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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions DEVELOPMENT.md
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Expand Up @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ The remote API is available at `http://localhost:3000`.

For isolated component testing outside Docker, use `make dev-api` (remote API) and `make dev-ui` (dashboard).

These run against `server/backend/dev.db`, which is a separate database from the one Docker Compose uses — users seeded with `make seed-users` do not exist there. Seed the local database with the `dev-` equivalents:

```bash
make dev-seed-users USER=demo PASS=demo123 # creates dev.db and its schema if needed
make dev-seed-kus USER=demo PASS=demo123 # requires make dev-api to be running
make dev-seed-all USER=demo PASS=demo123 # both
```

To point an installed agent at this local server, set `CQ_ADDR` to `http://localhost:3000` — see [Connect to a remote cq server](docs/install.md#connect-to-a-remote-cq-server) for the per-host configuration.

## Configuration
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.DEFAULT_GOAL := help

# Local (non-Docker) dev server settings, shared by dev-api, dev-ui and the
# dev-seed-* targets so the port and database path cannot drift apart. DEV_DB
# is relative to server/backend; DEV_API_PORT is passed through to Vite by
# dev-ui, which uses it as the /api/v1 proxy target.
DEV_DB ?= ./dev.db
DEV_API_PORT ?= 8742

.PHONY: help
help:
@echo "cq - shared agent knowledge commons"
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@echo " make sync-schema Copy canonical schemas into the Python schema package"
@echo " make validate-schema Validate JSON Schema fixtures and values file"
@echo ""
@echo "Local development (outside Docker):"
@echo " make dev-api Run the API on :$(DEV_API_PORT) against server/backend/dev.db"
@echo " make dev-ui Run the dashboard on :3000 (proxies /api/v1 to dev-api)"
@echo " make dev-seed-users USER=demo PASS=demo123 Create a user in the dev-api database"
@echo " make dev-seed-kus USER=demo PASS=demo123 Load sample KUs (requires make dev-api running)"
@echo " make dev-seed-all USER=demo PASS=demo123 Create user + load KUs"
@echo ""
@echo "Docker Compose:"
@echo " make compose-up Build and start services (creates .env from example if missing)"
@echo " make compose-down Stop services"
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.PHONY: dev-api
dev-api:
cd server/backend && CQ_DB_PATH=./dev.db CQ_JWT_SECRET=dev-secret CQ_API_KEY_PEPPER=dev-pepper CQ_PORT=8742 uv run cq-server
cd server/backend && CQ_DATABASE_URL= CQ_DB_PATH="$(DEV_DB)" CQ_JWT_SECRET=dev-secret CQ_API_KEY_PEPPER=dev-pepper CQ_PORT=$(DEV_API_PORT) uv run cq-server

.PHONY: dev-ui
dev-ui:
cd server/frontend && pnpm dev
cd server/frontend && DEV_API_PORT=$(DEV_API_PORT) pnpm dev

.PHONY: dev-seed-users
dev-seed-users:
# USER is exported by every POSIX shell, so `ifndef USER` never fires and the
# target would silently fall back to the current OS username. Require it to be
# passed on the command line, and reject an empty value.
ifneq ($(origin USER),command line)
$(error USER is required. Usage: make dev-seed-users USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
ifeq ($(strip $(USER)),)
$(error USER is required. Usage: make dev-seed-users USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
ifeq ($(strip $(PASS)),)
$(error PASS is required. Usage: make dev-seed-users USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
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cd server/backend && CQ_DATABASE_URL= CQ_DB_PATH="$(DEV_DB)" uv run alembic upgrade head
cd server/backend && uv run python ../scripts/seed-users.py --username "$(USER)" --password "$(PASS)" --db "$(DEV_DB)"

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

printf '%s\n' '--- Makefile targets and relevant recipes ---'
sed -n '145,195p' Makefile

printf '%s\n' '--- Seed script references ---'
rg -n -C 4 'seed-users|PASS|DEV_DB|USERNAME|PASSWORD' Makefile server scripts 2>/dev/null || true

printf '%s\n' '--- Make configuration affecting command echoing ---'
rg -n -C 3 '^\s*\.SILENT|MAKEFLAGS|silent|seed-users' Makefile GNUmakefile makefile 2>/dev/null || true

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

printf '%s\n' '--- Seed script locations ---'
fd -i 'seed-(users|kus)\.py$' .

printf '%s\n' '--- Seed script argument parsing ---'
for f in $(fd -i 'seed-(users|kus)\.py$' .); do
  printf '\n### %s\n' "$f"
  rg -n -C 8 'argparse|add_argument|parse_args|password|passwd|stdin|input|sys\.argv' "$f"
done

printf '%s\n' '--- Make dry-run output with a shell-sensitive password ---'
if command -v make >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  make -n dev-seed-users USER=demo 'PASS=p a$ b"'\'';touch /tmp/not-created' 2>&1 || true
  make -n dev-seed-kus USER=demo 'PASS=p a$ b"'\'';touch /tmp/not-created' 2>&1 || true
else
  printf '%s\n' 'make is unavailable'
fi

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

python3 - <<'PY'
import subprocess

password = 'pw$(printf SUBSTITUTED)'
recipe = f'printf "%s\\n" --password "{password}"'

result = subprocess.run(
    ["/bin/sh", "-c", recipe],
    check=True,
    text=True,
    capture_output=True,
)

print("shell command:", recipe)
print("received argument:", result.stdout.rstrip())
print("command substitution occurred:", "SUBSTITUTED" in result.stdout)
PY

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Do not pass PASS through command-line arguments.

The seed recipes expose PASS in echoed Make commands and process arguments. Shell expansion can also change the password before the script receives it. Update server/scripts/seed-users.py and server/scripts/seed-kus.py to read the password from protected input. Suppress echoing for every recipe that handles PASS, including seed-all.

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In `@Makefile` at line 170, Update seed-users.py and seed-kus.py to obtain the
password through protected input rather than a command-line argument, preserving
the existing username and database behavior. Modify every Make recipe that
handles PASS, including seed-all, to suppress command echoing and remove PASS
from the invoked command arguments.

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PASS is passed the same way by the three existing seed targets, and it's documented that way in DEVELOPMENT.md and the quickstart. Reworking seed-users.py and seed-kus.py to read from stdin would change the interface for the Docker path too, which feels like a decision the maintainer should make here.

Happy to do it as a follow-up, I just want to defer to your call here! 😺

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@jonathanchu, agreed. This change affects both the local and Docker seed workflows. It also changes documented command interfaces.

The password exposure concern remains valid, but this PR does not need to make that cross-workflow interface decision. A follow-up should define the protected-input interface and update the scripts, Make targets, DEVELOPMENT.md, and the quickstart together.

Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for that follow-up?

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.PHONY: dev-seed-kus
dev-seed-kus:
# USER is exported by every POSIX shell, so `ifndef USER` never fires and the
# target would silently fall back to the current OS username. Require it to be
# passed on the command line, and reject an empty value.
ifneq ($(origin USER),command line)
$(error USER is required. Usage: make dev-seed-kus USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
ifeq ($(strip $(USER)),)
$(error USER is required. Usage: make dev-seed-kus USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
ifeq ($(strip $(PASS)),)
$(error PASS is required. Usage: make dev-seed-kus USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
cd server/backend && uv run python ../scripts/seed-kus.py --user "$(USER)" --pass "$(PASS)" --url "http://localhost:$(DEV_API_PORT)"

.PHONY: dev-seed-all
dev-seed-all:
ifneq ($(origin USER),command line)
$(error USER is required. Usage: make dev-seed-all USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
ifeq ($(strip $(USER)),)
$(error USER is required. Usage: make dev-seed-all USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
ifeq ($(strip $(PASS)),)
$(error PASS is required. Usage: make dev-seed-all USER=demo PASS=demo123)
endif
$(MAKE) dev-seed-users USER="$(USER)" PASS="$(PASS)"
$(MAKE) dev-seed-kus USER="$(USER)" PASS="$(PASS)"

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.PHONY: validate-schema
validate-schema:
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Expand Up @@ -4,13 +4,17 @@ import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite"
import react from "@vitejs/plugin-react"
import { defineConfig } from "vite"

// Port the local API listens on. `make dev-ui` passes DEV_API_PORT through
// from the repo-root Makefile, which uses the same value for `make dev-api`.
const apiPort = process.env.DEV_API_PORT || "8742"

export default defineConfig({
plugins: [react(), tailwindcss()],
server: {
port: 3000,
proxy: {
"/api/v1": {
target: "http://localhost:8742",
target: `http://localhost:${apiPort}`,
},
},
},
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