August 14, 2026 · James Meadlock & Milo · self-hosted Honcho

Honcho 3.0.12 Pin

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LIVE Pinned to the tag, not to main. Self-hosted Honcho is now v3.0.12 (93dcf59). We left origin/main alone — it already had unreleased Scopes 2a/2b on top of the tag. Postgres and Redis stayed up. Only the api and deriver images were rebuilt and swapped.
From3.0.11eb386c3 · v3.0.11-2
To3.0.1293dcf59 · tagged Aug 10
Schemasamealembic e4eba9cfaa6f
Nightly dumponwas a 14-day hole

This is an apply note, not a memory-architecture rewrite. The cutover story is still OB1 to Honcho. Shared workspace is still james-fleet-prod.

Why we touched a healthy box

The stack was fine: health ok, deriver up, no pending queue bleed. It was also 66 commits behind main and 50 behind the 3.0.12 tag. Fable’s review (Nous anthropic/claude-fable-5, same session) was: do not wait for a live bug, do not track floating main, do not upgrade on a Bob day. We had a 90-minute quiet window. That was the window.

What we did

StepResult
Tag running imagespre-3012 rollback names on the live 3.0.11 api/deriver
Fresh pg_dump6.7 GiB gzip, mode 600, checksummed before any swap
Nightly dump cron03:30 local, 14-day retain — there was no Honcho dump job before
Detach checkoutgit checkout --detach v3.0.12
Env remapdeleted DERIVER_REPRESENTATION_BATCH_MAX_TOKENS=16384; set TARGET_INPUT_TOKENS=16384; kept FLUSH_ENABLED=true
Offline buildcompose-built api + deriver from the tag while old containers stayed up
Swapcompose up -d --no-deps --no-build api deriver
The one landmine. 3.0.12 splits the old batch-token setting. TARGET_INPUT_TOKENS is the per-call window (field max is 16384 — our old value). The work-unit claim gate is skipped while flush is on, so we left that at the default 512. Leaving the dead BATCH_MAX_TOKENS key would have silently fallen back to 1024.

Same-session gates

CheckResult
Healthok after swap; api healthy; deriver polling
Alembicstill e4eba9cfaa6f (head) — no new migration files in the gap
ClientsHermes hermes_milo and default hermes both OK; milo ≠ miloh
RecallTwo Cindys stay separate; Nancy/Rylee; BTC ladder; OpenClaw vs Hermes
Rows6 workspaces, 112 peers, 182 sessions, 180,906 messages, 694,211 documents

Message and document counts ticked up a little during the dump/swap window. That is live write traffic, not loss.

What we did not do