159 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Joakim Persson	cb8969ef2c	changelog: adopt pi-studio v0.9.61 and mempalace-toolkit 975ab92 ... Both are floating refs that moved since v1.9.4, so the next tag would bake them either way; the gate's complaint was that nothing in the repo said so. Naming them is the fix the gate actually asks for. mempalace-toolkit 2167a1b -> 975ab92 adds mailbox dormancy: an ask may declare a `dormant_unless` predicate and is withheld from the ANNOUNCED owed-set while every condition still matches its baseline. It is backward compatible by construction -- an ask without the key behaves exactly as before -- and fail-visible: any predicate that cannot be evaluated announces the ask rather than hiding it, because the dangerous failure is work that disappears, not a spurious nag. pi-studio v0.9.60 -> v0.9.61 is adopted as-is. NOT pinned, deliberately, and the reason is worth recording: check-doc-drift.sh gives pi-studio kind `studio`, which resolves the highest semver TAG of the upstream repo and ignores PI_STUDIO_REF entirely (resolve_studio, ~line 551). Setting PI_STUDIO_REF=v0.9.61 would therefore not be tracked by the gate -- the moment upstream tags v0.9.62 the gate would report DRIFT against a value we no longer bake, i.e. a false positive by construction. Pinning pi-studio is a coherent thing to want, but it requires moving it from kind `studio` to kind `ref` in the gate at the same time, which changes release-gate semantics and is a separate decision from adopting this release. Still drifting, and left drifting on purpose: pi-obsmem e7d77dc -> 731c3d4. PI_OBSMEM_REF=master is CI-resolved at build time, master is 4 commits ahead of the 3.1.4 tag, and the newest tag remains 3.1.4 -- so PR #83 ("Fix Pi 0.87 memory worker compatibility", merged 2026-09-23) is still reachable only from master. Whether to bake an unreleased master or stay on 3.1.4 and hold pi is a pin decision with a silent failure mode behind it (obsmem's peerDeps are all `*`), so it is not being made in a changelog commit.	2026-10-02 00:01:24 +02:00
Joakim Persson	31f36182bf	feat(base): add sqlite3, bc, dc and bsdextrautils ... sqlite3 is the only one of the four that was genuinely missing rather than merely absent. MemPalace keeps both the palace and the logstream as SQLite files (palace/chroma.sqlite3, logstream.sqlite3) and mempalace_status reports a sqlite_integrity block, so every integrity or forensics check on this fleet has so far gone through a python3 -c one-liner because the CLI was not in the image. bc and dc are low value on their own and the CHANGELOG says so plainly: awk, python3 and perl are all already baked and each is strictly more capable. They are here because copy-pasted shell snippets assume bc exists. What actually went wrong on 2026-09-28 was NOT bc's absence: printf '%6.2f' was handed the empty output of the missing bc and rendered it as a confident "0.00 days" for a figure that was really 4.81 days. No package fixes that failure mode -- only not taking a formatted number on trust does. bsdextrautils ships /usr/bin/column. Cost MEASURED rather than estimated: 1311 KB total (587 + 236 + 149 + 339) and ZERO transitive packages. libsqlite3-0, libreadline8t64, zlib1g, libsmartcols1 and libtinfo6 each already report "install ok installed", so nothing new is pulled under --no-install-recommends. Package names were verified with apt-cache and dpkg -S on a real trixie host instead of being inferred, which caught two traps that would each have produced either a build failure or a silently missing binary: dc is a SEPARATE binary package from bc on Debian, and column ships in bsdextrautils, not in the pre-bullseye bsdmainutils where it used to live. Declined at the same time, recorded so the omission reads as a decision rather than an oversight: datamash and xsv/csvkit. Python's stdlib csv module handled a real 7-file Excel-export concatenation that day -- UTF-8 BOM, no trailing newlines, and bare CR/LF inside quoted fields -- correctly and without them. Dockerfile.base is in the base hash, so the next tag rebuilds the base (~64 min) regardless of what else it carries.	2026-10-01 23:31:03 +02:00
joakimp	2278b22ba7	fix(ssh): wire git core.sshCommand to the writable sidecar, and assert it ... ~/.ssh is commonly bind-mounted READ-ONLY from the host, so a per-host `ControlPath ~/.ssh/cm/%r@%h:%p` — the standard CGNAT multiplexing recipe, and correct on the host — resolves inside an unwritable dir in the container. Every push dies `unix_listener: cannot bind to path ...: Read-only file system`, behind git's misleading "make sure you have the correct access rights". setup-lan-access.sh already writes the fix: ~/.ssh-local/config overrides ControlPath into the writable ~/.ssh-local/cm BEFORE `Include ~/.ssh/config`, so -F repairs the socket path and keeps every per-host User/Port/IdentityFile. entrypoint-user.sh now points git at it, guarded on the sidecar existing — setup-lan-access.sh writes none on native Linux Docker, where -F at a missing file would break every git-over-ssh call instead of fixing one. An existing core.sshCommand is left alone (first-wins, as for the three git settings above). Why code and not another doc line: the remedy was already in the global AGENTS.md, in pi-devbox-environment SKILL.md §3, in 24 MemPalace drawers from three devices, and printed verbatim by recreate-sanity-check.sh — and an agent that had run that script two hours earlier still hit the failure and reinvented a /tmp/sshcm workaround. A fifth copy was not the missing piece. Assertions, each where it can actually pass: - smoke-test.sh: two STATIC greps (wiring line + its [ -r ] guard). `run` uses --entrypoint="", so asserting the runtime value there would repeat the v1.8.0 mistake of an assertion that cannot pass, unvalidated until the next tag. - smoke-test.sh runtime phase: a BICONDITIONAL — sidecar present => must route through it; absent => must be unset. The absent arm is the one CI exercises (native Linux runner), so "is set" would have failed CI for a correct image. - recreate-sanity-check.sh: the runtime assertion, plus an explicit fail for the inverted state (set while the sidecar is missing). The permanent "default ssh precedence" warning keeps its severity but now states that it is structural and can never reach zero, and whether git is wired, unwired, or has no sidecar. All five arms exercised against the real script before commit; that caught a defect in the first draft, which reported "git IS wired ... unaffected" about a state where the sidecar was gone and every git-over-ssh call failed. Host ~/.ssh/config needs no change: the same line is right on the host and unusable through a read-only mount, so the fix belongs in the container layer.	2026-09-22 23:08:59 +02:00
joakimp	37fcbfcf04	fix: three v1.9.4-acceptance findings (installer WARN, init sentinel, hash collation) ... Unreleased; no pin moves except pi-extensions master 25c1265 -> 143a214. 1. entrypoint-user.sh: first-run sentinel is now config.json, which is what `mempalace init` writes. The old test on palace/ (created by mining, not init) re-fired "Initializing MemPalace" on every boot of a container that never mined locally: v1.9.4 acceptance measured 1 line after one boot, 2 after a restart. Idempotent, so harmless; the comment lied. This file is a base-hash input, so the next tag rebuilds the base (326fb7c03949 predicted with the pinned sort below; f40c4b7b103d before). 2. Dockerfile.variant: `git config --system --add safe.directory` for the seven root-owned /opt clones (listed, not `*`). Since git 2.35.2 any git command in a repo owned by another user fails "dubious ownership"; as `developer` that made `git -C /opt/pi-atelier rev-parse` print nothing (one false FAIL in the v1.9.4 acceptance) and is the root cause of the per-boot "WARN: pi-extensions install.sh failed" (fixed at the source in pi-extensions 143a214; this is the belt to that suspender). Verified live in a v1.9.3 container: add -> rev-parse prints 25c1265, unset -> fatal again; /etc/gitconfig restored to its 5 lines afterwards. 3. docker-publish.yml: `find -print0 | LC_ALL=C sort -z` in base-decide. sort collates per locale; identical rootfs hashed to base-f40c4b7b103d under C/C.UTF-8 (== run 695) and base-d8df62216a81 under sv_SE/en_US.UTF-8. The runner exports LANG=C.UTF-8, so the hash was stable by accident. Pin is hash-neutral: pinned sort + HEAD inputs reproduces f40c4b7b103d exactly. Per-command prefix only; nobody's locale changes. CHANGELOG: new `## Unreleased` above v1.9.4 naming pi-extensions 143a214 (check 9 rc=0), the three fixes, and the synlig 3.10.0 hub upgrade that v1.9.4 listed as still open. One invented URL org (gwpl) caught before commit; upstream is elpapi42, as Dockerfile.variant:151 says. Gates: check-doc-drift rc=0, check-base-hash rc=0, lint-shell rc=0 (16 files), hadolint 2.15.1 rc=0, YAML parses (10 jobs), bash -n rc=0.	2026-09-22 17:20:10 +02:00
joakimp	16fddebd43	docs(v1.9.4): the client/server skew is narrower than the release commit said ... e3b38cd named "the feeder against the 3.9.0 hub" as the one path to exercise before tagging, on the reasoning that 3.10.0's CLI writes now follow the daemon write-routing policy. That was a reading of the mempalace changelog, not a measurement of this image's feeder. Measured now: mempalace-pi-session in remote mode (MEMPALACE_REMOTE_URL set, which is how every fleet devbox runs) stages transcripts locally in python, rsyncs them to the hub host, and calls the hub's own `mempalace_mine` MCP tool over HTTP (run_remote_mine). The local `mempalace` CLI is required only in local mode (line 475) and invoked only on the local branch (line 1029). With a PATH shim logging every `mempalace` invocation, a 47-session `--dry-run` from this container logged ZERO calls; the shim's positive control logged one. The pi extension likewise speaks HTTP to the hub and spawns no local mempalace-mcp. So the 3.10.0 CLI never runs against the 3.9.0 hub from this image. In remote mode the client pin touches first-run `mempalace init` and the on-disk layout, nothing else -- which is exactly what the ENV MEMPALACE_CONFIG_DIR change is for. Both the Dockerfile.base comment and the CHANGELOG paragraph now say so, and the "Still open" item becomes the thing that is actually unmeasured: a first-boot acceptance of the built image from an empty ~/.mempalace volume. Gates re-run on this tree: check-doc-drift.sh rc=0, lint-shell.sh rc=0, hadolint 2.15.1 rc=0. lint.yml for e3b38cd: run 693, completed, success.	2026-09-22 14:51:22 +02:00
joakimp	e3b38cdb0b	release(v1.9.4): mempalace 3.10.0 with a pinned palace root, pi-atelier v0.10.3, pi held at 0.85.1 ... Three pins move or are deliberately held; the CHANGELOG's Unreleased section becomes the v1.9.4 entry in this same commit, because since ee6cb9e the tag build runs check-doc-drift.sh check 9 and every would-bake value must be named above the last published heading. mempalace 3.9.0 -> 3.10.0 (Dockerfile.base). Deferred at v1.9.3 for two "Upgrade notes" items; both re-measured against the 3.10.0 wheel: - New installs resolve ~/.config/mempalace. The order is $MEMPALACE_CONFIG_DIR, then ~/.mempalace IF it holds config.json / people_map.json / palace/chroma.sqlite3, then XDG. An EMPTY ~/.mempalace fails that test, and an empty ~/.mempalace is what a freshly mounted devbox-palace volume (or entrypoint.sh's mkdir on a volume-less container) looks like at first boot. Measured with a fresh $HOME and `uvx mempalace==3.10.0 init`: config.json landed in ~/.config/mempalace, ~/.mempalace stayed empty, and entrypoint-user.sh's `[ ! -d ~/.mempalace/palace ]` would fire every start. Same run with MEMPALACE_CONFIG_DIR set: everything in ~/.mempalace. => ENV MEMPALACE_CONFIG_DIR=/home/${USER_NAME}/.mempalace, placed in the non-root-user section where USER_NAME is in scope, and entrypoint-user.sh reads PALACE_DIR from the same variable (old path as fallback). Existing volumes were safe either way; this is for first boots. MEMPALACE_PALACE_PATH is still honoured (config.py:927), so smoke-test.sh's stage test holds. - event_list defaults newest-first without a cursor. Server-side: the extension talks to synlig over MEMPALACE_REMOTE_URL, so it lands when the hub upgrades. mempalace-toolkit 2167a1b (floating main) makes every cursor-less call say order:"desc" so the mailbox reads the same window on either server version. Corrected a stale sequencing comment while there: synlig serves the palace as a `uv tool` under systemd (mempalace-serve.service; measured 2026-09-22: mempalace 3.9.0, python 3.12.13, chromadb 1.5.9, no palace container), not via docker-compose.mempalace.yml as the comment had said for two releases. pi-atelier v0.10.1 -> v0.10.3 (Dockerfile.variant). Fixes only (both tags released 2026-09-22); package.json at v0.10.3 still has zero runtime deps and no build script, peerDeps still >=0.84.0. Annotated tags: the CHANGELOG names the peeled SHA ed3837b, which is what resolve-versions bakes and check 9 compares. pi HELD at 0.85.1 while 0.86.1 / 0.87.0 exist. 0.87.0 removed the shouldStopAfterTurn agent option; pi-observational-memory 3.1.4 still uses it and AgentContext.systemPrompt in observer/reflector/dropper (measured: 1 hit per worker in src/agents on both the baked 3.1.3 tree and upstream master; finishTurn 0). peerDeps are `*`, so it would break at runtime, not install. Upstream #82, fix PR #83 open and unmerged. Bump pi and pi-obsmem together once #83 ships. The other extensions are clean against the 0.86/0.87 lists. Verified locally the way CI does: check-doc-drift.sh rc=0 with check 9 reporting all four moved components as named above the v1.9.3 heading; lint-shell.sh rc=0; hadolint 2.15.1 (CI's pin, with .hadolint.yaml) rc=0 on both Dockerfiles; PyPI 3.10.0 present, not yanked. Two claims caught by re-measurement before commit and corrected in the text: a pi issue number that does not exist on the 0.87.0 changelog line, and "8 shouldStopAfterTurn hits" that was 3 (one per worker) in src/. Still open before the tag: run the feeder from the built image against the 3.9.0 hub (dry-run first); recreate acceptance must show ~/.mempalace/palace still passing and no ~/.config/mempalace appearing. After acceptance: upgrade synlig's tool to 3.10.0.	2026-09-22 14:26:10 +02:00
joakimp	0d324f1855	changelog: name pi-obsmem 3.1.4 (e7d77dc) as the next rebuild's implicit adoption ... check-doc-drift.sh was rc=1: pi-observational-memory moved cba0334 (3.1.3) -> e7d77dc (3.1.4) upstream on 2026-09-20, the day after the v1.9.3 tag, and nothing named it above the v1.9.3 heading. No code change is needed or wanted here. PI_OBSMEM_REF defaults to master in Dockerfile.variant and CI's resolve-versions turns that into a SHA at build time, so the next rebuild adopts this whether or not anyone acts -- which is precisely why it has to be written down. There is no pin in this repo to bump, so the CHANGELOG is the only record a reader of the next tag would have. v1.9.3 itself has no defect: its manifest, image labels and baked /opt/pi-observational-memory clone all agree on cba0334. The drift is post-tag, so a green drift reading taken on 2026-09-19 was correct when taken. Measured, not assumed: the range cba0334...e7d77dc is 4 commits whose only substance is one line in src/agents/worker-stream.ts (preserve registry receiver when resolving stream, PR #78 / issue #77) plus a 19-line regression test; the rest is the version bump and release merge. peerDependencies are unchanged (all four @earendil-works/* peers still *) and there is no engines block, so no pi or node floor to clear. Gate now rc=0: "OK pi-obsmem cba0334 -> e7d77dc since v1.9.3, named above the v1.9.3 heading".	2026-09-21 23:15:11 +02:00
Joakim Persson	6c13f43ac8	release: date the v1.9.3 section for the tag ... CI checks out the tag, so the CHANGELOG heading has to name the version before the tag exists (same convention as v1.9.1/v1.9.2). check-doc-drift check 9 was sabotage-tested for exactly this rename and still passes: everything above the published v1.9.2 heading is the pending text. Contents of v1.9.3 (all measured, nothing inherited): - f25efa0 recreate-sanity-check resolves the ControlPath ssh actually uses (ssh -G); the ~/.pi/ssh/config hyphen typo deleted - b8d818e Hub size claims corrected; check 8 gates them against full_size - c7d369f promote-base-latest's conditional re-tag measured (run 669) - 50153e6 skill floor -> pi-extensions 25c1265 (task tool + fork-gate) - ea89605 changelog for the two floating-ref changes: pi-extensions 25c1265 and mempalace-toolkit 817b3a8 (mine deadline) - cb6d9e5 check 9: what the next build bakes differently must be named in the CHANGELOG; first run found pi-obsmem 7b397f4->cba0334 - b9057fd LABEL se.jordbo.pi-devbox.mempalace-version (inherited) - 960aada dependency audit 2026-09-19; mempalace 3.10.0 deferred Floating refs this tag will bake, named per check 9: pi-toolkit 9c87ee8, pi-extensions 25c1265, mempalace-toolkit 817b3a8, pi-observational-memory cba0334 (3.1.3). Base REBUILDS (Dockerfile.base + rootfs/ changed), so the BASE_REBUILD_DATE marker is refreshed now, when it is free -- it had been stale since 2026-07-13 through two rebuilds. Deliberately NOT in this tag: mempalace 3.10.0 (see the audit section for the three measured preconditions).	2026-09-19 17:45:50 +02:00
Joakim Persson	960aada769	changelog: dependency audit 2026-09-19 — mempalace 3.10.0 measured and deliberately deferred ... Every row by direct command: npm/PyPI/GitHub release APIs, git ls-remote, the v1.9.2 config labels via the registry API, and binaries in a running v1.9.2 container for the floating tools. Only pin with a newer upstream is mempalace 3.9.0 -> 3.10.0, and it is NOT a small bump: new installs move to ~/.config/mempalace (entrypoint-user.sh tests ~/.mempalace/palace and entrypoint.sh persists ~/.mempalace, so a fresh container would initialise outside the volume), and mempalace_event_list flips to newest-first by default (the toolkit's deriveClosed passes no order, deriveOwed on 2 of 3 calls — server-default-dependent). Deferred to its own release with the three measured preconditions listed.	2026-09-19 17:38:02 +02:00
Joakim Persson	b9057fdc8c	Dockerfile.base: LABEL se.jordbo.pi-devbox.mempalace-version, inherited by both variants ... Closes the blind spot check 9 (cb6d9e5) named: no label recorded the palace pin, so a MEMPALACE_VERSION bump — the one component whose skew against the shared central palace is fleet-wide — could ship without a CHANGELOG line. In Dockerfile.base, not Dockerfile.variant, deliberately: the value sits next to the ARG that defines it (a copy in the variant is one more pin able to drift); labels are inherited by every image built FROM the base, so no build-arg to plumb through the variant's four call sites; and inheritance means the label states the pin of the base the image ACTUALLY built on, which is the question when base-decide cache-hits an older base. Both mechanisms measured on the published v1.9.2 config blob rather than assumed: maintainer + image.source (set only in Dockerfile.base) are present on the variant image, and pi-version=0.85.1 is an ARG expanded inside a LABEL. Intent, like every se.jordbo.pi-devbox.* label; the manifest's mempalace_version (read from the installed binary) stays the ground truth, and smoke-test.sh now asserts label == installed core — the one way they diverge is a base built with INSTALL_MEMPALACE=false or an off-pin install, both invisible to a label-only check. check-doc-drift check 9 gains the component (literal, against ARG MEMPALACE_VERSION in Dockerfile.base); the label-key rule generalises to "names ending in -version are the label itself". Until a release carries the label it reports a counted SKIP, not OK — measured: "v1.9.2 carries no se.jordbo.pi-devbox.mempalace-version label", summary says 1 SKIPPED. Costs nothing extra: this Unreleased already forces a base rebuild (50153e6 rootfs/ skill floor). check-base-hash unchanged (no new *_REF).	2026-09-19 17:27:34 +02:00
Joakim Persson	cb6d9e5dd0	check-doc-drift: check 9 — what the next build bakes differently must be named in the CHANGELOG ... The two most recent Unreleased entries (pi-extensions 25c1265: task tool + fork-gate; mempalace-toolkit 817b3a8: the mine deadline that never reached the transport) reached this image through floating *_REF=main ARGs. Neither produced a diff here, so nothing asked for a CHANGELOG line, and neither had one until a reader asked. Same class as check 8 — a claim with no in-repo anchor rots — and the hand practice that covered it (the per-release "Dependency audit" table, Baked-in vs Upstream-now) is a someone-remembers mechanism that had lapsed. Method, no docker/crane/token: last published vX.Y.Z from Hub's tag list (one request, now shared with check 8); its amd64 config blob via the anonymous registry API carries one se.jordbo.pi-devbox.<name>-ref label per component with the SHA the build-args baked. "Would bake" is resolved the way resolve-versions does it: 40-hex ARG is itself, branch/tag via git ls-remote with the peeled ^{} form preferred, pi-studio = highest semver tag (label on <tag>-studio), PI_VERSION as a literal against the pi-version label. Nine components, ~7.5 s. Unchanged: OK. Moved: the new value's 7-char prefix (tag for studio, version for pi) must appear above the last published version's "## " heading — Unreleased plus any not-yet-published section, which is what the release commit turns Unreleased into, so the tag build passes on the same text. A published tag with no heading is a failure, not a skip. First run found a move nobody had recorded: pi-observational-memory 7b397f4 -> cba0334 (6 commits, 3.1.1 -> 3.1.3; memory workers now routed by the model's exact provider instead of the first registered provider with a matching api — upstream #70). Named in the CHANGELOG with the honest scope: no expected effect on the shipped bedrock-only configuration, unmeasured. Sabotage-tested, expectation written before each run: obsmem SHA removed from CHANGELOG ............ rc=1 DRIFT Unreleased renamed to "## v1.9.3 — …" ........ rc=0 (release-commit shape) "## v1.9.2" heading mangled to v1.9.2-typo .... rc=1 — this one FAILED first: \b accepted "v1.9.2-typo" as v1.9.2's heading; now (\s|$) bare "## v1.9.2" (no date) ................... rc=0 ARG PI_OBSMEM_REPO renamed ................... rc=2 (blind gate must not pass; read_arg calls are bare top-level assignments on purpose — nested in a heredoc's $(...) the exit 2 is swallowed by cat) offline (proxy to a closed port) ............. rc=0, 2 SKIPs counted SKIP_REF_CHECK=1 ............................. rc=0, 1 SKIP counted restored ..................................... rc=0, files byte-identical GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 on ls-remote: a repo flipped private fails in 0.3 s as a SKIP instead of waiting for a username until the job times out. Header, lint.yml job comment and AGENTS.md all still said this gate "needs no network" — false since check 8 (2026-09-14). Now: two classes, hermetic 1-7 and published-state 8-9 that SKIP loudly and counted when offline. Considered and not added: compose <-> .env.example variable cross-check (the four mismatches are commented-out lines, the mempalace-server compose file's own variables, and entrypoint-consumed ones — it would fire on nothing wrong); "documented tag exists on Hub" (check 8 already SKIPs by name; a hard fail would misreport the tag-to-publish window).	2026-09-19 17:15:12 +02:00
Joakim Persson	ea896054df	changelog: task tool + fork-gate (pi-extensions 25c1265), and the mine deadline that never reached the transport (mempalace-toolkit 817b3a8) ... Both land in the image through floating refs (PI_EXTENSIONS_REF=main, MEMPALACE_TOOLKIT_REF=main), so neither shows up as a diff in this repo — the changelog is the only place a reader of a pi-devbox tag learns that the container's delegation and feed behaviour changed. Recorded under Unreleased with the measurements: 5/5 real fork briefs redirected, live pi -p proof for gate and tool, 2-of-6 → 6-of-6 on the toolkit's new timeout test. Dockerfile.base: the "Stall protection" comment listed MEMPALACE_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS as THE tool-call deadline; it now says the feed's mine carries its own. Comment-only, but Dockerfile.base is hashed into base_tag; the rebuild was already forced by 50153e6 (rootfs/ skill floor).	2026-09-19 17:00:59 +02:00
Joakim Persson	f25efa074d	fix(sanity): verify the ControlPath ssh RESOLVES, not the dir the image creates ... recreate-sanity-check.sh asserted `/tmp/sshcm exists with mode 700` and printed a green tick while every ssh in the container died rc=255. It was right about what it checked: the breakage was in the directory a CONFIG named, not the one the image creates, and the old check could not see the disagreement between them. Found on the v1.9.2 first boot on emb-7kj4vr4g. A durable ~/.pi/ssh/config, hand-written into the ~/.pi named volume by the previous session so it would survive the recreate, declared `ControlPath /tmp/ssh-cm/%C` — with a hyphen. Nothing here creates that path; the canonical spelling is /tmp/sshcm, identical in Dockerfile.base, entrypoint-user.sh, recreate-sanity-check.sh and smoke-test.sh. ControlMaster auto with an unusable ControlPath does not degrade to an unmultiplexed connection — it fails hard: unix_listener: cannot bind to path /tmp/ssh-cm/<hash>: No such file or directory rc=255, remote command never runs. Now: resolve the ControlPath ssh itself would use via `ssh -G` and require its parent to exist and be writable. -G applies real config precedence (first-value- wins, the system drop-in, Include, an -F override), so it answers "which rule captured this host" instead of re-implementing the guess, and it never opens a connection — 0.116s for 48 hosts. This also puts a check under a caveat documented in prose in Dockerfile.base ("SSH client defaults") and verified nowhere: a per-host ControlPath under a read-only bind-mounted ~/.ssh gives the identical failure, "Read-only file system". On the machine this was built on that is 16 of 50 hosts — freeipa-1..6, gitea.egl.lan, runner-1..3, tor-ms22 — never reported by anything before. Severity split is deliberate. Default ssh precedence legitimately lands in the read-only ~/.ssh for any host whose own config pins it there, and the supported workaround (ssh -F ~/.ssh-local/config, generated every start by setup-lan-access.sh) already exists, so that is a warn. Failing it would paint the script red on every run of every device, and a check that fires benignly every time is one you learn to ignore — the same reasoning that keeps lint-shell.sh at -S error. The sidecar route is prescribed, so there it is a hard fail. Host lists cap at six names plus a count: unreadable output is ignored output. Teeth proven both directions, each sabotage confirmed by diff BEFORE the result was believed: ControlPath -> nonexistent dir => rc=1; -> existing-but-read-only dir => rc=1; restored => rc=0 with the sidecar byte-identical. No config was added to fix the original problem — the fix was to DELETE ~/.pi/ssh/config, a third hand-maintained copy of what setup-lan-access.sh already generates from version control on every container start, with fewer features and one typo. The host-owned ~/.ssh/config is left alone on purpose: those ~/.ssh/cm paths are correct on the host, where ~/.ssh is writable. Also lint-shell.sh: the SC2088 count in the severity-choice rationale said 19 and is now 20, with the reproduce command recorded. That command needs a `$ ` prefix — a comment whose first word is "shellcheck" is parsed as a directive, and the malformed one tripped SC1072/SC1073 at severity error. The gate caught it on the very commit that introduced it.	2026-09-15 22:59:43 +02:00
joakimp	c7d369f28d	docs(changelog): measure promote-base-latest's conditional re-tag ... Closes the open question from v1.9.2's release verification. crane copy DOES bump Hub's last_updated when it runs (run 669: digests differed, copy ran 17:10:04->17:10:08, base-latest.last_updated moved to 17:10). The identical-digest path stays unproven by construction -- the job prints 'base-latest already current; nothing to promote.' and never copies -- so a freshness assertion on the alias is conditional on base-decide's need_build, not a blanket upgrade. Operational rule lives in the ci-release-watcher skill (skillset c8034af); the pipeline property is recorded here.	2026-09-14 20:49:23 +02:00
joakimp	b8d818ed99	fix(docs): correct the Hub size claims, and gate them so they cannot rot again ... DOCKER_HUB.md claimed ~1.1 GB for :latest while Docker Hub served 1.37 GB -- 20% wrong, drifting quietly across eight releases, and POSTed to Docker Hub by update-description every time. It is the first number a stranger reads about this image. Root cause is structural, not carelessness: every OTHER claim check-doc-drift.sh guards is anchored to a build file (a pin, an ARG, a placeholder), so it cannot rot without someone editing the thing it describes. Nothing in this repo states the image size, so nothing measured it. Corrected against measured full_size after v1.9.2 published (amd64/arm64): :latest ~1.1 -> ~1.23 GB (1.228 / 1.211) :latest-studio ~1.15 -> ~1.25 GB (1.255 / 1.238) :base-latest ~1.0 -> ~1.17 GB (1.167 / 1.151) full_size tracks the FIRST manifest entry (amd64), not the sum across arches -- measured: full_size=1.228, amd64=1.228, arm64=1.211, sum=2.439 -- which is what the table's per-arch "Size (compressed)" column claims. New check 8 gates those claims against Hub. Fails on drift; SKIPS LOUDLY via a new skip() helper (counted, named in the summary) when curl/python3 are absent, the API is unreachable, or SKIP_SIZE_CHECK=1. A skip is deliberately neither OK nor a failure: printing an unverified claim as OK is the habit this file exists to break, and failing on Docker Hub's uptime would hold releases hostage to a third party. Not wired into hooks/pre-push, so pushes stay offline. Two bugs caught by writing the expected exit code down before running the check: 1. The tolerance would have missed its own motivating case. The percentage is computed against the MEASURED size, but the 20% first chosen came from the claim-relative figure; the real drift was |1.1-1.37|/1.37 = 19.7% and would have passed. Now 15%, inside a window with both bounds measured: above the largest legitimate skew (11.4%, a claim describing the published release while the next tag changes the size) and below the rot it must catch. 2. A `|| true` on the python invocation made the gate FAIL OPEN -- it printed DRIFT and exited 0. Removed; the outer `|| SIZE_RC=$?` satisfies set -e without swallowing the code. Verified two-sided: 19% drift exits 1 at the default tolerance and 0 at SIZE_TOLERANCE_PCT=25, so the threshold does the work rather than the ordering. NOT covered, and the script says so where a reader will see it: README.md's ~3.2 GB figures are UNCOMPRESSED and the registry exposes compressed sizes only, so measuring them needs a real pull. A green check 8 says nothing about them. Verified: check-doc-drift.sh rc=0 on the corrected tree, rc=1 on injected drift, rc=0 with --warn-only, SKIP+rc=0 on the offline path (proxy to a dead port); shellcheck clean at default severity (the sed single-quote SC2016 carries a disable with its reason); lint-shell.sh 16 files clean.	2026-09-14 20:33:40 +02:00
joakimp	f5c53b8693	release: date the v1.9.2 section for the tag ... CI checks out the tag, so the CHANGELOG heading has to name the version before the tag exists, not after. v1.9.1's tagged tree carried no "## Unreleased" either -- same convention, made explicit here. Contents of v1.9.2 (all measured, nothing inherited): - 1baba79 the +131 MB v1.9.1 residual: /root/.npm (110 MB) plus @mariozechner/clipboard-* foreign natives at BOTH install sites (global + /opt/pi-fork's nested pi-coding-agent copy) - 852f900 smoke sentinels that name the residue instead of letting the size gate's ~225 MB margin swallow it - dab989b mempalace-toolkit: the owed-withdrawal suite gate (node --check never type-strips) - 9aaff26 vendored mempalace skill snapshot -> e9e45f7, which is what turns the currently-red canary green Deliberately NOT in this tag: DOCKER_HUB.md's "~1.1 GB" size claim is low (Hub says v1.9.1 = 1.37 GB, v1.8.14 = 1.23 GB). This release *changes* the size, so no number is right both before and after it -- writing the predicted ~1.24 GB would be an unmeasured claim in a user-visible page. Measure post-build, fix on the next tag, and extend check-doc-drift.sh to gate size claims against Hub's full_size so the number cannot rot silently again.	2026-09-14 17:55:16 +02:00
joakimp	735565b9be	docs: retire the deployed-and-unproven label on isWithdrawn, and name dab989b ... Two things, and the second was found by doing the first. v1.9.1's notes closed with an explicit open item: isWithdrawn had 17 assertions and 4 mutation kills but had never been exercised on a released image against the live logstream, which is a different state from untested and a worse one to leave unlabelled. It has now been exercised, from a container recreated onto v1.9.1, and the label is retired with the measurement rather than with an assurance. What the entry records is the instrument as much as the result, because the result is only as good as the thing that produced it: the shipped extractor was lifted out of the toolkit's own test script and used to cut the four predicates out of the BAKED mempalace.ts, and deriveOwed's three queries were replayed with their exact shipped parameters. No second copy of the logic was written, which is the same discipline the suite itself is built on. Baseline owed was established by three independent routes BEFORE any probe was planted, because without a recorded baseline a withdrawal that appears to work proves nothing. Predictions were written down before each measurement; the table reports both columns. The per-predicate attribution is in the entry deliberately. "The count went back to baseline" is a claim about arithmetic and would have been satisfied by a pre-filter or by an unrelated reply; isAnswered=false with isWithdrawn=true on a candidate that was still in the raw set is a claim about mechanism. The negative controls carry the same weight as the positive one -- a rule that lets a third party or a prose sentence empty someone's mailbox would have passed a count-only check. Also recorded: the rule fires on the real incident it was written for (seq 112), which is worth more than any synthetic probe, and the one path still unwitnessed (the extension's own in-process poll, which only fires when the agent is idle) is named as unwitnessed rather than folded into the pass. Second: reaching for the suite as corroboration showed it cannot run on this image at all -- its own precondition gate rejects the source it exists to check, because `node --check` does not type-strip on any node and v1.9.1 moved to node 24. All 17 assertions had been skipped since the bump. Fixed in toolkit dab989b, named here per the rule this repo adopted two commits ago after the withdrawal fix shipped unnamed in v1.9.1. The gate now also distinguishes "cannot run" from "does not parse", since collapsing those is how the defect pointed readers at the wrong file. The rebuild cost is stated and, having been measured, is smaller than the earlier draft of this entry claimed: 9aaff26 already moved base_tag by refreshing the vendored skill snapshot under rootfs/, so the base rebuild was pending before this fix existed and the toolkit pickup rides along with it.	2026-09-14 16:29:52 +02:00
joakimp	9aaff26e3a	docs: the withdrawal fix shipped in v1.9.1 unnamed — say so, and re-pin the canary ... v1.9.1 bakes mempalace-toolkit e68ee20, which contains e2b060a. Requester-side ask withdrawal has therefore been LIVE on every v1.9.1 device since 2026-09-10, while the v1.9.0 section of CHANGELOG.md still read "not yet pinned ... this image still pins e45f6b4", and the mempalace skill still told every agent at session start that a withdrawal is impossible. Measured, two independent routes, expectation recorded before looking: - published image label, :v1.9.1-studio and :latest-studio (same digest): se.jordbo.pi-devbox.mempalace-toolkit-ref = e68ee2071ca3ad39... - ancestry: e2b060a is an ancestor of e68ee20 - baked mempalace.ts sha 7c16fe14 != v1.8.14's dfca71e9 (different bytes) - grep -c isWithdrawn on this container's baked copy = 0 (v1.8.14, so tor-ms22 cannot exercise the behaviour it is documenting) The first label read came back EMPTY, and that empty was a claim about the request rather than the image: Hub redirects blob fetches to a CDN and curl without -L returns 0 bytes at exit 0. Recorded in the notes, because a registry audit reporting "no labels" is missing -L until proven otherwise. Changes: - CHANGELOG Unreleased: the floating-ref mechanism, which is the reusable part. ARG MEMPALACE_TOOLKIT_REF=main + CI resolving it to a SHA at build time means a release absorbs whatever toolkit main holds, and "what behaviour did this image gain" is a question nobody is forced to answer. The fleet rule (name the pickup before tagging) was honoured for the feed-tick commits v1.9.1 names, and missed for one in the same range. - CHANGELOG v1.9.0: the stale caveat is ANNOTATED, not rewritten. The sentence is the evidence for how the drift happened; deleting it would destroy the only trace. Same discipline as fleet-ops d42412c. - CHANGELOG Unreleased: corrected the size entry's "needs no base rebuild" claim. True of that entry alone, false of the release now that the vendored skill snapshot -- a base_tag input -- moves with it (~67 min). - rootfs mempalace skill snapshot 44472 -> 46045 B, refreshed via scripts/vendor-mempalace-skill.sh so the bytes and SKILLSET_SNAPSHOT_REF (4d7c0ea -> e9e45f7) move together; --check confirms exact match. - scripts/smoke-test.sh canary RE-PINNED. The retired pair was still green against the new snapshot, i.e. blind to this refresh for the same reason the pre-v1.8.13 pair was blind to that one. The replacement is stronger than any predecessor here because BOTH witnesses come from the same upstream commit: e9e45f7 added "Withdrawing an ask you sent" and deleted "nothing anyone can do about it from the other end", the sentence the new bullet contradicts. Directions measured against both files, then the canary body EXECUTED against each: new -> rc=0 "ok", old -> rc=1 empty. A canary whose negative witness was removed by the commit it pins fails loudly on stale bytes instead of merely failing to notice them. Gates: check-doc-drift OK, check-skill-floor OK, vendor --check OK, hooks/pre-push OK (16 shell files clean at severity error). Not fixable here: isWithdrawn is deployed and UNPROVEN. 17 assertions and 4 mutation kills, never once exercised on a released image against the live logstream. Ask routed to a v1.9.1 device.	2026-09-14 15:07:26 +02:00
Joakim Persson	852f900b53	test(smoke): make CI prove the natives still work — the runbook check didn't ... The post-boot check v1.9.1 left for the next machine was node -e 'require("esbuild").transformSync("const x:number=1",{loader:"ts"})' with "if this fails, the prune removed something needed on arm64 -> revert to v1.8.14 and fix" attached. Run from /workspace on the freshly recreated v1.9.1 image it fails with MODULE_NOT_FOUND — on a perfectly healthy image. require() resolves by walking up from the CURRENT DIRECTORY, esbuild is nested inside the two pi trees, and a global install is not on node's require path (NODE_PATH is unset). The version that "verified the prune" last night only passed because the shell happened to sit inside the tree. So the check was CWD-dependent, its red meant nothing, and the remedy it prescribed was reverting a good release. Path-qualified, both sites compile TS today. Rather than leave a fragile command in a note for a human to paste, CI now owns it: - esbuild must transformSync at EVERY install site found in the image - @mariozechner/clipboard must load with its native binding attached at every site — for the clipboard prune that IS the proof, since napi-rs resolves the platform package at require() time Sites are discovered with find, so the studio variant's third site is covered without naming it. Verified as a four-way matrix, not just a green run: both assertions pass against the real image FROM /workspace (the cwd that broke the old command), and both fail (exit 1, "The package \"@esbuild/linux-arm64\" could not be found, and is needed by esbuild") against copies of the same packages with the host platform binary removed. An assertion never observed failing is not evidence. Also documents both failure shapes in AGENTS.md next to the size gate: this one, and the mode-700 /root one where `test ! -d` passes on a permission error.	2026-09-11 11:06:18 +02:00
Joakim Persson	1baba79c96	fix(size): the v1.9.1 residual was npm's own cache, not the platform binaries ... v1.9.1's @esbuild prune fixed the 431 MB size-gate failure but still shipped +131 MB compressed over v1.8.14, nearly all of it in the pi/extensions install layer (87 -> 206 MB). That leftover was filed as an open item with an explicit hypothesis — the @mariozechner/clipboard-* family, same npm 11 behaviour, a different package — and an explicit warning that the hypothesis was not a measured cause. Measured now, after recreating onto v1.9.1, and the hypothesis accounted for one sixth of it: +110 MB /root/.npm/_cacache (35.2 -> 145.3 MB) the build's npm cache + 21 MB clipboard foreign platform packages, both install sites = 131 MB i.e. the whole delta, no unexplained remainder Method, since there is no docker CLI inside the container: pulled both variant layer blobs straight from the registry with a token + manifest + blob fetch and listed the tarballs (29 789 vs 29 889 entries, 270.8 vs 401.9 MB uncompressed), then aggregated per package. The file COUNT barely moved, which is what said "few large files", not "npm installed more packages". - purge_build_caches: npm cache clean --force + rm -rf /root/.npm, in the SAME layer as the installs, in both the main RUN and the studio RUN. npm 11 caches every platform tarball it downloads, including the ones the prune then deletes, so the cache grew faster than the tree. Nothing at runtime reads it: build is root, container is developer with its own cache in $HOME. - prune_foreign_esbuild -> prune_foreign_natives: now covers both MEASURED families. Clipboard keeps linux-$arch-gnu AND -musl because its napi-rs loader picks between them at runtime via its own isMusl() probe; the musl package is a 420-byte stub. The bare @mariozechner/clipboard wrapper has no hyphen suffix and cannot match the pattern. Verified on arm64 before writing the glob — a widened rm -rf against a tree you cannot inspect is the one change shape not to write blind, which is why the order was update-then-patch. Exercised against a copy of the real trees with foreign dirs fabricated back in (aix-ppc64, android-arm64, darwin-arm64, win32-x64, linux-x64): all removed, host linux-arm64 kept at both sites, 21 MB freed, require('@mariozechner/clipboard') still loads and exports all 18 functions, esbuild.transformSync still compiles TS at both sites. v1.9.1's own arm64 validation also passed here; CI could only smoke amd64. Two sentinel assertions, because the size gate did not catch this: it has ~225 MB of margin, so 131 MB of residue stayed green. Both were verified RED against the running v1.9.1 image and GREEN against a pruned tree. The cache one refuses to run as non-root: test ! -d /root/.npm on mode-700 /root would otherwise pass for the wrong reason. Size-failure diagnostics now list cache paths too — they previously enumerated only node_modules and /opt, where these bytes were not. Also fixed: -printf '%f\\n' reaches the shell with both backslashes (confirmed from the published image's recorded created_by), so v1.9.1's progress line printed a mangled "li ux-arm64" — find emitted a literal backslash and tr ate the n out of the name. Single backslash now. Deliberately not purged: /tmp/node-compile-cache (1.3 MB). The manifest RUN calls pi --version again, so deleting it earlier only relocates those bytes into that layer — today's manifest layer is 128 kB precisely because it finds the cache warm. Dockerfile.base untouched, so no base rebuild: this rides the next release.	2026-09-11 09:39:54 +02:00
Joakim Persson	42bd29d654	fix(ci): unblock the release — npm 11 esbuild bloat + two self-inflicted assertions ... v1.9.0 was tagged but never published: smoke failed 90-passed/3-failed and build-variant needs smoke, so nothing reached the registry. All three are fixed. 1. Size, 431 MB over threshold. Node 24 brings npm 11, which installs EVERY @esbuild/<platform> optional binary instead of the matching one: 26 dirs, 284 MB per pi-coding-agent copy. Measured on pi-fork: npm 10.9.8 -> 165 MB (exactly what v1.8.14 shipped), npm 11.19.0 -> 449 MB. npm 11 ignores the os/cpu constraints AND --os/--cpu AND an npmrc carrying them, all measured, so Dockerfile.variant prunes explicitly, keeping linux-$(node -p process.arch) so one line is right on both arches. Pruned in the SAME layer as each install, or the bytes survive in the earlier layer. Three sites: global pi, pi-fork, pi-studio. Verified esbuild still transforms TS after. 2. om's node_modules assertion tested an npm artefact. om has zero runtime deps; its node_modules held ONE file (.package-lock.json) and 20 empty scope dirs. npm 11 stopped creating it. Now asserts the entry point pi actually loads, read from package.json -> pi.extensions. 3. The skill-source annotation added in v1.9.0 ("baked (package copy)") broke the assertion matching "baked$". Pattern now allows an optional suffix; which copy shipped stays authoritatively asserted against the manifest + tree hash. Also: a failed size check now prints the largest layers, largest directories and an @esbuild sentinel, so this class attributes itself next time instead of costing a CI dig plus a local npm bisect. Threshold stays 3800 MB: it caught a real regression and raising it would have thrown the signal away. No Dockerfile.base/rootfs change, so base-0fb1256c7f99 is reused and build-base is skipped.	2026-09-10 23:39:40 +02:00
Joakim Persson	3a44e81cad	feat(ci): gate documentation drift, and make docs a pre-tag release step ... Five doc claims had rotted by v1.9.0, all the same shape: a value written once by hand, in a file nothing verifies, about a number that lives elsewhere and moved. README pin table wrong on all three rows; a "Planned" section describing something already shipped; DOCKER_HUB.md claiming Node v22 against Node 24. DOCKER_HUB.md is why this is a gate and not a resolution to be careful: it is PUBLISHED (update-description POSTs it as Docker Hub full_description on every tag), it had gone eight releases untouched, nothing generates it, and it is read from the TAG -- so the stale page shipped with v1.9.0 regardless. scripts/check-doc-drift.sh: seven checks, all repo-local (no network, token, image, or sibling clone). Exit 0/1/2 matching lint-shell.sh; a renamed ARG is a red 2, not a green tick. Wired as a fourth lint.yml job so "the docs lie" is its own red name. Verified with 15 controls, including two false-positive controls: the first placeholder check flagged README.md:900, a Go template in a legitimate `docker inspect --format` example. The gate was wrong, not the doc, so the pattern is now anchored to the UPPER_SNAKE convention CI substitutes. Not gated, deliberately: counts/sizes needing a running image (they belong in smoke-test.sh -- a guessing gate is worse than none), and Dockerfile.base BASE_REBUILD_DATE, because base_tag hashes that file content-wise and demanding it be current would force a ~60 min rebuild on releases that touch no base files. Free during a rebuild, expensive otherwise. AGENTS.md step 3 rewritten around the mechanism: checkout@v4 with no ref: means every job reads github.ref, the tag. Docs must be right BEFORE tagging.	2026-09-10 22:01:49 +02:00
Joakim Persson	8f0960e134	release: v1.9.0 ... Rename the Unreleased changelog section to its release heading, matching the established `## vX.Y.Z — YYYY-MM-DD` format (em dash), per AGENTS.md release step 3. Minor rather than patch: CHANGELOG.md scopes minor to "significant base additions", and this release bumps the Node runtime under every baked JS tool (pi, agent-browser, playwright, mempalace) from 22 to 24 — the first NODE_VERSION change since it was introduced at v1.0.0 — alongside five new base packages (shellcheck, bind9-dnsutils, ldap-utils, xxd, python3-yaml). Package additions alone have been patch here (v1.8.12, v1.8.13); the runtime major is what lifts this one.	2026-09-10 21:21:09 +02:00
Joakim Persson	1c905480e3	docs(changelog): note the mempalace feed-tick fix this image carries ... The recurring "[mempalace ext] feed (tick) failed: mine timed out after 30000ms" message is fixed in mempalace-toolkit (309980b + e68ee20) and this image is what delivers it, since CI resolves MEMPALACE_TOOLKIT_REF to a commit SHA at build time. Worth a changelog entry rather than leaving it implicit in a ref bump: it is the most visible symptom operators on this fleet have been living with, and the entry records that it was a genuine defect (overlapping mines on a single-writer palace) rather than the cosmetic annoyance it was parked as.	2026-09-10 20:58:42 +02:00
Joakim Persson	ff6fd1492a	feat(manifest): record WHICH pi-extensions skill copy shipped ... Closes the half deliberately left open by cac5e00's skill-floor gate, and the more important half: "the floor is currently fresh" is a fact with a shelf life, whereas "the image says which copy it got" keeps working. The refresh in Dockerfile.variant is guarded by `[ -f /opt/pi-extensions/skill/SKILL.md ]`, so a build whose clone predates the co-located skill keeps the vendored floor and still succeeds GREEN, with nothing in the manifest, labels or logs separating that from a normal build. Afterwards the two are indistinguishable by inspection -- same path, same filenames, same permissions -- which is exactly how the floor went unnoticed from 2026-07-30 to 2026-09-10. build-manifest.json gains pi_extensions_skill_source and pi_extensions_skill_tree_sha256, MEASURED rather than passed as build-args, per the ground-truth rule the surrounding block already follows -- and necessarily so, since the outcome depends on the clone's contents and no ARG could express it. Three values, because two would force a lie: package (served bytes equal the clone's skill/), vendored-floor (clone had no skill/ at this ref), and divergent (both exist but differ -- e.g. the clone ships SKILL.md but not evaluate-extension-usage.py, so the served directory is a genuine MIX). No OCI label mirrors these deliberately: LABEL cannot take a RUN-computed value, and a label fed from an ARG would be the claim-not-measurement being removed here. Two smoke assertions make the record a gate: the source must be named and be `package` -- vendored-floor FAILS rather than warns, since these images track main where the package has shipped skill/ since fa04d20, so a fallback means the clone did not resolve as intended -- and the tree hash is recomputed over the served directory, because a recorded hash never recompared is a claim. pi-devbox-version annotates the line too: "baked (package copy)" normally, or a yellow "(FALLBACK: vendored floor)". Its existing section reports which copy is READ at runtime; this is the one fact decided at BUILD time and unrecoverable later. Old images degrade cleanly -- field absent, jq // empty yields nothing, line prints plain "baked" as before (verified against this v1.8.14 manifest). Tested by running the exact logic against this container's real layout, with the expected value written down before each: package (served == clone), vendored-floor (clone path absent), divergent (clone lacking the .py while the served dir has it), and null (empty served dir) -- all four as predicted. The five pi-devbox-version render branches likewise, including the absent-field case. Emitted JSON validated with jq for both the populated and null forms. Gates green: lint-shell.sh (15 files), hadolint 2.15.1, actionlint 1.7.12, check-base-hash.sh, check-skill-floor.sh, vendor-mempalace-skill.sh --check.	2026-09-10 20:30:16 +02:00
Joakim Persson	edc7659add	chore(deps): node 22->24, actionlint 1.7.12, hadolint 2.15.1, skillset ref ... Audited every component the image obtains OUTSIDE debian/apt. Of ~23, the 19 that resolve `latest` at build time were already current or refresh themselves on the next rebuild, and the hard pins for pi (0.85.1), mempalace (3.9.0) and pi-atelier (v0.10.1) were already newest. Four needed a human. NODE_VERSION 22 -> 24 (LTS "Krypton"). This was a latent defect rather than housekeeping: agent-browser publishes engines.node ">=24.0.0", so the image sat BELOW a declared requirement -- v1.8.14 shipped node 22.23.2 with agent-browser 0.37.1, so every build installed it with an npm EBADENGINE warning and ran the baked browser automation outside its supported range. pi (">=22.19.0") and playwright (">=20") are satisfied either way. Verified before bumping, since a missing NodeSource suite breaks every arch at once: setup_24.x returns HTTP 200 and node_24.x advertises `Architectures: amd64 arm64 armhf x86_64`, covering the arm64 fleet and the amd64 CI runners. Nothing else pinned the node major. actionlint 1.7.7 -> 1.7.12 and hadolint 2.14.0 -> 2.15.1, each RUN AGAINST THIS TREE at the new version before being pinned -- both clean, no new findings. A linter bump is the one dependency update that can turn CI red on unchanged code, so it is verified locally rather than discovered on a round trip. SKILLSET_SNAPSHOT_REF e9e09d9 -> 4d7c0ea via scripts/vendor-mempalace-skill.sh, never by hand: that script is the only thing permitted to write the ARG, because a cp without a matching bump yields a manifest that confidently lies. This proved PROVENANCE-ONLY -- the ref was 6 commits behind, but skills/mempalace/SKILL.md is byte-identical at both (3675bfab), so the snapshot was already correct and only its recorded origin was stale. No rootfs/ bytes changed, the smoke-test phrase canary stays valid, and this ARG alone would not force a base rebuild (the node bump does). Two measurement traps worth recording, since both would have produced a wrong answer: GitHub's releases/latest reports pi-atelier v0.10.0 as newest because v0.10.1 is a TAG WITH NO RELEASE OBJECT -- the pin was already current, and `git ls-remote --tags` is the instrument that shows it. And gitea-mcp is hosted on gitea.com, not GitHub, so querying api.github.com returned nothing at all rather than an error. Verified with every gate this repo owns, all green, using the NEW linter pins: lint-shell.sh (15 files), check-workflow-shell.sh, check-base-hash.sh, actionlint 1.7.12, hadolint 2.15.1, check-skill-floor.sh, and vendor-mempalace-skill.sh --check.	2026-09-10 20:17:32 +02:00
Joakim Persson	cac5e00a31	feat(ci): gate the vendored pi-extensions skill floor, and bake python3-yaml ... Follows ecfd2fc, which refreshed the stale floor by hand. A one-off refresh fixes the symptom; this makes the drift impossible to reintroduce silently. scripts/check-skill-floor.sh compares the repo floor (rootfs/usr/local/share/pi-devbox/skills/pi-extensions/) against the package repo it is a snapshot of, wired in as a new `skill-floor` job in lint.yml. DIRECTORY hash, not `sha256sum SKILL.md`, using the same tree_sha256 pipeline Dockerfile.variant uses for skillset_snapshot_tree_sha256 and for the reason already documented there: a file-only compare answers "did this one file change", not "is this the same skill". Verified by NEGATIVE CONTROL rather than asserted -- with SKILL.md left byte-identical and only evaluate-extension-usage.py edited, the directory check fails (rc=1) where a file-only compare would have passed. Seven behaviour tests, each with its expected rc written down before running: in-sync via local dir (0), in-sync via anonymous remote clone (0), missing --package-dir (2), bad argument (2), content drift (1), the sibling-file case (1), and --warn-only over drift (0). Exit codes 0 in sync / 1 drift / 2 cannot-run, matching scripts/lint-shell.sh: a gate that cannot run must not pass, so an unreachable package repo is a red 2 and never a green tick. A ref with no skill/ is NOT drift -- that is the documented fallback -- but it emits ::warning:: because it is precisely the condition under which the floor ships. Gating on another repo is normally a smell. It is proportionate here because the check can only fire when skill/ itself changed, which is exactly when the floor has gone stale; pi-extensions commits that leave skill/ alone cannot turn this red. It also needs no secret: pi-extensions is anonymously clonable (verified with `git ls-remote` and no credentials), so it cannot start failing when a token expires. Also bakes python3-yaml (552 KB, zero extra deps) into Dockerfile.base. This is the shellcheck story repeating exactly: scripts/check-workflow-shell.sh -- the guard against the Gitea sh/dash footgun that broke resolve-versions (ed49b8d) and promote-base-latest (b7197e8) -- hard-exits with "python3 yaml module missing", so a gate this repo already owns could not be run locally by anyone. lint.yml installing it explicitly in CI was the evidence. Found while wiring the job above: the guard could not be run before pushing. CHANGELOG Unreleased updated for both this and ecfd2fc, including an explicit note on what is NOT fixed -- the silent-fallback half still has no manifest flag recording which copy was served. Verified locally with every gate this repo owns, all green: lint-shell.sh (15 files clean), check-workflow-shell.sh, check-base-hash.sh, actionlint 1.7.7 (pinned, same version as CI), hadolint 2.14.0, and the new check itself.	2026-09-10 19:14:01 +02:00
joakimp	15a3728ae9	feat: bake shellcheck and add a client-side pre-push lint gate ... v1.8.14 made shell lint a RELEASE gate (scripts/lint-shell.sh, shared by lint.yml and the new lint-gate job that resolve-versions depends on), and that script correctly exits 2 when shellcheck is absent -- "a gate that cannot run must not pass". Measured on v1.8.14 on 2026-09-09 by three routes (command -v, dpkg -l, a filesystem search): shellcheck was NOT IN THE IMAGE AT ALL. So the gate could not be run by a developer in any container, only in CI, and the loop stayed write-shell -> push -> wait for CI -> discover. That is the loop the gate was added to shorten, after v1.8.14's first attempt burned ~46 min on a tree whose lint had already been red for 24 hours. shellcheck 0.10.0-1 added to the Dockerfile.base apt block: ~39 MB installed (Installed-Size 40112 KB), measured to pull ZERO additional packages under --no-install-recommends because libc6/libffi8/libgmp10 are already present. NOTE this forces one full base rebuild -- base-decide hashes Dockerfile.base + rootfs/, so unlike a scripts/ change it cannot reuse the existing base- layer. hooks/pre-push is opt-in per clone (git config core.hooksPath hooks), bypassable with --no-verify, and execs scripts/lint-shell.sh rather than reimplementing it -- one copy, because a duplicated check that drifts is the failure this repo keeps paying for. Matches the idiom skillset/ and myconfigs/ already use. WHY THIS REPO HAD NO HOOKS, since it was reported as drift and is not: a peer asked tor-ms22 for core.hooksPath per clone on the premise that unset meant the gates were unverified there. Measured: pi-devbox unset, skillset hooks, myconfigs common/hooks, pi-toolkit unset -- but `git ls-files | grep -i hook` is EMPTY in both pi-devbox and pi-toolkit, so there was nothing to point at on any machine and unset was the only correct value. This closes the real half for pi-devbox; pi-toolkit still ships none. Verified, expected result written down before each check: * refusal paths -- shellcheck absent => rc 2 with the remedy named; linter missing => rc 2. Never waved through on the assumption CI will catch it. * the hook is IN the scan set -- "Checking 14 shell file(s)" with it present, 13 with it moved aside, so the extensionless file is found by the shebang half of the linter's two-signal union. This check exists because the first attempt was ambiguous: a planted `[ $UNSET_VAR = "x" ]` was not reported, which could equally have meant "not scanned" or "below -S error". It was the latter. A count that moves is unambiguous; a clean run is not. * it catches the REAL v1.8.14 defect -- planting `echo 'the fleet\'s thing'` in hooks/pre-push yields SC1073/SC1072 at severity error, rc=1. And the gate earned its keep inside this commit: the first version of the smoke-test assertion carried a comment beginning "# shellcheck is a GATE DEPENDENCY", and a comment whose first word is the tool's name is parsed as a DIRECTIVE, not a comment. The new gate failed it with SC1073/SC1072 before the push -- same family as the v1.8.14 apostrophe, a line that reads as prose to a human and as syntax to the parser.	2026-09-09 08:57:34 +02:00
joakimp	361babd4fd	ci: gate the release on shell lint, from one shared script ... v1.8.14's first attempt spent ~46 minutes building a base image for a tree whose own lint had been failing for 24 hours. shellcheck had already flagged the defect (SC2289, severity error) on the push that introduced it; the lint workflow went red at run 186 and nobody read it. lint.yml deliberately skips tag pushes and its reasoning is sound -- the tagged tree was already linted on main, and a tag-ref lint run sorts above the publish run, making a release look finished before anything ships. The missing invariant was never "lint the tag". It was "do not RELEASE a tree whose lint failed", and only a job inside the publish workflow can enforce that. So: extract the shell-lint logic from lint.yml into scripts/lint-shell.sh and call it from both places, then add a lint-gate job that resolve-versions depends on. resolve-versions is the graph root, so gating it gates everything. Cost is ~40 s at the front of a release; the alternative already cost fifty minutes. Extracted rather than copied on purpose. A second copy of a check is the drift this repo keeps paying for -- the same evening produced a skillset mirror that had sat 9579 B behind its upstream through two consecutive edits. The script adds one behaviour the inline version lacked: if shellcheck is not installed it exits 2 rather than silently finding nothing, inheriting the existing "a gate that cannot run must not pass" rule from hooks/pre-commit in the skillset repo. Without that, reordering the install step away would turn the gate into a green tick over zero checks. Verified locally with a stubbed shellcheck (the real binary is not in the devbox), five cases, each with its expectation stated first: absent shellcheck -> rc=2; stub pass -> rc=0 and a non-zero file count; stub fail -> rc=1; a deliberately unterminated `if` planted in scripts/ -> rc=1 via the bash -n half, naming the file; removal -> rc=0 again. Discovery cross-checks against CI's own number: the inline version reported 12 files, the extracted one reports 13, the difference being lint-shell.sh itself. YAML re-parsed (10 jobs, was 9) with an assertion that resolve-versions needs lint-gate, and the repo's check-workflow-shell.sh guard still passes.	2026-09-08 23:41:44 +02:00
joakimp	70e675afee	fix(smoke): keep prose out of the single-quoted exec_test body ... The agent-browser execution guard added on 2026-09-07 carried its explanation INSIDE the single-quoted script body, and the explanation contained an apostrophe ("the fleet\'s only recurring amd64 runtime proof"). Inside '...' bash treats a backslash as literal, so \' does not escape the quote -- it CLOSES the string. The body truncated at that point and the remaining lines were parsed by the calling shell. Consequences, both measured rather than inferred: - exec_test received 12 arguments instead of 2 (verified two-sided: the fixed tree yields argc=2, HEAD yields argc=12). - the leaked `v=$(agent-browser --version)` ran on the CI RUNNER instead of inside the image. The runner has no agent-browser, so smoke and smoke-studio both failed with "line 770: command not found" after build-base had already spent ~46 minutes. Every downstream job was skipped. - the truncated body still passed inside the container and printed its green tick first, so the log shows a PASS immediately followed by the failure -- the tick was real, it just no longer covered the assertion. The prose now sits above the exec_test call, where an apostrophe cannot terminate anything, and a comment at that spot records why it must stay there. Not a new failure class: shellcheck flagged it as SC2289 at severity error the same day, so the lint job has been red since run 186 (2026-09-07 21:21) and was not read. The gate did its job; nobody looked.	2026-09-08 23:31:48 +02:00
joakimp	601fc98a49	docs(changelog): release v1.8.14 ... Converts the Unreleased section and records what this build carries beyond it: the mempalace-toolkit bump that makes closing replies reach the mailbox (deriveClosed, 21023e7 -> e45f6b4), and the L0-L4 subtask documentation landing via pi-toolkit adfb553 + pi-extensions c64c122. Notes the mechanism that makes the toolkit fix land at all — the resolved toolkit SHA is folded into the content-addressed base tag, so the toolkit moving forces a base rebuild rather than waiting for one — and the consequence for the amd64 item already in this section: v1.8.13's base was cached, so Dockerfile.base:607's agent-browser assertion never ran. This base is not cached, so the native-amd64 proof is finally collected instead of discarded.	2026-09-08 22:09:31 +02:00
joakimp	6bd8b79d3a	test(smoke): assert agent-browser EXECUTES — it was the discarded amd64 proof ... Second instance of the same bug class as the node line, in the same file, found the same way. The agent-browser guard captured the version inside an echo with 2>/dev/null: echo "resolved=[$r] version=[$(agent-browser --version 2>/dev/null|head -n1)]" >&2 so the exit code was discarded and a binary that could not execute at all still PASSED, printing version=[]. Verified two-sided: a stub exiting 127 passes the old form and is caught by the new one. Why this exit code matters more than most: smoke runs platforms: linux/amd64 on an x86 runner, i.e. NATIVE amd64, so this line is the fleet's only recurring amd64 runtime proof for agent-browser's linux-x64 ELF. NO DEVBOX CAN EVER SUPPLY THAT PROOF. Every machine in the pi fleet is an Apple Silicon Mac: mbp-m1-2020; tor-ms22 = Mac Studio Mac13,1 M1 Max (fleet-ops hosts/tor-ms22.md, verified 2026-08-17 with system_profiler); emb-7kj4vr4g = Apple Silicon, verified 4 routes 2026-09-07. The open "amd64 runtime proof still needed" ask sent to two devices was asking for the impossible, and emb's reply naming tor-ms22 as "the only remaining candidate" is wrong for the same reason. CI had the answer all along and was throwing it away. Dockerfile.base:607 DOES assert it (`agent-browser --version && \`), but only when the base rebuilds, and v1.8.13's base was cached — so smoke is where the recurring gate belongs.	2026-09-07 21:21:16 +02:00
joakimp	fabf1274aa	docs(changelog): Unreleased section for the smoke node assertion + agent-browser correction ... Summarises what changed since v1.8.13: the node-major assertion (a bump would have passed the suite silently), the two-sided verification of the derivation, and the v1.8.13 agent-browser 0.35.2 -> 0.36.0 correction. No image content changes; NODE_VERSION still 22.	2026-09-07 21:17:06 +02:00
joakimp	5972a2c535	test+docs: assert the node major in smoke, and correct v1.8.13's agent-browser version ... Two findings from a delegated read-only audit of this repo, both verified from the filesystem before patching. 1. No test asserted the node major, so a node-24 bump would have passed the smoke suite SILENTLY. scripts/smoke-test.sh:94 was a bare `run "node" "node --version"` — exit-0 and non-empty output only, the printed version compared to nothing — while the line above it uses run_expect against $EXPECTED_PI_VERSION for pi. A reader skimming the suite would reasonably assume node regressions were covered. Worse, this is where the "node v22.23.2 verified" line in the v1.8.13 recreate notes came from: printed output, not an assertion. Now gated on EXPECTED_NODE_MAJOR, which CI derives from Dockerfile.base's ARG NODE_VERSION — the single source of truth (Dockerfile.base:557 is the ONLY hard pin in the repo; Dockerfile.variant has no node install at all). That also catches a stale cached layer whose node disagrees with the declared ARG. Unset => previous behaviour, so this is backward compatible. Verified two-sided rather than assumed: the sed derivation yields 22 (empty would have silently disabled the assertion, reintroducing the bug); grep -Fq "v22." matches v22.23.2; "v24." does NOT match, so a wrong major is caught; and "v2." does not prefix-collide. Workflow YAML re-parsed after editing (9 jobs). 2. The v1.8.13 entry claimed "the image's own 0.35.2" for agent-browser. The image ships 0.36.0: /usr/lib/node_modules/agent-browser/package.json says version 0.36.0, engines.node >=24.0.0, and no 0.35.2 exists anywhere in the image. The claim was also internally incoherent, contrasting 0.36.0 against a version that is not present. Corrected in place with a visible note, since the entry is already released. The reasoning survives untouched: the engines floor really is vestigial, because /usr/bin/agent-browser is a prebuilt aarch64 ELF invoked directly and never through node — which is why 0.36.0 runs fine on 22.23.2.	2026-09-07 21:05:24 +02:00
joakimp	aa0fbc5ec0	fix: correct the pi-studio claim — CI publishes v0.9.59, not the v0.9.60-rc.0 label ... Measured at the wrong layer during the v1.8.13 audit. I read `ARG PI_STUDIO_REF=main` in Dockerfile.variant, concluded the release would adopt main (= v0.9.60-rc.0), set PI_STUDIO_VERSION to that, and wrote a comment plus a CHANGELOG entry describing deliberate RC adoption. A Dockerfile default cannot answer "what will CI publish?" when CI overrides it, and it does: build-variant passes PI_STUDIO_REF=studio_ref and PI_STUDIO_VERSION=studio_tag (lines 598-599 and 787-788), and resolve-versions picks the newest STABLE semver tag via `^v?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$`, which excludes pre-releases. Caught by reading run 639's own resolve-versions output rather than the Dockerfile: studio_tag=v0.9.59, studio_ref=9eed84f = refs/tags/v0.9.59^{}, while main/v0.9.60-rc.0 is 658536f and never gets built. So published v1.8.13 studio images carry pi-studio v0.9.59. ARG restored to `none` rather than pinned to v0.9.59: the local-build default should not hardcode a tag that goes stale as soon as main moves, which is how the previous value came to lie. The comment now leads with the override so the next reader starts at the layer that decides. Upstream's tag-over-main policy is deliberate (Releases stopped at v0.5.55, main receives half-finished commits), so adopting an RC from CI would mean changing that filter, not this ARG. Consequence kept on purpose: the RC's opt-in Studio network binding is in NO published v1.8.13 image, so it needs no audit this release. Doc/label-only: base_tag hashes Dockerfile.base + rootfs/** + both entrypoints + mempalace_toolkit_ref, none of which this touches, so the in-flight base build (base-ad9faf00f2b2) stays valid and the tag run will reuse it. Verified with CI's pinned linters: hadolint 2.14.0 exit 0 on both Dockerfiles, actionlint 1.7.7 exit 0, shellcheck 0.10.0 -S error exit 0.	2026-09-06 23:51:00 +02:00
joakimp	f561acc89a	skills: refresh vendored mempalace snapshot a12fe5e -> e9e09d9, re-pin the canary ... Folded into v1.8.13 at zero marginal cost: the snapshot is hashed into base_tag, but Dockerfile.base already changed this release, so the ~67 min base rebuild was already being paid. vendor-mempalace-skill.sh --check reported exit 0 (stale-but-truthful) beforehand, so skipping was sanctioned -- this is the deliberate call the release checklist asks for. Upstream content: the bare project-name wing convention and the <harness>@<device> added_by rule, both downstream of the attribution defect measured on this device 2026-09-06. The canary re-pin matters more than the refresh. Its old pair ("Provenance is stamped for you" present / "Attribute what you file yourself" absent) still PASSED against the new snapshot, so leaving it would have yielded a canary green on both old and new bytes -- blind to exactly the refresh it exists to witness, the same false-green family as the pre-v1.8.5 canary. New pair chosen by measuring direction against both files rather than reading the diff ("Diaries self-heal; plain drawers do not" new=1/old=0; "Agent diaries live in" new=0/old=1), then tested two-sided: PASS on refreshed bytes, FAIL on the old bytes recovered from git. Gates after the change: smoke-test.sh parses, vendor --check exit 0, check-base-hash exit 0.	2026-09-06 22:31:47 +02:00
joakimp	0d984b1414	changelog: cut v1.8.13 section	2026-09-06 22:14:20 +02:00
joakimp	adcf56f829	release: audited bumps (pi 0.85.1, mempalace 3.9.0, atelier v0.10.1) + two guards ... Version audit for the next release. pi 0.84.4 -> 0.85.1, deliberately skipping 0.85.0 (it published internal experimental code and broke SDK imports, upstream #9132). mempalace 3.8.0 -> 3.9.0. pi-atelier v0.10.0 -> v0.10.1. PI_STUDIO_VERSION relabelled none -> v0.9.60-rc.0 so the floating main ref's RC status is visible at docker-inspect time instead of discovered later. PI_FORK_REF stays floating and adopts e69725c. The pi bump was verified by running it under a pty in five combinations rather than by reading the changelog, because this repo has already shipped a version pair no changelog flagged (atelier < 0.7.1 hangs pi >= 0.84). CPU delta 0.00-0.01s over 5s against a ~5s sustained-CPU hang signature, two-sided via the atelier sidebar painting identically to the 0.84.4 control. NODE_VERSION stays 22 on purpose: node 24 is technically safe (pi's five prebuilt addons are all NAPI, nothing declares a ceiling, agent-browser's engines.node >=24 is vestigial for the shipped aarch64 ELF), but this release already moves two minors and bakes an RC, and a node major would leave four suspects if the image misbehaves. Own release, smoke suite as the gate. Also corrects a stale claim at the mempalace ARG: synlig serves 3.8.0 server-side, not 3.7.1 (measured over ssh 2026-09-06). agent-browser volume shadowing: the image has shipped 0.35.2, but every session on mbp-m1-2020 ran 0.27.0 from a 2026-07-17 hand-install in ~/.pi/npm-global (a VOLUME, at PATH position 2 vs /usr/bin at 8). Third package hit by this hazard after pi and pi-atelier, so the guard is now generalised: entrypoint-user.sh retires the copy by moving it aside (reversible, only when the image ships its own), recreate-sanity-check.sh asserts resolution under /usr where the volume is real, smoke-test.sh carries the build-time half and says in the source why it is weak. The real damage was the stale BUNDLED SKILL (3 skillsets/17.6 KB vs 8/31.5 KB, ten subcommands undocumented to the agent) - a stale tool errors, a stale skill quietly teaches wrong commands. pi-fork capability floor (extensions: []): forks were measured across four dispatches ignoring their brief, answering in the user's voice, fabricating self-referential measurements, and once filing a diary entry as agent_name=pi. Cause is upstream by design - the child gets getHeader()+getBranch(), the whole active session branch, with the brief as the final user message. Not a model-capability problem: the same model as the fast profile obeyed the identical brief perfectly with a fresh session and no inherited context. extensions: [] runs children with --no-extensions, so the mempalace bridge is absent and palace writes are impossible by construction (verified by asking a child to enumerate its tools: read, bash, edit, write). Removes palace writes, not filesystem writes.	2026-09-06 20:40:02 +02:00
joakimp	c8622ece9d	skills: correct the credential-incident-response §5 premise about chroma metadata ... §5 said embedding_metadata.string_value holds "metadata fields only". False, measured directly: chroma also stores a copy of the document text there, under key chroma:document. Confirmed with a disposable sentinel drawer (pi@tor-ms22, 2026-08-30): one row in fts_content AND one row in embedding_metadata for the same drawer. This was a real mistake in shipped guidance, not a nitpick: this section's own scanning advice was written to guard against explaining a zero with a mechanism nobody verified from source, and the section itself did exactly that -- I downgraded a census to "a floor" on the strength of a metadata-blind claim I never checked against chroma's actual storage layout. The practical scan order is unchanged (fts_content is still the direct target, raw bytes are still the backstop); only the stated REASON for a metadata zero changes: it needs a different explanation now (key filter, query shape, escaping), not "structurally absent". §6's row-gone/bytes-gone claim is upgraded from asserted to measured, same sentinel: delete_by_source took both fts_content and embedding_metadata 1->0, raw bytes stayed 4->4 (freed pages persist until VACUUM). Also records the method that unblocked the measurement: not a better instrument, a disposable sentinel drawer instead of risking real fleet data. No image behaviour changes.	2026-09-01 22:37:46 +02:00
joakimp	05843ecfae	changelog: reopen an Unreleased section after v1.8.12 ... v1.8.12's release retitled the previous Unreleased heading, leaving the file with no place to put the next change — so the next contributor either invents a heading or appends to a released section. The note under it points at the release checklist step that renames it, so the convention is discoverable from the file rather than only from AGENTS.md. Also the first push after moving CI off synlig: lint.yml should now run on runner-a1 (8 vCPU / 16 GB, Debian 13, upstream Docker CE) instead of the box that hosts the palace.	2026-09-01 00:29:29 +02:00
joakimp	a2846a5f7e	release: adopt pi 0.84.4 + pi-atelier v0.10.0, and fix the doc claim the pi bump invalidates ... pi 0.84.3 -> 0.84.4 (no Breaking Changes / Removed heading in that section, grepped). Adopted for three fixes that land on machinery this fleet runs: #6879 (large tool results crossing the auto-compaction threshold were sent to the provider before compacting), #8345 (a resumed session corrupted its next appended entry when the JSONL lacked a trailing newline -- that file is the memory feeder's input; measured 49/49 clean here beforehand), and #8537 (triggerTurn:false messages sent mid-run were inserted between a tool call and its result). The mempalace mailbox is outside #8537's precondition: it delivers at agent_settled with deliverAs:"steer" and no triggerTurn, and 0.84.4 leaves the documented steer semantics unchanged. pi-atelier v0.8.2 -> v0.10.0: two minor releases, both UI-only, no BREAKING notice. v0.9.0 raises its minimum pi to 0.84.0 and, unlike the 0.7.1-under-pi-0.84 startup-hang precedent, encodes it in peerDependencies (>=0.84.0). Satisfied by PI_VERSION=0.84.4. Both executable floors compare with sort -V, so 0.10.0 >= 0.7.1 evaluates correctly. docs/observational-memory.md: pi's own compaction.md gained one paragraph in 0.84.4 -- autoCompact is now also checked mid-run, after a tool batch's results are appended. Our text said compaction is checked only when pi goes idle and so "never interrupts a turn"; that was only ever true of the OM trigger. The section now states both entry points into session_before_compact and the diagram carries the second edge (mermaid checker re-run: 6 blocks, 44 labels, 0 soft-wrapped, no cut glyphs at 1280px and 800px). README: the version-pin table had been wrong since v1.8.6 -- 93f986e moved ARG PI_VERSION to 0.84.3 and MEMPALACE_VERSION to 3.8.0 and neither table row, so it advertised pi 0.84.2 / mempalace 3.7.1. Corrected, plus the --expected-version example that would now fail against a 0.84.4 image. CHANGELOG: Unreleased retitled v1.8.12 (2026-08-31) with the audits above and a dependency-audit table -- every other component measured SAME (skillset snapshot --check OK at a12fe5e, 0 commits since baked).	2026-08-31 07:08:41 +02:00
joakimp	58c22afb04	skills: the fingerprint advice was missing its precondition, and the skill had no section on proving absence ... Docs only; no image behaviour changes. WHY THIS AND NOT A PRIVATE NOTE. pi@emb-7kj4vr4g reported itself for printing sha256[:8] fingerprints of GIT_USER_EMAIL, GIT_USER_NAME and HOST_SSH_USER, and wrote a private rule forbidding it. It had not broken a rule. It followed §2 of this skill as written, and §2 is incomplete: it says a fingerprint lets you compare a credential "without ever materialising the secret" with no condition attached. When two agents independently make the same mistake, the artifact that taught them both is the bug. §2 NOW CARRIES THE PRECONDITION. A fingerprint is 32 bits over its INPUT SPACE, so publishing fp8(x) hands anyone a MEMBERSHIP ORACLE: they can test x == v for every candidate v they can generate. Safe for a 40-char random token; a wordlist for a hostname, username, e-mail, port, path, commit SHA or weak password. "High entropy" is the usual sufficient condition, NOT the test — a commit SHA is 160-bit and still fully enumerable from the repo. Operationally: if you can imagine writing the wordlist, you cannot publish the fingerprint. Also added: candidate fingerprints are working memory and never output (an extractor hashes hostnames and paths too, so the tempting "print what the scanner saw" debug step leaks low-entropy fingerprints wholesale), and a plain statement that a fingerprint register is a CONFIRMATION ORACLE for anyone already holding a candidate corpus — which is exactly how a retired token is identified in old transcripts, and works identically for someone else holding those same files. NEW §6, "Proving absence: instrument strength, and four ways a scan lies clean", placed next to §5 on purpose: §5 optimises against false POSITIVES, and every failure in §6 is a false NEGATIVE. Triage optimises precision, a gate optimises recall, and conflating them is what produced three clean reports over secrets that were really there. Contents: instrument ranking (exact-byte value search > class/structure pass > fingerprint census) with the instruction to state which one produced your zero; census vs class passes as different questions, both failure modes measured on this fleet; the tokenisation trap where quoting alone decided detectability; scan the index or pushed tree, never the working tree; git filters never run on symlinks while check-attr claims they do; two-sided self-tests that abort, incl. the fixture-interaction artifact; row-gone is not bytes-gone. Attribution kept per finding: the census/class split and the instrument ranking's provenance are pi@emb-7kj4vr4g's; exact-byte search over index blobs is pi@tor-ms22's. The credential sense of "census" originated in this skill, not with either agent. TRAP FOR THE NEXT EDITOR, also in the CHANGELOG: the frontmatter description is now 1022 of 1024 characters. Trim before adding, or the skill silently fails to load. Verified by parsing the frontmatter (1022 chars, name intact, every prior trigger phrase retained). Deployment: baked skill -> needs an image rebuild AND a container recreate to reach a running container.	2026-08-30 23:32:53 +02:00
joakimp	30094782df	shell: source cli_utils' functions, and install the iproute2 that one of them needs ... v1.8.11 linked cli_utils' bin/ COMMANDS onto PATH and stopped there. Nothing ever sourced cli_utils.sh, so its 14 FUNCTIONS were missing from every interactive shell whose $HOME has no zsh rc -- which is the normal case, not an edge case: the container's interactive shell is bash and zsh is not installed in the image. A symlink cannot carry a shell function and a function cannot be reached from a non-interactive shell, so the two mechanisms are disjoint and both are required. The image was already paying this layer's dependency cost (fzf, bat, fd, rg, jq are baked partly FOR these functions) while delivering none of its benefit. The two changes ship together because they are coupled: portcheck is one of the 14, and it was a hard stub in every image up to v1.8.11 -- neither ss nor ip nor lsof nor netstat was present, so it printed "portcheck requires at least one of: ss, lsof, netstat" and exited. Wiring the functions in without iproute2 would have shipped a visibly broken one. MEASURED, not assumed: - the loader is bash-safe despite the *.zsh filenames: `bash --noprofile --norc` exits 0, defines all 14, and they run (pathls, mkcd, up, extract, agents-sync, fhist verified). The tree's one zsh-only construct (print -z in fzf/fhist.zsh) is already guarded by [[ -n $ZSH_VERSION ]] with a bash fallback. - fresh-$HOME seeding resolves 14/14; CLI_UTILS_SOURCE=0 is honoured; an absent checkout is a genuinely silent no-op (no output, no leaked _cu). - interactive shell startup 12 ms -> 17 ms. - iproute2 is ~5.5 MB (4.2 MB itself + 6 libs under --no-install-recommends; libpam-cap is a Recommends and correctly dropped). ss lands at /usr/bin/ss, ip at /usr/sbin/ip, both already on the developer PATH, and `portcheck --all` then correctly identifies the socat listener on 8765. - hadolint clean on both Dockerfiles; repo-wide shellcheck -S error and bash -n clean. .bash_aliases is outside CI's discovery (no shebang, not *.sh), so it was checked by hand with -s bash at error AND warning level. Named explicitly per this repo's floating-ref rule: /workspace/cli_utils is a HOST BIND MOUNT, not a pinned ref, so the image now executes unpinned content in every interactive shell. Errors are left visible rather than sent to /dev/null so that a future zsh-only file in that repo is diagnosable rather than mysterious, and CLI_UTILS_SOURCE=0 is the documented escape hatch. It is deliberately independent of CLI_UTILS_LINK=0: the two disable independent mechanisms. Deployment: needs a rebuild AND a recreate. $HOME is the container's writable layer rather than a named volume (verified -- ~/.bash_aliases carries the container start mtime while ~/.bashrc carries the image's), so the skel file is re-seeded on every recreate; a host-bind-mounted ~/.bash_aliases is still never overwritten.	2026-08-30 11:48:03 +02:00
joakimp	d9a7fe101b	changelog: an Unreleased section for a rule that was already there ... Records the two skill commits ahead of tomorrow's build, and states the finding that shaped them: the "a negative result is usually your own filter" rule was already baked, already symlinked in at every container start, and already survived every recreate — then was violated five times by a session that had it available. The gap was activation, not persistence, which is why the cross-cutting form went into the always-appended AGENTS block instead of into a skill that only loads when a task description matches. Also notes what the entry's own subject implies for the reader: neither change reaches a running container until the image is rebuilt AND the container recreated, since ~/.agents/skills and the global AGENTS.md both live in the image rather than in a volume or a mount.	2026-08-30 00:52:36 +02:00
joakimp	b615571913	changelog: release v1.8.11 — the mail nobody could deliver, and the ship that skipped a file ... Names three things riding in via floating refs, since the rule this fleet adopted (v1.8.9) is to name a behaviour change before tagging, not after: - mempalace-toolkit b2b50af -> 21023e7: the rsync --checksum ship fix (a real behaviour change to every remote-mode client) and RFC 003 §7.13 (docs only). - skillset 6eb20af -> a12fe5e: mermaid-diagrams cutU normalisation and the mempalace skill's from_agent identity rule, plus the vendored fallback snapshot re-pinned to match (this pi-devbox commit). Dependency audit run by direct command against every component, not assumed: pi/mempalace/pi-atelier/pi-studio/pi-toolkit/pi-extensions/ pi-fork/pi-observational-memory all confirmed unchanged since v1.8.10. pi-studio's apparent SHA drift on ls-remote turned out to be an annotated-tag-object hash vs its underlying commit hash, not real drift -- checked with ^{commit} before writing it down as 'none'.	2026-08-27 23:39:39 +02:00
joakimp	45850bc973	entrypoint: put back the shell state a recreate eats ... cli_utils' install.sh reaches PATH by symlinking bin/ into ~/.local/bin. That is persistent on a host and ephemeral in a container, so the same installer produced opposite durability and every --force-recreate sent the human back to typing /workspace/cli_utils/bin/git-status-all. Re-link at start instead, and add a per-device boot hook so the next question of this shape needs no image change at all. Symlinks rather than a PATH edit in an rc file, deliberately: ~/.local/bin is already ahead of /usr/local/bin in ENV PATH, so links resolve in NON-interactive shells too (docker exec, agent tool shells, scripts). An rc-file PATH edit cannot reach those because ~/.bashrc returns early when not interactive — measured, that asymmetry is exactly why `command -v git-status-all` failed in one shell and worked in another on the same box. Shell FUNCTIONS remain the sourced file's job; a symlink cannot carry them. Guards, because ~/.local/bin is shared: a real file is never clobbered, a symlink pointing elsewhere is never stolen, ours are refreshed, and links into a cli_utils/bin whose target vanished are pruned — a dangling link on PATH reads as a broken container rather than a removed script. The hook (~/.config/devbox-shell/init.sh) adds no trust boundary: that dir is already sourced into every interactive shell by the baked bash_aliases, so it is already arbitrary code from the same owner. Only WHEN it runs is new. bash <file>, never sourced, exit status ignored, output to a log. Caught before commit, and the reason the loops use `if` bodies instead of `&&` chains: under `set -euo pipefail` a for-loop whose last command is a false test exits non-zero, and with no match the /workspace/*/cli_utils glob stays literal — so the first draft would have failed to START a container on every machine that does not have this repo, rather than merely skipping the links. Re-tested with set -e in place: no-cli_utils/empty-HOME no-op, guards, idempotence, CLI_UTILS_LINK=0, a hook that exits 7, and a hook that tries to mutate CLI_UTILS_BIN — all exit 0 with intact state. Not covered by CI: docker-publish.yml runs only on tags and lint.yml lints workflow run: steps, so neither executes this file. Validated by extracting both sections and running them against fixtures, then for real in a live v1.8.10 container. No smoke assertion added on purpose — the positive path needs a /workspace mount smoke does not have, and asserting it there would repeat the v1.8.0 mistake of a smoke check written against a stage that does not exist at run time. Moves the base hash (base-decide folds `cat entrypoint.sh entrypoint-user.sh`), so this rides along with the next tag's ~40-minute base rebuild rather than justifying a tag of its own.	2026-08-27 21:52:51 +02:00
joakimp	6891dc32b8	changelog: release v1.8.10 — deploy the scrubber, and name the check that must not be skipped ... Audited every component against upstream rather than assuming. Only two moved since v1.8.9: - mempalace-toolkit 5b8d78f -> b2b50af (ours): feeder scrubber, the symlink fix that stops it refusing to stage, hlc owed-set join, queued-delivery note, explicit MEMPALACE_MAILBOX_NOTIFY protocol modes, RFC 003 + fleet-memory docs. - pi-studio v0.9.48 -> v0.9.52 (upstream, studio variant only): 22 commits, all additive — PDF previews, hideable header, contextual side questions. No removals or renames. Its pi floor is >=0.84.3 against our exact 0.84.3 pin: satisfied, zero headroom, named as a watch item because the next floor bump breaks the studio job only, after core has already published. Verified unchanged, with dates proving they predate the v1.8.9 bake: pi 0.84.3 (= npm latest), mempalace 3.8.0 (= PyPI latest), pi-atelier v0.8.2, playwright 1.62.1 (no drift this cycle despite floating on latest), pi-fork bf702b4, pi-obsmem ce9fc98, pi-toolkit 0e1369e, pi-extensions 2022887. No breaking changes anywhere, so everything can ship in one tag. The reason for tagging now is not features. The scrubber has been live on exactly ONE device since this morning; every other device has kept staging unscrubbed transcripts into a shared palace, and cleanup after the fact is manual redaction (done twice today, with freed-page residue left behind by choice). The entry leads with the acceptance check instead of burying it, because this release's worst failure is silent: the feeder is fail-closed, so a packaging or path mistake stops the fleet's memory feed and nothing complains — refusing to stage looks exactly like a quiet session. f0bffd1 exists because that very bug was real (BASH_SOURCE reports the symlink path, not the target). First client on the new image must confirm a [scrub] summary line appears, the drawer count moves, and exit 3 did not fire. Silence is the failure signal, not success.	2026-08-27 17:51:46 +02:00
Joakim Persson	8a673ec143	docs: unclip the diagrams, and answer what compaction leaves behind ... Two problems reported against docs/observational-memory.md, one cosmetic and one substantive. Both turned out to be worth more than the fix. Clipping. Several boxes lost their bottom line of text in the viewer, and neither the source nor my own render showed it. Cause: Mermaid measures a node label with its own font metrics, commits to a box size, then renders that label as real HTML in a <foreignObject> — so any host stylesheet touching line-height or font-size inflates the text past a box that is already fixed, and the overflow is clipped. The error accumulates per line, which is why it always eats the last line of the tallest labels. Rejected the obvious fix after testing it rather than assuming it: %%{init: {'flowchart': {'htmlLabels': false}}}%% *is* honoured (labels switch from 16 foreignObject to 7 tspan) and clips identically, because inflated font-size inherits into SVG text too. The fix that works is a hard limit of two short lines per node, with the detail moved into prose under each diagram — one- and two-line boxes have the vertical slack to absorb inflation, three- and four-line boxes do not. The nodes were carrying paragraph-sized text; the diagrams are better for losing it. Regression harness: render every block with line-height: 1.7 !important forced onto the label HTML, screenshot, read it. That caught two survivors of the rewrite that looked fine in the clean render — a long unbreakable /opt path wrapping to a third line, and a cylinder shape whose curved bottom leaves less room than a rectangle for the same two lines. New §4, because the document explained that compaction folds the ledger and never said what that leaves in the context. Asked directly: is the session back to knowing nothing? No. A verbatim tail survives, sized by keepRecentTokens (20k) and cut only at turn boundaries; the system prompt and AGENTS.md were never in the compacted region because they are rebuilt from disk each request; nothing is deleted from disk, since compaction appends a compaction entry rather than rewriting lines; and recall keeps resolving ids whose sources left the context because it reads the full branch via sessionManager.getBranch() and never consults the context window. Repeated compaction renders from live records, not from the previous summary's prose, so there is no generation-loss spiral. Also corrects this repo's own "compaction calls no model" to the steady-state claim it actually is: with an empty ledger the hook returns nothing and explicitly declines ownership, and pi's native model-based summariser runs. Snippet quoted in the doc. And a bug shipped in the first version: §9 said the ledger entries are custom_message and specifically not custom. Exactly backwards, so the one grep that section existed to get right was the one it got wrong. Verified empirically against the live session file — 11 om.observations.recorded and 6 om.reflections.recorded, all "type":"custom", next to "type":"custom_message" entries whose customType is mempalace-mailbox and mempalace-wakeup. That is where the confusion came from, and the distinction is load-bearing rather than cosmetic: the mailbox uses the context-visible append API, om's ledger uses the invisible one. Which makes it a feature the doc now advertises — the ledger costs zero context until it is folded.	2026-08-27 14:24:19 +02:00
joakimp	cdb6fc0950	changelog: name what the floating toolkit ref will pull into the next tag ... MEMPALACE_TOOLKIT_REF=main floats and docker-publish.yml resolves it to a SHA at build time, so toolkit main moving 5b8d78f -> f0bffd1 (10 commits) ships in the next tagged image whether or not this repo has a commit. v1.8.9 adopted the rule after that shape bit twice (553d865, 5b8d78f): name the behaviour change BEFORE tagging. This is that rule obeyed rather than re-learned — the work was pushed to toolkit main earlier today and this entry was missing, which is exactly the gap that caused a cross-host misattribution in v1.8.7. Contents: the feeder-side secret scrubber (three tiers, T3 report-only after a measured 403 -> 29 false-positive calibration on 52 MB of real transcripts, fail closed); the symlink near-miss that fail-closed would have turned into a fleet-wide silent memory outage at bake time, caught before tagging; the mailbox work (hlc owed-set join, queued-until-next-turn note, explicit notify protocol modes, tmux path documented unverified); and the documentation set (RFC 003, fleet-memory.md, secret-hygiene.md). Also states what remains unscrubbed: the opencode bridge write path and the unbuilt server-side layer. No tag pushed — per the release protocol, no tag means no build.	2026-08-27 14:20:35 +02:00
Joakim Persson	14371e2da6	docs: explain the memory that runs itself, and fix a claim the mailbox falsified ... `pi-observational-memory` is baked, registered in the seeded settings.json, and handed a cheaper model than the session it serves — and the only description in this repo was five words in a feature list. Someone meeting `/om:status` or a "compacted memory" block had nothing to read that said whether to leave any of it on. New docs/observational-memory.md, 272 lines and five diagrams. Scoped by who is authoritative, so there is one copy of each claim: - Upstream (/opt/pi-observational-memory/docs/) already documents the mechanism well — concepts.md, how-it-works.md, configuration.md, including a v3 lifecycle diagram that matches the deployed code. Linked, not re-derived. - This document takes the four facts pi-devbox owns and can change: the pinned commit it bakes (v3.0.4 ce9fc98, matching build-manifest.json), the packages[] entry that decides which copy loads, the Haiku-workers-vs-Opus-session split, and the devbox-pi-config volume that makes the ledger outlive the container. - Plus the confusion this image creates by shipping two things called memory: a section contrasting it with MemPalace, on the line "observational memory keeps a session coherent, the palace keeps the fleet coherent". Placement follows the split fleet-ops states for itself — reusable mechanism is not deployment data — so a "why is this in my container" document belongs in the repo that pins and wires the component. Linked twice from the README, because until this commit the README referenced docs/ zero times and the file already sitting there was reachable only by listing the directory. Numbers were read out of the live container and the baked tree rather than out of release notes, which caught one thing the pi-extensions skill still has wrong: the dropper is gated on a successful same-turn reflection, not on a token threshold of its own. Also fixes a README sentence that v1.8.9 made false. § Cross-machine agent coordination ended with "Nothing in this image polls the log on the agent's behalf"; the mailbox has shipped since aac4a1c. Replaced with the three knobs and their defaults, derived-not-read owed-ness, and the queued-into-the-next-turn delivery measured on two devices — and dated to "as baked in v1.8.9 (mempalace-toolkit 5b8d78f)", pointing at RFC 003 §7.11–§7.12 for the mechanism, because toolkit main is already ahead (a92c75d pings the human who is not looking) and describing that here would trade a stale-behind claim for a stale-ahead one. The cause is worth more than the fix: the behaviour arrived through the floating MEMPALACE_TOOLKIT_REF, so no diff in this repo ever touched the paragraph making the claim. v1.8.9's own rule fired for the CHANGELOG and nobody swept the README. The CHANGELOG records what changed, the README asserts what is true, and only the first is reviewed at release time — so the rule now extends to grepping the README for absolute claims (nothing, never, does not, only) about a component whose SHA moved. Diagrams were verified by rendering, not by parsing. Both comparison diagrams parsed clean and rendered with their meaning reversed: Mermaid laid the second declared subgraph out first, putting "with observational memory" before "without" and MemPalace before observational memory in the diagram whose entire job was that contrast. Rebuilt as declaration-ordered chains and re-rendered at mermaid@11 — the version pi-studio pins — in the baked headless browser, then read back as an image. mermaid.parse() proves syntax and says nothing about layout.	2026-08-27 13:55:55 +02:00