The previous naming guide was incomplete. The actual convention is:
**Foundational docs:** ALL-CAPS
- Root entry-points: AGENTS.md, README.md (discovery paths)
- Agent instruction: .agents/OIKOS.md, .agents/HERMES.md (docs agents read first)
- Reference docs: GLOSSARY.md (like classic repo files: LICENSE, CHANGELOG)
**Content pages:** lowercase-with-dashes
- Containers: <id>-<name>.md (ID from inventory)
- Infrastructure: <topic>.md (system description)
- Plans/investigations: YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md (date-sorted)
- Section indices: README.md (conventional)
**Skills:** special pattern
- <name>/SKILL.md where <name> is lowercase-with-dashes
- SKILL.md filename is always uppercase — signpost for tools and humans
Uppercase is reserved for foundational/signpost docs; all paths otherwise use
lowercase with hyphens (no underscores).
Updated page-templates.md with expanded explanation, and updated AGENTS.md +
README.md to reference the corrected convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added explicit file-naming rules to page-templates.md so agents know:
- Root entry-points: ALL-CAPS (AGENTS.md, README.md)
- Containers: <id>-<name>.md (e.g., 101-jellyfin.md)
- Infrastructure: lowercase-with-dashes (dns.md, auto-deploy.md)
- Plans/investigations: YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md
- Skills: lowercase-with-dashes/ folder containing SKILL.md
Updated AGENTS.md section 4 (Wiki conventions) to link to page-templates.md
and provided quick reference for file naming, page locations, and changelog format.
Updated README.md conventions section to mention file naming and link to
page-templates.md for the full rules.
All agents now have a clear reference chain:
1. AGENTS.md (entry point) → points to conventions
2. page-templates.md (structure) → has file naming + page templates
3. writing-style.md (prose) → has voice, vocabulary, linking rules
4. llm-wiki.md (organization) → has sources/wiki/index/log model
Verified: no broken links, all conventions documented, consistency check passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <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: 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>
Oikos Console v0 (oikos/console/) — read-mostly, server-rendered FastAPI
+ Jinja2 web UI, no SPA build chain. Signals landing page, service grid
+ detail, node/blast-radius view, live Mermaid relationship graph, drift
findings, approvals queue (approve/deny, destructive confirmation-phrase
enforced), daily/weekly reports. Tested end-to-end via the preview tools
against live production data, including a real click-through of the
approve/deny flow.
Found and fixed two bugs during that testing:
- Severity-dot CSS classes didn't match the actual severity strings
(dot-warn/dot-crit vs "warning"/"critical") — warning-severity signals
rendered with no visible indicator at all.
- The console's sys.path setup pointed at its own webhook checkout
(/opt/oikos-console) rather than /opt/homelab-context, which would have
made its oikos.* imports resolve to a SEPARATE copy of oikos/signal.py
etc. than the scheduler and CLI use — silently forking signal/approval
data into two locations in production. Fixed to match mcp/server.py's
CONTEXT_DIR pattern. Also added _commit_push() so the console's writes
(approval replies, signal ack/resolve) don't sit uncommitted against
the 5-min-synced clone.
Split oikos/gen_topology_lib.py out of oikos/gen-topology.py (hyphenated
filenames aren't importable) so the console's /graph route can render
live without shelling out.
oikos/console/deploy/ — third webhook on dtoro/Homelab-Docs (port 9831),
matching the homelab-mcp/secrets-issuance precedent. README documents the
Caddy route and Gitea webhook registration this repo can't do for itself,
and that Authentik step-up on /approvals needs a live instance to
configure.
Approval hardening: grants are now single-use (oikos/approve.py
check_grant marks the request "executed" atomically, so a second call
for the same id fails even within the TTL) — verified with a test. Per-
agent age-key-signed requests, as originally planned, turned out not to
be buildable as stated: age is encryption-only, no signing primitive.
Documented the real alternative (SSH-key signing) and moved it to the
60/90-day backlog pending an inventory schema gap (no SSH pubkeys
recorded today).
Docs pass: added the Oikos command surface to operations/commands.md,
new MCP tools to AGENTS.md. Found two more stale references while at
it — commands.md and AGENTS.md both still pointed DNS at the destroyed
LXC 124/dnsmasq instead of Technitium on dns (107), and a claudio-monitor
reference deprecated since 2026-06-04 — fixed both.
60/90-day backlog written into OIKOS.md, derived from gaps actually
observed this month, not guesswork.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the Oikos agent-OS kernel: oikos/policy.yaml (risk classes +
approval rules for every homelab/MCP command), oikos/ontology.yaml
(8-domain systems model, typed relationships, node lifecycle), and
OIKOS.md (OODA loop operating brief, linked from AGENTS.md).
Extends inventory.yaml with a stable service contract (doc_page,
config_repo, risk_notes) on all 17 services, and a structured
archaeology: section for the 13 destroyed LXCs (was scattered
comments + a narrative table). Fixes stale drift found in the
process: authentik's backend pointed at a retired LXC (124); core
has run on the VPS since 2026-05-31.
Adds oikos/gen-topology.py, generating infrastructure/topology.md
(Mermaid compute/ingress + storage views) from inventory.yaml.
build_host_files.py now carries state/storage/depends_on into
generated hosts/*.yaml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- tools/setup-hermes-soul.sh: new auto-setup script (no-op on non-Hermes)
- HERMES.md: canonical persona for all agent types, agent-type table
- AGENTS.md: auto-setup section lists both caveman and hermes-soul
- post-pull.sh runs it automatically on every sync
Add the foundation for distributing homelab context to every client
(LXCs, VMs, workstations including republic-laptop, mac-mini, ludo-mini)
with a single source of truth, structured query layer (MCP), and per-client
age-key issuance for secrets:
- inventory.yaml — canonical topology (hosts, services, mesh addresses)
- hosts/*.yaml — per-host identity files generated from inventory by
mcp/build_host_files.py; do not edit by hand
- AGENTS.md — orientation doc symlinked to /root/AGENTS.md on every client
- bootstrap.sh — one-shot enroll (Linux + macOS), clones repo, fetches age
key from issuance, installs sync timer/launchd job, drops the homelab CLI
- bin/homelab — single-binary Python CLI: whoami, list, ssh, pct, logs,
restart, open, status, secret, sync, mcp, client add/remove, nuke
- mcp/server.py — FastMCP server: context tools + read-only management
tools (no mutations exposed); shell-outs use mcp-reader restricted ssh key
- mcp/deploy/ — claudio-monitor-style gitea webhook deploy scaffold for the
MCP service on LXC 105 (ports 9810 mcp, 9811 webhook)
- secrets-issuance/ — per-client age key auto-provisioning over the mesh;
source-IP gated against inventory, with denylist for revoked clients
(ports 9820 issue, 9821 webhook)
- secrets/, .sops.yaml — SOPS recipient scaffolding; the operator fills in
age public keys after Phase 3a generates them
- scripts/sync/ — systemd timer (Linux) + launchd plist (macOS) pulling
/opt/homelab-context every 5 min
Mesh: both Netbird (preferred, 100.122.0.0/16) and Tailscale accepted
during the in-flight migration; no client is gated on completing the move.
Plan reference: /root/.claude/plans/lets-make-a-plan-fluttering-trinket.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
