Bernardo Magri
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Bernardo tested the live ISO and saw a smartd error on the Waybar doctor module. Filed with the cause rather than the symptom: reproduced headlessly in a scratch runNixOSTest whose node's only config is services.smartd.enable = true — the same block default.nix:166 mkDefaults on for every machine. smartd: In the system's table of devices NO devices found to scan smartd: Unable to monitor any SMART enabled devices. Exiting. smartd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=17/n/a Everything downstream is working correctly: systemctl --failed lists smartd.service, so the doctor's generic failed-unit check reports it and #custom-doctor goes @bad. The doctor is telling the truth — smartd is what needs fixing. Scope is wider than the live ISO, which is why it sits in NOW with the other live findings rather than as a live-only nit: smartd mkDefaults true on `nomarchy` too, and QEMU virtio disks expose no SMART, so a plain VM install boots to a red health icon out of the box. Every V2 QEMU run has been showing this. The fix direction is the distro's own self-gate convention: `smartctl --scan` prints nothing on such a machine, so an ExecCondition leaves the unit inactive instead of failed and real SMART failures still surface. Recorded explicitly that SuccessExitStatus = 17 is the wrong fix — it would also swallow smartd dying on a machine that does have drives, which is the reason the daemon exists. V0: nix flake check --no-build passes. Backlog only — no fix attempted here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent instructions + loop state
Everything an AI agent needs to work on Nomarchy, vendor-neutral and git-tracked. Protocol: LOOP.md. Entry point for every harness: repo-root AGENTS.md.
Instructions (how to work)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| LOOP.md | Human | One-iteration protocol (orient → pick → work → verify → commit → record) + the V0–V3 ladder |
| VERIFICATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Enforcement: preflight, honesty rules, visual protocol, hardware-blocked checks, reporting |
| DELEGATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Capability tiers, scout/runner roles, token economy, parallel fan-out |
| GOALS.md | Human (agents propose) | Pillars, quality bars, non-goals |
| CONVENTIONS.md | Human (agents propose) | How to write code/menu/state while shipping |
| THEME-DESIGN.md | Human (agents propose) | Theme/visual design instructions |
State (what's happening)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| BACKLOG.md | Both | Prioritized queue — only executable work list |
| JOURNAL.md | Agents | Append-only iteration log (read last 3–5 entries; older → JOURNAL-ARCHIVE.md) |
| MEMORY.md | Agents | Curated durable gotchas |
| HARDWARE-QUEUE.md | Agents append, human checks | On-hardware V3 tests only Bernardo can run |
Product / design docs (not a queue)
| File | Role |
|---|---|
| ../docs/VISION.md | v1.0 product themes — agents slice into BACKLOG PROPOSED |
| ../docs/ROADMAP.md | Design history + shipped log |
| ../docs/README.md | Full docs map |
Harness adapters (vendor-specific, thin)
Shared content never lives in an adapter — adapters only register/route into the files above, in whatever format their harness requires.
| Path | Harness | Role |
|---|---|---|
| ../AGENTS.md | any | Entry point (CLAUDE.md is a symlink to it) |
| ../.claude/settings.json | Claude Code | Tool permissions |
| ../.claude/agents/ | Claude Code | nomarchy-scout / nomarchy-runner role defs (contracts in DELEGATION.md) |
Do not put backlog items, vision text, or policy under an adapter directory — it is not shared with other agent runners.
Rules of thumb
- Execute from BACKLOG only (NOW → NEXT; never PROPOSED without human triage).
- Orient with GOALS + CONVENTIONS + MEMORY + last journal + BACKLOG; when the task is product-shaped, also read the relevant VISION §.
- Record lasting design in ROADMAP ✓ when something ships that future humans should know; delete the BACKLOG line.
- v1 branch is human-only — never advance from an agent session.