# Project Handoff Audit

status: completed
date: 2026-07-12
baseline_commit: `ab758e7`

## Objective

Make the repository sufficient for another AI to clone, validate, understand prior decisions, run the service, and continue the actual product goal without access to the original conversation.

## Initial Findings

- Git was clean and synchronized with `origin/main` at `ab758e7`.
- Content and research artifacts were committed, but there was no single AI continuation entrypoint.
- The root README described repository sections but not current completion, failed routes, runtime state, or next priorities.
- The 12-paper learning pilot was marked failed in its experiment file, while `experiments/README.md`, `learning/README.md`, and `module.json` still described it as an active pilot.
- The web process was stopped; `lab.k1412.top` returned 502.
- The web app requested stale `light/fast/large` model tags. Live Ollama exposed Luna/Terra/Sol instead.
- Ordinary `nohup` passed one health check but was reaped with the Codex command session, so it was not a reliable service manager.

## Changes

- Added `AGENTS.md` with read order, truth hierarchy, commands, and repository contracts.
- Added project status, exploration history, and continuation plan under `docs/06-08`.
- Added `tools/check_project.py` for deterministic item/index/research/syntax/contract checks.
- Reconciled failed-pilot status across learning and experiment indexes.
- Made Ollama model tiers configurable and aligned defaults with live Luna/Terra/Sol tags.
- Added model readiness and missing-default reporting to `/api/health`.
- Added an enabled user-level systemd service and `web/manage.sh` lifecycle commands.
- Updated web and root documentation with product boundaries and operations.

## Validation Performed

Offline:

- parsed every committed JSON research/learning file used by the checker;
- verified 989 indexed items match 6 job, 974 paper, and 9 industry files;
- verified the memory snapshots remain 516 candidates, 379 title-central, and 293 local paper records;
- parsed all Python files under `tools/` and `web/app.py` with `ast`;
- asserted the web client does not send `num_ctx` or `keep_alive`;
- ran `git diff --check`.

Live:

- verified Tailscale address `100.114.68.27` exists;
- verified Ollama inventory and all default model tags;
- started the Atlas as `agent-knowledge-atlas.service`;
- verified `/api/health`, `/api/models`, `/api/atlas`, `/`, and the public mapped domain;
- verified the Atlas reports 974 papers, 15 topics, 5 routes, and 13 timeline buckets;
- completed one real paper-summary request through the web API with Luna in 5.32 seconds.

## External State Boundary

Git contains the application, unit file, management script, and documentation. The following remain external:

- Gitea credentials and credential helper;
- Cloudflare/reverse-proxy/TLS mapping for `lab.k1412.top`;
- Ollama model manifests and server residency/context configuration;
- the company GPT-5.5 data-agent endpoint and credentials.
- temporary full-paper PDFs/text and regenerable web caches.

Future handoffs must verify those live rather than treating this record as permanent state.