The 2026-08-10 audit asked for three analyzers. V-682 wired the first as `make vuln`. The other two were still absent: neither was installed on the box and no target ran them, so every reachability claim in the audit stood unchecked. `make lint` runs staticcheck v0.7.0 and `make deadcode` runs deadcode v0.48.0. Both are pinned in the Makefile beside GO_VERSION and installed into deps/bin the way govulncheck is, because a tool is not a dependency of the module. Both carry the CGO env `test` carries, or the four CGO daemons fail to load and the analyzer reports a build error instead of a finding. `make analyze` runs all three. None joins `make test`: they install over the network and `test` has to pass on a box with no route out. Neither reports zero, so neither fails on its own output. staticcheck finds 20 and deadcode finds 13, and the audit asked for an allowlist by name, because three of deadcode's eleven production symbols are deliberate and an unannotated list invites deleting them. The accepted set lives in scripts/analyzers/*.baseline, one line per finding with the reason it stays, and scripts/analyzer-gate.sh gives the verdict. A key holds file, check id and message, never a line number: a line number goes stale on the next edit above it, and a gate that reports moved findings as new ones teaches the reader to skip it. An entry whose finding is gone also fails, so a fix that leaves its line behind does not pass. deadcode runs with -test, because a test is a caller. Without the flag the report is 172 lines, most of internal/router/eval, and none of it is a mistake. With it, the 11 symbols the audit listed come back exactly, plus two test helpers it did not count. Three staticcheck findings were checked and are false positives, recorded as such: the iCal determinism test must call RenderICal twice, the morning hedge loop breaks after the first rune on purpose, and the SA9009 line is prose about //go:embed with the real directive below it. One is V-687 already. The remaining 17 are V-701 with the judgement on each. The analyzers caveat is deleted rather than edited. What replaces it is the limit that is now true: the gates are green against a baseline, not against zero.
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CLAUDE.md
Guidance for Claude Code (claude.ai/code) working in this repository.
This is a rules file. It loads into every session, so it carries only what
changes what an agent does. A measurement belongs in docs/evals/, dated and
never edited after the day. A subsystem's reasoning belongs in its living doc
under docs/. Read that doc before changing the subsystem.
| Read this | Before |
|---|---|
docs/routing.md |
touching internal/router/ or queryWalk |
docs/deployment.md |
touching a daemon, compose, a systemd unit or the web UI |
docs/offload.md |
touching a daemon seam or adding a model caller |
docs/world.md |
touching search, Kiwix or the world chain |
docs/language.md |
changing a prompt contract or a Russian word list |
docs/ecosystem.md |
touching Nexus, Praxis or Hexis |
docs/rearchitecture.md, docs/design.md |
changing the shape of anything |
docs/workflow.md |
the five stores, the doc tiers, the guards |
docs/caveats/ |
a known limit, its task id and its revisit trigger |
docs/CLAUDE.md |
which tier a doc belongs in, and what each one holds |
AGENTS.md |
local preview, screenshots, model downloads |
What Maven is
A self-hosted, privacy-first voice assistant in Russian and English. Go daemons talk over unix sockets. One resident small model routes and phrases. whisper.cpp does speech-to-text and piper does text-to-speech.
The resident model is Qwen3-1.7B (UD-Q4_K_XL) on homesrv, a Thinking
variant at n_ctx 4096. Keep it at 1.7B or under. Sub-500M models are unusable
in Russian (docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md). Model files live in
/mnt/hdd1/llms, bind-mounted over the repo's models/llm/, so a gguf sitting
in the repo is loaded by nothing.
The workstation is workpc and it holds the remote model and speech-to-text. It is never assumed up. Fall back silently when it would only do the job better. Name the gap when the resident model cannot do the job at all.
The embedder stays on homesrv permanently, because it backs that floor.
EmbedQuery and EmbedPassage apply the query: and passage: prefixes
multilingual-e5-small was trained with. Calling plain Embed on a note is a bug.
Build and test
CGO daemons (mavend, mavsttd, mavttsd, mavenclient) need the vendored
toolchain wired through the Makefile. Do not call go build on them bare,
and do not hand-write the CGO preamble. This box runs zsh, so an unquoted
-run Test* dies on "no matches found" before go is reached. make t also
carries -count=1 and sets MAVEN_ONNX_LIB. Without that variable the four
TestONNX* measurements self-skip and the run still prints ok.
make build # all 11 binaries. make build-web for one (web/waked/poll/caldav skip CGO)
make test # go test -race across ./internal/... ./cmd/... with CGO env set
make t PKG=./internal/router/eval/ RUN='TestONNX' V=1 # V=1 for -v, RACE=0 to drop -race
make analyze # staticcheck, deadcode and govulncheck. Not in `test`: all three need the network
The static gates pass against a baseline, not against zero
(scripts/analyzers/*.baseline, reasoning in docs/workflow.md). A fix must
delete its baseline entry, because the gate also fails on an entry whose finding
is gone. make audit is a git-grep inventory, not analysis. Do not cite it
as a reachability check.
The daemons
Eleven binaries under cmd/, wired socket-to-socket over internal/ipc, not
linked. mavend is the core and owns the DB and the IPC socket.
deploy/mavend.json sets sockets, model paths and the phraser and embedder
blocks, with ${VAR} expansion from gitignored deploy/telegram.env.
docker-compose.yml runs five: mavend, mavsttd, mavttsd, mavweb,
mavpoll. Count against compose, not against make build. mavwaked runs on
workpc under systemd. docs/deployment.md says who else is absent and why.
- Passwords are read from files, never taken as flag values.
- The voice wire is plaintext with no auth. mavend's voice port stays on
homesrv loopback and reaches workpc over ssh. Do not LAN-bind it.
SurfaceVoicecaps acts at L0, and L0 does not cap reading. - A GPU service added beside mavgpud goes in
cmd/mavgpud, never in systemd. The card needs one owner. A second unit made mavgpud evict llama-server every few seconds and took the model arm down for eight minutes.
The ecosystem: Nexus, Praxis, Hexis
Nexus identifies, Praxis observes, Hexis acts, Maven understands. Maven does not
own identity, operational state, or execution. Full contract in
docs/ecosystem.md. All three are nil unless configured and each degrades
alone. An outage means a named gap, never a broken turn or a guess.
- No component reads another component's database. Praxis attention comes over HTTP, never from its SQLite file.
- Identity lives in Nexus. Do not invent a local fact key for something
Nexus resolves.
cmd/mavend/factenrichment.goresolvesactionFact.Subject. - Free text never reaches a mutating Hexis call. Resolve to a canonical entity id first. Ambiguous resolution asks the owner, it does not pick.
- LLM output is not authorization. Confirmation binds capability id, target
entity, arguments, requester and expiry (
cmd/mavend/confirm.go). - Praxis lifecycle words differ. Surfaced is not acknowledged, acknowledged
is not resolved, execution success is not recovery. Reading an item aloud
calls
Surface, neverAcknowledge. - No automatic attention-to-action path. Digestion may summarise Praxis and may not call Hexis.
- Every cross-service call carries a correlation id minted once per action
(
withCorrelationID), a contract version header, andX-Requested-By: maven.
Routing
Read docs/routing.md before touching internal/router/ or queryWalk. It
carries the reasoning, the measurements and every rule's why. A route produces
two decisions. Intent is one of seven values. Source is where the answer
lives and is read on IntentQuery alone. Score them separately. The cascade is
stage 0 grammars, then the routing heads, then the resident model, then the
classifier. Every stage may decline and the next one answers.
- The classifier is the floor, not dead code. It answers when the resident model is off, absent, or erroring. Any model error falls through.
baselineGrammarsineval_test.gomirrorsbuildRouter. A grammar added to one belongs in both, or the fixture scores a set nobody runs.- Go's
\bis ASCII-only and never fires after a Cyrillic letter. A Russian pattern needs an explicit(\s|[?!.]|$). PraxisGrammars()is the only path to Praxis, not a faster one.voice.embedder.heads_pathmust never point atmodel_path. Recall depends on the resident e5-small scoring what it scored. Fine-tune a copy.- Routing traces are retained 14 days, enforced on write and again on start.
- Bump
tokenizerRevon any change to whatencodeWordemits, so a tokenizer fix triggersReembedAllthe way swapping the model file does. - A new rung in the
runTurnladder needs its name inpreRouteLadder(cmd/mavend/decisiontrace.go), or it is missing from the decision record.
queryWalk takes query sources out and moves none (actions_query.go). That
is the safety argument and it is not negotiable. The table's order is
load-bearing and carries "the owner's data first, then the world".
SourceUnknown is the floor and walks the whole chain. A named destination
removes only the sources marked guesses: true, so a source that looks rather
than guesses is always asked. The personal boundary is the one exception and
it is deliberate. It guesses, so naming SourceWorld drops it. Only a stage
0 grammar may drop it (owner's call, V-666). queryWalk reads
Decision.SourceAnchored for the source marked boundary: true and no other.
Judge a routing change against the classifier (76.0% intent, 36.4% destination) and the resident model (80.2% intent), since those always answer. The fixture has grown from 77 cases to 96, so a number compares only to another number on the same fixture.
Language: model output and Russian
Both contracts are in docs/language.md. What must not be broken:
- One parser for model text,
parseResponseMoodininternal/phraser/parse.go. Every phrasing path reaches it. Mood is an enum. - The router prompt is a separate contract over 7 intents, and
llm/check_prompt_parity.pykeeps the Go and relabelling copies identical. - Russian words are matched by three mechanisms and no fourth:
internal/lexiconfor closed classes,internal/morphfor grammar, andcmd/mavend/topics.gowith the embedder for open sets. A regex whose output is a fact or a route is the defect. A regex over structured input is not. - Seeds are scoring data. Editing one moves a recogniser and must be
re-measured against the
TestONNX*tests, not eyeballed.
Non-goals and hard constraints
Not a nag, not autonomous.
The persona is feminine. Russian self-reference takes feminine forms: рада
not рад, поняла not понял. The owner is male and she speaks to him
informally. Use "ты", singular, never "вы" or "ваш", and never "он" or "его".
She talks TO the owner, not about him. Pet names such as "милый" are forbidden.
The name "Ками" is not. CheckAddress, CheckFeminine and CheckCringe in
internal/phraser/eval/checks.go enforce this, scored by make eval-phrasing.
"Never phones home" is deprecated (owner's call, 2026-07-31). She reads
external sources, and docs/world.md carries that chain. What holds regardless:
- No telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account. Inference stays on the box and nothing about Maven is reported to anyone.
- The owner's data first, then the world. Every source reading his facts, notes, calendar, tasks or house runs first, and the personal boundary sits between them and anything outside.
- His notes and facts are never search input. Only the utterance goes out, never the persona block, the history, or matched notes.
- External search is allowed and off unless configured. Deleting the
searchblock indeploy/mavend.jsonturns it off. Response.Empty()is the whole gate on a world answer. There is no quality threshold in front of it and four candidate signals all failed.
Session workflow
docs/workflow.md carries the five stores, the doc tiers and the guards. One
task, one session, one PR. /pickup opens a session and /wrap closes it. Wrap
at roughly half context rather than letting the session compact.
task start <vikunja-id> # branch off origin/master, write TASK.md, fetch review comments
task pr # push, open or refresh the PR, label Vikunja, notify
ToolSearch("select:mcp__vikunja__list_tasks,mcp__vikunja__get_task_details,mcp__vikunja__create_task,mcp__vikunja__update_task")
- This repo is Vikunja project Maven (ID 2), MCP at
http://localhost:9100/mcp, orhttp://192.168.1.104:9100/mcpfrom workpc. - A session with no task id asks for one before it starts, because work without one is work nobody can resume.
- Close a finished task with
done: trueand nothing else (owner's call, 2026-08-07).update_taskcarrying adescriptionresetsdoneto false. pre-commitrefuses master and more than 300 changed lines in non-markdown files. Markdown is exempt and may land as one batch.commit-msgrequires the subject to end with(V-<id>).V-and not#, because Gitea autolinks#123to the wrong tracker.diff-budget.shblocks edits past 600 changed lines on atask/branch.--no-verifyexists. Using it means saying why in the commit body.