docs: sops-nix secrets workflow

Operator runbook for adding a secret, adding a new host, and rotating
keys, plus a pointer from CLAUDE.md's architecture overview.
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│ ├── core.nix # system packages, locale, timezone
│ ├── network.nix
│ ├── nix.nix
│ ├── sops.nix # sops-nix decryption config, sops/age/ssh-to-age on PATH
│ └── users.nix
├── modules/ # custom NixOS option modules (my.profiles.*, my.hardware.*, my.services.*)
│ ├── environments/ # per-service/app profiles
@@ -43,10 +44,21 @@ flake.nix
└── machines/<name>/
├── configuration.nix # machine-specific NixOS settings
├── environments.nix # enables profiles via my.profiles.* / my.hardware.* options
├── secrets.nix # sops.secrets declared for this host
├── disks.nix
└── hardware-configuration.nix
```
### Secrets (sops-nix)
Secrets are encrypted with sops, decrypted per-host from that host's SSH host
key. `.sops.yaml` defines who can decrypt what; `secrets/<host>.yaml` holds
the encrypted values; `machines/<host>/secrets.nix` declares which secrets
that host exposes and consumes them via `config.sops.secrets.<name>.path`.
Always `git add` a secrets file before `nix build` — untracked files are
invisible to flake evaluation. Full workflow (adding a secret, adding a host,
rotating keys): see [`docs/secrets.md`](docs/secrets.md).
### Profile / Module Pattern
Every module under `modules/` follows the same structure: