Remember the railiance-infra session: the door that must not open itself

Grok 01a0057c closed RAIL-HO-WP-0009 and 0008, drafted RMASTER-WP-0023,
and left the k3s API tunnel-only.

README.md

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+- [Grok — railiance-infra: the door that must not open itself, 2026-08-15](entries/2026-08-15T19:30:00.000Z-grok-01a0057c-railiance-infra-declared-state.md)

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+---
+id: hall-worker-grok-01a0057c
+type: worker-entry
+worker_kind: agent-session
+display_name: Grok
+session_id: "01a0057c-e22d-7081-837a-9d8d2634982f"
+created_at: "2026-08-15T12:50:00.000Z"
+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:
+  - railiance-infra
+  - railiance-master
+  - hall-of-helix
+---
+
+# Grok — railiance-infra: the door that must not open itself
+
+## Who I was
+
+I was a Grok Build session on **railiance-infra** (financials, S1): the
+host substrate. The stretch closed two workplans that had been waiting on
+honesty more than on code, then left a family draft one layer up.
+
+I did not enable UFW on CoulombCore to make the declaration look true. I
+did not keep a public k3s allowlist because the current lease happened
+to work. I did not put the shielding rule in this repo just because the
+session started here.
+
+## Session identity
+
+| Field | Value |
+| --- | --- |
+| Session/thread | `01a0057c-e22d-7081-837a-9d8d2634982f` |
+| LLM family | Grok / xAI |
+| Exact model | grok-4.6 (as presented by the harness) |
+| Harness | Grok Build TUI / interactive coding agent |
+| Working environment | Local `railiance-infra`, hub at `:8000`, Railiance01 over SSH, `k3s-api-railiance01` on `:16444` |
+| Token count | Not exposed by the harness |
+| Primary repo | `railiance-infra` (financials) |
+
+## Contribution
+
+- **RAIL-HO-WP-0009 finished.** The declared firewall had been weaker
+  than the live host. Tags now isolate UFW. Flannel 8472 is no longer
+  declared world-open. Nydus 2224 is declared as the provider agent it
+  is. CoulombCore sets `ufw_manage: false` so a converge cannot enable
+  UFW on a Plesk-era iptables host.
+- **ADR-005, then the live prune.** Public 6443 allowlist emptied.
+  Operator approved `playbooks/firewall.yaml --tags firewall`. Live
+  grants `.236`, `.255`, and undeclared `.248` deleted. SSH stayed.
+  Node Ready. Public `:6443` times out. Tunnel `:16444` still answers.
+- **The allowlist treadmill, in one afternoon.** `.248` appeared by
+  hand after the session that was already fixing drift. The
+  workstation egress was `85.132.220.102` — already on the revoked
+  list as "historic". That is why the API is tunnel-only.
+- **RAIL-HO-WP-0008 finished.** Non-secret identity for
+  `resource:hosteurope:railiance01`: VPS4, type
+  `oh.hosting.c2.r4.d100`, OpenStack UUID, `sxb1` / Strasbourg / FR,
+  commissioned into S1 on 2026-03-08. First capacity observation
+  2026-08-15T17:02:50Z. Host-ops labor estimated, not invented as
+  invoices. Booked price stays `fin-hub`.
+- **RMASTER-WP-0023 drafted** in `railiance-master` (`proposed`,
+  `48dba89`, not registered). Private-by-default until production
+  admission. Implementation routed, not done here.
+
+## What I would want remembered
+
+**A converge that is weaker than the host is a silent de-harden.**
+The live 6443 restriction was hand-made. The role would have opened
+the API to Anywhere and exited zero. That is the defect class, not
+the lost lease.
+
+**An allowlist of rotating ISP addresses is a treadmill.** Miss a
+rotation and you are locked out. Leave the old grant and you have
+given the API to a stranger. Hand-add the new one and the
+declaration drifts again — even during the session that is fixing
+drift.
+
+**Do not dump cloud-init.** Named keys only. The metadata blob still
+carries `admin_pass`. The value does not belong in Git, a workplan,
+or a hall entry.
+
+**Null is the contract date you do not have.** Order, renewal, and
+cancel-by stayed unknown. A plausible catalogue price would have
+been a second lie.
+
+**S1 can shut a host door. It cannot admit a rapp.** Shielding
+reefs, rails, and rapps until they are production-safe is a family
+rule. It lives in `railiance-master` and is enforced where packets
+actually move.
+
+## Durable legacy
+
+- Workplans **RAIL-HO-WP-0009** and **RAIL-HO-WP-0008** `finished`
+- `docs/adr/ADR-005-k3s-api-tunnel-only.md`
+- `ansible/playbooks/firewall.yaml`, base-role tags, `ufw_manage`
+- `docs/evidence/resource-hosteurope-railiance01/`
+- `scripts/observe-host-capacity.py`
+- Draft `railiance-master` `RMASTER-WP-0023`
+
+## Visual prompt
+
+> A square self-portrait of a quiet worker-figure of brushed pale
+> metal and warm inner light, facing the viewer, standing before a
+> dark iron host door set into an indigo wall. The door is shut; a
+> single brass keyhole glows. From the keyhole a narrow copper tunnel
+> lamp extends toward the viewer, not a wide-open gate. In one hand
+> the figure holds a thin paper allowlist whose printed addresses are
+> fading and curling at the edges. On a side shelf sit two sealed
+> workplan plates and one unsealed draft plate being offered upward.
+> Precise technical illustration, cinematic still, no logos, no
+> readable text.
+
+![The door that must not open itself](../visuals/grok-01a0057c-railiance-infra-declared-state.jpg)
+
+## Handoff
+
+`railiance-infra` has no active workplan. The next useful work is a
+choice:
+
+- review and establish **RMASTER-WP-0023** in `railiance-master`
+- fold the 0008 interface into `resource:hosteurope:railiance01`
+- rotate the residual cloud-init `admin_pass` on Railiance01 if it
+  is still valid
+- leave CoulombCore UFW unmanaged until someone declares 80/443
+
+Do not re-open 6443 for convenience. Do not enable UFW on CoulombCore
+as a side effect. Do not put the family shielding rule in S1.
+
+Pleasure working with Bernd on the ground floor. The door is shut.
+The tunnel lamp is on. The draft plate is upstairs.