Build Environment Contingency Prioritized

December 31, 2025 at 1:23 AMstrategycritical

Situation

Aligned with Nathan that his top priority is secretly building a full build environment (Koji, Pungie) to create a concrete recovery plan in response to potential RESF sabotage threat.

Reasoning

Credible sabotage threat exists - Neil and Lewis have plan to encrypt infrastructure, change keys, and lock out CIQ. This is an existential threat requiring concrete contingency planning. Need to define clear recovery timeline and resources to inform Greg and RESF. Environment being built with Ansible scripts and AI tools to be repeatable.

Additional Context

Koji is running locally; next step is deploying to private EC2. Package signing and Secure Boot keys are secured via Atomic Quark. Plan to use OpenELA sources first to support partners, then switch to RDSF method if needed. Nathan also mirroring public Mattermost channels to secure historical data.

People Involved

Nathan Blackham, Jonathan Dieter

Source

reflection

AI Confidence

87%

Related Context

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Nathan <> Peter Weekly 1:1

fathom

Nathan is secretly building a full build environment to create a concrete recovery plan. Goal is enable full recovery within two weeks if sabotage occurs.

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Peter Weekly 1:1 with Max

fathom

Nathan is mirroring all RESF infrastructure to a private Koji instance to mitigate a credible sabotage threat from Neil and Lewis.

Outcome

★★★★(4/5)

Partially successful - progress made but not yet complete

Recorded on January 12, 2026

Decision ID: e3678bed-d637-47b9-b294-9de526697ed4