stemedb/CLAUDE.md
jordan b3e8a9a058 feat: Multi-application expansion with chaos testing and community UI
Major additions:
- Community Next.js app (port 18187) for browsing claims with API docs
- stemedb-chaos crate: Fault injection, chaos testing, CRDT properties
- Latent ingestion system: Reddit/FDA ingesters with ADK-Go agents
- Disputed claims handling: Manual review workflows and validation
- Aphoria security scanner: New extractors (SQL injection, command
  injection, weak crypto, TLS version), policy-based ignores, UAT reports
- Docker infrastructure: Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml for full stack
- VulnBank demo: Intentionally vulnerable multi-language test corpus

SDK & API enhancements:
- Source registry handlers for tracking data provenance
- Metrics endpoint
- Skeptic filtering improvements

Code quality:
- Split 14 large files (>500 lines) into focused modules
- All files now under 500-line limit per project guidelines

Documentation:
- Chaos testing guide, circuit breakers, observability docs
- Phase 7 UAT documentation updates
- Martin Kleppmann technical writer agent

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-04 01:24:14 -07:00

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Episteme (StemeDB)

A probabilistic knowledge graph database that stores Claims, not Facts. Append-only Merkle DAG with read-time resolution via Lenses.

Core Concept: "Git for Truth" - conflicting assertions coexist, resolved at query time through Consensus, Recency, Authority, or custom Lenses.

Find Your Guide

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Get started fast quickstart.md
Understand what Episteme is what-is-episteme.md
Understand the technical vision vision.md
See use cases use-cases/README.md
Understand architecture architecture.md
Learn data structures docs/data-structures.md
See the roadmap roadmap.md
Build apps on Episteme docs/app-concepts/index.md
Consumer Health vertical docs/app-concepts/consumer-health.md
Use Go SDK ai-lookup/services/sdk.md
Write Rust code .claude/guides/backend/rust-guidelines.md
Set up local dev .claude/guides/local/setup.md
Run tests .claude/guides/local/testing.md
Understand quality checks .claude/guides/local/quality-checks.md
Learn about simulation ai-lookup/features/simulation.md
Advance the simulator arena-roadmap.md
Work on storage/DAG Load skill: stemedb-core
Implement a Lens Load skill: stemedb-lens
Plan a milestone /plan-milestone command
Analyze use case gaps /analyze-gaps command
Add an API endpoint .claude/guides/backend/api-endpoints.md
Integrate with AI tools .claude/guides/integrations/ai-coding-assistant-integration.md
ADK-Go + Episteme .claude/guides/integrations/adk-go-episteme.md
Distributed architecture docs/research/distributed-write-path.md
Write UAT reports .claude/guides/local/uat-reports.md
Phase 6 UAT results ai-lookup/features/phase6-uat.md

Critical Rules

  • Append-Only: NEVER mutate existing Assertions. Create new ones.
  • Content-Addressed: Assertion ID = BLAKE3 hash of content.
  • No Unwrap: NEVER use unwrap() or expect() in production code. CI enforces via clippy::unwrap_used and clippy::expect_used at deny level.
  • Defensive Writes: All writes go through WAL with fsync.
  • Zero-Copy: Use rkyv for serialization. ALWAYS use stemedb_core::serde::{serialize, deserialize} — NEVER use raw AllocSerializer in production code.
  • Instrument Critical Paths: Use #[instrument] on public methods in WAL, storage, ingestion, and lens code. Include meaningful fields (key_len, payload_len, offset, candidates_count, lens).
  • Structured Logging: Use tracing (info!, warn!, error!) instead of println!/eprintln!. Clippy enforces via print_stdout/print_stderr at warn level. CLI binaries (e.g., stemedb-sim) may use #![allow()] for user-facing output.
  • Document Changes: Update ai-lookup/ when adding new types/concepts. Keep skills in sync with code.
  • No Git Operations: NEVER use git stash, git branch, git checkout, or any git operations unless the user explicitly tells you to.

Quick Reference

# Build
cargo build --workspace

# Test
cargo test --workspace

# Lint (must pass before commit)
cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --check

Port Scheme (181XX)

Offset Service Default Env Var
+0 HTTP API 18180 STEMEDB_BIND_ADDR
+1 Cluster Gateway 18181 STEMEDB_NODE_API_ADDR
+2 Cluster RPC 18182 STEMEDB_NODE_RPC_ADDR
+3 SWIM Gossip 18183 via SwimConfig
+4 Metrics 18184 (reserved)
+5 Admin 18185 (reserved)
+6 Latent Signal 18186
+7 Community App 18187

Specialized Agents

Domain Agent When to use
Product Vision episteme-product-visionary Use cases, "why not Postgres?", product-market fit
General Rust primary-developer Feature implementation, refactoring
Code Quality rust-quality-engineer Reviews, test coverage, clippy
Storage storage-engine-architect WAL, LSM, crash recovery
Graph Engine rust-graph-engine-architect Lock-free structures, cache optimization
Defensive defensive-systems-architect Rate limiting, circuit breakers, hostile input
Distributed distributed-systems-engineer CRDT replication, Raft coordination, Merkle sync, clustering
Lenses stemedb-lens-architect Query resolution, ranking algorithms
Planning stemedb-planner Milestone planning, roadmap

Architecture Overview

Write Path (Spine):           Read Path (Cortex):
[Agent] -> [Ingestion]        [Agent] <- [Lens Engine]
              |                              |
              v                              |
         [WAL/Fsync]                  [Index Lookup]
              |                              |
              v                              |
         [KV Store] <--------------------+

Crates

Crate Purpose Status
stemedb-core Assertion, LifecycleStage, MaterializedView, types Implemented
stemedb-wal Write-ahead log with crash recovery Implemented
stemedb-storage KVStore, VoteStore, IndexStore, TrustRankStore, QuarantineStore, SimilarityIndex Implemented
stemedb-ingest Ingestion pipeline, signature verification, ContentDefenseLayer Implemented
stemedb-query Query engine, Materializer for O(1) MV: reads Implemented
stemedb-lens Lenses (Recency, Consensus, Authority, Vote/Trust-aware) Implemented
stemedb-api HTTP API with axum + utoipa OpenAPI docs Implemented
stemedb-sim Simulation for testing the pipeline Implemented
stemedb-merkle BLAKE3 Merkle tree for diff detection Implemented
stemedb-rpc gRPC services for node-to-node communication Implemented
stemedb-sync Merkle sync, gossip broadcast, anti-entropy Implemented
stemedb-cluster Cluster membership (SWIM), sharding, gateway Implemented

SDKs

SDK Purpose Status
sdk/go/steme Go HTTP client with Ed25519 signing and fluent builders Implemented
sdk/go/adk ADK-Go tools and callbacks for AI agents Implemented

Latent Signal (latent/)

Python CLI tools for adverse event signal detection. Different rules from Rust crates:

Allowed:

  • print() for user-facing CLI output (these are scripts, not libraries)
  • except Exception as e: for CLI error handling (log and continue)

Required:

  • Environment Variables for URLs: NEVER hardcode localhost URLs without env fallback
    • Use os.getenv("VAR", "http://localhost:...") in Python
    • Use process.env.VAR || 'http://localhost:...' in TypeScript
  • StemeDB Integration: New ingestors should use StemeDBClient pattern from adk-agent/, not write to JSONL files