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Archipelago — agent guide

✅ Single-node production gate is GREEN (2026-06-23)

tests/lifecycle/run-gate.sh is 5/5 on .228, 0 failures — the single-node exit criterion is met and the priority banner is demoted. Next exit-criteria: the multinode pass (docs/multinode-testing-plan.md) and workstreams B/C/D.

Read docs/PRODUCTION-MASTER-PLAN.md first — it is still the authoritative plan for the north star: a world-class, developer-ready app platform where every app is manifest-driven, manifests ship via the signed registry (not OTA disk files), and third-party developers publish apps via an external/decentralized registry — all rootless, secure, robust, and 100%-uptime-capable. It no longer overrides all ad-hoc direction now that the gate is green, but it remains the source of truth for sequencing the remaining workstreams.

Detailed sub-plans (all linked from the master):

• App platform / packaging phases + security model → docs/APP-PACKAGING-MIGRATION-PLAN.md
• Registry-distributed manifests (in progress) → docs/registry-manifest-design.md
• External/decentralized marketplace for devs → docs/marketplace-protocol.md
• Current per-app state → docs/app-registry-status-2026-06-21.md
• Production test gate (exit criterion) → tests/lifecycle/TESTING.md

Invariants (never violate)

• Rootless Podman only. No rootful, no Docker-socket mounts, no privileged containers unless explicitly approved.
• No per-app Rust installers / no OS-level reliance. Apps are declarative; the orchestrator owns the lifecycle. install_immich_stack (hardcoded podman run + sudo chown) is the anti-pattern being deleted, not a template.
• Secrets are manifest-declared (generated_secrets, materialised by container::secrets, 0600/rootless) — never hardcoded, per-app, or logged.
• Migrations never destroy data — preserve /var/lib/archipelago/<app>, secrets, credentials, ports, and adoption container names; keep a rollback path.
• Verify on the real node .228 before any tag. (Fleet-wide multinode verification is a separate plan: docs/multinode-testing-plan.md.)

Build / verify

• Rust workspace root is core/ (no Cargo.toml at repo root). cargo from core/.
• If a cargo test/build hits rust-lld: undefined hidden symbol, it's incremental-cache corruption — rebuild with CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0.
• Frontend: neode-ui/ → npm run build outputs to web/dist/neode-ui/. Grep the built bundle for new strings before shipping (build can silently no-op).
• App manifests load from disk on nodes at /opt/archipelago/apps/*/manifest.yml (today); the goal is to distribute them via the signed catalog instead.

Production test gate (definition of done)

tests/lifecycle/run-gate.sh green across install / UI / stop / start / restart / reinstall / reboot-survive / archipelago-restart-survive / uninstall — 5× on .228 (ARCHY_ITERATIONS=5). Run the gate ON the node (it uses local podman/systemctl/bitcoin probes), not via RPC from another host. ✅ GREEN 2026-06-23 (5/5, 0 not-ok) — keep it green (re-run after orchestrator/lifecycle changes); regressions are top priority again. Multinode testing (.198 + the rest of the fleet) is a SEPARATE plan — docs/multinode-testing-plan.md — not part of this single-node gate criterion, and is the next exit criterion now that single-node is green.