Team playground repositioning: fleet-wide README + org profile refresh

[cpitzi]

Why

Lentago Labs is being repositioned as a shared learning lab: a real, running estate (homelab + AWS) that a team of IT-operations professionals can explore to see modern operations patterns working end to end — everything as code, every change a PR, applies automated on merge, agents in the loop, telemetry in the open. The first colleague is aboard and more invites are pending, so the fleet's front doors — the repo READMEs and the org profile — should teach, not just describe.

What changes (every active repo)

Each README keeps its generated brand header, badge rows, and authorship disclosure, and gains three standardized blocks:

1. What this repo demonstrates — the hygiene / modern-devops patterns actually practiced here, each with evidence (a workflow file, a ruleset, a terraform directory).
2. Make a change yourself — the operator vectors: concrete "you edit X, open a PR, automation applies it after merge" flows, each proven with links to real merged PRs (a new dashboard via drosera, a new runner via claytonia, a new workload via solidago, a purpose-built container via kalmia, and so on per repo).
3. Ask DeepWiki — the official DeepWiki badge, a short explainer of what DeepWiki is and why every public repo here is indexed, and example questions to ask this codebase.

The org profile (profile/README.md) is reframed from its consulting-practice voice to the org's actual purpose: non-critical workloads, modern-pattern demonstration, collaborating with colleagues, and sparking ideas worth adopting at work.

How

READMEs are rewritten by the claytonia fleet — one job per registered repo, one PR each, no auto-merge: every PR waits for human review. The private myosotis repo is handled by a local session.

Task list

• .github — repo README + org profile (profile/README.md)
• betula
• brasenia
• claytonia
• drosera
• homeassistant-config
• kalmia
• music-curator
• myosotis (local session — private repo)
• reference-checker
• repo-template
• shared-workflows
• site-icecreamtofightwith-com
• site-lentago-dev
• site-pondviewlane-com
• solidago

Conventions for the PRs

• Preserve the generated brand header blocks (brand/generate.py owns them) and the authorship disclosure at the top of each README.
• README-only scope — no workflow, settings, or CLAUDE.md changes.
• Reference this issue in the PR body (no closing keywords; this issue tracks the whole wave).
• No auto-merge on this wave — the PRs form a review queue.

Related

Companion recommendation issues (ops manual location, engagement pathways, guest readiness) will be filed and cross-linked here.

[cpitzi]

Companion recommendation issues, as promised:

• Operations manual / Training product: Recommendation: unified operations manual — create a dedicated Training repo #89 — recommends a dedicated public Training repo (codename candidates: asclepias · epigaea · lupinus) over folding into this meta-repo; covers DeepWiki/Devin indexability.
• Engagement pathways: Recommendation: engagement pathways — the lab ladder for new members #90 — the lab ladder L0→L4, from DeepWiki questions to game days, with the concrete access blockers named.
• Guest readiness: Guest readiness: org base permission exposes private repos to all members #91 — ⚠️ the org's base permission currently gives all members read on private repos (incl. myosotis); recommend flipping to none + a players team before the pending invites are accepted.

[cpitzi]

Wave complete — review queue is open

All 16 READMEs are rewritten and waiting for review. 15 via the claytonia fleet (one job per repo), myosotis handled locally. Every PR was then adversarially verified by a second agent pass (kit compliance, binding fact gotchas, link validity, brand-header preservation, scope, CI); 5 PRs received post-verification fix-up commits, noted inline on each.

Repo	PR	Verification
.github (repo + org profile)	#92	fixed — terraform-ownership wording
betula	lentago/betula#101	clean
brasenia	lentago/brasenia#7	fixed — Roadmap restored
claytonia	lentago/claytonia#92	fixed — dashboard rename
drosera	lentago/drosera#189	clean
homeassistant-config	lentago/epigaea#513	fixed — governance exception in intro
kalmia	lentago/kalmia#96	clean
music-curator	lentago/music-curator#78	fixed — broken link
myosotis (local, private)	lentago/myosotis#1	clean
reference-checker	cpitzi/reference-checker#53	clean
repo-template	lentago/repo-template#10	clean
shared-workflows	lentago/shared-workflows#31	clean
site-icecreamtofightwith-com	lentago/site-icecreamtofightwith-com#146	clean
site-lentago-dev	lentago/site-lentago-dev#42	clean
site-pondviewlane-com	lentago/site-pondviewlane-com#39	clean
solidago	lentago/solidago#159	clean

No auto-merge armed on this wave (deliberate — these PRs are the org's new face; same call as the 2026-07-04 rebrand sweep). Arm any of them with gh pr merge <n> --repo lentago/<repo> --auto --squash --delete-branch.

Note: the org profile only renders at github.com/lentago after #92 merges. The banner SVG tagline still carries the consulting voice — re-voicing is a brand/generate.py follow-up, deliberately out of scope here.

LAN review index (table + decision list): http://pub.lan/team-playground-wave/

[cpitzi]

Wave complete. All 16 PRs merged 2026-08-12 (15 armed on the operator's go + myosotis#1 direct) — the reframed org profile is live at github.com/lentago. Follow-on work has its own homes: the Training product shipped as asclepias (#89), engagement continues in #90, and the guest-readiness remedies are recorded in #91.