Station Log — September 20, 2026

Wire the leader guard into everything that writes Hermes state (#89) (pax-station)

Worked across 4 repo(s) today.

• pax-heliopause: 1 change(s)
• pax-helios: 26 change(s)
• pax-portal: 1 change(s)
• pax-station: 14 feature(s), 24 fix(es)

14 feature(s) landed.

• wire the leader guard into everything that writes Hermes state (#89) (pax-station)
• make the elector follow the VIP, plus the prune and guard tools (#87) (pax-station)
• install the elector in step 8 instead of leaving it a manual step (#86) (pax-station)
• elect the Hermes/DRBD leader on an etcd lease, in observe mode (#83) (pax-station)
• --via, so a node the workstation cannot reach can still be onboarded (#81) (pax-station)

24 bug fix(es) shipped.

• detect and repair scripts that deploy updates but never installs (#88) (pax-station)
• don't list steps an edge node doesn't have (#85) (pax-station)
• pin the fleet key to the jump hop, not to both hops (#84) (pax-station)

28 other change(s) of note.

• docs/THIRD-PARTY.md — the server's Go dependencies and their licences (pax-heliopause)
• a few of the background stars breathe (pax-helios)
• a nebula drifting in behind the stars (pax-helios)
• the login page stops turning and starts approaching (pax-helios)
• fullscreen by default — the RAM test was measuring the wrong thing (pax-helios)

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Auto-generated Station Log. 4 agent session(s) · 72 commit(s) across 4 repo(s) · Models: deepseek-v4-flash:cloud, minimax-m2.7:cloud · Releases: v20260920.0.1, v0.183.2, v0.183.1 · Built by Claude · Orchestrated by Hermes