From 25f47ca899527ed2b16d19209c0546413e057126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Scholten
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:20:06 +1000
Subject: deploy: drop ineffective mkdir, document state-dir bootstrap

---
 README.md | 2 ++
 justfile  | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a8e8ec1..2550450 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -53,3 +53,5 @@ runs.jsonl         server run log; doubles as the RSS render source
 - Training stays on the local PC; the server only scores (low RAM).
 - Deploy `serve` only after a `train` run on enough organic stars shows an
   honest precision@15 in report.json; tiny validation sets lie.
+- Server state dir: `sudo install -d -o <user> -g <user> ~/fluxrec-data`
+  **before the first `compose up`** (Docker otherwise creates it as root).
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index 7cfa3aa..4ba4997 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -52,10 +52,9 @@ retrain: check-auth
 # SERVER is an ssh config alias; the agent does auth. No hostnames in this
 # file. Run `ship` only after eyeballing report.json — retrain never deploys.
 
-# Ship a freshly trained model.json to the server (compose mounts
-# ~/fluxrec-data at the container's state dir)
+# Ship a freshly trained model.json to the server state dir (bind-mounted
+# at /data; created once on the VPS: see README "Deployment")
 deploy SERVER:
-    ssh {{SERVER}} 'mkdir -p ~/fluxrec-data'
     scp model.json {{SERVER}}:~/fluxrec-data/
 
 # Bounce the serve container so it picks up the new model (fluxrec runs
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