> Perfect I focused on compounding value locally, making orchestration reliable and
verifiable, and preparing a safe path to push later, all within your standards.
What I implemented now
- Orchestrator modes (lock, dry-run, apply)
- llm-platform/frontend/scripts/orchestrate.ts
- lock: generates images.lock.json from services.template with IMAGE_TAG_DEFAULT and
per-service TAG_<SERVICE_NAME>
- dry-run: renders dist/kagent/manifest.(json|yaml)
- apply: posts manifest to Kagent using KAGENT_URL/KAGENT_TOKEN (when youre ready)
- Manifest validation (no surprises)
- llm-platform/frontend/scripts/validate-manifest.ts
- Fails on: missing network, duplicate service names, missing images, unpinned tags
(no latest), invalid/duplicate ports, invalid replicas
- Wired into CI after dry-run to catch issues early
- Expanded Kagent template (Orbstack-ready)
- llm-platform/infrastructure/kagent/services.template.yaml
- Core: agent-protocol (3005), agent-router (3010)
- Agent runtime: agent-brain (3011), agent-chat (3012), agent-mesh (3013), agentic-
flows (3014)
- Observability: agent-tracer (3030)
- Platform: compliance-engine (3020), workflow-engine (3021), foundation-bridge
(3022), doc-engine (3023), rfp-automation (3024), studio-ui (8080)
- Optional: agent-docker (3050)
- Env placeholders for OTEL, protocol URLs; internal DNS between services
- Frontend scripts to run from DDEV
- llm-platform/frontend/package.json
- images:lock, platform:orchestrate:dry, platform:orchestrate, manifest:validate
- ddev helper: .ddev/commands/host/frontend
- ddev frontend images:lock
- ddev frontend platform:orchestrate:dry
- CI (no deploy yet)
- llm-platform/.gitlab-ci.yml
- platform:images-lock job:
- npm ci (frontend)
- images:lock (with IMAGE_TAG_DEFAULT defaulting to v0.2.0)
- platform:orchestrate:dry + manifest:validate
- artifacts: images.lock.json, dist/kagent
- platform:apply job:
- manual, main/tag only, runs frontend platform:orchestrate
- stays idle until youre ready to push to cluster
- GitLab variables via API (reading ~/.tokens)
- llm-platform/frontend/scripts/gitlab-variables.ts
- Reads ~/.tokens (GITLAB_API_TOKEN/GITLAB_TOKEN, GITLAB_NPM_TOKEN, KAGENT_TOKEN)
- Upserts group variables in GitLab via API
- Usage:
- npm ci --prefix llm-platform/frontend
- GROUP=llm tsx llm-platform/frontend/scripts/gitlab-variables.ts
- Optional --file frontend/gitlab.variables.json for bulk vars
How to use locally (no cluster push)
- Install frontend deps:
- npm ci --prefix llm-platform/frontend
- Generate lock + manifests:
- IMAGE_TAG_DEFAULT=v0.2.0 npm run images:lock --prefix llm-platform/frontend
- npm run platform:orchestrate:dry --prefix llm-platform/frontend
- npm run manifest:validate --prefix llm-platform/frontend
- DDEV shortcuts:
- ddev frontend images:lock
- ddev frontend platform:orchestrate:dry
- Set group variables from ~/.tokens:
- GROUP=llm tsx llm-platform/frontend/scripts/gitlab-variables.ts
Why this compounds impact
- Reliable manifests and pinned images mean repeatable orchestrations (no latest).
- Lock/dry-run + validation catch issues before any deployment.
- When ready, a single manual job can apply manifests into Kagent with protected variables.
- Template expresses the entire stack; lock lets you quickly spawn variant stacks by
overriding tags per service via env (TAG_agent-router, etc.).
Next highimpact step (optional just say go)
- Protected platform:apply gating policy and profiles:
- Add a profile env (e.g., PROFILE=minimal/full) to include/exclude optional services
during lock.
- Add CI gates to ensure images.lock.json contains only allowed registries and semver
patterns.
- Efficiency hooks (token/time):
- Introduce an optional TOKEN_BUDGET env in services.template.yaml that propagates via
lock into manifests (no code changes to services; they can read the env).
- Add concurrency/replicas hints for agent-router and agent-brain based on PROFILE to
balance cost/perf (still config-only).
- Observability bootstrap (no bash):
- Add otel-collector/loki/grafana Node-rendered configs under llm-platform/
infrastructure/observability and wire endpoints (disabled until vars provided).
- When you signal, Ill wire the protected apply job and a profiled lock to spin up
optimized stacks of agents that do the work faster and cheaper still without touching your
Drupal modules/themes or creating new repos.