the-custodian/docs/infrastructure-stabilization-pickup-checkpoint.md

# Infrastructure Stabilization Pickup Checkpoint

Updated: 2026-07-02
Coordinator workplan: `CUST-WP-0051`

## Operator Pickups Ready Now (updated 2026-07-02 afternoon)

All five morning gates are closed (deploy, CCRs, audit evidence, applier
proof, unseal-wiring review). The issue-core REST emission lane is live
end-to-end (Gitea issue `176`), the llm-connect OpenRouter lane is active,
and the credential lifecycle runbook exists. The single open operator item is
the **Core Hub staging deployment decision set** (CUST-WP-0025-T16 /
CORE-WP-0004): target cluster (recommended CoulombCore), staging secret
posture (recommended generated K8s Secrets), and image path (recommended
Gitea registry — needs explicit approval because `coulomb` org packages are
public). Image `core-hub:ba32597` is pre-built locally; registry auth exists.

## Original morning list (2026-07-02, all closed)

Every remaining execution lane converged on operator gates in the 2026-07-02
session (agent policy correctly blocks unattended production writes/reads on
railiance01, credential-bootstrap script edits, and OIDC/MFA logins). Each item
below is prepared to one command or one decision:

1. **Daily-triage robustness deploy** (`RAIL-BS-WP-0008`): image
   `activity-core:railiance01-prod` is rebuilt locally from activity-core
   `7612112` (T02 prompt contract included and gate-checked). Operator: run the
   save/scp/import block from `activity-core/k8s/railiance/README.md`, sync the
   repo *with `.git`* to `railiance01:~/activity-core` (the copy there has no
   git metadata and the revision gate needs it), then
   `cd ~/railiance-cluster && make deploy-activity-core-triage-robustness`.
   Afterwards `make admin-sync-smoke` closes `RAIL-BS-WP-0009`.
2. **CCR approvals** (`RAILIANCE-WP-0009`/`0010`): `CCR-2026-0002`
   (issue-core ingestion) and `CCR-2026-0003` (llm-connect OpenRouter) are
   reviewed and binding-confirmed but still `proposed`. Approve, then
   `make credential-change-applier-apply` per CCR; the issue-core
   ExternalSecret already syncs, so verification is mostly confirm-not-create.
3. **Broker live evidence** (`RAILIANCE-WP-0005-T09`): needs one
   KeyCape-OIDC-authenticated session to collect OpenBao audit-log references
   and response-wrap unwrap-once evidence.
4. **Non-prod applier proof** (`RAILIANCE-WP-0008-T03`): mint one token from
   `auth/token/roles/credential-change-nonprod-applier` and record apply +
   denial probes.
5. **OpenBao unseal automation** (`NET-WP-0020-T02`, advanced 2026-07-02):
   `make -C ~/net-kingdom openbao-init-unseal` exists with custody-model gate
   and non-secret evidence; operator review still needed to wire it as a phase
   inside `creds-bootstrap-agent.sh`, and greenfield live proof needs a rebuild
   slate.

## Purpose

This checkpoint is the restart surface for the infrastructure stabilization
metaplan. It consolidates the workplan review, unblock boards, current State
Hub registration state, and the next strategic picks.

Use this file first when resuming the lane. Then open the source workplan named
in the relevant row and continue from its task state.

## Registration State

State Hub active workstreams queried on 2026-06-27:

| Workstream | Current pickup meaning |
| --- | --- |
| `artifact-store-wp-0007` | Start D7.1/D7.2 assessment and compatibility harness; D7.3 STS vending may route to NetKingdom. |
| `ihub-wp-0022` | Ops-hub evidence intake contract is aligned to live vocabulary; runtime key custody, protected widget lookup, and smoke remain. |
| `cust-wp-0047` | Now-view waits on the ops-hub Inter-Hub evidence lane, not on service inventory collection. |
| `cust-wp-0049` | Bootstrap access helper/runbook is ready; authenticated execution is operator-gated. |
| `cust-wp-0051` | This metaplan is the coordination layer for remaining cross-workplan gates. |
| `activity-wp-0016-llm-output-robustness-trust-boundary` | Repo-side output robustness bundle is prepared; live deploy/smoke proof remains. |
| `three-phoenix-ha-cluster` | HA substrate remains future critical-workload work, not the current State Hub cutover blocker. |
| `rail-ho-wp-0005` | Forgejo production migration is parked behind explicit design, SMTP, backup, runner, and cutover decisions. |
| `net-wp-0020` | OpenBao unseal/token custody remains an operator design and smoke gate. |
| `issue-wp-0003` | issue-core service is healthy; activity-core REST emission wiring remains. |
| `activity-wp-0006` | Calibration waits on the post-WP-0016 live daily-triage smoke and three clean scheduled runs. |
| `cust-wp-0038` | Full State Hub HA migration is deferred until the pragmatic railiance01 path stabilizes. |
| `cust-wp-0025` | FOS bootstrap resumes from identity integration and ops-hub evidence, not the old mega-hub scaffold. |
| `cust-wp-0011` | Active State Hub migration path; next gate is explicit cutover approval. |

Hygiene status:

- `CUST-WP-0045-cutover-runbook` is no longer active; it is a finished runbook
  record, not an empty active workstream.
- `CUST-WP-0014` is reopened as `backlog`; it is no longer a done workplan with
  todo task blocks.
- Completed or cancelled tasks no longer carry the stale human-needed flags
  cleared during this stabilization session.
- `make fix-consistency REPO=the-custodian` still reports pre-existing C-12
  orphan-row warnings, but the relevant workplan lifecycle and task states sync.
- `RAIL-BS-WP-0006-staged-promotion-lifecycle` is finished: all seven tasks
  are done, the workstream is finished in State Hub, and the file frontmatter
  is `status: finished`.

## Blocker Board

No live credential, access, or approval gate is unowned. Do not ask
`ops-warden` for secret values; use the route catalog, the `warden access`
assist/proxy surface where the catalog lane allows it, and the owning subsystem.

For credential-related blockers, classify the environment posture and workload
maturity first. Dev/test work can use synthetic contract doubles; production
real-value work needs owner custody, policy gates where applicable, and
non-secret evidence. See `docs/ops-warden-secret-posture-review.md`.

Do not implement ops-warden changes from this Custodian lane. New ops-warden
needs should be posted through State Hub as requirements or suggestions for the
separate ops-warden worker.

| Gate | Owner/route | Non-secret evidence to collect | Next action |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| State Hub pragmatic cutover | Custodian operator approval; `CUST-WP-0011-T07` | Final dump id/time, row-count comparison, chosen private endpoint, stabilization notes | Approve freeze/final restore and make railiance01 State Hub primary, or leave WSL2 primary explicitly. |
| State Hub fallback retirement | Custodian/operator approval; `CUST-WP-0038-T08` | HA failover drill id, restore drill id, stabilization pass | Keep deferred until after HA drills; do not retire WSL2 fallback early. |
| Inter-Hub ops-hub bootstrap | `inter-hub-bootstrap-ssh`, `openbao-api-key`, `ssh-cert-host-access` as needed | Hub id, manifest id, widget count, runtime key prefix only, smoke result | Legacy/fallback only. Prefer Core Hub deployed smoke; run attended Inter-Hub bootstrap only by explicit operator supersede/rollback decision. |
| Ops-hub runtime evidence key | `openbao-api-key` / OpenBao custody | OpenBao path/version or populated key count, event smoke id | Do not materialize legacy `OPS_HUB_KEY` until a deployed Core Hub smoke or explicit legacy Inter-Hub smoke is ready to use it. |
| Daily-triage live proof | activity-core deploy/runtime operator | State Hub `daily_triage` id, output-valid or partial/quarantine status, working-memory path | Bank the 2026-06-28 / 2026-06-29 / 2026-06-30 clean streak, then have the activity-core owner land/sync the in-flight WP-0016 diagnostics and prove bounded top-N plus graceful-degradation smoke. |
| activity-core to issue-core | route `activity-core-issue-sink` | `actcore-runtime-secret` has key, activity-core points to issue-core port `8765`, HTTP 201, Gitea issue id | Inject `ISSUE_CORE_API_KEY` through approved custody, set REST sink env, restart/sync, run safe emission. |
| Forgejo production design | Forgejo/operator decisions plus OpenBao/KeyCape/ops-bridge routes as needed | Decision id, SMTP smoke, backup/restore drill, package/action smoke, cutover approval id | Resolve T02 production choices before any production cutover work. |
| OpenBao unseal and credential helper | `openbao-api-key`, `railiance-infra-principals`, `ssh-cert-host-access`, `key-cape-oidc-login` | Policy names, role names, token accessor only, allow/deny smoke | `warden-sign` lane is verified/banked; broader custody profile and issuer automation remain separate operator-design gates. |
| ops-warden policy gate / warden-sign lane | `SECRETS-WP-0004` + `FLEX-WP-0007` finished; ops-warden operator posture | `decision:032b096c433ad80c`, `ttl_out_of_bounds`, backend `vault`; no token/role/secret/accessor values | No Custodian action. Keep `policy.enabled` off until testing/production maturity. |

## Daily Automation Evidence

The scheduled daily-triage runner is alive and writing State Hub plus working
memory evidence. The current blocker is bounded output-contract adoption and
live graceful-degradation proof, not scheduling or sink reachability.

Latest clean scheduled streak:

- 2026-06-28: event `f0d8477e-1db9-4c07-bb8c-d28cbb868abc`, schema-valid daily
  triage, working memory written.
- 2026-06-29: event `176d2ea7-f0e3-48cd-999b-4ab6055c6a55`, schema-valid daily
  triage, working memory written.
- 2026-06-30: event `27d695b2-a537-481b-ada6-ca84ec24cd96`, schema-valid daily
  triage, working memory written.

Latest failed scheduled runs before the clean streak:

- 2026-06-26: event `97fd20a0-eee0-45ea-8290-6d91874e1515`, validation failed
  at char 5268, working memory written.
- 2026-06-27: event `c5ab50a8-404b-4e30-849f-841b059ace65`, validation failed
  at char 5246, working memory written.

Bank the three-run calibration streak, but keep the WP-0016 live-proof gate open
until the bounded top-N contract and graceful-degradation smoke are proven. The
activity-core worktree currently has in-flight uncommitted ACTIVITY-WP-0016
and ACTIVITY-WP-0018/0019 changes, so Custodian should wait for that owner to
commit/sync or explicitly hand off before treating those files as source truth.
Use activity-core repo-native automation status surface once it lands; do not
use assistant-provided scheduling as operational evidence.

## Production Service Summary

| Surface | Stable fact | Remaining gate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| State Hub | Pragmatic railiance01 path has image, manifests, empty deploy, migrations, restored WSL2 data, row-count comparison, and healthy API through `CUST-WP-0011-T06`. | `CUST-WP-0011-T07` cutover approval, then stabilization; HA path stays deferred. |
| Inter-Hub / Core Hub | Public `https://hub.coulomb.social/api/v2/hubs` exposes `ops-hub`; `CORE-WP-0008` finished the Core Hub API smoke harness, activity-core sink, staging profile, CLI wrappers, UI backlog, and Custodian handoff. | Run deployed Core Hub smoke, staging import, activity-core sink smoke, and readiness summary; keep Haskell Inter-Hub only for migration/rollback proof. |
| ops-hub evidence | `CUST-WP-0025-T14` is done with the Core Hub ops evidence contract spec. `CUST-WP-0025-T13` through `T19` now use Core Hub API/CLI/UI gates; `CUST-WP-0047` and `CUST-WP-0049` remain legacy/fallback records. | Execute `CUST-WP-0025-T16`, `T17`, and `T18`; close legacy Inter-Hub waits only through deployed Core Hub evidence or explicit supersede decision. |
| issue-core | ArgoCD service is healthy on port `8765`; image `0.2.1`; ExternalSecret Ready; authenticated smoke created Gitea issue `175`. | activity-core still needs `ISSUE_CORE_API_KEY`, URL port `8765`, `ISSUE_SINK_TYPE=rest`, and a safe emission smoke. |
| Forgejo | Migration inventory/design lane is active but pre-cutover. | Production design decisions, SMTP/email recovery, package registry, Actions, backup/restore, migration drill, cutover approval. |
| artifact-store | D7.1 is done; D7.2 has an opt-in live MinIO compatibility harness and manual smoke docs. No live secret handoff is recorded. | Run D7.2 against an approved MinIO-compatible endpoint, then route D7.3 STS vending through identity/platform custody before changing credential behavior. |
| secrets-engine | `SECRETS-WP-0004` is finished: the scoped `warden-sign` lane supported the vault-backed policy-gate smoke without exposing token material. `SECRETS-WP-0003` remains active for the real whynot-design npm publish pilot. | Finish or park `SECRETS-WP-0003` behind Gitea bot/package-token provisioning, OpenBao custody, ops-warden route confirmation, and real package publish evidence. |
| FOS hub | Old NK-WP-0001 Keycloak prerequisite is cancelled; NK-WP-0002 local identity, IAM Profile v0.2, the Core Hub FastAPI IAM Profile integration test, and Core Hub operator UI first screens are done; hub-core extraction/dev-hub work is done; CUST-WP-0025 Phase 3 has been rewritten for Core Hub. | Execute the remaining Core Hub deployed evidence and cutover gates: `CUST-WP-0025-T16` and `T17`. |

## Next-Pick List

1. Execute the remaining rewritten `CUST-WP-0025` Core Hub gates: deployed
   smoke and activity-core proof (`T16`) and cutover decision coupling (`T17`).
   T03, T14, and T18 are complete as the identity integration template, ops
   evidence/read-model contract, and operator UI first-screen gates.
2. Keep `CUST-WP-0047` and `CUST-WP-0049` as legacy evidence/fallback until
   Core Hub deployed smoke evidence or an explicit supersede decision closes
   them.
3. Bank the 2026-06-28 / 2026-06-29 / 2026-06-30 clean daily-triage
   streak for calibration, then have the activity-core owner land/sync the
   in-flight WP-0016 diagnostics/status work and prove the bounded top-N plus
   graceful-degradation smoke.
4. Complete the issue-core handoff by wiring activity-core to port `8765` with
   `ISSUE_SINK_TYPE=rest` and one known-safe emission smoke.
5. Request explicit State Hub cutover approval for `CUST-WP-0011-T07`, or
   record that WSL2 remains primary for the next operating period.
6. Run artifact-store D7.2 live MinIO-compatible evidence; Forgejo and storage
   work can now inherit the finished staged-promotion gates.
7. Keep `SECRETS-WP-0003` parked until Gitea bot/package-token provisioning,
   OpenBao custody, route confirmation, and a coordinated whynot-design version
   bump are available.
8. Keep Forgejo cutover and State Hub HA work parked until their human decision
   and drill gates are satisfied.

## Resume Commands

```bash
cd /home/worsch/the-custodian
sed -n '1,260p' workplans/CUST-WP-0051-infrastructure-stabilization-metaplan.md
sed -n '1,260p' docs/infrastructure-stabilization-pickup-checkpoint.md
sed -n '1,260p' docs/credential-custody-unblock-board.md
```

After workplan edits, sync from State Hub:

```bash
cd /home/worsch/state-hub
make fix-consistency REPO=the-custodian
```