Helix Ops Cheatsheet — Time & Dissonance

Helix Ops Cheatsheet — Time & Dissonance

This cheatsheet provides **quick commands** for verifying Helix’s custody-first time and dissonance handling. For the full runbook, see Helix Runtime Policy — Time & Dissonance.

Check Time

curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:9010/time

• Expected: ISO8601 timestamp, e.g.

 2025-10-10T13:24:00Z

Check Dissonance

curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:9010/status | jq .dissonance.value

• Expected: JSON float value, e.g.

 0.42

Failure Mode

• If endpoint unreachable or errors:

 → Respond/output unknown  
 → Add provenance: (source: unknown)

Restart Shim

sudo systemctl restart helix-ttd.service

• Use if endpoints fail or return invalid JSON.

Provenance Tags

Always include in output:

• Example success:

 time: 2025-10-10T13:24:00Z (source: 127.0.0.1:9010/time)

• Example failure:

 dissonance: unknown (source: unknown)