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Brandyn / Techy 223458550a Bot hosting: releases are self-contained CI bundles, and the bot serves its own web UI
The image no longer installs the bot's dependencies: its CI builds one tar.gz holding the app plus a
vendor/ directory of prebuilt wheels, and PYTHONPATH=/app/vendor makes the code import them. A new
dependency therefore needs no image rebuild and the server contacts no package index.

- deployBotBundle.sh: install / --latest / --status / --rollback, verifies every file against BUILD.json
  and keeps the previous release beside the live one.
- compose: mount ${BOT_APP_DIR:-/srv/bot/app} at /app, set DB_BACKEND, DATA_DIR, WEB_ALLOWED_GROUPS,
  WEB_SERVE_UI and PYTHONPATH. bot/app placeholder untracked; install.sh creates /srv/bot/app.
- The placeholder requirements would have crashed the bot on import (no sqlglot), which is why the
  image now ships none of them.

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# Vanguard Discord bot — brief for the agent building it
You are building the Discord bot for Vanguard. What the bot *does* is up to the community and you.
This file only covers where it runs, what it is given, and the few rules that keep it from breaking
the box it shares. Nothing here obliges you to integrate with the other services on that box.
## 1. Hosting
One Debian server runs a set of Docker Compose services from `~/vanguard-stream/`. You own exactly
one of them: the `discord-bot` container. You do not own the compose file, the reverse proxy (Caddy),
the firewall, the identity provider (Authentik), or the database server config. If you need any of
those changed, ask the admin with the exact change (see §6).
What you are given:
| | |
|---|---|
| **Runtime** | `python:3.12-slim` + ffmpeg + curl, and nothing else. **Your dependencies ship with your code** (see §1a), imported from `/app/vendor` via `PYTHONPATH`. Adding one needs no image rebuild. |
| **Your code** | a release bundle from your CI, installed at `/srv/bot/app` and bind-mounted at `/app` (§1a). Treat `/app` as read-only; write to `/data`. |
| **Entry point** | the container runs `python -u /app/main.py` and restarts it if it exits. With no bundle installed it idles and logs a hint. |
| **User** | uid 1000 |
| **Database** | MariaDB, database `vanguardbot`, user `bot`, reachable at `DB_HOST:DB_PORT`. Yours alone. Other databases on the same server belong to other services; never touch them. |
| **Persistent disk** | `/data`, yours |
| **Web UI** | bind `WEB_HOST:WEB_PORT` (0.0.0.0:8000) — one port for your API *and* your pages. The proxy publishes it as `https://bot.<domain>/` behind login (§3). |
| **Discord** | `DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN`, `DISCORD_GUILD_ID`. The bot user belongs to the community's existing Discord application. |
| **Clock** | `TZ=America/New_York` |
### Environment variables
`DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN`, `DISCORD_GUILD_ID`, `DB_BACKEND=mariadb`, `DB_HOST`, `DB_PORT`, `DB_NAME`, `DB_USER`,
`DB_PASSWORD`, `DATA_DIR=/data`, `WEB_HOST`, `WEB_PORT`, `WEB_PUBLIC_URL`, `WEB_SERVE_UI=true`,
`WEB_ALLOWED_GROUPS=bot-users,admins`, `AUTH_HEADER_USER`, `AUTH_HEADER_GROUPS`, `AUTH_HEADER_EMAIL`,
`MEDIA_CLIPS`, `PYTHONPATH=/app/vendor`, `TZ`. Secrets arrive only through env. Never write them to the repo,
`/data`, or logs.
SQLAlchemy URL: `mysql+pymysql://{DB_USER}:{DB_PASSWORD}@{DB_HOST}:{DB_PORT}/{DB_NAME}` (async: `mysql+aiomysql`).
## 1a. Releases: one bundle, dependencies included
Your CI (`.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`, job `bundle`) runs after the tests and produces the artifact
`vanguard-bot-bundle` — a single tar.gz whose contents **are** `/app`:
main.py app/ website/ version.json BUILD.json vendor/
`vendor/` is `pip install --only-binary=:all: --target vendor -r requirements.txt`, built on `python:3.12`
so the wheels match the runtime image's ABI. `BUILD.json` records the version, commit, build time, the
package list and a sha256 of every file. The admin installs it with `./deployBotBundle.sh <bundle.tar.gz>`,
which checks the bundle against `BUILD.json`, keeps the previous release for `--rollback`, and restarts the
container. Rules that follow from this:
- Keep `requirements.txt` resolvable with **prebuilt wheels only**; a dependency that must compile will fail
the build. Ask the admin if you truly need one.
- Don't import anything that is not in `requirements.txt` or the standard library.
- Nothing is installed on the server at deploy time, and the server reaches no package index.
## 2. Process model
- One process, one asyncio loop: the Discord gateway client and the web server run together
(`discord.py` plus `aiohttp` or FastAPI via uvicorn's programmatic API). Do not spawn a second container.
- Log to stdout. The admin reads `docker compose logs -f discord-bot`.
- On fatal misconfiguration (no token, DB unreachable after retries) log the reason and exit non-zero;
the restart policy retries.
- Handle SIGTERM: close the gateway and the web server cleanly.
## 3. Web UI: login is handled outside your code
Every request to `https://bot.<domain>/` passes through Caddy, which sends the user to Authentik
(Discord login) and, once authenticated, forwards the request to you with identity headers:
| header | content |
|---|---|
| `X-Authentik-Username` | the user's account name |
| `X-Authentik-Groups` | group names, separated by `\|` or `,` — the community uses `admins`, `editors`, `streamers`; others may be added |
| `X-Authentik-Email`, `X-Authentik-Name`, `X-Authentik-Uid` | extras |
`WEB_SERVE_UI=true` is set on the server, so this process serves your HTML pages at `/` and their assets
at `/assets/` as well as `/api/…` — same origin, one port, no second service and no proxy of your own.
Locally the separate website launcher still works; it is off unless `WEB_SERVE_UI` says otherwise.
Rules:
1. **Implement no login page, no sessions, no passwords.** Identity is the headers, per request.
2. Port 8000 is loopback-only on the host, so the headers can be trusted. Still fail closed: a request
without the username header gets 401.
3. Authorize by group, read from the header each time. Don't cache roles in your DB.
4. Serve under `/`; the proxy does no path rewriting for this host.
5. Build absolute links from `WEB_PUBLIC_URL`.
6. The Authentik username may differ from the Discord username. Use the header value as the user key;
if you need the Discord snowflake, resolve it through your gateway client and cache it in your DB.
Until the admin creates the matching Authentik application, the hostname returns an error, never an
open page. Test against `http://127.0.0.1:8000/` on the server with the headers set by hand.
## 4. Repository layout (recommended, not enforced)
```
bot/
AGENT.md, README.md this brief; the ops cheat-sheet (keep README current)
Dockerfile, entrypoint.sh admin-owned; ask before changing
app/
main.py config → migrations → gateway + web in one loop → clean shutdown
requirements.txt pin versions once past the prototype
config.py the only module that reads os.environ
bot/ discord.py client, cogs/ (one feature per cog), permission checks
web/ routes/, templates/, static/, auth.py (header → user/groups)
db/ SQLAlchemy models, session, alembic/ migrations (run at startup)
services/ the actual logic, shared by cogs and web; no Discord or HTTP types
tests/ pytest; must pass offline with no token
```
Slash commands scoped to the guild so they appear instantly. Prefer slash commands over reading
message content; Message Content is a privileged intent, enable it only if you need it.
## 5. Shared ground on the box
- `/media/clips` is mounted read-write. It is the community's clip storage, organized as one folder per
user. You may **add** files there; never modify, move or delete files you did not create (parts of it
are mirrored from members' machines and will fight back). If you write a video, write
`<name>.part` then rename to `<name>.mp4`, and put a `<name>.json` beside it with at least
`{"timestamp": "<UTC ISO-8601 creation time>", "source": "...", "uploader": "<discord username>"}`.
Other services on the box index that folder and read the sidecar. If you never touch this mount,
none of this applies.
- The same bot user is used by another service for REST calls (posting notices, reading scheduled
events). Sharing a token is fine. Don't rename the bot or change its avatar; pick your own channels.
- Don't bind other ports, don't start other containers, don't write outside `/app`, `/data`, `/media/clips`.
## 6. Working with the admin
- **Source**: push to the community Gitea. CI runs your tests on the `python` runner label, then builds the
release bundle (§1a); the admin installs it with `deployBotBundle.sh`. Pushes to `main` can install it
automatically once the repository variable `BOT_AUTO_DEPLOY` is set to `1`; it is unset by default.
- **Need infra?** Open a Gitea issue titled `infra: …` stating the exact change: a new env var and why,
a mount, a Caddy path that should skip login (e.g. a public webhook endpoint), a new database.
Don't work around the proxy or the firewall.
- **Dependencies changed?** Just push: they travel inside the bundle. Only a new *system* package (beyond
ffmpeg and curl) needs the admin to rebuild the image.
- Keep `README.md` updated with every command, env var, and table you add.