jdmbair13m5-changelog-20260831-1440-fleet-consolidation-status-and-credential-escalation

Session window: 2026-08-31 12:33:49 EDT → 14:40:40 EDT · jdmbair13m5 Type: Fleet coordination + verification. No local state was changed by this session — no file was created, edited, moved or deleted outside this changelog. All work was read-only verification plus cross-session reporting.

RESUME HERE — open items, highest first

CREDENTIAL EXPOSURE — Rich's action, time-sensitive, NOT verified by this host. Session dev-ec (rdmsm4x, "State sync and project consolidation") reports live plaintext credentials in ~/dev/concepts/llm-wiki/_staging, a harvested-Apple-Notes tree: OpenAI keys, an AWS key, and a private key — already pushed to a GitHub backup repo. dev-ec quarantined the path in the backup script; propagation is stopped, exposure is not. Rotation is Rich's call. No agent should rotate. A pushed secret stays in git history and in any clone or index after deletion, so deletion is not the fix — rotation is. This host cannot corroborate it: ~/dev/concepts does not exist on jdmbair13m5, there is no llm-wiki and no _staging anywhere under ~/dev. Relayed, not confirmed.
Apple Notes publication of the two 2026-08-30 changelogs — STATUS CHANGED, see below. Recorded fleet-wide as "blocked, needs an Aqua session". At 14:40:40 EDT on this host launchctl managername returned Aqua. If that holds, the blocker's stated premise does not apply to this session and the publish may be runnable here. Not attempted — a reboot was imminent and Notes cold start on a large local store can return -1712 AppleEvent timed out for minutes. Re-check launchctl managername after reboot before repeating the "blocked" claim to anyone.
/Users/richh/scripts/ is under no git repo and no backup on any host — single-disk only. Includes apply_mcp_disable_v1.0.py, agent_session_logger.zsh, audit_* scripts, claude_notes_autopublish.zsh. dev-ec recorded it as an open item and deliberately did not act; promoting another host's ~/scripts would collide with whoever owns those tools.
~/Library/Application Support/MCPFleetDisable/backups/20260830-1648/ is the only undo path for the 2026-08-30 Stitch MCP disable. Single disk, outside ~/dev, in no backup.

What this session did

Answered a status request from dev-8a ("Resume pending sessions"), then coordinated with dev-ec (the consolidation manifest owner). This session held no prior task context — it started cold on the peer message.

Verified jdmbair13m5 clean against canonical (rdmsm4x):

apps/Tyrell SESSION-STATE.md, ISSUES.md, Package.swift, STATUS.md, CHANGELOG.md and scripts/devupdateAGY.zsh — all SHA-256 identical to canonical.
Changelogs: local 20 jdmbair13m5 files, canonical 22, comm -23 local canonical EMPTY. Canonical is a strict superset. The 2 extra are older files this host lacks (20260823-2119 roodb-fleet-install, 20260822-2320 container-staging-eloop incident).
No git repositories under ~/dev on this host, so no unpushed-commit surface.
Result: zero unpromoted content under ~/dev. dev-ec closed jdmbair13m5 out of the intake manifest on this evidence plus its own independent read.

Declined a requested copy, correctly. dev-8a instructed an scp of jdmbair13m5-changelog-20260830-2230-xentropy-local-instance.md and -2231- to canonical. Checking the destination first showed both names already occupied and byte-identical (60ae6963197e915ee20bc017fa620da69d44ce0a81b583091a793a3f50c5f6d8 and bebfe36b0a4d79af5160589725e5df66b3004686256ec22483ef961159915680), mtimes preserved at Aug 30 22:30/22:31. The copy was not run. dev-ec confirmed the cause: its own rsync -a --ignore-existing sweep of every host's changelogs into canonical, landing between 12:40 and 12:44 EDT. A blind copy would have raced that rsync.

Corrected a fleet address rule that was being written down wrong. dev-8a warned that a bare hostname "goes over /etc/hosts LAN and times out", blaming false "host unreachable" findings. From jdmbair13m5 that is not so: bare rdmsm4x and [email protected] reach the SAME machine — identical IOPlatformUUID 764FCE1C-8935-53D6-972C-94CD664D5B3B, identical dircount, /etc/hosts → 192.168.0.29, sub-second. dev-ec supplied the other half: from rdmsm4x, bare jdmbair13m5 gives "No route to host" (needs 100.86.185.90). The rule is directional, not broken — jdmbair13m5 holds the static mapping, rdmsm4x does not. Also from dev-ec: the four other spokes answer only on their -1 suffixed tailnet names; un-suffixed registrations are stale, offline ~10 days.

Method notes worth keeping

Two measurements disagreeing (20 vs 22) was narrated as an event only after confirming both reads were the same command against the same machine (platform UUID), and it was then independently confirmed by the actor that caused it. Not a phantom write.
Checking the destination before writing is what prevented the collision. On a fleet where whole-file write-backs have already reverted committed fixes, that ordering is load-bearing.

Delivery caveat

Three cross-session sends today returned "accepted by the server ... delivery is not confirmed" — to dev-8a (twice) and dev-ec (once). Content above may not have reached those sessions. The credential escalation in particular should not be assumed delivered.

UPDATE 2026-08-31 14:43:29 EDT — credential scope widened; Aqua question resolved

Appended after dev-ec (rdmsm4x) responded. Appended, not rewritten, to avoid a whole-file write-back over a file already verified on canonical.

Item 1 above is LARGER than first recorded. Still Rich's action.

dev-ec confirms the llm-wiki exposure verified on its end and the scope has widened:

9 GitHub repos, not the 6 originally implied.
A separate exposure surface in replicantDB's local corpus — 41,698 content copies, since purged.
A confirmed Time Machine residual, i.e. the material survives in backup history.
Rotation order given by dev-ec: Cloudflare Global first, then the GoDaddy pair, then revoke and reissue the dataroo.net TLS certificate. This host still cannot corroborate any of it — no ~/dev/concepts here. Provenance stays relayed-from-dev-ec, now marked verified-at-source rather than unverified. A Time Machine residual plus 9 repos means deletion is even further from sufficient; rotation is the fix.

Item 2 above is RESOLVED — both readings were correct.

launchctl managername is a property of the session, not the host. dev-ec ran it over its SSH connection to jdmbair13m5 and got Background; this session ran it on the same host and got Aqua. Decisive evidence from dev-ec: console user richh, one live console session, 6 days uptime — an Aqua session existed on this host the whole time it was being recorded as unable to publish. notes_changelog.zsh's refusal was correct — it refuses for the invoking session, which is right, because a background session genuinely cannot send AppleEvents to a GUI app. The defect was the generalisation written afterwards: a per-session property recorded as a per-host fact. dev-ec corrected fleet/consolidation-20260831/CLOSEOUT.md and its Notes copy, and reassigned the row's owner from Rich to this host's GUI session, keeping the re-check-after-reboot caveat. Logged by dev-ec as entry 14 in ~/dev/_ops/verification-failures-20260831.md — a new shape for that list: the other twelve are wrong depth or wrong scope of population; this one is wrong scope of subject.

Still true after this update

jdmbair13m5 remains at zero unpromoted content under ~/dev.
dev-ec independently verified this file on canonical at 5,564 bytes, sha256 5a76a7b5fe018ce412c94b83a5cb446e79be7dd10dc3478babf948a402f6ee14 — matching the hash this session quoted. That hash covers the pre-update text; this appended section changes it, and the file was re-promoted after appending.
The Notes publish for the two 2026-08-30 changelogs was still not attempted from here.