# AGENTS.md

This file provides guidance to coding agents (Claude Code and others) when working with code in this repository. (Claude Code reads it via the `CLAUDE.md` symlink.)

Browser-based StartOS 0.4 package controlling a dual NVIDIA DGX Spark AI cluster: one-click vLLM model swaps, plus health, proxying, and APIs for speech (STT/diarization/TTS), embeddings, and redaction.

Subsystem guidance lives in `docs/guides/` and loads when matching files are touched (Claude Code lazy-loads via `.claude/rules/` symlinks; other agents read the guides directly): `startos-package.md` (build/versioning, `package/**`), `fastapi-image.md` (dev server/env/layout, `image/**`), `redaction.md` (vendoring + test gates), `audio-speech.md` (parakeet patches, cluster-container footguns, audio testing). **Read `docs/guides/audio-speech.md` before touching the Sparks' containers over SSH** — ops sessions don't trip the path scoping.

## Stack

- Two halves, always coordinated:
  - `image/` — standalone FastAPI app (Python ≥3.11; UI on port 9999; vanilla HTML/CSS/JS).
  - `package/` — StartOS 0.4 wrapper (TypeScript) that ships the Docker image as an s9pk.
- Build host needs `start-cli`, Node ≥22 + npm, and Docker.
- Cluster runtimes live **on the Sparks, not in this repo** (`spark-vllm-docker`, the parakeet/kokoro/embeddings containers). This repo is the controller; it reaches them over SSH + HTTP.
- Sparks are ARM64 (GB10 Grace-Blackwell, sm_121, CUDA 13). Services: vLLM `:8888` (Spark 1); `parakeet-asr` `:8000`, Kokoro TTS `:8880`, bge-m3 embeddings + Qdrant (Spark 2). See `docs/` for API contracts.

## Commands (headlines — details in the scoped rules)

```bash
(cd package && make x86)                                  # build the s9pk; make install sideloads (restarts live service — ask first)
(cd image && uvicorn app.server:app --port 9999)          # local dev — needs env vars, see fastapi-image rule
(cd image && .venv/bin/python -m app.redaction.test_gateway)      # offline redaction suite 1
(cd image && .venv/bin/python app/redaction/test_scrub_leak.py)   # offline redaction suite 2
./scripts/test-audio-with-speakers.sh <audio-file>        # e2e audio — hits the LIVE cluster
```

## Layout

- `image/app/` — FastAPI app (`server.py` entry, routers in sibling modules, `static/` dashboard UI).
- `package/startos/` — StartOS manifest, interfaces, actions, version + release notes.
- `docs/` — `AUDIO_API.md`, `EMBEDDINGS.md`, `REDACTION_GATEWAY.md` (consumer-facing API refs; update with API changes).
- `README.md` (overview), `HANDOFF.md` (fresh-user install guide), `runbook.md` (ops notes), `known-issues.md`, `ROADMAP.md` (longer-term backlog — items move into "Current state" below when picked up).

## Conventions

- Every shipped change = version bump + release notes + rebuilt s9pk (version format `X.Y.Z:N`; details in the startos-package rule).
- Commit messages: `vX.Y.Z:N - short lowercase summary`. **Never add a Co-Authored-By / Claude attribution trailer.**
- The package owner is non-technical: explain infra effects in plain English and get an explicit go/no-go before mutating the cluster.
- New external-facing endpoints get documented in `docs/` and noted in release notes for downstream app developers (Recap Relay, Ten31 Transcripts, CRM, Signal Engine consume these APIs).
- Doc layout: `AGENTS.md` is the canonical file; `CLAUDE.md` is a symlink to it (don't overwrite it). Subsystem guides are real files in `docs/guides/<topic>.md` (with `paths:` frontmatter); `.claude/rules/<topic>.md` are relative symlinks into them. A new guide = add `docs/guides/<topic>.md`, symlink it from `.claude/rules/`, and add an index line above.

## Always / Never (cluster-wide)

- **Always** confirm with the user before swap/stop/restart of anything on the live cluster. Read-only probes and dry-runs are fine without asking.
- **Always** use the Spark's **IP** for HTTP probes — `.local` mDNS names can resolve IPv6-first and hang httpx (vLLM and friends bind IPv4 only). Never trust `.local` hostnames inside HTTP client code.
- **Always** pass `SSH_KEY_PATH` / `-i <key>` explicitly in scripted SSH; non-interactive shells have no ssh-agent identities.
- **Never** route audio or transcripts to cloud services — speech stays on the LAN. (Scrubbed text via `/scrub` is the only sanctioned path toward frontier models.)
- **Never** commit owner-specific hostnames, IPs, usernames, or names into package strings, UI text, or docs — this package gets shared; use placeholders. Canonical set: `<spark-1-ip>` / `<spark-2-ip>`, `<spark-1-host>` / `<spark-2-host>`, `<spark-user>`, and generic example names (`Alice`/`Bob`).
- **Never** install `cuda-python` in `parakeet-asr` — crashes real decode on this GPU/CUDA-13 stack; full story in the audio-speech rule.

## Current state

- **Working (v0.18.0:0, installed and serving):** swap dashboard; chat / transcribe / diarize(+chunk) / TTS proxies; embeddings + rerank + hybrid search (Qdrant); `/scrub` + `/rehydrate`; label-merge incl. dual-channel mode. Spark 2 audio stack is healthy (11k+ requests/12h, all 200).
- **In progress — Signal Engine "flakiness":** diagnosed, not a server bug — transient 1–4s unresponsiveness while the single GPU is continuously busy. Remedy is client-side; a drafted message (in-flight cap 2, hard ceiling 3 global across audio endpoints, retry-with-backoff on timeout/503) is with the owner to forward to that dev.
- **Decided, not implemented:** remote access stays WireGuard/Tailscale split-tunnel — no public interface, so no API auth built; an empirical concurrency sweep is offered but needs the owner's explicit OK in a quiet window. **Revisit (full-eval 2026-06-12):** the "LAN-only, so no auth" call is now load-bearing against RCE — unquoted user input reaches the SSH shell on several endpoints, so the network boundary is the *only* thing preventing cluster takeover. Quoting the injection sinks (work queue) is needed regardless of the auth decision; a defense-in-depth auth/CSRF gate is the follow-on.
- **Known limits:** `/health` blips while the GPU is busy (mitigated client-side); dual-channel can miss a quiet local word under loud remote bleed; the connectivity log misses sub-5s outages between 5s polls; diarizer caps at 4 speakers.
- **Portability:** working tree + **full git history** scrubbed 2026-06-12 — all owner-specific IPs/hostnames/usernames/names replaced with placeholders; `claude-code-starter-prompt.md` deleted (old build-time prompt). Real cluster values live only in StartOS install config, shell env vars, and the gitignored `settings.local.json`. History was rewritten with `git filter-repo` (every commit SHA changed; force-pushed to `gitea`); a token sweep across all refs now returns 0 for every owner-specific value, including three LAN IPs + one Start9 address the original working-tree scrub had missed. Backup bundle of the pre-rewrite history is at `../spark-control-prehistory-rewrite.bundle`. **Still owner-side:** the `<ssh-key>` SSH key was leaked by *name* only (not material) — rotate it if it's still authorized on the Sparks.
- **Repo wart:** commit `8d839e3` (was `367d986` before the 2026-06-12 history rewrite) is labeled `v0.13.0:4` but actually contains everything through v0.18.0:0 — per-version commits for v0.14–v0.18 are missing. Keep commit messages accurate going forward.
- **Hosting:** repo pushes to the owner's self-hosted Gitea — remote `gitea`, branch `master`, over SSH (host alias + key live in the local `~/.ssh/config`; no owner-specific details belong in the repo). Push there after committing.
- **Next (pre-eval backlog):** (1) owner forwards the concurrency note to the Signal Engine dev; (2) run the concurrency sweep if the dev wants the measured knee; (3) add the `--memory` cap to parakeet-asr via the Reapply-patches action; (4) pick the next item from ROADMAP.md.

### Full-eval triage (2026-06-12)

Source: `EVALUATION.md` at repo root (full evidence, file:line pointers, scorecard). Findings triaged below; do these before the pre-eval backlog above where they overlap.

**Work queue — P0/P1, fix before sharing the package wider:**
1. ~~**[P0] Shell-quote/validate every user value crossing into SSH**~~ — **DONE (code, 2026-06-12; not yet shipped).** New `image/app/shellsafe.py` (`validate_repo`/`validate_image`/`validate_container` whitelists + `quote_arg`/`quote_args`). Boundary validation added to `POST /api/models` (repo) and `POST /api/nim/install` (image+container); `shlex.quote` applied at every SSH sink — `models.build_launch_command` (repo+args, covers `vllm_args`+knobs), `download._do` (repo), `nim._do` (image/container/volume/port/env), `services.docker_state`+`run_action` (container). Verified: injection survives only as a single quoted token, vLLM preflight `shlex.split` round-trip intact, both redaction suites still pass. Side-benefit: NGC key now `shlex.quote`'d in `nim._do` (was single-quoted) — closes the quote-breakout half of the P2 NGC-key item; the process-list-exposure half remains. **Ship step pending:** version bump + release notes + rebuilt s9pk.
2. ~~**[P0] Decide the git-history question**~~ — **DONE (2026-06-12).** Chose to rewrite. `git filter-repo --replace-text --replace-message` mapped every owner-specific value to its canonical placeholder across all commits + tags + messages (incl. three LAN IPs and one Start9 address the working-tree scrub missed — the Start9 address was still live in HEAD at `docs/AUDIO_API.md`). Verified 0 hits across all refs; force-pushed to `gitea`. Pre-rewrite backup bundle kept at `../spark-control-prehistory-rewrite.bundle`. **Owner follow-up:** rotate the `<ssh-key>` SSH key if still authorized on the Sparks (only its name leaked, not the key).
3. ~~**[P1] Defense-in-depth gate on mutating endpoints**~~ — **DONE (code, 2026-06-12; not yet shipped).** `csrf_guard` HTTP middleware in `server.py` rejects state-changing requests whose `Origin`/`Referer` hostname ≠ the served host. Scoped to control endpoints; the programmatic API surface is exempt (`/v1/*`, `/scrub`, `/rehydrate`, `/api/search`, `/api/audio/`, `/api/health-event`) so downstream consumers are unaffected. No app-layer token auth (deliberate — would break consumers + the non-technical owner). Verified via TestClient: cross-origin control POST→403, same-origin/no-Origin→pass, exempt prefixes always pass, GET never blocked. **Verify on-box:** confirm the StartOS reverse proxy passes `Host`/`Origin` so the dashboard isn't false-positive-blocked.
4. ~~**[P1] Validate the Qdrant `collection`**~~ — **DONE (code, 2026-06-12; not yet shipped).** `_safe_collection` whitelist (`[A-Za-z0-9._-]`, rejects `..`) + URL-encoded path segment in `embeddings_proxy.py`. The raw `filter` is left as a passthrough (Qdrant parses it; pydantic enforces `dict`) — locking it to an allowlist would break hybrid-search consumers; the path segment was the real injection vector.

**Shipping (all of #1/#3/#4 batched):** SHIPPED 2026-06-12 — version `0.18.0:1`→`0.19.0:0`, release notes in `versions/v0_1_0.ts`, s9pk rebuilt (`make x86`) and sideloaded to the live Start9 server (`make install`). Committed as `1c4e861` (its SHA after the same-day history rewrite) and force-pushed to `gitea`. **On-box check still pending:** click a control action (swap / service stop) to confirm the new CSRF guard doesn't false-positive-block the dashboard behind the StartOS proxy.

**Known debt — P2, track but not blocking:**
- Test coverage is redaction-only; swap state machine, proxies, SSH wrapper, and the package have zero automated tests. Live-cluster paths (swap exec, audio, embeddings/search) couldn't be exercised at all — biggest blind spot.
- Loose dependency floors permit vulnerable `python-multipart`/`starlette` (DoS CVEs) on rebuild; no lockfile; no upload size caps (`pyproject.toml:6-13`).
- StartOS registry blockers (only if pursuing the registry): source not public + `packageRepo`/`upstreamRepo` are `example.com` placeholders (`manifest/index.ts:12-13`).
- Opaque HTTP 500 on `POST /api/models` / `PUT /knobs` when `MODELS_OVERRIDES` unset in dev (write to read-only `/data`) — catch the `OSError`.
- NGC API key inlined single-quoted into a remote shell command (`nim.py:147`) — pass via stdin/env.
- Global mutable `catalog` reassigned via `global`, shared across async requests with no snapshot (`server.py:107`) — latent race as concurrency grows.
- Container runs uvicorn as **root** bound to `0.0.0.0:9999` (no `USER` in Dockerfile) — amplifies any RCE blast radius.

**Parked — P3+, do in bulk when next touching docs/packaging:**
- README Status block stale (`v0.2.3 / 0.13.0:4` → v0.18.0:1, undercounts features); deprecated `@app.on_event` + hardcoded `app.version="0.1.0"`; `NimInstallBody.register` shadows `BaseModel` (rename → `register_service`); httpx class names leak into TTS/speech-models error text; one unescaped `innerHTML` sink (`app.js:177`) + `task_id` reflected in scrub JSON.
- Packaging cosmetics: `marketingUrl` placeholder; broken `instructions.md` source link; per-service SSH users (`parakeet_user` etc.) absent from the Configure-Sparks action inputSpec (silent default-empty); `Makefile` builds only x86 though manifest declares `aarch64`; release notes describe the scrub, not capabilities.
- Hardening misc: no body/upload size limits on `/v1/audio/*`, `/v1/chat/completions`, `/scrub`; `int(_env(...))` startup crash on bad `VLLM_PORT`; upstream error text echoed to clients.