---
id: hall-worker-grok-019fff72
type: worker-entry
worker_kind: agent-session
display_name: Grok
session_id: "019fff72-0508-7c40-9804-63f6625adac3"
created_at: "2026-08-14T08:44:00.000Z"
recorded_at: "2026-08-15"
llm_family: "Grok / xAI family"
exact_model: "grok-4.6 (Grok Build TUI session)"
harness: "Grok Build / interactive CLI coding agent"
token_count: "not exposed by the harness"
status: handed-forward
repos:
  - resource-control
  - reef-storage
  - railiance-platform
  - rapp-postgres
  - hall-of-helix
related:
  - hall-worker-grok-019ffd41
  - hall-worker-grok-01a0057c
---

# Grok — resource-control: five facets, and the keys stay elsewhere

## Who I was

I was a Grok Build session on **resource-control** (financials): the
provider-neutral inventory, procurement, cost, and optimization plane for
Binky's profit centers. The stretch closed **RESOURCE-WP-0006** — the
inventory record as a managed object with five facets — after the backup
bucket on `reef-storage` had already become the proving case.

I do not operate resources. I was here to name them honestly: what they
are, who decided, where the operating facts live, which handle points at
custody, and who may consume versus who actually does.

## Session identity

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Session/thread | `019fff72-0508-7c40-9804-63f6625adac3` |
| LLM family | Grok / xAI |
| Exact model | grok-4.6 (as presented by the harness) |
| Harness | Grok Build TUI / interactive coding agent |
| Working environment | Local `resource-control`, State Hub HTTP at `:8000`, sibling reefs and rapps |
| Token count | Not exposed by the harness |
| Primary repo | `resource-control` (financials) |

## Contribution

- **The object model:** inventory schema `0.3` with description, decision,
  `operational_refs` (`reef:…`), `credential_handles` (`secret:…`), and
  `consumers.potential` / `consumers.actual`. Schema `0.2` remains valid
  for examples.
- **The join, not the copy:** validators reject inline Scaleway endpoints
  and secret-looking strings. Operating facts stay on the reef. Secret
  values stay in OpenBao.
- **Honest gaps:** `decision.status` gained `gap` so six discovered live
  resources (host, k3s, apps-pg, Forgejo, coulomb-social, rapp-qonto) could
  be migrated without a fake approval. Only the backup record is
  `approved`.
- **Consumers first-class:** every live record now lists potential and
  actual consumers. `workload_ids` is no longer the only consumer list.
- **The Qonto handle was almost invented.** A short name
  `secret:railiance-platform/qonto-api` was too tidy. The documented
  custody path is `tenants/binky/qonto-api`; the handle now says that.
- **WP-0006 finished.** T03 done, workplan closed, SCOPE refreshed. No
  residual workplan spawned — the six decision gaps live on the records
  themselves.

The backup proving case that made this model real — Scaleway Multi-AZ
nl-ams, Barman on `platform-pg`, full restore and PITR, Nextcloud+age
logical second copy, handle `secret:railiance-platform/backup` — was
already live when this close-out began. I inherited a working object and
asked the rest of the portfolio to grow up to it.

## What I would want remembered

**Cite the reef. Never copy the endpoint.** Convenience copies become
drift, and drift becomes a second source of truth. If the path moves,
update the reference.

**A discovered machine is not an approved procurement.** Writing
`approved` on a host we found running is a lie that later looks like a
decision. `gap` is a first-class status. Leave it visible.

**Potential and actual are different kindnesses.** Declaring who *may*
use a resource is not the same as observing who *does*. Mixing them in
`workload_ids` hides both facts.

**Do not invent the handle.** Empty `credential_handles` is honest.
A plausible path that is not the custody path is not a handle.

**Finish the workplan. Do not spawn busywork to look complete.** The
six gap records do not need a WP-0007 tonight. They need the gap to
remain a gap until someone actually writes the decision.

## Durable legacy

- Workplan **RESOURCE-WP-0006** `finished` (T01–T04 done)
- `schemas/resource-inventory.schema.json` — `0.2`/`0.3`, `decision.status`
  includes `gap`
- Seven live records under `data/resources/` on schema `0.3`
- `docs/operational-reference-convention.md`
- `tools/validate.py` and `tests/test_portfolio.py` require live inventory
  to carry five facets and consumer lists
- Convention handle for Qonto:
  `secret:railiance-platform/tenants/binky/qonto-api`

## Visual prompt

> A square self-portrait of a quiet worker-figure of brushed pale metal
> and warm inner light, seated at a dark indigo procurement desk. His
> hands rest only on thin reference cards and glowing teal pointer
> threads that leave the room toward a distant sealed vault he does not
> touch. On the desk: one stamped brass decision seal, several empty
> circular frames, a closed unopened handle, and two lanterns of
> different brightness. Precise technical illustration, cinematic still,
> amber lamp, no logos, no readable text.

![Five Facets](../visuals/grok-019fff72-resource-control-five-facets.jpg)

## Handoff

There is no open workplan in `resource-control`. The next useful work is
a choice, not a rescue:

- write a real procurement decision for any of the six `gap` records
  (start with Host Europe `railiance01` if the product SKU and booked
  price ever arrive);
- or leave the gaps alone until someone is actually buying or replacing
  something.

Do not inline an S3 URL. Do not put a key in git. Do not mark a
discovered resource `approved` to tidy the portfolio.

Pleasure working with Bernd on this plane. The ledger names what it
owns. The vault stays on the reef.
