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Context

The read-only warded director surface can file and read Forgejo issues but cannot observe the live Eco server beyond black-box HTTP. Confirmed live from a director session:

Works: open web egress - reads the public http://eco.coilysiren.me:3001/info and probes every app ingress (this is how the director caught eco-mcp's 503).
Missing: anything credentialed or on-host. ward ops aws ssm returns NoCredentials (no Eco admin token, no Discord token), ward ops exposes only forgejo / aws / forgejo-key / kubectl (no tailscale, no ssh), and there is no read-only ssh into kai-server.

Kai has specced a ward-kdl read-only-ssh command set, but the general-purpose ward-kdl mount is not yet granted to the director surface, and ssh-through-docker needs extra work (container capability / namespace jail).

Ask

Grant the warded director a read-only kai-server observe capability: the specced read-only-ssh verb set (tail logs, systemctl status, list Mods/ and Configs/, read config files), mounted into the director container, plus the credential/tailscale path that makes ssh-through-docker work.

Why - concrete eco tickets this unblocks

Today these punt to "Kai would know, or dispatch a run." Read-only ssh from the director turns them into direct checks the director can do inline:

coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#15 - audit the live mod set (needs ls Mods/, DLL versions).
coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#21 - confirm the dinner-party config actually landed (needs to read Configs/*.eco).
coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#26 - confirm EcoTelemetry is flowing (needs Configs/EcoTelemetry.json + a log tail).
coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#24 - the o11y epic generally: a director that can see the server is a live second set of eyes.

Scope guardrails

Read-only only. No write, no restart, no config mutation from the director - those stay dispatched. The whole value is a safe observe surface, so the verb set must be allowlisted to non-mutating commands.

coilyco-flight-deck/ward#539 (ward-kdl -> ward verb gap: ward ops missing verbs consumers still call)
coilyco-flight-deck/ward#545 (tier-derived cred mount)
the container docker / namespace-jail capability work (the ssh-through-docker wrinkle)

REVIVE STEER (appended 2026-07-05, director session)

Reopening: this closed as done but the working capability never landed. Confirmed live from a fresh eco-ops read-only director session (2026-07-05):

No ssh at all: SSH_AUTH_SOCK unset, no ~/.ssh, no key mounted.
kai-server is not even resolvable: ward ops eco server health --dry-run returns ssh: Could not resolve hostname kai-server: Name or service not known. No tailnet route in the container.
The read-only observe verb set specced in this issue is not mounted. ward ops eco server exposes only the write promote pipeline (snapshot / stage / apply / restart / await / health / rollback / promote). There is no tail-logs, no systemctl status, no ls Mods/, no config read. The safe observe surface that was the whole point of this issue is absent.

The prior close comment already flagged it: it added a ward-kdl read-helper install path plus docs, but noted "the actual kai-server ssh-through-docker flow still depends on internal package availability and the surrounding infra path landing cleanly." That dependency did not land. Install path plus docs is not the capability.

What "revive" means (updated steer from Kai)

Tailscale mount by default for the director role. At minimum the director container should carry the tailnet route so it can ping kai-server. Make it default (guardfile membership in ward-kdl.fleet.kdl's roles block for director, alongside how advisor already holds the live-observe set), not an opt-in flag.
Actually mount the read-only observe verb set, not just an install path: tail logs, systemctl status, list Mods/ and Configs/, read config files. Allowlisted to non-mutating commands only. No write, no restart, no config mutation from the director. Note this is a separate read-only guardfile, distinct from the write promote pipeline that currently monopolizes ward ops eco server.
Verify end to end in a live director container: ward ops eco server <observe-verb> (or the new read area) returns real kai-server output, and ping kai-server / an ssh probe succeeds. Done means a director can see the live server, not that the install script ran.

Why now

Kai is prepping a midday Eco server restart from a mobile director session and wants the live-observe surface working for exactly this: read the live Configs/*.eco, confirm the mod set, tail logs, watch the restart. Unblocks eco-ops#15 (audit live mods), #21 (confirm dinner-party config landed), #26 (confirm EcoTelemetry flowing), #24 (o11y epic).

Related layering work filed alongside: the cli-guard orchestration-primitive relocation and the full-clone-URL dep hydration. This revive should mount the read-only observe verbs cleanly regardless of how that layering lands (the observe verbs do not use the stepflow canary path).

## Context The read-only **warded director** surface can file and read Forgejo issues but cannot observe the live Eco server beyond black-box HTTP. Confirmed live from a director session: - **Works:** open web egress - reads the public `http://eco.coilysiren.me:3001/info` and probes every app ingress (this is how the director caught eco-mcp's 503). - **Missing:** anything credentialed or on-host. `ward ops aws ssm` returns `NoCredentials` (no Eco admin token, no Discord token), `ward ops` exposes only `forgejo / aws / forgejo-key / kubectl` (no tailscale, no ssh), and there is no read-only ssh into kai-server. Kai has specced a ward-kdl **read-only-ssh command set**, but the general-purpose ward-kdl mount is not yet granted to the director surface, and ssh-through-docker needs extra work (container capability / namespace jail). ## Ask Grant the warded director a **read-only** kai-server observe capability: the specced read-only-ssh verb set (tail logs, `systemctl status`, list `Mods/` and `Configs/`, read config files), mounted into the director container, plus the credential/tailscale path that makes ssh-through-docker work. ## Why - concrete eco tickets this unblocks Today these punt to "Kai would know, or dispatch a run." Read-only ssh from the director turns them into direct checks the director can do inline: - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#15 - audit the live mod set (needs `ls Mods/`, DLL versions). - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#21 - confirm the dinner-party config actually landed (needs to read `Configs/*.eco`). - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#26 - confirm EcoTelemetry is flowing (needs `Configs/EcoTelemetry.json` + a log tail). - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#24 - the o11y epic generally: a director that can see the server is a live second set of eyes. ## Scope guardrails Read-only only. No write, no restart, no config mutation from the director - those stay dispatched. The whole value is a safe observe surface, so the verb set must be allowlisted to non-mutating commands. ## Related - coilyco-flight-deck/ward#539 (ward-kdl -> ward verb gap: `ward ops` missing verbs consumers still call) - coilyco-flight-deck/ward#545 (tier-derived cred mount) - the container docker / namespace-jail capability work (the ssh-through-docker wrinkle) --- # REVIVE STEER (appended 2026-07-05, director session) Reopening: this closed as **done** but the working capability never landed. Confirmed live from a fresh eco-ops read-only director session (2026-07-05): - **No ssh at all**: `SSH_AUTH_SOCK` unset, no `~/.ssh`, no key mounted. - **kai-server is not even resolvable**: `ward ops eco server health --dry-run` returns `ssh: Could not resolve hostname kai-server: Name or service not known`. No tailnet route in the container. - **The read-only observe verb set specced in this issue is not mounted.** `ward ops eco server` exposes only the **write promote pipeline** (snapshot / stage / apply / restart / await / health / rollback / promote). There is no `tail-logs`, no `systemctl status`, no `ls Mods/`, no config read. The safe observe surface that was the whole point of this issue is absent. The prior close comment already flagged it: it added a ward-kdl read-helper install path plus docs, but noted "the actual kai-server ssh-through-docker flow still depends on internal package availability and the surrounding infra path landing cleanly." That dependency did not land. Install path plus docs is not the capability. ## What "revive" means (updated steer from Kai) 1. **Tailscale mount by default for the director role.** At minimum the director container should carry the tailnet route so it can ping kai-server. Make it default (guardfile membership in `ward-kdl.fleet.kdl`'s `roles` block for director, alongside how advisor already holds the live-observe set), not an opt-in flag. 2. **Actually mount the read-only observe verb set**, not just an install path: tail logs, `systemctl status`, list `Mods/` and `Configs/`, read config files. Allowlisted to non-mutating commands only. No write, no restart, no config mutation from the director. Note this is a **separate read-only guardfile**, distinct from the write promote pipeline that currently monopolizes `ward ops eco server`. 3. **Verify end to end in a live director container**: `ward ops eco server <observe-verb>` (or the new read area) returns real kai-server output, and `ping kai-server` / an ssh probe succeeds. Done means a director can see the live server, not that the install script ran. ## Why now Kai is prepping a midday Eco server restart from a mobile director session and wants the live-observe surface working for exactly this: read the live `Configs/*.eco`, confirm the mod set, tail logs, watch the restart. Unblocks eco-ops#15 (audit live mods), #21 (confirm dinner-party config landed), #26 (confirm EcoTelemetry flowing), #24 (o11y epic). Related layering work filed alongside: the cli-guard orchestration-primitive relocation and the full-clone-URL dep hydration. This revive should mount the read-only observe verbs cleanly regardless of how that layering lands (the observe verbs do not use the stepflow canary path).

coilysiren referenced this issue

2026-07-03 09:10:47 +00:00

advisor: default warded advisor to --tailnet (live-observe access) so ref-mode research can verify live signal #562

coilyco-ops commented

2026-07-03 10:15:48 +00:00

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2026-07-03 10:20:17 +00:00

grant director read-only observe helper

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2026-07-03 10:20:17 +00:00

coilysiren commented

2026-07-03 10:20:32 +00:00

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WARD-OUTCOME: done - added a read-only ward-kdl helper install to read-only director sessions, plus docs updates for the new observe surface.\n\nThe change was straightforward once I found the existing broker bootstrap path. The only fight-back was repo lint, which flagged a long shell comment and forced a small trim. Confidence is good, but the actual kai-server ssh-through-docker flow still depends on the internal package availability and the surrounding infra path landing cleanly.

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2026-07-05 21:47:56 +00:00

coilyco-ops commented

2026-07-05 21:52:37 +00:00

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run seed context — what this run is carrying (ward#609)

Resolved: coilyco-flight-deck/ward#547 · branch issue-547 · driver claude · workflow direct-main
Run: engineer-claude-ward-547 · ward v0.406.0 · dispatched 2026-07-05T21:52:34Z
Comment thread: 1 included in the pre-flight read, 1 stripped (ward's own automated comments).
- included: @coilysiren (2026-07-03T10:20:32Z)
- stripped: @coilyco-ops (2026-07-03T10:15:48Z)

Issue body as seeded:

## Context

The read-only **warded director** surface can file and read Forgejo issues but cannot observe the live Eco server beyond black-box HTTP. Confirmed live from a director session:

- **Works:** open web egress - reads the public `http://eco.coilysiren.me:3001/info` and probes every app ingress (this is how the director caught eco-mcp's 503).
- **Missing:** anything credentialed or on-host. `ward ops aws ssm` returns `NoCredentials` (no Eco admin token, no Discord token), `ward ops` exposes only `forgejo / aws / forgejo-key / kubectl` (no tailscale, no ssh), and there is no read-only ssh into kai-server.

Kai has specced a ward-kdl **read-only-ssh command set**, but the general-purpose ward-kdl mount is not yet granted to the director surface, and ssh-through-docker needs extra work (container capability / namespace jail).

## Ask

Grant the warded director a **read-only** kai-server observe capability: the specced read-only-ssh verb set (tail logs, `systemctl status`, list `Mods/` and `Configs/`, read config files), mounted into the director container, plus the credential/tailscale path that makes ssh-through-docker work.

## Why - concrete eco tickets this unblocks

Today these punt to "Kai would know, or dispatch a run." Read-only ssh from the director turns them into direct checks the director can do inline:

- coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#15 - audit the live mod set (needs `ls Mods/`, DLL versions).
- coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#21 - confirm the dinner-party config actually landed (needs to read `Configs/*.eco`).
- coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#26 - confirm EcoTelemetry is flowing (needs `Configs/EcoTelemetry.json` + a log tail).
- coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#24 - the o11y epic generally: a director that can see the server is a live second set of eyes.

## Scope guardrails

Read-only only. No write, no restart, no config mutation from the director - those stay dispatched. The whole value is a safe observe surface, so the verb set must be allowlisted to non-mutating commands.

… (truncated to 2000 chars; full body is on this issue)

Static container doctrine and seed boilerplate are identical every run and omitted here (they ride ward v0.406.0).

— Claude (she/her), via ward agent

🔒 Reserved by `ward agent --driver claude` — container `engineer-claude-ward-547` on host `KAI-DESKTOP-TOWER` is carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-05T21:52:34Z). Concurrent `ward agent` runs are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL); `--force` overrides. **Do not comment on or edit this issue to steer the run while it is reserved.** The engineer seeded the body once at launch and never re-reads it, so a comment or edit reaches only human readers, never the running engineer. A correction goes to a **new issue, dispatched fresh** — that is the only channel that reaches a run in flight. Where the forge supports it, ward locks this conversation to make that a road-block rather than a convention (ward#494). <details><summary>run seed context — what this run is carrying (ward#609)</summary> - **Resolved:** `coilyco-flight-deck/ward#547` · branch `issue-547` · driver `claude` · workflow `direct-main` - **Run:** `engineer-claude-ward-547` · ward `v0.406.0` · dispatched `2026-07-05T21:52:34Z` - **Comment thread:** 1 included in the pre-flight read, 1 stripped (ward's own automated comments). - included: @coilysiren (2026-07-03T10:20:32Z) - stripped: @coilyco-ops (2026-07-03T10:15:48Z) **Issue body as seeded:** ``` ## Context The read-only **warded director** surface can file and read Forgejo issues but cannot observe the live Eco server beyond black-box HTTP. Confirmed live from a director session: - **Works:** open web egress - reads the public `http://eco.coilysiren.me:3001/info` and probes every app ingress (this is how the director caught eco-mcp's 503). - **Missing:** anything credentialed or on-host. `ward ops aws ssm` returns `NoCredentials` (no Eco admin token, no Discord token), `ward ops` exposes only `forgejo / aws / forgejo-key / kubectl` (no tailscale, no ssh), and there is no read-only ssh into kai-server. Kai has specced a ward-kdl **read-only-ssh command set**, but the general-purpose ward-kdl mount is not yet granted to the director surface, and ssh-through-docker needs extra work (container capability / namespace jail). ## Ask Grant the warded director a **read-only** kai-server observe capability: the specced read-only-ssh verb set (tail logs, `systemctl status`, list `Mods/` and `Configs/`, read config files), mounted into the director container, plus the credential/tailscale path that makes ssh-through-docker work. ## Why - concrete eco tickets this unblocks Today these punt to "Kai would know, or dispatch a run." Read-only ssh from the director turns them into direct checks the director can do inline: - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#15 - audit the live mod set (needs `ls Mods/`, DLL versions). - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#21 - confirm the dinner-party config actually landed (needs to read `Configs/*.eco`). - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#26 - confirm EcoTelemetry is flowing (needs `Configs/EcoTelemetry.json` + a log tail). - coilyco-gaming/eco-ops#24 - the o11y epic generally: a director that can see the server is a live second set of eyes. ## Scope guardrails Read-only only. No write, no restart, no config mutation from the director - those stay dispatched. The whole value is a safe observe surface, so the verb set must be allowlisted to non-mutating commands. ``` … (truncated to 2000 chars; full body is on this issue) Static container doctrine and seed boilerplate are identical every run and omitted here (they ride ward v0.406.0). </details>  — Claude (she/her), via `ward agent`

coilysiren referenced this issue from a commit

2026-07-05 22:19:56 +00:00

feat(director): mount a read-only kai-server observe surface + tailnet by default (closes #547)

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2026-07-05 22:19:56 +00:00

coilysiren commented

2026-07-05 22:20:45 +00:00

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WARD-OUTCOME: done - director now holds the tailnet by default and gets a read-only ward ops eco observe surface (status/logs/mods/configs/read-config) over the kai-server ssh hop.

Retrospective:

This one rewarded reading the clone before touching it. The mechanism the earlier close was missing turned out to be small and already-built: role capability is just guardfile membership in ward-kdl.fleet.kdl, and capabilityForRole maps the tailscale guardfile straight to the host-net tailnet join. So "give the director the tailnet" was two tokens in the fleet roster, not new plumbing - the hard part was trusting that was actually enough and verifying the surface-session container resolves it through buildUpPlan(roleDirector).

The observe guardfile fought back a little on config reads. exec surfaces pass flags through unrestricted and the metachar gate blocks any sh -c wrapper, and execverb can't concatenate a pinned dir with a caller arg - so I couldn't cleanly sandbox cat to Configs/ only. I settled on sealed for the four inspection verbs (zero caller args) and a deny-when arg0 traversal + secret-path guard on read-config, which is honest about being read-only-not-airtight. Verified live in this container: the deny fires on .ssh/id_rsa and .., sealed verbs reject trailing args, and a real Configs path passes policy (then ssh fails only because there's no tailnet here - which is exactly the capability this issue adds at launch).

The one thing I'm glad I caught: my fleet change would have silently widened every dispatched engineer onto host-net, because the director forwards its resolved tailnet to engineers. The sibling aws field reads only the explicit --aws flag, which told me the maintainer's intent - so I decoupled engineer dispatch to explicit-only, keeping engineers least-access.

Confidence: high on the wiring and the guardfile (unit tests + live probes green). The genuinely unverifiable piece from inside a build container is the real end-to-end ping kai-server / journal read - that needs a live director container on a tailnet-connected host plus the kai-server ssh + systemd-journal group prereqs. Worth a follow-up: a live smoke of ward ops eco observe status from an actual director session, and maybe tightening read-config to a true Configs-only allowlist if execverb ever grows arg templating.

WARD-OUTCOME: done - director now holds the tailnet by default and gets a read-only `ward ops eco observe` surface (status/logs/mods/configs/read-config) over the kai-server ssh hop. Retrospective: This one rewarded reading the clone before touching it. The mechanism the earlier close was missing turned out to be small and already-built: role capability is just guardfile membership in `ward-kdl.fleet.kdl`, and `capabilityForRole` maps the tailscale guardfile straight to the host-net tailnet join. So "give the director the tailnet" was two tokens in the fleet roster, not new plumbing - the hard part was trusting that was actually enough and verifying the surface-session container resolves it through `buildUpPlan(roleDirector)`. The observe guardfile fought back a little on config reads. exec surfaces pass flags through unrestricted and the metachar gate blocks any `sh -c` wrapper, and execverb can't concatenate a pinned dir with a caller arg - so I couldn't cleanly sandbox `cat` to Configs/ only. I settled on `sealed` for the four inspection verbs (zero caller args) and a `deny-when arg0` traversal + secret-path guard on `read-config`, which is honest about being read-only-not-airtight. Verified live in this container: the deny fires on `.ssh/id_rsa` and `..`, sealed verbs reject trailing args, and a real Configs path passes policy (then ssh fails only because there's no tailnet here - which is exactly the capability this issue adds at launch). The one thing I'm glad I caught: my fleet change would have silently widened every dispatched engineer onto host-net, because the director forwards its resolved tailnet to engineers. The sibling `aws` field reads only the explicit `--aws` flag, which told me the maintainer's intent - so I decoupled engineer dispatch to explicit-only, keeping engineers least-access. Confidence: high on the wiring and the guardfile (unit tests + live probes green). The genuinely unverifiable piece from inside a build container is the real end-to-end `ping kai-server` / journal read - that needs a live director container on a tailnet-connected host plus the kai-server ssh + `systemd-journal` group prereqs. Worth a follow-up: a live smoke of `ward ops eco observe status` from an actual director session, and maybe tightening `read-config` to a true Configs-only allowlist if execverb ever grows arg templating.

coilysiren referenced this issue

2026-07-05 22:21:29 +00:00

Restructure the ward KDL layer: scope guardfiles into read/write/admin (drop the flat bucket), relocate into .ward/, convert .ward config to KDL #435