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 **Security note:** A subagent briefly enabled shell tracing while debugging the verifier, exposing
 runtime credentials in its private agent trace. No values were committed or put in this journal,
 but rotate the affected `/srv/cc-ci/.testenv` credentials as a precaution.
+
+## Session 2026-09-07 19:30 UTC — Claude Fable 5.1 orchestrator (re)launch, startup check
+
+**What happened:** Orchestrator relaunched on the `claude` backend (`agents.toml` now says
+`backend = "claude"`, `model = "claude-fable-5-1"`, operator change today, uncommitted). Ran the
+AGENTS.md on-startup routine. NOT a reboot: host uptime 15 days, REBOOTS.md still shows 5 reboots
+(last 2026-08-23 03:11 UTC). `cc-ci-loops.service` was restarted at 14:50 and 15:14 UTC today by a
+`nixos-rebuild test --flake /srv/notplants-nix#notplants-orchestrator`, which re-ran `launch.sh start`;
+the phase sequence immediately re-concluded (all 15 phases DONE, "entire build finished"), so
+builder/adversary/watchdog being stopped is the expected terminal state. Did NOT relaunch the loops.
+
+**Current state:**
+- Weekly `/upgrade-all` 2026-09-04 completed: 8 upgrade PRs extended (custom-html, ghost,
+  lasuite-docs/drive/meet, matrix-synapse, mattermost-lts, n8n), 0 failed, nothing merged. Report
+  `week-2026-09-04.html` returns 200. Next timer run Fri 2026-09-11 02:00 UTC.
+- Hourly supervisor (XX:07) fires and stands down in ~1s — nothing to drive.
+- Open operator items from the 09-04 run: review/merge the 8 PRs; `warm-gitea` canonical
+  crash-looping on read-only `/etc/gitea` (pre-existing); deployed `/root/cc-ci/tests` on the CI host
+  lags server-repo `main` (missing `tests/wordpress`).
+- Uncommitted in this checkout (left alone, operator WIP): `agents.toml` backend switch,
+  auto-appended 2026-08-23 line in `REBOOTS.md`, and the untracked `plan-agent-orchestrator.md` /
+  `plan-phase-ao*.md` / `cc-ci-conc/` set.
+
+## Session 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC — start of the cc-ci + orchestrator consolidation onto one Hetzner host
+
+**Operator request:** move the cc-ci CI server AND the orchestrator to a new Hetzner box
+(`195.201.88.249`, 8 GB), leave everything notplants-side on this host, keep cc-ci's nix in the
+cc-ci repo and the orchestrator's in cc-ci-orchestrator with the latter including the former,
+add `archive/` + a from-scratch deploy README, and (last) move to `autonomic.zone` subdomains.
+Plan + live log: `cc-ci-plan/plan-cc-ci-combined-host.md` (on the branch; copy here).
+
+**Done this session:**
+- New ssh key `notplants-orchestrator` (`/secrets/files/notplants-orchestrator-ed25519`), on the new box.
+- nixos-infect on the new box (Debian 13 → NixOS 26.05). Gotcha: `/tmp` is tmpfs on that image,
+  nixos-infect's temp swapfile fails → `NO_SWAP=true`. It built and rebooted ~19:50 UTC and had
+  NOT come back by 20:00 (no ping) — operator to check the Hetzner console / give an API token.
+- cc-ci branch `feat/nixos-module-export` (9b99f81, pushed): `nixosModules.cc-ci-server`
+  (`nix/modules/default.nix`), options `cc-ci.publicIPv4` + `cc-ci.sopsFile`; standalone `#cc-ci`
+  drv byte-identical before/after.
+- cc-ci-orchestrator branch `feat/combined-cc-ci-host` (31af820, pushed): flake input `cc-ci`
+  (follows), `nixosConfigurations.cc-ci`, `nix/modules/orchestrator-host.nix`, `nix/hosts/cc-ci/`
+  (hardware/networking PROVISIONAL until the infect output is captured), README deploy guide,
+  `archive/` (old host configs, terraform, migration plans), AGENTS.md + update-skill refs.
+  `#cc-ci` evaluates. Work is in git worktrees under the session scratchpad, not in this checkout.
+
+**Next:** box reachable → capture hardware/networking → stage secrets → `nixos-rebuild test`
+→ data copy → DNS cutover → move the orchestrator → notplants-nix PR dropping cc-ci → autonomic.zone.
+
+## Session 2026-09-07 20:30 UTC — new combined host is UP, pre-cutover
+
+- nixos-infect trouble root-caused from Hetzner rescue mode (operator gave an API token, stored
+  at `/srv/cc-ci/.hcloud-token`, server id 165014541, cpx32 nbg1): (1) `NO_SWAP=true` for tmpfs
+  /tmp; (2) 26.05's systemd initrd did NOT lustrate — Debian's units shadowed NixOS's, every
+  service failed; fixed by moving the old root to `/old-root` by hand; (3) bare-string
+  `defaultGateway` → no default route; fixed + chroot `nixos-rebuild boot --option sandbox false`.
+  All documented in the new README §2a.
+- cc-ci PR #32 merged (module export). cc-ci-orchestrator PR #19 merged (combined host). Both
+  branches scanned clean by the commit hook.
+- New box: `nixos-rebuild test` → verified → `switch`; reboot test OK. Data restored: acme (+
+  acme-dns account), acme-dns, ci-certs, reports, runs, ci-warm, /root/.abra, Drone volume (with
+  drone scaled to 0 during the copy). Dashboard/reports/drone answer on the new IP with the valid
+  LE cert; acme-dns answers on public 53.
+- Pre-cutover quarantine on the new box: `ccci-bridge_app` scaled to 0, both cc-ci timers
+  `mask --runtime`, cc-ci-orchestrator/loops units stopped (these do NOT survive a reboot — redo).
+- Staged for loops: ~/.claude, opencode config+state, ssh keys, .testenv, upgrader.env,
+  .sops/master-age.txt, .cc-ci-logs; nginx oc-* files (root:nginx 0640).
+- Open: tailscale auth key revoked (`invalid key: API key does not exist`) → operator issues a
+  new one. DNS cutover at Gandi (ci, *.ci, ns-acme → 195.201.88.249) → operator.
+
+## 2026-09-07 22:15 UTC — first weekly upgrade run on the new host: GREEN, report published
+
+Started by hand 21:23 UTC (`systemctl start cc-ci-upgrade-all` on 195.201.88.249, opencode /
+deepseek-v4-flash); `UPGRADE RUN COMPLETE` 22:02 (39 min). Everything ran on the new host — old
+server's Drone/bridge at 0/0, no new run dirs or report there. 20 recipes surveyed, 2 upgrade PRs
+extended and `!testme` GREEN on the new Drone (lasuite-docs #8 → v5.6.1, build 1338; n8n #7 →
+2.38.4, build 1339), 1 PR closed as merged upstream (custom-html #7), 18 skipped as up-to-date or
+covered. Summary: `.cc-ci-logs/upgrades/upgrade-all-2026-09-07.md`. Report agent published
+https://report.ci.commoninternet.net/week-2026-09-07.html (200, 42 KB, indexed) at 22:11.
+One side effect: the run's orphan sweep removed the `opencode-ui` swarm stack (traefik route to
+the opencode web UI) — redeployed, renamed `ccci-opencode-ui`, added to the sweep keep-list.
+
+## Session 2026-09-28 20:00 UTC — operator-broken cc-ci recovered by plain hard reset
+
+- Operator reported ci.autonomic.zone down after their own change, supplied a Hetzner API token
+  in chat (token is now in the transcript — SHOULD BE ROTATED). Staged at /tmp/opencode/hcloud-token
+  (0600) instead of echoing it.
+- Triage: SSH (port 22) timed out, ICMP 100% loss, tailscale 100.95.31.88 no reply — yet Hetzner
+  reported "running". Old recovery note's server id 134485294 is GONE; current cc-ci is id
+  165014541, public 195.201.88.249 (token project also holds 114514766 autonomic-cc-testing).
+  Last Hetzner action was 2026-09-07 (rescue cycles during the rebuild), so the outage was
+  OS-internal, not API-driven.
+- Fix: single hard reset via `POST /servers/165014541/actions/reset`. ICMP after ~60s, SSH after
+  ~90s. Box booted the default profile nixos-system-cc-ci-26.05.20260906.c257840 — no rescue/
+  GRUB generation-picking needed this time.
+- Post-checks: nginx + gitea active, drone-runner-exec active (NOT drone-runner-docker — wrong
+  guess), disk 41%, https://ci.autonomic.zone → 200. One failed unit:
+  acme-order-renew-ci.autonomic.zone.service — renewal itself fine (cert valid to 2026-12-20),
+  it died on `chmod: out/acme-dns-accounts.json: Operation not permitted` because the file was
+  root:root (touched today 19:54, likely by whatever the operator did) while the unit runs as
+  acme. chown acme:acme (matching the healthy ci.commoninternet.net dir) + restart → unit green,
+  zero failed units.
+- NOTE: no tailscale on this host (`tailscale: command not found`) — the AGENTS.md "ssh cc-ci"
+  alias + 100.90.116.4 peer notes are stale post-rebuild; public-IP SSH is the access path.
+  Recovery scripts in scripts/recovery/ still reference old server id 134485294 — worth updating.