State Hub Infrastructure

Docker (PostgreSQL)

# Start postgres (required for API)
make db

# Start postgres + pgadmin
make db-tools

The compose file is infra/docker-compose.yml. Copy .env.example to .env and set POSTGRES_PASSWORD before starting.

Periodic Repo Sync — systemd user timer

The custodian sync timer runs consistency_check.py --remote --all every 15 minutes, keeping workplan file state in sync with the state-hub DB automatically (belt-and-suspenders alongside the per-repo git post-commit hooks).

The all-repo remote sweep has two built-in load guards:

A nonblocking process lock at /tmp/custodian-consistency-remote-all.lock; if a prior sweep is still active, the next timer run exits cleanly.
A wall-clock budget, defaulting to 300 seconds. Remaining repos are skipped once the budget is exhausted. Override with --max-seconds N or set CONSISTENCY_REMOTE_ALL_MAX_SECONDS.
Warn-only sweeps exit 0 in --remote --all mode so the systemd unit only goes failed for hard consistency failures.

Installed unit files

File	Location
`custodian-sync.service`	`~/.config/systemd/user/custodian-sync.service`
`custodian-sync.timer`	`~/.config/systemd/user/custodian-sync.timer`

Management commands

# Check status
systemctl --user status custodian-sync.timer
systemctl --user list-timers custodian-sync.timer

# View recent logs
journalctl --user -u custodian-sync.service -n 50

# Trigger immediately (for testing)
systemctl --user start custodian-sync.service

# Disable
systemctl --user disable --now custodian-sync.timer

# Re-enable
systemctl --user enable --now custodian-sync.timer

Guard condition

The service uses ExecStartPre to check the API is reachable before running:

ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:8000/state/health

If the API is offline, the service exits cleanly without error (the timer will retry in 15 minutes).

WSL2 note

systemd user mode works in WSL2 when systemd=true is set in /etc/wsl.conf. If systemd is not available, fall back to crontab:

# Crontab fallback (run crontab -e and add):
*/15 * * * * curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:8000/state/health && cd ~/state-hub && .venv/bin/python scripts/consistency_check.py --remote --all >> /tmp/custodian-sync.log 2>&1

Post-commit hooks

Each registered repo can have a custodian sync hook installed that triggers fix-consistency automatically after every commit:

# Install into one repo
make install-hooks REPO=marki-docx

# Install into all active registered repos
make install-hooks-all

# Remove from one repo
make remove-hooks REPO=marki-docx

The hook is idempotent (guarded by # custodian-sync-hook marker) and runs in the background so it does not block the commit.