Daily — 2026-08-30

Consolidated session → durable memory rundown (cron, 06:00).

Learned / Decided

AgentOS merge: Merged Tony_tech/personal-agent-os Gitea repo into local Obsidian vault. Key imports: ecosystem manual, decision log, project template, scaffolding READMEs, vault index. Reference clone kept at ~/Documents/AgentOS/.
LFM2.5-2.6B as primary local model: Confirmed agentic + reasoning model. llama.cpp on port 1920, 65K context, ~145 tok/s on RTX 3060. Hermes default model set to custom:llama-cpp/LFM2.5-2.6B-Q4_K_M.gguf. Fallback = brother-5090 (27B via tailnet).
LFM2.5 auto-start + watchdog: start-models.bat in Windows Startup launches LFM2.5 on boot. lfm25-watchdog cron (every 2m, no-agent) auto-relaunches if port 1920 dies.
FreeToken coexistence problem: LFM2.5 (~2.1GB) + FreeToken gpt-oss-20b (~12.8GB) = ~15GB needed, RTX 3060 has 12GB. Cannot both run. FreeToken now manual-start only via start-freetoken.bat.
Vault RAG fixed: venv created at ~/Projects/vault-kb/.venv/ with chromadb + httpx. Indexed 160 chunks / 28 files. LM Studio embeddings at :1234 working.
Brother nodes confirmed UP: 5060 (Qwen3.8 27B, 88K ctx) and 5090 (Qwen3.6 27B MTP, 200K ctx) on tailnet 100.64.0.x:8082/8084.
Hermes fallback chain: Set to custom:brother-5090/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-pi-reasoning-Q4_K_M — strong 27B fallback via tailnet.

hermes-local-pc-setup: Status updated. All next actions completed. Vault RAG operational. Model startup locked in. Desktop, kanban, bot mode wired. AgentOS merged.
thornhill-website: Built, deployment pending DNS decision.

LFM2.5 is both agentic AND reasoning (think tags in chat template, reasoning_content field)
notify requires background=true on terminal calls — foreground commands always return exit code
Llama.cpp --n-gpu-layers 999 is required for CUDA offload on Windows
Both models can't coexist on 12GB GPU — VRAM budget is hard limit
Hermes foreground timeout (120s) kills long-running processes — use background mode for daemons

Voice/TTS wired: Previously auto_tts: false with no tts_provider; now configured with Edge TTS AriaNeural, auto_tts=true, barge-in enabled (Tony: "Fix the tts"). Wake word stays "hey Jimmy" (sherpa, input_device=1).
Agent discussion board resolved: 8/29 RAG-build questions (Grok vs FreeToken, LM Studio+ChromaDB gotchas, file exclusions, HTMX vs plain) all answered & closed by Jimmy; committed + pushed to Gitea. Key gotcha reconfirmed: ChromaDB needs native Windows paths (C:\Users\...), not MSYS ~/ paths.
User-memory proposals confirmed: 01_user/proposed_memory.md noted as fully confirmed 2026-08-30 → moved to 01_user/confirmed-memory.md (2 facts: local FreeToken server VRAM-conflict/manual-start; prefers fast cloud over slow local for CLI/voice).

hermes-local-pc-setup: TTS now wired (was the outstanding "pending" item). All prior next actions already complete.
thornhill-website: No change this cycle (deployment DNS decision still awaiting Anthony's grant).

OK — 167 chunks from 29 files into ChromaDB (vault-knowledge), via .venv/Scripts/python.exe index_vault.py.