dashboards/AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md — homelab dashboards

The plan, the rules, and the environment facts an agent needs to work on this repo without re-deriving them. README.md is the operator-facing how-to; this file is the why, the invariants, and the state of the fleet.

Working protocol

This project runs the .agents/phases/ phased-execution pipeline.

1. Always read .agents/PLAN.md first to understand the project context and goals.
2. Follow the phased execution protocol in .agents/phases/.
3. Never modify .agents/PLAN.md or any files in .agents/phases/complete/.
4. If you need to update any file in .agents/phases/todo/, you must ask the user for permission first.
5. Strictly adhere to the LOCKED DECISIONS listed in .agents/PLAN.md.

Everything below this section is the project's own content: what the app is, the rules that keep its numbers honest, and the state of the fleet it watches.

What this is

Four dashboards for one homelab, behind one domain, in one process, backed by one SQLite file — plus an overview page that says which of the four you need:

Route	Question it answers	Source
/	Is anything wrong, and where do I look first?	all four, in one request
/system	What are my machines doing — CPU, memory, disk, GPU, network, and the history	agent/host_agent.py, our own stdlib agent per host
/disks	Are any of my physical disks failing, and which one — health, temp, hours, wear	the same agents, smartctl -i -A -H per whole drive (never a partition)
/llm	Tokens/sec, active sessions, queue depth, KV pressure, latency percentiles	gufo /metrics + /slots, vLLM /metrics
/ups	Battery health, runtime left, power events, battery-test buttons	NUT upsd (our own wire-protocol client; 3051 here, not 3493)

History is a first-class feature, not a sparkline afterthought: every number worth graphing is stored, rolled up (raw → 1m → 1h), and served from /api/*/history.

None of it is public. One admin signs in at /login (the only page an anonymous visitor reaches), and the two admin pages live behind it: /settings — ⚙ Account in the masthead — where that session is read, ended and re-credentialled, and /certs — ⚷ Certs, next to it — where the fleet's certificate authority is listed, rotated, revoked and downloaded. Every page above, /settings, /certs, and every /api route but the four named in invariant 12 require the session.

Non-negotiable rules

These are the things that make the numbers trustworthy. Breaking one is a bug even if the page still renders.

1. Read-only by construction, with exactly one exception. Nothing in this app writes to an upstream except POST /api/ups/command. That endpoint is gated four times (NUT_ALLOW_ACTIONS, not DASH_READ_ONLY, the upsd.users account actually having the command, and a UI confirmation — DANGER for anything that can cut power) and the server re-checks every gate on every request. Hiding a button is not a safety control. Commands that would cut output are refused outright while the UPS is already on battery. Since phase 11 there are two more in front of it — a session, and this session's CSRF token for a cookie write (invariant 12) — and they are additive: tests/test_auth_api.py proves the DANGER requirement and the wire send still behave exactly as they did without them.
2. Never invent a number. A value the upstream does not publish renders as n/a, never as 0. Every derived value carries the source string it came from and derived: true so the UI can print how it was obtained (computed:Δtokens/Δt labelled Δ2.0s, the LLM's own poll interval since phase 23). Aggregating two different series into one rate is the failure mode this rule exists to catch — the rate estimator is keyed by the resolved upstream series name plus its label set for exactly that reason (phase 13: a label set joining a summed counter mid-window contributes nothing until it has its own baseline, never its carried cumulative value), and the estimator refuses a window too short or too stale to carry the claim.
3. Unconfigured is not broken. A source with no env config answers 404 {"configured": false} without dialling, and the page says "not configured". A red panel for a server the operator never installed destroys the signal from the panels that matter.
4. One dead source must not blink another — and nothing may stop polling in silence. Each source is its own asyncio task with its own timeout and health record (poller.py). A failed poll keeps the last good payload and marks it stale in the UI instead of zeroing it — on / too, where a host that has never answered still gets a fleet row (unreachable: true, dimmed, every number n/a) because dropping the row would turn a dead agent into "never configured". Transitions write events; repeated failure writes one line, not 500. The task is the source's only poller, so no exception may end it: a store that refuses an otherwise good poll is a reported failure (ok: false, the real reason in error, last_ok frozen so the page ages the numbers, one store-error event then one recording event on recovery), and anything that escapes the poll body is logged and the loop continues. Four dev-server sources once froze behind an unretrieved SQLite exception while /api/health went on calling them ok — a frozen source that looks healthy is the one failure mode worse than an outage.
5. No CDN, no build step, no internet at runtime. Every asset is served by this app; charts are hand-rolled SVG (web/static/charts.js). The engines live on a network with no outbound access — a CDN reference is a request that never comes back.
6. Never leak a credential. Target URLs may carry a userinfo token (parse_targets moves it into an Authorization header, so Target.url ends up clean). Nothing that leaves the process may carry one: /api/config serves Target.display_url and config.strip_userinfo-redacted engine URLs, and every URL inside an UpstreamError message is redacted too — those strings go into the health record and the event table, which /api/events serves to the browser and page-system.js prints. No token, password, or personal hostname goes into tracked files, fixtures, or the browser. The admin's own credential is the same case (phase 11): auth.py records nothing and answers False/None to every rejection, because the reason a login was refused is a verifier, a salt, or a session token — and this app turns reasons into health records and event rows that a browser reads. Its one logging call and its two raise sites (the fail-closed startup and the empty-new-password refusal) carry fixed operator text with nothing interpolated, not even a prefix of a hash; tests/test_auth.py pins that structurally, so the day someone adds logger.warning(f"bad verifier {v}") a test fails instead of a log line. A private key is the same case (phase 15): the root CA key and the dashboard's client key live only in meta, certs.py has no logging import and one fixed-text raise naming the rows to delete (pinned structurally by tests/test_certs.py, which also asserts the refusal quotes no line of the stored key), the root key is never written to the temp dir the client material lives in, and a bundle carries the root certificate — never the key — because an agent only has to verify its clients and a stolen agent install must not be a stolen CA. A session token used to fetch a bundle is the same case (phase 24): the installer's --fetch-bundle <url> --cert-name <name> --session <token> sends that token on exactly one request, hands it to its python3 child through the environment rather than argv, prints only the URL in its log line, unsets it before anything is written, and never repeats it in the sudoers hint's re-quoted command (which names --bind/--port and nothing else). tests/test_deploy_scripts.py signs in for a real token and then greps every file the run could have touched plus both output streams. A bundle exported for the dev loop is the same case (phase 24): scripts/dev-certs-export.py writes only into the gitignored data/certs/ tree, creates each file with os.open so 0600 is its birth mode (and re-chmods a file that already existed looser), dials GET /api/certs/<name>/bundle over HTTP instead of importing ensure_certs — so it cannot mint even by accident — and prints one line per host with no PEM, no token and no password in it (tests/test_deploy_scripts.py greps the output for all three).
7. Verify against the deployed upstream; never guess a metric name. Field maps in sources/llm.py and sources/nut.py were captured from the running engines and NUT 2.8.5, and are pinned by fixtures in tests/fixtures/. Re-capture with scripts/capture-fixtures.sh (and scripts/capture-node-exporter.sh when comparing exporters) rather than trusting a README or a memory of an upstream.
8. Keep dependencies current on purpose. LLM-written version floors are usually stale. Check after touching dependencies: uv pip list --outdated must come back empty. Python is 3.14 (requires-python >=3.14, ruff py314, pyright 3.14, Containerfile python3.14) — do not lower these to make something else work.
9. SQLite owns the history and must stay bounded. Writes go through store.py; new metrics need a rollup path and a retention story, or a year of charts becomes a disk emergency. Put the DB on a volume in deployment.
10. The dev server stays up while work happens (./scripts/dev-server.sh restart, http://127.0.0.1:8090), and UI changes are verified in a real browser with a screenshot before they are called done. data/logs/*.png is where those land.
11. The dashboard never starts open, and the stored password beats the environment (phase 11). The admin verifier and the session-signing key are durable rows in the SQLite meta table (auth.verifier, auth.session_secret) and are the only place either secret lives; DASH_ADMIN_PASSWORD is a seed that hashes into the row on the first boot of a database and is ignored thereafter (one warning line, value never quoted), so a password is changeable without a redeploy and no container env can roll it back. A server with neither a stored verifier nor the seed refuses to start — a RuntimeError out of the lifespan, a non-zero exit, and a message naming the variable, the meta key, and the sqlite3 <db> "DELETE FROM meta WHERE key IN ('auth.verifier','auth.session_secret')" reset command. "Start open with a warning" is not an option: the domain is public and the fleet's hostnames and UPS controls are behind that login. testpass is the local-testing password (dev config and the hermetic suite) and never a production fallback. Invariant 12 is the request-time half; this one is why there is always a credential to check against.
12. The gate is default-deny and its public surface is four entries (phase 11). app.py's PUBLIC_PATHS (/login, /api/auth/login, /api/health) plus PUBLIC_PREFIXES (/static/) are the only things an anonymous caller can reach — every page, every /api data route, and /api/auth/status/logout require a session read from the dash_session cookie or an Authorization: Bearer token. /api/health is the one data route that stays open on purpose (the Containerfile HEALTHCHECK and ./scripts/dev-server.sh status poll it unsigned, and it leaks nothing); its shape is now a contract with deployment, which means nothing may be added to it without re-deciding that — a new field there is a field the whole internet reads. Adding a path to that list is a security decision, and tests/test_auth_api.py::test_every_route_that_is_not_public_requires_a_session walks the served route table so a route that forgets the gate fails a test instead of shipping — the middleware guards by default, which is why no new route has to remember to. Rules the gate keeps and each has a test: a page GET gets 303 to /login?next=… (query string included) and everything else the one JSON refusal, because a redirect a script cannot render is not an answer; every answer carries no-store; ?next= passes auth.safe_next and is never followed raw (an open redirect on a login page is a phishing kit with a homelab theme); a write additionally needs a matching Origin/Sec-Fetch-Site and — when it came in on the cookie — this session's X-CSRF-Token, because a bearer caller is something no other site can forge. A process whose lifespan never produced ctx.auth answers 503 for everything, public paths included: "healthy" from a server that cannot say who its admin is is the invariant-4 failure mode, and a login form that cannot verify a password is a worse promise than no form. POST /api/ups/command keeps all four of its own gates behind this one (the DANGER word is still what cuts power), and POST /api/auth/logout is gated like any other write because a sign-you-out link is a CSRF. POST /api/auth/password (task 04) is the third gated write and the app's only revocation: guesses at the current password spend their own password:<address> bucket, and a right one replaces auth.verifier and auth.session_secret so every browser that is not in front of the form dies on its next request — which is why the response is minted from the new state and never the one being replaced.

Architecture

agent/host_agent.py (each host)      gufo / vLLM            upsd (NUT)
        │ GET /snapshot                    │ GET /metrics           │ LIST UPS / LIST VAR / LIST CMD
        │                                  │ + /slots (gufo)        │
        ▼                                  ▼                        ▼
collectors.py ── fetch, one UpstreamError type, no writes except run_ups_command ──┐
        │  parse + Δcounter/Δt                                                     │
        ▼                                                                           ▼
sources/host.py · disks.py · llm.py · nut.py                         poller.py (task per source)
        │        Result(payload, samples, events)                                    │
        ▼                                                                             ▼
store.py ── SQLite (WAL): sample(source, host, metric, res, ts) + event ──► api.py ──► web/

Responsibilities, one line each:

• agent/host_agent.py — stdlib-only (3.10+), reads /proc, /sys/block, /sys/class/drm, statvfs; serves GET /snapshot + GET /info + GET /schema + GET /health, plus an HTML status page at GET /. Refuses to bind off-loopback without a token or a certificate bundle (exit 2). Counters stay counters: the dashboard computes rates so the agent never remembers who polled it last. TLS mode (phase 15 task 02, AGENT_VERSION 1.1.0): --cert-bundle/AGENT_CERT_BUNDLE loads the one PEM the dashboard signs (resolve_bundle, the resolve_token idiom: server cert
  • server key + root CA + # BUNDLE-REV <n> + # REVOKED <serial> lines, grepped by text because the agent has no cryptography), unpacks it into the unit's RuntimeDirectory when there is one else a temp dir, builds a PROTOCOL_TLS_SERVER context with verify_mode = CERT_OPTIONAL, and deletes the PEMs once loaded (the key then lives only in this process, so a kill -9 has no cleanup to forget). CERT_OPTIONAL is the assumption that keeps /health probeable: the handler enforces, refusing a peer with no verified certificate 403 client certificate required on every path but /health, and refusing a serial on the bundle's denylist 403 client certificate revoked on every path including /health (the exemption is for a probe holding the CA and no certificate, not for an identity the operator withdrew). The denylist is re-read when the bundle's (mtime_ns, size) stamp changes — that is the whole reason the # REVOKED lines live in the bundle — while a new certificate needs a restart, because ssl cannot swap a chain under a live socket. Serial matching accepts the hex getpeercert() renders and the decimal certs.py writes, because comparing one spelling to the other accepts a revoked client forever. On the TLS path the bearer token is not read (the handshake is the auth, and a second credential that outlives a revocation defeats the list), /snapshot gains additive tls: true + bundle_rev only in TLS mode, and token mode is byte-identical to before. Task 03 has since flipped the collector (see the collectors.py bullet), so those two fields are how the dashboard answers "is this host running the bundle /certs issued?" — sources/host.py and sources/disks.py carry them into both payloads as agent.tls / agent.bundle_rev, present only when the agent published them. SMART (phase 09): smart() runs smartctl -i -A -H per whole /sys/block disk (parse_smart_output covers ATA + NVMe; NVMe media errors map to offline_uncorrectable, hex-packed vendor raws are never decoded, and an attribute row is read from its RAW_VALUE column rather than the end of the line because this binary annotates that column — 35 (Min/Max 34/44), 43894h+43m+32.519s — so its last token is not the value), 5 s per device / a pass budget whose 20 s floor scales to 5 s × the disk count / 240 s cache, attached as disk_io.devices[].smart (gap 10: a 16-drive shelf takes longer than the floor, and truncating the pass would null the tail drives). Missing binary → one errors line for the pass (the word not found in it is what sources/disks.py reads to answer "is smartctl installed", and tests/test_agent.py pins that the line still says it); one denied/wedged device → that disk's smart is null with its own line; --no-smart opts out silently. Never fails the snapshot. An expired cache refreshes on a background thread while the request is served the previous result — only the first pass after startup runs inline — because a wedged pass on the request path blows HOST_TIMEOUT_SECONDS and would turn the system source red every four minutes over an add-on that page never draws. The refresher is single-flight and keeps the old cache on failure, so a bad pass retries on the next expiry instead of hammering the disk.
• config.py — env only, no config file format, no CLI flags. .env is a seed; a real env var always wins. Defaults are safe except the sources, which default to unset. The auth block (phase 11) is DASH_ADMIN_PASSWORD (the seed, and _env() strips, so VAR= means unset rather than "the password is empty"), DASH_SESSION_HOURS (720 = 30 days: a dashboard that logs the operator out mid-outage gets bypassed), DASH_COOKIE_SECURE (off, because dev is http://127.0.0.1; task 03 also treats X-Forwarded-Proto: https as secure), and DASH_PBKDF2_ITERATIONS (default auth.PBKDF2_ITERATIONS, imported so the primitive and the setting cannot drift) — that knob exists so the hermetic suite hashes in microseconds instead of 0.3 s per client and is not a production tuning parameter.
• poller.py — job loop, health records, stale/last-good semantics, transition events. /disks is a source of its own (disks:<host>, DISKS_INTERVAL_SECONDS 300 s, DISKS_TIMEOUT_SECONDS 30 s, events under the dashboard name disks) reading the same agents the system jobs read: the separate task is what keeps a SMART poll out of the 10-second utilisation loop and lets /disks age on its own instead of blinking /system. The job list is built once (app.build_hub()) because it is wired twice — production and the injected-store test path — and two hand-written copies drifting is how a source ends up polling in tests and not in the container. The success path records (payload → samples → events) and only then moves last_ok, so a refused SQLite write ages the source and alerts instead of leaving it current with charts that have silently stopped drawing. Events are stored under the dashboard name (system/disks/llm/ups), not the sample source (host) — a page filtering /api/events by host gets an empty feed forever (found on /system during phase 03 browser verification).
• collectors.py — the fetch half. AgentTls (phase 15 task 03) is what makes an https:// HOST_TARGETS entry a certificate-authenticated dial: verify and cert are the paths certs.write_material wrote at startup, and the dial is verified against this app's own root and presents this app's own client certificate. Two things about it are load-bearing. (a) The credential travels in a client built per dial, because httpx resolves TLS material when a client is constructed (there is no per-request verify/cert, and verify=<str>/cert= are deprecated anyway — the supported form is an ssl.SSLContext, which is also the honest shape: trust in one named CA, hostname checks on) while one shared client dials the plain agents and both engines — a verify on that would make every engine read depend on a CA nobody issued their cert with. (b) status is a callable doing a fresh certs.agents read, so a revocation clicked in the browser bites on the next poll with no restart, and a revoked host is refused before any socket opens — invariant 3's shape: a source the app knows it must not talk to says so without a network round trip, and the poller's stale/last-good semantics do the rest. refusal_detail() quotes the agent's own 403 sentence (client certificate required / client certificate revoked) because those are two different operator actions, and the certificate wording is used only for a dial where a certificate was presented — a 401/403 from a token-mode host keeps the token/HTTP wording, or the operator is sent to /certs for a token problem. agent_tls_map() builds one entry per configured host (the CA and client pair are shared — the dashboard has one identity — only the revocation answer is per name, and an absent entry is active, never-issued being a different fact from revoked); build_hub takes that map and hands the same entry to the host: and disks: jobs of one host, so a revocation fails both sources with one sentence and neither of them dials. fetch_snapshot() keeps http:// targets on the shared client with their bearer token, unchanged from before the phase, so a rollout is per host. NutMonitor owns per-UPS transition bookkeeping (its self-test event takes its severity from nut.self_test_outcome() and not its own word list, so a passed test is never an amber line in the feed while the card beside it reads green). Its per-UPS tolerance for a failed LIST CMD/LIST RW is for a complete error reply only: one battery whose command list is denied loses its buttons and the poll goes on, while a stalled reply fails the poll, because NutClient marks a socket it could not read to its END as unusable (a reply still arriving would otherwise be taken for the next command's answer — the real cause of the expected 'BEGIN LIST VAR', got 'RW apc …' lines this fleet's event table used to fill with, and the same hazard on INSTCMD, where a late OK read as a different command's success would be a gate that lies). Failure messages name the redacted URL (strip_userinfo / Target.display_url), never the one that was dialled, because they become health records and event rows. fetch_snapshot() is the one agent /snapshot read that system and disks share, so a dead host says the same sentence on both pages and only the timeout differs (the disks poll has to outlast the agent's smartctl pass, and None is translated into httpx's sentinel because a literal None means no timeout at all). Agent errors become the payload's degraded except the smart: add-on lines — a host without smartmontools or device read access is unconfigured, not broken (invariant 3); they stay in agent.errors for the /disks page to explain — which since phase 22 is only the device-read case, because a host whose agent said smartctl is missing is not listed on that page at all (api._disk_visible).
• sources/host.py — snapshot → payload + samples; reboot detection; GPU series per card (gpu.busy_pct@<index>). agent_tls_fields() is the phase-15 passthrough: a TLS agent's tls/bundle_rev ride into the payload's existing agent block, and a token-mode snapshot grows nothing (no tls: false, no bundle_rev: null — rule 2), so the fields are how the API distinguishes a stale bundle from an agent that never had one.
• sources/disks.py — the same snapshot projected onto physical drives for /disks (phase 09): one row per whole-/sys/block disk (never a partition, never a mount), the agent's smart block carried through verbatim, health the drive's own word normalised to ok/failed/None, and smartctl_available three-way on purpose — True (a disk answered), False (the agent said the binary is not installed), None (an agent predating the pass, or --no-smart: nobody knows, so n/a plus the agent's own smart_errors line and never a guessed verdict). Since phase 22 the flag's page-side consequence is not only the why-line: api._disk_visible reads False as "not a host on /disks at all", while None keeps its dimmed row — the computation here is unchanged and the agent still reports all three arms whatever the API decides to list. Nothing here is a rate: power-on hours and the sector counters are stored counters-as-reported, so the source takes no RateEstimator and its payload carries no window_seconds (rule 2 — a rate with no estimator, no Δ<window> label and no source string is an invented number). disk.health_ok@dev is not a series either: a verdict is not a number, so the drive's word travels in the payload only. Each row does carry a severity dict (SEVERITY_FIELDS = the two rated numbers, temp_c/percentage_used, plus health through HEALTH_SEVERITY, which translates the drive's own word instead of grading it), and UNGRADED_FIELDS names the numbers that must never be graded. fleet_disk_summary() sums the per-host summary counts for the page header and drops a host with no payload from the sums while still counting it in hosts_total — the /llm fleet-block rule, so the page never does arithmetic and a dead agent never shrinks a fleet total.
• sources/llm.py — gufo + vLLM field maps (GUFO_SERIES, VLLM_SERIES, VLLM_HISTOGRAMS), measured Δ rates diffed per label set (rate_key() keys the estimator on the resolved name plus its labels; the cell is the Σ of the per-series rates over the widest window one of them actually used — phase 13, so a joining {engine="1"} series can never lend its carried counter to one interval's delta), prefill speed as mean(prompt tokens)/mean(prefill time), session list from gufo /slots. A refused window (the estimator's floor) is still an answer: the cell keeps its computed:Δ<series>/Δt source and its honest Δ<window> beside a null value.
• sources/nut.py — upsd client, UpsReading, VAR_MAP, assess() (explicit checks, not a mystery score), SELF_TEST_OUTCOMES + self_test_outcome() (the Last self-test verdict follows the outcome of the driver's *.test.result word, not its phrasing: pass words → ok (including Done and passed, what the CyberPower here answers), fail words → fail, No test initiated / empty / no variable → unknown printing NEVER_TESTED_DETAIL so both "never tested" states say one sentence, and an unrecognised word → warn, because a driver inventing a verdict is drift worth noticing and the check prints its own word to be added), 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 legacy flag that says the same word gets "charging, online", not "charging, online, charging". battery_runtime comes from battery.runtime only — battery.runtime.low is a shutdown threshold, not time left, so it lives at battery_runtime_low and never becomes the hero's "runtime left".
• sources/nut_sim.py — a labelled simulator so the UPS page is developable without a battery. It must never be the default, and every payload it produces says simulated. Its modelled battery.mfr.date is computed relative to today (not a fixed string that ages), so a fresh simulator reads healthy and amber keeps meaning something. Its status follows the real drivers: a below-float pack on mains reports OL CHRG/chg (the glyph's bolt state is keyed on that token, and the model has to be able to produce it) and a battery being drawn from is OB/dchg, never ol. Every command it advertises is implemented and visible in a variable a real driver publishes — the beeper ones set ups.beeper.status (enabled/muted/disabled), and a test window that ends writes ups.test.result: PASSED while an aborted one writes nothing; the load/shutdown commands answer OK without modelling an outlet, because a faked power cut in the history is indistinguishable from a real one. from_env() is the single place the NUT_SIMULATE truthy rule lives — app.py builds the monitor through it, so the assembly and the model cannot disagree about what is enabled.
• prom.py — Prometheus text-exposition parser (in-house; only for engines we don't own). scalar(agg="sum") stays right for gauges; values_by_series() is the per-label-set view counter deltas need, because a summed counter mixes whatever label sets exist now.
• rates.py — Δ/window estimator, keyed by resolved series name + label set. Its effective window is now - base[0] bounded on both sides (phase 13): under MIN_WINDOW_SECONDS (the poll loop's 0.2 s catch-up gap after any slow fetch) it answers (None, dt) — one n/a with the window it refused — and drops that base so the polls after the stall cannot re-diff it; the window-empty fallback accepts a base no older than MAX_WINDOW_RATIO × span (the 2 × span ceiling the docstring always claimed, now enforced). A rate ≥ 8× the previously published one is held for one poll (the previous value repeats, label unchanged) and publishes only if the next interval confirms it (JUMP_CONFIRM_RATIO) — and confirmation means a different anchor: a held jump remembers the sample its window was diffed from, and stays held while that same sample still anchors the window. A stalled fetch stamps its body with the time the poll finished, so that sample is the stall older than its own timestamp, and every later window off it is the same skewed delta re-diffed over a longer span — measured twice from one sample is one measurement, and the hold simply continues until the stale anchor ages out of the span. min_window=0.0 exists for tests that scrape faster than any real loop. The span belongs to the cadence that fills it (phase 23): app.build_hub builds one estimator per measuring cadence — the host's at RATE_WINDOW_SECONDS (10), the LLM's at LLM_INTERVAL_SECONDS (2) — because a window wider than the poll averages bursts across the polls the operator is watching and a window narrower than it has nothing inside it to diff. Nothing else about the estimator moved: the floor, the ceiling, the jump gate and the label are the same code, and a 2 s window is 4× above the floor, so a healthy 2 s cadence is never refused.
• auth.py — every authentication decision as a pure function, stdlib only (phase 11): hash_password/verify_password/needs_rehash over a self-describing pbkdf2_sha256$<iterations>$<salt_hex>$<hash_hex> verifier (so the cost can rise without a migration), mint_session/read_session for an HMAC-signed stateless cookie (no session table and nothing to prune; rotating the stored secret signs every cookie ever issued out, which is how changing the password evicts every other browser), mint_csrf/verify_csrf bound to the session token instead of stored, LoginThrottle (in-process exponential backoff), and origin_matches/sec_fetch_site_allowed as string functions so the gate is testable without a Request. The primitives never raise and record nothing: a malformed verifier, a tampered cookie, and a rotated secret all answer False/None, because the reason an input was rejected is the credential (invariant 6). No HTTP, no SQLite driver, no new dependency — app.py's middleware and api.py's /api/auth/* are the callers, so a decision made here is made once and is unit-testable without a Request. It also carries the two strings the gate and the pages share (LOGIN_PATH, LOGIN_NEXT) and safe_next(), the only judge of a ?next= value: kept verbatim (query string and all, because the range chips live there) when it stays on this app, dropped otherwise — scheme-prefixed, scheme-relative, the percent-encoded spellings of both, anything with a control character (not a path but a second Location header), and anything without a leading /. The verifier bootstrap (task 02) is the one deliberate exception to "never raises": load_auth_state(store, admin_password=…, iterations=…, session_hours=…, db_path=…) reads the meta rows auth.verifier / auth.session_secret through a three-method MetaStore Protocol (so this module still imports nothing in the package, and its tests use a dict) and returns a frozen AuthState — the environment seeds a password once and the stored verifier wins thereafter (env_ignored and one fixed-line warning when both are present, so /settings is the real answer and no redeploy can roll a changed password back); no row and no seed raises a RuntimeError naming DASH_ADMIN_PASSWORD, the meta key, and the sqlite3 … DELETE FROM meta … reset command, because "start open with a warning" is the failure this phase exists to prevent; a stored secret that is not 256 bits of hex is regenerated and persisted (the effect is one login prompt, never a lockout). Nothing here reads a clock, so the state carries no expiry — a session's is inside its signed payload. update_verifier(store, state, new_password) writes the new verifier and a fresh secret (secret first, so a crash cannot leave sessions outliving the password they were issued under) and refuses an empty/whitespace password; it is what POST /api/auth/password calls, because rotating the secret is this app's revocation list — a stateless cookie has no row to delete, so without it a stolen session would outlive the password that "revoked" it for another DASH_SESSION_HOURS. Its two raises, like the loader's, carry fixed text — tests/test_auth.py pins the file's raise sites and its one logging call structurally, so no future edit can interpolate a credential into either.
• certs.py — the fleet's certificate authority as the same shape of module (phase 15): a pure lifecycle over the three-method MetaStore protocol, no clock it cannot be handed, no logging, and one fixed-text RuntimeError (tests/test_certs.py pins all three structurally, the way tests/test_auth.py pins auth.py). Five meta rows and nothing else: certs.root.key/certs.root.cert (self-signed CN=dashboards-root, 10 years), certs.client.key/certs.client.cert (CN=dashboards, 1 year — the identity every agent will check), and certs.agents, one JSON object mapping a HOST_TARGETS name to {serial, not_after, status, bundle_rev, bundle, san}. A stored row always wins: the root is generated on the first boot of a database and never on a later one, because a CA that rotates with the process untrusts every bundle already installed on a host — and a newly generated root takes its client certificate with it, since a leaf signed by the dead root is a credential nothing can verify. issue_agent_cert/reissue_agent_cert (the API's "rotate") sign a fresh CN=<host> leaf whose SAN is the addresses that host is dialled by — the name is always in the list, and an IP goes in as an iPAddress or hostname verification of an IP dial fails — bump bundle_rev, and reset status to active. revoke marks the host and re-seals every bundle, because the # REVOKED denylist lives inside each of them and an agent that cannot see a serial keeps accepting that client; there is no "unrevoke", and revoking a never-issued host still records the revocation (what a revoke enforces is the dashboard refusing to dial). The bundle is the install artifact — agent cert, agent key, the root cert (never the root key, asserted by header count and by parsing the one key against both keypairs), # BUNDLE-REV <n>, then the denylist — stored verbatim so what an operator downloads is byte-identical to what the row holds. rotate_root mints a new root plus a new client and reissues every agent (bundle_rev +1 each, denylist reset with the generation); the running process keeps the material it loaded at startup, which is the honest restart_required task 04 answers with. Every certificate carries SubjectKeyIdentifier and every leaf an AuthorityKeyIdentifier naming it, non-critical: OpenSSL's strict mode refuses a leaf with no AKI (CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: Missing Authority Key Identifier) and Python's ssl.create_default_context() — the context the dashboard's own https dial builds — turns that mode on. The agent's server-side check is not strict, so nothing on the agent side notices; tests/test_certs.py pins the identifiers instead, and a bundle recorded without them is one a strict client rejects. write_material puts the CA and the client pair in a 0700 temp dir with 0600 files for the dialing — the root key is never written to disk, so its only copy stays the meta row — and the lifespan removes the directory on shutdown. Unreadable PEM, a key that does not match its certificate, or a leaf the stored root did not sign is a fail-closed startup (the ctx.auth rule), and the message is the sqlite3 "<db>" "DELETE FROM meta WHERE key LIKE 'certs.%'" reset. cryptography is this module's dependency and the app's only new one; agent/host_agent.py stays stdlib and loads the PEMs with ssl. There are two reads and the difference is a side effect: ensure_certs is the startup one (it mints what the table is missing, which is why it is what app.build_certs calls and nothing else may), and read_state is the request-time one task 04's GET /api/certs uses — same validation, same fixed-text refusal, never a write, so a page refresh cannot bootstrap an authority the operator deleted. The material is read with (task 03): collectors.agent_tls_map turns AppContext.certs into the per-host dial pair, and because the revocation answer is agent_status() called per poll, a revoke in this module is what stops the dial — no restart, no cache, no second list to keep in sync. There is a third door and it is deliberately outside this module (phase 24): scripts/dev-certs-export.py is the dev loop's exporter — stdlib urllib, signs in through POST /api/auth/login, reads the token out of the Set-Cookie, and downloads each HOST_TARGETS name's bundle into gitignored data/certs/ at 0600. It cannot mint because it imports neither read; it dials the route the /certs page downloads from, which is what makes the exported file byte-identical to the row. scripts/dev-server.sh calls it after the readiness probe and treats a failure as a warning line — the server being up is the thing the probe proved.
• severity.py — the only place thresholds live: THRESHOLDS/INVERTED per metric, classify() → ok/warn/fail/None, plus attach()/with_severity() to put the verdict beside a value. No measurement, no verdict: None in → None out, never a green pass for an unknown. The verdicts travel additively in payloads — cpu.severity, memory.severity, disks.severity, each UPS card's severity (charge/load/runtime), severity inside rated LLM cells (KV pressure, classified on a percent scale because the engines publish a 0-1 ratio), and severity per host/fleet/UPS row in /api/summary. Pages render the class; they never compare a number to a threshold. There is no gpu.* row and no gpus[].severity (phase 06): these are LLM servers, a busy GPU is the job at every level, so the GPU card and the fleet GPU column render uncoloured — like net.*, whose colourlessness predates it. Removing the verdict is not removing the data: gpu.busy_pct@N / gpu.mem_used_pct@N are still stored and charted. The /disks rows (phase 09) are disk.temp_c (50/70) and disk.percentage_used (80/100) — an SSD at 100 % of its rated wear is a replacement, not a warning — attached per row by sources/disks.py; the sector counters and disk.power_on_hours deliberately have no row, because a non-zero counter is an alarm chip on presence and zero is not an achievement (the /llm preemption-chip rule), so classify("disk.reallocated", 1) is None and the page shows a chip instead of a colour.
• alerts.py — build(settings, job_states, host_payloads, engine_payloads, ups_payload, recent_events) → the "what is wrong right now" list /api/summary serves as alerts ({id, severity, source, message, href, at}, fail first then warn, then by source). A pure projection: no I/O, no store, no thresholds of its own — it reads job states for reachability, the severity dicts for breaches, health.checks[] for UPS conditions. Rules: an unconfigured source never alerts (invariant 3); a source that is ok but older than 3× its own poll interval is warn while a source that stopped answering is fail (the interval is the job's own dashboard's, so disks goes amber after 15 quiet minutes rather than 30 seconds); a dead source gets exactly one line (its stale payload adds nothing) that names it once — the poller's "UpstreamError: " wrapper and the duplicated host name are stripped, because a message that says gateway twice reads as two problems, and the same rule silences the disks echo of a dead agent (the disk job dials the same /snapshot, so its failure carries no new information — while a disks job failing while its host answers, SMART wedged inside the handler, is the only voice that fault has); unknown and missing numbers are silence; one alert per (source, metric) and at most 12, the last being a marker that says how many it hid. This is why the overview can be two panels. There is no disk-health rule and none is wanted: a drive the hardware itself called FAILED is a red chip on its /disks card and a line in that page's event feed, not an overview alert — severity.py rates no sector counter and this module may not have a threshold of its own, so grading a drive here would be the bug, not the fix (phase 09). Its HREF table does carry /disks, so the one alert a disk job can raise — SMART failing while its host answers — links to the page that names the drive.
• store.py — sample(source,host,metric,res,ts) + event + meta, rollups, pruning. The meta table is the only durable key/value state in the app and is reached through three named helpers — get_meta/set_meta/delete_meta (the last returns its rowcount, because the password-reset procedure has to be able to say whether a row was there, and one key per call, because a reset that deletes a row it did not name deletes the operator's credential). stats() reads last_maintain through get_meta() too — outside its own lock, which get_meta takes itself and threading.Lock is not reentrant — while maintain()'s write stays inline inside that method's transaction. No per-request path may pay a whole-table scan (phase 14 task 02): series_names() (1.4 s of SCAN sample on a production-sized store, behind /api/metrics) and the two COUNTs behind stats() (1.25 s, run by app.js's /api/health poll on every tab every 15 s) answer from short-TTL caches — 60 s and 30 s, the series list additionally invalidated only by a write that can change it (task 04: an insert cannot remove a name, so _note_series_write() ends the cache on a (source, host, metric) the store has never written and leaves a poll of an existing series alone — invalidating on every sample was task 02's defect, and it put the 572 ms scan back on nearly every /api/metrics call on a store nine pollers write to, behind a cache that never served; delete_series()/maintain() invalidate unconditionally because a DELETE can take a name, delete_series() also forgetting the triples it emptied so a re-created series counts as new again), through a generation counter so a write racing a read cannot park a stale answer under a fresh timestamp, with the name cache bounded to 256 (source, host) keys because /api/metrics takes both as free text and the existence tracking capped at SERIES_TRACKED_SERIES_MAX, below which it falls back to invalidating on every write. A tracking set made wrong by another process deleting rows costs at most one TTL window, which is the reason the cache has a TTL and not only the tracking. last_maintain and size_bytes are never cached: a last_maintain that stops moving is how an operator spots the invariant-4 failure mode, and it costs a three-row lookup. The resolution decision is one compound statement of per-(host, metric, res) branches whose COUNT is capped by LIMIT max_points + 1 — exact, because the decision only ever asks whether a count is 0, ≤ max_points, or neither — and pick_res_many()/history_many() are the batched door the N × M endpoints go through. The rows stay a per-series seek measuredly: a ROW_NUMBER() window or a compound of the 27 tail selects both cost more than 27 index seeks on the seeded store (data/logs/NOTES-store-perf.md records the table), so batching the decision is the fix and batching the fetch would be a round trip traded for work. The write side is windowed too (phase 14 task 03): maintain() reads last_maintain through get_meta() before its transaction (same non-reentrant-lock rule as stats()) and bounds each rollup step to what became due since, instead of averaging every row the resolution retains — 3.97 M rows of 1-minute history per minute, a 5.4 s write transaction that made a poller's add_many outlive busy_timeout=5000 (gap 4's store-error line). Two properties make that a cost bound and not a data change, and both are pinned: the lower bound reaches past the previous pass (one bucket plus slack, so ten quiet minutes are a catch-up scan rather than ten minutes of empty charts), and it is snapped down to a bucket boundary — the step's ceiling is a row bound, so the newest bucket is partial and a later pass re-rolls it as its rows land, and a floor that cut into a bucket would overwrite the fuller average with the mean of its tail rows (2.5 becoming 4.5 on a six-sample minute: rule 2 with a chart's clothes on). A window is only a cost bound if the plan can seek to it, and two things were in the way. The prune keeps its full retention bound — a rollup may window because it only adds rows, a prune must reach anything that expired — but it is one DELETE per resolution, because one WHERE (res=? AND ts<?) OR (res=? AND ts<?) OR (…) is unreadable to the planner and read the whole 6.4 M-row table to delete nothing (554 ms of a 562 ms pass; 0.3 ms per statement now). And the store had no query statistics, so every window was priced as a scan however few rows were inside it: maintain() ends with PRAGMA optimize and __init__ sets automatic_analyze=0, because SQLite's own refresh lands inside whichever poller's commit trips its counter — the exact path this shortens — while a tick a minute costs ~100 ms once and 0.0 ms afterwards. Measured on the seeded store: 5,368 ms → 2.7 ms steady, 48 ms for a ten-minute catch-up, and the two-connection race at the app's cadence goes from 5 of 9 inserts raised to 100 of 100 landing with a 21 ms worst wait. __init__ also sets wal_autocheckpoint (SQLite's own 1 000 pages, written down so the knob is visible) plus journal_size_limit = 64 MB, the cap that truncates a runaway WAL at the next checkpoint. busy_timeout=5000 is unchanged: the fix is a shorter write, not a longer wait.
• api.py — GETs everywhere plus the one POST that dials an upstream, and the auth_router() that creates, describes, re-credentials, and ends a session (POST /api/auth/login public; GET /api/auth/status, POST /api/auth/logout and POST /api/auth/password protected). Those three, and the certs_router() of phase 15 (GET /api/certs, GET /api/certs/<name>/bundle, POST /api/certs/<name>/rotate, POST /api/certs/<name>/revoke, POST /api/certs/root/rotate), touch this process and its meta table and dial nothing — invariant 1 is about the fleet, and tests/test_api.py pins the three lists separately rather than widening the one that names /api/ups/command. The /api/certs surface (phase 15 task 04) is the CA's own admin half. The list reads the stored state through certs.read_state — the request-time twin of ensure_certs, which mints and must only ever be called at startup, because a GET that bootstrapped a root CA would replace the authority nobody asked it to replace — and its rows are the union of HOST_TARGETS and certs.agents, so a configured-but-uninstalled host appears as status: "unissued" with nulls (invariant 3, rule 2) and an entry whose host left the config is listed but not writable. deployed_bundle_rev comes from that host's system payload agent block (task 03's passthrough), never from what the CA hopes. bundle_rev is what was issued; the two numbers side by side are the "install the new bundle" sentence, and neither carries a severity — an expiry and an identity counter are not graded numbers. A <name> outside HOST_TARGETS is refused in the route's first line with 404 {"configured": false} before any signing, dial, or store write (spy-pinned both ways, and the same gate makes GET …/bundle answer {"configured": true, "issued": false} for a host that is configured and has nothing issued — two different facts, two different bodies). The bundle download is the stored row verbatim as application/x-pem-file with an attachment filename, because it is install-agent.sh's input and it carries that host's private key (session-gated, no-store). POST /api/certs/root/rotate answers restart_required: true rather than pretending a hot-swap: the CA and the client pair are startup material, so the table is new at once while the process keeps dialling with the old one. Every write logs one fixed-text certs-source event naming host and action, and serials travel as decimal strings — a 64-bit certificate serial through a JS number is a serial a page cannot match against a bundle's # REVOKED line (invariant 6: no PEM reaches an event, a health record, or any payload but the bundle route's). The login route is where a sign-in password is compared: it throttles before it hashes, refuses an absent/empty/non-object body with 422 so "" never reaches verify_password, answers every failure with the one sentence wrong password, and answers 429 + Retry-After while the per-address backoff runs (the only extra fact it adds, because a wait is something the caller has to act on). After a good sign-in it also upgrades a verifier minted at a lower DASH_PBKDF2_ITERATIONS (auth.needs_rehash), keeping the signing secret — that knob has to actually buy something, and a login is the one moment the plaintext is in hand. A refused upgrade write is swallowed with one fixed-text logging line (this module's only one, carrying no credential: invariant 6) because database is locked on a bookkeeping row must not turn a correct password into no login at all. POST /api/auth/password is task 04: it validates new first (MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH = 8, non-empty once stripped, different from current — length is the whole policy, because composition mandates produce sticky notes), throttles the current password on its own key password:<address>, refuses a wrong one with 403 + a password-denied event, and on the right one calls auth.update_verifier and answers from the new state with a cookie and CSRF token minted from the rotated secret. Building that response from the old ctx.auth is the bug the order exists to prevent: the operator would be signed out by their own form. AppContext carries auth and the one LoginThrottle per process — a throttle built per request is a throttle that never trips. A refused sign-in writes a login-denied event and nothing else, and so do the two password outcomes (password-denied, password-changed): alerts.py turns only kind: "unreachable" into an overview row and every feed filters by source, so /api/events?source=auth is the audit trail and the overview stays about outages (do not "fix" that by hiding the event). Neither fact appears on /api/health — which is public — or /api/config. /api/config is a redaction boundary. /api/disks/* (phase 09) is the drive-health pair: /snapshot answers one entry per configured host with drives to show (disk rows + smart + smartctl_available + per-row severity + a fleet block summed by the API, with a configured-but-never-answered host as an unreachable stub whose counts are None, not 0), and /history serves the disk.*@dev series with unknown names answering as empty series like the other two history endpoints. The configured gate runs before anything that could reach the network — HOST_TARGETS empty is 404 {"configured": false} with no client, no fetch and no disks job in the hub at all (invariant 3), and tests/test_api.py proves it with spies on httpx.AsyncClient.get and collectors.fetch_snapshot. Configured-ness and visibility are two different gates, and only one helper decides the second: api._disk_visible(host) drops a host whose payload's smartctl_available is explicitly False ("no smartmontools, no drives to report" — the VM case) from hosts and therefore from fleet (fleet_disk_summary sums whatever it is handed, so hosts_total is the row count), while True, None and an unreachable stub all stay — an agent that cannot say is not an agent that said no, and a dead agent must not read as "never configured" (invariant 3). The check is is not False, not falsy, and it runs in /api/summary's disks block too, before both the fleet sum and the per-host rows, so the two endpoints cannot list different machines; states still names every disks:<host> job (hidden included, still polling, still ok) and the source, the store and the health records see no change at all — which is also why an overview alert from a hidden host's disks job still names that host (alerts.py reads job states, not this list): hiding a card must never hide a fault (phase 22). The new surface grows no write of its own — a fourth dashboard must not quietly become a second one, so the app's only POST that dials an upstream stays /api/ups/command (invariant 1, pinned by enumerating every served route's verbs and sorting the writes into fleet / session / certificate-authority lists — the third is phase 15's, and it writes meta rows and nothing else). All four history routes reach the store through one door, api._history_batch() → store.history_many() (phase 14 task 02). That is a cost change and nothing else: the series list is host-major and metric-minor in request order, each entry the same {source, host, metric, range_seconds, points} document the per-series loop built, with the same empty-series answer for a name that has no rows. tests/test_api.py pins it for all four routes against points read straight out of the store with query() — a third path, in neither the loop nor the batch — so a future "optimisation" that moves a point, an order, or a key fails a test instead of redrawing a chart wrong. /api/summary is the overview's single call and the cheapest whole-fleet probe there is: the page renders only alerts plus system.fleet/system.hosts, while disks.hosts, llm.engines, ups.ups, the states maps and recent_events stay for programmatic consumers (live tests, an external check, a notifier). system/llm/ups/recent_events are unchanged and alerts (phase 02) and disks (phase 09) are additive — the disks block is fleet_disk_summary verbatim plus one row per host (disks/with_smart/ health_failed/alarm_disks/smartctl_available/failed_devices), so a notifier learns which drive the hardware called FAILED without a second call, and tests/test_api.py pins every one of those key paths, with and without targets configured, so retiring a panel can never shrink the payload. Since phase 22 those rows are the visible hosts — the same _disk_visible predicate /api/disks/snapshot applies, over the same entries, before the fleet sum — so disks.fleet equals /api/disks/snapshot's fleet and a host with no smartmontools is missing from both, while system.hosts still lists it (a missing binary is a fact about the drive page and nothing else) and disks.states still lists its job. A configured job with no payload yet is listed as a stub (unreachable: true, every value null) in system.hosts/llm.engines exactly as /api/system/snapshot does, so hosts_total counts the machines there are and hosts_live the ones answering.
• app.py — assembly, and the session gate (session_gate middleware, invariant 12) whose PUBLIC_PATHS/PUBLIC_PREFIXES are the whole anonymous surface. It answers in this order and the order is the design: no AuthState → 503 for everything; no session and no such route → the router's 404 (a typo is not a sign-in problem, and "sign in required" would otherwise be the only answer anyone outside ever gets for a wrong URL); public → through, except that the origin check still applies to a public write (a cross-site login post spends the throttle of whoever is typing) and GET /login for someone already signed in goes to the dashboard, not back to the form; no session → 303 to /login?next=… for a page and the JSON refusal for everything else; a write → origin, then this session's CSRF token when it arrived on the cookie. _own_origin reads X-Forwarded-Proto for the same reason the cookie's Secure flag does, so behind nginx a real same-origin write is not a cross-site refusal — the bug that only appears in production, which is why it has a test. create_app() takes injectable settings/store so tests build an app with an in-memory DB and no targets. The lifespan builds ctx.auth (auth.load_auth_state) after the context exists and before the first poll, for the owned-store and injected-store branches alike — one call site, because two copies drift — and a RuntimeError from it leaves the process non-zero with the operator's fix in the output. That failure is never caught here: a dashboard that cannot say who its admin is does not start the loops either (__main__.py passes SETTINGS to create_app() explicitly so the served app is configured by the same object the bind address came from). build_certs(store) is the same rule for phase 15: one helper, called before build_hub in the owned-store (build_context) and injected-store (lifespan) branches, whose CertMaterial (the CA + client paths in a private temp dir) hangs off AppContext.certs and whose directory the lifespan's finally removes. What hands that material to the loops is agent_tls_map(material, store, targets) → build_hub(..., tls=...), called in both branches the same way: no material (or no targets) means no TLS map, which is the plain http:///token path rather than an error, and one map covers both of a host's jobs. A corrupt stored certificate raises out of the same place — a dashboard that cannot present its own client certificate would otherwise spend the fleet's TLS history reporting an upstream problem it caused itself. build_hub also builds two RateEstimators, because a window is only a claim about the polls that fill it (phase 23, TODO.md:8's "ramp up/ramp down"): the host jobs get RateEstimator(span=settings.rate_window) (10 s — what a 10 s cadence can fill) and the llm jobs RateEstimator(span=settings.llm_interval) (2 s, one poll interval, so a slot that starts reads steady on the next poll instead of climbing one fifth of the true rate per poll), and there is no third knob — the LLM window is LLM_INTERVAL_SECONDS, which is the only way the pair cannot drift. One estimator for both could only be right about one of them: a 2 s span over a 10 s poll sits the window-empty fallback against the 2 × span ceiling and answers n/a every poll, and a 10 s span over a 2 s poll smooths the work the operator is watching. The estimator's own gates (the MIN_WINDOW_SECONDS floor, the ceiling, the 8× jump confirmation with its independent anchor) are unchanged and apply to the smaller window, whose Δ2.0s label the payload carries with the value.
• web/ — five dashboard pages (/, /system, /disks, /llm, /ups) plus the login page (/login, pages/login.html + static/page-login.js), one stylesheet, charts.js. No framework. /login renders the masthead's brand link and theme toggle and nothing else from it: no tabs (every tab bounces straight back here, and a nav of links that all redirect is a lie about what is available), no status dots and no clock (there is nothing signed in for them to say). It posts through Dash.fetchJSON like every other script, which is only safe because bounceToLogin() does nothing when the browser is already on LOGIN_PATH — without that guard a 401 would reload the form instead of printing Wrong password., and the page that exists to end a bounce loop would be one. So the form branches on err.status: 401 is the inline sentence plus field.select() (fixing a typo without retyping is the whole UX here), 429 shows the server's detail and counts down its Retry-After with the button disabled until the wait is over — fetchJSON therefore carries response.headers on the Error it throws, because a wait this page made up would be an invented number (rule 2) — and anything else prints the server's detail verbatim. Every refusal goes out through textContent, never innerHTML: this is the one page a stranger reaches first. Its own copy of auth.safe_next guards the one redirect followed on client strength (already-signed-in ?next=), and Dash.ensureAuth() up front stops a flash of the form for a browser that is already in. The login page is audited for orphan ids and CDN references too (tests/test_auth_api.py), fetched unsigned because a signed-in GET /login is a 303 and would audit /'s markup under the wrong name. /settings (pages/settings.html + static/page-settings.js) is a page and not a sixth dashboard: same <head> and masthead, the five tabs with no aria-current (it is not one of them), the same four #nav-status badges as every dashboard (phase 25 task 01 — TODO.md:3's "hosts disks engines UPS disappear when in the certs/account page" was the missing container, and Dash.initChrome() fills it from /api/health with no JS change), and it is reached from the ⚙ Account link in .masthead-right of every dashboard including itself — outside .tabs, so the pinned tab structure is untouched (tests/test_api.py::test_every_page_links_to_both_admin_pages). It prints /api/auth/status (name, expiry as a local timestamp and as time left), signs out through POST /api/auth/logout, and changes the password through POST /api/auth/password after checking locally what it can judge itself (non-empty current, ≥ 8 new characters — tests/test_api.py pins that number against api.MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH so the two cannot drift — new matching confirm), printing 403/422/429 through textContent as the server words them, then re-reads the status so the panel cannot show a session the rotation ended. Its static sub-line is the precedence rule (env seed → stored verifier wins → reset by deleting auth.verifier), because that sentence is what stops the "I edited the env file and nothing happened" call. So app.js exports resetAuth(): it clears the memoised authStatus and its in-flight promise, and must be called after a password change (the secret rotated, so the cached csrf is now invalid — every later write, the UPS buttons included, 403s until a reload) and on any 401 bounce. /certs (pages/certs.html + static/page-certs.js) is the second of those admin pages, and it is the same shape for the same reasons: five tabs with no aria-current, the four fleet badges in #nav-status like every other masthead (phase 25 task 01, same reasoning as /settings above), and both masthead links — ⚷ Certs beside ⚙ Account — exactly as the five dashboards render them. Both links are on both admin pages (phase 20 task 04, TODO.md:4), which retires phase 15's "no self-link" precedent: chrome that changes shape depending on where you already are reads as a broken button, while a link to the page you are on is a no-op that answers with the page you were looking at (data/logs/20-task04-admin-links.cjs measures exactly that — one document response, no redirect, the same cluster afterwards). The two links therefore sit on all seven signed-in pages (the five dashboards plus /settings and /certs) in one order (⚷ Certs → ⚙ Account → theme toggle → clock — phase 25 task 03 moved the clock to the end so it is the farthest-right item on a flex-end row), which is what lets the pinned audit be one loop over MARKUP_PAGES instead of two over different tuples; /login is the eighth page and the one with neither. Everything on it is GET /api/certs: the Root CA block, the display-only Dashboard client line (that certificate is minted with the root and has no route of its own), and one row per host with its status chip, serial, expiry (local timestamp and Dash.duration left), issued-vs-deployed bundle_rev, san list, and the three controls. Two rules it exists to keep. (1) No colour the API did not send: /api/certs publishes no severity — an expiry is a date and a revision count is not a graded number — so the page has no severity token at all, the one chip class map is status word → ok|fail with unissued mapping to nothing (a certificate that does not exist never borrows green), and a behind bundle is a neutral stale chip. (2) No control the API would refuse: a row with configured: false prints why (not in HOST_TARGETS) instead of three buttons that all answer 404, a never-issued host has no Revoke and no bundle link (that route answers issued: false), and the download is a plain GET link because a session cookie is all a signed GET needs. Writes are confirm()d, not typed-DANGERd — that gate is for cutting power and this page cannot — and the outcome line prints the route's own hint, so restart_required's restart sentence lives in api.py and nowhere else. Its COLUMNS table names every payload key it indexes, and tests/test_api.py resolves that table against a live GET /api/certs row in both directions (the SLOT_FIELDS device), so a rename on either side fails a test instead of printing n/a beside a healthy fleet. The two CNs are markup, and pinned to certs.ROOT_CN/certs.CLIENT_CN the way /settings pins its password floor. The agents table is table.data.scroll — the repo's one scroll mechanism (TODO.md:9: at phone width the serial / bundle / san / controls tail was clipped by .card { overflow: hidden } with no way to reach it), and the class on the served table and the served table.data.scroll rule are pinned together in tests/test_api.py, because the mechanism exists only while both name it (measured at 360 px and 1280 px by data/logs/21-task03-scroll.cjs). app.js's masthead status dots are one per dashboard job — including disks, because the same agent can answer the 10-second utilisation poll and have a wedged SMART pass, and one dot for both would be right about neither. app.js owns the colour vocabulary: Dash.severityFrom(cellOrSeverity) turns a payload verdict into an ok|warn|fail class ('' for anything unrated, so unknown never looks green) and Dash.hero(el, {label, value, unit, digits, severity, sub, bar}) renders/patches a .hero big number (plus an optional .bar) from that class — it never compares a number to a threshold. Dash.severityFor(value, warnAt, failAt) is the documented fallback for values the API does not rate, and no page script calls it any more — / was converted in phase 02, /system in phase 03, /llm in phase 04, /ups in phase 05 and /disks shipped that way from its first commit, so every colour on all five pages comes from a severity verdict the API sent (tests/test_api.py fails if a page script names it again). A value the API should rate gets a row in severity.py, never a bound in JS. The masthead is three rows at every width, the two control rows flush right (phase 20 task 01 made the rows, TODO.md:5-6; phase 25 task 02 re-justified them, TODO.md:4 — "I made a mistake earlier, I did want hosts disks engines UPS badges and certs/account/dark right justified"): row 1 the brand, #nav-toggle and the five tabs; row 2 the #nav-status per-source dots; row 3 the .masthead-right controls (⚷ Certs, ⚙ Account, theme, then the clock — phase 25 task 03 moved the clock last for TODO.md:5's "the time should show up as the farthest right item"; phase 21 task 01 deleted the ⏸ Pause that used to sit beside the links, button, Space shortcut and setPaused/_paused plumbing alike: it froze the numbers on screen without growing a stale label, and a backgrounded tab already idles its polls, which is the only stop this app needs). That was CSS and no markup change, which decides the mechanism: #nav-status is a child of .masthead-right, so there is no wrapper to promote, and the rows are line breaks — .masthead is flex-wrap: wrap, and both #nav-status and .masthead-right carry flex-basis: 100% with justify-content: flex-end (line breaking uses a flex item's base size, before shrink, so a 100 % item is alone on its line: the div's break starts row 2 of the bar and the dots' starts row 2 inside it, leaving the controls to wrap to row 3). .masthead-right lost the margin-inline-start: auto that pinned the cluster to the right edge of the one-row bar. flex-direction: column was the other option the task allowed and is the wrong one: it puts the brand and the tabs on separate rows. height: var(--header-h) became min-height (three rows do not fit in 58 px and a fixed height clips the controls) and is declared once — the ≤640px block no longer restates height/min-height/flex-wrap, and that pair drifting is exactly what would clip the bar on a phone only. Every page that renders the bar now renders three rows — /certs and /settings grew the dots row in phase 25 task 01, where #nav-status is pinned as the first child of .masthead-right on all seven signed-in pages (app.js is untouched: the container's existence is what makes initChrome build the four badges, which is why the fix was markup and not JS) — and /login remains the one page with no dots, rendering two rows (brand, then the theme toggle). Pinned on the served bytes by phase 20's three tests in tests/test_api.py — the row declarations (task 02 renamed that one to test_the_masthead_is_three_rows_right_justified_at_every_width), the mobile block's silence about the bar's height, and the bar's position — and measured in a browser at 1280 px and 360 px by data/logs/20-task01-rows.cjs (seven pages × two widths plus the dropdown; screenshots data/logs/masthead-rows*.png). Phase 25 task 02 moved the alignment of those two rows to the other edge (TODO.md:4 — "I made a mistake earlier, I did want hosts disks engines UPS badges and certs/account/dark right justified"): the two justify-content declarations are flex-end, margin-inline-start is still absent from the cluster (a full-basis row aligned by flex-end is the mechanism, not the old single-row right-pinning), and the ≤640px block still restates neither the alignment nor the bar's height, so the phone's wrapped control row follows the base rule. The pin is tests/test_api.py::test_the_masthead_is_three_rows_right_justified_at_every_width (the row-break assertions are the same ones phase 20 wrote, deliberately: the re-justify must not cost the rows), and the measured half is data/logs/25-task02-justify.cjs — seven pages × two widths, each demanding both rows compute flex-end and sit flush with the bar's right padding edge, the four badges present, three rows intact, the dropdown still under the whole bar and no sideways scroll, plus /login's two-row bar with no badges (data/logs/25-task02-justify.out, screenshots data/logs/25-task02-*.png). Phase 25 task 03 then put the clock at the end of the control row (TODO.md:5 — "The time should show up as the farthest right item on the navbar"): the <span class="clock" id="clock"> moved from the first control to the last one on all seven templates, so the row reads ⚷ Certs → ⚙ Account → theme toggle → clock. It is a markup move and deliberately not a CSS order: declaration, because on a flex-end row the last child is the farthest-right item and an order: override would be something the served-byte pin cannot see — test_every_page_links_to_both_admin_pages therefore asserts html.index('id="clock"') > html.index('id="theme-toggle"') on every page (the two Certs/Account-before-theme assertions stay, and the /login half of the test is untouched). The clock keeps its long-standing @media (max-width: 900px) { .clock { display: none } } hide: it is a readout and not a control, so this is not the "no control is hidden to make the width work" rule the masthead keeps. Measured by data/logs/25-task03-verify.cjs — seven pages × two widths, each demanding three rows, both right-hand rows flush with the bar's right padding edge and the chips' content (not the full-basis row box) measured to prove it is not flush left, the clock the rightmost painted thing on the bar at 1280 px, the cluster's source order unchanged at 360 px where the clock is hidden, and the four badges populated on /certs and /settings as on the dashboards; plus the 360 px dropdown and /login unsigned at both widths (data/logs/25-task03-verify.out, screenshots data/logs/masthead-25-*.png). The bar is not sticky (phase 20 task 02, TODO.md:10 — "It shouldn't be sticky at all. We want to maximize the amount of screen space for data viewing"): position: sticky; top: 0 became position: relative with no offset, so the whole masthead scrolls away with the page and the phone's "sticky only part way down" quirk — the fixed-height sticky bar fighting the wrapped rows — went with it. relative rather than the default static because .masthead is still the positioned ancestor the ≤640px dropdown's top: 100% resolves against (a static bar moves the menu to the top of the document), and z-index: 40 stays so the menu's 41 still means one above the bar; the consequence is that the open menu scrolls with the bar, which is what an unpinned bar means. The only position: sticky left in the sheet is a table's own thead, inside its own scroll container, and this task is not it. Proven by data/logs/20-task02-unsticky.cjs (seven pages scrolled at 1280 px and 360 px — with a squeezed-height leg for the pages that fit a tall viewport — plus the 360 px dropdown still landing directly under the bar and still hanging off it after a scroll; screenshots data/logs/masthead-unsticky*.png). Note that a browser cannot tell relative from relative; top: 0 — Chrome computes top: 0px for either — so the absence of the offset is a served-CSS pin, not a measurement. The tab nav collapses into a hamburger at ≤640px (phase 18): the seven tabbed pages each carry #nav-toggle (class="ghost nav-toggle", type="button", aria-controls="nav-tabs", aria-label="Toggle navigation", ☰) between .brand and <nav class="tabs" id="nav-tabs">, and /login carries neither — it renders the brand link and the theme toggle only. Its base rule is #nav-toggle { display: var(--nav-toggle-display) } with --nav-toggle-display: none in :root, and that token is a specificity ladder, not decoration: the button also carries button.ghost { display: inline-flex }, so a .nav-toggle { display: none } loses and ships a visible button into the desktop masthead. The @media (max-width: 640px) block reveals it through the token, hides nav.tabs, and tightens the bar's row-gap plus the cluster's gap (the cluster still wraps inside its own row — hiding a control to make the width work is not the deal) and pads the bar down by env(safe-area-inset-top, 0px) (the block's padding-block value restated on the top side so the two cannot drift), because a real device's top-edge zone — Android Chrome is edge-to-edge by default, and iOS does the same once the page opts into viewport-fit=cover — does not deliver taps to the page: the first-row button in it is unreachable, not unbound, and no headless emulation has such a zone, so a fully green emulated pass still ships a dead button (the same symptom brain of reese fixed in production; env() resolves to 0 on every non-notch surface, which render byte-identical, and the dropdown's top: 100% follows the taller bar); it renders the dropdown as the nav element itself — since phase 20 task 03 that element is one box in two states: nav.tabs carries the geometry (position: absolute; top: 100%; z-index: 41) under the whole bar — three rows since task 01, which is the intended look: a menu below the masthead, not wedged between its rows — and the closed state (visibility: hidden; opacity: 0; transform: translateY(-8px); pointer-events: none), while nav.tabs.is-open flips only those four properties to their visible counterparts. That shape is what the slide needs, not a stylistic choice: the block used to close the menu with display: none, and a box that is not rendered has no intermediate state, so the 180 ms opacity/transform transition the operator asked for (TODO.md:11, "a slide out and slide back in", after brain_of_reese's .app-nav) could never have run. visibility is delayed by exactly the slide on the closed rule (so the box fades out before leaving the tree) and undelayed on .is-open (or the menu would be invisible for the first 180 ms of its own opening); visibility: hidden + pointer-events: none keep the closed menu out of the a11y tree, out of the tab order and unhittable, exactly as display: none did, and the closed state costs no scroll area (measured). With no second menu element, no body marker class, no colour outside the tokens and no JS change at all, both states are named in the file's one @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) block — naming only the closed one would leave the higher-specificity open transition animating (brain of reese's phase-46 lesson). One binding in app.js's initChrome() owns the state through a setNavMenu(open) funnel (.is-open on the nav and aria-expanded on the button, always together) with four close paths: the button again, a tab click delegated on the nav, Esc with focus returned to the button, and matchMedia turning false on resize back above the breakpoint — which drops a stale .is-open so the next shrink starts closed and aria-expanded never claims a menu that is not on screen. The if (navToggle && appNav) guard is the whole /login story: the shared script loads there and does nothing. The 640px literal lives in two files — the stylesheet block and that media query — and has to move in both, or the menu opens into a hidden nav. The contract is pinned on the served bytes by three tests/test_api.py pins — the button on all seven pages and nowhere on /login, and one test that compares the CSS media query with the JS matchMedia instead of grepping for 640px twice, so a drift fails with both numbers in the message — and proven in a browser at 360px by data/logs/nav-task04-verify.cjs (the / + /system interaction, 24 checks) and data/logs/nav-final-pass.cjs (the phase-completion sweep: all seven tabbed pages at 360px and at 1280px, /login at both, 45 checks — its desktop leg now expects the three-row bar's height, not the old fixed 58 px, and still demands inline tabs, no button and a dropped .is-open). Phase 20 task 03 adds three served-CSS pins (the closed state's visibility/opacity/transform/pointer-events and its delayed-visibility transition, the open state's visible counterparts with the delay dropped, and the both-states reduced-motion rule inside the file's only such block) plus the guard that no display: none comes back to that block, and the browser half is data/logs/20-task03-slide.cjs (the computed closed state, a mid-transition frame at ≈60 ms in both directions, the four close paths with aria-expanded, the snap under emulated prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, the untouched desktop tabs and the no-phantom-scroll measurement; screenshots data/logs/slide-*.png). The safe-area line is pinned in the same test's rule loop; it was verified on the operator's mobile Chrome rather than in an emulator, because CDP's safeAreaInsets override does not feed env(safe-area-inset-top) — the one half of this contract a headless pass cannot prove.

Metric naming: dotted (cpu.usage_pct, mem.used_pct, disk.used_pct@/srv, gpu.busy_pct@0, llm.decode_tokens_per_second, ups.charge_pct), @stream for per-device series — /api/metrics answers with exactly these names. The sample.source column is the dashboard family — host, llm, ups, and disks for the SMART series (disk.temp_c@nvme0n1, disk.power_on_hours@…, disk.reallocated@…, disk.pending@…, disk.uncorrectable@…, disk.percentage_used@…). Those keep their own family instead of sitting beside host's disk.used_pct@/mount because the cadences differ thirty-fold and GET /api/metrics?source=disks has to answer "what does this page have history for". That scheme is the history API's key — treat it as a public interface.

The fleet (real environment, verified 2026-10)

Host	ssh alias	What it gives
driveripper	driveripper-ops	Threadripper 24c/48t + Radeon AI PRO R9700, vLLM :8000, upsd, the dashboards
deskwork	deskwork-ops	Strix Halo (Radeon 8060S iGPU), gufo :8731
gateway	gateway-ops	router, no GPU

• Transport is direct dial: dev is the prod topology, repo-wide (phase 10 task 05). The designed shape is one dashboards-agent systemd service per host, installed by ops through the deploy/agent-sudoers grant with deploy/install-agent.sh, bound to the address the dashboard dials — since phase 24 registered with a certificate bundle (--fetch-bundle, so its HOST_TARGETS URL is https:// and carries no userinfo); what was once the token in the URL is the compatibility path for a host nobody has bundled. driveripper's upsd serves the LAN on 3051 with the host and laptop ranges allowed by the firewall, never by a upsd.conf line. The old ssh-tunnel script is deleted and neither .env.dev nor .env.dev.example declares a forwarded port — dev dials the same addresses the deployed dashboard does, and scripts/capture-fixtures.sh reads HOST_TARGETS from .env.dev instead of naming hosts of its own (tests/test_deploy_scripts.py fails the day any tunnel name or port returns). Fleet transport, re-verified from the laptop on 2026-10-19. The port-selective inter-VLAN drop phase 10 recorded on the lab gateway 10.2.0.1 is gone: gateway (10.1.1.27:9120) and deskwork (10.1.0.51:9120) both take a plain TCP connect and answer /snapshot, and driveripper's upsd answers LIST UPS on 10.1.0.126:3051 from this same laptop. All three hosts now run the installed service — systemctl is-active dashboards-agent is active on each, with /usr/local/lib/dashboards-agent/host_agent.py and a --token-file unit bound to the address the dashboard dials. driveripper joined during phase 13 on 2026-10-19, in two operator steps. It went from no agent at all (unit inactive, nothing listening → ConnectionRefused, an unreachable stub row) to active with /usr/local/lib/dashboards-agent/host_agent.py installed at 13:27, and then its bearer token went into HOST_TARGETS' URL userinfo — so host:driveripper and disks:driveripper are ok and the live suite is 11 passed / 0 failed (it was 9/2 on the missing token that morning, and 8/3 on the ConnectError before that). The unit reads --host 10.1.0.126 --port 9120 --token-file /etc/dashboards-agent.token (640 root:dashboards-agent, the mode deploy/install-agent.sh writes) and is still in the disk group (getent group disk → disk:x:6:dashboards-agent) — but it does not run as that user: gap 10's hand-fix set User=root, and re-read from the host on 2026-10-20 the installed unit is User=root + CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN with no device filter. Those two extra lines are now template output, and the unit's rewrite is no longer silent: phase 17 took the DevicePolicy/DeviceAllow lines out of the template (task 01), gave it --as-root and --caps (task 02), and made a re-run whose generated unit differs from the installed one print the diff and exit 1 unless --force was passed (task 03), so sudo deploy/install-agent.sh --bind 10.1.0.126 --port 9120 --as-root --caps CAP_SYS_RAWIO,CAP_SYS_ADMIN --force reproduces it and a re-run that would quietly replace a hand-fixed unit is now a refusal with a diff attached rather than a clobber (gap 10). /api/health today reads all nine sources ok: host:driveripper, host:deskwork, host:gateway, disks:driveripper, disks:deskwork, disks:gateway, nut, llm:gufo, llm:vllm. The fleet is mTLS since 2026-10-21 (phase 24 task 03), so the bearer-token transport is now history rather than the designed shape. All three hosts run agent/host_agent.py 1.1.0 from an installed bundle, every unit carries --cert-bundle /etc/dashboards-agent.certs (plus RuntimeDirectory=dashboards-agent, and still its --token-file line), and HOST_TARGETS is "driveripper=https://10.1.0.126:9120 deskwork=https://10.1.0.51:9120 gateway=https://10.1.1.27:9120" — no http:// entry and no userinfo anywhere: the certificate is the credential (the pre-flip .env.dev is backed up in data/env-backup/). agent.tls: true + agent.bundle_rev: 2 in every payload, deployed_bundle_rev == bundle_rev for all three on /certs, and ./scripts/dev-server.sh status reads the nine sources ok. The per-host order was the safety: install agent 1.1.0 + bundle → systemctl restart → the CA-only --status probe answers → then that host's URL flips, so no source was red longer than its own host's restart. data/logs/NOTES-24-rollout.md is the transcript (sha256 of what was staged where, the unit diffs the re-run guard printed, the before/after SMART tables, the screenshots). Two facts in it are load-bearing for the next host: the fetch needed an SSH reverse tunnel (no monitored host can route back to a dev box, so ssh -R 18099:127.0.0.1:8090 <host> + --fetch-bundle http://127.0.0.1:18099 is how registration reaches the dashboard), and --status takes its address from --bind, so run bare it dials 127.0.0.1 and reports "no answer" about a healthy host. Rolling a host back is not just the URL: a TLS-mode agent serves https only, so the --cert-bundle line and /etc/dashboards-agent.certs both have to go with it. And the fleet now trusts this dashboard's CA — a second deployment with its own certs.* rows cannot dial these agents until it carries the same authority or re-issues and re-installs every bundle. Phase 10's proof that the old drop was not this repo's firewall stands as history in data/logs/NOTES-verify.md — do not re-add a tunnel on the strength of it, and re-run the probe rather than trusting either note. The per-host record and the exact root commands are in data/logs/NOTES-agent-install.md (its firewall lines are the phase-10 state, not today's), how far the NUT wire reaches from each network is in data/logs/NOTES-upsd-acl.md, and the end-to-end direct-dial verification (health table, no-tunnel-port proof, live-suite tally, screenshots, and the probes that put the block on the lab gateway's port allow-list rather than in this app) is in data/logs/NOTES-verify.md, and the phase-11 login verification (the curl refusal codes, the six screenshots, the two meta keys the database actually holds, and the operator's deployment-repo actions) is in data/logs/NOTES-auth.md. Those notes are local evidence, not tracked files: data/ is gitignored (invariant 10's data/logs/*.png included), so a fresh clone has the conclusions in the prose above and the captures live on the box that ran them — re-run the probe rather than trusting either.
• Engines are reached directly: gufo deskwork.reeselink.com:8731, vLLM driveripper.reeselink.com:8000.
• NUT 2.8.5 on driveripper: configs live in /etc/ups/, not /etc/nut/, and upsd is on port 3051, not 3493. Nothing listens on 3493 at all, so a default client reports Connection refused and it looks like a dead service — ss -ltnH plus printf 'LIST UPS\n' | nc 127.0.0.1 3051 (answers BEGIN LIST UPS) is how that was pinned down. NUT 2.8 has no ACL directive (this Fedora build is --without-wrap; upsd logs ACL in upsd.conf is no longer supported - switch to LISTEN once per line and then ignores it), so per-source restriction is a firewall rule and never an upsd.conf line — and 2.8 does not refuse non-local clients the way older docs suggest: LISTEN 0.0.0.0 3051 + LISTEN :: 3051 with 3051/tcp in the FedoraServer zone answers any client routed to it (reads are unauthenticated; SET/INSTCMD still need an upsd.users account). The host range 10.1.0.0/21 reaches it, and since 2026-10-19 so does the laptop: a raw LIST UPS to 10.1.0.126:3051 from the dev box answers BEGIN LIST UPS, which is why nut reads ok in ./scripts/dev-server.sh status with two real UPSes and no NUT_SIMULATE. Phase 10 recorded 10.2.0.1 dropping 3051/3493 for this laptop; that is history now, and the probes behind both statements are in data/logs/NOTES-upsd-acl.md. Two UPSes are exported over USB and dialled directly as NUT_HOST + NUT_PORT=3051, and that reads live from every vantage the dashboard has ever used — the host itself, the deployed dashboard, and since 2026-10-19 the laptop (/ups shows both boxes at 100 % charge, OL, with no SIMULATED badge anywhere): apc = APC Back-UPS RS 1500MS, cyberpower = CyberPower PR1500LCDRT2U (that is ups.description, the operator's label — the driver's own identity.model answers GX1500U, so the description is what identifies the box). Real-hardware quirks the parsers already handle: battery.mfr.date is the useful date (battery.date is often an unset placeholder — 2001/09/25, slashes and all, on the APC), CyberPower reports battery.mfr.date: CPS (not a date → unknown, never a fake age), neither driver reports a battery temperature or the NUT 2.8 battery.charger.status (so the battery glyph's state has to come from on_battery, and charger_status must stay optional), and ups.test.result is where the two boxes disagree: the APC still answers the factory No test initiated while the CyberPower answers Done and passed (a test has run on it since the phase-05 capture; both words re-read from the wire on 2026-10-19 and pinned as LIVE_SELF_TEST_WORDS in tests/test_nut.py, which fails if the fixture and the capture ever drift). Both UPSes are recorded verbatim (LIST UPS/LIST VAR/LIST CMD, serials scrubbed) as tests/fixtures/nut_<ups>.vars by ./scripts/capture-fixtures.sh, and the wire quotes a field only when it must — VAR apc ups.status "OL", not three quoted fields.
• Host access is via ssh keys as ops, and passwordless sudo is different on every host — that is what decides how much of the fleet an install can finish unattended. gateway grants (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL, which is why its agent installed in phase 10 with no deploy/agent-sudoers line present; driveripper grants a command-scoped set (smartctl, upsc, udevadm, the /etc/ups reads, and the tee /etc/ups/upsd.users|upsd.conf + systemctl restart|reload nut-server pair documented in deploy/nut-sudoers); deskwork grants an unrelated set (btrfs scrub, snapper, setfacl /srv/*, osbuild-auto.sh). Neither deskwork nor driveripper grants visudo, so a sudoers change is the operator's action. deskwork and driveripper both grant the installer — (root) NOPASSWD: /home/ops/agent-install/deploy/install-agent.sh — and both also grant (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl restart *. The earlier record here said deskwork's ops had no installer grant and that its install went through the operator's root; that is out of date — sudo -n -l on 2026-10-21 lists the grant, and phase 24 task 03 installed deskwork's bundle as ops. The grant names a path, and until phase 24 that path held an Oct-18 snapshot of the script which carried neither the later flags, nor the filter removal, nor the re-run guard — running it would have replaced driveripper's User=root
  • CapabilityBoundingSet unit with the snapshot's capability-less one, silently. That trap is now closed on all three hosts: /home/ops/agent-install/ is ops-owned, so the repo's deploy/install-agent.sh (sha256 ffbcd91f…) and agent/host_agent.py (1.1.0) were staged over it without root, and each snapshot was left beside the grant as install-agent.sh.oct18-backup, which sudo will not run. Re-staging is therefore the first step of any install, not an optional one — the grant is only as current as the file it points at. The systemctl restart * grant on those two hosts is the other half of an unattended install: a bundle changes the unit, and the unit only takes effect on a restart that systemctl enable --now will not perform. The template now writes the live unit's shape: no device filter at all (phase 17 task 01 — systemd's default auto, with PrivateDevices=false) and --as-root plus --caps CAP_SYS_RAWIO,CAP_SYS_ADMIN for the User=root and CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN lines (task 02). The old allow-list's missing nodes are no longer a concern for the next install: with no filter, /dev/ng*n* and /dev/bsg/* are reachable the same way /dev/nvme* and /dev/sd* are, subject to DAC and SELinux.
• SMART: real captures, and one live host finally reads them. smartctl 7.5 is installed on deskwork and driveripper. The ops account (which is who runs a hand-started dev agent) is in no disk group, driveripper grants it (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/smartctl* and deskwork grants nothing, and host_agent.py shells the binary as itself — it never calls sudo — so an agent run as ops still answers Permission denied (exit 2) and reports smart: null. What changed by 2026-10-19 is that deskwork's installed service runs as dashboards-agent, which is in the disk group (getent group disk → disk:dashboards-agent) on an agent installed after the SMART pass: /disks shows real numbers there — smartctl_available: true, nvme0n1 healthy at 55 °C that day — amber, past disk.temp_c's 50 °C threshold, and a plain 48 °C ok on the 2026-10-20 re-read — 19 166 power-on hours (an odometer, so that figure is a capture date, not a fact about the drive), 11 % of rated wear — so the wear bar and the alarm chips are drawn from live hardware, not only fixtures. gateway answers smartctl_available: false (no smartmontools in its VM: the install it half of the three-way flag — and, since phase 22, the arm that keeps it off the /disks page entirely, so /api/disks/snapshot there lists deskwork + driveripper and fleet.hosts_total is 2 while host:gateway/disks:gateway both stay ok — re-verified live read-only on 2026-10-21, where the two cards still draw their pre-phase numbers (deskwork nvme0n1 48 °C / 19 201 h / 11 %, driveripper 16 drives with the nvme5n1 13 uncorrectable chip, / unchanged at three fleet rows; data/logs/NOTES-22-disks-live.md), and driveripper is the fourth case the flag was built for: smartctl_available: true with almost no numbers. Its agent answers (16 whole-disk rows, nvme0n1…nvme7n1 + sda…sdh) and smart is non-null for the 8 NVMes, but every one of them carries only identity — health, temp_c, power_on_hours, percentage_used and the counters are all null — while the 8 spinning drives come back smart: null each with the agent's own line smart: sda: Try an additional '-d ata' or '-d sat' argument. Pinned on 2026-10-19 with read-only probes (data/logs/NOTES-driveripper-agent.md): the disk-group open of the block nodes works (agent user, O_RDWR), there is no SELinux denier (zero AVCs with auditd running), and the install's DevicePolicy=strict/DeviceAllow lines were removed from the unit (they matched nothing useful anyway — systemd resolves DeviceAllow globs by name against /proc/devices, where this kernel lists NVMe as blkext, so nvme* matches nothing). What locks the agent out is kernel 7.2's unprivileged passthrough gate: NVMe admin via the block node is unprivileged-only for five identify types; the SMART-log read needs the drive's ACEL to mark it supported (the Samsung 980 PRO's 2020-era 5B2QGXA7 does not — NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Permission denied) or CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and SATA SMART behind a SAT layer is ATA pass-through, which the unprivileged SG_IO allow-list (scsi_cmd_allowed(): read-safe opcodes only) does not include — explicit -d sat/-d ata fails identically, so no host_agent.smart() retry form can reach it. deskwork reads live with the same user/unit because its drive's firmware does advertise the page. So /disks shows driveripper's drive inventory with n/a values and a why-line — the designed degradation, resolved the same day (gap 10): the unit now runs User=root with CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and all 16 drives read live (the 980 PRO's 59 °C / 6328 h / 14 % row, nvme1n1 at 58 % wear, the red 13 uncorrectable alarm chip on nvme5n1; verified in data/logs/disks-driveripper-live.png). A root process with an empty capability bounding set is still capability-less (CapEff: 0) because the kernel gates check capabilities, not uid — the named bounding set is what unblocked it. Real data is in the repo now: tests/fixtures/smartctl_driveripper_<dev>.txt is all 16 drives (8 NVMe, 8 spinning) read through that sudo rule, and tests/test_agent.py parses every one — which is what found the parser's one real bug: this binary annotates the attribute table's RAW_VALUE column (35 (Min/Max 34/44) on every Seagate, and one Western Digital writes its hours as 43894h+43m+32.519s), so reading the end of the row lost the temperature of all eight HDDs and one power-on count. The captures are also the first honest look at this fleet's drives: nvme5n1 reports 13 media-and-data-integrity errors and nvme1n1 is at 58 % of its rated wear, so the alarm chip and the amber wear bar on /disks are real features with real data behind them, not demo furniture. Lighting up the rest of it was the same two operator actions that travel together — install the agent on driveripper, and give its agent user device read access: the disk group (sudo usermod -aG disk <agent-user>, which is what deploy/install-agent.sh does on install), not a sudo rule, because the agent must read the device itself — on an agent/host_agent.py from phase 09 or later (never redeploy without the grant: 16 permission-denied lines would age nothing but are pure noise, while with the grant they are 16 drives' worth of temperature, hours and sector counters). The agent and the disk group are both in place on driveripper — the disk group alone is not enough on kernel 7.2 (the passthrough gate, see above), so the unit additionally runs as root with the two gate capabilities bounded (gap 10) — all 16 drives now read live. gateway needs smartmontools first and will still read no SMART after that, being a VM with no physical disk behind vda — and it is the host phase 22's visibility gate exists for: its smartctl_available: false means /disks draws no gateway card at all and /api/disks/snapshot lists two hosts, not three — while its disks:gateway job still polls, still reads ok, and its transitions still reach that page's drive-events feed, because the gate hides a host row and not the job's history. That is a different designed degradation from a host that cannot read its drives for any other reason (a denied device, --no-smart, an agent predating the pass): that one keeps its dimmed cards, every number n/a, and the one-line why — no host here is in that None arm today (all three agents post-date the SMART pass), so the arm that stays visible is proven by tests/test_api.py's pins and by nothing on the fleet. tests/fixtures/smartctl_reference_*.txt stay as what they are: reference shapes (labels verbatim from the deployed binary, values synthetic), kept beside the real captures so the synthetic edge cases stay pinned. Re-record the real ones with SMART_HOSTS="driveripper-ops" ./scripts/capture-fixtures.sh: it tries plain smartctl first (so a fixture can never read healthier than the agent does), falls back to sudo -n, refuses to overwrite good fixtures with unreadable output, and scrubs Serial/WWN/EUI-64 (test_smartctl_captures_carry_no_unscrubbed_serials fails the day it stops).

Commands

uv sync --python 3.14                     # deps + editable install
cp .env.example .env                      # production-shaped config (DASH_ADMIN_PASSWORD seeds
                                          # the login on the first boot of a database — with no
                                          # seed and no stored verifier the server exits non-zero)
cp .env.dev.example .env.dev              # dev-only: the real hosts (this fleet's URLs are
                                          # `https://` with no userinfo — the bundle is the cred)

set -a; . ./.env.dev; set +a              # dev dials the fleet the prod way, no tunnels
./scripts/dev-server.sh restart           # keep http://127.0.0.1:8090 up; sign in with the
                                          # DASH_ADMIN_PASSWORD from .env.dev (`testpass`), then
                                          # export every issued HOST_TARGETS bundle to data/certs/
./scripts/dev-server.sh status            # per-source ok/DOWN — unauthenticated: /api/health
./scripts/dev-server.sh bundles           # what that export left: names, sizes, modes
./scripts/dev-server.sh logs

uv run python scripts/dev-certs-export.py --url http://127.0.0.1:8090 \
        --password "$DASH_ADMIN_PASSWORD" --names <the HOST_TARGETS names>
                                          # the export on its own (phase 24): reads
                                          # GET /api/certs/<name>/bundle and writes
                                          # data/certs/<name>.bundle at 0600 — mints nothing

uv run pytest                             # hermetic: 1543 passed + 15 skipped (11 live,
                                          # 4 store_perf), no network
uv run pytest --cov                       # coverage gate (98.94%; floor 94%)
uv run pytest -m live --live              # opt-in: real fleet / engines / upsd
uv run pytest -m store_perf --store-perf  # opt-in: the store hot-path timings over the seeded
                                          # store, priced against `store_perf.BUDGETS` (the cached
                                          # reads report cold *and* warm, so a before/after never
                                          # books a cache hit as a speed-up)
uv run python scripts/watch-store-perf.py
                                          # ... and the live proof: 25 signed-in minutes against the
                                          # running dev server, timing the page paths while counting
                                          # `store-error` rows and the WAL size (DASH_WATCH_SECONDS
                                          # shortens it; writes store-perf-watch.{log,tsv,json})
uv run python scripts/watch-llm-window.py
                                          # ... and the phase-23 proof: signed-in reads of
                                          # /api/llm/snapshot at the app's own cadence, judging every
                                          # slot start/end against "settled within two polls", the
                                          # Δ<window> labels and the 1 m rollups — read-only, it
                                          # starts no workload (DASH_LLM_WATCH_SECONDS shortens it;
                                          # DASH_LLM_WATCH_REPLAY=<tsv> re-derives the verdict from a
                                          # captured pass over the same samples, sending nothing)
uv run python scripts/store_perf_probe.py # ... as a report (data/logs/store-perf-baseline.{md,json},
                                          # then store-perf-task03.* for the write side and
                                          # store-perf-task04.* for the budget table);
                                          # --rebuild re-seeds, --dev-db <file> also times a real
                                          # store read-only, DASH_PERF_STORE_DIR moves the cache, and
                                          # every pass that *writes* runs on a scratch copy so the
                                          # seeded baseline never moves under the next measurement
# the bundle for one host: the stored bytes (that host's private key included) and
# `install-agent.sh --cert-bundle`'s only input — signed-in GET, see README's rollout
#   curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $SESSION" -o /tmp/agent-<host>.bundle \
#        http://127.0.0.1:8090/api/certs/<host>/bundle
uv run ruff check src tests agent && uv run pyright
./scripts/capture-fixtures.sh             # re-record ground truth (agents + UPS + gufo /slots)
SMART_HOSTS="deskwork-ops driveripper-ops" ./scripts/capture-fixtures.sh
                                          # ... plus smartctl per physical disk (needs device read
                                          # access: plain smartctl, else `sudo -n`; scrubs serials)

bash .agents/validate.sh                  # the phase gate: the four checks above (pytest
                                          # --cov --cov-fail-under=94, ruff, pyright, plus a
                                          # node --check of web/static) + repo hygiene.
                                          # Always `uv run` — a bare `python3`/`ruff` on PATH
                                          # tests an interpreter nobody deploys.

Deployment: Containerfile (two-stage, uv sync --frozen, runs as uid 10001 on 0.0.0.0:8090, SQLite under /var/lib/dashboards — put a volume there) and deploy/install-agent.sh per monitored host (systemd unit, own user, --bind/--port/--token/--rotate-token/ --cert-bundle/--fetch-bundle/--cert-name/--session/--as-root/--caps/--force/ --status/--uninstall; it stores the token 0640 root:dashboards-agent — the unit hands the agent the path and the agent opens it as its own user, so that user must be able to read it and no other account may, and a --cert-bundle file is installed to /etc/dashboards-agent.certs at that same mode after a shape check that runs before anything is touched (with a local file this script dials nothing; the fetched path is the one dial, below), so 0600 would fail the unit exactly like it fails the token file; the task file's 0600 is the intent — root and the agent's own user only — and 0640 is the mode that achieves it) — never puts a token on argv, and runs under ProtectSystem=strict with no device filter — SMART device access is DAC via the disk group + SELinux, because kernel 7.2 matches a device-filter glob by name against /proc/devices (where NVMe is blkext), so the old allow-list denied the whole namespace; PrivateDevices=false stays explicit because a private /dev with no device list kills the unit at spawn (status=208/STDIN). Where DAC is not enough, --as-root writes User=root and --caps CAP1,CAP2 writes that CapabilityBoundingSet line (space-separated, as systemd spells it): kernel 7.2's unprivileged-passthrough gate checks capabilities rather than uid, so --as-root alone is capability-less (CapEff 0) and prints a note saying so, while --caps without --as-root is refused with exit 1 before need_root and before any write. Both default off, and neither touches the token file's mode or the --status probe. A bundle-installed unit also gets --cert-bundle plus RuntimeDirectory=dashboards-agent (mode 0700 — the bundle unpacks its PEM blocks there and the agent deletes the key once the SSL context holds it), keeps the --token-file line for a host-by-host rollout, and --status then probes https on the bundle's CA with no client certificate via a python3 ssl one-liner — task 02's CERT_OPTIONAL + /health exemption is what makes that probeable, and there is no external TLS binary. A re-run without the flag leaves an installed bundle in place, and --uninstall removes it with the token — and neither is guarded, because both are deliberate. Registration can fetch that bundle (phase 24 task 02): --fetch-bundle <dashboard url> --cert-name <HOST_TARGETS name> --session <signed-in token> dials GET /api/certs/<name>/bundle with python3 urllib (no curl assumption on a monitored host) in the install run and hands the bytes to that same --cert-bundle path, so the shape check, the 0640 install, the unit's TLS lines and the --status probe behave identically for a fetched and a downloaded bundle. The three flags are all-or-nothing, are refused together with a local --cert-bundle and with --status/--uninstall, and the fetch plus the shape check run before need_root: a 401, an unissued name, a proxy's 200-with-HTML or a dashboard that never answers is one line naming the status and no partial install. The session is a fetch credential only — it travels to python in the environment (argv is world-readable through ps, which is why the agent's token is a file), is unset as soon as the bytes are in hand, appears in no written artefact and not even in the sudoers hint's re-quoted command, and the fetched temp file is removed by an EXIT trap on every path. What is guarded is the unit itself (phase 17 task 03): it is rendered to a temp file first, and if an installed $UNIT differs the run prints refusing to overwrite … plus the diff -u on stdout and exits 1 before the unit write, the daemon-reload and the enable, so a redeploy cannot undo a hand-fix and an identical re-run stays the silent zero-noise path. --force prints the same diff and applies it — which is what the TLS rollout's --cert-bundle step needs on a token-mode host, because that step is a unit change. What it applies is the file: systemctl enable --now only starts a unit, so a run that rewrote ExecStart leaves the already-running agent on its old settings until systemctl restart dashboards-agent — and --status chooses http from https by reading the unit file, so probing before that restart reports "no answer" for a change that landed correctly (the rollout in README restarts for exactly this reason). It takes its address from the flags rather than the unit, so a bare --status probes 127.0.0.1:9120 and answers "no answer" about an agent bound to a LAN address that is healthy — always pass the same --bind/--port the install did. No root shell? The one sudoers line that lets ops run the installer is deploy/agent-sudoers; run the script without root and it prints that line with its own resolved path.) The quadlet unit + env template + nginx/SNI live in the deployment repo, like every other service here. The source itself is git@git.reeseapps.com:services/dashboards.git (origin, branch main); there is no CI on it, so bash .agents/validate.sh is the only gate.

Testing policy

Real captures for shape, fakes for behaviour, live for drift.

• Anything that must match an upstream — /proc layouts, vLLM series names, NUT framing — is asserted against a verbatim capture in tests/fixtures/. If the schema drifts, a fixture test fails before a dashboard does. smartctl_driveripper_<dev>.txt is the whole 16-drive fleet read through a smartctl sudo rule (Serial/WWN/EUI-64 scrubbed), and test_the_real_drives_answer_every_number_the_disks_page_prints asserts every number /disks prints comes out of real drive output — that test is what caught the parser reading the end of an attribute row instead of its annotated RAW_VALUE column.
• Anything that needs a failure mode — upsd refusing a command, an engine 500ing, a host rebooting mid-poll, a counter reset — is a fake in tests/conftest.py.
• A verdict the operator sees is pinned on the surface that shows it, in both directions. tests/test_nut.py grades the word; tests/test_api.py's self_test_app harness holds the nut job's own payload (its collector is swapped, so a poll cannot overwrite what the test mutated) and rewrites the Last self-test check in the object /api/ups/snapshot serves: a pass (Done and passed) and a never-tested pack produce no /api/summary alert row, a fail produces exactly one fail row per UPS linking to /ups. The two directions ship together on purpose — an absence-only assertion is satisfied by deleting the check, which is not the fix the report asked for (phase 12). The same file pins that the /ups check list needs no markup for a new verdict: <li class="${check.status}"> plus ul.checks li.<verdict> .mark in dash.css is the whole render path, and no page asset or stylesheet rule names one check (a second opinion about the driver's word is the bug).
• A measurement window is pinned from both sources, through one contract module (phase 23). tests/rate_window_contract.py names the two Δ windows (HOST_WINDOW = RATE_WINDOW_SECONDS, LLM_WINDOW = LLM_INTERVAL_SECONDS), the delta_label() rounding the pages use to print Δ2.0s / Δ10.0s, and assert_window() — the estimator's own bounds (MIN_WINDOW_SECONDS up to 2 × span, because a span equal to the cadence means the base comes from the window-empty fallback and a real window is the poll gap: 2.009-2.026 s live on /llm) plus the printed label, so raising a cadence knob moves the window and the pin together instead of rotting it. Four files read it: test_api.py spies the estimator object each source's jobs receive and pins that /api/config's LLM window is the LLM's own span; test_llm_source.py walks both throughput cells of both engines at 2 s and re-runs the phase-13 floor refusal through the production parse path at that span; test_host_source.py keeps the host payload's window_seconds at 10 s and shows the same 10 s cadence starved to n/a by a 2 s span (why one estimator cannot serve both); test_rates.py runs the floor, the 2 × span ceiling and the 8× jump gate at both spans, because those are properties of the estimator and not of the window size. A pin naming one source's window is what this prevents — the two payloads are the same shape and only the number differs, so half the pin is how a quiet regression would look.
• Page payloads that a rewrite must not break are pinned as a table. tests/card_contract.py holds the dotted /api/system/snapshot paths the /system hero cards read (CARD_METRICS, GPU_METRICS, HOST_SHAPES); tests/test_system_contract.py asserts it against the three captures (discrete GPU, APU, no GPU) and over HTTP, and test_every_host_serves_the_hero_card_contract asserts the same table against the live agents — so a rename fails a test, and a card that shows n/a cannot be "fixed" by inventing a field. network carries no severity on purpose (throughput has no good/bad) and neither does a GPU row (phase 06: a busy GPU is the job on an LLM server) — the contract pins both absences. tests/ups_contract.py is the same device for the /ups hero row and battery glyph (HERO_FIELDS, UPS_SHAPES, assert_ups_hero_contract): tests/test_ups_contract.py drives it from tests/fixtures/nut_<ups>.vars — verbatim LIST UPS/LIST VAR/LIST CMD replies from the two real UPSes — and test_ups_hero_fields_are_present_on_the_real_batteries drives it against live upsd. The captures are what make the driver disagreements testable: one of them answers battery.mfr.date: CPS, neither exports battery.temperature or battery.charger.status. tests/slots_contract.py is the same device for gufo's /slots rows, which the /llm slot grid (phase 07) reads (assert_slot_shape, required/optional field tables, duplicate slot ids, the next_token[0] entries): hermetically from tests/fixtures/slots_gufo.json — the verbatim /slots reply, idle slots and all, captured whenever GUFO_BASE_URL is set — and live via test_gufo_slots_answer_the_pinned_shape. That fixture exists because its absence is how the deleted slot table rendered dashes forever: its field names (slot.state, slot.n_prompt, slot.decode_per_second) were a memory of an upstream, not a capture. The contract names one canonical key per fact and the grid renders that one: the capture answers id_task and task_id for the same request, so CANONICAL_TASK_ID_FIELD decides and the alias is captured but rendered by nothing — a rename fails a test instead of becoming a silent a ?? b chain in the page. tests/test_api.py reads the served SLOT_FIELDS table and resolves every key it names against the capture, in both directions. A busy slot's prompt is the user's in-flight request text, so the capture script blanks it and the page never reads it.
• live (tests/test_live_fleet.py) re-runs the production code paths against the real fleet, engines, and upsd. Skipped unless --live; each test skips when its source is unset, so partial fleet availability is normal. Live tests must not write — a battery test on hardware something is plugged into is not a test. An https:// agent is dialled with the stored authority, through fetch_snapshot and never a hand-rolled client.get (phase 24 task 03). The module-scoped agent_tls fixture reads the certs.* rows out of the same SQLite file the app uses — through a read-only sqlite3 URI whose set_meta/delete_meta raise, because "live tests do not write" includes not minting or repairing an authority from a test — and hands collectors.agent_tls_map the material certs.write_material laid down, exactly as app.build_hub does. The failure this removes is the misleading kind: a raw get against a healthy mTLS agent dies with CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: self-signed certificate in certificate chain, which reads like a dead host and is really a test that forgot to present a certificate. No store file, or no authority in it, skips — the same partial-environment rule as an unreachable host.
• The agent's real-/proc test (tests/test_agent.py) touches only the box running pytest, so it stays in the default run and is not marked live.
• tests/auth_contract.py is why the HTTP suite can start a server at all: every app in a test is seeded with admin_password="testpass" (the local-testing password — a server with no stored verifier and no seed refuses to start, so an app under test needs a credential exactly like a deployment does) and hashed at pbkdf2_iterations=1000, because the real 600 000 costs ~0.3 s per client and the suite starts a hundred-odd of them. The real figure stays pinned in test_auth.py and test_config.py, so the cheap cost here cannot become the default there.
• The perimeter is its own file, and it is paranoid in two specific ways. tests/auth_client.py::sign_in(client) is the one way a test gets a session: it posts testpass, asserts the sign-in worked (so a suite cannot silently start from a 401 and fail three lines later on something that looks like an unrelated bug), and puts the returned CSRF token on the client's default headers — which is what let the ~200 pre-existing HTTP assertions in tests/test_api.py stay untouched, asserting UPS behaviour rather than the new gate. tests/test_auth_api.py then runs the gate through a real ASGI request with follow_redirects=False on every anonymous call: TestClient follows redirects by default, so an unsigned GET /api/config would fetch the login page and report 200 — the way a gated suite ends up passing while testing nothing. Two of its tests are the ones to keep if you keep none: test_every_route_that_is_not_public_requires_a_session walks the served route table (walk_routes flattens pages, include_router wrappers and the /static mount, and raises on anything it does not recognise, so the audit cannot silently shrink) and demands 401/303 for every path outside PUBLIC_PATHS, GET and POST — the test that protects the next phase rather than this one; and the UPS pair prove the CSRF refusal on the wire (a scripted nut.NutClient records nothing for a tokenless write and does record it once the header is there, and driver.killpower still needs DANGER behind the session), because 403 after instcmd would be a power cut with an error message attached.
• The setup surface has its own pins, because prose rots quietly. tests/test_auth_docs.py reads the artefacts an operator actually holds when a dashboard will not come up: both tracked env templates (every DASH_* auth setting declared; every secret-shaped assignment a placeholder — the same allow-list .agents/validate.sh 2b uses, so uv run pytest catches a committed password on the working tree and not only in the gate; the local-testing word allowed in prose and forbidden as a value), scripts/dev-server.sh (its probe and its status ride /api/health, no dash_session//api/auth//Authorization: anywhere, the password named but never assigned), and README.md/AGENTS.md (the Signing in section before Configuration, the four public entries, the reset DELETE FROM meta … command verbatim, the four config rows, the DASH_COOKIE_SECURE=1 deployment note, the three auth gaps). No server starts and no request is made: a doc that stops naming the reset command is a locked-out admin, and that is worth a test even though it asserts nothing about Python.
• A module that holds a private key is pinned structurally, not only behaviourally (phase 15). tests/test_certs.py reads src/dashboards/certs.py as text and fails if it grows a logging import, a raise carrying an interpolated value, or an import from the rest of the package — the same three pins tests/test_auth.py holds over auth.py — because this app turns log lines and error strings into event rows and /api/health fields that a browser reads, and a stored PEM is a key. Its behavioural half runs the whole lifecycle over a dict MetaStore (five rows on first boot, no byte changed on the second, rotate/revoke/root-rotate and their denylists, a bundle that carries the agent key and never the root key), and one test completes a real client-certificate handshake through the material write_material lays down. The other two halves run real code rather than a model: tests/test_agent.py drives the real host_agent handler over a TLS-wrapped loopback port (the handshake matrix, the live denylist re-read, token mode unchanged) and tests/test_deploy_scripts.py runs install-agent.sh in a sandbox whose install/chown are faked, which is how a 0640 mode, a byte-identical bundle and the https --status probe are proven without a root shell or a host. A 0600 in a task file is not a fact about this repo: the agent opens its own bundle and re-reads it for the denylist, so the group bit is load-bearing.
• A bundle source is validated once, whichever source it is (phase 24 task 02). The installer's --fetch-bundle is tested through the same served_dashboard socket as the export, because the claim is the same claim: the file a host installs is the route's bytes. The pins that go with it are the ones a second install path would break — byte-identical 0640 install with the unit's TLS lines; issued: false, a 401 and a 200-with-HTML each refused with their own sentence, no stub call logged and no file written (the stub log is the proof the refusal came before the root boundary); a temp TMPDIR left empty on the success path and on every refusal path, including the one where the shape check is what stopped the run; the three flags all-or-nothing and refused beside a local --cert-bundle, beside --status/--uninstall; and one label-aware validator, pinned by demanding that the local path still reads --cert-bundle … and never names the flag that was not used.
• A script that is an HTTP client is tested over a real socket (phase 24). The dev bundle exporter is run as a subprocess against a real create_app(...) served by uvicorn on 127.0.0.1:0 in a thread, not through TestClient: what has to be proven is that it signs in through the public route, reads the session token back out of a Set-Cookie header, and sends it as Authorization: Bearer — none of which a transport-level test client has to serialise. The pins that go with it are the ones that keep the artifact honest: the file byte-identical to the route's bytes, 0600 (including the re-chmod of a file somebody loosened), no file and one note for issued: false and for configured: false, exit 2 with nothing written for a refused sign-in, no mint (the serials, revisions and root are the same after the run), and no PEM, token or password in the output. The dev-server composition is pinned on the served text too — export after the readiness probe, failure as || echo and no return 1 — because "it runs later, and never fails start" is the part a refactor loses.
• A live measurement is re-derivable, so a verdict can be re-checked without re-watching (phase 23). scripts/watch-llm-window.py writes the series it judged (value, the Δ<window> the payload carried, the engine's own busy count, the raw token counter) beside its verdict, and DASH_LLM_WATCH_REPLAY=<tsv> re-computes that verdict from the file with no traffic sent. The pass line is read on the same samples re-diffed over the estimator's own span and on the published value, because the phase-13 jump gate can legitimately hold a correct number for a poll — judging only the published column would call a designed hold a ramp.
• A cost claim is pinned as a shape and a control, never as a wall clock (phase 14). The default run keeps the seeded-store tests hermetic and asserts shape and determinism — counts, retention windows, the statements a plan is taken from, idempotence — while the timings live behind -m store_perf --store-perf and in scripts/store_perf_probe.py, because a budget asserted on first writing is a number fitted to the machine it was written on. Two rules came out of it. (1) A cheaper query is proven equal, not just faster: test_windowed_rollups_answer_exactly_what_one_full_window_rollup_answers compares every stored row of a windowed store against a second store rolled the old way, and test_a_re_rolled_bucket_only_ever_gains_rows pins the one bug that equivalence alone misses (a window floor that cuts into a bucket re-rolls it from its tail rows). (2) A race that comes back clean has to be shown capable of going dirty: store_perf runs the pre-fix whole-window maintain() as a control beside the windowed one and tests/test_store.py fails if the control stops contending, because "0 database is locked" from a race that never met is the invariant-4 failure mode with a green checkmark attached. (3) A budget is a table, not a test body (task 04): the 14 ceilings live in store_perf.BUDGETS with the measured figure and the margin in each row's basis, the probe renders that table, and two default-run tests fail if a budget stops being priced or a ceiling contradicts its own ratio partner — a ceiling nobody measures is a comment. (4) A cache's cost claim needs the write cadence in the measurement: task 02's series cache reported 0.0 ms on a quiet seeded store and served almost nothing on a live one, because every sample write invalidated it. The pinned version is statement-counting, not timing — a poll of existing series issues no SELECT, a write of a name nobody wrote ends the cache — and the live version is scripts/watch-store-perf.py, which is where the defect showed up.
• Coverage gate: 80% is the repo floor, the phase gate in .agents/validate.sh enforces 94% (--cov-fail-under), and ~98% is where we are; keep it there. New/modified Python still has to clear >90% on its own. API tests use create_app() with an in-memory DB, never a real target, and never a real upstream: /api/ups/command's send is proven against a scripted nut.NutClient (ScriptedNutClient in tests/test_api.py) because the live suite is read-only — that fake is the only place the write reaches a "driver".

UI conventions

Hand-rolled SVG (charts.js), one stylesheet, dark/light toggle, Δ<window> labels on measured rates, n/a for the unknown, SIMULATED badges on modelled data, per-source status dots in the header. Every chart names itself for assistive tech: pages pass ariaLabel to LineChart, which puts role="img" + aria-label on the <svg> (an unlabelled plot is silence, and the legend is a sibling that labels nothing). Every LineChart on every page has one — /system's three per-host slots, /disks's two per-host plots, /llm's four trend plots, /ups's four battery plots — each pinned by tests/test_api.py, so a chart that ships anonymous fails a test. Window chips (5m…30d on /system and /llm, 1h…90d on /ups and /disks; the API accepts 5m…90d — SMART lands every 300 s, so a 5-minute window on /disks is one dot). A panel that cannot get data says why in the panel — the operator should never have to open devtools to learn that a source is unconfigured. Escape anything upstream-provided through DashCharts.escapeHtml.

Flavour text is not helpful information. A page does not narrate its own data pipeline or its own design; copy exists only where the operator needs it to act — a why-this-panel-is-empty sentence, a provenance tag, a measured Δ<window> label, a chart's unit, a SIMULATED badge, an error that names what failed. The audit is one question per string: would the operator act differently without it? No → delete it, container and all. Deleted in phase 08 (the cited examples, from TODO.md:7): "every number is scraped from the box it belongs to · null renders as n/a" (/'s footer), "agent-reported values; rates are measured over the Δ window in the footer, and each panel's charts cover only that host" (/system's Per host sub-line), and the same genre — /system's "numbers are measured, not inferred", /llm's "each throughput number carries its provenance", /ups's "commands are the only write path in this app", each event feed's content caption (the empty-state sentence already says it), and the design clauses inside empty-state prose. What survived the audit did so because it is a measurement or a why: every Δ<window> footnote, provenance() on each rate, fleet.seams, sums only engines answering now, the queued-request note under the slot grid, the SIMULATED banners, and the setup instructions in every empty state. tests/test_api.py pins the deleted sentences absent from every served page and script (a sentence that migrates to another page is the same slop), the kept functional strings present, and that no removed sub-line left an empty .sub/.faint container behind.

The overview is exactly two panels — Warnings & errors (ul.alerts, one row per /api/summary alert: verdict class, source linked to its dashboard via the alert's own href, message, age) and Fleet. A non-empty list floats the alerts panel above the fleet table (#overview-panels[data-state] swaps them); an empty one is an explicit "all clear" state below it, because an empty list is a message, not a blank box. A host that is not answering keeps its row, dimmed with the shared .stale class and reading n/a, so the table never implies last good numbers are live and never silently loses a machine. No summary cards and no raw event feed survive on / — tests/test_api.py pins the two-panel shape against the served HTML.

Nothing waits for a writer that never came: tests/test_api.py fails if a page keeps an id that no page script, no shared script, no stylesheet rule and no aria-*/for attribute references — the orphan a deleted renderer leaves behind, caught on served bytes because there is no JS test runner (a locked anchor). Same rule for dash.css: delete the rules a removed panel made dead (.grid.wide went with the overview's fleet+events row); component vocabulary the pages are still being converted to (.hero-bar, the grid and bar variants) stays even while only one page uses it.

A big number is Dash.hero() on .hero / .hero-bar (dash.css): 2.4rem tabular numerals, muted unit, mono .sub footnote (Δ2.0s on /llm's rates since phase 23, "at the current load" on /ups), coloured by the payload's severity through the existing .ok / .warn / .fail classes — there is no .sev-* family and no second palette, and tests/test_api.py fails if either appears or if a CSS rule reaches for a token that :root does not declare.

The /disks card is one panel per physical drive, led by identity and verdict, not by a hero (phase 09): a drive has no one-number story the way a UPS has charge %, so the card opens with the device path (/dev/nvme0n1) and the drive's own word (OK / FAILED / unknown, a .chip coloured only by severity.health — an unreadable drive gets grey unknown, never a green pass), then the identity line (model · size · SSD|HDD, nothing invented where a field is absent) and three equal .metric cells: Temp, Power-on, Wear. Colour comes from severity.temp_c / severity.percentage_used and nowhere else; power_on_hours is an odometer, written with a null verdict, so it cannot read green at 100 h or red at 60 000 h. The sector counters are .chip.fail alarm chips that exist only while non-zero (the /llm preemption rule, and why severity.py rates no counter): a drive at zero draws no chip row at all, because a permanent "0 pending sectors" line trains the eye to ignore it and a green one would call a quiet drive an achievement. Per host the three-way smartctl_available decides one .banner.info why-line and nothing else — null prints the agent's own smart_errors line or names both fixes without claiming to know which half is missing, and an agent that is not answering says that instead — and in either case the drive grid takes the shared .stale dim while the host card stays uncoloured (invariant 3: unreadable drives are unconfigured, not broken, and a red panel here would train the operator to ignore red on the drives that do report). The false arm — the agent said smartctl is not installed — no longer reaches the page at all: api._disk_visible drops that host from /api/disks/snapshot, from the fleet sums and from /api/summary's disks rows (phase 22), because a card whose only content is install smartmontools and grant the disk group is not a host on a drive page; whyLine()'s false sentence stays as the renderer for a payload that says it, so relaxing the gate later cannot turn those hosts into silent blank cards. Nothing on the page is per partition or per mount: the rows are the agent's whole-/sys/block list, and a filesystem field naming its way into page-disks.js fails a test. The fleet header renders fleet_disk_summary() — hidden below two hosts (one box's sums duplicate its own cards) and coloured nowhere, because a count of drives is not a graded number — and the per-host Charts disclosure follows /system exactly: collapsed, lazy-built, one /api/disks/history request per host per refresh naming disk.temp_c@dev and disk.percentage_used@dev for every drive (the endpoint answers unknown names as empty series on purpose), the wear plot created only once some drive publishes the field, legends naming drives because the card heading already says who, and pruneHosts taking the cards, the toggle and the plots off the page together.

A cell-scale trend is DashCharts.sparkline() — the llm_monitor drawSpark idiom, so a percent metric is plotted against fixedMax (never autoscaled: an 8 % KV window that once held a 92 % spike must not read flat, and the axis gets top/bottom scale marks so "a third of the way up" says a third of what). align: 'right' pins the newest sample right and grows the line leftwards inside a real span in seconds — x stays time, not sample index. Stroke colour comes from the payload severity via the --ok/--warn/--fail tokens only; an unrated series draws a faint --text-faint stroke with no fill, because a shape is not a verdict. Below minPoints (2) it prints no history rather than drawing a confident line through one point, labels: {current, max} renders the now / max foot through the caller's format, and there is no animation at all (prefers-reduced-motion holds by construction). minSpan is the other half of the same honesty for count metrics: history arrives as rollups, so eight seconds of one queued request averages to 0.14 and an axis fitted to that draws a full-height spike for a queue nobody was in. /llm's count rows moved to the phase-07 stats strip (numbers, not sparks), so no page passes minSpan today and drawSparks() still plumbs it through — a count sparkline that comes back must set it, and the component's own contract test keeps the option honest (test_sparkline_ships_the_fixed_scale_and_verdict_options).

A battery is DashCharts.battery(container, {charge, severity, state, label}) — one inline SVG whose fill is the charge: 1 viewBox unit per percent, clamped to 0–100 and never rounded up (a 2 % cell must look nearly empty, because a reassuring battery above a flat one is a lie), clipped to the plate so 0 % leaves an empty shell rather than a stray pixel. Colour comes only from the payload severity token; a measured charge with no verdict draws faint grey at half strength (sparkline's rule — a shape is not a verdict) and never an empty shell ("0 %" and "not rated" are different sentences). Every state has a shape as well as a colour, so the glyph survives monochrome: solid shell online, bolt charging, dashed outline onbattery, no fill with a dash pattern through the body unknown; a state word it does not know degrades to unknown, never to a confident "on line". Accessible by default — role="img" + <title> + aria-label built from the inputs ("apc: Charge 100 percent, on line"), because the glyph carries information the markup does not say in words — and a page that prints that sentence next to it passes decorative: true to make the <svg> aria-hidden rather than say it twice. No animation and no ResizeObserver: one viewBox + preserveAspectRatio scaled by .battery in dash.css, so the hero row gets a big cell on a desktop and a small one on a phone.

The /ups card is led by the glyph and three heroes (phase 05): the battery on the left, then Charge %, Load % and Runtime left on .heroes at the shared 2.4rem, coloured from severity.charge_pct / severity.load_pct / severity.battery_runtime and nothing else. Charge carries no .bar — the glyph beside it is that value drawn as a shape, and one value drawn twice in one row is the pattern this app avoids (Load keeps its bar; nothing else draws it). Its .sub lines are the context each number needs and nothing more: 24 V nominal · 27.3 V for the pack, 128 W of 900 W when the driver publishes both realpower figures (a wattage inferred from a percent against another model's rating would be an invented number), at the current load for runtime. Runtime prose is runtimeText()'s (1h 32m, 10m 21s) and an estimate the driver never made goes into Dash.hero() as null, so it prints faint and uncoloured rather than as 0m. The readings the hero row displaced — line in, output, battery volts and amps, battery °C — stay on the card, demoted to .ups-electrical: muted, .95rem, never folded away, because they are what you reach for while the UPS is on battery, and battery °C reads n/a on both real drivers here. state is derived in the page from on_battery → charger_status (chg charges; dchg/rec are the server's own on-battery tokens; full is on line, not charging — a rested floating battery reports it) with one fallback: a state chip the API rated ok, because nut.states() reserves ok for on-line/fully-charged and neither real driver here publishes battery.charger.status at all. ups.status itself is never re-parsed in JS (tests/test_ups_contract.py). /ups passes decorative: true, because the charge hero and the state chips already say the sentence. The glyph repaints only when charge / verdict / state change (drawGlyph() keys a data-drawn triple): the charge float jitters every NUT_INTERVAL_SECONDS, and rebuilding the <svg> on that re-announces an accessible name for a difference no eye can see.

An event row names its subject once. Every feed (/system, /disks, /llm, /ups) renders the message through Dash.eventText(event), which drops the UpstreamError: wrapper and a leading duplicated subject the way alerts._clean_error() does for the overview — poller.py messages start with their own label, and each row already prints that label as a chip, so "gufo gufo is answering again" reads as two problems. A name in the middle of a message stays: the UPS rows used to replace() it anywhere and mangled "Quick battery test sent to apc: OK". This is presentation only — the stored event and /api/events keep every word, and the raw error string still surfaces in /api/health.

An event feed is a window, not a printout (Dash.eventsPager(el, events, opts) in app.js, one helper with four call sites (/system, /disks, /llm, /ups) — a pager that works on one page is the bug this shape prevents). ul.events is a bounded 320px scroll container (overscroll-behavior: contain) and the pager puts EVENT_PAGE_SIZE = 50 events in it, with a .events-pager strip under the list: 1–50 of 200 between ‹ prev and next ›, both aria-labelled for direction (the feed is newest-first, so prev walks towards now) and disabled at the ends. The strip is hidden when the feed fits on one page — every row on screen is the whole story, and a disabled arrow says "more history" when there is none. Each page keeps its own row(event) (so /ups keeps its longer timestamp and runtime footnote, and escaping stays the page's job — the pager has no default renderer and says so in a row when a caller forgets one) and its own empty sentence, so the loading… and empty states read exactly as they did before paging existed. Two numbers are load-bearing and pinned together: the fetch (EVENT_FEED_LIMIT = 200, /api/events?limit=…) must exceed one page, because a limit at or below EVENT_PAGE_SIZE is a pager that silently never appears; /api/events itself is unchanged — no page/limit vocabulary grew for one page's layout. Paging state lives in a WeakMap keyed by the <ul>: it survives a poll (so page 3 is still there two seconds later — resetting every refresh would make page 2 unreadable) and resets to page 1 when the event set changes (an operator reading page 3 of yesterday's history must not land on page 3 of a list that just changed). Rows are re-written only when their markup changed, which is what keeps the reader's scroll position inside the container. The /ups feed is also expandable (phase 19, TODO.md:4): its card body is a details.events-box disclosure with no open attribute, so that card is one Power events summary line until the operator opens it — a closed <details> renders no content, which is /system's Charts rule applied to a feed, and the #events id stays inside the disclosure so the pager and its bounded scroll keep their target (pinned on the served bytes). The disclosure is also what makes it lazy: refresh() fetches the feed only while state.events.open is true, so a card nobody is looking at costs the poll loop nothing (a hidden-but-still-polled list is the half-measure this is). The first expand fetches; a re-expand paints the rows already in the <ul> while they are younger than one poll interval (state.pollMs, the page's own cadence) and re-fetches only past it — a <details> keeps its children, so a fresh re-open costs no request and loses neither the pager's page nor the reader's scroll. painted/fetchedAt are stamped on the success path alone, which is the invariant-4 shape here: a failed fetch leaves the rows on screen, leaves the stamp where it was, and the next open re-fetches. Its styling is details.charts-box's shape with one structural difference: that toggle sits inside a card body, while this <summary> replaces the card's header — so it carries the header's type, padding, sunken ground and bottom rule (a closed card reads as its heading, an open one puts the feed under the same rule every other card draws) and no margin-bottom when open, because the .body below carries that spacing. That is also why details.events-box > .body restates the .8rem: .card > .body is a child selector, so a body moved inside a disclosure stops being padded until something says so — while ul.events and .events-pager are class-based and needed no new rule to keep the 320px scroll and the 1–50 of N strip working inside it.

The /system host card is one row of six hero slots — CPU, MEM, TEMP, DISK, GPU, NET (the .heroes grid; tests/test_api.py pins the slots and their order on the served script). Colour comes from the payload's severity dicts and nowhere else, and a missing number or verdict prints n/a uncoloured — gateway's CPU temp, a driver with no temperature input, a rate with no second sample yet. What a machine does not have is a different fact and prints nothing at all: the GPU slot ships hidden and renderGpuSlot() un-hides it only for a host whose payload carries a card, so gateway's card is five heroes with no GPU slot in the row (TODO.md:12 — "Boxes without a GPU should not report N/A but instead should omit these values"), and the sheet's [hidden] { display: none !important } is what takes the wrapper out of the grid so the row reflows instead of leaving a wide gap. The two rules are one sentence each in the page and one test each; collapsing them into "any missing thing is n/a" is what made a router look broken over the GPU it never had (invariant 3). NET is one slot with two lines (.hero-lines, ↓ in / ↑ out) and is deliberately colourless: throughput has no good/bad, so network carries no severity.

The GPU slot is one busy hero per card plus four labelled values under it — Model (mono, gpus[].model), VRAM (used / total), Pool (mem_used_pct, the honest APU view a Strix Halo needs because its model lives in GTT) and Temp (gpus[].temp_c — the agent's max over that card's hwmon labels, the same value stored as gpu.temp_c@N, so the cell and the history cannot disagree; the per-label breakdown stays in "More detail"). They replaced one ·-joined 11px .sub — TODO.md:12: "Radeon 8060S Graphics · VRAM 180.2 MiB / 512.0 MiB · pool 79% · 69 °C is too much info for such small text and should be its own values" — and they are .metric cells in a .gpu-values grid, so a 20-character model string wraps instead of truncating. The four cells come from one GPU_VALUE_FIELDS table, which tests/test_api.py resolves against every capture and against the served /api/system/snapshot (SLOT_FIELDS' device): a rename on either side fails a test instead of printing n/a beside a healthy fleet. A field the agent did not publish prints n/a in its own cell (the card is real, so it is a number the card is supposed to have) and never 0 °C. Nothing in this slot is coloured and nothing draws a bar — no severity, no ok|warn|fail token in the markup or the grid's rules (phase 06: a 95 %-busy card on an LLM server is the job, and a bar under a verdictless number would be a verdict by shape). Everything not glance-worthy — load averages, clock, disk read/write/busy, uptime, GPU power and the per-label temp breakdown, filesystems, processes — folds into a collapsed "More detail" <details>: a simpler surface, not a less complete page (the table keeps its Temp column; this was a promotion, not a de-duplication).

A Δ<window> label is a measurement, never a config value: sources/host.py sends the window the estimator actually used as the payload's window_seconds, and /system's footnote prints those (a range when the hosts disagree) instead of the poll interval, which only coincides with them at the defaults (since phase 23 the /llm rates are measured over one poll interval, so their tag reads Δ2.0s while /system's stays Δ10.0s — each page naming the window its own estimator used). /llm's hero .sub prints the rate cell's own window through the same provenance() tag, and the hero's title carries the exact source string — "78 tok/s" must always say whether it was scraped, measured Δcounter/Δt, or estimated (llm_monitor's setThroughput idiom; dropping the tag to look cleaner is a regression, not a simplification).

The /llm page reads per engine (phase 04, decided in .agents/phases/complete/04_llm_chart_readability/01_chart_set_decision.md, laid out by phase 07): a row of two Dash.hero() throughput numbers (decode, prompt — deliberately uncoloured, because 0 tok/s on an idle server is healthy and severity.py has no throughput row) and the latency rows, each a mean with a mono p95 … foot (no hover; p95 needs no stored series) and a sparkline() fixed at 160px so rows line up. Rows are engine-scoped by the only flag on both components: gufo never grows a TTFT mystery, vLLM never a spec-accept hole.

The stats strip (#strip, phase 07 task 03) is the summary; the panels are the detail, and no row is printed in both — the UPS hero row's "one value drawn twice" rule, widened to two components. One .card.stat per configured engine between the fleet block and the panels: the reachability dot, the engine name and the age stamp in the head (same distinction every card draws — the dot speaks reachability, the numbers never do), then the KV-cache bar — the one cell on the page with a verdict, so the fill and a breach's text take their colour from the payload's severity through .bar.ok/.warn/.fail and the ratio→percent conversion the panel's cell used to make, with ok staying quiet ink and a missing gauge an empty bar plus n/a — then prompt tok/s / decode tok/s with their Δ<window> tags, total tokens (lifetime, so its source is the tooltip), the sessions this engine reports, prefix cache hit, spec accept (gufo) and queue time with its p95 … foot (vLLM). STRIP_ROWS is the whole table and its key is the cellValue() key, so every number on it is a cell of /api/llm/snapshot: no field was invented in sources/llm.py for this card, and there is deliberately no peak-ctx row (phase assumption). The session row is engine-shaped — vLLM publishes running/waiting counts, gufo's is slots busy, counted from the sessions.list rows /slots answered (is_processing, the shape pinned by tests/slots_contract.py); when /slots did not answer there are no rows to count, so it falls back to the published sessions.active carrying the API's own sessions.detail sentence rather than reporting 0 busy slots from no data (rule 2). preemptions / device_lost are alarm chips that exist only while non-zero (.chip.fail, container emptied and hidden at zero — the rule is the presence of an incident, never a graded threshold) and they live on this card, not in a permanent cell; the lifetime token counter left the panel's footnote line for the strip's row. One /api/llm/history request per refresh carries every chart and spark series (HISTORY_SERIES = the four chart series + SPARK_CELLS; the endpoint answers unknown names as empty series on purpose), and the two series phase 04 added (llm.tpot_seconds vLLM-only, llm.spec_accept_rate gufo-only) stay stored additively in sources/llm.py HISTORY_METRICS. Above the strip sits the fleet block (#fleet, phase 07: "I'm missing the aggregate throughput at the top") — ALL ENGINES, a reachability dot, an N of M engines tag, the note sums only engines answering now, then running / waiting / prompt tok/s / decode tok/s / total tokens. FLEET_FIELDS in page-llm.js is a list of fleet_totals() keys and nothing else: the page sums no number of its own, a dead engine is dropped from every total presented as current (its own stale-labelled panel still shows its last good values), and the tag counts the answering engines, names the missing one in its tooltip and takes the shared .stale dim while the sums are partial. It hides below two engines — a cross-engine sum of one engine duplicates that engine's own panel — and it carries no severity colour anywhere: fleet_totals has no severity to render (the summed-KV bar is gone for that reason) and severity.py rates no throughput or queue depth, so the numbers stay ink and only the dot speaks reachability. fleet.seams — the API's own note on how the two engines count prompt tokens differently — is the prompt sum's tooltip rather than another line of ink. The block, the strip and the panels keep the page's shared .85rem gap (phase 13, TODO.md:4: fleet and strip rendered flush into one wall): #strip { margin-top: .85rem } is unconditional because below two engines #fleet is [hidden] and the strip is the first visible section, and #banners:empty ~ #fleet { margin-top: .85rem } gives the block its top gap only when the banner slot renders nothing, so a banner's own margin-bottom:.85rem never stacks a second gap under it. tests/test_api.py pins both rules on the served stylesheet, pins that exactly one rule styles each of the two ids (a second, unguarded one is the double gap), and pins that #banners/#fleet/#strip are still direct siblings of <main> — the ~ combinator resolves between siblings, so re-flowing that markup has to rewrite the selectors instead of losing the gap. The four trend charts stay but at height 110 below the panels, each with an ariaLabel. Panels sit at their own height (#engines carries .items-start): a two-hero gufo card next to a latency-row vLLM one otherwise grows a blank bottom, and a blank panel reads as "no data". An engine that leaves the payload leaves both components (pruneEngines), never a stale card in either grid.

The slot grid (llm_monitor's, phase 07 task 04) belongs to the gufo panel, under its sessions (GET /slots) label. One card per row of sessions.list, keyed by the row's own id in state.slots: built once by slotCard(), patched in place afterwards, and reordered by appendChild of the existing node so DOM order stays slot order — rebuilding a busy slot's card every 2 s poll re-announces the whole card to assistive tech for a difference of a few tokens. SLOT_FIELDS is the whole table and each cell names exactly one /slots key (path: 'next_token' reads next_token[0], where the capture puts n_remain); slotValue() is the only place a row is indexed, so tests/test_api.py can resolve every printed field against tests/fixtures/slots_gufo.json and a rename fails there rather than printing dashes or a plausible wrong number. No per-slot speed cell: the capture publishes no per-slot rate key and a page-side Δn_decoded/Δt would be a measurement with no estimator, no Δ<window> label and no source string (rule 2) — the engine's rate lives on its strip card and panel. llama.cpp's -1 sentinels print a word or nothing: id_task: -1 is idle, n_remain: -1 is n/a, never a negative countdown and never the 0 that reads as one token from done. The busy marker is a border, a glyph (○/●) and the word processing in the brand --accent, never an ok|warn|fail token — a slot generating tokens is the job (phase 06's GPU reasoning), so severity.py rates no slot and the stylesheet section contains no verdict token. The empty state is a sentence, never a card of nothing, and it distinguishes the two cases: no /slots answer prints the API's own sessions.detail, an answer with no rows prints engine reports 0 slots; sessions.source is the gate. The note under the grid stays because a queued (deferred) request is not in /slots — the waiting row counts those. vLLM's panel gets one line (exposes no per-slot JSON) with sessions.detail as its tooltip and no grid: a component of permanent n/as for a server that cannot answer is the dead-cell anti-pattern. The gate is the engine name (SLOT_ENGINES), not row count, so an engine that has not answered yet still shows its label and its honest empty sentence.

Charts belong to the host they chart. /system has two sections — the host panels and the transition events — and nothing else: the fleet-wide chart stack, the nine-figure fleet-totals panel and the host/metric detail picker are deleted, along with the #chart-* / #detail-* ids and the select / label.field styling only those pickers used. Each panel stacks its own .host-charts — utilisation (CPU, memory, worst disk), network (in/out), then GPU busy — where the GPU chart slot is created and destroyed with host.gpus (its own thing from the hero slot above it, which is hidden instead), so gateway shows neither a phantom card nor a hole. That stack is collapsed behind a per-host Charts <details> (phase 06: "only visible if expanded… there will be lots of hosts"): the default /system view is the hero row, the summary carries the window label the stack will draw (the chips themselves stay in the page head, one control per page), and drawHostCharts() is the single place that decides whether to paint — so nothing is built or drawn while the stack is shut (LineChart inside a display:none container measures 0 px, and rebuilding three charts per host every poll for plots nobody sees is the waste this removes). The history request is deliberately unchanged: one per host per refresh, naming every series the panel could draw, and its response is cached per host so the first expand paints from data in hand rather than waiting a poll; a cached response from another window is re-fetched instead of being drawn under the wrong label. Expanding one panel must not stretch its collapsed siblings into blank cards, so #hosts carries the existing .grid.items-start. One /api/system/history request per host per refresh (hosts=<that host>&metrics=<that panel's series>&range=…, pinned by test_every_system_chart_is_drawn_inside_its_own_host_panel and the collapse by test_system_history_charts_are_collapsed_behind_a_toggle): unknown metrics come back as empty series on purpose, so a panel asks for every series it could draw and asks once. A legend here names metrics (or one GPU's model), never hosts — the panel heading already says who this is, and a legend that grew a second host is the bug this replaced. A host that stops reporting loses its panel, its Charts toggle and its charts (pruneHosts deletes the card plus the payload/chart/history maps), never a chart of nothing or an orphan control in the grid. Per-core visuals are gone from /system and renderCores is deleted from charts.js with its last caller. drawHostChart() shades a chart only when one series has points — two or three filled areas stack into one block and bury the quieter line, which is how a idle CPU would hide behind a busy memory plot; the cpu.usage_pct@coreN series is still stored and still queryable from /api/system/history — removing the plot is not removing the data.

Known gaps / next work

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.
   • One connection every few minutes answers nothing for >4 s. Live upsd here stalls a single poll past NUT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS roughly every 2–4 minutes and then answers normally again; nut reads ok throughout, because the poller's job is one amber line plus the recovery, not a frozen page (invariant 4). What phase 12's verification pass fixed on our side was the cascade that used to follow it — the event table filling with expected 'BEGIN LIST VAR', got 'RW apc battery.charge.low "10"', which blamed the wire protocol for a stall two commands earlier (see the NutClient bullet above). The stall itself is an upsd/driver-side question with no repo bug in it, and a battery test is not how to chase it. 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 all — needs a nvidia-smi/NVML or DCGM path, and a fixture from a real card before the field map is written.

3. UPS history depth. Events and the numeric series are stored; long-window battery health (capacity fade over months) has the rollups but no dedicated view.

4. The dev DB's database is locked line is fixed (phase 14); a cold-cache tail is left. The dev store (~640 MB on 2026-10-19, its WAL grown past 140 MB at its worst) logged store-error: OperationalError: database is locked a few times an hour across system/llm/ups through 2026-10-18; the poller handles it exactly as invariant 4 requires — the source goes red with the real reason, ages, and writes recording when the next poll lands — so nothing freezes, but those polls' samples are lost. The one cause this repo can prove is two servers on one file, which is why scripts/dev-server.sh stop waits for the old pid to die (its comment records the incident). A controlled 25 s external read transaction during the phase-09 pass produced none, and phase 12's re-check on 2026-10-19 found the 190 stored store-error rows all older than 2026-10-18 06:33 with none in the previous 24 h of the running dev store — the absence of a sample, not the absence of the pressure, since the file only keeps growing. Retention/wal_checkpoint tuning for a long-running store was its own phase rather than a phase-09 follow-up — that phase is 14_store_performance, and the two paragraphs below are what it measured and changed. Phase 14 has since split this in two, and the read half is closed. The in-process half was never a SQLite lock at all: SampleStore._lock serialises everything, so a 1.25 s stats() from a browser tab's /api/health poll was a poller waiting up to 1.45 s to insert 30 rows (measured, data/logs/NOTES-store-perf.md). Task 02 took the two whole-table reads off the per-request path, and /api/health now answers in ~1.2 ms instead of ~1.27 s, so the store mutex is no longer held by a reader for seconds at a time. The write half is closed too (task 03): maintain() rolls up only what became due since last_maintain, its prune is one DELETE per resolution instead of one OR the planner could not use, and PRAGMA optimize runs there (with SQLite's automatic ANALYZE switched off, so no poller's commit pays for it). On the seeded 6.4 M-row store that is 5,368 ms → 2.7 ms steady / 48 ms for a ten-minute catch-up, and the two-connection race at the app's cadence is 100 of 100 inserts, zero database is locked, max wait 21 ms where the pre-fix control still waits 4.76 s (task 04's re-run of the same budget: 6.8 ms steady / 46 ms catch-up / 8.5 ms worst wait, so the row is a range, not a digit). The WAL follows the same shape: a steady pass leaves ~0 MB and a catch-up tick 4 MB instead of 38 MB that never comes back down, and journal_size_limit=64 MB caps what a long-lived reader can make it grow to (data/logs/NOTES-store-perf.md has the tables). The live proof is in (task 04, 25 minutes / 74 passes / 296 signed-in requests against the running dev server on the operator's own 636 MB store): 0 new store-error rows (still 190, newest 2026-10-18 06:33:30, i.e. 39 h before the watch), WAL 6.5 → 7.77 MB against the 67.1 MB cap and a main file that did not move, 0 non-200 responses, and page paths at 1.8-3.3 ms median (/api/health, /api/summary, /api/metrics, a 3-host × 9-metric 90-day /api/system/history). The watch also caught a defect in task 02's fix — the series cache was invalidated by every sample write, so on a store the hub writes to every few seconds it never served and /api/metrics paid the 572 ms scan on nearly every call (measured: 535 ms per call pre-fix, 1.8 ms median after) — and that is what the store bullet above now describes. What is left is the cost of the two cold answers themselves, measured on that store: 599 ms for series_names('host'), 729 ms for stats()' counts, now once per cache window (~1.3 s of store mutex per minute) instead of once per call — which is why the watch's medians are 1.8-3.3 ms and its p95s are 620/729 ms: the p95 is the window boundary, and 37 of 74 passes had one request over 250 ms, every one of them a cold re-derivation. No cache policy reaches that; the fix is the bounded (source, metric) structure or a counts table named in task 03's note. Two cheaper knobs exist and were deliberately not pulled, because both change what /api/health answers and move rather than remove the mutex hold: raising STATS_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS, and refreshing both caches from the maintenance tick so the miss lands on a poller instead of a page load. That is a phase, not a cleanup. Two servers on one file can still contend, and busy_timeout=5000 is unchanged on purpose so a second one stays visible as a slower write; what they contend with is now milliseconds instead of 5.4 s. One consequence worth naming, because two other gaps pointed here for it: the ~10 s process-wide stall (gap 9's Δ-window dilution, poller's catch-up gaps) is gone with the mutex holds — coincident multi-second gaps in the 2 s llm and 5 s ups raw streams went from 393 and 198 in the two halves of 2026-10-19 to 0 across the 110 minutes the phase-14 store has run (re-measured in this phase's verification pass from the sample table; the signature separates a process stall from one slow engine).

5. The login throttle keys on the socket peer address (phase 11), and the one LoginThrottle instance now holds two keys per address: the bare one for POST /api/auth/login and password:<address> for POST /api/auth/password. Behind nginx every login shares one bucket, so anyone who can reach the login form can lock the operator out of the dashboard — not the UPS, not the data, not a host — for at most LoginThrottle.max_seconds (1 h by default) at a time, and a process restart clears the counters. The two keys are separate on purpose, so neither form can be hammered at the other's rate and a stolen cookie plus the change form is not an unthrottled oracle for the old password; the cost of that choice is that one address can be blocked twice over. Accepted for a single-admin box rather than becoming an X-Forwarded-For knob: that alternative is spoofable by anyone the moment somebody forgets to configure which proxy to trust, which would hand the attacker the throttle key instead of leaving it on the network layer. PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 at PBKDF2_ITERATIONS (600 000) stays the real cost of every guess; the throttle only makes hammering the form slower than useless.

6. One admin, one factor — no second factor and no per-user accounts, by design (phase 11). The operator asked for a single admin, and that is what the model is: one verifier row, one username in every signed session, one name in every password-changed event, no read-only role and no per-viewer view. The consequence is worth stating out loud, because it is the whole security budget of a public domain: the PBKDF2 cost plus the backoff is the only thing between a stranger and the fleet's hostnames and the UPS command buttons, so there is no defence in depth behind it — no TOTP, no WebAuthn, no per-IP allow-list, no "this login is from somewhere new" notice. Adding a second human means more than a second row: the gate has no notion of scope, so a colleague would be able to cut power unless somebody designs a read-only session first. That is a phase, not an edit.

7. The throttle is per-process, so a second uvicorn worker multiplies it (phase 11). LoginThrottle is a dict in one process's memory: uvicorn --workers 4 hands anyone who reaches the form four independent buckets and four times the attempts before a 429, and a restart clears all of them (the gap-5 note above). Nothing else in the auth design has that problem — the session is an HMAC-signed cookie and the CSRF token derives from it, so both are worker-safe by construction with no store to share and nothing to prune. The reason this stays unfixed is that the app is single-process by nature anyway: every worker would run its own poller loops against the same SQLite file (AGENTS.md invariant 4, and the database is locked incident in gap 4 is what two processes on one store already looks like). If this is ever revisited, the fix is a shared counter (the meta table would do, at login rates), not a bigger number in one process.

8. A logout ends this browser's cookie, not a copy of it (phase 11). The session is an HMAC-signed cookie with no server-side record — that is the design invariant 12 and gap 7 rest on — so POST /api/auth/logout can only tell this browser to drop the cookie (verified against a running server: a replayed token from a logged-out jar still authenticates until it expires). The same is true of an Authorization: Bearer token, which was never in a cookie to begin with. The only revocation this app has is rotating auth.session_secret, which POST /api/auth/password does on purpose, and the reset DELETE FROM meta … does as the lockout escape hatch. Accepted for a single-admin box on a domain nobody else signs in to — the operator's own machine is the threat model here, not a shared kiosk — and the reason a lost laptop is a password change and not a sign-out. A real revocation list would be a row per session with a prune rule, which is the thing this design traded away.

9. The /llm decode tok/s spike is fixed, and verified live (phase 13, 2026-10-19; the diagnosis is in the git-ignored data/logs/NOTES-decode-spike.md, the live proof in data/logs/NOTES-decode-stable.md). Task 04's sustained watch passed the ceiling test: 11 minutes / 285 signed-in /api/llm/snapshot polls against the live engines, worst value 117.57 tok/s (gufo) and 98.00 (vLLM) — both in the payload and in the stored raw series, 2.6× under the 300 tok/s pass line, with zero values printed without their Δ<window> label. The stall is still there (38 catch-up gaps < 1.5 s in 11 minutes, a 10.6 s gap between two samples) and the estimator now absorbs it: three refusals each labelled with the sub-0.5 s window it refused (Δ0.387s, Δ0.399s, Δ0.363s), two ≥ 8× steps held for one poll and published only when the next interval confirmed them, and — the point of the whole fix — 1 m rollups topping out at 51.9 / 34.1 tok/s where task 02 found a 222.7 tok/s minute, so the trend chart's y-scale stops being set by arithmetic. Fixtures were not re-captured: task 02 compared the live exposure with tests/fixtures/ series by series (gufo 15/15, vLLM 128/128, identical sets), task 13 changed no parsing, and the page still reads 15 series · 0 unparsed / 128 series · 0 unparsed. Screenshots: data/logs/llm-decode-stable.png (+ -top, the fleet-block gap and both Δ tags) and data/logs/llm-decode-burst.png (a real two-slot burst: 62.1 tok/s Δ8.5s, fleet sum 102.4). The confirmed mechanism was neither a counter bug nor a label-set sum: poller.Job._loop sleeps max(0.2, interval - elapsed), so any fetch slower than LLM_INTERVAL_SECONDS is followed by a poll 0.2 s later, and the estimator happily diffed a whole stall's tokens over that gap — the 2026-10-18 09:16 gufo row read 3284.59 tok/s for an engine doing 53, with an inflated tail because the stale sample stayed inside[0]. Task 03 made that impossible by construction (see the rates.py bullet above): the window floor turns the catch-up poll into one n/a and drops the stale base so the tail re-bases; the fallback's 2 × span ceiling is enforced (the honest 15.25 s diluted row still publishes); jumps ≥ 8× hold one poll and publish only on confirmation; and values_by_series() + rate_key() diff every counter per label set, so the latent joining-series defect (candidate (a)) contributes 0 tokens until it has its own baseline. The four task-02 xfail(strict=True) tests are green with their markers removed and every assertion kept. Spike-free across two days of raw history the fleet's real maximum is 119.9 tok/s (gufo / deskwork) and 171.7 (vLLM / driveripper) — anything above ~300 is arithmetic, not work, which was task 04's pass line and what the watch above stayed under. The Δ<window> label stayed honest throughout — both before and after the fix it names the window actually used; do not "fix" anything here by hiding or rewriting it. The ~10–15 s process-wide stall that triggers a refused poll was gap 4's and 14_store_performance's problem, and phase 14 closed it (measured on the dev store from the sample table: coincident multi-second gaps in the 2 s llm and 5 s ups raw streams — the signature of a process-wide stall, not a slow engine — were 393 in 00:00–12:00 and 198 in 12:00–21:36 on 2026-10-19, and 0 across the 110 minutes the phase-14 store has been running, worst llm gap 7.1 s and that one the recorded gufo timeout). The mechanism is the one phase 14 removed: a whole-table stats() count held the store mutex for ~1.25 s on every browser tab's /api/health poll, and maintain() held the write lock for 5.4 s. The estimator no longer turns a slow fetch into 0.2 s arithmetic, and one n/a per stall is the designed degradation (the residual the verification pass measured is the paragraph below). The verification pass found one residual path and closed it (same day, live rows in the store the fix was running): a stalled fetch stamps its body with the time the poll finished, so the sample it stores is the stall older than its own timestamp. The floor cannot see that (the window is honest, the value is old), the sample then anchors every window for the rest of the span, and the jump gate published the second one because it was measured from the same anchor — gufo 12:42:10 read 232.28 tok/s with exactly one request running at ~50, followed by the tell-tale decaying tail 146.4 / 114.1 / 94.8 and the true 47.5 (a 13:40:58 row repeats it at 200.6). rates.py now requires an independent anchor for a confirmation (_pending stores the base sample's timestamp and the hold continues while the window is still diffed from it), so a skewed sample is held until it ages out and the honest rate publishes — the reconstruction of both rows is pinned by test_a_held_jump_is_not_confirmed_by_a_window_on_the_same_anchor (estimator) and test_gufo_a_stale_scrape_body_never_becomes_a_rate_above_the_engine (through parse_gufo_metrics), each of which fails on the pre-fix gate and prints the live shape. That closes the gate's path, not the skew itself, and the verification pass measured the difference. A slow reply's counter is true somewhere between the request and the reply and nothing in the payload says where, so when the resulting jump is under 8× the last published rate the gate never engages: the post-fix watch (10 min / 540 reads, data/logs/ llm-decode-verify-pass.tsv) caught gufo at 203.05 tok/s labelled Δ2.595s where two busy slots were really doing ~110, then 127.4 / 100.2 / 89.6 as the window grew back to the span and 35.6 once the freed slot settled — every value labelled, 0 of 540 above the 300 pass line, and no stored raw row over it since the restart either. A collapsed window is what makes a burst look like a rate, so the fix for this family is the ~10 s stall itself (gap 4 / 14_store_performance — which has since removed it, see gap 4 and the paragraph above, so what is left of this family is the sub-8× skew itself), not a fresh threshold invented in the estimator: task 03 pinned MIN_WINDOW_SECONDS as an absolute floor and pinned that an in-bounds diluted row publishes (test_a_fallback_inside_the_documented_ceiling_still_publishes), so a span-relative floor would be a re-decision of that phase, not a bug fix. Do not "fix" the residual by hiding the short window or its label. Phase 23 changed the size of the window, not the gates (TODO.md:8: "a strange delay and a 'ramp up/ramp down' effect"). What was left after phases 13/14 was the span itself: one 10 s-window estimator served both cadences, so on the 2 s llm poll a slot's first seconds were spread over five polls — the capture replay in tests/test_llm_source.py::test_gufo_the_window_the_llm_jobs_are_spanned_by_is_one_that_fills prints 12.5 → 20 → 30 tok/s for an engine steady at 50, and the same five polls backwards when the slot ends. build_hub now builds one estimator per measuring cadence (the llm jobs spanned by LLM_INTERVAL_SECONDS, the host jobs by RATE_WINDOW_SECONDS), which reads 50 on the first poll after the change and 0 on the first after it ends. Every phase-13 protection still applies to the smaller window — Δ2.0s is 4× above MIN_WINDOW_SECONDS, the ceiling is relative to the span, and the 8× jump gate is the estimator's own — so this is the smoothing dial turned down, not a second definition of a rate. The live half has landed (task 03, 2026-10-21, read-only: nothing was written and no workload was started — the busy periods were the operator's own requests). A 13-minute signed-in pass of /api/llm/snapshot at the app's own 2 s cadence (scripts/watch-llm-window.py; series data/logs/llm-window-watch.tsv, verdict data/logs/llm-window-watch.{json,log}) recorded zero values printed without their Δ<window> label across 780 rows, with every window in 0.61-3.38 s and never 10 s. It found 17 busy-edges on gufo and judged the 5 starts + 5 ends that held long enough (an edge followed by the next request within a poll is not a slot ending, and prefill polls genuinely decode ~0 — both are reported, neither is judged): every one was inside the 8× pass line at poll 2 on the ungated Δ. Re-diffing the same samples over the span this phase replaced is the comparison the operator's complaint was about: median |ln(value/steady)| at poll 2 was 0.037 with this window against 0.924 with the 10 s one, whose median edge needed poll 3 to settle (the five starts read 0.98 / 1.04 / 0.95 / 1.00 / 1.27 of steady at poll 2 on the ungated 2 s Δ where those same five read 0.25 / 0.34 / 0.96 / 0.40 / 0.40 on the 10 s one; ends took polls 4-5 to fall away against poll 2 now). One start had its first correct value held for a poll by the phase-13 jump gate and published on the next — designed behaviour, and the reason the pass line is read on the ungated re-diff as well as on the published column. The stored 1 m rollups for the window topped out at 42.3 tok/s (raw max 201.6 — that row's own Δ0.610s label says so, gap 9's sub-8× skew, far under the 300 pass line). A second pass over the same engines an hour later (data/logs/llm-window-watch-pass2.log) reproduced it: 3 starts + 2 ends, 0 unsettled, 0 unlabelled, 1 m rollups max 24.7 tok/s. The browser half (data/logs/23-live-window.cjs, transcript data/logs/23-live-window.out, screenshots data/logs/23-live-llm-{opening,burst-settled,midburst,post-free,gufo-idle,vllm-idle,final}.png) checked the same claims as rendered: 866 decode figures, 0 without a tag in either component that prints the number (the panel hero's .sub and the strip card's .prov), every tag a Δ inside the estimator's own bounds — MIN_WINDOW_SECONDS to 2 × span, the modal one Δ2.0s on both the page and the API (833 of 866) and never the host's Δ10s. Its own edge checks (isolated only, for the same reason) read inside the 8× line at poll 2 on two starts and exactly 0.0 tok/s at poll 2 on two ends — the frame named post-free is only taken once the engine is provably idle, because the busy signal flickers between back-to-back requests.

10. driveripper's 16 drives read n/a: kernel 7.2's unprivileged-passthrough gate (2026-10-19, resolved the same day; the installer template that shipped the broken device filter was cleared in phase 17). The agent is installed, the disk group grant is in place, the block nodes open, and the page renders all 16 real drive rows — but kernel 7.2.11 blocks the agent user's smartctl at the command level (not the open; the probe matrix is in data/logs/NOTES-driveripper-agent.md): the 8 SATA drives' SMART is ATA pass-through behind a SAT layer, and the kernel's unprivileged SG_IO allow-list (scsi_cmd_allowed(), read-safe opcodes only) does not include it — CAP_SYS_RAWIO or root unblocks it, with or without -d sat/-d ata; the 8 Samsung/WD NVMes' SMART-log read needs the drive's ACEL to advertise the page (the 980 PRO's 5B2QGXA7, 2020-era, does not: NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Permission denied) or CAP_SYS_ADMIN; deskwork reads live because its firmware does. Options, in order of narrowness: (a) accept the designed degradation (what /disks rendered then — the identity is real, the values are n/a with a why-line); (b) AmbientCapabilities=CAP_SYS_RAWIO (+ CapabilityBoundingSet) on the unit — unblocks exactly the 8 HDDs, is the capability the kernel names for the gate, but a compromised agent could then write raw block I/O — test it in a systemd-run --scope before committing; (c) User=root with the empty capability set — unblocks all 16 but hands a token-guarded process root's file-read DAC (not recommended); (d) a Samsung firmware update — the only clean fix for the NVMe side. Resolved the same day with a tighter variant of (c): User=root + CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN — all 16 drives read live (root DAC is the price; the bounding set keeps the grant named rather than full). Two empirical notes: a root process under the unit's empty bounding set is capability-less (CapEff: 0), because the kernel gates check capabilities, not uid — that is why the first User=root attempt still read n/a; and CapEff came back 0000000000220000 (SYS_ADMIN + systemd's auto CHROOT; RAWIO in the bounding set but not effective) — the 8 SATA drives' reads were unblocked by SYS_ADMIN alone, so the effective grant is {SYS_ADMIN}; the RAWIO in the line stays as the named intent for the SG_IO gate. The agent also gained the pass-budget scale-up — 20 s floor, 5 s × disk count, an explicit override still winning — because a 16-disk pass takes more than 20 s when the drives answer, and truncating it would null the tail drives. Phase 16 pinned that default in tests/test_agent.py (test_the_pass_budget_scales_with_the_disk_count, test_the_pass_budget_floor_is_twenty_seconds, test_the_pass_budget_error_line_names_the_scaled_figure — which demands the line read 80s for 16 disks, not the floor; the override test stays). Re-read live on 2026-10-20: the installed agent answers 16/16 drives with temperatures and no pass budget … exhausted line. The deploy/install-agent.sh template no longer ships the device-filter lines that misbehaved on this host — phase 17 task 01 removed them (the nvme* glob matches nothing on this kernel because /proc/devices lists NVMe as blkext, and a strict device policy denies everything a list fails to match), and the unit pins in tests/test_deploy_scripts.py now assert their absence. Task 02 added the two flags that reproduce this host's remaining lines — --as-root → User=root, --caps CAP_SYS_RAWIO,CAP_SYS_ADMIN → CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN, both off by default, --caps refused without --as-root, --as-root alone accepted with the CapEff-0 note — pinned by tests/test_deploy_scripts.py (exact User= / CapabilityBoundingSet= lines in a fake-root sandbox, the refusal before any write, the --help recipe). Task 03 removed the unconditional rewrite: the unit is rendered to a temp file, and a re-run whose render differs from the installed unit prints the diff on stdout and exits 1 unless --force is passed, so the flag line above now needs --force to land and a routine re-run can no longer clobber this host's unit (pinned by the refuse/force/silent sequence in tests/test_deploy_scripts.py, including the --force leg of this host's own recipe — the same --bind 10.1.0.126 --port 9120 --as-root --caps CAP_SYS_RAWIO,CAP_SYS_ADMIN --force line the fleet record above prints). Task 04 verified the reproduction read-only rather than by running it: the unit installed on driveripper (systemctl cat, 2026-10-20) differs from what this template renders with that exact flag line in comment lines only — every directive matches, User=root, CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN, no device filter, PrivateDevices=false, the same ExecStart on the token file — and the host still answers active with CapEff: 0000000000220000 and 16/16 drives with temperatures in /snapshot. So the operator's --force run lands the new rationale prose and changes nothing systemd acts on (the three captures and the exact probe list are in data/logs/NOTES-17-installer-repro.md; no live change was made while pinning this phase). Two facts that came out of reading the live host, both load-bearing for the next install: the sudo-granted /home/ops/agent-install path held the Oct-18 file (no --as-root, no --caps, no --force, no --cert-bundle, still nine DeviceAllow lines) and it refused the recipe with unknown argument: --as-root and exit 2 before need_root, so that path could not apply this recipe at all — while a re-run of it without the flags was still the silent clobber the guard exists for. Resolved on 2026-10-21: phase 24 task 03 staged the repo's script and agent 1.1.0 into /home/ops/agent-install/ on all three hosts (the directory is ops-owned, so no root needed) before running the granted path, and left the snapshot beside it as a file sudo will not execute. The rule that came out of it is in the fleet record above: re-stage first, because a path grant is only as current as the file. (The other fact from that read — an applied change reaches the file but not the running process until something restarts it — is in the Deployment paragraph, and README's rollout now restarts.) tests/fixtures/smartctl_driveripper_*.txt (captured via sudo) remain the ground truth for the drives' shape.

11. The fleet runs on installed bundles; what is left is rotation hygiene (phase 15 tasks 01-05 landed 2026-10-20; phase 24 task 03 rolled the fleet out 2026-10-21). The rollout is done and verified: gateway, deskwork and driveripper each run agent/host_agent.py 1.1.0 with /etc/dashboards-agent.certs installed 0640 root:dashboards-agent, their units carry --cert-bundle + RuntimeDirectory=dashboards-agent (and keep --token-file), HOST_TARGETS is https:// for all three with no userinfo, agent.bundle_rev reads 2 on every host and equals what /api/certs issued, and the nine sources are ok. The transcript is data/logs/NOTES-24-rollout.md, and task 04 re-read the whole end state read-only afterwards (data/logs/verify-24-mtls.py → 24-task04-endstate.txt, plus the rendered proof data/logs/24-task04-verify.cjs → 24-task04-{certs,disks,system}.png): nine sources ok, status: active with deployed_bundle_rev == bundle_rev on all three rows, agent.tls + agent.bundle_rev + agent.version 1.1.0 in every host payload, driveripper's 16 drives and deskwork's nvme0n1 reporting temperature, hours and wear, deskwork's GPU card drawn on /system, gateway still absent from /disks with disks:gateway still ok, no http:// and no userinfo in any URL the dashboard serves, and no transport or certificate row in /api/summary's alerts. It revoked nothing: the standing negative control for "a revoked serial is refused" remains phase 15's data/logs/verify-15-tls-e2e.py (transcript verify-15-tls-e2e.out) plus the two suite pins — tests/test_collectors.py's test_a_revoked_agent_is_refused_before_anything_is_dialled and tests/test_api.py's test_a_revoked_agent_fails_both_of_its_sources_without_a_dial.

    The docs are part of this end state, because a fleet comes back to http:// through a setup file somebody copies: tests/test_deploy_scripts.py now pins that README.md, AGENTS.md and both tracked env templates name the registration trio (--fetch-bundle, --cert-name, --session), and that every HOST_TARGETS example line in the templates is https:// with no userinfo (an empty HOST_TARGETS= stays allowed — unconfigured is not misconfigured). The token-mode dial itself is unchanged and still documented as the compatibility path; what may not come back is it being the shape a template seeds.

    Two things that gap learned belong with this record, because both bite before anybody reads a dashboard:

    • A certs.root.cert row older than the SKI/AKI fix signs chains nobody can verify. "A stored row always wins" is the invariant that keeps a CA from rotating with the process, and its cost is that a root minted before the extension keeps being used forever: a leaf issued afterwards carries a correct AKI pointing at an identifier its issuer does not have, and ssl.create_default_context() — strict mode, the context AgentTls.ssl_context() builds — answers CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: Missing Subject Key Identifier. The agent is healthy, --status answers over TLS, and the dashboard calls the host unreachable. The repair is POST /api/certs/root/rotate, a dashboard restart (the CA and client pair are startup material) and a fresh bundle per host — never DELETE FROM meta, which throws away the authority instead of replacing it. Pinned by tests/test_certs.py::test_a_stored_root_without_an_identifier_still_boots_and_root_rotate_repairs_it, which also pins the other half: reading such a table must not fail closed, because /certs is the page that fixes it.
    • These bundles came from the dev-box authority. The fleet trusts the certs.* rows in the database ./scripts/dev-server.sh runs against, and nothing else dials these agents (a ss sweep on each host saw only the dev box on 9120). A second deployment with its own authority cannot read this fleet until it carries the same root or re-issues and reinstalls; that is a deployment-repo decision, and the honest version is one authority per fleet.

    Everything below is the phase-15/24 history that led here. certs.py mints the CA and the dashboard's client certificate into meta on the first boot of a database — verified against the running dev store: the five certs.* rows exist and did not change across two restarts — signs per-host server certificates into certs.agents, and does reissue, revocation, and root rotation. Task 02 gave agent/host_agent.py its TLS mode (see the agent bullet above: one installed bundle, the per-path client-cert check, the live # REVOKED denylist, bundle_rev in the snapshot) and task 03 gave the collector the matching half: an https:// HOST_TARGETS entry is fetched with this app's client certificate and verified against its own root, and a host marked revoked fails its host: and disks: jobs with agent certificate revoked before any socket opens — spy-pinned in tests/test_collectors.py and again through the real build_hub wiring in tests/test_api.py, where the revocation is written into the same meta table the running app reads. So both halves are proven against each other with no network and no hardware. What phase 15 left missing — an installed bundle, which is what makes DELETE FROM meta the expensive command the reset message warns about — is what task 03 supplied: deleting certs.* now costs the fleet's identity, and every host has to be re-bundled. Phase 24 task 01 has since closed the dev-side half of that sentence: ./scripts/dev-server.sh restart exports every issued bundle into gitignored data/certs/<name>.bundle at 0600, so putting one on a host is an scp plus install-agent.sh --cert-bundle rather than a hand-run signed curl (scripts/dev-certs-export.py, invariant 6's export rules, pinned by tests/test_deploy_scripts.py against a real uvicorn-served create_app). Task 02 has since removed even that hand-run from the rollout: install-agent.sh --fetch-bundle <url> --cert-name <name> --session <token> fetches GET /api/certs/<name>/bundle during the install and feeds the bytes to the unchanged validator + 0640 install + TLS-unit path, refusing a 401, an unissued name or a non-bundle body before it writes anything, with the session token absent from every artefact the run leaves (pinned the same way, over the same socket) — which is the path all three hosts were installed through, over an SSH reverse tunnel because no monitored host can route back to a laptop. Proving the dial also found one defect in task 01's output: the leaves carried no AuthorityKeyIdentifier, and OpenSSL's strict mode — which is what Python's ssl.create_default_context() turns on, and that is the context this dial builds — refuses such a chain with CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: Missing Authority Key Identifier. Fixed in certs.py (SKI on the root and every leaf, AKI on every leaf, non-critical), pinned in tests/test_certs.py, and the reason a bundle recorded before it must not be installed. Task 04 put the same lifecycle behind the gate: /api/certs lists the stored authority (through certs.read_state, so a page refresh cannot mint anything) with one row per configured host and per existing entry, GET /api/certs/<name>/bundle serves the stored bytes as an attachment, and the three writes rotate, revoke, and rotate the root with restart_required: true said out loud — each leaving one fixed-text certs-source event and no PEM outside meta (pinned by a grep of the stored rows and of every payload a browser reads). Task 05 put the page on top of it: /certs (⚷ Certs, in every signed-in masthead — its own included, since phase 20 task 04) renders that document — the root CN/serial/expiry, the display-only client line, one row per host with its status chip and issued-vs-deployed bundle rev and its Rotate / Revoke / bundle controls — and keeps two rules the API already keeps: no colour the payload did not send (no severity token on the page at all; unissued is a grey chip, a behind bundle a neutral stale one) and no control the API would refuse (no buttons on a configured: false row, no revoke or download on a never-issued host, the download a plain session GET). Writes are confirm()d rather than typed-DANGERd, and the restart sentence is the route's own hint. Task 06 has since landed the installer half: install-agent.sh --cert-bundle <file> validates the bundle by the agent's own text shape before need_root (a bad file says "wrong file", not "add a sudoers line"; exit 2), installs it 0640 root:dashboards-agent byte-identically — the task file's literal 0600 cannot work, because the agent opens the bundle as itself and re-reads the denylist live (the exact incident the token file's comment records), and the task's own intent is "only root and the agent's own service user may read it", which is what 0640 achieves — re-runs without the flag leave the installed bundle in place, the unit gains --cert-bundle + RuntimeDirectory=dashboards-agent (0700) from one conditional branch while keeping the token line, --status probes https with the bundle's CA and no client certificate (python3 ssl, never an external TLS binary; an unreadable bundle says run --status as root instead of pretending), --uninstall sweeps the bundle with the token, and deploy/agent-sudoers gained no line (the bundle travels through the same root invocation). tests/test_deploy_scripts.py pins all of it, including the probe run end-to-end against a real in-process TLS agent: CA-only reads /health, a foreign root is refused, token mode keeps the plain probe. The final pass proved the composition rather than the halves: a real host_agent.py --cert-bundle on loopback and a real dashboard process over a scratch database (HOST_TARGETS=loop=https://127.0.0.1:<port>) answer 27 checks — host:loop/disks:loop ok through the certificate dial, agent.tls/agent.bundle_rev in both snapshots, the bundle download byte-identical to the meta row, an unsigned /certs a 303 with ?next=, a revoke followed by agent certificate revoked on both jobs with no dial, the dashboard's own client identity untouched by a host revoke (the list is serials, not hosts), and a revoked client serial refused 403 by the running agent on /health too the moment the re-sealed bundle is in place (data/logs/verify-15-tls-e2e.py, transcript verify-15-tls-e2e.out). What was left was the live rollout, and phase 24 task 03 ran it on 2026-10-21, host by host, in the order that keeps every number honest: install 1.1.0 together with the bundle (never the bundle alone — the installed agents were 1.0.0 and do not know --cert-bundle), restart the unit, let the CA-only --status probe answer, and only then flip that host's URL, because a URL flipped before its bundle is installed turns the host red by construction. All three: the trivial gateway, the drop-in-carrying deskwork, and driveripper with the gap-10 line (--as-root --caps CAP_SYS_RAWIO,CAP_SYS_ADMIN --force), whose dry-run diff moved comments and the TLS lines only — User=root and CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_SYS_RAWIO CAP_SYS_ADMIN came through byte-identical, and all 16 drives read live on both sides of the rewrite (same single nvme5n1 alarm chip). Every host ran the installer twice, once without --force to read what task 17's guard would refuse before letting it apply. Staging the repo's script and agent into the sudo-granted /home/ops/agent-install/ path was step one on all three (gap 10), and fetching was reached through an SSH reverse tunnel because no monitored host can route back to the dev box. data/logs/NOTES-24-rollout.md is the transcript: commands, unit diffs, the before/after SMART tables, the screenshots, and the two operational traps named at the head of this gap. What the fleet now never does is answer an agent over plain http or accept a bearer token on the certificate path — the TODO's "the client should never allow non-mtls communication" is the shipped state, and a new host has to be registered the same way.

12. The nav collapses on a phone; the page content below it does not (phase 18's verification pass, 2026-10-20). At 360px /'s fleet table measures 450-510 px inside a 320 px section.card, and .card { overflow: hidden } clips the tail columns (WORST DISK, GPU BUSY, TEMP, UP) with no scroll container to reach them — table.data only scrolls with its .scroll modifier, which that table does not carry. Measured as pre-existing by serving the git show HEAD: bytes of both dash.css and pages/index.html over a live session: same clipping (a clipped card never un-clips when the document scrolls sideways). What phase 18 did change is that the document no longer scrolls sideways at a phone width at all — 360 px where it was 750 px — because the bar that overflowed its fixed 58 px row now breaks into rows, so nothing is lost and nothing gained: the masthead is complete at 360 px and the table tail is still out of reach. The fix is a responsive-table pass (.scroll on the wide tables, or a per-host card layout at ≤640px) and it touches pinned page shape on /, so it is a phase rather than a cleanup — 21_page_cleanups' .scroll on the /certs table is the same shape applied to one table and does not reach this one; 27_mobile_tables_and_audit is that pass, still in todo/. Of the two operator TODO items that sat beside it, 20_masthead_nav_polish has landed in full (now complete): the bar is three rows at every width (flush right on the two control rows since phase 25 task 02), it is no longer sticky, the phone menu slides, and both ⚙ Account and ⚷ Certs render on all seven signed-in pages including the two they name (task 04, reversing phase 15's "no self-link" rule at the operator's request). The other, 24_dev_mtls_rollout (never accepting a non-mTLS agent) is closed: its fleet half landed on 2026-10-21 and task 04 re-read the end state read-only the same day — gap 11. No http:// agent URL and no token-mode agent is left on this fleet, and the setup templates no longer seed one (tests/test_deploy_scripts.py keeps it that way). What remains of phase 24 is ordinary rotation hygiene, not a missing step.

Locked decisions (and why)

• SQLite, not Prometheus/Grafana. Handful of boxes, 1–10s resolution, one file the container owns. Rollups keep a year of charts at a few hundred MB.
• Our own stdlib host agent, not node_exporter. One JSON snapshot with exactly the fields the page needs (GPU model strings, per-mount usage, temperature labels) versus ~1500 series and a re-labeling layer; no dependency to install, ProtectSystem=strict friendly, and read-only by construction. scripts/capture-node-exporter.sh remains to compare ground truth if that is ever revisited.
• Our own NUT client, not pynut/upsc. The protocol is ~10 line commands, the third-party libs are subprocess-based or stalled, and we need instant commands with explicit gating.
• In-house Prometheus parser. Only two upstreams use the format; keeps prometheus_client out of the dependency set.
• cryptography for X.509, dashboard-side only (phase 15). Minting a CA and signing leaves is not something to hand-roll, and there is exactly one place in this app that does it (certs.py). The agent gets no new dependency: it loads the PEMs the dashboard signed with stdlib ssl, which is why the bundle is plain text and why the agent still runs on a host's Python 3.10.
• Port 8090, inherited from the llm_monitor prototype this started from: 8000 is vLLM and 8731 is gufo in this fleet.
• .env is a seed, never an override — container/systemd env must win.

Definition of done (per change)

The first three are exactly what bash .agents/validate.sh (the phase gate) checks, so no phase may be called done on a subset of them.

uv run pytest green · coverage not down · ruff + pyright clean · uv pip list --outdated empty if deps moved · dev server restarted and /api/health sane · UI change screenshotted in a browser against live data · fixtures re-captured if an upstream contract changed · this file and README.md updated when a rule, command, gap, or fleet fact changed.