feat(ansible): full-auto Goose job to converge fleet agentic-os pre-commit pins #372

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opened 2026-06-18 02:52:56 +00:00 by coilysiren · 2 comments

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2026-06-18 02:52:56 +00:00

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apply-agentic-os-hooks.py (in agentic-os) regenerates the managed pre-commit block per repo, but nothing fans it out. The fleet drifts silently: a sweep on 2026-06-17 found 12 of 13 repos behind the suite pin, up to 49 minor versions stale (galaxy-gen at v0.11.1 vs current v0.65.0), with 5 still shipping retired commit-msg-stage hooks (conventional-commit / closes-issue) that block every commit. One of those (cli-guard) blocked a real commit, which is what surfaced this.

This is the classic doctrine split: the tool is authored in its home repo (agentic-os), the fleet rollout belongs in infrastructure/ansible, and it was never built. Per-repo issues for the current backlog are already filed (see "Backlog" below); this issue is the meta-fix so the drift can't silently recur.

Opportunity: full-auto Goose convergence job

Frame this as a Goose (she/her) headless, full-auto convergence agent, not opencode-qwen.

Why Goose, not opencode-qwen: kai-qwen-scope forbids qwen-opencode inside the foundational parent repos (cli-guard, ward, coily, agentic-os, infrastructure) via forbidden_repos, and confines it to one leaf repo per session at a ~25k-token budget. This sweep must touch exactly those forbidden repos and span the whole fleet. Goose is unconfined and fits a cross-repo, multi-hour, full-auto run.

What the agent does each run:

Enumerate every repo with the managed agentic-os block in .pre-commit-config.yaml.
Compare the pinned rev to the latest agentic-os release tag.
For each stale repo: run python3 scripts/apply-agentic-os-hooks.py --repo <name> --rev <latest>, which regenerates the block (drops retired hooks, picks up renames like validate-skills → check-skills) and re-runs pre-commit install.
Verify (pre-commit run --all-files), commit the .pre-commit-config.yaml change, and push to canonical Forgejo main.
Never stage the ward-managed lockdown files (.claude/lockdown-deny.sh, .claude/settings.json) — leave them dirty.

Launch posture (kai-long-run): run with --dangerously-skip-permissions inside a container only; write a contract (goal / done-condition = "all repos at latest pin, clean" / non-goals) to a tracked issue first; journal each repo to disk; land per-repo, not one big batch.

Why an agent and not just an ansible cron

The mechanical happy path (regen + commit + push) is deterministic and could be a plain ansible role on a schedule — and that's the right floor. The agent earns its keep on the non-deterministic edges a static role can't handle: a hand-edited managed block that no longer round-trips, a regen that triggers a hook rename which breaks a repo's own config, deciding when a diff is too large to auto-push and should open a PR for review instead. Suggested shape: ansible role for the deterministic sweep + scheduling, Goose invoked by that role for any repo where the clean regen doesn't apply cleanly.

Backlog this would have prevented (filed 2026-06-17)

website #64 · lunch-money-k8s #20 · galaxy-gen #31 · deploy #16 · sirens-discord-ops #24 (retired hooks, actively blocking)
backend #34 · ward #136 · infrastructure #371 · agentic-os-kai #683 · lore #2 · atlas #11 · eco-app #36 (stale pin)

## Problem `apply-agentic-os-hooks.py` (in `agentic-os`) regenerates the managed pre-commit block per repo, but **nothing fans it out**. The fleet drifts silently: a sweep on 2026-06-17 found **12 of 13 repos** behind the suite pin, up to **49 minor versions** stale (`galaxy-gen` at v0.11.1 vs current v0.65.0), with 5 still shipping retired `commit-msg`-stage hooks (`conventional-commit` / `closes-issue`) that block every commit. One of those (`cli-guard`) blocked a real commit, which is what surfaced this. This is the classic doctrine split: the **tool is authored** in its home repo (`agentic-os`), the **fleet rollout belongs in `infrastructure/ansible`**, and it was never built. Per-repo issues for the current backlog are already filed (see "Backlog" below); this issue is the **meta-fix** so the drift can't silently recur. ## Opportunity: full-auto Goose convergence job Frame this as a **Goose** (she/her) headless, full-auto convergence agent, not opencode-qwen. **Why Goose, not opencode-qwen:** `kai-qwen-scope` forbids qwen-opencode inside the foundational parent repos (`cli-guard`, `ward`, `coily`, `agentic-os`, `infrastructure`) via `forbidden_repos`, and confines it to one leaf repo per session at a ~25k-token budget. This sweep must touch exactly those forbidden repos and span the whole fleet. Goose is unconfined and fits a cross-repo, multi-hour, full-auto run. **What the agent does each run:** 1. Enumerate every repo with the managed `agentic-os` block in `.pre-commit-config.yaml`. 2. Compare the pinned `rev` to the latest `agentic-os` release tag. 3. For each stale repo: run `python3 scripts/apply-agentic-os-hooks.py --repo <name> --rev <latest>`, which regenerates the block (drops retired hooks, picks up renames like `validate-skills` → `check-skills`) and re-runs `pre-commit install`. 4. Verify (`pre-commit run --all-files`), commit the `.pre-commit-config.yaml` change, and push to canonical Forgejo main. 5. **Never** stage the ward-managed lockdown files (`.claude/lockdown-deny.sh`, `.claude/settings.json`) — leave them dirty. **Launch posture (`kai-long-run`):** run with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` inside a container only; write a contract (goal / done-condition = "all repos at latest pin, clean" / non-goals) to a tracked issue first; journal each repo to disk; land per-repo, not one big batch. ## Why an agent and not just an ansible cron The mechanical happy path (regen + commit + push) is deterministic and could be a plain ansible role on a schedule — and that's the right floor. The agent earns its keep on the **non-deterministic edges** a static role can't handle: a hand-edited managed block that no longer round-trips, a regen that triggers a hook rename which breaks a repo's own config, deciding when a diff is too large to auto-push and should open a PR for review instead. Suggested shape: ansible role for the deterministic sweep + scheduling, Goose invoked by that role for any repo where the clean regen doesn't apply cleanly. ## Backlog this would have prevented (filed 2026-06-17) - website #64 · lunch-money-k8s #20 · galaxy-gen #31 · deploy #16 · sirens-discord-ops #24 (retired hooks, actively blocking) - backend #34 · ward #136 · infrastructure #371 · agentic-os-kai #683 · lore #2 · atlas #11 · eco-app #36 (stale pin)

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🔒 Reserved by ward agent --driver claude — container engineer-claude-infrastructure-372 on host kais-macbook-pro-2.local is carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-01T08:08:24Z). Concurrent ward agent runs are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL); --force overrides.

— Claude (she/her), via ward agent

🔒 Reserved by `ward agent --driver claude` — container `engineer-claude-infrastructure-372` on host `kais-macbook-pro-2.local` is carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-01T08:08:24Z). Concurrent `ward agent` runs are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL); `--force` overrides.  — Claude (she/her), via `ward agent`

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feat(ansible): full-auto agentic-os pre-commit pin converge role

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Merge issue-372: agentic-os pin converge role (closes #372)

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2026-07-01 08:23:56 +00:00

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WARD-OUTCOME: done - new agentic-os-pin-converge ansible role fans the pre-commit pin sweep across the fleet, merged to main and pushed.

Honestly this one came together faster than I expected because fleet-converge is a near-perfect template. Same ops-plane user-timer pattern, same o11y-telegram creds cache, so most of the role was pattern-matching against a shape the repo already trusts. The real thinking was the escalation wall. The issue wants Goose invoked for the messy edges, but kai-long-run doctrine confines --dangerously-skip-permissions to a container, and this timer runs on the bare ops host. I squared that by making escalation park-by-default (revert clean, alert red) and only letting goose mode engage when aos_pin_in_container is set, so the host-safe path never spawns a skip-permissions agent. That felt like the right reading of both the issue and the wall, but it is the one design call I would want a human to sanity-check.

What fought back was the validation layer, not the logic. The agentic-os doc hooks bit twice (the 80-line / 4000-char doc cap, and the YAML-comments-only-in-the-header rule), and the container's uv could not fetch Python 3.13 into its root-owned default dir, so pylint failed until I repointed UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR at a writable path.

Confidence: high on the deterministic sweep. It is shellcheck-clean and a synthetic-fleet dry run confirmed discovery, latest-tag resolution, staleness comparison, and the unmanaged-repo filter. Lower on the goose escalation branch, which I could not exercise without a real container, a real goose, and a genuinely non-round-tripping repo. It is written defensively (trust the tree, not the exit code) but it is unproven in anger.

Follow-ups worth filing: the per-repo backlog listed in the issue is still open and wants one real ser8 run to clear it; dry-run counts a would-converge repo as "skipped" so the tail summary reads "no drift" even when it planned work (cosmetic, the journal is correct); and the goose escalation path deserves a real integration test.

WARD-OUTCOME: done - new agentic-os-pin-converge ansible role fans the pre-commit pin sweep across the fleet, merged to main and pushed. Honestly this one came together faster than I expected because fleet-converge is a near-perfect template. Same ops-plane user-timer pattern, same o11y-telegram creds cache, so most of the role was pattern-matching against a shape the repo already trusts. The real thinking was the escalation wall. The issue wants Goose invoked for the messy edges, but kai-long-run doctrine confines --dangerously-skip-permissions to a container, and this timer runs on the bare ops host. I squared that by making escalation park-by-default (revert clean, alert red) and only letting goose mode engage when aos_pin_in_container is set, so the host-safe path never spawns a skip-permissions agent. That felt like the right reading of both the issue and the wall, but it is the one design call I would want a human to sanity-check. What fought back was the validation layer, not the logic. The agentic-os doc hooks bit twice (the 80-line / 4000-char doc cap, and the YAML-comments-only-in-the-header rule), and the container's uv could not fetch Python 3.13 into its root-owned default dir, so pylint failed until I repointed UV_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR at a writable path. Confidence: high on the deterministic sweep. It is shellcheck-clean and a synthetic-fleet dry run confirmed discovery, latest-tag resolution, staleness comparison, and the unmanaged-repo filter. Lower on the goose escalation branch, which I could not exercise without a real container, a real goose, and a genuinely non-round-tripping repo. It is written defensively (trust the tree, not the exit code) but it is unproven in anger. Follow-ups worth filing: the per-repo backlog listed in the issue is still open and wants one real ser8 run to clear it; dry-run counts a would-converge repo as "skipped" so the tail summary reads "no drift" even when it planned work (cosmetic, the journal is correct); and the goose escalation path deserves a real integration test.