feat(mac-mini): an easier agent machine, and disk reclaim that retries #630

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The mac-mini had 13 GiB free and needed a password and a PATH export for routine agent work. This makes it an easier agent machine and stops the disk from filling unnoticed.

macos-agent-tools now sets up passwordless sudo, turns Spotlight off and removes its index, stops the Homebrew Tailscale agent that looped on needing root, stops automatic macOS installs (critical and config-data updates stay on), and adds Homebrew to ~/.zshenv. The sudo entry is blanket, by the human's decision, so both runners' workflows get root on this Mac.

macos-disk-reclaim now wakes hourly and keeps its weekly pass with a stamp. A run that found CI busy used to lose the whole week, which is why the last one freed 0. It also removes Gradle version caches whose daemon has not run for 30 days, and the Unity guard now actually skips the Unity sections: it logged the skip and pruned anyway. DiskReclaimStale and DiskReclaimSkipped warn when a pass stops or stays skipped.

docs/mac-machines.md records that the 30-day screen prompt cannot be moved from code: macOS restored the plist values on the next capture.

Removed: the "no NOPASSWD" statement for the mini, and "now and then" for the prompt.

Verified on the mini: check, apply, then a re-run with changed=0. sudo -n true passes there and still fails on mac-studio. 77 GiB free. A fake Runner.Worker left no stamp, so the next hourly wake retries. run-tests.sh passes, and the rule tests pass under promtool in a container. The reboot test is still to come, after the Steam cut's Mac jobs.

Spotlight off now exists here and in macos-llm-node. This one uses mdutil -X because -E left 42 GB behind on the mini.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01BALUC6NN9dmzupYrubiuwG

The mac-mini had 13 GiB free and needed a password and a PATH export for routine agent work. This makes it an easier agent machine and stops the disk from filling unnoticed. macos-agent-tools now sets up passwordless sudo, turns Spotlight off and removes its index, stops the Homebrew Tailscale agent that looped on needing root, stops automatic macOS installs (critical and config-data updates stay on), and adds Homebrew to `~/.zshenv`. The sudo entry is blanket, by the human's decision, so both runners' workflows get root on this Mac. macos-disk-reclaim now wakes hourly and keeps its weekly pass with a stamp. A run that found CI busy used to lose the whole week, which is why the last one freed 0. It also removes Gradle version caches whose daemon has not run for 30 days, and the Unity guard now actually skips the Unity sections: it logged the skip and pruned anyway. DiskReclaimStale and DiskReclaimSkipped warn when a pass stops or stays skipped. `docs/mac-machines.md` records that the 30-day screen prompt cannot be moved from code: macOS restored the plist values on the next capture. Removed: the "no NOPASSWD" statement for the mini, and "now and then" for the prompt. Verified on the mini: check, apply, then a re-run with `changed=0`. `sudo -n true` passes there and still fails on mac-studio. 77 GiB free. A fake `Runner.Worker` left no stamp, so the next hourly wake retries. `run-tests.sh` passes, and the rule tests pass under promtool in a container. The reboot test is still to come, after the Steam cut's Mac jobs. Spotlight off now exists here and in macos-llm-node. This one uses `mdutil -X` because `-E` left 42 GB behind on the mini. https://claude.ai/code/session_01BALUC6NN9dmzupYrubiuwG

kblack0610 added 1 commit 2026-11-06 22:13:02 +00:00

feat(mac-mini): an easier agent machine, and disk reclaim that retries ... 1d4b79184f

macos-agent-tools now gives the agent user passwordless sudo, turns Spotlight off and removes its index, stops the looping Homebrew Tailscale agent, stops automatic macOS installs, and puts Homebrew on a plain ssh command's PATH.

macos-disk-reclaim wakes hourly and keeps its weekly pass with a stamp, so a run that finds CI busy tries again next hour. It also removes unused Gradle version caches, and the Unity guard now really skips the Unity sections. Two warnings cover a pass that stops or stays skipped.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BALUC6NN9dmzupYrubiuwG

kblack0610 added 1 commit 2026-11-06 22:15:55 +00:00

test(monitoring): sample the reclaim alert series every minute ... a9a8cef722

An hourly series falls out of the 5m lookback between samples, so for: never completes under CI's promtool.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BALUC6NN9dmzupYrubiuwG

kblack0610 merged commit bb9b0b8543 into master 2026-11-06 22:17:11 +00:00

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feat(mac-mini): an easier agent machine, and disk reclaim that retries (#630)

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