manna: written by the system's own hand each morning; Friday's double stands on Shabbat

Shemot 16: dvar yom b'yomo, and on the sixth day double, and none on the
seventh. Every night at 00:00Z the day's provision went stale and the
readiness probe failed until someone woke — 13.5 hours on 2026-10-15.
CronJob `manna` (deploy/k8s/manna-cronjob.yaml) runs at 00:01Z Sunday to
Friday in our own korban-processor image, mounts the manna PVC as the
app's uid, and writes today.json from the ConfigMap's MANNA_* amounts —
doubled on Friday, valid to Sunday 00:30Z. The pipeline now accepts
Friday's `double` on Saturday (validate_date/3) and nothing else across a
day boundary; three tests. The kohen sets the amounts, may still write by
hand, and reads a failed job as the Day-4 alarm (KOHEN "The manna, each
morning"; Tamid §1.1). Doorpost re-pinned. Elixir green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

KOHEN.md

@@ -625,7 +625,26 @@ counts move without a commit to the readings is the finding.
 
 ### Friday before sunset — *Erev Shabbat*
 
-Write a **double portion** manna provision (`type: "double"`, doubled compute_units). The system will cease processing at Shabbat onset. No provision is written on Shabbat.
+The manna CronJob writes Friday's provision as a **double portion**
+(`type: "double"`, doubled compute units and external calls, valid to
+Sunday 00:30Z); the pipeline accepts Friday's double on Saturday and
+nothing else across a day boundary. The system ceases processing at
+Shabbat onset. No provision is written on Shabbat — the CronJob does not
+run on Saturday.
+
+### The manna, each morning — *Dvar yom b'yomo*
+
+Since 2026-10-15 the day's provision is written by the system's own hand:
+CronJob `manna` (`deploy/k8s/manna-cronjob.yaml`) runs at 00:01Z Sunday
+to Friday, mounts the manna PVC and writes `today.json` with the amounts
+from `shorashim-config` (`MANNA_COMPUTE_UNITS` …). Before it, every night
+at 00:00Z the old provision went stale and the readiness probe failed
+until someone woke (13.5 hours on 2026-10-15). The kohen's acts now:
+
+- set the amounts in the ConfigMap (`kubectl apply -f deploy/k8s/configmap.yaml`);
+- read `kubectl -n shorashim get jobs` after 00:01Z — a failed job is the
+  Day-4 alarm; write by hand with `kubectl cp` (Day 4) if it failed;
+- run it at once when needed: `kubectl -n shorashim create job --from=cronjob/manna manna-now`.
 
 ### If the system halts
 

deploy/k8s/configmap.yaml

@@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ data:
   # Manna provision file location
   MANNA_PROVISION_FILE: "/var/lib/bikoret/manna/today.json"
 
+  # The day's portion, written by the manna CronJob at 00:01Z Sunday to
+  # Friday (manna-cronjob.yaml); Friday's is doubled and stands through
+  # Shabbat. The kohen sets the amounts here (Pekudei: from the half-shekel
+  # fund); a change takes effect at the next writing.
+  MANNA_COMPUTE_UNITS: "1000"
+  MANNA_MEMORY_MB: "32768"
+  MANNA_API_CALLS_EXTERNAL: "500"
+  MANNA_STORAGE_DELTA_MB: "100"
+  MANNA_SANHEDRIN_PANELS_MAX: "5"
+
   # Talmudic Engine socket
   TALMUDIC_SOCKET_PATH: "/tmp/bikoret/talmudic.sock"
 

deploy/k8s/manna-cronjob.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+# The manna — written each morning by the system's own hand (Shemot 16).
+#
+# Until 2026-10-15 the day's provision was written by the kohen with
+# `kubectl cp`, and every night at 00:00Z the old one went stale and the
+# readiness probe failed until someone woke (13.5 hours on 2026-10-15).
+# This CronJob writes today.json onto the manna PVC at 00:01Z, Sunday to
+# Friday — a double portion on Friday that is valid through Shabbat, and
+# nothing on Shabbat (Shemot 16:22–26: "on the sixth day they gathered
+# double … on the seventh day there shall be none"). The kohen still sets
+# the amounts (shorashim-config, MANNA_* below) and may still write a
+# provision by hand at any hour; the CronJob only ends the gap.
+#
+# It runs our own korban-processor image (python, pinned to a commit tag)
+# with the PVC mounted, as the app's uid/gid, so the file is readable by
+# the pod; nothing else, no cluster permissions. ReadWriteOnce is fine:
+# the cluster has one node and the job runs beside the pod.
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: CronJob
+metadata:
+  name: manna
+  namespace: shorashim
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: shorashim
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: manna
+spec:
+  schedule: "1 0 * * 0-5"          # 00:01Z, Sunday–Friday; none on Shabbat
+  timeZone: "Etc/UTC"
+  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
+  startingDeadlineSeconds: 3600    # a missed 00:01 still runs within the hour
+  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 3
+  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 3
+  jobTemplate:
+    spec:
+      backoffLimit: 2
+      template:
+        metadata:
+          labels:
+            app.kubernetes.io/name: shorashim
+            app.kubernetes.io/component: manna
+        spec:
+          restartPolicy: Never
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 1000
+            runAsGroup: 1000
+            fsGroup: 1000
+          imagePullSecrets:
+            - name: shorashim-registry
+          volumes:
+            - name: manna
+              persistentVolumeClaim:
+                claimName: manna-pvc
+          containers:
+            - name: write-manna
+              image: exo.container-registry.com/the-recognition-protocol/korban-processor:c0d0555a
+              imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
+              envFrom:
+                - configMapRef:
+                    name: shorashim-config
+              volumeMounts:
+                - name: manna
+                  mountPath: /var/lib/bikoret/manna
+              resources:
+                requests: { cpu: "20m", memory: "32Mi" }
+                limits: { cpu: "200m", memory: "128Mi" }
+              command: ["python3", "-c"]
+              args:
+                - |
+                  import json, os, datetime as dt
+                  now = dt.datetime.now(dt.timezone.utc)
+                  today = now.date()
+                  friday = today.weekday() == 4
+                  units = int(os.environ.get("MANNA_COMPUTE_UNITS", "1000"))
+                  provision = {
+                      "compute_units": units * (2 if friday else 1),
+                      "memory_mb": int(os.environ.get("MANNA_MEMORY_MB", "32768")),
+                      "api_calls_external": int(os.environ.get("MANNA_API_CALLS_EXTERNAL", "500")) * (2 if friday else 1),
+                      "storage_delta_mb": int(os.environ.get("MANNA_STORAGE_DELTA_MB", "100")),
+                      "sanhedrin_panels_max": int(os.environ.get("MANNA_SANHEDRIN_PANELS_MAX", "5")),
+                  }
+                  # Regular: through the day. Double (Friday): through Shabbat, to Sunday 00:30Z.
+                  expires = (dt.datetime.combine(today + dt.timedelta(days=2), dt.time(0, 30), dt.timezone.utc)
+                             if friday else dt.datetime.combine(today + dt.timedelta(days=1), dt.time(0, 30), dt.timezone.utc))
+                  doc = {
+                      "date": today.isoformat(),
+                      "provision": provision,
+                      "type": "double" if friday else "regular",
+                      "expires_at": expires.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),
+                      "written_by": "manna-cronjob",
+                      "written_at": now.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"),
+                  }
+                  path = os.environ.get("MANNA_PROVISION_FILE", "/var/lib/bikoret/manna/today.json")
+                  tmp = path + ".tmp"
+                  with open(tmp, "w") as fh:
+                      json.dump(doc, fh, indent=2)
+                  os.replace(tmp, path)
+                  print("manna written", doc["date"], doc["type"], "expires", doc["expires_at"])

specs/bikoret_tamid.md

@@ -365,6 +365,14 @@ Errors: as /courtyard/bedikah, with "side 'a': …" / "side 'b': …" in the
 message; a missing side is 422.
 ```
 
+**The manna is written by the system's own hand** (2026-10-15): CronJob
+`manna` at 00:01Z Sunday–Friday writes the day's provision onto the manna
+PVC from the ConfigMap's `MANNA_*` amounts; Friday's is a double portion
+that the pipeline accepts on Shabbat (Shemot 16:22–26); nothing is
+written on Shabbat, nothing else crosses a day boundary. The kohen sets
+the amounts and may still write by hand; a failed job is the Day-4 alarm
+(KOHEN "The manna, each morning").
+
 **The names that still carry the old word** (renamed 2026-10-13, PRD §0).
 Everything the specification, the code, the images and the API say is
 *Bikoret*: headers `X-Bikoret-*`, the `bikoret` object on a gate reply,

vav_pipeline/lib/vav_pipeline/doorpost.ex

@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Doorpost do
   # changes; the update is a deliberate operator commit. A bare
   # hash-update commit (without a corresponding spec change in the
   # same commit) is itself a drift signal.
-  @expected_hash "10735ab4e4280bf35d19d6ed79804c31d5ef199a70a289f455e138085e9cba5d"
+  @expected_hash "65bf08fc3c22307eb10ea6833ddeb475b1f6d87f145901e8d1b426c544c523be"
 
   @doc "Return the list of files that constitute the category-grade specification."
   @spec files() :: [String.t()]

vav_pipeline/lib/vav_pipeline/manna.ex

@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Manna do
   end
 
   defp validate_manna(data, now) do
-    with {:ok, date} <- validate_date(data["date"], now),
+    with {:ok, date} <- validate_date(data["date"], now, parse_type(data["type"])),
          {:ok, provision} <- validate_provision(data["provision"]),
          {:ok, expires_at} <- parse_expires_at(data["expires_at"]),
          :ok <- check_expiry(expires_at, now) do
@@ -269,15 +269,25 @@ defmodule VavPipeline.Manna do
     end
   end
 
-  defp validate_date(nil, _now), do: {:error, "MANNA_INVALID: missing date"}
+  defp validate_date(nil, _now, _type), do: {:error, "MANNA_INVALID: missing date"}
 
-  defp validate_date(date_str, now) do
+  # A provision is for its day — except the double portion: gathered on
-    today = DateTime.to_date(now) |> Date.to_iso8601()
+  # Friday, it is the Shabbat's too (Shemot 16:22–26), so Friday's
+  # `double` stands on Saturday. Nothing else carries over the boundary.
+  defp validate_date(date_str, now, type) do
+    today = DateTime.to_date(now)
+    today_str = Date.to_iso8601(today)
+    yesterday = Date.add(today, -1)
 
-    if date_str == today do
+    cond do
-      {:ok, date_str}
+      date_str == today_str ->
-    else
+        {:ok, date_str}
-      {:error, "MANNA_STALE: provision is for #{date_str}, today is #{today}"}
+
+      type == :double and Date.day_of_week(today) == 6 and date_str == Date.to_iso8601(yesterday) ->
+        {:ok, date_str}
+
+      true ->
+        {:error, "MANNA_STALE: provision is for #{date_str}, today is #{today_str}"}
     end
   end
 

vav_pipeline/test/manna_shabbat_test.exs

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+defmodule VavPipeline.MannaShabbatTest do
+  @moduledoc "Shemot 16:22–26: Friday's double portion is the Shabbat's too; nothing else crosses the day boundary."
+  use ExUnit.Case, async: false
+  alias VavPipeline.Manna
+
+  @friday ~D[2026-10-16]
+  @saturday ~D[2026-10-17]
+  @sunday ~D[2026-10-18]
+
+  defp write(date, type, expires) do
+    path = Manna.provision_file()
+    File.mkdir_p!(Path.dirname(path))
+    File.write!(path, Jason.encode!(%{"date" => Date.to_iso8601(date), "provision" => %{"compute_units" => 2000, "memory_mb" => 1, "api_calls_external" => 1, "storage_delta_mb" => 1, "sanhedrin_panels_max" => 1}, "type" => type, "expires_at" => expires, "written_by" => "test", "written_at" => "2026-10-16T00:01:00Z"}))
+    on_exit(fn -> File.rm(path) end)
+  end
+
+  defp at(date, h), do: DateTime.new!(date, Time.new!(h, 0, 0), "Etc/UTC")
+
+  test "Friday's double stands on Saturday" do
+    write(@friday, "double", "2026-10-18T00:30:00Z")
+    assert {:ok, %{type: :double}} = Manna.check_at(at(@friday, 12))
+    assert {:ok, %{type: :double}} = Manna.check_at(at(@saturday, 12))
+  end
+
+  test "a regular provision does not cross the boundary; a double does not reach Sunday" do
+    write(@friday, "regular", "2026-10-18T00:30:00Z")
+    assert {:error, "MANNA_STALE" <> _} = Manna.check_at(at(@saturday, 12))
+    write(@friday, "double", "2026-10-19T00:30:00Z")
+    assert {:error, "MANNA_STALE" <> _} = Manna.check_at(at(@sunday, 12))
+  end
+
+  test "a double written on a Thursday does not carry to Friday — only Shabbat receives it" do
+    write(~D[2026-10-15], "double", "2026-10-17T00:30:00Z")
+    assert {:error, "MANNA_STALE" <> _} = Manna.check_at(at(@friday, 12))
+  end
+end