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Volva's contract paraphrase round (thread 01KS4B3B0Y62) surfaced three
real contract-time ambiguities — addressing each here before applying
ready-for-agent.
1) reconnect_turn body was a punt. STEP 2 literally said "json={'content':
''} OR with no body (TBD per spec — confirm during implementation)".
The spec §Reconnect flow example shows POST with Content-Type:
application/json and a body shaped {"content": "..."} — the wire schema
requires content; the server identifies the resume target via the
Last-Event-ID header and does NOT re-process content (spec line 732:
"agent's tools and LLM call run exactly once regardless of disconnects/
reconnects"). reconnect_turn now takes content: str explicitly; STEP 2
sends json={"content": content}. Caller convention: pass the original
content sent to stream_turn. POST-002 added to assert byte-for-byte
body shape; new test body_threads_content covers it.
2) _parse_sse_id allowed turn_id and seq ≥ 0 — too loose. Spec §SSE id
format line 705 says seq starts at 1 (resets per turn); turn_id is
from SQLite turns.id (autoincrement, ≥1). Tightened POST-001 to require
both ≥1; STEP 5 raises ValueError on either < 1. Test happy_zero_seq
flipped to adversarial zero_seq; added zero_turn_id and negative_seq.
INV-002 tightened to reflect the same range.
3) INV-003 (TurnIdFlip) had a subtle wording gap between stream_turn
(first event ESTABLISHES turn_id; cannot be a flip) and reconnect_turn
(expected turn_id parsed FROM last_event_id BEFORE connect; first event
is already a flip-candidate). Volva noticed the reconnect test said
"first event was not yielded" while stream_turn semantics depend on
the first event being yielded unconditionally. Spelled out both entry
points in INV-003 as a numbered sub-list. reconnect_turn STEP 4 and
test turn_id_flip_on_first_event reworded to match.
Volva flags #3 (MalformedSseId-vs-ValueError split) and #5 (exactly-
one-terminal as server-assumed, not client-verified) reviewed and kept
as-is — both intentional. Drift check unchanged: amending the contract
does not touch the pinned issue body, so prd: hashes remain valid.
Ratatoskr
A Worldtree Conversation API debug TUI. Runs up and down Worldtree's API surface — sessions, turns, persona, tools, admin events, Bifrost state — carrying messages between layers. Like the squirrel.
The product is the observability surface; chat is the input mechanism. Devs run Ratatoskr against a local Worldtree to watch a turn flow through every layer of the system, side-by-side, in one terminal.
Status
v0 scaffold. Design locked; implementation hasn't started. The dev team owns the implementation pass.
Read in this order
docs/design-brief.md— the locked design. Read this first. Every architectural decision is recorded with its rationale, the alternatives considered, and (where relevant) the operator's lock-in moment.docs/SPEC-PIN.md— what Worldtree spec version Ratatoskr is built against, where the vendored snapshot lives, and how to bump the pin.docs/conversation-api-spec.md— the vendored Worldtree spec snapshot. Read this to understand the API surface Ratatoskr consumes. Do not import anything from a Worldtree checkout — the boundary is the spec, not the code. Seedocs/design-brief.md§2.CLAUDE.md— Claude Code conventions for this repo (mostly inherited from the Corviduo template).persistent-memory.md— durable intent across context resets. Update as decisions and state evolve.
Quickstart
# 1. Environment
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
# 2. Verify the spec pin
cat docs/SPEC-PIN.md # documented Worldtree SHA + bump procedure
# 3. Tests (none yet; scaffold only)
uv run pytest
# 4. Run against a local Worldtree (once implementation lands)
# Worldtree must be running: python -m core.conversation_api
ratatoskr --agent mimir
What this repo is NOT
- NOT a polished consumer for Worldtree's end-users — that's the web app.
- NOT a Worldtree admin tool — admin CLI is separate (
sessions_cli.pylives in Worldtree). - NOT a featuretracking shadow of the web app — when the Conversation API surface grows, Ratatoskr does not necessarily grow with it.
- NOT a remote-Worldtree debug client — file-tail surfaces (persona log, server log) assume local-dev posture.
The full negative-clause list lives in docs/design-brief.md §6.
Boundary rule
Ratatoskr depends on three things only:
httpx+httpx-sse(network layer)textual(TUI framework)- Worldtree's published Conversation API spec at the pinned SHA
Hard rule: no imports from a Worldtree checkout. No core.* imports,
no from worldtree.*, no shared models, no submodule of Worldtree. The
spec is the entire surface. Boundary smoke test at tests/test_no_worldtree_imports.py
enforces this in CI.
Version-skew strategy
The dev team is decoupled from Worldtree's dev team. To detect drift when Worldtree changes the API:
- Spec-version pin in
pyproject.toml(worldtree-spec-rev). Bump explicitly; bumps are a tracked action. - Recorded-SSE snapshot tests at
tests/snapshots/. Captured against a live Worldtree; replayed in CI. Re-record after every pin bump. - Conformance smoke test — boots Worldtree via Docker compose in CI, runs a one-turn happy path. Catches integration-level drift.
See docs/SPEC-PIN.md for the bump procedure.
Consumer-side discoveries
If you find a spec gap, ambiguity, or missing-but-needed endpoint while working on Ratatoskr: route the discovery back to worldtree-dev via althing rather than via PR on Worldtree directly. The separate-team boundary is intentional and helps catch spec gaps that an in-tree consumer would paper over.
Related repos
- Worldtree — the API Ratatoskr consumes
- brokkr-smithy — authored this design brief
- Skaldsong — another Worldtree API consumer (Python; render-and-aggregate pattern)
- mead-hall — another Worldtree API consumer (TypeScript; server-side broker)