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* docs(adr): deep review of the RuView npm surface — ADR-263/264/265 optimization strategies

ADR-263 — @ruvnet/ruview@0.1.0 harness review (O1–O9):
- HIGH: claim-check CLI fails open on empty input (no --text/--file -> PASS exit 0)
- HIGH: MCP stdio server head-of-line blocking (spawnSync verify/calibrate up to 600s)
- MEASURED: optionalDependencies triple the cold npx install (4 pkgs/620kB/71 files
  vs 1 pkg/172kB/22 files with --omit=optional) for a path that never imports them
- maxBuffer truncation, python -c port interpolation, version drift, duplicate skills,
  guardrail METRIC_TERMS substring false positives ('map'/'F1' — found by dogfooding
  claim-check on these very ADRs), zero CI

ADR-264 — @ruvnet/rvagent@0.1.0 + @ruv/ruview-cli review (O1–O9), verified against
the published registry tarball:
- HIGH: exports.require -> dist/index.cjs which is never built nor published
- MEASURED: 44 dead source-map files = 62,698B of the 188kB unpacked payload
- stdio-only server described as dual-transport; mixed dot/underscore tool names;
  double Zod validation + hand-duplicated advertised schemas; 2-fd leak per training
  job; unbounded body in the unwired HTTP scaffold; dead detectCogBinary candidates;
  ruview bin-name collision

ADR-265 — cross-cutting npm distribution strategy: npm-packages.yml CI matrix
(test + pack-content/size gate + tarball-install smoke test), publish-from-CI-only
with npm provenance, version single-sourcing from package.json, bin/namespace
ownership (ruview bin belongs to @ruvnet/ruview), claim-check on package READMEs.

Docs only — no runtime code changed. Index/CHANGELOG/CLAUDE.md/README counts updated.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WrGfTGKv1oWZ6iwXZACULz

* fix(npm): implement ADR-263/264/265 — harness fail-closed + async MCP, rvagent packaging/transport/naming, npm CI+provenance gate

ADR-263 (@ruvnet/ruview 0.2.0), O1-O9:
- claim-check fails closed on empty input (CLI exit 2, empty_text tool error)
- MCP stdio server dispatches tools/call asynchronously (promise-based spawn);
  ping answers while a 3s fake verify runs — pinned by new e2e test
- optionalDependencies dropped: cold npx installs exactly 1 package
  (MEASURED: was 4 pkgs/620kB/71 files via npm i in a clean prefix)
- bounded rolling output tails replace spawnSync 1MiB maxBuffer
- node_monitor port passed via sys.argv, never spliced into python -c source
- serverInfo.version read from package.json; resources/prompts stubs
- skills single-sourced: prepack sync script generates .claude/skills/ copies
- which() = memoized dep-free PATH scan
- tools underscore-canonical (ruview_claim_check, ...) + dotted aliases
- guardrail precision: word-boundary map/f1/auc/iou, code-span + F1/O2 label
  scrubbing, quantitative-claims-only; packaging reproducer hints
- 30/30 tests (was 17), incl. concurrency e2e + fail-open regression pins

ADR-264 (@ruvnet/rvagent 0.2.0), O1-O9:
- exports fixed: types-first, phantom dist/index.cjs require target removed
- tarball map-free: 127,704B unpacked / 46 files / 0 maps (MEASURED,
  npm pack --dry-run; was 188kB incl. 44 maps referencing unshipped src)
- Streamable HTTP actually wired behind RVAGENT_HTTP_PORT: one transport +
  one MCP server per session (mcp-session-id routing), 1MiB body cap (413),
  port-aware localhost origin gate; dual-transport description now true
- tools renamed underscore-canonical with dotted router-only aliases
- single Zod validation gate; advertised inputSchema generated from the same
  Zod source (zod-to-json-schema)
- train_count: parent log fds closed (was leaking 2/job); job records
  persisted to <jobsDir>/<id>.json (job_status survives restarts); bounded
  log-tail reads
- detectCogBinary probes its candidates instead of dead-coding them
- version from package.json; @types/express dropped; @types/jest -> 29
- README rewritten to match reality (no phantom subcommands/policy layer)
- 99/99 jest tests (incl. new session/body-cap suite + previously-broken
  manifest suite); stdio handshake + HTTP session flow smoke-tested live

ADR-265 D1-D4:
- .github/workflows/npm-packages.yml: 3-package x Node 20/22 gate — tests,
  version-literal grep (D3), pack-content/size gate, tarball-install smoke
  test (catches the ADR-264 F1 class), README claim-check (D4)
- .github/workflows/ruview-npm-release.yml: publish from CI only with
  npm publish --provenance
- @ruv/ruview-cli bin renamed ruview-cli (ruview bin belongs to
  @ruvnet/ruview); version single-sourced
- ci.yml NODE_VERSION 18 -> 20

ADR statuses updated to Accepted/implemented; harness manifest re-pinned;
ADR-263/264/265 + both package READMEs pass claim-check.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WrGfTGKv1oWZ6iwXZACULz

* perf(rvagent): lazy-load HTTP transport + memoize generated tool schemas

stdio time-to-first-response ~242ms -> ~189ms (-22%; MEASURED, median of
repeated initialize round-trips against dist/index.js in this container).

- ./http-transport.js now imported lazily inside the RVAGENT_HTTP_PORT
  branch: it chain-loads the MCP SDK streamableHttp module (~48ms MEASURED
  via per-module import() timing) which the default stdio path never uses
- toolInputJsonSchema memoized per tool: schemas are static for the process
  lifetime; under the session-per-server HTTP model every session calls
  tools/list, so stop re-walking the Zod tree each time

No behavior change: 99/99 jest tests; HTTP session flow re-smoke-tested
through the lazy import path (initialize -> 200 + mcp-session-id).

Profiled @ruvnet/ruview too and left it alone: 50ms CLI startup vs ~29ms
bare 'node -e ""' floor on the same box (MEASURED) — already near the
interpreter floor with zero dependencies.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WrGfTGKv1oWZ6iwXZACULz

* ci(ruview-cli): pass jest --passWithNoTests so the private no-test package doesn't fail the npm-packages matrix

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

* fix(npm): address 10 verified review findings in harness + rvagent before 0.2.0 publish

harness/ruview (@ruvnet/ruview):
- guardrails: digit gate now sees numbers inside code spans; F1-style
  metric tokens followed by ':' or a nearby number are no longer scrubbed
  (fail-open regressions in the honesty gate)
- mcp-server: tools/call requests serialize through a FIFO promise chain
  (hardware/mutating tools never overlap) while ping/tools/list stay
  immediate; stdin close drains in-flight responses before exit
- tools: which() no longer memoizes negative lookups

tools/ruview-mcp (@ruvnet/rvagent):
- index: realpath invoked-directly guard — library import no longer
  connects a stdio transport to the consumer's process
- http-transport: explicit allowedOrigins is exact-match only (localhost
  any-port convenience applies only with no configured allowlist);
  session map gains maxSessions=64 + 5min idle TTL sweep
- train-count: job records persist the child pid and reconcile stale
  'running' status after a server restart (exit-code marker or dead pid)
- config: cog binary candidates ordered by process.arch

.github/workflows/ruview-npm-release.yml: port the full ADR-265 D1 gate
(version-literal check, unpacked-size budget, tarball-install smoke test)
from npm-packages.yml so the publish path enforces what the header claims.

Tests: harness 30→36, rvagent 99→112, all passing.

Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-02 13:11:15 -04:00
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Architecture Decision Records

This folder contains 182 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that document every significant technical choice in the RuView / WiFi-DensePose project. (The index tables below list a curated subset per domain; see the directory listing for the full set.)

Why ADRs?

Building a system that turns WiFi signals into human pose estimation involves hundreds of non-obvious decisions: which signal processing algorithms to use, how to bridge ESP32 firmware to a Rust pipeline, whether to run inference on-device or on a server, how to handle multi-person separation with limited subcarriers.

ADRs capture the context, options considered, decision made, and consequences for each of these choices. They serve three purposes:

  1. Institutional memory — Six months from now, anyone (human or AI) can read why we chose IIR bandpass filters over FIR for vital sign extraction, not just see the code.

  2. AI-assisted development — When an AI agent works on this codebase, ADRs give it the constraints and rationale it needs to make changes that align with the existing architecture. Without them, AI-generated code tends to drift — reinventing patterns that already exist, contradicting earlier decisions, or optimizing for the wrong tradeoffs.

  3. Review checkpoints — Each ADR is a reviewable artifact. When a proposed change touches the architecture, the ADR forces the author to articulate tradeoffs before writing code, not after.

ADRs and Domain-Driven Design

The project uses Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to organize code into bounded contexts — each with its own language, types, and responsibilities. ADRs and DDD work together:

  • ADRs define boundaries: ADR-029 (RuvSense) established multistatic sensing as a separate bounded context from single-node CSI. ADR-042 (CHCI) defined a new aggregate root for coherent channel imaging.
  • DDD models define the language: The RuvSense domain model defines terms like "coherence gate", "dwell time", and "TDM slot" that ADRs reference precisely.
  • Together they prevent drift: An AI agent reading ADR-039 knows that edge processing tiers are configured via NVS keys, not compile-time flags — because the ADR says so. The DDD model tells it which aggregate owns that configuration.

How ADRs are structured

Each ADR follows a consistent format:

  • Context — What problem or gap prompted this decision
  • Decision — What we chose to do and how
  • Consequences — What improved, what got harder, and what risks remain
  • References — Related ADRs, papers, and code paths

Statuses: Proposed (under discussion), Accepted (approved and/or implemented), Superseded (replaced by a later ADR).


ADR Index

Hardware and firmware

ADR Title Status
ADR-012 ESP32 CSI Sensor Mesh for Distributed Sensing Accepted (partial)
ADR-018 ESP32 Development Implementation Path Proposed
ADR-028 ESP32 Capability Audit and Witness Record Accepted
ADR-029 RuvSense Multistatic Sensing Mode (TDM, channel hopping) Proposed
ADR-032 Multistatic Mesh Security Hardening Accepted
ADR-039 ESP32-S3 Edge Intelligence Pipeline (on-device vitals) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-040 WASM Programmable Sensing (Tier 3) Accepted
ADR-041 WASM Module Collection (65 edge modules) Accepted (hardware-validated)
ADR-044 Provisioning Tool Enhancements Proposed
ADR-110 ESP32-C6 firmware extension — Wi-Fi 6 / 802.15.4 / TWT / LP-core Accepted, P1-P10 complete, firmware-side substrate closed at v0.7.0-esp32. Companion docs: WITNESS-LOG-110 (13 §A0.x entries · 99.56 % cross-board RX · 104.1 µs smoothed sync stdev · ≤100 µs target met), ADR-110-REVIEW-GUIDE (one-page reviewer tour), ADR-110-BRANCH-STATE (coordination map vs feat/adr-115-ha-mqtt-matter). Host decoders + tests: Python SyncPacketParser (10) + Rust wifi_densepose_hardware::SyncPacket (15), cross-language hex pin gates drift.

Signal processing and sensing

ADR Title Status
ADR-013 Feature-Level Sensing on Commodity Gear Accepted
ADR-014 SOTA Signal Processing Algorithms Accepted
ADR-021 Vital Sign Detection (breathing, heart rate) Partial
ADR-030 Persistent Field Model and Drift Detection Proposed
ADR-033 CRV Signal Line Sensing Integration Proposed
ADR-037 Multi-Person Pose Detection from Single ESP32 Proposed
ADR-042 Coherent Human Channel Imaging (beyond CSI) Proposed
ADR-134 First-Class Channel Impulse Response (CIR) Support Proposed
ADR-135 Empty-Room Baseline Calibration (per-subcarrier Welford statistics) Proposed

Machine learning and training

ADR Title Status
ADR-005 SONA Self-Learning for Pose Estimation Partial
ADR-006 GNN-Enhanced CSI Pattern Recognition Partial
ADR-015 Public Dataset Strategy (MM-Fi, Wi-Pose) Accepted
ADR-016 RuVector Training Pipeline Integration Accepted
ADR-017 RuVector Signal + MAT Integration Proposed
ADR-020 Migrate AI Inference to Rust (ONNX Runtime) Accepted
ADR-023 Trained DensePose Model with RuVector Pipeline Proposed
ADR-024 Project AETHER: Contrastive CSI Embeddings Required
ADR-027 Project MERIDIAN: Cross-Environment Generalization Proposed
ADR-149 AetherArena: public spatial-intelligence benchmark on Hugging Face Proposed
ADR-150 RF Foundation Encoder: pose-preserving, subject/room/device-invariant CSI embedding Proposed
ADR-151 Per-Room Calibration & Specialized Model Training (room-first → bank of small ruVector specialists) Proposed
ADR-152 WiFi-Pose SOTA 2026 Intake: geometry-conditioned calibration, external benchmarks, foundation-encoder recipe Proposed

Platform and UI

ADR Title Status
ADR-019 Sensing-Only UI with Gaussian Splats Accepted
ADR-022 Windows WiFi Enhanced Fidelity (multi-BSSID) Partial
ADR-025 macOS CoreWLAN WiFi Sensing Proposed
ADR-031 RuView Sensing-First RF Mode Proposed
ADR-034 Expo React Native Mobile App Accepted
ADR-035 Live Sensing UI Accuracy and Data Transparency Accepted
ADR-036 Training Pipeline UI Integration Proposed
ADR-043 Sensing Server UI API Completion (14 endpoints) Accepted
ADR-115 Home Assistant integration via MQTT auto-discovery + Matter bridge (HA-DISCO + HA-FABRIC + HA-MIND) Accepted (MQTT track) / Proposed (Matter SDK P8b)
ADR-169 adam-mode — light theme toggle for the three.js realtime demo Proposed
ADR-170 yoga-mode — yoga pose detection, classification, and scoring for the three.js realtime demo Proposed

Architecture and infrastructure

ADR Title Status
ADR-001 WiFi-Mat Disaster Detection Architecture Accepted
ADR-002 RuVector RVF Integration Strategy Superseded
ADR-003 RVF Cognitive Containers for CSI Proposed
ADR-004 HNSW Vector Search for Fingerprinting Partial
ADR-007 Post-Quantum Cryptography for Sensing Proposed
ADR-008 Distributed Consensus for Multi-AP Proposed
ADR-009 RVF WASM Runtime for Edge Deployment Proposed
ADR-010 Witness Chains for Audit Trail Integrity Proposed
ADR-011 Proof-of-Reality and Mock Elimination Proposed
ADR-026 Survivor Track Lifecycle (MAT crate) Accepted
ADR-038 Sublinear GOAP for Roadmap Optimization Proposed
ADR-095 rvCSI — Edge RF Sensing Runtime Platform Proposed
ADR-096 rvCSI — Crate Topology, the napi-c Shim, and the napi-rs Node Surface Proposed
ADR-097 Adopt rvCSI as RuView's primary CSI runtime (phased adoption) Proposed
ADR-098 Evaluate ruvnet/midstream for RuView's CSI / WebSocket / mesh pipeline Rejected
ADR-099 Adopt midstream as RuView's real-time introspection + low-latency tap Proposed
ADR-263 @ruvnet/ruview npm harness — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-264 @ruvnet/rvagent MCP server + @ruv/ruview-cli — deep review + optimization strategy Proposed
ADR-265 RuView npm distribution strategy — CI gate, provenance, version single-sourcing, namespace Proposed

  • DDD Domain Models — Bounded context definitions, aggregate roots, and ubiquitous language
  • User Guide — Setup, API reference, and hardware instructions
  • Build Guide — Building from source