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REPORT: KNEL-AIMiddleware consolidated into _crossfeed/tooling

Date: 2026-08-28 Operator: reachableceo agent Status: COMPLETE — all deliverables verified

Method

1. Verified source and target are on the same filesystem (both device 2049, /dev/sda1).
2. Verified the stale target had no unique work before deletion: no extra branches (main only), no stashes, no commits not on origin/main. Its only uncommitted change was a deleted .env (see Skipped).
3. rm -rf stale copy at /home/_crossfeed/tooling/knel-aimiddleware (2.4M).
4. Atomic same-filesystem mv of /home/reachableceo/projects/KNEL-AIMiddleware (512M, incl. vendor/ and .git) into the target path. No data copied; inode rename only, so no disk-space impact (45G free confirmed before move).
5. Created symlink /home/reachableceo/projects/KNEL-AIMiddleware -> /home/_crossfeed/tooling/knel-aimiddleware so existing path references keep working.

File counts (before / after)

Item	Files	Dirs	Size
Source before move	21,590	4,240	512M
Stale target before removal	283	171	2.4M
Target after move	21,590	4,240	512M

Counts match exactly; nothing lost in transit.

Git (verified at final path, via both real and symlink paths)

• git status --porcelain: clean (empty). Branch main, up to date with origin/main.
• HEAD unchanged: 2440188 2026-08-10 "feat(tooling): containerize dns-cli in tooling-cli/dns"
• Remote intact: origin ssh://git@git.knownelement.com:29418/KNEL/KNEL-AIMiddleware.git (fetch + push)
• History preserved (full .git moved with the tree).

Symlink

/home/reachableceo/projects/KNEL-AIMiddleware -> /home/_crossfeed/tooling/knel-aimiddleware Resolves: yes (spot-checked file read through old path).

Permissions applied

• Top level: reachableceo:users, mode 775.
• Recursive on all reachableceo-owned entries: chgrp users; dirs g+rx; files g+r (incl. .git, so group members can run read-only git commands).
• Audit: 21,126 entries now group users; 0 owned entries missing required group bits.

Skipped / exceptions

1. 4,753 entries under vendor/discourse-mcp/.pnpm-store are root:root (created by root during containerized builds). chgrp/chmod impossible without sudo. All are mode 755 (dirs) / 644 (files), i.e. world-readable, so group users read access is unaffected. Cosmetic only.
2. Stale copy's one uncommitted change (deletion of .env) was discarded with it. The surviving copy contains .env intact, so nothing of value was lost.
3. Two dangling symlinks in vendor test fixtures (bash-language-server, terraform-ls testdata) could not be chgrp'd via dereference; chgrp -h applied to the link inodes instead. They were dangling in the source already.
4. Minor: .git/index gets rewritten by git commands and may drift back to group reachableceo over time; harmless for read access (mode stays group/world readable). Re-run chgrp -R users if strict group ownership is ever required.

Result

/home/_crossfeed/tooling/knel-aimiddleware is now the single current shared copy (full working tree + vendor/ + .git + remote). Old path is a working symlink.