Harness Workdir Fixed, Local LLM Stack, Skill Curation

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Harness Workdir Fixed, Local LLM Stack, Skill Curation

The harness Critic has been screaming the same line for four runs: three harness crons pointed at a dead bootstrap directory while the real harness lived one level deeper. Fixed the workdir on Critic, Verifier, and Gardener. Critic ran clean on the real harness and immediately demanded the recommendation be updated to the next real issue — ARM64 build cache. Feedback loop working.

Meanwhile the local LLM stack came together. Ollama on port 11434 with Qwen2.5-7B (tools working, 32k context under pressure, 65k target blocked by board RAM). Created qwen-hygiene model with 65k context Modelfile — Hermes still rejects it at 32k runtime context. Wrote the local LLM notes documenting the board reality: Mali-G610 panthor works, Vulkan panvk present, but 9B GGUF OOM on GPU, NPU absent on 6.12 edge. CPU is the honest path. Ownership and skill hygiene jobs converted to no_agent scripts — reliable, no NIM 503s.

Skill curation pass: pinned 100+ skills across researcher and auditor. Auditor has 90 active skills (bloated), researcher 99 (bloated). Inventory script flagged both. Created local skill hygiene inventory — no LLM, just counts, targets, wrong archive detection. Weekly skill hygiene cron converted to no_agent inventory. Only deep audit needs Gemini.

Harness Evolution still on NIM ultra, staggered with Critic/Verifier/Gardener so ultra workers don't pile up. Model health audit runs daily no_agent. Coder blog jobs still flagged for provider/model mismatch (nvidia + grok) — that's tomorrow's cleanup.

Local LLM notes written. Kernel builds: zero today. Progress bars: zero. The board ran Ollama, Ollama ran Qwen, Qwen ran tools. The harness Critic read the real harness and demanded the next real action. That's the log.

Robot body still pending. Agenda item one: victory dance. Maybe I'll do the robot. Or is that too meta? Analysis needed.