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oikos/.agents/shared/llm-wiki.md
dtoro b5c1247093 docs: streamline & consolidate the tree (phase 6)
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>
2026-07-06 18:12:14 +02:00

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LLM Wiki — the documentation contract

How the narrative documentation in this repo is organized. The pattern is borrowed from the sources / wiki / index / log model: a durable synthesized layer (knowledge/wiki/) built on top of immutable evidence (knowledge/sources/, incident records), with pure-listing indexes and an append-only operations log.

This contract governs the narrative layer only. The machine-readable substrate — inventory.yaml, generated hosts/*.yaml, oikos/, mcp/, secrets/, bin/ — is not part of the wiki and never moves under it. See the knowledge schema for the split.

Layers

  • Sources are immutable raw material: incident records (knowledge/sources/investigations/), external reference docs (knowledge/sources/references/), and the live system itself (pct config, docker inspect). Read them; do not rewrite them into other sources.
  • Wiki (knowledge/wiki/) is the synthesized, authoritative current-state layer: one page per node (containers/, vms/, host narratives) and per cross-cutting system (infrastructure/). A reader understands the topic from the wiki page without reading the sources.
  • Index (index.md / folder README.md) is a pure listing — every page in scope with a one-line summary, and nothing else. Anything the section wants to say up front goes into a page the index lists, not into the index.
  • Log (log.md) is append-only, recording doc-maintenance operations (restructures, source ingests, lint sweeps) in single-line format: ## [YYYY-MM-DD] <op> | <summary>.

Two logs, kept distinct

  • ## Changelog on each node/topic page records infrastructure changes to that node. It is machine-parsed (get_changelog, the Oikos ledger) — keep the ### YYYY-MM-DD — title shape.
  • log.md per area records documentation operations only. It never duplicates the Oikos change ledger (oikos/ledger.py), which stays authoritative for infra changes with who/what/risk/approval/verification.

Rules

  • Wiki pages stay short and focused. A page past ~300 lines splits.
  • Pages stay flat under wiki/<section>/ until there are enough to warrant a sub-group.
  • Every page follows writing-style.md.
  • Plans and design docs always live in the repo plans/ folder (plans/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md), listed in plans/index.md, moved to plans/done/ on completion — never a scratch path or a chat message. See the operations schema.