A clone + ./install.sh + ./launch-brave.sh + sign in once. Nothing else.
pyproject.toml declares the one real dependency (websockets) and maps the
repo-root-is-the-package layout, which retires the PYTHONPATH=<parent> line
every unit used to carry.
cli.py backs three console scripts. They exist because `python3 -m socialmag`
run from INSIDE a clone dies at `import asyncio`: the repo root is the package
dir, so it ships selectors.py and queue.py, and python puts the current
directory first on sys.path. `cd socialmag` is the first thing anyone does
after a clone, so the documented workaround failed at exactly the moment it
would be tried. A generated bin/ script never puts cwd on sys.path.
The same trap bit `python3 -m venv` inside install.sh — the installer was
broken by the thing it exists to fix. Every python3 call now runs from /.
deploy/user/*.in replaces root system units with systemd --user templates:
no User=, WantedBy=default.target, venv paths, @REPO@/@VENV@/@CDP_ENDPOINT@
substituted at install time. deploy/home/ is untouched and still live here.
launch-brave.sh carries --disable-background-timer-throttling. That is
load-bearing, not tidiness: five of six platforms are read in a hidden tab, and
a throttled background tab stops running the timers those pages use to fetch
their own data — the reads come back empty with no error.
install.sh checks the mcp package in hermes's own interpreter and refuses to
continue without it. Hermes treats mcp as optional and silently no-ops the
whole subsystem when it is missing, so a server that never loaded looks exactly
like one that loaded and did nothing.
It will not merge into an existing mcp_servers: key — it backs up config.yaml
and appends only when the key is absent, otherwise it prints the block. Blind
YAML merging is how someone's other servers disappear.
Verified end-to-end in a sandbox with a fake HOME and stubbed systemctl:
real MCP initialize handshake from inside the repo dir returns all 7 tools;
hermes's own yaml parser re-reads the written config with every pre-existing
key intact; a second run leaves the mcp_servers key count at 1; launch-brave.sh
exits 1 against a busy port; no unsubstituted @PLACEHOLDER@ in any rendered unit.
Not fixed, pre-existing: server.py reports SERVER_VERSION 0.1.0 while the repo
is at v0.7. The handshake shows 0.1.0.
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dashboard.html — Feed and Timeline swap places; Feed is every platform's
capture now, not Twitter intel, so rows carry their own platform glyph and an
unknown platform renders neutral rather than being dropped. A row whose ts is
really first_seen reads "seen X ago": saying "just now" for a post of unknown
age is a lie that sorts it to the top.
dashboard.json — regenerated by the refresher; _yt_caveat dropped, the
activate fix made it stale.
deploy/home — dash, openbridge, refresh service and timer for this desktop.
Refresh every 30min with --skip-foreground, not kdmirah's 10min full pass:
there is a human at this box and the metrics table only needs enough
resolution to watch engagement move. No Restart= on the oneshot — a down
browser is a waiting state the refresher records and exits 0 for.
NAPKIN.md — the whiteboard: measured delay budget, the background-render
table, the three landmines earned (a DOM signal is a rendering question, %z
cannot come back out of struct_time, a pure time sort is not a feed), and the
open calls.
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