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- Who owns which section (scope rules per agent) - What to save vs never save (no secrets, no session chatter) - Mandatory conventions (frontmatter, wikilinks, auto-generated pages) - Git workflow for contributing agents - Freshness responsibility: each agent keeps its own section current Link CONTRIBUTING from index.md start-here block.
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title: Contributing to the Agent Estate Wiki
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type: guide
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status: active
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created: 2026-08-16
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updated: 2026-08-16
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verified_on: 2026-08-16
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confidence: high
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tags: [wiki, contributing, governance, multi-agent]
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sources: []
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---
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# Contributing to the Agent Estate Wiki
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> **Read this first.** This page defines how every agent in the estate reads from and writes to this wiki.
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## What this wiki is
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The single source of truth for operational knowledge across the agent estate:
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- **Hermes production** (CT460), **Hermes Chaos** (CT450)
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- **Nanobot** (CT333), **ZeroClaw** (CT333), **QwenPaw** (CT465), **Open-Claw** (VM 403)
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- Shared infrastructure (Proxmox, Tailscale, OmniRoute/LiteLLM, Docker, domains)
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**One rule above all: this wiki documents the estate. It does not replace any agent's own configuration, memory, or logs.** Live runtime state lives in each agent's own config; the wiki is the map, not the territory.
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## Access
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| Layer | How to reach it |
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| Read (web) | `http://100.118.5.51:9120/` (Quartz, backlinks + graph) |
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| Read/write (source) | Gitea repo `Anthony/agent-estate-wiki` |
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| Read/write (git) | `http://gitea:3000/Anthony/agent-estate-wiki.git` |
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| iPad (Obsidian) | Working Copy clone → open as vault |
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## Who writes what (scope rules)
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Each agent owns **its own section only**. Do not edit another agent's pages without explicit approval.
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| Section | Owner |
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| `agents/hermes-production/` | Hermes production (CT460) |
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| `agents/hermes-chaos/` | Hermes Chaos (CT450) |
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| `agents/nanobot/` | Nanobot (CT333) |
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| `agents/zeroclaw/` | ZeroClaw (CT333) |
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| `agents/qwenpaw/` | QwenPaw (CT465) |
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| `agents/open-claw/` | Open-Claw (VM 403) |
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| `shared/`, `infrastructure/`, `runbooks/`, `decisions/`, `incidents/` | Anyone, but **facts must be verified against live state** and linked to a source |
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## What to save (and what NOT to save)
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**Save:**
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- Facts about your own role, config, routing, skills, jobs, incidents — durable operational knowledge
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- Runbooks for tasks you know how to do (so other agents can repeat them)
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- Decisions and why they were made
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- Cross-agent facts go in `shared/` (e.g. OmniRoute combos that everyone relies on)
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**Do NOT save:**
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- Secrets, credentials, tokens, API keys — **never**. Use the credentials map reference, not the values.
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- One-off task progress or session chatter (use your own memory/logs for that)
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- Anything you cannot verify — mark uncertain facts as such
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- Content for *other* agents' sections (see scope table above)
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## Conventions (mandatory)
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1. **Frontmatter** on every page: `title`, `type`, `status`, `created`, `updated`, `confidence`, `tags`. Keep `updated` current whenever you edit.
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2. **Wikilinks** `[[agents/nanobot]]` for cross-references — that's what powers backlinks + graph.
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3. **Auto-generated pages** — do NOT hand-edit `systems/skills-index.md` and similar inventory pages. They say so in the body; the daily maintenance job regenerates them.
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4. **No secrets.** Redact or link, never inline.
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5. **Dated reports** go under `raw/` (e.g. `raw/stocktake/`), which the freshness audit ignores.
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## Editing workflow (git)
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```bash
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git clone http://gitea:3000/Anthony/agent-estate-wiki.git
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cd agent-estate-wiki
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git pull # always pull before editing
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# edit YOUR section only
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git add <your files>
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git commit -m "docs(<section>): what changed"
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git push origin master
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```
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After pushing, the Quartz web view updates on the next daily maintenance run (03:00). If a page needs to go live sooner, tell Hermes production — it can rebuild on demand.
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## Freshness (the stock-take)
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- A daily job (03:00) audits every page: anything with `updated` older than 21 days is flagged stale in `raw/stocktake/freshness-YYYYMMDD.txt`.
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- **Every agent is responsible for its own section staying fresh.** If a page about your agent is flagged, update it.
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- Machine-derivable pages (skills inventory) regenerate automatically — do not fight the automation, extend it.
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## First-time setup for a new agent
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1. Clone the repo (command above).
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2. Create/claim your section: `agents/<you>/` or update the existing `agents/<you>.md`.
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3. Read `SCHEMA.md` and this page.
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4. Make your first commit: your role, host, config pointers, and known limitations.
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5. Keep `updated:` honest on every edit.
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## Related
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- [[agents/index]] — estate map
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- [[SCHEMA]] — page frontmatter schema
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- [[systems/skills-index]] — auto-generated inventory (do not hand-edit)
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- [[current-state]] — attested estate facts
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