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docs(mbse): add MBSE system model, framework, component and ontology views
Four cross-linked documents under docs/mbse/, structured after Jon Holt's
Systems Engineering Demystified (2nd ed.): Framework = Ontology + Viewpoints,
producing a Model made of Views.

- framework.md — the Ontology (SE meta-concepts + Oikos's domain ontology)
  and an 11-entry Viewpoint catalog (two repeating: Component, Ontology).
- README.md — the Model's 9 concern-based Views (mission, requirements,
  functional/physical architecture, interfaces, behavior, V&V, risk, roadmap).
- components.md — 8 per-component Views going one layer deeper into each
  running part of the system's own internal structure.
- ontology.md — 4 Views on the domain ontology itself: entity type
  hierarchy (split into 9 digestible per-domain diagrams), full relationship
  catalog, lifecycle state machines with their requires: gates, and concrete
  population.

Grounded in direct verification against source (grep/read), not just
existing docs — every finding is graded verified vs. per-research-pass.
Surfaced several real, previously undocumented findings along the way:
the policy kill-switch (global.auto_act/never_auto_act) is checked only by
dead code and an unstarted actuator package, so it doesn't gate the live
run path; internal/actuator and internal/learning are compiled but never
started by any process; the relationship catalog grew from 34 to 47 types
since ADR-0014; and task has no registered lifecycle_defs entry despite
having a documented, code-enforced state machine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-17 21:00:14 +02:00

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# Oikos — Component Views
> Companion to [the Model](README.md) and [the Framework](framework.md).
> Where README.md's nine Views cut across the whole system by *concern*
> (requirements, behavior, risk...), this document cuts across it by
> *component* — one View per running part of the System, going one layer
> deeper into its own internal structure than the whole-system Views do.
> Per [framework.md](framework.md) §4, each section below is still a View
> and must still answer Holt's three questions; they're stated once per
> section rather than as a separate table, since here the Stakeholder is
> almost always the same ("an engineer about to change this component")
> and the Notation is the same (prose + Mermaid) throughout.
**How to use this alongside the other two documents:** if you're deciding
*whether something belongs in the Model*, read [framework.md](framework.md).
If you're asking *what does the system do and why*, read
[README.md](README.md). If you're about to **change code in a specific
package** and want to know its internal shape, its own state, and what's
already known to be broken or dormant inside it before you touch it, read
the relevant section here.
## Contents
| Component | Path | Status |
|---|---|---|
| [1. oikos api](#1-oikos-api) | `internal/httpapi`, `internal/mcp`, `internal/policy` | ✅ live — the decision/execution gate |
| [2. oikos scheduler](#2-oikos-scheduler) | `internal/scheduler`, `internal/checkdefaults` | ✅ live — the observe loop |
| [3. oikos notifier](#3-oikos-notifier) | `internal/notifier` | ✅ live — approval delivery |
| [4. nomos](#4-nomos-agent-gateway) | `cmd/nomos` | ✅ live — the agent, unauthenticated gateway |
| [5. web control room](#5-web-control-room) | `web/src` | ✅ live — standalone SPA |
| [6. PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB](#6-postgresqltimescaledb) | `migrations/`, `seeds/` | ✅ live — the System's own source of truth |
| [7. Dormant components](#7-dormant-components) | `internal/actuator`, `internal/learning` | 🔴 compiled, never started |
| [8. Auxiliary components](#8-auxiliary-components) | `cmd/webhook`, `cmd/desktop` | ✅ live — deploy + packaging, not decision logic |
---
## 1. oikos api
**Stakeholders:** engineers extending the MCP tool surface, the `run` gate,
or REST endpoints; anyone debugging why a specific command was or wasn't
classified the way they expected. **Why this View earns its place:** this
is the single component where the highest-consequence findings in
[Risk & Safety](README.md#8-risk--safety) live — extending it without
knowing its internal shape is how the kill-switch gap and the
two-classifiers problem happened in the first place.
### oikos api — Internal structure
| File | Lines | Role |
|---|---|---|
| `internal/httpapi/server.go` | 842 | `NewHandler` (routing entry, L75), `combinedAuth` (L229), OIDC JWKS discovery/fetch/validate (L337-524), `GetActor` (L526), OIDC config/token/callback handlers (L575-712), `ListenAndServe` (L811) |
| `internal/httpapi/impl.go` | 1,639 | Entity CRUD, lifecycle transitions + preconditions (per [ADR-0014](../adr/0014-entity-model.md)) |
| `internal/httpapi/phase3.go` | 2,627 | Executions, approvals (`DecideApproval`), `sshExec`, `executeApprovedAction`, autonomy-settings read/write endpoints — the **largest single file in the component** |
| `internal/httpapi/sse.go` | 366 | `LISTEN/NOTIFY` fan-out, ring-buffer replay |
| `internal/httpapi/activity.go` | 215 | `agent_activity` read endpoints |
| `internal/httpapi/knowledge.go` | 286 | Knowledge search/content endpoints |
| `internal/httpapi/dashboard.go` | 172 | `dashboard/summary` |
| `internal/httpapi/learning_view.go` | 129 | `learning/timeline`, `learning/trend` |
| `internal/httpapi/problem.go` | 71 | RFC 9457 `problem+json` error envelope |
| `internal/httpapi/default_checks.go` | 13 | Thin wrapper calling `internal/checkdefaults` on entity creation |
| `internal/mcp/server.go` | 1,691 | All 33 MCP tool registrations (`get_entity` at L76 through `list_my_secrets` at L753), `sshExec` (L1031), `resolveExecTarget` (L1223), **`classifyAndGate`** (L1264-1417) |
| `internal/policy/command.go` | 174 | `ClassifyCommand` (L108) — the **live** classifier, `computeCommandRisk` (L127), `allSegmentsReadOnly` (L157), `riskRank` (L26) |
| `internal/policy/classify.go` | 157 | `ClassifySignal` (L46) — **dead code, zero callers** (see [Roadmap §9.2](README.md#92-code-real--dead-code--schema-only-matrix)) |
### oikos api — internal call structure: the `run` gate, by file
README.md's [§3.3](README.md#3-functional-architecture) shows the *decision
logic* of the `run` gate. This shows the *code path* — which file hands off
to which — because they're not the same question: the decision flowchart
tells you what happens, this tells you where to go fix it.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
MCP["mcp/server.go\nrun tool handler, L366"] --> GATE["mcp/server.go\nclassifyAndGate, L1264"]
GATE --> RESOLVE["mcp/server.go\nresolveExecTarget, L1223"]
GATE --> CLASSIFY["policy/command.go\nClassifyCommand, L108"]
CLASSIFY --> RISK["policy/command.go\ncomputeCommandRisk, L127\nallSegmentsReadOnly, L157"]
GATE -->|read_only or window open| EXEC["mcp/server.go\nsshExec, L1031"]
GATE -->|otherwise| APPROVAL["phase3.go\ncreateApproval"]
APPROVAL -->|operator decides| DECIDE["phase3.go\nDecideApproval"]
DECIDE --> EXEC2["phase3.go\nsshExec\n(separate implementation)"]
style CLASSIFY fill:#e8f5e9,stroke:#2e7d32
style EXEC fill:#fff3e0,stroke:#e65100
style EXEC2 fill:#fff3e0,stroke:#e65100
```
The two orange boxes are the same finding stated visually: `mcp/server.go`
and `phase3.go` each have **their own `sshExec`**, independently written,
not sharing an implementation. Fix one path's SSH handling and the other is
untouched — verified during the Roadmap audit, not assumed.
### oikos api — Interfaces this component owns
Full catalogs live in [README.md §5](README.md#5-interfaces-icd) (33 MCP
tools, REST groups, SSE event types) — not repeated here. What's specific
to *this* component's internal ownership: `internal/mcp/server.go` owns
every MCP tool; `internal/httpapi/{impl,phase3,sse,activity,knowledge,
dashboard,learning_view}.go` own the REST surface between them, split by
resource area rather than by file size; `internal/policy/command.go` is a
pure function library with no HTTP surface of its own, called only from
`classifyAndGate`.
### oikos api — Status and known issues
All of the following are detailed with evidence in
[Roadmap & Traceability](README.md#9-roadmap--traceability) and
[Risk & Safety](README.md#8-risk--safety) — cross-referenced here so an
engineer opening this specific package sees them before making a change,
not after:
- `policy.ClassifySignal` (in this component) is dead code; the schema it
reads (`autonomy_settings.global.auto_act`, `never_auto_act.*`) is
therefore not enforced by anything in the live request path — [§8.1](README.md#81-the-kill-switch-gap-verified-most-important-finding-in-this-model).
- `notifier.VerifyApprovalToken` (a different component, §3 below) is dead;
`phase3.go:DecideApproval` reimplements token verification inline instead
of calling it.
- `domain.Execution`'s state constants are descriptive only — `phase3.go`
writes ad-hoc SQL string statuses that don't map 1:1 onto them.
- SSH host key verification is disabled (`InsecureIgnoreHostKey`) on the
actuation path — open gap B4.
---
## 2. oikos scheduler
**Stakeholders:** engineers adding a new probe kind or debugging why a
signal did or didn't fire. **Why this View earns its place:** the
scheduler is the only component that runs unattended on a fixed interval
with no operator or agent triggering it — its failure modes look different
from every request-driven component above.
### oikos scheduler — Internal structure
| File | Lines | Role |
|---|---|---|
| `internal/scheduler/scheduler.go` | 761 | Everything — no sub-packages |
| `internal/scheduler/init.go` | 13 | `RunnerForMain()` — the only thing `cmd/oikos`'s `scheduler` role calls |
| `internal/checkdefaults/defaults.go` | — | `ForEntityType` (L60-123), `Ensure` (L144-204), `DefaultInterval` (L133-142) — default check provisioning on entity creation |
Key functions inside `scheduler.go`: `Run` (L36-64, the tick loop, default
30s), `runCheckPass` (L67-94, loads `check_defs`, dispatches with a
10-worker `errgroup` limit), `runCheck` (L104-186), `executeCheck` (L237-254,
the kind dispatcher), `resolveSignal` (L206-225), `evaluateSeverity`
(L737-760), `staleSweep` (L286-333, 3× fastest interval / 5 min floor).
### oikos scheduler — behavior specific to this component: the probe dispatch
```mermaid
flowchart TB
TICK["Run tick, every 30s"] --> LOAD["ListEnabledCheckDefs"]
LOAD --> DISPATCH["executeCheck: dispatch by kind"]
DISPATCH --> HTTP["checkHTTP, L336"]
DISPATCH --> TCP["checkTCP, L393"]
DISPATCH --> DISK["checkDisk, L424"]
DISPATCH --> CERT["checkCertExpiry, L474"]
DISPATCH --> PING["checkPing, L545"]
DISPATCH --> SSH["checkSSHScript, L613"]
HTTP & TCP & DISK & CERT & PING & SSH --> RESULT["checkResult struct\nhealth, signalKind, evidence, metrics"]
RESULT -->|healthy| RESOLVE["resolveSignal\nraw SQL, bypasses Signal.CanTransition"]
RESULT -->|unhealthy| UPSERT["UpsertSignal\ndedup by target+kind"]
RESULT --> METRICS["INSERT metric_samples"]
RESULT --> STATUS["UpsertEntityStatus"]
```
`checkSSHScript` (L613-724) is the odd one out: it shells out to the system
`ssh` binary directly (`BatchMode=yes`, `StrictHostKeyChecking=no`) rather
than using a Go SSH library, restricted to scripts matching
`^[a-z][a-z0-9_-]+\.sh$` at a fixed path `/opt/oikos/checks/<script>`. The
18 scripts it can run (`cpu_check.sh`, `disk_usage_check.sh`,
`docker_health_check.sh`, `zfs_check.sh`, …) live in `checks/` in this repo
and are auto-deployed to every enrolled client by `tools/setup-checks.sh`
(per AGENTS.md §8) — this component's actual probe logic is split between
Go code here and shell scripts version-controlled elsewhere in the repo.
### oikos scheduler — Interfaces this component owns
No external API — this is the one component with no inbound interface at
all, only outbound: SSH to the fleet (probes), and writes to
`metric_samples`/`signals`/`entity_status`/`events` that every other
component reads. It is a pure producer.
### oikos scheduler — Status and known issues
- Never calls `policy.ClassifySignal` — signals it raises sit as
`state='raised'` with no automatic classification; whatever consumes
them downstream (the agent, the console) does its own interpretation.
- `resolveSignal` updates `raised → resolved` via raw SQL, bypassing the
one enforced state machine in the domain layer
(`domain.Signal.CanTransition`) — the specific transition happens to be
legal today, but nothing would stop a future change from making it not.
---
## 3. oikos notifier
**Stakeholders:** engineers debugging a missed or duplicate Matrix alert,
or extending the approval-delivery mechanism to a new channel.
**Why this View earns its place:** this is the one component whose entire
job is bridging an asynchronous human decision into the same-shaped
synchronous decision every other component expects — worth understanding
in isolation before assuming "approval" means one simple thing.
### oikos notifier — Internal structure
All in `internal/notifier/notifier.go` (305 lines, one file, no
sub-packages): `Run` (L25-47, two tickers — 15s for pending approvals, 30s
for reaction polling), `processPendingApprovals` (L65-115, generates the
token/hash lazily on first pass), `generateApprovalToken` (L275-283,
HMAC-SHA256 over approval ID + nanosecond timestamp), `hashToken`
(L302-305, only the hash is stored), `sendMatrixAlert` (L231-272),
`pollReactions`/`checkReaction` (L118-201), `callDecideApproval`
(L204-228), `VerifyApprovalToken` (L286-300, **dead code**).
### oikos notifier — Behavior specific to this component
The full sequence (Matrix + console paths converging on one decision
endpoint) is in [README.md §6.4](README.md#64-sequence--the-run-primitive-end-to-end).
Specific to this component in isolation: it never calls into
`internal/httpapi` directly except through one HTTP call
(`callDecideApproval`, an ordinary client request to
`POST /api/v1/approvals/{id}/decision`) — the notifier and the API process
communicate **only through the database and one HTTP endpoint**, never
through shared Go state, which is why the header comment in `notifier.go`
calls this a "DB rendezvous pattern."
### oikos notifier — Interfaces this component owns
Outbound only: the Matrix client-server API
(`PUT /rooms/.../send/m.room.message`, `GET /relations/.../m.annotation`)
and one outbound call to the API's own approval-decision endpoint. No
inbound interface — nothing calls into the notifier process.
### oikos notifier — Status and known issues
- `VerifyApprovalToken` is dead code; `phase3.go:DecideApproval` (a
different component, §1 above) reimplements the same hash-compare logic
inline rather than calling it — a single source of truth for token
verification does not currently exist.
- Open gap A2: `alert_sent_at` is written *after* the send attempt, so a
failed UPDATE re-sends the alert on the next poll; no dedup beyond that,
and reaction-polling API calls are unbounded.
---
## 4. nomos (agent gateway)
**Stakeholders:** engineers changing agent behavior, adding a task tool, or
investigating a stuck/duplicated task. **Why this View earns its place:**
this is the largest component by line count (4,681 lines across six files)
and the one with the most active recent bug-fix history
(`plans/2026-07-11-nomos-agent-code-review.md`,
`plans/done/2026-07-14-post-fix-session-remainders.md`) — its internal
shape is not obvious from outside.
### nomos — Internal structure
| File | Lines | Role |
|---|---|---|
| `cmd/nomos/main.go` | 914 | Gateway HTTP server (`:8092`), `/query`/`/chat`/`/sessions` routes, the hand-rolled Streamable-HTTP MCP client (`mcpClient`, per-session pooled) |
| `cmd/nomos/store.go` | 1,472 | Persistence — sessions, messages, `logActivity` |
| `cmd/nomos/agent.go` | 861 | The agentic loop itself; model config (L62-120); `maxIterations = 40` (L24, a **hard-coded constant**, not read from `nomos/config.yaml`'s `max_iterations: 15` — the two disagree, see status below) |
| `cmd/nomos/tasks.go` | 416 | The five nomos-local task tools: `set_goal`, `propose_plan`, `update_plan_step`, `ask_operator`, `complete_task` — handled in-process, never forwarded to `internal/mcp` |
| `cmd/nomos/continue.go` | 347 | The auto-continuation worker — polls `nomos_plan_executions` |
| `cmd/nomos/assent.go` | 183 | `isAssent`/`isTypedConfirmation` — regex word-boundary matching (fixed 2026-07-11 after a false-positive bug where "yesterday" matched "yes") |
### nomos — Behavior specific to this component
The Task lifecycle and auto-continuation sequences are in
[README.md §3.4](README.md#34-functional-flow--the-task-lifecycle-f3f4f5-packaged-for-a-human)
and [§6.5](README.md#65-sequence--plan-auto-continuation-the-system-is-the-event-loop).
Specific to this component: the LLM sees a **union of two tool sources**
the 33 tools fetched live from `api`'s `/mcp` endpoint via `tools/list`,
plus the 5 local task tools in `tasks.go` — and `agent.go`'s per-call
routing decides in-process versus forwarded with no visible seam to the
model itself. A hidden `_session_id` is injected into forwarded calls on
the wire (never in the model-visible arguments) so `internal/mcp/server.go`
can scope assent/destructive windows per task.
### nomos — Interfaces this component owns
| Route | Auth |
|---|---|
| `GET /healthz` | none |
| `POST /query` (structured tool call or a pointer to `/chat`) | **none** |
| `POST /chat` (SSE, the real agentic loop) | **none** |
| `GET/POST /sessions`, `/sessions/{id}` | **none** |
This entire interface is unauthenticated — full detail in
[README.md §5.4](README.md#54-nomos-http-interface-cmdnomos-port-8092).
Outbound: a pooled MCP client to `api`, and chat completions to OpenRouter
(`data_collection: deny` pinned, default model `deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro`).
### nomos — Status and known issues
- **C1, the most consequential open gap involving this component**: zero
authentication on the entire gateway, including the ability to grant
chat-assent approvals with no credential check. Explicitly deferred by
operator instruction, not an oversight — see
[README.md §8.4](README.md#84-known-open-security-gaps).
- `nomos/config.yaml`'s `max_iterations: 15` does not match the enforced
Go constant (`40`) — one of the two is stale.
- Dual `agent_activity` logging: both this component's `store.logActivity`
and `internal/mcp/server.go`'s `withActivityLogging` (a different
component) log the same forwarded tool call. Not confirmed whether this
is an intentional two-sided audit trail or accidental duplication.
---
## 5. web control room
**Stakeholders:** the operator, directly; engineers changing the UI's data
model or adding a page. **Why this View earns its place:** this is the only
component with no server-side logic of its own — understanding it means
understanding what it *doesn't* do (it is not the system of record for
anything) as much as what it does.
### web control room — Internal structure
Nine pages under `web/src/pages/` (Svelte 5, hash-based routing, no router
library):
| Page | Lines | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| `Overview.svelte` | 262 | Task dashboard — fleet/health/signal summary cards, the task list, entry point for launching a new chat |
| `Chat.svelte` | 410 | The conversation UI — streaming, `TaskContextPanel`, tool-call rendering, inline approvals |
| `Ops.svelte` | 240 | Approvals queue, recent activity/execution feed, approve/deny/cancel |
| `Signals.svelte` | 171 | Alert/signal triage — severity filter, ack/resolve/mute |
| `KnowledgeBase.svelte` | 263 | Entity browser — force-directed graph view and table view |
| `Knowledge.svelte` | 186 | Free-text knowledge search |
| `Learning.svelte` | 174 | Pattern/skill telemetry — the one page whose backing data source
(`internal/learning`) is dormant per §7 below, so this page currently shows
whatever accumulated before the engine stopped being called, not a live
feed |
| `Config.svelte` | 202 | Auth/connection screen — static bearer token or OIDC login |
| `EntityDetail.svelte` | 7 | Thin wrapper, deep-link target |
Shared logic under `web/src/lib/`: `config.ts` (`fetchWithAuth`, the single
wrapper every API call goes through), `oidc.ts`, `api.ts`, `tasks.ts`,
`stores/events.ts` (the always-on SSE connection), plus task-specific
components (`TaskContextPanel.svelte`, `GoalHeader.svelte`,
`PlanProgress.svelte`, `OperatorQuestion.svelte`, `SessionGraph.svelte`).
### web control room — Behavior specific to this component
Two data-flow patterns, not one: most pages fetch REST on mount and
re-fetch on a relevant SSE event; `Chat.svelte`'s `TaskContextPanel` is
driven by the **always-on global event stream**
(`web/src/lib/stores/events.ts`), not the per-turn chat SSE connection —
deliberately, so the live context panel stays populated during
server-side auto-continuation (§4 above) when no chat turn is actually
open, and survives a tab reload.
### web control room — Interfaces this component owns
None inbound — it is a pure consumer of `internal/httpapi`'s REST and SSE
interfaces (full catalog: [README.md §5](README.md#5-interfaces-icd)).
`fetchWithAuth` resolves config per request rather than at import time, so
the same build works same-origin (production, Vite dev proxy) or
cross-origin (the Wails desktop webview, §8).
### web control room — Status and known issues
Standalone deploy, versioned and released independently of the `oikos`
binary — see [README.md §4.5](README.md#45-build--release-artifacts) for
why "deployed" means two different release cadences depending on whether
you mean the container or the desktop app.
---
## 6. PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB
**Stakeholders:** anyone writing a migration, or reasoning about what
"the system's source of truth" actually means (see
[framework.md §2](framework.md#2-the-goal--system-and-model-made-concrete)
for why that phrase needs disambiguating from the engineering Model).
**Why this View earns its place:** every other component in this document
either reads from or writes to this one; it is the only component every
other component has in common.
### PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB — Internal structure
20 forward-only, idempotent migrations
(`001_ontology.up.sql``020_session_reliability.up.sql`,
[ADR-0008](../adr/0008-forward-only-migrations.md)). Four TimescaleDB
hypertables, all created in `006_observability.up.sql`:
`metric_samples`, `audit_log`, `events`, `agent_activity` — each with
continuous aggregates and retention policies.
The recurring structural pattern across this schema, per
[ADR-0014](../adr/0014-entity-model.md) §7: **dual entities**
`check_defs`, `signals`, `classifications`, `executions`, `feedback`,
`patterns`, `skills`, `approvals`, `knowledge_entities`, and (as of
migration 018) `agent_sessions`-as-`task` all have an
`entity_id UUID PK REFERENCES entities(id)`, meaning every specialized row
is simultaneously a node in the general entity graph — this is what lets
`get_relations`/`get_blast_radius` work uniformly over signals, tasks, and
infrastructure alike without a special case for each.
Partial unique indexes provide snapshot semantics without an application-
level lock: `relationships` (current edges only), `signals` (one open
signal per entity+kind), `patterns` (one per type+action).
### PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB — Behavior specific to this component
`008_event_notify.up.sql`'s `pg_notify` trigger on `events` INSERT is the
entire mechanism behind [README.md's SSE interface](README.md#55-server-sent-events-internalhttpapissego)
— the database, not the API process, is what decides an event happened;
the API process is just a fan-out listener.
### PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB — Interfaces this component owns
Every Go component in this document connects directly (via `sqlc`-generated
queries, `internal/db`) — there is no ORM abstraction layer and no
component-specific access restriction beyond what each service's own
Postgres role grants (notably: the learning engine's DB role has no grants
on governance/autonomy tables, per
[ADR-0006](../adr/0006-learning-proposal-only.md) — a structural guarantee
that would matter the moment §7's dormant learning engine is wired back in).
`seeds/*.yaml` + `oikos seed`/`oikos export` form the bootstrap/DR
interface — the database can be regenerated from seeds, and seeds can be
regenerated from the database.
### PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB — Status and known issues
A shared-Postgres single point of failure across every service is a
documented residual risk in [ADR-0007](../adr/0007-threat-model.md), not a
newly discovered one.
---
## 7. Dormant components
**Stakeholders:** anyone deciding whether to revive auto-act, or tempted to
extend `internal/actuator`/`internal/learning` believing them to be the
live implementation. **Why this View earns its place:** these are the two
components most likely to mislead an engineer navigating by package name —
both are substantial, well-written, and compile cleanly into the `oikos`
binary, and neither runs.
### Dormant components — Internal structure
| File | Lines | Role, and why it's dormant |
|---|---|---|
| `internal/actuator/actuator.go` | 505 | `Run` (L24-41, 10s ticker), `processAutoActSignals`, kill-switch checks (L47, L69 — `getAutonomySetting` for `global.auto_act` and `never_auto_act.<slug>`), a real circuit breaker (L156-202, threshold + cooldown), advisory locking (L87-99) — **but the executor itself is a hardcoded stub**, `{"success": true, "message": "stub execution"}` (L124-137), and `Run()` is never called by `cmd/oikos/main.go` or any `docker-compose.yml` service |
| `internal/actuator/ssh.go` | 291 | `ExecuteProcedure` (L126-230) — a fully-built step-by-step SSH runner with `classifySSHError` (L77-108: network/auth/timeout/remote), per-step timeouts, verify-step semantics. **Zero callers anywhere in the codebase.** |
| `internal/learning/learning.go` | 183 | `Run` (L20-41, hourly ticker), `extractPatterns` (L45-81), `processGroup` (L83-169, Wilson lower-bound confidence, evidence≥5 ∧ confidence≥0.7 → `validated`, anomaly quarantine at >10 same-key events per pass) — algorithmically faithful to [ADR-0006](../adr/0006-learning-proposal-only.md), **never started by any process** |
### Why this matters more than "unused code"
`internal/actuator/actuator.go` is where the policy kill-switch
(`global.auto_act`, `never_auto_act.*`) is actually checked in Go — the
*only* other place is the dead `policy.ClassifySignal`. Reviving auto-act
and fixing the kill-switch gap
([README.md §8.1](README.md#81-the-kill-switch-gap-verified-most-important-finding-in-this-model))
are, structurally, **the same piece of work** — whoever picks up
`internal/actuator/actuator.go:47-69` is the person who also resolves
REQ-DEC-5. This is stated explicitly here because it is not obvious from
reading the Risk & Safety or Roadmap views in isolation; it only becomes
visible once you've read this component's code.
### Dormant components — Status and known issues
This entire section *is* the known issue — see
[README.md §9.1](README.md#91-the-north-star-general-gated-execution)
("revive auto-act," the one item the `general-gated-execution` plan's own
header still marks open) and
[§9.4](README.md#94-suggested-next-steps-informational--not-a-commitment-not-a-plan)
item 1 and 3 for the two decisions this leaves open: wire these back in, or
delete them and correct the "Phase 3 — DONE" claim in
`OIKOS.md`/ADR-0014 that currently overstates what's running.
---
## 8. Auxiliary components
Two small, single-purpose components that support deployment and
packaging rather than decision logic — given lighter treatment here
deliberately, since no Stakeholder identified in this document's other
sections needs their internals to make a change elsewhere.
**`cmd/webhook`** (96 lines, one file) — the Gitea push-to-deploy receiver.
Verifies `X-Hub-Signature-256` HMAC-SHA256 against `WEBHOOK_HMAC_SECRET`
using `hmac.Equal`, responds `202` immediately, then runs
`scripts/deploy.sh` asynchronously. Full deploy sequence:
[README.md §4.2](README.md#42-deployment-topology-mac-mini-docker-compose)
and §7.2.
**`cmd/desktop`** (784 lines) — the Wails-wrapped desktop shell. Bundles
`web/dist` into a native binary, adds an OIDC login flow through a local
HTTP server + system browser, and a `SaveConfig` bridge the web bundle
calls when running inside the desktop webview (`web/src/lib/config.ts`'s
`saveToDesktop()`). Contains no decision logic of its own — it is
packaging for component 5 (§5 above), not a new component in the
functional sense.
---
## Keeping this document current
The same discipline as README.md's closing note applies here, scoped to
components: when a file listed in a "Internal structure" table is renamed,
split, or gains a new responsibility, update that row. When a "Status and
known issues" bullet is resolved, remove it — and check whether removing it
also resolves an entry in
[README.md §9](README.md#9-roadmap--traceability), since most of the
findings here were first surfaced there and are repeated in this document
for proximity to the code, not because they're independently tracked in
two places.