* docs(designs): agent-bootstrap plan + design docs (normative, review-absorbed) The scrubbed, in-repo sources of truth for the gbrain bootstrap wave: AGENT_BOOTSTRAP_DESIGN.md (product scope/sequencing) and AGENT_BOOTSTRAP_PLAN.md (implementation; all review-finding IDs inlined). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bootstrap): format spec, question bank, identity templates, bundled assets agent.json manifest (format_version 1, initialized sentinel) + machine-local install receipt [CX2-1, CX2-12]; 12-question/6-required interview bank with consent keys and a persist:false sink for the optional provider key [CX2-13]; ten {{TOKEN}} identity templates (generic, adapted to gbrain ops — gates call recall/query/put_page, write-through-ops rule, keyless agent-authored facts, silence contract); assets embedded compiled-binary-safe via file-type imports [ENG-6]. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bootstrap): runbook, README paste block, bootstrap guide, TODOS entries BOOTSTRAP_FOR_AGENTS.md (agent-driven install runbook: CLI phase list is the source of truth, never-invent rules, Codex approvals preflight, keyless posture, failure-modes table, version stamp for the skew check); README gains the full-agent paste block pinned to latest-stable inside the Claude Code/Codex quick start (memory-only tier stays); docs/guides/bootstrap.md carries the full install/security/consent/degradation/uninstall contract. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(designs): spike instrument for the bootstrap wave (build order 0) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bootstrap): interview + render engines Interview gate with read-back confirm-hash (any later answer change clears the confirmation — the hostile single-batch case is structurally impossible), per-answer provenance, caps + escaping at set time, config-sink routing for the provider key; renderer with hard-fail token sweep, subordinate fencing of principal input, never-clobber + backups, deterministic minimal mode for the template repo, scaled byte floors. 58 unit tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bootstrap): private-repo lifecycle — repo create, attach, uninstall, run lock gh-gated private repo creation with API-verified privacy (rate-limit distinct from public), refuse-foreign-origin with attach as the sanctioned path, atomic bootstrap mutex (pid liveness + age + token), receipt-keyed uninstall that never wholesale-deletes the gbrain home and only offers --delete-brain for a brain it created; read-only PGLite lock probe (never opens the engine). 54 unit tests, injectable exec seam throughout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(release): latest-stable ref, template-repo publish job, bootstrap CI guards release.yml advances the latest-stable tag only after assets publish (the paste block's permanent ref — copies in the wild never rot) and gains a PAT-gated publish-template job verified against the vendored tree; two skip-graceful guards (sanctioned-ref + runbook stamp; template/token bijection + placeholder assertion + generator byte-diff) wired into verify; README + runbook re-admitted to the CI cache hash; vendored deterministic template tree generated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(context): IPC v2 turn_context + 8KB assembly + visibility resolver + session identity Discriminated-union IPC with handler map, protocol echo (stale-serve detection), shared-secret gate, server-side source binding, per-kind budgets; turn-context assembly (reflex pointers + volunteered pages + world-only hot facts) under a data-not-instructions envelope trimmed to the harness's 10KB hook-output cap; facts.default_visibility resolved through one helper at all four sites (explicit caller wins, typos fail closed); typed sessionId threads _meta.session_id into the hot-memory cache key. 50 new tests; 180 adjacent tests confirmed green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(persistence): secret-scan, gbrain sources push, durability unification Pattern secret scanner (own runtime allowlist, redacted previews, corpus-write redaction mode); sources push runs the whole scan→stage→commit→pull→push sequence under one cross-platform lock (mkdir-atomic, pid+age+token) with a deny-glob backstop, commit-first divergence-safe pull, refuse-unverifiable visibility, and push-status telemetry; gbrain-home choke point unifies GBRAIN_HOME semantics with config (0700); durability is parent-repo-aware and rotates its push log at 0600. 35 new tests; 200 existing green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(sources): harden/pull gates accept sources inside a parent git repo The bootstrap workspace registers brain/ (a subdirectory) as the source; the durability core already resolves the repo root, so the command gates now check inside-a-repo rather than .git-right-here [CX2-3]. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(serve): resident maintenance sweep + keyless capability probe The lock-owning serve process now closes the persistence loop: startup (3s post-connect, best-effort, unref'd) and idle (10-min quiet intervals through the injectable timer seam) sweeps run facts-fence reconciliation, deterministic link/timeline extraction over recent workspace pages, and spend-gated corpus ingest (skipped keyless — agent-authored fences cover it). gbrain sweep --once is the trusted CLI seam bootstrap verify uses. Capability probe renders the honest keyless/keyed report. Full reuse of the cycle extractor + extract cores; 26 new tests, neighbors green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(hooks): engine-free gbrain hook command, settings writers, transcript parser Four hook events (session-start digest + crashed-session recovery push, user-prompt turn-context injection under an 800ms deadline and the 10KB cap, stop buffers, session-end corpus write with redaction/retention/dedup + best-effort push); structural JSON settings merger keyed by a _gbrain marker (foreign hooks and permissions survive); dated host-spec registry; Claude Code .jsonl parser as a spec-target with a scrubbed 7-shape fixture. Heartbeat is counters-only by construction. 59 tests; zero engine modules in the import graph. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(bootstrap): cross-link the full-agent path from the connection docs Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bootstrap): dispatcher, verify, status — the command assembled gbrain bootstrap {status,interview,render,repo,hooks,verify,uninstall,attach}: engine-free except verify (owns its engine, in-process sweep — no live-serve conflict); phase list is the TS source of truth with install.jsonl telemetry and the support blob; verify's fail-soft check suite covers the real write path (put_page → write-through file → sweep → graph floor → recall), passes keyless, persists snapshots, and ends with the first-run tour. cli.ts wired per the three-touchpoint rule; doctor gains the bootstrap check group (silent on machines with no bootstrap state). 28 new tests; 353 adjacent green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: KEY_FILES bootstrap cluster + CLAUDE.md dispatcher row (+ build:llms) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(bootstrap): e2e pins — hook-under-live-serve, attach, degraded modes, compiled binary, Docker harness The permanent pins: a real serve holds the PGLite lock while the engine-free hook completes (and a direct engine open provably throws LiveServeLockError); stale-socket fail-open; machine-2 attach with marker-keyed hook repair; decline-everything installs verify green with every degradation named; the compiled binary renders bundled templates in an empty cwd. Offline Docker harness (networkless, read-only) gated into heavy-tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(bootstrap): register doctor check categories + system-of-record allow comments The six bootstrap doctor checks join OPS_CHECK_NAMES; the sweep's batch link/ timeline inserts carry the explicit extract-path allow comments (the sweep IS the extraction path for workspace pages). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): shard wedge cap tracks suite growth (1500s -> 1800s) At ~9000 tests a healthy shard finished at 1466s and two progressing shards were false-killed at the old cap; 1800s restores ~25% headroom over the slowest observed healthy shard. Real hangs still hit it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(ci): cache-hash policy — README + runbook edits must invalidate [C2] The old deny-list assertion predates the paste block; README.md and BOOTSTRAP_FOR_AGENTS.md are policy-doc re-admissions now, so their edits must change the hash (a paste-block edit shipping under a cached green was the C2 hole). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): classify post-suite exit-hangs as warn-pass; file the leak forensics A shard killed by the wedge watchdog with every assigned file started and zero fail markers did all its work and leaked a handle at exit — pre-existing and master-reproducible (P1 TODO carries the full bisect forensics). Bun's per-test timeout turns a hung test into a (fail), so the classifier cannot mask one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(test): shard cap 2400s — the count-balanced heavy shard needs it under contention Observed: the heavy shard still progressing 22s before an 1800s kill while siblings finish at 1150-1550s (split balances file count, not weight). Filed the load-sensitive WAL-repair flake (pre-existing, master's v0.42.75.0 wave). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(bootstrap): quarantine env-mutating suites to the serial lane check-test-isolation R1: six new files mutate GBRAIN_HOME/env at module scope — the serial lane (one process per file) is the guard's prescribed home for them. All 114 tests pass post-rename. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(readme): per-harness install sections — Codex, Claude Code, then OpenClaw/Hermes Each harness gets its own complete paste-block section (desktop app first, terminal noted — Claude Code CLI is the identical harness; Codex CLI works pull-based today); the OpenClaw/Hermes platform path keeps equal weight with its one-click deploys and INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS block intact; memory-only and remote-connect tiers consolidated under 'Lighter ways in'. Supersedes the review's D5 ordering by user direction; stale heading references updated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(readme): Codex as the recommended first step; OpenClaw/Hermes framed as-intended, high-cost The install section now routes newcomers explicitly: Codex first (subscription-priced, nothing to deploy), OpenClaw/Hermes as GBrain used the way it was designed — always on, at real server + API cost. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: doc-audit code chasers — broken recovery hints, stale op description, auto_link key Four small code fixes surfaced by the markdown accuracy audit: - doctor's auto-RLS recovery hint pointed at `apply-migrations --force-retry 35`, which cannot work (--force-retry targets the vX.Y.Z orchestrator registry, not the numeric schema MIGRATIONS array). Hint now points at the recreate SQL in docs/guides/rls-and-you.md; test pins against regression. - v0_11_0 migration printed the same broken-mechanism class of hint (`config set minion_mode` writes DB config nothing reads); now names `apply-migrations --mode` + preferences.json, the real setter. - submit_job's op description hardcoded a stale handler list; now points at registerBuiltinHandlers as the source plus the --follow discovery trick. - `auto_link` added to KNOWN_CONFIG_KEYS: read by link-extraction, reconcile-links, and sweep, and documented as the off-switch in brain-ops/maintain, but the allowlist rejected `config set auto_link false`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: repo-wide accuracy + MECE reform from the 9-bucket markdown audit A code-grounded audit of every markdown file (root, architecture, guides, mcp, tutorials, docs-root, operations/eval/designs, skills, recipes) followed by a fix wave with per-bucket ownership. Four classes of change: Accuracy — every documented command/flag verified against src/ before writing: dead commands replaced with working ones (pages purge-deleted, jobs watch --follow, gbrain restore, import-based Obsidian flow, space-separated --scopes, real thin-client recipes, working isolation verification, real supervisor restart procedure, curl-based ngrok health check, real minion_mode setter); count drift fixed with rot-proof phrasing (100+ ops, 50+ bundled skills via skills/manifest.json, 140+ engine methods, KNOBS_HASH_VERSION pointer instead of hardcoded versions); stale claims corrected (search-mode defaults, RETRIEVAL pipeline order incl. autocut, sentinel rules, refusal-list mechanism, engine snapshot, shard cap 2400s + EXIT-HANG classifier in TESTING.md, latest-stable + publish-template documented in RELEASING.md as release.yml promises). MECE — one home per concept, pointers elsewhere: test isolation → TESTING.md; OAuth registration + --bind/--public-url lore → DEPLOY.md; mode bundles → guides/search-modes.md (the home the CLAUDE.md dispatcher always promised); merge contract → schema-packs.md; WAL ladder → ENGINES.md; quiet-hours → quiet-hours.md; capture taxonomy → entity-detection.md; person-page taxonomy → compiled-truth.md; brain-first protocol → brain-first-lookup.md; refresh semantics → refresh-algorithm.md; KEY_FILES.md deduplicated (58 extension entries merged, one entry per file); infra-layer.md rewritten as a pointer page. Privacy — placeholder sweep across guides, docs, skills, and recipes per the iron rule; per-release narration stripped from reference docs (current-state prose only). Bootstrap coverage — AGENTS.md pointer, RESOLVER routing row, INSTALL.md path, tutorial cross-links, keyless-mode sections in spend-controls/headless-install. skills.lock.json regenerated; llms.txt/llms-full.txt rebuilt. Gates: verify 36/36, typecheck clean, doctor 96/96, skills-integrity + resolver + build-llms + config-set + migrations all green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(readme): refresh production-brain stats to current brain-repo counts 155,795 pages / 24,589 people / 5,340 companies, counted from the brain repo's current HEAD; the "100K-page brain" framing moves to 150K to match. Cron-fleet count unchanged (its store lives on the deployment host, not in the repos available for verification). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(scan,push): modern OpenAI/Voyage key patterns, scan staged blobs not disk - secret-scan matches sk-proj-/sk-svcacct-/sk-None- and pa- Voyage keys (the bare sk- pattern missed every current OpenAI key format). - workspacePush stages first, then scans the staged index blobs via git cat-file, closing the scan-then-stage TOCTOU where a file changed between snapshot and commit shipped unscanned. - shared binary-sniff helper, memoized glob regexes, atomic push-status write, and tests for pull_conflict + gitignored deny-match paths. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): regenerate flag registry for new commands, harden shard classifier + release token - cli-flag-registry.generated.ts regenerated: bootstrap/hook/sweep and sources push --message/--allow-unverified-remote were missing, so the strict #2185 validator rejected real invocations and skipped the new commands entirely. - EXIT-HANG shard classifier now requires every assigned file to have started before warn-passing a watchdog kill (was fail-open). - release.yml passes TEMPLATE_REPO_PAT via http.extraheader, off the argv. - compiled-binary e2e fails loud in CI instead of a silent permanent skip. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(hook,sweep,ipc): non-blocking hook pushes, bounded sweep + cache, source-bound resolve - session-start/session-end no longer run synchronous git + inline push inside their self-deadline; a detached child does the push and the hook returns immediately (blocked Claude Code startup for minutes on a dirty tree before). - serve sweep drops the unbounded listAllPageRefs, resolves only candidate targets, claims corpus files atomically (no double-LLM-spend race), and caps the fence LIKE scan; heartbeat writes are O_APPEND with rare compaction. - hot-memory cache evicts expired entries and bounds entry count (the key is caller-controlled via _meta.session_id). - v1 resolve IPC honors boundSourceId like turn_context; turn-context runs its arms concurrently. doctor reads push/heartbeat thresholds from hook.ts. - new tests: doctor bootstrap checks, hook push-gate + deadline, concurrent sweep claims, cache eviction, bound-source resolve. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(bootstrap): origin-ownership gate, world visibility, collision-safe source id, consent + templates - repo adoption requires an exact receipt repo_url match or authed-owner check (undefined repo_url was a wildcard); create verifies privacy BEFORE the first push. - verify sets facts.default_visibility=world if unset, so agent-authored facts surface in per-turn context (they defaulted private before). - source_id derives a path-hash suffix when 'workspace' is taken by another checkout; every consumer reads manifest.source_id. - skipped HOOKS_CONSENT now declines (was falling through to default yes); --minimal refuses on an initialized manifest; tilde fences escaped. - MCP registration pins --surface full; status hard-fails a public origin (template door); receipt writers guard against newer/corrupt receipts; uninstall only claims brain-deleted after a real rm. - templates ship jobs disabled + provider-consent + support-relay lines; soul-audit re-runs over the shared interview bank. TODOS: 11 follow-ups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(security): close adversarial-review findings — scan fails closed, whole-PEM redaction, bound repo push Cross-model adversarial pass (Claude + Codex) on the bootstrap wave: - secret scan fails CLOSED: an unreadable, oversized, or binary staged blob now blocks the push (blocked_unscannable, exit 5) instead of committing unscanned; only a confirmed staged deletion is skipped. This was the headline "block secrets before they leave the machine" property failing open. - private-key redaction spans the whole PEM block (header+body+footer), not just the header line — the base64 body no longer survives into the corpus the sweep sends to an extraction provider. - bootstrap repo commits the workspace (secret-scan-gated) before the first push and verifies the remote actually received it, so a push-fail retry can't adopt an empty remote as success. - privacy verify is re-bound to origin immediately before push (a concurrent origin rewrite between verify and push is refused). - session-end corpus write is atomic and clears the stale ingested/in-progress sidecars so a resumed session's appended transcript is re-ingested. - public-origin refusal enforced at render (not only status); MCP "already registered" is verified to target this workspace, not blessed blindly; verify probe cleanup scopes deletes to its own slugs, not a token substring; allowlist fingerprint floor raised 8→16 hex. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * v0.45.0.0 feat(bootstrap): paste-in personal-agent install for Codex + Claude Code Turns a Codex or Claude Code session into a persistent personal agent: interview-rendered identity files, a local PGLite brain, per-turn context via serve IPC (Claude Code hooks / Codex pull protocol), session-triggered persistence, and a private GitHub repo as the agent's portable body. Keyless- first (the harness model is the LLM; one optional key adds embeddings + extraction). New `gbrain bootstrap` command family + `gbrain hook` + `gbrain sweep`; doctor bootstrap health checks; latest-stable distribution ref + template-repo publish job. Opt-in, additive — existing installs untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: regenerate flag registry for security-fix flags; drop fabricated gbrain capabilities doc ref CI caught two real failures under the merged state: - the flag registry lagged the blocked_unscannable/exit-5 flags the security round added, tripping the #2185 freshness guard. - headless-install.md described the keyless capability report as a `gbrain capabilities` command, which the #3502 doc-command resolver rejects — reworded to prose (the real surface is bootstrap verify's report). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: sync KEY_FILES + bootstrap plan to security-fix behavior Cross-referenced the security-fix round against the reference docs and corrected the drift those commits introduced: - workspace-push.ts entry: stage-FIRST-then-scan order (the TOCTOU fix), fail-closed blocked_unscannable, and the sources-push status -> exit-code map. - hooks.ts entry: MCP registration pins `serve --surface full`. - hook.ts entry: session-start/session-end pushes run in a detached child (non-blocking); atomic corpus write clears stale sidecars. - bootstrap.ts entry: render hard-refuses a public origin (template door). - verify.ts entry: source_id collision resolution (workspace-<path-hash>). - AGENT_BOOTSTRAP_PLAN as-shipped delta note for the scan/stage reorder. llms bundle unchanged (KEY_FILES is link-only); build:llms and test/build-llms.test.ts green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): silence SC2016 on the intentional askpass literal in release.yml The one-shot GIT_ASKPASS script must contain literal $1 and $TEMPLATE_REPO_PAT so they expand when /bin/sh runs it at git's credential prompt, not when the outer shell writes the file — single quotes are correct. Add a scoped shellcheck disable so actionlint passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(skills): declare 'bootstrap my data' trigger in cold-start frontmatter The doc reform added 'bootstrap my data' to cold-start's RESOLVER.md row (to disambiguate data-bootstrap from agent-bootstrap) but not to the skill's own frontmatter triggers, tripping the RESOLVER↔frontmatter round-trip contract (resolver.test.ts). Declare it; regenerate skills.lock.json. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat(bootstrap): default per-turn hooks + search mode ON without a prompt Installing gbrain for your coding agent IS the consent for the behaviors that make it work, so stop re-litigating them with install-time questions whose "no" defeats the product: - Per-turn hooks (Claude Code) install ON by default — no prompt. Off-ramps: `--no-hooks` at install, `GBRAIN_HOOKS=0` at runtime, `bootstrap uninstall`. The "hooks installed" line now surfaces the kill switch so default-on is never silent. A persisted HOOKS_CONSENT=no (interview --skip) still declines. - Search mode defaults to `balanced` silently (nobody knows the modes at install; `gbrain search modes` changes it any time). - MCP scope stays the ONE deliberate prompt — project vs user is a real cross-repo privacy choice, not friction. Marks the two consents `silent: true` in the question bank (new QuestionSpec field), rewrites the runbook phases so the agent no longer asks them, adds the `--no-hooks` flag (+ registry regen), and adds default-on / opt-out tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(bootstrap): real end-to-end coverage — cross-session recall, per-turn content, Codex door, realistic corpus Closes the seven e2e gaps a coverage audit surfaced: the plumbing was well-unit-tested but the product claims ("Codex works, context shows up every turn with real content, it remembers across restarts, machine two recovers, Postgres works") were unproven end to end. Test-only wave — zero src changes. - Hermetic synthetic corpus (test/fixtures/bootstrap-corpus/ + a loader helper): 12 interlinked pages (52 edges, timelines), 12 world/private beliefs, 8 gold queries — curated from the gbrain-evals synthetic corpora, 100% placeholder names, so recall is asserted on a real multi-entity brain instead of a 2-node self-planted probe. - GAP1 magic moment: author a fact via the real write path, disconnect the engine, reopen against the same DB, recall it — a real session boundary, not verify.ts's same-connection SQL read-back. Plus a source-isolation assertion. - GAP2 per-turn content: hook-under-serve Pin 1 now seeds a known fact and asserts its text lands in the injected block AND private beliefs never do (was: empty brain, empty_block accepted as a pass). - GAP3 Codex door: assert the rendered AGENTS.md carries the Gate-3 brain-first pull protocol; make the fake codex shim implement `mcp get` so the [FIX7] target-verification can actually fail; the Docker cold-machine harness now exercises the hooks/MCP registration step instead of skipping it. - GAP4 corpus recall: turn-context + verify graph-floor/qrels run on the real multi-entity brain with real edges. - GAP5 attach: machine-two now re-ingests the cloned brain/ into a fresh DB and recalls a fact authored only on machine one — the multi-device payoff. - GAP6 keyed + Postgres (env-gated): real embeddings prove semantic recall a paraphrase query can reach but keyless BM25 cannot; bootstrap verify drives a real Postgres engine (skipIf DATABASE_URL/keys absent). - GAP7 persistence: session-end runs the REAL push (not the mocked seam) to a local bare remote and the remote receives the content; a planted secret is blocked at the gate; the 15-min cron installs and fires a scan-gated push. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(bootstrap): real-agent e2e — drive the actual claude + codex binaries end to end Closes the audit's biggest gap ("no real harness ever drives a turn"). Adapts gstack's PTY/headless agent harness to prove the bootstrap install + smoke work against the REAL binaries, not PATH shims. Test/CI/docs only — zero src changes. - test/helpers/agent-harness.ts: hermetic clean-room child env (ported from gstack; drops CONDUCTOR_/CLAUDE_/GSTACK_/MCP_/GBRAIN_, promotes GSTACK_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY→ANTHROPIC_API_KEY), real-binary resolvers + auth probes, headless `claude -p --output-format stream-json` and `codex exec --json` turn runners, a gbrain stdio MCP-config writer, and a keyless brain seeder. + a fixture-parse unit test (no binary needed). - test/e2e/bootstrap-real-claude.serial.test.ts: real `gbrain bootstrap` install → REAL `claude mcp add` (verified via `claude mcp get`) → verify exit 0 → a real `claude -p --mcp-config --strict-mcp-config` turn that invokes mcp__gbrain__search and answers from the brain (proven: toolCalls include mcp__gbrain__search, final text carries the seeded fact). - test/e2e/bootstrap-real-codex.serial.test.ts: same install with REAL `codex mcp add` into a real ~/.codex/config.toml + Gate-3 pull-protocol assertion, then a real `codex exec --json` turn surfacing the fact (MCP or the pull- protocol shell path). Bounded retry absorbs codex's occasional MCP-call cancellation without softening the fact-requiring assertion. - Everything hermetic (temp HOME/CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/CODEX_HOME/GBRAIN_HOME; real ~/.codex auth copied read-only) and skipIf-gated so it self-skips cleanly where the binaries/auth are absent. - heavy-tests.yml: gated `real-agent-e2e` job (nightly/label, never the PR shard; no-op on a runner without authed binaries). - TODOS: compiled `gbrain` binary can't serve a PGLite brain (bun compile omits the WASM/extension payloads); harness falls back to `bun run` serve. Verified against live claude 4.6 + codex 0.147.0: 15 pass / 0 fail; verify 36/36; typecheck clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): real-agent-e2e job — bash array + --timeout (actionlint SC2086 + bun-test-timeout guard) The real-agent-e2e job's file loop used an unquoted $FILES (SC2086) and ran `bun test` without --timeout (check-bun-test-timeout guard). Switch to a bash array and add --timeout=600000 (real-agent turns are slow; the tests self-skip without authed binaries so it's a no-op elsewhere). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(pglite): embed WASM + extension assets so the compiled binary can serve A `bun build --compile` gbrain binary could not `serve` a PGLite brain: the compile bundles JS but not PGLite's runtime payload (pglite.wasm, initdb.wasm, pglite.data, vector/pg_trgm tarballs), so `serve` on PGLite died with a bunfs/ENOENT. Now the assets ride inside the binary. - src/core/pglite-embedded-assets.ts: embeds the five assets via `import … with { type: 'file' }` (the ENG-6 idiom) and exposes getEmbeddedPgliteOptions() → { pgliteWasmModule, initdbWasmModule, fsBundle, extensions:{vector,pg_trgm} }. WASM/fsBundle are consumed as bytes; the two extension tarballs are materialized to a content-addressed temp file (atomic, size-verified reuse) because PGLite reads them via fs.createReadStream, which cannot read a /$bunfs path. Unconditional (works in bun-run and compiled), so no fragile mode branch. - src/core/pglite-engine.ts: static-import getEmbeddedPgliteOptions (engine path stays static per the engine-dynamic-import invariant); spread into both PGlite.create sites (initial + WAL-repair retry). The bunfs classifier stays as a backstop but no longer fires for a correct binary. - scripts/check-pglite-embedded.sh (+ smoketest): compiles a focused binary and asserts it boots PGLite, CREATE EXTENSION vector/pg_trgm, and round-trips a page — wired into `bun run verify` (now 37 checks), check:all, and check:pglite-embedded. Fail-soft only when compile is unavailable. - agent-harness.ts probeCompiledPglite now passes → the real-agent e2e uses the fast compiled MCP server. TODOS: the P2 "can't serve PGLite" item is closed. Verified: fresh compiled binary ran `search`/`query` against a PGLite brain and returned the seeded row (no bunfs/ENOENT); verify 37/37; pglite-engine 120/0 source-mode; typecheck clean; engine-dynamic-import + parity guards pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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This is your install + operating protocol. Claude Code reads ./CLAUDE.md automatically.
Everyone else (Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Aider, Continue, or an LLM fetching via URL):
start here.
Becoming someone's persistent personal agent (identity + memory + private repo)? Follow
BOOTSTRAP_FOR_AGENTS.md— thegbrain bootstrapflow — instead of the plain install below, then come back here for the operating protocol. Connecting to an EXISTING remote brain from a laptop agent?gbrain connect https://your-host/mcp --token gbrain_xxx --install(see the MCP table inREADME.md).
Install (5 min)
- Install gbrain via Bun (the canonical path):
If
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash export PATH="$HOME/.bun/bin:$PATH" bun install -g github:garrytan/gbrainbun install -gaborts orgbrain doctorreportsschema_version: 0, the CLI prints a recovery hint pointing at #218. Rungbrain apply-migrations --yesto recover, or fall back to the deterministic install:git clone https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain.git ~/gbrain && cd ~/gbrain && bun install && bun link. - Init the brain:
gbrain init(defaults to PGLite, zero-config). For 1000+ files or multi-machine sync, init suggests Postgres + pgvector via Supabase. - STOP — ask the user about search mode.
gbrain initauto-applied a default but printed a 9-cell cost matrix (mode × downstream model) preceded by[AGENT]markers. You MUST relay the matrix to the operator and confirm their choice before continuing. Cost spread between corners is 25x — silent acceptance is the wrong default. See./INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.mdStep 3.5 for the exact ask-the-user protocol. Same banner fires ongbrain post-upgradefor existing users (search modes were added in v0.32.3). - Read
./INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.mdfor the full step-by-step flow (API keys, identity, cron, verification).
Read this order
./AGENTS.md(this file) — install + operating protocol../CLAUDE.md— orientation + resolver: architecture, cross-cutting invariants, the reference map, inline ship rules. It routes to on-demand detail docs:./docs/architecture/KEY_FILES.md(per-file index — read a file's entry before editing it),./docs/TESTING.md(test tiers + isolation lint + E2E lifecycle), and./docs/architecture/thin-client.md(remote-MCP seam)../docs/architecture/brains-and-sources.md— the two-axis mental model (brain = which DB, source = which repo in the DB). Every query routes on both axes. Read before writing anything that touches brain ops../skills/conventions/brain-routing.md— agent-facing decision table: when to switch brain, when to switch source, how cross-brain federation works (latent-space only; the agent decides)../skills/RESOLVER.md— skill dispatcher. Read before any task.
Trust boundary (critical)
GBrain distinguishes trusted local CLI callers (OperationContext.remote = false,
set by src/cli.ts) from untrusted agent-facing callers (remote = true, set by
src/mcp/server.ts). Security-sensitive operations like file_upload tighten filesystem
confinement when remote = true and default to strict behavior when unset. If you are
writing or reviewing an operation, consult src/core/operations.ts for the contract.
Common tasks
- Configure:
docs/ENGINES.md,docs/guides/live-sync.md,docs/mcp/DEPLOY.md. - Debug:
docs/GBRAIN_VERIFY.md,docs/guides/minions-fix.md,gbrain doctor --fix. - Migrate / upgrade:
gbrain upgrade(binary self-update + schema migrations + post-upgrade prompts),docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md,skills/migrations/,gbrain apply-migrations --yes(manual schema-only). - Eval retrieval changes: capture is off by default. To benchmark a
retrieval change against real captured queries, set
GBRAIN_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE=1, thengbrain eval export --since 7d > base.ndjsonandgbrain eval replay --against base.ndjson. For public benchmark coverage (LongMemEval, ground-truth scoring),gbrain eval longmemeval <dataset.jsonl>runs against an isolated in-memory PGLite per question — your~/.gbrainis never opened. Full guide:docs/eval-bench.md. - Drive the brain to a target health score: the one-command
loop.
gbrain doctor --remediation-plan --jsonpreviews what would be fixed;gbrain doctor --remediate --yes --target-score 90 --max-usd 5walks a dependency-ordered plan (sync before extract, embed after consolidate), re-checking score between every step, refusing to spend past the cost cap. Empty brains (no entity pages) or unconfigured embedding keys hit amax_reachable_scoreceiling and bail with what's missing. Three phase handlers (synthesize / patterns / consolidate) are PROTECTED — only trusted local callers can submit them; MCP cannot. Reference:docs/architecture/topologies.md. - Track a founder/company over time: when an entity has
typed metric claims in its
## Factsfence (metric: mrr,value: 50000,unit: USD,period: monthlycolumns), rungbrain eval trajectory <entity-slug>for the chronological history with regressions auto-flagged, orgbrain founder scorecard <entity-slug>for a four-signal JSON rollup (claim_accuracy / consistency / growth_trajectory / red_flags). MCP opfind_trajectoryexposes the same data — read scope, visibility-filtered for remote callers.gbrain thinkuses this substrate automatically on temporal / knowledge_update intent (default ON; flipthink.trajectory_enabled=falseto opt out). Non-metric event rows (meeting,job_change,location_change) ride through the same pipeline viafacts.event_type; passkind: 'event'or'all'tofind_trajectoryto query them. - Everything else:
./llms.txtis the full documentation map../llms-full.txtis the same map with core docs inlined for single-fetch ingestion.
Before shipping
Easiest path: bun run ci:local runs the full CI gate inside Docker (gitleaks,
guards + typecheck, then 4-shard parallel unit + E2E against four pgvector
containers plus a transaction-mode PgBouncer; unit phase keeps DATABASE_URL
unset) and tears down. Use bun run ci:local:diff for the
diff-aware subset during fast iteration on a focused branch. Requires Docker
(Docker Desktop / OrbStack / Colima) and gitleaks (brew install gitleaks).
Manual path: bun test plus the E2E lifecycle described in ./CLAUDE.md (spin
up the test Postgres container, run bun run test:e2e, tear it down).
Ship via the /ship skill, not by hand. The full release + contributor process
(CHANGELOG voice, version-locations sync, PR conventions, community-PR-wave) lives in
./docs/RELEASING.md; read it before shipping.
Privacy
Never commit real names of people, companies, or funds into public artifacts. See the
Privacy rule in ./CLAUDE.md. GBrain pages reference real contacts; public docs must
use generic placeholders (alice-example, acme-example, fund-a).
Forks
If you are a fork, regenerate llms.txt + llms-full.txt with your own URL base before
publishing: LLMS_REPO_BASE=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/your-org/your-fork/main bun run build:llms.