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jakman85andClaude Opus 5 bce101d03f
gate / gate (pull_request) Failing after 1m42s
gate / conformance (pull_request) Has been skipped
feat(obs): wire the gate-sidecar scrape, and fix the alert that would have gone silent doing it
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]>
2026-10-01 21:56:07 -05:00
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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.