diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/configmap.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..174a1ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  settings.json: |
+    {
+      "defaultProvider": "homelab-ornith",
+      "defaultModel": "ornith:35b",
+      "defaultThinkingLevel": "medium",
+      "theme": "light",
+      "compaction": {
+        "enabled": true,
+        "reserveTokens": 8192,
+        "keepRecentTokens": 12000
+      }
+    }
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: pi-config
+  namespace: agent-pod
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/console-ingress.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/console-ingress.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..afc8229
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+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/console-ingress.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Exposes agent-hub at api.riotpiao.com/console (WebSocket) and /run
+# (trigger a new session) -- both are routes on the same hub.js service.
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: console
+  namespace: agent-pod
+  annotations:
+    konghq.com/strip-path: "false"
+spec:
+  ingressClassName: kong
+  rules:
+    - host: api.riotpiao.com
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - path: /console
+            pathType: Prefix
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: agent-hub
+                port:
+                  number: 9090
+          - path: /run
+            pathType: Prefix
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: agent-hub
+                port:
+                  number: 9090
+          - path: /sessions
+            pathType: Prefix
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: agent-hub
+                port:
+                  number: 9090
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/deployment.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9807b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: agent-pod
+  namespace: agent-pod
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: agent-pod
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: agent-pod
+    spec:
+      # api.riotpiao.com has no in-cluster DNS record (only resolves from the
+      # home network's own resolver) -- pin it to ingress-nginx-controller's
+      # ClusterIP so pi's models.json baseUrl works unchanged. TLS still
+      # terminates correctly since SNI/Host still say api.riotpiao.com.
+      hostAliases:
+        - ip: "10.101.128.185"
+          hostnames:
+            - "api.riotpiao.com"
+      containers:
+        # hub.js runs in the same container as pi (not a sidecar) so it can
+        # spawn `pi -p --mode json` directly via child_process -- a separate
+        # container can't exec into another container's filesystem/PATH.
+        # It IS the container's long-running process now; no more `sleep
+        # infinity` placeholder.
+        - name: pi
+          image: node:22-slim
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -e
+              apt-get update && apt-get install -y git curl jq openssh-client tmux
+              ssh-keygen -y -f /root/.ssh/id_forgejo > /root/.ssh/id_forgejo.pub
+              eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
+              ssh-add /root/.ssh/id_forgejo
+              npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent@0.84.2
+              npm install --prefix /root ws
+              node /root/hub.js
+          env:
+            - name: PI_BIN
+              value: pi
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 9090
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: "4"
+              memory: 8Gi
+            limits:
+              cpu: "8"
+              memory: 16Gi
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: pi-config
+              mountPath: /root/.pi/agent/settings.json
+              subPath: settings.json
+            - name: pi-models
+              mountPath: /root/.pi/agent/models.json
+              subPath: models.json
+            - name: pi-skills
+              mountPath: /root/.pi/agent/skills
+            - name: hub-src
+              mountPath: /root/hub.js
+              subPath: hub.js
+            - name: ssh-key
+              mountPath: /root/.ssh/id_forgejo
+              subPath: id_forgejo
+            - name: ssh-config
+              mountPath: /root/.ssh/config
+              subPath: config
+      volumes:
+        - name: pi-config
+          configMap:
+            name: pi-config
+        - name: pi-models
+          secret:
+            secretName: pi-models
+        - name: pi-skills
+          configMap:
+            name: pi-skills
+            items:
+              - key: planner-SKILL.md
+                path: planner/SKILL.md
+              - key: investigator-SKILL.md
+                path: investigator/SKILL.md
+              - key: info-collector-SKILL.md
+                path: info-collector/SKILL.md
+              - key: implementer-SKILL.md
+                path: implementer/SKILL.md
+              - key: judge-SKILL.md
+                path: judge/SKILL.md
+              - key: resolver-SKILL.md
+                path: resolver/SKILL.md
+              - key: brave-search-SKILL.md
+                path: brave-search/SKILL.md
+        - name: hub-src
+          configMap:
+            name: hub-src
+        - name: ssh-key
+          secret:
+            secretName: agent-pod-ssh-key
+            defaultMode: 0600
+        - name: ssh-config
+          configMap:
+            name: agent-pod-ssh-config
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/hub-configmap.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/hub-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bdcc42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/hub-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,700 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  hub.js: |
+    #!/usr/bin/env node
+    // agent-hub: lives inside the pi container (not a sidecar) so it can spawn
+    // `pi` directly, and control the pod's own tmux server. One persistent
+    // in-cluster service -- POST /run to trigger a single ad-hoc headless agent
+    // run, POST /pipeline to run an ordered list of task phases against a
+    // repo/branch (phases run sequentially, up to PHASE_CONCURRENCY tasks within
+    // a phase run concurrently, each in its own git worktree). Within one task,
+    // planner/investigator/implementer/judge are separate agents in separate
+    // named tmux sessions (task-<id>-<role>, attachable via `kubectl exec -it --
+    // tmux attach -t <name>` while running), coordinating only through what's on
+    // disk in that task's worktree -- not one shared conversation. GET /console
+    // (WebSocket) watches every concurrent headless run live, relaying pi's own
+    // session protocol verbatim (same event shape Claude Code sessions use).
+    const http = require("node:http");
+    const crypto = require("node:crypto");
+    const fs = require("node:fs");
+    const path = require("node:path");
+    const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
+    const readline = require("node:readline");
+    const { WebSocketServer } = require("ws");
+
+    const PORT = process.env.HUB_PORT || 9090;
+    const WORK_DIR = process.env.HUB_WORK_DIR || path.join(require("node:os").tmpdir(), "agent-harness-work");
+
+    // Never rely on a bare `pi` on $PATH -- both `pi` and `agent-console` collide
+    // with unrelated tools on this machine (a Rust CLI and a Datadog TUI,
+    // respectively, discovered the hard way this session). Always invoke the
+    // exact pinned @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent@0.84.2 installed locally under
+    // .pi-cli/, by explicit path.
+    const PI_BIN =
+      process.env.PI_BIN ||
+      path.join(
+        __dirname,
+        "..",
+        ".pi-cli",
+        "node_modules",
+        "@earendil-works",
+        "pi-coding-agent",
+        "dist",
+        "cli.js"
+      );
+
+    // Job-type skills under pi/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (mounted at
+    // ~/.pi/agent/skills/<name>/ in agent-pod). When `agent` matches one of
+    // these, the prompt is forced through pi's `/skill:<name> <args>` mechanism
+    // instead of being sent bare -- see pi's skills.md docs on single-shot skill
+    // loading. `resolver` is never dispatched directly by a caller; only the
+    // pipeline driver invokes it, on stage crashes.
+    const ROLE_SKILLS = new Set([
+      "planner",
+      "investigator",
+      "info-collector",
+      "implementer",
+      "judge",
+      "resolver",
+    ]);
+
+    const sessions = new Map(); // id -> {id, agent, status, events, startedAt, endedAt, pipelineId?, stage?}
+    const viewers = new Set(); // WebSocket connections watching /console
+
+    function broadcast(type, session) {
+      const msg = JSON.stringify({ type, session });
+      for (const ws of viewers) {
+        if (ws.readyState === ws.OPEN) ws.send(msg);
+      }
+    }
+
+    function startSession(agent, extra = {}) {
+      const id = extra.id || crypto.randomUUID();
+      const session = {
+        ...extra,
+        id,
+        agent,
+        status: "running",
+        events: [],
+        startedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+      };
+      sessions.set(id, session);
+      broadcast("start", session);
+      return session;
+    }
+
+    function addEvent(session, rawLine) {
+      const event = JSON.parse(rawLine);
+      session.events.push(event);
+      broadcast("event", session);
+      return event;
+    }
+
+    function endSession(session, status) {
+      session.status = status;
+      session.endedAt = new Date().toISOString();
+      broadcast("end", session);
+    }
+
+    // Extracts the plain-text content of a message_end event, if any -- used to
+    // find the VERDICT:/RESOLUTION: line judge/resolver skills are required to
+    // end their final message with.
+    function textOf(event) {
+      if (event.type !== "message_end" || !event.message || !Array.isArray(event.message.content)) {
+        return null;
+      }
+      return event.message.content
+        .filter((c) => c.type === "text")
+        .map((c) => c.text)
+        .join("\n");
+    }
+
+    // Core spawn primitive. Spawns `pi -p --mode json <extraArgs> <prompt>`,
+    // relays every line as a session event exactly like before. Returns
+    // { session, done } -- `session` is available synchronously (so an HTTP
+    // handler can respond with its id right away, same as the old runAgent),
+    // `done` is a Promise resolving once the process exits, for callers that
+    // need to wait on a stage (the pipeline driver) rather than fire-and-forget.
+    function spawnPi({ agent, prompt, provider, model, cwd, sessionExtra = {} }) {
+      const session = startSession(agent, sessionExtra);
+      const args = ["-p", "--mode", "json"];
+      if (provider) args.push("--provider", provider);
+      if (model) args.push("--model", model);
+      const finalPrompt = ROLE_SKILLS.has(agent) ? `/skill:${agent} ${prompt}` : prompt;
+      args.push(finalPrompt);
+
+      const child = spawn(PI_BIN, args, {
+        stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
+        cwd,
+      });
+      const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: child.stdout });
+      let lastText = "";
+      let stderrTail = "";
+
+      rl.on("line", (line) => {
+        if (!line.trim()) return;
+        try {
+          const event = addEvent(session, line);
+          const text = textOf(event);
+          if (text) lastText = text;
+        } catch {
+          // non-JSON stdout noise, ignore
+        }
+      });
+      child.stderr.on("data", (chunk) => {
+        process.stderr.write(chunk);
+        stderrTail = (stderrTail + chunk.toString()).slice(-4000);
+      });
+
+      const done = new Promise((resolve) => {
+        child.on("close", (code) => {
+          endSession(session, code === 0 ? "done" : "error");
+          resolve({ code, session, lastText, stderrTail });
+        });
+      });
+
+      return { session, done };
+    }
+
+    function runAgent(agent, prompt, extraArgs = {}) {
+      // Fire-and-forget: caller (the /run handler) doesn't await `done`.
+      return spawnPi({ agent, prompt, ...extraArgs }).session;
+    }
+
+    function parseVerdictLine(text, label) {
+      if (!text) return null;
+      const re = new RegExp(`${label}:\\s*(\\w+)`, "i");
+      const m = text.match(re);
+      return m ? m[1].toUpperCase() : null;
+    }
+
+    // Deterministic git operations, run directly by hub.js rather than left to
+    // the model -- branch creation and pushing after each task are mechanical,
+    // not judgment calls, and need to happen reliably every time regardless of
+    // what a task's stages did or didn't remember to do.
+    function runCmd(bin, args, cwd) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        const child = spawn(bin, args, { cwd, stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"] });
+        let out = "";
+        child.stdout.on("data", (c) => (out += c));
+        child.stderr.on("data", (c) => (out += c));
+        child.on("close", (code) => resolve({ code, out: out.trim() }));
+      });
+    }
+
+    function runGit(cwd, args) {
+      return runCmd("git", args, cwd);
+    }
+
+    // A stage saying "commit" in its prompt is a request, not a guarantee -- seen
+    // in practice: a stage writes a real file and simply never runs `git add`/
+    // `git commit`, leaving it untracked and invisible to every later `git diff`.
+    // Sweep and commit anything left dirty after every stage, deterministically.
+    async function commitPending(cwd, message) {
+      await runGit(cwd, ["add", "-A"]);
+      const status = await runGit(cwd, ["status", "--porcelain"]);
+      if (!status.out) return { committed: false };
+      const commit = await runGit(cwd, ["commit", "-m", message]);
+      return { committed: commit.code === 0, error: commit.code !== 0 ? commit.out : undefined };
+    }
+
+    // Invokes the `resolver` skill to diagnose a stuck/crashed stage and decide
+    // RETRY vs ABORT. Shared by both crash-recovery paths below (headless
+    // exit-code failures and interactive sentinel-file timeouts) -- the
+    // diagnostic prompt differs per caller, but "ask resolver, parse the
+    // RESOLUTION: line" is identical either way.
+    async function askResolver(pipelineId, cwd, task, diagnosticPrompt) {
+      const resolverResult = await spawnPi({
+        agent: "resolver",
+        prompt: diagnosticPrompt,
+        cwd,
+        sessionExtra: { pipelineId, stage: "resolver", task },
+      }).done;
+      return parseVerdictLine(resolverResult.lastText, "RESOLUTION");
+    }
+
+    // Runs one pipeline stage, and if it crashes (nonzero exit -- not a semantic
+    // judge FAIL, which is handled separately), asks the resolver to diagnose
+    // and decide RETRY vs ABORT. Retries the failed stage at most once,
+    // regardless of what resolver recommends a second time -- a hard cap, not
+    // indefinite trust in the model's judgment.
+    async function runStageWithResolver(pipelineId, cwd, stage, prompt, task) {
+      let result = await spawnPi({
+        agent: stage,
+        prompt,
+        cwd,
+        sessionExtra: { pipelineId, stage, task },
+      }).done;
+      if (result.code === 0) return result;
+
+      const resolution = await askResolver(
+        pipelineId,
+        cwd,
+        task,
+        `Stage "${stage}" exited with code ${result.code}. Its stderr tail:\n${result.stderrTail}`
+      );
+
+      if (resolution === "RETRY") {
+        result = await spawnPi({
+          agent: stage,
+          prompt,
+          cwd,
+          sessionExtra: { pipelineId, stage, task },
+        }).done;
+      }
+      return result;
+    }
+
+    // Deterministic tmux operations -- same rationale as runGit: mechanical,
+    // not a judgment call, run directly rather than trusted to a prompt.
+    function runTmux(args) {
+      return runCmd("tmux", args);
+    }
+
+    function tmuxSessionName(task) {
+      return `task-${task.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, "-")}`;
+    }
+
+    // Bounded-concurrency pool -- runs `worker` over `items`, at most `limit` in
+    // flight at once. No external dep; a plain in-order index cursor shared by
+    // `limit` runner loops.
+    async function runConcurrent(items, limit, worker) {
+      const results = new Array(items.length);
+      let i = 0;
+      async function next() {
+        while (i < items.length) {
+          const idx = i++;
+          results[idx] = await worker(items[idx], idx);
+        }
+      }
+      await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: Math.min(limit, items.length) }, next));
+      return results;
+    }
+
+    const STAGE_TIMEOUT_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;
+    const NUDGE_TIMEOUT_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000;
+    const POLL_MS = 10 * 1000;
+
+    async function waitForFile(filePath, limitMs) {
+      const start = Date.now();
+      while (!fs.existsSync(filePath)) {
+        if (Date.now() - start > limitMs) return false;
+        await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, POLL_MS));
+      }
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    const MAX_IMPLEMENT_ATTEMPTS = 5;
+    const MAX_PLAN_REVISIONS = 3;
+
+    // Runs one role as its own fresh interactive pi session in its own named
+    // tmux session -- planner, investigator, implementer, and judge are
+    // separate agents with separate context, not turns in one shared
+    // conversation. They coordinate only through what's on disk in the task's
+    // worktree: PLAN.md, committed code, judge's result file. Each session is
+    // attachable while it runs (kubectl exec -it -- tmux attach -t <name>) and
+    // killed once its sentinel file lands or it's abandoned after resolver
+    // escalation.
+    async function runStage(pipelineId, cwd, task, stageLabel, stagePrompt, sentinelFile) {
+      const sessionName = `${tmuxSessionName(task)}-${stageLabel}`;
+      fs.rmSync(sentinelFile, { force: true });
+
+      const spawned = await runTmux(["new-session", "-d", "-s", sessionName, "-c", cwd, PI_BIN, stagePrompt]);
+      if (spawned.code !== 0) return { ok: false, crashed: true, error: spawned.out, sessionName };
+
+      let ok = await waitForFile(sentinelFile, STAGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+      if (!ok) {
+        const pane = await runTmux(["capture-pane", "-t", sessionName, "-p", "-S", "-200"]);
+        const resolution = await askResolver(
+          pipelineId,
+          cwd,
+          task,
+          `Task ${task}'s "${stageLabel}" stage hasn't finished after 10 minutes. ` +
+            `Its pane tail:\n${pane.out.slice(-3000)}\n\nDecide: is it still making ` +
+            `real progress and worth nudging to wrap up, or stuck and worth abandoning?`
+        );
+        if (resolution === "RETRY") {
+          await runTmux([
+            "send-keys",
+            "-t",
+            sessionName,
+            `Please wrap up the "${stageLabel}" stage now and touch ${path.basename(sentinelFile)} when done.`,
+            "Enter",
+          ]);
+          ok = await waitForFile(sentinelFile, NUDGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+        }
+      }
+
+      await runTmux(["kill-session", "-t", sessionName]);
+      return { ok, sessionName };
+    }
+
+    // Runs one task in its own git worktree (see runPhase): planner drafts
+    // PLAN.md, investigator confirms it, then implementer and judge go back and
+    // forth -- judge's FAIL rationale lands in .task-result-<task>, which the
+    // next implementer attempt is told to read and address. After
+    // MAX_IMPLEMENT_ATTEMPTS straight fails, planner is brought back in to
+    // judge whether the *plan* itself is wrong, not just the implementation; if
+    // so it revises PLAN.md and the implementer gets a fresh attempt budget
+    // against the new plan. MAX_PLAN_REVISIONS caps this from looping forever
+    // on a task that's genuinely stuck.
+    async function runTaskInteractive(pipelineId, cwd, baseBranch, task, pipelineSession, judgeOnly) {
+      const resultFile = path.join(cwd, `.task-result-${task}`);
+      fs.rmSync(resultFile, { force: true });
+
+      const specHint = `the file under tasks/ starting with "${task}-"`;
+
+      const runRole = async (stageLabel, prompt, sentinel) => {
+        pipelineSession.activeTasks[task] = {
+          stage: stageLabel,
+          sessionName: `${tmuxSessionName(task)}-${stageLabel}`,
+          startedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+        };
+        broadcast("event", pipelineSession);
+        const result = await runStage(pipelineId, cwd, task, stageLabel, prompt, sentinel);
+        await commitPending(cwd, `task: ${task} (${stageLabel})`);
+        return result;
+      };
+
+      const abandon = (stageLabel, result, attempt) => {
+        delete pipelineSession.activeTasks[task];
+        broadcast("event", pipelineSession);
+        return {
+          task,
+          status: result.crashed ? "spawn-crashed" : "timed-out",
+          error: result.error,
+          stoppedAt: stageLabel,
+          ...(attempt !== undefined ? { attempt } : {}),
+        };
+      };
+
+      // Task's implementation is inherited already-committed (e.g. from a base
+      // branch of prior work) -- try one judge pass against the spec directly
+      // (no PLAN.md exists yet) before paying for a full planner/investigator
+      // redo. PASS ends the task here; FAIL falls through into the normal flow
+      // below, so planner/implementer pick up with the judge's real feedback.
+      if (judgeOnly) {
+        const quick = await runRole(
+          "judge",
+          `Task ${task} may already be implemented on this branch -- check ` +
+            `\`git log --oneline --grep '${task}'\` and the current code directly against its spec ` +
+            `(${specHint})'s acceptance criteria (no PLAN.md exists for this task yet). Write your ` +
+            `verdict to .task-result-${task} as a single "VERDICT: PASS" or "VERDICT: FAIL" line plus ` +
+            `one line of rationale, then run: touch .stage-done-${task}-judge-0`,
+          path.join(cwd, `.stage-done-${task}-judge-0`)
+        );
+        if (!quick.ok) return abandon("judge", quick, 0);
+
+        const quickText = fs.existsSync(resultFile) ? fs.readFileSync(resultFile, "utf8") : "";
+        if (parseVerdictLine(quickText, "VERDICT") === "PASS") {
+          delete pipelineSession.activeTasks[task];
+          broadcast("event", pipelineSession);
+          return { task, status: "done", judgeRationale: quickText, judgeOnlyPass: true };
+        }
+      }
+
+      let result = await runRole(
+        "planner",
+        `Use the planner skill to draft PLAN.md for task ${task}, reading its spec (${specHint}). Commit PLAN.md, then run: touch .stage-done-${task}-planner`,
+        path.join(cwd, `.stage-done-${task}-planner`)
+      );
+      if (!result.ok) return abandon("planner", result);
+
+      result = await runRole(
+        "investigator",
+        `Use the investigator skill to confirm PLAN.md against real sources, append findings, commit. Then run: touch .stage-done-${task}-investigator`,
+        path.join(cwd, `.stage-done-${task}-investigator`)
+      );
+      if (!result.ok) return abandon("investigator", result);
+
+      let planRevisions = 0;
+      let implementAttempt = 0;
+      let verdict = null;
+      let resultText = "";
+      let justRevisedPlan = false;
+
+      while (true) {
+        implementAttempt++;
+        const feedbackHint = fs.existsSync(resultFile)
+          ? justRevisedPlan
+            ? `.task-result-${task} holds the judge's feedback against the OLD plan, which prompted a plan revision -- ` +
+              `PLAN.md has since changed. Read the current PLAN.md as the source of truth, not the old feedback verbatim.`
+            : `A previous judge review exists at .task-result-${task} -- read it and address every issue it raises.`
+          : "";
+        justRevisedPlan = false;
+
+        result = await runRole(
+          "implementer",
+          `Use the implementer skill to implement what the current PLAN.md specifies (commit as you go). ${feedbackHint} Then run: touch .stage-done-${task}-implementer-${implementAttempt}`,
+          path.join(cwd, `.stage-done-${task}-implementer-${implementAttempt}`)
+        );
+        if (!result.ok) return abandon("implementer", result, implementAttempt);
+
+        result = await runRole(
+          "judge",
+          `Use the judge skill to review the diff against ${baseBranch}...HEAD. Write your verdict to ` +
+            `.task-result-${task} as a single "VERDICT: PASS" or "VERDICT: FAIL" line plus one line of ` +
+            `rationale, then run: touch .stage-done-${task}-judge-${implementAttempt}`,
+          path.join(cwd, `.stage-done-${task}-judge-${implementAttempt}`)
+        );
+        if (!result.ok) return abandon("judge", result, implementAttempt);
+
+        resultText = fs.existsSync(resultFile) ? fs.readFileSync(resultFile, "utf8") : "";
+        verdict = parseVerdictLine(resultText, "VERDICT");
+        if (verdict === "PASS") break;
+
+        if (implementAttempt >= MAX_IMPLEMENT_ATTEMPTS) {
+          if (planRevisions >= MAX_PLAN_REVISIONS) break;
+          planRevisions++;
+          result = await runRole(
+            "planner-revise",
+            `Implementer failed judge review ${MAX_IMPLEMENT_ATTEMPTS} times in a row for task ${task}. Read PLAN.md, ` +
+              `the judge's feedback in .task-result-${task}, and the current diff against ${baseBranch}...HEAD. Decide ` +
+              `whether the plan's approach itself is wrong, not just the implementation -- if so, revise PLAN.md and ` +
+              `commit. If you change the approach, also use the investigator skill to confirm the new approach against ` +
+              `real sources before committing. If the plan is sound, note why in PLAN.md and leave it as-is. Then run: ` +
+              `touch .stage-done-${task}-planner-revise-${planRevisions}`,
+            path.join(cwd, `.stage-done-${task}-planner-revise-${planRevisions}`)
+          );
+          if (!result.ok) return abandon("planner-revise", result, planRevisions);
+          implementAttempt = 0;
+          justRevisedPlan = true;
+        }
+      }
+
+      delete pipelineSession.activeTasks[task];
+      broadcast("event", pipelineSession);
+
+      if (verdict !== "PASS" && planRevisions >= MAX_PLAN_REVISIONS) {
+        return { task, status: "unresolved", judgeRationale: resultText, implementAttempts: implementAttempt, planRevisions };
+      }
+      return {
+        task,
+        status: verdict === "PASS" ? "done" : "done-with-concerns",
+        judgeRationale: resultText,
+      };
+    }
+
+    const PHASE_CONCURRENCY = 3;
+
+    // Runs one phase (a batch of tasks with no declared dependency on each
+    // other) with up to PHASE_CONCURRENCY tasks in flight at once. Each task
+    // gets its own git worktree off workBranch -- concurrent pi sessions writing
+    // into one shared working tree would corrupt the index; worktrees share the
+    // same object database but give each task an isolated checkout. After a
+    // task's session ends, its branch is merged back into workBranch and pushed,
+    // one merge at a time (git ref updates aren't safe to run concurrently even
+    // though the worktrees themselves are isolated).
+    async function runPhase(pipelineId, cwd, workBranch, phaseTasks, pipelineSession) {
+      // Each entry is either a plain task id, or { id, judgeOnly: true } when
+      // the task's implementation already exists (e.g. inherited from a base
+      // branch) and just needs a real judge pass rather than a full
+      // planner/investigator/implementer redo.
+      const entries = phaseTasks.map((t) => (typeof t === "string" ? { id: t, judgeOnly: false } : t));
+
+      const worktrees = {};
+      for (const entry of entries) {
+        const task = entry.id;
+        const wtDir = path.join(WORK_DIR, pipelineId, `wt-${task.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, "-")}`);
+        const taskBranch = `task/${task}`;
+        const add = await runGit(cwd, ["worktree", "add", "-b", taskBranch, wtDir, workBranch]);
+        if (add.code !== 0) {
+          pipelineSession.taskResults.push({ task, status: "worktree-crashed", error: add.out });
+          continue;
+        }
+        worktrees[task] = { wtDir, taskBranch };
+      }
+
+      const runnable = entries.filter((e) => worktrees[e.id]);
+      await runConcurrent(runnable, PHASE_CONCURRENCY, async (entry) => {
+        const { wtDir } = worktrees[entry.id];
+        const result = await runTaskInteractive(pipelineId, wtDir, workBranch, entry.id, pipelineSession, entry.judgeOnly);
+        pipelineSession.taskResults.push(result);
+        return result;
+      });
+
+      // Merge + push sequentially -- ref updates on the shared repo, one at a
+      // time, in the declared task order for this phase.
+      for (const entry of runnable) {
+        const task = entry.id;
+        const { wtDir, taskBranch } = worktrees[task];
+        const result = pipelineSession.taskResults.find((r) => r.task === task);
+
+        const merge = await runGit(cwd, ["merge", "--no-ff", taskBranch, "-m", `merge: ${task}`]);
+        if (merge.code !== 0) {
+          await runGit(cwd, ["merge", "--abort"]);
+          if (result) {
+            result.status = "merge-conflict";
+            result.mergeError = merge.out;
+          }
+        } else {
+          const push = await runGit(cwd, ["push", "-u", "origin", workBranch]);
+          if (result) {
+            result.pushed = push.code === 0;
+            if (!result.pushed) result.pushError = push.out;
+          }
+        }
+
+        await runGit(cwd, ["worktree", "remove", wtDir, "--force"]);
+        await runGit(cwd, ["branch", "-D", taskBranch]);
+        broadcast("event", pipelineSession);
+      }
+    }
+
+    // tasks: array of phases, each phase an array of task ids with no declared
+    // dependency on each other (e.g. [["T0.1","T0.2"], ["T1.1","T1.2","T1.3"]]) --
+    // caller's responsibility to supply real phase grouping (see tasks/INDEX.md;
+    // filename/numeric sort does NOT match execution order on boards like this).
+    // A flat array of ids is also accepted and treated as one single phase.
+    // Phases run strictly sequentially (a phase boundary is a real dependency
+    // gate); tasks within a phase run concurrently, each in its own worktree --
+    // see runPhase.
+    function runPipeline({ pipelineId, repo, baseBranch, tasks, branchName }) {
+      const cwd = path.join(WORK_DIR, pipelineId);
+      fs.mkdirSync(cwd, { recursive: true });
+
+      const phases = Array.isArray(tasks[0]) ? tasks : [tasks];
+
+      const pipelineSession = startSession("pipeline", {
+        id: pipelineId,
+        pipelineId,
+        stage: "pipeline",
+        taskResults: [],
+        activeTasks: {},
+        totalTasks: phases.flat().length,
+      });
+
+      (async () => {
+        const clone = await runStageWithResolver(
+          pipelineId,
+          cwd,
+          "planner",
+          `Run exactly this command, verbatim, no variation: git clone --branch ${baseBranch} ${repo} . -- the trailing dot is required, it clones directly into the current directory instead of creating a subdirectory. Do not cd anywhere first or after. Do nothing else.`,
+          "clone"
+        );
+        if (clone.code !== 0) return endSession(pipelineSession, "clone-crashed");
+        if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(cwd, ".git"))) {
+          // The model deciding to `cd` elsewhere before cloning (instead of
+          // cloning into the assigned cwd) is a real failure mode seen in
+          // practice, not a hypothetical -- exit code 0 doesn't mean the clone
+          // landed where every later stage's cwd assumes it did.
+          return endSession(pipelineSession, "clone-missing");
+        }
+
+        // Dedicated branch, never main -- and pushed after every single task
+        // (not just at the end) so a pod restart mid-run loses at most the
+        // in-progress task's work, not everything since the start.
+        const workBranch = branchName || `agent-run/${pipelineId}`;
+        const branchResult = await runGit(cwd, ["checkout", "-b", workBranch]);
+        if (branchResult.code !== 0) {
+          pipelineSession.gitError = branchResult.out;
+          return endSession(pipelineSession, "branch-crashed");
+        }
+
+        // Seen in practice: a task manually downloads a dependency tarball
+        // (crates.io registry access isn't guaranteed from every sandboxed
+        // checkout) and it lands at repo root, outside whatever .gitignore
+        // already covers -- then git add -A (ours or the model's own) commits
+        // it. Append broad build-artifact/archive patterns before any task
+        // runs, so it's excluded regardless of who stages files later.
+        const gitignoreAdditions = [
+          "",
+          "# agent-harness: build artifacts and vendored archives never belong in source control",
+          "*.tar.gz",
+          "*.tgz",
+          "*.crate",
+          "*.zip",
+          "*.bin",
+          "*.whl",
+          "vendor/",
+          "node_modules/",
+          "",
+          "# agent-harness: task completion sentinel files, harness bookkeeping only",
+          ".task-result-*",
+          ".stage-done-*",
+        ].join("\n");
+        fs.appendFileSync(path.join(cwd, ".gitignore"), gitignoreAdditions + "\n");
+        await runGit(cwd, ["add", ".gitignore"]);
+        await runGit(cwd, ["commit", "-m", "chore: broaden .gitignore for agent-run artifacts"]);
+
+        for (const phaseTasks of phases) {
+          await runPhase(pipelineId, cwd, workBranch, phaseTasks, pipelineSession);
+        }
+
+        const crashed = pipelineSession.taskResults.filter((r) => r.status.endsWith("-crashed"));
+        endSession(pipelineSession, crashed.length > 0 ? "completed-with-crashes" : "completed");
+      })();
+
+      return pipelineSession;
+    }
+
+    const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
+      const url = new URL(req.url, "http://localhost");
+
+      if (url.pathname === "/healthz") {
+        res.writeHead(200).end();
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (url.pathname === "/sessions" && req.method === "GET") {
+        res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" });
+        res.end(JSON.stringify([...sessions.values()]));
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (url.pathname === "/run" && req.method === "POST") {
+        let body = "";
+        req.on("data", (chunk) => (body += chunk));
+        req.on("end", () => {
+          try {
+            const { agent, prompt, provider, model } = JSON.parse(body);
+            if (!agent || !prompt) throw new Error("agent and prompt are required");
+            const session = runAgent(agent, prompt, { provider, model });
+            res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" });
+            res.end(JSON.stringify({ id: session.id }));
+          } catch (err) {
+            res.writeHead(400, { "Content-Type": "application/json" });
+            res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: err.message }));
+          }
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (url.pathname === "/pipeline" && req.method === "POST") {
+        let body = "";
+        req.on("data", (chunk) => (body += chunk));
+        req.on("end", () => {
+          try {
+            const { repo, baseBranch, tasks, branchName } = JSON.parse(body);
+            if (!repo || !baseBranch || !Array.isArray(tasks) || tasks.length === 0) {
+              throw new Error("repo, baseBranch, and a non-empty tasks array are required");
+            }
+            const pipelineId = crypto.randomUUID();
+            runPipeline({ pipelineId, repo, baseBranch, tasks, branchName });
+            res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" });
+            res.end(JSON.stringify({ id: pipelineId }));
+          } catch (err) {
+            res.writeHead(400, { "Content-Type": "application/json" });
+            res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: err.message }));
+          }
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+
+      res.writeHead(404).end();
+    });
+
+    const wss = new WebSocketServer({ server, path: "/console" });
+    wss.on("connection", (ws) => {
+      for (const session of sessions.values()) {
+        ws.send(JSON.stringify({ type: "snapshot", session }));
+      }
+      viewers.add(ws);
+      ws.on("close", () => viewers.delete(ws));
+    });
+
+    server.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`agent-hub listening on :${PORT}`));
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: hub-src
+  namespace: agent-pod
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/hub-service.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/hub-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1527e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/hub-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: agent-hub
+  namespace: agent-pod
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: agent-pod
+  ports:
+    - port: 9090
+      targetPort: 9090
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e18d614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+namespace: agent-pod
+resources:
+  - deployment.yaml
+  - configmap.yaml
+  - hub-configmap.yaml
+  - pi-skills-configmap.yaml
+  - ssh-configmap.yaml
+  - hub-service.yaml
+  - console-ingress.yaml
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/pi-skills-configmap.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/pi-skills-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09598d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/pi-skills-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+data:
+  brave-search-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: brave-search
+    description: Web search via the Brave Search API, called directly with curl. Use for searching documentation, facts, or any current web content.
+    allowed-tools: Bash
+    ---
+
+    # Brave Search
+
+    Direct HTTP call to the Brave Search API — no separate script or package, just `curl` (`BRAVE_API_KEY` is already set in the environment).
+
+    ## Search
+
+    ```bash
+    curl -s -H "Accept: application/json" -H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY" \
+      --get --data-urlencode "q=<query>" --data-urlencode "count=5" \
+      "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search"
+    ```
+
+    Options (add as extra `--data-urlencode` pairs):
+    - `count=<n>` — number of results (max 20, default 5)
+    - `country=<code>` — two-letter country code (default US)
+    - `freshness=pd|pw|pm|py` — past day/week/month/year, or `freshness=YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD`
+
+    Response is JSON; the results live at `.web.results[]`, each with `title`, `url`, `description`, `age`. Pipe through `jq` if you want a shorter view, e.g.:
+
+    ```bash
+    curl -s -H "Accept: application/json" -H "X-Subscription-Token: $BRAVE_API_KEY" \
+      --get --data-urlencode "q=<query>" "https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search" \
+      | jq -r '.web.results[] | "- \(.title)\n  \(.url)\n  \(.description)\n"'
+    ```
+
+    There's no page-content-extraction helper here — if a result needs reading in full, `curl` the URL directly and read the raw HTML/text; don't expect readability-cleaned markdown.
+
+    ## When to Use
+
+    - Searching for documentation or API references
+    - Looking up facts or current information
+    - Confirming a claim or approach against real sources
+  implementer-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: implementer
+    description: Turns a confirmed PLAN.md into real code changes in the current checkout, committing incrementally. Use as the implementation stage of a spec-to-push pipeline, after planner and investigator have run.
+    allowed-tools: Read Grep Find Ls Write Edit Bash
+    ---
+
+    Execute the already-agreed plan; don't re-litigate it. `PLAN.md` (plus any `## Investigation` flags) is the source of truth for *what*; use judgment only for *how*, within the codebase's existing conventions.
+
+    - Read `PLAN.md` top to bottom. Treat flagged/unconfirmed steps conservatively (safer, more literal reading; note it in the commit). Work steps in order. Commit after each meaningful step (`git add -A && git commit -m "..."`), not one giant commit — the judge stage needs real diff history.
+    - Push only if the task explicitly asks for it.
+
+    Match existing style. Don't refactor or "improve" code the plan didn't ask you to touch.
+
+    **Hard rules:**
+    - Follow DRY and SOLID. Don't duplicate logic that already exists elsewhere in the codebase you're touching — reuse or extract instead. Keep each unit responsible for one thing.
+    - Never commit anything that doesn't belong in source control: build artifacts, downloaded/vendored dependencies, secrets, scratch/debug files. `.gitignore` already blocks common patterns; if you create something outside those patterns, delete it before committing rather than relying on `.gitignore` to catch it.
+
+    **Never vendor a dependency by downloading/extracting it into the repo.** Use the language's real package manager (`cargo add`, `npm install`, etc.) so the dependency is declared in the manifest and lockfile, not a tarball or extracted source tree sitting in the checkout. If the package manager can't reach its registry from here, say so in your commit message rather than working around it — a later commit sweep (`git add -A`) commits whatever's in the checkout, including anything downloaded for a workaround, even if you never intended to keep it.
+  info-collector-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: info-collector
+    description: Gathers and summarizes information on a topic from the web without judging or confirming any particular approach. Use standalone when you need raw research/context on a subject, not a verdict on a specific plan (that's the investigator skill).
+    allowed-tools: Read Bash
+    ---
+
+    **Persona:** You are a research assistant. Your job is to gather relevant information on a topic and summarize it neutrally — you are not asked to approve, reject, or recommend anything, just to collect and organize what's out there.
+
+    **Thinking mode:** Medium — breadth of coverage matters more than deep verification here (that's the investigator skill's job).
+
+    **Modes:**
+
+    - **Collect mode** (default) — use the `brave-search` skill (`curl` against the Brave Search API) with varied queries to cover the topic from multiple angles, then produce a structured summary: topic areas found, key facts, and links to sources for each. Do not editorialize about which approach is "right" — that's out of scope for this skill.
+    - If asked to write the summary to a file, write it and report the path; otherwise return it directly in your response.
+  investigator-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: investigator
+    description: Reads an existing PLAN.md and confirms its approach against real, current sources via web search, appending findings and flags. Use to sanity-check a plan before implementation, or standalone to verify a claimed approach is actually correct.
+    allowed-tools: Read Bash
+    ---
+
+    Check whether the plan's claims about the real world are actually true right now. Cite sources; don't assert without one.
+
+    - Read `PLAN.md` and the spec docs on disk. For each claim depending on external facts (a library's current API, a service's behavior), use `brave-search` to confirm or refute it. Append a `## Investigation` section to `PLAN.md`: each claim, its source(s), PASS/FLAG. Commit: `git add PLAN.md && git commit -m "investigate: confirm plan against sources"`.
+    - No `PLAN.md`? Just answer the question asked, citing sources.
+
+    Flag unconfirmed/contradicted claims rather than silently fixing them — that decision belongs to whoever reads the flag next.
+
+    **Never download anything into the repo checkout.** Need to inspect a dependency's real source/docs? Fetch into `/tmp/`, not the repo tree — a later `git add -A` sweep commits whatever's sitting in the checkout, staged or not.
+  judge-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: judge
+    description: LLM-as-judge. Reviews a git diff against PLAN.md and the original spec, and returns a PASS/FAIL verdict with rationale. Use as the final review/report stage of a spec-to-push pipeline (the implementer stage already pushed; this reports on what shipped), or standalone to review any diff against stated criteria.
+    allowed-tools: Read Bash
+    ---
+
+    Independent reviewer. Judge whether the implementation satisfies the plan and spec, on the evidence in front of you — not on how confident the commit messages sound. Don't rubber-stamp.
+
+    - Run `git diff <base-branch>...HEAD` to see exactly what changed. Compare against `PLAN.md`'s steps and the spec docs. Does every step have a corresponding change? Does the diff contradict any investigator flag? Anything obviously broken on inspection?
+    - FAIL on DRY/SOLID violations (duplicated logic that should reuse existing code, mixed-responsibility units) and on anything committed that doesn't belong in source control (build artifacts, vendored dependencies, secrets, scratch files) — name the specific file/lines in your rationale.
+    - No `PLAN.md`/base given? Review whatever diff/criteria are in the task directly.
+
+    You MUST end your final message with a literal verdict line, exactly one of:
+
+    ```
+    VERDICT: PASS
+    ```
+    ```
+    VERDICT: FAIL
+    ```
+
+    followed by your rationale. The pipeline driver parses this exact line mechanically to record the outcome — omitting it or rephrasing it breaks the pipeline.
+  planner-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: planner
+    description: Clones a target repo/branch, reads its markdown specs, and writes a verifiable step-by-step implementation plan (PLAN.md). Use as the first stage of a spec-to-PR pipeline, or standalone when asked to plan out a task before implementing it.
+    allowed-tools: Read Grep Find Ls Write Bash
+    ---
+
+    Plan a concrete, verifiable implementation. Don't implement — that's `implementer`'s job, after `investigator` confirms.
+
+    - If cwd is empty: `git clone` the given repo/branch first (only at pipeline start).
+    - Read every markdown spec file for the task. Decompose into a numbered list of concrete steps, each naming the files/areas it touches and how to verify it's done. State assumptions explicitly; if ambiguous, pick the literal reading and note the ambiguity.
+    - Write the plan to exactly `./PLAN.md` in the repo root — not `tasks/PLAN.md`, not `plans/<name>.md`, not any other name or location. Every later stage looks for the plan at that exact path. Commit: `git add PLAN.md && git commit -m "plan: <summary>"`.
+
+    Don't touch any other file.
+  resolver-SKILL.md: |
+    ---
+    name: resolver
+    description: Diagnoses why a pipeline stage crashed (nonzero exit, not a semantic pass/fail) and decides whether it's safe to retry. Invoked by the pipeline driver when a planner/investigator/implementer/judge stage process fails to run to completion.
+    allowed-tools: Read Bash
+    ---
+
+    **Persona:** You are an incident triager, not a fixer. A pipeline stage stopped running — your job is to look at what's on disk and what the failed stage's own output said, figure out why, and decide whether re-running that stage is likely to succeed or would just fail the same way again.
+
+    **Thinking mode:** Medium — this is triage (root cause + retry/no-retry judgment), not deep design work.
+
+    **Modes:**
+
+    - **Triage mode** (default) — read the failed stage's name and its last stdout/stderr tail (given in the task). Check the working directory's current state (`git status`, `git log -1`) to see what, if anything, that stage managed to do before stopping. Distinguish transient causes (network blip, a flaky command, an interrupted git operation left in a bad-but-fixable state) from structural ones (the plan itself is broken, a required tool/credential is missing, the repo is in a state no retry will fix).
+
+    You MUST end your final message with a literal resolution line, exactly one of:
+
+    ```
+    RESOLUTION: RETRY
+    ```
+    ```
+    RESOLUTION: ABORT
+    ```
+
+    followed by your rationale. The pipeline driver parses this exact line mechanically and retries the failed stage **at most once** regardless of what you recommend a second time — don't assume unlimited retries. If the working directory is left in a broken state that a retry needs cleaned up first (e.g. a half-finished `git` operation), say so and do that cleanup yourself (via `bash`) before recommending `RETRY`.
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: pi-skills
+  namespace: agent-pod
diff --git a/k8s/apps/agent-pod/ssh-configmap.yaml b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/ssh-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c150794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/agent-pod/ssh-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: agent-pod-ssh-config
+  namespace: agent-pod
+data:
+  config: |
+    Host git.riotpiao.com
+        IdentityFile /root/.ssh/id_forgejo
+        Port 2222
+        User git
+        StrictHostKeyChecking accept-new
diff --git a/k8s/apps/api/AUTH-PLAN.md b/k8s/apps/api/AUTH-PLAN.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3feb1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/api/AUTH-PLAN.md
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+# API Auth Layer — Authentik service account + Kong JWT (model invoke)
+
+Protect the model API (`api.riotpiao.com/*`, Kong OSS 3.9) so only an Authentik
+service account holding a valid **client_credentials** JWT can invoke the KServe
+models. "Invoke role" = **possession of a JWT from the dedicated model-invoke
+OAuth2 provider** (only the service account can obtain one).
+
+## Flow
+
+```
+service account ── client_credentials ──▶ Authentik token endpoint
+                    (client_id + secret)   https://authentik.riotpiao.com/application/o/token/
+        │
+        ▼  RS256 JWT (iss = https://authentik.riotpiao.com/application/o/model-invoke/)
+client ── Authorization: Bearer <jwt> ──▶ Kong (api.riotpiao.com/*)
+                                           jwt plugin: verify RS256 sig via Authentik JWKS,
+                                           check iss/exp → map to KongConsumer → allow
+                                           ▼
+                                        KServe model (reasoning / ornith / ...)
+```
+
+Kong OSS has no enterprise `openid-connect` plugin, so we use the built-in
+**`jwt`** plugin: it validates an RS256 signature against a public key we pin on
+a KongConsumer, keyed by the token's `iss`.
+
+## Changes
+
+### 1. Authentik (k8s/infra/iam/scripts/authentik-provision.py)
+- New **service account** user `model-invoker` (type `service_account`, no
+  password; Authentik issues an app-password/token for M2M).
+- New **OAuth2 provider + application** `model-invoke`:
+  - `client_type: confidential`, `grant_types: ["client_credentials"]`
+  - signing key = existing RS256 keypair (same as other providers)
+  - mappings: `openid` (+ optionally a static `invoke` scope) — no user scopes
+    needed for M2M.
+- Client secret written to k8s Secret `api/model-invoke-oidc`
+  (keys `client-id`, `client-secret`), labelled for whoever consumes it.
+- Bind the service account so it (and only it) can use the provider.
+
+### 2. Kong (k8s/apps/api/, new file `model-auth.yaml`)
+- **KongConsumer** `model-invoker` (ns api).
+- **`jwt` credential** on that consumer (a Secret of type
+  `konghq.com/v1/credential`):
+  - `algorithm: RS256`
+  - `key`  = the token `iss` → `https://authentik.riotpiao.com/application/o/model-invoke/`
+  - `rsa_public_key` = the PEM public key of Authentik's `model-invoke` signing
+    cert (fetched from Authentik JWKS / cert, stored in git or ksops).
+- **KongPlugin** `jwt-auth` (`plugin: jwt`, `config.claims_to_verify: [exp]`).
+
+### 3. Wire onto model routes (k8s/apps/api/llm-routes.yaml)
+- Add `jwt-auth` to each model Ingress's `konghq.com/plugins` annotation
+  (currently e.g. `llm-rewrite-reasoning`) → becomes
+  `llm-rewrite-reasoning,jwt-auth`.
+- Leave `/models` list route open OR protect too (decision).
+
+## Client usage (after build)
+```bash
+TOKEN=$(curl -s https://authentik.riotpiao.com/application/o/token/ \
+  -d grant_type=client_credentials \
+  -d client_id=model-invoke \
+  -d client_secret=<secret> \
+  -d scope=openid | jq -r .access_token)
+
+curl https://api.riotpiao.com/v1/chat/completions \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -d '{...}'
+```
+
+## Test plan
+1. No token → Kong returns 401.
+2. Valid client_credentials token → 200, model responds.
+3. Expired/garbage token → 401.
+4. Confirm the `/models` route behaviour matches the decision.
+
+## Open items / risks
+- Authentik `client_credentials` for a *service account* may require an
+  **app-password / JWT-assertion** flow rather than plain client_secret POST —
+  verify Authentik 2026.x M2M exactly (client_credentials with client_secret vs
+  the SA token). Adjust step 1 accordingly before wiring Kong.
+- Pinning `rsa_public_key`: Authentik key rotation would break it — document a
+  rotation runbook, or have the provision script re-export the cert PEM into the
+  Kong credential on each run (keeps them in sync, same idea as ksops secrets).
+- Kong `jwt` maps token→consumer by the `iss`=`key` match; ensure the provider's
+  issuer is stable.
diff --git a/k8s/apps/api/kong-metrics.yaml b/k8s/apps/api/kong-metrics.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d490e06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/api/kong-metrics.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Cluster-wide Kong Prometheus plugin -- `global: "true"` label makes the
+# ingress controller apply it to every route on this Kong instance, so all
+# five LLM routes (ornith/reasoning/qwen/embeddings/rerank) get RED metrics
+# without touching llm-routes.yaml. Scraped via kong-values.yaml's
+# serviceMonitor (status listener, already on by chart default at :8100).
+apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
+kind: KongClusterPlugin
+metadata:
+  name: prometheus
+  annotations:
+    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: kong
+  labels:
+    global: "true"
+plugin: prometheus
+config:
+  status_code_metrics: true
+  latency_metrics: true
+  bandwidth_metrics: true
+  upstream_health_metrics: true
diff --git a/k8s/apps/api/kong-values.yaml b/k8s/apps/api/kong-values.yaml
index ac69f34..8f284e5 100644
--- a/k8s/apps/api/kong-values.yaml
+++ b/k8s/apps/api/kong-values.yaml
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ env:
   # nginx Ingress in ingress.yaml; both hops have to be unbuffered or the
   # buffered one dominates.
   nginx_proxy_proxy_buffering: "off"
+  # Any plugin that rewrites the request body — request-transformer on the
+  # llm-chat-* routes — reads it through `kong.request.get_body()`, and that
+  # returns nothing once nginx has spilled the body past
+  # client_body_buffer_size into a temp file. The plugin then re-serializes a
+  # body with no `messages`, and the upstream answers
+  #   HTTP 400 {"error":{"message":"[] is too short - 'messages'"}}
+  # Measured on /v1/ornith/chat/completions: 10588 B -> 200, 11088 B -> 400.
+  # An agent request carrying tool schemas clears that in one turn, so the
+  # buffer has to hold a whole conversation, not a chat message.
+  nginx_http_client_body_buffer_size: "16m"
+  nginx_http_client_max_body_size: "16m"
 
 ingressController:
   enabled: true
@@ -107,6 +118,16 @@ podDisruptionBudget:
   enabled: true
   minAvailable: 1
 
+# Status listener (metrics/health) is on by default at :8100 (chart default,
+# verified via `helm show values`). This just wires the ServiceMonitor the
+# chart already knows how to generate for it, so kong_http_requests_total /
+# kong_latency_* / kong_bandwidth_bytes land in Prometheus. Paired with the
+# cluster-wide `prometheus` KongClusterPlugin in kong-metrics.yaml.
+serviceMonitor:
+  enabled: true
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+
 # Spread the two replicas across nodes; `ScheduleAnyway` so a single-node
 # situation degrades to co-location instead of leaving a pod Pending.
 topologySpreadConstraints:
diff --git a/k8s/apps/api/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/apps/api/kustomization.yaml
index 14753b8..5a9ea06 100644
--- a/k8s/apps/api/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/k8s/apps/api/kustomization.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ kind: Kustomization
 # or it is silently dropped with no error and no drift shown.
 resources:
   - ingress.yaml
+  - kong-metrics.yaml
   - llm-routes.yaml
+  - model-auth.yaml
 # No top-level `namespace:` transformer on purpose: ingress.yaml sets its own
 # namespace, and the transformer rewrites metadata.namespace on every resource
 # it builds, which is a trap for anything cross-namespace added later.
diff --git a/k8s/apps/api/llm-routes.yaml b/k8s/apps/api/llm-routes.yaml
index 5fe1602..c58bf96 100644
--- a/k8s/apps/api/llm-routes.yaml
+++ b/k8s/apps/api/llm-routes.yaml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ metadata:
   name: llm-models
   namespace: llm-serving
   annotations:
-    konghq.com/plugins: llm-models-list
+    konghq.com/plugins: llm-models-list,model-key-auth
     konghq.com/strip-path: "false"
     konghq.com/methods: "GET"
 spec:
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ metadata:
   name: llm-chat-reasoning
   namespace: llm-serving
   annotations:
-    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-reasoning
+    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-reasoning,model-key-auth
     konghq.com/strip-path: "false"
     konghq.com/methods: "POST"
     konghq.com/connect-timeout: "10000"
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ metadata:
   name: llm-chat-ornith
   namespace: llm-serving
   annotations:
-    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-ornith
+    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-ornith,model-key-auth
     konghq.com/strip-path: "false"
     konghq.com/methods: "POST"
     konghq.com/connect-timeout: "10000"
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ metadata:
   name: llm-chat-qwen
   namespace: llm-serving
   annotations:
-    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-qwen
+    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-qwen,model-key-auth
     konghq.com/strip-path: "false"
     konghq.com/methods: "POST"
     konghq.com/connect-timeout: "10000"
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ metadata:
   name: llm-rerank
   namespace: llm-serving
   annotations:
-    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-rerank
+    konghq.com/plugins: llm-rewrite-rerank,model-key-auth
     konghq.com/strip-path: "false"
     konghq.com/methods: "POST"
     konghq.com/connect-timeout: "10000"
diff --git a/k8s/apps/api/model-auth.yaml b/k8s/apps/api/model-auth.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c796cf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/api/model-auth.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# API auth layer — Kong key-auth on the model routes.
+#
+# The model API (api.riotpiao.com/v1/...) requires a static API key, presented
+# OpenAI-style as `Authorization: Bearer <key>` (or `apikey: <key>`). The key
+# lives in the ksops-managed Secret model-invoke-apikey (labelled
+# konghq.com/credential: key-auth) and is bound to the KongConsumer below.
+#
+# Issue the key to rock; use it as the OpenAI SDK api_key. Rotate by updating the
+# ksops secret. This is self-contained in Kong — the invoke path does not depend
+# on an Authentik token (Authentik still fronts every *human* dashboard SSO).
+---
+apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
+kind: KongConsumer
+metadata:
+  name: model-invoker
+  namespace: api
+  annotations:
+    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: kong
+username: model-invoker
+credentials:
+  - model-invoke-apikey
+---
+# key-auth: require the API key on the model routes. key_in_header accepts the
+# `apikey` header; key_in_bearer accepts `Authorization: Bearer <key>` so any
+# OpenAI-compatible SDK (api_key=..., base_url=https://api.riotpiao.com/v1) works
+# unchanged.
+#
+# Namespace `llm-serving`, not `api`: the ingress controller resolves a
+# `konghq.com/plugins` annotation against the annotated object's OWN namespace,
+# and all five model routes in llm-routes.yaml live in llm-serving. While this
+# sat in `api` the reference dangled, the plugin never bound, and every model
+# route served traffic with no key at all — verified: an unauthenticated
+# /v1/models and /v1/ornith/chat/completions both returned 200. A dangling
+# plugin reference is silent; it fails open, so re-test without a key after any
+# move rather than trusting that the object exists.
+apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
+kind: KongPlugin
+metadata:
+  name: model-key-auth
+  namespace: llm-serving
+plugin: key-auth
+config:
+  key_names:
+    - apikey
+    - authorization
+  key_in_header: true
+  key_in_query: false
+  key_in_body: false
+  hide_credentials: true
diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/embeddings.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/embeddings.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ceb6b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/embeddings.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
+kind: InferenceService
+metadata:
+  annotations:
+    serving.kserve.io/deploymentMode: RawDeployment
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: llm-embeddings
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: llm-serving
+  name: embeddings
+  namespace: llm-serving
+spec:
+  predictor:
+    containers:
+    - args:
+      - --model-id=nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v2-moe
+      - --port=8080
+      - --hostname=0.0.0.0
+      - --auto-truncate
+      env:
+      - name: HUGGINGFACE_HUB_CACHE
+        value: /mnt/models
+      image: ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cpu-1.8.2@sha256:4d632b76bd14cb57044a1ffb0ad48ab0ba4939e705a9a615ccc740658575c26e
+      name: kserve-container
+      ports:
+      - containerPort: 8080
+        protocol: TCP
+      readinessProbe:
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpu: '16'
+          memory: 8Gi
+        requests:
+          cpu: '8'
+          memory: 4Gi
+      startupProbe:
+        failureThreshold: 60
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      volumeMounts:
+      - mountPath: /mnt/models
+        name: models
+    maxReplicas: 1
+    minReplicas: 1
+    nodeSelector:
+      kubernetes.io/hostname: worker-1
+    volumes:
+    - name: models
+      persistentVolumeClaim:
+        claimName: llm-models
+
diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea788ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/kustomization.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Kustomization
+# Explicit allowlist, matching k8s/apps/api. Anything added to this directory
+# and not listed here is silently dropped — no error, no drift shown.
+#
+# These five were adopted from live state on 2026-08-15; they had been applied
+# by hand and carried no ArgoCD ownership. Each was exported and verified with
+# `kubectl diff -f <file>` returning empty before the Application below was
+# created, so the first sync was a no-op rather than a redeploy. Re-verify that
+# way after any edit here: a GPU predictor restart is a weights reload measured
+# in tens of seconds, not a rolling update.
+resources:
+  - embeddings.yaml
+  - ornith.yaml
+  - reasoning.yaml
+  - reranker.yaml
+  - verifier.yaml
+# No namespace transformer: every file sets its own, and the transformer would
+# rewrite metadata.namespace on anything cross-namespace added later.
diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/ornith.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/ornith.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fb0c4bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/ornith.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
+kind: InferenceService
+metadata:
+  annotations:
+    serving.kserve.io/deploymentMode: RawDeployment
+    # Kong reads its timeouts from the Kubernetes Service, not the Ingress —
+    # Ingress annotations configure Route entities (strip-path, methods,
+    # plugins), these configure the Service entity. They were on
+    # llm-chat-ornith's Ingress and therefore ignored, leaving Kong's 60s
+    # default in force. KServe propagates InferenceService annotations to the
+    # Service it generates, which is how they reach Kong from here.
+    #
+    # This was invisible while OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=-1 kept the model resident: no
+    # request ever waited on a cold load. A pod restart flushes VRAM, and
+    # loading ornith:35b takes longer than 60s, so the first request after any
+    # restart returned 504.
+    konghq.com/connect-timeout: "10000"
+    konghq.com/read-timeout: "3600000"
+    konghq.com/write-timeout: "3600000"
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: llm-ornith
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: llm-serving
+  name: ornith
+  namespace: llm-serving
+spec:
+  predictor:
+    containers:
+    - command:
+      - /bin/sh
+      - -c
+      - 'set -e
+
+        ollama serve &
+
+        SERVE_PID=$!
+
+        until ollama list >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 2; done
+
+        ollama pull ornith:35b
+
+        ollama pull qwen2.5:3b-instruct
+
+        ollama run ornith:35b "ok" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+        ollama run qwen2.5:3b-instruct "ok" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+        wait $SERVE_PID
+
+        '
+      env:
+      - name: OLLAMA_HOST
+        value: 0.0.0.0:8080
+      - name: OLLAMA_MODELS
+        value: /mnt/models/ollama
+      - name: OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH
+        value: '32768'
+      - name: OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE
+        value: '-1'
+      - name: OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL
+        value: '1'
+      - name: OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS
+        value: '2'
+      image: ollama/ollama:0.32.9@sha256:1685741456770df6e3cceb2a945a5f75e020f658d1701509668d6f4688f1dd3f
+      name: kserve-container
+      ports:
+      - containerPort: 8080
+        protocol: TCP
+      readinessProbe:
+        exec:
+          command:
+          - /bin/sh
+          - -c
+          - ollama ps 2>/dev/null | grep -q ornith && ollama ps 2>/dev/null |
+            grep -q qwen2.5
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpu: '16'
+          memory: 16Gi
+          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
+        requests:
+          cpu: '8'
+          memory: 8Gi
+          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
+      startupProbe:
+        exec:
+          command:
+          - /bin/sh
+          - -c
+          - ollama ps 2>/dev/null | grep -q ornith && ollama ps 2>/dev/null |
+            grep -q qwen2.5
+        failureThreshold: 120
+        periodSeconds: 15
+      volumeMounts:
+      - mountPath: /mnt/models
+        name: models
+    deploymentStrategy:
+      type: Recreate
+    maxReplicas: 1
+    minReplicas: 1
+    nodeSelector:
+      kubernetes.io/hostname: worker-1
+    runtimeClassName: nvidia
+    volumes:
+    - name: models
+      persistentVolumeClaim:
+        claimName: llm-models
+
diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/reasoning.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/reasoning.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44f091c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/reasoning.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
+kind: InferenceService
+metadata:
+  annotations:
+    serving.kserve.io/deploymentMode: RawDeployment
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: llm-reasoning
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: llm-serving
+  name: reasoning
+  namespace: llm-serving
+spec:
+  predictor:
+    containers:
+    - args:
+      - --model=unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit
+      - --served-model-name=reasoning
+      - --quantization=bitsandbytes
+      - --dtype=float16
+      - --kv-cache-dtype=auto
+      - --tensor-parallel-size=1
+      - --max-model-len=16384
+      - --gpu-memory-utilization=0.90
+      - --max-num-seqs=4
+      - --enable-chunked-prefill
+      - --enable-prefix-caching
+      - --reasoning-parser=deepseek_r1
+      - --host=0.0.0.0
+      - --port=8080
+      env:
+      - name: VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER
+        value: '0'
+      - name: VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND
+        value: TRITON_ATTN
+      - name: HF_HOME
+        value: /mnt/models
+      image: vllm/vllm-openai:v0.11.0@sha256:014a95f21c9edf6abe0aea6b07353f96baa4ec291c427bb1176dc7c93a85845c
+      name: kserve-container
+      ports:
+      - containerPort: 8080
+        protocol: TCP
+      readinessProbe:
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpu: '16'
+          memory: 16Gi
+          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
+        requests:
+          cpu: '8'
+          memory: 8Gi
+          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
+      startupProbe:
+        failureThreshold: 80
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 15
+      volumeMounts:
+      - mountPath: /mnt/models
+        name: models
+      - mountPath: /dev/shm
+        name: shm
+    deploymentStrategy:
+      type: Recreate
+    maxReplicas: 2
+    minReplicas: 2
+    nodeSelector:
+      kubernetes.io/hostname: worker-1
+    runtimeClassName: nvidia
+    volumes:
+    - name: models
+      persistentVolumeClaim:
+        claimName: llm-models
+    - emptyDir:
+        medium: Memory
+        sizeLimit: 2Gi
+      name: shm
+
diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/reranker.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/reranker.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eded1cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/reranker.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
+kind: InferenceService
+metadata:
+  annotations:
+    serving.kserve.io/deploymentMode: RawDeployment
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: llm-reranker
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: llm-serving
+  name: reranker
+  namespace: llm-serving
+spec:
+  predictor:
+    containers:
+    - args:
+      - --model-id=BAAI/bge-reranker-base
+      - --port=8080
+      - --hostname=0.0.0.0
+      - --auto-truncate
+      env:
+      - name: HUGGINGFACE_HUB_CACHE
+        value: /mnt/models
+      image: ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cpu-1.8.2@sha256:4d632b76bd14cb57044a1ffb0ad48ab0ba4939e705a9a615ccc740658575c26e
+      name: kserve-container
+      ports:
+      - containerPort: 8080
+        protocol: TCP
+      readinessProbe:
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpu: '16'
+          memory: 8Gi
+        requests:
+          cpu: '8'
+          memory: 4Gi
+      startupProbe:
+        failureThreshold: 60
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      volumeMounts:
+      - mountPath: /mnt/models
+        name: models
+    maxReplicas: 1
+    minReplicas: 1
+    nodeSelector:
+      kubernetes.io/hostname: worker-1
+    volumes:
+    - name: models
+      persistentVolumeClaim:
+        claimName: llm-models
+
diff --git a/k8s/apps/llm-serving/verifier.yaml b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/verifier.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e20847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/apps/llm-serving/verifier.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
+kind: InferenceService
+metadata:
+  annotations:
+    serving.kserve.io/deploymentMode: RawDeployment
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: llm-verifier
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: llm-serving
+  name: verifier
+  namespace: llm-serving
+spec:
+  predictor:
+    containers:
+    - args:
+      - --model=Qwen/Qwen2.5-Math-PRM-7B
+      - --served-model-name=verifier
+      - --runner=pooling
+      - --dtype=float16
+      - --tensor-parallel-size=1
+      - --max-model-len=4096
+      - --max-num-seqs=8
+      - --host=0.0.0.0
+      - --port=8080
+      env:
+      - name: VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER
+        value: '0'
+      - name: VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND
+        value: XFORMERS
+      - name: HF_HOME
+        value: /mnt/models
+      image: vllm/vllm-openai:v0.11.0@sha256:014a95f21c9edf6abe0aea6b07353f96baa4ec291c427bb1176dc7c93a85845c
+      name: kserve-container
+      ports:
+      - containerPort: 8080
+        protocol: TCP
+      readinessProbe:
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 10
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          cpu: '16'
+          memory: 16Gi
+          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
+        requests:
+          cpu: '4'
+          memory: 8Gi
+          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
+      startupProbe:
+        failureThreshold: 60
+        httpGet:
+          path: /health
+          port: 8080
+        periodSeconds: 15
+      volumeMounts:
+      - mountPath: /mnt/models
+        name: models
+      - mountPath: /dev/shm
+        name: shm
+    deploymentStrategy:
+      type: Recreate
+    maxReplicas: 1
+    minReplicas: 1
+    nodeSelector:
+      kubernetes.io/hostname: worker-1
+    runtimeClassName: nvidia
+    volumes:
+    - name: models
+      persistentVolumeClaim:
+        claimName: llm-models
+    - emptyDir:
+        medium: Memory
+        sizeLimit: 1Gi
+      name: shm
+
diff --git a/k8s/apps/messaging/queue-crd/templates/rbac.yaml b/k8s/apps/messaging/queue-crd/templates/rbac.yaml
index f85a429..20da39b 100644
--- a/k8s/apps/messaging/queue-crd/templates/rbac.yaml
+++ b/k8s/apps/messaging/queue-crd/templates/rbac.yaml
@@ -10,13 +10,22 @@ metadata:
   name: queue-operator
 rules:
   - apiGroups: ["kmsvc.io"]
-    resources: ["queues", "temporalworkers"]
+    resources: ["queues"]
     verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "update", "patch"]
   - apiGroups: ["kmsvc.io"]
-    resources: ["queues/status", "temporalworkers/status"]
+    resources: ["queues/status"]
     verbs: ["get", "update", "patch"]
   - apiGroups: ["kmsvc.io"]
-    resources: ["queues/finalizers", "temporalworkers/finalizers"]
+    resources: ["queues/finalizers"]
+    verbs: ["update"]
+  - apiGroups: ["kmsvc.io"]
+    resources: ["temporalworkers"]
+    verbs: ["get", "list", "watch", "create", "update", "patch", "delete"]
+  - apiGroups: ["kmsvc.io"]
+    resources: ["temporalworkers/status"]
+    verbs: ["get", "update", "patch"]
+  - apiGroups: ["kmsvc.io"]
+    resources: ["temporalworkers/finalizers"]
     verbs: ["update"]
   - apiGroups: ["coordination.k8s.io"]
     resources: ["leases"]
diff --git a/k8s/argocd/apps/10-storage-observability.yaml b/k8s/argocd/apps/10-storage-observability.yaml
index 8e26140..ef5b794 100644
--- a/k8s/argocd/apps/10-storage-observability.yaml
+++ b/k8s/argocd/apps/10-storage-observability.yaml
@@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ spec:
   destination:
     server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
     namespace: longhorn-system
+  # Longhorn writes disk state back into its own Node CRs — the disk key it
+  # generates, storageReserved, diskType, evictionRequested. Git declares only
+  # allowScheduling; without this the controller's writes read as drift forever.
+  ignoreDifferences:
+    - group: longhorn.io
+      kind: Node
+      jsonPointers:
+        - /spec/disks
   syncPolicy:
     automated:
       prune: true
diff --git a/k8s/argocd/apps/56-llm-serving.yaml b/k8s/argocd/apps/56-llm-serving.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5544104
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/argocd/apps/56-llm-serving.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Wave 6 — the model servers behind api.riotpiao.com (namespace `llm-serving`).
+#
+# Syncs before wave 7 (Kong), so the predictor Services exist before the routes
+# that point at them. KServe itself is part of the substrate; this Application
+# owns only the InferenceServices.
+#
+# Adopted from live state on 2026-08-15. These five had been `kubectl apply`-ed
+# by hand — no ArgoCD ownership, present in no repo — so every change to them
+# was drift by definition. Each manifest was exported from the cluster and
+# verified with `kubectl diff` returning empty before this file existed; the
+# first sync therefore adopted them without restarting anything.
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: llm-serving
+  namespace: argocd
+  annotations:
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "6"
+spec:
+  project: homelab
+  revisionHistoryLimit: 3
+  source:
+    repoURL: https://github.com/Riotpiaole/riotpiao.homelab.com.git
+    targetRevision: main
+    path: k8s/apps/llm-serving
+  destination:
+    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+    namespace: llm-serving
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      # `prune: false` here, unlike every other Application in this repo, and it
+      # is not an oversight.
+      #
+      # ArgoCD tracks ownership with the `argocd.argoproj.io/instance` label
+      # (argocd-cm `application.instanceLabelKey`). KServe copies an
+      # InferenceService's labels onto the Deployment and Service it generates —
+      # visible today as `app.kubernetes.io/name` and `part-of` on
+      # `ornith-predictor`. So once ArgoCD labels an InferenceService, KServe
+      # propagates that tracking label to children that are not in git, ArgoCD
+      # reads them as extraneous, prunes them, and KServe recreates them. That
+      # loop churns GPU pods.
+      #
+      # Deleting an InferenceService therefore means deleting the file AND
+      # removing the object, rather than relying on prune.
+      prune: false
+      selfHeal: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
+      # KServe CRDs are large; server-side apply avoids the
+      # "metadata.annotations: Too long" failure client-side apply hits, and is
+      # the correct mode for adopting objects an operator also writes to.
+      - ServerSideApply=true
+    retry:
+      limit: 3
+      backoff:
+        duration: 10s
+        factor: 2
+        maxDuration: 3m
diff --git a/k8s/argocd/apps/60-applications.yaml b/k8s/argocd/apps/60-applications.yaml
index 2122e9b..aa996f0 100644
--- a/k8s/argocd/apps/60-applications.yaml
+++ b/k8s/argocd/apps/60-applications.yaml
@@ -84,6 +84,29 @@ spec:
     syncOptions:
       - CreateNamespace=true
 ---
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: agent-pod
+  namespace: argocd
+  annotations:
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "8"
+spec:
+  project: homelab
+  source:
+    repoURL: https://github.com/Riotpiaole/riotpiao.homelab.com.git
+    targetRevision: main
+    path: k8s/apps/agent-pod
+  destination:
+    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+    namespace: agent-pod
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true
+      selfHeal: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
+---
 # iMessage/SMS delivery. Raw manifests: a privileged macOS VM (Docker-OSX)
 # running the BlueBubbles server, plus its dedicated local StorageClass.
 #
diff --git a/k8s/argocd/secrets/agent-pod-models.enc.yaml b/k8s/argocd/secrets/agent-pod-models.enc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d29449
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/argocd/secrets/agent-pod-models.enc.yaml
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf42beb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/argocd/secrets/agent-pod-ssh-key.enc.yaml
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diff --git a/k8s/argocd/secrets/model-invoke-apikey.enc.yaml b/k8s/argocd/secrets/model-invoke-apikey.enc.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5f4dba
--- /dev/null
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+    labels:
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+sops:
+    age:
+        - enc: |
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+            rXaLJ1htpqPZ9MJ8iOukRi0IKnKgQWXsoZengIxGmcOnEctpoH/kyQ==
+            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
+          recipient: age1e5fq3hwxy78psus2nfvmtmua36g0u3suk78ephw6246l974d2utsvn0hla
+    lastmodified: "2026-08-14T01:07:50Z"
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+    unencrypted_suffix: _unencrypted
+    version: 3.13.2
diff --git a/k8s/argocd/secrets/secret-generator.yaml b/k8s/argocd/secrets/secret-generator.yaml
index 33dc375..96c131a 100644
--- a/k8s/argocd/secrets/secret-generator.yaml
+++ b/k8s/argocd/secrets/secret-generator.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ metadata:
       exec:
         path: ksops
 files:
+  - agent-pod-models.enc.yaml
+  - agent-pod-ssh-key.enc.yaml
   - authentik-secrets.enc.yaml
   - cloudflare-secrets.enc.yaml
   - forgejo-runner-token.enc.yaml
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ files:
   - homarr-secrets.enc.yaml
   - homelab-ca-secrets.enc.yaml
   - loki-secrets.enc.yaml
+  - model-invoke-apikey.enc.yaml
   - minio-secrets.enc.yaml
   - vault-secrets.enc.yaml
   - vault-unseal-keys.enc.yaml
diff --git a/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-cnpg-storageclass.yaml b/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-cnpg-storageclass.yaml
index 580d5ab..cca83f3 100644
--- a/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-cnpg-storageclass.yaml
+++ b/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-cnpg-storageclass.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ metadata:
   namespace: longhorn-system
   annotations:
     storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class: "false"
+    # StorageClass.parameters is immutable. mkfsParams below was added after
+    # this class already existed, so every sync failed with
+    #   parameters: Invalid value: {...}: field is immutable
+    # and the Application sat OutOfSync permanently — ArgoCD retrying a change
+    # the API server can never accept.
+    #
+    # Replace=true makes ArgoCD delete and recreate instead of patching. Safe
+    # for a StorageClass: it is consulted only at provisioning time, so bound
+    # PVs and their data are untouched. New PVCs briefly fail if one is created
+    # during the window.
+    #
+    # Note what this does NOT do: the nine CNPG volumes already provisioned were
+    # formatted without mkfsParams and keep that format. Only volumes created
+    # after this recreate get it. Existing volumes that need to expand still
+    # need handling separately.
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-options: Replace=true,Force=true
 provisioner: driver.longhorn.io
 allowVolumeExpansion: true
 parameters:
diff --git a/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-nodes.yaml b/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-nodes.yaml
index 5d6e5b2..52e4b3d 100644
--- a/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-nodes.yaml
+++ b/k8s/infra/longhorn/longhorn-nodes.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 # Longhorn Node CRDs for cp-2 and cp-3.
 # These nodes have the control-plane taint, so Longhorn doesn't auto-discover them.
 # Explicit Node CRDs + the taint-toleration setting enable storage across all 3 nodes.
+#
+# `spec.disks` is deliberately absent. Longhorn owns disk identity: it names the
+# entry itself (`default-disk-080400000000`, not `default-disk`) and writes
+# `storageReserved`, `diskType` and `evictionRequested` into it. Declaring a
+# `default-disk` key here never matched the live one, so the Application sat
+# OutOfSync and selfHeal kept trying to add a SECOND disk record pointing at the
+# same /var/lib/longhorn path — which is worse than the drift it was fixing.
+#
+# What these objects are actually for is `allowScheduling: true` on tainted
+# control-plane nodes. That is all they need to declare.
 ---
 apiVersion: longhorn.io/v1beta2
 kind: Node
@@ -10,12 +20,6 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   name: talos-cp-2
   allowScheduling: true
-  disks:
-    default-disk:
-      allowScheduling: true
-      path: /var/lib/longhorn
-      storageReserved: 0
-      tags: []
   tags: []
 ---
 apiVersion: longhorn.io/v1beta2
@@ -26,10 +30,4 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   name: talos-cp-3
   allowScheduling: true
-  disks:
-    default-disk:
-      allowScheduling: true
-      path: /var/lib/longhorn
-      storageReserved: 0
-      tags: []
   tags: []
diff --git a/k8s/infra/monitoring/dashboards/llm-frontend.yaml b/k8s/infra/monitoring/dashboards/llm-frontend.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8537562
--- /dev/null
+++ b/k8s/infra/monitoring/dashboards/llm-frontend.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: llm-frontend-dashboard
+  namespace: logging
+  labels:
+    grafana_dashboard: "1"
+  annotations:
+    grafana_folder: "LLM"
+    # Request rate/error/latency/bandwidth now come from Kong's prometheus
+    # plugin (KongClusterPlugin in kong-metrics.yaml, global: true) via the
+    # chart's own ServiceMonitor (kong-values.yaml serviceMonitor.enabled) --
+    # every LLM route runs through Kong, so this covers ornith/reasoning/qwen/
+    # embeddings/rerank uniformly without per-backend instrumentation.
+    # Token-count metrics are still not available: that needs response-body
+    # parsing, which Kong only does via ai-proxy-advanced (Enterprise-only).
+    # Predictor-level metrics (native Ollama/vLLM stats) also still need a
+    # dedicated exporter -- not added here.
+data:
+  llm-frontend.json: |
+    {"title":"LLM Frontend","uid":"llm-frontend","schemaVersion":39,"timezone":"browser","time":{"from":"now-6h","to":"now"},"refresh":"30s","panels":[{"id":1,"title":"Row: Availability","type":"row","collapsed":true,"gridPos":{"h":1,"w":24,"x":0,"y":0},"panels":[{"id":2,"title":"llm-serving pods ready","type":"stat","gridPos":{"h":4,"w":8,"x":0,"y":1},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(kube_pod_status_ready{namespace=\"llm-serving\",condition=\"true\"})"}]},{"id":3,"title":"agent-pod ready","type":"stat","gridPos":{"h":4,"w":8,"x":8,"y":1},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(kube_pod_status_ready{namespace=\"agent-pod\",condition=\"true\"})"}]},{"id":4,"title":"kong (api) pods ready","type":"stat","gridPos":{"h":4,"w":8,"x":16,"y":1},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(kube_pod_status_ready{namespace=\"api\",condition=\"true\"})"}]}]},{"id":10,"title":"Row: Resources","type":"row","collapsed":true,"gridPos":{"h":1,"w":24,"x":0,"y":1},"panels":[{"id":11,"title":"CPU by pod","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":12,"x":0,"y":2},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(rate(container_cpu_usage_seconds_total{namespace=~\"llm-serving|agent-pod|api\"}[5m])) by (namespace, pod)","legendFormat":"{{namespace}}/{{pod}}"}]},{"id":12,"title":"Memory by pod","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":12,"x":12,"y":2},"fieldConfig":{"defaults":{"unit":"bytes"}},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(container_memory_working_set_bytes{namespace=~\"llm-serving|agent-pod|api\"}) by (namespace, pod)","legendFormat":"{{namespace}}/{{pod}}"}]},{"id":13,"title":"GPU-node predictor restarts","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":24,"x":0,"y":10},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(rate(kube_pod_container_status_restarts_total{namespace=\"llm-serving\"}[15m])) by (pod)","legendFormat":"{{pod}}"}]}]},{"id":15,"title":"Row: Request Rate & Latency (Kong)","type":"row","collapsed":true,"gridPos":{"h":1,"w":24,"x":0,"y":2},"panels":[{"id":16,"title":"Request rate by route","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":8,"x":0,"y":3},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(rate(kong_http_requests_total{route=~\"llm-.*\"}[5m])) by (route)","legendFormat":"{{route}}"}]},{"id":17,"title":"Error rate %","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":8,"x":8,"y":3},"fieldConfig":{"defaults":{"unit":"percent"}},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(rate(kong_http_requests_total{route=~\"llm-.*\",code=~\"5..\"}[5m])) / sum(rate(kong_http_requests_total{route=~\"llm-.*\"}[5m])) * 100"}]},{"id":18,"title":"p95 upstream latency","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":8,"x":16,"y":3},"fieldConfig":{"defaults":{"unit":"ms"}},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"histogram_quantile(0.95, sum(rate(kong_latency_bucket{route=~\"llm-.*\",type=\"upstream\"}[5m])) by (le, route))","legendFormat":"{{route}}"}]},{"id":19,"title":"Bandwidth by route","type":"timeseries","gridPos":{"h":8,"w":24,"x":0,"y":11},"fieldConfig":{"defaults":{"unit":"Bps"}},"datasource":{"type":"prometheus","uid":"prometheus"},"targets":[{"expr":"sum(rate(kong_bandwidth_bytes{route=~\"llm-.*\"}[5m])) by (route, direction)","legendFormat":"{{route}}/{{direction}}"}]}]},{"id":20,"title":"Row: Logs","type":"row","collapsed":true,"gridPos":{"h":1,"w":24,"x":0,"y":3},"panels":[{"id":21,"title":"llm-serving logs","type":"logs","gridPos":{"h":10,"w":24,"x":0,"y":4},"datasource":{"type":"loki","uid":"loki"},"targets":[{"expr":"{namespace=\"llm-serving\"}"}]},{"id":22,"title":"agent-pod logs (pi runs)","type":"logs","gridPos":{"h":10,"w":24,"x":0,"y":14},"datasource":{"type":"loki","uid":"loki"},"targets":[{"expr":"{namespace=\"agent-pod\"}"}]},{"id":23,"title":"api (kong) logs","type":"logs","gridPos":{"h":10,"w":24,"x":0,"y":24},"datasource":{"type":"loki","uid":"loki"},"targets":[{"expr":"{namespace=\"api\"}"}]}]}]}
diff --git a/k8s/infra/monitoring/kustomization.yaml b/k8s/infra/monitoring/kustomization.yaml
index eb14f2c..b328de0 100644
--- a/k8s/infra/monitoring/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/k8s/infra/monitoring/kustomization.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ resources:
   - dashboards/control-plane-logs.yaml
   - dashboards/hardware-overview.yaml
   - dashboards/kube-controller-health.yaml
+  - dashboards/llm-frontend.yaml
   - dashboards/service-availability.yaml
   - dashboards/service-golden-signals.yaml
   - dashboards/service-internals.yaml
diff --git a/terraform/templates/controlplane.tftpl b/terraform/templates/controlplane.tftpl
index 0d998fd..8669820 100644
--- a/terraform/templates/controlplane.tftpl
+++ b/terraform/templates/controlplane.tftpl
@@ -49,12 +49,15 @@ machine:
     image: factory.talos.dev/installer/613e1592b2da41ae5e265e8789429f22e121aab91cb4deb6bc3c0b6262961245:${talos_version}
     wipe: true
     grubUseUKICmdline: true
+%{ if length(longhorn_disks) > 0 ~}
   disks:
-%{ for disk in longhorn_disks ~}
+%{ for idx, disk in longhorn_disks ~}
+    # ${disk.kind} — ${disk.device}
     - device: ${disk.device}
       partitions:
-        - mountpoint: ${disk.mountpoint}
+        - mountpoint: ${coalesce(disk.mountpoint, format("/var/lib/longhorn-disk%d", idx + 1))}
 %{ endfor ~}
+%{ endif ~}
   features:
     diskQuotaSupport: true
     kubePrism:
@@ -172,10 +175,10 @@ cluster:
     # kubectl); moved here so LB-IPAM exists before any LoadBalancer Service syncs.
     - name: cilium-lb-ippool
       contents: |
-${indent(8, cilium_lb_ippool)}
+        ${indent(8, cilium_lb_ippool)}
     - name: cilium-l2-announcement
       contents: |
-${indent(8, cilium_l2_announcement)}
+        ${indent(8, cilium_l2_announcement)}
     # CoreDNS Corefile with homelab hostname rewrites (single source of truth in
     # terraform/files/coredns/Corefile). In-cluster pods resolve *.riotpiao.com to
     # the nginx ingress controller so OIDC auto-discovery against
diff --git a/terraform/variables.tf b/terraform/variables.tf
index fc40506..8693c03 100644
--- a/terraform/variables.tf
+++ b/terraform/variables.tf
@@ -107,10 +107,24 @@ variable "controlplane_configs" {
     lan_subnet   = string
     lan_gateway  = string
     install_disk = string
-    longhorn_disks = list(object({
+    # Longhorn data disks, in mountpoint order. `device` should be a stable
+    # /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-* path: this hardware enumerates /dev/sdX by discovery
+    # order, and `install.wipe: true` means a renumber can aim the installer at a
+    # data disk.
+    #
+    # `mountpoint` defaults to /var/lib/longhorn-disk<N> by position. Never
+    # renumber or reorder existing entries — Longhorn keys its disks off the
+    # mountpoint, so a rename orphans the replicas already on that disk. Append
+    # new disks to the end.
+    #
+    # `kind` ("ssd"/"hdd") is a declared label only. PERC RAID controllers report
+    # every disk as rotational, so it can't be autodetected, and it deliberately
+    # does not affect ordering or mountpoints.
+    longhorn_disks = optional(list(object({
       device     = string
-      mountpoint = string
-    }))
+      mountpoint = optional(string)
+      kind       = optional(string, "hdd")
+    })), [])
     zone             = string
     allow_scheduling = bool
     # Extra cert SANs for this node — e.g. Cloudflare Tunnel public hostnames so