The image build reported a green it had not earned. `script/cibuild` is a
bare `docker build .`, and with `COPY . .` followed by `RUN make check`,
an unchanged tree served that layer from cache: the suite never ran and
the build still exited 0, while the script's header comment asserted the
opposite.
CHECK_EPOCH, passed by `script/cibuild` and `script/docker`, changes the
cache key of the check and build layers on every invocation. It is
guarded, because an unset ARG is the empty string and therefore a stable
key: without the guard a plain `docker build .` — the command the policy
names, and the one anyone debugging types — would still get the false
green. A missing argument is now a hard failure rather than a silent
degradation to the behaviour the epoch was added to prevent.
The Dockerfile is now two stages: `fmt-check` and `lint` run first, and
the check stage takes a `COPY --from=lint` dependency on them, so a
formatting mistake fails the build in seconds instead of racing the
suite to the finish. Both stages stay pinned to the same digest.
The remaining fixes are one-liners that had made the target unusable:
`script/projectname` still printed the pre-rename name, so `make docker`
tagged its image after a name this project dropped in May;
`script/bootstrap` installed without fetching apt's package lists, which
cannot work on a Debian base; and `.dockerignore` had drifted far enough
from `.gitignore` to ship a ~100 MB compiled binary and any agent
worktree under `.claude/` into the build context. The second of those is
a correctness problem, not a size one — vitest globs a copied worktree's
tests alongside the real ones and runs the suite twice over. `.gitignore`
itself stays in the context, because prettier reads it as a default
ignore file and dropping it would change what `make fmt-check` sees.
rootDir was ./src while include also matched bin/**/*, which is TS6059: tsc
refuses to emit at all when a compiled file sits outside rootDir. rootDir is
now the repository root, which is the smallest change that makes the two
agree and leaves the source layout the README documents alone. Output keeps
the shape of the source tree, so main and types move to dist/src/index.js and
dist/src/index.d.ts while bin.quak stays at dist/bin/quak.js. The alternative,
moving the CLI body into src/ behind a shim in bin/, would hold main at
dist/index.js at the cost of churning the CLI and contradicting the layout
diagram in the README.
Clearing TS6059 exposed two type errors that had never been reached, because
the config error aborts before checking: StateAddress was read as a namespace
member off the default import, and the secretstream pull was called without
the additional-data argument, which libsodium does not make optional. The type
is now taken from the module's named export and the pull passes null for ad,
matching the null already passed on the push side in encryptBlob. Neither
changes what runs.
noEmitOnError stops a failed build from leaving output behind. It emitted
despite the error before, which is how a stale bin/quak.js came to sit next to
bin/quak.ts in a working tree, where eslint then read it and failed make check
on a generated file.
script/build compiles and then checks that the files package.json advertises
are among the ones the compiler wrote, since tsc knows nothing about the
manifest and a green build could still ship a package whose main resolves to
nothing. It also sets the executable bit on the bin entries, which tsc does
not carry over from the source even though it does copy the shebang. The
Makefile target is now a shim over it, as the other targets are, and
package.json's build script points at it so yarn build gets the same checks.
The Dockerfile runs make build after make check, so a branch that does not
compile cannot reach main. What make check itself runs is unchanged.
package.json gains a quak script, so the yarn quak commands the README's
Getting Started block has always listed resolve to the built CLI.
`CONNECT_CODES` drives `isSafeToReplay`, which is the only thing standing
between a transport failure and a replayed `POST /users/two-factor/verify`.
It included `EHOSTUNREACH`, `ENETUNREACH` and `ENETDOWN` on the stated
grounds that those errnos can only be reported before any request byte was
written. That is not true on Linux: an ICMP destination-unreachable
delivered on an already-established connection sets the socket error and
the next read or write returns `EHOSTUNREACH` or `ENETUNREACH`, and a local
interface going down after the request was fully written surfaces as
`ENETDOWN` the same way. In each case the server may already have received
and acted on the request -- exactly the ambiguity the rule exists to
exclude, on the paths that consume a second-factor attempt or register a
thumbnail.
The three are dropped from `CONNECT_CODES` and stay in `TRANSPORT_CODES`,
so they remain retryable for the idempotent calls; only replay eligibility
narrows. What is left -- `ENOTFOUND`, `EAI_AGAIN`, `ECONNREFUSED` -- means
no TCP connection to the server ever existed, so no request byte can have
been transmitted.
The justification is corrected everywhere it was stated: the comment on
`CONNECT_CODES`, the one on `isSafeToReplay`, the `postJSON` call site, the
README's idempotency section and the `client.test.ts` docblock. All of them
now describe what the narrowed set actually establishes rather than
claiming a proof it did not support.
The narrowing is enforced by the suite rather than asserted in a comment:
the three errnos join `ECONNRESET`/`EPIPE`/`ETIMEDOUT` in the
`isSafeToReplay`-returns-false test, with companion `isRetryable` assertions
so a future edit cannot make them non-retryable by accident. Putting the
three back into `CONNECT_CODES` turns that test red (1 failure, verified).
No retry on 4xx, backoff on 5xx and transport failures, and a deadline on
every request. Before this, one transient 503 or TCP reset failed a file
for good, and a CDN connection that went quiet after accepting the request
blocked `quak backup` forever, because there was no timeout anywhere.
src/retry.ts holds the policy: a classifier that decides whether another
attempt could produce a different answer, and a loop that acts on it with
exponential backoff and full jitter. Retried: 5xx, 408, 429, transport
failures (the errno is read out of the cause chain, which is where Node's
fetch puts it), deadline aborts, and truncated transfers. Not retried:
every other 4xx, and anything unrecognised — a wrongly retried permanent
failure delays every remaining file, while a wrongly abandoned transient
one costs a single file the next run picks up. Attempt count, delays,
sleep and jitter source are all configurable through ApiClientOptions;
sleep being injectable is what lets the suite exercise the policy without
waiting.
Truncation needed a type before it could be classified. streamDecrypt
threw plain Errors whose messages began "download: stream truncated", and
classifying on message text would mean the next reword silently turned
every truncated download into a permanent failure. It now throws
TruncatedStreamError, which lives in src/errors.ts alongside ApiError so
the classifier can recognise both without importing the modules that
import it; api/client.ts re-exports ApiError, so it stays one class and
every existing import path still resolves.
Downloads retry the request, the stream consumption and the decryption
together. Only the first of those happens inside ApiClient: a socket
reset after the headers arrived throws in streamDecrypt, and retrying the
request alone would never see it. The client's own retry is switched off
for those two calls so the budgets do not multiply into sixteen requests
per file, and the atomic write stays outside the loop so a download that
took three attempts still performs one write and one rename.
Non-idempotent requests are not blindly replayed. postJSON and putJSON
reach create-session, two-factor/verify — which burns one of a few
second-factor attempts — and files/thumbnail, so they retry only when the
connection was never established and the server provably never saw the
request. putFile is exempt and retries fully: a presigned PUT stores one
whole object at one key, with no partial state to damage. It now throws
ApiError with the status, as do the two null-body paths, which previously
threw bare Errors that nothing could classify.
Timeouts come from AbortSignal.timeout(), renewed per attempt: 30s for
JSON and upload calls, 10 minutes for file bodies, since a value short
enough to keep a hung API call from stalling a backup would cancel a
legitimate multi-gigabyte download. The download deadline is enforced
over the body rather than only the headers, by racing each read against
the signal, so the guarantee does not depend on the fetch implementation
tearing down a stream it already handed over.
listMissingThumbnails now separates a genuine 404 from an exhausted
retry. Its bare catch reported both as missing, which after this change
would have let a few minutes of 500s talk fix-missing-thumbnails into
regenerating and re-uploading thumbnails that were fine. runBackup and
runMetadataBackup are untouched: the retry sits below them and their
per-file resilience is unchanged.
Fixes accumulated drift from the original spec-first README:
- Intro: added paragraph describing backup, metadata decryption, and
thumbnail repair capabilities
- Rationale: removed the 'deliberately scoped to read operations'
claim (no longer true since thumbnail upload exists); called out
the Go CLI's crash-on-failure bug as explicit motivation
- Getting Started: fixed library example to use actual Client.login()
API, removed nonexistent fromSavedSession/getFile methods, added
backup CLI example
- Layout: fixed to match actual directory structure (download/,
backup.ts, thumbnails.ts; removed nonexistent session/)
- Session handling: replaced the fictional encrypted-keychain
SessionStore description with the actual implementation (plain JSON
via env-paths, consumer-managed persistence via toJSON/fromJSON)
- CLI surface: added backup, helper list-missing-thumbnails, and
helper fix-missing-thumbnails commands
- Backup layout: new section documenting the originals/ + collections/
symlink structure
- API reference: replaced the stale type declarations with pointers
to the actual source files and a note that test/client/usage.test.ts
is the authoritative API tutorial
- TODO: collapsed completed phases, kept only open items
- For LLMs: new section summarizing repo policies, TDD workflow,
required checks, formatting rules, and pointers to REPO_POLICIES.md
and LLM_PROSE_TELLS.md
Complete CLI surface:
quak login interactive or QUAK_EMAIL/QUAK_PASSWORD
quak whoami print logged-in account
quak logout delete session
quak collections list all albums (--json)
quak files list files in a collection (--json)
quak get <id> download+decrypt a file (--out, --collection)
quak get-thumb <id> download+decrypt a thumbnail
quak backup <dir> full incremental backup
get/get-thumb search all collections for the file ID when --collection
is not specified. All listing commands support --json.
Live-tested: collections list, file list, single file download (472 KB
JPEG from the dev account, verified as valid JPEG with EXIF intact).
German for 'quack', matching the Ente (German for 'duck') naming. All
references updated: package name, CLI binary, X-Client-Package header,
test descriptions, temp dir prefixes, README, Makefile docker tag.
Exports Client, all lower-level modules, and all types from
src/index.ts. Replaces Phase 7 (on-disk session persistence) with
the Client class phase: session lives in the object, consumer
handles persistence via toJSON/fromJSON.
The implementation is exactly the decryption chain documented in the
test file: deriveKEK -> decryptBox(masterKey) -> decryptBox(secretKey)
-> decryptSealed(token) -> toBase64URL. Errors from the underlying
crypto primitives propagate; the only added validation is the up-front
check that the response actually contains both keyAttributes and
encryptedToken (caller bug if not).
Also re-exports the auth/unwrap and auth/types public surface from
src/index.ts.
All 38 tests pass; make check and make docker are green.
Tests are deliberately excluded from the pre-commit hook so that the
TDD red-phase commit (failing tests landing before implementation) can
land on a feature branch. CI still runs full make check via docker build
so a red branch cannot reach main.
All changes go on a feature branch; the first commit on the branch is the
failing test suite for the change; the branch can only merge to main when
make check is green. Tests are the canonical API documentation and must be
commented thoroughly so a reader can learn the library from them.
Reframes the project as the protocol foundation for a future Electron-based
Ente desktop client (the existing official clients are unsatisfactory).
Adds an API reference section with TypeScript declarations for every
exported name across crypto, auth, model, api, session, and Client modules.
Adds Phase 10 desktop-client TODO items so a future agent can pick up the
plan.
