@flame0510/project-aether 1.2.0 → 1.3.0

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  1. package/README.md +2 -1
  2. package/app/agents/ModelSection.tsx +313 -0
  3. package/app/agents/PageClient.tsx +83 -4
  4. package/app/agents/create/page.tsx +8 -21
  5. package/app/api/agents/[id]/model/route.ts +113 -0
  6. package/app/api/agents/[id]/recreate/route.ts +10 -34
  7. package/app/api/agents/[id]/route.ts +10 -29
  8. package/app/api/agents/create/route.ts +59 -57
  9. package/app/api/agents/models-summary/route.ts +163 -0
  10. package/app/api/assistant/route.ts +36 -15
  11. package/app/api/gateway/agent/route.ts +23 -6
  12. package/app/api/gateway/provider/keys.ts +13 -1
  13. package/app/api/gateway/provider/route.ts +43 -12
  14. package/app/api/gateway/sync.ts +248 -72
  15. package/app/api/models/route.ts +28 -34
  16. package/app/api/provider/auth.ts +65 -0
  17. package/app/api/provider/upstream.ts +9 -2
  18. package/app/api/provider/v1/chat/completions/route.ts +22 -16
  19. package/app/api/provider/v1/models/route.ts +26 -133
  20. package/app/components/PulseChat.tsx +25 -39
  21. package/app/components/ui/RemoveButton.tsx +46 -0
  22. package/app/components/ui/Select.tsx +3 -2
  23. package/app/components/ui/index.ts +1 -0
  24. package/app/credentials/PageClient.tsx +2 -2
  25. package/app/gateway/PageClient.tsx +257 -673
  26. package/app/globals.css +8 -0
  27. package/app/lib/models-context.tsx +43 -7
  28. package/app/wizard/useWizard.ts +6 -1
  29. package/bin/rev4a.js +73 -9
  30. package/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md +16 -4
  31. package/docs/FRONTEND-ARCHITECTURE.md +24 -2
  32. package/docs/REV4A.md +40 -17
  33. package/docs/dev/API-REFERENCE.md +170 -79
  34. package/docs/dev/GATEWAY.md +231 -89
  35. package/docs/dev/PROVIDERS.md +26 -13
  36. package/docs/rag/DATA-FRESHNESS.md +57 -28
  37. package/docs/rag/GLOSSARY.md +16 -14
  38. package/docs/rag/REV4A-OVERVIEW.md +23 -24
  39. package/docs/rag/WHAT-I-CAN-ANSWER.md +5 -7
  40. package/instrumentation.ts +9 -1
  41. package/lib/agent-readiness.ts +110 -0
  42. package/lib/channelManager.ts +64 -22
  43. package/lib/container-file.ts +27 -0
  44. package/lib/model-catalogue.ts +140 -27
  45. package/lib/rev4a-paths.ts +0 -21
  46. package/model-pricing.json +118 -110
  47. package/models.config.json +27 -12
  48. package/package.json +1 -1
  49. package/app/api/gateway/route.ts +0 -191
package/app/globals.css CHANGED
@@ -1296,6 +1296,14 @@ html, body { height: 100%; height: 100dvh; background: var(--bg); color: var(--t
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  background: rgba(var(--red-rgb,239,68,68),0.1);
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  color: var(--red);
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  }
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+ /* Saved, but not fully applied — e.g. a change stored while an agent sync failed. */
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+ .msg-warning {
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+ padding: 8px 12px;
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+ border-radius: 0;
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+ font-size: 12px;
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+ background: rgba(245,158,11,0.1);
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+ color: var(--yellow);
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+ }
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  /* --- Mobile Bottom Navigation --- */
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  .mobile-bottom-nav {
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
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  'use client';
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- import { createContext, useContext, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
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+ /**
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+ * The model list, fetched once and shared by every client that needs it.
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+ *
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+ * There used to be two independent copies: this provider, and a private fetch
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+ * inside PulseChat. Both ran on mount with an empty dependency list, and neither
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+ * component ever unmounts — so unchecking a model on the Gateway page left the
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+ * chat panel offering it for the rest of the session, and only a full page reload
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+ * cleared it.
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+ *
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+ * The fix is not to refetch more often. It is to refetch when the answer
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+ * changes: `refresh()` is called by whoever changes it — the Gateway page after a
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+ * model toggle, a key save or removal, and a sync; the first-run wizard after
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+ * saving keys. Everything else just reads.
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+ */
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+ import { createContext, useCallback, useContext, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
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  interface ProviderEntry {
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  provider: string;
@@ -11,26 +25,48 @@ interface ProviderEntry {
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  interface ModelsContextValue {
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  providers: ProviderEntry[];
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  loaded: boolean;
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+ /** Re-read the catalogue. Call after changing which models are enabled. */
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+ refresh: () => void;
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  }
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- const ModelsContext = createContext<ModelsContextValue>({ providers: [], loaded: false });
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+ const ModelsContext = createContext<ModelsContextValue>({
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+ providers: [],
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+ loaded: false,
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+ refresh: () => {},
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+ });
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  export function ModelsProvider({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
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  const [providers, setProviders] = useState<ProviderEntry[]>([]);
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  const [loaded, setLoaded] = useState(false);
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- useEffect(() => {
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+ // Refreshes can overlap — two quick toggles — and responses can arrive out of
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+ // order. Only the most recent request may write.
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+ const seq = useRef(0);
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+
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+ const refresh = useCallback(() => {
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+ const mine = ++seq.current;
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  fetch('/api/models')
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- .then((r) => r.json())
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+ .then((r) => {
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+ if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${r.status}`);
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+ return r.json();
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+ })
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  .then((data) => {
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- if (Array.isArray(data) && data.length) setProviders(data);
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+ if (mine !== seq.current) return;
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+ // An empty array is a real answer — every model disabled, or no provider
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+ // key — so it must replace the list rather than be discarded as a failure.
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+ if (Array.isArray(data)) setProviders(data);
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  setLoaded(true);
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  })
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- .catch(() => setLoaded(true)); // fallback silenzioso
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+ .catch(() => {
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+ // Keep the previous list: a failed refresh is not an empty catalogue.
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+ if (mine === seq.current) setLoaded(true);
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+ });
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  }, []);
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+ useEffect(() => { refresh(); }, [refresh]);
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+
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  return (
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- <ModelsContext.Provider value={{ providers, loaded }}>
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+ <ModelsContext.Provider value={{ providers, loaded, refresh }}>
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  {children}
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  </ModelsContext.Provider>
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  );
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
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  'use client';
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  import { useState, useCallback, useEffect } from 'react';
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+ import { useModels } from '../lib/models-context';
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  import {
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  isWizardComplete,
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  markWizardComplete,
@@ -45,6 +46,9 @@ export function useWizard() {
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  // Step tracking is in-memory only; the cookie is the source of truth
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  }, []);
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+ // Saving a key changes which models are offered; the shared list must follow.
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+ const { refresh: refreshOfferedModels } = useModels();
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+
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  const saveProviders = useCallback(async () => {
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  const entries = Object.entries(providerKeys).filter(([, v]) => v.trim());
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  if (entries.length === 0) {
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  body: JSON.stringify({ provider, apiKey: apiKey.trim() }),
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  });
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  }
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+ refreshOfferedModels();
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  markStep('providers');
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  } catch { /* API call failed — do not mark step as complete */ }
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  setSaving(false);
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- }, [providerKeys, markStep]);
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+ }, [providerKeys, markStep, refreshOfferedModels]);
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  const goNext = useCallback(async () => {
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  if (step === 'welcome') { markStep('welcome'); setStep('providers'); }
package/bin/rev4a.js CHANGED
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
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  * rev4a serve:
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  * 1. Ensures .env exists (auto-generates on first run)
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  * 2. Ensures .next build exists (builds if missing)
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- * 3. Ensures Docker is installed (installs if missing + root)
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+ * 3. Ensures Docker is installed (installs if missing + root) and waits for its daemon
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  * 4. Ensures agent base image is built (builds if missing)
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  * 5. Starts Next.js + daemon + terminal WS as a single process group
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  *
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  const AGENT_IMAGE = 'openclaw-agent-base:latest';
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  const AGENT_IMAGE_REGISTRY = 'ghcr.io/flame0510/rev4a/openclaw-agent-base:latest';
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  const DOCKER_NETWORK = 'rev4a-network';
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+ // How long `serve` waits for the Docker daemon before starting without it. Like
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+ // REV4A_DATA_DIR it is read from the real process environment (a systemd
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+ // Environment= line, a shell export), because the .env file is loaded later.
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+ const DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS = (() => {
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+ const raw = (process.env.REV4A_DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS || '').trim();
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+ if (!raw) return 90;
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+ const n = Number(raw);
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+ // 0 means a single check. Non-numeric or infinite values fall back to the
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+ // default, and the ceiling keeps a typo from holding start-up for hours.
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+ return Number.isFinite(n) && n >= 0 ? Math.min(n, 600) : 90;
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+ })();
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  // Fallback used only when package.json cannot be read — the published npm
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  // package name is the single source of truth, so never hardcode it elsewhere.
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  }
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  }
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- // ── Docker auto-install ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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+ // ── Docker auto-install and daemon wait ─────────────────────────────────────
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+ /** Block this thread for `ms` without spawning a process (`sleep` is not on every OS). */
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+ function sleepSync(ms) {
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+ Atomics.wait(new Int32Array(new SharedArrayBuffer(4)), 0, 0, ms);
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+ }
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+
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+ /**
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+ * Wait until the Docker daemon answers, up to DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS.
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+ *
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+ * Finding the `docker` command only proves the CLI is installed. At boot the
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+ * daemon can still be starting — on the production host systemd started this
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+ * service a second before Docker. Start-up still worked, by accident: the first
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+ * `docker` call blocked on docker.socket until the daemon was up. With a daemon
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+ * slower than a later call's 10 s timeout, the image check would have concluded
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+ * the image was missing and tried to pull and rebuild it. Asking the daemon
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+ * directly, with a short per-attempt timeout, makes the wait explicit, bounded
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+ * and logged, whatever kind of Docker install this is.
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+ */
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+ function waitForDockerDaemon() {
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+ const deadline = Date.now() + DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS * 1000;
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+ let lastError = '';
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+ let announced = false;
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+ for (;;) {
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+ try {
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+ const version = execSync('docker info --format "{{.ServerVersion}}"', { stdio: 'pipe', timeout: 10_000 })
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+ .toString().trim();
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+ if (version) {
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+ log('DOCKER', `Docker daemon ready (server ${version})`);
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+ return true;
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+ }
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+ } catch (err) {
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+ lastError = ((err.stderr && err.stderr.toString()) || err.message || '').trim().split('\n')[0];
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+ }
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+ if (Date.now() >= deadline) break;
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+ if (!announced) {
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+ log('DOCKER', `Waiting for the Docker daemon (up to ${DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS}s)…`);
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+ announced = true;
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+ }
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+ sleepSync(2000);
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+ }
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+ log('DOCKER', `⚠ Docker daemon not reachable after ${DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS}s: ${lastError || 'no answer'}`);
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+ log('DOCKER', ' Starting without it. Agents are unavailable and the startup sync reaches none; run Sync All Agents once Docker is up.');
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+ return false;
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+ }
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+ return waitForDockerDaemon();
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  # Rev4a Architecture — Design & Vision
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+ The 2026.7.1-2 image has no `/startupz` — its gateway serves the web UI with 200
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  6c. **An optimistic update moves every field the render derives from, together.** A row that decides its state by reading two fields against each other flips to a third, wrong state if the update touches only one of them — and holds it until the slow refresh lands. Update the whole set the derivation reads, or none of it.
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+ is the `Modal` component's own close control. Do not build a third variant of
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+ `type="button"`). The fix is to move them onto `Modal`, not to extract a
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+ `rev4a serve` waits for the Docker daemon before its Docker-dependent steps, up to
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+ `REV4A_DOCKER_WAIT_SECONDS` (default 90, capped at 600; `0` checks once without
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+ waiting; a negative or non-numeric value means 90). It asks the daemon itself with
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+ `docker info`, so the wait works the same on any Docker install. The variable is
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+ read from the process environment, not from the `.env` file.
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+ 3. The route waits for the gateway to finish starting with `waitForGatewayReady()`, up
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+ to 60 s. On OpenClaw 9.x it waits for `/startupz` to report `started`. The
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+ 2026.7.1-2 image has no `/startupz`, so there it waits for `/health`, which only
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+ shows the server is listening.
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  ## Gateway Page (`/gateway`)
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+ One job: provider configuration. API keys, which catalogue models this deployment
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+ offers, and pushing that catalogue to every agent.
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+ - Reads the model catalogue from `models.config.json`, merged with user toggles in
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+ `<data dir>/model-overrides.json`
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+ - Scans providers with keys in `<data dir>/provider-keys.json`
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+ - `PUT /api/gateway/provider` runs `syncAllAgents()`, which writes
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+ `models.providers.rev4a` into every agent container
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+ - **Does NOT touch** `agents.defaults.model` or `agents.list[].model` — those are
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+ per-agent settings
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+ ### Per-agent model, elsewhere
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- - `PUT /api/gateway/provider` runs `syncAllAgents()` which writes `models.providers.rev4a` to every agent container
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- - **Does NOT touch** `agents.defaults.model` or `agents.list[].model` — model references are managed per-container from the Agents Tab
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+ Choosing which model one agent runs is not on this page. It lives in the Model
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+ section of that agent's detail panel on the Agents page
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+ (`app/agents/ModelSection.tsx`), which calls `PUT /api/gateway/agent` to write the
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+ model ref into that container's `openclaw.json`. No gateway restart: OpenClaw
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+ watches the file and hot-applies the change.
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- - Does NOT restart the gateway — writes are live via file write
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+ The model is a property of the agent, not of the gateway. See
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+ [GATEWAY.md](dev/GATEWAY.md) for the write semantics: omitting `fallbacks` keeps the
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+ agent's current list, `[]` clears it.
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  ### Model Catalogue (`models.config.json`)
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- { "id": "deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash", "name": "DeepSeek V4 Flash", "provider": "deepseek", "enabled": true }
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+ { "id": "deepseek/deepseek-flash", "name": "DeepSeek Flash", "provider": "deepseek", "enabled": true }
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  ```
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  Only models whose provider has a key in `data/provider-keys.json` are synced.