Exitnode management API (uvicorn :8008). Always-on, systemd+wrapper. Watcher pair watches ~/prod/tools/clouds/. Python venv ha_tools. Hardening: base4. Legacy exitnode-api.service disabled (duplicate). Output file moved to /var/log/ha_exitnode/exitnode_last_output.txt (2026-03-16) — was previously in the watched directory, causing path watcher to restart the service on every create/destroy.