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Summary

Galactica's system agenix job stops at its existing passphrase-protected GPG/SSH secrets when launchd has no terminal. A manual activation prompted for that passphrase and installed the Kyber writer key, but the headless job kept exiting 1. This change gives only the writer key an independent root launchd job that decrypts its host-key-encrypted ciphertext and atomically installs a user-owned 0400 key file.

The existing GPG and Git SSH secret recipients are unchanged. The old agenix job remains responsible for those secrets; its headless passphrase issue is separate.

Before / after

Surface	Before	After
Writer key at boot	Shared agenix job stops on an earlier passphrase-protected secret.	A scoped RunAtLoad job decrypts only the writer ciphertext with Galactica's SSH host key.
Key installation	A manual agenix run creates a link into its RAM disk.	The job atomically replaces the key path with a regular file owned by the user at mode 0400.
Other secrets	Existing recipients and agenix service.	Same recipients and service.

Validation

• The final pushed head b7df630 includes current main. make build HOST=galactica and nix build --no-link .#checks.aarch64-darwin.eval-darwin-galactica passed on that head.
• Nix evaluation confirms the writer job runs at load, retries a failed decrypt with a 60-second throttle, logs failures, and stays outside the passphrase-dependent agenix secret set.
• The built job passed bash -n; nixfmt --check and git diff --check origin/main...HEAD passed. The first PR head passed six GitHub checks; checks for the final head are pending readback.
• Review follow-up: the three Cubic findings were addressed by updating the evaluation assertion, adding a launchd log, and retrying failures. Commit 98afb6d.

Activation and rollback

After review and merge, build/switch Galactica from the merged revision with local sudo. Read back the launchd job result, key owner/mode and regular-file type, then prove that pinned BatchMode SSH reaches Kyber's restricted command. The current key already authenticated after a manual agenix run; this PR needs a live headless activation readback to prove boot durability.

Rollback by reverting this daemon and restoring the writer's prior agenix mapping. Keep the restricted Kyber public key in place until a working writer identity has been verified, then remove it if the feature is retired.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved availability and access protection for a service credential during system startup.

The Galactica configuration removes the Kyber writer key from the age.secrets mapping. A launchd daemon now decrypts that key with the SSH host key and installs it at the configured identity path.

Changes: Galactica Kyber key setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Exclude the Kyber writer key from the secrets mapping named-hosts/galactica/default.nix	age.secrets omits keys/kyber-writer.age and retains only the file attribute for other secrets.
Decrypt and install the writer key named-hosts/galactica/default.nix	A launchd daemon runs at load. Its script decrypts the key using the SSH host key, sets the owner and mode to 0400, then moves it to the configured identity path. The script removes its temporary file if a command fails.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant launchd
  participant script
  participant age
  participant filesystem
  launchd->>script: Run daemon at load
  script->>age: Decrypt keys/kyber-writer.age using SSH host key
  age-->>script: Return decrypted key
  script->>filesystem: Set owner and mode 0400, then move key to identity path

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Possibly related PRs

• shunkakinoki/dotfiles#3222: It configures Kyber authorized keys and Galactica fleet SSH trust for the writer identity whose private key this PR installs.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 16d0e

Galactica's Kyber writer key is now installed by a dedicated root job instead of the shared secrets mapping. The repository's evaluation check still expects the old mapping, so flake checks can fail until the test is updated to assert the new job and key path. Separately, staging the temporary key in a root-owned directory is optional hardening, because the account already has full sudo. Update the evaluation check before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the change (a fix for the Galactica host that loads the Kyber writer key without a login passphrase). It matches the raw summary and the PR objectives, which describe a separate root l…
Description check		The description states the problem (the shared agenix job exits 1 under launchd without a terminal), the new scoped launchd job that decrypts only the Kyber writer key with the SSH host key, and the a…
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Documentation-only edits and deletions within survi…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the change (a fix for the Galactica host that loads the Kyber writer key without a login passphrase). It matches the raw summary and the PR objectives, which describe a separate root launchd job that installs the writer key headlessly. It is specific enough to be understood when scanning history.

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The description states the problem (the shared agenix job exits 1 under launchd without a terminal), the new scoped launchd job that decrypts only the Kyber writer key with the SSH host key, and the atomic 0400 key installation. It also covers validation, activation, and rollback. These details match the raw summary and PR objectives.

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<violation number="1" location="named-hosts/galactica/default.nix:36">
P2: Removing this secret makes the existing Darwin evaluation dereference a missing attribute. Update `tests/eval.nix` to assert the launchd daemon instead of the removed agenix mapping.</violation>
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Reviewed changes: Single-file config change in named-hosts/galactica/default.nix — removes kyber-writer from shared agenix secrets and adds an independent root launchd daemon that decrypts it using the host SSH key at boot time.

The PR correctly addresses the headless Kyber writer key loading problem. The writer key is removed from the shared agenix secrets map (which fails in headless mode due to passphrase-protected secrets) and instead decrypted independently via a root launchd daemon using the host's SSH host key (no passphrase needed). The daemon atomically installs the key with proper ownership and permissions. All validations passed.

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named-hosts/galactica/default.nix: 1

97-97: Trivial · Security & Privacy · Low value

Stage the decrypted key in a root-owned directory.

The job makes .ssh user-owned and mode 0700. The user can replace temp with a symlink. Shell redirection, GNU chown, and GNU chmod follow that symlink, so the root job can write to and change the ownership and mode of a selected root-owned file.

This is not a user-to-root escalation on Galactica because shunkakinoki already has NOPASSWD: ALL. Critical severity is not proportionate. For defense in depth, create temp in a root-owned, mode-0700 staging directory on the same filesystem, apply chown and chmod there, then move it into .ssh.

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Review comment at @named-hosts/galactica/default.nix at line 97:
Create a root-owned, mode-0700 staging directory on the same filesystem and
create temp there instead of in the user-owned .ssh directory. Apply ownership
and permissions to the staged key before moving it into the .ssh location
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Review comments at @named-hosts/galactica/default.nix:
- Line 36: Update the Galactica evaluation check that depends on the removed
keys/kyber-writer.age secret: replace its secret path, owner, and mode
assertions with checks for the new launchd job and its identity path.

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Review comments at @named-hosts/galactica/default.nix:
- Line 97: Create a root-owned, mode-0700 staging directory on the same
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Apply ownership and permissions to the staged key before moving it into the .ssh
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