VoidBot/docs/architecture/overview.md

VoidBot Architecture Overview

Deployment: VoidBot runs on Yggdrasil and is deployed by Idunn from upstream repository pushes. Local checkouts are development and diagnostic environments, not deployment targets. Do not create or restore a local VoidBot deployment path.

This initial scaffold follows the phase-one shape from the spec:

Discord Gateway
  -> Command Router
  -> Permission Engine
  -> Context Builder
  -> Job Queue
  -> Provider Adapter
  -> Storage Layer
      - PostgreSQL-backed jobs, audit events, and interaction memory
      - persistent local archives for RAG
      - Qdrant or local JSON vector stores for retrieval

Current state

• apps/bot owns Discord connectivity, routing, and command handling.
• apps/worker polls owner jobs, runs the local Discord-safe Codex lane, serves bounded history-search tool requests from the RAG index, and prepares handoff bundles when needed.
• packages/core contains permissions, context assembly, Postgres-backed state storage, style loading, and the rotating system message catalog.
• packages/providers isolates provider contracts from Discord code.
• packages/rag contains the message archive, chunking pipeline, local embedding backends, pluggable vector-store backends, and log import state.

VoidBot's Verse-facing service contract lives in docs/architecture/voidbot-verse-service-contract.md. The short version: VoidBot owns Discord cognition, r/GameCultOrg moderation judgment when Bifrost supplies Reddit threads/posts, repo Face Reddit thread intent packaging, archive/source retrieval, typed Void self-state, and repo Face compatibility rails; Huginn owns Persona/.cc runtime inspection stewardship; Bifrost owns governed work and Reddit transport; Odin discovers provider-owned CultMesh surfaces; Eve/CultUI is the presentation contract.

Current shortcuts and tradeoffs

• Postgres now owns jobs, audit events, and interaction memory, but the archive side of RAG is still file-backed under .voidbot/.
• Retrieval now uses a persistent vector backend with a local embedding backend by default (qwen3-embedding:0.6b through Ollama).
• VECTOR_STORE_KIND=local_json keeps the zero-service path available for local development, but VECTOR_STORE_KIND=qdrant is now supported for a proper vector database.
• Discord history vectors and source-tree/lore vectors stay in separate physical partitions so source indexing no longer rewrites the entire history corpus.
• The bot live-ingests every message that matches the configured indexing rule and can also backfill from exported log files.
• Source and lore indexing can also be kicked off by local repo pre-push hooks, which launch a detached incremental resync of the pushed repo into the source archive and source-side vector store.
• The owner Codex flow can perform repeated read-only history searches through a bounded tool loop instead of relying on a single retrieval snapshot.
• Stock Discord replies are loaded from config/system-messages.json and rotated through shuffled variants to avoid repetitive canned responses.
• Changing embedding models requires a full vector rebuild from the archived messages, which is handled by npm run rag:rebuild.
• Local and offsite backups now have a verifier plus a recurring watchdog, so backup freshness and remote retention stop relying on operator vibes.
• owner_codex has two lanes:
  • local_exec_owner_only tries a read-only codex exec pass for direct Discord replies
  • manual_package remains available when you want explicit approval-gated packaging
• When the local Discord-safe lane is not enough, the worker posts a handoff notice and writes the full context bundle to .voidbot/artifacts/<job-id>/.
• The current swarm operator surface is published as an Eve/CultUI CultMesh provider at cultmesh://voidbot.local/eve/providers/voidbot.swarm, backed by .voidbot/status/cultmesh/voidbot-swarm-state.cc; any generated browser page is only a debug lowering of that provider surface.
• The local orchestrator pulse publishes voidbot.cultnet-rudp-stack-health over cultnet.transport.rudp.v0 to Idunn after each pulse. The operations watchdog remains a compatibility report, not the daemon liveness owner.

Upgrade path

1. Keep the current voidbot.swarm CultMesh publication discoverable through Odin.
2. Add .cc witnesses or native typed CultCache documents for remaining JSON-only status surfaces before treating them as Verse state.
3. Move Persona and repo Face .cc inspection to Huginn-owned tooling while VoidBot remains the Discord compatibility carrier.
4. Publish separate Eve/CultUI surfaces for Discord, r/GameCultOrg, archive, source, repo Face, and swarm state instead of growing a bespoke dashboard authority.
5. Add a true restore drill path instead of stopping at backup verification plus freshness monitoring.
6. Add moderation, budgeting, and rate limits before enabling openai_api for member traffic.
7. Expand worker-side run records and admin tooling around the interaction memory/event stores.