docs: record the live UPS command state after real-hardware verification

AGENTS.md gap 1 said the buttons were read-only in practice because no upsd.users account
had `instcmds`. That is no longer true: the login verbs, the command catalog, and the
`[dashboards]` account have each been fixed and verified against both real UPSes.

The rewrite keeps the parts that stay load-bearing: `instcmds = all` means the account may
send every advertised command including the power-cutting ones, and `available_commands()`
filters `LIST CMD` (which upsd serves unfiltered) — NUT has no call for a user's
privileges, so the risk tiers and the typed `DANGER` are the control, not decoration. Also
records what was proven reversibly (`beeper.enable` -> OK, `driver.killpower` refused
without `DANGER`), why a battery test was not run, and the rules for editing upsd.users
without dropping the account `upsmon` authenticates as.

README: `instcmds` is one command per line per `man 5 upsd.users`, the fleet runs
`instcmds = all`, and authentication uses `USERNAME`/`PASSWORD`.

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`VLLM_HISTOGRAMS`), measured Δ rates, prefill speed as
`mean(prompt tokens)/mean(prefill time)`, session list from gufo `/slots`.
- `sources/nut.py` — upsd client, `UpsReading`, `VAR_MAP`, `assess()` (explicit checks, not
a mystery score), `COMMANDS` catalog with risk tiers, `available_commands()` filtering,
a mystery score), `COMMANDS` catalog with risk tiers, `COMMAND_ALIASES` + `resolve_command()`
(drivers answer two names for the same action — `beeper.enable`/`beeper.on`,
`beeper.disable`/`beeper.off` — so one entry is offered per action and any of its names hits
that entry's verdict, never a gate the rendered name missed), `available_commands()` filtering,
kelvin-vs-celsius normalisation, and `charger_status` normalised to the `CHARGER_STATUS`
keys (the same lowercase token `states()` and `on_battery` already compare), and `states()`
publishes one chip per fact — a driver exporting both `battery.charger.status` and the
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## Known gaps / next work
1. **UPS instant commands are read-only in practice.** Reads work against real upsd (see
above), but every button is gated off with "NUT_USER / NUT_PASSWORD must name a user with
`actions` in upsd.users" because no such user exists yet. Creating one safely needs a
*read* of `/etc/ups/upsd.users` first — `sudo tee` can write the file but overwriting it
blind would delete the users upsmon already authenticates as, which can take the box down
at the wrong moment. `deploy/nut-sudoers` is the installable ruleset that makes that
read (and only a scoped write + reload) possible — it carries the
`ops ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: NUT_READ, NUT_WRITE` grant and is installed with
`sudo install -m 0440 -o root -g root deploy/nut-sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/dashboards-nut`,
but it is **repo-side only so far**: the live UPS cards still answer "NUT_USER /
NUT_PASSWORD must name a user with `actions` in upsd.users" (verified through
`/api/ups/snapshot`). Once it is installed: read `upsd.users`, add `[dashboards]` with
`instcmds` limited to the battery tests, put the credentials in `.env.dev`, and the
buttons come alive. Never grant `actions = -`, and never write the file blind.
1. **UPS commands work, and the account can now cut power — the app's gates are the control.**
Three defects were cleared on 2026-10-17, each verified against real hardware. (a) `NutClient.login()` sent `USER`/`PASS`, which the deployed
upsd 2.8.5 does not implement — each answered `ERR UNKNOWN-COMMAND`, so `_read_line()`
raised and `POST /api/ups/command` could only 502 before `instcmd()`, credentials or not.
It now sends `USERNAME`/`PASSWORD`, the pair the server's own `HELP` advertises
(`HELP VER PROTVER GET LIST SET INSTCMD LOGIN LOGOUT USERNAME PASSWORD STARTTLS`), pinned
by `test_login_uses_the_verbs_upsd_2_8_5_answers_to` — the fake upsd has no `USER`/`PASS`
branch, so a regression answers `ERR UNKNOWN-COMMAND` exactly like the real thing.
(b) 12 of the 23 commands the two real UPSes advertise had **no `COMMANDS` entry**, and
`available_commands()` drops anything the catalog misses — the page silently offered less
than the hardware does. Every advertised command is catalogued now, each with a risk tier:
`test_every_command_the_hardware_advertises_is_catalogued` fails if a capture gains a
command the catalog does not know, and
`test_every_command_that_can_cut_power_is_in_the_dangerous_tier` keeps `load.off`,
`driver.killpower` and the `shutdown.*` sequence in the tier that types `DANGER` and is
refused on battery. `shutdown.stop` is the exception the name hides — it *cancels* a
shutdown, so it is `safe`, and the test says so in words.
(c) `[dashboards]` in `/etc/ups/upsd.users` is `instcmds = all` at the operator's request,
so this app may send every advertised command on both UPSes, power-cutting ones included.
`.env.dev` (mode `0600`, gitignored) carries the credentials.
What remains to know:
- **Proven live, and reversibly.** `beeper.enable` returned `OK` and `ups.beeper.status`
read `enabled` on the APC afterwards; `driver.killpower` without the word `DANGER` still
answers 422 and never reaches the wire. A battery test has deliberately not been run —
it puts real load on a battery things are plugged into, which stays the operator's call.
- **`enabled: true` cannot mean "this account may send it".** `available_commands()`
filters on `LIST CMD`, which upsd serves **unfiltered**, and NUT has no call for a
user's privileges — so the wire cannot tell the page what the account is granted. With
`instcmds = all` the two agree by configuration rather than by check, which is precisely
why the risk tiers and the typed `DANGER` are load-bearing and not decoration.
- **Pre-existing upsd log noise:** every upsd start logs `Unknown upsmon type =` (20
occurrences over 12 starts, oldest before this work). Harmless — `upsmon` logs into both
UPSes right after it — but unexplained.
Editing `upsd.users` at all: never grant `actions = -`, and never write it blind — the
running `upsmon` authenticates as its own account from that same file for both UPSes, so
dropping it means no orderly power-down. Copy the untouched sections from the live bytes
and `cmp` them before writing; `tee` truncates in place, so owner and mode survive.
2. **GPU coverage is AMD only.** `host_agent.gpus()` reads amdgpu DRM sysfs
(`gpu_busy_percent`, `mem_info_vram_*`, hwmon temps, clocks). That covers the current
fleet (R9700 + Strix Halo iGPU; gateway has none). An NVIDIA host would report no GPU at
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# /etc/ups/upsd.users
[dashboards]
password = "..."
instcmds = test.battery.start.quick test.battery.start.deep test.battery.stop
instcmds = test.battery.start.quick
instcmds = test.battery.start.deep
instcmds = test.battery.stop
```
One command per `instcmds` line — that is what `man 5 upsd.users` specifies ("to specify
multiple commands, use multiple instances of the instcmds field"), and a comma-separated list
on one line is not that. `instcmds = all` is the alternative, and the fleet runs that: every
command the drivers advertise, including the ones that cut output power. Nothing about the
gates changes — the risk tier, the typed `DANGER`, `NUT_ALLOW_ACTIONS` and the on-battery
refusal are what prevent a click from becoming an outage, because upsd gives the dashboard no
way to ask what an account is allowed to send.
upsd authenticates with `USERNAME` + `PASSWORD` (see `HELP` on your own server for the verbs
it accepts — `USER`/`PASS` are not among them in 2.8.5); a user needs `instcmds`, never
`actions = -`.
`deploy/nut-sudoers` is the ruleset that lets the `ops` account read (and scoped-write) those
files: `sudo install -m 0440 -o root -g root deploy/nut-sudoers /etc/sudoers.d/dashboards-nut`.
Read `upsd.users` before you write it — `upsmon` authenticates from the same file, so