Compare commits
5
Commits
| Author | SHA1 | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
16ce17ad2a | ||
|
|
835d1abb97 | ||
|
|
067bc28b97 | ||
|
|
7372e241b4 | ||
|
|
10e4657f01 |
+17
-12
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Living doc. Working priorities and open threads, organized by area. Not a spec
|
||||
specs live in `docs/` and `docs/superpowers/specs/`; this is the map of what's
|
||||
done, what's next, and what's parked.
|
||||
|
||||
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-11
|
||||
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
|
||||
- **Frame (the load-bearing lens):** Lyra is the AI-with-tools (unchanged). The
|
||||
**pokerlog is its own separable system-of-record** — she's a *client* of it via
|
||||
tools, not its container. The logger must be correct/trustworthy first; Lyra's
|
||||
@@ -123,20 +123,25 @@ in-process module sharing `lyra.db` and reaching into `lyra.memory`/`llm`.
|
||||
|
||||
## Parked / longer-horizon
|
||||
|
||||
### Parked feature branches (real, half-built work — to explore later)
|
||||
### Parked features (archived as git tags — real, half-built work to explore later)
|
||||
|
||||
Both are pushed to origin (gitea), so they're safe to leave dormant. Not cruft —
|
||||
resume when the moment's right; don't delete.
|
||||
Archived 2026-08-31 as **git tags** (frozen at their last commit, pushed to
|
||||
origin + github so they're safe). The branch sprawl is gone; the work isn't.
|
||||
Resume any with `git switch -c <branch> <tag>`. Not cruft — pick back up when
|
||||
the moment's right.
|
||||
|
||||
- ⏸ **`feat/hand-recorder`** — tap-to-build hand recorder V1 (`recorder.js/css`,
|
||||
`POST /hands`, straddle support, notch/safe-area fixes). 8 commits. Shelved
|
||||
because V1 was too tedious vs. narrating a hand in chat, so it was superseded by
|
||||
the chat-narration `record_hand` flow. Still want to revisit the *idea* (a fast
|
||||
structured recorder), just not that UI. See `docs/RECORDER.md` on the branch.
|
||||
- ⏸ **`feat/decision-log`** — data layer for a **"Decide mode"** (a learning layer:
|
||||
log your decisions to learn from them). 1 commit, never merged; adds
|
||||
- ⏸ **`archive/hand-recorder`** (was `feat/hand-recorder`, 8 commits) — tap-to-build
|
||||
hand recorder V1 (`recorder.js/css`, `POST /hands`, straddle support,
|
||||
notch/safe-area fixes). Shelved because V1 was too tedious vs. narrating a hand
|
||||
in chat, so it was superseded by the chat-narration `record_hand` flow (now in
|
||||
main). Still want to revisit the *idea* (a fast structured recorder), just not
|
||||
that UI. `docs/RECORDER.md` lives on the tag.
|
||||
Resume: `git switch -c feat/hand-recorder archive/hand-recorder`.
|
||||
- ⏸ **`archive/decision-log`** (was `feat/decision-log`, 1 commit) — data layer for a
|
||||
**"Decide mode"** (a learning layer: log your decisions to learn from them). Adds
|
||||
`docs/DECISION_LOG.md` + `tests/test_decisions.py`. A genuine future feature, not
|
||||
abandoned. See `docs/DECISION_LOG.md` on the branch.
|
||||
abandoned.
|
||||
Resume: `git switch -c feat/decision-log archive/decision-log`.
|
||||
- Retired 2026-07-10: `feat/thought-loop` (fully shipped — `lyra/thoughts.py` is
|
||||
live), `feat/prompting` + `feat/poker-mode-prompts` (renamed → `feat/poker`).
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -1,501 +0,0 @@
|
||||
# Project cadence — BIT observes, Lyra picks
|
||||
|
||||
- **Date:** 2026-09-02
|
||||
- **Status:** Spec — approved to build
|
||||
- **Branch:** `feat/project-cadence`
|
||||
- **Two repos, both worked on:** `~/break-it-down` (BIT) — Part A; `project-lyra` — Part B
|
||||
- **Related:** `lyra/thoughts.py` (surfacing machinery), `docs/ROADMAP.md`
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## The problem
|
||||
|
||||
Brian's long-horizon projects — the garage, the music backup, the side repos —
|
||||
have no due date and no end state. The failure isn't laziness or tracking; it's
|
||||
**initiation**, driven by a specific loop:
|
||||
|
||||
> "If I can't do it perfectly, why do it at all." → "I'll start tomorrow." → nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
Three things feed that loop, and all three are fixable.
|
||||
|
||||
### 1. The record is false, in the direction of despair
|
||||
|
||||
BIT records every project as last-updated **2026-03-21**. Meanwhile `project-lyra`
|
||||
alone has **177 commits across 30 distinct working days** since that date, most
|
||||
recently two days ago.
|
||||
|
||||
BIT isn't recording a dead project. It's blind to a very alive one.
|
||||
|
||||
This matters more than any feature. A manual tracker doesn't decay to *neutral*
|
||||
when you stop feeding it — it decays to **actively demoralizing**, because absence
|
||||
of records is indistinguishable from absence of work. Open BIT today and it shows
|
||||
a graveyard with March on the headstone. That is "why bother" fuel, manufactured
|
||||
by the tool built to fight it.
|
||||
|
||||
### 2. Nothing initiates
|
||||
|
||||
BIT is a passive store. Using it requires remembering to go to it — which is the
|
||||
same broken step as remembering to start a pomodoro timer. (Note: a pomodoro
|
||||
timer *was* built, in February, and has sat on an undeployed branch since. The
|
||||
timer was never the missing piece.)
|
||||
|
||||
### 3. `/actionable` enumerates but does not pick
|
||||
|
||||
BIT already has a "⚡ Now — what can I do right now?" view. Today it returns
|
||||
**68 tasks**. That is another wall — the exact wall it was built to knock down.
|
||||
|
||||
Picking requires context BIT structurally cannot have: what time it is, how long
|
||||
Brian has, what he was warm on yesterday, what's gone stale, whether he's at the
|
||||
desk or on his phone.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## The frame
|
||||
|
||||
Mirrors the frame already committed to for the pokerlog:
|
||||
|
||||
> **BIT is the system of record. Lyra is a client of it, not its container.**
|
||||
|
||||
**The test that decides where any piece of work goes:**
|
||||
|
||||
> **Does it produce or derive facts? → BIT. Does it require knowing Brian? → Lyra.**
|
||||
|
||||
| | Owns | Rationale |
|
||||
|---|---|---|
|
||||
| **BIT** | Facts and everything derived from them: projects, tasks, blockers, estimates, **time logs**, **the git observer**, **cadence health** | Standalone value. Human-editable UI. Works with Lyra dead — and the observer is what keeps that true. |
|
||||
| **Lyra** | The relationship: **the pick**, nudge state, backoff, conversational logging, decomposition offers | Every one of these needs to know it's 9pm, that he has 20 minutes, that he was warm on seismo-relay yesterday. |
|
||||
|
||||
An earlier draft of this spec put the git observer and cadence math in Lyra. That
|
||||
was wrong and violated the frame above: **the observer produces facts and knows
|
||||
nothing about Brian.** Worse, it would have made BIT's data true only while Lyra
|
||||
was running — reintroducing exactly the coupling the separable frame exists to
|
||||
prevent. Auto-logging and cadence health also make BIT meaningfully better as a
|
||||
standalone product, which is the justification for keeping it separable at all.
|
||||
|
||||
Same distinction as poker's *ledger* (facts) vs *relationship* (her memory of the
|
||||
sessions).
|
||||
|
||||
**One sentence:** BIT knows what's possible. Lyra picks one, and knows why.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Design principles
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Sessions, not completion.** The unit of progress is a logged session, never
|
||||
a completion percentage. A % bar on an endless project reads 12% forever and
|
||||
is a "why bother" generator. BIT's own v0.2.0 roadmap lists "Progress tracking
|
||||
(% complete)" — **keep it off long-horizon projects.**
|
||||
2. **Cadence health, not deadlines.** A project is `on_cadence`, `drifting`, or
|
||||
`dormant`. **Dormant is a legal, non-shameful state**, not a failure.
|
||||
3. **Observe, don't ask.** The record must become true without Brian maintaining
|
||||
it. This is the highest-value thing in the whole design.
|
||||
4. **No model call in the read/write path.** Reading projects, logging a session,
|
||||
marking dormant — pure HTTP and SQL, working with the MI50 down and every API
|
||||
key expired. The LLM appears **only** in the nudging and picking paths, which
|
||||
are allowed to be flaky because a missed nudge costs nothing.
|
||||
5. **Push has a budget; ignoring changes state.** Habituation is automatic and
|
||||
cannot be willpowered. The anti-stacking mechanism is scarcity, not
|
||||
notification priority flags. Two ignored nudges puts a project to sleep and
|
||||
she stops asking.
|
||||
6. **Additive-only to BIT's schema.** (Moot with a fresh DB, but keep the
|
||||
discipline: SQLAlchemy `create_all()` adds missing tables safely; altering
|
||||
existing ones is where data dies.)
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## What already exists — do not rebuild
|
||||
|
||||
Substantially more than expected. Verified against the running instance at
|
||||
`10.0.0.40:3002` and the cloned repo at `~/break-it-down`.
|
||||
|
||||
### On BIT `origin/dev` (commit `2ee75f7`, Feb 2026) — built, never deployed
|
||||
|
||||
```python
|
||||
class TimeLog(Base):
|
||||
__tablename__ = "time_logs"
|
||||
task_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("tasks.id"), nullable=False)
|
||||
minutes = Column(Integer, nullable=False)
|
||||
note = Column(Text, nullable=True)
|
||||
session_type = Column(String(50), default="manual") # 'pomodoro' | 'manual'
|
||||
logged_at = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.utcnow)
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
- `Project.weekly_hours_goal` and `Project.total_hours_goal` — cadence targets,
|
||||
already modeled. **Trap: both are named `*_hours_goal` but the source comment
|
||||
says they store MINUTES.** Do not multiply by 60.
|
||||
- `POST /api/tasks/{id}/time-logs`, `GET /api/tasks/{id}/time-logs`
|
||||
- `GET /api/projects/{id}/time-summary` — the accumulation-evidence endpoint
|
||||
- `migrate_add_time_logs.py`, `migrate_add_project_goals.py` — idempotent
|
||||
`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS` migrations, hand-written
|
||||
- `PomodoroWidget.jsx`, `PomodoroContext.jsx` — a working timer UI
|
||||
|
||||
`session_type` is a free-text `String(50)`, so adding `'git'` is **not** a schema
|
||||
change.
|
||||
|
||||
### On BIT `origin/blockers` (commit `5da6e07`, Mar 2026) — this is what's deployed
|
||||
|
||||
- `task_blockers` many-to-many association table; `Task.blockers` / `Task.blocking`
|
||||
- `GET|POST|DELETE /api/tasks/{id}/blockers[/{id}]`
|
||||
- `GET /api/actionable` — unblocked, not-done leaf tasks across all projects
|
||||
- `is_archived` on Project, Active/Archived/All tabs
|
||||
|
||||
### Branch divergence
|
||||
|
||||
Three commits total: **2 on dev** (pomodoro + a chore), **1 on blockers**. Neither
|
||||
branch has both halves. `main` (Feb 17) has neither.
|
||||
|
||||
### Already in Lyra
|
||||
|
||||
- `lyra/thoughts.py` — a threaded, decaying, self-surfacing, backs-off-when-ignored
|
||||
nag engine with quiet hours and a push channel. `new_thread:210`, `decay:265`,
|
||||
`record_response:292`, `maybe_surface:326`, `maybe_ping:377`,
|
||||
`maybe_daily_digest:429`.
|
||||
- `lyra/notify.py` — ntfy push with tap-through
|
||||
- `lyra/clock.py:56` — `humanize_gap` ("3 days")
|
||||
- `lyra/tools.py` — tool spec + dispatch pattern
|
||||
- `lyra/mind.py:168` — `build_messages`, where context notes get injected
|
||||
- `lyra/web/` on `:7078` — RTO black/orange theme, matching BIT's existing look
|
||||
|
||||
### API facts verified against the running instance
|
||||
|
||||
- API is served at **`:3002/api/*` through nginx**. Port 8002 is not exposed.
|
||||
- `GET /api/projects/{id}/tree` **404s** on the deployed branch. Use
|
||||
`GET /api/projects/{id}/tasks`.
|
||||
- The README is stale in both directions: it claims v0.1.6 while the deploy
|
||||
reports v0.1.5, it documents `/tree` which doesn't exist, and it omits
|
||||
blockers, `/actionable`, and `is_archived` — listing blockers as "v0.2.0
|
||||
planned" when they're live. **Treat the code as truth, never the README.**
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Architecture
|
||||
|
||||
```
|
||||
┌────────────────────────┐
|
||||
│ git repos on host │
|
||||
│ (7 of 8 BIT projects) │
|
||||
└───────────┬────────────┘
|
||||
│ git_observer.py — BIT's code, runs on the HOST
|
||||
│ walk history, group by local day, no LLM
|
||||
▼ POST /api/tasks/{id}/time-logs
|
||||
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
|
||||
│ BIT — facts, and everything derived from them │
|
||||
│ projects · tasks · blockers · estimates │
|
||||
│ time_logs · goals · git_sessions │
|
||||
│ GET /api/actionable │
|
||||
│ GET /api/projects/health (cadence, new) │
|
||||
│ cadence health rendered on the project cards │
|
||||
└────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┘
|
||||
│ HTTP
|
||||
▼
|
||||
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
|
||||
│ lyra/bit.py — thin client. No cadence math here. │
|
||||
└────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┘
|
||||
┌───────────┴───────────┐
|
||||
▼ ▼
|
||||
lyra/tools.py lyra/projects.py
|
||||
log_work, pick_next, nudge state, ignore counts,
|
||||
break_down, status backoff, quiet hours
|
||||
▲ │
|
||||
│ ▼
|
||||
chat: "spent an hour thoughts.py surfacing
|
||||
in the garage" (salience → surface →
|
||||
ping → response)
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
**Data flow, one line:** git and chat write facts into BIT; BIT derives cadence;
|
||||
Lyra reads BIT and decides whether, when, and how to open her mouth.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Part A — work in `~/break-it-down` (BIT)
|
||||
|
||||
Everything here is deterministic. **No LLM appears anywhere in Part A.** All of it
|
||||
makes BIT better as a standalone product, independently of Lyra.
|
||||
|
||||
## A0 — consolidation and deploy
|
||||
|
||||
There is no production data. The 8 projects / 77 tasks on `10.0.0.40` were test
|
||||
builds; a snapshot lives at `~/bit-seed-snapshot/` if any of it is worth reseeding
|
||||
through the existing JSON import.
|
||||
|
||||
1. Merge `origin/dev` and `origin/blockers` into a single branch. Three commits;
|
||||
the backend touch points barely overlap (`models.py` gains `TimeLog` from one
|
||||
and `task_blockers` from the other).
|
||||
2. Deploy BIT **on this machine** via its existing `docker-compose.yml`. Pick
|
||||
ports that don't collide with `lyra-web` (`:7078`) or `lyra-ntfy`.
|
||||
3. Fresh `bit.db` — `create_all()` builds the full schema. The migration scripts
|
||||
become unnecessary but stay in the repo for the old instance.
|
||||
4. Verify post-merge: `/api/actionable`, `/api/tasks/{id}/time-logs`,
|
||||
`/api/projects/{id}/time-summary`, and the Pomodoro widget all respond.
|
||||
5. Create the real projects. `Clean up march 26` becomes actual physical projects
|
||||
(garage, music backup, spare closet).
|
||||
|
||||
**Exit criteria:** one BIT instance on this box serving blockers *and* time logs.
|
||||
|
||||
## A1 — the git observer
|
||||
|
||||
Ships **with BIT**, in BIT's repo. Deterministic Python, no model, no knowledge of
|
||||
Brian — it produces facts, which is why it lives here.
|
||||
|
||||
**Deployment note:** BIT stays in Docker. The observer ships in BIT's repo but
|
||||
runs **on the host** (systemd timer preferred over cron — better logging and
|
||||
`systemctl status`), POSTing to BIT's API like any other client.
|
||||
|
||||
This is not a workaround for Docker; it is correct regardless:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **It's a batch job, not a request handler.** It runs on a schedule and exits.
|
||||
That doesn't belong in a web container's lifecycle either way.
|
||||
2. **Volume-mounting repos would rot.** Every new project would require editing
|
||||
`docker-compose.yml` — exactly the kind of manual upkeep step that goes stale,
|
||||
which is the failure mode this whole project exists to fix. A path in a config
|
||||
table costs nothing.
|
||||
3. **HTTP decouples it usefully.** The observer can later run on a different
|
||||
machine entirely (the Windows box, for repos that live there) with no code
|
||||
changes. Putting it inside the container throws that away.
|
||||
|
||||
Requires `git` and Python on the host, both already present.
|
||||
|
||||
### Config
|
||||
|
||||
A repo↔project mapping: local repo path → BIT project id. Stored in BIT (a small
|
||||
`observed_repos` table with a settings UI later, or config file for v1). Explicit,
|
||||
never auto-discovered — auto-discovery would guess wrong and pollute the ledger.
|
||||
|
||||
### Session derivation
|
||||
|
||||
For each repo, group commits **by local calendar day** in Brian's timezone, not
|
||||
UTC — an 11pm commit belongs to that evening.
|
||||
|
||||
For each day with commits:
|
||||
|
||||
- `minutes = (last_commit_ts - first_commit_ts) + LEAD_PADDING`
|
||||
- `LEAD_PADDING = 10` — work precedes the first commit
|
||||
- `MIN_MINUTES = 15` — a single-commit day would otherwise be 0
|
||||
- `MAX_MINUTES = 240` — a 9am and an 11pm commit is not a 14-hour session
|
||||
|
||||
These are heuristics. They must be **config, not constants**, and documented as
|
||||
estimates in both the spec and the code.
|
||||
|
||||
- `session_type = "git"` — never `manual` or `pomodoro`. Estimated time must never
|
||||
masquerade as measured time. The field is a free-text `String(50)`, so this is
|
||||
**not a schema change**.
|
||||
- `note` = commit count and short SHA range, for traceability.
|
||||
|
||||
### Attribution
|
||||
|
||||
`time_logs.task_id` is `NOT NULL`, but a commit maps to a *repo* (project), not a
|
||||
task. Two deterministic tiers:
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Conventional-commit scope match.** `feat(persona): …` → match `persona`
|
||||
against task titles and tags in that project, case-insensitive substring.
|
||||
Plain string matching, no model.
|
||||
2. **Fallback:** a per-project `Unfiled work` task, created on demand.
|
||||
|
||||
Attribution is a nice-to-have; **the totals are the point**. It must never block or
|
||||
fail a backfill. LLM-assisted attribution is explicitly deferred (see Non-goals).
|
||||
|
||||
### Idempotency — the critical correctness property
|
||||
|
||||
The observer runs repeatedly and must never double-log.
|
||||
|
||||
A `git_sessions` table in BIT: `(repo_path, local_date)` unique → `time_log_id`,
|
||||
`last_sha`. A day is logged only if that key is absent. Idempotent by construction.
|
||||
A re-run over a day that gained new commits **updates** the existing time log
|
||||
rather than adding a second one.
|
||||
|
||||
### Backfill
|
||||
|
||||
One-shot run over history since 2026-03-21 (or repo start). `project-lyra` alone
|
||||
should produce ~30 sessions. **This is the emotional payload of the entire
|
||||
project** — the first time BIT is opened afterwards it says "30 days worked since
|
||||
March" instead of showing a tombstone.
|
||||
|
||||
**Exit criteria:** BIT shows true history for every configured repo; re-running the
|
||||
observer changes nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
## A2 — cadence health
|
||||
|
||||
Derived from `time_logs` + `Project.weekly_hours_goal`, both of which are BIT's.
|
||||
No knowledge of Brian required, so it belongs here rather than in Lyra.
|
||||
|
||||
### States
|
||||
|
||||
- `on_cadence` — trailing-7-day minutes ≥ `weekly_hours_goal`
|
||||
- `drifting` — some activity in the window, below goal
|
||||
- `dormant` — no session in `DORMANT_AFTER_DAYS` (default 30), or set explicitly
|
||||
- `untracked` — no goal set; fall back to days-since-last-session alone
|
||||
|
||||
`weekly_hours_goal` is nullable, so `untracked` is the common initial state and
|
||||
must render sensibly.
|
||||
|
||||
**Trap:** `weekly_hours_goal` and `total_hours_goal` are named *hours* but the
|
||||
source comment says they store **minutes**. Do not multiply by 60.
|
||||
|
||||
### Surface it
|
||||
|
||||
- `GET /api/projects/health` — cadence state and accumulated time per project
|
||||
- **Render it on the project cards.** They currently show `Created 3/20/2026` and
|
||||
nothing about activity, which is precisely how the graveyard effect happens.
|
||||
Last-touched plus cadence state plus total logged time turns that wall of dead
|
||||
cards into a readable status board — and this is the payoff of A1 becoming
|
||||
visible to a human without Lyra involved at all.
|
||||
|
||||
**Exit criteria:** opening BIT shows, at a glance, which projects are alive.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
# Part B — work in `project-lyra`
|
||||
|
||||
Everything here needs to know something about Brian. This is where the LLM lives,
|
||||
and it is allowed to be flaky, because a missed nudge costs nothing.
|
||||
|
||||
## B1 — client and tools
|
||||
|
||||
- `lyra/bit.py` — thin HTTP client over BIT's API. **No cadence math**; BIT already
|
||||
computed it. Degrades to a clear "BIT is down" message, never a stack trace into
|
||||
her context and never a fabricated answer about project state.
|
||||
- `lyra/tools.py` additions, following the existing spec + dispatch pattern:
|
||||
- `projects_overview()` — every project with cadence health and logged time
|
||||
- `project_status(name)` — detail, recent sessions, what's actionable
|
||||
- `log_work(project, task, minutes, note)` — **conversational session logging**
|
||||
- `pick_next(minutes_available)` — see B2
|
||||
- `break_down(task_id)` — generate a subtask tree, push it through BIT's
|
||||
existing JSON import
|
||||
- `set_goal(project, weekly_hours)`, `set_dormant(project)`, `wake(project)`
|
||||
|
||||
**Conversational logging is how non-code projects get tracked in v1.** The git
|
||||
observer does nothing for the garage or the music collection; "I spent an hour in
|
||||
the garage" → `log_work` → a real `time_logs` row. Zero new infrastructure.
|
||||
Automated observation of physical work is deferred past v1 (see Non-goals).
|
||||
|
||||
## B2 — the pick
|
||||
|
||||
The one place an LLM is genuinely required. Input: `/api/actionable`, minutes
|
||||
available, recent sessions, cadence health, time of day. Output: **one task and one
|
||||
sentence of why.** Not a list — a list is what BIT already does badly, at 68 items.
|
||||
|
||||
### The decomposition trigger
|
||||
|
||||
Live data shows tasks like "Multi-user authentication — est 480" and "Historical
|
||||
data tracking — 360". **You cannot start an eight-hour task**, and these sit in
|
||||
`/actionable` forever radiating "why bother."
|
||||
|
||||
Rule: `estimated_minutes > DECOMPOSE_THRESHOLD` (default 60) means decomposition
|
||||
hasn't happened yet. When the best candidates are all oversized, Lyra offers to
|
||||
break one down instead of proposing it — closing the anti-perfectionism loop
|
||||
through `break_down`, using the JSON import that already exists for exactly this.
|
||||
|
||||
## B3 — surfacing
|
||||
|
||||
Reuse `thoughts.py` machinery; **do not put projects in the `threads` table.** A
|
||||
thought is her interiority; a project is a fact about Brian's life. Conflating them
|
||||
pollutes both — her dream cycle would generate the garage as a thought, and the
|
||||
garage would appear in her self-narrative. Separate storage, shared
|
||||
salience → surface → ping → response loop.
|
||||
|
||||
Lyra owns a small table keyed by BIT project id holding **nudge state only**: last
|
||||
surfaced, ignore count, snooze, salience. Cadence itself is read from BIT, never
|
||||
recomputed here.
|
||||
|
||||
**Channel priority:**
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Conversation (default).** Next time Brian's talking to her anyway, she raises
|
||||
it: *"the music backup's been sitting three weeks — dead, or just asleep?"* Not
|
||||
a notification. A person asking. This is the unfair advantage no to-do app has.
|
||||
2. **Push (rare, budgeted).** Two legal uses only:
|
||||
- the **receipt** — "you've been in there 20 minutes, want me to count it?"
|
||||
(makes no demand, so there's nothing to blow off)
|
||||
- the **backoff** — "I've raised the garage twice and you didn't bite, so I'm
|
||||
putting it to sleep. Say the word and it wakes up."
|
||||
|
||||
No scheduled daily ping. A clock tick is the most habituation-prone trigger there
|
||||
is; she speaks when something is *true*.
|
||||
|
||||
**Ignoring changes state:** two ignored surfaces → dormant → she stops. Dormancy
|
||||
needs no BIT schema change — BIT already has per-project custom statuses.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Non-goals — explicitly parked
|
||||
|
||||
Named to hold the line, because "actually get this functional and helpful for my
|
||||
every day life" is the stated goal and feature creep is the named enemy.
|
||||
|
||||
- **The ambient card / desktop widget** — the right long-term interface, but a
|
||||
surface on top of a thing that has to work first.
|
||||
- **Generated wallpaper** — same.
|
||||
- **Windows active-window reporter** — the "backwards timer" for physical and
|
||||
non-git work. Deferred past v1. Note it needs no Pieces: ~30 lines reporting active
|
||||
window title covers "which project am I in."
|
||||
- **PiecesOS / MCP integration** — richer, but a cross-machine dependency
|
||||
(PiecesOS is local to the Windows box, Lyra is on the homelab) that must be
|
||||
spiked before anything rests on it. Never load-bearing on day one.
|
||||
- **Phone widget / home-screen surface** — depends on iOS vs Android, unresolved.
|
||||
- **Physical display on the rack** — unblocked (a spare monitor exists; drive it
|
||||
with a Pi or old laptop running a kiosk browser, **not** by installing Xorg on
|
||||
the Proxmox host). It's a browser pointed at a URL this design already produces,
|
||||
so it changes nothing and can be added any time. Put it on the desk, not the rack.
|
||||
- **Automatic blocker detection** — Brian's dependency-graph idea (paint → move
|
||||
furniture → closet access → clothes + desk). Manual blockers are already built
|
||||
and deployed; *auto-identifying* them is the parked part, and it's a natural
|
||||
Lyra job later. **This is the strongest answer to "where do I start" for physical
|
||||
projects** — worth un-parking once v1 is honest.
|
||||
- **Cross-device syncing sticky notes** — a separate product. The sticky's *form*
|
||||
(a small always-visible card) is worth having and needs no sync, because its
|
||||
content is generated server-side. The sync engine is the whole product, and
|
||||
Trilium already does it.
|
||||
- **`% complete` on long-horizon projects** — actively harmful. See principle 1.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Error handling
|
||||
|
||||
- **BIT unreachable:** every Lyra tool degrades to a clear "BIT is down" message.
|
||||
Never a stack trace into her context, never a fabricated answer about project
|
||||
state. Follows the `notify.py` precedent: a down dependency must not break the
|
||||
loop.
|
||||
- **Git observer failure on one repo:** log and continue. One bad repo must not
|
||||
abort a backfill.
|
||||
- **Duplicate protection:** the `git_sessions` unique key is the guard. A
|
||||
crashed mid-backfill run resumes cleanly.
|
||||
- **Clock skew / commits with future dates:** clamp to today; never create a
|
||||
session in the future.
|
||||
- **Attribution failure:** always falls back to `Unfiled work`. Never raises.
|
||||
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
## Testing
|
||||
|
||||
Split by repo, matching each one's existing conventions.
|
||||
|
||||
### In BIT (`pytest`, backend)
|
||||
|
||||
- **Git observer:** fixture repo built in a tmpdir with controlled commit
|
||||
timestamps. Assert day grouping across timezone boundaries, MIN/MAX/padding
|
||||
clamps, conventional-commit scope attribution, `Unfiled work` fallback, and —
|
||||
most importantly — **that a second run produces zero new time logs**.
|
||||
- **Cadence functions:** pure, table-driven. Boundary cases: no goal set, goal met
|
||||
exactly, dormancy threshold ±1 day, zero sessions ever, and the
|
||||
hours-named-but-minutes-valued goal fields.
|
||||
- **`/api/projects/health`:** shape and states against a seeded DB.
|
||||
|
||||
### In `project-lyra` (`pytest`, existing `tests/`)
|
||||
|
||||
- **`lyra/bit.py`:** against a stub server. Include a 404 case so a BIT API change
|
||||
can't silently break it, and assert graceful degradation when BIT is down.
|
||||
- **Nudge state:** ignore counts, backoff to dormant, quiet hours, push budget.
|
||||
Pure and deterministic — no model.
|
||||
- **The pick and the surfacing copy:** replay eval, parameterized by
|
||||
`EVAL_BACKEND`/`EVAL_MODEL`, matching the persona eval pattern. Assert it
|
||||
returns *one* task, and that it offers decomposition when candidates are
|
||||
oversized.
|
||||
|
||||
## Open questions
|
||||
|
||||
1. **Ports for BIT on this box.** `:3002/:8002` are free here; confirm at deploy.
|
||||
2. **Which of the 77 snapshotted tasks are worth reseeding**, versus starting the
|
||||
real projects clean. Brian's call during A0.
|
||||
3. **Whether `weekly_hours_goal` gets set per project at all in v1**, or whether
|
||||
`untracked` + days-since-last-session is enough to start. Leaning: ship without
|
||||
goals, add them once real session data shows what a realistic cadence is.
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user