indifferentketchup a0c8d212cb v1.13.8: system-prompt prefix stability verify-and-measure
Recon during planning disproved the original v1.13.7 (DB-cache) premise:
buildSystemPrompt already runs over inputs mtime-cached at the file layer
(BOOCHAT.md in system-prompt.ts:25, AGENTS.md global+per-project in
agents.ts:245), and DB scalars are byte-stable until edited. The output
is microsecond pure-string concat with no I/O. Skills aren't in the
prefix; tools live in a separate request body field alpha-sorted by
v1.13.3.

This batch closes the verification gap with instrumentation, not
implementation:

- system-prompt.ts: buildSystemPromptWithFingerprint canonical impl
  computes SHA-256 over the assembled prefix, runs a per-session
  Map<sessionId, lastHash> observer, emits PrefixFingerprint per call
  and PrefixDrift (with field-level changed_inputs) on hash change.
  buildSystemPrompt is now a thin shim returning .prompt.
- agents.ts: getAgentsMtimes accessor — cache-read only, no I/O.
- payload.ts: buildMessagesPayload takes optional log argument; when
  passed, emits prefix-fingerprint (info) + prefix-drift (warn).
- turn.ts + sentinel-summaries.ts: pass ctx.log at 3 production call
  sites; sentinel summaries log too so any drift across cap-hit /
  doom-loop paths surfaces.
- system-prompt.test.ts: 4 new tests (byte-identical, no-drift-on-
  stable, drift-fires-with-changed-inputs, cross-session-no-drift).

194/194 tests pass (was 190).

Smoke: 5 messages in a fresh session produced 7 prefix-fingerprint
logs (extras from buildMessagesPayload being called from sentinel
summary paths), all with identical prefix_hash and prefix_length=2907,
zero prefix-drift. Prefix is byte-stable in steady-state.

Decision: original system_prompt_cache DB table from the roadmap is
permanently dropped. The v1.12.0 mtime caches at the input layer plus
alpha tool ordering at the request body (v1.13.3) already address the
load-bearing cache-stability surfaces. Instrumentation stays so the
claim can be re-verified at any time.
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boocode

Self-hosted single-user developer chat app. v1: chat only.

Stack

  • Node 20, Fastify, postgres (porsager/postgres), ws, zod
  • React 18, Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui
  • Postgres 16
  • pnpm workspaces

Layout

  • apps/server — Fastify API + WebSocket + inference loop + file-read tools
  • apps/web — React frontend; served by Fastify in production, Vite in dev

Local dev

Requires Node 20, pnpm, Docker (for Postgres), and ripgrep.

# install
pnpm install

# bring up postgres only
cp .env.example .env
# edit POSTGRES_PASSWORD if you like; default DATABASE_URL points at the container
docker compose up -d boocode_db

# run server (port 3000) and web (port 5173) in two shells
DATABASE_URL=postgres://boocode:devpass@127.0.0.1:5500/boocode \
LLAMA_SWAP_URL=http://100.101.41.16:8401 \
pnpm dev:server

pnpm dev:web

The Vite dev server proxies /api and /api/ws/* to the Fastify backend with a synthetic Remote-User: sam header so the Authelia auth layer can be skipped during development.

Production

cd /opt/boocode
docker compose up --build -d

Binds to 100.114.205.53:9500 (Tailscale). Authelia is expected to gate the upstream and inject Remote-User. Postgres binds loopback only.

What v1 has

Project sidebar, sessions per project, chat with streaming responses over WebSocket, four file-read tools scoped to the project root (view_file, list_dir, grep, find_files), and a model picker driven by llama-swap's /v1/models.

What v1 does not have lives in v2 (terminal pane) and v3 (Coder pane).

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