When the operator has approved a plan via chat assent (assent window
active), pct_create and apt_upgrade now auto-approve and execute
instead of queuing for a separate approval round. The auto-approve
path updates the approval+execution status in the DB, then calls the
HTTP API's decision endpoint to trigger executeApprovedAction — same
code path as a manual Approve button, consistent audit trail.
Agent stopped after every approval step, forcing operator to type
'continue' 7× per deploy session. Root causes and fixes:
1. Compound read-only commands (e.g. 'systemctl status; journalctl')
defaulted to config_mutation — now splits on ;/&&/||/| and classifies
as read_only if all segments are inspection verbs. Added grep, wc,
sort, uniq, cut, tr, dpkg -l, apt list, docker stats to allowlist.
2. curl|sh was classified destructive, forcing typed confirmation for
legitimate installs (get.docker.com). Demoted to config_mutation —
loose assent grants it, no typed phrase needed.
3. SOUL.md said 'STOP after queuing' — replaced with 'continue working
on non-blocked steps'. Added assent window section instructing agent
to carry out the full plan after approval.
4. Assent window: when operator approves a plan via chat assent, a
30-minute window opens where config_mutation commands auto-run
without re-approval. Agent writes expiry to autonomy_settings; MCP
run tool checks it before gating. Destructive never auto-runs.
5. System note after approval now says 'CONTINUE executing the full
plan — do not stop and wait for continue.'
Verified live that after deploying the "fixed" bridge-bound pre-flight, it
still let a known-bad vmbr0+192.168.8.2 config straight through to a full
pct_create with no error. Root cause: the check used
`strings.Contains(pingOut, "REACHABLE")` against markers "REACHABLE" /
"UNREACHABLE" — but "UNREACHABLE" contains "REACHABLE" as a substring, so the
containment check was true for BOTH outcomes. The pre-flight was structurally
incapable of ever failing, regardless of the actual ping result.
Fixed with distinct, non-overlapping markers (PREFLIGHT_OK/PREFLIGHT_FAIL)
and exact-match comparison, pulled into a small gatewayPreflightPassed()
helper with a unit test asserting the exact historical bug case
("UNREACHABLE" must be false) so this bug class can't silently recur.
Re-verified live end-to-end: manually re-tested the exact ping command
(confirmed UNREACHABLE via vmbr0), and this was caught only by actually
running the check against production, not by reading the code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verified live that the pre-flight check added in the previous commit had a
real gap: a plain `ping <gateway>` from the Proxmox host succeeds via the
HOST's own routing table (which can have routes to a subnet through paths
the host alone knows about), even when the CONTAINER — attached via a plain
bridge with only a naive on-link default route — can never actually ARP that
gateway. Confirmed by creating a real test container on vmbr0 with
gw=192.168.8.2: the host-wide ping had said "reachable," but pinging from
inside the container showed 100% packet loss. Fixed by binding the pre-flight
ping to the specific requested bridge (`ping -I <bridge>`), which correctly
rejects vmbr0 for that gateway instead of false-positiving via the host's
broader routing table.
Also confirmed live: vmbr1 does exist and is up on strong (contrary to the
possibly-stale host doc), matching what romm/seanime's docs already said.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Investigated why the operator couldn't get past "no DNS/connectivity" across
multiple retries even after Nomos correctly diagnosed and fixed the gateway
(192.168.8.1 -> 192.168.8.2). It still failed. Root cause, confirmed from
strong's own documented network topology: on `strong`, vmbr0 physically
bridges only to 192.168.178.0/24 — the 192.168.8.0/24 service network is
reached via a Fritz!Box static route, not a local bridge. A container
attached to vmbr0 can never reach a 192.168.8.x gateway no matter which
address in that range is picked; ARP for it just gets silently dropped
(matching the earlier hang symptom). The gateway was never the problem — the
bridge was. 192.168.8.0/24 is also segmented into /28 blocks each with their
own gateway (192.168.8.2 is only the .0-.15 block's gateway), so even a
correct bridge with a copy-pasted gateway from a different block would still
fail.
No amount of retrying with a different gateway guess could have fixed this —
the missing fact (which bridge reaches which subnet, and the per-/28 gateway)
isn't inferable from the subnet alone.
- pct_create gets a `bridge` param (was hardcoded to vmbr0) so a correct
bridge can actually be requested once known.
- Fast pre-flight: for any static IP, ping the gateway from the target HOST
before creating anything. Was: a bad config took a multi-minute hang (or,
after last commit's timeout fix, ~2min) before failing. Now: ~2 seconds,
with a message that explicitly says not to guess a different gateway in
the same subnet — find a real neighbor's config or use DHCP.
- SOUL.md: DHCP is now framed as the default, not a fallback; static IP
requires finding an existing LXC on the same host in the same /28 and
copying its bridge+gateway verbatim — inventing one is explicitly called
out as the failure mode that caused this exact incident.
- MCP tool schema: pct_create's params description now documents `bridge`
and the neighbor-copy rule directly in what the model reads at call time,
not just in SOUL.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of "running for 10+ minutes without stopping": a real production
execution (TypeType pct_create) was found genuinely stuck 17+ minutes into a
single blocking SSH call. The container's post_install script was looping on
`getent hosts deb.debian.org`, waiting on a network that could never come up
— the operator's static IP config used gw:192.168.8.1, but the actual gateway
on that subnet is 192.168.8.2, so every network call hung instead of failing
fast (packets dropped, not rejected).
Two compounding bugs made this unrecoverable without manual intervention:
1. sshExec (both internal/httpapi/phase3.go and internal/mcp/server.go) had
NO execution timeout — `session.CombinedOutput()` blocks until the remote
command exits, with no deadline. A hung remote process blocks the Go
goroutine forever; the execution can never leave 'running', and the
operator has no way to make it stop. Fixed: both now race the SSH call
against a 10-minute hard timeout, closing the session/client and
returning a clear "timed out after 10m0s" error if exceeded. (The
mcp/server.go copy also still had the original "swallowed non-zero exit"
bug from before that fix was applied to httpapi's copy only — fixed here
too.)
2. provisionScript's DNS-wait loop assumed `getent hosts` fails fast on no
connectivity — it doesn't; a black-holed network can make each call hang
far past the resolver's nominal timeout, so the documented "~90s" budget
was never real. Wrapped every attempt in `timeout 3` so the wall-clock
budget is now actually enforced (~2min worst case), and the failure
message now suggests checking the net0 gateway.
Also fixes the matching UI-side gap (operator's literal question: "is there
a way to get more details? it has been running for 10+ minutes without
stopping"):
- InlineApproval's track() polling loop had its own ~6min ceiling and simply
STOPPED polling after that — silently going stale before the backend (now
correctly capped at 10min) could ever resolve. Raised to a 14min ceiling
with margin, and added a distinct 'stalled' state if that's ever exceeded
(explicitly says something's wrong, rather than freezing silently).
- The running-card now shows live elapsed time (ticking, from the
execution's created_at), the actual command being run, and the execution
ID — previously just a static "this can take a minute" with zero
information. Also added command display to the destructive pending-
approval card for full transparency before confirming.
Verified live end-to-end in a real browser (dev server proxying to
production): queued a real command via chat, approved via the button,
watched the elapsed-time counter tick in real time, and saw it transition to
a completed card with real output once the command finished.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Live testing hit `entities_slug_key` violations: exec slugs used an 8-char
prefix of a UUIDv7, whose leading bytes encode a millisecond timestamp — two
executions created seconds apart can share a prefix. Use the full UUID
(guaranteed unique) for the exec entity's slug/name in request_execution, the
new `run` tool, and the REST RequestExecution handler — all three had the
same pattern.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found live: `run` against lxc:caddy failed with "missing pve_id" even though
pve_id=121 was present — caddy is an inventory-seeded LXC with no `host`
attribute at all (only pct_create-provisioned LXCs set one). The combined
query scanned attributes->>'host' (SQL NULL) into a plain Go string, which
errors the whole Scan — including the pve_id column that scanned fine.
COALESCE the host column to '' so a missing host attribute degrades to the
documented default instead of failing the whole resolution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the first slice of plans/2026-07-10-general-gated-execution.md:
Nomos gets one general execution tool instead of only a fixed action enum,
gated by an automatic risk classifier, and approval can be granted by the
operator just replying in chat instead of clicking a button.
- internal/policy/command.go: ClassifyCommand(cmd, declaredRisk) — rule-based
read-only allowlist + destructive denylist, default-escalate to
config_mutation for anything else. Classification can only ESCALATE the
caller's declared risk, never de-escalate it (destructive always wins even
if declared read_only). Compound commands (&&, ;, |, $()) never qualify for
the read-only fast path. Full test corpus.
- internal/mcp/server.go: new `run` MCP tool — target (host:/lxc:), command,
purpose, optional declared_risk. Read-only commands execute immediately;
everything else queues an approval exactly like pct_create today, executed
via httpapi's existing executeApprovedAction. Also fixes a real latent bug:
pct_exec resolved an LXC's host attribute without the "host:" prefix, so it
could never find the Proxmox host — new resolveExecTarget/resolveRunTarget
helpers (mcp + httpapi) fix this for both the new `run` action and existing
actions that route through the same execution path.
- internal/httpapi/phase3.go: "run" case in executeApprovedAction; fixes two
bugs found while wiring this up — (1) DecideApproval hardcoded risk_class to
'config_mutation' on every approve, silently corrupting the audit ledger for
every other risk class; (2) denying/revoking an approval never updated the
linked execution's status, so it stayed 'pending_approval' forever instead
of reflecting the decision.
- cmd/nomos/assent.go: deterministic (not LLM-judged) chat-assent detection.
Scoped to the immediately-preceding assistant turn's pending approvals only
— an old "yes" can't retroactively approve something new. Destructive-risk
actions are excluded from loose assent. Approves via the same HTTP decision
endpoint the UI button calls, so both paths share one audit trail.
- web/.../InlineApproval.svelte: self-healing poll — a pending approval card
now picks up being decided via ANY path (chat assent, Ops page, Matrix), not
just its own button. Previously the banner stayed stuck showing
Approve/Deny even after the action had already run elsewhere.
- nomos/SOUL.md: `run` is now the general capability ("no fixed menu, only a
risk gate"); documents chat-assent behavior and the destructive exception.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fresh Debian LXCs have no locale configured, spamming "apt-listchanges:
Can't set locale" / perl warnings across every install and breaking some
packages' post-install scripts. Pin LANG/LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 (and hoist
DEBIAN_FRONTEND) at the top of the in-container bootstrap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Production session provisioned the container but the service never installed:
apt failed with "Temporary failure resolving deb.debian.org" — a static-IP LXC
whose assigned nameserver couldn't resolve. The operator also got zero feedback:
the approval banner just sat there with no running/complete/failed status.
Backend robustness (provisionScript):
- Wait for real DNS/connectivity inside the container before apt, and self-heal
/etc/resolv.conf to a public resolver (1.1.1.1/8.8.8.8) if the assigned one
is dead. `set -e` after the gate so apt/post_install failures surface.
- apt-get update/install with Acquire::Retries=3.
Frontend feedback (InlineApproval):
- After approve, poll GET /executions/{id} and show live phase: submitting →
provisioning… → provisioned successfully / execution failed (with the error).
- add getExecution() to api.ts.
Agent guidance (SOUL.md):
- omit vmid (auto-assigned), prefer dhcp, docker-compose-plugin is not in Debian
(use docker.io + get.docker.com), end post_install with a health check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The final "UPDATE executions SET result=$::jsonb" built its payload with
fmt.Sprintf and only escaped newlines. apt/pct output contains quotes,
backslashes and control chars, so the payload was invalid JSON, the jsonb
cast failed, and the (unchecked) UPDATE was silently discarded — the
execution stayed 'approved' with a NULL result even though the LXC was fully
provisioned (verified live: vmid auto-assigned, container running, service
installed, post_install ran).
- executeApprovedAction: marshal result via json.Marshal; log UPDATE errors
- add jsonErr() helper; route all pct_create failure-path results through it
- mcp/server.go: add jsonOut() for restart/systemctl/pct_exec inline results
- regression test for JSON validity on quote/backslash/control-char output
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-ups found while verifying the approve→provision path end to end:
- vmid is now optional: the early required-field check rejected vmid:0
before the cluster VMID guard could auto-assign a free id. Only hostname
is required now; 0 (or a collision) resolves to `pvesh get /cluster/nextid`.
- net0: use ip=dhcp with no gateway when no static IP is given (Proxmox
rejects gw alongside dhcp); only attach gw for a static CIDR.
- bump post-create settle to 10s so a DHCP lease is up before apt runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Real production failure when the operator clicked Approve in chat: nothing
provisioned, banner never cleared, execution marked completed.
Three root causes:
- sshExec swallowed non-zero exits when the command produced output, so a
`pct create` that printed "CT 132 already exists" and failed was reported
as success and a bogus lxc entity was registered. Now any non-zero exit
returns an error (with output) so the execution is correctly marked failed.
- The LLM reused VMID 132 (belongs to lxc:rclone; VMIDs are cluster-wide).
pct_create now checks in-use VMIDs via `pvesh get /cluster/resources` and
falls back to `pvesh get /cluster/nextid` when the requested id is taken.
- InlineApproval.svelte reset its state on every prop change (done was also
compared against the wrong string), so the banner never cleared and each
click re-POSTed /decision. Rewritten to track outcome per executionId,
clear on success, and block resubmits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of "asks permission but never acts": the approved pct_create
execution failed to parse because the LLM emitted `"privileged":0` /
`"nesting":1` (numbers) into strict `bool` fields, so the container was
never created. Compounded by a hardcoded template name (debian-13.0-1)
that no longer exists on the host, and no way for the agent to read the web.
- flexBool: accept 0/1, "true", bool for privileged/nesting (the exact prod failure)
- pct_create template pre-flight: list host cache, validate/auto-pick newest debian
- pct_create services[] + post_install: one approval provisions a working service
- new http_get MCP tool (sanitized, size-capped, SSRF-guarded) — agent can read repos/sites
- request_execution description: target=host, full JSON schema + example
- SOUL.md: agent CAN fetch the web; prefer one-step provisioning
- default model deepseek-v4-flash -> v4-pro; maxIterations 15 -> 25
- unit tests for flexBool, template resolve, pkg sanitize, HTML sanitize + SSRF block
Verified live on host:strong with a throwaway VMID 999: template auto-resolved,
container created + booted, services installed, post_install ran, then destroyed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Execution entity name now includes UUID suffix: 'pct_create on host:strong (abc12345)'
so the (type,name) UNIQUE constraint doesn't block subsequent executions for the
same target+action. Dedup now uses JOIN + LIKE prefix match to find only
pending_approval executions.
- Move persistent approval bar from top of messages area to just above the
chat input box (bottom-fixed position, above the textarea form).
- Add dedup in request_execution: check entities(type,name) uniqueness before
creating duplicate executions. Returns 'already queued' message to the LLM,
preventing tool-calling loops.
- Fix createApproval JSON payload: use json.Marshal instead of fmt.Sprintf
to escape params (could contain unescaped double quotes from JSON config).
- Add ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING to entity/execution inserts for dedup race safety.
- Persistent approval bar at top of Chat.svelte: aggregates pendingApprovals
from all messages, fixed position (won't scroll away). Approve/deny/approve-all.
- Update SOUL.md: agent must STOP after queuing a gated action.
- Fix ToolCallGroup reactivity: wasActive = (active).
- Empty/refusal responses retried once, then surfaced as errors instead of silent blanks
- Chinese refusal boilerplate detected via denylist + non-ASCII heuristic
- Bulk-tool preference added to SOUL.md (list_lxcs over per-entity get_lxc_state)
- Tool results truncated to 4KB on persist; get_state_snapshot filters null-state entities
- Session delete (DELETE /sessions/{id} + confirm-on-second-click UI)
- Session titles auto-generated from assistant answer instead of raw user message
Problem: every host/service/lxc/etc. entity_status row was permanently
stuck at 'unknown' since creation. Verified against the live DB:
metric_samples had 17,559 rows, 100% attached to type='check' probe
entities and 0% to any real monitored entity; only 25 check entities
ever had real health written. check_defs.entity_id (the probe's own
bookkeeping entity) and check_defs.target_id (the host/service actually
being observed) were both real fields, but the scheduler wrote
UpsertEntityStatus/InsertMetricSample/emitSchedulerEvent keyed by
entity_id instead of target_id — so every check ran and every result
was real, it just landed on the wrong row. This is the mechanism behind
observed drift: the agent's dashboard/health tools reported the
internal probes' state, never the actual fleet.
Change:
- scheduler.go: runCheck/resolveSignal now resolve targetID from
cd.TargetID (falling back to the check's own id if unset) and write
status/metrics/events there. Signals stay keyed by the check entity,
unchanged, matching their existing resolution logic.
- Added a staleness sweep to housekeeping(): an entity whose last
observation is older than 3x its fastest enabled check's interval
(floor 5m) is marked 'stale' and emits health.stale, so a stalled
scheduler or disabled check_def can no longer look like current data
forever.
- migrations/016: deletes the now-orphaned check-entity entity_status
rows so dashboard/fleet-health rollups stop double-counting probes as
monitored entities. Historical metric_samples on check entities are
left as-is (time-series data, not safe to reattribute).
- openapi.yaml + regenerated gen code: Entity gains health/last_check_at;
'stale' added to the health enum everywhere it's used.
- dashboard.go / GetFleetHealth / nomos's get_health_summary MCP tool:
exclude type='check' entities from rollups.
- nomos/agent.go: replay prior turns' tool_use/tool_result pairs into
the conversation instead of dropping them (previously only final text
was replayed, forcing the agent to re-derive fleet state every turn),
and inject a compact live fleet-health snapshot into the system prompt
each turn so it starts oriented instead of spending an iteration on
discovery.
Risk: config_mutation (schema-adjacent — new migration, no destructive
DDL, additive DELETE only on orphaned rows). No behavior change until
oikos-api/oikos-scheduler/nomos are rebuilt and redeployed.
Verification: go build/vet clean across the repo. Ran this worktree's
own API binary against the live dev Postgres on an alternate port
(read-only from the live containers' perspective) and confirmed
/api/v1/entities now returns health/last_check_at, and the dashboard
health rollup dropped from double-counting to an honest 168 unmonitored
entities (matches reality pre-deploy — the live scheduler hasn't run
the fixed code yet). Confirmed check_defs.target_id correctly maps
multiple checks to host:hubris via direct psql query.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- disk_usage_check.sh: sed 's/-/0/' for filesystems without inodes
- checkdefaults.Ensure: includes target_id in check_defs INSERT so
signals get proper target slug instead of null
- InsertMetricSample now includes ts=now() (TimescaleDB hypertable requires it)
- ssh-script: pass host and port separately (ssh uses -p flag, not host:port)
- ssh-script: use OIKOS_SSH_USER from config/env, default root
- Add -o LogLevel=ERROR to suppress SSH warnings polluting JSON output
- Use Output() (stdout only) instead of CombinedOutput()
- Set OIKOS_SSH_USER=root in scheduler docker-compose service
- Switch Dockerfile from distroless/static to alpine:3.21
- Install openssh-client-default in runtime image
- Mount SSH key in scheduler service (docker-compose)
- Add NET_RAW capability for ping checks
- Wire OIKOS_SSH_KEY_PATH and OIKOS_SSH_USER env vars in scheduler
- sshExec uses configured key path with StrictHostKeyChecking=no
Add three new pages completing the control-room web UI:
- Agent activity: polls /agent-activity every 5s, filterable by type/agent
- Knowledge search: FTS over /knowledge/search with snippet + entity links
- Audit trail: browseable audit log with actor/action/entity filters
Enhanced live events page with correlation-id clustering (Groups toggle).
Added fetchAgentActivity/searchKnowledge/fetchAudit to the API client.
11 nav items now cover all planned control-room views.
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
Phase 1 implementation from the client-lifecycle plan.
- Migration 012: provisioning_steps table, context_version, context_files,
enrolled_at column, slug+type index for machine entities
- API endpoints (openapi.yaml + generated code):
POST /clients/enroll — age key issuance, Infisical identity, state transition
GET /clients/{slug}/context — agent file delta polling (replaces git pull)
GET /clients/{slug}/secrets — scoped secret listing
POST /entities/provision — compute entity creation with constraint validation
GET /entities/{slug}/provision/status — step-by-step provisioning progress
- Handlers in impl.go: enrollment with state validation and age key generation,
provisioning with execution tracking and relationship creation,
context endpoint with since-based delta queries
- Server struct extended with secretsBackend interface for key storage
- All tests pass, build clean
- knowledge.go: scan tags as []string from pgx (not JSON)
- seed.go: convert tags to PG array format, fix runbook applies_to_type
- convert-wiki.py: fix entity slug prefixes to match inventory.yaml
(host: not proxmox-host:, ws: not workstation:, service:homelab-mcp with hyphen)
- convert-wiki.py: read from archive/knowledge/ since wiki was archived
- phase3.go: RequestExecution now calls InsertEntity before InsertExecution
(executions.entity_id references entities.id via FK constraint).
- mcp/server.go: request_execution MCP tool same fix — inserts entities row
with slug 'exec:<target>:<id8>' before executions insert.
- docker-compose.yml: fix seed OIKOS_SEEDS_DIR from /app/seeds to /seeds
(distroless image COPY destination).
- actuator/ssh.go: custom errorsAs chain broken — all SSH errors classified as SSHErrorOther.
Replaced with standard errors.As + errors.Is.
- scheduler/scheduler.go: all four check functions were stubs returning healthy.
Implemented real HTTP GET, TCP dial, unix.Statfs disk, and TLS cert expiry checks.
- learning/learning.go: uuid.NewV7() called unconditionally before ON CONFLICT upsert.
Now looks up existing pattern first, reuses entity_id.
- notifier/notifier.go: removed dead var_, fixed token regeneration every 15s.
Now skips if token_hash already set.
- phase3.go: removed dead GetPattern+dummy args call in PatchPattern.
- classify.go: removed unused var_ guard.
