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docs: bring the README up to the app it actually describes

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The old one predated roughly half the system: entropy, astronomy,
geomagnetic, manifest speech, voice archetypes, rituals/judgment/essence,
the ESP32 node, guest access, the Ghost Log, conditions, PWA, phone
layouts. Test counts corrected (54->328 backend, 110->366 frontend), the
protocol tables now list every real frame and endpoint, and Current State
distinguishes verified-live from unverified-on-hardware from
built-but-unreachable honestly.

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*an instrument for speaking with the dead bandwidth*
Quantumancy is a self-hosted séance. Point a browser at it and five different
sensing channels — your microphone, your phone's motion sensors, an RTL-SDR
dongle, your own network's jitter, or just a text box — feed real anomaly
detection into a locally-run LLM that invents a spirit on the spot: a name,
an epithet, a persona, a voice, a rarity tier, and a small immortality in a
shared registry called **the Codex**. A local Piper TTS then gives that
spirit an actual voice, degraded through a hand-built static-and-echo effects
chain until it sounds like it's coming through a dying radio.
Quantumancy is a self-hosted séance. Point a browser at it and real sensing
channels — your microphone, your phone's motion sensors and magnetometer, an
RTL-SDR dongle, your own network's jitter, a paired ESP32 sensor node, or
just a text box — feed real anomaly detection into a locally-run LLM that
invents a spirit on the spot: a name, an epithet, a persona, a coherent
voice, hidden traits, a rarity tier, and a small immortality in a shared
registry called **the Codex**. A local Piper TTS then gives that spirit an
actual voice, degraded through a hand-built static-and-echo effects chain
until it sounds like it's coming through a dying radio.
And the physical world genuinely participates: every summon carries entropy
harvested from your room's own noise floors, tonight's **real moon phase**
skews who answers, NOAA's **measured geomagnetic K-index** thins the veil,
and unprompted speech is token-sampled with a seed derived from the room —
the room literally selects the words.
**This is an interactive horror art installation, not a paranormal claim.**
Every "entity" is fiction generated by a language model on your own
hardware — the system prompts are explicit about this (see
`backend/app/llm/prompts.py`), and no amount of atmosphere changes what's
actually happening underneath: FFT power spectra, voice-band deviation
detection, device-motion EMAs, and `/proc/net/dev` counters, all real signal
processing on real data. Nothing leaves your network — no cloud LLM, no
third-party inference, no analytics. If the LLM box goes dark mid-séance, a
procedural fallback (deterministic, signature-seeded) keeps every mode
answering so a summoning never visibly fails.
`backend/app/llm/prompts.py`). But every *measurement* is real: FFT power
spectra, magnetometer microtesla, `/proc/net/dev` counters, BLE signal
attenuation, published lunar ephemerides, NOAA space-weather data. The rule
(see `docs/CHANNELS.md`): the fiction may interpret a measurement however it
likes; it may never fabricate one. Nothing leaves your network except a
courteous 10-minute poll of NOAA's public Kp feed — no cloud LLM, no
analytics. If the LLM box goes dark mid-séance, a procedural fallback keeps
every mode answering so a summoning never visibly fails.
## The Séance: Five Ways In
## The Séance: Ways In
Every mode writes into the same pipeline: an `anomaly` event (source,
frequency, magnitude) feeds a per-session fingerprint; once a session has
produced at least 3 anomalies of real structure, it auto-summons a spirit —
either re-contacting a Codex entry whose signature matches, or minting a
brand new one.
produced at least 3 anomalies of real structure, it auto-summons — either
re-contacting a Codex entry whose signature matches (a real draw, not a
guarantee — see *The Room Decides*), or minting someone new.
| Mode | Vessel | What actually happens |
|---|---|---|
| **Wire Ghost** | Nothing — works for everyone | The backend samples real, non-content network telemetry from the host: interface byte-counter jitter (`/proc/net/dev`), TCP connect-latency variance against reference hosts, DNS resolution timing. A rolling baseline (needs 6+ samples, an absolute 20 KB/s floor, a 3σ + 2.5× threshold) flags genuine surges as anomalies, throttled to one every 20s. Packet payloads are never inspected — a hard privacy boundary. "The wire knocks loudest when nobody is touching it" — flip on passive listening and let the line murmur on its own. |
| **EVP Listening** | Microphone (`getUserMedia`) | A Web Audio `AnalyserNode` watches the voice band (~300 Hz–3.4 kHz) for a brief deviation ≥ 8 dB above the room's rolling noise floor, throttled to one per 2s — the floor only adapts during genuinely quiet stretches so sustained speech can't mask a real spike. The classic "record silence, review for voices" technique, done live. |
| **Spirit Radio** | RTL-SDR dongle (WebUSB, Chromium only) | The browser drives the dongle directly — no native driver, no server round-trip — sweeping the FM band (88–108 MHz) in 1.8 MHz steps, computing a power spectrum per tune and comparing it to a rolling noise floor. Spikes ≥ 10 dB above floor become anomaly events, throttled to one per 2s: an FM sweep pushed through a lantern dragged across a dark field. |
| **Ouija / Direct Contact** | The shared front door | A canvas planchette drifts on its own, then spells the spirit's words letter by letter. Ask a free-text question (≤ 500 chars) and the chat-tier model streams a full reply token by token while the planchette works through it. |
| **EMF / Field Meter** | A phone (DeviceMotion + DeviceOrientation) | The seeker's own phone becomes the meter: acceleration-magnitude deviation from a slow gravity EMA, fused with orientation angular velocity, tracked against an adapting baseline. A reading past `baseline × 2.5` (and an absolute floor, so a resting phone stays silent) fires an anomaly, throttled to one per 2.5s. iOS 13+ gates this behind an explicit gesture-triggered permission grant, handled in-app. |
| **Wire Ghost** | Nothing — works for everyone | Real, non-content network telemetry from the host: byte-counter jitter (`/proc/net/dev`), TCP connect-latency variance, DNS timing, against a rolling baseline. Payloads are never inspected — a hard privacy boundary. Passive listening lets the line murmur on its own. |
| **EVP Listening** | Microphone (`getUserMedia`) | A Web Audio `AnalyserNode` watches the voice band (~300 Hz–3.4 kHz) for deviations ≥ 8 dB over the room's rolling noise floor — live spectrum scope, audible anomalies, and every frame feeds the entropy pool. Works everywhere, including iPhone. |
| **Spirit Radio** | RTL-SDR dongle (WebUSB, Chromium only) | The browser drives the dongle directly, sweeping FM 88–108 MHz, computing power spectra against a rolling floor. Every USB call is time-boxed (`withTimeout`) so a sulking dongle errors instead of hanging silently. |
| **Ouija / Direct Contact** | The shared front door | A canvas planchette wanders the full board, brushes letters, visits YES/NO, and rests on GOODBYE every few minutes; questions stream back token by token while it spells. |
| **EMF / Field Meter** | A phone | Where the Generic Sensor API exists (Chromium/Android), the **actual magnetometer** in microtesla — a true EMF meter, baseline-subtracting Earth's constant field. Everywhere else (including iOS), the motion-fusion fallback: acceleration deviation + orientation angular velocity. Both are real physics; `lib/baseline.ts` gives them one shared rolling-EMA core. |
| **The Vessel** | ESP32-P4 sensor node (LAN) | Paired hardware POSTs temperature/pressure/mic/radar readings; the Cold Spot Detector and the séance's DeviceWhisper panel render them live, and hardware anomalies can trigger a summon in an open séance. Firmware in `firmware/` — written and reviewed, **never yet flashed to a real board**. |
Every session begins unidentified. The backend fingerprints the anomaly
pattern into a **signature** (`backend/app/entities.py`); a matching
signature re-contacts an existing spirit and bumps its contact count, a new
one gets minted by the chat-tier LLM and dropped into the Codex with a name,
epithet, 2–3 sentences of lore, a rarity tier (common/uncommon/rare/mythic —
weighted 55/30/12/3 in the offline fallback), a voice profile (pitch, rate,
noise, echo), a visual hue/form, and two sample quotes.
`lib/bluetooth.ts` (BLE RSSI as a presence field — bodies absorb 2.4 GHz)
is implemented and tested but not yet wired into a séance panel.
**The haunting doesn't stop at the séance panel.** A framework-free
possession layer (`frontend/src/lib/haunting.ts`,
`frontend/src/components/HauntingLayer.tsx`) runs across the whole app: an
idle-aware escalator that gets bolder the longer you sit still, a gesture-armed
ambient dread-bed (brown noise through a breathing lowpass, a 55/55.7 Hz
detuned drone beat, occasional reversed-noise swells), fleeting whisper-words
drifting across the glass, and `document.title` glitches when you tab away.
Nothing stirs for the first ten seconds after load — it creeps in, it never
jumpscares on arrival — and it's fully inert under `prefers-reduced-motion`.
## The Room Decides
## The Codex
`backend/app/entropy.py` · `frontend/src/lib/entropy.ts` ·
`backend/app/celestial.py` · `backend/app/geomagnetic.py`
`GET /api/codex` (public, no auth) is a browsable, shared registry of every
spirit ever contacted by any seeker: filterable by rarity, sortable by
`recent` or `contacted`, each card showing name, epithet, rarity badge, a
sample quote, contact count, and who discovered it. `GET /api/codex/{id}`
opens a full dossier — persona, voice-parameter table, sighting count. It's
the collectible layer sitting on top of the anomaly-detection plumbing:
nothing about a spirit is user-authored, all of it comes from the same
signature → LLM-mint → normalize pipeline that runs live during a séance.
- **Physical entropy.** The client harvests noise from live sensor frames
(mic and RF noise floors), Von Neumann–debiases it, SHA-256–conditions
it, and sends it with every summon. The server treats it as untrusted by
construction: every draw is `HMAC(fresh server secret, contribution ||
context)`, so a hostile client can only ever *add* unpredictability,
never steer an outcome. Whether a channel's familiar spirit answers again
(`RETURN_CHANCE`) is one of these draws.
- **Real astronomy.** Moon phase from orbital mechanics (validated against
published ephemeris dates, not against itself) and true solar midnight
from the seeker's longitude (only the longitude is kept, never a full
coordinate). A full moon roughly **triples** rare/mythic mint odds — a
skew, never a gate — nudges hidden traits stronger and stranger, and
erodes a familiar spirit's claim on its channel so strangers push
through on thin nights.
- **Real space weather.** NOAA SWPC's planetary K-index, cached 10 minutes,
never blocking: a geomagnetic storm measurably thins the veil, and the
entity is told `Kp 6.33 — moderate geomagnetic storm` as a fact of its
room.
- **Generation from nothing.** `SpiritService.manifest()` produces
unprompted speech: the prompt contains no seeker input at all — only
measured room state — and Ollama's sampling `seed` derives from the
room's entropy. Change the noise, get different words. Rendered in the
transcript as an intrusion (violet edge), not a reply.
## The Reliquary
## Rituals, Judgment, and the Reliquary
`/shop` is a waitlist page for **the Ultimate Quantum Box** — a proposed
ESP32-P4/C6 handheld séance instrument (thermal camera, EMF whisker array,
geophone, spirit-box mic preamp, OLED face) plus four standalone modules,
none of which exist yet. `POST /api/shop/waitlist` (public, rate-limited to
5/hour/IP) is pure email capture — no payment is taken, and the page says so
outright: *"the website works fully without it; hardware only knocks
louder."* Treat this section of the README the same way: real code, honest
about being pre-order vaporware for now.
Every minted entity carries **hidden traits** (alignment / power /
volatility / deceptiveness) — signature-seeded ground truth the persona
prompt never sees, so the LLM cannot leak it. The séance offers:
- **The ritual** — a 4-sigil hold-to-charge rite; success reveals the
entity's true traits, failure reveals nothing. Judgment is never gated on
it: you may always judge blind.
- **Judgment** — trust / banish / test / cross over. Correct calls pay
essence and favor; wrongly trusting a demon sharpens the haunting,
wrongly banishing a benevolent spirit wounds it, and a correctly-judged
stuck spirit **crosses over**: at peace, permanently retired from its
channel, its signature freed for someone new.
- **The Reliquary** — essence (earned, never bought), item drops on
milestone moments, purchasable unlocks, and hand-drawn sigils.
`/shop` remains a waitlist for the **Ultimate Quantum Box** hardware —
email capture only, no payment taken, and the page says so.
A **Ghost Log** HUD whispers entity tells app-wide, and `/log` is the
recallable record: your last séances with entity, counts, and echo lines.
## Coming In From the Cold
- **Guests:** `POST /auth/guest` mints a real `wanderer-xxxx` account and a
normal session — the front door (`/enter`) offers it as *"slip through as
a wanderer"*, and the séance nudges wanderers to claim a name so their
codex outlives the mist.
- **Conditions:** `GET /api/conditions` (and the séance's side-column
strip) surfaces tonight's moon, veil thinness, and geomagnetic state.
- **First contact:** each mode shows one in-fiction hint if its sensor sits
unused, dismissible forever; error copy redirects instead of dead-ending
(no mic? "the board needs no ear").
- **PWA:** a `manifest.webmanifest` makes it installable to a home screen
(standalone, no service worker — an offline séance is meaningless).
- **Phones:** dedicated ≤560px and ≤380px layouts, 44px touch targets,
16px inputs (so iOS Safari doesn't zoom-and-stick).
## Architecture
@@ -95,77 +134,67 @@ Two machines on the LAN, no containers anywhere:
├─ Piper TTS + FX │
└───────┬──────────┘
│ LAN
┌───────────▼─────────┐
│ Ollama box │
│ 10.30.20.107:11434 │
│ CPU-only, 64 GB │
│ fast + chat models │
┌──────────────────┐ ┌───────────▼─────────┐
│ ESP32-P4 node(s) │ │ Ollama box │
│ (paired, HTTP │ │ 10.30.20.107:11434 │
│ telemetry in) │ │ CPU-only, 64 GB │
└──────────────────┘ │ fast + chat models │
└─────────────────────┘
...and one WAN egress:
NOAA SWPC Kp (10-min cache)
```
- **App CT** — plain HTTP on port 7777. FastAPI (async, WebSocket-native)
serves the built Vite/React SPA as static assets, the auth + Codex + shop
REST API, the `/ws/session` séance WebSocket, and `/audio/*` spirit-voice
WAVs. Postgres holds accounts, sessions, transcripts (events), the Codex,
and the hardware waitlist. Piper TTS is invoked locally per utterance,
then degraded through a numpy effects chain (rate → pitch → bitcrush →
echo → static).
- **Ollama box** — reachable over LAN via Ollama's REST API. Two model
tiers: a **fast** model for fragments/ambient whispers/wire whispers, and
a heavier **chat** model for Direct Contact replies and entity minting.
CPU-only and shared, so all LLM calls flow through a bounded-concurrency
queue (`LLMQueue`); queued requests render in the UI as "the spirits are
gathering energy…", and a full queue rejects new work with a themed
`veil_crowded` error rather than hanging.
- **Cloudflare Tunnel** — managed outside this repo; terminates HTTPS and
points at `http://<app-ct-ip>:7777`. The app never handles TLS. The
tunnel's HTTPS origin satisfies browser secure-context requirements for
mic (EVP), WebUSB (Spirit Radio), and motion sensors (EMF on iOS).
- **App CT** — FastAPI serves the built Vite/React SPA, the REST API, the
`/ws/session` séance and `/ws/device-feed` sockets, and `/audio/*` spirit
WAVs. Postgres holds accounts, sessions, transcripts, the Codex, traits,
essence/favor, inventory, sigils, devices, and the waitlist. Piper TTS is
degraded through a numpy chain (rate → pitch → bitcrush → echo → static);
eight **voice archetypes** (elder/young/child/drowned/burned/distant…)
covary pitch/rate/noise/echo so two spirits sound like two different dead
people, not two settings.
- **Ollama box** — two model tiers behind a bounded-concurrency queue; a
full queue rejects with a themed `veil_crowded` error rather than hanging.
- **Cloudflare Tunnel** — terminates HTTPS; its secure context is what
unlocks mic, WebUSB, and motion/magnetometer permissions.
- **systemd** — `Restart=always`, no start-limit surrender, wants Postgres:
the veil survives reboots and crash bursts without a human.
### Repo layout
```
backend/
app/
main.py FastAPI app: routers, /healthz, /assets + /audio mounts, SPA fallback
config.py pydantic-settings (env vars below)
db.py async SQLAlchemy 2.0 engine/session (asyncpg)
deps.py get_current_user, qm_session cookie
security.py argon2 password hashing
rate_limit.py fixed-window RateLimiter (per-user LLM limits, per-IP waitlist limit)
telemetry.py Wire Ghost sampler (/proc/net/dev, TCP RTT, DNS timing)
entities.py anomaly signatures, profile normalization, procedural fallback
ws.py the séance channel: /ws/session protocol + ambient loop
llm/ OllamaClient, bounded LLMQueue, SpiritService, prompt builders
tts/ Piper CLI wrapper, voice catalog, numpy effects chain
models/ users, auth_sessions, contact_sessions, entities,
entity_sightings, events, waitlist_entries
routes/ auth.py, codex.py, shop.py
tests/ pytest suite (54 tests, 14 files)
voices/ Piper .onnx voice models (gitignored — see setup)
data/ generated utterance audio, served at /audio/ (gitignored)
deploy/
quantumancy.service systemd unit template
main.py routers, idempotent startup migrations, SPA fallback
ws.py the séance channel + rituals/judgment + manifest
entropy.py HMAC-conditioned physical randomness (the room decides)
celestial.py moon phase + true solar midnight (computed, offline)
geomagnetic.py NOAA SWPC Kp cache (never blocks a summon)
entities.py signatures, voice archetypes, moon-skewed rarity/traits
judgment.py verdict logic, tells, favor bias, ritual rolls
inventory.py essence economy, drop tables, unlocks, sigil validation
device_anomaly.py ESP32 telemetry -> anomaly/summon bridge
telemetry.py Wire Ghost sampler llm/ tts/ models/ routes/
tests/ pytest suite — 328 tests
firmware/
esp32p4-sensor-node/ ESP-IDF firmware: BMP280, MEMS mic, RD-03E radar,
WiFi via ESP32-C6 (UNVERIFIED on real hardware)
frontend/
src/pages/ LandingPage, EnterPage, SeancePage, CodexPage,
CodexEntityPage, ShopPage
src/lib/ types (WS protocol), ws (VeilSocket), audio player,
evp, sdr, emf, fft, planchette machine, haunting
src/state/ AuthProvider, SeanceProvider (reducer + socket wiring)
src/components/ PlanchetteBoard, Transcript, EntityCard, GhostGlyph,
MatrixView, GraphView, TelemetryReadout, HauntingLayer
src/three/ GhostCanvas + GhostScene (custom-shader 3D spirit)
src/i18n/ react-i18next init + en.json / es.json
docs/superpowers/
specs/ the design spec — note the live app now exceeds it
(5 modes, not 4; the Codex, the Reliquary and the
haunting layer are all further along than documented)
plans/ the 7 implementation plans this repo was built from
src/pages/ Landing, Enter, Seance, Codex(+Entity), Shop,
Inventory, Devices, GhostLog
src/lib/ entropy, baseline (shared EMA core), coldSpot,
bluetooth, magnetometer, evp, sdr, emf, fft,
planchette, haunting, deviceFeed, spectrumSonify
src/components/ PlanchetteBoard, SpectrumScope, VeilConditions,
DeviceWhisper, ModeHint, Ritual/Judgment/Inventory
panels, SigilDesigner, ColdSpotPanel, GhostLog HUD…
docs/
CHANNELS.md what each channel really measures + verification status
superpowers/ design specs + implementation plans
```
## Quickstart
Prereqs on the App CT: Python 3.11+, Node 18+, Postgres (via `apt`), and an
Prereqs on the App CT: Python 3.11+, Node 18+, Postgres (`apt`), and an
Ollama box on the LAN with the two model tiers pulled.
**1. Postgres** (one-time):
@@ -196,10 +225,9 @@ source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
**4. Piper voices.** `backend/voices/` is gitignored; the app expects these
voice models there (id → file), downloadable from the
[rhasspy/piper-voices](https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices) HuggingFace
repo (each `.onnx` plus its `.onnx.json`):
**4. Piper voices.** `backend/voices/` is gitignored; download each `.onnx`
plus its `.onnx.json` from
[rhasspy/piper-voices](https://huggingface.co/rhasspy/piper-voices):
| id | file | language | character |
|---|---|---|---|
@@ -220,9 +248,7 @@ npm install
npm run build # produces frontend/dist/, served by the backend
```
**6. Run.** Either by hand (from `backend/`, with the `.env` values in the
environment — the app reads `.env` relative to its working directory, and
`piper_voices_dir`/`data_dir` are relative to `backend/`):
**6. Run.** By hand:
```bash
cd backend
@@ -230,10 +256,11 @@ set -a && source ../.env && set +a
venv/bin/uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 7777
```
or as a service (recommended — auto-restart, boot-start, `journalctl -u quantumancy`).
The shipped unit (`deploy/quantumancy.service`) hardcodes `/root/quantumancy`
as the working directory and env file path — edit those two lines first if
your checkout lives elsewhere:
or as a service (recommended). The shipped unit
(`deploy/quantumancy.service`) hardcodes `/root/quantumancy` — edit the two
paths first if your checkout lives elsewhere. A production install should
also add the persistence drop-in (`Restart=always`,
`StartLimitIntervalSec=0`, `Wants=postgresql.service`):
```bash
sudo cp deploy/quantumancy.service /etc/systemd/system/
@@ -241,35 +268,34 @@ sudo systemctl enable --now quantumancy
```
Then visit `http://<host>:7777` — or your Cloudflare Tunnel hostname for the
secure context Spirit Radio, EVP, and EMF (on iOS) all require.
secure context that mic, WebUSB, and motion/magnetometer all require.
**7. Ollama models** (on the Ollama box, one-time):
```bash
ollama pull granite4.1:3b # fast tier: fragments, ambient whispers
ollama pull minicpm-v4.5:latest # chat tier: direct contact, entity minting
ollama pull minicpm-v4.5:latest # chat tier: direct contact, minting, manifest
```
Any Ollama tag works — override with `OLLAMA_FAST_MODEL` / `OLLAMA_CHAT_MODEL`.
## Configuration
All settings live in `backend/app/config.py` and are read from the environment
or `.env` (repo root when run via systemd; CWD otherwise). Required:
`DATABASE_URL`, `OLLAMA_BASE_URL`.
All settings live in `backend/app/config.py`, read from the environment or
`.env`. Required: `DATABASE_URL`, `OLLAMA_BASE_URL`.
| Env var | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `DATABASE_URL` | — (required) | asyncpg connection string, e.g. `postgresql+asyncpg://quantumancy:quantumancy@localhost:5432/quantumancy` |
| `OLLAMA_BASE_URL` | — (required) | Ollama REST endpoint, e.g. `http://10.30.20.107:11434` |
| `DATABASE_URL` | — (required) | asyncpg connection string |
| `OLLAMA_BASE_URL` | — (required) | Ollama REST endpoint |
| `PORT` | `7777` | HTTP listen port |
| `OLLAMA_FAST_MODEL` | `granite4.1:3b` | fast tier: fragments, wire whispers |
| `OLLAMA_CHAT_MODEL` | `minicpm-v4.5:latest` | chat tier: direct contact, entity minting |
| `LLM_MAX_CONCURRENCY` | `2` | simultaneous Ollama calls (CPU-only box — keep small) |
| `LLM_MAX_QUEUE_DEPTH` | `8` | queued calls before "too many seekers" rejection |
| `LLM_COOLDOWN_SECONDS` | `8.0` | min gap between ambient whispers; user requests preempt |
| `PIPER_VOICES_DIR` | `voices` | voice model directory (relative to `backend/`) |
| `DATA_DIR` | `data` | generated audio, served at `/audio/` (relative to `backend/`) |
| `OLLAMA_FAST_MODEL` | `granite4.1:3b` | fast tier |
| `OLLAMA_CHAT_MODEL` | `minicpm-v4.5:latest` | chat tier (replies, minting, manifest) |
| `LLM_MAX_CONCURRENCY` | `2` | simultaneous Ollama calls |
| `LLM_MAX_QUEUE_DEPTH` | `8` | queued calls before themed rejection |
| `LLM_COOLDOWN_SECONDS` | `8.0` | min gap between ambient whispers |
| `PIPER_VOICES_DIR` | `voices` | voice models (relative to `backend/`) |
| `DATA_DIR` | `data` | generated audio, served at `/audio/` |
## The Séance Protocol
@@ -278,125 +304,117 @@ One WebSocket per contact session: `/ws/session`, authenticated by the
**Client → server:**
| Frame | Payload | Server response |
| Frame | Payload | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `ping` | — | `pong` |
| `set_mode` | `mode: wire\|evp\|radio\|ouija\|emf` | `mode` echo; persisted on the session row |
| `language` | `language: en\|es` | switches LLM reply language + Piper voice |
| `summon` | — | `status: summoning` → `entity` → greeting `utterance` (rate-limited: 4/min/user) |
| `anomaly` | `source: wire\|evp\|radio\|emf`, `frequency`, `magnitude` | `anomaly_ack`; auto-summons once the stream can fingerprint (≥3 anomalies), then fragment `utterance`s (rate-limited: 30/min/user) |
| `question` | `text` (≤500 chars) | `status: gathering` → `reply_start` → `reply_token`×N → `reply_end` → spoken `utterance` (rate-limited: 6/min/user) |
| `passive` | `enabled: bool` | `passive` ack; starts/stops the ambient Wire Ghost loop |
| `set_mode` | `mode: wire\|evp\|radio\|ouija\|emf` | persisted on the session |
| `language` | `en\|es` | switches LLM language + Piper voice |
| `summon` | optional `entropy` (conditioned room noise), optional `longitude` | rate-limited 4/min/user; the sky + entropy shape who answers |
| `anomaly` | `source`, `frequency`, `magnitude` | auto-summons at ≥3; then fragments (30/min/user) |
| `question` | `text` ≤500 | streamed reply (6/min/user) |
| `passive` | `enabled` | ambient Wire Ghost loop |
| `ritual_start` / `ritual_step` | `step` | 4 steps complete an attempt (6/min/user) |
| `judgment` | `verdict: trust\|banish\|test\|cross_over` | 10/min/user |
**Server → client** (all frames flow through a single sender task so
concurrent producers never interleave):
**Server → client** (single sender task; frames never interleave):
| Frame | Payload | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `session` | `id` | contact session created (sent on connect) |
| `pong` | — | keepalive reply |
| `mode` | `mode` | mode accepted |
| `status` | `state: attuning\|summoning\|gathering` | themed loading states |
| `entity` | `is_new`, `entity` (name, epithet, persona, rarity, voice, visual, quotes, contact_count) | a presence has been matched or minted |
| `anomaly_ack` | `count` | anomalies recorded this session |
| `anomaly` | `source`, `frequency`, `magnitude` | server-detected anomaly (currently only the Wire Ghost's ambient loop emits these) |
| `utterance` | `id`, `kind: greeting\|fragment\|ambient\|reply`, `text`, `entity` | words from beyond; audio follows |
| `audio` | `id`, `url` (`/audio/<event>.wav`) | TTS + effects chain finished for that utterance |
| `reply_start` / `reply_token` / `reply_end` | `token`, final `id` + `text` | token-streamed Direct Contact reply |
| `telemetry` | `jitter_bytes_per_s`, `latency_variance_ms`, `latency_mean_ms`, `dns_ms` | live Wire Ghost vitals |
| `passive` | `enabled` | ambient loop state |
| `error` | `code: rate_limited\|veil_crowded`, `message` | themed rate-limit / queue-full notices |
| Frame | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `session`, `pong`, `mode`, `passive` | plumbing |
| `status` | `attuning\|summoning\|gathering`; summoning carries `entropy_bits`, `sky` (moon/thinness), `geomagnetic` |
| `entity` | matched or minted (public fields only — hidden traits never leave the server unearned) |
| `anomaly_ack` / `anomaly` | counts; server-detected events |
| `utterance` | `kind: greeting\|fragment\|ambient\|reply\|manifest` — manifest is unprompted speech |
| `audio` | TTS + effects finished for an utterance |
| `reply_start/token/end` | streamed Direct Contact |
| `telemetry` | live Wire Ghost vitals |
| `tell` | a trait-shaped whisper for the Ghost Log |
| `ritual_complete` | `success`, `revealed` traits on success |
| `judgment_result` | `correct`, deltas, `at_peace`, `consequence` |
| `item_drop` | a relic falls |
| `error` | `rate_limited` / `veil_crowded`, themed |
**REST** (JSON, session-cookie auth where noted; `credentials: 'include'`):
**REST** (session-cookie auth where noted):
| Endpoint | Auth | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /auth/register` · `POST /auth/login` · `POST /auth/logout` · `GET /auth/me` | — | argon2 username/password, `qm_session` cookie (14-day server-side sessions) |
| `GET /api/codex?rarity=&sort=recent\|contacted&limit=` | public | the shared spirit registry |
| `GET /api/codex/{entity_id}` | public | full dossier: persona, voice profile, sighting count |
| `GET /api/stats` | public | live veil counters (entities, sessions, utterances, anomalies) |
| `POST /api/shop/waitlist` | public, rate-limited (5/hr/IP) | join the Ultimate Quantum Box waitlist — `{email, interest}`, idempotent |
| `POST /auth/register` · `login` · `logout` · `GET /auth/me` | — | argon2 + `qm_session` cookie |
| `POST /auth/guest` | public, 5/hr/IP | mint a `wanderer-` account |
| `GET /api/codex[?rarity,sort,limit]` · `GET /api/codex/{id}` | public | the shared registry / full dossier |
| `GET /api/stats` | public | live veil counters |
| `GET /api/conditions[?lon]` | public | moon, veil thinness, geomagnetic |
| `GET /api/seances/recent` | auth | the Ghost Log: last 12 sessions + echoes |
| `GET/POST /api/device` · `POST /api/device/telemetry` · WS `/ws/device-feed` | auth / device token | ESP32 pairing + live readings |
| `GET /api/inventory/{unlocks,items,sigils}` · `POST /api/inventory/unlocks/{key}` · `POST /api/inventory/sigils` | auth | the Reliquary |
| `POST /api/shop/waitlist` | public, 5/hr/IP | hardware waitlist |
| `GET /healthz` | — | `{"status": "ok"}` |
## Testing
**Backend** (pytest, 54 tests across 14 files; requires the
`quantumancy_test` database — dropped and recreated on every run):
**Backend** — pytest, **328 tests**. Requires `quantumancy_test` (dropped
and recreated every run — never run two suites concurrently against it; the
autouse drop/create fixture will fight itself):
```bash
cd backend && source venv/bin/activate
DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://quantumancy:quantumancy@localhost:5432/quantumancy_test \
OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://10.30.20.107:11434 \
python -m pytest -v
python -m pytest -q
```
Covers: auth + session cookies, rate limiter, config, SPA serving, LLM queue,
telemetry parsing, entity signatures/profiles, prompt construction (incl.
Spanish language clauses), TTS effects chain, Codex REST, the shop waitlist,
and the full WS séance flow (auth, ping/pong, summon/mint/greet, streamed
replies, anomaly attunement, re-contact by signature). One test
(`test_unknown_path_serves_spa_index`) asserts the SPA fallback and needs
`frontend/dist/` to exist first — run `npm run build` in `frontend/` before
the full suite, or it 503s (correctly — that's the "frontend not built" error
path, also tested separately).
**Frontend** (Vitest + Testing Library — 110 tests across 9 files: the
reconnecting VeilSocket, the possession/haunting primitives, the séance
reducer, the planchette state machine, the EVP detector core, the Matrix/Graph
board views, the FFT, the EMF field-fusion core, and the App shell):
**Frontend** — Vitest + Testing Library, **366 tests**, plus a hard i18n
en/es parity gate (`npm run pretest`):
```bash
cd frontend && npm test
```
**Hardware-in-the-loop** (cannot be unit tested): the WebUSB RTL-SDR sweep,
the microphone EVP flow, and the phone EMF sensors each need a manual pass
with real hardware/permissions before being called done.
**Hardware-in-the-loop** (cannot be unit tested): the RTL-SDR sweep, mic
permissions, phone sensors, and everything in `firmware/` need real
hardware passes. `docs/CHANNELS.md` tracks exactly what has and hasn't had
one.
## Current State & Known Gaps
Honestly, in order of confidence:
- **Solid.** Auth, sessions, the Codex, the Wire Ghost, TTS + effects chain,
the LLM queue/fallback machinery, EVP's detection math, EMF's
motion-fusion math, i18n (en/es), and the haunting layer are all covered
by passing tests and use standard, well-supported browser/server APIs.
The full backend suite (54/54) and frontend suite (110/110) pass clean.
- **Needs a real-hardware pass.** `frontend/src/lib/sdr.ts` is a from-scratch
WebUSB driver for RTL2832U/R820T dongles, written against the public
librtlsdr register documentation — the init sequence, PLL tuning math, and
I2C repeater writes have **never been run against a real device** in this
environment (no RTL-SDR attached during development). It's explicitly
marked `HARDWARE PASS REQUIRED` throughout the file and every entry point
fails soft, but until someone plugs in a dongle and debugs the register
pokes (a logic analyzer or `librtlsdr -T` helps), treat Spirit Radio as
"should work, unverified." It's also Chromium-only (WebUSB), and on Linux
the kernel's `dvb_usb_rtl28xxu` driver usually needs to be unbound first
(the UI surfaces this with a fix suggestion when the claim fails).
- **Minor drift.** The landing page's mode showcase
(`frontend/src/pages/LandingPage.tsx`, `MODE_ORDER`) still lists four
modes (radio/evp/wire/ouija) — EMF is fully wired into the séance page,
the WebSocket protocol, and the i18n catalogs, but hasn't been added to
the landing page's marketing grid yet.
- **Cosmetic.** The frontend build ships one 871 KB JS chunk (Vite warns
about it); code-splitting would help first paint but hasn't been done.
- **Intentionally unfinished.** The Reliquary / Ultimate Quantum Box is a
waitlist only — no hardware exists, no payment is taken, and the page
says so.
- **Solid, verified live.** Auth (incl. guests), the Codex, Wire Ghost,
EVP + spectrum scope + sonification, TTS + archetype voices, entropy,
astronomy (validated against published ephemerides), the NOAA feed
(verified against the live endpoint), rituals/judgment/essence, the
Ghost Log, conditions, PWA manifest, phone layouts, the haunting layer.
328 + 366 tests pass.
- **Should work, unverified on hardware.** `lib/sdr.ts` (WebUSB RTL-SDR) is
written from librtlsdr register docs and has never met a real dongle;
every entry point is time-boxed and fails soft. The magnetometer EMF
path needs an Android device pass. All of `firmware/` compiles-by-eye:
reviewed twice, never flashed.
- **Built but not yet reachable.** `lib/bluetooth.ts` (BLE presence field)
has no séance panel yet.
- **Known drift.** The landing page's marketing grid still shows four modes
(`MODE_ORDER` in `LandingPage.tsx`) — EMF and everything since aren't in
the showcase.
- **Cosmetic.** One ~930 KB JS chunk; code-splitting would help first paint.
- **Intentionally unfinished.** The Ultimate Quantum Box is a waitlist —
no hardware ships, no payment is taken, and the page says so.
## The Veil's Honesty Policy
- All LLM system prompts frame the entity as **a horror-fiction persona in an
interactive art installation** — never a genuine paranormal claim. The UI
carries the "this is real" atmosphere; the model instructions carry the
fiction.
- Wire Ghost telemetry reads counters and timings only. Packet payloads are
never inspected or logged.
- If the Ollama box is dark, every spirit channel degrades to curated or
procedurally-generated offline fallbacks — a summoning never visibly fails.
- All LLM system prompts frame the entity as **a horror-fiction persona in
an interactive art installation** — never a genuine paranormal claim.
- Every number shown to a seeker is a real measurement. The fiction
interprets; it never fabricates. (`docs/CHANNELS.md` is the ledger.)
- Wire Ghost telemetry reads counters and timings only; packet payloads are
never inspected. Only a longitude is ever kept from a location grant.
- Client entropy is untrusted by construction — it can add unpredictability
to a draw, never steer one.
- If the Ollama box is dark, every channel degrades to procedural fallbacks
— a summoning never visibly fails.
## Further Reading
- Design spec: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-20-quantumancy-website-design.md`
(the live app now exceeds it — see Repo layout above)
- Implementation plans 1–7: `docs/superpowers/plans/`
- `docs/CHANNELS.md` — every channel, what it really measures, and its
honest verification status
- Design specs: `docs/superpowers/specs/` (website, character depth, ESP32
node, possession, usability wave)
- Implementation plans: `docs/superpowers/plans/`