From 0ea8390e96dc2e90011b8f576468b8222ab7c3d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alexion <contact@alexion.dev>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:21:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(actualbudget): preserve migrated data path

---
 AGENTS.md                 | 2 ++
 guests/actualbudget.nix   | 2 +-
 hosts/pikachu/default.nix | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index fa09456..6fcf69c 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ The domain model (Host, Module, Skeleton, Auto-loader, Enable convention, overla
 
 ## Gotchas
 
+- Actual Budget's NixOS service runs `actual-server` with `WorkingDirectory = services.actual.settings.dataDir`, and `actual-server` prefers a `config.json` in that current directory over `ACTUAL_CONFIG_PATH`.
+  When migrating old community-script state, either preserve the old in-guest data path or remove/update the copied `config.json`, otherwise stale absolute paths such as `/opt/actualbudget-data/server-files` override the declarative module settings.
 - Subagent completion delivery is non-blocking through immediate spawn, milestone notifications, retained terminal entries, and `subagent_list` or `subagent_result` retrieval.
   `subagent_wait` intentionally blocks the parent tool call until its condition or timeout, so do not use it merely to keep background work alive during an interactive workflow.
 - Nixvim's flake input following the root nixpkgs source does not make its Home Manager module reuse the host's `pkgs` instance.
diff --git a/guests/actualbudget.nix b/guests/actualbudget.nix
index 24da98a..2f5a2cc 100644
--- a/guests/actualbudget.nix
+++ b/guests/actualbudget.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ my.guest {
       group = "storage";
       settings = {
         port = 5006;
-        dataDir = "/var/lib/actual";
+        dataDir = "/opt/actualbudget-data";
       };
     };
   };
diff --git a/hosts/pikachu/default.nix b/hosts/pikachu/default.nix
index fd7b355..a1de406a 100644
--- a/hosts/pikachu/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/pikachu/default.nix
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
     autoStart = false;
     vlan = 20;
     mac = "BC:24:11:C1:CD:28";
-    mounts."/var/lib/actual".hostPath = "/pikachu/data/actualbudget";
+    mounts."/opt/actualbudget-data".hostPath = "/pikachu/data/actualbudget";
     limits = {
       memory = "2G";
       cpu = "200%";