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pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 887749722c fofos's capabilities failure was ownership, and one stat proved it

Three deploys reported the same two errors and neither report could explain them:

  dubious ownership in repository at '~/officerdev/capabilities'
  EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '~/officerdev/capabilities/affordances/officerdev'

They read as two problems — git refusing to operate, and Node refusing to create a directory, at different
steps of the deploy — and they were one sentence in two dialects: this path is not yours. Fifty paths under
that checkout were owned by root, .git and affordances among them, all stamped 19 Aug 21:43. Something ran
with sudo and left them.

Mode 755 is what made the shape confusing. Everything was READABLE, so git could see the repo and refused
it on ownership, while the plugin could see affordances and could not write into it. Two tools, two
messages, one inode owner.

The general point, which is why this is in servers.md rather than only in a commit: stat prints the owner
instead of inferring it, so it either proves ownership is the cause or eliminates it — one command, binary,
no theory. Three reports had guessed; none had looked.

The deploy commander's refusal to add a safe.directory entry was right and is recorded as such. It would
have silenced the git message and left the EACCES exactly as it was, spending the obvious explanation on
half the problem.

Fixed by the owner with chown -R; verified after by a mkdir into the directory that used to refuse one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-08-21 20:23:45 +00:00

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Servers — the running list

Every machine the owner runs, how to reach it, and what of Officer is on it. Kept here so an orchestrator ("pull and update every platform", "restart officer everywhere", "which host is behind") has one place to read rather than a fact re-derived per session.

Verified 2026-08-21 from officer-dev by SSH and pm2 jlist, except where marked assumed.

How access works

All of it is over the tailnet, key-based, no ~/.ssh/config, no passwords, no jump hosts, no ports.

The login user is NOT always pastilhas. It is per host and it is in the table below. deadpool runs as br and always will — the owner's key is authorised for that account. An orchestrator that hard-codes a username fails on that host and will fail on the next one like it.

ssh alpha                       # pastilhas, implied
ssh br@deadpool-rezio-bridge    # not implied

Officer platforms

Seven, all running.

Host	Tailnet IP	Login	Checkout	Domain
`officer-dev`	100.64.0.13	`pastilhas`	`~/officer-dev/platform`	`platform.officer.dev`
`alpha`	100.64.0.1	`pastilhas`	`~/officerdev/platform`	`officer.pastilhas.dev`
`fofos`	100.64.0.17	`pastilhas`	`~/officerdev/platform`	`officer.fofosfluffybastards.com`
`macbookpro`	100.64.0.9	`pastilhas`	`~/projects/officer-suite/platform`	`macbookpro.pastilhas.dev`
`edge-pertento-bridge`	100.64.0.15	`pastilhas`	`~/officerdev/platform`	`edge.pertento.ai`
`production-pertento-bridge`	100.64.0.12	`pastilhas`	`~/officerdev/platform`	`officer.pertento.ai`
`deadpool-rezio-bridge`	100.64.0.21	`br`	`/home/br/officerdev/platform`	`officer.rezio.dev` `[pending]`

Only platform.officer.dev is public (77.42.39.155). The rest resolve to tailnet addresses and are reachable from inside only.

Names that disagree with themselves

Three hosts answer to more than one name, and tailscale status is not always the one in use:

In `tailscale status`	Also	The machine's own hostname
`edge-bridge`	`edge-pertento-bridge`	`edge-pertento`
`gitea-bridge`	`production-pertento-bridge`	`PPROD`
`deadpool-rezio-bridge`	—	`deadpool`

The middle column is what to use. edge-bridge and gitea-bridge are the old names and are being retired; anything reading tailscale status will still see them.

Things that will catch out an orchestrator

All verified, none cosmetic.

The checkout path differs per host — four distinct shapes across seven machines. Take it from PM2: the officer process's pm_cwd. alpha carries a SECOND, stale checkout at ~/dockers/officer.dev/platform, and pulling that one succeeds while changing nothing.
pm2 is not on a non-interactive PATH. It lives under nvm, and nvm's setup is in .zshrc, which a login shell does not read. Use ssh <host> '$SHELL -ic "pm2 jlist"'. -lc is not enough — it reports "command not found" on machines where pm2 is plainly running, which cost two wrong conclusions on 2026-08-21.
On macbookpro, APPEND to the PATH for bun. Never replace it. This said "do not help the PATH" until 2026-08-21, and that was half right in a way that cost a deploy step: pm2 is only on the interactive shell's PATH, so replacing it breaks pm2 — but bun is at /opt/homebrew/bin/bun and .zshrc does not put that directory on the interactive PATH either, so bun run plugins:update fails command not found before it runs a line. export PATH=$PATH:/opt/homebrew/bin for that one command shadows nothing: pm2 stays at ~/.local/bin/pm2 and node at node@22. Run pm2 as a separate command.
$SHELL -ic on macbookpro aliases ls to eza, which is not installed. A probe using ls reports a missing file that is plainly there. Use command ls, or a non-interactive shell for file tests.
The git remotes differ. fofos pulls over HTTPS; the others over SSH. Never assume a URL — pull in place.
A "dirty tree" means TRACKED changes. git status --porcelain counts untracked files, and a stray script a fast-forward could never touch is not a reason to skip a host. Use --untracked-files=no.
macbookpro is a laptop. It may be asleep. Unreachable is a skip with a note, not a failed deploy.
bun run plugins:update restarts sidecars itself, printing sidecar: started per plugin — on alpha that is twelve processes bouncing during the plugins step, before any restart the plan asked for. Not a fault, but a deploy report that lists only officer under "restarted" is understating what moved.
fofos failed its capabilities sync for three deploys, and it was ownership. Fixed 2026-08-21. Two errors that read as unrelated problems — dubious ownership from git, and EACCES … mkdir '…/capabilities/affordances/officerdev' from the gitea plugin — were one cause in two dialects: fifty paths under that checkout were owned by root, including .git and affordances, all stamped 19 Aug 21:43. Something was run with sudo and left them behind. Mode 755 is why the split looked odd: everything could be READ, so git saw the repo and refused it on ownership while the plugin saw affordances and could not write into it.

One stat settled it, and that is the general lesson — stat prints the owner rather than inferring anything, so it either proves ownership is the cause or eliminates it, in one command. Fixed with sudo chown -R pastilhas:pastilhas ~/officerdev/capabilities; verified after by a mkdir into the directory that used to refuse one.

A safe.directory entry was deliberately NOT used, and that call is worth keeping. It would have silenced the git message and left the EACCES untouched — one symptom of a two-symptom cause hidden, with the obvious explanation spent.

Not platforms — ignore for now

A checkout may be present; no officer process runs on any of these. Whether they are retired, staging or half-installed is not established — ask before treating them as targets.

Host	Tailnet IP
`headscale`	100.64.0.2
`omega`	100.64.0.3
`gateway`	100.64.0.4

Other machines on the tailnet

Not SSH-reachable (port 22 refused): edge-dns (100.64.0.8), officer-bridge (100.64.0.5). Assumed service-only containers — not confirmed. edge-bridge was listed here until 2026-08-21 and was wrong: its SSH was simply down at the time of checking.
Client devices, not servers: iphone16, andres-ipad, pixel9a, plus other people's devices in the tailnet (diogos-ipad, iphone-diogo, iphone-bruno, fedras-iphone, guilhermes-macbook-pro, macbook-pro-de-joo).

Known wrong, waiting on someone else

officer.rezio.dev resolves to 100.64.0.4 — that is gateway, not deadpool (100.64.0.21). Not merely unavailable: pointed at a different machine, so it will serve the wrong box the moment gateway answers on 443. Ports 80 and 443 are closed on deadpool, so nothing fronts it yet. Waiting on the domain owner.

Keeping this list true

It rots when a server is added, a checkout moves, a platform is retired, a remote changes or a login differs. Re-verify with the four commands it was built from:

tailscale status
ssh <login>@<host> '$SHELL -ic "pm2 jlist"'   # the officer entry's pm_cwd
ssh <login>@<host> 'git -C <cwd> remote get-url origin'
getent hosts <domain>

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