ssmithxandClaude Opus 5.5
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Apps that hand the operator something to use elsewhere (an API key for
an external client, a first login) needed a hardcoded branch in
handle_package_credentials. Now a manifest declares it:
credentials:
title: ...
prompt_before_launch: false
items:
- { label: API key, secret_file: <own generated secret> }
- { label: Username, value: admin }
- Validation fails closed: a secret_file must be a file this app's own
generated_secrets produce, so a registry manifest cannot surface
another app's secret (Bitcoin RPC password, ...). Exactly one of
value/secret_file; non-empty title, labels and items.
- package.credentials renders it from the effective manifest (verified
catalog first, then disk) after the existing per-app branches; secret
items are read at request time and always marked sensitive.
- prompt_before_launch (default false) lets credentials used by another
client skip the Apps-tab pre-launch modal while still showing on the
app page. Responses without the field keep the historical prompt.
- Older daemons ignore the block (it lands in extensions).
First user: qortal's Hub API key, which its own UI cannot safely serve
(no way to verify the dashboard session from a container; gated ports
can be flipped to open at runtime).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Archipelago documentation
Start here. This index groups the docs by what you're trying to do. The
authoritative behaviour is always the code in core/; where a doc and the code
disagree, the code wins and the doc is a bug.
Getting started
- User Walkthrough — setting up and using a node, from hardware to daily use
- Talking to your node — the conversational command surface
- Seed Verification — independently verify your 24-word backup
- Troubleshooting — common problems and how to resolve them
- OpenWrt Gateway Setup — pairing an OpenWrt router and provisioning TollGate pay-as-you-go WiFi
- Gamepad / Controller Navigation — driving the UI from a controller
- Pine voice commands — the voice-satellite phrase surface
Architecture
- Architecture — the system at a glance
- Multi-Node Architecture — how nodes relate across a fleet
- API Reference — the JSON-RPC surface
Contributing to Archipelago itself
- Developer Guide — building the workspace, the frontend, and an ISO
- Contributor guide (
CLAUDE.md) — invariants, build/verify, the production test gate - Bulletproof containers — why the reconciler is level-triggered
- Release signing runbook — the ceremony and key handling
- 1.8.0 Release Hardening Plan — the release-blocking checklist
- Third-party license audit — dependency licensing posture
- Demo build info — operating the public demo sandbox
App development
- App Developer Guide — build and package a containerized app
- App Manifest Specification — the manifest schema, field by field
- Manifest → Quadlet unit — how a manifest compiles to a systemd-owned container unit
- Container lifecycle — the reconciler state machine: install/adopt/start/stop/self-heal
- App secrets — declaring, generating and injecting per-install credentials
- Registry-Distributed Manifests — how manifests reach nodes via the signed catalog
- Decentralized Marketplace Protocol — publishing apps via an external registry
- Bitcoin RPC Relay — letting an external wallet reach the node's Bitcoin RPC
- Companion Pairing QR — the pairing handoff contract
- TV input inside iframe apps — keyboard/gamepad routing into embedded apps
Design docs
These record why a thing is built the way it is. They are design records, not step-by-step guides, and some predate the current implementation.
- Registry-Distributed Manifests
- DHT Distribution
- Bitcoin Multi-Version
- Dual Ecash
- Hardware Signer
- Manifest Hooks
- Peering & Federation Trust — naming/semantics of trust levels vs discovery (#134)
- kdump + rasdaemon Troubleshooting — post-mortem and hardware-error capture on nodes (#144)
- System-Level OTA — how host-level packages/config reach already-deployed nodes
- Meshroller Integration
- Nostr Git Source Hosting
- Nostr Identity Import · Nostr Signer Login (research)
- Streaming Ecash (phase 4)
- App Packaging Migration
Decisions (ADRs)
- ADR-001: Podman over Docker
- ADR-002: DID Key Method for Node Identity
- ADR-003: Nostr Relays for Discovery
- ADR-004: Tor Hidden Services for Peer Communication
- ADR-005: ChaCha20-Poly1305 for Backup Encryption
- ADR-006: Nostr Relays for Marketplace Discovery
- ADR-007: DID-Based Federation Trust
- ADR-008: Dual Key Strategy (Ed25519 + Secp256k1)
- ADR-009: Manifest-Level Container Security
- ADR-011: DWN Deprioritization
There is no ADR-010 — the number was never issued, so the gap is not a missing file.
Security
- Security Policy — how to report a vulnerability
- PSBT Signing Architecture
- Bitcoin RPC Proxy Exposure
- Entropy Enforcement (KEY-05)