archy/CLAUDE.md

Archipelago — agent guide

🚩 TOP PRIORITY (until production testing passes)

Read docs/PRODUCTION-MASTER-PLAN.md first. It is the authoritative plan and overrides ad-hoc direction until the production test gate is green. Goal: a world-class, developer-ready app platform where every app is manifest-driven, manifests ship via the signed registry (not OTA disk files), and third-party developers publish apps via an external/decentralized registry — all rootless, secure, robust, and 100%-uptime-capable.

Detailed sub-plans (all linked from the master):

• App platform / packaging phases + security model → docs/APP-PACKAGING-MIGRATION-PLAN.md
• Registry-distributed manifests (in progress) → docs/registry-manifest-design.md
• External/decentralized marketplace for devs → docs/marketplace-protocol.md
• Current per-app state → docs/app-registry-status-2026-06-21.md
• Production test gate (exit criterion) → tests/lifecycle/TESTING.md

Invariants (never violate)

• Rootless Podman only. No rootful, no Docker-socket mounts, no privileged containers unless explicitly approved.
• No per-app Rust installers / no OS-level reliance. Apps are declarative; the orchestrator owns the lifecycle. install_immich_stack (hardcoded podman run + sudo chown) is the anti-pattern being deleted, not a template.
• Secrets are manifest-declared (generated_secrets, materialised by container::secrets, 0600/rootless) — never hardcoded, per-app, or logged.
• Migrations never destroy data — preserve /var/lib/archipelago/<app>, secrets, credentials, ports, and adoption container names; keep a rollback path.
• Verify on a real node (.228, then .198) before any tag.

Build / verify

• Rust workspace root is core/ (no Cargo.toml at repo root). cargo from core/.
• If a cargo test/build hits rust-lld: undefined hidden symbol, it's incremental-cache corruption — rebuild with CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0.
• Frontend: neode-ui/ → npm run build outputs to web/dist/neode-ui/. Grep the built bundle for new strings before shipping (build can silently no-op).
• App manifests load from disk on nodes at /opt/archipelago/apps/*/manifest.yml (today); the goal is to distribute them via the signed catalog instead.

Production test gate (definition of done)

tests/lifecycle/run-20x.sh green across install / UI / stop / start / restart / reinstall / reboot-survive / archipelago-restart-survive / uninstall — 5× on .228 AND .198 for now (ARCHY_ITERATIONS=5; temporarily reduced from 20× — restore to 20× before the final ship). Until green, the master plan is the priority.