Bernardo Magri
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2026-07-18 dev-box incident: on a warm relogin (user manager kept alive by the tty1 greetd session — no linger involved) the previous logout's graphical-session.target stop had been rejected as a destructive transaction (easyeffects held a queued start job), so the target stayed active across the logout. Its WantedBy services (cliphist, swaync, xdg-desktop-portal-*, swayosd, …) crash-looped against the dead Wayland socket into start-limit-hit, and the next login's plain 'start hyprland-session.target' was a no-op — every session service stayed failed, doctor red, until a reboot. Session bring-up (HM's systemd.extraCommands, rendered into the first exec-once) now stops both hyprland-session.target and a possibly-stale graphical-session.target, clears failed/start-limit state with reset-failed, then starts fresh. All three commands are no-ops after a clean logout or cold boot. Verified V1: home generation built against this tree renders the new command chain into hyprland.conf line 1 (nix build of homeConfigurations.bernardo with the nomarchy input overridden). V3 pending: warm relogin on hardware — queued in HARDWARE-QUEUE with exact steps; BACKLOG #149 updated with the incident evidence (the exec-once posture it watches is defending against a real race). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <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.