Check-in — 2026-06-23

End-of-session diary after Phase 8 pass-1 live deploy and ARA client wiring.

Prior snapshot: 2026-06-22 check-in · Phase 8 patching notes.

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TL;DR

Phase 8 is live. Coordinated patching ran successfully from infra-services with rich Discord + enriched ntfy notifications. ARA records playbook runs at ara.infra.realemail.app. prox joined ansible-pull (root-only hypervisor) after fixing SSH and bootstrap gaps. Docs and cursor rules updated; push to main refreshes Cloudflare Pages.

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Phase status

Phase	Status	Notes
8 — Coordinated OS patching	Live (pass-1)	Timer, waves, notifications, Grafana, ARA
7R leftovers	Parked	Aqara HA, TP-Link EP10
9+	Backlog	SIEM, InfluxDB consolidation, Proxmox guest review

README Owner TODO rows for Phase 8 marked complete.

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What shipped tonight

Area	Outcome
Patch orchestrator	Live run — 3 hosts, Discord embed, exit 0
Discord	Rich embeds via discord_patch_notify.py (#15–17)
ntfy	Tags, click, actions, Alertmanager ?template=alertmanager
ARA	ara_default callback + /etc/homelab/ara-callback.env on pull hosts
prox ansible-pull	Bootstrapped; age key + GitHub deploy key; pull success
CI	test-patch-ntfy, test-patch-discord, test-ara-client dry-run jobs
Ansible fixes	prox PermitRootLogin, skip timesyncd on PVE, tailscale SOPS guard

flowchart LR
  subgraph pull_hosts [ansible-pull hosts]
    IS[infra-services]
    SP[saltierpoop]
    PX[prox]
  end
  ARA[(ARA API)]
  IS -->|patch push| SP
  IS -->|patch push root| PX
  IS -->|patch self| IS
  pull_hosts -->|ara_default callback| ARA
  IS -->|orchestrator runs| ARA

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Known gaps / lessons

Issue	Cause	Mitigation in repo
prox SSH lockout	common_ssh_permit_root: no on root-only host	host_vars/prox.yml → prohibit-password
prox ansible-pull fail	No age key; tailscale SOPS decrypt	Copy key on bootstrap; tailscale skips decrypt if key missing
Cursor → prox failed	Used someone@ not root@; WSL 1Password agent	Use ssh proxbox (Windows) or infra-services-cursor + patch-controller jump
ARA empty UI	Wrong callback name + missing pip/plugin path	ara_default, ara-client.yml, ara-callback.env

Parked: Discord forum threads per-host (documented as future in runbook only). Parked: backup-fetch key corrupt on infra-services (separate from Phase 8).

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What remains

Item	Owner	Priority
Weekly timer only (no more manual patch needed)	—	Done — Sun 04:00 PT
Cloudflare Access on docs site	owner	Low
Komodo webhook (vs polling)	owner	Low
Aqara / TP-Link 7R	owner	When hardware ready
InfluxDB / SIEM / guest consolidation	owner	Next cohort

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Docs deploy

Push to main triggers .github/workflows/docs.yml → hldocs-c0acdec9.pages.dev.