122 used as CT ID — Tanko is CT 112"
   echo "$CT_STALE"
@@ -84,6 +84,35 @@ fi
 # .122/.123 are correct — verified reachable bridge IPs for Tanko/Mumuni
 echo "  ✅ IP consistency verified (.19=.122=.123 all reachable)"
 
+# Report provenance — every contract report must state the absolute path it
+# executed from, so a stale-consumer report is distinguishable from a real fault
+# at read time (2026-09-09 probe-drift incident: three false DEGRADED rounds).
+# Enforced only inside the **Report format** paragraph, and a check-health
+# contract with no Report format paragraph FAILs rather than being skipped.
+PROV_FILES=$(grep -rlE '^### check-health|\*\*Report format\*\*' ./*.prose.md 2>/dev/null || true)
+if [ -z "$PROV_FILES" ]; then
+  echo "  ❌ No check-health/report-format contracts found — provenance not enforced"
+  FAILED=1
+else
+  PROV_BAD=0
+  while IFS= read -r f; do
+    [ -n "$f" ] || continue
+    REPORT_PARA=$(awk '/\*\*Report format\*\*/{found=1} found{print} found && /^[[:space:]]*$/{exit}' "$f")
+    if [ -z "$REPORT_PARA" ]; then
+      echo "  ❌ $f: check-health contract has no **Report format** paragraph"
+      PROV_BAD=1
+    elif ! printf '%s\n' "$REPORT_PARA" | grep -qE 'absolute path|pwd -P|executed from'; then
+      echo "  ❌ $f: **Report format** lacks execution provenance (absolute path / pwd -P)"
+      PROV_BAD=1
+    fi
+  done <<< "$PROV_FILES"
+  if [ "$PROV_BAD" -eq 1 ]; then
+    FAILED=1
+  else
+    echo "  ✅ Report provenance present in all report-format contracts"
+  fi
+fi
+
 # ── 3. Cross-contract consistency ──
 echo ""
 echo "── 3. Cross-contract consistency ──"
@@ -106,7 +135,22 @@ fi
 
 echo "  Cross-contract: $WARNINGS total warnings across all checks"
 
-# ── 4. Summary ──
+# ── 4. Committed-credential scan ──
+# The 2026-09-17 purge removed six live credentials that had sat in .md prose
+# and scripts for weeks. This step makes that class of commit FAIL the gate
+# instead of printing a warning. Patterns: scripts/secret-patterns.tsv.
+# Only deliberate synthetic examples may be listed in scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv,
+# each with a reason. Run `bash scripts/secret-scan.sh --staged` before committing.
+echo ""
+echo "── 4. Secret scan (committed credentials) ──"
+if bash scripts/secret-scan.sh; then
+  echo "  ✅ No committed credentials"
+else
+  echo "  ❌ COMMITTED CREDENTIAL DETECTED"
+  FAILED=1
+fi
+
+# ── 5. Summary ──
 echo ""
 echo "═══════════════════════════════════"
 if [ $FAILED -eq 1 ]; then

scripts/proxmox-monitor.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# proxmox-monitor.sh — Proxmox Cluster + Docker Monitoring Health Check
+# Implements proxmox-monitor.prose.md (check-health section)
+#
+# Legs: Prometheus, Grafana, Docker Stats Exporter, PVE Exporter, PBS GC
+# All legs must return 200 for healthy status.
+#
+# Run: bash scripts/proxmox-monitor.sh
+# Exits 0 if all probes pass, 1 if any fails.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+CT116_HOST="192.168.68.116"
+FAILED=()
+TIMESTAMP=$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')
+
+echo "=== Proxmox Monitor — $TIMESTAMP ==="
+echo "Executed from: $(pwd -P)"
+echo ""
+
+# 1. Prometheus health (bound to 0.0.0.0:9090 on .116)
+PROM_CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://${CT116_HOST}:9090/-/healthy 2>/dev/null)
+PROM_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$PROM_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$PROM_CODE" ] || PROM_CODE="000"
+
+if [ "$PROM_CODE" = "200" ]; then
+    echo "  ✅ Prometheus: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 Prometheus: probe-failed: ${CT116_HOST}:9090 (expected 200, got ${PROM_CODE})"
+    FAILED+=("prometheus")
+fi
+
+# 2. Grafana health (bound to 0.0.0.0:3001 on .116)
+GRAF_CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://${CT116_HOST}:3001/api/health 2>/dev/null)
+GRAF_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$GRAF_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$GRAF_CODE" ] || GRAF_CODE="000"
+
+if [ "$GRAF_CODE" = "200" ]; then
+    echo "  ✅ Grafana: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 Grafana: probe-failed: ${CT116_HOST}:3001 (expected 200, got ${GRAF_CODE})"
+    FAILED+=("grafana")
+fi
+
+# 3. Docker Stats exporter (bound to 127.0.0.1:9324 on .116 — probe from .116 localhost)
+DOCKER_CODE=$(ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 -o BatchMode=yes root@${CT116_HOST} \
+    "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://127.0.0.1:9324/metrics" 2>/dev/null)
+DOCKER_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$DOCKER_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$DOCKER_CODE" ] || DOCKER_CODE="000"
+
+if [ "$DOCKER_CODE" = "200" ]; then
+    echo "  ✅ Docker Stats: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 Docker Stats: probe-failed: CT116:127.0.0.1:9324 (expected 200, got ${DOCKER_CODE})"
+    FAILED+=("docker-stats")
+fi
+
+# 4. PVE Exporter (bound to 127.0.0.1:9221 on .116 — probe from .116 localhost)
+PVE_CODE=$(ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 -o BatchMode=yes root@${CT116_HOST} \
+    "curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://127.0.0.1:9221/metrics" 2>/dev/null)
+PVE_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$PVE_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$PVE_CODE" ] || PVE_CODE="000"
+
+if [ "$PVE_CODE" = "200" ]; then
+    echo "  ✅ PVE Exporter: alive"
+else
+    echo "  🔴 PVE Exporter: probe-failed: CT116:127.0.0.1:9221 (expected 200, got ${PVE_CODE})"
+    FAILED+=("pve-exporter")
+fi
+
+# 5. PBS GC liveness (storepve-datastore GC must have run within 48h)
+PBS_GC_OUTPUT=$(ssh -o ConnectTimeout=5 -o BatchMode=yes root@192.168.68.6 \
+    "pct exec 107 -- proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection list --output-format json" 2>/dev/null)
+PBS_GC_OUTPUT=$(printf '%s' "$PBS_GC_OUTPUT" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$PBS_GC_OUTPUT" ] || PBS_GC_OUTPUT="000"
+
+if [ "$PBS_GC_OUTPUT" = "000" ]; then
+    echo "  🔴 PBS GC: probe-failed: storepve:192.168.68.6 (expected JSON, got 000)"
+    FAILED+=("pbs-gc")
+else
+    # Parse the JSON to get storepve-datastore's last-run-endtime and pending-bytes
+    PBS_GC_RESULT=$(echo "$PBS_GC_OUTPUT" | python3 -c "
+import sys, json
+try:
+    data = json.load(sys.stdin)
+    for store in data:
+        if store['store'] == 'storepve-datastore':
+            endtime = store.get('last-run-endtime')
+            pending = store.get('pending-bytes', 0)
+            if endtime is None or endtime == 0:
+                print('never-run')
+            else:
+                print(f'{endtime}|{pending}')
+            break
+    else:
+        print('absent')
+except json.JSONDecodeError:
+    print('unparseable')
+" 2>/dev/null)
+    
+    if [ -z "$PBS_GC_RESULT" ] || [ "$PBS_GC_RESULT" = "unparseable" ]; then
+        echo "  🔴 PBS GC: probe-failed: storepve:192.168.68.6 (unparseable JSON)"
+        FAILED+=("pbs-gc")
+    elif [ "$PBS_GC_RESULT" = "absent" ]; then
+        echo "  🔴 PBS GC: never-run (storepve-datastore not found in GC list)"
+        FAILED+=("pbs-gc")
+    elif [ "$PBS_GC_RESULT" = "never-run" ]; then
+        echo "  🔴 PBS GC: never-run (storepve-datastore has no last-run-endtime)"
+        FAILED+=("pbs-gc")
+    else
+        # Parse the endtime|pending format
+        LAST_RUN_ENDTIME=$(echo "$PBS_GC_RESULT" | cut -d'|' -f1)
+        PENDING_BYTES=$(echo "$PBS_GC_RESULT" | cut -d'|' -f2)
+        
+        # Convert epoch to age in hours
+        NOW_EPOCH=$(date -u +%s)
+        AGE_HOURS=$(( (NOW_EPOCH - LAST_RUN_ENDTIME) / 3600 ))
+        
+        if [ $AGE_HOURS -gt 48 ]; then
+            echo "  🔴 PBS GC: stale (last run ${AGE_HOURS}h ago, pending-bytes: ${PENDING_BYTES} B)"
+            FAILED+=("pbs-gc")
+        else
+            echo "  ✅ PBS GC: healthy (last run ${AGE_HOURS}h ago, pending-bytes: ${PENDING_BYTES} B)"
+        fi
+    fi
+fi
+
+# ── Summary ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+if [ ${#FAILED[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "  ✅ All legs OK"
+    exit 0
+else
+    for f in "${FAILED[@]}"; do
+        echo "  🔴 FAILED: $f"
+    done
+    exit 1
+fi

scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# secret-allowlist.tsv — exceptions for scripts/secret-scan.sh, every entry with a reason.
+#
+# Format: <rule-id|*><TAB><path-glob><TAB><literal-substring><TAB><reason>
+# Blank lines and lines whose first field starts with '#' are ignored.
+# A finding is suppressed only when ALL THREE of rule, path and literal match:
+#   * the rule id equals the finding's rule id, or is '*'
+#   * the finding's repo-relative path matches <path-glob> (bash glob)
+#   * the finding's line contains <literal-substring> verbatim
+# An entry whose reason is empty is a hard error (exit 2) — no silent exceptions.
+#
+# RULE: never allowlist a live credential, and never broaden an entry (rule '*',
+# a wide path glob, or a short generic literal) just to silence a finding.
+# If the finding is real, remove the credential from the file.
+#
+# Entries are one per deliberate synthetic example, so the file reads as an
+# audit trail of reviewed exceptions rather than a list of things to ignore.
+# Rule '*' is used only where the same literal is matched by more than one rule.
+#
+# ── The 2026-09-17 purge placeholders ─────────────────────────────────────
+# PR #112 replaced six live credentials with `«vault: <project>/<env> <SECRET>»`
+# references. Those references are safe by construction (they name where the
+# secret is read from), but they are listed here explicitly rather than being
+# filtered by a general "vault" rule, so a new occurrence still needs a
+# deliberate, reasoned entry.
+secret-assign	litellm-api-keys.prose.md	MUMUNI_LITELLM_API_KEY=«vault: agents/production LITELLM_API_KEY»	2026-09-17 purge: replaced the live Mumuni LiteLLM key with its vault reference; no literal credential.
+secret-assign	litellm-api-keys.prose.md	MUMUNI_ZULIP_API_KEY=«vault: agents/production ZULIP_API_KEY»	2026-09-17 purge: replaced the live Mumuni Zulip key with its vault reference; no literal credential.
+*	infrastructure-control.prose.md	PVEAPIToken=«vault: infrastructure/production PVE_API_TOKEN»	2026-09-17 purge: Proxmox API token is read from the vault; the line only names the vault path.
+cred-prose	infrastructure-control.prose.md	Admin credentials:	2026-09-17 purge: the Stirling admin user/password are two `«vault: ...»` references; no literal credential.
+*	scripts/daily-infra-report.py	PVEAPIToken=«vault: infrastructure/production PVE_API_TOKEN»	2026-09-17 purge: Proxmox API token is read from the vault; the line only names the vault path.
+secret-assign	stirling-pdf-agent-access.prose.md	«vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_API_KEY»	2026-09-17 purge: Stirling PDF API key is read from the vault; the curl example only names the vault path.
+bearer-token	agent-zero-fix-summary.md	«vault: agents/production OPENROUTER_API_KEY»	2026-09-17 purge: OpenRouter key is read from the vault; the example curl only names the vault path.
+# ── Deliberate synthetic examples in contracts (not from the purge) ───────
+# These exist to teach the rule they illustrate. They are listed here so the
+# guard is never taught to skip the words "synthetic"/"example" — a fabricated
+# example is always an explicit exception, never a pattern-level exemption.
+*	hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md	sk-synthetic-external-example	Rule 15 illustration of a hardcoded external key that is tolerated; fabricated, never a live key.
+*	hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md	sk-synthetic-example-12345	Rule 15 illustration of a forbidden hardcoded key; fabricated, never a live key.
+openai-key	hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md	sk-synthetic-litellm-	Fabricated key name inside a `grep 'LITELLM_API_KEY=...'` example; not a live key.
+secret-assign	hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md	sk-NEW_KEY	Placeholder standing for the rotated key in an `infisical secrets set` command; not a literal key.
+openrouter-key	agent-zero-openrouter-key.prose.md	sk-or-v1-synthetic	Synthetic key prefix in the contract's example response; the real key is read from the vault.
+openai-key	litellm-api-keys.prose.md	sk-synthetic-tanko-example	Fabricated key name in migration history prose; not a live key.
+openai-key	litellm-self-heal.prose.md	sk-syslog-local-master-key	Deprecated local LiteLLM master key name documented as no-live-usage; kept for history, not a usable credential.
+# ── Redacted evidence, not a credential ──────────────────────────────────
+secret-assign	docs/probe-drift-round2-evidence.md	=sk-...	Probe evidence records redacted key trailers (`sk-...x6uw`); the usable part of the key is not present.
+# ── tests/test_secret_scan.sh fixtures ───────────────────────────────────
+# The self-test plants these fabricated values into a TEMP tree, whose path no
+# entry here covers, so each still fails the guard when planted (see the test's
+# "... fails the guard" cases). They are listed only so the repo-wide scan of
+# the test file itself stays quiet.
+*	tests/test_secret_scan.sh	sk-or-v1-00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000deadbeef	Self-test fixture: fabricated OpenRouter-shaped key written to a temp tree; the guard must fail on it there.
+bearer-token	tests/test_secret_scan.sh	Bearer aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbb	Self-test fixture: fabricated Bearer token written to a temp tree; the guard must fail on it there.
+proxmox-token	tests/test_secret_scan.sh	PVEAPIToken=root@pam!monitor=11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555	Self-test fixture: fabricated Proxmox token written to a temp tree; the guard must fail on it there.
+private-key	tests/test_secret_scan.sh	-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----	Self-test fixture: fabricated PEM banner written to a temp tree; the guard must fail on it there.
+cred-prose	tests/test_secret_scan.sh	Admin credentials:	Self-test fixture: fabricated prose credential line written to a temp tree; the guard must fail on it there.
+secret-assign	tests/test_secret_scan.sh	DB_PASSWORD=correct-horse-battery-staple	Self-test fixture: fabricated password assignment written to a temp tree; the guard must fail on it there.

scripts/secret-patterns.tsv

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+# secret-patterns.tsv — checked-in pattern list for scripts/secret-scan.sh
+#
+# Format: <rule-id><TAB><POSIX ERE><TAB><description><TAB><check>
+# Blank lines and lines whose first field starts with '#' are ignored.
+# <check> is optional; the only value today is "value", which tells the scanner
+# to run the matched value through its inert-value classifier (see
+# value_is_inert in secret-scan.sh) so bare identifiers, env refs and dotted
+# code access are not reported as credentials. Omit the column to report every
+# regex hit.
+# Matching is case-insensitive, so `API_KEY` and `api_key` both count.
+#
+# Add a rule here, never inline in secret-scan.sh: this file is the single
+# auditable list of what the guard considers credential-shaped.
+openai-key	\bsk-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{16,}	OpenAI/LiteLLM-style "sk-" secret key (also hyphenated sk-proj- keys)
+openrouter-key	\bsk-or-v1-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{8,}	OpenRouter API key
+stripe-live-key	\bsk_live_[A-Za-z0-9]{8,}	Stripe live secret key
+proxmox-token	PVEAPIToken=[^[:space:]"']+	Proxmox API token literal
+bearer-token	bearer[[:space:]]+["']?(«.{3,}»|[A-Za-z0-9_./+=-]{20,})	literal Bearer token (http header or prose)
+auth-header	authorization:[[:space:]]+["']?(«.{3,}»|[A-Za-z0-9_./+=-]{20,})	Authorization header carrying a raw literal value
+private-key	-----BEGIN [A-Z ]*PRIVATE KEY-----	PEM private key block
+cred-prose	credentials?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*[^[:space:]]	prose credential line carrying a value
+secret-assign	(api[_-]?key|apikey|passwd|password|secret|token)s?["']?[[:space:]]*[:=][[:space:]]*["']?(«.{3,}»|[A-Za-z0-9_./+=-]{8,})	credential assignment carrying a literal value	value

scripts/secret-scan.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# secret-scan.sh — commit-time secret guard. FAILS (exit 1) on a credential-shaped
+# string, so a build cannot go green with a credential committed to it.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   scripts/secret-scan.sh                 # scan the whole git-tracked tree (default)
+#   scripts/secret-scan.sh --tree
+#   scripts/secret-scan.sh --path DIR      # scan an arbitrary directory (git not required)
+#   scripts/secret-scan.sh --staged        # scan added lines in the index (pre-commit)
+#   scripts/secret-scan.sh --diff REF      # scan added lines since REF (e.g. origin/master)
+#   --quiet  only print the verdict and findings, no per-mode banner
+#
+# Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 credential found, 2 usage/config error.
+#
+# Patterns live in  scripts/secret-patterns.tsv
+# Exceptions live in scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv (every entry carries a reason;
+# a missing reason is a hard error, so the guard fails closed).
+#
+# Dependencies are deliberately bash + coreutils + grep + sed/awk + git. The
+# Gitea Actions runner executes job steps INSIDE the runner container, which
+# has no node and no python by default: keep this script free of both.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+SELF_DIR=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+ROOT=$(cd -- "$SELF_DIR/.." && pwd)
+PATTERNS_FILE="$SELF_DIR/secret-patterns.tsv"
+ALLOWLIST_FILE="$SELF_DIR/secret-allowlist.tsv"
+
+# The guard's own definition files are not scannable content: the pattern list
+# necessarily contains the pattern text, and the allowlist necessarily contains
+# the allowed literals. Narrow, exact-path exclusion — not a wildcard.
+SELF_FILES=(
+  "scripts/secret-scan.sh"
+  "scripts/secret-patterns.tsv"
+  "scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv"
+)
+
+MODE="tree"
+PATH_DIR=""
+DIFF_REF=""
+QUIET=0
+
+usage() {
+  sed -n '2,20p' "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'
+  exit 2
+}
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --tree) MODE="tree" ;;
+    --path) MODE="path"; PATH_DIR="${2:-}"; shift ;;
+    --staged) MODE="staged" ;;
+    --diff) MODE="diff"; DIFF_REF="${2:-}"; shift ;;
+    --quiet) QUIET=1 ;;
+    -h|--help) usage ;;
+    *) echo "secret-scan: unknown argument '$1'" >&2; usage ;;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+
+[ -f "$PATTERNS_FILE" ] || { echo "secret-scan: missing $PATTERNS_FILE" >&2; exit 2; }
+[ -f "$ALLOWLIST_FILE" ] || { echo "secret-scan: missing $ALLOWLIST_FILE" >&2; exit 2; }
+if [ "$MODE" = "path" ] && [ -z "$PATH_DIR" ]; then
+  echo "secret-scan: --path needs a directory" >&2; exit 2
+fi
+if [ "$MODE" = "diff" ] && [ -z "$DIFF_REF" ]; then
+  echo "secret-scan: --diff needs a base ref" >&2; exit 2
+fi
+
+# ── Load patterns ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+RULE_IDS=()
+RULE_RES=()
+RULE_DESCS=()
+RULE_CHECKS=()
+COMBINED=""
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r id re desc check; do
+  case "$id" in ''|'#'*) continue ;; esac
+  [ -n "$re" ] || continue
+  RULE_IDS+=("$id"); RULE_RES+=("$re"); RULE_DESCS+=("$desc"); RULE_CHECKS+=("${check:-}")
+  if [ -z "$COMBINED" ]; then COMBINED="($re)"; else COMBINED="$COMBINED|($re)"; fi
+done < "$PATTERNS_FILE"
+if [ "${#RULE_IDS[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "secret-scan: no patterns loaded from $PATTERNS_FILE" >&2; exit 2
+fi
+
+# ── Load allowlist (fails closed on a missing reason) ──────────────────────
+AL_RULES=()
+AL_GLOBS=()
+AL_LITS=()
+AL_REASONS=()
+AL_LINENO=0
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r rule glob lit reason; do
+  AL_LINENO=$((AL_LINENO + 1))
+  case "$rule" in ''|'#'*) continue ;; esac
+  if [ -z "$glob" ] || [ -z "$lit" ] || [ -z "$reason" ]; then
+    echo "secret-scan: ❌ $ALLOWLIST_FILE:$AL_LINENO — allowlist entry needs <rule> <path-glob> <literal> <reason>; reason-based exceptions only, refusing to run" >&2
+    exit 2
+  fi
+  AL_RULES+=("$rule"); AL_GLOBS+=("$glob"); AL_LITS+=("$lit"); AL_REASONS+=("$reason")
+done < "$ALLOWLIST_FILE"
+
+# nocasematch is toggled only around the regex test; path globs must stay
+# case-sensitive, so it is never left on.
+MATCH=""
+regex_match() { # regex_match <regex> <text>  -> MATCH holds the matched text
+  local re="$1" text="$2"
+  shopt -s nocasematch
+  if [[ $text =~ $re ]]; then
+    MATCH="${BASH_REMATCH[0]}"
+    shopt -u nocasematch
+    return 0
+  fi
+  shopt -u nocasematch
+  MATCH=""
+  return 1
+}
+
+allowlisted() { # allowlisted <rule> <path> <text>
+  local rule="$1" path="$2" text="$3" i
+  for i in "${!AL_RULES[@]}"; do
+    [ "${AL_RULES[$i]}" = "$rule" ] || [ "${AL_RULES[$i]}" = "*" ] || continue
+    # The unquoted RHS is deliberate: <path-glob> is a bash glob, not a literal.
+    # shellcheck disable=SC2053
+    [[ $path == ${AL_GLOBS[$i]} ]] || continue
+    [[ $text == *"${AL_LITS[$i]}"* ]] || continue
+    return 0
+  done
+  return 1
+}
+
+mask_value() { # mask_value <text> <match> — never echo a credential to logs.
+  # Print only the part of the line BEFORE the match, then <redacted>: the match
+  # itself and everything after it (which may include a value the rule's regex
+  # stopped short of, e.g. `credentials:` followed by a backticked password) is
+  # never written to stdout.
+  local text="$1" m="$2"
+  if [ -n "$m" ] && [[ $text == *"$m"* ]]; then
+    printf '%s<redacted>' "${text%%"$m"*}"
+  else
+    printf '%s' "$text"
+  fi
+}
+
+FINDINGS=0
+SUPPRESSED=0
+INERT=0
+SCANNED=0
+
+# value_is_inert <value> <text-after-match> — true when a matched assignment value
+# is plainly not a credential: empty, an env/command reference, a path, dotted
+# code access, a short or single-class identifier (a variable or key NAME, not a
+# value), a well-known placeholder word, or a value the file deliberately
+# truncates with '…' / '...' (a redacted prefix is not a usable credential).
+# Deliberately does NOT know the words "synthetic" or "example": a fabricated
+# example must be an explicit allowlist entry.
+value_is_inert() {
+  local v="$1" rest="$2"
+  case "$rest" in '…'*|'...'*) return 0 ;; esac
+  v="${v%\"}"; v="${v#\"}"; v="${v%\'}"; v="${v#\'}"
+  case "$v" in
+    ''|\$*|\{*|'<'*|'%'*|'('*|'/'*|'\\'*) return 0 ;;
+    not-needed|no-key-required|none|null|true|false|redacted|placeholder|example|dummy|changeme|change-me|your-key|your_key|key|token|secret|password) return 0 ;;
+  esac
+  # dotted code access: os.environ.get / process.env.ZULIP_API_KEY / cfg.a
+  if [[ $v =~ ^[a-z_][a-z0-9_]*(\.[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)+$ ]]; then return 0; fi
+  # bare identifier (no punctuation beyond _): a NAME, not a value. A real
+  # secret in this shape is long and mixes letters with digits.
+  if [[ $v =~ ^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$ ]]; then
+    [ "${#v}" -lt 20 ] && return 0
+    [[ $v =~ [0-9] ]] || return 0
+    return 1
+  fi
+  return 1
+}
+
+report_finding() { # report_finding <path> <line> <text>
+  local path="$1" line="$2" text="$3" i val
+  for i in "${!RULE_IDS[@]}"; do
+    regex_match "${RULE_RES[$i]}" "$text" || continue
+    SCANNED=$((SCANNED + 1))
+    if [ "${RULE_CHECKS[$i]}" = "value" ]; then
+      val="${MATCH#*[:=]}"
+      val="${val# }"
+      if value_is_inert "$val" "${text#*"$MATCH"}"; then
+        INERT=$((INERT + 1))
+        continue
+      fi
+    fi
+    if allowlisted "${RULE_IDS[$i]}" "$path" "$text"; then
+      SUPPRESSED=$((SUPPRESSED + 1))
+      continue
+    fi
+    FINDINGS=$((FINDINGS + 1))
+    printf '  ❌ %s:%s  [%s] %s\n' "$path" "$line" "${RULE_IDS[$i]}" "${RULE_DESCS[$i]}"
+    printf '     | %s\n' "$(mask_value "$text" "$MATCH")"
+  done
+}
+
+self_excluded() { # self_excluded <repo-relative-path>
+  local p="$1" s
+  for s in "${SELF_FILES[@]}"; do
+    [ "$p" = "$s" ] && return 0
+  done
+  return 1
+}
+
+# ── Collect candidate lines and scan them ─────────────────────────────────
+if [ "$MODE" = "tree" ] || [ "$MODE" = "path" ]; then
+  if [ "$MODE" = "tree" ]; then
+    BASE="$ROOT"
+    git -C "$BASE" rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "secret-scan: --tree needs a git checkout (use --path DIR)" >&2; exit 2; }
+    mapfile -d '' candidate < <(git -C "$BASE" ls-files -z 2>/dev/null)
+    if [ "${#candidate[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
+      echo "secret-scan: ❌ no tracked files — refusing to report clean" >&2; exit 2
+    fi
+  else
+    BASE=$(cd -- "$PATH_DIR" 2>/dev/null && pwd) || { echo "secret-scan: --path '$PATH_DIR' is not a directory" >&2; exit 2; }
+    mapfile -t candidate < <(cd -- "$BASE" && find . -type f -not -path './.git/*' | sed 's|^\./||')
+    if [ "${#candidate[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
+      echo "secret-scan: ❌ no files under $BASE — refusing to report clean" >&2; exit 2
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  [ "$QUIET" -eq 1 ] || echo "── secret scan ($MODE): ${#candidate[@]} files under $BASE ──"
+  for rel in "${candidate[@]}"; do
+    [ -f "$BASE/$rel" ] || continue
+    self_excluded "$rel" && continue
+    while IFS= read -r hit; do
+      [ -n "$hit" ] || continue
+      report_finding "$rel" "${hit%%:*}" "${hit#*:}"
+    done < <(grep -nEIi -e "$COMBINED" "$BASE/$rel" 2>/dev/null || true)
+  done
+else
+  # --staged / --diff: only ADDED lines, with the post-change line number.
+  if [ "$MODE" = "staged" ]; then
+    [ "$QUIET" -eq 1 ] || echo "── secret scan: added lines in the index ──"
+    DIFF_TEXT=$(git -C "$ROOT" diff --cached --unified=0 --no-color -- . 2>/dev/null)
+  else
+    [ "$QUIET" -eq 1 ] || echo "── secret scan: added lines since $DIFF_REF ──"
+    DIFF_TEXT=$(git -C "$ROOT" diff --unified=0 --no-color "$DIFF_REF"...HEAD 2>/dev/null \
+      || git -C "$ROOT" diff --unified=0 --no-color "$DIFF_REF"..HEAD 2>/dev/null)
+  fi
+  if [ -z "$DIFF_TEXT" ]; then
+    [ "$QUIET" -eq 1 ] || echo "  (no added lines)"
+  fi
+  while IFS=$'\t' read -r rel line text; do
+    [ -n "$rel" ] || continue
+    self_excluded "$rel" && continue
+    report_finding "$rel" "$line" "$text"
+  done < <(printf '%s\n' "$DIFF_TEXT" | awk '
+    /^\+\+\+ / { f=$2; sub(/^b\//,"",f); next }
+    /^@@ / { if (match($0, /\+[0-9]+/)) ln=substr($0, RSTART+1, RLENGTH-1)+0; next }
+    (/^\+/ && !/^\+\+\+/) { print f "\t" ln "\t" substr($0,2); ln++; next }
+  ')
+fi
+
+# ── Verdict ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+if [ "$FINDINGS" -gt 0 ]; then
+  echo ""
+  echo "❌ SECRET SCAN FAILED — $FINDINGS credential-shaped string(s) in ${MODE} content."
+  echo "   Fix: remove the credential and read it from the vault/env."
+  echo "   Only a deliberate synthetic example may be added to scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv,"
+  echo "   one entry per file/rule/literal, with a reason. Never allowlist a live credential."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "✅ secret scan clean (${MODE}; ${SUPPRESSED} allowlisted exception(s), ${INERT} inert value(s) ignored)"
+exit 0

scripts/test_infra_monitoring.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# test_infra_monitoring.sh — Asserts that probe calls use the documented targets.
+#
+# Strategy: stub curl and ssh on PATH to capture the exact arguments each leg
+# builds, then assert the URL/port of every call. This catches port drift in
+# the CALL (not just in the config constants) and catches wrong PVE node
+# addresses (not just wrong entry counts).
+#
+# Run: bash scripts/test_infra_monitoring.sh
+# Exits 0 if all assertions pass, 1 otherwise.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+SCRIPT="${SCRIPT_DIR}/infra-monitoring.sh"
+
+PASS=0
+FAIL=0
+
+assert() {
+    local desc="$1" condition="$2"
+    if eval "$condition"; then
+        echo "  ✅ $desc"
+        PASS=$((PASS+1))
+    else
+        echo "  🔴 $desc"
+        FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+    fi
+}
+
+echo "=== test_infra_monitoring.sh ==="
+echo ""
+
+# ── Stub curl: capture argv to a file, return 200 ──────────────────────────
+STUB_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$STUB_DIR"' EXIT
+
+# Stub curl: first arg after flags is the URL; capture all args
+cat > "$STUB_DIR/curl" << 'STUBEOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "$@" >> "${CURL_STUB_LOG:-/dev/null}"
+# Print 200 for %{http_code}
+printf '%s\n' "200"
+exit 0
+STUBEOF
+chmod +x "$STUB_DIR/curl"
+
+# Stub ssh: first arg after options is the remote command; capture it
+cat > "$STUB_DIR/ssh" << 'SSTUBEOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "SSH $@" >> "${SSH_STUB_LOG:-/dev/null}"
+# The last arg is the remote command — extract and log curl args
+for arg in "$@"; do
+    if [[ "$arg" == curl* ]]; then
+        echo "$arg" >> "${SSH_STUB_LOG:-/dev/null}"
+    fi
+done
+printf '%s\n' "200"
+exit 0
+SSTUBEOF
+chmod +x "$STUB_DIR/ssh"
+
+# ── Run the monitor with stubs ────────────────────────────────────────────
+CURL_LOG="$STUB_DIR/curl_calls.log"
+SSH_LOG="$STUB_DIR/ssh_calls.log"
+touch "$CURL_LOG" "$SSH_LOG"
+
+CURL_STUB_LOG="$CURL_LOG" SSH_STUB_LOG="$SSH_LOG" \
+    PATH="$STUB_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" > "$STUB_DIR/output.txt" 2>&1
+
+# ── 1. Port drift detection (from actual curl invocations) ─────────────────
+
+assert "Grafana probed at port 3001" \
+    'grep -q "http://192.168.68.116:3001/api/health" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "Prometheus probed at port 9090" \
+    'grep -q "http://192.168.68.116:9090/-/healthy" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "LiteLLM probed via nginx at port 80" \
+    'grep -q "http://192.168.68.116:80/litellm/health" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "PVE API probed at port 8006" \
+    'grep -q ":8006/api2/json/version" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "GPU exporter probed at port 9400" \
+    'grep -q ":9400/metrics" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+# ── 2. PVE API: exact node addresses (catches wrong IPs) ──────────────────
+# Each real PVE node must be probed; CT 116 must NOT be in the PVE set
+
+assert "PVE acerpve 192.168.68.9 probed" \
+    'grep -q "https://192.168.68.9:8006/api2/json/version" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "PVE minipve 192.168.68.12 probed" \
+    'grep -q "https://192.168.68.12:8006/api2/json/version" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "PVE storepve 192.168.68.6 probed" \
+    'grep -q "https://192.168.68.6:8006/api2/json/version" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "PVE amdpve 192.168.68.15 probed" \
+    'grep -q "https://192.168.68.15:8006/api2/json/version" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "PVE ocupve 192.168.68.5 probed" \
+    'grep -q "https://192.168.68.5:8006/api2/json/version" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+# CT 116 (.116) must NOT appear as a PVE API target
+assert "CT 116 (.116) NOT probed as PVE API node" \
+    '! grep -q "https://192.168.68.116:8006" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+# ── 3. PVE API: -k flag present in curl invocation ─────────────────────────
+# The PVE API calls must include -k for self-signed certs
+
+assert "PVE API curl calls include -k flag" \
+    'grep "https://192.168.68.9:8006" "$CURL_LOG" | grep -q -- "-k"'
+
+# ── 4. Undocumented ports must NOT appear in any call ──────────────────────
+assert "Port 9325 NOT in any curl call" \
+    '! grep -q ":9325" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+assert "Port 9405 NOT in any curl call" \
+    '! grep -q ":9405" "$CURL_LOG"'
+
+# ── 5. Docker Stats / PVE Exporter: SSH-probed at correct ports ────────────
+assert "Docker Stats probed at port 9324 via SSH" \
+    'grep -q "9324" "$SSH_LOG"'
+
+assert "PVE Exporter probed at port 9221 via SSH" \
+    'grep -q "9221" "$SSH_LOG"'
+
+# ── 5a. Per-leg assertions (proves which leg owns which port) ──────────────
+# The script source must show Docker Stats using $DOCKER_STATS_PORT and
+# PVE Exporter using $PVE_EXPORTER_PORT in the correct leg sections
+assert "Docker Stats leg uses DOCKER_STATS_PORT constant" \
+    'grep -A 3 "# 6. Docker Stats" "$SCRIPT" | grep -q "\$DOCKER_STATS_PORT"'
+
+assert "PVE Exporter leg uses PVE_EXPORTER_PORT constant" \
+    'grep -A 3 "# 7. PVE Exporter" "$SCRIPT" | grep -q "\$PVE_EXPORTER_PORT"'
+
+# Verify the constants themselves are set to the correct values
+assert "DOCKER_STATS_PORT constant set to 9324" \
+    'grep -q "^DOCKER_STATS_PORT=\"9324\"" "$SCRIPT"'
+
+assert "PVE_EXPORTER_PORT constant set to 9221" \
+    'grep -q "^PVE_EXPORTER_PORT=\"9221\"" "$SCRIPT"'
+
+# ── 5b. Stale port 9323 (dockerd) NOT probed ──────────────────────────────
+assert "Port 9323 (dockerd) NOT in SSH log" \
+    '! grep -q "9323" "$SSH_LOG"'
+
+# ── 6. No stale ports in the script source (belt-and-suspenders) ──────────
+assert "Port 9325 (historical) NOT in script source" \
+    '! grep -q "9325" "$SCRIPT"'
+
+assert "Port 9405 (historical) NOT in script source" \
+    '! grep -q "9405" "$SCRIPT"'
+
+# ── 7. Failure-line content includes non-empty kind ────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"' EXIT
+
+# Test 7a: Unexpected status (500) → kind should be unexpected:500
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/curl" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+# Stub: return 500 for Grafana port, 200 otherwise
+for arg in "$@"; do
+    if [[ "$arg" == *":3001"* ]]; then
+        echo "500"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+done
+echo "200"
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/curl"
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+GRAFANA_FAIL=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "Grafana: probe-failed")
+assert "Grafana failure line exists (unexpected status)" \
+    '[[ -n "$GRAFANA_FAIL" ]]' 
+KIND=$(echo "$GRAFANA_FAIL" | grep -oP '\(<[^>]+>\)' | tr -d '()<>')
+assert "Grafana failure kind is non-empty (unexpected status)" \
+    '[[ -n "$KIND" ]]' 
+
+# Test 7b: TLS error (000 + exit 60) → kind should be tls
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/curl" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+# Stub: return 000 and exit 60 for Grafana port (TLS error) on ALL invocations
+for arg in "$@"; do
+    if [[ "$arg" == *":3001"* ]]; then
+        echo "000"
+        exit 60
+    fi
+done
+echo "200"
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/curl"
+# Also stub ssh to return 000 + exit 60 for the retry
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+for arg in "$@"; do
+    if [[ "$arg" == curl* ]]; then
+        echo "000"
+        exit 60
+    fi
+done
+echo "200"
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+export PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH"
+OUT=$(bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+GRAFANA_FAIL=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "Grafana: probe-failed")
+assert "Grafana failure line exists (TLS error)" \
+    '[[ -n "$GRAFANA_FAIL" ]]' 
+KIND=$(echo "$GRAFANA_FAIL" | grep -oP '\(<[^>]+>\)' | tr -d '()<>')
+assert "Grafana failure kind is tls" \
+    '[[ "$KIND" == "tls" ]]'
+
+# ── Summary ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+echo "Results: ${PASS} passed, ${FAIL} failed"
+if [ $FAIL -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo "  🔴 TESTS FAILED"
+    exit 1
+else
+    echo "  ✅ ALL TESTS PASSED"
+    exit 0
+fi

scripts/test_proxmox_monitor.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# test_proxmox_monitor.sh — Stub-driven tests for PBS GC liveness leg
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+SCRIPT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)/proxmox-monitor.sh"
+PASS=0
+FAIL=0
+
+# ── Helpers ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+assert() {
+    local desc="$1" cond="$2"
+    if eval "$cond" 2>/dev/null; then
+        echo "  ✅ $desc"
+        PASS=$((PASS+1))
+    else
+        echo "  🔴 $desc"
+        FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+    fi
+}
+
+# ── 1. Healthy: fresh GC, 0 B pending ─────────────────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+FRESH_ENDTIME=$(( $(date -u +%s) - (1 * 3600) ))  # 1 hour ago
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << EOF
+#!/bin/bash
+# Stub: return valid JSON with fresh endtime
+echo '[{"store":"storepve-datastore","last-run-endtime":$FRESH_ENDTIME,"pending-bytes":0}]'
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+PBS_LINE=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "PBS GC:" || echo "")
+assert "Healthy: PBS line exists" '[[ -n "$PBS_LINE" ]]'
+assert "Healthy: shows healthy verdict" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"healthy"* ]]'
+assert "Healthy: shows pending-bytes 0 B" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"pending-bytes: 0 B"* ]]'
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+# ── 2. Stale: GC >48h old ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+OLD_ENDTIME=$(( $(date -u +%s) - (49 * 3600) ))  # 49 hours ago
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << EOF
+#!/bin/bash
+echo '[{"store":"storepve-datastore","last-run-endtime":$OLD_ENDTIME,"pending-bytes":1048576}]'
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+PBS_LINE=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "PBS GC:" || echo "")
+assert "Stale: PBS line exists" '[[ -n "$PBS_LINE" ]]'
+assert "Stale: shows stale verdict" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"stale"* ]]'
+assert "Stale: shows pending-bytes 1048576 B" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"pending-bytes: 1048576 B"* ]]'
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+# ── 3. Probe-failed: empty output ─────────────────────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+PBS_LINE=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "PBS GC:" || echo "")
+assert "Probe-failed (empty): PBS line exists" '[[ -n "$PBS_LINE" ]]'
+assert "Probe-failed (empty): shows probe-failed" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"probe-failed"* ]]'
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+# ── 4. Probe-failed: unparseable output ───────────────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+echo "proxmox-backup-manager: command not found"
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+PBS_LINE=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "PBS GC:" || echo "")
+assert "Probe-failed (unparseable): PBS line exists" '[[ -n "$PBS_LINE" ]]'
+assert "Probe-failed (unparseable): shows probe-failed" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"probe-failed"* ]]'
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+# ── 5. Null endtime: never-run ────────────────────────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+echo '[{"store":"storepve-datastore","last-run-endtime":null,"pending-bytes":0}]'
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+PBS_LINE=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "PBS GC:" || echo "")
+assert "Null endtime: PBS line exists" '[[ -n "$PBS_LINE" ]]'
+assert "Null endtime: shows never-run" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"never-run"* ]]'
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+# ── 6. Datastore absent ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+cat > "$TMP_DIR/ssh" << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+echo '[{"store":"s3-archive","last-run-endtime":null,"pending-bytes":0}]'
+exit 0
+EOF
+chmod +x "$TMP_DIR/ssh"
+
+OUT=$(PATH="$TMP_DIR:$PATH" bash "$SCRIPT" 2>&1)
+PBS_LINE=$(echo "$OUT" | grep "PBS GC:" || echo "")
+assert "Datastore absent: PBS line exists" '[[ -n "$PBS_LINE" ]]'
+assert "Datastore absent: shows never-run" '[[ "$PBS_LINE" == *"never-run"* ]]'
+rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+
+# ── Summary ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+echo "Results: ${PASS} passed, ${FAIL} failed"
+if [ $FAIL -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo "  🔴 TESTS FAILED"
+    exit 1
+else
+    echo "  ✅ ALL TESTS PASSED"
+    exit 0
+fi

scripts/zulip-monitor.sh

@@ -1,57 +1,66 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # /root/scripts/zulip-monitor.sh — Zulip Mesh Health Monitor
-# Implements zulip-health.prose.md v2
-# Runs every 15 min via cron. Alerts via Telegram.
+# Implements zulip-health.prose.md v3
+# Runs every 15 min via cron. Alerts: Zulip private DM to the owner plus a stream post to #agent-hub on topic 'zulip-health'.
+# Legs: global Zulip server, Platform A pi/Abiba (the Zulip bridge), Platform B
+# Tanko (DSH), Platform C Agent Zero (kagentz). The former Platform B Hermes
+# agent leg is retired — see the note after the Tanko leg.
 set -euo pipefail
 
+# Credentials sourced from environment variable ZULIP_API_KEY (set by vault-backed start script)
+# Never fall back to a literal key.
+# When unset/placeholder, the server leg is still probed (200 without auth is expected) —
+# only notify() is gated on credential. The pi/Tanko/kagentz
+# legs do not need the Zulip API key. The placeholder is captain-held:
+# zulip-health-credential-placeholder-20260913.
+ZULIP_API_KEY="${ZULIP_API_KEY:-}"
 ZULIP_SITE="https://chat.sysloggh.net"
 ZULIP_EMAIL="abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net"
-ZULIP_KEY="cKTDMZAPW08dk3zl05sStzO7HRztzyn8"
 OWNER_ZULIP_ID="9"
 
-# Email config
-GMAIL_USER="jtabiri@gmail.com"
-GMAIL_PASS="rgbuomwcydxwbszd"
-EMAIL_TO="jerome@sysloggh.com"
+# Track whether the Zulip API credential is usable
+ZULIP_CRED_OK=1
+if [ -z "$ZULIP_API_KEY" ] || [[ "$ZULIP_API_KEY" == *"placeholder"* ]] || [[ "$ZULIP_API_KEY" == *"REDACTED"* ]]; then
+  ZULIP_CRED_OK=0
+fi
+
+LOG="/root/zulip-health-monitor.log"
+TIMESTAMP=$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')
+ISSUES=0
+echo "=== Zulip Health Check — $TIMESTAMP ===" >> "$LOG"
 
 notify() {
   local severity="$1" msg="$2"
   echo "[$severity] $msg"
   
-  # Zulip DM to owner
-  local content="${severity} Zulip Monitor: ${msg}"
-  local form="type=private&to=%5B${OWNER_ZULIP_ID}%5D&content=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote('''${content}'''))")"
-  curl -sf -X POST "${ZULIP_SITE}/api/v1/messages" \
-    -u "${ZULIP_EMAIL}:${ZULIP_KEY}" \
-    -d "${form}" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
-  
-  # Email alert
-  local subject="${severity} Zulip Monitor Alert"
-  python3 -c "
-import smtplib
-from email.mime.text import MIMEText
-m = MIMEText('''${msg}''')
-m['From'] = 'abiba@sysloggh.com'
-m['To'] = '${EMAIL_TO}'
-m['Subject'] = '${subject}'
-s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
-s.starttls()
-s.login('${GMAIL_USER}', '${GMAIL_PASS}')
-s.sendmail('abiba@sysloggh.com', ['${EMAIL_TO}'], m.as_string())
-s.quit()
-" 2>/dev/null || true
+  # Zulip DM to owner (skip if no credential)
+  if [ "$ZULIP_CRED_OK" -eq 1 ]; then
+    local content="${severity} Zulip Monitor: ${msg}"
+    local form
+    form="type=private&to=%5B${OWNER_ZULIP_ID}%5D&content=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote('''${content}'''))")"
+    curl -sf -X POST "${ZULIP_SITE}/api/v1/messages" \
+      -u "${ZULIP_EMAIL}:${ZULIP_API_KEY}" \
+      -d "${form}" > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
+    # Zulip stream post to #agent-hub on topic 'zulip-health'
+    local stream_content="${severity} Zulip Monitor: ${msg}"
+    curl -sf -X POST "${ZULIP_SITE}/api/v1/messages" \
+      -u "${ZULIP_EMAIL}:${ZULIP_API_KEY}" \
+      -d "type=stream&to=%5B7%5D&topic=zulip-health&content=$(printf '%s' "${stream_content}" | python3 -c "import sys,urllib.parse; print(urllib.parse.quote_from_bytes(sys.stdin.buffer.read()))")" \
+      > /dev/null 2>&1 \
+      || echo "  WARN: stream alert to #agent-hub (zulip-health) delivery failed (curl exit $?)">> "$LOG"
+  else
+    echo "  ALERT SUPPRESSED (no credential): ${severity} ${msg}" >> "$LOG"
+  fi
 }
 
-TIMESTAMP=$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M UTC')
-ISSUES=0
-LOG="/root/zulip-health-monitor.log"
-
-echo "=== Zulip Health Check — $TIMESTAMP ===" >> "$LOG"
-
 # ── Global: Zulip Server ──
+# F3: Always probe server regardless of credential — 200 without auth is expected
+# (verified live: server_settings returns 200 with no credential or wrong key).
 SERVER_CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --connect-timeout 10 \
   https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings \
-  -u 'abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net:cKTDMZAPW08dk3zl05sStzO7HRztzyn8' 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+  -u "${ZULIP_EMAIL}:${ZULIP_API_KEY}" 2>/dev/null) || SERVER_CODE="000"
+SERVER_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$SERVER_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$SERVER_CODE" ] || SERVER_CODE="000"
 if [ "$SERVER_CODE" != "200" ]; then
   notify "🔴" "Zulip server returned HTTP $SERVER_CODE"
   ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
@@ -60,96 +69,173 @@ else
 fi
 
 # ── Platform A: pi (Abiba) ──
-PI_HEALTH=$(curl -sf --connect-timeout 5 http://localhost:9200/health 2>/dev/null || echo "{}")
-PI_CONNECTED=$(echo "$PI_HEALTH" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d.get('connected',False))" 2>/dev/null)
-PI_ERROR=$(echo "$PI_HEALTH" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d.get('last_error') or '')" 2>/dev/null)
-PI_RETRIES=$(echo "$PI_HEALTH" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d.get('retry_count',0))" 2>/dev/null)
+# Probes the pi Zulip extension health endpoint (:9200/health, served by the
+# extension's startHealthServer; shape documented in zulip-health.prose.md).
+# FAIL-SAFE contract (pinned by tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh): connection state
+# lives NESTED at zulip.connected / zulip.last_error — there is no top-level
+# `connected` and no retry counter in the payload. A fetch error, non-2xx
+# response, empty/unparseable body, or payload missing a boolean
+# zulip.connected is a PROBE FAILURE: it alerts and NEVER calls pm2 restart.
+# pm2 restart runs ONLY on affirmative zulip.connected=false.
+# -- abiba-leg-start (verbatim-extracted by tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh)
+PI_HTTP=$(curl -s -o /dev/null --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 10 -w '%{http_code}' http://localhost:9200/health 2>/dev/null) || PI_HTTP="000"
+PI_HTTP=$(printf '%s' "$PI_HTTP" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$PI_HTTP" ] || PI_HTTP="000"
+PI_BODY=$(curl -s --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 10 http://localhost:9200/health 2>/dev/null || true)
+PI_STATE=$(printf '%s' "$PI_BODY" | python3 -c '
+import sys, json
+code = sys.argv[1]
+body = sys.stdin.read()
+try:
+    d = json.loads(body)
+except Exception:
+    sys.stdout.write("probe-failed|unparseable body")
+    sys.exit(0)
+if not code.startswith("2"):
+    sys.stdout.write("probe-failed|HTTP %s" % code)
+    sys.exit(0)
+if not isinstance(d, dict) or not isinstance(d.get("zulip"), dict):
+    sys.stdout.write("probe-failed|missing zulip.connected")
+    sys.exit(0)
+z = d["zulip"]
+if "connected" not in z or not isinstance(z["connected"], bool):
+    sys.stdout.write("probe-failed|missing or non-boolean zulip.connected")
+    sys.exit(0)
+err = z.get("last_error") or ""
+if z["connected"]:
+    if err:
+        sys.stdout.write("degraded|%s" % err)
+    else:
+        sys.stdout.write("healthy|%s" % z.get("messages_processed", 0))
+else:
+    sys.stdout.write("disconnected|")
+' "$PI_HTTP" 2>/dev/null) || PI_STATE="probe-failed|python error"
+PI_VERDICT=${PI_STATE%%|*}
+PI_DETAIL=${PI_STATE#*|}
 
-if [ "$PI_CONNECTED" != "True" ]; then
-  notify "🔴" "Abiba pi extension DISCONNECTED — restarting"
-  pm2 restart abiba-zulip 2>/dev/null || true
+case "$PI_VERDICT" in
+  healthy)
+    echo "  Abiba: ✅ Connected (processed=$PI_DETAIL)" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  degraded)
+    notify "🟡" "Abiba pi extension error: ${PI_DETAIL:0:100}"
+    echo "  Abiba: 🟡 Error: ${PI_DETAIL:0:100}" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  disconnected)
+    notify "🔴" "Abiba pi extension DISCONNECTED — restarting"
+    pm2 restart abiba-zulip 2>/dev/null || true
+    ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+    echo "  Abiba: ❌ Disconnected — restarted" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  probe-failed)
+    notify "🟠" "Abiba pi extension health probe FAILED (${PI_DETAIL}; HTTP $PI_HTTP) — NOT restarting, manual check needed"
+    ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+    echo "  Abiba: ⚠️ Probe failed (${PI_DETAIL}; HTTP $PI_HTTP) — NOT restarted" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  *)
+    notify "🟠" "Abiba pi extension health probe returned unexpected verdict (${PI_STATE}) — NOT restarting, manual check needed"
+    ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+    echo "  Abiba: ⚠️ Unexpected probe verdict (${PI_STATE}) — NOT restarted" >> "$LOG" ;;
+esac
+# -- abiba-leg-end
+
+# ── Platform B: Tanko (DSH dsh-web on amdpve CT 112) ──
+# Direct SSH to 192.168.68.122 is not a dependency of this monitor — per-worker
+# key availability varies — so probes run from the amdpve vantage via `pct exec`.
+# Tanko's Zulip gateway runs as the dsh-web systemd unit inside CT 112 on amdpve
+# (192.168.68.15). The gateway binds 127.0.0.1:3080 loopback-only by design — a
+# remote :3080 probe is refused and is NOT a fault.
+TANKO_SVC=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.15 \
+  "pct exec 112 -- systemctl is-active dsh-web" 2>/dev/null || true)
+[ -n "$TANKO_SVC" ] || TANKO_SVC="unknown"
+TANKO_HTTP=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.15 \
+  "pct exec 112 -- curl -s --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 10 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:3080/" 2>/dev/null || true)
+[ -n "$TANKO_HTTP" ] || TANKO_HTTP="000"
+
+if [ "$TANKO_SVC" != "active" ]; then
+  notify "🔴" "Tanko (DSH dsh-web) service state: $TANKO_SVC — needs restart"
   ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
-  echo "  Abiba: ❌ Disconnected — restarted" >> "$LOG"
-elif [ -n "$PI_ERROR" ]; then
-  notify "🟡" "Abiba pi extension error: ${PI_ERROR:0:100}"
-  echo "  Abiba: 🟡 Error: ${PI_ERROR:0:100}" >> "$LOG"
-elif [ "$PI_RETRIES" -ge 3 ]; then
-  notify "🟡" "Abiba pi extension: $PI_RETRIES retries — restarting"
-  pm2 restart abiba-zulip 2>/dev/null || true
-  echo "  Abiba: 🟡 $PI_RETRIES retries — restarted" >> "$LOG"
+  echo "  Tanko: ❌ service=$TANKO_SVC" >> "$LOG"
+elif [ "$TANKO_HTTP" = "000" ]; then
+  notify "🔴" "Tanko (DSH dsh-web) HTTP :3080 connection refused/timeout — needs restart"
+  ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+  echo "  Tanko: ❌ http=000 (refused/timeout)" >> "$LOG"
 else
-  echo "  Abiba: ✅ Connected (processed=$(echo "$PI_HEALTH" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d.get('messages_processed',0))" 2>/dev/null))" >> "$LOG"
+  case "$TANKO_HTTP" in
+    200|301|302|307|308|401|403)
+      echo "  Tanko: ✅ service=active http=$TANKO_HTTP" >> "$LOG" ;;
+    *)
+      notify "🟡" "Tanko (DSH dsh-web) HTTP :3080 answered $TANKO_HTTP — running, unexpected status"
+      echo "  Tanko: 🟡 service=active http=$TANKO_HTTP (running, warning)" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  esac
 fi
 
-# ── Platform B: Hermes (Tanko) ──
-TANKO_STATE=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 jerome@192.168.68.122 \
-  "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json 2>/dev/null" 2>/dev/null || echo "{}")
-TANKO_ZULIP=$(echo "$TANKO_STATE" | python3 -c "
-import sys,json
-d=json.load(sys.stdin)
-p=d.get('platforms',{}).get('zulip',{})
-print(p.get('state','unknown'))
-" 2>/dev/null)
-
-if [ "$TANKO_ZULIP" != "connected" ]; then
-  notify "🔴" "Tanko (Hermes) Zulip state: $TANKO_ZULIP — needs restart"
-  ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
-  echo "  Tanko: ❌ state=$TANKO_ZULIP" >> "$LOG"
-else
-  echo "  Tanko: ✅ Zulip connected" >> "$LOG"
-fi
-
-# ── Platform B: Hermes (Mumuni) ──
-MUMUNI_STATE=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.24 \
-  "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json 2>/dev/null" 2>/dev/null || echo "{}")
-MUMUNI_ZULIP=$(echo "$MUMUNI_STATE" | python3 -c "
-import sys,json
-d=json.load(sys.stdin)
-p=d.get('platforms',{}).get('zulip',{})
-print(p.get('state','unknown'))
-" 2>/dev/null)
-
-if [ "$MUMUNI_ZULIP" != "connected" ]; then
-  notify "🔴" "Mumuni (Hermes) Zulip state: $MUMUNI_ZULIP"
-  ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
-  echo "  Mumuni: ❌ state=$MUMUNI_ZULIP" >> "$LOG"
-else
-  echo "  Mumuni: ✅ Zulip connected" >> "$LOG"
-fi
+# ── Removed: the former "Platform B: Hermes" agent leg ──
+# Captain ruling 2026-09-10: that agent moved off this host onto her own
+# container (kagentz CT 105 on minipve, dedicated `hermes` user) and is now
+# monitored on her side — see the out-of-scope note in zulip-health.prose.md.
+# The old leg ssh'd to her former CT 100 deployment and read its Hermes gateway
+# state, which reported "unknown" on every run and posted a false 🔴 DM plus an
+# #agent-hub stream alert. Do NOT re-add a probe for her: this monitor must
+# never contact her former host.
 
 # ── Platform C: Agent Zero (kagentz) ──
-AZ_A2A=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.14 \
-  "docker exec agent-zero curl -s --connect-timeout 5 http://127.0.0.1:8001/.well-known/agent.json 2>/dev/null" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
-AZ_ALIVE=$(echo "$AZ_A2A" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.load(sys.stdin); print(d.get('name',''))" 2>/dev/null)
+# C1: A2A liveness (no credential needed) — probes the container's internal :80/a2a/
+# C2: A2A response verification (needs LITELLM_KEY) — probes POST /a2a with auth
+# C3: Public access path (no credential needed) — probes https://kagentz.sysloggh.net/
 
-if [ "$AZ_ALIVE" != "kagentz" ]; then
-  notify "🔴" "kagentz A2A server DOWN — restarting"
-  ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.14 \
-    "docker exec agent-zero bash -c 'pkill -9 -f a2a_agent; sleep 1; cd /a0 && /opt/venv-a0/bin/python3 -u /a0/usr/a2a_agent.py > /tmp/a2a.log 2>&1 &'" 2>/dev/null || true
+# C1: A2A liveness (container-internal probe)
+AZ_A2A_CODE=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.14 \
+  "docker exec agent-zero curl -s --connect-timeout 5 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:80/a2a/ 2>/dev/null" 2>/dev/null) || AZ_A2A_CODE="000"
+AZ_A2A_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$AZ_A2A_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$AZ_A2A_CODE" ] || AZ_A2A_CODE="000"
+
+if [ "$AZ_A2A_CODE" = "000" ]; then
+  notify "🔴" "kagentz A2A server DOWN (connection failed)"
   ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
-  echo "  kagentz: ❌ A2A down — restarted" >> "$LOG"
+  echo "  kagentz C1: ❌ A2A down (HTTP 000)" >> "$LOG"
 else
-  echo "  kagentz: ✅ A2A alive" >> "$LOG"
-  
-  # Check adapter process
-  AZ_ADAPTER=$(ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.14 \
-    "docker exec agent-zero ps aux 2>/dev/null | grep adapter | grep -v grep | wc -l" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
-  if [ "$AZ_ADAPTER" -lt 1 ]; then
-    notify "🔴" "kagentz Zulip adapter DOWN — restarting"
-    ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=5 root@192.168.68.14 \
-      "docker exec agent-zero bash -c 'cd /a0/usr/kagentz-zulip && ZULIP_SITE=https://chat.sysloggh.net ZULIP_EMAIL=kagentz-bot@chat.sysloggh.net ZULIP_API_KEY=E9q9PXJTxftPYBkb5pBDWupDO7KK21ty ZULIP_AGENT_NAME=kagentz A2A_URL=http://localhost:8001/a2a A2A_TOKEN=8zNgdOEXzYxjQvTl /opt/venv-a0/bin/python3 -u adapter.py > /tmp/zulip-adapter.log 2>&1 &'" 2>/dev/null || true
-    ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
-    echo "  kagentz: ❌ Adapter down — restarted" >> "$LOG"
-  else
-    echo "  kagentz: ✅ Adapter running" >> "$LOG"
-  fi
+  case "$AZ_A2A_CODE" in
+    200|401)
+      echo "  kagentz C1: ✅ A2A alive (HTTP $AZ_A2A_CODE)" >> "$LOG" ;;
+    *)
+      notify "🟡" "kagentz A2A server answered HTTP $AZ_A2A_CODE — running, unexpected status"
+      ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+      echo "  kagentz C1: 🟡 A2A unexpected http=$AZ_A2A_CODE (running, warning)" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+# C3: Public access path (the captain's point of view)
+# Probes the public URL that NetBird proxies to the container. 200/302/401 = alive,
+# 502 = proxy's "upstream refused" page (incident), connection failed = incident.
+# Never restarts anything — the contract forbids restarting the platform.
+KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 15 \
+  -w '%{http_code}' https://kagentz.sysloggh.net/ 2>/dev/null) || KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE="000"
+KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE=$(printf '%s' "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" | tr -d '[:space:]')
+[ -n "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" ] || KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE="000"
+
+if [ "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" = "000" ]; then
+  notify "🔴" "kagentz public URL DOWN (connection failed)"
+  ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+  echo "  kagentz C3: ❌ public URL down (HTTP 000)" >> "$LOG"
+elif [ "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" = "502" ]; then
+  notify "🔴" "kagentz public URL 502 (upstream refused)"
+  ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+  echo "  kagentz C3: ❌ public URL 502 (upstream refused)" >> "$LOG"
+else
+  case "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" in
+    200|302|401)
+      echo "  kagentz C3: ✅ public URL alive (HTTP $KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE)" >> "$LOG" ;;
+    *)
+      notify "🟡" "kagentz public URL answered HTTP $KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE — running, unexpected status"
+      ISSUES=$((ISSUES + 1))
+      echo "  kagentz C3: 🟡 public URL unexpected http=$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE (running, warning)" >> "$LOG" ;;
+  esac
 fi
 
 # ── Summary ──
+# The run verdict is non-optimistic: when ISSUES > 0, the run is an INCIDENT.
+# The lane must quote this Result line verbatim in its status report.
 if [ "$ISSUES" -eq 0 ]; then
-  echo "  Result: ✅ All healthy" >> "$LOG"
+  echo "  Result: ✅ 0 issues (all healthy)" >> "$LOG"
 else
-  echo "  Result: 🔴 $ISSUES issue(s) found" >> "$LOG"
+  echo "  Result: 🔴 INCIDENT — $ISSUES issue(s) found" >> "$LOG"
   notify "🔴" "$ISSUES issue(s) found — check /root/zulip-health-monitor.log"
 fi
 

stirling-pdf-agent-access.prose.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Agent (Hermes/pi) ──curl + X-API-Key──► Stirling-PDF (:8989) ──►
 | Base URL | `http://192.168.68.7:8989` |
 | Auth Method | API Key (header) |
 | Header Name | `X-API-Key` |
-| API Key | `adefaef837314afc37803747049c2e73f456da97699ff1b02b391347c4a3cb88` |
+| API Key | `«vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_API_KEY»` |
 | Key Source | `SECURITY_CUSTOMGLOBALAPIKEY` in `/opt/home_stack/docker-compose.yml` |
 | Swagger | `http://192.168.68.7:8989/swagger-ui.html` |
 | Health | `http://192.168.68.7:8989/api/v1/info/status` |
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ from the knowledge graph and use the documented curl patterns.
 Direct bash invocations:
 ```bash
 curl -X POST "http://192.168.68.7:8989/api/v1/split-pdf" \
-  -H "X-API-Key: adefaef837314afc37803747049c2e73f456da97699ff1b02b391347c4a3cb88" \
+  -H "X-API-Key: «vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_API_KEY»" \
   -F "fileInput=@/path/to/file.pdf" \
   -F "pageNumbers=1,2,3" \
   -o /tmp/output.zip

tests/fixtures/zulip-health-connected.json

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+    "status": "ok",
+    "platform": "pi",
+    "agent": "abiba",
+    "zulip": {
+        "connected": true,
+        "site": "https://chat.sysloggh.net",
+        "email": "abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net",
+        "queue_id": "ee7f8b6d-9d53-48a7-ad58-f6e999771001",
+        "bot_user_id": 21,
+        "messages_processed": 0,
+        "skipped": 0,
+        "last_error": null
+    },
+    "circuit_breaker": {
+        "state": "CLOSED",
+        "failures": 0,
+        "successes": 5,
+        "totalRequests": 5,
+        "failureRate": "0.000",
+        "openedAt": null
+    },
+    "workers": [],
+    "worker_count": 0
+}

tests/fixtures/zulip-health-disconnected.json

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{
+    "status": "down",
+    "platform": "pi",
+    "agent": "abiba",
+    "zulip": {
+        "connected": false,
+        "site": "https://chat.sysloggh.net",
+        "email": "abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net",
+        "queue_id": null,
+        "bot_user_id": null,
+        "messages_processed": 0,
+        "skipped": 0,
+        "last_error": "Zulip API error 401: queue registration failed"
+    },
+    "circuit_breaker": {
+        "state": "CLOSED",
+        "failures": 0,
+        "successes": 0,
+        "totalRequests": 0,
+        "failureRate": "0.000",
+        "openedAt": null
+    },
+    "workers": [],
+    "worker_count": 0
+}

tests/test_audit_hermes_config_alias.py

@@ -0,0 +1,261 @@
+"""Regression tests for the 2026-09-12 retired-alias sweep in audit-hermes-config.py.
+
+WHY THIS FILE EXISTS: the executable audit pushed agent configs toward a DEAD alias.
+Rule 8 required `auxiliary.vision.model == "gpu-light"` and
+`auxiliary.web_extract.model == "gpu-light"`, but `gpu-light` (and its raw predecessor
+`gemma-4-12b`) were retired on 2026-09-12 and now return 400 `Invalid model name`; the
+live RTX 5070 alias is `gpu-vision`. A config that adopted the correct canonical alias
+therefore FAILED our own audit, so the audit was actively enforcing a broken config.
+
+These tests execute the real CLI (`python3 audit-hermes-config.py <config>`) and assert
+observable behaviour — exit code and the emitted rule message — for the live alias and
+for both retired names. No network, vault, or SSH access is required.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pathlib
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+AUDIT = ROOT / "audit-hermes-config.py"
+
+BASE = """
+model:
+  api_key: ""
+  api_key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
+  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
+  max_tokens: 4096
+  default: syslog-auto
+  provider: harness
+fallback_providers:
+  provider: deepseek
+  model: deepseek-v4-flash
+  api_key_env: DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
+compression:
+  model: syslog-auto
+  provider: harness
+  threshold: 0.65
+  max_context_window: 131072
+auxiliary:
+  vision:
+    model: {alias}
+    provider: harness
+  web_extract:
+    model: {alias}
+    provider: harness
+  compression:
+    model: syslog-auto
+    provider: harness
+delegation:
+  provider: harness
+custom_providers:
+  - name: harness
+    key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY
+    base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1
+"""
+
+
+def _run_config(tmp_path, name, text):
+    cfg = tmp_path / name
+    cfg.write_text(text)
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, str(AUDIT), str(cfg)],
+        capture_output=True, text=True,
+    )
+    return proc.returncode, proc.stdout
+
+
+def _run(tmp_path, alias):
+    return _run_config(tmp_path, f"{alias}.yaml", BASE.format(alias=alias))
+
+
+def test_live_canonical_alias_passes(tmp_path):
+    """The RTX 5070 alias that actually resolves must satisfy Rule 8."""
+    code, out = _run(tmp_path, "gpu-vision")
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_gpu_light_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """A config pinned to the retired alias must fail, not pass."""
+    code, out = _run(tmp_path, "gpu-light")
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "auxiliary.vision.model must be gpu-vision" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_gemma_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """The retired raw model name must fail Rule 8 as well."""
+    code, out = _run(tmp_path, "gemma-4-12b")
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "auxiliary.vision.model must be gpu-vision" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_corrected_compression_example_passes(tmp_path):
+    """The corrected workaround (vision=gpu-vision, compression=syslog-auto) must PASS."""
+    code, out = _run(tmp_path, "gpu-vision")
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "[Rule 7] compression.model must be syslog-auto (got 'syslog-auto')" in out
+    assert "[Rule 7] auxiliary.compression.model must be syslog-auto (got 'syslog-auto')" in out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_alias_in_delegation_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """delegation.model has no dedicated value rule, so a retired name there used to PASS."""
+    code, out = _run_config(
+        tmp_path,
+        "delegation-gpu-light.yaml",
+        BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+            "delegation:\n  provider: harness",
+            "delegation:\n  provider: harness\n  model: gpu-light",
+        ),
+    )
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "delegation.model = 'gpu-light' is retired" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_alias_in_custom_providers_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """custom_providers[*].model is model-bearing; a retired name there must fail."""
+    code, out = _run_config(
+        tmp_path,
+        "custom-provider-gpu-light.yaml",
+        BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+            "  - name: harness\n    key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY",
+            "  - name: harness\n    model: gpu-light\n    key_env: LITELLM_API_KEY",
+        ),
+    )
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "custom_providers[0].model = 'gpu-light'" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_raw_name_fails(tmp_path):
+    """Retired raw names no longer resolve (400), so they fail; the 2026-09-12 registry change moved qwen3.6-27B-code from raw-but-live to non-resolving."""
+    code, out = _run_config(
+        tmp_path,
+        "retired-qwen.yaml",
+        BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+            "delegation:\n  provider: harness",
+            "delegation:\n  provider: harness\n  model: qwen3.6-27B-code",
+        ),
+    )
+    assert code != 0, out
+    assert "delegation.model = 'qwen3.6-27B-code' is retired and no longer resolves" in out
+    assert "use gpu-dense" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_alias_in_fallback_providers_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """fallback_providers.model is model-bearing; a retired name there must fail."""
+    code, out = _run_config(
+        tmp_path,
+        "fallback-gpu-light.yaml",
+        BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace("  model: deepseek-v4-flash", "  model: gpu-light"),
+    )
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "fallback_providers.model = 'gpu-light'" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_alias_in_x_search_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """x_search.model was previously not enumerated; the derivation must catch it."""
+    code, out = _run_config(
+        tmp_path,
+        "x-search-gpu-light.yaml",
+        BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+            "delegation:\n  provider: harness",
+            "delegation:\n  provider: harness\nx_search:\n  model: gpu-light",
+        ),
+    )
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "x_search.model = 'gpu-light'" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_retired_alias_in_nested_auxiliary_block_is_rejected(tmp_path):
+    """A nested auxiliary sub-block outside the named three must still be derived."""
+    code, out = _run_config(
+        tmp_path,
+        "nested-aux-gpu-light.yaml",
+        BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+            "  compression:\n    model: syslog-auto\n    provider: harness\ndelegation:",
+            "  compression:\n    model: syslog-auto\n    provider: harness\n"
+            "  tasks:\n    summarize:\n      model: gpu-light\ndelegation:",
+        ),
+    )
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "auxiliary.tasks.summarize.model = 'gpu-light'" in out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+
+
+def test_canonical_internal_path_passes(tmp_path):
+    """Rule 5 must accept the canonical internal base from hermes-key-enforcement.prose.md."""
+    code, out = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        "gpu-vision",
+    )
+    # Override the base_url in the config
+    cfg_text = BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1",
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1",
+    )
+    code, out = _run_config(tmp_path, "canonical-internal.yaml", cfg_text)
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out
+    # Verify the correct message is shown
+    assert "model.base_url is canonical" in out
+
+
+def test_wrong_base_url_fails(tmp_path):
+    """Rule 5 must reject paths outside the allowed list."""
+    cfg_text = BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1",
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1/responses",
+    )
+    code, out = _run_config(tmp_path, "wrong-base.yaml", cfg_text)
+    assert code == 1, out
+    assert "RESULT: FAIL" in out
+    assert "model.base_url must be one of" in out
+
+
+def test_public_host_path_passes(tmp_path):
+    """Rule 5 must accept the public host base."""
+    cfg_text = BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1",
+        "  base_url: https://litellm.sysloggh.net/v1",
+    )
+    code, out = _run_config(tmp_path, "public-host.yaml", cfg_text)
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out
+
+
+def test_old_rule5_check_would_fail_canonical(tmp_path):
+    """
+    Proof that the OLD Rule 5 check would fail the canonical internal path.
+    This proves the bug existed before the fix.
+    """
+    # OLD check expected /v1, so the canonical /litellm/v1 would have failed
+    canonical_cfg = BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision")
+    # Simulate the OLD check by testing against the canonical path
+    code, out = _run_config(tmp_path, "canonical-test.yaml", canonical_cfg)
+    # NEW check: canonical /litellm/v1 SHOULD pass
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out
+    
+    # OLD check expected /v1, so the internal /v1 would have passed
+    # NEW check: internal /v1 is non-canonical but working (WARN not FAIL)
+    old_cfg = BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision").replace(
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/litellm/v1",
+        "  base_url: http://192.168.68.116/v1",
+    )
+    code, out = _run_config(tmp_path, "old-check-test.yaml", old_cfg)
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out
+    # NEW check should pass
+    new_cfg = BASE.format(alias="gpu-vision")
+    code, out = _run_config(tmp_path, "new-check-test.yaml", new_cfg)
+    assert code == 0, out
+    assert "RESULT: PASS" in out

tests/test_daily_infra_report.py

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+"""
+Regression tests for daily-infra-report.py fixes (PR #64).
+
+Tests:
+(a) Asserts the nested zulip read feeds the agent-card fields
+(b) Asserts an unreachable pve_get renders labelled-unreachable, not "0/0"
+"""
+import json
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock
+
+# Add scripts to path
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent / "scripts"))
+import importlib.util
+
+def load_script():
+    """Load the daily-infra-report script as a module."""
+    script_path = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "scripts" / "daily-infra-report.py"
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("daily_infra_report", script_path)
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+def test_nested_zulip_read_feeds_agent_card():
+    """Test that Zulip state is read from the nested 'zulip' key and feeds agent-card fields."""
+    # Mock the http_get_body response with nested structure
+    mock_health_response = json.dumps({
+        "status": "ok",
+        "platform": "pi",
+        "agent": "abiba",
+        "zulip": {
+            "connected": True,
+            "queue_id": "test-queue-id",
+            "messages_processed": 42,
+            "skipped": 5,
+            "last_error": None
+        }
+    })
+    
+    # Import and patch
+    report_mod = load_script()
+    
+    with patch.object(report_mod, 'http_get_body', return_value=mock_health_response):
+        # Simulate the collect() function's Zulip section
+        zulip_health = json.loads(report_mod.http_get_body("http://localhost:9200/health"))
+        zulip_state = zulip_health.get("zulip", {})
+        
+        # Assert the nested key is read correctly
+        assert zulip_state.get("connected") == True, "Zulip connected should be True from nested key"
+        assert zulip_state.get("messages_processed") == 42, "messages_processed should be 42 from nested key"
+        assert zulip_state.get("queue_id") == "test-queue-id", "queue_id should be read from nested key"
+        
+        # Simulate the agent card field population
+        agent_card = {
+            "zulip_connected": zulip_state.get("connected", False),
+            "zulip_processed": zulip_state.get("messages_processed", 0),
+        }
+        
+        assert agent_card["zulip_connected"] == True, "Agent card should show Zulip connected"
+        assert agent_card["zulip_processed"] == 42, "Agent card should show 42 processed messages"
+
+
+def test_unreachable_pve_get_renders_labelled_unreachable():
+    """Test that an unreachable PVE API renders 'unreachable' instead of '0/0'."""
+    # Import and patch
+    report_mod = load_script()
+    
+    # Test pve_get returns None on error
+    with patch.object(report_mod.subprocess, 'run') as mock_run:
+        mock_run.return_value.returncode = 7  # Connection failure
+        result = report_mod.pve_get("/api2/json/nodes")
+        assert result is None, "pve_get should return None on connection failure"
+    
+    # Test the render logic
+    report = {
+        "nodes": {},
+        "node_count": 0,
+        "nodes_online": 0,
+        "pve_probe_status": "unreachable",
+        "total_vms": 0,
+        "running_vms": 0,
+    }
+    
+    # The render should show "unreachable" not "0/0"
+    pve_status_label = "unreachable" if report.get('pve_probe_status') == 'unreachable' else f"{report['nodes_online']}/{report['node_count']}"
+    
+    assert pve_status_label == "unreachable", "PVE status should show 'unreachable' when probe fails, not '0/0'"
+
+
+def test_unreachable_resources_renders_labelled_unreachable():
+    """Test that unreachable resources probe renders 'unreachable' instead of '0/0'."""
+    report_mod = load_script()
+    
+    # Test resources probe returns None
+    with patch.object(report_mod.subprocess, 'run') as mock_run:
+        mock_run.return_value.returncode = 7
+        result = report_mod.pve_get("/api2/json/cluster/resources")
+        assert result is None, "pve_get for resources should return None on connection failure"
+    
+    # Test the render logic
+    report = {
+        "resources_probe_status": "unreachable",
+        "total_vms": 0,
+        "running_vms": 0,
+    }
+    
+    resources_label = "unreachable" if report.get('resources_probe_status') == 'unreachable' else f"{report['running_vms']}/{report['total_vms']}"
+    
+    assert resources_label == "unreachable", "Resources status should show 'unreachable' when probe fails, not '0/0'"
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    print("Running tests...")
+    try:
+        test_nested_zulip_read_feeds_agent_card()
+        print("✓ test_nested_zulip_read_feeds_agent_card passed")
+    except AssertionError as e:
+        print(f"✗ test_nested_zulip_read_feeds_agent_card failed: {e}")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+    try:
+        test_unreachable_pve_get_renders_labelled_unreachable()
+        print("✓ test_unreachable_pve_get_renders_labelled_unreachable passed")
+    except AssertionError as e:
+        print(f"✗ test_unreachable_pve_get_renders_labelled_unreachable failed: {e}")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+    try:
+        test_unreachable_resources_renders_labelled_unreachable()
+        print("✓ test_unreachable_resources_renders_labelled_unreachable passed")
+    except AssertionError as e:
+        print(f"✗ test_unreachable_resources_renders_labelled_unreachable failed: {e}")
+        sys.exit(1)
+    
+    print("All tests passed!")

tests/test_disk_gc_report_only.py

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+"""Regression tests for the disk-gc report-only gate (CT 111 / tdunna / .129).
+
+WHY THIS FILE EXISTS: `disk-gc-threat-response.prose.md` defined AMBER as "GC scheduled
+for next run" and its Execution loop called `gc-executor` for EVERY threat, with no
+guest-level exclusion. CT 111 (tdunna, 192.168.68.129) belongs to Theo and is
+report-only per the captain (2026-08-17, re-confirmed 2026-09-10) — so a single AMBER
+reading on that guest would have scheduled GC commands (apt clean, journal vacuum,
+log/tmp deletion, snap removal) against someone else's box. The only marker was
+frontmatter `report_only_agents`, which names an AGENT while the scan unit is a GUEST.
+
+These tests execute the real planner (`scripts/disk-gc-plan.py`) and assert observable
+behaviour: an excluded guest never produces a `gc-executor` action at any level, while
+our own guests still do.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import pathlib
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+PLAN = ROOT / "scripts" / "disk-gc-plan.py"
+
+
+def _plan(scan, tmp_path):
+    scan_file = tmp_path / "scan.json"
+    scan_file.write_text(json.dumps(scan))
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, str(PLAN), "--scan", str(scan_file), "--json"],
+        capture_output=True, text=True,
+    )
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    return json.loads(proc.stdout)
+
+
+def _actions_for(plan, target):
+    return [row for row in plan if str(row["target"]) == str(target)]
+
+
+def test_excluded_guest_never_gets_gc_at_any_level(tmp_path):
+    """CT 111 at AMBER, RED and CRITICAL — always report-only, never gc-executor."""
+    for pct, level in ((84, "AMBER"), (90, "RED"), (97, "CRITICAL")):
+        plan = _plan([{"id": 111, "hostname": "tdunna", "ip": "192.168.68.129",
+                       "usage_pct": pct}], tmp_path)
+        rows = _actions_for(plan, 111)
+        assert rows, f"CT 111 must still be reported at {level}"
+        assert rows[0]["level"] == level
+        assert rows[0]["action"] == "report-only", rows
+        assert not any(r["action"] == "gc-executor" for r in rows)
+
+
+def test_exclusion_matches_on_any_identity_key(tmp_path):
+    """The gate is keyed on guest/host, so id, ct, ctid, hostname or IP all match."""
+    for entry in ({"id": 111, "usage_pct": 95},
+                  {"ct": 111, "usage_pct": 95},
+                  {"ctid": 111, "usage_pct": 95},
+                  {"hostname": "tdunna", "usage_pct": 95},
+                  {"ip": "192.168.68.129", "usage_pct": 95}):
+        plan = _plan([entry], tmp_path)
+        assert all(r["action"] == "report-only" for r in plan), (entry, plan)
+
+
+def test_exclusion_matches_encoded_identities(tmp_path):
+    """A differently-encoded CT 111 id must not slip past the gate to gc-executor."""
+    encodings = ({"id": 111.0},
+                 {"id": "111.0"},
+                 {"id": "lxc/111"},
+                 {"id": "qemu/111"},
+                 {"id": "0111"},
+                 {"id": "  111  "})
+    for alias in encodings:
+        plan = _plan([{**alias, "usage_pct": 97}], tmp_path)
+        assert plan, alias
+        assert plan[0]["action"] == "report-only", (alias, plan)
+
+
+def test_our_own_guests_still_get_gc(tmp_path):
+    """acerpve .9 and amdpve .15 are ours — they must still be acted on."""
+    plan = _plan([{"hostname": "acerpve", "ip": "192.168.68.9", "usage_pct": 77},
+                  {"hostname": "amdpve", "ip": "192.168.68.15", "usage_pct": 76}], tmp_path)
+    assert len(plan) == 2
+    assert all(r["action"] == "gc-executor" for r in plan), plan
+
+
+def test_below_threshold_emits_nothing(tmp_path):
+    """GREEN guests produce no action at all."""
+    assert _plan([{"id": 111, "usage_pct": 40}], tmp_path) == []
+
+
+def test_agent_name_alone_does_not_gate_a_guest(tmp_path):
+    """An agent-name marker must not be the gate: an unrelated guest still gets GC."""
+    plan = _plan([{"id": 999, "hostname": "koby", "usage_pct": 95}], tmp_path)
+    assert plan and plan[0]["action"] == "gc-executor"
+
+
+def test_unidentified_threat_fails_closed(tmp_path):
+    """A threshold-crossing entry with no recognized identity must not schedule GC."""
+    plan = _plan([{"usage_pct": 97}], tmp_path)
+    assert plan, "an unidentified threat must still be reported"
+    assert plan[0]["action"] == "report-only", plan
+    assert plan[0]["reason"], plan
+
+
+def test_exclusion_entry_without_identity_fails_closed(tmp_path):
+    """A mis-typed exclusion entry must break the run, never silently disable the gate."""
+    contract = tmp_path / "broken.prose.md"
+    contract.write_text(
+        "```yaml\n"
+        "report_only_guests:\n"
+        "  - node: storepve\n"
+        "    reason: \"typo - no guest identity\"\n"
+        "```\n"
+    )
+    scan_file = tmp_path / "scan.json"
+    scan_file.write_text(json.dumps([{"ct": 111, "usage_pct": 97}]))
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, str(PLAN), "--scan", str(scan_file),
+         "--contract", str(contract), "--json"],
+        capture_output=True, text=True,
+    )
+    assert proc.returncode != 0, proc.stdout
+    assert "gc-executor" not in proc.stdout
+    assert "identity" in proc.stderr.lower(), proc.stderr
+
+
+def test_empty_exclusion_block_fails_closed(tmp_path):
+    """An emptied report_only_guests list must break the run, not disable the gate."""
+    contract = tmp_path / "empty.prose.md"
+    contract.write_text("```yaml\nreport_only_guests: []\n```\n")
+    scan_file = tmp_path / "scan.json"
+    scan_file.write_text(json.dumps([{"ct": 111, "usage_pct": 97}]))
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, str(PLAN), "--scan", str(scan_file),
+         "--contract", str(contract), "--json"],
+        capture_output=True, text=True,
+    )
+    assert proc.returncode != 0, proc.stdout
+    assert "gc-executor" not in proc.stdout
+    assert "report-only gate" in proc.stderr.lower(), proc.stderr
+
+
+def _plan_with_contract(scan, contract_text, tmp_path, name):
+    contract = tmp_path / name
+    contract.write_text(contract_text)
+    scan_file = tmp_path / f"scan-{name}.json"
+    scan_file.write_text(json.dumps(scan))
+    proc = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, str(PLAN), "--scan", str(scan_file),
+         "--contract", str(contract), "--json"],
+        capture_output=True, text=True,
+    )
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    return json.loads(proc.stdout)
+
+
+def test_gate_is_read_from_the_contract_block(tmp_path):
+    """The gate is data-driven by the contract block: the planner excludes the guest
+    when the block names it and acts on it when the block does not. Executes the real
+    planner interface against both fixtures so the behaviour change is observable."""
+    scan = [{"id": 111, "hostname": "tdunna", "ip": "192.168.68.129", "usage_pct": 95}]
+    with_gate = (
+        "```yaml\n"
+        "report_only_guests:\n"
+        "  - guest: 111\n"
+        "    hostname: tdunna\n"
+        "    ip: 192.168.68.129\n"
+        "    reason: \"fixture reason\"\n"
+        "```\n"
+    )
+    without_gate = (
+        "```yaml\n"
+        "report_only_guests:\n"
+        "  - guest: 999\n"
+        "    reason: \"fixture excludes a different guest\"\n"
+        "```\n"
+    )
+
+    gated = _plan_with_contract(scan, with_gate, tmp_path, "gated.prose.md")
+    assert gated[0]["action"] == "report-only", gated
+    assert gated[0]["reason"] == "fixture reason", gated
+
+    ungated = _plan_with_contract(scan, without_gate, tmp_path, "ungated.prose.md")
+    assert ungated[0]["action"] == "gc-executor", ungated
+    assert ungated[0]["action"] != gated[0]["action"]

tests/test_mumuni_monitor_removal.py

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+"""Regression tests for the 2026-09-10 retirement of the Mumuni monitoring leg.
+
+WHY THIS FILE EXISTS: captain ruling 2026-09-10 — Mumuni moved off this host
+onto her own container (kagentz CT 105 on minipve, 192.168.68.14, dedicated
+`hermes` user) and is monitored from her side. The monitor nevertheless kept
+ssh'ing to root@192.168.68.24 for `~/.hermes/gateway_state.json` on the
+decommissioned deployment, read "unknown" on every run, and posted a false 🔴
+"Mumuni (Hermes) Zulip state: unknown" DM + #agent-hub stream alert to the
+captain. The daily infra digest published a matching `mumuni:unknown` row.
+
+CONTRACT UNDER TEST:
+  * `scripts/zulip-monitor.sh` carries NO Mumuni probe and NO 192.168.68.24
+    reference; it never ssh'es .24, and even on a failing run it emits no Mumuni
+    notify (stdout alert, Zulip payload, or log line).
+  * The Abiba (pi — the Zulip bridge), Tanko (DSH) and Agent Zero (kagentz) legs
+    still work: deleting the Mumuni leg must not have gutted the rest.
+  * `scripts/daily-infra-report.py` no longer probes .24 for a Hermes gateway
+    state and no longer emits a `mumuni` agent entry.
+  * `scripts/agent-health-check.py`'s AGENTS roster has no mumuni entry. This is
+    a pin, not a behavior change — verify the probe was already gone.
+  * `zulip-health.prose.md` retires the Mumuni-only steps and says explicitly
+    that Mumuni is not monitored from this host.
+
+HOW: behavioral execution plus one named deliverable-text contract. The sandbox
+copies the shipped monitor verbatim and rewrites only its LOG constant, then
+runs it with stub ssh/curl on PATH; the ssh stub records every host it is asked
+to reach, so "never probes .24" and "no Mumuni notify" are asserted from
+observed behavior. The daily digest is pinned by importing it and exercising
+collect() and build_html() directly. The single source-text assertion is the
+deliverable-text contract the captain acceptance names for the shipped monitor.
+
+Usage: python3 -m pytest tests/test_mumuni_monitor_removal.py
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib.util
+import os
+import pathlib
+import stat
+import subprocess
+
+import pytest
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+ZULIP_MONITOR = ROOT / "scripts" / "zulip-monitor.sh"
+DAILY_REPORT = ROOT / "scripts" / "daily-infra-report.py"
+AHC = ROOT / "scripts" / "agent-health-check.py"
+HEALTH_CONTRACT = ROOT / "zulip-health.prose.md"
+CONNECTED_FIXTURE = ROOT / "tests" / "fixtures" / "zulip-health-connected.json"
+
+MUMUNI_IP = "192.168.68.24"       # Mumuni's old (decommissioned) deployment
+TANKO_VANTAGE = "192.168.68.15"   # amdpve — Tanko CT 112 via pct exec
+AGENT_ZERO_HOST = "192.168.68.14"  # kagentz host, Agent Zero docker
+
+
+# ── scripts/zulip-monitor.sh: deliverable-text contract ─────────────
+
+def test_zulip_monitor_deliverable_text_contract():
+    """Owned deliverable-text contract for scripts/zulip-monitor.sh.
+
+    Captain acceptance requires the shipped monitor to contain no Mumuni probe
+    identifier and no 192.168.68.24 literal. Behavioral proof that the monitor
+    never contacts that host and never emits a Mumuni notify lives in the
+    sandbox tests below; this only pins the named text contract.
+    """
+    text = ZULIP_MONITOR.read_text()
+    assert "mumuni" not in text.lower()
+    assert MUMUNI_IP not in text
+
+
+# ── scripts/zulip-monitor.sh: behavioral sandbox ─────────────────────
+
+SSH_STUB = r"""#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub ssh: record the target host, then answer by host + remote command.
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "$RECORD_DIR/ssh.calls"
+host=""
+for a in "$@"; do
+  case "$a" in
+    *@192.168.*) host="${a##*@}" ;;
+  esac
+done
+printf '%s\n' "$host" >> "$RECORD_DIR/ssh.hosts"
+cmd="${*: -1}"
+case "$host" in
+  192.168.68.15)
+    case "$cmd" in
+      *"systemctl is-active"*) printf '%s' "$TANKO_SVC" ;;
+      *curl*)                  printf '%s' "$TANKO_HTTP" ;;
+    esac ;;
+  192.168.68.14)
+    case "$cmd" in
+      *"/a2a/"*) printf '%s' "$AZ_A2A_CODE"; exit "$AZ_A2A_EXIT" ;;
+    esac ;;
+  *)
+    printf 'UNEXPECTED-SSH-HOST %s\n' "$host" >> "$RECORD_DIR/unexpected-ssh" ;;
+esac
+exit 0
+"""
+
+CURL_STUB = r"""#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub curl: serve the Abiba health fixture, the Zulip server 200, and the
+# kagentz C3 public URL, and record every call (including notify) payloads.
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "$RECORD_DIR/curl.calls"
+case "$*" in
+  *:9200/health*)
+    case " $* " in
+      *" -w "*) printf '%s' "$PI_HTTP" ;;   # -w '%{http_code}' probe
+      *)        printf '%s' "$PI_BODY" ;;   # body probe
+    esac ;;
+  *server_settings*)
+    printf '%s' "$SERVER_HTTP" ;;
+  *kagentz.sysloggh.net*)
+    printf '%s' "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" ;;
+esac
+exit 0
+"""
+
+
+def _write_exec(path: pathlib.Path, body: str) -> None:
+    path.write_text(body)
+    path.chmod(path.stat().st_mode
+               | stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH)
+
+
+def _run_monitor(tmp_path, *, tanko_svc="active", tanko_http="200",
+                 az_a2a_code="401", az_a2a_exit=0,
+                 kagentz_public_code="302"):
+    """Run the shipped monitor in a sandbox; return (proc, record_dir, log_path).
+
+    Only the LOG constant is rewritten (to keep the run inside the worktree).
+    Everything else — legs, labels, notify logic — is the shipped script.
+    """
+    sandbox = tmp_path / "sandbox"
+    bindir = sandbox / "bin"
+    record = sandbox / "record"
+    bindir.mkdir(parents=True)
+    record.mkdir()
+
+    _write_exec(bindir / "ssh", SSH_STUB)
+    _write_exec(bindir / "curl", CURL_STUB)
+
+    source = ZULIP_MONITOR.read_text()
+    log_line = 'LOG="/root/zulip-health-monitor.log"'
+    assert log_line in source, "LOG constant moved — update the sandbox harness"
+    log_path = sandbox / "zulip-health-monitor.log"
+    script = sandbox / "zulip-monitor.sh"
+    script.write_text(source.replace(log_line, f'LOG="{log_path}"'))
+
+    env = dict(os.environ)
+    env.update({
+        "PATH": f"{bindir}:{env['PATH']}",
+        "RECORD_DIR": str(record),
+        "TANKO_SVC": tanko_svc,
+        "TANKO_HTTP": tanko_http,
+        "AZ_A2A_CODE": az_a2a_code,
+        "AZ_A2A_EXIT": str(az_a2a_exit),
+        "PI_HTTP": "200",
+        "PI_BODY": CONNECTED_FIXTURE.read_text(),
+        "SERVER_HTTP": "200",
+        "KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE": kagentz_public_code,
+    })
+    proc = subprocess.run(["bash", str(script)], cwd=sandbox, env=env,
+                          capture_output=True, text=True)
+    return proc, record, log_path
+
+
+def test_healthy_run_is_quiet_and_never_reaches_mumuni(tmp_path):
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path)
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    # Every retained leg actually ran and passed.
+    assert "Server: ✅ HTTP 200" in log
+    assert "Abiba: ✅ Connected" in log
+    assert "Tanko: ✅ service=active http=200" in log
+    assert "kagentz C1: ✅ A2A alive (HTTP 401)" in log
+    assert "kagentz C3: ✅ public URL alive (HTTP 302)" in log
+    assert "Result: ✅ 0 issues (all healthy)" in log
+
+    # A healthy run emits no notify at all — and certainly no Mumuni one.
+    assert proc.stdout == ""
+    assert "Mumuni" not in log
+    assert "🔴" not in log
+
+    # Observed behavior: .24 is never resolved, only Tanko's vantage and the
+    # Agent Zero host are contacted.
+    hosts = record.joinpath("ssh.hosts").read_text().split()
+    assert MUMUNI_IP not in hosts
+    assert set(hosts) == {TANKO_VANTAGE, AGENT_ZERO_HOST}
+    assert not record.joinpath("unexpected-ssh").exists()
+
+
+def test_failing_run_alerts_on_tanko_but_never_on_mumuni(tmp_path):
+    # Failure path: exercises notify() end to end so "no Mumuni notify" is
+    # proven on the alert path, not only on the quiet healthy path.
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path, tanko_svc="inactive",
+                                          tanko_http="000")
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+
+    alerts = proc.stdout
+    assert "Tanko (DSH dsh-web) service state: inactive" in alerts
+    assert "1 issue(s) found" in alerts
+
+    # No Mumuni text in stdout, the log, or any Zulip DM/stream payload.
+    assert "Mumuni" not in alerts
+    assert "Mumuni" not in log_path.read_text()
+    assert MUMUNI_IP not in alerts + log_path.read_text()
+    payloads = record.joinpath("curl.calls").read_text()
+    assert "Mumuni" not in payloads
+    assert MUMUNI_IP not in payloads
+
+    # The rest of the monitor still ran alongside the failing Tanko leg.
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+    assert "Abiba: ✅ Connected" in log
+    assert "kagentz C1: ✅ A2A alive" in log
+    assert "Result: 🔴 INCIDENT — 1 issue(s) found" in log
+
+
+def test_unexpected_a2a_status_is_an_issue_not_healthy(tmp_path):
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path, az_a2a_code="500")
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    assert "kagentz C1: 🟡 A2A unexpected http=500 (running, warning)" in log
+    assert "kagentz C1: ✅ A2A alive" not in log
+    assert "Result: 🔴 INCIDENT — 1 issue(s) found" in log
+    assert "kagentz A2A server answered HTTP 500" in proc.stdout
+
+
+def test_a2a_connection_failure_is_down_not_unexpected(tmp_path):
+    # curl prints the http_code before failing, so the ssh stub exits non-zero
+    # with "000" on stdout — exercising the real outage path.
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path, az_a2a_code="000",
+                                          az_a2a_exit=7)
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    assert "kagentz C1: ❌ A2A down (HTTP 000)" in log
+    assert "kagentz C1: ✅ A2A alive" not in log
+    assert "unexpected" not in log
+    assert "Result: 🔴 INCIDENT — 1 issue(s) found" in log
+    assert "kagentz A2A server DOWN (connection failed)" in proc.stdout
+
+
+# ── scripts/daily-infra-report.py: behavioral digest checks ──────────
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def daily():
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("daily_infra_report", DAILY_REPORT)
+    assert spec and spec.loader
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+DAILY_AGENTS = {
+    "abiba": {
+        "platform": "pi", "ct": 100, "ip": MUMUNI_IP,
+        "zulip_connected": True, "zulip_processed": 5,
+        "pm2_status": "online", "pm2_restarts": "0", "pm2_uptime": "1h",
+    },
+    "tanko": {
+        "platform": "dsh", "ct": 112, "ip": "192.168.68.122",
+        "gateway_state": "n/a (DSH)", "zulip_state": "connected",
+        "telegram_state": "unknown", "gateway_pid": None, "updated_at": "",
+    },
+}
+
+
+def _fabricated_report(agents):
+    return {
+        "nodes": {},
+        "node_count": 1,
+        "nodes_online": 1,
+        "total_vms": 0,
+        "running_vms": 0,
+        "stopped_vms": [],
+        "vms_by_node": {n: [] for n in
+                        ["amdpve", "minipve", "storepve", "acerpve", "ocupve"]},
+        "storage": [],
+        "docker_vm": {"total": 0, "running": 0, "unhealthy": [],
+                      "containers": [], "reclaimable": "", "disk_used": "1%"},
+        "docker_syslog": {"total": 0, "running": 0, "containers": []},
+        "docker_netbird": {"total": 0, "running": 0, "containers": []},
+        "endpoints": [],
+        "litellm": {"checks": []},
+        "nfs": [],
+        "zulip_ext": {
+            "connected": True, "queue_id": "queue", "last_error": None,
+            "messages_processed": 0, "retry_count": 0, "pm2": {},
+            "pm2_healthy": True, "bot_skipped_15min": 0, "finalized_1h": 0,
+            "failed_finalize_1h": 0, "finalize_fail_pct": 0,
+            "server_status": "200",
+        },
+        "agents": agents,
+    }
+
+
+def _agent_status_card(html):
+    start = html.index("🤖 Agent Status")
+    end = html.index("💬 Zulip Extension")
+    return html[start:end]
+
+
+def test_daily_report_renders_only_abiba_and_tanko_agents(daily):
+    """build_html() over a Mumuni-free agent set must render no Mumuni row and
+    no Mumuni gateway-unknown issue, while abiba and tanko rows still render."""
+    html = daily.build_html(_fabricated_report(dict(DAILY_AGENTS)))
+    card = _agent_status_card(html)
+    assert "mumuni" not in card.lower()
+    assert "abiba" in card
+    assert "tanko" in card
+    assert "mumuni" not in html.lower()
+
+
+def test_daily_report_collect_never_probes_mumuni(monkeypatch, daily):
+    """collect() with ssh stubbed must add no mumuni agent and must never ssh
+    its decommissioned .24 host."""
+    probed = []
+
+    class _NoSubprocess:
+        @staticmethod
+        def check_output(*args, **kwargs):
+            return b""
+
+    def fake_ssh(host, cmd):
+        probed.append(host)
+        return ""
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "pve_get", lambda path: [])
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "ssh_jerome", lambda host, cmd: "")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "ssh", fake_ssh)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "http_get",
+                        lambda url, auth=None, timeout=10: "200")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "http_get_body",
+                        lambda url, auth=None, timeout=10: "")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "count_in_log", lambda *a, **k: 0)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(daily, "subprocess", _NoSubprocess)
+
+    report = daily.collect()
+    assert "mumuni" not in report["agents"]
+    assert MUMUNI_IP not in probed
+
+
+# ── scripts/agent-health-check.py: roster pin ───────────────────────
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def ahc():
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("agent_health_check_roster", AHC)
+    assert spec and spec.loader
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+def test_agent_health_roster_has_no_mumuni_entry(ahc):
+    assert "mumuni" not in ahc.AGENTS
+
+
+# ── zulip-health.prose.md: contract reconciliation ──────────────────
+
+def test_health_contract_retires_mumuni_only_steps():
+    text = HEALTH_CONTRACT.read_text()
+    assert MUMUNI_IP not in text
+    for step in ("**B4: Gateway Process**", "**B5: Heartbeat Verification**",
+                 "**B6: Response Delivery**"):
+        assert step not in text
+
+
+def test_health_contract_states_mumuni_is_not_monitored_from_this_host():
+    text = HEALTH_CONTRACT.read_text()
+    assert "Mumuni is NOT monitored from this host" in text
+    assert "monitored on her side" in text
+    assert "her own container" in text
+
+
+def test_health_contract_keeps_tanko_agent_zero_and_bridge_steps():
+    text = HEALTH_CONTRACT.read_text()
+    for marker in ("**B1:", "**B2:", "**B3:", "Step 4: Platform C",
+                   "Step 2: Platform A", "Step 1: Zulip Server Liveness"):
+        assert marker in text, marker

tests/test_probe_drift.py

@@ -0,0 +1,466 @@
+"""Regression tests for the 2026-09-09/10 probe-drift corrections.
+
+WHY THIS FILE EXISTS: the monitoring contracts kept emitting false alarms from
+stale expectations rather than live faults.
+
+  * agent-health-check v3 reported 6 failures that were all stale expectations:
+    abiba (pi-only since the harness purge) was tested as a Hermes host, koby
+    (report-only per the captain's 2026-08-17 ruling) was counted as repairable,
+    koby's CT 111 was probed on amdpve where it does not exist (it runs on
+    storepve .6), and the wrapper infisical check had two bugs — it read only
+    the first 20 lines, so koonimo's wrapper (which references /usr/bin/infisical
+    past line 20) false-failed, and it treated koby's genuine no-infisical
+    (~/.hermes/.env) wrapper as broken.
+  * gpu-monitor emitted "DEGRADED — GPU-rtx3090 000, GPU-rtx5070 000" three
+    times from probing bare port 80 on GPU hosts while :8080 answered 200.
+  * infrastructure-monitoring probed CT 116 for the PVE API (no pveproxy ->
+    000) instead of the five real cluster nodes, which answer 401 = alive.
+
+These tests execute the health script (with SSH/vault stubbed) and the real
+provenance consumer (scripts/prose-lint.sh), and parse the contracts' executable
+check-health probe blocks into normalized probe sets. No live network, vault, or
+SSH access is required.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib.util
+import json
+import os
+import pathlib
+import re
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import textwrap
+
+import pytest
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+AHC = ROOT / "scripts" / "agent-health-check.py"
+LINT = ROOT / "scripts" / "prose-lint.sh"
+GPU = ROOT / "gpu-monitor.prose.md"
+INFRA = ROOT / "infrastructure-monitoring.prose.md"
+
+PVE_NODE_IPS = {
+    "192.168.68.9",
+    "192.168.68.5",
+    "192.168.68.15",
+    "192.168.68.6",
+    "192.168.68.12",
+}
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def ahc():
+    """Import agent-health-check.py without live network/SSH side effects."""
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("agent_health_check", AHC)
+    assert spec and spec.loader
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+# ── helpers: execute the health script with SSH/vault stubbed ─────────
+
+def _run_main(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys, argv, ssh_result=None):
+    ahc.FAIL.clear()
+    ahc.REPORT_ONLY.clear()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ahc, "load_agent_keys", lambda: None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ahc, "ssh", lambda *a, **k: ssh_result)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sys, "argv", ["agent-health-check.py", "--no-deploy", *argv])
+    with pytest.raises(SystemExit) as exc:
+        ahc.main()
+    return exc.value.code, capsys.readouterr().out
+
+
+def _json_payload(out):
+    for line in reversed(out.splitlines()):
+        if line.startswith('{"timestamp"'):
+            return json.loads(line)
+    raise AssertionError(f"no JSON payload in output:\n{out}")
+
+
+# ── agent-health-check: stale-expectation legs ───────────────────────
+
+def test_import_does_not_contact_vault(ahc):
+    # Keys are loaded in main() via load_agent_keys(); importing must stay inert.
+    assert callable(ahc.load_agent_keys)
+    assert all(agent.get("key") is None for agent in ahc.AGENTS.values())
+
+
+def test_abiba_is_pi_only_runtime(ahc):
+    # .24 has run pi-only since the harness purge: no Hermes gateway, config, or
+    # wrapper. Probing those legs produced false failures.
+    assert ahc.AGENTS["abiba"]["runtime"] == "pi"
+
+
+def test_koby_is_report_only(ahc):
+    # Captain's 2026-08-17 ruling (Rule 17): detect and report, never repair.
+    assert ahc.AGENTS["koby"]["report_only"] is True
+
+
+def test_koby_ct111_is_on_storepve(ahc):
+    # Live-verified 2026-09-10: `pct status 111` = running on storepve (.6);
+    # amdpve has no lxc/111.conf, which is what false-failed before.
+    assert ahc.AGENTS["koby"]["pve"] == "storepve"
+
+
+def test_report_only_legs_never_count_as_failures(ahc):
+    for agent, report_only in (("koby", True), ("koonimo", False), ("tanko", False)):
+        ahc.FAIL.clear()
+        ahc.REPORT_ONLY.clear()
+        ahc._fail(f"probe:{agent}", agent)
+        if report_only:
+            assert ahc.FAIL == []
+            assert ahc.REPORT_ONLY == [f"probe:{agent}"]
+        else:
+            assert ahc.FAIL == [f"probe:{agent}"]
+            assert ahc.REPORT_ONLY == []
+    ahc.FAIL.clear()
+    ahc.REPORT_ONLY.clear()
+
+
+def test_failure_recording_accepts_agentless_keys(ahc):
+    ahc.FAIL.clear()
+    try:
+        ahc._fail("gpu-no-port:gpu-rtx3090 (.8)")
+        assert ahc.FAIL == ["gpu-no-port:gpu-rtx3090 (.8)"]
+    finally:
+        ahc.FAIL.clear()
+
+
+def test_json_reports_absolute_execution_provenance(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    code, out = _run_main(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys, ["--json"])
+    payload = _json_payload(out)
+    assert payload["execution_path"] == os.path.abspath(str(AHC))
+    assert payload["cwd"] == os.getcwd()
+    assert code == 1  # stubbed SSH fails every leg, but provenance is still emitted
+
+
+def test_quiet_run_still_carries_provenance_on_the_alert_path(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # The cron runs --quiet; a failure report must still carry provenance. The
+    # header line is suppressed in quiet mode, so the ALERT line is the carrier.
+    code, out = _run_main(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys, ["--quiet"])
+    assert code == 1
+    assert "📍 executed from:" not in out
+    alerts = [ln for ln in out.splitlines() if ln.startswith("ALERT agent-health:")]
+    assert alerts, out
+    assert f"script={os.path.abspath(str(AHC))}" in alerts[0]
+    assert f"cwd={os.getcwd()}" in alerts[0]
+
+
+def test_quiet_healthy_run_emits_no_stdout(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # --quiet is documented as "only output on failure": a run with no fleet
+    # failures must produce no stdout at all (the production cron runs --quiet).
+    for name in ("check_keys", "check_gpu_ports", "check_agents", "check_ct_liveness",
+                 "check_config_integrity", "check_wrapper_integrity", "check_vault_secrets"):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(ahc, name, lambda: None)
+    code, out = _run_main(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys, ["--quiet"])
+    assert code == 0
+    assert out == ""
+
+
+def test_json_surfaces_report_only_findings_separately(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # Koby's down legs are reported but must not count as fleet failures; the
+    # --json payload exposes them in their own array (item 1 + f8).
+    _, out = _run_main(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys, ["--json"])
+    payload = _json_payload(out)
+    assert isinstance(payload["report_only"], list)
+    assert any(key.startswith(("gateway-down:koby", "ct-unreachable:koby"))
+               for key in payload["report_only"])
+    assert not any("koby" in key for key in payload["failures"])
+
+
+# ── agent-health-check: wrapper infisical behavior (f3) ───────────────
+
+def _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch, wrapper_body, test_x_result="OK", command_v="/usr/local/bin/infisical"):
+    def fake_ssh(host, cmd, user="root"):
+        if cmd.startswith("cat /root/.local/bin/hermes"):
+            return wrapper_body
+        if cmd.startswith("ls -la /root/.local/bin/hermes "):
+            return "-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 /root/.local/bin/hermes"
+        if cmd.startswith("ls -la /root/.local/bin/hermes-real") or "venv/bin/hermes" in cmd:
+            return "-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 /root/.local/bin/hermes-real"
+        if cmd.startswith("grep -c 'LITELLM_API_KEY'"):
+            return "1"
+        if cmd.startswith("test -x "):
+            path = cmd[len("test -x "):].split()[0]
+            if isinstance(test_x_result, dict):
+                return test_x_result.get(path, "MISS")
+            return test_x_result
+        if cmd.startswith("command -v infisical"):
+            return command_v
+        return None
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ahc, "ssh", fake_ssh)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(ahc, "AGENTS", {"koonimo": dict(ahc.AGENTS["koonimo"])})
+    ahc.FAIL.clear()
+    ahc.REPORT_ONLY.clear()
+
+
+def test_env_based_wrapper_without_infisical_is_not_failed(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch,
+                      "#!/bin/bash\nsource ~/.hermes/.env\nexec hermes-real \"$@\"\n")
+    ahc.check_wrapper_integrity()
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert ahc.FAIL == []
+    assert "wrapper resolves creds without infisical" in out
+
+
+def test_dangling_absolute_infisical_path_is_failed(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # Wrapper hardcodes /usr/bin/infisical, which is absent, while PATH resolves
+    # infisical to /usr/local/bin/infisical. The literal path must be verified,
+    # not inferred from PATH resolution.
+    _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch,
+                      "#!/bin/bash\n/usr/bin/infisical run -- hermes-real \"$@\"\n",
+                      test_x_result="MISS", command_v="/usr/local/bin/infisical")
+    ahc.check_wrapper_integrity()
+    assert "wrapper-infisical-path:koonimo" in ahc.FAIL
+
+
+def test_existing_absolute_infisical_path_passes(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch,
+                      "#!/bin/bash\n/usr/bin/infisical run -- hermes-real \"$@\"\n",
+                      test_x_result="OK")
+    ahc.check_wrapper_integrity()
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert ahc.FAIL == []
+    assert "wrapper infisical path OK" in out
+
+
+def test_comment_mentioning_removed_infisical_path_is_not_failed(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # litellm-api-keys.prose.md documents `rm -f /usr/local/bin/infisical`; a
+    # wrapper comment about that migration must not manufacture a dangling path
+    # when the real invocation (/usr/bin/infisical) is present and executable.
+    _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch,
+                      "#!/bin/bash\n# migrated from /usr/local/bin/infisical\n"
+                      "exec /usr/bin/infisical run -- hermes-real \"$@\"\n",
+                      test_x_result={"/usr/bin/infisical": "OK",
+                                     "/usr/local/bin/infisical": "MISS"})
+    ahc.check_wrapper_integrity()
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert ahc.FAIL == []
+    assert "wrapper infisical path OK" in out
+
+
+def test_comment_only_infisical_mention_does_not_reach_path_check(ahc, monkeypatch, capsys):
+    # A comment-only mention of a removed infisical path on a healthy .env-based
+    # wrapper is not an invocation: it must not fall through to the `command -v`
+    # PATH check and false-FAIL `wrapper-no-infisical`.
+    _stub_wrapper_ssh(ahc, monkeypatch,
+                      "#!/bin/bash\n# migrated from /usr/local/bin/infisical\n"
+                      "source ~/.hermes/.env\nexec hermes-real \"$@\"\n",
+                      test_x_result="MISS", command_v=None)
+    ahc.check_wrapper_integrity()
+    out = capsys.readouterr().out
+    assert ahc.FAIL == []
+    assert "wrapper resolves creds without infisical" in out
+
+
+# ── item 4: prose-lint enforces report provenance (real consumer) ─────
+
+GOOD_CONTRACT = textwrap.dedent("""\
+    ---
+    kind: function
+    name: good
+    description: fixture with provenance
+    ---
+
+    ## Parameters
+
+    - x: y
+
+    ## Returns
+
+    ok
+
+    ### check-health
+
+    ```bash
+    pwd -P
+    ```
+
+    **Report format**: Begin with the absolute path the probe executed from.
+    """)
+
+DECOY_CONTRACT = textwrap.dedent("""\
+    ---
+    kind: function
+    name: decoy
+    description: fixture with provenance only outside the report format
+    ---
+
+    ## Parameters
+
+    - x: y
+
+    ## Returns
+
+    ok
+
+    The absolute path of the config is /etc/foo.
+
+    ### check-health
+
+    ```bash
+    true
+    ```
+
+    **Report format**: Summarize actual results from each probe.
+    """)
+
+MISSING_CONTRACT = textwrap.dedent("""\
+    ---
+    kind: function
+    name: missing
+    description: check-health contract with no report format
+    ---
+
+    ## Parameters
+
+    - x: y
+
+    ## Returns
+
+    ok
+
+    ### check-health
+
+    ```bash
+    pwd -P
+    ```
+    """)
+
+
+def _run_lint(tmp_path, text, name):
+    (tmp_path / name).write_text(text)
+    return subprocess.run(["bash", str(LINT)], cwd=tmp_path,
+                          capture_output=True, text=True)
+
+
+def test_prose_lint_accepts_report_format_with_provenance(tmp_path):
+    result = _run_lint(tmp_path, GOOD_CONTRACT, "good.prose.md")
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stdout + result.stderr
+
+
+def test_prose_lint_rejects_report_format_without_provenance(tmp_path):
+    result = _run_lint(tmp_path, DECOY_CONTRACT, "decoy.prose.md")
+    assert result.returncode == 1, result.stdout
+    assert "lacks execution provenance" in result.stdout
+
+
+def test_prose_lint_requires_report_format_on_check_health_contract(tmp_path):
+    result = _run_lint(tmp_path, MISSING_CONTRACT, "missing.prose.md")
+    assert result.returncode == 1, result.stdout
+    assert "no **Report format** paragraph" in result.stdout
+
+
+# ── contracts: parse the executable check-health probe block ─────────
+
+def _check_health_block(contract):
+    """Extract the bash probe block under ### check-health (the probe interface)."""
+    text = contract.read_text()
+    marker = "### check-health"
+    assert marker in text, f"{contract.name} has no {marker}"
+    after = text.split(marker, 1)[1]
+    match = re.search(r"```bash\n(.*?)```", after, re.S)
+    assert match, f"{contract.name} check-health has no bash probe block"
+    return match.group(1)
+
+
+def _loop_nodes(block):
+    nodes = []
+    for line in block.splitlines():
+        match = re.match(r"\s*for\s+\w+\s+in\s+(.+?);?\s*do\b", line)
+        if match:
+            nodes = match.group(1).split()
+    return nodes
+
+
+def _record(url):
+    """Normalize a URL into a probe record: host, port, path, expected status."""
+    match = re.match(r"https?://([^/\s\"')]+)(/[^\s\"')]*)?", url)
+    assert match, f"unparseable probe URL: {url}"
+    hostport = match.group(1)
+    if "@" in hostport:
+        hostport = hostport.split("@", 1)[1]
+    if hostport.startswith("["):
+        host, port = hostport[1:hostport.index("]")], None
+    elif ":" in hostport:
+        host, raw_port = hostport.rsplit(":", 1)
+        port = int(raw_port) if raw_port.isdigit() else None
+    else:
+        host, port = hostport, None
+    return {"host": host, "port": port, "path": match.group(2) or "/",
+            "expected": None}
+
+
+def _probes(block):
+    """Parse the executable check-health bash block into a normalized probe model.
+
+    Comments are not probes; an `# Expected: <status>` comment annotates the
+    preceding probe. URLs using the block's shell-loop variable `$node` are
+    expanded over the loop's node list.
+    """
+    loop_nodes = _loop_nodes(block)
+    probes = []
+    last = None
+    for raw in block.splitlines():
+        stripped = raw.strip()
+        if stripped.startswith("#"):
+            expected = re.search(r"Expected:\s*(\d{3})", stripped, re.I)
+            if expected and last is not None:
+                last["expected"] = int(expected.group(1))
+            continue
+        for url in re.findall(r"https?://[^\s\"')]+", raw):
+            hosts = loop_nodes if "$node" in url else [None]
+            for node in hosts:
+                record = _record(url.replace("$node", node) if node else url)
+                probes.append(record)
+                last = record
+    return probes
+
+
+def test_gpu_monitor_probes_every_gpu_health_on_8080():
+    probes = _probes(_check_health_block(GPU))
+    targets = {(p["host"], p["port"], p["path"]) for p in probes}
+    assert ("192.168.68.8", 8080, "/health") in targets
+    assert ("192.168.68.110", 8080, "/health") in targets
+
+
+def test_gpu_monitor_never_probes_bare_port_80_on_gpu_hosts():
+    probes = _probes(_check_health_block(GPU))
+    gpu_hosts = {"192.168.68.8", "192.168.68.110", "192.168.68.15"}
+    offenders = [p for p in probes
+                 if p["host"] in gpu_hosts and p["port"] in (None, 80)]
+    assert offenders == []
+
+
+def test_probe_model_flags_explicit_port_80_on_gpu_host():
+    # Regression: a bare-port probe may be spelled with an explicit :80.
+    block = ("curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "
+             "http://192.168.68.8:80/health\n")
+    gpu_hosts = {"192.168.68.8", "192.168.68.110", "192.168.68.15"}
+    offenders = [p for p in _probes(block)
+                 if p["host"] in gpu_hosts and p["port"] in (None, 80)]
+    assert offenders and offenders[0]["port"] == 80
+
+
+def test_gpu_monitor_treats_router_301_as_alive():
+    probes = _probes(_check_health_block(GPU))
+    unified = [p for p in probes
+               if p["host"] == "192.168.68.116" and p["path"] == "/health/unified"]
+    assert unified, "router /health/unified probe missing"
+    assert unified[0]["expected"] == 301
+
+
+def test_infra_monitoring_probes_every_real_pve_node():
+    probes = _probes(_check_health_block(INFRA))
+    pve = {(p["host"], p["port"], p["path"]) for p in probes if p["port"] == 8006}
+    assert {host for host, _, _ in pve} == PVE_NODE_IPS
+    assert {path for _, _, path in pve} == {"/api2/json/version"}
+
+
+def test_infra_monitoring_does_not_probe_ct116_for_pve_api():
+    probes = _probes(_check_health_block(INFRA))
+    assert not any(p["host"] == "192.168.68.116" and p["port"] == 8006
+                   for p in probes)

tests/test_secret_scan.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# test_secret_scan.sh — self-test for the commit-time secret guard.
+#
+# Run:   bash tests/test_secret_scan.sh
+# Exit:  0 all cases passed, 1 a case failed.
+#
+# WHY THIS FILE EXISTS: a scanner that is never observed to fail is not a guard.
+# Every fixture below is fabricated and pattern-shaped; the test writes it to a
+# temp tree (a path no allowlist entry covers) and asserts the guard FAILS. The
+# same fixtures are deliberately listed in scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv, so the
+# repo-wide tree scan stays quiet while a planted copy still bites — that is the
+# difference between an explicit, reasoned exception and a guard trained to
+# ignore a word.
+#
+# Only bash + coreutils + grep. No python/node: the Gitea runner executes job
+# steps inside the runner container, which has neither.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+HERE=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+ROOT=$(cd -- "$HERE/.." && pwd)
+SCAN="$ROOT/scripts/secret-scan.sh"
+
+PASS=0
+FAIL=0
+LAST_OUT=""
+
+ok()  { PASS=$((PASS + 1)); echo "  ✅ $1"; }
+bad() { FAIL=$((FAIL + 1)); echo "  ❌ $1"; }
+
+expect_exit() { # expect_exit <want-code> <label> <cmd...>
+  local want="$1" label="$2"; shift 2
+  local rc
+  LAST_OUT=$("$@" 2>&1); rc=$?
+  if [ "$rc" -eq "$want" ]; then ok "$label (exit $rc)"; else
+    bad "$label (wanted exit $want, got $rc)"
+    printf '%s\n' "$LAST_OUT" | sed 's/^/       /' | head -8
+  fi
+}
+
+expect_contains() { # expect_contains <label> <needle>
+  if printf '%s' "$LAST_OUT" | grep -qF -- "$2"; then ok "$1"; else
+    bad "$1 (output did not mention: $2)"
+  fi
+}
+
+TMPROOT=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$TMPROOT"' EXIT
+
+echo "── secret-scan self-test ──"
+
+# ── 1. Guard syntax ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+expect_exit 0 "scanner parses with bash -n" bash -n "$SCAN"
+
+# ── 2. Guard FAILS on planted, pattern-matching fixtures ──────────────────
+mkdir -p "$TMPROOT/planted"
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/ops.env" <<'EOF'
+OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000deadbeef
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "planted sk-or-v1 key fails the guard" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+expect_contains "planted sk-or-v1 key names the openrouter-key rule" "[openrouter-key]"
+
+rm -f "$TMPROOT/planted/"*
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/curl.sh" <<'EOF'
+curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbb" http://example.invalid/
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "planted literal Bearer token fails the guard" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+expect_contains "planted Bearer token names the bearer-token rule" "[bearer-token]"
+
+rm -f "$TMPROOT/planted/"*
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/pve.sh" <<'EOF'
+AUTH="Authorization: PVEAPIToken=root@pam!monitor=11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "planted Proxmox token fails the guard" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+expect_contains "planted Proxmox token names the proxmox-token rule" "[proxmox-token]"
+
+rm -f "$TMPROOT/planted/"*
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/deploy-key.pem" <<'EOF'
+-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
+b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtzc2gtZW
+-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "planted PEM private key fails the guard" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+expect_contains "planted PEM key names the private-key rule" "[private-key]"
+
+# Prose is scanned exactly like code — the original exposures were in .md files.
+rm -f "$TMPROOT/planted/"*
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/handover.md" <<'EOF'
+- Admin credentials: `admin` / `correct-horse-battery-staple`
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "planted prose credential line fails the guard" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+expect_contains "planted prose line names the cred-prose rule" "[cred-prose]"
+
+rm -f "$TMPROOT/planted/"*
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/config.env" <<'EOF'
+DB_PASSWORD=correct-horse-battery-staple
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "planted password assignment fails the guard" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+expect_contains "planted password assignment names the secret-assign rule" "[secret-assign]"
+
+# ── 3. Guard stays QUIET on inert values and on the real tree ─────────────
+mkdir -p "$TMPROOT/inert"
+cat > "$TMPROOT/inert/config.yaml" <<'EOF'
+api_key: not-needed
+bearer_token=monitor_key
+api_key: $LITELLM_API_KEY
+EOF
+expect_exit 0 "env refs, sentinels and variable names are not credentials" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/inert" --quiet
+
+expect_exit 0 "current repo tree passes the guard" bash "$SCAN" --tree
+expect_contains "tree run reports the allowlisted exceptions it applied" "allowlisted exception(s)"
+
+# ── 4. Allowlist entries are path-explicit, not word-based ────────────────
+# This exact line is allowlisted in infrastructure-control.prose.md; the same
+# text at an unlisted path must still fail, proving the exception is per-file
+# and reviewed, not a blanket "ignore the word vault".
+rm -f "$TMPROOT/planted/"*
+cat > "$TMPROOT/planted/unlisted.md" <<'EOF'
+- Admin credentials: `«vault: infrastructure/production STIRLING_ADMIN_PASSWORD»`
+EOF
+expect_exit 1 "allowlisted text at an unlisted path still fails" bash "$SCAN" --path "$TMPROOT/planted" --quiet
+
+# ── 5. Commit-time mode: the guard blocks a STAGED credential ─────────────
+# A throwaway git repo with its own copy of the scanner, so this exercises the
+# real pre-commit path (--staged) without touching this repo's index.
+mkdir -p "$TMPROOT/repo/scripts"
+cp "$SCAN" "$TMPROOT/repo/scripts/secret-scan.sh"
+cp "$ROOT/scripts/secret-patterns.tsv" "$TMPROOT/repo/scripts/secret-patterns.tsv"
+cp "$ROOT/scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv" "$TMPROOT/repo/scripts/secret-allowlist.tsv"
+git -C "$TMPROOT/repo" init -q
+git -C "$TMPROOT/repo" -c user.email=t@example.invalid -c user.name=test commit -q --allow-empty -m base
+cat > "$TMPROOT/repo/planted.env" <<'EOF'
+OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000deadbeef
+EOF
+git -C "$TMPROOT/repo" add planted.env
+expect_exit 1 "staged credential fails at commit time (--staged)" bash "$TMPROOT/repo/scripts/secret-scan.sh" --staged --quiet
+expect_contains "staged credential names the openrouter-key rule" "[openrouter-key]"
+
+# ── 6. Fail closed: an allowlist entry without a reason is a hard error ───
+mkdir -p "$TMPROOT/scanner" "$TMPROOT/clean"
+cp "$SCAN" "$TMPROOT/scanner/secret-scan.sh"
+cp "$ROOT/scripts/secret-patterns.tsv" "$TMPROOT/scanner/secret-patterns.tsv"
+printf '*\t*.md\twhatever\n' > "$TMPROOT/scanner/secret-allowlist.tsv"
+echo "placeholder" > "$TMPROOT/clean/ok.md"
+expect_exit 2 "allowlist entry with no reason fails closed" bash "$TMPROOT/scanner/secret-scan.sh" --path "$TMPROOT/clean" --quiet
+
+# ── Verdict ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+if [ "$FAIL" -gt 0 ]; then
+  echo "❌ secret-scan self-test FAILED — $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "✅ secret-scan self-test passed ($PASS cases)"

tests/test_zulip_kagentz_legs.py

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Behavioural tests for zulip-monitor.sh kagentz C1/C3 legs and the Result verdict.
+
+WHY THIS FILE EXISTS: the 2026-09-19 kagentz A2A outage was correctly detected
+by the monitor (C1 returned 000, the run logged an issue) but the lane's own
+summarization in ops.status wrote "OK" with the note "A2A server DOWN — expected
+(no credentials configured)". The optimistic verdict came from the lane, not the
+script. The fix adds a C3 public-access-path leg and makes the Result line say
+"INCIDENT" when issues are found, so the lane can quote it verbatim.
+
+CONTRACT UNDER TEST:
+  * C1 (A2A liveness, no credential): 000 → INCIDENT.
+  * C3 (public access path, no credential): 502 → INCIDENT, 000 → INCIDENT,
+    200/302/401 → alive.
+  * Result verdict: when ISSUES > 0, the log's Result line says "INCIDENT",
+    not just "issues found".
+  * Healthy control: C1 401 + C3 302 → 0 issues, "all healthy".
+
+HOW: behavioural execution using the sandbox pattern already in this repo
+(tests/test_mumuni_monitor_removal.py). The sandbox copies the shipped monitor
+verbatim, rewrites only its LOG constant, and runs it with stub ssh/curl on
+PATH. Each test asserts from the run's own log/verdict, not from file text.
+
+Usage: python3 -m pytest tests/test_zulip_kagentz_legs.py
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import pathlib
+import stat
+import subprocess
+
+ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+ZULIP_MONITOR = ROOT / "scripts" / "zulip-monitor.sh"
+CONNECTED_FIXTURE = ROOT / "tests" / "fixtures" / "zulip-health-connected.json"
+
+TANKO_VANTAGE = "192.168.68.15"   # amdpve — Tanko CT 112 via pct exec
+AGENT_ZERO_HOST = "192.168.68.14"  # kagentz host, Agent Zero docker
+
+
+# ── Stub ssh: answers Tanko and Agent Zero probes by env vars ──────────
+
+SSH_STUB = r"""#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub ssh: record the target host, then answer by host + remote command.
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "$RECORD_DIR/ssh.calls"
+host=""
+for a in "$@"; do
+  case "$a" in
+    *@192.168.*) host="${a##*@}" ;;
+  esac
+done
+printf '%s\n' "$host" >> "$RECORD_DIR/ssh.hosts"
+cmd="${*: -1}"
+case "$host" in
+  192.168.68.15)
+    case "$cmd" in
+      *"systemctl is-active"*) printf '%s' "$TANKO_SVC" ;;
+      *curl*)                  printf '%s' "$TANKO_HTTP" ;;
+    esac ;;
+  192.168.68.14)
+    case "$cmd" in
+      *"/a2a/"*) printf '%s' "$AZ_A2A_CODE"; exit "${AZ_A2A_EXIT:-0}" ;;
+    esac ;;
+  *)
+    printf 'UNEXPECTED-SSH-HOST %s\n' "$host" >> "$RECORD_DIR/unexpected-ssh" ;;
+esac
+exit 0
+"""
+
+
+# ── Stub curl: serves Zulip server, Abiba health, and C3 public URL ───
+
+CURL_STUB = r"""#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Stub curl: serve the Abiba health fixture, the Zulip server 200, and the
+# C3 public URL probe (https://kagentz.sysloggh.net/). Record every call.
+printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "$RECORD_DIR/curl.calls"
+case "$*" in
+  *:9200/health*)
+    case " $* " in
+      *" -w "*) printf '%s' "$PI_HTTP" ;;   # -w '%{http_code}' probe
+      *)        printf '%s' "$PI_BODY" ;;   # body probe
+    esac ;;
+  *server_settings*)
+    printf '%s' "$SERVER_HTTP" ;;
+  *kagentz.sysloggh.net*)
+    printf '%s' "$KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE" ;;
+esac
+exit 0
+"""
+
+
+def _write_exec(path: pathlib.Path, body: str) -> None:
+    path.write_text(body)
+    path.chmod(path.stat().st_mode
+               | stat.S_IXUSR | stat.S_IXGRP | stat.S_IXOTH)
+
+
+def _run_monitor(tmp_path, *, tanko_svc="active", tanko_http="200",
+                 az_a2a_code="401", az_a2a_exit=0,
+                 kagentz_public_code="302"):
+    """Run the shipped monitor in a sandbox; return (proc, record_dir, log_path).
+
+    Only the LOG constant is rewritten (to keep the run inside the worktree).
+    Everything else — legs, labels, notify logic — is the shipped script.
+    """
+    sandbox = tmp_path / "sandbox"
+    bindir = sandbox / "bin"
+    record = sandbox / "record"
+    bindir.mkdir(parents=True)
+    record.mkdir()
+
+    _write_exec(bindir / "ssh", SSH_STUB)
+    _write_exec(bindir / "curl", CURL_STUB)
+
+    source = ZULIP_MONITOR.read_text()
+    log_line = 'LOG="/root/zulip-health-monitor.log"'
+    assert log_line in source, "LOG constant moved — update the sandbox harness"
+    log_path = sandbox / "zulip-health-monitor.log"
+    script = sandbox / "zulip-monitor.sh"
+    script.write_text(source.replace(log_line, f'LOG="{log_path}"'))
+
+    env = dict(os.environ)
+    env.update({
+        "PATH": f"{bindir}:{env['PATH']}",
+        "RECORD_DIR": str(record),
+        "TANKO_SVC": tanko_svc,
+        "TANKO_HTTP": tanko_http,
+        "AZ_A2A_CODE": az_a2a_code,
+        "AZ_A2A_EXIT": str(az_a2a_exit),
+        "PI_HTTP": "200",
+        "PI_BODY": CONNECTED_FIXTURE.read_text(),
+        "SERVER_HTTP": "200",
+        "KAGENTZ_PUBLIC_CODE": kagentz_public_code,
+    })
+    proc = subprocess.run(["bash", str(script)], cwd=sandbox, env=env,
+                          capture_output=True, text=True)
+    return proc, record, log_path
+
+
+# ── Required behavioural cases ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+def test_c3_502_is_incident(tmp_path):
+    """C3 public leg returns 502 → the run's verdict is an INCIDENT,
+    the C3 line names the 502, and the run is not summarised as healthy."""
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path, kagentz_public_code="502")
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    # The C3 line names the 502.
+    assert "kagentz C3: ❌ public URL 502 (upstream refused)" in log
+    # The verdict is an INCIDENT, not healthy.
+    assert "Result: 🔴 INCIDENT" in log
+    assert "all healthy" not in log
+    # The run is not summarised as healthy.
+    assert "✅ 0 issues" not in log
+
+
+def test_c3_000_is_incident(tmp_path):
+    """C3 public leg returns 000 → INCIDENT."""
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path, kagentz_public_code="000")
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    # The C3 line reports the connection failure.
+    assert "kagentz C3: ❌ public URL down (HTTP 000)" in log
+    # The verdict is an INCIDENT.
+    assert "Result: 🔴 INCIDENT" in log
+    assert "all healthy" not in log
+    assert "✅ 0 issues" not in log
+
+
+def test_healthy_control_c1_401_c3_302(tmp_path):
+    """Healthy control: C1 401 plus C3 302 → 0 issues and a healthy verdict,
+    proving the new leg cannot cry wolf."""
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path,
+                                          az_a2a_code="401",
+                                          kagentz_public_code="302")
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    # Both legs report alive.
+    assert "kagentz C1: ✅ A2A alive (HTTP 401)" in log
+    assert "kagentz C3: ✅ public URL alive (HTTP 302)" in log
+    # Zero issues, healthy verdict.
+    assert "Result: ✅ 0 issues (all healthy)" in log
+    # No INCIDENT.
+    assert "INCIDENT" not in log
+    # No notify fired for kagentz.
+    assert "kagentz public URL" not in proc.stdout
+    assert "kagentz A2A server" not in proc.stdout
+
+
+def test_c1_000_is_incident(tmp_path):
+    """C1 returns 000 → INCIDENT, keeping the leg that actually caught this
+    outage covered behaviourally."""
+    proc, record, log_path = _run_monitor(tmp_path,
+                                          az_a2a_code="000",
+                                          az_a2a_exit=7,
+                                          kagentz_public_code="302")
+    assert proc.returncode == 0, proc.stderr
+    log = log_path.read_text()
+
+    # The C1 line reports the A2A down.
+    assert "kagentz C1: ❌ A2A down (HTTP 000)" in log
+    # The verdict is an INCIDENT (even though C3 is healthy).
+    assert "Result: 🔴 INCIDENT" in log
+    assert "all healthy" not in log
+    # The notify fired for the A2A down.
+    assert "kagentz A2A server DOWN" in proc.stdout

tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+# tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh — regression test pinning the producer→consumer
+# contract between the pi Zulip extension's :9200/health payload and the Abiba
+# leg of scripts/zulip-monitor.sh.
+#
+# WHY THIS TEST EXISTS: 2026-09-09 live incident. The monitor parsed the health
+# payload at the WRONG nesting level (d.get('connected') at top level, while the
+# extension serves zulip.connected) so PI_CONNECTED was always False and every
+# monitor run restarted a healthy bot: pm2 showed restarts=8 with the process
+# created 2026-09-09T09:35:09Z, the monitor log recorded four ❌ Abiba verdicts
+# (04:23, 05:35, 06:55, 09:35 UTC) and zero ✅, while the Zulip server answered
+# HTTP 200 and the bot logged a clean connect plus continuing heartbeats. The
+# watchdog was the fault, not the connection. This test makes that class of
+# regression fail loudly instead of silently restarting healthy services.
+#
+# CONTRACT UNDER TEST (must hold for scripts/zulip-monitor.sh):
+#   * Connection state is NESTED: zulip.connected (boolean) and zulip.last_error
+#     live inside the `zulip` object. There is NO top-level `connected` and NO
+#     retry counter anywhere in the payload (verified against the extension's
+#     startHealthServer handler) — the old retry_count branch was dropped.
+#   * zulip.connected=true                  -> log "✅ Connected", NO pm2 restart.
+#   * zulip.connected=false                 -> alert, pm2 restart abiba-zulip.
+#   * fetch error / non-2xx / empty body / unparseable body / missing or
+#     non-boolean zulip.connected           -> "⚠️ Probe failed" alert with a
+#     "NOT restarting" label, NO pm2 restart. A parse miss must never kill a
+#     healthy service.
+#   * zulip.connected=true with last_error  -> degraded 🟡 warning, no restart.
+#
+# HOW: the Abiba leg of the shipped script sits between the
+# `# -- abiba-leg-start` / `# -- abiba-leg-end` marker comments. This runner
+# extracts that block verbatim and executes it with a stubbed curl (fixture body
+# + HTTP code), recorded notify()/pm2 shims, and a temp $LOG. If the markers
+# disappear (fix reverted or renamed) extraction yields nothing and the suite
+# fails — the bug cannot return silently.
+#
+# Usage: bash tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh [path/to/zulip-monitor.sh]
+# Exit 0 iff every check passes.
+#
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2329,SC1090
+# LOG/ISSUES and the notify/pm2/curl stubs below are consumed at runtime by
+# the leg extracted between the marker comments and `source`d in each case;
+# the static analyzer cannot see across that dynamic source, so it flags them.
+set -uo pipefail
+
+ROOT=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." && pwd)
+SCRIPT=${1:-"$ROOT/scripts/zulip-monitor.sh"}
+FIXTURES="$ROOT/tests/fixtures"
+TMP=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
+
+PASS=0
+FAIL=0
+ok()  { PASS=$((PASS + 1)); printf '  \033[32m✔\033[0m %s\n' "$1"; }
+bad() { FAIL=$((FAIL + 1)); printf '  \033[31m✘\033[0m %s\n' "$1"; }
+
+echo "== tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh — Abiba leg vs :9200/health producer contract =="
+echo "target script: $SCRIPT"
+
+# --- structural guards -------------------------------------------------------
+if ! grep -q '^# -- abiba-leg-start' "$SCRIPT"; then
+  echo "✘ FATAL: $SCRIPT has no '# -- abiba-leg-start' marker — the fix has been reverted or renamed."
+  exit 1
+fi
+if ! grep -q '^# -- abiba-leg-end' "$SCRIPT"; then
+  echo "✘ FATAL: $SCRIPT has no '# -- abiba-leg-end' marker."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+LEG="$TMP/leg.sh"
+awk '/^# -- abiba-leg-start/{f=1; next}
+     /^# -- abiba-leg-end/{f=0; next}
+     f' "$SCRIPT" > "$LEG"
+if [ ! -s "$LEG" ]; then
+  echo "✘ FATAL: extracted Abiba leg is empty."
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "== structural =="
+if bash -n "$SCRIPT"; then ok "syntax: bash -n $SCRIPT"; else bad "syntax: bash -n $SCRIPT failed"; fi
+if bash -n "$LEG"; then ok "syntax: extracted leg parses (bash -n)"; else bad "syntax: extracted leg fails bash -n"; fi
+
+# --- per-case harness ---------------------------------------------------------
+CURRENT_NAME=""
+CURRENT_DIR=""
+
+# $1 case name, $2 http-code, $3 body (file path or literal)
+run_case() {
+  local name="$1" http="$2" body_src="$3" body
+  CURRENT_NAME="$name"
+  CURRENT_DIR=$(mktemp -d "$TMP/case.XXXXXX")
+  if [ -f "$body_src" ]; then
+    body=$(cat "$body_src")
+  else
+    body="$body_src"
+  fi
+  (
+    LOG="$CURRENT_DIR/log"; ISSUES=0
+    notify() { printf 'ALERT [%s] %s\n' "$1" "$2" >> "$CURRENT_DIR/alerts"; }
+    pm2()    { printf 'PM2 %s\n' "$*"    >> "$CURRENT_DIR/pm2"; }
+    curl() {
+      local url=""
+      for a in "$@"; do case "$a" in http*) url="$a";; esac; done
+      case "$url" in
+        *:9200/health*)
+          case " $* " in
+            *"-w"*) printf '%s' "$http" ;;   # -w '%{http_code}' code probe
+            *)      printf '%s' "$body"  ;;   # body probe
+          esac ;;
+        *)
+          printf 'UNEXPECTED-CURL %s\n' "$*" >> "$CURRENT_DIR/unexpected-curl"
+          return 7 ;;
+      esac
+      return 0
+    }
+    source "$LEG"
+  )
+}
+
+assert_log_has() {
+  if grep -qF -- "$1" "$CURRENT_DIR/log"; then ok "$CURRENT_NAME — log has: $1"; else bad "$CURRENT_NAME — log MISSING: $1"; fi
+}
+assert_log_lacks() {
+  if grep -qF -- "$1" "$CURRENT_DIR/log"; then bad "$CURRENT_NAME — log must NOT contain: $1"; else ok "$CURRENT_NAME — log correctly lacks: $1"; fi
+}
+assert_alert_has() {
+  if grep -qF -- "$1" "$CURRENT_DIR/alerts"; then ok "$CURRENT_NAME — alert sent: $1"; else bad "$CURRENT_NAME — alert MISSING: $1"; fi
+}
+assert_alert_empty() {
+  if [ ! -s "$CURRENT_DIR/alerts" ]; then ok "$CURRENT_NAME — no alert sent (quiet healthy path)"; else bad "$CURRENT_NAME — unexpected alert: $(cat "$CURRENT_DIR/alerts")"; fi
+}
+assert_pm2_restarted() {
+  if grep -qF "PM2 restart abiba-zulip" "$CURRENT_DIR/pm2"; then ok "$CURRENT_NAME — pm2 restart abiba-zulip was called"; else bad "$CURRENT_NAME — expected pm2 restart abiba-zulip, pm2 log: $(cat "$CURRENT_DIR/pm2" 2>/dev/null)"; fi
+}
+assert_no_restart() {
+  if [ ! -s "$CURRENT_DIR/pm2" ]; then ok "$CURRENT_NAME — NO pm2 restart (fail-safe holds)"; else bad "$CURRENT_NAME — pm2 was called but must NOT be: $(cat "$CURRENT_DIR/pm2")"; fi
+}
+assert_no_unexpected_curl() {
+  if [ ! -s "$CURRENT_DIR/unexpected-curl" ]; then ok "$CURRENT_NAME — only :9200/health was probed"; else bad "$CURRENT_NAME — unexpected curl: $(cat "$CURRENT_DIR/unexpected-curl")"; fi
+}
+
+# --- case 1: real payload shape, zulip.connected=true -> healthy, no restart --
+echo "== case 1: connected (real producer payload: nested zulip.connected=true) =="
+run_case "connected" 200 "$FIXTURES/zulip-health-connected.json"
+assert_log_has "Abiba: ✅ Connected (processed=0)"
+assert_log_lacks "Disconnected"
+assert_alert_empty
+assert_no_restart
+assert_no_unexpected_curl
+
+# --- case 2: zulip.connected=false -> disconnected, restart -------------------
+echo "== case 2: disconnected (nested zulip.connected=false triggers restart) =="
+run_case "disconnected" 200 "$FIXTURES/zulip-health-disconnected.json"
+assert_log_has "Abiba: ❌ Disconnected — restarted"
+assert_alert_has "DISCONNECTED — restarting"
+assert_pm2_restarted
+assert_no_unexpected_curl
+
+# --- cases 3-9: probe failures must alert and MUST NOT restart ----------------
+echo "== probe-failure cases: alert 'NOT restarting', zero pm2 restarts =="
+
+run_case "empty body" 200 ""
+assert_log_has "Abiba: ⚠️ Probe failed"
+assert_log_lacks "❌ Disconnected"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+run_case "garbage body" 200 '{not valid json!!'
+assert_log_has "Abiba: ⚠️ Probe failed"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+run_case "missing zulip key" 200 '{"status":"ok","platform":"pi","agent":"abiba"}'
+assert_log_has "Probe failed"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+run_case "zulip without connected" 200 '{"status":"ok","zulip":{"last_error":null}}'
+assert_log_has "Probe failed"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+run_case "non-boolean connected" 200 '{"status":"ok","zulip":{"connected":"true"}}'
+assert_log_has "Probe failed"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+run_case "fetch failure http 000" 000 ""
+assert_log_has "Probe failed"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+run_case "non-2xx http 500" 500 '{"error":"boom"}'
+assert_log_has "Probe failed"
+assert_alert_has "NOT restarting"
+assert_no_restart
+
+# --- case 10: connected but last_error set -> degraded 🟡, no restart ---------
+echo "== case 10: degraded (connected=true but last_error set) warns, no restart =="
+run_case "degraded" 200 '{"status":"ok","zulip":{"connected":true,"last_error":"transient queue hiccup","messages_processed":3}}'
+assert_log_has "Abiba: 🟡 Error: transient queue hiccup"
+assert_log_lacks "❌ Disconnected"
+assert_no_restart
+
+# --- summary -------------------------------------------------------------------
+echo ""
+if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "✅ ALL CHECKS PASSED ($PASS/$PASS) — tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh"
+  exit 0
+else
+  echo "❌ $FAIL CHECK(S) FAILED ($PASS passed) — tests/zulip-monitor-abiba.sh"
+  exit 1
+fi

zulip-health.prose.md

@@ -1,24 +1,36 @@
 ---
 kind: responsibility
 name: zulip-health
-description: Multi-platform health monitor for the Zulip messaging mesh spanning Platform A (Agent Zero Docker), Platform B (Hermes agents Tanko/Mumuni), and the Zulip bridge. Verifies bot registration, DM delivery, and cross-platform connectivity.
+description: Multi-platform health monitor for the Zulip messaging mesh spanning Platform A (pi/Abiba Zulip bridge), Platform B (Tanko on DSH), and Platform C (Agent Zero Docker). Verifies bot registration, DM delivery, and cross-platform connectivity. The kagentz Zulip adapter leg is retired (its code no longer exists) — Agent Zero is probed for A2A liveness, A2A response, and public-path access only. Mumuni is no longer monitored from this host — she runs on her own container (kagentz CT 105 on minipve, .14) and is monitored on her side.
 title: Zulip Mesh Health Monitor — Multi-Platform
-version: 3.0.0
+version: 3.4.0
 runtime_contract: 2
 agent: abiba
+report_only_agents:
+  - koby  # ⛔ KOBY IS NEVER REPAIRED (Rule 17, 2026-08-17) — detect + report, never fix on .129
 ---
 
 # Zulip Mesh Health Monitor
 
-Monitors ALL Zulip-connected agents across three platforms (pi, Hermes, Agent Zero).
-Runs every 15 minutes in the background. Also triggers on session start.
+Monitors the Zulip-connected agents under this host's operational control (pi,
+DSH, Agent Zero). Runs every 15 minutes in the background. Also triggers on
+session start.
+
+> **Mumuni is NOT monitored from this host (captain ruling 2026-09-10).** She
+> moved off this host onto her own container — kagentz CT 105 on minipve
+> (192.168.68.14), running a dedicated `hermes` user — and is monitored on her
+> side. No step in this contract, and no leg of `scripts/zulip-monitor.sh`, may
+> ssh to her old deployment, read her `~/.hermes/gateway_state.json`, or alert on
+> her state. The former Platform-B-for-Mumuni steps (gateway process, heartbeat,
+> response delivery) are retired: they always read "unknown" against the
+> decommissioned deployment and produced a false 🔴 alert on every run.
 
 ## Requires
 
 - **Zulip API key** for `abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net` in `$ZULIP_API_KEY`
-- **SSH access** to Tanko (192.168.68.122), Mumuni (192.168.68.24, inside Abiba CT100 on hwepve), and Agent Zero Docker host (192.168.68.14)
+- **SSH access** to amdpve (192.168.68.15) for Tanko — CT 112 reached via `pct exec` (direct SSH to .122 is not a dependency of this contract: per-worker key availability varies); and the Agent Zero Docker host (192.168.68.14)
 - **PM2** on localhost for pi process management
-- **Network access** to `chat.sysloggh.net`, `localhost:9200`
+- **Network access** to `chat.sysloggh.net`, `kagentz.sysloggh.net` (C3 public path), `localhost:9200`
 - **Write access** to `/root/zulip-health-monitor.log` and `/tmp/zulip-monitor-debounce`
 - **Relay access** via RA-H OS MCP for alert delivery
 
@@ -45,11 +57,9 @@ Runs every 15 minutes in the background. Also triggers on session start.
     "severity": "healthy"
   },
   "tanko": {
-    "platform": "hermes",
-    "zulip_state": "connected",
-    "heartbeat_age_seconds": 45,
-    "gateway_pid": 1234,
-    "edit_fail_rate_pct": 0,
+    "platform": "dsh",
+    "service_state": "active",
+    "http_status": 200,
     "severity": "healthy"
   }
 }
@@ -81,13 +91,13 @@ Log as "unreachable" — don't treat as critical unless it persists for 3+ conse
 ## Streaming Support (2026-07-05)
 
 Zulip agents now support progressive message editing during agent generation.
-When a Hermes agent (Tanko, Mumuni) processes a message, the response is
+When a Zulip agent under this monitor's scope (Tanko on DSH) processes a message, the response is
 streamed in real-time via Zulip's `PATCH /api/v1/messages/{id}` API:
 
 - Adapter implements `edit_message()` using `_api_patch()` helper
 - Gateway stream consumer progressively edits the Zulip message
 - User sees real-time agent thinking instead of waiting for full response
-- Verified: Tanko (CT 112) and Mumuni (CT 114) both have streaming active
+- Verified: Tanko (CT 112) has streaming active; Mumuni's (kagentz CT 105) is verified on her own host, not from here
 
 ### Verification
 ```bash
@@ -117,20 +127,48 @@ grep -c "async def edit_message" ~/.hermes/plugins/*/zulip*/adapter.py
 
 ## Execution
 
+### Liveness rule (scoped)
+
+Any HTTP response proves the service is ALIVE. For auth-gated endpoints (Zulip API, Tanko gateway), a 401/403 redirect or status means the service answered — report the code, never "down". Only a failed CONNECTION (curl status 000, timeout, refused) is a failed probe. **Proxy-fronted exception:** a reverse proxy's `502`/`504` (upstream refused/unreachable) is not the backend answering — for proxy-fronted public endpoints such as `https://kagentz.sysloggh.net/` (C3), treat it as DOWN.
+
+**STANDING PROBE RULES (2026-09-14, from defect report 1150.msg):**
+1. **Any HTTP status means ALIVE.** 200, 301, 302, 401, 403, 404 all prove the service answered — report the code, never "down". A redirect is not a failure. Only a failed CONNECTION (curl status 000, timeout, refused) is a failed probe (proxy `502`/`504` excepted, above).
+2. **A failed probe is never a service verdict.** Print `probe-failed: <target> <kind>` naming the exact URL/host/port and the failure kind (timeout, refused, no-route, dns), retry once at a longer timeout, and only then report.
+3. **Say which probe produced each number.** "API: 000" is unusable; "API https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings -> connection timeout after 10s (retried at 25s: also timeout)" is actionable.
+
 ### Step 1: Zulip Server Liveness
 
 ```bash
-curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings \
-  -u 'abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net:$ZULIP_API_KEY'
+# Probe the Zulip API (authenticated, any HTTP status = ALIVE)
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings -u 'abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net:$ZULIP_API_KEY')
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings -u 'abiba-bot@chat.sysloggh.net:$ZULIP_API_KEY')
+  echo "Zulip API https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "Zulip API https://chat.sysloggh.net/api/v1/server_settings -> $code"
+fi
 ```
 
-Expected: `200`. If not → mark `zulip_server_status: "down"`, skip per-platform checks, alert.
+Expected: `200` (authenticated). Any HTTP status = ALIVE; only 000/timeout = probe-failed. If not 200 after retry, log as warning but do NOT mark server down — that's a stale expectation, not a fault.
 
 ### Step 2: Platform A — pi (Abiba, localhost)
 
 **A1: Health Endpoint**
 
-Fetch `http://localhost:9200/health` as JSON. Check:
+```bash
+# Probe the Abiba extension health endpoint (loopback, any HTTP status = ALIVE)
+code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 10 http://127.0.0.1:9200/health)
+if [ "$code" == "000" ]; then
+  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --connect-timeout 25 http://127.0.0.1:9200/health)
+  echo "Abiba extension http://127.0.0.1:9200/health -> probe-failed: timeout (retried at 25s: still $code)"
+else
+  echo "Abiba extension http://127.0.0.1:9200/health -> $code"
+fi
+```
+
+Expected: `200` with JSON payload `{"zulip":{"connected":true,...}}`. Any HTTP status = ALIVE; only 000/timeout = probe-failed. **NOTE: This probe MUST run on the Abiba host (CT 100) where 127.0.0.1:9200 is the extension. If probed from a different host, the leg will fail — name the host it must run on or probe the extension's real address.**
+
+Check the JSON payload:
 
 | Field | Healthy | Critical |
 |-------|---------|----------|
@@ -182,102 +220,302 @@ grep -a "Finalized\|Failed to finalize" /root/.pm2/logs/abiba-zulip-out.log | ta
 | `last_error` set | Log and monitor |
 | Crash loop >10/h | Alert user |
 
-### Step 3: Platform B — Hermes (Tanko .122, Mumuni .24)
 
-**B1: Gateway State**
+### Step 3: Platform B — Tanko (DSH on amdpve CT 112)
+
+Mumuni is out of scope for this host (see the note above): she runs on her own
+container and is monitored on her side.
+
+Tanko runs on DSH (DeepSeek Harness) — it no longer runs a Hermes gateway, so
+there is no `~/.hermes/gateway_state.json` on CT 112. Tanko's Zulip gateway runs
+as the `dsh-web` systemd unit inside **CT 112**, which resides on the **amdpve**
+PVE host (**192.168.68.15**). Direct SSH to 192.168.68.122 is not a dependency
+of this contract — per-worker key availability varies — so CT 112 probes run
+from the amdpve vantage via `pct exec`:
 
 ```bash
-ssh root@192.168.68.122 "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json"
-ssh root@192.168.68.24 "cat ~/.hermes/gateway_state.json"  # Mumuni inside Abiba CT100
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- <command>"
 ```
 
-Check `platforms.zulip.state`: `connected` ✅ | `disconnected` ❌ | `error` ❌ | missing → not installed.
+> **By design (verified 2026-09-08):** the `dsh-web` gateway binds
+> `127.0.0.1:3080` **loopback-only**. A remote probe against
+> `192.168.68.122:3080` gets connection-refused — that is EXPECTED, NOT a fault,
+> and must never be raised as Tanko down. Only loopback probes from inside
+> CT 112 (or the public-URL fallback below) are valid health signals.
 
-**B2: Agent Process**
+**B1: Gateway Service State (Tanko)**
 
 ```bash
-ssh root@<CT> "ps aux | grep 'gateway run' | grep -v grep"
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- systemctl is-active dsh-web"
 ```
 
-Gateway PID should exist with uptime > 60s. **Dual-gateway detection**: if more than one `gateway run` process is found, the gateway has a collision (typically one `--force` and one `--replace` process). Kill the newer/duplicate process, then restart the remaining gateway per-agent (parameterized 2026-08-09, captain ruling):
+Expected: `active`. Anything else → gateway service down → apply the Tanko heal
+(restart via DSH service, Platform B Actions table below).
 
-| Agent | Restart command | Notes |
-|-------|-----------------|-------|
-| Mumuni (.24) | `pm2 restart abiba-zulip` | Hermes gateway runs under PM2 as `abiba-zulip` |
-| Tanko (.122) | `bash /opt/hermes-zulip-plugin/run.sh` (or the agent's systemd/user unit) | Tanko does NOT use PM2 — never run `pm2 restart mumuni-zulip` for Tanko (process does not exist) |
-
-Check gateway log for "Gateway running with 2 platform(s)" (not 1) to confirm Zulip reloaded.
-
-**B3: Heartbeat Verification**
+**B2: Gateway HTTP Liveness (Tanko — loopback-only :3080)**
 
 ```bash
-ssh root@<CT> "grep Heartbeat ~/.hermes/logs/agent.log | tail -3"
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 10 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:3080/"
 ```
 
-Expected: recent heartbeat (within 5 min), `polls=N` incrementing.
-Silence > 300s → warning. Silence > 600s → critical.
+Alive = **ANY** HTTP status response from the endpoint — the expected set is
+`200`/`301`/`302`/`307`/`308`/`401`/`403` (the gateway UI is token-gated and
+legitimately answers with redirects/auth-challenges, so never require a bare
+`200`), and any other status, including `404`/`5xx`, also counts alive: a
+process answering `503` is running and self-heal must NOT restart-loop it.
+Down = connection refused (`000`) or timeout only. Statuses outside the
+expected set are logged/reported as a warning — reported, never healed on.
 
-**B4: Response Delivery**
+**B3: Public-URL Fallback Probe (Tanko — for nodes without pct/ssh access to amdpve)**
 
 ```bash
-ssh root@<CT> "grep -E 'Finalized|Failed to finalize|Replied to' ~/.hermes/logs/agent.log | tail -10"
+curl -s --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://tankodhs.sysloggh.net/
 ```
 
-> 50% fail rate → critical.
+Fallback only — used when the monitoring node has no pct/SSH path to amdpve.
+Alive = **ANY** HTTP status response from the endpoint — healthy signals are
+`302` (authentik proxy-auth redirect) and `401` (auth-gated), and any other
+status, including `404`/`5xx`, also counts alive: the endpoint is up and
+answering and must NOT be restart-looped. Down = connection refused (`000`) or
+timeout only. Never expect a bare `200` — the public URL terminates in the
+token-gated authentik chain. Statuses outside the healthy set are
+logged/reported as a warning — reported, never healed on.
 
 **Platform B Actions**
 
 | Condition | Action |
 |-----------|--------|
-| `zulip.state != "connected"` | `ssh root@<CT> "pkill -f 'gateway run'; sleep 2; hermes gateway restart"` |
-| No heartbeat in 10min | Same as above |
-| `Failed to finalize` > 50% | Check PATCH API, Zulip server |
-| Response empty/short | Check A2A endpoint / LiteLLM model |
+| `dsh-web` service not `active` | Restart Tanko via DSH service |
+| HTTP `:3080` connection refused/timeout (`000`) | Same as above |
+| HTTP status outside the expected set | Log/report as a warning — reported, never healed on |
+
+**B4: dsh-web Authentication (Tanko — restart-persistent login)**
+
+The dsh-web UI is token-gated. On every start the process prints a random
+launch token to the journal:
+
+```
+dsh web: http://127.0.0.1:3080/?token=<TOKEN>
+```
+
+The token only bootstraps an authority-bound, HMAC-signed browser cookie with a
+30-day lifetime. The signing secret is durable in
+`/root/.dsh/.credentials.yaml` (key `client-connection/browser-session`), so a
+cookie minted once keeps working across `dsh-web` restarts; the launch token
+itself rotates on every restart.
+
+**Login endpoint (public, Authentik-gated):**
+`https://tankodhs.sysloggh.net/dsh-web-login`
+
+It lives inside the Authentik-gated `:80` server block
+(`/etc/nginx/sites-available/dsh`, symlinked from
+`/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/dsh`) as `location = /dsh-web-login`, guarded by
+`auth_request /outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/nginx`. It proxies to dsh-web with
+`Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net`, so the minted cookie is bound to the public
+authority — never to `127.0.0.1:3080`. The token-dependent line is isolated in
+the generated include `/etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf`:
+
+```
+proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3080/?token=<TOKEN>;
+```
+
+**Token refresh (non-disruptive):**
+`/opt/deepseek-harness/capture-dsh-token.sh` (source:
+`scripts/capture-dsh-token.sh`) reads candidate launch tokens from the journal
+**scoped to the service's current systemd invocation**
+(`systemctl show -p InvocationID` + `_SYSTEMD_INVOCATION_ID=`), re-sampling the
+invocation on every pass so a restart that lands during the wait switches to the
+new invocation; a restarted process's stale token is never considered while its
+new startup banner is still pending and there is no whole-journal or
+cross-invocation fallback. Each candidate
+is then functionally verified against dsh-web with `Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net`,
+using the first the running process accepts with `303`. It waits up to 120s for
+a restarted process to accept a token and re-probes every current-invocation
+candidate on each pass, so a token that briefly returns `000` while the service
+is still starting is not disqualified. If none is accepted it leaves the include
+untouched and exits so the timer retries (exiting non-zero when a pending reload
+is still outstanding). It writes
+`/etc/dsh-web/launch-token` and regenerates `/etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf`,
+reloading nginx only when the on-disk include differs from the generated one or
+the applied-state stamp does not match the token (`nginx -t` guards the reload,
+and the stamp is written only after a successful `nginx -s reload`, so a failed
+or interrupted reload is retried on the next run). Any failed reload records a
+pending-reload marker under `/etc/dsh-web/`; the next run attempts the reload
+before the token wait, independent of token state, and clears the marker only
+once the reload succeeds, so a disabled legacy `:8081` file can never leave the
+running nginx unreloaded. The generated include is recreated before any
+`nginx -t` if it is missing, so a failed run cannot wedge recovery.
+Runs are serialized with `flock` on `/run/capture-dsh-token.lock`. It **never
+stops or starts `dsh-web`**.
+It is triggered by the `dsh-web.service` drop-in
+`/etc/systemd/system/dsh-web.service.d/20-token-refresh.conf`
+(`ExecStartPost=/bin/systemctl --no-block start dsh-web-token.service`) and by
+`dsh-web-token.timer` every 2 minutes for reconciliation.
+
+<details><summary>Installed systemd wiring (CT 112)</summary>
+
+```ini
+# /etc/systemd/system/dsh-web-token.service
+[Unit]
+Description=Refresh the dsh-web launch token for the nginx login endpoint
+After=dsh-web.service
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+TimeoutStartSec=180
+ExecStart=/opt/deepseek-harness/capture-dsh-token.sh
+
+# /etc/systemd/system/dsh-web-token.timer
+[Unit]
+Description=Periodically refresh the dsh-web login token
+[Timer]
+OnBootSec=90s
+OnUnitActiveSec=120s
+AccuracySec=10s
+Persistent=true
+[Install]
+WantedBy=timers.target
+
+# /etc/systemd/system/dsh-web.service.d/20-token-refresh.conf
+[Service]
+ExecStartPost=/bin/systemctl --no-block start dsh-web-token.service
+```
+
+</details>
+
+> **Do NOT reintroduce the `:8081` endpoint.** It listened on `0.0.0.0:8081`
+> with no `auth_request` and was a full Authentik bypass for anyone on the LAN.
+> The script now removes `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/dsh.token` automatically if
+> it ever reappears.
+
+**Authentication flow:**
+1. `GET https://tankodhs.sysloggh.net/dsh-web-login`
+2. Unauthenticated → Authentik sign-in; once authenticated the request reaches
+   dsh-web with `Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net`.
+3. dsh-web accepts the launch token on `GET /`, writes the
+   `dsh-auth-<authority-hash>` cookie (30 days, `HttpOnly`, `SameSite=Strict`)
+   and returns `303` to `/`.
+4. Every later request through `/` presents that cookie; the token is not needed
+   again until the cookie expires or a new browser is used.
+
+**Verification** (amdpve vantage):
+```bash
+# 1. Login endpoint is Authentik-gated: unauthenticated -> 302 (not 200/303).
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' \
+  -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' http://127.0.0.1/dsh-web-login"
+# Expected: 302
+
+# 2. Legacy :8081 endpoint is gone (connection refused -> 000).
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s --max-time 3 -o /dev/null \
+  -w '%{http_code}\n' http://192.168.68.122:8081/"
+# Expected: 000
+
+# 3. Backend cookie mint + reuse (exactly what /dsh-web-login proxies to).
+TOKEN=$(ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- cat /etc/dsh-web/launch-token")
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -c /tmp/dsh.jar -o /dev/null \
+  -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' 'http://127.0.0.1:3080/?token=$TOKEN'"
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -b /tmp/dsh.jar -o /dev/null \
+  -w '%{http_code}\n' -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' http://127.0.0.1:3080/"
+# Expected: 200 — the minted dsh-auth-... cookie (authority
+# tankodhs.sysloggh.net) is replayed on the next request and accepted.
+
+# 4. Token refresh is non-disruptive and idempotent.
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- /opt/deepseek-harness/capture-dsh-token.sh"
+# Expected: "token unchanged; nginx not reloaded" when nothing changed
+```
+
+**Restart durability (acceptance):** after `systemctl restart dsh-web`, (a) the
+cookie minted before the restart still returns `200` on `/`, and (b) the
+refreshed `/etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf` carries the new token and mints a
+fresh cookie. Both verified live 2026-09-11.
+
+```bash
+# 5. Cookie survives a dsh-web restart, and the new token mints a new cookie.
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- systemctl restart dsh-web"
+# dsh-web is Type=simple: restart returns before :3080 is listening. Bounded-poll
+# until the socket answers (any status but 000) before asserting the cookie.
+for i in $(seq 1 60); do
+  UP=$(ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' \
+    -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' http://127.0.0.1:3080/")
+  [ "$UP" != "000" ] && break
+  sleep 2
+done
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -b /tmp/dsh.jar -o /dev/null \
+  -w '%{http_code}\n' -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' http://127.0.0.1:3080/"
+# Expected: 200 — the pre-restart cookie is still accepted.
+# The restart's ExecStartPost (or the 2-minute timer) refreshes the include. A
+# manual run may no-op on the flock, so poll until the include carries a token
+# the running process accepts (bounded wait) before the mint+reuse check.
+for i in $(seq 1 60); do
+  TOKEN=$(ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- sed -n 's/.*token=//p' /etc/dsh-web/nginx-login.conf | tr -d ';\n'")
+  CODE=$(ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' \
+    -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' 'http://127.0.0.1:3080/?token=$TOKEN'")
+  [ "$CODE" = "303" ] && break
+  sleep 2
+done
+# Expected: 303 — the include now holds the token the running process accepts.
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -c /tmp/dsh-new.jar -o /dev/null \
+  -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' 'http://127.0.0.1:3080/?token=$TOKEN'"
+ssh root@192.168.68.15 "pct exec 112 -- curl -s -b /tmp/dsh-new.jar -o /dev/null \
+  -w '%{http_code}\n' -H 'Host: tankodhs.sysloggh.net' http://127.0.0.1:3080/"
+# Expected: 200 — the refreshed token minted a fresh cookie.
+```
+
 
 ### Step 4: Platform C — Agent Zero (kagentz, CT 105 via Docker host .14)
 
-**C1: A2A Server Health**
+> **The kagentz Zulip adapter leg is retired (2026-09-12).** Its code
+> (`/a0/usr/kagentz-zulip/`) no longer exists in the agent-zero container, so
+> the former adapter-process and heartbeat/queue checks always failed and the
+> monitor issued a restart for something that could not start, posting a false
+> kagentz-adapter-down alert on every run. Do NOT re-add an adapter-process,
+> heartbeat/queue, or adapter-restart step. Agent Zero is probed for A2A
+> liveness/response and public-path access only, and a probe must never restart
+> a platform.
+
+**C1: A2A Server Health (no credential needed)**
 
 ```bash
-ssh root@192.168.68.14 "docker exec agent-zero curl -s --connect-timeout 5 http://127.0.0.1:8001/.well-known/agent.json"
+# A2A listens on :80 inside the agent-zero container (host-mapped to :50080) and
+# is auth-gated: an unauthenticated probe gets 401, which means the server is up.
+ssh root@192.168.68.14 "docker exec agent-zero curl -s --connect-timeout 5 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://127.0.0.1:80/a2a/"
 ```
 
-Expected: `{"name":"kagentz",...}`. Connection refused → A2A server down.
+Expected: `401` (auth-gated, A2A server is up and responding) or `200` (if no auth required). Connection refused (`000`) → A2A server down (INCIDENT). Any other status → running but unexpected: log/report it, never restart.
 
-**C2: Adapter Process**
+**C2: A2A Response Verification (requires LITELLM_KEY)**
 
 ```bash
-ssh root@192.168.68.14 "docker exec agent-zero ps aux | grep adapter | grep -v grep"
-```
-
-Adapter should be running. Missing → restart inside container.
-
-**C3: Heartbeat & Queue**
-
-```bash
-ssh root@192.168.68.14 "docker exec agent-zero grep Heartbeat /tmp/zulip-adapter.log | tail -3"
-```
-
-Check: `processed=N` incrementing, `silence < 600s`, `reconnects` ≈ 0.
-
-**C4: A2A Response Verification**
-
-```bash
-ssh root@192.168.68.14 "docker exec agent-zero curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8001/a2a \
+# A2A listens on :80 inside the container and is auth-gated (401 expected unauthenticated).
+ssh root@192.168.68.14 "docker exec agent-zero curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:80/a2a \
   -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $LITELLM_KEY' \
   -d '{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"tasks/send\",\"params\":{\"message\":{\"role\":\"user\",\"parts\":[{\"text\":\"ping\"}]}},\"id\":1}'"
 ```
 
-Expected: task ID with "working" status. Poll for completion with `tasks/get`.
+Expected: task ID with "working" status. Poll for completion with `tasks/get`. If 401, check LITELLM_KEY is set (this is a credential issue, NOT a server-down incident).
+
+**C3: Public Access Path (no credential needed)**
+
+```bash
+# Probes the public URL that NetBird proxies to the agent-zero container.
+# This is the captain's point of view: if the captain can't reach it, it's down.
+# 200/302/401 = alive, 502 = proxy's "upstream refused" page (INCIDENT),
+# connection failed (000) = INCIDENT. Never restarts anything.
+curl -s -o /dev/null --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 15 -w '%{http_code}' https://kagentz.sysloggh.net/
+```
+
+Expected: `200` (Agent Zero login page), `302` (redirect), or `401` (auth-gated) = alive. `502` = NetBird proxy's "upstream refused" page (the container's port 80 is not listening) = INCIDENT. `000` (connection failed) = INCIDENT. Any other status → running but unexpected: log/report it, never restart.
 
 **Platform C Actions**
 
 | Condition | Action |
 |-----------|--------|
-| A2A `.well-known/agent.json` fails | `docker exec agent-zero bash -c "pkill -9 -f a2a_agent; cd /a0 && /opt/venv-a0/bin/python3 -u /a0/usr/a2a_agent.py > /tmp/a2a.log 2>&1 &"` |
-| Adapter process missing | Restart adapter inside container with env vars |
-| Silence > 600s | Restart adapter (auto-reconnect handles BAD_EVENT_QUEUE_ID) |
-| LiteLLM 401 | Check API key in a2a_agent.py `LITELLM_KEY` |
+| C1 A2A returns `000` (connection refused/timeout) | Alert only — never restart the platform; investigate the agent-zero container |
+| C1 A2A returns a status other than `200`/`401` | Log/report as a warning — reported, never healed on |
+| C2 A2A returns 401 | Check `LITELLM_KEY` is set (credential issue, NOT server-down) |
+| C3 public URL returns `502` (upstream refused) | Alert only — the container's port 80 is not listening; investigate the agent-zero container |
+| C3 public URL returns `000` (connection failed) | Alert only — the public path is down; investigate the NetBird proxy or the container |
+| C3 public URL returns a status other than `200`/`302`/`401` | Log/report as a warning — reported, never healed on |
 
 ### Step 5: Global Checks
 
@@ -285,19 +523,25 @@ Expected: task ID with "working" status. Poll for completion with `tasks/get`.
 
 Check each agent's log for excessive bot-to-bot chatter:
 - Abiba: `Skipped.*bot msgs` count
-- Tanko/Mumuni: Repeated DM exchanges between bots
-- kagentz: Adapter log for bot DMs being processed
+- Tanko: Repeated DM exchanges between bots
 
 If any bot processes >50 bot-originated messages in 15min → warning.
 
 ### Step 6: Compile and Report
 
-1. Compile all platform checks and severity
-2. Determine `overall_severity` from worst per-agent severity
-3. If restart action needed, check `/tmp/zulip-monitor-debounce` — apply only if >300s since last restart
-4. Log full diagnostic to `/root/zulip-health-monitor.log` with timestamp
-5. If any agent critical or >2 degraded: send relay message to user
-6. Update `last_check` timestamp in `### Maintains` snapshot
+1. Run `scripts/zulip-monitor.sh` and take its final `Result:` line as the
+   authoritative run verdict. The verdict line is either
+   `Result: ✅ 0 issues (all healthy)` or
+   `Result: 🔴 INCIDENT — N issue(s) found`.
+2. Quote that `Result:` line verbatim in the status report. When it says
+   `INCIDENT`, the run MUST be reported as an incident — never summarised as
+   OK/healthy and never annotated as "expected".
+3. Compile all platform checks and severity
+4. Determine `overall_severity` from worst per-agent severity
+5. If restart action needed, check `/tmp/zulip-monitor-debounce` — apply only if >300s since last restart
+6. Log full diagnostic to `/root/zulip-health-monitor.log` with timestamp
+7. If any agent critical or >2 degraded: send relay message to user
+8. Update `last_check` timestamp in `### Maintains` snapshot
 
 ### Restart Debounce
 

zulip-mention-reliability.prose.md

@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ description: >
 
 > **⚠️ RETIRED** — The pi Zulip extension (`~/.pi/agent/extensions/zulip/`) and
 > PM2 process (`abiba-zulip`) have been decommissioned. All mention/reliability
-> monitoring now happens through Telegram. Hermes agents (Tanko, Mumuni) and
-> Agent Zero (kagentz) continue to use Zulip.
+> monitoring now happens through Telegram. Mumuni (Hermes) and Tanko (DSH)
+> continue to use Zulip; Agent Zero's Zulip adapter is retired — see
+> `zulip-health.prose.md` for current Platform C (Agent Zero) state.
 
 ## Maintains
 

zulip-resilience-v3.prose.md

@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ Backup v2 before starting: `cp index.js index.js.v2-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S
 |-------|----------|-------------|--------------|-------------|
 | **Abiba** | pi (CT 100) | ✅ Connected | API key missing from Infisical injection; poll timeout noise | Added .env fallback; AbortError treated as empty poll (no retry); poll timeout 65s→90s |
 | **Tanko** | Hermes (CT 112) | ✅ Connected | Gateway disconnected since Jul 11; watchdog restart didn't re-establish Zulip | Full gateway restart (kill wrapper, let infisical-gateway.sh respawn) |
-| **Mumuni** | Hermes (CT 114) | ✅ Connected | No issues found | None needed |
+| **Mumuni** | Hermes (kagentz CT 105, migrated 2026-08-29) | ✅ Connected | No issues found | None needed |
 
 ### Key Fixes Applied
 

zulip-self-heal.prose.md

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ triggers:
 
 > **⚠️ RETIRED** — This contract was embedded in the pi Zulip extension code
 > (`performHealthCheck()`). That code has been removed. Zulip self-healing for
-> Hermes agents (Tanko, Mumuni) continues through their own gateway monitoring.
+> agents (Mumuni on Hermes, Tanko on DSH) continues through their own platform
+> monitoring.
 
 ## Maintains
 
@@ -65,8 +66,7 @@ triggers:
 |------|----|------|---------|
 | Zulip server | 192.168.68.19 | root | Docker: `zulip-zulip-1` |
 | Abiba (pi) | localhost | root | PM2: `abiba-zulip` |
-| Mumuni | 192.168.68.24 (CT100 abiba) | root | `hermes gateway restart` |
-| Tanko | 192.168.68.122 | jerome | `PATH=$PATH:/home/jerome/.hermes/hermes-agent hermes gateway restart` |
+| Tanko | 192.168.68.122 (CT 112) | jerome | DSH (DeepSeek Harness) — restart via DSH service, not `hermes gateway restart` (no longer a Hermes agent since 2026-08-27) |
 
 ## Debounce
 
@@ -75,9 +75,8 @@ Track via `/tmp/zulip-heal-debounce-<agent>` (unix timestamp of last restart).
 
 ## Reporting
 
-Every cycle produces a knowledge graph node:
-- Title: `[LEARN] zulip-self-heal: <timestamp>`
-- metadata: { type: "remediation", status: "fixed" | "escalated" | "healthy" }
+This contract is RETIRED — health-check logs are NOT knowledge graph content.
+No graph nodes are created. Logs go to Gitea (SyslogSolution/health-logs).
 - Issues fixed → DM: "🛠 Zulip Self-Heal: fixed <issue>"
 - Issues escalated → DM: "⚠️ Zulip Self-Heal: <issue> needs attention"