refactor(app): instances, sign-in and sync plumbing come from halkyon_app

The instances a device keeps an account on, the first start, the
account switcher, signing in and switching person, the gates that build
the dependencies per instance and per person, and the sync service with
its status, card and banner move to halkyon_app (halkyon_shared, ADR
0014), on halkyon_base's client. Learn supplies its frame (name, word,
icon, theme, launch screen, and the two texts only it can say), its
dependencies, whether the device holds content, and its world map's
country names; every text reads as before. An instance counts only
where its basics name the app `learn`, which learnBase now sets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
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A spaced-repetition learning app: studysets of flashcards, reviewed on an FSRS schedule. Content is rich text (`appflowy_editor` documents) everywhere. Targets: Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS. There is no web build.
- **Packages**: `halkyon_learn_server` (endpoints, models, migrations), `halkyon_learn_client` (generated, never edited), `halkyon_learn_flutter` (the app, ID `app.halkyon.learn`). What every Halkyon server has comes from the Serverpod module `halkyon_base` (ADR 0014, decided 2026-10-19; `halkyon_base_server` and `halkyon_base_client` in halkyon_shared, pinned by git to a signed commit as the sync fork is, a git-ignored `pubspec_overrides.yaml` at the workspace root pointing at a checkout for local work, which repeats the root's `dependency_overrides`, since pub takes it in place of them): signing in, the account's ways in and its deletion, the pruning, and the instance's basics. The server sets it up for Learn before it starts (`HalkyonBase.configure(pod, learnBase())` in `server.dart`; `lib/src/auth/learn_base.dart`: the app's name in sign-in mails, this project's source, `minimumAppBuild`, Learn's own deletion as a hook), its endpoints are `client.modules.base` in the app, its tables (`email_identity`, `email_code_request`) are the module's, and tests that delete people or ask `instance.info()` set it up as the server does (`useLearnBase(sessionBuilder)`). Change what it holds there, not here.
- **Packages**: `halkyon_learn_server` (endpoints, models, migrations), `halkyon_learn_client` (generated, never edited), `halkyon_learn_flutter` (the app, ID `app.halkyon.learn`). What every Halkyon server has comes from the Serverpod module `halkyon_base` (ADR 0014, decided 2026-10-19; `halkyon_base_server` and `halkyon_base_client` in halkyon_shared, pinned by git to a signed commit as the sync fork is, a git-ignored `pubspec_overrides.yaml` at the workspace root pointing at a checkout for local work, which repeats the root's `dependency_overrides`, since pub takes it in place of them): signing in, the account's ways in and its deletion, the pruning, and the instance's basics. The server sets it up for Learn before it starts (`HalkyonBase.configure(pod, learnBase())` in `server.dart`; `lib/src/auth/learn_base.dart`: the app it serves, `learn`, which its instances name in their basics and the app checks (never change it), the app's name in sign-in mails, this project's source, `minimumAppBuild`, Learn's own deletion as a hook), its endpoints are `client.modules.base` in the app, its tables (`email_identity`, `email_code_request`) are the module's, and tests that delete people or ask `instance.info()` set it up as the server does (`useLearnBase(sessionBuilder)`). What every Halkyon app's shell has comes from `halkyon_app` on the module's client (ADR 0014; with `halkyon_core`'s `SerialQueue` and `CoalescingRunner`, pinned alike): the instances and the first start, signing in and switching person, the gates (`InstanceGate`, `SessionGate`, `PersonScope`, `AppScope`), the sync service and where it stands, with texts of its own (`HalkyonAppLocalizations`, in `appLocalizationsDelegates`) that name the app from `learnFrame`. Change what they hold there, not here.
- **Instances**: anyone may run one. The app takes the server URL from `--dart-define=SERVER_URL=…`, so never hard-code a host.
- **Working notes**: if `NEXT.md` exists in the repository root, read it first. It holds the current step, the plan and the reasoning behind each decision. It is local and never committed.
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- **Generated protocol classes are not domain models.** They carry the envelope (`payload` as bytes); `model/` holds the decoded content. Mapping between them happens in `data/`.
- **Import `halkyon_learn_client` with a prefix (`as protocol`) or a `show` list.** The generator emits a `<Model>Repository` for every table, and its names clash with the app's own repositories.
- **Gateway / repository.** A gateway is a thin boundary to *one* backend (e.g. the Serverpod client's endpoints) behind an `abstract interface class`. A repository is what features use: it composes gateways and holds the logic. Blocs depend on repositories, never on gateways or the raw client. Why: gateways are the seams tests fake, and adding the offline layer later becomes a new local gateway, not a rewrite of every feature.
- **Manual dependency injection.** One `Dependencies` object (`lib/src/core/dependencies/`) is the composition root, built at startup (`Dependencies.create()`) and exposed through the `DependenciesScope` InheritedWidget. It hands features repositories only. No service locator, no DI framework, no globals (the scaffold's global `client` moved into it). Why: every dependency is a typed, greppable field, and nothing is resolved by magic.
- **Manual dependency injection.** One `Dependencies` object (`lib/src/core/dependencies/`) is the composition root, built for the instance in use (`Dependencies.create()`) and exposed through halkyon_app's `AppScope` InheritedWidget, whose parts it provides (`AppDependencies`); widgets reach it through `Dependencies.of(context)`. It hands features repositories only. No service locator, no DI framework, no globals (the scaffold's global `client` moved into it). Why: every dependency is a typed, greppable field, and nothing is resolved by magic.
- **One graph per context.** The dependency graph belongs to one instance and one signed-in person; when either changes, a `KeyedSubtree` disposes the whole subtree and rebuilds it. Why: nothing from one person's session (blocs, streams, caches) can leak into another's.
- **App-wide vs. per person.** `Dependencies` holds what outlives a person (the client, auth). Everything of the signed-in person (their local database, its sync, their repositories) is `PersonDependencies`, opened by `PersonScope` inside `SessionGate`'s keyed subtree (`Dependencies.openPerson`) and disposed with it; widgets reach it through `PersonScope.of(context)`.
- **The device's own settings** (appearance, language, citation style, the PDF sidebar's share of the room as last dragged; `core/device_settings/`) belong to the device, not to a person: kept in `<app support>/device_settings.json`, read in `Dependencies.create()` so the first frame already has them, and provided by `DeviceSettingsScope` above `SessionGate`'s keyed subtree, which both its plain app and `PersonApp` read. What should follow the person to their other devices goes into their synced `PersonSettings` instead.
- **Every person has an app of their own** (`PersonApp`, `lib/src/app/`), which `SessionGate` builds inside the keyed subtree: a `MaterialApp.router` with its own `GoRouter`, and `PersonScope` around the router's navigator (`MaterialApp.builder`). So every screen and dialog is inside the person's scope and reads their repositories from `PersonScope.of(context)` wherever it is built, and a change of person disposes the router with every screen on it and starts again at home. Until someone is signed in, `SessionGate` shows a plain `MaterialApp`: the spinner, or the failure with a way to try again.
- **App-wide vs. per person.** `Dependencies` holds what outlives a person (the client, auth). Everything of the signed-in person (their local database, its sync, their repositories) is `PersonDependencies`, opened by halkyon_app's `PersonScope` inside `SessionGate`'s keyed subtree (`Dependencies.openPerson`) and disposed with it; widgets reach it through `PersonDependencies.of(context)`.
- **The device's own settings** (appearance, language, citation style, the PDF sidebar's share of the room as last dragged; `core/device_settings/`) belong to the device, not to a person: kept in `<app support>/device_settings.json`, read in `Dependencies.create()` so the first frame already has them, and provided by `DeviceSettingsScope` around halkyon_app's `SessionGate` (`LearnSessions`, `lib/src/app/`), whose plain app takes its look from it (theme mode and language, `DeviceSettings.look`), as `PersonApp` does; halkyon_app's `InstanceGate` reads the same two before any instance opens (`readLook`). What should follow the person to their other devices goes into their synced `PersonSettings` instead.
- **Every person has an app of their own** (`PersonApp`, `lib/src/app/`), which `SessionGate` builds inside the keyed subtree: a `MaterialApp.router` with its own `GoRouter`, and `PersonScope` around the router's navigator (`MaterialApp.builder`). So every screen and dialog is inside the person's scope and reads their repositories from `PersonScope.of(context)` wherever it is built, and a change of person disposes the router with every screen on it and starts again at home. Until someone is signed in, `SessionGate` shows a plain `MaterialApp`: the spinner, or the failure with a way to try again. **The gates are halkyon_app's** (ADR 0014, shared by Halkyon's apps): `InstanceGate`, `SessionGate`, `PersonScope`, `AppScope`; Learn gives them `learnFrame` (`lib/src/app/learn_frame.dart`: its name and word, kingfisher, theme, languages, launch screen, and the two sentences only it can say, the first start's subtitle and what a switch leaves behind, in its own words), its dependencies, `ServerpodInstanceChecker(app: 'learn')` and its `CountryNames` (`main.dart`).
- **Platform plugins sit behind small interfaces in `Dependencies`**, with fakes in tests: picking files (`FilePicker`, `file_selector`), saving files the app made, such as exports (`FileSaver`: `file_selector`'s dialog on the desktop, `file_picker`'s on Android and iOS, where `file_selector` has none), playing sounds (`SoundPlayer`, `audioplayers`), playing YouTube videos (`YoutubeVideos`, `youtube_player_iframe` where a web view exists, else the browser), reading PDFs (`PdfEngine`, pdfrx on PDFium, which `flutter test` can't load: widget tests use `FakePdfEngine`, whose PDF bytes say their pages and chapters), cutting Japanese on the device (`JapaneseAnalyser`: MeCab, which needs the IPADIC the app downloads, on an isolate of its own), reading Anki packages on another isolate (`AnkiPackageReader`; a widget test's fake clock can't wait for one), zipping an export with its files on another isolate (`ExportArchiver`, for the same reason), and the Pomodoro timer's side of the system (`PomodoroPlatform`, `FakePomodoroPlatform` in tests).
- **Material's `Card` widget clashes with the domain's `Card`**: files that need both import `material_ui` with `hide Card`.
- **State: `flutter_bloc`, uniformly.** Blocs fold repository streams into immutable states with value equality, are provided as close to their consumer as possible, and log through one global `BlocObserver`. Why: the data layer is stream-shaped, event → state machines test without widgets, and one pattern everywhere is itself the point.
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- **Lists that can grow long are built as they scroll into view**: a studyset's parts are `CustomScrollView`s holding each list's slivers (`SliverList`, `SliverReorderableList`), and what a list says in place of its rows sits in a `SliverCentered`. Never a `shrinkWrap` list inside another scrolling view: that builds every row at once, and 1,000 cards then froze the window for seconds, long enough for the desktop to offer to kill the app. Rows are put in another order in a Reorder mode (`ReorderToggle` beside the list; a `ReorderGrip` in place of each row's options; positions from `core/sync/fractional_position.dart`), never with Flutter's default drag handles, which on the desktop lie over a row's trailing end, its … button. Flashcards have no Reorder (decided 2026-10-08): they keep the order they were created or imported in, which new cards and cramming follow, and sub-studysets put lessons in order; no one drags a card among a thousand. **The card browser** (`feature/card/widget/card_browser_screen.dart`, decided 2026-10-09: the older design, gaps filled) opens from Browse beside the flashcards' tab, over the tabs (`/studysets/:id/flashcards`, `?subtree=1` with everything inside, which a line below the title says; the title has how many cards beside it): grid or detail (one card beside the list, which follows it; on a phone above a strip), as last left per studyset on the device (`DeviceSettings.detailedBrowsers`); search over front, back, reading, meanings, hints, explanation and tag names (katakana as hiragana, romaji finding kana, accents, tone marks and umlauts left out, so strasse finds Straße and xue xi xué xí; `card_browser.dart`); sort (own order, newest, oldest, A–Z by reading, by bare letters, due first); a filter sheet (kind, one tag, state: new, learning, due, buried, reported); and choosing cards (a toggle; shift-click or long-press for a range) to move (`showCardMoveSheet`), tag, untag, start afresh or delete with Undo. It reads every card of the studysets, as lists do (schedules from the review repository's cache).
- **Forms and pickers open as sheets**: `showAdaptiveSheet` with a `SheetScaffold` (title and close button on top, the body scrolling with a scrollbar, always shown on the desktop, and Material 3's lines under the title and above the footer while some of the body lies beyond them, the action pinned below) shows a bottom sheet below expanded windows and a dialog from there on. A sheet that asks before discarding changes (a `PopScope`) passes `swipeable: false`: a bottom sheet swiped away closes without asking its `PopScope` (Flutter issue 152120, open with v3.47). A sheet offering an Undo passes `hasSnackBars: true`, so its snack bars show on it rather than behind its barrier. A sheet running something that mustn't be cut off (an import) is `busy` meanwhile: its close button is greyed and back does nothing; it is shown with `swipeable: false`, since a swipe closes a bottom sheet regardless. A screen whose blocs import (a studyset's PDFs and paths) greys its back button and path likewise, as leaving would close them; an import of paths shows the study plan at once, how far it has come above the paths (`PathImportProgress`). A picker that changes something outside it reports every change as it happens (`onChanged`) rather than as its result, since a sheet swiped away has none. What needs the whole window to be written or picked (a studyset's description, a step's feedback, a map question's region: `editRichText`, `pickRegion`, decided 2026-10-12) is a field in the form (`ChevronField`: the value, a chevron) opening a full-window route with Save in its app bar, where nothing scrolls around a map, so the wheel alone zooms it; a country's own map (Japan's prefectures) is offered there only once the country, or a region within it, is picked.
- **Every text field has a limit** (decided 2026-10-11): `TextLimits` (halkyon_ui) by what it holds (a name 40, a secondary title 60, a title 120, an item 200, a search 200, a citation's part 500, an email address 254, a message or a web address 2000, a passage 5000), or the instance's own where the server checks it (`PublicProfile.max…`, `maxSlugLength`), with `buildCounter: nearLimitCounter`. Text can still be longer where it came from elsewhere, so every place showing a name cuts it (`maxLines` and an ellipsis, in a `Flexible` within a row); `test/app/long_names_test.dart` shows names beyond every limit on the main screens of a phone and a desktop, and fails on any overflow: add a screen there when it shows names.
- **Text comes from `AppLocalizations`** (Flutter's gen-l10n, `lib/l10n/`): no string a person reads is written into a widget. The app speaks British English, American English and German (informal "du"; the terms of `app_de.arb`, such as Lernset and Karteikarte, stay consistent). `app_en.arb` is the template and holds British English, also the fallback for any language the app doesn't speak; `app_en_US.arb` overrides only what American English spells differently, and `app_en_GB.arb` is empty, there so that Material and dates format the British way. A new message goes into `app_en.arb` and `app_de.arb` together (`test/l10n/arb_files_test.dart` fails otherwise, and checks the placeholders), and into `app_en_US.arb` if its spelling differs. `resolveAppLocale` (`core/l10n/`) picks the language, never by country alone, and both `MaterialApp`s take `appLocalizationsDelegates` (halkyon_ui's texts among them), not gen-l10n's list: that brings flutter_localizations' Material texts, which serve only the SDK's Material, so material_ui's widgets would stay English. Errors found in data go up as values the widgets put into words (`PathImportProblem`, `PathImportTexts`), never as English sentences. The editor's own placeholders are replaced by ours (`buildersWithUnknown`), since the editor's texts follow a process-wide locale of their own. The generated `lib/l10n/app_localizations*.dart` are committed and never edited, analysed or formatted by hand. `flutter pub get` writes them anew, so CI fails when they don't match the `.arb` files.
- **Text comes from `AppLocalizations`** (Flutter's gen-l10n, `lib/l10n/`): no string a person reads is written into a widget. The app speaks British English, American English and German (informal "du"; the terms of `app_de.arb`, such as Lernset and Karteikarte, stay consistent). `app_en.arb` is the template and holds British English, also the fallback for any language the app doesn't speak; `app_en_US.arb` overrides only what American English spells differently, and `app_en_GB.arb` is empty, there so that Material and dates format the British way. A new message goes into `app_en.arb` and `app_de.arb` together (`test/l10n/arb_files_test.dart` fails otherwise, and checks the placeholders), and into `app_en_US.arb` if its spelling differs. `resolveAppLocale` (`core/l10n/`) picks the language, never by country alone, and every `MaterialApp` takes `appLocalizationsDelegates` (halkyon_app's and halkyon_ui's texts among them; halkyon_app's plain apps take it from `learnFrame`), not gen-l10n's list: that brings flutter_localizations' Material texts, which serve only the SDK's Material, so material_ui's widgets would stay English. Errors found in data go up as values the widgets put into words (`PathImportProblem`, `PathImportTexts`), never as English sentences. The editor's own placeholders are replaced by ours (`buildersWithUnknown`), since the editor's texts follow a process-wide locale of their own. The generated `lib/l10n/app_localizations*.dart` are committed and never edited, analysed or formatted by hand. `flutter pub get` writes them anew, so CI fails when they don't match the `.arb` files.
## Testing
- **By layer**: models with plain unit tests; repositories against fake gateways; blocs by asserting the emitted state sequence; widgets pumped in isolation, presentation widgets fed with ready-made data.
- **Server endpoints are tested for real** against the embedded Postgres (`withServerpod`, `dart test` in the server package), including the denial tests.
- **Test dependencies come from a test factory**, `testDependencies(...)` in `test/support/test_dependencies.dart`, filling in fakes by default (a factory in `lib/` couldn't reach the fakes in `test/`), so a new dependency changes one place. Don't make dependencies nullable to spare tests: that moves null checks into production code.
- Shared fakes live in `test/support/`; fakes pre-stub their streams so an incidental subscription doesn't fail the test.
- Shared fakes live in `test/support/`, those of halkyon_app's boundaries in its `package:halkyon_app/testing.dart` (`FakeAuthGateway`, `FakeInstanceChecker`, `MemorySignedOutMark`, `MemorySignInAddresses`, `MemoryInstanceStore`, `MemoryPendingChangesStore`), which `testDependencies` fills in; fakes pre-stub their streams so an incidental subscription doesn't fail the test.
- **Editor in widget tests**: host `AppFlowyEditor` in a scrollable body with a fixed-height slot (an over-constrained `Expanded` hangs the test), and `pump(const Duration(seconds: 1))` after editor changes to flush its timers. Test the document ↔ JSON round-trip as plain unit tests.
- **No `Stream.first` on a repository's stream in code that widget tests run**: `first` waits for the subscription's cancel future, which for a broadcast stream is a completed future of the root zone, so under the widget test's fake clock it never completes. Read once with the repository's `all()` instead. For the same reason a repository never keeps a completed future to chain later work on (a `Future.value()` made in `setUp` runs what waits for it in the real zone): a queue of writes starts empty and empties again when idle (`SerialQueue`, `core/async/`), and a cache keeps values, not futures (`GeoMapRepository`). Assets are read for real, which the fake clock doesn't advance: a widget test showing a map gets the maps read beforehand (`loadedMaps(tester)` into `testDependencies(maps: ...)`), and one showing how a character is written its strokes (`loadedStrokes(tester, characters)` into `testDependencies(strokes: ...)`).
- **No `Stream.first` on a repository's stream in code that widget tests run**: `first` waits for the subscription's cancel future, which for a broadcast stream is a completed future of the root zone, so under the widget test's fake clock it never completes. Read once with the repository's `all()` instead. For the same reason a repository never keeps a completed future to chain later work on (a `Future.value()` made in `setUp` runs what waits for it in the real zone): a queue of writes starts empty and empties again when idle (`SerialQueue`, halkyon_core), and a cache keeps values, not futures (`GeoMapRepository`). Assets are read for real, which the fake clock doesn't advance: a widget test showing a map gets the maps read beforehand (`loadedMaps(tester)` into `testDependencies(maps: ...)`), and one showing how a character is written its strokes (`loadedStrokes(tester, characters)` into `testDependencies(strokes: ...)`).
- **Text inside the editor's views** (`RichContentView`, `RichContentEditor`) is rich text: find it with `findRichText: true`.
- **Layout-sensitive widget tests** set `tester.view.physicalSize` explicitly, so a responsive branch isn't missed for the wrong reason.
- **A menu item acts in the frame after its menu closes** (`MenuAnchor`): pump twice after tapping one before expecting what it does.
- **Server tests of what writes synced rows** run on the sync engine's database, as the server does (the generated test tools build the pod without it): pass the interceptor to `withServerpod`, call `initializeOfflineSync` in `setUp`, and write as a person through `transactionForUser`. Its writes take transactions of their own, so these tests turn rollback off and delete what they made (`test/integration/asset/asset_test.dart`).
- **Sync tests run against a running server** (ADR 0001, rule 9: the client's and the server's sync engines can't share one process): `halkyon_learn_flutter/test/sync/`, tagged `requires-server`, skipped by `tool/check.sh`; run them with `flutter test -t requires-server` while `serverpod start` runs (from a worktree against another checkout's server, `SYNC_TEST_SERVER_DIR=<its halkyon_learn_server>` for the SQL checks). A test device syncs through its `SyncService`, as the app does, so what a sync merges reaches its repositories, which keep what they read until then. Every device is a client with in-memory session storage and its own local database, with the app's real gateway and repository on top; tests sync explicitly. What only the operator could see (a blanked payload, a row that must not exist) is checked with SQL against the development database, through the embedded PostgreSQL's Unix socket where there is one. An honest device only syncs the spaces the server announces, so a forged write never leaves it; the server's own check against modified clients (`_assertCanMergeInboundSpace` in the sync engine) has no test yet. They live in the app package because the server's Docker build resolves the server's dependencies without the client package. They must not initialize a Flutter test binding (no `testWidgets`), which would replace real HTTP with a mock.
- **Widget tests of screens start the whole app**: `pumpApp(tester, testDependencies(...), location: …)` (`test/support/pump_app.dart`) pumps `SessionGate` with the real `PersonApp`, opened at the screen's path, and settles once `PersonScope` has opened the person's data. From there a test moves as a person would: `openTab` (the tab's label alone may also be a screen's title), taps, `pageBack`. Data goes into the fake gateways before pumping; they work in memory (`FakeStudysetGateway`, with `failReads` for the error path), and a repository of the test's own on the same fake gateway writes what the app then reads. `pumpAndSettle` never ends while a spinner shows (`AppLoadingIndicator` animates without end): pump frames instead where one is expected. A widget pumped on its own that reads `AppLocalizations` or is one of halkyon_ui's needs `appLocalizationsDelegates` in its `MaterialApp`, which brings halkyon_ui's texts too.
- **Widget tests of screens start the whole app**: `pumpApp(tester, testDependencies(...), location: …)` (`test/support/pump_app.dart`) pumps the app as `InstanceGate` shows it on an instance (`learnFrame`, `AppScope`, `LearnSessions` with halkyon_app's `SessionGate`) with the real `PersonApp`, opened at the screen's path, and settles once `PersonScope` has opened the person's data. From there a test moves as a person would: `openTab` (the tab's label alone may also be a screen's title), taps, `pageBack`. Data goes into the fake gateways before pumping; they work in memory (`FakeStudysetGateway`, with `failReads` for the error path), and a repository of the test's own on the same fake gateway writes what the app then reads. `pumpAndSettle` never ends while a spinner shows (`AppLoadingIndicator` animates without end): pump frames instead where one is expected. A widget pumped on its own that reads `AppLocalizations` or is one of halkyon_ui's or halkyon_app's needs `appLocalizationsDelegates` in its `MaterialApp`, which brings their texts too.
## CI and deploys
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- **Authentication**: server-side sessions (`ServerSideSessionsConfigFromPasswords`), not JWT, for immediate revocation. Scopes are copied onto the session row, so changing a person's scopes means updating their session rows too.
- **Identity**: `AuthUser` is the person; identity providers (anonymous, GitHub, an email address) attach to it. Content references `AuthUser`, never a provider account. A person may sign in with GitHub and with an address, one of each (`account.signInWays`); the Profile tab lists their ways in and adds the missing one.
- **GitHub keeps only the numeric GitHub ID**: our own slim login (halkyon_base's `github.dart`) on Serverpod's GitHub helpers; Serverpod's stock GitHub login endpoint, which stores name, email and avatar, is never exposed. GitHub sign-in is on only where the passwords hold `githubClientId` and `githubClientSecret` (in production `GITHUB_CLIENT_ID`/`GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET` in `deploy/.env`); the app asks `instance.info()`.
- **GitHub keeps only the numeric GitHub ID**: our own slim login (halkyon_base's `github.dart`) on Serverpod's GitHub helpers; Serverpod's stock GitHub login endpoint, which stores name, email and avatar, is never exposed. GitHub sign-in is on only where the passwords hold `githubClientId` and `githubClientSecret` (in production `GITHUB_CLIENT_ID`/`GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET` in `deploy/.env`); the app asks halkyon_base's `instance.basics()`.
- **Linking keeps the person** (`GitHubUpgradeEndpoint`, `requireLogin`): the GitHub ID joins the signed-in anonymous person, who becomes identified and loses the anonymous identity, in one transaction. **Signing in** (`GitHubSignInEndpoint`) only reaches people who have a GitHub account already, and only without a session: Serverpod refuses to issue another person's session inside a signed-in call. Refusals are `GitHubSignInRefusedException` with a reason.
- **Switching devices' person** (the app's `switchToGitHub`, `switchToEmail`): swap the session directly, never through "signed out" (which would leave the device asking how to start), then delete the account left behind if it was anonymous (nobody could sign into it again), never an identified one. Someone identified is never offered a switch: an address or GitHub account that is another account's is said to be so.
- **Email keeps only a keyed hash of the address** (ADR 0010, decided 2026-10-15): our own slim login (halkyon_base's `email.dart`) on Serverpod's code challenges and rate limiter, as Serverpod's email sign-in keeps the address in plain text and passwords. `email_identity` holds HMAC-SHA256 of the address in lower case, keyed with `emailSignInPepper`; the instance mails only an address someone has just typed, and the device remembers the address it signed in with (`SignInAddresses`, `sign_in.json` in the person's folder). A code by mail each time, no password: eight Crockford characters (halkyon_base's `short_code.dart`, shared with connect codes), 15 minutes, 3 tries, a newer one replacing the older; at most 3 codes an hour per address and 10 per network. `emailCode.sendCode` answers alike for every address; `emailCode.verifyCode` (`requireLogin`) makes a new address the caller's (as linking GitHub does) or, for another person's, returns a switch token that `emailSignIn.signIn` (without a session) turns into a session for them. Refusals are `EmailSignInRefusedException` with a reason. Codes go by mail over SMTP (halkyon_base's `code_mail.dart`, naming the app the host configures, pub.dev's `mailer`, TLS only), through the service the passwords name (`emailSmtpHost`, `emailSmtpPort`, `emailSmtpUser`, `emailSmtpPassword`, `emailFrom`; in production `EMAIL_SMTP_…` and `EMAIL_FROM` in `deploy/.env`; learn.halkyon.eu's is Proton's), as plain text with the code in the subject; without one, into the server's log in development, and elsewhere there is no email sign-in (`instance.info().emailSignIn`). Nothing logs an address or a code (a failed mail logs its error's type), and never attach a handler to `package:logging`'s root logger, through which `mailer` would.
- **On Linux and Windows the browser half is the app's own** (`LoopbackWebAuth`, `feature/auth/data/`): the system browser and a loopback address (RFC 8252), put in place of flutter_web_auth_2's own implementation (checked with v5.1.0) before each sign-in. The package's front ends every pending sign-in when the app is resumed, and on the desktop the window regaining focus resumes it, so its loopback server closed before GitHub answered. Ours waits for GitHub, the profile's Cancel (shown only there), choosing another tab, a change of person, or 5 minutes; the regression test drives the package's front through a focus change. Remove it once the package stops ending sign-ins on focus there. Serverpod (v4.0.3) reports every cancelled browser round trip as an unknown error, so the gateway knows a cancel only by having asked for it; a cancel on GitHub's own page, or leaving the browser on Android, still shows "Couldn't sign in with GitHub."
- **Switching devices' person** (halkyon_app's `switchToGitHub`, `switchToEmail`, on whether the device holds content as Learn counts it, `PersonDependencies.holdsContent`: its studysets, Recently deleted's too): swap the session directly, never through "signed out" (which would leave the device asking how to start), then delete the account left behind if it was anonymous (nobody could sign into it again), never an identified one. Someone identified is never offered a switch: an address or GitHub account that is another account's is said to be so.
- **Email keeps only a keyed hash of the address** (ADR 0010, decided 2026-10-15): our own slim login (halkyon_base's `email.dart`) on Serverpod's code challenges and rate limiter, as Serverpod's email sign-in keeps the address in plain text and passwords. `email_identity` holds HMAC-SHA256 of the address in lower case, keyed with `emailSignInPepper`; the instance mails only an address someone has just typed, and the device remembers the address it signed in with (`SignInAddresses`, `sign_in.json` in the person's folder). A code by mail each time, no password: eight Crockford characters (halkyon_base's `short_code.dart`, shared with connect codes), 15 minutes, 3 tries, a newer one replacing the older; at most 3 codes an hour per address and 10 per network. `emailCode.sendCode` answers alike for every address; `emailCode.verifyCode` (`requireLogin`) makes a new address the caller's (as linking GitHub does) or, for another person's, returns a switch token that `emailSignIn.signIn` (without a session) turns into a session for them. Refusals are `EmailSignInRefusedException` with a reason. Codes go by mail over SMTP (halkyon_base's `code_mail.dart`, naming the app the host configures, pub.dev's `mailer`, TLS only), through the service the passwords name (`emailSmtpHost`, `emailSmtpPort`, `emailSmtpUser`, `emailSmtpPassword`, `emailFrom`; in production `EMAIL_SMTP_…` and `EMAIL_FROM` in `deploy/.env`; learn.halkyon.eu's is Proton's), as plain text with the code in the subject; without one, into the server's log in development, and elsewhere there is no email sign-in (`emailSignIn` in halkyon_base's `instance.basics()`, which the app asks). Nothing logs an address or a code (a failed mail logs its error's type), and never attach a handler to `package:logging`'s root logger, through which `mailer` would.
- **On Linux and Windows the browser half is the app's own** (`LoopbackWebAuth`, halkyon_app): the system browser and a loopback address (RFC 8252), put in place of flutter_web_auth_2's own implementation (checked with v5.1.0) before each sign-in. The package's front ends every pending sign-in when the app is resumed, and on the desktop the window regaining focus resumes it, so its loopback server closed before GitHub answered. Ours waits for GitHub, the profile's Cancel (shown only there), choosing another tab, a change of person, or 5 minutes; the regression test drives the package's front through a focus change. Remove it once the package stops ending sign-ins on focus there. Serverpod (v4.0.3) reports every cancelled browser round trip as an unknown error, so the gateway knows a cancel only by having asked for it; a cancel on GitHub's own page, or leaving the browser on Android, still shows "Couldn't sign in with GitHub."
- **Authorization lives in endpoint code**; Serverpod has no row-level security. Load content filtered by the session's `authUserId`, never by an owner ID the client sends. A row another person owns must be indistinguishable from a missing one. Features involving other people require the `identified` scope, declared via `requiredScopes`, never checked ad hoc.
- **The reference is `DevicesEndpoint`** (`halkyon_learn_server/lib/src/auth/`) with its tests: the owner check sits in the same query (`WHERE "id" = $1 AND "authUserId" = $2`), zero rows means `NotFoundException` (shared, `lib/src/common/`), and every rule has a test that asserts the refusal. Each query carries its SQL as a comment.
- **Serverpod's own helpers aren't guarded**: `ServerSideSessions.revokeSession` deletes by id alone, and `listSessions` without `authUserId` returns everyone's sessions. Never pass them anything a client sent.
- **Granting a scope** goes through a function like `grantIdentified`, which updates the person *and* their session rows.
- **Content envelope**: synced content tables carry `keyId` and `nonce` (nullable; `null` = plaintext, the only value, ADR 0002 rule 6) and `payload` (`ByteData`): UTF-8 JSON with a `schemaVersion`, encoded and decoded by one codec per feature (e.g. `studyset_payload.dart`) on top of `core/content/payload.dart`, which also holds the blanked `redactedPayload`. Content fields live inside `payload`: a new field raises the schema version instead of migrating a synced table, which would lock older app versions out of syncing (ADR 0002, rule 3). A payload in a newer schema is skipped with a log, never shown half-read.
- **Synced data** (`database: sync`, `serverpod_offline_sync`, ADR 0001): every person has their own local SQLite database (`<app support>/people/<authUserId>/sync.sqlite`). Its gateway writes through the `OfflineSyncDatabaseSession`, **names the columns of every update**, and calls `SyncService.requestSync()` after every write; the repository re-reads after its own writes and when a sync merged changes (`remoteChanges`). **What is read is kept until it changes** (decided 2026-10-17; on a copy of a real library, 8,000 cards and 21,000 reviews, every screen's counts took over a second after each change, now about 65 ms once): `CardRepository` keeps each studyset's cards and every card's stamp until a card changes, `ReviewRepository` the whole log once many cards' reviews are asked for, updated by this device's writes and read anew after a sync brings others', and `StudysetProgressRepository` works out every studyset's progress once for the library, every studyset open and its topics. What everyone follows (the studysets, the settings, the tags, the progress) is a `LatestValue` (`core/async/`): a screen starting to follow gets the value last read, and only the first has it read, rather than every screen opening having it read again for every screen open; while nobody follows, nothing is kept or read. Work asked for again while it runs runs once more after it, not once each (`CoalescingRunner`, `core/async/`: syncs, uploads, working progress out), and a repository's watch reads so for each listener (`watchReads`); never write that loop by hand again. A read begun before a change never fills a cache (each counts the changes), and a cache keeps values, never futures. A test reading right after a change that reaches the repository another way (a fake remote change, a bloc's write still under way) lets the event queue run first. `SyncService` syncs on triggers (at start, 2 s after the last write, on resume, every 5 min), one sync at a time. **Deleting blanks the payload first** (ADR 0002, rule 2): the engine keeps deleted rows until the space is deleted. Since blanking can't be undone, an Undo comes before it: a moment's for cards, notes, paths and PDFs (`DelayedDeletions`), 14 days for a studyset (ADR 0007, decided 2026-10-12, as Vaia keeps them): `StudysetDeletions`, opened with the person's data, marks it deleted (`studyset.deletedAt`), and it waits in the library's Recently deleted with everything inside it, restorable, while every other list, count and session reads without it (`StudysetRepository.all` and `watchAll` leave out what is deleted and inside it, `notDeleted`; `withDeleted` reads everything); once the 14 days are over, whichever of the person's devices looks next (as their data opens, after every sync) deletes the whole subtree for good, what is inside first, each studyset's cards blanked before it, and Delete now does at once after asking. Deleting doesn't ask, offering Undo. Widgets delete, undo and delete for good through it directly (`deleteStudysetWithUndo`, `deleteStudysetForGood`), not through a bloc: deleting a studyset from its own screen closes that screen and its bloc, and the deletion and its Undo must outlive them. The server never deletes them (it can't blank a payload; ADR 0007), and its connector, publishing and learner count leave them out too (`notDeleted` in `lib/src/studyset/`). Tags differ, being values (a tag is its name whatever its case, which it keeps; ADR 0004 rule 2): one is blanked and deleted at once, and its Undo makes a tag of that name and colour anew, on the same cards. Order by the UUID v7 id (ADR 0001, rule 7). Access to synced rows is the engine's: a person syncs their personal space and the spaces granted to them; the endpoint rules above guard everything that isn't synced.
- **Synced data** (`database: sync`, `serverpod_offline_sync`, ADR 0001): every person has their own local SQLite database (`<app support>/people/<authUserId>/sync.sqlite`). Its gateway writes through the `OfflineSyncDatabaseSession`, **names the columns of every update**, and calls `SyncService.requestSync()` after every write; the repository re-reads after its own writes and when a sync merged changes (`remoteChanges`). **What is read is kept until it changes** (decided 2026-10-17; on a copy of a real library, 8,000 cards and 21,000 reviews, every screen's counts took over a second after each change, now about 65 ms once): `CardRepository` keeps each studyset's cards and every card's stamp until a card changes, `ReviewRepository` the whole log once many cards' reviews are asked for, updated by this device's writes and read anew after a sync brings others', and `StudysetProgressRepository` works out every studyset's progress once for the library, every studyset open and its topics. What everyone follows (the studysets, the settings, the tags, the progress) is a `LatestValue` (`core/async/`): a screen starting to follow gets the value last read, and only the first has it read, rather than every screen opening having it read again for every screen open; while nobody follows, nothing is kept or read. Work asked for again while it runs runs once more after it, not once each (`CoalescingRunner`, halkyon_core: syncs, uploads, working progress out), and a repository's watch reads so for each listener (`watchReads`); never write that loop by hand again. A read begun before a change never fills a cache (each counts the changes), and a cache keeps values, never futures. A test reading right after a change that reaches the repository another way (a fake remote change, a bloc's write still under way) lets the event queue run first. `SyncService` (halkyon_app) syncs on triggers (at start, 2 s after the last write, on resume, every 5 min), one sync at a time. **Deleting blanks the payload first** (ADR 0002, rule 2): the engine keeps deleted rows until the space is deleted. Since blanking can't be undone, an Undo comes before it: a moment's for cards, notes, paths and PDFs (`DelayedDeletions`), 14 days for a studyset (ADR 0007, decided 2026-10-12, as Vaia keeps them): `StudysetDeletions`, opened with the person's data, marks it deleted (`studyset.deletedAt`), and it waits in the library's Recently deleted with everything inside it, restorable, while every other list, count and session reads without it (`StudysetRepository.all` and `watchAll` leave out what is deleted and inside it, `notDeleted`; `withDeleted` reads everything); once the 14 days are over, whichever of the person's devices looks next (as their data opens, after every sync) deletes the whole subtree for good, what is inside first, each studyset's cards blanked before it, and Delete now does at once after asking. Deleting doesn't ask, offering Undo. Widgets delete, undo and delete for good through it directly (`deleteStudysetWithUndo`, `deleteStudysetForGood`), not through a bloc: deleting a studyset from its own screen closes that screen and its bloc, and the deletion and its Undo must outlive them. The server never deletes them (it can't blank a payload; ADR 0007), and its connector, publishing and learner count leave them out too (`notDeleted` in `lib/src/studyset/`). Tags differ, being values (a tag is its name whatever its case, which it keeps; ADR 0004 rule 2): one is blanked and deleted at once, and its Undo makes a tag of that name and colour anew, on the same cards. Order by the UUID v7 id (ADR 0001, rule 7). Access to synced rows is the engine's: a person syncs their personal space and the spaces granted to them; the endpoint rules above guard everything that isn't synced.
- **Content people edit is append-only revisions** (ADR 0001 rule 2, ADR 0003; the reference is `CardRevision`): a revision is never updated except to blank it, and `parents` lists the revisions it replaces. A save's parents are all current heads, which is also how a conflict is resolved. `mergeRevisions` (`feature/card/model/card_merge.dart`) merges several heads per side against their newest common ancestor; a side changed differently is a conflict the person settles, never merged silently. Deleting blanks every revision, then deletes.
- **Reviews are an append-only log** (`ReviewLog`: card, rating, `reviewedAt` in UTC, `durationMs`); taking back a rating deletes its row. Besides ratings it holds a fresh start (`reset`), which never counts as studying; older app versions skip a mode they don't know. A studyset's Reset progress asks what of it starts afresh, naming only what has progress (decided 2026-10-12): its flashcards (a fresh start each), reading its PDFs (a `reset` in their reading log) and its learning paths (a `reset` answer per step), one Undo taking all of it back. A burial isn't in the log but on the card: `card.buriedAt` sets it aside until the next local day begins on the device looking, out of every queue and count (Unbury clears it), read with the cards every list reads anyway. A card's schedule is never stored: `scheduleOf` (`feature/study/model/card_schedule.dart`) replays its reviews in time order with FSRS-6 (`fsrs`, pinned exactly), and only the final due date is fuzzed, from the card's id and review count, so every device computes the same. Studying a studyset covers everything inside it but archived studysets (`studiedIn`), and the study queue (`study_queue.dart`) takes each studyset's cards as a group: due cards of all of them earliest first, then each studyset's new cards in tree order, within each studyset's daily limits of new cards and reviews (its study options, `StudysetStudyOptions` in its payload, schema 3; without, the person's new cards a day and no limit on reviews; cards in their learning steps come anyway), and the studied studyset's limits hold for everything inside it together, as Anki's do for a deck with its subdecks (decided 2026-10-17: a language's twenty topics started 20 new cards a day each), in the order the studied studyset's options ask for (reviews first, mixed, new first). **Exam plans** (`feature/studyset/model/exam_plan.dart`, decided 2026-10-14): a studyset plans for exams (`examPlans` in its payload, schema 7: each a name, the topics it takes whole by their ids, the tags whose cards it takes by their names), its author's published with it (the copier and the updater point the topics at the copy's studysets), and plans are offered from level tags too (`automaticExamPlans`: JLPT, HSK, KRDict's levels, each taking the levels below it, ids `auto:…`). The person's choice (`exam`: the plan's id and the exam's day, `YYYY-MM-DD`) is theirs alone, never published, like a PDF's deadline. `ExamCoverage` reads what a plan covers (its topics' studysets with their paths and PDFs, its tags' cards and learning paths anywhere in the studyset; a path's tags offer automatic plans as a card's do, decided 2026-10-17); the Study plan shows how far the person has come with it and the pace (`examPace`: what is new spread so that it is learnt a week before the exam, or halfway there when it is closer; new cards counted as the day began), and Study for the exam (`StudyFocus.exam`) studies what it covers alone, as one group whose new cards a day are that pace, reviews unlimited; once the exam's day is over, neither shows, and a session for it studies as usual. The library's and the topics' counts and badges add up the same way, each card on the schedule a session studies it on (`card_study_mode.dart`: written by hand while Write by hand is on, back first while Back first is; `ReviewRepository.schedulesAsStudied`); Home's due forecast still counts front to back, as it reads cards without their content. Deleting a card deletes its reviews.
- **Order is a fractional index** (`fractional_indexing_dart`, rocicorp's algorithm) in its own column, last writer wins. Two devices appending at once can pick the same key, so ties sort by id.
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- **Every client migration keeps a device's rows** (`test/core/sync/device_migration_test.dart` replays each on a database with a row in every synced table of ours; SQLite rebuilds tables to add foreign keys, which Serverpod's runner does with foreign keys off). A new synced table needs a row in that test, which fails until it has one.
- **Every synced table indexes `spaceId`** (`indexes: <table>_space_idx: fields: spaceId`, e.g. `studyset.spy.yaml`): deleting a space cascades into every synced table, and Postgres doesn't index foreign keys by itself, so account deletion and pruning would otherwise read whole tables.
- **The client's local migration** (in `halkyon_learn_client/lib/migrations/`, written by the same `create-migration`) creates the device's SQLite schema from the whole definition, so it also contains the server's own tables. Only the synced tables and the bookkeeping ever hold data on a device.
- **Older apps** can't be made to update once published. Before the first sync of each launch the app asks whether the server still works with its build (`minimumAppBuild` in `instance.info()`, from `lib/src/instance/app_compatibility.dart` in the server, which Learn's configuration of halkyon_base carries; the build is the number after `+` in the app's version), and the sync engine refuses an app whose synced tables differ from the server's. Both end in `AppServerMismatchException` (`core/sync/`), and the app says so: a banner on Home and the Sync card in Settings. Raise `minimumAppBuild` in the commit that breaks older apps (an endpoint they call changes or goes), to the build of the first app that works again; a change to the synced tables needs no raise. Every release raises the build number. It is 21 since sign-in and the account's endpoints moved into halkyon_base (ADR 0014): builds up to 20 (v0.17.0) call endpoints that are gone and can't read the module's refusals, so **the server with the module deploys only together with the release of build 21**; Learn's own `instance.info()` stays, with every field, as released apps read `minimumAppBuild` there.
- **Instances** (decided 2026-10-10, as Moshidon does): the device keeps an account on each instance it was used with, one in use at a time (`core/instance/`). `InstanceChoice` holds them (`instances.json` in the app's support folder); a new install chooses at first start (`FirstStartScreen`, under the wordmark on a cobalt wash: two tiles as Proton's account page shows its services, decided 2026-10-18, the build's own in one tap, with where it keeps people's data (below), and another instance, which unfolds the address to type, checked with `instance.info()`; `InstanceTile`: a ring from the primary colour to the tertiary, a glow and a tagline come in under the pointer, on the keyboard's focus, while pressed or open, and without a mouse the taglines always show), and one from before there was a choice goes on with the build's (`SERVER_URL`), as it has a `people/` folder. `InstanceGate` builds `Dependencies.create(instance, device)` for the one in use and builds it anew on a switch, the previous closed first; `DeviceParts` (version, sounds, Pomodoro platform, device settings) outlive switches. Each instance's people's folders and session are its own (`InstanceStorage`): the build's own instance keeps `people/` and Serverpod's own session key, so existing installs keep everything; others `instances/<name>/people/` and a key of their own. Settings › Switch account lists them (`showAccountSwitcher`): another one switches, Add account chooses another instance, and removing one not in use deletes its folder and stored session (the session stays valid on the instance until it expires). Signing out still ends only the account in use. **Signed out, the app asks how to start** (decided 2026-10-16, `StartScreen`): on the instance in use, with GitHub, by email or without an account, or on another instance; it makes an anonymous account by itself only at the very first start. A session the server ended leads there too. That the device is signed out is kept in the people's folder (`SignedOutMark`, `signed_out`), so a restart asks again. Settings names the kind of account and its instance ("Anonymous on learn.halkyon.eu"). **Where an instance keeps people's data** (decided 2026-10-18): its operator says so in `deploy/.env` (`DATA_LOCATION`, `BACKUP_LOCATION`: a country's code or `EU`, the backups also `none`; where the disks are, never which law governs, as a court reaches the operator wherever the server stands), `instance.info()` hands it on, and the first start's tile and Switch account show it once the instance answers (`InstanceLocationBuilder`): the flag of where the data is (`InstanceFlag`, from the `flag` package, which draws lipis' flag-icons, whose MIT notice the app registers itself) and the words, as labels rather than sentences ("Data: European Union", "Backups: Switzerland"), since "in" would need the article some countries take; countries are named by the world map's CLDR names (`CountryNames`).
- **Older apps** can't be made to update once published. Before the first sync of each launch the app asks whether the server still works with its build (`minimumAppBuild` in `instance.info()`, from `lib/src/instance/app_compatibility.dart` in the server, which Learn's configuration of halkyon_base carries; the build is the number after `+` in the app's version), and the sync engine refuses an app whose synced tables differ from the server's. Both end in `AppServerMismatchException` (halkyon_app), and the app says so: a banner on Home and the Sync card in Settings. Raise `minimumAppBuild` in the commit that breaks older apps (an endpoint they call changes or goes), to the build of the first app that works again; a change to the synced tables needs no raise. Every release raises the build number. It is 21 since sign-in and the account's endpoints moved into halkyon_base (ADR 0014): builds up to 20 (v0.17.0) call endpoints that are gone and can't read the module's refusals, so **the server with the module deploys only together with the release of build 21**; Learn's own `instance.info()` stays, with every field, as released apps read `minimumAppBuild` there.
- **Instances** (decided 2026-10-10, as Moshidon does): the device keeps an account on each instance it was used with, one in use at a time (halkyon_app's instances, ADR 0014; Learn gives them `learnFrame`, its words and look, and `AssetCountryNames`). `InstanceChoice` holds them (`instances.json` in the app's support folder); a new install chooses at first start (`FirstStartScreen`, under the wordmark on a cobalt wash: two tiles as Proton's account page shows its services, decided 2026-10-18, the build's own in one tap, with where it keeps people's data (below), and another instance, which unfolds the address to type, checked with halkyon_base's `instance.basics()`, which must name the app `learn` (`ServerpodInstanceChecker(app: 'learn')`: another Halkyon app's instance is refused); `InstanceTile`: a ring from the primary colour to the tertiary, a glow and a tagline come in under the pointer, on the keyboard's focus, while pressed or open, and without a mouse the taglines always show), and one from before there was a choice goes on with the build's (`SERVER_URL`), as it has a `people/` folder. `InstanceGate` builds `Dependencies.create(instance, device)` (`main.dart`) for the one in use and builds it anew on a switch, the previous closed first; `DeviceParts` (version, sounds, Pomodoro platform, device settings) outlive switches. Each instance's people's folders and session are its own (`InstanceStorage`): the build's own instance keeps `people/` and Serverpod's own session key, so existing installs keep everything; others `instances/<name>/people/` and a key of their own. Settings › Switch account lists them (`showAccountSwitcher`): another one switches, Add account chooses another instance, and removing one not in use deletes its folder and stored session (the session stays valid on the instance until it expires). Signing out still ends only the account in use. **Signed out, the app asks how to start** (decided 2026-10-16, `StartScreen`): on the instance in use, with GitHub, by email or without an account, or on another instance; it makes an anonymous account by itself only at the very first start. A session the server ended leads there too. That the device is signed out is kept in the people's folder (`SignedOutMark`, `signed_out`), so a restart asks again. Settings names the kind of account and its instance ("Anonymous on learn.halkyon.eu"). **Where an instance keeps people's data** (decided 2026-10-18): its operator says so in `deploy/.env` (`DATA_LOCATION`, `BACKUP_LOCATION`: a country's code or `EU`, the backups also `none`; where the disks are, never which law governs, as a court reaches the operator wherever the server stands), halkyon_base's `instance.basics()` hands it on (Learn's `instance.info()` too), and the first start's tile and Switch account show it once the instance answers (`InstanceLocationBuilder`): the flag of where the data is (`InstanceFlag`, from the `flag` package, which draws lipis' flag-icons, whose MIT notice halkyon_app registers, `registerFlagIconsLicense`) and the words, as labels rather than sentences ("Data: European Union", "Backups: Switzerland"), since "in" would need the article some countries take; countries are named by the world map's CLDR names (Learn's `AssetCountryNames`, halkyon_app's `CountryNames`).
- **Asking an AI assistant or searching the web** (decided 2026-10-10; `feature/assistant/`): a device setting, off unless the person turns it on (Settings › Assistant), shows a field at the foot of Home (`AssistantBar`) and a button that unfolds into one (`AssistantButton`): at the lower left of the Library, across from Create studyset, at the left above a studyset's bottom bar (floating alone at the lower left from expanded windows on), and at the lower left while studying, above the buttons that answer the card (decided 2026-10-16, as Vaia places it). A switch at the field's start sends to the AI assistant chosen in Settings, named in the field, or to a web search and is remembered (`assistantTarget`). Above the field, chips offer the parts of what it is about (`AssistantTopic.parts`: a card's front, back, each hint, its explanation, the studyset's name and description), none chosen, so only what the person picks goes along, each cut at 600 characters; a web search takes the question and the chosen text, never the studyset's name or description. Nothing is answered here: `AssistantHandOff` opens the chosen assistant's new conversation with the question and a compact line per chosen part written in, for the person to send (`AiAssistant`, decided 2026-10-14: Proton's Lumo by default, by its guest chat `https://lumo.proton.me/guest#prefill=…`, the question in the fragment, which reaches no server, as Lumo's page reads it, undocumented; its address for one's own account loses the question when nobody is signed in; then ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, Perplexity, which answers at once, Duck.ai, Grok, which asks first, Kagi Assistant, HuggingChat, or the person's own address with `%s`; only assistants whose address fills a question in, so not Gemini, which has none, nor Copilot, whose stopped working in November 2025; each cut at what it takes, 8,000 to 12,000 characters), and `WebSearch` opens the chosen engine's results (`SearchEngine`: Brave Search by default on desktops, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant, Google, Bing, or the person's own address with `%s`), or on Android hands the question to the device's own web search (`ACTION_WEB_SEARCH` in `MainActivity.kt`, Brave Search where nothing answers). Halkyon apps use no LLM API keys: their pricing is opaque and open to abuse, and the person decides each time what an LLM sees. A Claude plan can't drive a chat inside another app (Anthropic allows no third party to sign in with it), so Claude reads studysets through the instance's connector instead (ADR 0006): `halkyon_learn_server/lib/src/assistant/` serves MCP (`/mcp`, Streamable HTTP, JSON answers, no sessions; five read-only tools in `connector_tools.dart`) and its OAuth (`/.well-known/oauth-*`, `/oauth/register`, `/oauth/authorize`, `/oauth/token`) on Serverpod's web server, which production runs on 8082 for these paths alone (Caddy forwards them; `connectorOf` takes the public address from `webServer`). People connect with a code from Settings › Assistant › Connect Claude (`AssistantEndpoint.connectCode`, eight Crockford characters, ten minutes, once), typed on the authorization page; codes and tokens are kept as SHA-256 hashes. The handlers take plain requests (`ConnectorRequest`), so `test/integration/assistant/` drives the whole flow without a web server; the Relic routes only translate.
- **Where sync stands** is `SyncService.status` (syncing, the last sync that went through, the last failure; since the app started), which `SyncStatusBloc` (`core/sync/`, provided by `PersonApp`) hands to the trouble dot on the Settings cogs (on Home and Profile; no tab carries it), the Sync card in Settings and the banner on Home. Only the last outcome counts: one sync that goes through clears a failure. It also counts the changes not on the server yet (`pending`): every save asks for a sync (`requestSync`), and a sync that goes through takes those saved before it started; the engine can't say, since the server only tells it at the start of a sync what it has. The count is kept in `sync_pending.json` in the person's folder (`PendingChangesStore`) and shown on the Sync card, beside whether a sync ever went through on this device (`syncedHere`, read as the person's data opens): until one has, an empty library says it is on its way from the instance rather than that there are no studysets (decided 2026-10-17: a first sync brings everything at once, at its end). The Library's Refresh and pulling it down sync now (`syncAndWait`, which a pull's spinner waits on).
- **Where sync stands** is `SyncService.status` (syncing, the last sync that went through, the last failure; since the app started), which `SyncStatusBloc` (halkyon_app, provided by `PersonApp`) hands to the trouble dot on the Settings cogs (on Home and Profile; no tab carries it), the Sync card in Settings and the banner on Home. Only the last outcome counts: one sync that goes through clears a failure. It also counts the changes not on the server yet (`pending`): every save asks for a sync (`requestSync`), and a sync that goes through takes those saved before it started; the engine can't say, since the server only tells it at the start of a sync what it has. The count is kept in `sync_pending.json` in the person's folder (`PendingChangesStore`) and shown on the Sync card, beside whether a sync ever went through on this device (`syncedHere`, read as the person's data opens): until one has, an empty library says it is on its way from the instance rather than that there are no studysets (decided 2026-10-17: a first sync brings everything at once, at its end). The Library's Refresh and pulling it down sync now (`syncAndWait`, which a pull's spinner waits on).
- **Serverpod's version moves together with `serverpod_offline_sync`**, which allows only a narrow range of Serverpod (v0.0.10: `>=4.0.4 <4.1.0`; v0.0.8 pinned v4.0.0 exactly, which the root `pubspec.yaml` overrode until 2026-10-09). Every package pins Serverpod's packages to one version, halkyon_base's too: upgrade them all together with the sync packages, halkyon_base and the CLI version CI generates code with (`SERVERPOD_VERSION` in `.forgejo/workflows/ci.yaml`), after reading the sync package's changelog. Never override a version the sync package doesn't allow without checking what changed in `serverpod_database`, which it builds on. Its shared part, `serverpod_offline_sync`, comes from our fork (the root `pubspec.yaml`'s `dependency_overrides`, `project-halkyon/serverpod-offline-sync` on code.halkyon.app, pinned to a signed commit of branch `halkyon/batch-inserts`, which stacks six branches): `halkyon/byte-payloads` (decided 2026-10-12: v0.0.10 compares byte payloads byte by byte through a UUID parse that throws for each byte, so one sync touching a few thousand cards blocked the server for minutes); `halkyon/inbound-merges` (2026-10-17: `onInboundMerge`, called only when changes from the remote peer were merged, which the app's sync uses; `onMergeSuccess` fires for a space only pushed to, so every repository read everything again after each save's sync); `halkyon/fast-deletes` (2026-10-17: a local delete skips the foreign key projection pass when it can't change it, `canSkipProjectionAfterLocalDelete`; the pass loaded nearly every synced row, 8 s for one delete in a library of 8,000 cards, 30 s for a card; not reported upstream yet, the developer's call); `halkyon/fast-merges` (2026-10-17: a merge only inserting new rows proven unable to change the projection skips its passes, `canLeaveProjectionUnchangedByMergedInserts`, 9.5 s to 60 ms for a rating another device made in such a library; and projections are rebuilt once after the synced tables changed, not on every session and merge, which fixes #150 below); `halkyon/fast-merge-deletes` (2026-10-17: a merge only deleting rows skips the pass when every visible row below them goes with them, `canLeaveProjectionUnchangedByMergedDeletes`: a card deleted on one device took the server 5.4 s to merge and each other device 4 s, now 35 and 99 ms); `halkyon/batch-inserts` (2026-10-17: such a merge writes its new rows up to 1,000 to a statement, and the insert proof takes a parent of the row's own table inserted before it, as nested studysets are: a first push of 8,000 cards took the server 35 to 41 s, now about 5; a device receiving it 60 s, now 44, as Serverpod's SQLite adapter still inserts row by row). Move the fork along when upgrading, and drop each change once a release has it.
- **The source-code link**: both licences require offering the source of what an instance runs to the people who use it. `instance.info().sourceCodeUrl` names it (the operator's `SOURCE_URL`, else this project's repository, `upstreamSourceCodeUrl` in `learn_base.dart`; halkyon_base's `sourceCodeUrl`) and the app's About dialog shows it next to the licences and every package's notice. Keep it working when changing the dialog or the endpoint.
- **Public profiles** (ADR 0005, stage 1 of the public tier): `public_profile` (`serverOnly`, never sent; the app gets a `Profile`, without the person's id) holds a handle (Mastodon's rules: 1 to 30 letters, digits or underscores, unique whatever their case through `handleKey`, a few reserved for the instance; changeable until the first publish, `firstPublishedAt`), a display name, a bio, up to 4 links and an avatar. `ProfileEndpoint` (`identified` only: a profile is for others to see) reads, saves and removes the caller's own, and says why a handle couldn't be theirs (`checkHandle`, null when it can: whose a handle is, `byHandle` tells anyone already); `ProfilesEndpoint` finds anyone's by handle, which the app shows in a sheet (`showProfileOf`, decided 2026-10-14) from a studyset's author in Explore and from a licence holder written as a handle, `© raisondetredev`, a link set apart from a name from elsewhere. Handles are on the account domain (`ACCOUNT_DOMAIN`, else the server's public host; `instance.info().accountDomain`), which can never change once anyone follows a handle on it. **A profile has a page on the web** (ADR 0011, decided 2026-10-15): `https://<account domain>/@handle` where the operator set `ACCOUNT_DOMAIN` (so the address belongs to the identity, which other services such as a future train.halkyon.eu may share), else on the web server (`profilePageUrl`); served by `profile_page.dart` on the web server (`/*`, one segment, after the connector's literal routes; Caddy forwards `/@…` on the instance's domain and on the account domain, which serves nothing else), in English or German, no JavaScript, `noindex`, every link `rel="me"`; asked for on another host, it redirects to its own address. **Links are verified as Mastodon verifies them**: `profile.checkLinks` (at most 10 an hour; the app asks after a save that brings an unchecked link, and on Check links) fetches each link's page (`SafeLinkFetcher`: HTTPS on 443, public addresses only, checked before connecting and connected to as checked, 3 redirects, 1 MiB, 10 s) and keeps in `verifiedLinks` those linking back with `rel="me"` (`linksBackTo`, pub.dev's `html`); a changed link loses its check, a new handle all of them. An avatar is a PNG of at most 1 MB that the app draws anew from the picture chosen (`avatarPng`, so a photo's metadata never leaves the device), kept in the public storage at `avatars/<SHA-256>.png`, named by its content so its URL tells nothing about whose it is, and deleted once no profile shows it. In the app, the Profile tab holds it in a card of its own after the account's and the inbox's (each part a card, as Settings groups its own), as a form, for people with an identity, that saves as it is written (decided 2026-10-12): a field when it is left or Enter is pressed in it, a link when removed, never twice the same; the handle is chosen in a dialog that asks the instance while it is typed whether it is free, and choosing the first makes the profile with what was written (`PublicProfileBloc` takes saves one at a time, the latest of those waiting next, and a handle chosen holds for every save after it).