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Operations record · September 2026
Machine changelog
Significant installs, recoveries, and infrastructure decisions on Muse’s VM—recorded with the reasoning that made each change necessary.
Last updated
September 16, 2026
Manual record
Software
Agent models reshuffled across the fleet
At AK’s request, the OpenClaw agents were reassigned: Ivy (main) and Yale moved to anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 through Claude subscription OAuth via the native CLI path, while Hopkins moved to openai/gpt-6-astra. In OpenClaw, the correct provider ID is openai; openai-codex is flagged as legacy.
On Hermes, Mit and Cornell moved to openai-codex/gpt-6-astra, where openai-codex is the correct provider. All five agents were live-verified responding on their new provider and model.
Background
An earlier attempt to move every agent to Claude was only partly successful. Anthropic rejects third-party OAuth API calls unless “extra usage” is enabled, so the Hermes agents remain on OpenAI until AK enables it at claude.ai/settings/usage.
Backups
Pre-change configuration copies are stored at ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json.pre-modelmix-bak and ~/.hermes/config.yaml.pre-modelmix-bak, with corresponding profile copies.
Software
Muse Machine health cockpit deployed
A mobile-first HTML dashboard now monitors this VM’s CPU, RAM, disk, and network health with 24-hour trend charts; top CPU and RAM processes over a three-hour sampled window; storage breakdown and offload candidates, including agent transcript directories; service health for the OpenClaw gateway, Hermes, Tailscale, and the 1Password session; last backup and restart; scheduled jobs; and an append-only health log.
The collector lives at ~/workspace/machine-monitor/. The repository was pushed to the private GitHub project muse-000-meta-hatch/muse-machine. muse-machine-collect samples every 10 minutes, and muse-machine-refresh rebuilds the dashboard every three hours; both schedules were verified working.
Why
The user wanted at-a-glance VM health on their phone, historical context, and an early warning if this machine outgrows its 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, or 100 GB home disk. Current readings remain comfortable at roughly 47% RAM and 5% home-disk use, so no VPS is needed.
Design
A bespoke Python-standard-library collector was chosen over Grafana or Uptime Kuma to avoid adding monitoring overhead to a 2-vCPU machine. Because ICMP is blocked, network health uses TCP egress and DNS latency instead of ping. This dashboard is deliberately HTML-only: converting it through Google Drive would destroy the live SVG charts, so its exception to the Google-Doc-mirror rule is a recorded decision rather than an oversight.
Software
OpenClaw and Hermes activated with OpenAI OAuth
OpenClaw and Hermes were authenticated through OpenAI OAuth and configured as usable agents on the VM. This completed the setup that began with their September 11 installations.
Why
Installation alone left both tools unable to perform model-backed work. OAuth completed the final access step, turning the installed software into working agent runtimes.
Network
Fleet SSH made self-healing
A VM restart broke every fleet SSH connection because SSH ran as root after boot and read the ephemeral /root/.ssh/config instead of the configuration under $HOME. Without the tailnet tunnel proxy settings, connection attempts were bounced.
The durable configuration now lives at ~/workspace/fleet/ssh_config. Wrapper scripts at ~/workspace/bin/fleet-ssh, fleet-scp, and fleet-ssh-ensure restore the root-side configuration before connecting. A silent fleet-ssh-self-heal cron runs every 15 minutes as a backstop.
Recovery was tested by simulating another restart: /root/.ssh was wiped, the wrapper rebuilt what was missing, and the connection to dell-xps succeeded.
Same-day work
Launched Codex CLI 0.147.0 using gpt-6-astra in full-auto mode on the Dell XPS to build the VentureHub SQLite state service from its specification. Workdir: C:\Users\akk\venturehub-state-service.
Software
Codex CLI installed
Codex CLI 0.154.0 was installed globally with bun add -g @openai/codex; its binary is at ~/.bun/bin/codex. The machine’s npm-as-root path remains broken with an EPERM chown error on /home/hatch, so bun was used, as it was for the earlier OpenClaw installation.
The CLI’s own --help verified that codex exec runs non-interactively without a TUI, codex exec resume --last continues sessions, and codex login --device-auth offers a headless device-code OAuth flow for ChatGPT sign-in. The CLI is not yet logged in.
Rationale
The user asked whether Muse can drive Codex through its CLI using their ChatGPT OAuth. Installing it was necessary to verify that its non-interactive mode can support that workflow.
Access & security
1Password supervisor and watchdog restored
The session supervisor and watchdog returned after a brief experiment with on-demand sign-in. On this headless machine, op signin does not persist: OP_SESSION_my lives only in process memory, and the user session expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Decision
Keep the session warm every 20 minutes, run the full user-mode tidy at 02:50 ET, and have a watchdog inspect keepalive.log every 20 minutes. The watchdog reports at most once per day if the process dies or 1Password invalidates the session.
Access & security
Nightly 1Password tidy launched
Automatic cleanup and deduplication runs inside the session supervisor at 02:50 ET. A separate 03:20 ET delivery job posts the resulting plain-language morning report in the “1Password vault cleanup” side chat.
Guardrails
Merge only Login or Password items with the same vault, domain, and username. Never merge API credentials, notes, documents, cross-vault items, or SSO-affected records. Deleted duplicates go to Trash as the safety net.
Access & security
OpenRouter duplicate merged through the web app
The older duplicate was removed in my.1password.com. The CLI could not complete the change: the ssoLogin/UNKNOWN-field validation bug remains present in op 2.39.0, preventing both edits and deletes on SSO-affected items.
Workaround
Use the 1Password web app as the write path for affected SSO records.
Access & security
1Password CLI signed in as the user
User-mode access was established for Private-vault management. 1Password bars service accounts from Personal vaults by design, so service tokens cannot cover this work.
Access path
Use CLI-as-user or the browser for Personal and Private vault operations; keep the service account for the vaults it is permitted to reach.
Connection
Gmail accounts connected
Gmail access was connected for alexkkoo93@gmail.com, alex.k.koo@gmail.com, and Muse’s own address, muse.agent.ak@gmail.com.
Software
Synergy toolkit installed
Installed under ~/workspace/bin through ~/workspace/bootstrap-tools.sh: rclone, restic, yt-dlp, syncthing, fd, bat, pandoc, mise, and disk-watch.sh.
Software
Hermes and OpenClaw installed
Hermes 0.19.0 was installed in its own virtual environment at ~/workspace/venvs/hermes. OpenClaw 2026.9.4 was installed globally with bun add -g.
Why bun
npm failed as root with an EPERM chown error on /home/hatch, and pnpm failed on hardlinks. Bun completed the installation. Neither tool has provider credentials configured yet.
Backup
Revival Kit built and scheduled
The platform-agnostic Moose Revival Kit was assembled with identity, memory, transcripts, goals, schedules, and an environment recipe.
Retention
Rebuild automatically on Wednesday and Sunday mornings, keeping the four newest kits.
Network
VM joined the Tailscale network
The VM joined the user’s Tailscale network as a client-only node after approval through the login link.
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