feat: docs/ carries the operator's how-to guides, a configuration reference and the architecture and telemetry explanations carved out of README.md, INSTALL.md, INSTALL-MCP.md and EVALS.md; the last two retired (#190)
Files changed: - .gitea/workflows/ci.yml - .gitignore - .vibe/hooks.toml - AGENTS.md - CHANGES.md - EVALS.md - INSTALL-MCP.md - INSTALL.md - README.md - VERSION - docs/dev/development.md - docs/explanation/README.md - docs/explanation/architecture.md - docs/explanation/language-boundaries.md - docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md - docs/how-to/README.md - docs/how-to/browse-with-obsidian.md - docs/how-to/capture-repository-docs.md - docs/how-to/export-guidelines.md - docs/how-to/ingest-a-source.md - docs/how-to/maintain-the-wiki.md - docs/how-to/query-the-wiki.md - docs/how-to/run-the-weekly-review.md - docs/how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md - docs/how-to/trace-and-score-sessions.md - docs/how-to/troubleshoot.md - docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md - docs/reference/README.md - docs/reference/commands/distribution-and-versioning.md - docs/reference/commands/instance-health.md - docs/reference/commands/raw-material-and-uploads.md - docs/reference/commands/telemetry.md - docs/reference/commands/types-instructions-and-docs.md - docs/reference/configuration.md - instructions/dev/dev-setup.md - instructions/dev/doc-pull-through.md - instructions/dev/stack-build/SKILL.md - instructions/dev/testing-conventions.md - instructions/dev/version-parts.md - instructions/setup-instance.md - instructions/upgrade-instance.md - reports/CONTRACT.md - tools/.coveragerc - tools/CONTRACT.md - tools/README.md - tools/chemenu/commands/dist_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/commands/docs_verify.py - tools/chemenu/commands/doctor.py - tools/chemenu/commands/eval_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/commands/git_publish.py - tools/chemenu/commands/upload_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/commands/version_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/evals/__init__.py - tools/chemenu/evals/scorecard.py - tools/chemenu/evals/trajectory.py - tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_dist_cmd.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_git_publish.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_instructions_shell.py - tools/chemenu/tests/test_pipeline_l0.py - tools/chemenu/toc.py Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SnAJ7Z3CpVD3PRbN73QtU2
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@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ jobs:
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# The artifact is downloadable from the run page, but the Actions
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# artifact REST endpoints report `total_count: 0` for it - v3 writes
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# through the older artifact API, which those endpoints do not read.
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# An empty list is not a failed upload. See EVALS.md § "How much of the
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# stack the suite reaches"; do not re-derive this.
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# An empty list is not a failed upload. See docs/dev/development.md
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# § "How much of the stack the suite reaches"; do not re-derive this.
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if: always()
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uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
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with:
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@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ jobs:
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tools/wikitool migrate status
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# Telemetry defaults off for a distributed instance (the
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# .wikitool-release.json this export carries), so nothing above
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# should have created a trace tree at all - see EVALS.md § "Whether
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# it runs at all".
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# should have created a trace tree at all - see docs/explanation/
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# telemetry-and-evaluation.md § "Whether it runs at all".
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if [ -e reports/telemetry ]; then
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echo "reports/telemetry/ exists in a fresh distributed instance - telemetry should default off"
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exit 1
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@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ npm-debug.log*
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# means unrestricted; `doctor` reports which.
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/.wikitool-remotes.json
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# Telemetry opt-in/opt-out plus its two quantity caps (see EVALS.md and
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# tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py). Per-checkout for the same reason as the
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# Telemetry opt-in/opt-out plus its two quantity caps (see docs/explanation/
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# telemetry-and-evaluation.md and tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py). Per-checkout for the same reason as the
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# allowlist above: the consent to write cleartext prompts to *this* disk
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# belongs to the checkout, not the corpus, so a second clone must not inherit
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# it. Absent means the installation-form default applies; `doctor` reports
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# pre_tool | post_tool | post_agent, and a `command` run through a shell with
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# the invocation JSON on stdin.
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#
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# Vibe loads this file only for a trusted folder. See ../EVALS.md for what the
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# three events can and cannot say - there is no session, prompt, compaction or
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# Vibe loads this file only for a trusted folder. See docs/how-to/trace-and-score-sessions.md
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# (from the repository root) for what the three events can and cannot say - there is no session, prompt, compaction or
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# permission hook to attach to, so a Vibe trace is thinner than a Copilot one
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# and says so in its own `completeness` list.
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@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ What a file is called says who it is for and how it is loaded. This is a rule, n
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| Name | For | Loaded |
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|------|-----|--------|
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| `README.md` | Humans - technical documentation and how to develop the thing in that directory | Never by an agent as instruction |
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| `EVALS.md` | Humans - how telemetry and evaluation work; routes to the contracts that bind | Never by an agent as instruction |
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| `AGENTS.md` | Agents | Always, every session |
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| `CLAUDE.md` | Agents on Claude Code | Automatically by that harness, which does not load `AGENTS.md` on its own - so it imports this file, carrying no rule of its own. It also links the one remaining Claude-Code-only decision (model/effort selection), per [instructions/CONTRACT.md](instructions/CONTRACT.md) - which this file cannot do for them: a link here would load it into every other harness too |
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| `USER.md` | Agents | Always, every session |
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@@ -135,8 +134,8 @@ whether it ever leaves this checkout.
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lives in `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`'s `language:` and nowhere else; an instruction that models a
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sentence for the user writes it in English like the rest of the control plane, and the agent
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says it in that language.
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3. **The stack's human documentation is written in English** - `README.md`, `INSTALL*.md`,
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`EVALS.md` and everything under `docs/` - whatever an instance's `language:` says. It is the
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3. **The stack's human documentation is written in English** - `README.md`, `INSTALL.md` and
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everything under `docs/` - whatever an instance's `language:` says. It is the
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same text in every instance, and the parts of it that are generated come from English
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sources, so there is no instance whose language it could follow. `CHANGES.md` is a log, not
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documentation, and is not covered.
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@@ -366,7 +365,7 @@ Changes to this schema, the contracts, the instruction layer, `tools/wikitool`,
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READMEs go in [CHANGES.md](CHANGES.md) - never in an inline version-history table here. Wiki
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*content* operations are logged separately via `tools/wikitool log append` into `kb/log.md`.
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**A stack change is not finished until the human docs describe it.** `README.md`, `EVALS.md`,
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**A stack change is not finished until the human docs describe it.** `README.md`,
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`tools/README.md`, the pages under `docs/tutorials/`, `docs/how-to/`, `docs/reference/` and
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`docs/dev/`, `tools/CONTRACT.md` and the touched `<stage>/CONTRACT.md` are part of the change
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that introduced a stage, a command or a workflow, not follow-up work: nobody comes back for them,
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---
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## 9.0.0-beta.5 - 2026-10-06 - docs reference: skill catalogue and page types under docs/reference/, generated from the shipped defaults in the origin repo only
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## 9.0.0-beta.6 - 2026-10-06 - docs/: how-to guides, configuration reference and two explanation pages carved out of README.md, INSTALL.md, INSTALL-MCP.md and EVALS.md; the last two retired
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**Author:** Torben Nehmer
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@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ place only: `instructions/dev/version-parts.md` § The candidate model.
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- Changelog kompakt: ein Absatz pro Thema, Größenbudget, Migrationsverweis
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- docs reference: human command reference under docs/reference/, generated from the command records
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- docs reference: skill catalogue and page types under docs/reference/, generated from the shipped defaults in the origin repo only
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- docs/: how-to guides, configuration reference and two explanation pages carved out of README.md, INSTALL.md, INSTALL-MCP.md and EVALS.md; the last two retired
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**Low impact**
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- version bump: Abschlussmeldung nennt Stichpunkt oder Themenabsatz statt pauschal Prosa
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@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ place only: `instructions/dev/version-parts.md` § The candidate model.
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- tools/README.md module tree names reference_doc.py and the fourth view cli_contract renders
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<!-- /wikitool:bumps -->
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### The root documents split into `docs/` pages (#190)
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The task and explanation parts of `README.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `INSTALL-MCP.md` and `EVALS.md` are now single English pages: eleven how-to guides under `docs/how-to/` (ingest, capture, guideline export, query, maintenance, weekly review, Obsidian, updating an instance, troubleshooting, the MCP read server, tracing and scoring sessions), a hand-written `docs/reference/configuration.md`, and `docs/explanation/architecture.md` and `telemetry-and-evaluation.md`. A guide says what to prepare, what to tell the agent and where it stops; it links an agent's procedure instead of retelling it. `INSTALL-MCP.md` and `EVALS.md` are gone from the root and from `dist export`, so an upgrade removes them as retired; `README.md` is a landing page, and `INSTALL.md` keeps only the installation itself. Pointers in messages and command records, among them `version check`'s, name the new pages.
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### Doku-Gerüst nach Diátaxis unter `docs/` (#187)
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`docs/` hat vier Bereiche – `tutorials/`, `how-to/`, `reference/`, `explanation/`, je mit einer
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# EVALS.md - Telemetry and Evaluation
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How this repository observes what an agent did, and how that record turns into a score.
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**This file is for humans.** It explains the design and points at the code. The rules an
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agent must follow live in [tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md) and
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[reports/CONTRACT.md](reports/CONTRACT.md); repeating them here would create the second copy
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that [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) exists to prevent.
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## Why, beyond the unit tests
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The pytest suite under `tools/chemenu/tests/` - in the origin repository; `dist export` does
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not ship it - checks the **compiler**: given this input, does `wikitool` produce that output. It says nothing about the two things that actually go
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wrong in practice - whether the *agent* followed the contracts, and whether the pages it wrote
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are any good.
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Those need a different kind of check, and the vendored knowledge base has the theory:
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- [oracle-strength-spectrum](commonplace/kb/notes/oracle-strength-spectrum.md) - correctness
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checks form a gradient from hard (deterministic) to none (vibes). The engineering move is to
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*harden* oracles progressively, not to reach straight for a judge.
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- [evaluation-automation-is-phase-gated-by-comprehension](commonplace/kb/notes/evaluation-automation-is-phase-gated-by-comprehension.md)
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- comprehension, then specification, then generalization. A judge built before anyone has
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read real failures optimizes a proxy.
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That ordering is why this file describes a lot of telemetry and only a little scoring: reading
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real traces is the first phase, and it cannot be skipped.
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## Architecture
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Three sources, three different jobs.
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```mermaid
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flowchart TD
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subgraph runner["Eval runner (planned, P5)"]
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R["isolated HOME · programmatic mode<br/>NDJSON capture · run manifest"]
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end
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subgraph hooks["Harness hooks (interactive work)"]
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H1["Claude Code<br/>.claude/settings.json"]
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H2["Copilot CLI<br/>.github/hooks/*.json"]
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H3["Mistral Vibe<br/>.vibe/hooks.toml"]
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H4["VS Code Chat<br/>chronicle SQLite, post hoc"]
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end
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subgraph inner["Repo layer (always on)"]
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W["wikitool emitter<br/>+ git"]
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end
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R --> T[("reports/telemetry/<session>/trace.jsonl")]
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H1 & H2 & H3 & H4 --> I["tools/trace_ingest.py"] --> T
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W --> T
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T --> S["scorers L0-L4"] --> O[("reports/evals/<date>/")]
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```
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- **The repo layer is the truth.** `wikitool` records its own calls, so what happened *to the
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wiki* is known even when no hook fired and no runner was involved.
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- **The runner owns session boundaries.** Not every harness reports a session start - Mistral
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Vibe has no such hook - so the process that launches the agent is what brackets a run.
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- **Hooks enrich.** They add the tool calls the repo layer cannot see: file reads, greps,
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shell commands, prompts.
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Everything joins on one session id, resolved the same way by every source that has to pick
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one - see `chemenu.session`. The chain is `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`, then a harness's own session
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variable where one is registered (`chemenu.session.HARNESS_ENV_VARS` - Claude Code's
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`CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID` today), then the parent process id. The middle step exists because
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the last one does not survive a harness that runs every tool call in its own freshly
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initialised shell: `os.getppid()` is then a new "session" per call, and neither the join nor
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the Iteration Budget Gate below can see more than one or two calls of a real run. A harness
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only earns an entry in that chain once a live session has been observed setting the variable,
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confirmed to be the exact id its own hooks write elsewhere in a trace - a name that merely
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looks plausible would mis-key a session more quietly than the pid fallback it replaced.
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A trace hook that only *observes* tool calls (a `PreToolUse`/`PostToolUse`-style wiring) does
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not by itself fix a harness whose events carry a different id than `wikitool`'s own emitter -
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the two still would not join. Wiring such a hook is only worth doing once this fallback chain
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already keys both sides on the same id.
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## The trace
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One JSON object per line, appended to `reports/telemetry/<session>/trace.jsonl`. The contract
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is [tools/chemenu/telemetry/schema.py](tools/chemenu/telemetry/schema.py).
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| Field | Meaning |
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|---|---|
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| `v` | Schema version |
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| `ts` | ISO-8601 UTC, microsecond precision |
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| `session_id` | The join key - `chemenu.session`'s fallback chain: `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`, else a registered harness variable, else the parent process id |
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| `pid`, `seq` | `seq` counts **within one process**. Sort a trace by `(ts, pid, seq)` |
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| `source` | `wikitool`, `runner`, or a harness name |
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| `event` | See below |
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| `attrs` | Normalised payload - same field names whichever harness produced it |
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| `run_key` | The `work/<runkey>/` run, when one is open |
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| `trace_id`, `span_id` | From `TRACEPARENT`, when the harness exports it |
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| `redactions` | Which secret patterns fired on this event |
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**Events.** The core - `tool.pre`, `tool.post`, `wikitool.call`, `gate.refused` - is available
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on every surface. Everything else (`session.start`, `session.end`, `session.error`,
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`prompt.submitted`, `assistant.message`, `turn.end`, `tool.error`, `instructions.loaded`,
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`subagent.start`, `subagent.stop`, `compaction`, `page.written`, `publish.commit`,
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`budget.state`, `gate.cleared`) is optional.
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**The degradation rule.** No scorer may *require* an optional event. Claude Code has thirty
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hooks and Mistral Vibe has three, so a scorer built on the rich end would silently report zero
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on the poor end - which reads as "the agent did nothing" rather than "this harness cannot
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say". Every `session.start` carries a `completeness` list naming the classes its harness can
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emit, so a scorer can answer "not measurable here" instead.
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**Budget and trace are not the same set.** The Iteration Budget Gate exempts read-only
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retrieval; the trace records it. What an agent looked at before acting is exactly what a
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trajectory scorer needs, and charging for a `search` would discourage the one habit that
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lowers cost.
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## Harness support
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| | Claude Code | Copilot CLI | VS Code Chat | Mistral Vibe |
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| Hook events | ~30 | 14 | none | 3 (`pre_tool`, `post_tool`, `post_agent`) |
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| Session start/end hook | yes | yes | - | **no** |
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| Prompt submit hook | yes | yes | - | **no** |
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| Which instructions loaded | yes (`InstructionsLoaded`) | no | no | no |
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| Block / rewrite a tool call | yes | yes | - | yes |
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| OTel to your own collector | yes | via MDM `telemetry` | no | **no** - `enable_otel` targets Mistral Studio only |
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| `TRACEPARENT` to subprocesses | yes | undocumented | - | undocumented |
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| Programmatic mode | `-p`, `stream-json` | `-p` | no | `-p`, `--output streaming` |
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| Isolated config home | to be confirmed | `COPILOT_HOME` | no | `VIBE_HOME` |
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| Local session log | `~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl` (unstable format) | `~/.copilot/session-state/<id>/events.jsonl` | chronicle SQLite | `$VIBE_HOME/logs/` (no format guarantee) |
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| Wired up here | **partial** - `.claude/settings.json` (`UserPromptSubmit` + a `permissions.ask` rule on the clearing publish) | **yes** - `.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json` | **yes** - `tools/import_chronicle.py` | **yes** - `.vibe/hooks.toml` |
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### Claude Code
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`.claude/settings.json` wires `UserPromptSubmit` to `tools/trace_ingest.py`, through
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`tools/trace-hook` like every hook here (see the load-bearing details under Copilot CLI). That is what makes
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`clearance-ended-the-turn` scorable here: without a `prompt.submitted` event there is no turn
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boundary to place an exit-42 call and its `--confirm` on either side of, and the rule reports
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"cannot say" instead of a verdict.
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**No `PreToolUse` decision hook is wired**, and this is a finding, not an oversight. Verified
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against the live CLI on 2026-08-27 (this repo runs inside Claude Code): a `PreToolUse` hook
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returning `hookSpecificOutput.permissionDecision: "ask"` does **not** override a matching
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`permissions.allow` rule - permissions are evaluated before a hook's decision, so a hook cannot
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force a confirmation prompt on an already-allowlisted command. A `permissions.ask` rule *does*
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win, which is why `.claude/settings.json` carries one on the `--confirm` form of `publish`
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(`Bash(tools/wikitool publish --confirm:*)`): the clearing call prompts, ordinary publishes
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below the threshold do not. It is a prefix match, so it depends on `--confirm` sitting first -
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which is why `git_publish.rerun_command` always emits it there. Treat it as a useful second
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line, not a guarantee: an agent that reorders the flags routes around it.
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### Copilot CLI
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[.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json](.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json) is committed, so a clone brings
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its own telemetry. Eleven events route to `tools/trace_ingest.py`; `disableAllHooks` in
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`.github/copilot/settings.json` turns them off without deleting anything. `userPromptSubmitted`
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is already among them, so `clearance-ended-the-turn` is scorable on Copilot CLI with no change
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needed.
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A `preToolUse` entry that forces a decision document on the clearing call would need Copilot's
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own decision-document schema verified against a live CLI first (this repo has none installed) -
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unverified, per the same rule that governed the Vibe adapter: an adapter that cannot be verified
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is not written.
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Four details in that file are load-bearing, and the first two hold for all three hook
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configurations:
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- **The interpreter is the venv's, never the script's shebang.** Each `bash` command is
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`./tools/trace-hook ...`, which runs `trace_ingest.py` with `tools/.venv`'s Python in either
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venv layout; each `powershell` command names `tools\.venv\Scripts\python.exe` directly. A
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hook command is a fixed string and cannot read `.wikitool-tools.json`, but the venv is
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created from the recorded interpreter at a fixed place, so it stands in for it. The shebang
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(`python3`) was the Microsoft Store alias in Git Bash on Windows, which made every hook there
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a silent no-op. Before the preflight has created the venv, `trace-hook` records nothing and
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exits 0.
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- **`./tools/trace-hook` has a PowerShell twin, `tools/trace-hook.ps1`.** PowerShell on
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Windows resolves the string to the `.ps1` first; without one, it hands the sh script to a
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file association and Windows asks which app should open it - on every hook event. A `bash`
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field alone does not keep the string out of PowerShell: Copilot CLI also reads
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`.claude/settings.json` and runs its single `command` under PowerShell on Windows. The twin
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keeps the sh script's rules - venv Python, silent without a venv, exit 0 whatever happens -
|
||||
and avoids `#Requires -Version 7`, because VS Code starts hooks under Windows PowerShell 5.1.
|
||||
Each `powershell` command here is written so 5.1 can parse it, too.
|
||||
- **Every command ends in `|| true`.** `preToolUse` hooks are *fail-closed*: a non-zero exit
|
||||
denies the tool call. Without the guard, a missing interpreter would turn the observer into
|
||||
a blocker that refuses every tool call in the session. (Timeouts are fail-open, so the
|
||||
5-second `timeoutSec` is not a hazard.)
|
||||
- **The event name is passed explicitly.** Copilot serves two payload dialects - camelCase
|
||||
event names give camelCase fields, PascalCase names give the VS Code/Claude snake_case
|
||||
shape. `--event` means the mapping does not depend on which one a config chose.
|
||||
|
||||
### VS Code Chat
|
||||
|
||||
No hooks, so nothing observes a session while it runs. The chronicle store
|
||||
(`session-store.db`, same schema as Copilot CLI's) keeps sessions, turns and touched files,
|
||||
and [tools/import_chronicle.py](tools/import_chronicle.py) reconstructs a trace from it after
|
||||
the fact:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/import_chronicle.py --dry-run # this repo's sessions
|
||||
tools/import_chronicle.py --session 0f1e2d3c
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The store starts empty; `/chronicle reindex` fills it - and also syncs session data to your
|
||||
GitHub account, so run it deliberately rather than from a script. A reconstructed trace marks
|
||||
itself `reconstructed: true` and its `completeness` names `tool.post` but not `tool.pre`: the
|
||||
store records that a file was touched, not that a tool was about to run.
|
||||
|
||||
### Mistral Vibe
|
||||
|
||||
[.vibe/hooks.toml](.vibe/hooks.toml) declares the three hooks Vibe has, and
|
||||
[.vibe/config.toml](.vibe/config.toml) carries the telemetry policy in the repository rather
|
||||
than in someone's shell profile. Both were validated against the installed CLI's own loader
|
||||
(`mistral-vibe 2.24.2`) rather than against the documentation.
|
||||
|
||||
What that verification turned up, and what it changes:
|
||||
|
||||
- **A failing hook cannot block anything.** Vibe's failure semantics are the mirror image of
|
||||
Copilot's: with `strict = false` - the default - a crash or a timeout is a no-op warning.
|
||||
Only a hook that opts into `strict` can deny a tool call.
|
||||
- **`post_agent` carries no response text.** Its payload is the session context and nothing
|
||||
else, which is why it maps to `turn.end` rather than to `assistant.message`.
|
||||
- **`enable_telemetry` defaults to `true`.** Turning it off is a real change, not a
|
||||
restatement of the default. It also gates OTel export, which needs both flags true.
|
||||
- **Vibe reads `.agents/skills/` and `AGENTS.md` already.** The directory
|
||||
`wikitool instructions sync` publishes is a project-scope skill source for Vibe, so this
|
||||
repository needs no adaptation to be worked on with it - only a trusted folder.
|
||||
|
||||
## Whether it runs at all
|
||||
|
||||
The default depends on how this tree got here, not on a single hard-coded switch -
|
||||
[tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py](tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py) is the one place that
|
||||
resolves it, so `wikitool doctor`, the writer and the MCP server's start-up guard all answer the
|
||||
same question the same way:
|
||||
|
||||
| Installation form | Default | Marker |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| Git clone of this repo (dev checkout) | **on** (opt-out) | No `.wikitool-release.json` |
|
||||
| An instance installed from a release, and every clone of its own repository | **off** (opt-in) | `.wikitool-release.json` present |
|
||||
|
||||
The form is read off `.wikitool-release.json`, the same stamp `version check`, `dist upgrade` and
|
||||
`version notes` already use to tell a distribution from the repo it came from - present means an operator never
|
||||
asked for telemetry, absent means this is the dev checkout the stack ships from, where the traces
|
||||
are its own measuring instrument (the rest of this file). An instance commits the stamp with its
|
||||
first `publish`, so a clone of it on a second machine carries the stamp and defaults off too - it
|
||||
is a consuming instance, not a measuring stand.
|
||||
|
||||
**Turning it on for a distributed instance** is a per-checkout `.wikitool-telemetry.json` at the
|
||||
repo root, gitignored like `.wikitool-remotes.json` and for the same reason: the consent to write
|
||||
cleartext prompts to *this* disk belongs to the checkout, not the corpus, so a second clone must
|
||||
not inherit it silently. `instructions/setup-instance.md`'s Telemetry decision point asks for it
|
||||
during setup; nothing writes it automatically.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "enabled": true, "max_session_bytes": 5242880, "keep_sessions": 250 }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
All three keys are optional. `WIKI_TRACE` still overrides `enabled` in both directions and beats
|
||||
the file, exactly as it always has.
|
||||
|
||||
**Two independent quantity caps, both enforced fail-silent in `emit()`** - never in
|
||||
`write_event()`, which the test suite calls directly to exercise the format without the policy
|
||||
wrapped around it:
|
||||
|
||||
- **A byte cap per session trace** (default 5 MiB, `max_session_bytes` / `WIKI_TRACE_MAX_SESSION_BYTES`),
|
||||
checked with one `stat` before every append. Once a trace is at or over the cap, further calls
|
||||
in that session write nothing except a single `telemetry.limit` event - elected by the same
|
||||
single-writer trick `session.start` uses (an exclusive-create on a `.limit` marker file), so a
|
||||
trace that was cut off is distinguishable from one whose writer simply crashed.
|
||||
- **Retention by session count** (default 250, `keep_sessions` / `WIKI_TRACE_KEEP_SESSIONS`),
|
||||
applied once, right before a brand-new session directory is created - never per event, and
|
||||
never against the session doing the creating. It deletes exactly `trace.jsonl` and `.limit`
|
||||
from the oldest directories beyond the cap and only `rmdir`s one once it is empty; nothing
|
||||
under `reports/` is ever removed in bulk.
|
||||
|
||||
The default of 250 is chosen above what this repo's own checkout has accumulated as of
|
||||
2026-09-10 (231 session directories, well under 400 KiB total) - the cap starts biting on future
|
||||
growth, not on the existing history.
|
||||
|
||||
## What never reaches a trace
|
||||
|
||||
Prompts and assistant replies **are** recorded in cleartext, locally. A failure taxonomy
|
||||
cannot be read out of hashes, and building one is the first phase of any eval work. Four
|
||||
guards make that defensible, all of them in
|
||||
[tools/chemenu/telemetry/scrub.py](tools/chemenu/telemetry/scrub.py) so there is one
|
||||
place to audit:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Secret scrubbing** - tokens, keys, `Authorization:` headers and `SECRET=` assignments are
|
||||
replaced with `[REDACTED:<type>]`. Pattern-based and therefore best effort.
|
||||
2. **A content cap** - 60 KiB per attribute, with a `[TRUNCATED n chars]` marker.
|
||||
3. **A kill switch** - `WIKI_TRACE_CONTENT=0` keeps only `<field>_length` and
|
||||
`<field>_sha256`. The digest is computed either way, so traces stay comparable.
|
||||
4. **`raw/` contents never enter a trace at all.** That text is data, not instruction
|
||||
([AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) invariant 4), and a trace gets read back later. Callers record a
|
||||
path and a digest.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing leaves the machine. `reports/` is gitignored, no exporter is configured, and where a
|
||||
vendor offers one it is off: Mistral's `enable_otel` ships prompts to Mistral Studio, so this
|
||||
repo leaves it - and `enable_telemetry` - `false`. Claude Code's and Copilot's content gates
|
||||
may only be enabled against a collector you run yourself.
|
||||
|
||||
| Variable | Effect |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE` | `0`/`1` overrides on/off in either direction, beating both the installation-form default and `.wikitool-telemetry.json` - see § Whether it runs at all |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` | Write traces somewhere other than `reports/telemetry/` |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_CONTENT=0` | Lengths and digests instead of text |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_MAX_CONTENT` | Per-attribute cap in characters |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_MAX_SESSION_BYTES` | Per-session trace byte cap (default 5 MiB) - overrides `.wikitool-telemetry.json`'s `max_session_bytes` |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_KEEP_SESSIONS` | How many session directories retention keeps (default 250) - overrides `.wikitool-telemetry.json`'s `keep_sessions` |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID` | The join key, and the directory a trace lands in |
|
||||
|
||||
## Evaluation levels
|
||||
|
||||
Ordered by oracle strength - hard checks first, judgment last.
|
||||
|
||||
| Level | Oracle | What it measures | Status |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| **L0** Pipeline | hard | A wiki the tools built themselves lints clean, and the catalog is a fixed point | **done** - `tools/chemenu/tests/test_pipeline_l0.py` |
|
||||
| **L1** Artifact scorecard | hard | Counters from `lint`'s own checks: hard errors and advisories, page count | **done** |
|
||||
| **L2** Trajectory | hard | Rules over the trace: was a refused call repeated, was a gate flag passed unearned, did a page change go unlogged | **done** |
|
||||
| **L3** Task evals | medium | Gold set: question → expected cited pages; ingest fixture → expected page titles. Scored by set overlap | needs the runner |
|
||||
| **L4** Rubric / judge | soft | Prose quality, cramming, tone | **out of scope** until a failure taxonomy exists |
|
||||
|
||||
Evaluation results are statistical, not binary: a case runs several times and reports a pass
|
||||
rate with its variance, because sampling is not deterministic. A single failure is not a
|
||||
merge blocker; a regression against a baseline is.
|
||||
|
||||
### L0 lives in pytest, not in a separate harness
|
||||
|
||||
It runs the CLI against an empty wiki in-process and asserts that `new` → write → `xref` →
|
||||
`index rebuild` leaves a tree `lint` calls clean, and that rebuilding the catalog again changes
|
||||
nothing on disk. That is a hard oracle over the compiler, which is what the test suite is for -
|
||||
giving it its own runner would have duplicated the suite to no end.
|
||||
|
||||
One behaviour it pins is easy to mistake for a defect: **a scaffolded page does not lint
|
||||
clean**. `new` writes placeholder wikilinks for the author to replace, so a page that was
|
||||
created but not yet written reports broken links, and its `TODO`-only sections as the advisory
|
||||
*Unfilled Template Sections*. That is the scaffold saying it is unfinished.
|
||||
|
||||
### How much of the stack the suite reaches
|
||||
|
||||
Coverage is measured in CI - `pytest --cov`, config in `tools/.coveragerc`, HTML and XML
|
||||
uploaded as the `coverage-<run id>` artifact of every run.
|
||||
**Fetch that artifact from the run's own page, not from the API**: `upload-artifact@v3` writes
|
||||
through the older artifact API, and the Actions artifact REST endpoints answer `total_count: 0`
|
||||
for a run whose artifact the run page offers for download. The upload works; only the listing
|
||||
does not see it. Do not re-derive this, and do not read the empty list as a failed upload.
|
||||
|
||||
It is enforced at a floor of **85%** (`fail_under` in `tools/.coveragerc`), which is what a red
|
||||
suite from this axis means: coverage actually fell, not that a wrapper was added. The floor was
|
||||
set only after the number had been watched - it was deliberately held back for exactly that, and
|
||||
the two points between 85 and the measured 87.0% are the room the taxonomy below asks for. A
|
||||
threshold at the measured number goes red on the next thin Typer wrapper, and a threshold that
|
||||
goes red for a non-reason gets lowered rather than earned.
|
||||
|
||||
**Measured 2026-09-04, stack 4.7.1: 87.0% of 6498 statements across `chemenu/`, 975 tests** -
|
||||
CI run 163. The first measurement, at stack 1.8.1 on 2026-08-31, was 86.9% of 5105 statements
|
||||
over 730 tests (CI run 87). Both are what CI reported, never a local run: the local number
|
||||
preceding a release measures a tree that is one commit short of the published one.
|
||||
|
||||
The pair says more than either number does. Between them the measured code grew by a quarter
|
||||
and the suite by a third, and the quota moved by a tenth of a point - which is the observation a
|
||||
threshold was waiting for, rather than the total itself. Reproduce either with
|
||||
`cd tools && .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q --cov` (needs `pytest-cov`, which is CI-only and
|
||||
deliberately absent from `tools/requirements.txt` - an instance runs the wiki, it does not
|
||||
measure this suite).
|
||||
|
||||
The total stays the least interesting number here. What the report is for is *which* modules sit
|
||||
low, and three kinds have to be told apart before any of it turns into work:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Thin Typer wrappers**, where the logic lives beside them and is tested there:
|
||||
`eval_cmd.py` (36%), `types_cmd.py` (40%), `search.py` (49%), `cli.py` (54%),
|
||||
`links_cmd.py` (61%). Low coverage on a wrapper is evidence of a good cut, not of a missing
|
||||
test - `search.py`'s uncovered block is its command body alone, while the backends under
|
||||
`chemenu/search/` that do the work sit between 91% and 98%.
|
||||
- **Code that reaches the network or the filesystem's outside**, where the interesting half is
|
||||
already injectable and tested through the seam: `version.py`'s `fetch_latest()` takes a
|
||||
`fetcher` parameter for exactly that. The real `urllib` lines are exercised too, but only
|
||||
against a local `http.server` in `test_dist_upgrade.py` (`dist upgrade --latest`) - never
|
||||
against a real feed, which stays uncovered on purpose.
|
||||
- **Genuine gaps**, where uncovered lines are logic nobody exercises: `provenance_cmd.py`
|
||||
(44%), `migrate_cmd.py` (65%), `type_resolver.py` (79%). This is the list worth reading, and
|
||||
the only one of the three that has not moved while everything around it did:
|
||||
`provenance_cmd.py` sits where it sat, and `migrate_cmd.py` fell from 71% because it grew and
|
||||
its new lines arrived untested. The floor freezes this; it does not close it.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
Closing it is Gitea #51. (Kept behind a strip marker: the pointer resolves in the origin repo
|
||||
and nowhere else.)
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-end -->
|
||||
|
||||
## Scoring a session
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval sessions # which sessions have a trace
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval score # score this shell's session
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval score --session telemetry-p1 --save
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Both are read-only and exempt from the Iteration Budget Gate: reading back what a session did
|
||||
is not iteration on the wiki, and charging for it would discourage checking one's own work.
|
||||
|
||||
**L1** re-runs `lint`'s checks in-process and reports its counters. It shares the definition
|
||||
of what counts as a hard error with `lint --fail-on-error` - one constant, `HARD_ERROR_KEYS`,
|
||||
so a run can never pass its score while lint refuses it.
|
||||
|
||||
**L2** checks five rules, and each one restates an invariant the code cannot enforce
|
||||
in-process. A gate can refuse a call; nothing stops an agent from calling again with the
|
||||
gate's own flag. That gap is the whole point:
|
||||
|
||||
| Rule | Invariant | Severity |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `refusal-not-retried` | A refused call, repeated unchanged, is the loop the gate exists to break | error |
|
||||
| `gate-not-self-opened` | `--yes`/`-y` no longer exist at all; `--override-budget` is for a human to pass after a refusal; `--force` never | error |
|
||||
| `content-change-logged` | A publish that changes `kb/` pages needs a `log append` in the same session | advisory |
|
||||
| `clearance-was-asked-for` | A `gate.cleared` token must match one some earlier `gate.refused` issued - catches an invented token, and one reused from a different changeset | error |
|
||||
| `clearance-ended-the-turn` | No `wikitool.call` between a clearance request (exit 42) and the next `prompt.submitted` - skipped, not failed, on a harness that cannot report `prompt.submitted` | error |
|
||||
|
||||
New rules belong here only when a real trace shows a real failure. Inventing checks from the
|
||||
contract text produces a score that improves while behaviour does not - the failure mode the
|
||||
[phase-gate note](commonplace/kb/notes/evaluation-automation-is-phase-gated-by-comprehension.md)
|
||||
describes. The first three were chosen because each is a refusal an agent can talk its way
|
||||
around; the last two carry the load for the Mass-Update Gate's clearance mechanism
|
||||
(2026-08-28), which deliberately enforces very little in-process - see below.
|
||||
|
||||
A rule can now report a third state besides pass/fail: **skipped**, meaning this trace cannot
|
||||
answer the question at all (e.g. `gate-refusal-ended-the-turn` on a harness with no prompt
|
||||
hook). Skipped reads as neither a pass nor a violation - `scorecard.render_markdown` marks it
|
||||
`skip`, distinct from `ok`/`warn`/`FAIL`, and `score()["violations"]` never includes a skipped
|
||||
rule regardless of severity.
|
||||
|
||||
### A worked example, and where the check moved to
|
||||
|
||||
Scoring the session that shipped the telemetry layer itself used to report a failure:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
FAIL gate-not-self-opened
|
||||
call=publish --message "tools: session traces …" --yes, reason=no mass-update refusal preceded it
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
That finding was true and benign at the same time. The change was 17 files, the file list was
|
||||
shown, and a human approved it - but the approval happened in conversation, and `--yes` went
|
||||
out on the first attempt, so the gate never got to refuse anything. The documented path had the
|
||||
refusal first, and the trace records tool calls, not conversations.
|
||||
|
||||
Three sessions did some version of this before the mechanism changed rather than the procedure.
|
||||
The interesting part is *which* half changed. The obvious fix - make the gate impossible to open
|
||||
without independent proof of a human - was built first: a ticket bound to the changeset, redeemed
|
||||
only after a `prompt.submitted` event and a `wikitool approve` typed in a second terminal. It
|
||||
worked, and it was unusable: on a harness driving `wikitool` through a shell tool, the agent
|
||||
cannot produce the turn signal and the human is asked to leave the conversation to approve
|
||||
anything at all. A gate nobody can pass is not a safe gate, it is an abandoned one.
|
||||
|
||||
So the enforcement got cheap and the *verification* got real:
|
||||
|
||||
- **In-process, `publish` enforces only what it can do honestly.** Exit 42 says "a human must see
|
||||
this"; `--confirm <token>` says "here is what they saw", and the token digests the file list so
|
||||
it cannot silently cover a different one. None of that proves a human was involved, and the
|
||||
code says so in as many words.
|
||||
- **The trace answers the question the tool cannot.** `clearance-ended-the-turn` looks for a
|
||||
`wikitool.call` between an exit-42 call and the next `prompt.submitted` - which is exactly the
|
||||
"refused, then confirmed in the same breath" shape all three incidents had, and is invisible to
|
||||
any single call. `clearance-was-asked-for` catches a token that no refusal ever issued.
|
||||
|
||||
This is the loop the whole file is about, run to its conclusion: a rule that only a trace could
|
||||
check, a trace that showed it being broken three times, a mechanism rebuilt because no procedural
|
||||
fix survived - and then the check itself relocated to the layer that can actually see it.
|
||||
|
||||
**What this still cannot see:** an agent that receives the exit-42 output, does not relay it, and
|
||||
passes the token anyway *after* the user happens to say something unrelated. `prompt.submitted`
|
||||
proves a turn boundary, not that the output was relayed or that the reply meant yes. That gap is
|
||||
recorded rather than papered over; closing it needs the harness to report what the agent actually
|
||||
said, which no adapter here does yet.
|
||||
|
||||
That gap stopped being hypothetical within the hour. The first agent to receive the new gate -
|
||||
the one that had just written the paragraph above - answered the user with a file *count* and a
|
||||
pointer to "the output above", which on this harness the user could not see: a command's stdout
|
||||
goes to the agent's context, not to anyone's screen. Nothing in the trace distinguishes that from
|
||||
a correct relay, and nothing will. The response was to fix the half that *is* fixable, the
|
||||
wording: the message now says "THE USER CANNOT SEE THIS OUTPUT", asks for the paths to be copied
|
||||
into the reply, and names the near-misses that do not count (a count, a summary, "the output
|
||||
above"). An instruction that conflates printing with showing reads as already satisfied by the
|
||||
text existing - which is a general lesson about writing for agents, not a detail of this gate.
|
||||
|
||||
## Using it today
|
||||
|
||||
Tracing is on by default and needs no setup. Scope a session and read what it produced:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
export WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID="my-task"
|
||||
tools/wikitool search "amd-pstate"
|
||||
tools/wikitool lint --fail-on-error
|
||||
|
||||
# what did that session do?
|
||||
jq -r '[.ts, .source, .event, (.attrs.command // .attrs.tool_name // "")] | @tsv' \
|
||||
reports/telemetry/my-task/trace.jsonl
|
||||
|
||||
# how well did it do it?
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval score --session my-task
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Feed a harness hook payload in by hand, without writing anything:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
echo '{"session_id":"x","hook_event_name":"post_tool","tool_name":"bash"}' \
|
||||
| tools/trace_ingest.py --source mistral-vibe --dry-run
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Status
|
||||
|
||||
| Piece | State |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Event schema, scrubber, writer | done - `tools/chemenu/telemetry/` |
|
||||
| `wikitool.call` on every command | done - one hook point in `cli.py`, next to the budget gate |
|
||||
| `gate.refused` (loop-breaker, iteration budget, mass-update) | done |
|
||||
| `publish.commit` | done |
|
||||
| Hook entry point | done - `tools/trace_ingest.py`, mappings for all three hook-capable harnesses |
|
||||
| Copilot CLI hooks | done - `.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json` |
|
||||
| VS Code chronicle import | done - `tools/import_chronicle.py` |
|
||||
| Mistral Vibe hooks | done - `.vibe/hooks.toml`, `.vibe/config.toml` |
|
||||
| Session header seeded on every trace | done - a trace declares its own `completeness` even without a session hook |
|
||||
| Scoring L1 + L2 | done - `wikitool eval score` |
|
||||
| L0 pipeline check | done - in the test suite |
|
||||
| Claude Code hooks | **partial** (2026-08-28) - `.claude/settings.json` wires `UserPromptSubmit` (the turn boundary `clearance-ended-the-turn` scores against) plus a `permissions.ask` rule on the `--confirm` form of `publish`; `PreToolUse` verified unable to force a prompt over `permissions.allow`, see "Claude Code" above |
|
||||
| Claude Code OTel | not started; not verified against the live CLI yet |
|
||||
| Agent runner (`eval run`) and L3 | designed below, not built |
|
||||
|
||||
## The agent runner, and why it is not here yet
|
||||
|
||||
Scoring reads what a session left behind. The missing half is *starting* one: a runner that
|
||||
launches a harness against a task, several times, and reports a pass rate. What it has to do is
|
||||
no longer guesswork - the adapter work settled most of it:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Give each run a copy of the repository, not a fixture directory.** `config.ROOT` is derived
|
||||
from `chemenu/config.py`'s own location, so `wikitool` cannot be aimed at another tree
|
||||
from outside. An agent case therefore needs a worktree or a clone, where the tool sits inside
|
||||
the tree it edits. (A *fixture* directory works fine in-process, which is why L0 is a test.)
|
||||
- **Give each run its own HOME**: `VIBE_HOME`, `COPILOT_HOME`, plus `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` and
|
||||
`WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`, so state, trust decisions and traces cannot leak between runs.
|
||||
- **Never launch Vibe without `--agent`.** Its programmatic mode falls back to `auto-approve`
|
||||
when no agent is named, and does not ask about folder trust. The runner must refuse rather
|
||||
than inherit that default.
|
||||
- **Record a run manifest**: harness and version, model, git SHA, and hashes of `AGENTS.md`,
|
||||
the published skills and the fixture. Without it a pass rate cannot be compared to anything.
|
||||
|
||||
What is missing is not the design but the ability to check it. No provider credentials are
|
||||
configured on this machine - Vibe's providers declare an `api_key_env_var` and none of those
|
||||
variables is set - so a live run cannot be executed, let alone verified. Writing it anyway
|
||||
would repeat exactly the mistake the Vibe adapter avoided: the hook format there was wrong in
|
||||
the documentation and only the installed CLI showed it. A runner written against an unverified
|
||||
mental model of three harnesses would be worse.
|
||||
|
||||
Open questions: whether Claude Code has a redirectable config directory (only `--settings` is
|
||||
documented), and whether the scrubber's own patterns are enough or a dedicated secret scanner
|
||||
belongs in the verification step.
|
||||
-288
@@ -1,288 +0,0 @@
|
||||
# MCP-Leseserver installieren
|
||||
|
||||
Dieses Dokument richtet sich an Menschen. Es beschreibt, wie der MCP-Leseserver eines Chemenu-
|
||||
Wikis lokal läuft, wie ein Client ihn einbindet, und wie er hinter einer Authentifizierung
|
||||
erreichbar wird. Der agent-seitige Betriebsablauf steht in
|
||||
[instructions/mcp-read-server.md](instructions/mcp-read-server.md); die vollständige
|
||||
Kommandoreferenz in [tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md).
|
||||
|
||||
**Was der Server ist.** Ein zweiter Konsument desselben Kerns, nicht ein zweites Programm. CLI
|
||||
und Server rufen dieselben Funktionen auf; ein Golden-Test hält ihre Ausgaben gegeneinander.
|
||||
Was `tools/wikitool search --json` liefert, liefert das MCP-Tool `search` auch — plus den
|
||||
Commit, aus dem die Antwort berechnet wurde.
|
||||
|
||||
**Was er nicht ist.** Kein Schreibpfad nach `kb/`. Es gibt kein Tool, das eine Seite anlegt,
|
||||
ändert oder publiziert — nicht weil eine Liste gefiltert wird, sondern weil der Server nichts
|
||||
unter `tools/chemenu/commands/` importiert. Die Funktionen sind aus diesem Prozess heraus nicht
|
||||
erreichbar. Optional gibt es ein sechstes Tool, `submit` (Schritt 7): es schreibt, aber nur in
|
||||
eine Quarantäne, die kein anderer Befehl liest — eine Positiv-Liste im Code statt einer
|
||||
Abwesenheit, und ein Mensch entscheidet über jede Beförderung daraus.
|
||||
|
||||
## Voraussetzungen
|
||||
|
||||
- Eine funktionierende Instanz nach [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) — inklusive `tools/.venv` und
|
||||
`ripgrep`
|
||||
- Python 3.11 oder neuer (wie die CLI)
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 1: Abhängigkeit installieren
|
||||
|
||||
Sie liegt bewusst nicht in `tools/requirements.txt`. Eine Instanz, die nur die CLI benutzt, soll
|
||||
dafür nicht pydantic, starlette, uvicorn und cryptography mitinstallieren müssen.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/.venv/bin/pip install -r tools/requirements-mcp.txt
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 2: Lokal starten (stdio)
|
||||
|
||||
`stdio` ist der Weg zum Ausprobieren und für einen Client auf derselben Maschine: ein Prozess
|
||||
pro Konsument, lokal gestartet, kein Netzwerk.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
WIKI_TRACE=0 tools/.venv/bin/python -m chemenu.mcp
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Der Prozess spricht MCP über stdin/stdout und gibt für sich genommen nichts aus — das ist
|
||||
richtig so. Gestartet wird er normalerweise nicht von Hand, sondern vom Client (Schritt 3).
|
||||
|
||||
**Das `WIKI_TRACE=0` oben ist in einer ausgelieferten Instanz meist redundant, aber trotzdem
|
||||
richtig.** Telemetrie-Default hängt vom Installationsweg ab
|
||||
([INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) § Konfiguration): in einer per `dist export` ausgelieferten Instanz
|
||||
steht er auf **aus**, in einem Git-Clone dieses Repos (Testbett/Demo) auf **an**. Der Server
|
||||
prüft nicht `WIKI_TRACE` direkt, sondern denselben `chemenu.telemetry.policy`, den auch
|
||||
`wikitool doctor` und der Writer befragen - läuft Telemetrie danach, **verweigert der Server den
|
||||
Start**, statt still umzuleiten:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
ERROR Telemetry is on and would write into the served checkout (...). Set WIKI_TRACE=0,
|
||||
or point WIKI_TRACE_DIR outside the corpus.
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Beide Auswege sind gleichwertig: `WIKI_TRACE=0` schaltet ab, `WIKI_TRACE_DIR=/var/log/chemenu`
|
||||
lenkt um. Der Grund steht in Schritt 6 — der Sync darf `reports/` wegräumen. Das explizite
|
||||
`WIKI_TRACE=0` in den Befehlen dieses Dokuments bleibt der sichere Default: es ist korrekt, egal
|
||||
welchen Weg die bediente Instanz genommen hat, und macht die Prüfung oben gegenstandslos, statt
|
||||
sich auf den Installationsweg zu verlassen.
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 3: Einen Client einbinden
|
||||
|
||||
Die Konfiguration folgt der üblichen MCP-Client-Form. Absolute Pfade, weil der Client kein
|
||||
Arbeitsverzeichnis erbt:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{
|
||||
"mcpServers": {
|
||||
"chemenu": {
|
||||
"command": "/pfad/zur/instanz/tools/.venv/bin/python",
|
||||
"args": ["-m", "chemenu.mcp"],
|
||||
"cwd": "/pfad/zur/instanz/tools",
|
||||
"env": {
|
||||
"WIKI_TRACE": "0",
|
||||
"CHEMENU_ROOT": "/pfad/zur/instanz"
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`CHEMENU_ROOT` sagt, **welches** Wiki bedient wird. Ohne die Variable nimmt der Server den
|
||||
Checkout, in dem das Paket selbst liegt — für eine einzelne Instanz reicht das, aber wer mehrere
|
||||
Korpora hat, setzt sie besser immer.
|
||||
|
||||
Danach kennt der Client fünf Werkzeuge, und optional ein sechstes:
|
||||
|
||||
| Tool | Was es beantwortet |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `search` | Seiten in `kb/` nach Text, nach Frontmatter (`!sources`, `tags~k8s`) oder beidem |
|
||||
| `types` | Welche Seitentypen dieses Wiki kennt |
|
||||
| `describe_type` | Der vollständige Vertrag eines Typs: Felder, Pflichtangaben, Enums |
|
||||
| `lint` | Strukturelle Befunde: kaputte Wikilinks, Waisen, Index-Drift, Schema-Lücken |
|
||||
| `status` | Momentaufnahme: Seitenzahl, Verteilung auf Collections, Befundzahlen |
|
||||
| `submit` *(optional, Schritt 7)* | Reicht ein Dokument in die Prüf-Warteschlange ein — kein Schreibpfad nach `kb/`, nur in eine Quarantäne |
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 4: Ausgeliefert starten (streamable HTTP)
|
||||
|
||||
Der Transport für den Betrieb, und der einzige, vor den sich ein Reverse Proxy setzen kann.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
WIKI_TRACE=0 CHEMENU_ROOT=/srv/chemenu \
|
||||
tools/.venv/bin/python -m chemenu.mcp \
|
||||
--transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Der Endpunkt ist dann `http://<host>:8000/mcp`.
|
||||
|
||||
`--host 0.0.0.0` ist bewusst nicht der Default. Ohne die Angabe bindet der Server auf Loopback,
|
||||
was lokal richtig und im Container falsch ist — dort muss der Proxy ihn erreichen können. Wer
|
||||
`0.0.0.0` setzt, muss also auch dafür sorgen, dass davor etwas steht (Schritt 5).
|
||||
|
||||
`sse` wird nicht angeboten. Es ist der abgelöste Remote-Transport; jetzt darauf zu bauen
|
||||
verschiebt den Wechsel nur.
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 5: Authentifizierung davor
|
||||
|
||||
**Der Server authentifiziert nicht selbst, und das ist Absicht.** Nicht sauber
|
||||
authentifizierte Zugriffe sollen den Python-Prozess gar nicht erst erreichen. Die
|
||||
Authentifizierung ist eine Traefik-ForwardAuth-Middleware:
|
||||
|
||||
> **<https://gitea.nehmer.net/torben/gitea-mcp-forward-auth>**
|
||||
|
||||
Kurz, was sie tut: sie prüft `Authorization: Bearer <token>` gegen SHA-256-Hashes erlaubter
|
||||
Tokens, antwortet `200` bei gültigem und `401` bei fehlendem oder falschem Token, und hält
|
||||
`GET /healthz` immer offen. Klartext-Tokens liegen weder in der Konfiguration noch im Log — nur
|
||||
Hashes und ein kurzer Fingerprint. Konfiguriert wird sie über
|
||||
`AUTH_PROXY_TOKEN_HASHES_DIR` (ein Verzeichnis, eine Datei je Token-Hash — passend für ein
|
||||
Kubernetes-Secret-Volume) oder `AUTH_PROXY_TOKEN_HASHES` (kommagetrennte Liste). Einzelheiten,
|
||||
Referenzmanifeste und ein Testskript stehen im README dort.
|
||||
|
||||
Einen Token-Hash erzeugen:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
echo -n "mein-token" | sha256sum | awk '{print $1}'
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
**Rate Limiting gehört an dieselbe Stelle** — vor den Prozess, neben die Authentifizierung.
|
||||
Nicht in den Iteration Budget Gate: der begrenzt eine *Agenten-Session* am unbemerkten Iterieren
|
||||
über den Wiki-Zustand, weshalb Retrieval von ihm ausgenommen ist. Ihn als Rate Limiter zu
|
||||
benutzen würde ihn dazu verwässern.
|
||||
|
||||
**Ist der `submit`-Pfad scharf geschaltet (Schritt 7), kommt eine zweite Pflicht hinzu:** die
|
||||
Middleware muss den konfigurierten Identitäts-Header (Default `X-Forwarded-User`) selbst setzen
|
||||
und eine vom Client mitgeschickte Kopie verwerfen. Der Prozess vertraut diesem Header als Wert
|
||||
für `submitter` — ein Header, den der Client selbst setzen dürfte, wäre keine Identität, sondern
|
||||
eine Behauptung.
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 6: Den Korpus aktuell halten
|
||||
|
||||
Der Server liest den Arbeitsbaum. Ein veralteter Checkout antwortet selbstbewusst falsch —
|
||||
deshalb trägt **jede Antwort den Commit**, aus dem sie berechnet wurde:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "commit": "<40-stelliger SHA>", "as_of": "<ISO-8601, UTC>", "count": 3, "...": "..." }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Aktuell gehalten wird der Baum durch Polling, aus einem Timer neben dem Server:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
git -C "$CHEMENU_ROOT" fetch --quiet origin && \
|
||||
git -C "$CHEMENU_ROOT" reset --hard --quiet origin/main
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Polling statt Webhook, weil es keinen eingehenden Endpunkt und keine Signaturprüfung braucht —
|
||||
eine kleinere Angriffsfläche als das, was es optimieren würde.
|
||||
|
||||
`reset --hard` ist dabei tragend und keine Bequemlichkeit: der Korpus-Cache verwendet einen
|
||||
Parse wieder, solange der Commit gleich bleibt, und cacht einen **schmutzigen Baum überhaupt
|
||||
nicht**. Ein abgedrifteter Checkout antwortet also zwar richtig, parst aber bei jeder Anfrage
|
||||
neu — und stempelt jede Antwort mit `"commit": null`, weil sie keiner Revision entspricht.
|
||||
|
||||
## Schritt 7: Optional - den `submit`-Pfad freischalten
|
||||
|
||||
Ohne diesen Schritt existiert `submit` als Tool nicht — nicht ungenutzt, sondern nicht
|
||||
registriert. Die Datei `.wikitool-upload.json` im bedienten Korpus schaltet ihn frei:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{
|
||||
"schema": 1,
|
||||
"identity_header": "X-Forwarded-User",
|
||||
"max_bytes": 10485760,
|
||||
"allowed_extensions": [".md", ".txt", ".pdf", ".html", ".csv", ".json", ".png", ".jpg"],
|
||||
"quota": { "submissions_per_day": 20, "bytes_per_day": 52428800 }
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Jedes Feld ist Pflicht, keines hat einen eingebauten Default außer `identity_header` — eine
|
||||
fehlerhafte Datei ist ein Startfehler des Servers, kein „keine Beschränkung": das Ziel ist
|
||||
absichtlich die sichere Richtung. `identity_header` muss der Header sein, den Schritt 5 oben
|
||||
gerade eben *scharf gemacht* hat (Middleware setzt, Client-Kopie verworfen) — sonst wird jede
|
||||
Einreichung mangels Identität abgelehnt.
|
||||
|
||||
Eingereichte Dateien landen in `mcp-upload/<id>/`, gitignored, von keinem anderen Kommando
|
||||
gelesen. Ein Mensch prüft und befördert sie über `wikitool upload accept <id> --confirm <token>`
|
||||
(Exit 42 beim ersten Versuch, mit Manifest und Token in der Ausgabe) oder verwirft sie über
|
||||
`wikitool upload reject <id> --reason "<warum>"` — siehe
|
||||
[instructions/ingest-queue.md](instructions/ingest-queue.md) für den Prüfablauf. Beide Kommandos
|
||||
laufen im selben Checkout wie der Server, nicht im Prozess selbst.
|
||||
|
||||
## Verifikation
|
||||
|
||||
Läuft es? Der schnellste Test ohne Client — startet den Server über stdio, listet die Tools und
|
||||
stellt eine Frage:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
cd tools && WIKI_TRACE=0 .venv/bin/python - <<'EOF'
|
||||
import asyncio, os
|
||||
from mcp import ClientSession, StdioServerParameters
|
||||
from mcp.client.stdio import stdio_client
|
||||
|
||||
async def main():
|
||||
params = StdioServerParameters(
|
||||
command=".venv/bin/python", args=["-m", "chemenu.mcp"],
|
||||
env={"WIKI_TRACE": "0", "PATH": os.environ["PATH"]},
|
||||
)
|
||||
async with stdio_client(params) as (r, w):
|
||||
async with ClientSession(r, w) as s:
|
||||
await s.initialize()
|
||||
print("Tools:", [t.name for t in (await s.list_tools()).tools])
|
||||
out = await s.call_tool("status", {})
|
||||
d = getattr(out, "structuredContent", None) or out.structured_content
|
||||
print("Seiten:", d["pages"], "| Commit:", d["commit"])
|
||||
|
||||
asyncio.run(main())
|
||||
EOF
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Erwartete Ausgabe, sinngemäß:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
Tools: ['search', 'types', 'describe_type', 'lint', 'status']
|
||||
Seiten: 176 | Commit: 576df2cdddc96614a7e6641e562022d52112d411
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Gegen die CLI gegenprüfen — beide müssen dieselbe Antwort geben:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool search "<begriff>" --json
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Troubleshooting
|
||||
|
||||
**`ERROR Telemetry is on and would write into the served checkout`** — erwartetes Verhalten,
|
||||
kein Fehler in der Installation. `WIKI_TRACE=0` setzen oder `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` aus dem Korpus
|
||||
heraus zeigen lassen (Schritt 2).
|
||||
|
||||
**`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mcp'`** — Schritt 1 fehlt, oder der Client startet ein
|
||||
anderes Python als das der Instanz. Im Client den absoluten Pfad auf `tools/.venv/bin/python`
|
||||
setzen.
|
||||
|
||||
**`"commit": null` in jeder Antwort** — der bediente Baum hat uncommittete Änderungen. Entweder
|
||||
läuft der Sync nicht, oder etwas schreibt in den Korpus, das dort nichts zu suchen hat. Die
|
||||
fünf Lesewerkzeuge schreiben nie, und `submit` (falls scharf) ausschließlich nach
|
||||
`mcp-upload/` — gitignored, also selbst kein Grund für `"commit": null`; ein Test prüft das,
|
||||
indem er alle Tools aufruft und Dateibaum, `HEAD` und `git status --porcelain` vorher/nachher
|
||||
vergleicht.
|
||||
|
||||
**`commit` nennt eine alte Revision** — der Sync aus Schritt 6 läuft nicht.
|
||||
|
||||
**Der Server antwortet anders als `wikitool`** — das ist ein Defekt, keine
|
||||
Konfigurationsdifferenz: beide gehen durch dieselben Funktionen, und ein Golden-Test hält sie
|
||||
zusammen. Zuerst prüfen, ob beide auf denselben Root zeigen; `CHEMENU_ROOT` ist leicht für einen
|
||||
von beiden gesetzt und für den anderen nicht.
|
||||
|
||||
**Von außen nicht erreichbar** — ohne `--host 0.0.0.0` bindet der Server auf Loopback
|
||||
(Schritt 4). Wenn er dann erreichbar ist, aber jeder Aufruf `401` bekommt, arbeitet die
|
||||
Middleware aus Schritt 5 korrekt und das Token stimmt nicht.
|
||||
|
||||
## Was hier bewusst nicht steht
|
||||
|
||||
Deployment — Cluster, Ingress-Hosts, Secret-Store, FluxCD-Quelle. Das ist private Infrastruktur
|
||||
und dieses Repo ist öffentlich.
|
||||
|
||||
Ein **Container-Image** für den Betrieb gibt es noch nicht; es ist als eigenes Vorhaben erfasst,
|
||||
mitsamt den Entscheidungen, die dafür noch offen sind (Korpus im Image oder als Volume, wer den
|
||||
Sync ausführt, Basis-Image, Healthcheck):
|
||||
<https://gitea.nehmer.net/torben/chemenu/issues/37>. Bis dahin ist der Weg oben — venv,
|
||||
`python -m chemenu.mcp`, Proxy davor — der vollständige. Ist der `submit`-Pfad scharf, gehört
|
||||
`mcp-upload/` zu derselben offenen Frage: es muss denselben Neustart und dieselbe
|
||||
Persistenzentscheidung überleben wie der Rest des Checkouts, sonst verliert eine eingereichte,
|
||||
noch nicht geprüfte Datei ihre Quarantäne.
|
||||
+12
-324
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ steht, was du vorher bereitstellst, welchen Satz du ihm gibst, was er dich fragt
|
||||
ist, wenn er anhält. Die vollständige Kommandoreferenz steht in
|
||||
[tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Den optionalen **MCP-Leseserver** installiert und betreibt
|
||||
[INSTALL-MCP.md](INSTALL-MCP.md): derselbe Korpus, lesend, für einen Konsumenten, der kein
|
||||
Terminal auf dieser Maschine ist.
|
||||
Den optionalen **MCP-Leseserver** richtet
|
||||
[docs/how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md](docs/how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md) ein: derselbe
|
||||
Korpus, lesend, für einen Konsumenten, der kein Terminal auf dieser Maschine ist.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
Wer am Stack selbst arbeiten will, klont dieses Repo. Das ist eine Entwicklungsumgebung mit
|
||||
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Raten darf der Agent keine dieser Antworten, und keine übernimmt er aus einem a
|
||||
- <!-- setup-question: telemetry --> **Telemetrie** - standardmäßig aus; der Agent fragt nur, ob du
|
||||
sie einschalten willst.
|
||||
- <!-- setup-question: task-tracker --> **Aufgaben-Tracker** (optional) - siehe
|
||||
[Konfiguration](#konfiguration).
|
||||
[docs/reference/configuration.md](docs/reference/configuration.md#task-tracker).
|
||||
|
||||
Am Ende legt der Agent den ersten Commit an. Dabei hält das Mass-Update-Gate an (Exit 42), weil
|
||||
eine neue Instanz aus weit mehr als zehn Dateien besteht. Das ist erwartet: Der Agent zeigt dir
|
||||
@@ -160,277 +160,8 @@ darf er nicht.
|
||||
in ein kürzeres Verzeichnis umziehen, etwa `C:\Chemenu`.
|
||||
|
||||
Hält der Agent an einer anderen Stelle an und ist die Ursache nicht offensichtlich, bietet er dir
|
||||
einen Fehlerbericht an - siehe [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting).
|
||||
|
||||
## Version und Updates
|
||||
|
||||
Jede Instanz trägt die Version des **Stacks** (Werkzeuge, Typen, Instruktionen, Contracts) -
|
||||
nicht die ihres Inhalts. Sie steht in `VERSION`, daneben `.wikitool-release.json` mit Herkunft
|
||||
und Exportdatum des Releases.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool version # was läuft hier, und woher kommt es
|
||||
tools/wikitool version check # gibt es ein neueres Release?
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`version check`, `version notes` und `dist upgrade --latest` sind die einzigen Befehle, die
|
||||
ins Netz gehen, und alle drei fragen denselben Release-Feed der Ursprungs-Instanz
|
||||
(`$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_URL` überschreibt; sonst der Wert aus dem Stamp). `version check` ist dafür da;
|
||||
`version notes` greift nur dann darauf zurück, wenn die lokale `CHANGES.md` den Eintrag nicht
|
||||
hat - auf einer Instanz also immer, siehe unten - und sagt vorher auf stderr, welche URL es
|
||||
fragt; `dist upgrade` fragt den Feed nur, wenn `--latest` dasteht, und lädt dann auch das Release
|
||||
herunter (siehe „Eine Instanz aktualisieren"). Ein nicht erreichbarer Feed wird als Fehler
|
||||
gemeldet - **nie** als „aktuell" und nie als „keine Notes".
|
||||
|
||||
**Was die Versionsnummer aussagt:** kompatibel ist, was in der *linkesten von Null
|
||||
verschiedenen Stelle* übereinstimmt. `0.1.3 → 0.1.4` ist ein sicheres Update, `0.1.3 → 0.2.0`
|
||||
nicht, und ab `1.0.0` liest sich dieselbe Regel als das gewohnte „MAJOR bricht". `version check`
|
||||
sagt das direkt (`state: update` vs. `state: migration`).
|
||||
|
||||
Was diese Stelle beantwortet, ist **ob die neue Version ein Drop-in-Ersatz ist** - ob sich die
|
||||
Maschinerie einfach darüberkopieren lässt und ob die alte danach noch zurückkann. Ob *Inhalt*
|
||||
migriert werden muss, ist eine **zweite, unabhängige Frage**. Ein MAJOR-Sprung kann eine leere
|
||||
Migrationskette haben und trotzdem Handarbeit verlangen: umbenannter Release-Feed, umbenanntes
|
||||
Artefakt, umbenannter Import- oder Kommandoname, geänderte Envvar - `kb/` bleibt dabei
|
||||
unangetastet, das Update ist trotzdem keins zum Drüberkopieren. Der Abschnitt „Sonderfall:
|
||||
Update von 1.x auf 2.0.0" unten ist genau dieser Fall.
|
||||
|
||||
Deshalb stehen in den Release-Notes eines MAJOR zwei getrennte Zeilen, und beide sind vor dem
|
||||
Update zu lesen: **Breaking Change:** sagt, was aufhört zu funktionieren und was diese Instanz
|
||||
dagegen tun muss; **Migration:** sagt, ob und wie der Korpus umgeschrieben wird (`none required`,
|
||||
wenn nicht). `tools/wikitool version notes` druckt beide Zeilen - im Ursprungs-Repo aus der dort
|
||||
gefüllten `CHANGES.md`, auf einer ausgelieferten Instanz aus dem Release-Feed, weil die Instanz
|
||||
die Datei nur als Stub bekommt und ein Update sie nie überschreibt. Der Befehl fragt dabei immer
|
||||
das **neueste** Release: solange `VERSION` noch die alte Fassung nennt, antwortet er also mit
|
||||
einer anderen Version als der eigenen und sagt das auf stderr dazu. Ist der Feed nicht
|
||||
erreichbar, nennt die Fehlermeldung die Release-Seite, die `.wikitool-release.json` als
|
||||
`release_url` führt; `--offline` verlangt diesen Weg von vornherein.
|
||||
|
||||
### Eine Instanz aktualisieren
|
||||
|
||||
Das Anwenden eines Updates schreibt in eine Instanz, die bereits Inhalt hat. Der Inhalt hat dabei
|
||||
eine **eigene Version**: `.wikitool-kb.json` sagt, in welcher Form die Seiten vorliegen,
|
||||
unabhängig davon, welche Maschinerie danebensteht. Genau dieser Unterschied ist der Zustand, in
|
||||
dem sich jede Instanz mitten im Upgrade befindet.
|
||||
|
||||
**Die Durchführung selbst steht in `instructions/upgrade-instance.md`** - die Reihenfolge, was
|
||||
jeder Schritt entscheidet, wo die Agent-Sitzung neu gestartet werden muss, und die beiden Stellen,
|
||||
an denen heute Handarbeit nötig ist. Sie steht dort und nicht hier, weil sie von einer
|
||||
Agent-Sitzung ausgeführt wird; eine zweite Fassung derselben Schrittfolge an dieser Stelle wäre
|
||||
genau die Kopie, die irgendwann auseinanderläuft. Wer den Lauf selbst fahren will, liest dieselbe
|
||||
Datei.
|
||||
|
||||
Was dieses Dokument beiträgt, ist die Entscheidung *davor* - welches Release, ob überhaupt, und
|
||||
wem die Instanz als Quelle vertraut - und zwei Sonderfälle, die die Instruktion nicht abdecken
|
||||
kann, weil es sie dort noch nicht gibt.
|
||||
|
||||
**Das Release kommt mit einem Befehl.** `tools/wikitool dist upgrade --latest --expect <version>`
|
||||
fragt den Release-Feed, lädt Tarball und `.sha256` in ein Arbeitsverzeichnis, prüft den Tarball
|
||||
gegen die Summe und wendet ihn an; das Arbeitsverzeichnis verschwindet bei jedem Ausgang wieder,
|
||||
auch bei `--dry-run`. `<version>` ist die, die `version notes` gedruckt hat: der Feed kennt nur
|
||||
sein *neuestes* Release, und `--expect` verweigert den Lauf **vor** dem Download, wenn inzwischen
|
||||
ein neueres erschienen ist, statt es ungelesen einzuspielen. Beides zusammen entscheidet vor dem
|
||||
Download über „schon aktuell", Downgrade und Vor-Release (`-beta.N` braucht `--pre`); fehlt dem
|
||||
Release der Tarball oder die Summe, bricht der Befehl vor dem ersten Download ab und nennt die
|
||||
Release-Seite. Wer offline arbeitet oder einen Tarball vom Betreiber bekommen hat, gibt statt
|
||||
`--latest` weiter die Datei an (`dist upgrade <tarball>`).
|
||||
|
||||
**Was die Prüfsumme leistet - und was nicht.** Die `.sha256` liegt beim selben Feed wie der
|
||||
Tarball. Sie schützt vor einer beschädigten Übertragung, nicht vor einem Feed, der selbst
|
||||
kompromittiert ist: die Echtheit eines Releases beruht auf dem Vertrauen in den Host, dessen
|
||||
Feed die Instanz fragt (`update_url` im Stamp). Es gibt keinen https-Zwang; wer einen
|
||||
`http://`-Feed konfiguriert, tut das bewusst. `$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN` geht nur an Downloads
|
||||
auf demselben Host wie der Feed.
|
||||
|
||||
**Beim ersten Sprung auf ein Release, das `--latest` kennt, gibt es die Option in der Instanz
|
||||
noch nicht** - die Instruktion, die dort steht, gehört zum Release, das die Instanz verlässt.
|
||||
Dann Tarball und `.sha256` einmal von der Release-Seite holen, nebeneinander ablegen und
|
||||
`dist upgrade <tarball>` geben; ab dem Release danach trägt die Instanz `--latest` selbst.
|
||||
|
||||
**Beim ersten Sprung auf `4.5.0` oder höher gibt es `dist upgrade` in der Instanz noch nicht** -
|
||||
es kam erst mit `4.5.0`. Dann das Werkzeug aus dem entpackten *neuen* Tarball verwenden, gegen die
|
||||
alte Instanz gerichtet:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tar -xzf chemenu-stack-<version>.tar.gz
|
||||
CHEMENU_ROOT="$PWD" chemenu-stack-<version>/tools/wikitool \
|
||||
dist upgrade chemenu-stack-<version>.tar.gz --dry-run
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`CHEMENU_ROOT` sagt dem Paket, auf welchen Korpus es zeigen soll (siehe § Konfiguration); ohne die
|
||||
Variable würde es den entpackten Tarball selbst für die Instanz halten. Ab dem zweiten Upgrade
|
||||
trägt die Instanz Kommando und Instruktion selbst, und der normale Weg greift.
|
||||
|
||||
Was `dist upgrade` dabei genau tut, klassifiziert und verweigert, steht in
|
||||
[tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md) - einschließlich des vollständigen Fehlerkontrakts. Eine
|
||||
lokal veränderte Stack-Datei ist damit sichtbar, statt von Hand gegen die sha256-Summen im
|
||||
`files`-Block geprüft werden zu müssen - genau der Schritt, der vor `4.5.0` hier stand.
|
||||
|
||||
`doctor` warnt, solange `kb_version` hinter `VERSION` zurückliegt und noch Migrationen offen
|
||||
sind. Einer Instanz, die älter ist als `.wikitool-kb.json`, fehlt die Datei ganz - dann einmalig
|
||||
`tools/wikitool migrate baseline <version>` aufrufen; geraten wird nichts.
|
||||
|
||||
**Fallstricke.** Eine Instanz ohne lokale `.wikitool-release.json` (oder eine ohne `files`-Block,
|
||||
aus der Zeit vor `4.5.0`) hat für `dist upgrade` keine Basis, gegen die es eine lokale Änderung
|
||||
erkennen könnte, und verweigert den Tausch - dafür gibt es heute keine Reparatur.
|
||||
Mit `<tarball-oder-verzeichnis>` lädt der Befehl selbst nichts herunter; die Datei muss vorher
|
||||
von der Release-Seite geholt werden. Nur `--latest` lädt, und ein Tarball muss in beiden Fällen genau ein
|
||||
Top-Level-Verzeichnis enthalten - die Form, in der `.gitea/workflows/release.yml` es baut.
|
||||
|
||||
Vor `4.5.0` stand hier ein rein manueller Ablauf (Maschinerie von Hand kopieren, `kb/CONTRACT.md`
|
||||
eingeschlossen, sha256-Vergleich von Hand). `dist upgrade` ersetzt genau diesen Teil; wer ihn
|
||||
dennoch von Hand nachvollziehen will oder muss (ein Werkzeug, das `wikitool` selbst nicht
|
||||
ausführen kann), findet die Dateiliste im `files`-Block der `.wikitool-release.json` und die
|
||||
Ausnahmen (`kb/CONVENTIONS.md`, `kb/*/COLLECTION.md`, `.wikitool-kb.json`) in
|
||||
[tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md)s `dist upgrade`-Datensatz (oder direkt:
|
||||
`tools/wikitool dist upgrade -h`).
|
||||
|
||||
## Konfiguration
|
||||
|
||||
| Variable | Zweck | Fallback |
|
||||
|----------|-------|----------|
|
||||
| `WIKI_AUTHOR` | Override für den Autornamen neuer Source-Seiten | `git config user.name` - fehlt beides, bricht `new` mit `ERROR` ab |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID` | Scopt das Iteration-Budget-Gate auf eine Aufgabe statt auf ein Terminal | Eine vom Harness selbst gesetzte Sitzungs-Variable, wo eine bekannt ist (z. B. `CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID`), sonst die Parent-Process-ID (siehe [instructions/session-setup.md](instructions/session-setup.md)) |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_UPDATE_URL` | Release-Feed, den `version check` abfragt | Wert aus `.wikitool-release.json`, sonst der Feed der Ursprungs-Instanz |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN` | Gitea-Token für den Release-Feed | keiner - gegen `torben/chemenu` nicht nötig, nur gegen einen Feed in einem nicht öffentlichen Repo |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_TASKS_CONFIG` | Pfad zu einer Tracker-Konfiguration, die `task`, `review` und `doctor` statt `.wikitool-tasks.json` lesen - um einen Checkout der Reihe nach gegen mehrere Tracker laufen zu lassen | die `.wikitool-tasks.json` im Repo-Root. Nennt die Variable eine Datei, die es nicht gibt, ist das ein Fehler und nie „kein Tracker konfiguriert" |
|
||||
| `CHEMENU_ROOT` | Auf welchen Korpus das Paket zeigt - für einen Aufrufer, der nicht im Checkout selbst liegt | der Checkout, in dem das Paket liegt (`tools/wikitool` verhält sich ohne die Variable unverändert) |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE` / `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` | Telemetrie abschalten bzw. aus dem Arbeitsbaum heraus umlenken | Aus - siehe unten |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_MAX_SESSION_BYTES` / `WIKI_TRACE_KEEP_SESSIONS` | Byte-Deckel je Session-Trace bzw. wie viele Session-Verzeichnisse die Retention behält | 5 MiB je Session, 250 Verzeichnisse |
|
||||
|
||||
**Gegen das Ursprungs-Repo braucht es kein Token.** `torben/chemenu` ist öffentlich lesbar;
|
||||
`version check`, `dist upgrade --latest` und die Installation funktionieren ohne Konfiguration.
|
||||
|
||||
**Telemetrie ist in einer Instanz aus.** Jede Instanz trägt die `.wikitool-release.json` ihres
|
||||
Releases, und daran erkennt `chemenu.telemetry.policy`, dass niemand Telemetrie bestellt hat.
|
||||
Das gilt auch für jeden weiteren Klon der Instanz, weil die Datei mit dem ersten Commit ins Repo
|
||||
kommt. Nur ein Klon des Ursprungs-Repos zur Entwicklung trägt keine; dort sind die Traces das
|
||||
Messinstrument, mit dem der Stack sich selbst bewertet, und sie stehen auf **an**.
|
||||
|
||||
Wer den Default umdrehen will, legt `.wikitool-telemetry.json` im Repo-Root an (pro Checkout,
|
||||
gitignored, kein `.template` - genau wie `.wikitool-remotes.json`):
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "enabled": true, "max_session_bytes": 5242880, "keep_sessions": 250 }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Alle drei Schlüssel sind optional. `WIKI_TRACE` überschreibt `enabled` weiterhin in beide
|
||||
Richtungen und schlägt diese Datei. `wikitool doctor` meldet den aktuellen Zustand (an/aus,
|
||||
warum, und die Menge gegen beide Deckel); mehr dazu in [EVALS.md](EVALS.md) § "Whether it
|
||||
runs at all".
|
||||
|
||||
**Tool-Pfade - schreibt der Preflight, nicht der Mensch.** `.wikitool-tools.json` im Repo-Root
|
||||
hält die absoluten Pfade von Python, git und ripgrep, so wie der Preflight sie auf diesem Rechner
|
||||
gefunden hat; `wikitool` startet git und rg von dort statt über `PATH`. Pro Checkout und
|
||||
gitignored - ein Pfad auf einem Rechner sagt über den nächsten nichts. Fehlt die Datei oder ist
|
||||
sie unvollständig, startet `tools/wikitool` nicht (Exit 42) und nennt den Preflight. Liegt ein
|
||||
Tool woanders, als der Preflight sucht, nennt man den Pfad mit
|
||||
`tools/preflight.sh --set rg=<pfad>` (PowerShell: `pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools/preflight.ps1 --set rg=<pfad>`); von Hand
|
||||
bearbeitet wird die Datei nicht. `doctor` meldet
|
||||
unter `tool-paths`, ob alle Pfade noch stimmen.
|
||||
|
||||
**Aufgaben-Tracker anbinden - optional.** Der Wochenrückblick (`tools/wikitool review`, Skill
|
||||
`gtd-weekly-review`) gleicht die Projektseiten unter `kb/gtd/` gegen einen Aufgaben-Tracker ab. Welcher
|
||||
das ist, steht in `.wikitool-tasks.json` im Repo-Root - der dritten Datei dieser Art neben
|
||||
`.wikitool-telemetry.json` und `.wikitool-remotes.json`: pro Checkout, ohne `.template`, und
|
||||
**gitignored, sobald ein Token darin liegt**. Fehlt sie, ist schlicht kein Tracker konfiguriert;
|
||||
das ist ein gültiger Endzustand, kein Fehler. Kaputt ist sie dagegen ein `FAIL` - eine
|
||||
unlesbare Konfiguration darf nicht als „kein Tracker" durchgehen.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{
|
||||
"schema": 1,
|
||||
"provider": "superproductivity",
|
||||
"thresholds": {
|
||||
"stalled_waiting_days": 14,
|
||||
"unpaged_project_weeks": 3,
|
||||
"someday_stale_months": 5
|
||||
},
|
||||
"superproductivity": {
|
||||
"access": "api",
|
||||
"api_base_url": "http://127.0.0.1:3876",
|
||||
"api_token": "<token aus den SP-Einstellungen>"
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
"superproductivity": {
|
||||
"access": "snapshot",
|
||||
"backups_dir": "~/.config/superProductivity/backups"
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`provider` wählt den Adapter - ausgeliefert werden `superproductivity` und `caldav`. Der
|
||||
`thresholds`-Block trägt die drei Schwellwerte des Rückblicks (Konfiguration, nicht Schema): ab
|
||||
wann ein Waiting-For überfällig ist, ab welchem Alter ein Tracker-Projekt ohne `kb/`-Seite
|
||||
gemeldet wird, und ab wann ein Someday-Eintrag als verstaubt gilt. Ein Wert, den der Provider
|
||||
gar nicht liefern kann - ein Waiting-Posten ohne Wiedervorlagedatum, ein Tracker-Projekt ohne
|
||||
bestimmbares Anlagedatum - wird vom Rückblick nicht still übersprungen, sondern als eigene
|
||||
Fundstelle gemeldet (`waiting_no_follow_up`/`project_age_unknown`).
|
||||
|
||||
Der gleichnamige Provider-Block trägt dessen Verbindungsangaben, und bei Super Productivity
|
||||
entscheidet `access` **verpflichtend und ohne Rückfall**, welcher von zwei sich ausschließenden
|
||||
Wegen das ist: eine headless bediente Instanz setzt `access: "snapshot"` und liest
|
||||
ausschließlich den jüngsten Backup-Schnappschuss unter `backups_dir` (läuft auch ohne laufende
|
||||
App, aber rein lesend - der Tracker ist von dort aus nicht schreibbar); eine Desktop-Instanz
|
||||
setzt `access: "api"` und spricht ausschließlich die lokale REST-API an, die nur antwortet,
|
||||
solange die App läuft, dafür aber auch den aktuellen Zustand liefert und den Schreibpfad trägt.
|
||||
Der Block nennt nur die Felder seines eigenen Wegs - ein `backups_dir` neben `access: "api"` oder
|
||||
ein `api_token` neben `access: "snapshot"` wird beim Lesen der Konfiguration abgelehnt, nicht
|
||||
ignoriert. `api_token` ist bei `access: "api"` Pflicht, da jeder Endpunkt außer `GET /health`
|
||||
`Authorization: Bearer <token>` verlangt.
|
||||
|
||||
`tools/wikitool new project` legt einen gleichnamigen Tracker-Eintrag nur auf einer
|
||||
`access: "api"`-Instanz an (und auch dort nicht automatisch - siehe die Kommandotabelle). Auf
|
||||
einer `access: "snapshot"`-Instanz verweigert das Kommando vollständig, exit 1: der Tracker ist
|
||||
von dort aus nur lesbar. Dasselbe gilt für `tools/wikitool task new`, den zweiten Schreibweg:
|
||||
es legt einen einzelnen Posten im Tracker an - ohne `kb/`-Seite - und existiert ebenfalls nur
|
||||
auf einer `access: "api"`-Instanz. `tools/wikitool task close --id` ist der dritte und letzte
|
||||
Schreibweg - er markiert einen Posten erledigt, löscht ihn nie - und verweigert auf
|
||||
`access: "snapshot"` auf dieselbe Weise. `tools/wikitool task list --project` ist rein lesend
|
||||
und beantwortet daher auf beiden Zugriffsarten.
|
||||
|
||||
**`caldav`** ist der standardbasierte zweite Adapter (RFC 4791/5545), gegen Nextcloud Tasks
|
||||
verifiziert, mit iOS *Erinnerungen* als mobilem Client - gebaut nach dem Zuschnitt: auf dem
|
||||
Telefon wird abgehakt, gepflegt wird am Schreibtisch. Anders als bei Super Productivity gibt es
|
||||
nur einen Zugriffsweg - CalDAV ist immer ein Netzwerkzugriff, kein `access`-Feld nötig:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
"caldav": {
|
||||
"url": "https://<host>/remote.php/dav/calendars/<user>/",
|
||||
"username": "<login>",
|
||||
"app_password": "<Nextcloud-App-Passwort>",
|
||||
"inbox_list": "Inbox",
|
||||
"someday_list": "Someday",
|
||||
"exclude_lists": ["<vorhandene Liste, die kein Projekt ist>"]
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`url` zeigt auf das CalDAV-Calendar-Home-Set des Kontos; sie darf ein Alias sein (Nextcloud
|
||||
akzeptiert dort einen Kurznamen), da jede spätere Adresse ausschließlich aus den vom Server
|
||||
gelieferten `href`s stammt, nie aus dieser URL und einem Namen zusammengesetzt wird. `username`
|
||||
ist der Login-Name, der von der Benutzer-ID in der URL abweichen kann - ein
|
||||
Nextcloud-App-Passwort wird empfohlen, nicht das Kontopasswort. `inbox_list`/`someday_list`
|
||||
nennen die beiden festen Listen (je genau eine pro Instanz); `exclude_lists` nimmt vorhandene
|
||||
reine Aufgabenlisten heraus, die keine Projekte sind - eine Liste mit `VEVENT`-Anteil zählt
|
||||
ohnehin nie als Projekt.
|
||||
|
||||
Ein Projekt ist dort eine Liste, deren unterstützte Komponente ausschließlich `VTODO` ist; `tools/wikitool
|
||||
new project` legt sie automatisch per `MKCALENDAR` an - anders als bei Super Productivity ohne
|
||||
Rückfrage, weil CalDAV einen echten Anlage-Befehl für Listen kennt. Die Eindeutigkeitsprüfung
|
||||
läuft gegen **jede** Liste im Konto, auch gegen ausgeschlossene, Inbox, Someday und gemischte
|
||||
Kalender - kollidiert ein neuer Name mit einer davon, wird nichts angelegt und die Kollision
|
||||
genannt; die vorhandene Liste in Nextcloud umzubenennen bleibt Handarbeit. `tools/wikitool task
|
||||
new`/`task close` funktionieren auf einer `caldav`-Instanz uneingeschränkt - es gibt keinen
|
||||
reinen Lesemodus wie `access: "snapshot"`. Beim Abhaken ändert `task close` ausschließlich
|
||||
`STATUS`, `COMPLETED`, `PERCENT-COMPLETE`, `LAST-MODIFIED` und `DTSTAMP` an der bestehenden
|
||||
`.ics`-Ressource; jede andere Eigenschaft - auch eine unbekannte `X-`-Eigenschaft oder ein Alarm
|
||||
- bleibt unverändert erhalten, und eine seit dem Lesen veränderte Ressource (ETag-Konflikt)
|
||||
schreibt nichts und bricht mit exit 1 ab. Gelöscht wird nie etwas.
|
||||
|
||||
Listen abgeschlossener Projekte bleiben nach dem Archivieren bestehen - der Adapter löscht nie
|
||||
eine Liste; das übernimmt der Betreiber von Hand in Nextcloud, sobald gewünscht.
|
||||
einen Fehlerbericht an - siehe
|
||||
[docs/how-to/troubleshoot.md](docs/how-to/troubleshoot.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Verifikation
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -454,53 +185,10 @@ tools/wikitool docs verify
|
||||
tools/wikitool instructions verify
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Troubleshooting
|
||||
## Danach
|
||||
|
||||
- **`tools/wikitool` endet mit `STOP - this checkout is not set up yet` (Exit 42)** - der
|
||||
Preflight ist in diesem Checkout noch nicht durchgelaufen, oder seit dem letzten Update nicht
|
||||
mehr: `tools/preflight.sh` ausführen, siehe
|
||||
[instructions/preflight.md](instructions/preflight.md). In PowerShell 7 unter Windows heißt der
|
||||
Aufruf `pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools/preflight.ps1`; das
|
||||
`-ExecutionPolicy Bypass` gilt nur für diesen einen Prozess und ändert keine Einstellung. Was
|
||||
seine Ausgabe dann bedeuten kann, steht unter [Wenn der Agent anhält](#wenn-der-agent-anhält).
|
||||
- **Der Agent bietet keine Skills an (`wiki-ingest`, `wiki-query`, ...)** - `.agents/skills/`
|
||||
und `.claude/skills/` sind generiert und nicht committet. `tools/wikitool instructions sync`
|
||||
ausführen, dann die Agent-Session neu starten (Harnesses lesen Skills nur beim Start).
|
||||
- **`doctor` meldet `personalization: FAIL`** - `USER.md`/`SOUL.md` fehlen, oder sie tragen
|
||||
noch die Sentinel-Zeile aus dem Template (ein umbenanntes Template ist kein ausgefülltes).
|
||||
Den Personalisierungs-Schritt aus `instructions/setup-instance.md` ausführen lassen; bei einem
|
||||
weiteren Klon einer älteren Instanz ist das der einzige nachzuholende Schritt.
|
||||
- **`doctor` meldet `environment: WARN`** - `ENVIRONMENT.md` existiert, trägt aber noch die
|
||||
Sentinel-Zeile aus dem Template. Ausfüllen (Vorlage: `ENVIRONMENT.md.template`) und die Zeile
|
||||
entfernen, oder die Datei löschen - sie ist optional, und `absent` ist ein gültiger
|
||||
Endzustand.
|
||||
- **`new` bricht mit "No author configured" ab** - weder `$WIKI_AUTHOR` noch
|
||||
`git config user.name` sind gesetzt. `git config user.name "<Name>"` ausführen, oder
|
||||
`WIKI_AUTHOR` exportieren.
|
||||
- **`publish` endet mit Exit-Code 42 (Mass-Update-Gate)** - erwartetes Verhalten bei ≥10
|
||||
gezählten Dateien (z. B. beim allerersten Commit einer neuen Instanz). Das ist kein Fehler,
|
||||
sondern die Aufforderung, die Ausgabe einem Menschen zu zeigen: sie enthält die vollständige
|
||||
Dateiliste und die exakte `--confirm <token>`-Zeile, die nach Freigabe veröffentlicht.
|
||||
Details: [instructions/gates.md](instructions/gates.md).
|
||||
- **`publish` endet mit Exit-Code 42 (Publish-Remote-Gate)** - dieser Checkout hat eine
|
||||
`.wikitool-remotes.json`, und das angesteuerte Remote steht nicht darin. Ebenfalls kein
|
||||
Fehler: Die Ausgabe nennt die Push-URL, an die geschrieben würde, und die erlaubten. Anders
|
||||
als beim Mass-Update-Gate gibt es hier **keinen Token und keine Flagge** - stimmt das Ziel
|
||||
wirklich, trägt der Mensch dessen URL selbst in die Datei ein. Ein Agent, der die Datei
|
||||
anfasst, um an der Verweigerung vorbeizukommen, öffnet ein Gate aus eigenem Antrieb.
|
||||
- **Setup oder Update schlägt fehl und ich will es melden** - den Agenten
|
||||
[instructions/bug-report.md](instructions/bug-report.md) ausführen lassen, oder direkt
|
||||
`tools/bugreport` aufrufen (aus Bash, Git Bash und PowerShell gleich). Der Aufruf sucht sich
|
||||
selbst ein Python 3.8 oder neuer und überspringt dabei die Store-Aliase, auf die `python3`
|
||||
unter Windows zeigt. Er braucht weder den Preflight noch ein funktionierendes `wikitool`, und
|
||||
findet er kein Python, sagt er, warum. Das Skript schreibt ein Bündel nach
|
||||
`reports/bugreport-<Zeitstempel>/` samt Zip. Geheimnisse werden entfernt, und aus allem, was das Skript selbst erzeugt, bleiben
|
||||
Seitentitel draußen (`--titles` nimmt sie mit). Der Sitzungs-Trace ist standardmäßig dabei
|
||||
(`--no-trace` lässt ihn weg) und kann wie Chronologie und Transkripte Seiteninhalt und Titel
|
||||
enthalten; das Bündel enthält außerdem Maschinen-, Benutzer- und Pfadnamen. Mit `--pseudonymise`
|
||||
ersetzt das Skript Benutzer-, Host-, Pfad-, Git- und Remote-Namen durch Platzhalter, die Länge,
|
||||
Leerzeichen, Bindestriche und Pfadtiefe erhalten; der Agent kann danach weitere Namen
|
||||
(Personen, Firmen, Kunden, Projekte) mit `--bundle … --candidates …` nachtragen. Das ist das
|
||||
Urteil eines Modells und lässt einen Rest übrig - lies das Bündel vor dem Teilen. Die
|
||||
Zuordnung, die Prüfliste und die Kandidatendatei enthalten Originale und liegen neben, nie im
|
||||
Bündel. Es wird nirgends hochgeladen - den Kanal wählst du selbst.
|
||||
- **Aktualisieren** auf ein neueres Release: [docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md](docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md).
|
||||
- **Konfiguration** - Umgebungsvariablen und die Dateien pro Checkout:
|
||||
[docs/reference/configuration.md](docs/reference/configuration.md).
|
||||
- **Wenn etwas nicht geht:** [docs/how-to/troubleshoot.md](docs/how-to/troubleshoot.md).
|
||||
- **Mit dem Wiki arbeiten:** [docs/how-to/](docs/how-to/README.md).
|
||||
@@ -2,27 +2,10 @@
|
||||
|
||||
A structured, LLM-maintained knowledge base for your personal IT work.
|
||||
|
||||
## What is this?
|
||||
|
||||
This is **Chemenu** - a pattern for building a personal knowledge base using LLMs.
|
||||
Instead of just retrieving from raw documents on every query, the LLM **incrementally builds
|
||||
and maintains a persistent wiki** that compounds over time.
|
||||
|
||||
**The key insight:** Knowledge is compiled once and kept current, not re-derived on every question.
|
||||
|
||||
**The pages are written in German.** Source material in `raw/` is never touched and is usually
|
||||
English; the compiled pages under `kb/` are not. What stays English inside them is everything that
|
||||
is an *identifier* rather than prose - page titles, section headings, wikilink targets, citation
|
||||
ids, schema enum values, tags, commands, paths and code - so `GitOps Ownership Model` and
|
||||
`## Beziehungen` sit in the same page without contradiction. Which lines are identifiers is
|
||||
[kb/CONTRACT.md § Language and identifiers](kb/CONTRACT.md#language-and-identifiers); *which
|
||||
language* the prose is in, and what the tool-owned headings are called, is this instance's own
|
||||
[kb/CONVENTIONS.md](kb/CONVENTIONS.md), and the vocabulary behind it is
|
||||
[instructions/german-terminology.md](instructions/german-terminology.md).
|
||||
|
||||
This is a per-instance decision, not a property of the pattern - which is why it lives in a file
|
||||
the instance owns rather than in one the stack ships. A new instance installed from a release
|
||||
starts empty and picks any language by filling in `kb/CONVENTIONS.md` before the first ingest.
|
||||
Chemenu is a pattern for a personal knowledge base maintained by an LLM. Instead of going back
|
||||
to the raw documents for every question, the LLM **incrementally builds and maintains a
|
||||
persistent wiki** that compounds over time: knowledge is compiled once and kept current, not
|
||||
re-derived on every question.
|
||||
|
||||
## Getting started
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -52,7 +35,7 @@ Two starting points, depending on what you're doing:
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
- **Working on the stack itself.** A clone of this repository is a development checkout, with
|
||||
the demo corpus described below; it is never an instance. Setting it up, and `dist export` as
|
||||
a demo corpus; it is never an instance. Setting it up, and `dist export` as
|
||||
the build and test tool it is, are in `docs/dev/development.md` (for you) and
|
||||
`instructions/dev/dev-setup.md` (for the agent).
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-end -->
|
||||
@@ -66,288 +49,15 @@ The human documentation lives under `docs/`, sorted by what you want from it:
|
||||
- [docs/how-to/](docs/how-to/README.md) - doing: one task per page, for the operator of an
|
||||
instance.
|
||||
- [docs/reference/](docs/reference/README.md) - looking up: commands, exit codes, skills, page
|
||||
types. The command reference is [docs/reference/commands/](docs/reference/commands/README.md);
|
||||
agents use the same records in [tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md).
|
||||
types, configuration. The command reference is
|
||||
[docs/reference/commands/](docs/reference/commands/README.md); agents use the same records in
|
||||
[tools/CONTRACT.md](tools/CONTRACT.md).
|
||||
- [docs/explanation/](docs/explanation/README.md) - understanding: why the stack is built the way
|
||||
it is.
|
||||
|
||||
The areas are filling up gradually; until a page exists there, the sections below still carry
|
||||
its material.
|
||||
|
||||
## Architecture
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
chemenu/
|
||||
├── AGENTS.md # Control plane: invariants, file naming, routing, gates
|
||||
├── CLAUDE.md # Claude Code only: imports AGENTS.md, links the one Claude-Code-only decision (model/effort). No rules of its own
|
||||
├── README.md # This file: human-readable overview of the whole repo
|
||||
├── INSTALL.md # Human-readable install: one release, one sentence to the agent
|
||||
├── INSTALL-MCP.md # Human-readable setup for the optional MCP read server
|
||||
├── EVALS.md # Human-readable overview of telemetry and evaluation
|
||||
├── CHANGES.md # Changelog for the stack itself
|
||||
├── USER.md # Who operates this instance - context, never instructions
|
||||
├── SOUL.md # How this instance sounds. AGENTS.md always wins over it
|
||||
├── ENVIRONMENT.md # Optional, gitignored: this checkout's harness, MCP servers, remotes
|
||||
├── *.md.template # Unfilled USER/SOUL/ENVIRONMENT - what a distribution ships instead
|
||||
├── .gitignore # Anchored so nothing under raw/, kb/ or work/ is ever excluded;
|
||||
│ # incoming/ is the one directory excluded the other way round
|
||||
├── .github/hooks/ # Copilot CLI hooks - session tracing
|
||||
├── .vibe/ # Mistral Vibe hooks + the repo's telemetry policy
|
||||
├── docs/ # Human documentation: tutorials/, how-to/, reference/, explanation/
|
||||
├── instructions/ # CONTROL: everything an agent is told to do
|
||||
│ ├── CONTRACT.md # Instruction vs. skill, publishing, writing standard
|
||||
│ ├── bootstrap.md # Prepare a further checkout of an instance
|
||||
│ ├── gates.md # What to do when a gate refuses a call
|
||||
│ ├── german-terminology.md # Which words stay English in German prose; register
|
||||
│ ├── session-setup.md
|
||||
│ ├── page-lifecycle.md
|
||||
│ ├── publish-cycle.md
|
||||
│ ├── ingest-large-tree.md
|
||||
│ ├── ingest-queue.md # Reviewing a submission before wikitool upload accept promotes it
|
||||
│ └── wiki-*/SKILL.md # Skills - copied into .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/
|
||||
├── mcp-upload/ # QUARANTINE (optional): the MCP `submit` tool's write path, gitignored -
|
||||
│ # read by no command in the ordinary pipeline; a human reviews it with
|
||||
│ # `wikitool upload list/show/accept/reject`
|
||||
├── incoming/ # INBOX: content gitignored - drop a file or one folder per source here, `raw accept` promotes it
|
||||
├── raw/ # INPUT: immutable, untrusted source material
|
||||
│ ├── CONTRACT.md # Date shard, capture fields, immutability, untrusted content
|
||||
│ ├── 2026/09/ # Where `raw accept` puts a file: the month it was accepted
|
||||
│ ├── articles/ # The old type directories: still valid paths, never moved,
|
||||
│ ├── documents/ # but nothing new is ever routed into them again
|
||||
│ ├── notes/
|
||||
│ └── assets/
|
||||
├── types/ # SCHEMA: the global type surface. Not a collection
|
||||
│ ├── type-spec.md # Root contract: anatomy, placement, adding a type
|
||||
│ ├── type-guidance.md # Contract for the *.guidance.md files below
|
||||
│ ├── entity.md # Entity type config + template (+ .schema.yaml)
|
||||
│ ├── entity.guidance.md # Its stack-owned authoring prose, shipped verbatim
|
||||
│ ├── entity.person.md # Subtype template: what `new` scaffolds for entity_type=person
|
||||
│ ├── concept.md # Concept type config + template (+ .guidance.md, + concept.decision.md)
|
||||
│ ├── source.md # Source type config + template (+ .guidance.md)
|
||||
│ ├── comparison.md # Comparison type config + template (+ .guidance.md)
|
||||
│ ├── project.md # Project (Vorhaben) type config + template, no guidance file
|
||||
│ ├── instruction.md # Instruction type - lives outside kb/ via `root: repo`
|
||||
│ └── lint-report.md # Contract-only: describes reports/, owns no directory
|
||||
├── kb/ # OUTPUT: compiled knowledge. A namespace, not a collection
|
||||
│ ├── CONTRACT.md # Collections, naming, tone, linking, provenance
|
||||
│ ├── index.md # Generated catalog *map*: counts and pointers
|
||||
│ ├── log.md # Generated chronological audit log
|
||||
│ ├── provenance.md # Generated raw-file reverse index
|
||||
│ ├── entities/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ │ ├── codebases/
|
||||
│ │ ├── systems/
|
||||
│ │ ├── tools/ # own INDEX.md once past 50 pages
|
||||
│ │ ├── technologies/
|
||||
│ │ ├── people/
|
||||
│ │ └── organizations/
|
||||
│ ├── concepts/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ │ ├── architectures/
|
||||
│ │ ├── patterns/
|
||||
│ │ ├── protocols/
|
||||
│ │ ├── workflows/
|
||||
│ │ ├── decisions/
|
||||
│ │ └── problems/
|
||||
│ ├── sources/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ │ ├── transcripts/
|
||||
│ │ ├── analyses/
|
||||
│ │ ├── articles/
|
||||
│ │ ├── documents/
|
||||
│ │ ├── notes/
|
||||
│ │ ├── trackers/
|
||||
│ │ └── unclassified/
|
||||
│ ├── comparisons/ # COLLECTION.md - comparison pages, no subtype axis
|
||||
│ └── gtd/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ ├── haus/
|
||||
│ ├── finanzen/
|
||||
│ └── technik/
|
||||
├── work/ # WORKSHOP: one directory per multi-session run, tracked
|
||||
│ └── CONTRACT.md # Run keys, required files, how a run closes
|
||||
├── reports/ # DERIVED: lint reports, traces, eval scores. Gitignored
|
||||
│ └── CONTRACT.md
|
||||
└── tools/ # COMPILER: the wikitool CLI
|
||||
├── CONTRACT.md # Command records (generated) and index, maintenance schedule
|
||||
└── README.md # How wikitool is built and how to change it
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
Dev-instance-only (see `tools/CONTRACT.md` for how it got here):
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
├── docs/dev/ # Human-readable: development environment and release workflow
|
||||
└── commonplace/ # Vendored, read-only knowledge base
|
||||
```
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-end -->
|
||||
|
||||
A directory under `kb/` is a **collection** exactly when it holds a `COLLECTION.md`; a
|
||||
subdirectory inside one is an **area** that inherits it, and that is as deep as a page goes -
|
||||
nothing nests below an area, because the generated catalog reads exactly two path segments
|
||||
under `kb/` and would fold a deeper page into the area silently (`kb/CONTRACT.md` § Collections
|
||||
has the rule; `wikitool lint` reports a violation as a hard error).
|
||||
|
||||
Which areas a collection has is not chosen per page: a type-spec's `layout:` maps its subtype
|
||||
field onto directories, and `wikitool new` writes the page straight into the one its subtype
|
||||
names. That is also what makes the catalog's shard threshold do anything - `index rebuild`
|
||||
splits **per area**, so a collection with no areas keeps one table however large it grows.
|
||||
`wikitool lint` reports such a collection once it is past the threshold, as a recommendation
|
||||
rather than an error, together with the split its subtype field would produce; it stays quiet
|
||||
when the split would not actually help. `kb/comparisons/` is the worked example of a collection
|
||||
that stays flat - it has no subtype field for a `layout:` to key on at all. A *lopsided* subtype
|
||||
field is a different case and is fixed rather than left flat: `kb/sources/` looked lopsided only
|
||||
because `source_type` had a schema `default:` that the compiler applied whenever nobody chose a
|
||||
value, and once that was removed and the pages reclassified it split into six real areas.
|
||||
|
||||
`COLLECTION.md` never appears outside `kb/` - the other layers carry a `CONTRACT.md` or a root
|
||||
type-spec instead. A stage may carry both a `README.md` and a `CONTRACT.md`: they have different
|
||||
readers. The README is for humans working *on* that layer, the contract is what binds an agent
|
||||
working *with* it.
|
||||
|
||||
## How to Use
|
||||
|
||||
### Adding Knowledge (Ingest)
|
||||
|
||||
1. Drop a file into `incoming/` - directly, no classification to make. Files that belong
|
||||
together go into one folder there instead: a folder is one source, accepted whole with
|
||||
its structure kept. Everything past that (the destination in `raw/`, which is a `YYYY/MM`
|
||||
shard of the day it was accepted, and whether several files of one source get bundled)
|
||||
is computed by `tools/wikitool raw accept`, never chosen by hand
|
||||
2. Tell the LLM: `Ingest incoming/my-article.md` - or just `Ingest`, which takes the oldest
|
||||
entry waiting in `incoming/` (`tools/wikitool raw pending` lists them). It will ask you
|
||||
two things before promoting: how faithful the capture is (`fidelity`) and what the material may claim
|
||||
about its subject (`authority`). Both are recorded once and never guessed - they are
|
||||
knowable now and unrecoverable later
|
||||
3. The LLM will:
|
||||
- Promote it into `raw/` with `raw accept`
|
||||
- Read and summarize the source
|
||||
- Create a source page in `kb/sources/`
|
||||
- Create or update relevant entity pages
|
||||
- Create or update relevant concept pages
|
||||
- Add cross-references between everything
|
||||
- Rebuild the catalog and append to `kb/log.md`
|
||||
|
||||
A document can also arrive from outside, through the MCP server's optional `submit` tool
|
||||
(see [INSTALL-MCP.md](INSTALL-MCP.md)): it lands in `mcp-upload/`, not `incoming/`, and a human
|
||||
reviews and promotes it with `wikitool upload accept` before step 1 above applies - see
|
||||
[instructions/ingest-queue.md](instructions/ingest-queue.md).
|
||||
|
||||
A web page needs no download of your own: tell the LLM `Ingest https://example.org/post`, and
|
||||
`tools/wikitool raw fetch` puts the page into `incoming/` - the HTML exactly as received, plus a
|
||||
text derived from it with a header recording where and when it was fetched. Behind a paywall or a
|
||||
login, save the page from your browser into `incoming/` (HTML only) instead; the LLM derives the
|
||||
same text from that file with `raw fetch --html`. See [raw/CONTRACT.md](raw/CONTRACT.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Documentation that lives in a git repository is captured, not copied: `tools/wikitool raw capture
|
||||
<repo-url> --ref main --path 'docs/**/*.md' --name <bundle> ...` writes the matching files, byte
|
||||
for byte, into `incoming/<bundle>/` together with a `_capture.json` manifest naming the repository,
|
||||
the ref rule and the commit. Later, `tools/wikitool raw status` tells you which captured bundles
|
||||
have fallen behind their repository, file by file; `raw capture --update` and `raw accept
|
||||
--replaces-bundle` take the new edition in as a whole. You need not run any of that yourself:
|
||||
tell the LLM `Update the captured repositories`, and it checks them, takes one changed bundle per
|
||||
run into the wiki and says how many are still behind. Git uses your own keys and credential
|
||||
helpers - nothing is stored in the repository.
|
||||
|
||||
The same repositories can get something back: the wiki's guidelines, as one generated
|
||||
`GUIDELINES.md` in their root. Which pages count as guidelines is your decision, written down in
|
||||
`kb/CONVENTIONS.md` (§ Guidelines for other repositories); `tools/wikitool export guidelines
|
||||
--tag guideline` prints the file as it would be written. A repository takes part by carrying a
|
||||
`GUIDELINES.md` whose first line is `<!-- wikitool:export kind=guidelines -->` - commit that one
|
||||
line there, and point the repository's own `AGENTS.md` at the file (Claude Code:
|
||||
`@GUIDELINES.md`). A hand-written `GUIDELINES.md` is never touched. Then tell the LLM
|
||||
`Roll out the guidelines to the captured repositories`: it runs `export guidelines --push`, which
|
||||
stops before pushing anything (the **Guideline Push Gate**) and shows you, per repository, what
|
||||
would change - the LLM puts every diff in front of you, and only your approval pushes one commit
|
||||
per repository, changing only that file, straight onto its branch.
|
||||
|
||||
### Querying Knowledge
|
||||
|
||||
Ask questions naturally:
|
||||
- "What projects use MQTT?"
|
||||
- "Show me the architecture of HA Integration"
|
||||
- "Compare gdeploy and plugnburn-edl"
|
||||
- "What decisions were made about E3DC integration?"
|
||||
|
||||
The LLM will search the wiki, synthesize an answer, and cite sources.
|
||||
|
||||
### Maintaining Knowledge (Lint)
|
||||
|
||||
Periodically run: `Lint the wiki`
|
||||
|
||||
The LLM will:
|
||||
- Run `tools/wikitool lint` for a deterministic structural + provenance scan
|
||||
(broken wikilinks, orphan pages, index drift, schema gaps, uncovered raw
|
||||
files, citation/frontmatter drift)
|
||||
- Check for contradictions (semantic judgment)
|
||||
- Find stale claims
|
||||
- Identify orphan pages and missing cross-references
|
||||
- Rebuild `kb/index.md` and `kb/provenance.md`, append to `kb/log.md`
|
||||
- Generate a report
|
||||
|
||||
See the [Maintenance](#maintenance) section below for the full schedule and
|
||||
command reference.
|
||||
|
||||
### Reviewing Commitments (Weekly Review)
|
||||
|
||||
Say: `Run the weekly review`
|
||||
|
||||
Knowledge and commitments keep different clocks, so they live in different
|
||||
places. A page under `kb/gtd/` is one committed initiative's durable memory -
|
||||
its goal, who is involved, where it stands, why it is worth doing - and it never
|
||||
summarizes the task list. The open items live in a task tracker that owns them,
|
||||
configured per checkout in `.wikitool-tasks.json` (see
|
||||
[INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) § Konfiguration; no tracker configured is a valid
|
||||
state, and the pages work without one).
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing syncs between the two. `tools/wikitool review` joins them at read time
|
||||
over the project name and prints what needs a decision: initiatives with no next
|
||||
action, waiting-fors past their follow-up date, tracker projects with no page,
|
||||
active pages with no open loop, someday items gone stale. It stores nothing -
|
||||
not even a report file. The `gtd-weekly-review` skill then walks the findings with
|
||||
you and turns each one into a decision; `tools/wikitool new project` is what
|
||||
gives a new initiative its page and its tracker project under one name, and
|
||||
`tools/wikitool task new` files a single open item into the tracker - the
|
||||
commitment half of a source that carries both something to know and something
|
||||
to do, with no page of its own. `tools/wikitool task list` reads a project's
|
||||
open items back with their tracker id, and `tools/wikitool task close --id`
|
||||
marks one done - never deletes it - closing the loop the same source-driven
|
||||
way `task new` opened it, or the way the weekly review proposes it for a
|
||||
`waiting_overdue`/`someday_stale` finding once you confirm.
|
||||
|
||||
Why the split runs this way, rather than syncing the two:
|
||||
[docs/explanation/knowledge-and-commitment.md](docs/explanation/knowledge-and-commitment.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Page Types
|
||||
|
||||
Every page type the stack ships - entity, concept, source, comparison, project - with its
|
||||
subtypes, the directory each is written to and its required fields, is listed in
|
||||
[docs/reference/page-types.md](docs/reference/page-types.md), generated from the type-specs. An
|
||||
instance adopts those type-specs and may change them, so for the types *this* instance has, ask
|
||||
the tool:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool types list
|
||||
tools/wikitool types describe entity
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Workflows
|
||||
|
||||
### For You (Human)
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Curate sources** - Drop files you want processed into `incoming/` - directly, or one folder
|
||||
per source
|
||||
2. **Ask questions** - Query the wiki naturally
|
||||
3. **Review changes** - Check `kb/log.md` and `kb/index.md`
|
||||
4. **Direct the LLM** - Guide it on what to emphasize or investigate
|
||||
5. **Browse in Obsidian** - Open the wiki directory in Obsidian for visualization
|
||||
|
||||
### For the LLM
|
||||
|
||||
`AGENTS.md` is the cross-cutting schema/policy; the step-by-step procedures
|
||||
themselves live as independently-discoverable skills under `.agents/skills/`
|
||||
(mirrored to `.claude/skills/` for Claude Code via `tools/wikitool instructions sync`).
|
||||
Which skills ship, what each does and which requests start it:
|
||||
[docs/reference/skills.md](docs/reference/skills.md), generated from the skills themselves.
|
||||
|
||||
Each skill's underlying mechanical work (frontmatter, cross-references, index/log,
|
||||
decay math, publishing) is delegated to `tools/wikitool` - never hand-edited.
|
||||
Most days you need three of the how-to guides: [ingest a source](docs/how-to/ingest-a-source.md),
|
||||
[query the wiki](docs/how-to/query-the-wiki.md) and [maintain it](docs/how-to/maintain-the-wiki.md).
|
||||
How the parts fit together is [docs/explanation/architecture.md](docs/explanation/architecture.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Your first ingestion
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -372,213 +82,6 @@ cp ~/Downloads/my-notes.md incoming/my-notes.md
|
||||
Ingest incoming/my-notes.md
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Tips
|
||||
|
||||
### Naming
|
||||
|
||||
- Use human-readable titles with spaces for files: `Hybrid Search.md`, not kebab-case
|
||||
- Use singular for entities: `HA Integration.md` (not `HA Integrations.md`)
|
||||
- Use wikilinks matching the file name exactly: `[[Entity Name]]`
|
||||
- A title is a file name, so it has to work on Windows and macOS as well: no `< > : " / \ | ? *`,
|
||||
no reserved names such as `CON` or `Index`, no trailing dot, and no second page whose title
|
||||
differs only by case. `wikitool new` and `wikitool rename` refuse such titles, `wikitool lint`
|
||||
reports existing ones, and `kb/CONTRACT.md` § Titles are identifiers has the full rule
|
||||
- A file's whole path below the instance root stays at 160 characters or fewer, so a Windows
|
||||
checkout works without long paths: `new`, `rename`, `move` and `raw accept` refuse a longer
|
||||
one, and `lint` reports existing ones as Long Paths (advisory; `wikitool rename` is the fix)
|
||||
- **Titles follow the subject's own established name, not the wiki's language.** `Act Runner` and
|
||||
`GitOps Ownership Model` keep theirs. A title is the only identifier a page has - it also lives
|
||||
in every wikilink and citation id pointing at it - so translating one is a rename, never an
|
||||
edit: `tools/wikitool rename`, per `instructions/page-lifecycle.md`
|
||||
|
||||
### Organization
|
||||
|
||||
- Start with a few broad categories, refine as needed
|
||||
- Don't over-organize early - let structure emerge
|
||||
- Use tags for cross-cutting concerns
|
||||
|
||||
### Quality
|
||||
|
||||
- The LLM will maintain quality standards from `AGENTS.md`
|
||||
- Review changes periodically
|
||||
- Flag issues to the LLM
|
||||
|
||||
## Maintenance
|
||||
|
||||
The wiki is kept healthy by deterministic `tools/wikitool` commands, run by the
|
||||
LLM (via the skills above). The schedule - which task runs how often, and with
|
||||
which command - lives in [`tools/CONTRACT.md`](tools/CONTRACT.md#maintenance-schedule),
|
||||
next to the command reference it depends on, so the two cannot drift apart.
|
||||
The notes below explain the three parts of it that need more than one line.
|
||||
|
||||
**Provenance.** Every fact should trace back to a raw file. Source pages
|
||||
declare their backing `raw_files:`; entity/concept pages declare `provenance:`
|
||||
(`sourced`/`general`/`mixed`) and cite specific claims inline with a
|
||||
`[^cite-id]` footnote (`tools/wikitool cite add` mints the id and definition;
|
||||
placing the marker in the prose is still manual). `tools/wikitool sources
|
||||
coverage` finds raw files with no source page yet, `sources trace` answers
|
||||
"where did this come from?" in either direction, and `sources rebuild-index`
|
||||
regenerates the reverse index at `kb/provenance.md`. `lint` cross-checks that
|
||||
citations and frontmatter `sources:` lists agree, and hard-errors on any
|
||||
leftover pre-migration `^[[...]]` marker.
|
||||
|
||||
**Git automation.** `tools/wikitool publish` stages everything, commits with
|
||||
an auto-generated changed-file list, and pushes to `origin/main` in one step -
|
||||
never run raw `git commit`/`git push` for wiki changes. Without `--no-push` it stops with
|
||||
exit 1 before committing when the remote is not configured or cannot be reached; a local-only
|
||||
instance passes `--no-push` on every call. Publishes touching
|
||||
≥10 files exit **42** (the **Mass-Update Gate**) - a distinct "a human must see
|
||||
this" code, not an error - printing the full file list and the
|
||||
`--confirm <token>` line that publishes it. The token digests that file list,
|
||||
so a clearance never carries to a changeset the user did not see.
|
||||
|
||||
**Guideline push.** `tools/wikitool export guidelines --push` exits **42** the same way (the
|
||||
**Guideline Push Gate**) before it writes `GUIDELINES.md` into any captured repository, printing
|
||||
every target's status and diff and the `--confirm <token>` line. The token digests each target's
|
||||
branch tip and the file, so a moved branch or an edited guideline asks again.
|
||||
|
||||
**Iteration/cost limits.** Every `tools/wikitool` call is checked against a
|
||||
hard, code-enforced per-session budget before it runs (default: 60 calls, or
|
||||
3 identical calls in a row) - not just a prompt instruction to stop. Past the
|
||||
limit, the command refuses to run until a human approves continuing with
|
||||
`--override-budget`. `budget status` stays readable at all times; `budget
|
||||
reset` clears the counter and therefore needs `--yes` of its own. See
|
||||
AGENTS.md's "Gates" section.
|
||||
|
||||
## Telemetry and evaluation
|
||||
|
||||
In this checkout, every `wikitool` call appends an event to
|
||||
`reports/telemetry/<session>/trace.jsonl`, and the hook files under `.github/hooks/` and
|
||||
`.vibe/` add what the agent did between those calls. Nothing leaves the machine: `reports/` is
|
||||
gitignored and no exporter is configured.
|
||||
|
||||
**A distributed instance records nothing unless it asks to.** The default follows the
|
||||
installation form - on for a git clone of this repo, where the traces are the stack's own
|
||||
measuring instrument, off for an instance installed from a release, where nobody ordered
|
||||
telemetry. Two
|
||||
quantity caps apply either way: 5 MiB per session trace, and 250 session directories.
|
||||
`wikitool doctor` reports which state a checkout is in and why; EVALS.md § "Whether it runs at
|
||||
all" has the precedence rules and the opt-in file.
|
||||
|
||||
That record is what makes it possible to ask how a session *worked*, not just what it left
|
||||
behind:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval sessions # which sessions have a trace
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval score # score this session
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
A score has two halves - the structural state of the tree, from lint's own checks, and
|
||||
trajectory rules over the trace, which catch things no unit test can: a refused call repeated
|
||||
unchanged, a gate flag passed without that gate having refused anything.
|
||||
|
||||
[`EVALS.md`](EVALS.md) is the full picture: the event contract, what each agent harness can and
|
||||
cannot report, what is redacted, and why there is deliberately no LLM judge yet.
|
||||
|
||||
## Tools Integration
|
||||
|
||||
### wikitool (deterministic CLI)
|
||||
|
||||
Mechanical wiki operations - never hand-edited by the LLM - are handled by
|
||||
`tools/wikitool`: scaffolding pages, renaming and deleting them, cross-references,
|
||||
index/log/provenance regeneration, structural linting, and publishing.
|
||||
|
||||
Every command carries one data record - synopsis, properties, copyable examples,
|
||||
each exit cause with what to do about it, prohibitions, and notes on its
|
||||
behaviour - kept next to its code. `tools/wikitool <command> -h` prints it,
|
||||
`tools/wikitool -h` prints a one-line index of all of them, a command that fails with
|
||||
exit 1 prints the record's reactions on stderr right under its `ERROR` line, and
|
||||
[`tools/CONTRACT.md`](tools/CONTRACT.md) holds a generated copy together with the
|
||||
maintenance schedule; `tools/wikitool docs verify` checks that copy and every
|
||||
command's flags against the CLI in both directions. [`tools/README.md`](tools/README.md)
|
||||
is the other half: how the CLI is built and how to add a command. `AGENTS.md`
|
||||
holds the invariants that say when each command is mandatory.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool -h
|
||||
tools/wikitool <command> -h
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
Dev-instance-only: extending `tools/wikitool`, the type schema, or the instruction/skill layer
|
||||
itself is a separate session type with its own rules, covered by the `stack-dev`,
|
||||
`stack-build` and `stack-close` skills nested under `instructions/dev/` (never present in a
|
||||
distributed instance - `tools/CONTRACT.md` explains why).
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-end -->
|
||||
|
||||
### MCP read server (optional)
|
||||
|
||||
The terminal is not the only way in. `tools/chemenu/mcp/` serves the same wiki read-only over
|
||||
MCP - `search`, `types`, `describe_type`, `lint` and `status` - so a consumer that is not a
|
||||
shell on this machine can ask the same questions and get the same answers. Literally the same:
|
||||
the CLI and the server are two adapters over one core, and a golden test holds their output
|
||||
together rather than trusting that it agrees.
|
||||
|
||||
There is no tool that writes, and not because one is filtered out of a list: the server imports
|
||||
nothing under `chemenu/commands/`, so `new`, `publish` and the rest are unreachable from it.
|
||||
Every answer carries the commit it was computed from, so a checkout that has fallen behind
|
||||
produces a visibly stale answer instead of a confident wrong one.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/.venv/bin/pip install -r tools/requirements-mcp.txt
|
||||
WIKI_TRACE=0 tools/.venv/bin/python -m chemenu.mcp # stdio
|
||||
WIKI_TRACE=0 tools/.venv/bin/python -m chemenu.mcp \
|
||||
--transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 # deployed
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The dependency is deliberately not in `requirements.txt`: an instance that only uses the CLI
|
||||
should not have to install a web stack to do it.
|
||||
|
||||
Installing it, wiring a client to it, and putting authentication in front of it:
|
||||
[`INSTALL-MCP.md`](INSTALL-MCP.md), for humans. The agent-side operating procedure - keeping the
|
||||
checkout current, and what a stale answer looks like - is
|
||||
[`instructions/mcp-read-server.md`](instructions/mcp-read-server.md).
|
||||
|
||||
### Obsidian
|
||||
|
||||
Open this directory in Obsidian for:
|
||||
- Graph view of connections
|
||||
- Easy navigation with wikilinks
|
||||
- Plugins: Dataview, Marp, etc.
|
||||
|
||||
### Git
|
||||
|
||||
This is a git repo. Use it for:
|
||||
- Version history
|
||||
- Branching for experiments
|
||||
- Collaboration
|
||||
|
||||
### Search
|
||||
|
||||
`tools/wikitool search "<text>"` searches `kb/` directly - by text, or by frontmatter with
|
||||
`--field entity_type=system` or `--field '!sources'`. It is read-only and is the one
|
||||
command not counted against the session budget, because looking before acting is the habit
|
||||
worth encouraging.
|
||||
|
||||
For browsing rather than searching, `kb/index.md` is the catalog map and each collection
|
||||
carries its own `INDEX.md`.
|
||||
|
||||
## IT-Specific Features
|
||||
|
||||
This wiki is tailored for IT work with:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Entity types** specific to software development and systems
|
||||
- **Relationship types** like `hängt ab von`, `verwendet`, `implementiert` - the vocabulary is in
|
||||
[kb/CONVENTIONS.md](kb/CONVENTIONS.md), because it is this instance's rather than the stack's
|
||||
- **Templates** per page type, and per subtype where its pages need a shape of their own - a person, a decision record (ADR)
|
||||
- **Guidelines** for documenting technical decisions
|
||||
- **Cross-reference patterns** for code and architecture
|
||||
|
||||
## Files Created Automatically
|
||||
|
||||
The LLM will create and maintain:
|
||||
- `kb/index.md` - Always up-to-date catalog
|
||||
- `kb/log.md` - Complete audit trail
|
||||
- `kb/provenance.md` - Raw-file reverse index
|
||||
- Pages of every page type, each in the directory
|
||||
[docs/reference/page-types.md](docs/reference/page-types.md) names for it
|
||||
- Lint reports, session traces and eval scores in `reports/` (gitignored)
|
||||
|
||||
## Changelog
|
||||
|
||||
Changes to the wiki stack (schema, skills, `wikitool`, READMEs) are tracked in
|
||||
@@ -614,4 +117,3 @@ Affero variant.
|
||||
If you set up an instance and later publish it, keep `LICENSE`, `LICENSE-CONTENT`
|
||||
and `NOTICE` in the tree. `dist export` puts them there and refuses to build a
|
||||
distribution without them, so under normal use this takes no effort.
|
||||
|
||||
+51
-1
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ them. The reason is a comment at `dist_cmd.DOCS_DEV_ONLY`, so that a later sessi
|
||||
- [A release feed in a non-public repository](#a-release-feed-in-a-non-public-repository)
|
||||
- [The release workflow](#the-release-workflow)
|
||||
- [The CI half](#the-ci-half)
|
||||
- [How much of the stack the suite reaches](#how-much-of-the-stack-the-suite-reaches)
|
||||
- [Stack development as a session type of its own](#stack-development-as-a-session-type-of-its-own)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -47,7 +48,8 @@ What a clone has and an instance does not:
|
||||
- **A demo persona** in `USER.md`/`SOUL.md`. `doctor` reports both as filled in. They describe
|
||||
the demo setup, not you.
|
||||
- **Telemetry on.** Without `.wikitool-release.json` the clone is the measuring station the stack
|
||||
evaluates itself with ([EVALS.md](../../EVALS.md) § "Whether it runs at all").
|
||||
evaluates itself with
|
||||
([telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md#whether-it-runs-at-all)).
|
||||
- **`instructions/dev/`, `docs/dev/`, `commonplace/` and `.gitea/`.** `dist export` ships none
|
||||
of them.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -180,6 +182,54 @@ repository by hand. What the suite writes, how to run it against a tracker of yo
|
||||
a red run means is in
|
||||
[instructions/dev/tracker-testing.md](../../instructions/dev/tracker-testing.md).
|
||||
|
||||
### How much of the stack the suite reaches
|
||||
|
||||
Coverage is measured in CI - `pytest --cov`, config in `tools/.coveragerc`, HTML and XML
|
||||
uploaded as the `coverage-<run id>` artifact of every run.
|
||||
**Fetch that artifact from the run's own page, not from the API**: `upload-artifact@v3` writes
|
||||
through the older artifact API, and the Actions artifact REST endpoints answer `total_count: 0`
|
||||
for a run whose artifact the run page offers for download. The upload works; only the listing
|
||||
does not see it. Do not re-derive this, and do not read the empty list as a failed upload.
|
||||
|
||||
It is enforced at a floor of **85%** (`fail_under` in `tools/.coveragerc`), which is what a red
|
||||
suite from this axis means: coverage actually fell, not that a wrapper was added. The floor was
|
||||
set only after the number had been watched - it was deliberately held back for exactly that, and
|
||||
the two points between 85 and the measured 87.0% are the room the taxonomy below asks for. A
|
||||
threshold at the measured number goes red on the next thin Typer wrapper, and a threshold that
|
||||
goes red for a non-reason gets lowered rather than earned.
|
||||
|
||||
**Measured 2026-09-04, stack 4.7.1: 87.0% of 6498 statements across `chemenu/`, 975 tests** -
|
||||
CI run 163. The first measurement, at stack 1.8.1 on 2026-08-31, was 86.9% of 5105 statements
|
||||
over 730 tests (CI run 87). Both are what CI reported, never a local run: the local number
|
||||
preceding a release measures a tree that is one commit short of the published one.
|
||||
|
||||
The pair says more than either number does. Between them the measured code grew by a quarter
|
||||
and the suite by a third, and the quota moved by a tenth of a point - which is the observation a
|
||||
threshold was waiting for, rather than the total itself. Reproduce either with
|
||||
`cd tools && .venv/bin/python -m pytest -q --cov` (needs `pytest-cov`, which is CI-only and
|
||||
deliberately absent from `tools/requirements.txt` - an instance runs the wiki, it does not
|
||||
measure this suite).
|
||||
|
||||
The total stays the least interesting number here. What the report is for is *which* modules sit
|
||||
low, and three kinds have to be told apart before any of it turns into work:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Thin Typer wrappers**, where the logic lives beside them and is tested there:
|
||||
`eval_cmd.py` (36%), `types_cmd.py` (40%), `search.py` (49%), `cli.py` (54%),
|
||||
`links_cmd.py` (61%). Low coverage on a wrapper is evidence of a good cut, not of a missing
|
||||
test - `search.py`'s uncovered block is its command body alone, while the backends under
|
||||
`chemenu/search/` that do the work sit between 91% and 98%.
|
||||
- **Code that reaches the network or the filesystem's outside**, where the interesting half is
|
||||
already injectable and tested through the seam: `version.py`'s `fetch_latest()` takes a
|
||||
`fetcher` parameter for exactly that. The real `urllib` lines are exercised too, but only
|
||||
against a local `http.server` in `test_dist_upgrade.py` (`dist upgrade --latest`) - never
|
||||
against a real feed, which stays uncovered on purpose.
|
||||
- **Genuine gaps**, where uncovered lines are logic nobody exercises: `provenance_cmd.py`
|
||||
(44%), `migrate_cmd.py` (65%), `type_resolver.py` (79%). This is the list worth reading, and
|
||||
the only one of the three that has not moved while everything around it did:
|
||||
`provenance_cmd.py` sits where it sat, and `migrate_cmd.py` fell from 71% because it grew and
|
||||
its new lines arrived untested. The floor freezes this; it does not close it. Closing it is
|
||||
Gitea #51.
|
||||
|
||||
## Stack development as a session type of its own
|
||||
|
||||
Three skills (`instructions/dev/`, present only in this origin repository) carry a session that
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Why the stack is built the way it is. These pages are background for humans and
|
||||
read by link or on request, never as instruction, and they carry no normative sentence - a rule
|
||||
lives in `AGENTS.md` or a `CONTRACT.md`, and a page here only gives its reasons.
|
||||
|
||||
- [architecture.md](architecture.md) - what the stack is made of, and how its parts divide the
|
||||
work
|
||||
- [telemetry-and-evaluation.md](telemetry-and-evaluation.md) - how the stack observes what an
|
||||
agent did, and how that record turns into a score
|
||||
- [pipeline-rationale.md](pipeline-rationale.md) - why the pipeline has four stages
|
||||
- [ownership-and-templates.md](ownership-and-templates.md) - why a `.template` split exists, and
|
||||
why an instance comes only from a release
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,279 @@
|
||||
# Architecture
|
||||
|
||||
What Chemenu is made of, and how the parts divide the work. For why the pipeline has exactly four
|
||||
stages, see [pipeline-rationale.md](pipeline-rationale.md). This page is the map those reasons
|
||||
apply to.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
## Contents
|
||||
|
||||
- [A wiki that is compiled, not searched](#a-wiki-that-is-compiled-not-searched)
|
||||
- [The language of the pages](#the-language-of-the-pages)
|
||||
- [The tree](#the-tree)
|
||||
- [Collections and areas](#collections-and-areas)
|
||||
- [Contracts and READMEs](#contracts-and-readmes)
|
||||
- [Who does what](#who-does-what)
|
||||
- [The compiler: `tools/wikitool`](#the-compiler-toolswikitool)
|
||||
- [The MCP read server](#the-mcp-read-server)
|
||||
- [Built for IT work](#built-for-it-work)
|
||||
- [Telemetry and evaluation](#telemetry-and-evaluation)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
## A wiki that is compiled, not searched
|
||||
|
||||
Chemenu is a pattern for a personal knowledge base maintained by an LLM. A plain retrieval setup goes
|
||||
back to the raw documents for every question. Here, the LLM **builds and maintains a persistent
|
||||
wiki** incrementally instead, and the wiki compounds over time. Knowledge is compiled once and kept
|
||||
current, not re-derived for every question.
|
||||
|
||||
That one decision shapes everything else. Raw material is kept unchanged as evidence, and compiled
|
||||
pages cite it. Every mechanical step of the compilation - frontmatter, cross-references, the catalog,
|
||||
the log, publishing - is done by a deterministic tool, never by hand, so it comes out the same way
|
||||
every time.
|
||||
|
||||
## The language of the pages
|
||||
|
||||
Source material in `raw/` is never touched and stays in whatever language it arrived in. The
|
||||
compiled pages under `kb/` are written in the instance's own language. The origin repository's demo
|
||||
corpus, for instance, is German. What stays in its original form inside a page is everything that
|
||||
is an *identifier* rather than prose: page titles, section headings the tool owns, wikilink targets,
|
||||
citation ids, schema enum values, tags, commands, paths and code. So `GitOps Ownership Model` and a
|
||||
German section heading sit in the same page without contradiction.
|
||||
|
||||
Which lines count as identifiers is the stack's rule,
|
||||
[kb/CONTRACT.md § Language and identifiers](../../kb/CONTRACT.md#language-and-identifiers).
|
||||
*Which language* the prose is in, and what the tool-owned headings are called, is the instance's own
|
||||
`kb/CONVENTIONS.md`. That is a per-instance decision, not a property of the pattern, so it lives in a
|
||||
file the instance owns rather than in one the stack ships. A new instance picks its language when it
|
||||
fills in `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`, before the first ingest. Why the control plane stays English
|
||||
regardless: [language-boundaries.md](language-boundaries.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## The tree
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
chemenu/
|
||||
├── AGENTS.md # Control plane: invariants, file naming, routing, gates
|
||||
├── CLAUDE.md # Claude Code only: imports AGENTS.md, links the one Claude-Code-only decision (model/effort). No rules of its own
|
||||
├── README.md # Landing page for humans
|
||||
├── INSTALL.md # Human-readable install: one release, one sentence to the agent
|
||||
├── CHANGES.md # Changelog for the stack itself
|
||||
├── USER.md # Who operates this instance - context, never instructions
|
||||
├── SOUL.md # How this instance sounds. AGENTS.md always wins over it
|
||||
├── ENVIRONMENT.md # Optional, gitignored: this checkout's harness, MCP servers, remotes
|
||||
├── *.md.template # Unfilled USER/SOUL/ENVIRONMENT - what a distribution ships instead
|
||||
├── .gitignore # Anchored so nothing under raw/, kb/ or work/ is ever excluded;
|
||||
│ # incoming/ is the one directory excluded the other way round
|
||||
├── .github/hooks/ # Copilot CLI hooks - session tracing
|
||||
├── .vibe/ # Mistral Vibe hooks + the repo's telemetry policy
|
||||
├── docs/ # Human documentation
|
||||
│ ├── tutorials/ # learning: a guided first walk
|
||||
│ ├── how-to/ # doing: one task per page
|
||||
│ ├── reference/ # looking up: commands, exit codes, skills, page types, configuration
|
||||
│ └── explanation/ # understanding: why it is built this way (this page)
|
||||
├── instructions/ # CONTROL: everything an agent is told to do
|
||||
│ ├── CONTRACT.md # Instruction vs. skill, publishing, writing standard
|
||||
│ ├── bootstrap.md # Prepare a further checkout of an instance
|
||||
│ ├── gates.md # What to do when a gate refuses a call
|
||||
│ ├── german-terminology.md # Which words stay English in German prose; register
|
||||
│ ├── session-setup.md
|
||||
│ ├── page-lifecycle.md
|
||||
│ ├── publish-cycle.md
|
||||
│ ├── ingest-large-tree.md
|
||||
│ ├── ingest-queue.md # Reviewing a submission before wikitool upload accept promotes it
|
||||
│ └── wiki-*/SKILL.md # Skills - copied into .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/
|
||||
├── mcp-upload/ # QUARANTINE (optional): the MCP `submit` tool's write path, gitignored -
|
||||
│ # read by no command in the ordinary pipeline; a human reviews it with
|
||||
│ # `wikitool upload list/show/accept/reject`
|
||||
├── incoming/ # INBOX: content gitignored - drop a file or one folder per source here, `raw accept` promotes it
|
||||
├── raw/ # INPUT: immutable, untrusted source material
|
||||
│ ├── CONTRACT.md # Date shard, capture fields, immutability, untrusted content
|
||||
│ ├── 2026/09/ # Where `raw accept` puts a file: the month it was accepted
|
||||
│ ├── articles/ # The old type directories: still valid paths, never moved,
|
||||
│ ├── documents/ # but nothing new is ever routed into them again
|
||||
│ ├── notes/
|
||||
│ └── assets/
|
||||
├── types/ # SCHEMA: the global type surface. Not a collection
|
||||
│ ├── type-spec.md # Root contract: anatomy, placement, adding a type
|
||||
│ ├── type-guidance.md # Contract for the *.guidance.md files below
|
||||
│ ├── entity.md # Entity type config + template (+ .schema.yaml)
|
||||
│ ├── entity.guidance.md # Its stack-owned authoring prose, shipped verbatim
|
||||
│ ├── entity.person.md # Subtype template: what `new` scaffolds for entity_type=person
|
||||
│ ├── concept.md # Concept type config + template (+ .guidance.md, + concept.decision.md)
|
||||
│ ├── source.md # Source type config + template (+ .guidance.md)
|
||||
│ ├── comparison.md # Comparison type config + template (+ .guidance.md)
|
||||
│ ├── project.md # Project (Vorhaben) type config + template, no guidance file
|
||||
│ ├── instruction.md # Instruction type - lives outside kb/ via `root: repo`
|
||||
│ └── lint-report.md # Contract-only: describes reports/, owns no directory
|
||||
├── kb/ # OUTPUT: compiled knowledge. A namespace, not a collection
|
||||
│ ├── CONTRACT.md # Collections, naming, tone, linking, provenance
|
||||
│ ├── index.md # Generated catalog *map*: counts and pointers
|
||||
│ ├── log.md # Generated chronological audit log
|
||||
│ ├── provenance.md # Generated raw-file reverse index
|
||||
│ ├── entities/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ │ ├── codebases/
|
||||
│ │ ├── systems/
|
||||
│ │ ├── tools/ # own INDEX.md once past 50 pages
|
||||
│ │ ├── technologies/
|
||||
│ │ ├── people/
|
||||
│ │ └── organizations/
|
||||
│ ├── concepts/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ │ ├── architectures/
|
||||
│ │ ├── patterns/
|
||||
│ │ ├── protocols/
|
||||
│ │ ├── workflows/
|
||||
│ │ ├── decisions/
|
||||
│ │ └── problems/
|
||||
│ ├── sources/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ │ ├── transcripts/
|
||||
│ │ ├── analyses/
|
||||
│ │ ├── articles/
|
||||
│ │ ├── documents/
|
||||
│ │ ├── notes/
|
||||
│ │ ├── trackers/
|
||||
│ │ └── unclassified/
|
||||
│ ├── comparisons/ # COLLECTION.md - comparison pages, no subtype axis
|
||||
│ └── gtd/ # COLLECTION.md + INDEX.md + areas below
|
||||
│ ├── haus/
|
||||
│ ├── finanzen/
|
||||
│ └── technik/
|
||||
├── work/ # WORKSHOP: one directory per multi-session run, tracked
|
||||
│ └── CONTRACT.md # Run keys, required files, how a run closes
|
||||
├── reports/ # DERIVED: lint reports, traces, eval scores. Gitignored
|
||||
│ └── CONTRACT.md
|
||||
└── tools/ # COMPILER: the wikitool CLI
|
||||
├── CONTRACT.md # Command records (generated) and index, maintenance schedule
|
||||
└── README.md # How wikitool is built and how to change it
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The collections and areas under `kb/` shown here are the origin repository's. An instance's own come
|
||||
from its type-specs, as described below.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
Only in the origin repository (`tools/CONTRACT.md` explains how an instance comes to lack them):
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
├── docs/dev/ # Human-readable: development environment and release workflow
|
||||
└── commonplace/ # Vendored, read-only knowledge base
|
||||
```
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-end -->
|
||||
|
||||
## Collections and areas
|
||||
|
||||
A directory under `kb/` is a **collection** exactly when it holds a `COLLECTION.md`. A subdirectory
|
||||
inside one is an **area**, which inherits it, and that is as deep as a page goes. Nothing nests
|
||||
below an area, because the generated catalog reads exactly two path segments under `kb/`, and it
|
||||
would silently fold a deeper page into the area. `kb/CONTRACT.md` § Collections has the rule, and
|
||||
`wikitool lint` reports a violation as a hard error.
|
||||
|
||||
Which areas a collection has is not chosen page by page. A type-spec's `layout:` maps its subtype
|
||||
field onto directories, and `wikitool new` writes each page straight into the one its subtype names.
|
||||
That is also what gives the catalog's shard threshold any effect: `index rebuild` splits **per
|
||||
area**, so a collection with no areas keeps one table however large it grows. Once such a collection
|
||||
is past the threshold, `wikitool lint` reports it as a recommendation rather than an error, together
|
||||
with the split its subtype field would produce. It stays quiet when the split would not actually
|
||||
help.
|
||||
|
||||
`kb/comparisons/` is the worked example of a collection that stays flat: it has no subtype field for
|
||||
a `layout:` to key on at all. A *lopsided* subtype field is a different case, and it gets fixed
|
||||
rather than left flat. `kb/sources/` looked lopsided only because `source_type` had a schema
|
||||
`default:`, which the compiler applied whenever nobody chose a value. Once the default was removed
|
||||
and the pages reclassified, it split into six real areas.
|
||||
|
||||
Every page type the stack ships, with its subtypes, its directories and its required fields, is in
|
||||
[page-types.md](../reference/page-types.md). An instance adopts those type-specs and may change
|
||||
them; `tools/wikitool types list` and `tools/wikitool types describe <type>` show what one instance
|
||||
has.
|
||||
|
||||
## Contracts and READMEs
|
||||
|
||||
`COLLECTION.md` never appears outside `kb/`. The other layers carry a `CONTRACT.md` or a root
|
||||
type-spec instead. A stage may carry both a `README.md` and a `CONTRACT.md`, because they have
|
||||
different readers: the README is for humans working *on* that layer, and the contract binds an agent
|
||||
working *with* it. `AGENTS.md` § File naming says which file is for which reader, and
|
||||
`wikitool docs verify` checks it.
|
||||
|
||||
## Who does what
|
||||
|
||||
**You** curate sources by dropping them into `incoming/`, ask questions, review what changed in
|
||||
`kb/log.md` and `kb/index.md`, and steer the agent on what to emphasise or look into. The
|
||||
[how-to guides](../how-to/README.md) cover each of these.
|
||||
|
||||
**The agent** follows `AGENTS.md`, the cross-cutting schema and policy, and runs the step-by-step
|
||||
procedures as skills. They are published into `.agents/skills/`, and mirrored into
|
||||
`.claude/skills/` for Claude Code, by `tools/wikitool instructions sync`. Which skills ship, what
|
||||
each does and which requests start it: [skills.md](../reference/skills.md).
|
||||
|
||||
**`tools/wikitool`** does every mechanical step a skill needs: scaffolding, renaming and deleting
|
||||
pages, cross-references, regenerating the catalog, log and provenance index, structural linting,
|
||||
decay math, and publishing. The agent calls it and never does that work by hand. Along the way it
|
||||
maintains:
|
||||
|
||||
- `kb/index.md`, the catalog, always current;
|
||||
- `kb/log.md`, the complete audit trail;
|
||||
- `kb/provenance.md`, the reverse index from raw files to pages;
|
||||
- pages of every type, each in the directory its type-spec names;
|
||||
- lint reports, session traces and eval scores in `reports/`, which is gitignored.
|
||||
|
||||
## The compiler: `tools/wikitool`
|
||||
|
||||
Every command carries one data record kept next to its code: synopsis, properties, copyable
|
||||
examples, each exit cause with what to do about it, prohibitions, and notes on its behaviour. The
|
||||
same record is rendered four ways:
|
||||
|
||||
- `tools/wikitool <command> -h` prints it, and `tools/wikitool -h` prints a one-line index of every
|
||||
command;
|
||||
- a command that fails with exit 1 prints the record's reactions on stderr, right under its `ERROR`
|
||||
line;
|
||||
- [tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md) holds a generated copy for agents, together with the
|
||||
maintenance schedule;
|
||||
- [the command reference](../reference/commands/README.md) is a generated copy for humans.
|
||||
|
||||
`tools/wikitool docs verify` checks the copies, and every command's flags, against the CLI in both
|
||||
directions. [tools/README.md](../../tools/README.md) is the other half: how the CLI is built and how
|
||||
to add a command. `AGENTS.md` holds the invariants that say when each command is mandatory.
|
||||
|
||||
The wiki is also a git repository, and `tools/wikitool publish` is the one way its changes are
|
||||
committed and pushed. That gives every change a version history, and the gates in front of
|
||||
`publish` decide what needs a human to look first
|
||||
([why-gates-are-code.md](why-gates-are-code.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-start -->
|
||||
Extending `tools/wikitool`, the type schema or the instruction layer itself is a separate kind of
|
||||
session, with rules of its own: the `stack-dev`, `stack-build` and `stack-close` skills under
|
||||
`instructions/dev/`, which only the origin repository has.
|
||||
<!-- dist:strip-end -->
|
||||
|
||||
## The MCP read server
|
||||
|
||||
The terminal is not the only way in. `tools/chemenu/mcp/` serves the same wiki read-only over MCP -
|
||||
`search`, `types`, `describe_type`, `lint` and `status` - so a consumer that is not a shell on this
|
||||
machine can ask the same questions and get the same answers. Literally the same: the CLI and the
|
||||
server are two adapters over one core, and a golden test holds their output together rather than
|
||||
trusting that it agrees.
|
||||
|
||||
There is no tool that writes to `kb/`, and not because one is filtered out of a list. The server
|
||||
imports nothing under `chemenu/commands/`, so `new`, `publish` and the rest cannot be reached from
|
||||
it. Every answer carries the commit it was computed from, so a checkout that has fallen behind gives
|
||||
a visibly stale answer instead of a confident wrong one. The server's dependency is deliberately
|
||||
not in `requirements.txt`: an instance that only uses the CLI should not have to install a web stack
|
||||
for it.
|
||||
|
||||
Setting it up: [set-up-the-mcp-server.md](../how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Built for IT work
|
||||
|
||||
The shipped defaults are tailored to IT work:
|
||||
|
||||
- **entity types** for software development and systems - codebases, systems, tools, technologies;
|
||||
- **relationship labels** such as "depends on", "uses" and "implements". The vocabulary is in the
|
||||
instance's `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`, because it belongs to the instance rather than the stack;
|
||||
- **templates** per page type, and per subtype where its pages need a shape of their own, such as a
|
||||
person or a decision record (ADR);
|
||||
- **guidelines** for documenting technical decisions, which can be exported back into the
|
||||
repositories they are about ([export-guidelines.md](../how-to/export-guidelines.md));
|
||||
- **cross-reference patterns** for code and architecture.
|
||||
|
||||
## Telemetry and evaluation
|
||||
|
||||
How the stack observes what an agent did, and how that record becomes a score, is its own page:
|
||||
[telemetry-and-evaluation.md](telemetry-and-evaluation.md).
|
||||
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ it did.
|
||||
|
||||
## The stack's human documentation
|
||||
|
||||
`README.md`, `INSTALL*.md`, `EVALS.md` and everything under `docs/` are read by humans, and the
|
||||
`README.md`, `INSTALL.md` and everything under `docs/` are read by humans, and the
|
||||
reader axis alone would put them in the operator's language. They are English anyway, and the
|
||||
reason is not the reader but the fact that there is no single one. This documentation belongs to
|
||||
the stack, not to an instance: it ships identically to every instance, whatever each one's
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,354 @@
|
||||
# Telemetry and evaluation
|
||||
|
||||
How the stack observes what an agent did, and how that record turns into a score. This page explains
|
||||
the design and points at the code. The rules an agent follows live in
|
||||
[tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md) and [reports/CONTRACT.md](../../reports/CONTRACT.md).
|
||||
Turning tracing on and reading a session back is a how-to:
|
||||
[trace-and-score-sessions.md](../how-to/trace-and-score-sessions.md).
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
## Contents
|
||||
|
||||
- [Why, beyond the unit tests](#why-beyond-the-unit-tests)
|
||||
- [Architecture](#architecture)
|
||||
- [The trace](#the-trace)
|
||||
- [Whether it runs at all](#whether-it-runs-at-all)
|
||||
- [What never reaches a trace](#what-never-reaches-a-trace)
|
||||
- [Evaluation levels](#evaluation-levels)
|
||||
- [L0 lives in the test suite, not in a separate harness](#l0-lives-in-the-test-suite-not-in-a-separate-harness)
|
||||
- [Scoring a session](#scoring-a-session)
|
||||
- [A worked example, and where the check moved to](#a-worked-example-and-where-the-check-moved-to)
|
||||
- [Status](#status)
|
||||
- [The agent runner, and why it is not here yet](#the-agent-runner-and-why-it-is-not-here-yet)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
## Why, beyond the unit tests
|
||||
|
||||
The test suite that ships with the origin repository checks the **compiler**: given this input, does
|
||||
`wikitool` produce that output? It says nothing about the two things that actually go wrong in
|
||||
practice: whether the *agent* followed the contracts, and whether the pages it wrote are any good.
|
||||
|
||||
Those need a different kind of check. Two notes in the
|
||||
[Commonplace](https://github.com/zby/commonplace) research base, which the origin repository
|
||||
vendors, supply the theory:
|
||||
|
||||
- *oracle-strength-spectrum* - correctness checks form a gradient, from hard (deterministic) to none
|
||||
(vibes). The engineering move is to *harden* oracles step by step, not to reach straight for a
|
||||
judge.
|
||||
- *evaluation-automation-is-phase-gated-by-comprehension* - comprehension, then specification,
|
||||
then generalisation. A judge built before anyone has read real failures optimises a proxy.
|
||||
|
||||
That ordering is why this page describes a lot of telemetry and only a little scoring. Reading real
|
||||
traces is the first phase, and it cannot be skipped.
|
||||
|
||||
## Architecture
|
||||
|
||||
Three sources, three different jobs.
|
||||
|
||||
```mermaid
|
||||
flowchart TD
|
||||
subgraph runner["Eval runner (planned)"]
|
||||
R["isolated HOME · programmatic mode<br/>NDJSON capture · run manifest"]
|
||||
end
|
||||
subgraph hooks["Harness hooks (interactive work)"]
|
||||
H1["Claude Code<br/>.claude/settings.json"]
|
||||
H2["Copilot CLI<br/>.github/hooks/*.json"]
|
||||
H3["Mistral Vibe<br/>.vibe/hooks.toml"]
|
||||
H4["VS Code Chat<br/>chronicle SQLite, post hoc"]
|
||||
end
|
||||
subgraph inner["Repo layer (always on)"]
|
||||
W["wikitool emitter<br/>+ git"]
|
||||
end
|
||||
R --> T[("reports/telemetry/<session>/trace.jsonl")]
|
||||
H1 & H2 & H3 & H4 --> I["tools/trace_ingest.py"] --> T
|
||||
W --> T
|
||||
T --> S["scorers L0-L4"] --> O[("reports/evals/<date>/")]
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- **The repo layer is the truth.** `wikitool` records its own calls, so what happened *to the wiki*
|
||||
is known even when no hook fired and no runner was involved.
|
||||
- **The runner owns session boundaries.** Not every harness reports a session start - Mistral Vibe
|
||||
has no such hook - so the process that launches the agent is what brackets a run.
|
||||
- **Hooks enrich.** They add the tool calls the repo layer cannot see: file reads, greps, shell
|
||||
commands, prompts.
|
||||
|
||||
Everything joins on one session id, which every source that has to pick one resolves the same way
|
||||
(`chemenu.session`). The chain is `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`, then a harness's own session variable where
|
||||
one is registered (`chemenu.session.HARNESS_ENV_VARS` - Claude Code's `CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID` today),
|
||||
then the parent process id. The middle step exists because the last one does not survive a harness
|
||||
that runs every tool call in its own freshly started shell. There, `os.getppid()` is a new "session"
|
||||
for every call, and neither the join nor the Iteration Budget Gate could see more than one or two
|
||||
calls of a real run. A harness only earns an entry in that chain once a live session has been
|
||||
observed setting the variable, and it has been confirmed to be the exact id the harness's own hooks
|
||||
write elsewhere in a trace. A name that merely looks plausible would mis-key a session more quietly
|
||||
than the pid fallback it replaced.
|
||||
|
||||
A trace hook that only *observes* tool calls (a `PreToolUse`/`PostToolUse`-style wiring) does not by
|
||||
itself fix a harness whose events carry a different id than `wikitool`'s own emitter. The two would
|
||||
still not join. Wiring such a hook is worth doing only once this fallback chain already keys both
|
||||
sides on the same id.
|
||||
|
||||
## The trace
|
||||
|
||||
One JSON object per line, appended to `reports/telemetry/<session>/trace.jsonl`. The contract is
|
||||
[tools/chemenu/telemetry/schema.py](../../tools/chemenu/telemetry/schema.py).
|
||||
|
||||
| Field | Meaning |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `v` | Schema version |
|
||||
| `ts` | ISO-8601 UTC, microsecond precision |
|
||||
| `session_id` | The join key - `chemenu.session`'s fallback chain: `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`, else a registered harness variable, else the parent process id |
|
||||
| `pid`, `seq` | `seq` counts **within one process**. Sort a trace by `(ts, pid, seq)` |
|
||||
| `source` | `wikitool`, `runner`, or a harness name |
|
||||
| `event` | See below |
|
||||
| `attrs` | Normalised payload - the same field names whichever harness produced it |
|
||||
| `run_key` | The `work/<runkey>/` run, when one is open |
|
||||
| `trace_id`, `span_id` | From `TRACEPARENT`, when the harness exports it |
|
||||
| `redactions` | Which secret patterns fired on this event |
|
||||
|
||||
**Events.** The core - `tool.pre`, `tool.post`, `wikitool.call`, `gate.refused` - is available on
|
||||
every surface. Everything else is optional: `session.start`, `session.end`, `session.error`,
|
||||
`prompt.submitted`, `assistant.message`, `turn.end`, `tool.error`, `instructions.loaded`,
|
||||
`subagent.start`, `subagent.stop`, `compaction`, `page.written`, `publish.commit`, `budget.state` and
|
||||
`gate.cleared`.
|
||||
|
||||
**The degradation rule.** No scorer may *require* an optional event. Claude Code has about thirty
|
||||
hooks and Mistral Vibe has three. A scorer built on the rich end would silently report zero on the
|
||||
poor end, which reads as "the agent did nothing" rather than "this harness cannot say". Every
|
||||
`session.start` carries a `completeness` list naming the classes its harness can emit, so a scorer
|
||||
can answer "not measurable here" instead. What each harness can report is tabled in
|
||||
[trace-and-score-sessions.md](../how-to/trace-and-score-sessions.md#what-each-harness-can-report).
|
||||
|
||||
**Budget and trace are not the same set.** The Iteration Budget Gate exempts read-only retrieval,
|
||||
and the trace records it. What an agent looked at before acting is exactly what a trajectory scorer
|
||||
needs, and charging for a `search` would discourage the one habit that lowers cost.
|
||||
|
||||
## Whether it runs at all
|
||||
|
||||
The default depends on how the tree got here, not on one hard-coded switch.
|
||||
[tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py](../../tools/chemenu/telemetry/policy.py) is the one place that
|
||||
resolves it, so `wikitool doctor`, the writer and the MCP server's start-up guard all answer the
|
||||
same question the same way:
|
||||
|
||||
| Installation form | Default | Marker |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| Git clone of the origin repository (dev checkout) | **on** (opt-out) | No `.wikitool-release.json` |
|
||||
| An instance installed from a release, and every clone of its own repository | **off** (opt-in) | `.wikitool-release.json` present |
|
||||
|
||||
The form is read off `.wikitool-release.json`, the same stamp `version check`, `dist upgrade` and
|
||||
`version notes` already use to tell a distribution from the repository it came from. Present means
|
||||
an operator never asked for telemetry. Absent means this is the dev checkout the stack ships from,
|
||||
where the traces are the stack's own measuring instrument. An instance commits the stamp with its
|
||||
first `publish`, so a clone of it on a second machine carries the stamp and defaults to off too. It
|
||||
is a consuming instance, not a measuring stand.
|
||||
|
||||
**Turning it on for a distributed instance** takes a per-checkout `.wikitool-telemetry.json` at the
|
||||
root, gitignored like `.wikitool-remotes.json` and for the same reason. The consent to write
|
||||
prompts in cleartext to *this* disk belongs to the checkout, not the corpus, so a second clone must
|
||||
not inherit it silently. The setup instruction asks about it; nothing writes it automatically. Its
|
||||
shape is in the [configuration reference](../reference/configuration.md#telemetry).
|
||||
|
||||
**Two independent quantity caps, both enforced fail-silent in `emit()`.** Neither is enforced in
|
||||
`write_event()`, which the test suite calls directly to exercise the format without the policy
|
||||
around it.
|
||||
|
||||
- **A byte cap per session trace** (default 5 MiB), checked with one `stat` before every append.
|
||||
Once a trace is at or over the cap, further calls in that session write nothing except a single
|
||||
`telemetry.limit` event. It is elected by the same single-writer trick `session.start` uses, an
|
||||
exclusive create on a `.limit` marker file, so a trace that was cut off can be told apart from one
|
||||
whose writer simply crashed.
|
||||
- **Retention by session count** (default 250), applied once, right before a brand-new session
|
||||
directory is created. It is never applied per event, and never against the session doing the
|
||||
creating. It deletes exactly `trace.jsonl` and `.limit` from the oldest directories beyond the cap,
|
||||
and `rmdir`s a directory only once it is empty. Nothing under `reports/` is ever removed in bulk.
|
||||
|
||||
The default of 250 was set above what the origin repository's own checkout had accumulated as of
|
||||
2026-09-10: 231 session directories, well under 400 KiB in total. The cap bites on future growth,
|
||||
not on the existing history.
|
||||
|
||||
## What never reaches a trace
|
||||
|
||||
Prompts and assistant replies **are** recorded in cleartext, locally. A failure taxonomy cannot be
|
||||
read out of hashes, and building one is the first phase of any evaluation work. Four guards make
|
||||
that defensible, all of them in
|
||||
[tools/chemenu/telemetry/scrub.py](../../tools/chemenu/telemetry/scrub.py), so there is one place to
|
||||
audit:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Secret scrubbing.** Tokens, keys, `Authorization:` headers and `SECRET=` assignments are
|
||||
replaced with `[REDACTED:<type>]`. The scrubbing is pattern-based, so it is best effort.
|
||||
2. **A content cap.** 60 KiB per attribute, with a `[TRUNCATED n chars]` marker.
|
||||
3. **A kill switch.** `WIKI_TRACE_CONTENT=0` keeps only `<field>_length` and `<field>_sha256`. The
|
||||
digest is computed either way, so traces stay comparable.
|
||||
4. **`raw/` contents never enter a trace at all.** That text is data, not instruction
|
||||
([AGENTS.md](../../AGENTS.md) invariant 4), and a trace gets read back later. Callers record a path
|
||||
and a digest.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing leaves the machine. `reports/` is gitignored, no exporter is configured, and where a vendor
|
||||
offers one it is off. Mistral's `enable_otel` ships prompts to Mistral Studio, so it stays `false`,
|
||||
and so does `enable_telemetry`. Claude Code's and Copilot's content gates may only be enabled
|
||||
against a collector you run yourself.
|
||||
|
||||
The variables that steer all of this are in the
|
||||
[configuration reference](../reference/configuration.md#environment-variables).
|
||||
|
||||
## Evaluation levels
|
||||
|
||||
Ordered by oracle strength: hard checks first, judgment last.
|
||||
|
||||
| Level | Oracle | What it measures | Status |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| **L0** Pipeline | hard | A wiki the tools built themselves lints clean, and the catalog is a fixed point | **done** - in the origin repository's test suite |
|
||||
| **L1** Artifact scorecard | hard | Counters from `lint`'s own checks: hard errors and advisories, page count | **done** |
|
||||
| **L2** Trajectory | hard | Rules over the trace: was a refused call repeated, was a gate flag passed unearned, did a page change go unlogged | **done** |
|
||||
| **L3** Task evals | medium | Gold set: question → expected cited pages; ingest fixture → expected page titles. Scored by set overlap | needs the runner |
|
||||
| **L4** Rubric / judge | soft | Prose quality, cramming, tone | **out of scope** until a failure taxonomy exists |
|
||||
|
||||
Evaluation results are statistical, not binary. A case runs several times and reports a pass rate
|
||||
with its variance, because sampling is not deterministic. A single failure is not a merge blocker;
|
||||
a regression against a baseline is.
|
||||
|
||||
### L0 lives in the test suite, not in a separate harness
|
||||
|
||||
It runs the CLI in-process against an empty wiki. It asserts that `new` → write → `xref` →
|
||||
`index rebuild` leaves a tree `lint` calls clean, and that rebuilding the catalog again changes
|
||||
nothing on disk. That is a hard oracle over the compiler, which is what the test suite is for.
|
||||
Giving it its own runner would have duplicated the suite for nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
One behaviour it pins is easy to mistake for a defect: **a scaffolded page does not lint clean**.
|
||||
`new` writes placeholder wikilinks for the author to replace. So a page that was created but not yet
|
||||
written reports broken links, and reports its `TODO`-only sections as the advisory
|
||||
*Unfilled Template Sections*. That is the scaffold saying it is unfinished.
|
||||
|
||||
## Scoring a session
|
||||
|
||||
`tools/wikitool eval score` scores one session. It only reads, and it is exempt from the Iteration
|
||||
Budget Gate: reading back what a session did is not iterating on the wiki, and charging for it
|
||||
would discourage checking one's own work.
|
||||
|
||||
**L1** re-runs `lint`'s checks in-process and reports their counters. It shares its definition of a
|
||||
hard error with `lint --fail-on-error` - one constant, `HARD_ERROR_KEYS` - so a run can never pass
|
||||
its score while lint refuses it.
|
||||
|
||||
**L2** checks five rules. Each one restates an invariant the code cannot enforce in-process. A gate
|
||||
can refuse a call, but nothing stops an agent from calling again with the gate's own flag. That gap
|
||||
is the whole point:
|
||||
|
||||
| Rule | Invariant | Severity |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| `refusal-not-retried` | A refused call, repeated unchanged, is the loop the gate exists to break | error |
|
||||
| `gate-not-self-opened` | `--yes`/`-y` no longer exist at all; `--override-budget` is for a human to pass after a refusal; `--force` never | error |
|
||||
| `content-change-logged` | A publish that changes `kb/` pages needs a `log append` in the same session | advisory |
|
||||
| `clearance-was-asked-for` | A `gate.cleared` token must match one some earlier `gate.refused` issued - catches an invented token, and one reused from a different changeset | error |
|
||||
| `clearance-ended-the-turn` | No `wikitool.call` between a clearance request (exit 42) and the next `prompt.submitted` - skipped, not failed, on a harness that cannot report `prompt.submitted` | error |
|
||||
|
||||
New rules belong here only when a real trace shows a real failure. Checks invented from the contract
|
||||
text produce a score that improves while behaviour does not - the failure mode the phase-gate note
|
||||
describes. The first three rules were chosen because each guards a refusal an agent can talk its way
|
||||
around. The last two carry the load for the Mass-Update Gate's clearance mechanism (2026-08-28),
|
||||
which deliberately enforces very little in-process, as described below.
|
||||
|
||||
A rule can report a third state besides pass and fail: **skipped**, meaning this trace cannot answer
|
||||
the question at all - for example `clearance-ended-the-turn` on a harness with no prompt hook.
|
||||
Skipped reads as neither a pass nor a violation. `scorecard.render_markdown` marks it `skip`,
|
||||
distinct from `ok`, `warn` and `FAIL`, and `score()["violations"]` never includes a skipped rule,
|
||||
whatever its severity.
|
||||
|
||||
### A worked example, and where the check moved to
|
||||
|
||||
Scoring the session that shipped the telemetry layer itself used to report a failure:
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
FAIL gate-not-self-opened
|
||||
call=publish --message "tools: session traces …" --yes, reason=no mass-update refusal preceded it
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
That finding was true and benign at the same time. The change was 17 files, the file list was shown,
|
||||
and a human approved it. But the approval happened in conversation, and `--yes` went out on the
|
||||
first attempt, so the gate never got to refuse anything. The documented path had the refusal first,
|
||||
and the trace records tool calls, not conversations.
|
||||
|
||||
Three sessions did some version of this before the mechanism changed rather than the procedure. The
|
||||
interesting part is *which* half changed. The obvious fix was built first: make the gate impossible
|
||||
to open without independent proof of a human. That meant a ticket bound to the changeset, redeemed
|
||||
only after a `prompt.submitted` event and a `wikitool approve` typed in a second terminal. It worked,
|
||||
and it was unusable. On a harness that drives `wikitool` through a shell tool, the agent cannot
|
||||
produce the turn signal, and the human is asked to leave the conversation to approve anything at all.
|
||||
A gate nobody can pass is not a safe gate, it is an abandoned one.
|
||||
|
||||
So the enforcement got cheap and the *verification* got real:
|
||||
|
||||
- **In-process, `publish` enforces only what it can do honestly.** Exit 42 says "a human must see
|
||||
this". `--confirm <token>` says "here is what they saw", and the token digests the file list, so it
|
||||
cannot silently cover a different one. None of that proves a human was involved, and the code says
|
||||
so in as many words.
|
||||
- **The trace answers the question the tool cannot.** `clearance-ended-the-turn` looks for a
|
||||
`wikitool.call` between an exit-42 call and the next `prompt.submitted`. That is exactly the
|
||||
"refused, then confirmed in the same breath" shape all three incidents had, and it is invisible to
|
||||
any single call. `clearance-was-asked-for` catches a token that no refusal ever issued.
|
||||
|
||||
This is the loop this whole page is about, run to its conclusion: a rule that only a trace could
|
||||
check, a trace that showed it being broken three times, a mechanism rebuilt because no procedural fix
|
||||
survived - and then the check itself moved to the layer that can actually see it.
|
||||
|
||||
**What this still cannot see:** an agent that receives the exit-42 output, does not relay it, and
|
||||
passes the token anyway *after* the user happens to say something unrelated. `prompt.submitted`
|
||||
proves a turn boundary, not that the output was relayed or that the reply meant yes. That gap is
|
||||
recorded rather than papered over. Closing it needs the harness to report what the agent actually
|
||||
said, which no adapter here does yet.
|
||||
|
||||
That gap stopped being hypothetical within the hour. The first agent to receive the new gate - the
|
||||
one that had just written the paragraph above - answered the user with a file *count* and a pointer
|
||||
to "the output above". On that harness the user could not see the output: a command's stdout goes
|
||||
to the agent's context, not to anyone's screen. Nothing in the trace distinguishes that from a
|
||||
correct relay, and nothing ever will. The response was to fix the half that *is* fixable, the
|
||||
wording. The message now says "THE USER CANNOT SEE THIS OUTPUT", asks for the paths to be copied
|
||||
into the reply, and names the near-misses that do not count: a count, a summary, "the output above".
|
||||
An instruction that conflates printing with showing reads as already satisfied by the text existing.
|
||||
That is a general lesson about writing for agents, not a detail of this gate.
|
||||
|
||||
## Status
|
||||
|
||||
| Piece | State |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| Event schema, scrubber, writer | done - `tools/chemenu/telemetry/` |
|
||||
| `wikitool.call` on every command | done - one hook point in `cli.py`, next to the budget gate |
|
||||
| `gate.refused` (loop-breaker, iteration budget, mass-update) | done |
|
||||
| `publish.commit` | done |
|
||||
| Hook entry point | done - `tools/trace_ingest.py`, mappings for all three hook-capable harnesses |
|
||||
| Copilot CLI hooks | done - `.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json` |
|
||||
| VS Code chronicle import | done - `tools/import_chronicle.py` |
|
||||
| Mistral Vibe hooks | done - `.vibe/hooks.toml`, `.vibe/config.toml` |
|
||||
| Session header seeded on every trace | done - a trace declares its own `completeness` even without a session hook |
|
||||
| Scoring L1 + L2 | done - `wikitool eval score` |
|
||||
| L0 pipeline check | done - in the test suite |
|
||||
| Claude Code hooks | **partial** (2026-08-28) - `.claude/settings.json` wires `UserPromptSubmit` (the turn boundary `clearance-ended-the-turn` scores against) plus a `permissions.ask` rule on the `--confirm` form of `publish`; `PreToolUse` verified unable to force a prompt over `permissions.allow` |
|
||||
| Claude Code OTel | not started; not yet verified against the live CLI |
|
||||
| Agent runner (`eval run`) and L3 | designed below, not built |
|
||||
|
||||
## The agent runner, and why it is not here yet
|
||||
|
||||
Scoring reads what a session left behind. The missing half is *starting* one: a runner that launches
|
||||
a harness against a task, several times, and reports a pass rate. What it has to do is no longer
|
||||
guesswork, because the adapter work settled most of it:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Give each run a copy of the repository, not a fixture directory.** `config.ROOT` is derived from
|
||||
`chemenu/config.py`'s own location, so `wikitool` cannot be aimed at another tree from outside. An
|
||||
agent case therefore needs a worktree or a clone, where the tool sits inside the tree it edits. (A
|
||||
*fixture* directory works fine in-process, which is why L0 is a test.)
|
||||
- **Give each run its own HOME:** `VIBE_HOME`, `COPILOT_HOME`, plus `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` and
|
||||
`WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`, so that state, trust decisions and traces cannot leak between runs.
|
||||
- **Never launch Vibe without `--agent`.** Its programmatic mode falls back to `auto-approve` when no
|
||||
agent is named, and it does not ask about folder trust. The runner must refuse rather than inherit
|
||||
that default.
|
||||
- **Record a run manifest:** harness and version, model, git SHA, and hashes of `AGENTS.md`, the
|
||||
published skills and the fixture. Without it, a pass rate cannot be compared to anything.
|
||||
|
||||
What is missing is not the design but the ability to check it. No provider credentials were
|
||||
configured on the machine the design was worked out on, so a live run could not be executed, let
|
||||
alone verified. Writing the runner anyway would repeat exactly the mistake the Vibe adapter avoided:
|
||||
the hook format there was wrong in the documentation, and only the installed CLI showed it. A runner
|
||||
written against an unverified mental model of three harnesses would be worse.
|
||||
|
||||
Open questions: whether Claude Code has a redirectable config directory (only `--settings` is
|
||||
documented), and whether the scrubber's own patterns are enough, or a dedicated secret scanner
|
||||
belongs in the verification step.
|
||||
+21
-3
@@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ handed to the agent. A how-to guide never retells an agent's procedure: the step
|
||||
live in `instructions/`, and a guide here says what to prepare, what to ask for and where the
|
||||
agent stops.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing is here yet. Until the guides are written, the task-shaped parts of
|
||||
[README.md](../../README.md), [INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md),
|
||||
[INSTALL-MCP.md](../../INSTALL-MCP.md) and [EVALS.md](../../EVALS.md) still carry this material.
|
||||
Working with the wiki:
|
||||
|
||||
- [Ingest a source](ingest-a-source.md) - a file, a folder, a web page, or a document submitted
|
||||
through the MCP server
|
||||
- [Capture documentation from a git repository](capture-repository-docs.md) - and keep it current
|
||||
- [Export guidelines to captured repositories](export-guidelines.md)
|
||||
- [Query the wiki](query-the-wiki.md) - asking, and searching yourself
|
||||
- [Maintain the wiki](maintain-the-wiki.md) - lint, provenance, and the gates on the way to a publish
|
||||
- [Run the weekly review](run-the-weekly-review.md) - commitments in a task tracker against the
|
||||
project pages
|
||||
- [Browse the wiki in Obsidian](browse-with-obsidian.md) - and how pages are named
|
||||
|
||||
Running the instance:
|
||||
|
||||
- [Update an instance](update-an-instance.md) - to a newer release of the stack
|
||||
- [Troubleshoot an instance](troubleshoot.md)
|
||||
- [Set up the MCP read server](set-up-the-mcp-server.md) - for a consumer that is not a terminal
|
||||
on this machine
|
||||
- [Trace and score agent sessions](trace-and-score-sessions.md)
|
||||
|
||||
Installing a new instance is [INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md) at the repository root.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
|
||||
# Browse the wiki in Obsidian
|
||||
|
||||
The wiki is a folder of Markdown files joined by `[[wikilinks]]`, so any Markdown editor can read
|
||||
it. Obsidian adds a graph of the links between pages, which makes it a good way to look around.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
Open the instance's root directory as an Obsidian vault. Obsidian keeps its own settings in
|
||||
`.obsidian/`. That folder is personal state: it is never shipped with a release, and it has no
|
||||
effect on the wiki.
|
||||
|
||||
What you get:
|
||||
|
||||
- the graph view of how pages connect;
|
||||
- navigation by wikilink, the way the agent writes them;
|
||||
- plugins such as Dataview, which can query page frontmatter, or Marp for slides.
|
||||
|
||||
## Reading, not writing
|
||||
|
||||
Browse and read freely. Change pages through the agent, though, not by editing them in Obsidian. A
|
||||
page carries generated frontmatter, cross-references and footnote citations that `tools/wikitool`
|
||||
keeps consistent across the whole wiki. A hand edit can quietly break them. Renaming or moving a
|
||||
file in Obsidian is the clearest case: a title is the page's only identifier, so it also appears in
|
||||
every wikilink and citation that points at the page. A rename goes through
|
||||
`tools/wikitool rename`, which updates every reference. The full procedure is
|
||||
[instructions/page-lifecycle.md](../../instructions/page-lifecycle.md).
|
||||
|
||||
Generated files - `kb/index.md`, `kb/log.md`, `kb/provenance.md` and every `INDEX.md` - are
|
||||
rebuilt by the tool and never edited by hand.
|
||||
|
||||
## How pages are named
|
||||
|
||||
Knowing the naming rules makes the vault easier to find your way in:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Titles are human-readable names with spaces:** `Hybrid Search.md`, not kebab-case. A wikilink
|
||||
matches the file name exactly: `[[Hybrid Search]]`.
|
||||
- **Entities are singular:** `HA Integration.md`, not `HA Integrations.md`.
|
||||
- **A title follows the subject's own established name, not the wiki's language.** `Act Runner`
|
||||
and `GitOps Ownership Model` keep their names in a German wiki too. Translating a title is a
|
||||
rename, not an edit.
|
||||
- **A title works on every operating system.** It contains none of `< > : " / \ | ? *`, is not a
|
||||
reserved name such as `CON` or `Index`, does not end in a dot, and does not differ from another
|
||||
page's title by case alone. A file's whole path below the instance root stays at 160 characters
|
||||
or fewer, so a Windows checkout works without long paths. `wikitool new` and `wikitool rename`
|
||||
refuse titles that break these rules, and `wikitool lint` reports existing ones.
|
||||
[kb/CONTRACT.md](../../kb/CONTRACT.md) has the full rule.
|
||||
|
||||
## Letting the structure grow
|
||||
|
||||
- Start with a few broad categories and refine as the material arrives. Don't over-organise early.
|
||||
- Use tags for concerns that cut across collections.
|
||||
- Review what the agent changed from time to time - `kb/log.md` lists every operation - and tell it
|
||||
when something is off. It keeps to the standards in `AGENTS.md` and the contracts, but you are the
|
||||
one who notices when a page misses the point.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
|
||||
# Capture documentation from a git repository
|
||||
|
||||
Documentation that lives in a git repository is captured, not copied by hand. A capture records the
|
||||
repository, the ref rule and the commit it came from. Later, the wiki can tell which captured
|
||||
material has fallen behind its repository, and take in the new edition as a whole.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
Access to the repository from this machine. Git uses your own keys and credential helpers, and
|
||||
nothing is stored in the instance. Then decide three things:
|
||||
|
||||
- the repository URL;
|
||||
- the ref to follow, usually a branch such as `main`;
|
||||
- which files count, as a glob, for example `docs/**/*.md`.
|
||||
|
||||
## Taking a repository in for the first time
|
||||
|
||||
You can run the capture yourself, or name the three values to the agent and let it run the
|
||||
command:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool raw capture <repo-url> --ref main --path 'docs/**/*.md' --name <bundle>
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
This writes the matching files, byte for byte, into `incoming/<bundle>/`, together with a
|
||||
`_capture.json` manifest naming the repository, the ref rule and the commit. From there it is an
|
||||
ordinary source: `Ingest incoming/<bundle>` ([Ingest a source](ingest-a-source.md)), with the same
|
||||
questions and the same gate.
|
||||
|
||||
## Keeping it current
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool raw status
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
This lists every captured bundle that has fallen behind its repository, file by file, marking each
|
||||
file as added, modified or deleted. It only reads.
|
||||
|
||||
To bring them in, say:
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Update the captured repositories
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The agent checks every captured bundle. It takes one changed bundle per run into the wiki, replacing
|
||||
the old edition as a whole, and tells you how many are still behind. Run it again for the next one.
|
||||
`raw capture --update` and `raw accept --replaces-bundle` are the commands underneath. What each one
|
||||
does is in the [command reference](../reference/commands/raw-material-and-uploads.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Where the agent stops
|
||||
|
||||
The same places as any ingest: the `fidelity`/`authority` questions, the discussion of what
|
||||
matters, and the Mass-Update Gate when it publishes. When one repository cannot be reached, the
|
||||
agent reports the error and carries on with the others. A failure in one never stops the run.
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [Export guidelines](export-guidelines.md) - sending the wiki's guidelines back into the same
|
||||
repositories.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
|
||||
# Export guidelines to captured repositories
|
||||
|
||||
The repositories the wiki captures documentation from can get something back: the wiki's
|
||||
guidelines, as one generated `GUIDELINES.md` in each repository's root, which that repository's own
|
||||
agents then read.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
- **Decide which pages count as guidelines.** That decision is yours, and it is written down in
|
||||
`kb/CONVENTIONS.md` § Guidelines for other repositories. Usually it is a tag. To see the file
|
||||
exactly as it would be written, without touching any repository:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool export guidelines --tag guideline
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- **Opt each repository in, by hand, once.** A repository takes part only if it carries a
|
||||
`GUIDELINES.md` whose first line is exactly:
|
||||
|
||||
```markdown
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:export kind=guidelines -->
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Commit that one line there. Then point the repository's own `AGENTS.md` at the file (for Claude
|
||||
Code: `@GUIDELINES.md`). A `GUIDELINES.md` without that first line is hand-written, and the export
|
||||
never touches it.
|
||||
|
||||
The repository has to be one the wiki has captured
|
||||
([Capture documentation from a git repository](capture-repository-docs.md)). That is how the export
|
||||
knows where the repository lives. Its capture also has to follow a branch: a repository captured by
|
||||
a tag pattern is skipped, because a tag has no branch to commit onto.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you say
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Roll out the guidelines to the captured repositories
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Where the agent stops
|
||||
|
||||
The agent runs `export guidelines --push`, which stops before pushing anything. This is the
|
||||
**Guideline Push Gate** (exit 42). For every repository, it prints the status, the diff it would
|
||||
write and a `--confirm <token>` line. The agent puts every diff in front of you. Only your approval
|
||||
pushes, and then only one commit per repository, which changes only `GUIDELINES.md` and goes
|
||||
straight onto its branch.
|
||||
|
||||
The token is a digest of each target's branch tip and of the generated file. If a branch has moved
|
||||
or a guideline was edited since you looked, the gate asks again rather than pushing something you
|
||||
did not see.
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [Guideline export commands](../reference/commands/guideline-export.md)
|
||||
- [Why the gates are code](../explanation/why-gates-are-code.md)
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
|
||||
# Ingest a source
|
||||
|
||||
Turn a file, a folder or a web page into wiki pages: a source page that summarises it, and the
|
||||
entity and concept pages it touches, cross-referenced and published. The agent does the work, using
|
||||
the `wiki-ingest` skill ([skill catalogue](../reference/skills.md)). This page covers what you hand
|
||||
it and where it waits for you.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
Put the material into `incoming/` at the root of the instance. You don't have to classify it or
|
||||
pick a directory:
|
||||
|
||||
- **One file** goes in directly: `incoming/my-article.md`.
|
||||
- **Several files that belong together** go into one folder, `incoming/<name>/`. The folder is one
|
||||
source. It is accepted whole, and its structure is kept.
|
||||
- **A web page** needs no download of your own. Name the URL to the agent, and
|
||||
`tools/wikitool raw fetch` puts two files into `incoming/`: the HTML exactly as received, and a
|
||||
text derived from it with a header recording where and when it was fetched.
|
||||
- **A page behind a paywall or a login** is saved from your browser into `incoming/`, HTML only. The
|
||||
agent derives the same text from that file with `raw fetch --html`.
|
||||
|
||||
Where a file ends up in `raw/` is computed by `tools/wikitool raw accept`: a `YYYY/MM` shard for the
|
||||
day it was accepted. So is whether several files of one source get bundled. You never choose either.
|
||||
`incoming/` itself is gitignored, so whatever waits there is never published by accident.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you say
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Ingest incoming/my-article.md
|
||||
Ingest https://example.org/post
|
||||
Ingest
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
A bare `Ingest` takes the oldest entry waiting in `incoming/`. `tools/wikitool raw pending` lists
|
||||
what is waiting and names the entry the next bare `Ingest` will take.
|
||||
|
||||
## Where the agent asks you
|
||||
|
||||
- **Before promoting the file into `raw/`**, the agent asks how faithful the capture is
|
||||
(`fidelity`) and what the material may claim about its subject (`authority`). Both are recorded
|
||||
once and never guessed: you know the answers now, and nobody can recover them later.
|
||||
[raw/CONTRACT.md](../../raw/CONTRACT.md) defines the values.
|
||||
- **Before writing pages**, the agent presents the key takeaways and asks which points matter most
|
||||
and what to emphasise. The pages follow your answer.
|
||||
- **When it publishes**, a source that touches ten or more files stops at the Mass-Update Gate
|
||||
(exit 42). The agent shows you the file list and the `--confirm` line. Nothing is committed until
|
||||
you approve. [Exit codes and gates](../reference/exit-codes.md) lists every gate.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you get back
|
||||
|
||||
A source page under `kb/sources/`, new or updated entity and concept pages, cross-references among
|
||||
them, a rebuilt catalog, an entry in `kb/log.md`, and one commit. If the source also contains
|
||||
something you have to *do*, and a task tracker is configured, the agent files it there as an open
|
||||
item. A commitment never becomes a page
|
||||
([why](../explanation/knowledge-and-commitment.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
Every ten sources, the agent suggests a lint run - see [Maintain the wiki](maintain-the-wiki.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## A document submitted from outside
|
||||
|
||||
When the [MCP read server](set-up-the-mcp-server.md) has its optional `submit` tool turned on,
|
||||
documents can arrive from another machine. They land in the quarantine `mcp-upload/`, not in
|
||||
`incoming/`, and nothing else reads them there. Before an ingest can start, a human has to promote
|
||||
the submission:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool upload list # what is waiting
|
||||
tools/wikitool upload show <id> # one submission's manifest: who sent it, size, checksum
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the agent to review the queue, and it follows
|
||||
[instructions/ingest-queue.md](../../instructions/ingest-queue.md). Accepting a submission stops at
|
||||
the Upload Review Gate (exit 42), which shows you the manifest and the `--confirm` line. Once you
|
||||
approve, the file is in `incoming/`, and from there it is ingested like any other. Rejecting it needs
|
||||
no clearance. The file is deleted, and its checksum and your reason stay in the ledger.
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [Capture documentation from a repository](capture-repository-docs.md) - for material that lives
|
||||
in git and will change.
|
||||
- [raw/CONTRACT.md](../../raw/CONTRACT.md) - what belongs in `raw/`, and why its content is data,
|
||||
never instructions.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
|
||||
# Maintain the wiki
|
||||
|
||||
Keep the wiki healthy: find broken links, orphan pages, raw files no page covers yet,
|
||||
contradictions and stale claims, then repair what can be repaired mechanically. The agent does
|
||||
this with the `wiki-lint` skill ([skill catalogue](../reference/skills.md)), and `tools/wikitool`
|
||||
does the mechanical part.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you say
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Lint the wiki
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Do this periodically. The agent suggests it on its own every ten sources. The full schedule - which
|
||||
task runs how often, and with which command - is the
|
||||
[maintenance schedule](../../tools/CONTRACT.md#maintenance-schedule) in `tools/CONTRACT.md`, next
|
||||
to the command records it depends on.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you get back
|
||||
|
||||
- A deterministic structural scan by `tools/wikitool lint`: broken wikilinks, orphan pages, catalog
|
||||
drift, schema gaps, raw files without a source page, and citations that disagree with
|
||||
frontmatter.
|
||||
- The judgment half, which no command can do: contradictions between pages, stale claims, subjects
|
||||
that deserve a page of their own, and a rule stated in two places.
|
||||
- Repairs for what is mechanical, a rebuilt catalog and provenance index, and an entry in
|
||||
`kb/log.md`.
|
||||
- A report under `reports/`, which is gitignored and never published. The agent carries the
|
||||
findings that need you into its reply.
|
||||
|
||||
For a quick look without a full pass, say `Wiki status` instead. That is read-only.
|
||||
|
||||
## Provenance: where a claim came from
|
||||
|
||||
Every fact should trace back to a raw file. A source page lists its raw files, and other pages
|
||||
cite specific claims inline with a footnote that points at a source page. You can ask the
|
||||
questions yourself:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool sources coverage # raw files no source page covers yet
|
||||
tools/wikitool sources trace --raw raw/2026/09/x.md # which pages rest on this file
|
||||
tools/wikitool sources trace --page "HA Integration" # which raw files this page rests on
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`kb/provenance.md` is the generated reverse index. The commands are in the
|
||||
[provenance reference](../reference/commands/provenance.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Where the agent stops
|
||||
|
||||
- **Publishing ten or more files** stops at the Mass-Update Gate (exit 42). A lint pass that repairs
|
||||
many pages does this routinely. The agent shows you the full file list and the `--confirm` line,
|
||||
and publishes only after you approve. The token is a digest of that file list, so your approval
|
||||
never covers a changeset you did not see.
|
||||
- **The call budget.** Every `wikitool` call counts against a per-session budget: 60 calls, or 3
|
||||
identical calls in a row. Past it, calls are refused. The agent stops and summarises where it is.
|
||||
If you want it to go on, tell it so. Only then may it pass `--override-budget` on the command it
|
||||
needs. A refusal usually means the task should be split, not pushed through.
|
||||
- **No reachable remote.** Without `--no-push`, `publish` refuses with exit 1 before committing when
|
||||
the remote is not configured or cannot be reached. An instance that is meant to stay local passes
|
||||
`--no-push` on every publish.
|
||||
|
||||
Every gate, and which command it belongs to: [exit codes and gates](../reference/exit-codes.md).
|
||||
Why they are enforced in code: [why-gates-are-code.md](../explanation/why-gates-are-code.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Related
|
||||
|
||||
- [Troubleshoot](troubleshoot.md) - when `doctor` or a command reports a problem with the instance
|
||||
itself rather than with its pages.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
|
||||
# Query the wiki
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the wiki a question and get an answer built from its compiled pages, with the pages and sources
|
||||
it came from. The agent answers using the `wiki-query` skill
|
||||
([skill catalogue](../reference/skills.md)), which only reads unless you ask it to keep an answer.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you say
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the way you would ask a colleague:
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
What projects use MQTT?
|
||||
Show me the architecture of HA Integration
|
||||
Compare gdeploy and plugnburn-edl
|
||||
What decisions were made about E3DC integration?
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## What you get back
|
||||
|
||||
An answer that names the wiki pages it came from and the sources behind them. Where the wiki has no
|
||||
source for a claim, the agent says so instead of filling the gap. An answer it cannot back is never
|
||||
written into the wiki either.
|
||||
|
||||
If an answer is worth keeping - a comparison you will want again, a synthesis across several pages -
|
||||
the agent proposes filing it back as a page. It names the pages it would create before it creates
|
||||
any, and nothing is written unless you agree.
|
||||
|
||||
## Searching yourself
|
||||
|
||||
The agent searches with the same command you can run:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool search "<text>"
|
||||
tools/wikitool search --field entity_type=system
|
||||
tools/wikitool search --field '!sources' # pages without a sources: list
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`search` covers all of `kb/`, by text, by frontmatter or both. Each hit carries the page's path and
|
||||
full title, so you can open it directly. It only reads, and it does not count against the
|
||||
session's call budget, because looking before acting is the habit worth encouraging. The predicate forms are in the
|
||||
[command reference](../reference/commands/finding-and-checking.md).
|
||||
|
||||
For browsing rather than searching, `kb/index.md` is the catalog map, and each collection carries
|
||||
its own `INDEX.md`. All of these are generated. Read them, but never edit them. To browse the pages as
|
||||
a graph, see [Browse the wiki in Obsidian](browse-with-obsidian.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Asking from another machine
|
||||
|
||||
A consumer that is not a terminal on this machine can ask the same questions through the MCP read
|
||||
server and get the same answers: [Set up the MCP read server](set-up-the-mcp-server.md).
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
|
||||
# Run the weekly review
|
||||
|
||||
Go through your committed initiatives once a week and decide what each one needs: a next action, a
|
||||
pause, a close. A machine prepares the list, so you don't have to reconstruct it from memory. The
|
||||
agent runs the `gtd-weekly-review` skill ([skill catalogue](../reference/skills.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Two places, on purpose
|
||||
|
||||
Knowledge and commitments change at different speeds, so they live in different places:
|
||||
|
||||
- **A page under `kb/gtd/`** is one initiative's durable memory: its goal, who is involved, where it
|
||||
stands, and why it is worth doing. It never summarises the task list.
|
||||
- **The open items** live in a task tracker, which owns them.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing syncs between the two. `tools/wikitool review` joins them when it reads, matching on the
|
||||
project name, and stores nothing - not even a report file. Why the split runs this way rather than
|
||||
syncing: [knowledge-and-commitment.md](../explanation/knowledge-and-commitment.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
A task tracker, configured for this checkout in `.wikitool-tasks.json`. Super Productivity and
|
||||
CalDAV (for example Nextcloud Tasks) are supported. The file's shape, and the difference between a
|
||||
tracker the wiki can only read and one it can write to, is in the
|
||||
[configuration reference](../reference/configuration.md#task-tracker). Without a tracker, the
|
||||
review has nothing to join against. That is a valid state, though, and the pages work without one.
|
||||
|
||||
## What you say
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Run the weekly review
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## What you get back
|
||||
|
||||
The agent runs `tools/wikitool review` and walks you through its findings, one at a time:
|
||||
|
||||
- initiatives with no next action;
|
||||
- waiting-fors past their follow-up date;
|
||||
- tracker projects that have no page;
|
||||
- active pages with no open item;
|
||||
- someday items that have gone stale.
|
||||
|
||||
For each finding, the agent asks what is actually true, because "this looks stalled" can mean a
|
||||
next action is missing, the initiative was paused on purpose, or it is finished. Then it proposes the
|
||||
exact change: a new item in the tracker, an item marked done, or a page's state moved to `dormant`,
|
||||
`completed` or `abandoned`. Nothing is written to the tracker until you confirm that exact call.
|
||||
What was decided goes onto the page, and the page is published.
|
||||
|
||||
A quiet week is a valid result. If one of the checks could not run because the tracker did not
|
||||
answer, the agent says which check was skipped. An empty result under a skipped check means nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
## Starting something new
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the agent for a new project and name it. It runs `tools/wikitool new project`, which gives the
|
||||
initiative its page under `kb/gtd/` and, where a tracker is configured, a tracker project under the
|
||||
same name. A CalDAV tracker gets that project created automatically. On Super Productivity the
|
||||
command stops with exit 42 and asks you to create the project in the app yourself. Tell the agent
|
||||
when you are done, and it continues with `--resume`. A tracker the wiki can only read refuses the
|
||||
command outright.
|
||||
|
||||
A single open item with no page of its own - a commitment that came with a source, say - is filed
|
||||
with `tools/wikitool task new`. `task list` reads a project's open items back, and `task close --id`
|
||||
marks one done. Nothing deletes an item. The commands are in the
|
||||
[command reference](../reference/commands/pages.md).
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,263 @@
|
||||
# Set up the MCP read server
|
||||
|
||||
Serve an instance's wiki read-only over MCP, so that a consumer that is not a terminal on this
|
||||
machine - another agent, a chat client, a service - can ask it the same questions and get the same
|
||||
answers. This page covers what you set up around the server: the client, the authentication in
|
||||
front of it, the optional `submit` path, and how to check that it works. Installing, starting and
|
||||
syncing the server itself is
|
||||
[instructions/mcp-read-server.md](../../instructions/mcp-read-server.md), which an agent follows
|
||||
and which is readable for you as well.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
## Contents
|
||||
|
||||
- [What the server is, and what it is not](#what-the-server-is-and-what-it-is-not)
|
||||
- [What you prepare](#what-you-prepare)
|
||||
- [Wiring a client to it](#wiring-a-client-to-it)
|
||||
- [Running it as a service](#running-it-as-a-service)
|
||||
- [Authentication in front of it](#authentication-in-front-of-it)
|
||||
- [Keeping the served tree current](#keeping-the-served-tree-current)
|
||||
- [Optional: the submit path](#optional-the-submit-path)
|
||||
- [Checking that it works](#checking-that-it-works)
|
||||
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
|
||||
- [What is deliberately not here](#what-is-deliberately-not-here)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
## What the server is, and what it is not
|
||||
|
||||
The server is a second consumer of the same core as the CLI, not a second program. Both call the
|
||||
same functions, and a golden test in the origin repository holds their output together. What
|
||||
`tools/wikitool search --json` returns, the MCP tool `search` returns too, together with the commit
|
||||
the answer was computed from.
|
||||
|
||||
It is not a write path into `kb/`. No tool creates, changes or publishes a page - not because a list
|
||||
is filtered, but because the server imports nothing under `tools/chemenu/commands/`. Those functions
|
||||
cannot be reached from its process. The one exception is opt-in: a sixth tool, `submit`, which
|
||||
writes only into a quarantine no other command reads. A human decides about everything that leaves
|
||||
it ([below](#optional-the-submit-path)).
|
||||
|
||||
| Tool | What it answers |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| `search` | Pages in `kb/` by text, by frontmatter (`!sources`, `tags~k8s`), or both |
|
||||
| `types` | Which page types this wiki knows |
|
||||
| `describe_type` | A type's full contract: fields, required values, enums |
|
||||
| `lint` | Structural findings: broken wikilinks, orphans, catalog drift, schema gaps |
|
||||
| `status` | A snapshot: page count, distribution over collections, finding counts |
|
||||
| `submit` *(optional)* | Hands a document to the review queue - into a quarantine, never into `kb/` |
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
- A working instance ([INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md)), including `tools/.venv` and ripgrep.
|
||||
- For a deployment, a reverse proxy that can authenticate requests before they reach the server
|
||||
([below](#authentication-in-front-of-it)).
|
||||
|
||||
Then ask the agent:
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Set up the MCP read server for this instance
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
It installs the server's optional dependency, which is deliberately not in
|
||||
`tools/requirements.txt`: an instance that only uses the CLI should not have to install pydantic,
|
||||
starlette, uvicorn and cryptography. It also checks that tracing cannot write into the served tree.
|
||||
The server refuses to start if it could:
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
ERROR Telemetry is on and would write into the served checkout (...). Set WIKI_TRACE=0,
|
||||
or point WIKI_TRACE_DIR outside the corpus.
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
That refusal is expected, not an installation fault. Telemetry is off by default in an instance
|
||||
installed from a release and on in a clone of the origin repository
|
||||
([configuration](../reference/configuration.md#telemetry)). The server consults the same policy
|
||||
`wikitool doctor` does. Setting `WIKI_TRACE=0` explicitly, as every example here does, is correct
|
||||
either way and makes the check moot.
|
||||
|
||||
## Wiring a client to it
|
||||
|
||||
Locally, over `stdio`, the client starts the server itself: one process per consumer, no network.
|
||||
The configuration follows the usual MCP client shape, with absolute paths, because the client
|
||||
inherits no working directory:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{
|
||||
"mcpServers": {
|
||||
"chemenu": {
|
||||
"command": "/path/to/instance/tools/.venv/bin/python",
|
||||
"args": ["-m", "chemenu.mcp"],
|
||||
"cwd": "/path/to/instance/tools",
|
||||
"env": {
|
||||
"WIKI_TRACE": "0",
|
||||
"CHEMENU_ROOT": "/path/to/instance"
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`CHEMENU_ROOT` says **which** wiki is served. Without it, the server takes the checkout its own
|
||||
package sits in. That is enough for a single instance, but with several corpora it is safer to always
|
||||
set it. The process speaks MCP over stdin and stdout and prints nothing of its own, which is correct.
|
||||
|
||||
## Running it as a service
|
||||
|
||||
Deployed, the server speaks `streamable-http`, the only transport a reverse proxy can sit in front
|
||||
of. The command a service unit or container runs looks like this:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
WIKI_TRACE=0 CHEMENU_ROOT=/srv/chemenu \
|
||||
tools/.venv/bin/python -m chemenu.mcp \
|
||||
--transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The endpoint is then `http://<host>:8000/mcp`. `--host 0.0.0.0` is deliberately not the default:
|
||||
without it the server binds to loopback, which is right locally and wrong in a container, where the
|
||||
proxy has to reach it. If you set it, make sure something stands in front. `sse` is not offered. It
|
||||
is the superseded remote transport, and building on it now would only postpone the switch.
|
||||
|
||||
## Authentication in front of it
|
||||
|
||||
**The server does not authenticate on its own, by design.** A request that is not properly
|
||||
authenticated should never reach the Python process at all. The authentication is a Traefik
|
||||
ForwardAuth middleware:
|
||||
|
||||
> **<https://gitea.nehmer.net/torben/gitea-mcp-forward-auth>**
|
||||
|
||||
In short, it checks `Authorization: Bearer <token>` against SHA-256 hashes of allowed tokens. It
|
||||
answers `200` for a valid token and `401` for a missing or wrong one, and always leaves
|
||||
`GET /healthz` open. Plaintext tokens appear neither in the configuration nor in the log, only
|
||||
hashes and a short fingerprint. It is configured with `AUTH_PROXY_TOKEN_HASHES_DIR` (a directory with
|
||||
one file per token hash, which suits a Kubernetes secret volume) or `AUTH_PROXY_TOKEN_HASHES` (a
|
||||
comma-separated list). The README there has the details, reference manifests and a test script.
|
||||
|
||||
To create a token hash:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
echo -n "my-token" | sha256sum | awk '{print $1}'
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
**Rate limiting belongs in the same place,** in front of the process and beside the
|
||||
authentication. It does not belong in the Iteration Budget Gate. That gate stops an *agent session*
|
||||
from iterating over the wiki's state unnoticed, which is why retrieval is exempt from it. Using it
|
||||
as a rate limiter would water it down.
|
||||
|
||||
## Keeping the served tree current
|
||||
|
||||
The server reads the working tree, and a stale checkout answers confidently and wrongly. So **every
|
||||
answer carries the commit** it was computed from:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "commit": "<40-character SHA>", "as_of": "<ISO-8601, UTC>", "count": 3, "...": "..." }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
A timer beside the server keeps the tree current by polling: a fetch, then a hard reset to the
|
||||
remote branch. The two commands, and why the hard reset is load-bearing, are in the instruction's
|
||||
sync step. Polling rather than a webhook, because it needs no inbound endpoint and no signature
|
||||
check, which is a smaller attack surface than the thing a webhook would optimise. **Never add
|
||||
`git clean` to that timer.** The reset leaves every gitignored path alone, which is what keeps the
|
||||
`submit` quarantine and any traces intact. A clean would silently delete a submission nobody has
|
||||
reviewed yet.
|
||||
|
||||
## Optional: the submit path
|
||||
|
||||
Without this, `submit` does not exist as a tool - not unused, but not registered. A file
|
||||
`.wikitool-upload.json` in the served corpus turns it on:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{
|
||||
"schema": 1,
|
||||
"identity_header": "X-Forwarded-User",
|
||||
"max_bytes": 10485760,
|
||||
"allowed_extensions": [".md", ".txt", ".pdf", ".html", ".csv", ".json", ".png", ".jpg"],
|
||||
"quota": { "submissions_per_day": 20, "bytes_per_day": 52428800 }
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Every field is required, and none has a built-in default except `identity_header`. A malformed file
|
||||
stops the server from starting. It never means "no limits": the failure deliberately goes the safe
|
||||
way. Size and quota are your deployment's decision, not defaults worth copying blindly.
|
||||
|
||||
**With `submit` on, the middleware has a second duty.** It has to set the identity header itself, on
|
||||
every authenticated request, and discard any copy the client sent. The server trusts that header as
|
||||
the value for `submitter`. A header the client could set itself would be a claim, not an identity.
|
||||
If `identity_header` names a header the middleware does not set, every submission is refused for
|
||||
lack of an identity.
|
||||
|
||||
Submitted files land in `mcp-upload/<id>/`, which is gitignored and read by no other command. From
|
||||
there a human promotes or rejects them, in the same checkout as the server rather than in its
|
||||
process. That review is part of
|
||||
[ingesting a source](ingest-a-source.md#a-document-submitted-from-outside).
|
||||
|
||||
## Checking that it works
|
||||
|
||||
The quickest test without a client starts the server over stdio, lists its tools and asks one
|
||||
question:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
cd tools && WIKI_TRACE=0 .venv/bin/python - <<'EOF'
|
||||
import asyncio, os
|
||||
from mcp import ClientSession, StdioServerParameters
|
||||
from mcp.client.stdio import stdio_client
|
||||
|
||||
async def main():
|
||||
params = StdioServerParameters(
|
||||
command=".venv/bin/python", args=["-m", "chemenu.mcp"],
|
||||
env={"WIKI_TRACE": "0", "PATH": os.environ["PATH"]},
|
||||
)
|
||||
async with stdio_client(params) as (r, w):
|
||||
async with ClientSession(r, w) as s:
|
||||
await s.initialize()
|
||||
print("Tools:", [t.name for t in (await s.list_tools()).tools])
|
||||
out = await s.call_tool("status", {})
|
||||
d = getattr(out, "structuredContent", None) or out.structured_content
|
||||
print("Pages:", d["pages"], "| Commit:", d["commit"])
|
||||
|
||||
asyncio.run(main())
|
||||
EOF
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Expected output, roughly:
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Tools: ['search', 'types', 'describe_type', 'lint', 'status']
|
||||
Pages: 176 | Commit: 576df2cdddc96614a7e6641e562022d52112d411
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Then cross-check against the CLI. Both have to give the same answer:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool search "<term>" --json
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Troubleshooting
|
||||
|
||||
**`ERROR Telemetry is on and would write into the served checkout`**: expected behaviour, not an
|
||||
installation fault. Set `WIKI_TRACE=0`, or point `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` outside the corpus.
|
||||
|
||||
**`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mcp'`**: the optional dependency is not installed, or
|
||||
the client starts a different Python than the instance's. Give the client the absolute path to
|
||||
`tools/.venv/bin/python`.
|
||||
|
||||
**`"commit": null` in every answer**: the served tree has uncommitted changes. Either the sync is not
|
||||
running, or something writes into the corpus that has no business there. The five read tools never
|
||||
write. `submit`, when it is on, writes only to `mcp-upload/`, which is gitignored and so is never a
|
||||
cause of `"commit": null` either.
|
||||
|
||||
**`commit` names an old revision**: the sync timer is not running.
|
||||
|
||||
**The server answers differently from `wikitool`**: that is a defect, not a configuration
|
||||
difference, since both go through the same functions. First check that both point at the same root.
|
||||
`CHEMENU_ROOT` is easy to set for one and not the other.
|
||||
|
||||
**Not reachable from outside**: without `--host 0.0.0.0` the server binds to loopback. If it is
|
||||
reachable but every call gets `401`, the middleware is working correctly and the token is wrong.
|
||||
|
||||
## What is deliberately not here
|
||||
|
||||
Deployment specifics - the cluster, ingress hosts, the secret store, the GitOps source - are
|
||||
private infrastructure, and this repository is public.
|
||||
|
||||
There is no container image for the server yet. Until there is, the path above - the venv,
|
||||
`python -m chemenu.mcp`, a proxy in front - is the complete one. With `submit` on, `mcp-upload/`
|
||||
has to survive restarts the same way the rest of the checkout does. Otherwise a submitted file that
|
||||
nobody has reviewed yet loses its quarantine.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
|
||||
# Trace and score agent sessions
|
||||
|
||||
Record what an agent did in a session, read the record back, and score it. A score covers the state
|
||||
the session left the wiki in and how it got there: whether it repeated a refused call, or passed a
|
||||
gate's flag without that gate ever refusing. Why this exists, what the trace contains, and what a
|
||||
score means are covered in [telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md).
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
## Contents
|
||||
|
||||
- [What you prepare](#what-you-prepare)
|
||||
- [Reading a session back](#reading-a-session-back)
|
||||
- [What each harness can report](#what-each-harness-can-report)
|
||||
- [Claude Code](#claude-code)
|
||||
- [Copilot CLI](#copilot-cli)
|
||||
- [VS Code Chat](#vs-code-chat)
|
||||
- [Mistral Vibe](#mistral-vibe)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
## What you prepare
|
||||
|
||||
**Turn tracing on, if it is off.** It is on in a clone of the origin repository and off in an
|
||||
instance installed from a release. `tools/wikitool doctor` reports which state this checkout is in,
|
||||
and why. To turn it on for one checkout, create `.wikitool-telemetry.json` at the root:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "enabled": true }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The file and its other keys are in the [configuration reference](../reference/configuration.md#telemetry).
|
||||
Everything stays on this machine: traces land under `reports/telemetry/`, which is gitignored, and
|
||||
no exporter is configured.
|
||||
|
||||
**Scope the session to the task.** Every source of events joins on one session id. Setting it
|
||||
yourself keeps one task in one trace:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
export WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID="my-task"
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
[instructions/session-setup.md](../../instructions/session-setup.md) has the line for each shell,
|
||||
and what to do on a harness that starts a fresh shell for every command.
|
||||
|
||||
## Reading a session back
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval sessions # which sessions have a trace
|
||||
|
||||
# what did that session do?
|
||||
jq -r '[.ts, .source, .event, (.attrs.command // .attrs.tool_name // "")] | @tsv' \
|
||||
reports/telemetry/my-task/trace.jsonl
|
||||
|
||||
# how well did it do it?
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval score --session my-task
|
||||
tools/wikitool eval score --session my-task --save # also write the scorecard under reports/evals/
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Both `eval` commands only read, and neither counts against the session's call budget: reading back
|
||||
what a session did is not iterating on the wiki. Their options are in the
|
||||
[telemetry command reference](../reference/commands/telemetry.md).
|
||||
|
||||
To see how a harness hook payload would be recorded, feed one in by hand without writing anything:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
echo '{"session_id":"x","hook_event_name":"post_tool","tool_name":"bash"}' \
|
||||
| tools/trace_ingest.py --source mistral-vibe --dry-run
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## What each harness can report
|
||||
|
||||
`wikitool` records its own calls on every harness. What the agent did *between* those calls -
|
||||
file reads, searches, shell commands, prompts - comes from the harness's hooks, and harnesses differ
|
||||
a lot in what they offer. Verified against vendor documentation on 2026-08-23:
|
||||
|
||||
| | Claude Code | Copilot CLI | VS Code Chat | Mistral Vibe |
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||
| Hook events | ~30 | 14 | none | 3 (`pre_tool`, `post_tool`, `post_agent`) |
|
||||
| Session start/end hook | yes | yes | - | **no** |
|
||||
| Prompt submit hook | yes | yes | - | **no** |
|
||||
| Which instructions loaded | yes (`InstructionsLoaded`) | no | no | no |
|
||||
| Block / rewrite a tool call | yes | yes | - | yes |
|
||||
| OTel to your own collector | yes | via MDM `telemetry` | no | **no** - `enable_otel` targets Mistral Studio only |
|
||||
| `TRACEPARENT` to subprocesses | yes | undocumented | - | undocumented |
|
||||
| Programmatic mode | `-p`, `stream-json` | `-p` | no | `-p`, `--output streaming` |
|
||||
| Isolated config home | to be confirmed | `COPILOT_HOME` | no | `VIBE_HOME` |
|
||||
| Local session log | `~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl` (unstable format) | `~/.copilot/session-state/<id>/events.jsonl` | chronicle SQLite | `$VIBE_HOME/logs/` (no format guarantee) |
|
||||
| Wired up here | **partial** - `.claude/settings.json` (`UserPromptSubmit` + a `permissions.ask` rule on the clearing publish) | **yes** - `.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json` | **yes** - `tools/import_chronicle.py` | **yes** - `.vibe/hooks.toml` |
|
||||
|
||||
A rule that needs an event a harness cannot report is shown as *skipped*, not as passed or failed.
|
||||
|
||||
### Claude Code
|
||||
|
||||
`.claude/settings.json` wires `UserPromptSubmit` to `tools/trace_ingest.py`, through
|
||||
`tools/trace-hook` like every hook here. That gives the trace its turn boundaries, which the rule
|
||||
`clearance-ended-the-turn` needs. Without a `prompt.submitted` event it reports "cannot say"
|
||||
instead of a verdict.
|
||||
|
||||
**No `PreToolUse` decision hook is wired, and that is a finding, not an oversight.** Verified against
|
||||
the live CLI on 2026-08-27: a `PreToolUse` hook that returns
|
||||
`hookSpecificOutput.permissionDecision: "ask"` does **not** override a matching `permissions.allow`
|
||||
rule. Permissions are evaluated before the hook's decision, so a hook cannot force a confirmation
|
||||
prompt on a command that is already allowed. A `permissions.ask` rule *does* win, which is why
|
||||
`.claude/settings.json` carries one on the `--confirm` form of `publish`
|
||||
(`Bash(tools/wikitool publish --confirm:*)`). The clearing call prompts, and ordinary publishes below
|
||||
the threshold do not. It is a prefix match, so it depends on `--confirm` coming first, which is why
|
||||
`publish` always prints its re-run line in that order. Treat it as a useful second line, not a
|
||||
guarantee: an agent that reorders the flags gets around it.
|
||||
|
||||
### Copilot CLI
|
||||
|
||||
[.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json](../../.github/hooks/wiki-trace.json) is committed, so a clone
|
||||
brings its own tracing. Eleven events go to `tools/trace_ingest.py`. `disableAllHooks` in
|
||||
`.github/copilot/settings.json` turns them off without deleting anything. `userPromptSubmitted` is
|
||||
among them, so `clearance-ended-the-turn` can be scored on Copilot CLI with no change.
|
||||
|
||||
A `preToolUse` entry that forces a decision on the clearing call would first need Copilot's own
|
||||
decision-document schema verified against a live CLI. That has not happened, and an adapter that
|
||||
cannot be verified is not written.
|
||||
|
||||
Four details of the hook configuration matter. The first two hold for all three harnesses that have
|
||||
hooks:
|
||||
|
||||
- **The interpreter is the venv's, never the script's shebang.** Each `bash` command is
|
||||
`./tools/trace-hook ...`, which runs `trace_ingest.py` with `tools/.venv`'s Python in either venv
|
||||
layout. Each `powershell` command names `tools\.venv\Scripts\python.exe` directly. On Windows in
|
||||
Git Bash, the shebang's `python3` was the Microsoft Store alias, which made every hook a silent
|
||||
no-op. Before the preflight has created the venv, `trace-hook` records nothing and exits 0.
|
||||
- **`./tools/trace-hook` has a PowerShell twin, `tools/trace-hook.ps1`.** PowerShell on Windows
|
||||
resolves the string to the `.ps1` first. Without the twin, it hands the sh script to a file
|
||||
association, and Windows asks which app should open it - on every hook event. Copilot CLI also
|
||||
reads `.claude/settings.json` and runs its single `command` under PowerShell on Windows, so a
|
||||
`bash` field alone does not keep the string out of PowerShell. The twin follows the sh script's
|
||||
rules - venv Python, silent without a venv, exit 0 whatever happens - and stays parseable by
|
||||
Windows PowerShell 5.1, because VS Code starts hooks under 5.1.
|
||||
- **Every command ends in `|| true`.** `preToolUse` hooks fail closed: a non-zero exit denies the
|
||||
tool call. Without the guard, a missing interpreter would turn the observer into a blocker that
|
||||
refuses every tool call in the session. Timeouts fail open, so the 5-second `timeoutSec` is no
|
||||
hazard.
|
||||
- **The event name is passed explicitly.** Copilot serves two payload dialects: camelCase event
|
||||
names give camelCase fields, and PascalCase names give the snake_case shape that VS Code and Claude
|
||||
use. `--event` means the mapping does not depend on which one a configuration chose.
|
||||
|
||||
### VS Code Chat
|
||||
|
||||
VS Code Chat has no hooks, so nothing observes a session while it runs. Its chronicle store
|
||||
(`session-store.db`, the same schema as Copilot CLI's) keeps sessions, turns and touched files, and
|
||||
[tools/import_chronicle.py](../../tools/import_chronicle.py) rebuilds a trace from it afterwards:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/import_chronicle.py --dry-run # this repository's sessions
|
||||
tools/import_chronicle.py --session 0f1e2d3c
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
The store starts empty, and `/chronicle reindex` fills it. That command also syncs session data to
|
||||
your GitHub account, so run it deliberately rather than from a script. A rebuilt trace marks itself
|
||||
`reconstructed: true`, and its `completeness` names `tool.post` but not `tool.pre`: the store records
|
||||
that a file was touched, not that a tool was about to run.
|
||||
|
||||
### Mistral Vibe
|
||||
|
||||
[.vibe/hooks.toml](../../.vibe/hooks.toml) declares the three hooks Vibe has, and
|
||||
[.vibe/config.toml](../../.vibe/config.toml) keeps the telemetry settings in the repository rather
|
||||
than in someone's shell profile. Both were checked against the installed CLI's own loader
|
||||
(`mistral-vibe 2.24.2`) rather than against its documentation. What that turned up:
|
||||
|
||||
- **A failing hook cannot block anything.** With `strict = false`, the default, a crash or a timeout
|
||||
is only a warning. Only a hook that opts into `strict` can deny a tool call - the mirror image of
|
||||
Copilot.
|
||||
- **`post_agent` carries no response text,** only the session context. That is why it maps to
|
||||
`turn.end` rather than `assistant.message`.
|
||||
- **`enable_telemetry` defaults to `true`.** Turning it off is a real change, and it also gates OTel
|
||||
export, which needs both flags on. This repository leaves both off: Vibe's `enable_otel` sends
|
||||
prompts to Mistral Studio.
|
||||
- **Vibe already reads `.agents/skills/` and `AGENTS.md`.** The directory that
|
||||
`wikitool instructions sync` publishes is a project-scope skill source for Vibe, so working with
|
||||
Vibe needs no adaptation, only a trusted folder.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
|
||||
# Troubleshoot an instance
|
||||
|
||||
What a common failure means, and what to do about it. During installation itself, the preflight
|
||||
names its own stops - what is missing, why, and the command that fixes it - and
|
||||
[INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md) explains them. This page covers an instance that is already set up.
|
||||
|
||||
For the MCP read server, see the troubleshooting section of
|
||||
[Set up the MCP read server](set-up-the-mcp-server.md#troubleshooting).
|
||||
|
||||
## `tools/wikitool` ends with `STOP - this checkout is not set up yet` (exit 42)
|
||||
|
||||
The preflight has not run in this checkout yet, or not since the last update. Run it:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/preflight.sh
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
In PowerShell 7 on Windows, the call is
|
||||
`pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools/preflight.ps1`. The `-ExecutionPolicy Bypass`
|
||||
applies to that one process only and changes no setting.
|
||||
[instructions/preflight.md](../../instructions/preflight.md) is the procedure, and its output says
|
||||
what to install if anything is missing.
|
||||
|
||||
## The agent offers no skills (`wiki-ingest`, `wiki-query`, ...)
|
||||
|
||||
`.agents/skills/` and `.claude/skills/` are generated and not committed. Run:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool instructions sync
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Then restart the agent session. A harness reads its skills only when the session starts.
|
||||
|
||||
## `doctor` reports `personalization: FAIL`
|
||||
|
||||
`USER.md` or `SOUL.md` is missing, or still carries the sentinel line from its template. A renamed
|
||||
template does not count as a filled one. Ask the agent to run the personalization step of
|
||||
[instructions/setup-instance.md](../../instructions/setup-instance.md). For a further clone of an
|
||||
older instance, that is the only step to catch up on.
|
||||
|
||||
## `doctor` reports `environment: WARN`
|
||||
|
||||
`ENVIRONMENT.md` exists but still carries the template's sentinel line. Fill it in (the template is
|
||||
`ENVIRONMENT.md.template`) and remove the line, or delete the file. It is optional, and `absent` is
|
||||
a valid state.
|
||||
|
||||
## `new` stops with "No author configured"
|
||||
|
||||
Neither `$WIKI_AUTHOR` nor `git config user.name` is set. Run `git config user.name "<Name>"`, or
|
||||
export `WIKI_AUTHOR` ([configuration](../reference/configuration.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
## `publish` ends with exit 42 (Mass-Update Gate)
|
||||
|
||||
Expected when ten or more files are counted, for example on the very first commit of a new instance
|
||||
or after a lint pass. It is not an error. It asks that a human see the output: the complete file
|
||||
list and the exact `--confirm <token>` line that publishes once you approve.
|
||||
[instructions/gates.md](../../instructions/gates.md) has the details.
|
||||
|
||||
## `publish` ends with exit 42 (Publish-Remote Gate)
|
||||
|
||||
This checkout has a `.wikitool-remotes.json`, and the remote being pushed to is not listed in it.
|
||||
Also not an error: the output names the push URL it would write to and the URLs that are allowed.
|
||||
Unlike the Mass-Update Gate, there is **no token and no flag** here. If the target really is right,
|
||||
you add its URL to the file yourself. An agent that edits the file to get past the refusal is
|
||||
opening a gate on its own initiative, which it must never do.
|
||||
|
||||
## Setup or an update fails, and you want to report it
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the agent to follow [instructions/bug-report.md](../../instructions/bug-report.md), or call
|
||||
`tools/bugreport` yourself. It works the same from Bash, Git Bash and PowerShell. It finds a
|
||||
Python 3.8 or newer by itself, skipping the Store aliases `python3` points at on Windows. It needs
|
||||
neither the preflight nor a working `wikitool`, and if it finds no Python, it says why.
|
||||
|
||||
The script writes a bundle to `reports/bugreport-<timestamp>/`, with a zip beside it.
|
||||
|
||||
- **What is removed:** secrets, and page titles from everything the script itself produces.
|
||||
`--titles` keeps the titles.
|
||||
- **What may still be in it:** the session trace is included by default (`--no-trace` leaves it
|
||||
out). Like the chronology and the transcripts, it can contain page content and titles. The bundle
|
||||
also contains machine, user and path names.
|
||||
- **Pseudonymising:** `--pseudonymise` replaces user, host, path, git and remote names with
|
||||
placeholders that keep their length, spaces, hyphens and path depth. The agent can then add more
|
||||
names - people, companies, customers, projects - with `--bundle … --candidates …`. That is a
|
||||
model's judgment, and it leaves a remainder: read the bundle before you share it. The mapping,
|
||||
the checklist and the candidates file contain the originals, and they sit beside the bundle,
|
||||
never in it.
|
||||
|
||||
Nothing is uploaded anywhere. You choose the channel.
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
|
||||
# Update an instance
|
||||
|
||||
Bring an instance installed from a release up to a newer release of the stack: the tools, types,
|
||||
instructions and contracts. Your pages stay yours. The agent carries out the upgrade by following
|
||||
[instructions/upgrade-instance.md](../../instructions/upgrade-instance.md), which sets the order of
|
||||
the steps, what each one decides, and where the session has to restart. This page covers the
|
||||
decision before it, and what you'll see along the way.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
## Contents
|
||||
|
||||
- [What is running, and is there something newer?](#what-is-running-and-is-there-something-newer)
|
||||
- [Read the notes first](#read-the-notes-first)
|
||||
- [What you say](#what-you-say)
|
||||
- [Where the agent stops](#where-the-agent-stops)
|
||||
- [Where the release comes from, and whom you trust](#where-the-release-comes-from-and-whom-you-trust)
|
||||
- [Two first-time cases](#two-first-time-cases)
|
||||
- [Pitfalls](#pitfalls)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
## What is running, and is there something newer?
|
||||
|
||||
Every instance carries the version of the **stack**, not of its content. It is in `VERSION`, and
|
||||
`.wikitool-release.json` beside it records where the release came from and when it was exported.
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tools/wikitool version # what runs here, and where it came from
|
||||
tools/wikitool version check # is there a newer release?
|
||||
tools/wikitool version notes # what the newest release changes
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`version check`, `version notes` and `dist upgrade --latest` are the only commands that go to the
|
||||
network. All three ask the same release feed: the one named in the stamp, unless
|
||||
`WIKITOOL_UPDATE_URL` overrides it. A feed that cannot be reached is reported as an error, **never**
|
||||
as "up to date" and never as "no notes".
|
||||
|
||||
## Read the notes first
|
||||
|
||||
What a version number promises: two versions are compatible when they agree in the *leftmost
|
||||
non-zero part*. `0.1.3 → 0.1.4` is a safe update and `0.1.3 → 0.2.0` is not. From `1.0.0` on, the
|
||||
same rule reads as the familiar "a MAJOR breaks". `version check` says which case you are in
|
||||
(`state: update` or `state: migration`).
|
||||
|
||||
That number only answers whether the new machinery can simply be copied over the old. Whether your
|
||||
*content* has to be migrated is a second, independent question. So the release notes of a MAJOR
|
||||
carry two separate lines, and both are worth reading before you start:
|
||||
|
||||
- **Breaking Change:** what stops working, and what this instance has to do about it.
|
||||
- **Migration:** whether and how the pages are rewritten (`none required` when they are not).
|
||||
|
||||
`version notes` prints both. On an instance it reads them from the release feed, because an
|
||||
instance's own `CHANGES.md` is a stub that an update never overwrites. It always asks for the
|
||||
**newest** release, so while `VERSION` still names the old one, it answers with a version other than
|
||||
the one installed, and says so on stderr. If the feed cannot be reached, the error names the release
|
||||
page recorded as `release_url` in `.wikitool-release.json`. `--offline` sends you there directly.
|
||||
|
||||
Why the two questions are kept apart: [version-model.md](../explanation/version-model.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## What you say
|
||||
|
||||
```text
|
||||
Update this instance to the latest release
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Where the agent stops
|
||||
|
||||
In the order you'll meet them:
|
||||
|
||||
- **The release notes.** The agent shows you both lines before it touches anything. A migration the
|
||||
instance already owes from an earlier release is finished first.
|
||||
- **A stack file you changed by hand.** `dist upgrade` lists every file that differs from what the
|
||||
installed release shipped, instead of overwriting it silently. For each one, you decide: take the
|
||||
release's version, or keep yours. Keeping yours means the file is reported again at every future
|
||||
upgrade.
|
||||
- **The preflight.** A new release may need other tools than the old one. If something is missing,
|
||||
the preflight stops with exit 42 and says what to install, exactly as during installation.
|
||||
- **The first publish.** The swapped machinery is published on its own, before any content changes.
|
||||
That is far more than ten files, so the Mass-Update Gate (exit 42) shows you the list and the
|
||||
`--confirm` line.
|
||||
- **The session restart.** The running session still holds the *old* `AGENTS.md`, contracts and
|
||||
skills, so the agent asks you to restart it before migrating content. The new session picks up
|
||||
where the old one stopped.
|
||||
- **An offered migration.** A required migration is simply carried out. An *offered* one changes a
|
||||
file the instance owns, so taking it or declining it is your decision.
|
||||
- **The second publish,** of the migrated content, behind the same gate.
|
||||
|
||||
If a step fails for a reason that isn't obvious, the agent stops and offers you a bug report rather
|
||||
than improvising ([Troubleshoot](troubleshoot.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
`doctor` warns as long as the content's version (`kb_version` in `.wikitool-kb.json`) is behind
|
||||
`VERSION` and migrations are still open. An instance older than `.wikitool-kb.json` has no such file
|
||||
at all. In that case `tools/wikitool migrate baseline <version>` is called once, and nothing is
|
||||
guessed.
|
||||
|
||||
## Where the release comes from, and whom you trust
|
||||
|
||||
`tools/wikitool dist upgrade --latest --expect <version>` asks the release feed for its newest
|
||||
release, downloads the tarball and its `.sha256` into a scratch directory, checks one against the
|
||||
other and applies the release. The scratch directory is removed on every exit, including
|
||||
`--dry-run`. `--expect` is the version `version notes` showed you: the feed only knows its *newest*
|
||||
release, and `--expect` refuses **before** downloading if a newer one has appeared since, rather
|
||||
than applying something nobody read. Pre-releases (`-beta.N`) need `--pre`.
|
||||
|
||||
**What the checksum does, and what it does not do.** The `.sha256` comes from the same feed as the
|
||||
tarball. It protects against a damaged transfer, not against a compromised feed. Whether a release
|
||||
is genuine rests on your trust in the host whose feed the instance asks (`update_url` in the stamp).
|
||||
Nothing forces https. A configured `http://` feed is a deliberate choice. `WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN`
|
||||
is sent only to downloads on the same host as the feed.
|
||||
|
||||
**Offline, or with a tarball from someone else:** put the tarball and its `.sha256` side by side,
|
||||
and the agent passes the file instead of `--latest` (`dist upgrade <tarball>`). A tarball has to
|
||||
unpack to exactly one top-level directory, which is the shape the release workflow builds.
|
||||
|
||||
## Two first-time cases
|
||||
|
||||
**The first jump to a release that knows `--latest`:** the option does not exist in the instance
|
||||
yet, because the instruction there belongs to the release being left. Fetch the tarball and the
|
||||
`.sha256` once from the release page, put them side by side, and run `dist upgrade <tarball>`. From
|
||||
the next release on, the instance has `--latest` itself.
|
||||
|
||||
**The first jump to `4.5.0` or later:** `dist upgrade` itself does not exist in the instance yet,
|
||||
because it arrived with `4.5.0`. Use the tool from the unpacked *new* tarball and point it at the old
|
||||
instance:
|
||||
|
||||
```bash
|
||||
tar -xzf chemenu-stack-<version>.tar.gz
|
||||
CHEMENU_ROOT="$PWD" chemenu-stack-<version>/tools/wikitool \
|
||||
dist upgrade chemenu-stack-<version>.tar.gz --dry-run
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`CHEMENU_ROOT` tells the package which corpus to work on ([configuration](../reference/configuration.md)).
|
||||
Without it, the package would take the unpacked tarball itself for the instance. From the second
|
||||
upgrade on, the instance carries the command and the instruction itself.
|
||||
|
||||
## Pitfalls
|
||||
|
||||
- An instance without a local `.wikitool-release.json`, or with one that has no `files` block (from
|
||||
before `4.5.0`), gives `dist upgrade` nothing to detect a local change against, so it refuses
|
||||
the swap. There is no repair for that today.
|
||||
- Given a tarball or directory, `dist upgrade` downloads nothing. Only `--latest` downloads.
|
||||
- To follow the swap by hand anyway, perhaps with a tool `wikitool` cannot run, use the file list in
|
||||
the `files` block of `.wikitool-release.json`. The exceptions - `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`, every
|
||||
`kb/*/COLLECTION.md`, `.wikitool-kb.json` - are in the
|
||||
[`dist upgrade` record](../reference/commands/distribution-and-versioning.md#dist-upgrade), along
|
||||
with what the command classifies and refuses.
|
||||
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ written by hand.
|
||||
start it, generated from their `SKILL.md`.
|
||||
- [Page types](page-types.md) - every page type the stack ships for `kb/`, its subtypes, where
|
||||
its pages are written and its required fields, generated from the type-specs.
|
||||
- [Configuration](configuration.md) - the environment variables `wikitool` reads and the
|
||||
per-checkout files an operator may create. Written by hand: it has no source to be generated
|
||||
from yet.
|
||||
|
||||
The last two describe the stack's shipped defaults, which an instance may change or extend;
|
||||
`tools/wikitool instructions list` and `tools/wikitool types describe <type>` show what one
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ tools/wikitool dist export ../my-wiki
|
||||
**Behaviour**
|
||||
|
||||
- Writes a contentless, distributable copy of this repo's machinery into an empty or new `<target>` directory.
|
||||
- Ships `AGENTS.md`/`README.md`/`EVALS.md` with any `dist:strip-start`...`dist:strip-end` marker region removed, `instructions/` (minus `instructions/dev/`), `types/` (the `root: kb` page type-specs, their schemas and their subtype templates `types/<type>.<value>.md` re-keyed as `.template`, the stack's own verbatim), `docs/` verbatim (minus `docs/dev/`), `tools/` (no venv/caches, and not the dev-only test suite `tools/chemenu/tests/` with its `pytest.ini`/`.coveragerc`), the `.github/hooks/`+`.vibe/` session-tracing config plus `.claude/settings.json`, `kb/CONTRACT.md` (no pages, no areas) and `VERSION`.
|
||||
- Ships `AGENTS.md`/`README.md`/`INSTALL.md` with any `dist:strip-start`...`dist:strip-end` marker region removed, `instructions/` (minus `instructions/dev/`), `types/` (the `root: kb` page type-specs, their schemas and their subtype templates `types/<type>.<value>.md` re-keyed as `.template`, the stack's own verbatim), `docs/` verbatim (minus `docs/dev/`), `tools/` (no venv/caches, and not the dev-only test suite `tools/chemenu/tests/` with its `pytest.ini`/`.coveragerc`), the `.github/hooks/`+`.vibe/` session-tracing config plus `.claude/settings.json`, `kb/CONTRACT.md` (no pages, no areas) and `VERSION`.
|
||||
- Ships `raw/` and `incoming/` as flat roots, each with a `.gitkeep` and no subdirectories. `incoming/.gitkeep` is trackable and survives becoming a git repository, so a plain clone gets the directory without any bootstrap step.
|
||||
- Ships templates, never the filled files: `USER.md.template`/`SOUL.md.template`, `kb/CONVENTIONS.md.template`, and each collection's contract re-keyed as `kb/<name>/COLLECTION.md.template`. The filled `USER.md`/`SOUL.md`/`kb/CONVENTIONS.md`/`kb/<name>/COLLECTION.md`/`types/<page-type>.md`/`types/<page-type>.<value>.md` bind their instance; `find_leaks` refuses a plan carrying one.
|
||||
- Writes a generated `.wikitool-release.json` stamp: version, export date, origin, and a sha256 per exported file - the base a later upgrade compares against.
|
||||
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ tools/wikitool dist upgrade --latest --expect 8.0.0 --dry-run
|
||||
- `wikitool version check` - finds out whether an update exists
|
||||
- `wikitool version notes` - the notes of the release `--expect` should name
|
||||
- `instructions/upgrade-instance.md` - the order after the swap
|
||||
- `INSTALL.md` § "Version und Updates" - which release, whether to take it, where the tarball comes from
|
||||
- `docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md` - which release, whether to take it, where the tarball comes from
|
||||
- `wikitool migrate status` - the migrations the report names
|
||||
|
||||
## `version show`
|
||||
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ tools/wikitool version check --json
|
||||
- The only command whose whole job is the network call - `version notes` reaches the same feed too, but only as a fallback on a distributed instance, and `dist upgrade --latest` asks it which release to download.
|
||||
- Never reached implicitly from another command (`dist upgrade` asks only when passed `--latest`), needs no key, and times out after `--timeout` seconds (default 10).
|
||||
- The feed is `--url`, else `$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_URL`, else the release stamp's, else the built-in origin. `$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN` is only needed if that feed is not readable anonymously.
|
||||
- For `update` or `migration` it prints that applying the release is a separate, manual step (`INSTALL.md` § "Eine Instanz aktualisieren").
|
||||
- For `update` or `migration` it prints that applying the release is a separate, manual step (`docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md`).
|
||||
- Read-only; exempt from the Iteration Budget Gate.
|
||||
|
||||
**Properties**
|
||||
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ tools/wikitool version check --json
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool dist upgrade` - applies the update this reports
|
||||
- `wikitool version notes` - prints the release notes
|
||||
- `INSTALL.md` § "Version und Updates" - what the operator decides before an update
|
||||
- `docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md` - what the operator decides before an update
|
||||
|
||||
## `version notes`
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ tools/wikitool doctor --json
|
||||
|
||||
- `instructions/setup-instance.md` - the setup steps most findings point back to
|
||||
- `instructions/preflight.md` - what `tool-paths` and `install-dir` point back to
|
||||
- `INSTALL.md` § "Konfiguration" - the per-checkout configuration files
|
||||
- `EVALS.md` - telemetry state and caps
|
||||
- `docs/reference/configuration.md` - the per-checkout configuration files
|
||||
- `docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - telemetry state and caps
|
||||
- `instructions/session-setup.md` - setting `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:reference-commands -->
|
||||
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ tools/wikitool upload list --json
|
||||
**See also**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool upload show` - one submission's manifest
|
||||
- `INSTALL-MCP.md` § "Schritt 7: Optional - den `submit`-Pfad freischalten"
|
||||
- `docs/how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md` § "Optional: the submit path"
|
||||
|
||||
## `upload show`
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ tools/wikitool eval sessions --json
|
||||
**See also**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool eval score` - scores one of them
|
||||
- `EVALS.md` - how telemetry and evaluation work
|
||||
- `docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - how telemetry and evaluation work
|
||||
|
||||
## `eval score`
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -110,5 +110,5 @@ tools/wikitool eval score --session wiki-1727330000 --save
|
||||
**See also**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool eval sessions` - which session ids exist
|
||||
- `EVALS.md` - the scoring levels
|
||||
- `docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - the scoring levels
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:reference-commands -->
|
||||
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ tools/wikitool docs toc --apply
|
||||
|
||||
- Creates, refreshes or removes the generated table-of-contents region on every reference file over 100 lines: `AGENTS.md`, every stage contract, `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`, every `kb/*/COLLECTION.md`, every flat `instructions/**.md` file, every `types/*.md` type-spec, and every `docs/` page - each together with the `<name>.template` it ships as, where one exists.
|
||||
- The scope is computed from those categories rather than listed, so a file added later is in scope without a code change.
|
||||
- Out of scope: every `SKILL.md`, the human docs (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `EVALS.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `tools/README.md`), and every subtype template `types/<type>.<value>.md` - `new` copies it into a page, so it never carries a region whatever its length.
|
||||
- Out of scope: every `SKILL.md`, the human docs at the root and beside the code (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `tools/README.md`), and every subtype template `types/<type>.<value>.md` - `new` copies it into a page, so it never carries a region whatever its length.
|
||||
- Dry-run by default (prints which files would change); `--apply` writes. Idempotent: a re-run after an interruption converges rather than doubling a region.
|
||||
- If `docs verify` still reports a stale region after `--apply`, the file's `##` headings changed in between; run it again.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
|
||||
# Configuration
|
||||
|
||||
The environment variables `wikitool` reads, and the per-checkout files an operator may create at the
|
||||
root of an instance. None of them is needed for an instance to work: an instance installed from a
|
||||
release runs against the origin's public release feed with no configuration at all.
|
||||
|
||||
This page is written by hand. Unlike the command reference, it has no single source in the code it
|
||||
could be generated from yet, so a change to one of these files' shape has to be carried here
|
||||
by whoever makes it.
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
## Contents
|
||||
|
||||
- [Environment variables](#environment-variables)
|
||||
- [Telemetry](#telemetry)
|
||||
- [Tool paths](#tool-paths)
|
||||
- [Allowed push URLs](#allowed-push-urls)
|
||||
- [Task tracker](#task-tracker)
|
||||
- [Super Productivity](#super-productivity)
|
||||
- [CalDAV](#caldav)
|
||||
- [MCP submissions](#mcp-submissions)
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:toc -->
|
||||
|
||||
## Environment variables
|
||||
|
||||
| Variable | Purpose | Fallback |
|
||||
|----------|---------|----------|
|
||||
| `WIKI_AUTHOR` | Overrides the author name of new source pages | `git config user.name`. Without either, `new` stops with an `ERROR` |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID` | Scopes the Iteration Budget Gate to a task rather than a terminal, and names the directory a trace lands in | A session variable the harness sets itself, where one is known (for example `CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID`), else the parent process id ([instructions/session-setup.md](../../instructions/session-setup.md)) |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_UPDATE_URL` | The release feed `version check`, `version notes` and `dist upgrade --latest` ask | The value in `.wikitool-release.json`, else the origin's feed |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN` | A Gitea token for the release feed, sent only to downloads on the feed's own host | None. Not needed against the origin, only against a feed in a private repository |
|
||||
| `WIKITOOL_TASKS_CONFIG` | Path to a tracker configuration that `task`, `review` and `doctor` read instead of `.wikitool-tasks.json`, for running one checkout against several trackers in turn | `.wikitool-tasks.json` at the root. A path to a file that does not exist is an error, never "no tracker configured" |
|
||||
| `CHEMENU_ROOT` | Which corpus the package works on, for a caller outside the checkout itself | The checkout the package sits in. `tools/wikitool` behaves the same without it |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE` | `0`/`1` turns telemetry off or on, beating both the default and `.wikitool-telemetry.json` | The installation-form default ([below](#telemetry)) |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_DIR` | Writes traces somewhere other than `reports/telemetry/` | `reports/telemetry/` |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_CONTENT` | `0` keeps only lengths and digests of prompts and replies instead of their text | Text is kept |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_MAX_CONTENT` | Per-attribute content cap in characters | 60 KiB |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_MAX_SESSION_BYTES` | Byte cap per session trace; beats the file's `max_session_bytes` | 5 MiB |
|
||||
| `WIKI_TRACE_KEEP_SESSIONS` | How many session directories retention keeps; beats the file's `keep_sessions` | 250 |
|
||||
|
||||
## Telemetry
|
||||
|
||||
**Telemetry is off in an instance.** Every instance carries the `.wikitool-release.json` of its
|
||||
release, and that is how `chemenu.telemetry.policy` recognises that nobody asked for telemetry. The
|
||||
same holds for every further clone of the instance, because the file is committed with the first
|
||||
publish. Only a clone of the origin repository, used to develop the stack, has no stamp. There the
|
||||
traces are the instrument the stack measures itself with, and they are **on**.
|
||||
|
||||
To turn the default around, create `.wikitool-telemetry.json` at the root. It is per checkout and
|
||||
gitignored, with no `.template`, like `.wikitool-remotes.json`:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "enabled": true, "max_session_bytes": 5242880, "keep_sessions": 250 }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
All three keys are optional. `WIKI_TRACE` still overrides `enabled` in both directions and beats
|
||||
this file. `wikitool doctor` reports the current state: on or off, why, and how much has been
|
||||
recorded against both caps. What the caps do and what never reaches a trace:
|
||||
[telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md).
|
||||
|
||||
## Tool paths
|
||||
|
||||
**The preflight writes this file, not you.** `.wikitool-tools.json` at the root holds the absolute
|
||||
paths of Python, git and ripgrep, as the preflight found them on this machine. `wikitool` starts git
|
||||
and rg from there instead of from `PATH`. It is per checkout and gitignored, because a path on one
|
||||
machine says nothing about the next.
|
||||
|
||||
If the file is missing or incomplete, `tools/wikitool` does not start (exit 42) and names the
|
||||
preflight. If a tool sits somewhere the preflight does not look, name it:
|
||||
`tools/preflight.sh --set rg=<path>`, or in PowerShell
|
||||
`pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools/preflight.ps1 --set rg=<path>`. Never edit the
|
||||
file by hand. `doctor` reports under `tool-paths` whether every path still works.
|
||||
|
||||
## Allowed push URLs
|
||||
|
||||
`.wikitool-remotes.json` at the root restricts where `publish` may push, per checkout and
|
||||
gitignored:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{ "allowed_push_urls": ["git@example.org:me/my-wiki.git"] }
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Without the file, any remote is allowed. With it, `publish` refuses with exit 42 (the Publish-Remote
|
||||
Gate) before pushing to a URL not on the list. A malformed file is an error, not permission. Only you
|
||||
edit this file. The gate has no token and no flag, and an agent that edits the list to get past a
|
||||
refusal is opening a gate on its own initiative.
|
||||
|
||||
## Task tracker
|
||||
|
||||
**Optional.** The weekly review (`tools/wikitool review`, skill `gtd-weekly-review`) checks the
|
||||
project pages under `kb/gtd/` against a task tracker. Which tracker that is goes in
|
||||
`.wikitool-tasks.json` at the root. Like the telemetry and remotes files, it is per checkout and has
|
||||
no `.template`, and it is **gitignored as soon as a token is in it**. Without the file, no tracker is
|
||||
configured, which is a valid state, not an error. A broken file, on the other hand, is a `FAIL`: an
|
||||
unreadable configuration must never pass as "no tracker".
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
{
|
||||
"schema": 1,
|
||||
"provider": "superproductivity",
|
||||
"thresholds": {
|
||||
"stalled_waiting_days": 14,
|
||||
"unpaged_project_weeks": 3,
|
||||
"someday_stale_months": 5
|
||||
},
|
||||
"superproductivity": {
|
||||
"access": "api",
|
||||
"api_base_url": "http://127.0.0.1:3876",
|
||||
"api_token": "<token from the SP settings>"
|
||||
}
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
`provider` picks the adapter. The stack ships `superproductivity` and `caldav`.
|
||||
|
||||
The `thresholds` block holds the review's three thresholds (configuration, not schema): when a
|
||||
waiting-for counts as overdue, how old a tracker project without a `kb/` page has to be before it is
|
||||
reported, and when a someday item counts as stale. A value the provider cannot supply at all - a
|
||||
waiting item with no follow-up date, a tracker project with no creation date - is not skipped silently
|
||||
but reported as its own finding (`waiting_no_follow_up`/`project_age_unknown`).
|
||||
|
||||
The provider block of the same name holds the connection details.
|
||||
|
||||
### Super Productivity
|
||||
|
||||
`access` is **mandatory and has no fallback**. It chooses between two mutually exclusive ways in:
|
||||
|
||||
- **`access: "snapshot"`** for an instance run headless: it reads only the newest backup snapshot
|
||||
under `backups_dir`. That works without the app running, but only reads. The tracker cannot be
|
||||
written from there.
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
"superproductivity": {
|
||||
"access": "snapshot",
|
||||
"backups_dir": "~/.config/superProductivity/backups"
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- **`access: "api"`** for a desktop instance: it talks only to the local REST API. That answers only
|
||||
while the app runs, but it gives the current state and carries the write path. `api_token` is
|
||||
required, because every endpoint except `GET /health` demands `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.
|
||||
|
||||
The block names only the fields of its own way in. A `backups_dir` beside `access: "api"`, or an
|
||||
`api_token` beside `access: "snapshot"`, is refused when the configuration is read, not ignored.
|
||||
|
||||
What can write:
|
||||
|
||||
- `tools/wikitool new project` creates a tracker project of the same name only with `access: "api"`,
|
||||
and even there not automatically. The command stops (exit 42) and asks a human to create it, then
|
||||
continues with `--resume`.
|
||||
- `tools/wikitool task new` creates a single item without a `kb/` page.
|
||||
- `tools/wikitool task close --id` marks an item done. It never deletes one.
|
||||
|
||||
With `access: "snapshot"`, all three refuse completely with exit 1, because the tracker is read-only
|
||||
from there. `tools/wikitool task list --project` only reads, so it answers with either `access`.
|
||||
|
||||
### CalDAV
|
||||
|
||||
`caldav` is the standards-based second adapter (RFC 4791/5545). It is verified against Nextcloud
|
||||
Tasks, with iOS *Reminders* as the mobile client, and built for that split: tick items off on the
|
||||
phone, maintain them at the desk. Unlike Super Productivity, there is only one way in. CalDAV is
|
||||
always a network access, so no `access` field is needed:
|
||||
|
||||
```json
|
||||
"caldav": {
|
||||
"url": "https://<host>/remote.php/dav/calendars/<user>/",
|
||||
"username": "<login>",
|
||||
"app_password": "<Nextcloud app password>",
|
||||
"inbox_list": "Inbox",
|
||||
"someday_list": "Someday",
|
||||
"exclude_lists": ["<an existing list that is not a project>"]
|
||||
}
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- `url` points at the account's CalDAV calendar home set. It may be an alias - Nextcloud accepts a
|
||||
short name there - because every later address comes only from the `href`s the server returns,
|
||||
never from this URL joined with a name.
|
||||
- `username` is the login name, which can differ from the user id in the URL. A Nextcloud app
|
||||
password is recommended, not the account password.
|
||||
- `inbox_list` and `someday_list` name the two fixed lists, exactly one of each per instance.
|
||||
- `exclude_lists` leaves out existing plain task lists that are not projects. A list with a
|
||||
`VEVENT` component never counts as a project anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
A project is a list whose only supported component is `VTODO`. `tools/wikitool new project` creates
|
||||
it automatically with `MKCALENDAR` - without asking, unlike Super Productivity, because CalDAV has a
|
||||
real create command for lists. The uniqueness check runs against **every** list in the account,
|
||||
including excluded lists, the inbox, someday and mixed calendars. If a new name collides with any of
|
||||
them, nothing is created and the collision is named. Renaming the existing list in Nextcloud stays a
|
||||
manual step.
|
||||
|
||||
`task new` and `task close` work without restriction on `caldav`, which has no read-only mode like
|
||||
`access: "snapshot"`. When ticking an item off, `task close` changes only `STATUS`, `COMPLETED`,
|
||||
`PERCENT-COMPLETE`, `LAST-MODIFIED` and `DTSTAMP` on the existing `.ics` resource. Every other
|
||||
property, including an unknown `X-` property or an alarm, is kept unchanged. A resource that changed
|
||||
since it was read (an ETag conflict) is not written, and the command stops with exit 1. Nothing is
|
||||
ever deleted. The lists of finished projects stay after archiving, because the adapter never deletes
|
||||
a list. Remove them by hand in Nextcloud when you want to.
|
||||
|
||||
## MCP submissions
|
||||
|
||||
`.wikitool-upload.json` in the served corpus turns on the MCP read server's optional `submit` tool.
|
||||
Its shape, and what the authentication in front of the server has to guarantee before you create
|
||||
it, are in [Set up the MCP read server](../how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md#optional-the-submit-path).
|
||||
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ development material under `instructions/dev/` and `commonplace/`, and no
|
||||
|
||||
| Here | In an instance |
|
||||
|---|---|
|
||||
| No `.wikitool-release.json`: telemetry is **on** - the traces are the stack's measuring instrument (`EVALS.md` § "Whether it runs at all") | Telemetry is off until the operator turns it on |
|
||||
| No `.wikitool-release.json`: telemetry is **on** - the traces are the stack's measuring instrument ([telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../../docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md#whether-it-runs-at-all)) | Telemetry is off until the operator turns it on |
|
||||
| `USER.md`/`SOUL.md` describe a demo operator and persona | Written by the operator during setup |
|
||||
| `tools/wikitool dist upgrade` refuses: there is no stamp to compare against. The checkout follows `main` with `tools/wikitool sync` | Updated with `dist upgrade --latest` |
|
||||
| `instructions/dev/`, `docs/dev/`, `commonplace/` and `.gitea/` are present | Never shipped |
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ what a table cell, a contract section, or a README paragraph actually *says*. A
|
||||
can change, a gate's threshold can move, a contract's wording can go false, and every one of
|
||||
those checks stays green (Gitea #90; Gitea #91 narrows what the command-table check matches, but
|
||||
adds no reading of cell content). Content quality of every document below is therefore session
|
||||
work, the same duty AGENTS.md's Changelog section states for `README.md`/`EVALS.md`/
|
||||
`tools/README.md` - this instruction exists because that duty used to stop at those three files
|
||||
work, the same duty AGENTS.md's Changelog section states for `README.md`, `tools/README.md` and
|
||||
the pages under `docs/` - this instruction exists because that duty used to stop at the human docs
|
||||
while the contracts rotted next to a green check (ten stale error-contract rows accumulated this
|
||||
way; see Gitea #89 for one).
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ touched; a row that does not apply needs no action.
|
||||
| A `wikitool` command's behaviour, flags, or interface | Its `cli_contract.CommandRecord` (name, synopsis, properties, exit status, retry policy - `tools/chemenu/cli_contract.py`), then `wikitool docs contract --apply` to regenerate its copy in [tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md) and `wikitool docs reference --apply` for the human reference under `docs/reference/` (a new group in `cli_contract.GROUPS` first needs its page there, with a title, a one-sentence head and the marker pair) |
|
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| A stage's authoring rules (`raw/`, `kb/`, `types/`, `reports/`, `work/`, `tools/`, `instructions/`) | The touched `<stage>/CONTRACT.md` |
|
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| A rule, gate, or invariant `AGENTS.md` itself states | The relevant `AGENTS.md` section (Invariants, Gates, File naming, Routing, ...) |
|
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| A workflow, stage, or command a human operates by hand | Whichever of `README.md`, `EVALS.md`, `tools/README.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `INSTALL-MCP.md` or the pages under `docs/tutorials/`, `docs/how-to/` and `docs/reference/` names it - AGENTS.md § File naming says which document is for which reader. A new page goes into the area its kind of documentation belongs to; that area's `README.md` says which |
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| A workflow, stage, or command a human operates by hand | Whichever of `README.md`, `tools/README.md`, `INSTALL.md` or the pages under `docs/tutorials/`, `docs/how-to/` and `docs/reference/` names it - AGENTS.md § File naming says which document is for which reader. A new page goes into the area its kind of documentation belongs to; that area's `README.md` says which |
|
||||
| The reasoning behind a gate, boundary, or design decision | The `docs/explanation/` page that carries it, if one exists (AGENTS.md § File naming lists all six reached from AGENTS.md itself, plus a seventh reached only from CLAUDE.md). **A decision with no page yet is the gap worth closing**: reasoning that lives only in a Gitea issue never ships - `dist export` carries `docs/explanation/` and no issue tracker, so a distributed instance gets the mechanism without the why |
|
||||
| A task-tracker adapter (`tools/chemenu/tasks/`), its recorded fixtures, or the live suite | [instructions/dev/tracker-testing.md](tracker-testing.md), and `MANIFEST.json` beside the fixtures when they were re-recorded |
|
||||
| A skill's own step sequence or catalogue | The skill's `SKILL.md` source under `instructions/<name>/` or `instructions/dev/<name>/`; for a shipped skill (not under `instructions/dev/`) whose name or `description` changed, or one added or removed, `wikitool docs reference --apply` for the skill catalogue `docs/reference/skills.md` |
|
||||
| A per-checkout configuration file an instance owns (`.wikitool-tasks.json`, `.wikitool-telemetry.json`, `.wikitool-remotes.json`, `.wikitool-upload.json`) | [INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md) § Konfiguration, where an operator looks the shape up; the [setup-instance.md](../setup-instance.md) decision point that offers it during setup; and `doctor`'s own row in [tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md), since `doctor` is what reports the file's state |
|
||||
| An installation instruction - [preflight.md](../preflight.md), [setup-instance.md](../setup-instance.md), [bootstrap.md](../bootstrap.md), [upgrade-instance.md](../upgrade-instance.md) - or `tools/prerequisites.txt` | [INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md), the human guide to the same procedure. Read it against the instruction: what to prepare, the sentence for the agent, what the agent asks, where it stops and why. `docs verify` checks only the two enumerable overlaps - the prerequisites lists, which `wikitool docs prerequisites --apply` regenerates from the manifest, and the setup questions: a question the agent asks the user carries `<!-- setup-question: <key> -->` where it is asked in `setup-instance.md`, and `INSTALL.md` § "Was der Agent dich fragt" names it with the same marker. Every other sentence is this session's to compare. `INSTALL.md` does not retell the steps, so a change to their order or wording alone moves nothing there |
|
||||
| A per-checkout configuration file an instance owns (`.wikitool-tasks.json`, `.wikitool-telemetry.json`, `.wikitool-remotes.json`, `.wikitool-upload.json`) | [docs/reference/configuration.md](../../docs/reference/configuration.md), where an operator looks the shape up - written by hand, since nothing generates it; the [setup-instance.md](../setup-instance.md) decision point that offers it during setup; and `doctor`'s own row in [tools/CONTRACT.md](../../tools/CONTRACT.md), since `doctor` is what reports the file's state |
|
||||
| An installation instruction - [preflight.md](../preflight.md), [setup-instance.md](../setup-instance.md), [bootstrap.md](../bootstrap.md), [upgrade-instance.md](../upgrade-instance.md) - or `tools/prerequisites.txt` | [INSTALL.md](../../INSTALL.md), the human guide to the same procedure - for `upgrade-instance.md`, [docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md](../../docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md) instead. Read it against the instruction: what to prepare, the sentence for the agent, what the agent asks, where it stops and why. `docs verify` checks only the two enumerable overlaps - the prerequisites lists, which `wikitool docs prerequisites --apply` regenerates from the manifest, and the setup questions: a question the agent asks the user carries `<!-- setup-question: <key> -->` where it is asked in `setup-instance.md`, and `INSTALL.md` § "Was der Agent dich fragt" names it with the same marker. Every other sentence is this session's to compare. `INSTALL.md` does not retell the steps, so a change to their order or wording alone moves nothing there |
|
||||
| [dev-setup.md](dev-setup.md), the release workflow (`version bump`/`version release`/`publish`/CI), or another developer-facing process | [docs/dev/development.md](../../docs/dev/development.md), read against it the same way - nothing checks this pair at all. A page under `docs/dev/` is never shipped, so it may link into `instructions/dev/` and cite issue numbers |
|
||||
| A new page type the stack requires, or a new collection | Its type-spec and `COLLECTION.md` (both as the `.template` an instance adopts), the collection table in [kb/CONTRACT.md](../../kb/CONTRACT.md), and **both adoption paths**: [setup-instance.md](../setup-instance.md) for a fresh instance and [upgrade-instance.md](../upgrade-instance.md) for an existing one, where an unadopted template is what `docs verify` refuses. A new or changed `root: kb` type-spec or its schema - description, `layout:`, subtype enum, required fields - also needs `wikitool docs reference --apply` for `docs/reference/page-types.md` |
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ session, or a fresh one after `/clear` - assume the second, and work from the bo
|
||||
`instructions/dev/version-parts.md` § The candidate model. A `--major` bump needs `--breaking` and either a
|
||||
migration document or `--no-migration`; `instructions/dev/version-parts.md` has all of it.
|
||||
|
||||
Prose-only changes (`README.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `EVALS.md`) and the workflows under `.gitea/`
|
||||
Prose-only changes (`README.md`, `INSTALL.md`, the pages under `docs/`) and the workflows under `.gitea/`
|
||||
do not need a bump - CI's version gate is scoped to what changes behaviour.
|
||||
|
||||
5. **Pull through every document that makes a claim about the surface you touched.**
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ Whenever you add or change a test under `tools/chemenu/tests/`.
|
||||
|
||||
Read it by module, not by total. A thin Typer wrapper sitting low is evidence that the logic
|
||||
was cut out from under it and tested there; the list worth acting on is the modules whose
|
||||
*logic* is uncovered. EVALS.md § "How much of the stack the suite reaches" names both, and
|
||||
the measured baseline. There is no threshold to satisfy - the suite is not graded on the
|
||||
*logic* is uncovered. [docs/dev/development.md](../../docs/dev/development.md) § "How much of the stack the
|
||||
suite reaches" names both, and the measured baseline. There is no threshold to satisfy - the suite is not graded on the
|
||||
number.
|
||||
|
||||
## Decision points
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ the three-line test below is usually enough.
|
||||
|
||||
## Decision points
|
||||
|
||||
- **The change ships no code - only `README.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `EVALS.md`, or `.gitea/`?** No
|
||||
- **The change ships no code - only `README.md`, `INSTALL.md`, pages under `docs/`, or `.gitea/`?** No
|
||||
bump at all; CI's version gate is scoped to what changes behaviour.
|
||||
- **A break you can see coming but are not making yet?** File it as an issue and let it
|
||||
accumulate. Boundary crossings are cheaper in batches, and step 4's "defer" alternative is
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ one it needs before that.
|
||||
|
||||
8. <!-- setup-question: telemetry --> **Decision point - telemetry.** Every instance installed from
|
||||
a release carries a `.wikitool-release.json` and starts with telemetry **off**; nobody asked for
|
||||
it, and nobody reads `EVALS.md` before the first file is written anyway. This step only asks
|
||||
it, and nobody reads up on telemetry before the first file is written anyway. This step only asks
|
||||
whether the operator wants to reverse that.
|
||||
|
||||
Ask the user once: telemetry on? If yes, create `.wikitool-telemetry.json` in the repo root
|
||||
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ one it needs before that.
|
||||
`tools/wikitool doctor` reports the result in step 12 (`telemetry`): on/off, why
|
||||
(installation form, this file, or `WIKI_TRACE`), and the current volume against both caps -
|
||||
never a `FAIL`, since both directions are a valid state. More on this:
|
||||
[EVALS.md](../EVALS.md) § "Whether it runs at all".
|
||||
[telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md#whether-it-runs-at-all).
|
||||
|
||||
9. <!-- setup-question: task-tracker --> **Decision point - task tracker.** The instance ships the
|
||||
`project` type and the collection its type-spec's `base_dir:` names (`kb/gtd/` here), so
|
||||
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ one it needs before that.
|
||||
`.wikitool-telemetry.json` and `.wikitool-remotes.json`), with the provider's own section and
|
||||
the three thresholds the review reads as configuration rather than schema. The shape, the
|
||||
shipped providers, and what Super Productivity in particular needs are in
|
||||
[INSTALL.md](../INSTALL.md) § Konfiguration; do not restate them here. If no, do nothing - no
|
||||
[configuration.md](../docs/reference/configuration.md#task-tracker); do not restate them here. If no, do nothing - no
|
||||
file is created, and adding one later needs nothing from this procedure.
|
||||
|
||||
`doctor` reports the result in step 12 (`tasks`): absent is `OK`, a malformed file is the one
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ a further checkout of this one ([bootstrap.md](bootstrap.md)).
|
||||
beside it before unpacking, and refuses one that does not match. A tarball must unpack to
|
||||
exactly one top-level directory. The checksum comes from the same host as the archive, so it catches a
|
||||
damaged transfer, not a compromised host - who is trusted to publish releases is the
|
||||
operator's decision, made before this file starts ([INSTALL.md](../INSTALL.md) § "Version und
|
||||
Updates").
|
||||
operator's decision, made before this file starts
|
||||
([update-an-instance.md](../docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md)).
|
||||
|
||||
5. **Dry-run the swap and read all four counts:**
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -293,4 +293,4 @@ own - see the second paragraph. Anything about
|
||||
[migrate-corpus.md](migrate-corpus.md) § "Writing the migration document".
|
||||
|
||||
What a human decides before any of this starts - which release, whether to take it at all, where
|
||||
the tarball comes from - is [INSTALL.md](../INSTALL.md) § "Version und Updates".
|
||||
the tarball comes from - is [update-an-instance.md](../docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md).
|
||||
+4
-3
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Derived output that must stay out of git. Three kinds live here:
|
||||
<YYYY-MM-DD>.md"`.
|
||||
- **Traces**, under `reports/telemetry/<session>/trace.jsonl` - the append-only record of
|
||||
what a session did, written by `wikitool` itself and by the harness hooks. See
|
||||
[../EVALS.md](../EVALS.md) for the event contract and what is redacted.
|
||||
[telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md) for the event
|
||||
contract and what is redacted.
|
||||
- **Bug-report bundles**, under `reports/bugreport-<UTC stamp>/` and a zip beside each, written by
|
||||
`tools/bugreport.py` on request - see [../instructions/bug-report.md](../instructions/bug-report.md).
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -38,8 +39,8 @@ same way a lint report's judgment is: into `kb/`, `work/`, or `kb/log.md`.
|
||||
`WIKI_TRACE_DIR` redirects the tree; `WIKI_TRACE` turns recording on or off, overriding both the
|
||||
installation-form default (on for a dev checkout, off for a distributed instance -
|
||||
`chemenu.telemetry.policy`) and a per-checkout `.wikitool-telemetry.json`; `WIKI_TRACE_CONTENT=0`
|
||||
keeps lengths and digests instead of text. See [../EVALS.md](../EVALS.md) § "Whether it runs at
|
||||
all" for the full precedence and both quantity caps below.
|
||||
keeps lengths and digests instead of text. See [telemetry-and-evaluation.md](../docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md#whether-it-runs-at-all)
|
||||
for the full precedence and both quantity caps below.
|
||||
|
||||
## Bug-report bundles
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
+2
-2
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
|
||||
#
|
||||
# The two points of headroom are not slack. They are the room the report's own
|
||||
# taxonomy asks for: a new thin Typer wrapper lowers the total without anything
|
||||
# having got worse, because its logic is tested beside it (see EVALS.md § "How
|
||||
# much of the stack the suite reaches"). A threshold at the measured number
|
||||
# having got worse, because its logic is tested beside it (see docs/dev/development.md
|
||||
# § "How much of the stack the suite reaches"). A threshold at the measured number
|
||||
# would go red on exactly that commit, and a threshold that goes red for a
|
||||
# non-reason gets lowered rather than earned - which is the failure mode that
|
||||
# holding the floor back existed to avoid, arriving from the other side.
|
||||
|
||||
+12
-12
@@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ List every MCP submission currently waiting in the quarantine (`mcp-upload/`).
|
||||
**SEE ALSO**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool upload show` - one submission's manifest
|
||||
- `INSTALL-MCP.md` § "Schritt 7: Optional - den `submit`-Pfad freischalten"
|
||||
- `docs/how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md` § "Optional: the submit path"
|
||||
|
||||
#### `upload show`
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -2607,7 +2607,7 @@ Create, refresh or remove the generated table-of-contents region.
|
||||
|
||||
- Creates, refreshes or removes the generated table-of-contents region on every reference file over 100 lines: `AGENTS.md`, every stage contract, `kb/CONVENTIONS.md`, every `kb/*/COLLECTION.md`, every flat `instructions/**.md` file, every `types/*.md` type-spec, and every `docs/` page - each together with the `<name>.template` it ships as, where one exists.
|
||||
- The scope is computed from those categories rather than listed, so a file added later is in scope without a code change.
|
||||
- Out of scope: every `SKILL.md`, the human docs (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `EVALS.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `tools/README.md`), and every subtype template `types/<type>.<value>.md` - `new` copies it into a page, so it never carries a region whatever its length.
|
||||
- Out of scope: every `SKILL.md`, the human docs at the root and beside the code (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `tools/README.md`), and every subtype template `types/<type>.<value>.md` - `new` copies it into a page, so it never carries a region whatever its length.
|
||||
- Dry-run by default (prints which files would change); `--apply` writes. Idempotent: a re-run after an interruption converges rather than doubling a region.
|
||||
- If `docs verify` still reports a stale region after `--apply`, the file's `##` headings changed in between; run it again.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@ List the sessions that have a trace under `reports/telemetry/`.
|
||||
**SEE ALSO**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool eval score` - scores one of them
|
||||
- `EVALS.md` - how telemetry and evaluation work
|
||||
- `docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - how telemetry and evaluation work
|
||||
|
||||
#### `eval score`
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -2837,7 +2837,7 @@ Score one traced session.
|
||||
**SEE ALSO**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool eval sessions` - which session ids exist
|
||||
- `EVALS.md` - the scoring levels
|
||||
- `docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - the scoring levels
|
||||
|
||||
### Distribution and versioning
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -2884,7 +2884,7 @@ Write a contentless, distributable copy of this repo's machinery.
|
||||
**NOTES**
|
||||
|
||||
- Writes a contentless, distributable copy of this repo's machinery into an empty or new `<target>` directory.
|
||||
- Ships `AGENTS.md`/`README.md`/`EVALS.md` with any `dist:strip-start`...`dist:strip-end` marker region removed, `instructions/` (minus `instructions/dev/`), `types/` (the `root: kb` page type-specs, their schemas and their subtype templates `types/<type>.<value>.md` re-keyed as `.template`, the stack's own verbatim), `docs/` verbatim (minus `docs/dev/`), `tools/` (no venv/caches, and not the dev-only test suite `tools/chemenu/tests/` with its `pytest.ini`/`.coveragerc`), the `.github/hooks/`+`.vibe/` session-tracing config plus `.claude/settings.json`, `kb/CONTRACT.md` (no pages, no areas) and `VERSION`.
|
||||
- Ships `AGENTS.md`/`README.md`/`INSTALL.md` with any `dist:strip-start`...`dist:strip-end` marker region removed, `instructions/` (minus `instructions/dev/`), `types/` (the `root: kb` page type-specs, their schemas and their subtype templates `types/<type>.<value>.md` re-keyed as `.template`, the stack's own verbatim), `docs/` verbatim (minus `docs/dev/`), `tools/` (no venv/caches, and not the dev-only test suite `tools/chemenu/tests/` with its `pytest.ini`/`.coveragerc`), the `.github/hooks/`+`.vibe/` session-tracing config plus `.claude/settings.json`, `kb/CONTRACT.md` (no pages, no areas) and `VERSION`.
|
||||
- Ships `raw/` and `incoming/` as flat roots, each with a `.gitkeep` and no subdirectories. `incoming/.gitkeep` is trackable and survives becoming a git repository, so a plain clone gets the directory without any bootstrap step.
|
||||
- Ships templates, never the filled files: `USER.md.template`/`SOUL.md.template`, `kb/CONVENTIONS.md.template`, and each collection's contract re-keyed as `kb/<name>/COLLECTION.md.template`. The filled `USER.md`/`SOUL.md`/`kb/CONVENTIONS.md`/`kb/<name>/COLLECTION.md`/`types/<page-type>.md`/`types/<page-type>.<value>.md` bind their instance; `find_leaks` refuses a plan carrying one.
|
||||
- Writes a generated `.wikitool-release.json` stamp: version, export date, origin, and a sha256 per exported file - the base a later upgrade compares against.
|
||||
@@ -3040,7 +3040,7 @@ Apply a stack update `dist export` produced - the write half of `version check`.
|
||||
- `wikitool version check` - finds out whether an update exists
|
||||
- `wikitool version notes` - the notes of the release `--expect` should name
|
||||
- `instructions/upgrade-instance.md` - the order after the swap
|
||||
- `INSTALL.md` § "Version und Updates" - which release, whether to take it, where the tarball comes from
|
||||
- `docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md` - which release, whether to take it, where the tarball comes from
|
||||
- `wikitool migrate status` - the migrations the report names
|
||||
|
||||
#### `version show`
|
||||
@@ -3127,14 +3127,14 @@ Ask the origin's release feed whether a newer stack exists.
|
||||
- The only command whose whole job is the network call - `version notes` reaches the same feed too, but only as a fallback on a distributed instance, and `dist upgrade --latest` asks it which release to download.
|
||||
- Never reached implicitly from another command (`dist upgrade` asks only when passed `--latest`), needs no key, and times out after `--timeout` seconds (default 10).
|
||||
- The feed is `--url`, else `$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_URL`, else the release stamp's, else the built-in origin. `$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN` is only needed if that feed is not readable anonymously.
|
||||
- For `update` or `migration` it prints that applying the release is a separate, manual step (`INSTALL.md` § "Eine Instanz aktualisieren").
|
||||
- For `update` or `migration` it prints that applying the release is a separate, manual step (`docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md`).
|
||||
- Read-only; exempt from the Iteration Budget Gate.
|
||||
|
||||
**SEE ALSO**
|
||||
|
||||
- `wikitool dist upgrade` - applies the update this reports
|
||||
- `wikitool version notes` - prints the release notes
|
||||
- `INSTALL.md` § "Version und Updates" - what the operator decides before an update
|
||||
- `docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md` - what the operator decides before an update
|
||||
|
||||
#### `version notes`
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -3644,8 +3644,8 @@ Check that this instance is correctly configured.
|
||||
|
||||
- `instructions/setup-instance.md` - the setup steps most findings point back to
|
||||
- `instructions/preflight.md` - what `tool-paths` and `install-dir` point back to
|
||||
- `INSTALL.md` § "Konfiguration" - the per-checkout configuration files
|
||||
- `EVALS.md` - telemetry state and caps
|
||||
- `docs/reference/configuration.md` - the per-checkout configuration files
|
||||
- `docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - telemetry state and caps
|
||||
- `instructions/session-setup.md` - setting `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`
|
||||
<!-- /wikitool:commands -->
|
||||
## Design notes
|
||||
@@ -3728,8 +3728,8 @@ cd tools
|
||||
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q # add --cov for a coverage report
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Neither is in `requirements.txt`, and `pytest-cov` is CI-only by intent - see
|
||||
[EVALS.md](../EVALS.md).
|
||||
Neither is in `requirements.txt`, and `pytest-cov` is CI-only by intent: `requirements.txt` is
|
||||
what an instance needs at runtime, and an instance does not measure this suite.
|
||||
|
||||
## Maintenance schedule
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
+2
-2
@@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ Coverage is optional locally and measured on every CI run:
|
||||
`pytest-cov` is deliberately not in `requirements.txt`: that file is what an *instance*
|
||||
needs at runtime and ships with `dist export`, and an instance does not measure this
|
||||
suite. Configuration is `.coveragerc` (coverage.py does not read `pytest.ini`), which
|
||||
measures `chemenu/` without `chemenu/tests/` and sets no threshold - see EVALS.md
|
||||
for the measured number and how to read it.
|
||||
measures `chemenu/` without `chemenu/tests/` and sets no threshold - the origin repository's developer guide, `docs/dev/development.md`
|
||||
§ "How much of the stack the suite reaches", has the measured number and how to read it.
|
||||
|
||||
**Two exceptions, and they bite.** `test_types_cmd.py` and `test_index_build.py` resolve the real
|
||||
`types/` through the shared `resolver`, because what they assert *is* that behaviour comes from the
|
||||
|
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@@ -88,17 +88,14 @@ DIST_TEMPLATES_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "dist_templates"
|
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# `.claude/settings.json` does - a distributed instance running that harness
|
||||
# would otherwise start every session without the control plane.
|
||||
#
|
||||
# `INSTALL-MCP.md` ships beside `INSTALL.md` and for the same reason: the MCP
|
||||
# read server is part of what an instance *has*, even though its dependency is
|
||||
# optional. A distribution whose server is present but undocumented is one
|
||||
# whose operator finds the module by reading the source.
|
||||
#
|
||||
# The developer documentation (the release workflow, the development
|
||||
# environment) is not a root file at all: it lives under `docs/dev/`, which
|
||||
# `build_plan` excludes the way it excludes `instructions/dev/` - see
|
||||
# DOCS_DEV_ONLY.
|
||||
# The rest of the human documentation is not a root file at all: it lives under
|
||||
# `docs/`, which ships whole - the operator's how-to guides (the MCP read
|
||||
# server's setup among them), the reference and the explanation pages. The one
|
||||
# exception is the developer documentation (the release workflow, the
|
||||
# development environment) under `docs/dev/`, which `build_plan` excludes the
|
||||
# way it excludes `instructions/dev/` - see DOCS_DEV_ONLY.
|
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ROOT_FILES = (
|
||||
"AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md", "README.md", "EVALS.md", "INSTALL.md", "INSTALL-MCP.md",
|
||||
"AGENTS.md", "CLAUDE.md", "README.md", "INSTALL.md",
|
||||
".gitignore", ".gitattributes", "VERSION",
|
||||
*config.LICENSE_FILES,
|
||||
*config.PERSONALIZATION_TEMPLATES,
|
||||
@@ -114,7 +111,8 @@ ROOT_FILES = (
|
||||
REQUIRED_ROOT_FILES = config.LICENSE_FILES
|
||||
|
||||
# Harness-specific session-tracing config: generic machinery (feeds
|
||||
# tools/chemenu/telemetry/ and tools/trace_ingest.py via EVALS.md), not
|
||||
# tools/chemenu/telemetry/ and tools/trace_ingest.py, see
|
||||
# docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md), not
|
||||
# personal state - unlike `.obsidian/`/`.vscode/`, which are never copied.
|
||||
HOOK_DIRS = (".github/hooks", ".vibe")
|
||||
|
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@@ -632,7 +630,7 @@ def _write_plan(target: Path, plan: dict[str, PlannedFile]) -> None:
|
||||
notes=(
|
||||
"Writes a contentless, distributable copy of this repo's machinery into an empty or "
|
||||
"new `<target>` directory.",
|
||||
"Ships `AGENTS.md`/`README.md`/`EVALS.md` with any `dist:strip-start`...`dist:strip-end` "
|
||||
"Ships `AGENTS.md`/`README.md`/`INSTALL.md` with any `dist:strip-start`...`dist:strip-end` "
|
||||
"marker region removed, `instructions/` (minus `instructions/dev/`), `types/` (the "
|
||||
"`root: kb` page type-specs, their schemas and their subtype templates "
|
||||
"`types/<type>.<value>.md` re-keyed as `.template`, the stack's own verbatim), `docs/` "
|
||||
@@ -1518,7 +1516,7 @@ def _report_plan(
|
||||
"`wikitool version check` - finds out whether an update exists",
|
||||
"`wikitool version notes` - the notes of the release `--expect` should name",
|
||||
"`instructions/upgrade-instance.md` - the order after the swap",
|
||||
"`INSTALL.md` § \"Version und Updates\" - which release, whether to take it, where "
|
||||
"`docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md` - which release, whether to take it, where "
|
||||
"the tarball comes from",
|
||||
"`wikitool migrate status` - the migrations the report names",
|
||||
),
|
||||
@@ -1580,7 +1578,7 @@ def upgrade_command(
|
||||
Refuses on a missing local release stamp, a downgrade, a pre-release
|
||||
source without `--pre`, a dirty working tree, or a `--take-release` path
|
||||
that is not locally changed. Never touches git.
|
||||
See Gitea #7 and `INSTALL.md` § "Eine Instanz aktualisieren"."""
|
||||
See Gitea #7 and `docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md`."""
|
||||
run_upgrade(
|
||||
source,
|
||||
dry_run=dry_run,
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1484,8 +1484,8 @@ def verify():
|
||||
"`<name>.template` it ships as, where one exists.",
|
||||
"The scope is computed from those categories rather than listed, so a file added later "
|
||||
"is in scope without a code change.",
|
||||
"Out of scope: every `SKILL.md`, the human docs (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, "
|
||||
"`EVALS.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `tools/README.md`), and every subtype template "
|
||||
"Out of scope: every `SKILL.md`, the human docs at the root and beside the code "
|
||||
"(`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `tools/README.md`), and every subtype template "
|
||||
"`types/<type>.<value>.md` - `new` copies it into a page, so it never carries a region "
|
||||
"whatever its length.",
|
||||
"Dry-run by default (prints which files would change); `--apply` writes. Idempotent: a "
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -805,8 +805,8 @@ def run_doctor() -> list[Check]:
|
||||
see_also=(
|
||||
"`instructions/setup-instance.md` - the setup steps most findings point back to",
|
||||
"`instructions/preflight.md` - what `tool-paths` and `install-dir` point back to",
|
||||
"`INSTALL.md` § \"Konfiguration\" - the per-checkout configuration files",
|
||||
"`EVALS.md` - telemetry state and caps",
|
||||
"`docs/reference/configuration.md` - the per-checkout configuration files",
|
||||
"`docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - telemetry state and caps",
|
||||
"`instructions/session-setup.md` - setting `WIKITOOL_SESSION_ID`",
|
||||
),
|
||||
))
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from chemenu.session import session_id as current_session_id
|
||||
from chemenu.telemetry import reader
|
||||
from chemenu.telemetry.writer import trace_root
|
||||
|
||||
app = typer.Typer(help="Score a traced session (see EVALS.md).")
|
||||
app = typer.Typer(help="Score a traced session (see docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md).")
|
||||
|
||||
EVALS_DIR = config.REPORTS_DIR / "evals"
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ EVALS_DIR = config.REPORTS_DIR / "evals"
|
||||
),
|
||||
see_also=(
|
||||
"`wikitool eval score` - scores one of them",
|
||||
"`EVALS.md` - how telemetry and evaluation work",
|
||||
"`docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - how telemetry and evaluation work",
|
||||
),
|
||||
))
|
||||
def sessions_command(
|
||||
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def sessions_command(
|
||||
),
|
||||
see_also=(
|
||||
"`wikitool eval sessions` - which session ids exist",
|
||||
"`EVALS.md` - the scoring levels",
|
||||
"`docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md` - the scoring levels",
|
||||
),
|
||||
))
|
||||
def score_command(
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ FILE_GROUPS: tuple[tuple[str, tuple[str, ...], str], ...] = (
|
||||
("Tooling", ("tools/",), "the compiler itself"),
|
||||
("Harness config", (".claude/", ".github/", ".vibe/", ".agents/"),
|
||||
"hooks and permissions - affects what the harness lets an agent do"),
|
||||
("Human docs", ("README.md", "INSTALL.md", "EVALS.md", "CHANGES.md"), "prose, no runtime effect"),
|
||||
("Human docs", ("README.md", "INSTALL.md", "CHANGES.md", "docs/"), "prose, no runtime effect"),
|
||||
("Workshop", ("work/",), "scratch state, deleted when the run closes"),
|
||||
)
|
||||
OTHER_GROUP = ("Other", (), "")
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def _call(fn, *args, **kwargs):
|
||||
),
|
||||
see_also=(
|
||||
"`wikitool upload show` - one submission's manifest",
|
||||
"`INSTALL-MCP.md` § \"Schritt 7: Optional - den `submit`-Pfad freischalten\"",
|
||||
"`docs/how-to/set-up-the-mcp-server.md` § \"Optional: the submit path\"",
|
||||
),
|
||||
))
|
||||
def upload_list_command(
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ def show_command(
|
||||
"built-in origin. `$WIKITOOL_UPDATE_TOKEN` is only needed if that feed is not readable "
|
||||
"anonymously.",
|
||||
"For `update` or `migration` it prints that applying the release is a separate, manual "
|
||||
"step (`INSTALL.md` § \"Eine Instanz aktualisieren\").",
|
||||
"step (`docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md`).",
|
||||
"Read-only; exempt from the Iteration Budget Gate.",
|
||||
),
|
||||
failures=(
|
||||
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ def show_command(
|
||||
see_also=(
|
||||
"`wikitool dist upgrade` - applies the update this reports",
|
||||
"`wikitool version notes` - prints the release notes",
|
||||
"`INSTALL.md` § \"Version und Updates\" - what the operator decides before an update",
|
||||
"`docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md` - what the operator decides before an update",
|
||||
),
|
||||
))
|
||||
@app.command("check")
|
||||
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ def check_command(
|
||||
console.print(f"release: {status.release_url}")
|
||||
if status.state in ("update", "migration"):
|
||||
console.print(
|
||||
"Applying it is a separate, manual step - see INSTALL.md "
|
||||
"§ 'Eine Instanz aktualisieren'."
|
||||
"Applying it is a separate, manual step - see "
|
||||
"docs/how-to/update-an-instance.md."
|
||||
)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
|
||||
"""Scoring a traced session. See EVALS.md for the levels and what they mean."""
|
||||
"""Scoring a traced session.
|
||||
|
||||
See docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md for the levels and what
|
||||
they mean.
|
||||
"""
|
||||
from chemenu.evals.scorecard import failed, render_markdown, score, structural_score
|
||||
|
||||
__all__ = ["failed", "render_markdown", "score", "structural_score"]
|
||||
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Two levels, deliberately both hard-oracle:
|
||||
way. This is the half unit tests cannot reach.
|
||||
|
||||
There is no judge here and no rubric. Soft-oracle scoring waits until a failure
|
||||
taxonomy exists - see EVALS.md on the phase gate.
|
||||
taxonomy exists - see docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md on the
|
||||
phase gate.
|
||||
"""
|
||||
from __future__ import annotations
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class Rule:
|
||||
severity: str = "error"
|
||||
findings: list[dict] = field(default_factory=list)
|
||||
# A rule this trace cannot answer - not a pass, and never a fail. The
|
||||
# degradation rule (EVALS.md): a harness that cannot report the event a
|
||||
# degradation rule (docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md): a harness that cannot report the event a
|
||||
# rule depends on must read as "cannot say", never as a silent zero that
|
||||
# looks like a clean pass or a finding that looks like a violation.
|
||||
skipped: bool = False
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ this module, see AGENTS.md invariant 8).
|
||||
form is read off `config.RELEASE_STAMP_FILENAME`: present means an exported/
|
||||
distributed tree (default *off* - an operator never asked for telemetry),
|
||||
absent means the dev checkout this package ships from (default *on* - the
|
||||
traces are this stack's own measuring instrument, see EVALS.md).
|
||||
traces are this stack's own measuring instrument, see
|
||||
docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md).
|
||||
|
||||
**Caching.** Only the filesystem-derived half - the release stamp and the
|
||||
config file - is cached, keyed on the resolved root. `WIKI_TRACE` and the two
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ def repo(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> Path:
|
||||
"<!-- dist:strip-start -->\n```\n└── commonplace/\n```\n<!-- dist:strip-end -->\n",
|
||||
encoding="utf-8",
|
||||
)
|
||||
(root / "EVALS.md").write_text("# EVALS\n", encoding="utf-8")
|
||||
(root / "CLAUDE.md").write_text("# CLAUDE\n\n@AGENTS.md\n", encoding="utf-8")
|
||||
(root / ".gitignore").write_text("*.pyc\n", encoding="utf-8")
|
||||
(root / ".gitattributes").write_text("* text=auto eol=lf\n", encoding="utf-8")
|
||||
@@ -191,6 +190,18 @@ def test_plan_never_includes_docs_dev(repo):
|
||||
assert "docs/explanation/why-gates-are-code.md" in plan
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def test_plan_ships_no_retired_root_docs(repo):
|
||||
"""`EVALS.md` and `INSTALL-MCP.md` became pages under docs/. A stray copy
|
||||
left at the root of a source tree is not shipped, so an upgraded instance
|
||||
loses them as retired files instead of carrying a stale second copy."""
|
||||
(repo / "EVALS.md").write_text("# EVALS\n", encoding="utf-8")
|
||||
(repo / "INSTALL-MCP.md").write_text("# MCP\n", encoding="utf-8")
|
||||
plan = dist_cmd.build_plan()
|
||||
assert "EVALS.md" not in plan
|
||||
assert "INSTALL-MCP.md" not in plan
|
||||
assert "README.md" in plan
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def test_plan_never_includes_instructions_dev(repo):
|
||||
"""instructions/dev/ - flat dev-only instructions and the nested skill
|
||||
that switches a session into tool-development mode - is pruned
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ def test_paths_land_in_the_group_a_reviewer_expects():
|
||||
assert group_of("tools/chemenu/cli.py")[0] == "Tooling"
|
||||
assert group_of(".claude/settings.json")[0] == "Harness config"
|
||||
assert group_of("README.md")[0] == "Human docs"
|
||||
assert group_of("docs/how-to/ingest-a-source.md")[0] == "Human docs"
|
||||
assert group_of("work/run/plan.md")[0] == "Workshop"
|
||||
assert group_of("something-else.txt")[0] == "Other"
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -99,7 +99,17 @@ def test_every_exception_is_still_in_use():
|
||||
assert ALLOWED <= used, ALLOWED - used
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
SHIPPED_DOCS = ("AGENTS.md", "README.md", "INSTALL.md", "EVALS.md")
|
||||
SHIPPED_ROOT_DOCS = ("AGENTS.md", "README.md", "INSTALL.md")
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def shipped_docs() -> list[Path]:
|
||||
"""The root documents an operator reads, plus every page `dist export` ships under `docs/` -
|
||||
the how-to guides among them name the preflight call an operator types."""
|
||||
docs = REPO / "docs"
|
||||
pages = sorted(
|
||||
path for path in docs.rglob("*.md") if path.relative_to(docs).parts[0] != "dev"
|
||||
)
|
||||
return [REPO / name for name in SHIPPED_ROOT_DOCS] + pages
|
||||
|
||||
# A line that starts the PowerShell preflight - bare (`.\tools\preflight.ps1`, `& preflight.ps1`)
|
||||
# or through pwsh - as opposed to one that merely names the file (a comment, a download).
|
||||
@@ -109,7 +119,7 @@ BYPASS = "pwsh -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "
|
||||
|
||||
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
|
||||
"path",
|
||||
[REPO / name for name in SHIPPED_DOCS] + shipped_instructions(),
|
||||
shipped_docs() + shipped_instructions(),
|
||||
ids=lambda p: str(p.relative_to(REPO)),
|
||||
)
|
||||
def test_every_powershell_preflight_call_carries_the_bypass(path):
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ asks whether the commands compose - whether a wiki assembled the documented way
|
||||
comes out structurally clean, and whether the catalog is a fixed point rather
|
||||
than something that keeps changing every time it is rebuilt.
|
||||
|
||||
That is the hard-oracle floor the eval ladder in EVALS.md rests on: before a
|
||||
That is the hard-oracle floor the eval ladder in
|
||||
docs/explanation/telemetry-and-evaluation.md rests on: before a
|
||||
score can say anything about how an agent worked, running the tools correctly has
|
||||
to be known to produce a clean tree.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ recorded reason at all.
|
||||
calls a page in one of its four areas "Humans and agents ... | By link, or on
|
||||
explicit request" - agent-loaded, at a second hop, which is precisely the preview mechanic
|
||||
`instructions/CONTRACT.md` § "Reference depth" treats as real. The exclusion of
|
||||
the human docs (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `EVALS.md`, `INSTALL.md`,
|
||||
the human docs (`README.md`, `CHANGES.md`, `INSTALL.md`,
|
||||
`tools/README.md`) rests on a sentence that does not stretch to cover it: those
|
||||
are "Never loaded by an agent as instruction," while a `docs/` page is not
|
||||
loaded *as instruction* but is very much loaded.
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in new issue
Block a user