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# Runtime Supervisor
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The Runtime Supervisor is a reconciliation-oriented component responsible for ensuring the homelab infrastructure aligns with its desired state. It operates in a recommendation-only mode, detecting drifts and proposing actions without directly mutating the runtime.
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## Reconciliation Loop
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The supervisor performs a periodic (or on-demand) reconciliation loop:
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1. **Load Desired State**: Reads configuration from the inventory model (`hosts/*/services.yaml`).
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2. **Load Actual State**: Reads the current world state from the filesystem-first observer output (`/opt/homelab/world/`).
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3. **Detect Drift**: Compares the two states to identify discrepancies.
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4. **Recommend Actions**: Uses a recommendation engine to propose remediations.
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5. **Emit Events**: Publishes reconciliation events to the platform's event system.
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## Desired vs Actual State
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- **Desired State**: Defined by the user in the inventory. It specifies which services should run on which nodes.
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- **Actual State (World State)**: Produced by the observer runtime. It represents the ground truth of what is currently happening in the physical and virtual infrastructure.
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The gap between these two states is known as **Drift**.
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## Drift Conditions
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The supervisor detects the following drift conditions:
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- **Missing Service**: A service is defined in the inventory but not found in the world state.
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- **Unhealthy Service**: A service is present but reporting a non-ok status.
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- **Failed Deployment**: Recent deployment attempts for a service have failed.
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- **Offline Node**: A node defined in the inventory is unreachable or inactive.
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- **Unresolved Incidents**: Active incidents in the world state that require attention.
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## Recommendation Engine
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Based on the detected drift, the supervisor emits one of three reconciliation event types:
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- `reconcile_required`: Immediate action recommended to restore service (e.g., redeploy unhealthy service).
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- `reconcile_recommended`: Action suggested to improve stability or resolve minor issues (e.g., review unresolved incidents).
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- `reconcile_blocked`: Action required but blocked by external factors or repeated failures (e.g., repeated deployment failures requiring manual diagnostics).
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### Examples:
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- **Unhealthy service** -> Recommend `redeploy`.
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- **Repeated deployment failures** -> Recommend `diagnostics`.
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- **Node offline** -> Recommend `failover review`.
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- **Dependency unavailable** -> Recommend `delayed deployment`.
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## Summary States
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The supervisor extends the platform's runtime summary states:
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- `nominal`: Desired and actual states are in sync.
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- `degraded`: Non-critical drift detected; reconciliation required.
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- `unstable`: Critical drift or blocked reconciliation detected.
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- `reconciling`: (Future) Remediations are actively being applied.
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## Future Autonomous Remediation Architecture
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While the current stage is recommendation-only, the architecture is designed for future autonomy:
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1. **Policy Engine**: A future component will ingest reconciliation recommendations and apply policies to decide whether to auto-remediate.
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2. **Executor**: A mutation-capable runtime that will execute the proposed actions (restarts, redeploys, failovers).
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3. **Closed-Loop Feedback**: The observer will immediately reflect the results of remediations, allowing the supervisor to verify success or escalate if the drift persists.
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4. **Guardrails**: Implementation of rate-limiting, maintenance windows, and manual overrides to ensure autonomous actions remain safe.
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## Filesystem-First Design
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The supervisor adheres to the platform's filesystem-first philosophy:
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- **Input**: Files in `/opt/homelab/world/` and `hosts/`.
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- **Output**: Append-only logs in `/tmp/agent-events.log`.
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- **Persistence**: Checkpoints stored in `/tmp/supervisor-checkpoint.json`.
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- **Idempotency**: Every run is independent and produces the same recommendations for the same input state.
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