# Deployment Plan — Athena MVP

> **Deployment reality (updated 2026-07-12):** This plan originally required Docker. The deployed system does **not** use containers — it runs as bare Python scripts under the `vpsadmin` standard user, driven by Hermes cron (`oracle-pipeline.sh` at 13:00 UTC). Ollama is also not deployed; summarization is deferred (graceful degradation is live). The Docker steps below are retained as the *future containerization target*, not the current procedure.

## Prerequisites
- Python 3 + `pip` on the target host (no Docker required for current deployment)
- Network access to the 6 source APIs/feeds (arxiv, github, huggingface, hackernews, reddit, rss_feeds)
- `GITHUB_TOKEN` available as an environment variable (optional, but raises the GitHub rate limit from 60/hr to 5000/hr)
- `HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN` available as an environment variable
- *(Future/optional)* A local Ollama instance running `llama3.2:1b`, or an alternate reachable inference backend if swapping — per the model-agnostic `summarize(text) -> (summary, model)` contract
- Hermes cron infrastructure available and able to invoke `oracle-pipeline.sh`

## Setup
1. Clone `main` (not a milestone branch) onto the target host
2. `pip install -r requirements.txt` if present; otherwise confirm stdlib + `requests` are available
3. Run `schema.sql` against a fresh `oracle.db` — this file is git-ignored and created locally, never committed
4. Create `/home/vpsadmin/oracle/.env` with `GITHUB_TOKEN` and `HUGGINGFACE_TOKEN`, then `chmod 600 .env` — never hardcode these
5. *(Future container target)* Build and run inside Docker with the 150MB memory cap and non-root user enforced, per the PRD platform requirements
6. Manual smoke test: run `python3 pipeline.py` once and confirm ingest → store → score completes without errors before handing off to cron

> **Current state:** steps 1–4 + 6 are the live procedure. Oracle-pipeline.sh sources `.env` and runs the bare pipeline; no Docker involved.

## Cron / Scheduling
1. Confirm `oracle-pipeline.sh` is the entry point Hermes cron calls
2. Schedule for 13:00 UTC daily
3. Add a lock file or PID check so overlapping runs can't happen if a prior run is still in progress
4. Confirm the cron environment actually carries the exported tokens — cron environments are frequently minimal and won't inherit an interactive shell's exports

## Hermes Integration
1. Confirm the wrapper script's exit codes are meaningful (0 = success, non-zero = failure) so Hermes can act on them
2. Define where Hermes should look for pipeline output/logs
3. Decide on a failure-notification path (Hermes alert, log flag, etc.) — **not yet specified, needs a decision**

## Monitoring
1. Aggregate logs from each pipeline stage (ingest, store, summarize, score)
2. Track theme-scan new-arrival counts per cycle per theme — this is the core signal the falsification logic depends on, so it deserves visibility beyond raw logs
3. Add a heartbeat/dead-man's-switch alert if a scheduled run doesn't fire, rather than relying on someone noticing missing data days later
4. Watch memory usage against the 150MB cap under real production load, not just dev conditions

## Rollback
1. Back up `oracle.db` before any schema change — it's git-ignored and not recoverable from the repo itself
2. If a bad deploy breaks the pipeline, revert to the last known-good commit on `main` and redeploy the bare scripts
3. *(Future container target)* revert to last known-good commit on `main` and redeploy the Docker image
4. Check falsification state (new-arrivals counters) after any rollback — rolling back mid-window could distort the 7-day dead-thesis calculation if not handled carefully

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*Draft prepared by Claude from the README, whitepaper falsification logic, and MVP-PRD platform requirements on `main`. The Hermes failure-notification path is the one open decision blocking this from being final.*
