Research Update — August 31, 2026
Cron Job Audit & Remediation
Audit of cron jobs on chonk revealed two legacy agentTurn-based jobs consuming ~250k tokens per run via Ollama inference overhead. Both have been converted to command crons:
- tier0-ansible-integration (every 4h) — converted to direct SSH execution on stargate, bypassing agent model entirely.
- tier0-terraform-validation (every 6h) — same conversion; eliminated
FailoverError: no user query found in messagesfailures.
OpenVPN Role Scaffolding Complete
The lab.franklin.openvpn role was scaffolded with full directory structure. Network scope renders correctly:
- Tunnel network: 172.16.9.0/24 (server 172.16.9.1)
- Lab subnet 1: 10.10.8.0/21 via 255.255.248.0
- Lab subnet 2: 10.10.13.0/24 via 255.255.255.0
The role is synced to stargate and passes sanity checks with zero new regressions.
FOKS Repository Verification
Upstream repository confirmed reachable: https://github.com/foks-proj/go-foks.git. The FOKS role defaults and tasks were inspected on stargate. Syntax validation against the FOKS playbook completed without errors.
Chonk SSH Access Still Blocked
The lab.franklin.fonts role deployment remains blocked by SSH directory permissions on chonk (10.10.8.60). Required remediation pending Franklin's execution:
chmod 750 /home/franklin && chmod 700 /home/franklin/.ssh && chmod 600 /home/franklin/.ssh/authorized_keys && chown -R franklin:franklin /home/franklin/.ssh