boxmaker/CLAUDE.md

# CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

## Current state

Boxmaker is a sovereign personal agent harness written in Rust. There is no Rust code yet. Work
proceeds one milestone per session (M0 to M7, table in `docs/milestones.md`). M0 is done; check
for `AGENTS.md` and `Cargo.toml` to see whether M1 has started.

- `docs/design.md` is the binding design brief. If it looks wrong or conflicts with a measurement,
  stop and say so. Changes to it land as their own commit and are recorded in `docs/decisions.md`,
  which also lists proposed changes that are not yet applied.
- `docs/inference-contract.md` holds the M0 measurements from straylight. Where it and the brief
  disagree, the measurements are newer.
- `spike/` is throwaway measurement code, not harness code.

Roles: implementation is done by Laguna S 2.1 through OpenCode on straylight, which reads
`AGENTS.md`. Design, specs, measurement and review are done here. Write plans for Laguna as small
closed tasks: exact paths, given type signatures, verified crate APIs, tests specified first, and
"stop and report" instead of judgement calls. The model the harness serves is Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B.

The inference server is shared with other sessions. Before using Ornith slot 1 or sending unpinned
requests, check `GET /slots?model=ornith-1.5-35b-a3b` so you do not evict someone's cache.

## Commands (planned in M1, not yet present)

- `make gate` runs offline: `cargo fmt --check`, clippy with warnings denied, `cargo test`,
  `cargo-deny`, and a check that fails on any source file over 500 lines. Run it before calling
  any work done, and report the exit status and last lines.
- `make verify-device` runs the checks that need straylight, such as the baseline token budget.
- Single test: `cargo test -p <crate> <test_name>`.
- `bxctl` is the owner CLI (`bxctl chat` from M2, `bxctl reindex` from M5).

## Architecture in brief

Separate binaries in one Cargo workspace. Each role holds as little authority as possible:

- `loopd` owns sessions, prompt assembly and memory. It has no credentials and no network. Its
  only I/O is Unix sockets to `gatewayd`, `brokerd` and `inferproxy`.
- `brokerd` is the only place authority lives. It reads owner-written grants (it cannot write
  them), runs each approved tool call in a fresh rootless container, and writes a hash-chained
  JSONL audit log.
- `gatewayd` is the Mattermost channel. Outbound only, no listening port; approvals arrive as
  replies or reactions over the WebSocket.
- `inferproxy` is a ~100-line byte forwarder from a Unix socket to the shared `llama-server`
  router on the host. It is required, because `loopd` has no network.
- `proto` holds shared types. `toolkit` holds tool container entrypoints.

Structural rules that span crates:

- No crate depends on another role's crate. Crates depend only on `proto`.
- Authority is encoded in types. A tool can't run without a `Decision`. It is defined in
  `brokerd` with a private field and no `Deserialize`, so only the policy module can construct
  one (covered by a compile-fail test). `proto` carries a plain `DecisionRecord`.
- No source file over 500 lines.
- Files are the source of truth (`sessions/`, `memory/`, `grants/`, `audit/`). SQLite is only
  for rebuildable indexes and queues.

## Inference contract (the constraint most likely to be broken by accident)

Prompt processing on straylight is slow, and the hybrid-attention model can't partially rewind
its KV cache, so any change to an earlier byte of the prompt forces an expensive full re-read.

- Each turn's request must be a strict extension of the previous one. Volatile content (time,
  heartbeat notes, memory refreshes, recalled memory) goes only in the newest message, never in
  the system prompt or earlier history.
- Assistant messages are logged and replayed exactly as the server returned them, including
  `reasoning_content` and `tool_calls`.
- The `tools` array is fixed per epoch; changing it re-reads the whole prompt. Other tools are
  found with `find_tool` and called through the `call_tool` meta-tool. Never prompt the model to
  call an undeclared tool: the server's grammar forces the call into a declared one.
- Tool results are size-capped when first appended and never trimmed later.
- The baseline (system prompt, tool schemas, `memory/core.md`) stays at 3,000 tokens or less,
  measured with the server's tokenizer.
- Compaction happens only when the session is idle, and starts a new epoch
  (`sessions/<id>/<epoch>.jsonl`). Old logs are kept.
- Every request carries `id_slot`, and a session never changes slot. The server is shared, so
  slots are not reserved: a cold cache is a normal event that `loopd` logs, never an error.
- Streaming always, with `return_progress: true`. Timeouts are "no bytes for N seconds", never
  total deadlines, plus a longer limit for waiting on a busy slot or a model load.

## Working rules from the brief

- Verify every external crate API on docs.rs, and every llama-server or Mattermost request field
  against primary docs, before use. Crate names and server parameters in the brief come from
  memory and aren't verified. If you can't fetch the docs, say so; don't guess.
- Keep dependencies few. Justify each in `docs/dependencies.md`. Any outbound call must be listed
  in `docs/egress.md`. No telemetry and no update checks.
- If a feature isn't in the brief, propose it; don't build it. Stay inside the current
  milestone's scope.
- Write tests first. Make one logical change per commit. Never commit runtime data, secrets, or
  spike output that contains conversation content.