• LIC — exported live binding (ESM)
• setupLicenseMiddleware(app) — registers activation gate + Pro
feature gates (must run before any
/api/* route)
• setupLicenseRoutes(app) — /api/license-status, /api/license/
activate, /api/license/deactivate
• startLicenseRefresh() — startup + 6h periodic online check
• refreshLicenseOnline(reason) — ad-hoc refresh (e.g., during activate)
• isFreeUser() — 'no license || no core entitlement'
• tryAcquireFreeSlot() / releaseFreeSlot() — the free-tier concurrency
lock previously open-coded
in /api/process
Local 'const isFreeUser = ...' in /api/process renamed to 'isFree' to
avoid shadowing the imported helper. Open-coded freeJobInFlight reads/
writes replaced with the slot helpers.
server/index.js: 2461 → 2300 lines.
Smoke tested: server boots; /api/license-status, /api/health, /api/
process (rejects with 400 'No API key' as expected for unlicensed +
no key) all behave as before.
• initConfig({ dataDir }) — boot-time setup; mkdir's configDir,
reads initial value, kicks off the
3 s poll loop
• serverApiKey — exported as a 'let' binding (ESM
live binding) so importers see the
current value
• resolveApiKey(clientKey) — picks per-request key (BYO vs
server)
• getEnvPath() — exposes /data/.env path so the
cookies module can read its own
legacy YT_COOKIES_FROM setting
Bug fix uncovered during this extraction: /api/health was directly
referencing ytCookiesFileExists / ytCookiesFilePath (module-scoped
vars I'd already moved to cookies.js). The route silently 500'd on the
first request after the cookies extraction. Now uses ytCookieMethod()
and getCookieFilePath() instead.
server/index.js: 2510 → 2461 lines.
Smoke tested: server boots; /api/health responds; updating
/data/config/startos-config.json flips hasServerKey from false → true
within 3 s ([config] server API key loaded log line confirms).
• initCookies({ dataDir, envPath }) — boot-time setup; reads .env's
YT_COOKIES_FROM and probes for
cookies.txt
• ytCookieArgs() / ytExtraArgs() — yt-dlp arg builders
• ytCookieMethod() — human-readable active method
• setupCookieRoutes(app) — registers the four /api/cookies/*
routes (upload / delete / test /
status)
Module owns its private state (browser-name, file-exists, file-path).
Upload and delete routes flip the file-exists flag inside the same
module, so subsequent yt-dlp calls reflect the change immediately
without callers re-reading.
server/index.js: 2614 → 2510 lines.
Smoke tested: server boots; /api/license-status and /api/health
respond. /api/cookies/status returns the existing license-gated 402
for unlicensed callers (unchanged behavior).
• getAudioDuration(path) — ffprobe wrapper, returns seconds | null
• splitAudioFile(in, dir, secs) — ffmpeg -acodec copy chunking
• downloadPodcastAudio(url, dst) — streams HTTP audio to disk
Also moved fetchUrl into util.js (alongside the other stateless
helpers) — it's a generic HTTP-GET-with-redirects used by RSS parsing
and channel discovery, not strictly audio.
server/index.js: 2758 → 2694 lines.
Smoke tested: server boots; /api/license-status, /api/health, /
respond. No behavior change.
• PRICING table — per-1M-token rates by model
• calcCost(model, usage) — Gemini usage object → cost record
• buildAnalysisPrompt(...) — JSON-output topic-analysis prompt
These all share the Gemini contract — pricing schema, usage shape, and
prompt format. When we add other providers, each gets its own
provider-specific helpers file; this becomes the basis of the Gemini
provider implementation.
server/index.js: 2828 → 2758 lines.
Smoke tested: server boots; /api/license-status, /api/health, and /
(frontend) all respond. No behavior change.
Two related changes that ship together because the second was uncovered
while testing the first.
1. Live config reload (the ostensible feature):
The "Set Gemini API Key" StartOS action writes to /data/config/
startos-config.json. The server used to read that file once at
startup (and via a separate Python read in docker_entrypoint.sh
before that), which meant a key change required a service restart
to take effect. Now the server polls the file every 3 s
(RECAP_CONFIG_POLL_MS, env-overridable) and updates serverApiKey
in place. fs.watch was tried first and dropped — it's flaky on
macOS (FSEvents single-file quirks) and behaves inconsistently with
atomic-rename writes the SDK file model uses. Polling is dead
simple and a stat call every 3 s is free.
Also dropped the Python config read from docker_entrypoint.sh; the
server now handles it natively. Entrypoint still loads /data/.env
for arbitrary env vars (RECAP_*, etc.).
2. Vendor module resolution (the silently-broken thing):
The earlier vendor change (move @keysat/licensing-client from a
git+https dep to a file: dep at vendor/) created a symlink in
server/node_modules. That symlink to the vendor dir was getting
resolved by Node, so the keysat client tried to import @noble/
ed25519 from /app/vendor/keysat-licensing-client/dist/, walked up
to /app/vendor/, then /app/, neither of which had node_modules.
Result: v0.2.0 and v0.2.1 would crash at startup with
ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND on @noble/ed25519. The Docker BUILD succeeded
because npm install with file: deps doesn't pull transitive deps
into the parent node_modules — but the runtime would have failed
the moment server/license.js ran.
Fix:
• Dockerfile builder now `npm install`s inside vendor/keysat-
licensing-client/ so @noble/* lands in its own node_modules,
where Node's resolver finds it.
• Dockerfile runner now COPYs vendor/ to the runner image
(previously not copied — the symlink in server/node_modules
would have pointed at nothing).
• vendor/keysat-licensing-client/package-lock.json is committed
so the in-Docker install is reproducible.
The product was always more than YouTube — it handles podcast feeds
too, and the upcoming multi-provider work makes it less Gemini-
specific. New name: Recap.
This is a coordinated identity change across:
• StartOS package id: youtube-summarizer → recap
(manifest.id; the .s9pk filename, Docker image namespace, and
install path under StartOS all derive from this automatically)
• Display name: "YouTube Summarizer" → "Recap"
(manifest title, activation screen heading, page <title>, console
log on boot, i18n strings, ABOUT.md, Dockerfile header,
docker_entrypoint banner)
• Keysat product slug: youtube-summarizer → recap
(server/license.js PRODUCT_SLUG; frontend fallback strings)
• Daemon subscription id: youtube-summarizer-sub → recap-sub
• Env var prefix: YT_SUMMARIZER_* → RECAP_*
(LICENSE_KEY, LICENSE_KEY_PATH, MAX_OFFLINE_DAYS,
VALIDATE_INTERVAL_MS)
• localStorage keys: yt-summarizer-* → recap-*
(gemini-key, activation-skipped, clips)
• Library export filename: youtube-summarizer-library.json →
recap-library.json
• npm package names: youtube-summarizer-{startos,server} → recap-*
• Deploy paths: youtube-summarizer_x86_64.s9pk → recap_x86_64.s9pk
(default values in bin/deploy.sh; .deploy.env on dev machine
needs the same update before next push)
• Self-hosted registry directory: startos-registry/packages/
youtube-summarizer → .../recap (with package.json + INSTRUCTIONS
rewritten)
What does NOT change:
• Filesystem repo path (still /Users/.../youtube-summarizer/)
• Git history / commit messages
• Existing version files in startos/versions/ (kept as-is — the
version chain belongs to the package's own history regardless of
its display name)
User-side follow-ups required:
1. Create "recap" product in Keysat admin, set up Core/Pro tier
policies (same entitlements as before), mint a fresh test
license. Old "youtube-summarizer" licenses won't activate
against the new slug.
2. Update .deploy.env (gitignored) so FILEBROWSER_PATH and
REGISTRY_PUBLIC_URL point at recap_x86_64.s9pk.
StartOS will treat this as a brand-new app on install — existing
youtube-summarizer installs will not auto-migrate (acknowledged
intentional given no real users yet).
The cost breakdowns (token counts + dollar figures) are tied to the
hardcoded Gemini PRICING table, which won't make sense once we add
OpenAI/Claude/local providers — different APIs report tokens
differently, some are free, and the pricing table can't keep up. Drop
the cost and token-count lines from the activity log so the per-step
timing is the durable signal we keep.
Removed:
• "Total cost: <in> in / <out> out — cost: $X" (chunked transcription)
• "Transcription tokens: <in>/<out> — cost: $X" (single-shot)
• "Analysis tokens: <in>/<out>/<thinking> — cost: $X"
• "Pipeline finished in Ns — total cost: $X (Y tokens)" → now just
"Pipeline finished in Ns"
Cost calculation helpers (calcCost, PRICING) stay in the codebase for
now — they may come back via a per-provider plugin layer later. They
just no longer write to the activity-log stream.
The previous free-tier commit (c0975fe) blocked USE_SERVER_KEY for
unlicensed users on the theory that this protected a "bundled key."
That conflated two different things:
• USE_SERVER_KEY = the user's OWN Gemini key, just stored server-side
via the StartOS configuration action (vs. browser localStorage).
Both paths are BYO — the user pays Google directly either way.
• Bundled key = a future relay where paid users' /api/process requests
are proxied through the operator's service and the operator absorbs
the API cost. Sketched in UPGRADE-DESIGN.md (deleted, in git history)
but NOT YET BUILT.
Blocking USE_SERVER_KEY broke a legitimate flow: a free user installs
the app on their own StartOS, sets their Gemini key via the config
action, then summarizes from the web UI without re-entering it.
This commit:
• Drops the BYO/USE_SERVER_KEY rejection in /api/process. Free users
can use a key from either path; the existing `if (!apiKey)` check
still catches the no-key-anywhere case with a helpful message.
• Reverts the frontend submit-button and handleSubmit checks to the
same key requirement for both tiers (state.apiKey OR state.hasServerKey).
• Drops "bundled API key" from the activation-screen subtitle and
"bring your own Gemini key" from the free-mode banner. Until the
relay is built, paid users still BYO too — promising otherwise in
upgrade copy is misleading.
• Keeps the parts that ARE legitimate free-vs-paid differentiators:
the one-at-a-time concurrency lock and skipping saveToHistory.
Also fixes the `make deploy` redundancy:
• bin/bump-version.sh accepts --from-deploy. When set, if there is no
.release-notes-pending.txt (consumed by a prior bump or never
written), exit 0 without prompting — the current version is already
fresh.
• Makefile passes --from-deploy from the deploy target. Standalone
`make bump` is unchanged (always prompts).
Result: `make bump` then `make deploy` no longer double-prompts. And
calling `make deploy` twice in a row (no new work) is idempotent on
the bump step.
Unlicensed users can now summarize a single video at a time using their
own Gemini API key. The result renders in the UI exactly like a paid
summary, but is not persisted — there's no library entry, no history,
and a second submission while one is in flight is rejected.
Server (server/index.js):
• /api/process is now in LICENSE_OPEN_PATHS. The route handler
distinguishes free users (state !== "licensed" || no "core") and:
- rejects USE_SERVER_KEY / empty key with 402 byo_key_required
(so the bundled Gemini key stays paid-only)
- rejects a second concurrent job with 409 processing_in_progress
via a module-level freeJobInFlight flag, released in finally
- skips saveToHistory so the host's library stays clean
• Pro feature gates (history/library/subscriptions) unchanged — still
return 402 feature_not_in_tier for unlicensed callers.
Frontend (public/index.html):
• New state.activationSkipped flag (persisted to localStorage). The
activation screen still appears on first launch, but now offers a
"Skip — use free mode" button alongside Activate / Buy a key.
Once skipped, the main app renders normally.
• Free-mode upgrade banner under the top bar with Upgrade and "I have
a key" buttons (the latter routes back to the activation screen).
• handleLibraryClick / handleSubscribeClick wrappers — for unlicensed
users, the library (clock) icon and the channel-URL Subscribe
submission show a toast explaining the upgrade rather than opening
an empty sidebar / hitting a 402.
• Submit button enforces BYO key for unlicensed users (the bundled
state.hasServerKey doesn't enable submit). handleSubmit shows a
toast when an unlicensed user tries to queue a second video.
Without this, a license revoked in the Keysat admin UI keeps unlocking
the app on the customer's machine — Ed25519 signatures are perpetually
valid, so the offline-only check never sees the revocation.
What this adds:
• license.js: validateOnline() calls licensing.keysat.xyz/v1/validate
via @keysat/licensing-client's Client. Hard rejections (revoked,
suspended, expired, not_found, product_mismatch, fingerprint_mismatch,
too_many_machines, invalid_state) immediately flip state to "invalid"
and persist the verdict to <license>.state.json so it survives
restarts. rate_limited and unknown reasons are treated as transient.
• Network errors keep the prior state for up to MAX_OFFLINE_DAYS
(default 7, env-overridable) since the last successful validate.
Past the ceiling, lock out with reason=validation_overdue. This
avoids breaking customers when Keysat is briefly down while still
catching revocations on machines that go offline forever.
• license.js: deactivate() helper that removes both license.txt and
its sidecar state file (idempotent). publicView() now exposes
lastValidatedAt, serverStatus, graceUntil for the UI.
• index.js: refreshLicenseOnline() runs on startup (async, non-
blocking), every 6h thereafter (env-overridable), and at activation
time with an 8s timeout cap so a slow Keysat doesn't hang the
activation UI. State changes are logged.
• index.js: /api/license/activate now awaits an online confirmation
after the offline signature check passes. A revoked key pasted into
the activation modal fails fast instead of working until the next
poll.
Snapshot of the working tree before cleanup. Captures:
- Keysat licensing: server/license.js, /api/license/* endpoints in
server/index.js, activation modal in public/index.html, embedded
Ed25519 issuer key (assets/issuer.pub).
- StartOS 0.4 expansion: setApiKey action, version files v0.1.1
through v0.1.15, file-models/config.json.ts, manifest updates.
- Self-hosted registry server (startos-registry/).
- Build/deploy scripts (bin/bump-version.sh, bin/deploy.sh, vendored
yt-dlp binary), .gitignore, .deploy.env.example.
- Recent design docs (KEYSAT_INTEGRATION.md, UPGRADE-DESIGN.md) —
retained here so they remain recoverable when removed in the
follow-up cleanup commit.
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