feat: bake Matrix bridge deps into Docker image instead of volume mount

The volume mount at /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Hermes/venv overrides the
container's built .venv with an empty or stale host directory, causing
entrypoint.sh line 62 to fail on 'source .venv/bin/activate' (set -e).

The Docker image already builds a complete venv — no need to persist it.

.gitea/workflows/build-hermes.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Build Hermes agent
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+    paths:
+      - 'ai/hermes/**'
+      - 'ai/compose.yml'
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+    paths:
+      - 'ai/hermes/**'
+      - 'ai/compose.yml'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        run: |
+          git clone -b "${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}" \
+            https://gitea:${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}@code.lazyworkhorse.net/gortium/compose.git .
+          git log --oneline -3
+
+      - name: Build hermes image
+        run: |
+          cd ai
+          docker compose build hermes 2>&1
+
+      - name: Verify image
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm ai-hermes /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python --version 2>&1

.gitea/workflows/build-ollama.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Build ollama (gfx906)
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+    paths:
+      - 'ai/ollama/**'
+      - 'ai/compose.yml'
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+    paths:
+      - 'ai/ollama/**'
+      - 'ai/compose.yml'
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        run: |
+          git clone -b "${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}" \
+            https://gitea:${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}@code.lazyworkhorse.net/gortium/compose.git .
+          git log --oneline -3
+
+      - name: Build ollama image
+        run: |
+          cd ai
+          docker compose build ollama --no-cache 2>&1
+
+      - name: Verify version
+        run: |
+          docker run --rm ollama/ollama:rocm-gfx906 ollama --version 2>&1

ai/compose.yml

@@ -31,11 +31,19 @@ services:
       ssh:
         - default
     container_name: hermes
+    entrypoint: ["/bin/bash", "-c",
+      "bash /opt/data/hermes-tools/install.sh && bash /opt/data/hermes-tools/run-multi-gateways.sh && exec /usr/bin/tini -g -- /opt/hermes/docker/entrypoint.sh \"$@\"",
+      "hermes-entrypoint"]
     restart: always
     # Gateway run enables the internal API server on port 8642
     command: gateway run
     environment:
       - OLLAMA_HOST=http://ollama:11434
+      - HERMES_DASHBOARD=1
+      # Multi-profile: comma-separated list of profiles to run as gateways.
+      # The entrypoint reads this and starts one gateway per profile.
+      # Add profiles here when they exist on disk (e.g. default,researcher,writer)
+      - HERMES_PROFILES=ashley,claire,finn,matt,paul
       - API_SERVER_ENABLED=true
       - API_SERVER_PORT=8642
       - API_SERVER_HOST=0.0.0.0
@@ -51,6 +59,10 @@ services:
       - TZ=America/Montreal
     volumes:
       - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Hermes/data:/opt/data
+      # Syncthing-shared org files — read-only view of user's agenda
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Syncthing/telos-ro:/opt/data/telos-ro:ro
+      # Syncthing-shared inbox — write tasks here, they sync to user's laptop
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Syncthing/telos-rw:/opt/data/telos-rw:rw
     devices:
       - /dev/kfd:/dev/kfd
       - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
@@ -59,6 +71,61 @@ services:
       - "26"
     networks:
       - ai_backend
+      - ai_net
+    depends_on:
+      - honcho
+    labels:
+      - "traefik.enable=true"
+      - "traefik.docker.network=ai_net"
+
+      # Router for HTTP + redirection to HTTPS
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-http.rule=Host(`hermes.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-http.entrypoints=web"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-http.middlewares=redirect-to-https"
+
+      # Router for HTTPS with TLS — protected by Authelia
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-https.rule=Host(`hermes.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-https.entrypoints=websecure"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-https.tls=true"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-https.tls.certresolver=njalla"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.hermes-web-https.middlewares=hermes-auth"
+
+      # Authelia forwardAuth
+      - "traefik.http.middlewares.hermes-auth.forwardauth.address=http://authelia:9091/api/verify?rd=https://auth.lazyworkhorse.net/"
+      - "traefik.http.middlewares.hermes-auth.forwardauth.trustforwardheader=true"
+      - "traefik.http.middlewares.hermes-auth.forwardauth.authresponseheaders=X-Forwarded-User,X-Forwarded-Groups"
+
+      # Service Loadbalancer (dashboard port 9119)
+      - "traefik.http.services.hermes-web.loadbalancer.server.port=9119"
+
+  syncthing:
+    image: syncthing/syncthing:latest
+    container_name: syncthing
+    hostname: syncthing
+    restart: always
+    ports:
+      - "8384:8384"
+      - "22000:22000"
+      - "21027:21027/udp"
+    environment:
+      - TZ=America/Montreal
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Syncthing/config:/var/syncthing/config
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Syncthing/telos-ro:/telos-ro
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Syncthing/telos-rw:/telos-rw
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+      - ai_net
+    labels:
+      - "traefik.enable=true"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-http.rule=Host(`syncthing.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-http.entrypoints=web"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-http.middlewares=redirect-to-https"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-https.rule=Host(`syncthing.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-https.entrypoints=websecure"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-https.tls=true"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.syncthing-https.tls.certresolver=njalla"
+      - "traefik.http.services.syncthing.loadbalancer.server.port=8384"
 
   ollama:
     build:
@@ -93,6 +160,84 @@ services:
       - "303"
       - "26"
 
+  # --- Honcho: AI-native user modeling ---
+  honcho:
+    build: ./honcho
+    container_name: honcho
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - "127.0.0.1:8000:8000"
+    environment:
+      - DB_CONNECTION_URI=postgresql+psycopg://honcho:honcho_pass@honcho-db:5432/honcho
+      - CACHE_URL=redis://honcho-redis:6379/0
+      - CACHE_ENABLED=true
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Honcho/data:/app/data
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+      - ai_net
+    depends_on:
+      honcho-db:
+        condition: service_healthy
+      honcho-redis:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    labels:
+      - "traefik.enable=true"
+
+      # Router for HTTP + redirect to HTTPS
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-http.rule=Host(`honcho.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-http.entrypoints=web"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-http.middlewares=redirect-to-https"
+
+      # Router for HTTPS with TLS — protected by Authelia
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.rule=Host(`honcho.lazyworkhorse.net`)"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.entrypoints=websecure"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.tls=true"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.tls.certresolver=njalla"
+      - "traefik.http.routers.honcho-https.middlewares=hermes-auth"
+
+      # Service Loadbalancer
+      - "traefik.http.services.honcho.loadbalancer.server.port=8000"
+
+  honcho-db:
+    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg15
+    container_name: honcho-db
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - "127.0.0.1:5432:5432"
+    command: ["postgres", "-c", "max_connections=200"]
+    environment:
+      - POSTGRES_DB=honcho
+      - POSTGRES_USER=honcho
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=honcho_pass
+      - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Honcho/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+      - ./honcho/init-db.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql:ro
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U honcho -d honcho"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 5
+
+  honcho-redis:
+    image: redis:8
+    container_name: honcho-redis
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    ports:
+      - "127.0.0.1:6379:6379"
+    volumes:
+      - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Honcho/redis:/data
+    networks:
+      - ai_backend
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "redis-cli ping"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 5s
+      retries: 5
+
 networks:
   ai_net:
     external: true

ai/hermes/Dockerfile

@@ -20,16 +20,10 @@ RUN --mount=type=ssh \
     GIT_SSH_COMMAND='ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no' \
     git clone --depth 1 --branch main \
     git@code.lazyworkhorse.net:gortium/hermes-agent.git fork && \
-    rsync -a --delete fork/ /opt/hermes/ \
-      --exclude node_modules \
-      --exclude .venv \
-      --exclude .git && \
+    rm -rf fork/node_modules fork/.venv fork/.git && \
+    cp -a fork/. /opt/hermes/ && \
     rm -rf /tmp/fork /root/.ssh/
 
-# ---------- Rebuild web UI ----------
-# Source files changed; node_modules (from base image) reused.
-RUN cd /opt/hermes && npm run build
-
 # ---------- Reinstall Python package (editable) ----------
 # Picks up source changes from our fork.
 RUN . /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/activate && \
@@ -40,6 +34,7 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
         libportaudio2 ca-certificates poppler-utils imagemagick \
+        libolm-dev \
         texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended \
         texlive-xetex texlive-science \
         qemu-user-static binfmt-support emacs-nox && \
@@ -48,6 +43,14 @@ RUN apt-get update && \
 # ---------- UV ----------
 COPY --chmod=0755 --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:latest /uv /usr/local/bin/
 
+WORKDIR /opt/hermes
+
+# ---------- Matrix bridge + extra pip deps ----------
+# Previously installed inline at container startup and persisted via volume mount.
+# Now baked into the image so the fragile venv volume mount can be removed.
+RUN . /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/activate && \
+    uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'mautrix[encryption]' openai
+
 # ---------- Piper TTS ----------
 RUN . /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/activate && \
     uv pip install --no-cache-dir piper-tts sounddevice numpy && \
@@ -61,6 +64,20 @@ urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, base + '/en_US-ryan-high.onnx')
 urllib.request.urlretrieve(url + '.json', base + '/en_US-ryan-high.onnx.json')
 PYEOF
 
+# ---------- Install Himalaya email CLI ----------
+RUN /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python3 /dev/stdin << 'PYEOF'
+import urllib.request, tarfile, os, shutil
+url = 'https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya/releases/download/v1.2.0/himalaya.x86_64-linux.tgz'
+tgz = '/tmp/himalaya.tgz'
+urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, tgz)
+with tarfile.open(tgz) as t:
+    t.extractall('/tmp')
+shutil.move('/tmp/himalaya', '/usr/local/bin/himalaya')
+os.chmod('/usr/local/bin/himalaya', 0o755)
+os.remove(tgz)
+print('himalaya v1.2.0 installed')
+PYEOF
+
 # ---------- Runtime ----------
 USER hermes
 ENV HERMES_HOME=/opt/data
@@ -68,7 +85,9 @@ ENV PATH="/opt/data/.local/bin:${PATH}"
 # Point browser tool to Playwright's Chromium (already in base image)
 ENV CHROME_EXECUTABLE=/opt/hermes/.playwright/chromium/chrome-linux/chrome
 
-VOLUME [ "/opt/data" ]
+# Ensure tools directory and toolsets.py are writable by the hermes runtime user
+# so custom tools can be injected from the persistent volume at startup.
+USER root
+RUN chown -R hermes:hermes /opt/hermes/tools /opt/hermes/toolsets.py
 
-COPY --chmod=0755 fix-permissions.sh /opt/hermes/fix-permissions.sh
-ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/bin/tini", "-g", "--", "/opt/hermes/fix-permissions.sh" ]
+VOLUME [ "/opt/data" ]

ai/hermes/fix-permissions.sh

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Startup permission fix + TTS patch.
-# Runs as root before the entrypoint drops to the hermes user.
-set -e
-
-HERMES_HOME="${HERMES_HOME:-/opt/data}"
-
-# Fix ownership on critical writable directories
-chown -R hermes:hermes \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/sessions" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/checkpoints" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/skills" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/memories" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/workspace" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/pastes" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/logs" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/cron" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/plans" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/hooks" \
-  "$HERMES_HOME/cache" \
-  2>/dev/null || true
-
-# Fix data volume root ownership
-if [ "$(stat -c %u "$HERMES_HOME" 2>/dev/null)" != "$(id -u hermes)" ]; then
-  chown hermes:hermes "$HERMES_HOME" 2>/dev/null || true
-fi
-
-# ---------- Patch tts_tool.py: replace Edge TTS with Piper ----------
-# Fallback runtime patch in case the volume's site-packages differ from the image.
-# Idempotent: if already patched, the script does nothing.
-PATCH_SCRIPT="/opt/hermes/patch_tts_tool.py"
-if [ -f "$PATCH_SCRIPT" ]; then
-  echo "Applying TTS patch (Piper only, no Edge fallback)..."
-  /opt/hermes/.venv/bin/python3 "$PATCH_SCRIPT" 2>&1 || true
-fi
-
-# Chain to the official Hermes entrypoint
-exec /opt/hermes/docker/entrypoint.sh "$@"

ai/honcho/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# build stage — fetches and builds Honcho from source
+# Using buildkit cache mounts for speed across rebuilds
+FROM python:3.13-slim-bookworm AS builder
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY --from=ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:0.9.24 /uv /bin/uv
+
+# Clone Honcho at a pinned commit for reproducibility
+ARG HONCHO_REPO=https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho
+ARG HONCHO_REF=main
+RUN git clone --depth 1 --branch ${HONCHO_REF} ${HONCHO_REPO} /app
+
+WORKDIR /app
+
+ENV UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE=1
+ENV UV_LINK_MODE=copy
+
+RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
+    uv sync --frozen --no-group dev
+
+# --- runtime stage ---
+FROM python:3.13-slim-bookworm
+
+RUN groupadd --system app && \
+    useradd --system --gid app --create-home app
+
+COPY --from=builder /app /app
+COPY --from=builder /root/.cache/uv /root/.cache/uv
+
+WORKDIR /app
+ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:$PATH"
+ENV HOME=/app
+
+COPY --chown=app:app config.toml /app/config.toml
+
+USER app
+EXPOSE 8000
+
+CMD ["fastapi", "run", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "src/main.py"]

ai/honcho/config.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+[app]
+LOG_LEVEL = "INFO"
+MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE = 25000
+EMBED_MESSAGES = true
+NAMESPACE = "honcho"
+
+[db]
+CONNECTION_URI = "postgresql+psycopg://honcho:honcho_pass@honcho-db:5432/honcho"
+SCHEMA = "public"
+POOL_SIZE = 10
+MAX_OVERFLOW = 20
+
+[auth]
+USE_AUTH = false
+
+[sentry]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[telemetry]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[webhook]
+ENABLED = false
+
+[cache]
+ENABLED = true
+URL = "redis://honcho-redis:6379/0"
+
+[llm]
+DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS = 4096
+
+# Embeddings via Ollama (nomic-embed-text recommended on this system)
+[embedding]
+VECTOR_DIMENSIONS = 768
+MAX_INPUT_TOKENS = 8192
+
+[embedding.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "nomic-embed-text"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+# --- Deriver (user representation builder) ---
+[deriver]
+ENABLED = true
+WORKERS = 1
+POLLING_SLEEP_INTERVAL_SECONDS = 5.0
+FLUSH_ENABLED = true
+
+[deriver.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+# --- Dialectic ---
+[dialectic]
+MAX_INPUT_TOKENS = 4096
+SESSION_HISTORY_MAX_TOKENS = 8192
+
+[dialectic.levels.minimal]
+MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS = 1
+MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 512
+[dialectic.levels.minimal.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+[dialectic.levels.low]
+MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS = 3
+[dialectic.levels.low.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+[dialectic.levels.medium]
+MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS = 2
+[dialectic.levels.medium.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+[dialectic.levels.high]
+MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS = 4
+[dialectic.levels.high.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+[dialectic.levels.max]
+MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS = 10
+[dialectic.levels.max.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+# --- Summary ---
+[summary]
+ENABLED = true
+MESSAGES_PER_SHORT_SUMMARY = 20
+MESSAGES_PER_LONG_SUMMARY = 60
+
+[summary.model_config]
+transport = "openai"
+model = "hermes-3"
+base_url = "http://ollama:11434/v1"
+
+# --- Dream ---
+[dream]
+ENABLED = false
+
+# --- Peer Card ---
+[peer_card]
+ENABLED = true
+
+# --- Vector Store ---
+[vector_store]
+TYPE = "pgvector"
+DIMENSIONS = 768

ai/honcho/init-db.sql

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector;

versioncontrol/compose.yml

@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ services:
       - USER_UID=1000
       - USER_GID=1000
       - GITEA__server__ROOT_URL=https://code.lazyworkhorse.net
+      - GITEA__actions__ENABLED=true
       - SSH_PORT=2222
       - SSH_LISTEN_PORT=2222
       # Enable Gitea Actions (act_runner required on host)
       - GITEA__actions__ENABLED=true
-      # Don't fetch actions from GitHub (offline mode + local only)
-      - GITEA__actions__DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL=off
     volumes:
       - /mnt/HoardingCow_docker_data/Gitea:/data
     networks:
@@ -44,6 +43,22 @@ services:
       # Internal Routing
       - "traefik.http.services.gitea.loadbalancer.server.port=3000"
 
+  act_runner:
+    image: gitea/act_runner:latest
+    container_name: act_runner
+    environment:
+      - GITEA_INSTANCE_URL=https://code.lazyworkhorse.net
+      - GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN=${GITEA_RUNNER_TOKEN}
+      - GITEA_RUNNER_NAME=ai-host-runner
+      - GITEA_RUNNER_LABELS=ubuntu-latest:docker://catthehacker/ubuntu:full-22.04,nixos-builder:docker://nixos/nix
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+    networks:
+      - vc_net
+    restart: always
+    depends_on:
+      - gitea
+
 networks:
   vc_net:
     external: true

vpn/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Custom wg-easy with iptables-nft (nftables-backed iptables)
+# Fixes crash-loop when host kernel lacks legacy iptable_nat module.
+FROM ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:latest
+
+# The upstream image registers only iptables-legacy with update-alternatives.
+# iptables-nft binary exists but isn't registered as an alternative key.
+# Override the alternatives-managed symlinks directly.
+RUN ln -sf /usr/sbin/iptables-nft /usr/sbin/iptables && \
+    ln -sf /usr/sbin/ip6tables-nft /usr/sbin/ip6tables

vpn/compose.yml

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ version: "3.8"
 
 services:
   wireguard:
-    image: weejewel/wg-easy:latest
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+    image: wg-easy-iptables-nft:latest
     container_name: wireguard
     cap_add:
       - NET_ADMIN