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Bernardo Magri 6d70bba8e6 feat(agent): autonomous-loop infrastructure + roadmap rework

A git-tracked agent/ directory so AI agents can iterate on the distro
unattended (runner-agnostic: /loop, headless claude -p, or a fresh
manual session — all state lives in the checkout, per the distro's own
philosophy):

- LOOP.md — the iteration protocol: orient → pick one BACKLOG task →
  verify up the V0–V3 ladder → commit+push main → record. Safety rails
  (v1 untouchable, no force-push, no surprise lock bumps) and
  stop-and-escalate conditions.
- BACKLOG.md — the forward half of docs/ROADMAP.md reworked into a
  prioritized queue (5 NOW / 6 NEXT / LATER / PROPOSED / Decisions);
  ROADMAP.md stays the design/decision record + shipped log.
- GOALS.md — the four pillars (stable > reproducible/zero-hidden-state >
  effortless config > beautiful), quality bars, non-goals.
- CONVENTIONS.md — coding/design rules (in-flake state, menu placement,
  Waybar whole-swap parity, toggle-vs-package, no formatter).
- MEMORY.md — curated hard-won lessons (VM recipes, btrfs-assistant
  segfault watch, rofi/WirePlumber/hyprlock gotchas).
- HARDWARE-QUEUE.md — every pending V3 on-hardware check collected from
  the ROADMAP, with exact steps, split by machine.
- JOURNAL.md — append-only iteration log, seeded with this bootstrap.

Plus a root CLAUDE.md entry point and README/ROADMAP pointers.

Verified: V0 — docs-only; nix flake check --no-build green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-04 08:51:11 +01:00

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Memory — durable lessons, learned the hard way

Curated, not append-only: one line per fact, newest at the top of its section; delete entries that stop being true. Details usually live in a docs/ROADMAP.md decision record — pointer given as (§ item). Add a fact here the moment a debugging session teaches you something a future iteration would otherwise rediscover.

Testing & VM recipes

Reusable headless VM harness: checks.* via runNixOSTest — existing examples to crib from: distro-id (boots + switch-to-configuration dry-activate), hardware-toggles (kernel cmdline/PAM assertions), battery-charge-limit (fake Mains adapter via test_power, real udev uevent, InvocationID change proves the restart).
Themed-desktop screenshots work headlessly: software-GL Hyprland (LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE on virtio-gpu) + machine.screenshot() QMP dump — prototyped 2026-06-19, kept as the fallback for theme previews (§ Visual theme picker).
Hyprland/Ghostty need guest GL (virtio-vga-gl, gl=on) in interactive QEMU or the session won't start; black screen ≈ missing GL (docs/TESTING.md § gotchas).
No KVM = slow, not broken; don't read slowness as failure.

Known-broken / watchlist

btrfs-assistant 2.2 segfaults on launch (nixpkgs 26.05, libbtrfsutil.so.1.4.0 ABI mismatch; crashes on hardware too, not a VM artifact). nomarchy-snapshots fzf flow is the shipped fallback; re-check on every lock bump (§ Snapshot browse/restore; BACKLOG NOW#2).
NixOS release bump is a trap: the discarded attempt (branch deleted 2026-06-22) hit a Hyprland OOM blocker; a redo is a deliberate v2, never part of routine lock bumps.
theme-state.json is git-tracked inside an 86 MB flake tree, so every state write re-copies the source before eval — the wallpapers-artifact split (BACKLOG LATER) is the decided fix (§ Faster switches).

Gotchas (cost a debugging session once)

Never kill a Wayland session-lock client (hyprlock): its crash failsafe drops to a tty instead of unlocking (§ Hibernate double-unlock).
rofi element-icon size is one value = a square cell; WxH silently collapses and non-square icons letterbox — pre-crop images square at build (§ Visual theme picker).
WirePlumber 0.5 monitor rules can only early-match device.api; device.product.name etc. bind after the rule runs — surgical libcamera scoping is impossible (§ Webcam).
hyprctl switchxkblayout is a global layout flip; per-device isolation needs device[<name>]:kb_layout keywords (§ Keyboard layouts).
Waybar's clock captures the timezone at construction — a zone change needs SIGUSR2 (watcher in timezone.nix) (§ Automatic timezone).
Waybar persistent_workspaces (underscore) is dead syntax silently ignored; the hyphen form is honoured and renders phantom workspaces (§ Waybar shows non-existent workspaces).
GTK4/libadwaita/Qt6 read light/dark from the portal's org.freedesktop.appearance color-scheme (dconf), not Stylix polarity (§ GTK/Qt ignore the theme's mode).
Update order matters downstream: sys-update (lock) before home-update, or desktop changes are silently skipped against the old lock (README § 3).
grub loadfonts every .pf2 in a theme dir — reuse a bundled DejaVu rather than shipping fonts (§ Distro branding).

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