Fourteen roles repeated the same two lines to say they use the gateway: a
`shared` flag gated on group_names, and an `enabled` flag conjoining that gate
with LITELLM_CHAT_MODEL_SERVED. Both are now single-sourced.
`shared` becomes literal true. The flag means the provider is a shared instance
rather than one deployed per consumer, and a central gateway is always that;
the dynamic form only said "shared if deployed", which `enabled` already
decides. The 50 shared pins under `litellm:` leave meta/variants.yml with it.
The tree had already noticed: 20 of those 50 lines carried
`# nocheck: variants-static-override`, two of them with copy-pasted text about
container_backup. This narrows e5de4e085a for one service key rather than
reversing it; every other dynamic flag keeps the group_names form.
`enabled` becomes `{{ LITELLM_USABLE }}`, defined in group_vars/all/16_ai.yml.
That shorthand is only possible because is_explicit_truth learns about it.
The resolver reads a dependency out of the flag TEXT — "in group_names" in
value — so a constant hides the role id and the provider silently leaves the
static closure of every role referencing it. Measured: the old expression
resolves True, `{{ LITELLM_USABLE }}` resolves False. GROUP_GATED_CONSTANTS
names the constants whose own definition carries the gate, and the docstring
states the obligation: a SPOT of this kind that is not listed there drops its
provider without a word.
The wider fix, accepting any Jinja as dynamic, was measured and rejected: 35
other flags carry a Jinja value without the marker (MCP sidecars, javascript
and SSO gates, recaptcha), and they would all enter closures they are not in
today.
A literal shared flag is no longer dynamic, so test_dynamic_flags wants the
`# nocheck: dynamic-flag` its own message documents for legitimate exceptions;
where a marker already existed the rule list is extended rather than a second
comment added.
Behaviour is unchanged where it counts. The closure keeps litellm with the same
app counts (wordpress 26, openwebui 23, hermes 23, mediawiki 22, flowise 23),
unrelated Jinja still resolves False, and the truth table of the new enabled
form matches the old one in all four served/deployed combinations. Three roles
resolve without litellm, and `git show HEAD:` proves that predates this change:
zammad pins enabled false in variant 0 at line 39, nextcloud at line 97.
Six unit tests cover the resolver, including one asserting that every
registered constant is actually defined in group_vars, so an entry cannot
become a dead promise.
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An MCP client spec signs in through the client's own OIDC button, which
redirects to Keycloak. Every provider put its MCP pairing in the lean variant,
and that variant pinned sso off - so the round that exists to prove the pairing
was the one round without an identity provider. Run 33574056480 shows what that
costs: openwebui's MCP specs reached _shared.js:131 and died on "openwebui OIDC
sign-in button must be visible on the auth page".
The rule now demands two things of the variant that carries the consumers: the
provider pins sso on, and each admitted consumer, in the variant that round
actually pulls in, does not pin it off. The second half matters because a round
deploys every dependency at its own index and falls back to variant 0 only when
the dependency has fewer, so the client shipping alongside is that one and not
the client's variant 0. A role that declares no sso, or pins it to a literal
false because upstream speaks no OIDC, is exempt from a flag it cannot have.
Twenty roles moved to satisfy it. Ten already had a second sso: false pin and
only needed the flip. Six could host the pairing in variant 0, which already
has sso on, and dropped back to two variants. Six kept a third lean variant to
carry the false polarity variants-coverage wants. moodle and mattermost took
swaps instead: moodle's variant 1 is the mandated LDAP-only branch, and
mattermost was already at the three-variant cap with sso on in its variant 2.
nextcloud also turns context_agent on in that round, the ExApp that serves the
endpoint - with it off the round proved nothing it was built to prove.
The rule moves to tests/lint/ansible/services/ because it reads meta YAML and
executes nothing, which is where integration.md says such a check belongs, and
its suppression key joins the catalog it was never listed in.
nextcloud_exapp_reregister becomes nextcloud_exapp_renew: mcp-secret-masking
matches `register:` unanchored, so the substring in the old name read as a task
that prints a secret. register.yml already masks the two tasks that carry one.
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Four MCP clients each carried a services entry for homeassistant, and
openwebui and flowise one for baserow, with matching run_after lines. Those
predate the admission refactor: since then the co-deploy edge lives on the
provider, where mcp-consumer-services-entry enforces it, and homeassistant
and baserow already carry an entry for every client they admit. The client
copies stated the same relation a second time.
The asymmetry gives them away. Open WebUI consumes twenty MCP servers and
declared three of them; the other seventeen work because the bridge is built
from MCP_DISCOVERED_SERVERS, never from the client's own services map.
Drop the run_after lines in the same move: a run_after target must be backed
by a services entry, so one cannot go without the other. Hermes and OpenClaw
lose the whole key, homeassistant being its only entry, because a bare
run_after parses as null rather than an empty list.
Keep qdrant on flowise, which renders QDRANT_URL and QDRANT_API_KEY into the
container and is a real dependency, and keep prometheus everywhere as the
ordinary metrics edge.
Open WebUI stops dragging both providers into every round it joins, which
brings moodle variant 2 from 64.75 GB back to 62.75 GB, under the budget the
preceding commit pushed it over.
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enabled and shared were hand-maintained in 24 roles and wrong in both
directions. Both now resolve from the mcp_consumer edges already declared
in meta/services.yml: a server takes the consumers it admits, a client
takes the servers that admit it, and the pair renders as "'peer' in
group_names or ...", or False when no peer is admitted at all. setdefault
keeps meta/mcp.yml and meta/variants.yml as the override channel, so
pinning either key still wins.
The resolved block replaces the mapping instead of being written into it.
_build_role_base_config parks the YAML cache's own object under mcp, so an
in-place setdefault injected the derived keys into every later raw read and
made test_mcp_schema pass alone but fail in a directory run.
The derivation keys on peer presence, never on a peer's own value: a
re-entrant read under _RENDER_GUARD returns the unrendered dict.
Four lints now ask the resolver instead of reading meta/mcp.yml, which they
could not do while the key was hand-written. That is what exposed the eleven
missing hostile-path specs the previous commit closed.
Carries one change that belongs to the WordPress probe but shares a file
with this one: the tool allowlist moves to the hyphenated names the adapter
actually serves.
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Four roles gained a canonical domain without a tor service block. Declare it
the way 84b22b37a8 did for n8n: bond 0.5, enabled on 'svc-net-tor' in
group_names, shared, with the variant pins alongside.
The nocheck directives carry the two exemptions: the service has no persona
surface for the playwright flag, and the sso-variant-tor combination requires
the onion in every variant, so the false polarity has no variant left to
live in.
hermes also moves its local http port from 8089 to 8092, because 8089
belongs to web-app-socialhome. That is a separate concern riding along in the
same file; splitting it would need interactive staging.
This is merge work rather than authored here: it follows the established
pattern and the port collision is real, but none of it has been deployed.
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The agent drives MCP clients that reach providers with the credentials
the deployment issued, so an unauthenticated surface hands that reach to
anyone. sso was declared off behind a suppression; it is now group-gated
like every other role, admitting the administrator and mcp groups.
The API path and the health endpoint stay open, because clients
authenticate there with their own token and a gate would break both. A
Playwright spec drives the redirect through Keycloak and skips itself
when the service is off.
The block sat under services but never behaved like a service. A service has
exactly one providing role, declared with provides, so the registry can map the
key to that role and consumers bind their flag to its presence. No role declares
provides: mcp. There are seventeen providers and the pairing is done by
allowed_consumers inside the block itself.
Every rule that enforces the service model therefore needed an exemption for it:
a shared-provider suppression in fourteen roles, a playwright-service-flag
suppression, and two freshly added exemptions in the dynamic-flag and
variants-static-override checks. Four independent rules, four escape hatches,
one cause. They are all gone now, together with a bond key that only the
resource budgeter reads and only for entries under services, and a wordpress
addon bridge that pointed at a service block that no longer exists.
The block moves to meta/mcp.yml. The applications loader maps meta/<name>.yml to
applications.<app>.<name> generically, so the move needs no wiring; the file
takes the same shape as meta/rbac.yml. Every config path follows, the variant
overrides are lifted out of their services map, and the vocabulary module leaves
the services package because it no longer describes one. roles_with_service
gains an explicit topic parameter rather than an implicit fallback, so nothing
silently resolves against the wrong container.
Files that are otherwise unrelated to this move are included where the committed
tree would otherwise keep pointing at a path that no longer resolves: thirteen
vars files, eleven playwright env templates and one task file.
Render every discovered server into the agent's own config, filtered to
the auth schemes a client can actually present, so no entry carries a
credential the server would reject.
Render hermes' config after the stack exists and before the handlers
flush; the other order fired compose up while the config was still
missing.
Own the config file as the container user. Rendered as root it stays
unreadable to the agent, which then falls back to its built-in defaults
silently and reports only that the server is unknown, pointing the reader
at the wrong layer.
Assert what these clients expose: neither ships an admin surface listing
its configured servers, so the specs hold the API to refusing an
unauthenticated caller, which is what keeps the per-server bearers out of
reach.
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The first agent workload of requirement 032. Its compose service pins
runtime: to the fact svc-virt-kata publishes, so model-generated code
runs behind a kernel or syscall boundary rather than plain runc. The pin
goes through compose_only because docker stack deploy discards the key;
swarm relies on the node-default runtime and a placement constraint
instead.
Hermes is not a dashboard. The container starts its gateway and serves an
OpenAI-compatible API on 8642, which shapes three decisions: the env
block configures API_SERVER_*, inference points OLLAMA_BASE_URL at the
LiteLLM gateway (Hermes' Ollama client speaks the same wire format), and
the vhost declares status_codes [200, 404] because the API server maps
only /health and /v1/*, so the bare root answers 404 by design and the
webserver health unit would otherwise fail the host.
SSO is off deliberately: an oauth2 proxy in front of a bearer-token API
breaks OpenAI-compatible clients. Authentication is API_SERVER_KEY, and
the guest spec asserts that /v1/models without it is rejected while the
administrator spec asserts the key unlocks the listing.
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