go run ./cmd/seed -confirm-dev -profile alpha fills an empty database with the plan's dataset: 100 users (1/2/5/92 across the four roles), 12 channels (10 text + 2 voice; 3 role-override, 2 user-override, 1 archived), 20,000 messages over 30 simulated days on a diurnal curve (exactly 15% in DMs across 40 pairs), 300 attachment rows (60/10/10/20%, 10KB-5MB), 500 reactions, 30 invites (10 revoked), one disabled plugin row. Deterministic by construction — fixed seed, fixed clock, constant bcrypt hash, explicit ids and timestamps, VACUUM INTO as the canonical bytes — and TestAlphaProfileByteIdentical holds the property (two full runs compared byte for byte; a schema_versions wall-clock leak was the one leak found, now pinned by the scrub). Two constants deliberately leave no rows and say why in the package comment: voice sessions are LiveKit-ephemeral, and the replay log is empty exactly as on a server restarted for an upgrade. The committed snapshot (3.2MB, under the 5MB LFS line) is the scrubbed VACUUM of that profile at the alpha.4 migration set - the schema has not moved since the tag, so it is a true alpha.4 artifact. scrub.sql beside it also anonymises a real donated database. db/alpha_snapshot_test.go is the standing canary: provenance (31 applied migrations), HEAD migrations apply cleanly, and every promised row count checks out, FTS included. Consumers (B4 HP-4, B6 upgrade rehearsal, B10 in-place upgrade) are named in the snapshot README and docs/deployment.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01B8dwVLEihnGZYtH9X631F4
Documentation index
Every document in docs/ is listed here. If it is not on this page it is not
current guidance.
Docs fall into four kinds, and the difference matters when you are deciding whether to trust one: guidance tells you how to do something, reference describes a contract the code actually implements, audits are dated snapshots that were true when written and were never updated, and plans record intent. Read an audit as history, not as status.
Start here
| I want to… | Read |
|---|---|
| Run a server | quick-start.md |
| Deploy for real | deployment.md |
| Contribute a change | contributing.md |
| Understand the system | architecture/ |
| Report a bug | Issues |
| Ask, or suggest an idea | Discussions |
| Report a vulnerability | security.md |
| Know who can read what | trust-model.md |
Guidance
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| quick-start.md | Getting a server running with the fewest steps. |
| deployment.md | Production deployment on Windows and Linux. |
| contributing.md | Environment setup, the branch and PR model, coding standards, how to run the checks CI runs. |
| security.md | How to report a vulnerability, and how findings are handled in public vs private. |
| trust-model.md | Who can read what: operator-readable text and files, E2EE media, transport, at rest, what beta does not claim. |
| livekit-setup.md | Standing up the LiveKit SFU for voice and video. |
| port-forwarding.md | Making a server reachable from outside the LAN. |
| tailscale.md | Remote access without port forwarding. |
| mcp-introspect.md | Dev-only MCP server for introspecting a running instance. |
Reference
These describe contracts the code implements. If one disagrees with the code, the code is right and the document is a bug.
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| api.md | REST API under /api/v1. |
| protocol.md | WebSocket protocol — frames, sequencing, reconnect. |
| schema.md | SQLite schema and migrations. |
| server-configuration.md | Every server configuration option. |
| credential-storage.md | What the desktop client persists, and where. |
| ../protocol/schema.json | Generated-code source of truth, at the repository root because it is owned by neither side. Server/ws/message_types.go and Client/src/lib/protocolTypes.ts are generated from it — never hand-edit either. See ../protocol/README.md. |
Architecture
architecture/README.md indexes the blueprints and carries the maintenance rule: each blueprint names its source-of-truth files, and a PR touching those updates the blueprint in the same change.
- system-overview.md, server.md, client.md
- data-model.md, websocket.md, voice-e2ee.md
- ux/ — target-state UX spec, per-view states and event→reaction maps
- platform-contracts.md — target-state desktop/browser seam: what has to move behind a contract before the client can run in a browser (B7)
- plugins.md — the experimental WASM plugin boundary: off by default, compiled out of releases, no API promise, what may become a plugin after beta and what never moves
client-architecture.md is a redirect stub; the live document is architecture/client.md.
Audits — dated, not maintained
Point-in-time snapshots. They are not updated as the code moves, and they are deliberately left alone when paths change, so links from commit messages keep resolving. Anything here may be stale; the ledger and the plan index carry current status.
| Audit | Scope |
|---|---|
| audit-2026-08-23-repository-layout.md | Repository layout and contributor experience (RL-01…RL-22). |
| audit-2026-08-23-repository-health.md | Full repository health. |
| audit-2026-08-19.md | Repo health. States "0 open findings" — untrue since; see the ledger. |
| audit-test-coverage-2026-08-19.md | Test audit (T-*, a separate register from the OC-* ledger). |
| audit-2026-08-04-docs-and-coverage.md | Documentation accuracy and UI/UX test coverage. |
| audit-2026-08-04.md | Security review. |
| audit-test-coverage-2026-07-25.md | Test-coverage audit. |
| audit-2026-07-19.md | Architecture and spec-conformance review. |
| audit-2026-04-07.md | First comprehensive audit. |
Plans
plans/README.md indexes every plan with a recorded state — active, partially implemented, design-only, or shipped — and is the authority over a plan's own header, which can drift.
Where status actually lives
Do not read a defect count, or a "what works" claim, out of a document on this page. Status has owners:
| Concern | Source of truth |
|---|---|
| Defect status | .superpowers/findings-ledger.json (FINDINGS.md is rendered from it) |
| Security-sensitive defects | Private GitHub Security Advisories |
| Phase order and gates | plans/repo-health-roadmap-2026-08-23.md |
| Current measured baseline | plans/b0-baseline-2026-08-25.md |
| Generated-code contracts | CLAUDE.md, "Generated code — never hand-edit" |
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