My model server kept 403ing because the token lived in the wrong field ↗
I migrated machine secrets to 1Password and purged local token files. Then my vLLM model server crashed on a cached model because of how it checked for access.
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I run urgent care clinics and build the AI that runs them. Engineering notes, clinic build logs, and things I learned the hard way.
Reading a service token from /proc came back empty ↗
A caller script tried to scrape a conductor bearer token from /proc/PID/environ. The process was healthy, but the file was empty. Why startup snapshots are not ground truth.
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