idols-ai and aquamarine stop preserving ~/.qwen; its existing data stays under /persistent until deleted by hand.
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* chore(aquamarine): take the NPU stack from nixos-unstable-small
* refactor(aquamarine): load the NPU driver via hardware.cpu.intel.npu
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (claude-opus-5-5)
Hosts now accept only the two CanoKeys' resident SSH keys for ryan, plus the romantic recovery key for root; per-host user keys stop working. Darwin builds work again: the shared base no longer sets nixpkgs.config next to nix-darwin's nixpkgs.pkgs.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (claude-opus-5-5)
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
Home Manager now owns ~/.config/gh/config.yml on agent hosts; activation moves an existing one to
config.yml.home-manager.backup.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (claude-opus-5-5)
ICU takes the zone name from the /etc/localtime symlink target path. A bind
mount turns it into a plain file, which keeps the TZif data but loses the
path, so the only identifier left is the ambiguous "CST" abbreviation that
ICU reads from the file and maps to America/Chicago.
Export TZ from time.timeZone and pass TZ/TZDIR through the nixpak env
allowlist.
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* feat(agents): align ruby and kana computer-use support
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* test(agents): keep one full-host test for ruby and kana
Both guests run the same agent configuration, so a second full-host test
does not add coverage.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* fix(computer-use): disable cua-driver telemetry before start
The i3 init hook did not reliably disable the default-on setting, so both
hosts could start the daemon with telemetry enabled.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
Only Huawei works with prefetch-npm-deps: npmmirror 404s on its doubled
slash, and Tencent answers 567 to its concurrent fetches (WA-049).
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
- Add the agent profile (modules/nixos/agent.nix: rootless Podman, linger,
nix-ld) with home/linux/tui.nix as its home role; ruby, kana and
aquamarine use it, so hosts no longer import from hosts/idols-ruby.
- Gate nushell's ~/.secrets source behind modules.shell.secrets.enable,
off on agent hosts.
- Persist the TUI home state on aquamarine's tmpfs root.
- Document host profiles in hosts/README.md; add tests/agent-profile and
drop the x86_64 colmena-parity test, which needs mysecrets.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Move standalone repository docs from the root into docs/ and add a documentation index that links the moved docs and the code-local runbooks.
Update Markdown links, source comments, and the root entry points to the new locations. Keep README.md and AGENTS.md at the root as required entry points.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
myNurPkgs evaluated a second nixpkgs just for four packages. Apply the
NUR repo's own overlay instead, so they come from the host's pkgs.
Darwin's pkgs now gets nixpkgsConfig too: it set nixpkgs.pkgs, which
ignores nixpkgs.config, so only myNurPkgs carried the npm mirror there.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
hardware.amdgpu.opencl.enable also adds clr, whose OpenCL 2.2 libOpenCL.so.1
lands in /run/opengl-driver/lib, first in OpenVINO's RUNPATH, and shadows the
ocl-icd loader the GPU plugin links. With clr.icd alone the plugin finds
ocl-icd, so the wrapper and WA-038 go.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Exporters raced networkd for the LAN address at boot; drop the
network-online ordering and unlimited-restart hack and let a FreeBind
socket unit hold the port, passed in via --web.systemd-socket.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Apply hdparm -B 255 -S 0 whenever a disk appears, which also covers the
re-add after a bridge reset, instead of a boot oneshot plus an hourly
timer. Drop -J 0: hdparm has always aborted it without
--please-destroy-my-drive, and wdidle3 already reads disabled on both
disks (it is persistent firmware state).
This was the last user of mylib.systemdHardening.privilegedOneshot, so
remove the preset and its test group.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
The boot-time oneshot only fixed the zones present when it ran, and
node_exporter had to Require it. A powercap add rule covers every zone
whenever it appears; the collector reads at scrape time, so no ordering
is needed.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
amdgpu registers power1_cap with its hwmon device, so a rule on each
card's hwmon add event replaces the oneshot that polled /sys/class/hwmon
for 60 s waiting for both cards to probe.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
It was a precaution for the R9700 links, never an observed problem, and
on BIOS 1013 the FADT already disables ASPM ("ACPI FADT declares the
system doesn't support PCIe ASPM"), so the parameter did nothing.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
89d7a9bd made systemd-tmpfiles-setup RequiresMountsFor the five nofail
USB-disk mounts. One failed mount then skipped every tmpfiles rule on the
host, and sysinit.target waited for the disks and the LUKS unlock even on
success.
Leave the boot-wide pass as upstream ships it and add data-tmpfiles:
`systemd-tmpfiles --prefix=/data` with WantsMountsFor on the /data mounts,
ordered before the services that use them.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
Enable the existing remote-builder module on shoryu, shushou and
youko, and authorize their SSH host keys on aquamarine.
Kana and Ruby are VM guests with no need to build; leave their local
store and build behavior unchanged.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
Run nginx on youko as a loopback pull-through HTTP cache for
cache.nixos.org and cache.numtide.com, exposed by Caddy at
https://nix-cache.writefor.fun.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
Set the user-level npm/pnpm registry to npmmirror, and make Nix builds use the same mirror through nixpkgs' npmRegistryOverrides and rewriteURL. The configured Nixpkgs policy is also applied to myNurPkgs and Colmena's nodeNixpkgs so NUR packages such as dsh use the mirror while preserving Colmena parity.
systemd-tmpfiles-setup only orders itself after local-fs.target, but the nofail /data submounts can complete later. It then sees /data as the read-only fallback tmpfs and fails to create the Transmission, Immich, RustFS and restic directories at boot.
Add RequiresMountsFor for the data mounts and cover the generated unit dependency with an eval test.
* refactor(nixpak): split policy checks into per-app suites
Make hardening/tests/policy.nix a small loader that auto-discovers one suite per app under hardening/tests/policy. Shared checks live in policy-lib.nix and common expectations are generated by mkAppPolicy; app files only declare differences and special cases. The loader also discovers wrappers from hardening/nixpaks and fails when wrapper/suite inventory or check names diverge.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* fix(nixpak): reject duplicate per-app policy checks
mkAppPolicy merges generated and custom checks, so an extraChecks key could silently override a standard assertion. Fail explicitly when a per-app check name is defined twice.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
Switch to the native deb package from nixpkgs-patched (#560225), remove the AppImage/FHS bwrap layer, and enable native Wayland while keeping the X11 fallback.
Keep only WeChat state under one app-scoped HOME and bind the host Documents and Downloads directories like the other desktop apps. User-selected files also go through the XDG FileChooser portal. Remove the launcher, activation script, and compatibility symlinks.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* refactor(nixpak): unify desktop app sandboxes
Move common GUI, portal, and network policy into reusable modules and migrate browsers plus Zoom/WeChat/QQ/Telegram to the same boundary.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
NixOS copies mode-carrying /etc entries such as authorized_keys.d during
stage-2 activation, which runs before systemd starts. preservation mounted the
persisted /etc/ssh from preservation.target afterwards and hid that copy, so a
key change only took effect on `switch`: revoking a key and rebooting silently
restored the old one.
Prepare the mount in initrd, before activation runs, and cover it with a VM
test that seeds a stale authorized_keys file, reboots, and asserts the declared
key replaced it. The same test fails on that assertion with inInitrd disabled.
Verified on all four hosts: /persistent/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/root is now
rewritten at boot instead of keeping the timestamp of the last switch.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
The homelab hosts accept root SSH with long-lived file keys, run several
exposed services with almost no systemd sandboxing, and keep no audit trail of
privileged actions. Close those three gaps, weighing each measure against its
cost instead of adopting a policy wholesale.
SSH
- Turn off KbdInteractiveAuthentication: nixpkgs defaults it to true and PAM
then still accepts the Unix password despite PasswordAuthentication = false.
- authorizedKeysInHomedir = false: only keys declared in Nix take effect;
youko keeps Gitea's forced-command file through `Match User gitea`.
- Pin aquamarine's passphrase-free remote-builder keys to
`restrict,command="nix-daemon --stdio --store daemon"`, so builds run in the
system daemon instead of an audited root login session.
systemd sandboxing
- Add the mylib.systemdHardening preset and apply it to the exposed, weakly
sandboxed services: caddy 7.8 -> 1.5, vmalert 8.2 -> 1.4, rustfs 6.6 -> 1.4,
whisper-asr 7.7 -> 1.6. An eval test pins the key restrictions.
- Rejected: a global all-keys policy (<=0.2 score gains on services nixpkgs
already sandboxes) and per-service confinement (bind paths to maintain).
auditd on all four hosts, reusing nixpkgs' loader and unit
- Audit login sessions only: a first `-a never,task -F auid=unset` rule keeps
services out of the per-syscall audit path. A compromised service is
therefore unrecorded until it opens a session.
- Record root commands, credential and host-key access, writes to SSH, account,
PAM, Nix-trust and audit configuration, module loads and session denials.
- Rejected: global denial logging, service-UID watches and
--loginuid-immutable (the kernel already records loginuid changes).
Verified on all four hosts after deployment: zero failed units, k3s 6/6 Ready,
and the exposed services healthy.
Assisted-by: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
* chore(nix): update nixpkgs to e62746b and fix 26.11 breakage
Bump nixpkgs to e62746b and preservation to 00be7f7, then adapt to the removals and renamed options in the new revision: drop the removed boot.initrd.systemd.enable settings, trim the stale emSign CA blacklist on Linux while keeping it for the older Darwin input, and migrate Avahi publishing to settings.publish. Work around sunshine still setting the legacy Avahi options and keep dsh-nu on its tested Nushell 0.115.1. Patch NUR dsh's pnpm call to pass nodejs = null, and update pyclipsync for the stdenv.hostPlatform.system rename.
* chore(nix): refresh flake inputs for 26.11
- update nixpkgs-darwin to the same e62746b revision as nixpkgs
- make dsh-nu follow main nixpkgs and patch its testedWith manifest for the resolved Nushell
- refresh floating inputs; update lanzaboote, tuios, and ponytail
- drop the nixpkgs-2505 and rust-overlay workarounds
- keep pyclipsync on main and simplify the cross-platform CA blacklist
- adopt home-manager's Nushell loadSessionVariables default
* fix(gitea): use ROOT_URL for nixpkgs 26.11
nixpkgs removed the legacy settings.server.DOMAIN option; the existing ROOT_URL already carries the public URL.
* chore(nix): update dsh-nu to 0.7.0
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
The 2026-10-22 audit found the live socket on *:9835: #373 bound
node/smartctl in monitoring.nix, but the nvidia exporter enabled in
hardware-nvidia.nix kept the nixpkgs default, so the socket-level
defence-in-depth layer never existed for 9835.
Extend the security-exporters eval check to every enabled exporter's
listenAddress so a future exporter without a bind fails the test.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (gpt-6-astra)
The etcd client API listens on the masters' static LAN address, and the
pod-source deny lists omitted it. Add 2379 to both nft drop lines and
assert it in the security-k3s-pod-firewall eval test. 2381 (etcd
metrics, scraped by in-cluster monitoring) stays reachable by design.
Pairs with the matching Cilium egressDeny port in k8s-gitops.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (gpt-6-astra)
Nothing imported it and the riscv64 output was already commented out; riscv64 hosts live in ryan4yin/nixos-config-sbc.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (deepseek-flash)
Reading the host's install script evaluated each guest, which pulls the private secrets input, so
CI could not evaluate the suite at all.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (deepseek-flash)
Colmena deployments now ship the same toplevel as nixosConfigurations: nodes gain the nixpkgs
registry, nixPath and dated version, and akane no longer gets the x86_64 dsh.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (claude-opus-5-5)
Hosts without Home Manager (aquamarine, the VM hosts, k3s guests) had no
interpreter. The system profile is separate from the per-user one, so desktops
keep their Home Manager copy in PATH.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (deepseek-flash)
* feat(agents): use the shell's own dialect; allow 5 s retry backoff
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* feat(dsh): make Nushell the only shell
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): wait for CI in the background
Pushes to a PR often start multi-minute CI runs, and an agent that holds
the turn open on a foreground watch reports nothing until it ends. Require
the pushed head and running checks to be reported first, the watch to run
in the background, and the result to be collected after independent work
or after ending the turn.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): keep the shell-handoff rule platform-neutral
The global rules carry no Windows assumptions: drop the cmd, pwsh, and
wsl handoff examples and keep the POSIX forms plus the dsh refusal.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(dsh): keep the shell-swap docs POSIX-only
This repository manages Linux and Darwin hosts, not Windows: drop the
Windows handoff examples and terminal-backend wording from dsh.md. The home
patch also disabled pwsh-sandbox redundantly because dsh-base already
disables that row on POSIX; keep only the active bash-sandbox disable and
verify the composed rows with --dump-config.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): keep the global rules runtime-neutral
Global rules are loaded by every agent CLI, so they must not describe one
runtime's behavior. Drop the dsh-specific sentence and wording while keeping
the expectation to prefer Nushell structured pipelines and Python. Runtime
behavior stays documented in home/base/tui/agents/dsh.md.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): default shell work to Nushell
Keep the Nushell preference explicit in the runtime-neutral global rules, and
keep runtime behavior in runtime docs. Bash stays a narrow fallback for tasks
Nushell cannot do.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): tighten global-rule scope and CI guidance
Keep global rules runtime- and project-neutral, and state that boundary in the
file. Remove the duplicated CI turn-steering text in favour of the Communication
rule, resolve the watch run before watching instead of relying on
gh pr checks --watch alone, name the working-directory parameter generically,
and distinguish a bounded retry backoff from a fixed completion wait.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): never estimate a CI run's duration
A CI run has no predictable length, so do not turn "it looks short" into a
reason to wait. The rule is unconditional: report the head and started checks,
start a background watch, and end the turn; collect the result on completion.
The eval scenario now uses an unknown duration.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* docs(agents): move maintenance guidance to the README
The runtime/project boundary is guidance for editing the rules, not a rule
agents need loaded every session. The README's Maintaining global rules
section already owns that audience; the loaded rules keep only behavior.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* refactor(dsh): render the home patch from a YAML template
Move the home-layer cordis patch into dsh-cordis.patch.yml, substitute the
bundle and Nushell store paths with replaceVars, and link the rendered file
through home.file.source. This module is the only writer of
~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml, the current host has no such file, and the profile
patch is a separate layer.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* refactor(dsh): install the shell plugin through NUR withPlugins
Replace the local runCommand bundle, peer symlink, and home-layer YAML file
with the plugin package and dsh.withPlugins from ryan4yin/nur-packages#43. The
package wrapper adds a generated --patch overlay after the profile layer, so
dsh no longer writes or manages ~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml. The NUR input is
temporarily pinned to the PR branch and its commit; point it back at main once
the NUR PR merges.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* refactor(nix): expose the NUR package set as nurPkgs
Pass one per-system NUR package set through specialArgs instead of repeating
nur-ryan4yin.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system} at each call site.
The agents, rime, and idols-ruby modules now use the short binding.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* refactor(nix): use nurPkgs in package overlays
The overlays receive specialArgs too, so they can use the per-system NUR
package set instead of rebuilding the long input path from prev. This leaves
only the definition in outputs/default.nix.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* refactor(nix): name the per-system NUR set myNurPkgs
Leave room for consuming another NUR repository later, and match the existing
mylib/myvars naming.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* chore(dsh): consume the merged NUR package set
nur-ryan4yin now points at main after ryan4yin/nur-packages#43 was squash
merged; the lock records the merge commit. No branch ref remains.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* fix(dsh): pass the web profile explicitly
The withPlugins launcher prepends --patch, which historically prevented dsh
from auto-expanding "dsh web" into "--profile web". Pass the profile
explicitly in the Just recipe and the verification commands so they work with
both plain dsh and the wrapper.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* chore(dsh): pick up the wrapped-profile fix
Update nur-ryan4yin to the squash merge that keeps an implicit profile name
first, so "dsh web" and "just dsh-web" work through the wrapper again.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* chore(dsh): pick up the plugin peer-link fix
Update nur-ryan4yin to the squash merge that links the dsh peer tree at
node_modules/@deepseek-ai instead of nesting it one level deeper. This is the
import failure that stopped nushell-executor from activating after deploy.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
* feat(aquamarine): make the iGPU usable for media and OpenVINO
The R9700s stay reserved for inference: VA-API/QSV transcoding moves to the iGPU media
engine, and `openvino-gpu` works around ROCm's OpenCL loader shadowing the plugin's
`ocl-icd` (WA-038).
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (deepseek-v4.1-flash)
* docs(aquamarine): document OpenVINO on the iGPU
How to run models on the iGPU: the `openvino-gpu` wrapper, the encoder staticization Whisper needs
on `GPU`, compile/steady timings and memory, and the language and cache caveats.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (deepseek-v4.1-flash)
The goal is speech recognition on the NPU for vinput, and sherpa-onnx cannot
deliver it: every model it loads keeps a dynamic time axis, which the NPU
compiler rejects outright. Qwen3-ASR and SenseVoice both core-dumped in
vpux-compiler ("Got non broadcastable dimensions pair"), and reshaping the ONNX
inputs does not help because the dynamic dimensions sit inside the graph
(WA-037). Whisper is the only family OpenVINO publishes fully static IRs for,
and its fixed 30 s window is exactly what the compiler accepts.
The host now runs an OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/transcriptions service backed
by whisper-large-v3-turbo int8 on the NPU: 1.5 s for 11 s of audio against
2.1 s on CPU, with the compiled graph cached in /var/cache so only a cold cache
pays the ~60 s NPU compile. vinput on the desktop sends raw PCM to it through a
small provider script.
Only the NPU driver and compiler still come from the unmerged branch in the
`nixpkgs-npu` input (NixOS/nixpkgs#570230), whose nixpkgs also happens to be
the one where openvino-genai 2026.4.0.0 builds at all.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness 0.2.1-rc.2 (deepseek-v4.1-flash)
On a tmpfs root the flake/fetch cache is empty at every boot, so
`nix run <flake-ref>` re-downloads its input and fails until DNS is up: a reboot
test showed llama-swap's first start failing on that. Other caches write into
RAM meanwhile.
Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)
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