Reframe wiki: drop tier 7 from Ralph; rename Fleet Deployment to Consumer-Mode Deployment
Two coordinated reframings of the integration documentation:
1. Drop "Tier 7" from the Ralph Loop page. The progressive tier
ladder (1-6) is meant to be additive — each tier builds on the
previous. Ralph doesn't fit that: it builds on Tier 4 (plugin)
only and operates orthogonally to Tiers 5 and 6. Calling it
Tier 7 implied a strict superset that doesn't exist.
- Page title: "Tier 7: Autonomous Drain — Ralph Loop" →
"Autonomous Drain — Ralph Loop"
- Prerequisites no longer carry tier numbers
- Integration-Guides.md split into two sections:
* "Progressive Tiers" (1-6, the additive ladder)
* "Specialized Patterns" (Ralph Loop, alternate operational
mode)
- Layering note rewritten to explain Ralph as alternate mode
rather than next tier
2. Reframe "Fleet Deployment" as "Consumer-Mode Deployment". The
doc covers Task Orchestrator's claim-mode consumer pattern,
which scales from a single Ralph loop to a multi-tenant fleet.
Framing it as fleet-only made it look inapplicable to single-
actor deployments — but the same identity-verification, claim-
ownership, and observability concerns apply at every scale.
- Page title: "Fleet Deployment Guide" → "Consumer-Mode
Deployment"
- URL preserved as fleet-deployment for link stability (40+
codebase references plus external links). Note at top of
page documents this.
- Intro rewritten to explain the two patterns (orchestrator
vs consumer) and the scale-agnostic primitives
- New "Scope and Audience" section maps deployment scale to
which sections to read (single Ralph → small team → fleet)
- Section intros and bodies broadened: "agents" → "workers"
where the noun applied to any consumer; "fleet" reserved
for sections explicitly addressing multi-worker scale
(Capacity Planning, etc.)
- "Operating a Live Fleet" → "Operating a Live Deployment"
with single-Ralph guidance interpolated
- Cross-references updated in Home.md, _Sidebar.md,
api-reference.md, workflow-guide.md, and the Ralph guide
itself — display text reads "Consumer-Mode Deployment" but
URL remains fleet-deployment
- workflow-guide.md "agent implementers" callout updated to
acknowledge Ralph as the bundled-plugin exception to the
"default mode only" framing
Codebase docs (current/docs/fleet-deployment.md, README, etc.)
are intentionally not touched in this commit. They are paired
project docs and can be reframed in a separate pass aligned with
a release cadence if desired.