# AI-DLC Audit Log

> APPEND-ONLY. Every user input captured verbatim, never summarized or paraphrased,
> with ISO-8601 timestamps. NEVER overwrite this file — always append new sections.

## Workspace Detection
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:05:05Z
**User Input**: "ok back to the plan. We need to engage AIDLC I want an alpine lxc that
1. install atheos (nginx php etc)
2. sets up git integrations (if required)
3. downloads https://git.aridgwayweb.com/armistace/blog ready for me to use
4. I will set upt he armistace ssh keys myself
5. is backed by a 20gb root (tiny its basically going to be used to write blog)"
**AI Response**: "Workspace Detection executed. New project (no existing aidlc-docs/).
Created workspace scaffold at ~/dev/atheos-blog-lxc. Conducted pre-kickoff reconnaissance:
(A) blog repo armistace/blog is a PELICAN STATIC SITE (Python), not plain markdown — it has
src/{content,pelicanconf.py,devpelconf.py,publishconf.py,Makefile,tasks.py,themes/cleanblog},
builds with `make html` and publishes with `make github`/publishconf.py. Atheos alone CANNOT
build/regenerate it; it edits the .md sources + git only.
(B) Atheos requires: PHP + web server (nginx+php-fpm), NO database; writable config.php, data,
workspace, plugins, themes; optional extensions ZIP, OPENSSL, MBSTRING (needed for plugin
marketplace); optionally allow_url_fopen=On. Ships git integration (codegit component).
(C) Alpine 3.23 (alpine-3.23-default_20260116_amd64.tar.xz) is available as a PVE template
but NOT yet downloaded on any node.
(D) CORRECTION to the 2026-09-29 Gitea incident record: 192.168.178.151 is LXC 110 (nginxpm /
NPM), NOT the Gitea Actions runner. The .151 traffic observed against Gitea was NPM proxying
Gitea's own web traffic; the runners run on the k3s nodes (k3s-3 .161, k3s-2 .162). Memory
corrected accordingly.
(E) git.aridgwayweb.com resolves to a PUBLIC IP (115.70.15.16) — Gitea is internet-facing via NPM."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Workspace Detection

## Requirements Analysis
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:05:05Z
**User Input**: (none yet — awaiting answers)
**AI Response**: "Created aidlc-docs scaffold (aidlc-state.md, audit.md, plans/, requirements/,
story-artifacts/, design-artifacts/, incidents/). Generated
aidlc-docs/requirements/requirement-verification-questions.md with 5 questions + stated
assumptions. Key gate: Q1 asks whether the box must also BUILD the Pelican site (Python) or is
an editor only (Atheos/PHP), because the blog repo is a Pelican static site, not plain markdown.
Presented the questions inline in Matrix (Andrew reviews in-chat, not in .md files)."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Requirements Analysis (Step 6 gate: awaiting user answers)

## Requirements Analysis — Gate Answers
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:10:00Z
**User Input** (verbatim):
"1. A - It doesn't need to build the pipeline is well known just writing markdown is more than enough
2. I'll supply them, give me the ip address and I'll ssh in and set up my credentials in gitea, you can't do this and I want it under armistace
3. scotty
4. LAN only
5. A
6. clone it but leave instructions to get it over to ssh once I add the key"
**AI Response**: "Answers recorded: Q1=A (editor only; Pelican build explicitly out of scope — the
existing pipeline handles it, 'just writing markdown is more than enough'); Q2=Andrew supplies
credentials himself over SSH, under the `armistace` identity (agent must NOT set an armistace git
identity or credentials); Q3=PVE node **scotty** (.69) — verified: 15.7 GB RAM (12.1 GB available),
8 GB swap, scotty-local-lvm thin pool 771 GB free, in-use VMIDs 104-107/119/125/126/133-135 so
**136 is free**; Alpine template not yet downloaded on scotty; Q4=LAN only (no NPM/DNS/forward);
Q5=A (opt out of security+resiliency, document the TODOs); Q6=clone the repo but leave RUNBOOK
instructions for switching the remote to SSH once the key is added."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Requirements Analysis (Step 7: generating requirements.md)

## Requirements Analysis — Approval
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:12:00Z
**User Input** (verbatim): "no I'm good to skip lets do it"
**AI Response**: "Requirements APPROVED. User Stories stage explicitly SKIPPED (user confirmed).
Per the AI-DLC rule for skipped stories, a **requirement→unit map** will be substituted for
unit-of-work-story-map.md. Proceeding to Workflow Planning."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Requirements Analysis complete → Workflow Planning

## Workflow Planning — Approval
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:15:00Z
**AI Prompt**: "Approve this execution plan? 6 stages to execute (Application Design, Units Generation, Infrastructure Design, Code Generation, Build and Test), 5 to skip (Reverse Engineering, User Stories, Functional Design, NFR Requirements, NFR Design)."
**User Response** (verbatim): "continue looks good"
**Status**: APPROVED
**Context**: INCEPTION — Workflow Planning complete → Application Design

## Application Design — Gate Answers
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:18:00Z
**User Input** (verbatim):
"1. B jI'll set it in there, remind me in the runbbok
2. good idea for now,  but leave an update script that will reclone at latest and pin
3. looks good to me"
**AI Response**: "Answers recorded. Q1=B — the agent configures **NO git identity** (user.name/
user.email left unset); the RUNBOOK must explicitly prompt the operator to set them as their first
action after SSH. Q2 — pin Atheos to a resolved commit SHA **and** additionally ship an
**update/re-pin script** that re-clones Atheos at latest and re-pins the SHA. Q3 — layout accepted
(web root /var/www/atheos, workspace /var/www/atheos/workspace, nginx :80, php-fpm unix socket).
Generated the five application-design artifacts (components.md, component-methods.md, services.md,
component-dependency.md, application-design.md) with design decisions D1-D5 recorded."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Application Design complete (awaiting approval)

## Application Design — Security Model Decision (D6)
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:22:00Z
**User Input** (verbatim): "would it be safer to have an atheos user or use a application key? lets get this security model for the key right incase I want to expose to the wider web"
**AI Response**: "Researched against official sources + the live 1.27.3 instance rather than opining.
Verified: (a) Gitea PAT scopes are ROUTE GROUPS (e.g. write:repository) matched against the USER's
access, NOT per-repository — so a stolen armistace PAT reaches every repo the account can write;
the instance's DB shows armistace holding 8 tokens, one with scope `all`. (b) Deploy keys are
genuinely per-repository: swagger confirms /repos/{owner}/{repo}/keys (get,post,delete) and the
DeployKey schema carries read_only. (c) CVE-2026-28744 (fixed 1.26.2) confirms the scope mechanism
is real — 'repository-scoped access-token permissions on repository operations'.
RECOMMENDED and user ACCEPTED a per-repo deploy key over both a PAT and a dedicated Gitea user.
Rationale: a dedicated user still owns/needs access to `blog`, so it reduces nothing while adding a
credential and muddying attribution; the deploy key bounds blast radius to ONE repo natively.
Recorded as design decision **D6**. Wrote docs/security-notes.md (S-1..S-14 for wider-web exposure)
and docs/resiliency-notes.md (R-1..R-8). Agent confirmed it CANNOT add the deploy key itself (API
returns 'user should be an owner or a collaborator with admin write') — operator will add the public
half in the repo."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Application Design (security model finalised)

## Application Design — Approval
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:23:00Z
**User Input** (verbatim): "I like the model lets go with that. When you give me the public key (in here) I'll get it in the repo"
**AI Response**: "Design APPROVED including D6. Proceeding to Units Generation, then CONSTRUCTION."
**Context**: INCEPTION — Application Design complete → Units Generation

## Units Generation — Approval
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:26:00Z
**AI Prompt**: "Approve these 5 units and the U4 two-phase approach (clone over HTTPS now, deploy key generated + public half handed to operator, SSH switch as Phase 2 once the key is installed)?"
**User Response** (verbatim): "phase 2 is all you I'll give you the go ahead and you can switch it over. lets get building"
**Status**: APPROVED — units approved; U4 two-phase approved; **Phase 2 (SSH remote switch) is agent-owned, to be executed once the operator signals the deploy key is installed**. Construction to run AUTONOMOUSLY per the user's standing preference (no per-unit gates; stop only for hard blockers).
**Context**: INCEPTION complete → CONSTRUCTION PHASE (Infrastructure Design → Code Generation → Build and Test)

## OPERATIONAL NOTE — pre-existing Gitea CVE remediation (executed 2026-09-29, pre-construction)
**Timestamp**: 2026-09-29T05:26:00Z
**AI Response**: "Recorded for trail integrity: earlier in this same session (before this AI-DLC workflow
was engaged) the Gitea instance was found compromised via CVE-2026-60004 and remediated + upgraded
1.23.8 → 1.27.3. This deviates from the stage order — it happened before Inception. It is NOT an
output of any stage of this workflow. Full record: spine partition hermes-ops, source_ref
`gitea-cve-2026-60004-incident`. Also corrected a factual error in that record during this session:
192.168.178.151 is LXC 110 (nginxpm), NOT the Actions runner (user correction: '161 is the runner')."
**Context**: OUT-OF-STAGE — recorded for audit honesty