Documentation and repo-hygiene pass following the client/server split:
Plan drift (audited all other active plans against current code):
- oikos-gaps-and-improvements.md: mark Section C and D.5 resolved (both
described cmd/hermes, renamed to cmd/nomos with a real LLM loop since);
refresh ~10 stale file:line citations; fix tool-count (33, not 28).
- liveness-drift-and-ux-cohesion.md: fix stale default-model claim (now
deepseek-v4-pro since 2026-07-10) and "not yet deployed" status.
- nomos-agent-code-review.md: fix C1's citation (one unauthenticated route
to nomos now, not two, after the client/server split).
- wails-desktop-app.md: record the production deploy outcome.
Repo structure: added missing directories to README/CONTRIBUTING layout
tables (checks/, tools/, cmd/webhook/, docs/operations/), fixed a broken
link, added ADR 0015 documenting the auth/CORS/client-split model (there
wasn't one despite CONTRIBUTING's own process requiring it), normalized
ADR 0013/0014's format drift, added an Authentication section to
AGENTS.md/CLIENTS.md (every example call was missing the now-required
bearer header).
Retired the Goose+Nomos workstation flow (bootstrap.sh --with-nomos,
tools/setup-nomos-soul.sh, .agents/operations/nomos-agent.md) and the
Caveman auto-install tooling (tools/setup-caveman.sh, tools/caveman/) —
both superseded by the production containerized Nomos agent, which has
never used either. Kept .agents/shared/caveman.md itself (the terse
writing-style convention agents still follow by reading it).
Deleted the orphaned legacy Python oikos/ directory — nothing imports it,
and bin/homelab (the CLI it was kept for) no longer exists in the repo.
Rewrote .agents/operations/agent-enrollment.md (365 -> ~110 lines) and
commands.md to match the current architecture instead of the retired
`homelab` CLI; migrated the still-true networking prerequisites (Netbird,
split-horizon DNS, SSH key distribution) into the knowledge base as a
runbook via upsert_knowledge rather than duplicating them in markdown.
Updated all 10 .agents/skills/ runbooks referencing the dead CLI with
their real MCP tool / REST API equivalents, or flagged them as needing
verification where no equivalent is confirmed yet.
Two real bugs found and fixed, not just docs:
- The tools/setup-*.sh auto-setup glob was tools/*.setup.sh in THREE
places (tools/post-pull.sh, bootstrap.sh, and internal/httpapi/impl.go's
GetClientContext handler) since the mechanism's introduction on
2026-06-02 — never matched any real filename, so no client has ever
picked up an auto-setup script via git-pull or the context-poller sync.
Fixed all three; the Go server-side fix is the one that actually matters
since it's what the current context-poller mechanism depends on.
- bootstrap.sh removed dead vestigial --gitea-token/--gitea-user flags
(parsed, never consumed) left over from an earlier clone-based model.
Also flagged, not fixed (documented as an open gap in
client-enrollment/SKILL.md): bootstrap.sh tells a freshly-enrolled client
to call POST /api/v1/clients/{slug}/activate to finish enrollment, but
that route doesn't exist in api/openapi.yaml — EnrollClient sets entities
to provisioning and nothing currently transitions them to active.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
- .agents/OIKOS.md: rewrote entire Build Status section from Python 30-day
roadmap to Go Phases 1-6 status. Added Python-era backlog preservation.
- knowledge/wiki/containers/105-apps.md: added DEPRECATED notices for
homelab-mcp and secrets-issuance services, pointing to Go equivalents
and cutover checklist.
- knowledge/wiki/infrastructure/auto-deploy.md: marked webhook ids 10+11
as deprecated, replaced Go Docker stack.
- knowledge/wiki/infrastructure/index.md: noted topology gen as Python
with Go DB-native replacement planned.
- .agents/operations/hermes-agent.md: updated MCP references from
FastMCP SSE Python to Streamable HTTP Go SDK.
- .agents/shared/writing-style.md: updated MCP reference, topology note.
- .agents/domains/knowledge/schema.md: updated MCP server reference.
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: 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>
- Add knowledge/wiki/hosts/index.md (the one missing section index) and point
knowledge/index.md at it.
- Add .agents/skills/docs-lint/ (SKILL.md + lint.py) enforcing the mechanical
parts of writing-style.md: banned vocabulary and broken relative links. The
style guide and this skill are exempt from the banned-word check since they
enumerate the list.
- Record the restructure + lint in knowledge/log.md.
Verification: banned-vocabulary scan of knowledge/ is clean (the few remaining
repo-wide hits are false positives — the literal '_' character — or historical
append-only plans quoting the vocabulary, which the standard does not restyle).
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>
