Problem: after the wiki-hq reorg, agent-instruction and human-doc domains
were still scattered across the repo root, with three now-redundant stub
files cluttering it. The organizing principle wasn't visible in the layout.
Change — enforce three clear buckets:
- .agents/ = how agents operate: OIKOS.md, HERMES.md (moved from root),
shared/ conventions, domains/ schemas, skills/, and operations/ (operator
cheatsheet + enrollment + hermes-agent, moved from root).
- knowledge/ = what exists + evidence: wiki/, GLOSSARY.md, and sources/ now
including investigations/ (incident records are evidence/sources).
- root = substrate + two entry points (AGENTS.md, README.md), plus plans/
as its own design-intent domain.
Moves:
- investigations/ -> knowledge/sources/investigations/ (incl. archive/, index).
- operations/ -> .agents/operations/.
- HERMES.md -> .agents/HERMES.md.
- Deleted unreferenced root stubs CAVEMAN.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and OIKOS.md
(its 7 remaining linkers repointed to .agents/OIKOS.md).
Consumers updated:
- inventory.yaml doc_page (agent-enrollment) + regenerated hosts/*.yaml + cards.
- tools/setup-hermes-soul.sh and bootstrap.sh (x2) -> .agents/HERMES.md.
- bin/homelab help string -> .agents/operations/hermes-agent.md.
- knowledge/operations schemas, llm-wiki, page-templates, incident-investigation
skill, AGENTS.md/README nav -> new investigations/operations paths.
- All markdown links rewritten via the path-resolving mapper.
Left in place (substrate/executable/separate-domain): hosts/, ledger/, tools/,
plans/, oikos/, mcp/, secrets/, bin/, inventory.yaml.
Verification: docs-lint at baseline (2 intentional cross-repo refs, no new
breakage); gen-topology.py --check exit 0; build_host_files.py idempotent; all
doc_page targets resolve; Hermes provisioning scripts point at the new path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Problem: runbooks are agent-executable procedures but lived at the repo root,
separate from the other agent instruction now under .agents/.
Change:
- Move runbooks/<name>.md -> .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (folder per skill,
matching the wiki-hq skills layout). Frontmatter (name, risk_class, inputs,
verification, docs_update_checklist, transition) preserved.
- Rewrite links (inbound from plans; between-skill siblings) via the move map.
- Update prose references in AGENTS.md, HERMES.md, .agents/OIKOS.md, and the
operations schema; fix a pre-existing stale link to operations/commands.md.
No code consumed runbooks/ by path, so nothing else changes.
Verification: all SKILL.md frontmatter parses with valid risk_class; every
lifecycle transition resolves to an oikos/ontology.yaml state; broken-link
count 127 -> 126 (fixed one, introduced none).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New kernel modules, all wired into `homelab` CLI + tested against live
production where reachable:
- oikos/scheduler.py — Observe stage: HTTP health probes for every
service, disk-usage probes on hubris/strong, writes oikos/state.json
(gitignored — regenerates every run). `homelab service <name> health`
is now cache-first; `--live` forces a fresh probe. Deploys via
oikos/systemd/oikos-scheduler.{timer,service} on LXC 105.
- oikos/drift.py — SOPS-recipient-vs-inventory and lifecycle-consistency
detectors (fully local, no SSH) plus pct-list and Caddy-backend
detectors (best-effort SSH, degrade to an info finding when
unreachable rather than a false drift alarm). Found real, currently-
true drift on first run: republic-laptop's age key granted on every
secret but missing from inventory.yaml, grimmory missing from
hello.yaml's recipients, and an undocumented pve_id 131 on hubris —
recorded in OIKOS.md for the operator, not auto-fixed (each is a
config_mutation/destructive decision).
- oikos/signal.py — the attention layer: raised -> acknowledged ->
acting -> resolved|muted lifecycle, severity-based routing, dedup via
open_signal_for(). `homelab signal list|raise|ack|resolve|mute`.
- oikos/decide.py — the Decide-stage classifier: risk class x blast
radius x ledger-history confidence -> auto-act/escalate. Adds an
action-alias layer (oikos/policy.py ACTION_ALIASES) and auto-infers
service_name from the entity for per-service policy overrides.
`homelab decide <action> <entity>`.
- oikos/approve.py — the escalate route. No dedicated Matrix bot exists
in this homelab, so this is the repo-side half only: request/reply/
grant lifecycle with short-TTL HMAC-signed tokens (new secret
secrets/oikos-approval-hmac.yaml, recipients apps+hubris). Matrix
delivery is Hermes's existing @dtoro:avispero send path (documented
integration contract in the module docstring), not a new bot.
`homelab restart` now mechanically refuses config_mutation/destructive
services without a valid --approval-id, regardless of -y/interactivity.
- oikos/report.py — daily brief + weekly report from signal/approval/
ledger state (no Prometheus yet, so point-in-time counts only).
- plans/2026-07-05-oikos-prometheus-lxc.md — Prometheus is `planned`,
not provisioned: no pve_id is guessed here since Proxmox assigns real
IDs at creation time, and drift already found an unclaimed ID (131) to
investigate first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
