NGARi Node Maintainer — competency requirements
NGARi Corps Workforce Competency Framework v1.0 (2026-10-02)

Keeps NGARi appliances healthy in the field: provisioned, patched, backed up, documented, and reachable when a site needs help.

A candidate meets this role when they hold the following levels against the framework. Every level is backed by evidence in the candidate's own record:

  C-HW-1   Appliance ownership and provisioning — Practitioner
           Own, flash, configure and place a NGARi appliance, and hand it over to someone who will use it without you.
  C-OPS-1  Node operations — Practitioner
           Load a model on your own node, run a metered call, and read the audit entry it wrote.
  C-AUD-1  Audit and evidence — Foundation
           Show a client, an auditor or a funder that a record cannot be quietly edited, and say plainly what that does and does not prove.
  C-COM-1  Scope, price and support a deployment — Foundation
           Scope a small on-premises deployment, price it against the published ladder, and write down what maintenance includes.

Evidence the framework accepts, per level: a timestamped attestation in the candidate's NGARi Corps record, a metered inference call on their own tenant, a paid appliance, or a NGARi-issued credential. Self-declared only, up to Practitioner; Verified requires a NGARi-issued credential.

Day to day:
  - Install and provision an appliance at a site, then hand it over.
  - Keep the runtime patched and the disk from filling up.
  - Verify the configuration backup restores, not just that it exists.
  - Read the audit trail when an owner asks what ran on their box.
  - Be the named person a site calls when it stops.

Framework and candidate verification: https://ngari.ai/corps/competencies
Machine-readable: https://ngari.ai/api/corps/competencies