Role vars do not cross role boundaries, so flowise, hermes, homeassistant,
openclaw and openwebui read nothing where they template entity_name into
resolve_service_key. Seventy-seven other roles set it on the line below
application_id.
Ansible does not stop for it. In compose the undefined value renders into task
names as "<< error 1 - 'entity_name' is undefined >>" and the play carries on,
because that path resolves through resolve_compose_cid and never reads the key.
Swarm templates it into a real argument and dies on the first task, and with
any_errors_fatal that ends the play. Reproduced both ways against a replica of
resolve_host_cid.yml: compose ok=4 failed=0, swarm "'entity_name' is undefined".
Nothing could have supplied it either - role vars reach neither a sibling
include nor the parent, so the value was always undefined rather than sometimes
borrowed from whichever role ran before.
The rule that comes with it compares consumption against definition, which no
existing check does; the four scanners under tests/lint/ansible/variables all
run the other way. It skips a file another role pulls in by absolute path,
since that file executes in the including role's scope and reads that role's
value, and it matches the variable rather than get_entity_name, the filter whose
name ends in it. Both exemptions cost a false finding each while I was writing
it. It caught two roles the review had missed.
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The config template already rendered a models.providers block behind an enable flag, but the five variables that block reads did not exist, so the first deploy would have failed on an undefined variable. They follow the same shape Flowise, Hermes and Open WebUI already carry: the flag from the service declaration, the base URL from the gateway's local address, the key from the role's own credential.
This also closes a window the earlier gateway-contract commit opened, since that one added an include gated on OPENCLAW_LITELLM_ENABLED while the variable itself was still uncommitted. The resolved model-wiring entry drops out of the role's TODO.
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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.
MCP_DISCOVERED_SERVERS resolves every server-direction role to its internal URL, the bearer the server role minted, and its transport, dropping any server without a token so no client renders a connection it cannot authenticate.
OpenClaw moves from 2026.3.11 to 2026.7.1 because the pinned version has no configuration surface for outbound MCP servers at all: its validator rejects mcpServers, the shipped bundle carries no bundle-mcp, and the ACP path refuses per-session servers while pointing at a gateway config that does not exist there. 2026.7.1 reads mcp.servers, which the template now renders. The gateway command gains its run subcommand because the bare gateway no longer starts anything.
Reachability was the missing half: openclaw sat on its own networks only, so the hub name resolved through the DNS wildcard to the ingress instead of the container. The hub overlay now declares an mcp consumer key, which attaches every role carrying services.mcp.
A probe task runs openclaw mcp probe after the handlers flush and fails the deploy when a configured server does not answer. Without it the previous run reported failed=0 while the client could not reach anything.
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The second agent of requirement 032, pinned to the same isolating runtime
as hermes. Unlike hermes it exposes a browser Control UI rather than a
bearer API, so it takes the oauth2 proxy flavour with its own sso port;
a proxy in front of a browser surface is correct where it would break
OpenAI-compatible clients.
Three deploy failures shaped this role. OpenClaw maps no environment
variables onto config keys, so it restart-looped on 'Missing config' and
then on 'non-loopback Control UI requires allowedOrigins'; both now come
from a rendered openclaw.json mounted as a config. That render must run
after sys-stk-full, because it notifies compose up and the handler would
otherwise fire before the compose file exists. And the process runs as
root: OpenClaw refuses a config file not owned by the running uid and
writes cron state into its home, neither of which a non-root user can do
against the platform's root-owned volume and config mount. gVisor is the
isolation boundary here, not the in-guest uid.
The administrator persona is blocked: the Control UI is a WebSocket SPA
behind gateway device pairing with no DOM logout control for the shared
helper. The SSO round-trip itself is covered by test-oidc-login.js, which
drives the full unauthenticated to Keycloak to authenticated path.
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