* refactor(ws): split handleVoiceJoin into cohesive join-stage helpers handleVoiceJoin was 130 statements / cyclomatic 59 / nestif 11, breaking all three complexity budgets at once. Split along the stage boundaries the doc comment already described: precheck, leave-current, persist, restore moderator flags, grant token, complete. The publish-permission derivation becomes its own helper because it is the one branch-heavy block inside the token grant. Pure move: every statement is preserved verbatim. The only edits are bare `return`s becoming the typed returns of their new helper, `c.userID` becoming the `userID` parameter inside voiceJoinPublishPerms, and voiceJoinComplete re-reading `ch.VoiceMaxUsers` instead of receiving it — `ch` is never mutated, so the value is identical. Verified by normalising both revisions of the region to sorted, comment- and whitespace-stripped statements and diffing: the only deltas are the ones listed above. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: collapse the three duplicated sibling pairs dupl flagged three pairs of adjacent near-identical functions. Each pair is now one parameterised implementation plus two thin, still-greppable wrappers. - ws/voice_controls.go: handleVoiceMuteV2 / handleVoiceDeafenV2 share voiceSelfToggleV2; handleVoiceCameraV2 / handleVoiceScreenshareV2 share voiceStreamToggleV2. Camera and screenshare drawing from one voice_max_video budget (OC-0023) was a bug caused by exactly this duplication drifting, so one body is the point, not a side effect. - db/mention_queries.go: ListMentionTargetsByRoles / ListMentionTargetsByUserIDs share listMentionTargets. The matched column is a closed named type (mentionTargetColumn) rather than a bare string, so the value interpolated into the SELECT cannot become caller-supplied. Behaviour is unchanged: every rate-limit key, error code, error string, slog message and slog key is preserved verbatim, including the two "failed to update <kind> state" messages, which are now assembled the same way enableVideoSlot already assembled them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(api): extract readEmojiUpload from handleCreateEmoji handleCreateEmoji was 101 lines against a 100-line budget. The upload-bytes stage — pull the file out of the parsed form, cap its size, sniff its MIME type and sniff its dimensions — is the one self-contained block in it, and it already wrote its own refusals, so it moves out whole as readEmojiUpload. The permission-before-parse ordering the doc comment calls out is unchanged; so is every error string. file.Close() now runs when the helper returns rather than when the handler does, which is strictly earlier and unobservable: the bytes are already copied into raw and nothing else touches the handle. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: extract one cohesive block from three single-budget offenders Each of these was over exactly one budget, so each gets exactly one extraction rather than a restructure: - api/totp_handler.go handleVerifyTOTP (102 lines / 100): the block that resolves the user behind the partial-auth challenge and decrypts their TOTP secret becomes totpChallengeSecret. The ban-inside-the-partial-window check moves with it. - service/message_reactions.go handleReaction (cyclop 21 / 20): the whole authorisation chain — channel lookup, archived gate, DM participant and block checks, non-DM permission check — becomes reactionAudience, which also returns the DM fan-out audience it already resolved. Check order is unchanged and load-bearing. - db/admin_queries.go BackupToSafe (cyclop 21 / 20): the character allowlist loop and the SQL-comment rejection become validateBackupPathChars. That loop alone was most of the branch count. No error string, no check and no ordering changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(plugin): split InstallFromZip into staged install helpers 104 statements / cyclomatic 44 / nestif 12. Split along the stages the code already had: installZipExtract (the per-entry write loop, with installZipEntryDest holding the mode/symlink/zip-slip guard chain and installZipWriteEntry the size-capped copy), installZipStagedManifest, installZipPromote, and installZipReactivate for the :399 nested block. Every zip-slip, symlink, entry-mode and uncompressed-size check is preserved in the same order relative to the writes it guards. The 19 inline `cleanup(); return` sites collapse to 4 in the orchestrator, one per stage, because each helper now returns an error instead of unwinding itself — the staging directory is still removed on exactly the same set of failures. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(api): split newWAFMiddleware into engine build and per-phase helpers 184 lines / cyclomatic 38, and the request-body block at :382 was the worst nested site in the tree at nestif 17. Engine construction moves out of the closure (wafInlineEngine, wafCRSEngine — the Coraza directive string is lifted verbatim), and each request phase becomes its own helper: wafInlineRequestHeaders, wafCRSRequestHeaders (including the Host/Transfer-Encoding re-add for CRS 920280), wafFeedCRSBody and wafInspectRequestBody, which is the old :382 block. The three `handleWAFInterruption(w, it); return` sites inside the body block become one: the helper now returns the interruption and the orchestrator handles it. No statement runs between the two points on either side, so the verdict is honoured identically — in particular a CRS body interruption still returns without replacing r.Body. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(service): split SendMessage and lift EditMessage's access check SendMessage was 79 statements / cyclomatic 35 with an 11-deep nested attachment block at :101; EditMessage was one point over cyclop. SendMessage becomes sendMessagePrecheck (permission and DM-block gates, content sanitisation), sendMessageLinkAttachments (the :101 block: attachment ownership, claim and link) and sendMessageDMSideEffects. EditMessage gets editMessageCheckAccess and nothing else — one budget over earns one extraction. The sanitizeContent fixpoint and the attachment ownership check are unchanged, as is the order of every gate. The DM side effects run behind `isDM && !s.sendMessageDMSideEffects(...)`, so a non-DM never enters them; inside, only the GetDMParticipantIDs failure returns false, matching the one error the original early-returned on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(admin): split handlePatchUser into per-field apply helpers 106 lines / cyclomatic 29, with the ban block at :154 nested 9 deep. Each optional field of the partial edit becomes its own helper — patchUserPrecheck, patchUserAuthorizeRole, patchUserApplyBan (the :154 block, including the session disconnect and the broadcast) and patchUserApplyRole. Each returns a bool meaning "keep going"; none of them writes a success response, so the single response site in the orchestrator is unchanged. Field application order, the permission-cache invalidation on a role change and the disconnect-and-broadcast on a ban are all preserved, as are the three fail-closed `mod == nil` guards, which now sit at the top of their own helper and still fire on exactly the same conditions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(admin): split handleSetup into first-run setup stages 143 lines / cyclomatic 30, with the optional-wizard block at :219 sitting exactly on the nestif threshold. Split into the stages the endpoint already had: request gating (rate limit and origin check, which run before any auth exists on a fresh server), owner account creation, and the wizard application that was the :219 block. Every gate in front of the handler is a security control on an unauthenticated endpoint; none moved relative to the work it protects. setup_wizard.go is untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: split run() into named bootstrap and shutdown steps 131 statements / cyclomatic 57, with the executable-path fallback at :126 nested 9 deep. The five anonymous `defer func(){...}()` blocks become named functions — telemetryStop, runClosePlugins, runStopEventPersistence, runStopAuditWriter, maintenanceStop — and the bootstrap stages move out likewise. Every defer is still registered in run() itself, at the same point in the sequence, so the LIFO teardown order is unchanged; that order is documented in the surrounding comments and is load-bearing (the audit-writer stop must follow database.Close's registration, the event-persistence stop must precede it). runStopEventPersistence is now registered unconditionally with a nil persister meaning "disabled", where the old code registered its defer inside the enabled branch — a no-op occupying that slot cannot change the relative order of the others. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(ws): split handleReconnect into resume stages 77 statements / cyclomatic 41, plus the replay block at :199 and, in handleFreshConnect, the voice-state restore at :622. handleReconnect becomes reconnectPrecheck, reconnectSelectReplay (with reconnectVetColdTail for the cold-tier gap check), reconnectRegister and reconnectWriteReplay. handleFreshConnect's stale-voice cleanup moves to its own helper, where the `if h.livekit != nil` wrapper becomes a guard clause — that block was the tail of its scope, so returning early and falling off the end are the same. The parts that carry the invariants are moved verbatim: reconnectRegister still takes h.seqMu, still calls registerNow inside that same critical section (BUG-123 / OC-0206), still unlocks on every exit, and still emits the "full" tier counter and telemetry on each of its three re-check failures. handleReconnect's two-boolean contract is unchanged — the collapsed `return false, false` sites are all fall-through-to-full-ready, and the single `return true, false` is still the handshake-write-failure path whose teardown already ran (OC-0051). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(server): fold in the adversarial review of the complexity refactors Eleven skeptic passes over the refactor commits on this branch found no blocker and no major — behaviour is preserved throughout. They did find comment and accuracy defects worth correcting: - db/mention_queries.go: the mentionTargetColumn rationale claimed the named type made the interpolated column "only ever one of the two constants". A Go named type is not closed, so that is a convention the type makes visible, not one it enforces. Reworded, gosec justification included. - ws/voice_controls.go: the dupl collapse generalised away three specifics — that a server deafen is the moderator's to lift (now on the serverDeafen field), the concrete voice_states.camera / voice_states.screenshare column names, and the half of the OC-0023 rationale about neither stream kind hiding from the other's count. All three restored. - ws/voice_join.go: `maxUsers := ch.VoiceMaxUsers` had been hoisted to the top of voiceJoinComplete, moving a read across the tail supersession guard. The read is inert, but it was the one statement in that commit whose position relative to a security guard changed; it now sits at its use, as before. - ws/*_test.go: three test comments cited voice_join.go line numbers that the split invalidated. They now cite the helper by name instead. - service/message_reactions.go: reactionAudience's doc claimed to enforce "every gate on reacting"; it enforces the channel-scoped ones, and the doc now says which gates stay with the caller. - api/emoji_handler.go: the readEmojiUpload call reused the outer `ok` from the auth check by assignment; it gets its own readOK. - admin/setup_handler.go: a moved comment kept a "the response above" deictic that no longer had a response above it. No behaviour change. Build, vet, full tests and -race on five packages green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(ws): clear the remaining complexity budgets across the hub Eight files, thirteen findings. Each function is split at the stages it already had; no branch is reordered, merged or inverted. - handlers.go handleMessage (cyclop 28, 88 stmts): session re-check, frame decode and result application become handleMessageSessionRecheck, handleMessageDecode and handleMessageApply. The V2 constructor lookup -> DispatchV2 -> Result resolution order is untouched. - serve_ready.go buildReady (cyclop 26, 61 stmts): the per-section fetches split out, readyChannelPayloads among them. Every visibility predicate is preserved verbatim — this is the payload that decides what a client may see. - serve_pumps.go writePump (cyclop 31): writePumpWrite, writePumpDeliver, writePumpDrainChannel and writePumpDrainAndClose. Every channel receive stays in the same select statement, so scheduling is unchanged. - hub_sweep.go sweepStaleVoiceStates (cyclop 22, 56 stmts): the staleness predicate, the hub-lock ordering and the position of the race hook are all as they were — handleVoiceJoin's BUG-088 ordering depends on them. - hub_broadcast.go channelReadAudienceImpl and RefreshChannelVisibility (cyclop 22 each, 57 stmts): channelReadAudienceDM and refreshChannelVisibilityCanSend. The audience predicate is the OC-0090 group-DM leak surface, so it is extracted, never simplified. - livekit_webhook.go (nestif 13 and 14): webhookJoinedEnforceVoiceState, webhookLeftCleanupClient and webhookLeftFinishLeave. DB delete still precedes broadcast on every path. - livekit_download.go EnsureLiveKitBinary (52 stmts): one extraction, ensureLiveKitStageBinary, keeping every archive path check intact. - voice_moderation.go (nestif 8): voiceModDeafenRollback. The persisted server_muted flag remains the authority. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(api): clear the remaining complexity budgets across the HTTP layer - router.go NewRouter (cyclop 28, 84 stmts): split by wiring concern into routerTOTPKey, routerHealthDeps, routerMiddleware, routerUploadRoutes, routerPluginWiring, routerVoiceRoutes and routerMetricsRoutes. Middleware ORDER is a security property (auth before handler, WAF before body parse, rate limit before work) and is unchanged; the returned cleanup func still closes over and releases everything it did before. - auth_handler.go handleRegister (133 lines) and handleLogin (cyclop 21, 152 lines): registerPolicyGate, registerReadRequest, loginReadRequest and loginAuthenticate. The always-compare posture, every rate-limit key, every counter reset and the ban-check-versus-password-compare order are all preserved — including loginUserFailureThreshold staying unscaled by scaledAuthLimit, which is deliberate and commented. - upload_handler.go handleServeFile (cyclop 31, 128 lines): serveFileResolve and serveFileAuthorize. Every header this sets — Content-Disposition included, which is what stops a stored file being served as active content — is still set with the same value in the same circumstances. - profile_handler.go handleUploadAvatar (120 lines): avatarUploadReadImage, mirroring readEmojiUpload in shape but with the avatar caps and MIME set. The two deliberately do not share a helper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: clear the last complexity budgets in db and admin - db/account.go DeleteAccount (cyclop 28, 55 stmts): grouped by subsystem into deleteAccountAdminGuard, deleteAccountDMChannels and deleteAccountCloseDMChannels, each taking the same transaction. The transaction boundary, the delete ORDER (which foreign keys depend on) and the rollback path are unchanged. - admin/logstream.go handleLogStream (cyclop 24): logStreamAuthorize. Flush cadence, heartbeat and disconnect detection untouched. - admin/setup_wizard.go validateWizard (cyclop 23): grouped by section into wizardValidateIdentity, wizardValidateNetwork and wizardValidateMedia. Every message and bound is unchanged — this is the first input-validation boundary on a fresh server, before any auth exists. With this the tree is at zero: golangci-lint run reports 0 issues against the budgets set in #1384 (funlen 100/50, cyclop 20, nestif 8, dupl 150), with no //nolint and no exclusion added anywhere. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
OwnCord
A self-hosted chat app I build for me and my friends — text channels, voice and video, and a server you actually own.
Alpha, and a hobby project. This is something I build for fun and run for a small group of friends. It isn't a product, there's no support, and it isn't production-ready. Expect rough edges, rapid changes, and the occasional breaking change.
Don't use it for anything sensitive.
It's a Go server plus a Tauri desktop client: real-time messaging, voice/video via LiveKit, file sharing, and a web admin panel. Run the server on a spare box or a VPS, hand your friends an invite code, and that's the whole thing.
How it's built
Most of the implementation is generated with AI tooling, with quality held up by automated checks — CI, tests, linting — and by me and my friends actually using it. That keeps iteration fast, and it also means behaviour can change quickly between releases.
What works right now
| Area | Status |
|---|---|
| Core chat flow | Working in alpha |
| Voice/video | Working in alpha |
| Admin panel | Working in alpha |
| Security hardening | Ongoing review passes; findings and their statuses are tracked in the dated audits in docs/ (see the Docs Index below) |
Platform Support (Current Releases)
| Component | Windows x64 | Linux x64 | Linux ARM64 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Server binary | Yes | Yes | Not yet |
| Desktop client | Yes (NSIS installer) | Yes (AppImage, .deb) | Yes (AppImage, .deb) |
| Docker server | N/A | Build from source (compose) | Not yet |
Start Here
- New user quick path: docs/quick-start.md
- Linux Docker deployment: docs/deployment.md
- Remote access without router config: docs/tailscale.md
- Manual router/network setup: docs/port-forwarding.md
Quick Start
Option A: Prebuilt binaries
- Download assets from Releases (binaries, checksums, signatures, and a full source snapshot per release).
- Run the server binary:
- Windows:
chatserver.exe - Linux:
./chatserver
- Windows:
- Open
https://localhost:8443/adminand complete the setup wizard — it creates your Owner account and configures the server for you (settings are saved toconfig.yamlautomatically). - Generate invite codes in the admin panel and share them with friends.
Option B: Docker (Linux server)
cd Server
cp .env.example .env
cp livekit.yaml.example livekit.yaml
# Edit both files before starting
docker compose up -d
See the full setup guide in docs/deployment.md.
The client uses TOFU (Trust On First Use) for self-signed certificates: it prompts once, then pins the certificate for future connections.
What OwnCord Already Has
- Real-time channels and direct messages over WebSocket
- Voice/video channels via LiveKit — the LiveKit server binary is downloaded and managed for you
- Invite-only registration and role-based permissions
- Web admin panel with logs, backups, and update tooling
- File uploads and inline media rendering
- TOTP 2FA support and API rate limiting
- Desktop client auto-update with signature verification
- WASM plugin system (slash commands; sandboxed, default-disabled — enable via
plugins.enabledand build with-tags wazero) - GIF picker — off by default; each server supplies its own
Klipy key via
gif.api_key(setup)
See deeper feature and architecture docs in docs/architecture/ and docs/protocol.md.
Architecture
Two main components:
- Go server (REST API, WebSocket hub, SQLite, admin panel)
- Tauri v2 desktop client (Rust backend + TypeScript frontend)
+---------------------+ +---------------------+
| OwnCord Client | | OwnCord Server |
| (Tauri v2) | | (Go) |
| | | |
| +---------------+ | WSS | +---------------+ |
| | Chat UI |--+------->| | WebSocket Hub| |
| +---------------+ | | +---------------+ |
| +---------------+ | HTTPS | +---------------+ |
| | REST Client |--+------->| | REST API | |
| +---------------+ | | +---------------+ |
| +---------------+ | LiveKit | +---------------+ |
| | Voice/Video |--+------->| | LiveKit SFU | |
| +---------------+ | | +---------------+ |
+---------------------+ | +---------------+ |
| | SQLite DB | |
| +---------------+ |
+---------------------+
Build and Test
Prerequisites
- Go 1.26+
- Node.js 20+
- Rust stable (client builds)
Build from source
# Server (Windows)
cd Server
go build -o chatserver.exe -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=1.2.0-alpha.3" .
# Server (Linux)
cd Server
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o chatserver -ldflags "-s -w -X main.version=1.2.0-alpha.3" .
# Client
cd Client/tauri-client
npm install
npm run tauri build
Core verification commands
# Server
cd Server
go test ./...
# Client
cd Client/tauri-client
npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npm test
For the full command set, use docs/contributing.md.
Configuration
On first run, the server generates config.yaml and a local data/ directory:
data/
├── chatserver.db
├── certs/
├── uploads/
└── backups/
Key options include TLS mode, upload limits, LiveKit settings, and admin CIDR restrictions. See docs/server-configuration.md.
Security and Vulnerability Reporting
- For vulnerabilities, use GitHub Security Advisories (private disclosure flow).
- Do not open public issues for security bugs.
- Read full policy and hardening notes in docs/security.md.
Update Signing Notes (Maintainers)
Client and server update signing keys are intentionally separate.
Required Actions secrets for release signing:
TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEYTAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORDSERVER_UPDATE_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEYSERVER_UPDATE_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD
When rotating the server updater key, update Server/updater/server_update_public_key.txt and use staged rollover for live fleets.
Docs Index
- docs/quick-start.md
- docs/deployment.md
- docs/livekit-setup.md
- docs/port-forwarding.md
- docs/tailscale.md
- docs/architecture/ — system blueprints (diagrams + flows)
- docs/audit-2026-08-04-docs-and-coverage.md — latest full audit (docs accuracy, UX flow coverage, test runs)
- docs/audit-2026-08-04.md — latest security review
- docs/audit-2026-07-19.md — architecture & spec-conformance audit
- docs/api.md
- docs/protocol.md
- docs/schema.md
- docs/architecture/client.md — client architecture (replaces client-architecture.md)
- docs/architecture/ux/ — client UX specification (target-state flows, per-view states, event→reaction maps)
- docs/server-configuration.md
- docs/credential-storage.md
- docs/mcp-introspect.md — dev-only MCP server for introspecting a running instance
- docs/audit-test-coverage-2026-07-25.md — test-coverage audit
- docs/audit-2026-04-07.md — first comprehensive audit
- docs/plans/ — design plans and decision records (each carries a verified status header)
- docs/contributing.md
- docs/security.md
Contributing
- Create a branch from
dev(the active development branch). - Keep changes focused and tested.
- Open a PR targeting
dev—devis merged tomainfor releases.
See docs/contributing.md for the full process.
License
AGPL-3.0


