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>
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Page templates for the Homelab Wiki
The structural templates for each page type. Prose voice, vocabulary, and cross-reference rules live in writing-style.md; the layer model (sources / wiki / index / log) lives in llm-wiki.md.
Voice
Concise, technical, sysadmin-to-sysadmin. No marketing prose, no exclamation marks. Full rules in writing-style.md.
Page templates
Container page (containers/<id>-<name>.md)
# <id> — `<name>`
One-sentence purpose.
## At a glance
- **Hostname:** `<name>`
- **IP:** `192.168.8.x`
- **Privilege:** privileged | unprivileged
- **Resources:** N cores / M GiB RAM / D GiB rootfs
- **Mounts:** `/mnt/library` ↔ `/mnt/library` (if any)
- **Public hostname:** `<sub>.hubris.network` (if proxied)
## Role
What it does, what it talks to.
## Service / port map
| Service | Listen | Notes |
## Storage / config paths
## Auto-deploy
(if any) — link to [auto-deploy](../infrastructure/auto-deploy.md)
## Related
- [Caddy](121-caddy.md) (if proxied)
- [DNS](../infrastructure/dns.md) (if has subdomain)
- [Authentik](124-authentik.md) (if SSO)
- ...
## Changelog
### YYYY-MM-DD — short title
What changed, why, link to investigation if any.
Cross-cutting page (infrastructure/<topic>.md)
# <Topic>
One-sentence summary.
## Why
Design rationale — what it replaces, what it solves.
## Components
Where it runs, what files matter.
## How to apply / use
Recipes.
## Gotchas
## Related
Links to nodes that host or depend on this.
## Changelog
Plan (plans/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md)
# YYYY-MM-DD — <title>
## Goal
What this change achieves and why.
## Current topology / state
Diagram or description of what exists now.
## Target topology / state
What it looks like after.
## Pre-flight checklist
## Step-by-step procedure
## Verification
## Post-migration
Changelog entries to write, index status to update.
Investigation (investigations/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md)
# YYYY-MM-DD — <title>
## Summary
1-3 sentences.
## Timeline
## Root cause
## Mitigations applied
## Open questions
Linking discipline
- Every container page links to every cross-cutting page it participates in.
- Every cross-cutting page lists the nodes that participate.
- Every investigation links to the nodes it implicates and gets back-linked from each node's changelog.
- Every plan links to the infrastructure pages it affects. When done, update the plan's status in
plans/index.mdand write changelog entries on affected node pages.
Changelog hygiene
- Reverse-chronological (newest first).
- One entry per discrete change, even if you make several in one day.
- If a change spans nodes, repeat the entry on each affected page (different perspective is fine).
- Don't rewrite history — entries are append-only. Mistakes get a follow-up entry that supersedes them.
Same-session update rule
When you make a change to a node — migrate an LXC, update an IP, change a mount, deploy a new service — update every relevant doc page in the same session. A change that touches a container page must also update:
- The
containers/index.mdtable (IPs, host, mounts, status) - The
README.mdtable (if the change affects listed columns) - The Caddy page site list (if the change affects
*.hubris.networkrouting) - The DNS / ingress infrastructure pages (if the change affects routing)
- The
hosts/{hubris,strong}.mdhost page (if container count changes) - The
inventory.yamlhost entry (source of truth for thehosts/*.yamlgeneration) - The
infrastructure/topology.md(generated from inventory, but regen if needed)
The pattern of updating only one page and leaving stale references on others is a bug. If you're doing a multi-step migration, document the intermediate state with a changelog entry that says "pending — will finalize after Phase N."
This rule is why Phase 2 of the strong migration (2026-07-05) caused widespread stale data: individual container pages were updated in the changelog but never had their At-a-glance sections, IPs, mount paths, or host attribution updated. Don't repeat that.