The three defect categories were implicit in code: an operator could neither see which were active nor switch one off. ARIADNE_HERMES_FIX_CATEGORIES now names them, an unrecognised entry is ignored rather than trusted, and an empty setting means all three so the default stays obvious. Kept separate from ARIADNE_HERMES_ALLOWED_ACTIONS on purpose. That allowlist gates what Ariadne executes on its own authority, with nothing between the decision and the change. Everything here becomes a pull request a person reads. Sharing one list would let a patch clear the same gate as an autonomous mutation, and that distinction is what makes the autonomous half defensible. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ariadne
Ariadne is the Atlas admin and account automation service.
It sits behind the portal and handles the jobs that are annoying or risky to do by hand: approving access, syncing account state, rotating service passwords, cleaning stale Kubernetes work, checking platform health, and keeping a few service integrations lined up.
How it works
Ariadne is a FastAPI service with a small scheduler. It talks to Keycloak, Vault, Mailu, Nextcloud, Wger, Firefly, Jenkins, Metis, Kubernetes, and a few Atlas-specific services through focused adapters under ariadne/services/.
The API is split between admin routes, account self-service routes, internal event hooks, and Prometheus metrics. Background jobs store run history in the Ariadne database so failures can be inspected later instead of vanishing into logs.
The following are notes for future Brad.
Bring-up dependencies
Ariadne needs:
- Kubernetes API, service DNS, and Ariadne's service account/RBAC
- the Ariadne database, plus the portal database if portal/account sync is enabled
- Vault or the Kubernetes secrets that Vault normally feeds it
- Keycloak/OIDC, because auth and profile sync assume it exists
- ingress/proxy plumbing if humans are going to use it through the portal
- the services for whatever jobs are enabled: Mailu, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Wger, Firefly, Jenkins, Metis, OpenSearch, and the comms/game-mode pieces
It can start before every integration is perfect, but the matching scheduled jobs will fail or no-op until their service is actually alive. In a total bring-up, wait for storage, Flux, Postgres, Vault, Keycloak, and ingress first. Afterwards Ariadne becomes useful glue.
Useful routes:
GET /healthGET /metricsGET /api/admin/cluster/statePOST /api/admin/access/requests/{username}/approvePOST /api/account/mailu/rotatePOST /api/account/wger/resetPOST /api/account/firefly/resetPOST /events
Development
python -m pytest
ruff check .
Most runtime behavior is configured through environment variables in ariadne/settings.py. Service-specific logic is in the small adapter modules; ariadne/app.py is focused on request flow and task orchestration.