aide-engine-lifecycle-doctrine SKILL.md skillA
aide-engine-lifecycle-doctrine from anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-engine-lifecycle-doctrine@git:20260828.ac4c0a9Pins git:20260828.ac4c0a9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench
- Path
skills/packs/aide-engine-lifecycle-doctrine/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260828.ac4c0a9, committed Aug 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 9,854 bytes
- Repository stars
- 53
- License
- Apache-2.0
Engine lifecycle & contention doctrine for llama-server under AIDE — why engines die with silent "exit code=1, zero stderr", the scoped-kill law (never taskkill /IM llama-server.exe), the memory drain-wait before spawn, the early-exit retry guard, the twin-orchestrator hazard (legacy daemon 4779 vs arch-ts 4778 both managing the same manifest), port-hijack via SO_REUSEADDR, and the exact diagnostic drill to find a machine-wide engine killer. Use whenever engines die unexpectedly, chat returns…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Engine Lifecycle Doctrine — Nothing Kills Another Engine's Process
Born 2026-08-27: chat returned 409 NOT_READY ("route aide-cipher-4b is down (down)
and no fallback is ready") for days. The engine "crashed with exit code 1 in ~0.1s
with zero stderr" under AIDE's spawn path but ran fine standalone. Root cause was
NOT VRAM, NOT ports, NOT the binary: an unrelated training-corpus Python job
(`gen_chat_corpus_v2.py`) ran `taskkill /IM llama-server.exe /F` — a machine-wide
kill — inside its self-heal loop, murdering every engine on the box whenever its
5s teacher probe hiccuped (which cipher's own load made MORE likely: loading a
4 GB model slows the whole machine → qwen's probe times out → kill-all fires →
cipher dies → repeat). Verified live: fix the kill scope, and cipher + qwen
coexist and chat returns 200 in 768 ms.
## The three simultaneous truths (all verified 2026-08-27)
1. **The killer was external.** `taskkill /IM llama-server.exe /F` from
E:\pip_temp\opencode\gen_chat_corpus_v2.py (self-heal, lines ~541) killed ALL
llama-servers machine-wide. TerminateProcess → victim exits code 1 with ZERO
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-engine-lifecycle-doctrine@sha256:283c05da5f414927The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.ac4c0a9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 28, 2026.
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| git:20260828.ac4c0a9 latest | 2026-08-28 | ac4c0a9 | 9,854 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.8f5fcbe | 2026-08-28 | 8f5fcbe | 8,900 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9854 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench · 53 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch covert-production
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_da7xgniyzwh3i4d6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-engine-lifecycle-doctrine GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/283c05da5f414927217a280b257ccbd6b426917d38dfad98d37daa33ce6772dd
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