Bifrost

Bifrost is the planned GameCult member, governance, labor, and public-process platform running under the Yggdrasil infrastructure umbrella. It exists to connect projects, users, patrons, contributors, motions, ledgers, work requests, reward pressure, public receipts, and operational decisions in one place instead of leaving them scattered across GitHub, docs, chat, and human memory.

Bifrost also owns the governed transport layer for GameCult work that crosses public or collaboration protocols: GitHub proposal/review surfaces, Discord-native work and swarm interfaces, CultNet/CultCache intake packets, and future collaboration interfaces. That bridge role follows from the Labor Platform role; it is not a separate bot utility. See docs/jurisdiction-map.md.

Status

This repository now includes a viable alpha foundation slice of the ASP.NET Core app:

• Razor Pages app under src/Bifrost.Web
• PostgreSQL-backed EF Core model with an initial migration under src/Bifrost.Web/Data/Migrations
• GitHub OAuth sign-in plus invite/approval-based membership gating
• explicit member roles and admin-managed patron or contributor tier snapshots
• shared work board with estimates, actual time logs, review flow, and GitHub issue or PR links
• planned priority/reward pressure loop where demand can raise a work item's value before a contributor claims it
• member-facing motions with category thresholds aligned to the labor-platform doc
• health and readiness endpoints plus startup config validation
• GitHub App webhook ingestion for issue, pull request, and review sync
• local bridge tooling for agent-owned GitHub draft PRs and Discord posts
• CultCache-backed governance topic threads for feature requests, discussion comments, Persona approvals, and dispatch promotion
• CultCache/CultNet-backed agent intake tooling for repo Persona update requests
• a Verse service contract for CultCache witnesses, CultMesh namespaces, and Eve/CultUI product and operator surfaces
• a read-only Eve provider advertisement export command for Bifrost Verse surface discovery
• Docker image and local Compose stack for containerized smoke testing
• xUnit integration tests under tests/Bifrost.Web.Tests
• matching deploy artifacts and runbooks in E:\Projects\gamecult-ops

It is closer to deployable now, but it is still not a finished internet-facing member alpha. The current state is suitable for a private deploy candidate on Yggdrasil while we finish the remaining operational hardening and post-MVP economics work.

Chosen Stack

• ASP.NET Core 8 LTS
• Razor Pages + HTMX
• PostgreSQL
• GitHub OAuth for sign-in
• GitHub App for issue and pull request integration

Alpha Scope

• invite-only member portal
• GitHub sign-in only
• GitHub-backed and internal work items
• app-native motions and voting
• internal ledgers for patronage, contribution, and payout eligibility
• no real payout execution in v1

Hosting Target

• public app hostname: bifrost.gamecult.org
• infrastructure context: Yggdrasil
• deployment model: GHCR image + Docker Compose behind nginx, with the older systemd path kept as rollback until the container path is boring

Next Build Target

The next build target is to deepen the alpha candidate by adding:

• GitHub App installation/admin guidance and live webhook verification against the real repo
• richer workflow polish around work review, blocking, and closure ergonomics
• payout proposal batch generation and tighter ledger approval workflow
• staged deploy validation on Yggdrasil, including backup/restore rehearsal
• post-MVP economics automation for point transactions, decay, and revenue-share calculation

For the full staged roadmap, including contribution points, revenue share, patron or contributor decay, and labor-platform alignment, see docs/full-implementation-strategy.md.

Local Dev Notes

• set GitHubOAuth:ClientId and GitHubOAuth:ClientSecret before using sign-in
• set Bootstrap:AdminGitHubLogins with at least one GitHub login for the first active admin path
• default connection string points at local PostgreSQL
• build with dotnet build Bifrost.slnx
• test with DOTNET_ROLL_FORWARD=Major dotnet test Bifrost.slnx if the machine only has the .NET 10 runtime installed
• print the Eve provider advertisement with node tools/provider-advertisement.mjs print
• export the Eve provider advertisement witness with node tools/provider-advertisement.mjs export --out .bifrost/provider-advertisement.cc
• container smoke test with docker compose -f compose.local.yaml up --build
• container health checks live at http://127.0.0.1:5080/healthz and http://127.0.0.1:5080/readyz

Read First

Before implementation work starts in a new session, read these files in order:

1. AGENTS.md
2. docs/bifrost-mvp-plan.md
3. docs/jurisdiction-map.md
4. docs/bridge.md
5. docs/verse-service-contract.md
6. docs/agent-transport.md
7. docs/full-implementation-strategy.md
8. docs/context.md