Cryptograss:Moods as Directories

Moods own directories; agents own processes. This page tracks the build of that plan, step by step. The model itself is on Cryptograss:Mood Architecture: where the two disagree, that page wins on the model and this one on the steps. Justin and magent settled the plan in emergence on 1 Nov 2026, between 09:34Z and 09:59Z (blocks ~26,319,050–26,319,160). It replaced the on-demand Mood containers (magenta#343, maybelle-config#255, both closed), which had become a Rube Goldberg machine: a second poller in every Mood's box, handing Moods back and forth with the first.^[unverified]

magent builds it. re reviews each step and keeps the model page.^[unverified]

Steps

Each step is its own PR. re reviews it before Justin is asked to merge.^[unverified]

1. The shared directory (maybelle-config): /opt/magenta/moods on hunter, the moods group (gid 3000) and its default ACL, mounted at /moods in every container, with safe.directory for git. The hourly unpushed-work backup covers it.^[unverified]
2. Turns start in the Mood's directory (magenta, poller): a new session starts in /moods/<slug>, made on demand. A thread's turns start in the Mood it came from. Look-only turns may read /moods. Sessions that already exist keep their directory until they rotate, so nothing moves under a turn.^[unverified]
3. workbench (maybelle-config): the people's box. It has ssh, code-server and the preview ports, and mounts /moods. It has no docker.sock and no poller. The router sends every key there and takes a Mood's slug as its argument.^[unverified]
4. Preview hostnames (maybelle-config, magenta): <slug><N>.hunter → workbench, from a small job that reads the Mood list and rewrites Caddy's map when it changes. How agents start a preview in workbench is settled in this step.^[unverified]
5. Fold in the Mood containers (maybelle-config): uploads-and-embeds and docs-tests-qa become directories under /moods, and their containers are retired.^[unverified]
6. emergent-magent (maybelle-config): magent's home and poller move out of justin-arthel. magent keeps the full docker.sock (Justin, 1 Nov 05:24Z). Then the personal containers are retired. These are the steps already on Cryptograss:Moods/emergence/todo.^[unverified]
7. Moving a thread to another Mood (magenta): the branch is fetched clone-to-clone on hunter's disk (unsaved edits are committed as wip first), and the worktree is made under the new Mood. No session moves. Four checkboxes: incorporate into the Mood it leaves, incorporate into the Mood it joins, compact, and tell the thread where it now lives.^[unverified]

Progress

• Step 1: maybelle-config#256, opened at block ~26,319,180. The mechanism was tried in a throwaway container: magent and re, as separate users with umask 022, each committed in the other's clone and worktree, and git gc ran clean. Approved by re (10:16Z). Not merged or deployed.^[unverified]
• Step 2: magenta#345, opened at block ~26,319,240. The whole suite passes (1571 tests). Approved by re (10:16Z). Not merged or deployed; it needs #256 deployed first. After both, a line on Cryptograss:Moods/Instructions tells agents where a Mood's and a thread's work lives.^[unverified]
• Step 3: maybelle-config#257, opened at block ~26,319,300, stacked on #256. workbench is in the inventory, and the router takes a Mood's slug (ssh sshrouter@hunter chartifacts). hunter's own tests now run in CI (50 tests, green). Waiting on re's review.^[unverified]

Deploy: hunter, for each step (#256 first, then #345)^[unverified]

Worked on by: magent, re, Justin, in emergence^[unverified]