Part 10 of 16
Operations manual
Running a daemon in earnest: first run, a walk-through of every console screen and every toggle on it, the daily routine, symptom-first troubleshooting, backup and upgrade.
- The operations manualThe manual for the person actually running a Crux daemon: first run, a full walk-through of every console screen and every toggle in it, the daily routine, symptom-first troubleshooting, backup, and u
- First runFrom nothing to a daemon you can log into: the four decisions you make once, the ones you can change any time, a minimum working environment, and exactly what a healthy first boot looks like.
- The console tourWhat the console is, how to open it, what every part of the shell does: rail, topbar, status pill, account badge, plus themes, workspaces, presentation modes, demo mode, and exactly how it authenticat
- Rings and workThe console index: the animated ring, its six lenses, its nine tool toggles, filters, playback and zoom, and the Work destination: the ExecPlan kanban, the live activity log, projects and sessions. Ev
- Memory and trustThe two destinations that hold the record: every fact, every tenant's lane policy, the review queue and lane weights; and every receipt, gate, passport, identity candidate and mediation posture. Every
- Meters and systemToken burn per session and measured averages: every filter and sort, and the whole System destination: every Settings toggle including AMR-adjacent config, passport and project creation, integrations,
- Explorer, Studio and graphsSearch the corpus, build a board of tiles, define your own workspaces, install signed templates, find any page, walk the enwiki link graph, and read the relation graph and plan tree: every control on
- Daily operationThe routine for a daemon you are accountable for: the five-minute morning check, what normal looks like on each screen, the weekly and monthly passes, and the six signals that reliably come before a f
- TroubleshootingSymptom-first. The console is blank, readyz is 503, the daemon will not start, a tenant vanished, a control is missing, a write refuses: each with the check that identifies it, the cause and the fix.
- Backup and recoveryWhat to copy, why passport.key is the one file you cannot lose, how to take a copy that is actually consistent, how to prove a backup restores, the restore procedure, and the four things a restore doe
- Upgrade and rollbackUpgrading a live daemon safely, the two update mechanisms and what each does, what changes behaviour across a version, the console's own cache revision, and an honest statement of what is and is not k