The catalog in server/containers had drifted from the VPS. Eleven compose
files and twelve units no longer matched what runs, and two running
services, Gbrown_Agent and BillTracker, were missing. server/vps is now a
copy of the live files, and panama-server reads from it.
server/home holds the home server's services in the same shape. They still
run under Docker, so the podman units there are drafts for a later move, and
nothing installs from that tree. PostHog, Sentry and Plausible are checkouts
of upstream repositories. Only their local files are kept, next to an
UPSTREAM file naming the repository and the exact commit.
Every secret in both trees is a ${VAR} reference named in .env.example, or
CHANGE_ME in files that are not compose files. The live servers still hold
some of those values inline, so a live file can differ from its copy on
those lines alone. Existing .env.example files keep their comments, with new
keys appended at the end.
The ignore rules and the secrets contract now cover both trees, plus the
volume/ and volumes/ directories the home server uses.
A machine's role is now the interview's first question and the one answer
Panama records. Servers get the same shell minus the screen: core packages,
nvm, Bun, Claude Code and Codex (desktops get Codex too), linger, rootless
ports from 80, firewalld, the nginx-bridge network, and a nightly image
updater that replaced watchtower for cause.
server/containers/ carries junior's 23 compose services -- secrets moved to
per-machine .env files that never enter this public repo, every transformed
compose proven to render byte-identical to what is live. 'panama server'
enables, disables and relinks them; nothing here restarts a running service.
'boot --server' walks a fresh VPS from its root login to a normal install.
Five new contracts pin the secrets rule, the catalog's shape, panama-server's
behavior, the role plumbing, and the dotfile classification.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NU5JGiN3JfzqrLQB6wmJ1E
Gabriel Brown