Alexander Whitestone
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# [PHASE-1] Survival - Keep the Lights On
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Phase 1 is the manual-clicker stage of the fleet. The machines exist. The services exist. The human is still the automation loop.
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## Phase Definition
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- **Current state:** Fleet is operational. Three VPS wizards run. Gitea hosts 16 repos. Agents burn through issues nightly.
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- **The problem:** Everything important still depends on human vigilance. When an agent dies at 2 AM, nobody notices until morning.
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- **Resources tracked:** Uptime, Capacity Utilization.
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- **Next phase:** [PHASE-2] Automation - Self-Healing Infrastructure
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## What We Have
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### Infrastructure
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- **VPS hosts:** Ezra (143.198.27.163), Allegro, Bezalel (167.99.126.228)
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- **Local Mac:** M4 Max, orchestration hub, 50+ tmux panes
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- **RunPod GPU:** L40S 48GB, intermittent (Cloudflare tunnel expired)
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### Services
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- **Gitea:** forge.alexanderwhitestone.com -- 16 repos, 500+ open issues, branch protection enabled
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- **Ollama:** 6 models loaded (~37GB), local inference
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- **Hermes:** Agent orchestration, cron system (90+ jobs, 6 workers)
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- **Evennia:** The Tower MUD world, federation capable
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### Agents
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- **Timmy:** Local harness, primary orchestrator
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- **Bezalel, Ezra, Allegro:** VPS workers dispatched via Gitea issues
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- **Code Claw, Gemini:** Specialized workers
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## Current Resource Snapshot
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| Resource | Value | Target | Status |
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|----------|-------|--------|--------|
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| Fleet operational | Yes | Yes | MET |
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| Uptime (30d average) | ~78% | >= 95% | NOT MET |
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| Days at 95%+ uptime | 0 | 30 | NOT MET |
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| Capacity utilization | ~35% | > 60% | NOT MET |
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**Phase 2 trigger: NOT READY**
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## What's Still Manual
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Every one of these is a "click" that a human must make:
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1. **Restart dead agents** -- SSH into VPS, check process, restart hermes
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2. **Health checks** -- SSH to each VPS, verify disk/memory/services
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3. **Dead pane recovery** -- tmux pane dies, nobody notices, work stops
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4. **Provider failover** -- Nous API goes down, agents stop, human reconfigures
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5. **PR triage** -- 80% auto-merge, but 20% need human review
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6. **Backlog management** -- 500+ issues, burn loops help but need supervision
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7. **Nightly retro** -- manually run and push results
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8. **Config drift** -- agent runs on wrong model, human discovers later
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## The Gap to Phase 2
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To unlock Phase 2 (Automation), we need:
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| Requirement | Current | Gap |
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|-------------|---------|-----|
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| 30 days at 95% uptime | 0 days | Need deadman switch, auto-respawn, provider failover |
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| Capacity > 60% | ~35% | Need more agents doing work, less idle time |
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### What closes the gap
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1. **Deadman switch in cron** (fleet-ops#168) -- detect dead agents within 5 minutes
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2. **Auto-respawn** (fleet-ops#173) -- restart dead tmux panes automatically
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3. **Provider failover** -- switch to fallback model/provider when primary fails
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4. **Heartbeat monitoring** -- read heartbeat files and alert on staleness
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## How to Run the Phase Report
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```bash
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# Render with default (zero) snapshot
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python3 scripts/fleet_phase_status.py
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# Render with real snapshot
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python3 scripts/fleet_phase_status.py --snapshot configs/phase-1-snapshot.json
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# Output as JSON
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python3 scripts/fleet_phase_status.py --snapshot configs/phase-1-snapshot.json --json
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# Write to file
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python3 scripts/fleet_phase_status.py --snapshot configs/phase-1-snapshot.json --output docs/FLEET_PHASE_1_SURVIVAL.md
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```
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## Manual Clicker Interpretation
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Paperclips analogy: Phase 1 = Manual clicker. You ARE the automation.
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Every restart, every SSH, every check is a manual click.
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The goal of Phase 1 is not to automate. It's to **name what needs automating**. Every manual click documented here is a Phase 2 ticket.
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## Notes
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- Fleet is operational but fragile -- most recovery is manual
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- Overnight burns work ~70% of the time; 30% need morning rescue
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- The deadman switch exists but is not in cron
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- Heartbeat files exist but no automated monitoring reads them
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- Provider failover is manual -- Nous goes down = agents stop
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