Document the scheduler

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A6HeySA27EkGANZN95QySW

docs/code/cli.md

@@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ what is wrong if not, whether it is paired with a portal and reaching it, then
 every flow with its state, its node count and whether it has unpublished
 changes, and the last few runs and failures under them.
 
+A `resources` line names each machine the engine can run a node on and how much
+of it is in use, plus how many nodes are queued for one. It is absent on an
+engine that accounts for nothing.
+
 The portal reads one of three ways. `no portal` means this installation was
 never enrolled. `portal hub.fluksio.com` means the link is up. `portal
 unreachable` names the error, and is the one worth acting on — the dashboard is
@@ -278,6 +282,16 @@ kB of JSON still lists as a table; `Client.runs()` is where the whole value is
 read. `--local` reads the same history from an in-process engine, without one
 having to be served.
 
+### `fluksio flavors`
+
+```sh
+fluksio flavors
+```
+
+The named sizes a node can ask for — `@node(resources="gpu-small")` — with the
+cores, memory and cards each stands for. Editing them is the Workers screen or
+`POST /api/v1/flavors`; this is the read.
+
 ### `fluksio sweep`
 
 ```sh

docs/getting-started/data-science.md

@@ -299,16 +299,51 @@ threshold, a message on its way somewhere. Those share the engine's worker pool
 and are given a fair share of `FLOW_CPUS` as a thread cap, which is what stops
 several of them at once from each sizing to the whole box.
 
+### Ask for a size by name
+
+Cores and gigabytes are a property of the machines you have, and those change.
+A node that names a **flavor** keeps meaning something afterwards:
+
+```python
+@node(..., resources="gpu-small")
+def finetune(checkpoint):
+    ...
+
+@node(..., resources={"flavor": "medium", "duration_s": "2h"})
+def fit(dataset, lr, epochs=25):
+    ...
+```
+
+The flavor is read every time the node is built, so editing it changes what the
+next run gets. `fluksio flavors` lists them; the Workers screen edits them.
+
+`ram` takes `"2G"` and `duration_s` takes `"30m"`, and a flavor already says how
+much — pass one or the numbers, not both. `duration_s` is a statement about the
+node for whoever is planning around it, not a limit; the limit is `timeout`.
+
+### Where it runs
+
+This is one decision, not two. Of every machine attached — this engine and each
+worker — the node goes to one that can grant what it asked for and has it free.
+So a node asking for a card finds the box that has one, without naming it:
+
+```python
+@node(..., resources={"gpus": 1})          # wherever there is a card
+@node(..., device="gpu", resources="gpu-small")   # that box, and this much of it
+```
+
+If nothing attached can ever grant the ask, it is cut down to what is here and
+runs anyway — a flow written on a cluster still has to work on a laptop. If
+something *could* but is busy, the node waits and says so.
+
 Ask what is free, and what is waiting for it, at
-`GET /api/v1/workers/resources` — a node queued for cores looks exactly like a
+`GET /api/v1/workers/resources`, on the Workers screen, or in `fluksio status`.
-node that has hung unless you can see the queue.
 
 !!! note "Accounted, not enforced"
 
     Nothing stops a node that ignores its declaration; the numbers are
-    bookkeeping plus the environment its libraries read. Scheduling across
+    bookkeeping plus the environment its libraries read. Real enforcement —
-    several machines, named hardware flavours and real enforcement are the
+    cgroups, rlimits — is a next step, not this one.
-    next steps, not this one.
 
 ## Say which nodes make a flow
 

docs/reference/configuration.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Anything already exported wins over the file.
 | `FLOWS_DIR` | `$DATA_DIR/flows` | the git repository holding flows |
 | `SECRETS_FILE` | `$DATA_DIR/secrets.enc` | encrypted credentials, deliberately outside the repo |
 | `ALERTS_FILE` | `$DATA_DIR/alerts.json` | channels and rules |
+| `PROVISIONERS_FILE` | `$DATA_DIR/provisioners.json` | clusters a machine can be started from; absent means none |
 | `PANELS_FILE` | `$DATA_DIR/panels.json` | wall-panel pairings |
 | `OAUTH_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE` | `$DATA_DIR/oauth-key.pem` | signs agent and worker tokens |
 | `CLOUD_CONFIG_FILE` | `$DATA_DIR/cloud.json` | the portal enrolment, if any |
@@ -141,8 +142,14 @@ A node that declares nothing is not accounted against `FLOW_CPUS`; it runs on
 the shared pool and is given `FLOW_CPUS / FLOW_MAX_WORKERS` as a thread cap, so
 several at once cannot each size themselves to the whole machine. Setting
 `OMP_NUM_THREADS` (or any of its siblings) on the engine yourself overrides
-that default. What is free, and which nodes are queued for it, is
+that default.
-`GET /api/v1/workers/resources`. See
+
+These two are this machine's figures. An attached worker reports its own when
+it dials in, and a node goes to whichever machine can grant what it asked for —
+so a GPU on a worker needs no `FLOW_GPUS` here. What every machine has free, and
+which nodes are queued, is `GET /api/v1/workers/resources` and the Workers
+screen. Named sizes live in the database and are `GET /api/v1/flavors`;
+`PROVISIONERS_FILE` is where machines can be started from. See
 [declaring resources](../getting-started/data-science.md#declaring-what-a-node-needs).
 
 ## Agents