The comments above a setting already state its choices, units and bounds, so the
form can read them instead of asking for the file to be annotated first.
Search is the one capability that fits the profile holding none: every other capability either
reads this installation or changes it, and chat's whole contract is that it can do neither. The
assistant deliberately does not get it — its contract is that answers come from this install's
own documents, and a web result there is an answer that looks sourced and is not. A chat question
about this machine hands off to the assistant before the search would run, so it never reaches
the internet even with the box ticked.
Off by default, and not because it is dangerous: searching sends the operator's question outside
the house, which is theirs to decide. Asked for per turn as well as enabled in conf.
Provider-agnostic, as asked — searxng, brave, tavily. Only whichever is configured here can be
verified; all three read every field by name, so a shape that changes underneath yields no
results rather than wrong ones.
The explain fixtures asserted chat holds no capabilities at all, which is exactly the guarantee
worth keeping. caps=only: now states the set rather than its emptiness, so the check still fails
the day something else is granted there.
Triage could see what Varaverk wrote about itself and what the arrs said about themselves, and
nothing else — so a disk throwing I/O errors, a filesystem going read-only or a PCIe link
retraining every two minutes was invisible to the thing whose job is noticing. Container state
was already watched; no line any container actually wrote ever was.
Container patterns match the environment rather than the application. Fifty containers are fifty
programs with no shared vocabulary for malfunctioning, but an exact shared one for a full disk or
a corrupt SQLite file, because those strings come from libc and SQLite rather than from the app.
Both halves are checked by Tools/ai_log_check.sh, which is two tests because the failure modes
are opposite: fixtures for recall on faults this host has never had, and a replay of its real
logs for precision — 74,519 syslog lines and 79,193 container lines, matching only the PCIe
errors it genuinely has.
Severity was being graded from a hand-picked three fields, so every one of these would have been
filed as a warning however bad it was, and notified as one.
A finding nobody is told about is a finding nobody has, and the card added earlier only shows
them to someone who opens the tab. Only needs_operator is announced — an open finding may still
be repaired by the next pass — one notification for all of them, and each is announced once and
stays quiet until the fault changes or gets worse.
vv_notify() hands the message to common.sh's notify() rather than reimplementing the channels,
and calls detect_hosts() explicitly because load_config.sh deliberately does not: without it the
Unraid notification arrives and Discord silently never does. It also reports false when no
channel is switched on at all, since notify() exits 0 either way and a caller believing that
would mark a finding as told and never mention it again.
Notification text is folded to ASCII. Unraid's notifier dropped an em dash outright and left the
double space behind, which was found by sending one and reading what arrived.
Conf writing is granted to this profile alone and it is not offered as a button — making it
selectable would put a write one click from any question. Its prompt leads on what it does
not decide, because the resolver picks the key and the probe picks the value.
Nothing in Varaverk fires when a job ends, so this picks up run records that completed
since the last pass rather than adding a hook to forty scripts. Ahead of stability in the
cycle on purpose: a wrong port is not fixed by rebooting the machine.
A stored transcript is replayed into a later prompt when reopened, so a key typed while
changing a setting would be handed back to the model on every subsequent turn.
"What is Varaverk" matched the PURPOSE intent, so retrieval returned every
script's one-line purpose and the model answered that the context does not
define the system — while README.md sat in the index unread. A definitional
question with no explicit filter now goes to kind=readme.
Varaverk is a coined word with no spell-check, so it arrives as varavrk,
veraverk, varavek. Edit distance catches those without a pattern that needs
extending per typo. This is search, not identity — a near-miss only widens a
document search, unlike hostname resolution where it must never resolve.
Custom Scripts run as root on a schedule, so the expensive mistake is not
tangled logic — it is a simple script aimed one directory too high. The prompt
now asks for the dry-run form and an explicit line on what gets destroyed, and
a scan of the generated code blocks raises a banner regardless of whether the
model bothered to warn. Scans fenced code only, so prose mentioning rm does not
trip it.
Given its own broken script and the real error, it produced the correct fix but
explained --no-overwrite away as 'introduced in a later version of rsync'. No
rsync version has ever had that flag, and the operator is on current 3.4.4 — so
the repair was right and the diagnosis was a second fabrication that would send
someone hunting a nonexistent upgrade.
The pattern required three underscore-separated segments, so RSYNC_ENABLED and
AI_ENABLED slipped through — exactly the names most likely to be asked about.
Also dropped the case-insensitive flag, which made the SCREAMING_CASE branch
match ordinary lowercase words containing underscores.
Asked what mover_stop.sh does, it invented a description and dressed it in
real memory facts so it read as authoritative — the exact failure the profile
split exists to prevent. A polite instruction in a system prompt is not a
guard. The rule now leads and is absolute, and a deterministic check repeats
it immediately before the message whenever the question names a shell script,
a SCREAMING_CASE conf key, or Varaverk itself. Detection can only make the
model more cautious, so a false positive costs a redirect, not an answer.
Explicit buttons rather than an automatic router. Misclassifying a Varaverk
question as chat produces a confident invention about the user's system, which
is exactly what retrieval exists to prevent — with buttons there is no hidden
heuristic to be wrong and the strict profile is the default you land on.
Only Varaverk Assistant retrieves; the other two would be carrying passages
that cannot help write a folder-copy script. Memory goes to all three, since
that is what lets chat know the setup without claiming authority over it.
History depth is per profile and set server-side: retrieval costs ~2500 of
16384, so the profiles that skip it can hold a real conversation. Code
Sketcher is told to flag flags it is unsure of, after it invented
rsync --no-overwrite.
A small operator-written file handed to the model at the start of every
conversation — who you are, how this install is set up, what has already been
decided. Injected ahead of the retrieved passages and marked operator-authored
so it outranks anything they contradict, and never cited as a source.
Deliberately not indexed and deliberately under DATA_DIR: it changes
constantly, vector similarity is the wrong way to retrieve things you were
told to remember, and gitignoring it keeps personal notes out of a pushed
repository. The character cap is a context budget — this text costs its share
of 16k on every single turn.
Asked what was wrong, it answered "AI_ENABLED=false" — read from the conf
template, which records the shipped default, while the live value was true.
Passing checks are what tell the model the current value of a setting;
without them a documented default fills the silence. The prompt now states
explicitly that live state overrides any documented default.
The failures this subsystem actually has are configuration drift, so each
check names the setting to change rather than reporting that retrieval
failed. Notably it catches a conf model tag that is no longer installed, and
an index built by a different embedder than the one configured — vectors
from two models are not comparable, and that failure returns confident
nonsense rather than erroring. Diagnostic questions also get recent log
warnings, attached only then because they cost budget the passages need.
Token and poll rather than SSE, so the api layer keeps one response
convention and reuses the pattern manual_sync already proved. History is
capped at three turns because the model is only fully offloaded at 16384
context and unbounded history would cross that silently. The tab exists
only while AI_ENABLED is true, rejected server-side and not merely hidden.
Gmer4Lfe