1. 06 Sep, 2026 1 commit
    • Mahmoud Aglan's avatar
      feat: Son of Anton — native client for driving Claude against GitLab repos · 0e8a19fa
      Mahmoud Aglan authored
      Ground-up replacement for the DevPilot APK whose source was lost in the Sep 1
      wipe. That app could only be maintained by guessing at an opaque binary: two
      days went into inferring its wire contract from `strings` on libapp.so, and the
      last bug (every text file rendering as "Binary file") was never solvable from
      the server side at all. Owning the source ends that entire class of problem.
      
      Five tabs, each backed by a real endpoint:
        VS Code   code-server in a webview, host derived from the API host
        Chats     multi-turn conversations, live SSE, per-message model and effort,
                  attachments from the phone, local notification when a run lands
        Files     project-scoped browser, re_editor with syntax highlighting,
                  markdown rendered with mermaid diagrams, create/rename/delete/upload
        Git       per-repo status, coloured diff, pull/commit/push
        Settings  Claude usage against both rolling windows, connection, sign out
      
      Decisions worth recording:
      
      - models.dart parses defensively on purpose. Every fromJson is total and a
        wrong-typed field degrades to a default. The old client did the opposite and
        one bad field made *every* file unopenable, because a throw inside fromJson
        loses the whole object rather than one value.
      - Binary is believed only when the server explicitly says so. Treating "unknown"
        as binary is precisely the bug that made the previous app useless.
      - SSE is read off a raw HttpClient, not Dio: it is a line protocol held open
        indefinitely and Dio is built around a body that ends. The stream resumes with
        ?from=N so backgrounding the phone does not lose output.
      - Mermaid renders in a webview because no Dart package draws it; the source is
        passed as a JSON literal so quotes and newlines cannot break out, and it falls
        back to showing the source offline instead of an empty box.
      - Tabs live in an IndexedStack so scroll position, open directory and in-flight
        streams survive switching away — the app exists to leave work running.
      - No FCM. The server has nothing to push with, and the only event worth an
        interruption is one the app already observes.
      Co-Authored-By: 's avatarClaude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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