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The plugin is built, installed, and well past 11a–11c. Record the post-11c UX iteration (managed daemon + self-heal, follow-or-create, home/index, dailies picker, interactive views, dev isolation, fully-Dagger CI) as done, and reset the "not yet done" backlog to lead with the highest-value next work: task-scheduling UX (do-date/late-on/recurrence from the editor), then more surfacing (backlinks/tags/health/log-read), 11d (deferred), and the heph.nvim repo split. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# hephaestus
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A personal context management system — a single, self-hosted Rust application that fuses a wiki-style knowledge base (Zettelkasten) with task management. Notes and tasks are **first-class, cross-linkable entities** in one database, so a task like "Fix the roof leak" stays coupled to the home-repair log and contractor-call notes that give it context.
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It is **offline-first**: fully useful on a laptop with no network, and (when the distributed layer lands) auto-syncing to a central instance hosted in blumeops. The primary surface will be a Neovim plugin (`heph.nvim`, an obsidian.nvim replacement); a CLI (`heph`) is the utility/scripting surface.
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> **Why "what is next?" is the flagship.** heph is organized around concise, honest answers to recurring questions — above all *"what do I do right now?"* — built from ~10 years of the owner's lived prioritization discipline: projects-as-contexts; attention colors (white/orange/red/blue, where **red = a consequence exists if late**, not importance); **do-dates, not due-dates** (earliest-actionable, never a deadline alarm); and working-set tensions surfaced honestly (no "fake happy", no overwhelm).
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See **[docs/explanation/design.md](docs/explanation/design.md)** for the vision and rationale, and **[docs/reference/tech-spec.md](docs/reference/tech-spec.md)** for the implementation-facing specification.
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## Status
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**Phase 1 (v1 prototype) — nearly feature-complete** on branch `feature/v1-prototype`. **All three runtime modes work, replicas sync through a hub over HTTP, and op exchange is authenticated end-to-end with OIDC** (Authentik): the hub verifies bearer tokens (JWKS/RS256) and enforces single-tenant ownership, and `heph auth login` runs the device-code flow, caching tokens in the OS keyring. The offline-first everyday config (`local` + `hub_url`) converges with a `yrs` text-CRDT merging bodies. The **`heph.nvim` plugin is built and installed on the dev machine** — knowledge base (journals, wiki-links with follow-or-create, a home/index page, a dailies picker), tasks (capture, the "what is next?" view, interactive list, promotion), and a plug-and-play self-healing daemon. CI is green, fully through Dagger. Built test-first (117 Rust + 17 nvim e2e). The canonical tracker is **tech-spec §14**.
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| Data model, markdown extraction, wiki-links, export | ✅ done |
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| Tasks, links, "what is next?" ranking, recurrence, per-task logs | ✅ done |
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| `hephd` daemon — **local mode** (file lock + JSON-RPC over a unix socket) | ✅ done |
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| `heph` CLI; `list` / `health` / `journal` / full-text `search` (FTS5) | ✅ done |
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| Sync engine — HLC, op-log, converging merge + conflict queue (no network yet) | ✅ done |
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| yrs text-CRDT for body merge | ✅ done |
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| `server` (hub) mode + spoke push/pull sync over HTTP (axum) | ✅ done |
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| `client` mode + `RemoteStore` (online-only, no replica) | ✅ done |
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| OIDC hub auth — bearer-token verification + owner gate | ✅ done |
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| OIDC client — device-code login, keyring token cache | ✅ done |
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| `heph.nvim` (primary surface) — RPC client, buffer-backed editing, wiki-link follow, journal (slice 11a) | ✅ done |
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| `heph.nvim` — Tactical/Organizational task views, capture, attention, done/drop, log (slice 11b) | ✅ done |
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| `heph.nvim` — context-item promotion + Dagger headless-nvim CI (slice 11c) | ✅ done |
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| `heph.nvim` — managed daemon (plug-and-play, self-heal), follow-or-create, home/index, dailies picker, interactive views; installed + dev-isolated | ✅ done |
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## Architecture
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A Cargo workspace, layered so the same core runs from a laptop to a hub:
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- **`crates/heph-core`** — the library: data model, the `Store` trait + SQLite store, markdown parsing/extraction, recurrence, the "what is next?" engine, and the sync engine (op-log, hybrid logical clocks, CRDT/LWW merge, conflict detection). Synchronous and clock-injected (no ambient wall-clock reads) so ranking and merge are deterministic.
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- **`crates/hephd`** — the per-device daemon. One binary, three modes — **`local`** (own SQLite replica; a syncing spoke when given `--hub-url`), **`server`** (also the sync hub: an HTTP endpoint others sync against), **`client`** (thin, remote, no replica — proxies to a `--server-url`) — selected by configuration via a targetable `Store` backend. Surfaces connect to it over a unix socket; it owns the DB handle and background sync.
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- **`crates/heph`** — the CLI: a thin client of the daemon (no direct DB access).
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- **`heph.nvim/`** — the Neovim plugin, the primary editing/agenda surface (a thin client of the daemon; see [docs/reference/heph-nvim.md](docs/reference/heph-nvim.md) and [docs/how-to/install-heph.md](docs/how-to/install-heph.md)).
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**Storage:** SQLite is the source of truth; a node's body is markdown; `export` materializes the whole store as a directory of `.md` files. **Sync:** each device holds a full replica + an append-only op-log; devices reconcile through a hub with automatic merge (text-CRDT bodies, last-writer-wins scalars, OR-set links) and a conflict queue for the ambiguous remainder. **Auth:** the hub verifies an OIDC bearer token (Authentik) on every op exchange — RS256/JWKS verification + a single-tenant owner gate — and clients obtain tokens via the OAuth 2.0 device-code flow (`heph auth login`), cached in the OS keyring. Local-only instances need no auth.
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## Build & run
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Requires a Rust toolchain (stable). The build is a standard Cargo workspace:
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```bash
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cargo build # build all crates
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cargo test --all # run the full test suite
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cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
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```
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Run the daemon in local mode, then drive it with the CLI:
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```bash
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# Terminal 1 — start the daemon (creates ~/.local/share/heph/heph.db and a socket)
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cargo run -p hephd
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# Terminal 2 — talk to it
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cargo run -p heph -- task "Fix the roof leak" --attention red
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cargo run -p heph -- next # the "what is next?" ranking
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cargo run -p heph -- doc "Roof log" --body "Called the contractor."
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cargo run -p heph -- search roof # full-text search
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cargo run -p heph -- journal 2026-06-01 # open/create today's journal
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cargo run -p heph -- export ./snapshot # write the store as a .md tree
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```
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The daemon takes an exclusive lock on its DB file; `--db` and `--socket` override the defaults.
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## Development
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- **Test-driven.** Every feature has tests at the appropriate layer(s) — unit, property tests, real-socket daemon integration, and CLI process tests. No feature is "done" without them.
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- **Change process.** Changes are classified **C0 / C1 / C2** (quick fix / human-review PR / Mikado chain). The v1 prototype is a single long-lived **C1**. See [docs/how-to/agent-change-process.md](docs/how-to/agent-change-process.md).
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- **Git hooks & tooling.** [prek](https://github.com/dustinblackman/prek) runs formatting, linting, and secret detection; [mise](https://mise.jdx.dev/) runs repo automation; CI (Forgejo) runs `prek` plus `cargo fmt`/`clippy`/`test` via `.forgejo/scripts/build`.
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```bash
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prek install && prek install --hook-type commit-msg # set up hooks
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prek run --all-files # run all checks
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mise tasks # list automation tasks
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mise run ai-docs # docs AI agents read first
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```
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- **Documentation** is [Diataxis](https://diataxis.fr/)-structured and built with [Quartz](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/); changelog fragments use [Towncrier](https://towncrier.readthedocs.io/) under `docs/changelog.d/`. Working agents should read **[AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md)** first.
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## Repository layout
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./Cargo.toml # workspace manifest
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./crates/heph-core/ # core library: model, store, extraction, recurrence, ranking, sync
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./crates/hephd/ # daemon: local/server/client modes — unix-socket RPC + HTTP sync/rpc
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./crates/heph/ # CLI: thin client of the daemon
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./heph.nvim/ # Neovim plugin (primary surface) — Lua, headless e2e harness
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./docs/ # Diataxis docs (design, tech-spec, how-to), Quartz config
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./.forgejo/ # CI build + release workflows and hooks
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./.dagger/ # Dagger module backing docs builds/releases
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./mise-tasks/ # repo automation via `mise run`
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```
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## License
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All rights reserved. This is a personal, private project — not licensed for use, copying, modification, or distribution. Open-sourcing may be considered in the future. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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