Nomos (from oikonomos, steward of the oikos) avoids the name collision
with Nous Research's Hermes Agent. N0 enumerates the full rename scope:
cmd/, hermes/ dir, env vars, config fields, compose service, Caddy vhost,
identity-preserving DB slug migration + seed update, persona docs.
History, the Matrix bot user, and legacy bin/hermes stay untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Swap anthropic-sdk-go for openai-go against the OpenRouter API; default
model deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash with Exacto routing and ZDR provider
pinning. Record why Nous Hermes Agent (and hosted MCP connectors) were
rejected for the resident role.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hermes becomes an LLM-backed agent loop (hand-rolled tool loop over the
existing mcpClient, not the public MCP connector), with Postgres-backed
sessions, SSE chat streaming, and Authentik-gated /agent routing. The
control-room plan is amended to make the chat the main entry point.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents a full-project review (confirmed bugs, security gaps, user- and
agent-perspective gaps) and a realtime control-room web UI plan, per prior
codebase exploration on this branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Consolidate Oikos on mac-mini (2026-07-06)
- Client lifecycle in Go (2026-07-07)
- Comprehensive audit & next steps (2026-07-07)
- DB as source of truth (2026-07-07)
- MCP tool completion (2026-07-07)
Paths fixed in index.md to reflect planes/done/ locations.
Active plans remaining: Prometheus LXC (Planned), implementation audit (Active).
Removed via Gitea API using Infisical-stored token:
- Hook 10: 192.168.8.205:9811 (homelab-mcp-deploy)
- Hook 11: 192.168.8.205:9821 (secrets-issuance-deploy)
- Hook 14: 192.168.8.205:9831 (oikos-console-deploy) — found during cleanup
All three pointed to apps/105 (192.168.8.205). No remaining webhooks
fire to the old Python stack. Zero hooks remain on dtoro/oikos.
Cutover checklist updated. Only item remaining: archive apps/105 LXC.
Plan #1 at 98% (code complete). Three fixes applied to remaining cutover items:
1. watchdog.sh — dual-path health checking (LAN 192.168.8.175 + mesh/Caddy
proxy). Only pages when BOTH paths fail. Partial failure logged but not
paged (distinguishes stack problem from mesh/Caddy issue).
2. deploy.sh — pre-deploy pg_dump before each deploy saves to
/opt/oikos/backups/pre-deploy-<sha>.sql. Rollback script now has a
guaranteed recovery point.
3. docs/operations/rollback.md — runbook documenting automated rollback,
manual recovery, decision tree, backup schedule, and rehearsal log.
Two operational items remain (require operator on Proxmox/Gitea):
- Remove Gitea webhooks ids 10, 11 from dtoro/Homelab-Docs
- Archive apps/105 LXC (pct stop 105 + archive)
All active config (seeds, compose, scripts) is already clean of apps/105 refs.
Infisical bootstrap code is complete (bootstrap-infisical.sh + Go backend).
Added 12-point verification table with file:line evidence for every item.
Noted two minor deviations: inline SQL (not sqlc) and synthetic Infisical
IDs (real Infisical pending consolidation plan). Precondition checks
enumerated with hard/soft classification.
Plan #4 done. Audit inventory verified against codebase:
- 9 superseded oikos/*.py files deleted (only gen-topology.py remains)
- bin/homelab deleted, bin/oikos deleted, oikos/cards/ deleted
- .hermes/plans/ already archived to archive/hermes-plans/ (all 7 files)
- TRMNL plan already in Done table
- seanime + romm documented in seeds/knowledge.yaml (DB-native, no wiki needed)
- Traefik references valid (VPS still runs traefik for public termination)
- ADR-0011 exists (client lifecycle); consolidation plan is Go rewrite record
- Prometheus plan updated: Python refs replaced with Go scheduler, check_defs,
MCP request_execution; LXC 131 identified as teddycloud
Remaining items (cutover, Infisical, watchdog, rollback, apps/105) belong to
consolidation plan (#1). 4 of 6 plans now Done.
Plan #5 done. Wiki already archived to archive/knowledge/. seeds/knowledge.yaml
has 24 docs + 6 investigations + 3 runbooks.
- MCP search_knowledge: upgraded from ILIKE to PostgreSQL ts_rank/ts_headline
- MCP get_entity_knowledge: new tool, walks relationship edges to return
all docs/investigations/runbooks linked to an entity
- HTTP endpoints (SearchKnowledge, GetEntityKnowledge) already used full FTS
- Plan index + audit cross-reference updated
CLIENTS.md is the entry point for a machine joining the homelab.
AGENTS.md is the AI agent persona layer on top. Both fetched, but
CLIENTS.md comes first.
Problem: Repo had no developer guide, no client onboarding doc, no agent
dev instructions. Stale files (675KB SQL dump, one-off convert script,
legacy MCP builder) cluttered the tree. Client enrollment was a documented
intention with no Go implementation.
Changes:
- New docs: CONTRIBUTING.md (dev setup), CLIENTS.md (client onboarding),
.agents/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md (agent codebase map)
- New plan: plans/2026-07-07-client-lifecycle-in-go.md — full client
lifecycle (planned→provisioning→active→deprecated→destroyed) in Go,
replacing archived Python secrets-issuance, adding client API endpoints
and 6 missing MCP tools
- Cleanup: deleted archive/convert-wiki.py (one-off), archive/mcp/
build_host_files.py (legacy), backups/pre-deploy-7f7d039.sql (local)
- Fixes: plans/index.md duplicate row removed, README.md repo layout
updated for current state, AGENTS.md header points to new guides
Risk: low. Docs only + stale file deletion. No code changes. New plan is
proposal, not implementation.
Verification: git diff reviewed, all changes are prose/docs/plans.
Removed:
- bin/hermes (9.3MB compiled binary accidentally committed to git)
- oikos/console/ (Flask web console — replaced by Go REST API + SSE)
- mcp/server.py (Python MCP server — replaced by internal/mcp/)
- oikos/policy.yaml, oikos/ontology.yaml (duplicates of seeds/)
Kept:
- oikos/*.py kernel files (12 files) — still imported by bin/homelab
for operational CLI commands (ssh, pct, logs, restart, status,
open, secret, client, sync, mcp). Will be removed when bin/homelab
is ported to Go.
- mcp/build_host_files.py — generates hosts/*.yaml from inventory,
still operational. Will be ported to Go.
- bin/homelab — active Python CLI, still operational.
Updated:
- .gitignore: added bin/hermes, cleaned up legacy comments
- plans/index.md: listed all 4 active plans with accurate statuses
Merge the rev-2 audit + remediation layers into one self-consistent spec and
close new gaps: meta-schema inheritance (parent_type/is_abstract), contract-
first API (RFC 9457, idempotency, ETag, scopes, /graph), single-binary role
packaging, UUIDv7+slug IDs, checks-as-data, signal dedup/flap/maintenance,
executable skill format, MCP streamable HTTP, SSE events, ledger-as-view,
dual-path networking (mesh-primary + LAN break-glass), per-phase acceptance
criteria, ADRs. Appendix A maps every rev-2 finding to its resolution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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: docs-lint (added in the wiki-hq reorg) surfaced 126 broken relative
links that predated this session — a container rename, incident/plan docs
that moved into archive/done subfolders without their inbound links being
updated, and a handful of relative-depth bugs in files nested under
containers/archive/ and plans/done/.
Fixes applied, by category:
- 124-authentik.md -> 106-auth-outpost.md (container was renamed; ~40 refs).
- investigations/{2026-04-21-hubris-crash-loop,2026-05-31-authentik-vps-migration}.md
-> archive/ prefix (both moved to investigations/archive/ previously).
- plans/{2026-06-01-slate-ax-to-sodola-migration,2026-06-04_130000-deprecate-claudio-bot,
2026-06-25-yuvomi-deployment}.md -> plans/done/ prefix.
- Depth bugs in files nested one level deeper than their siblings assumed
(investigations/archive/*, knowledge/wiki/containers/archive/*,
plans/done/*) — corrected relative-path depth.
- Destroyed containers with no surviving page (126-plato) delinked to the
containers/index.md archaeology row instead of a 404.
- ludo-mini.yaml -> strong.yaml (host was renamed, same physical machine).
- netbird-vps.md (no narrative page exists) -> netbird-vps.yaml (substrate
record, matching the existing convention for hosts without a wiki page).
- runbook-dpkg-interrupted.md refs -> .agents/skills/runbook-dpkg-interrupted/SKILL.md
(missed in the phase-4 runbook move because the referencing files used a
bare filename, not a runbooks/ prefix).
- One dangling forward-reference to a never-written investigation delinked
to the actual incident record it was describing.
Left alone: two links in knowledge/wiki/containers/101-jellyfin.md into
devops/homelab-authentik-admin/ — an intentional reference to a sibling repo,
not present in this checkout.
Verification: broken-link count 126 -> 2 (real remainder is the cross-repo
reference above); gen-topology.py --check still exit 0; build_host_files.py
still idempotent; all inventory.yaml doc_page targets still resolve.
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>
Problem: the narrative docs lacked an enforceable style standard, and
agent-facing instruction (OIKOS/CAVEMAN/CONTRIBUTING) was interleaved with
human content at the repo root.
Change:
- Add .agents/shared/{writing-style,llm-wiki}.md — a lint-checkable prose
standard (with an imperative-voice exception for runbooks/recipes) and the
sources/wiki/index/log layer model.
- Move CAVEMAN.md -> .agents/shared/caveman.md,
CONTRIBUTING.md -> .agents/shared/page-templates.md,
OIKOS.md -> .agents/OIKOS.md; leave thin root stubs so old links resolve.
- Add .agents/domains/{knowledge,operations}/schema.md; operations schema
codifies "plans always live in plans/".
- Repoint live references (AGENTS, README, GLOSSARY, OIKOS) and fix OIKOS.md's
internal relative links for its new depth.
Risk: none to the operational substrate — inventory.yaml, hosts/*.yaml,
oikos/, mcp/, secrets/, bin/ untouched (verified via git status).
Verification: relative-link check across .agents/ clean; substrate churn empty.
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>
All LXCs use ip=<addr>/24 in pve net0 config directly. No Fritz!Box
lease needed. Updated container doc and migration runbook accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LXC 128 trmnl hosts the TRMNL plugins middleware (dtoro/terminalito), polled by
TRMNL cloud. trmnl-plugins.service on :9851; Caddy block + LE cert; VPS traefik
router trmnl-public + cert mirror. Public path pending VPS<->home netbird route
recovery (was "No networks available" at provision time, artifacto/blog 504 too).
LAN Technitium record + SOPS enrollment + Google/MVG creds pending. Plan -> In Progress.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- plans/: mark Slate AX → SODOLA migration as Done (2026-06-02)
- infrastructure/network.md: rewrite to reflect actual topology —
Fritz!OS 8.x lacks second-IP-network support, so Proxmox routes between
vmbr1 (192.168.178.10, uplink) and vmbr0 (192.168.8.x, internal portless
bridge with 192.168.8.1 alias). Static route on Fritz!Box, no NAT on Proxmox.
Technitium DHCP enabled for 192.168.8.100–240 (gateway .1, DNS .2).
Caddy service unit was missing on CT 121 — recreated and enabled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
