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>
