PR #28 gave the five fleet oauth2-proxy sidecars --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180 and a named `metrics` port. This wires a scraper to them and, in the process, found a real bug in the alert this branch added. PodMonitor, not ServiceMonitor. Measured: no Service exposes 44180 on any of the five (jackett/radarr/sonarr/qbittorrent/pihole all publish only their app port + authproxy 4180), so a ServiceMonitor would select nothing. A PodMonitor targets pod ports directly and needs no change to catalog/render.py or the apps/wave-* renders and goldens. Selector is the pod label homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode=forward-auth — present on exactly those five gate pods, absent from crafty's, which still has no metrics listener. The property, not an app list. THE BUG: `up{container="oauth2-proxy"}` -> `up{container="oauth2-proxy"} == 1`. A target that is discovered but FAILING still publishes `up`, with value 0. The series exists, so count by (namespace) returned 1, `unless` removed the namespace, and OAuth2ProxyGateUnobserved went QUIET while nothing was being scraped at all — this branch's own disease reproduced inside the alert written to cure it. Not hypothetical: the PodMonitor lands five targets whose scrape is dropped, so the bare form would have silently cleared on this very commit. Proven by mutation: reverting the `== 1` fails the two new unit-test scenarios (got: nil) and leaves every other assertion green. The scrape does NOT work yet, and that is documented rather than papered over. From a pod in ns monitoring to the jackett pod, :44180 AND :4180 both time out; the shared proxy's :44180 answers. ns jackett's default-deny is podSelector:{} with policyTypes:[Ingress,Egress] and NO ingress key (deny-all), and the one allowance is fromEntities:[ingress] to 4180 — the Gateway's Envoy only. The endpoint itself is healthy: port-forwarded, /metrics returns http=200, 10208 bytes, all three oauth2_proxy_* families including requests_total{code="302"}. Same bug and fingerprint as platform/longhorn/networkpolicy-metrics.yaml records for Longhorn; the fix is one narrow rule per app, and it cannot ship from this tier because oauth2-proxy and apps-wave-0 are Flux SIBLINGS (both dependsOn platform-config), so naming ns jackett here would apply today and fail on a cold rebuild. Needs an owner in the renderer. Touches conformance/** : one KNOWN_EXTERNAL_MONITORS entry, which is the mechanism the failing check explicitly instructs ("DECLARE it ... with who creates it") and which flux-podmonitor.yaml already uses. It records that the port name was measured on prod instead of resolved from a Service, and that the targets are currently down. That makes this PR require a non-author review on the sensitive-path rule. Also: ratio alert still NOT shipped. oauth2_proxy_requests_total now exists on the endpoint but not in the TSDB, so writing it today would make it inert for exactly the reason it was refused on 2026-09-30. Runbook gains policy-vs-no-target triage and the radarr /signalr/messages/negotiate worked case — one orphaned browser tab, 206 identical 302s, nobody ever re-prompted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
decisions/ — the handoff log, one file per entry
This directory is the decision log. ../DECISIONS-LOG.md is the frozen archive of
everything written before 2026-09-29 and is never edited again (see "The archive is
frozen" below).
Why this exists
DECISIONS-LOG.md was append-only in a single file, and every agent appended to its
tail. Two branches that both append hit the same last hunk, so git cannot
auto-merge them: the second one to be reviewed conflicts, and so does the third, and
the fourth. Measured on 2026-09-29: four of the five open PRs were unmergeable, and
DECISIONS-LOG.md was the only conflicting file in all four:
#22 fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
#20 feat/conformance-job-template CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
#19 feat/conformance-trigger-kubeconfig CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
#18 feat/conformance-runner-image CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
#17 feat/ci-is-the-approver clean (it touched no log entry)
Nothing was wrong with any of those changes. The log's storage format serialised work that was otherwise parallel, and it got worse with every concurrent branch: N branches produce N-1 rebases, each of which invalidates any gate run that preceded it.
The fix is the obvious one for concurrent appenders: stop sharing a file. Each handoff is its own file. Two agents writing handoffs touch disjoint paths, so there is nothing for git to merge and nothing to conflict. This scales to any number of parallel branches with zero coordination — which is the point, since the agents are deliberately isolated from each other in separate worktrees and cannot coordinate.
There is deliberately no index file and no counter. An index would be a shared
mutable file — exactly the thing that just failed — and a sequence number would have
two agents racing for 0043. The directory listing is the index.
Writing an entry
One file per handoff, named:
decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md
<slug> is lowercase [a-z0-9-]. Use your branch name's last segment — it is
already unique per unit of work, which is precisely the property the filename needs.
A branch fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin handed off on 2026-09-29 writes:
decisions/2026-09-29-crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin.md
The file is YAML frontmatter followed by three required sections:
---
date: 2026-09-29
branch: fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin
title: The Keycloak gate works — Crafty's own login was the wall
---
## What changed
Prose. What you actually did, and why.
## What I verified
The measurements, with their numbers. Quote the field you read, not the prose you
believed. Name the gate result and its exit code.
## What I did NOT verify
Everything else. An honest "UNVERIFIED" is worth more than an optimistic "green" —
this repo has been burned by the difference more than once.
All three headings are required and enforced (ci/decisions-log.sh). They are
CLAUDE.md §7's contract; making them a checked structure is what stops an entry
degrading into "done ✅".
Reading the log
The whole log, oldest first:
ls decisions/[0-9]*.md | sort
The current PM handoff — the newest entry. Ties within a day are broken by what landed
on main last, which is the honest answer, so ask git rather than the filename:
git log --diff-filter=A --format='%H' --name-only -- 'decisions/[0-9]*.md' \
| grep '^decisions/' | head -1
For a quick skim of who said what:
grep -H '^title:' decisions/[0-9]*.md | sort
The archive is frozen
DECISIONS-LOG.md is read-only history. Its SHA-256 is pinned in
decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256 and ci/decisions-log.sh fails the merge gate if the file
changes. That is not ceremony: without it, the next agent to read runbooks/ or an old
CLAUDE.md habit appends to the tail again and re-creates the conflict for everybody
else, silently, one PR at a time.
If the archive genuinely must change (a leaked credential to redact, say), that is a
deliberate, reviewed act: change it, run sha256sum DECISIONS-LOG.md > decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256,
and say in your handoff entry why. Re-pinning is visible in the diff. Appending is not.