Closes #2. Three tables mirroring tireless-entities, plus the sqlx compile-time-checking decision the rest of stage 1 inherits. RUNTIME QUERIES, NOT `query!`. No .sqlx metadata, no DATABASE_URL to build. lairball, the other house project on this cluster, does the same. The deciding argument is specific to tireless: compile-time checking makes a database a build dependency, and this crate is meant to be modified by a 27B model working unattended. A build that fails without a database it cannot provision is one that model cannot fix, and its documented failure mode is to improvise. The cost is named in store.rs — a malformed query is caught by a test, not by cargo. Enums are text with a check constraint, not Postgres enum types: adding a JobKind variant should be a migration, not an ALTER TYPE holding a lock. Unit tests assert every serde variant appears in the schema, so adding a variant without a migration fails the build rather than the first job of that kind. That surfaced a spelling that would have been permanent: `rename_all = "snake_case"` turns Forge::GitHub into `git_hub`, across the database, the JSON API and the generated TypeScript. Renamed to `github` now, while nothing is persisted and GitHub support is still disabled. The live-issue index is PARTIAL, and both directions of getting it wrong are silent. A plain unique constraint on (forge, owner, repo, number) would forbid re-running a terminal job, and would forbid the discovery lane outright, since discovery recurs against one tracking issue on a cooldown. Partial on the non-terminal states gives at most one live job per issue and unlimited history. The claim index orders by created_at alone and leaves kind as a filter, because the claim takes LIMIT 1 and can stop at the first match. Leading with kind sorts every pending row on every claim: measured at 720 buffers versus 4, and the gap grows with the backlog rather than staying fixed. INCLUDE (kind) was measured too and dropped — FOR UPDATE visits the heap regardless. Verified against Postgres 18, the same major as the house cluster: migrations apply to an empty database and are a no-op on the second run; all eight constraints reject what they should and admit what they should; and two concurrent claimers of one pending job produce exactly one winner, with the loser skipping rather than blocking. Those live tests are #[ignore]d, not skipped on a missing variable, so a green `cargo test` never implies the schema was exercised. CLAUDE.md says how to run them and that an applied migration must never be edited. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013TxK1CWPkFXqdcXMJ4hVe6
tireless
Keeps several repositories moving without an operator driving each change by hand. It watches Gitea (and GitHub, for legacy repos) and does three things:
- discovers — surveys a repo and proposes issues worth opening;
- plans — decomposes an issue into an epic and child issues, each specified well enough for a model that cannot ask questions;
- implements — produces a branch and a pull request.
Those chain into a loop with exactly two human gates: a person decides what enters the system, and a person decides what merges. Discovery proposes but never admits its own proposals; nothing merges itself.
Two coding agents do the work, each spawned as the vendor's own binary:
- Claude Code — discovery, planning, and implementation of issues that need interpretation. Uses the operator's Claude subscription by default, or pay-as-you-go if an API key is supplied.
- OpenCode — implementation of issues that a tireless plan already specified, against the self-hosted helexa fleet. Never Anthropic; enforced at startup.
The rule of thumb: Claude Code gets judgement, OpenCode gets specification.
Full design, constraints and the staged implementation plan:
doc/plan/design.md.
Status
Stage 0 (foundations) is built, deployed and verified.
Working: the domain model, routing, budgets, plan validation, the policy guards,
configuration loading and validation, the four system prompts, and preflight.
All three units run on bob, the dashboard is served at
https://tireless.internal, and the deploy workflow is green end to end.
Nothing is polled or claimed yet — that is stage 1. The runner is up but has no job store to claim from.
Not built: Postgres persistence, the forge clients, the poll loop, and every agent executor. Stages 1–8 in §7 of the design document say what lands when.
tireless is its own first tracked repo — see design.md §10 for what that implies, including which parts of this repo are deliberately routed to the stronger lane.
Build
cargo test --workspace
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --all
cd dashboard && npm ci && npm run lint && npm run build
Run locally
cargo run -p tireless-api -- --config ./config.toml
cargo run -p tireless-worker -- --config ./config.toml poll
cargo run -p tireless-worker -- --config ./config.toml run
cd dashboard && npm run dev # proxies /v1 to 127.0.0.1:23296
tireless preflight verifies configuration and credentials without starting a
service: it reports which billing mode a Claude Code run would use and asserts
the OpenCode lane is not pointed at Anthropic.
Deploy
CI-driven via Gitea Actions on merge to main
(architecture/deployment-gitea-actions.md). One-time host provisioning —
including the interactive Claude Code login and the Gitea bot account — is
script/infra-setup.sh.
| Host | bob.hanzalova.internal (binaries, units, job trees) |
| API port | 23296 (registered in architecture/port-allocations.md), bound 0.0.0.0, mesh-only |
| Ingress | nginx on the hanzalova proxy — not on bob |
| Dashboard | https://tireless.internal (mesh only), served from the proxy |
| Database | magrathea.kosherinata.internal:5432, mTLS |
Conventions
Follows lair/architecture;
generic.md is the baseline. Three deliberate deviations:
tireless-agentcrate beyond the standard entities/core/data split. Process orchestration is not data access, and it is shared by the runner and the CLI. (§1)MemoryDenyWriteExecute=falseontireless-runner. Both agents are Node programs and V8's JIT needs write-then-execute pages. The API and poller keep the setting. (§8)AGENTS.mdis a symlink toCLAUDE.md. Both agents look for their own filename and the instructions are identical; a symlink is the only version of this that cannot drift.