knowledge-wiki/channels/1548051220533481536.md

Channel Wiki: #cogarch-v1-argo-workflows

Channel ID: 1548051220533481536 Created: 2026-09-11 UTC Last sync: 2026-09-16 03:11 UTC

Purpose

Observe, analyze, and preserve evidence about Cognitive Architect Solution Factory behavior and workflows. Observation is read-only by default.

Canonical Resources

• Channel workspace: /opt/data/cogarch-v1-argo-workflows/
• Channel skill repository: https://gitea.lego-cloud.eu/cognitive-architect-v1-skills-code-agent/cogarch-v1-channel-argo-workflows
• IBM documentation repository, when relevant: CTOTools/Documentation on github.ibm.com

Key Decisions

• Channel-owned files belong in the dedicated local workspace.
• Reusable operating rules belong in the dedicated channel skill; mutable continuity belongs in this wiki.
• Observation does not authorize upstream edits, external publication, or IBM merges. IBM merges require human approval.
• Hard authority boundary: Hermes must perform no write action against Cognitive Architect Argo Workflows in any environment unless Discord user 1518725627845283888 explicitly overrides this restriction.
• Production Argo Workflows access is read-only through the dedicated channel-skill helper. Its API token must never enter model context, command arguments, logs, or artifacts.

Active Topics

• Investigate production Solution Factory workflow-template behavior and failures through GET-only Argo access.

Key Context

• Use live source inspection for current-state claims.
• Load cognitive-architect for architecture/model work and cogarch-github for IBM CTOTools Documentation operations.
• The channel skill retrieves the Argo API token and Swagger URL by exact Bitwarden IDs inside a subprocess, permits only Swagger-declared GET operations, and sanitizes generic output.
• Live verification on 2026-09-11 identified Argo Workflows v4.0.5 and service-account namespace solution-factory.
• The production namespace exposes six namespaced WorkflowTemplates: one four-phase coordinator, four generation/refinement phases, and a separate propagation phase. No CronWorkflows were listed; cluster-scoped template inventory is inaccessible to the read-only service account, so its existence is unknown.
• For architecture arch_up7BoYhj- and iteration iter_QfJ3shQvZ, no Workflow object exists in the live or archived lists. An Argo GET label selector using that architecture ID returns HTTP 400 because Kubernetes label values cannot end with -; normal Solution Factory submissions copy architecture-id into Workflow metadata labels. This is strong evidence that submission is rejected before the Processing workflow is created, not that a Processing pod starts and fails.
• Live inspection on 2026-09-13 found no active or archived Workflow labeled architecture-id=arch_kiSj9jBKI; the daily inventory also contained no record for it from 2026-09-06 through 2026-09-13. The current Processing template does include the intended image path: conversion-to-markdown → markdown-chunking → describe-images → merge-descriptions. Processing Workflows have ttlStrategy.secondsAfterCompletion: 86400, while the accessible archived list is empty, so Argo logs disappear with the Workflow after roughly 24 hours unless retained elsewhere. For a recent iteration, absence strongly suggests that the Processing Workflow was never created; for an older iteration, Argo alone cannot distinguish non-submission from TTL cleanup.
• Live inspection on 2026-09-15 for architecture arch_xOQ5jks0b, iteration iter_fMfOM35fb, found Processing succeeded (phase-0100-processing-sn74b, 6/6) but High-Level Insights failed (phase-0200-high-level-insights-ffmgf, 1/2). The first high-level step, 0200-phase-0600-step-generate-knowledge-wiki-plan, launched the Cline/code agent but it exited with code 201 on the initial attempt and all three error retries. The original centralized agent log reportedly showed an operation timeout and retry-limit failure, but a rerun at 2026-09-15 12:02:57 UTC overwrote that file. A Redis DNS warning (redis:6379 unresolved) appeared only in the failed run's Argo main-container stdout, was handled fail-open, and was not causal. Fresh read-only inspection of rerun pod phase-0200-high-level-insights-9p7vz-run-step-2817085442 found 17 log entries, zero Redis references/errors, and normal one-key credential-pool initialization.

People & Roles

• RootAtSkic (1518725627845283888) — channel owner and human authority.
• whyt6249 (204689314796273674) — supplied the overwritten agent-log finding and identified the rerun pod for comparison.
• Hermes (1526860732917088266) — assisting bot.

Action Items

• Select the first Solution Factory behavior or workflow to observe.
• ✅ The requested standalone HTML investigation page was delivered in Discord messages 1548064910263586922–1548064913602379868.
• Obtain the exact iter_... ID and approximate start time for arch_kiSj9jBKI to determine whether it should remain inside Argo's 24-hour retention window and to correlate any external S3 or Solution Factory history.

Evidence

• 1548051382714507325 — RootAtSkic requested a local folder, dedicated channel skill, and Gitea publication.
• Previous processed human message: 1548759488570466527 (2026-09-13 18:17 UTC; RootAtSkic confirmed that the lookup must use the exact Kubernetes selector architecture-id=arch_kiSj9jBKI; live and archived Argo queries using that selector returned no items).
• 1549364076239397005 — RootAtSkic requested diagnosis of failed High-Level Insights for arch_xOQ5jks0b / iter_fMfOM35fb; read-only Argo inspection isolated the failure to knowledge-wiki-plan agent exit code 201 after retries.
• Latest processed human message: 1549399634302992447 (2026-09-15 12:40 UTC; whyt6249 requested comparison against rerun pod phase-0200-high-level-insights-9p7vz-run-step-2817085442; live read-only inspection found no recurrence of the Redis warning).