An audit of the README and the site against the implementation found 38
places the docs were missing, stale, or wrong about daemon mode. Two were
outright false: the community page still answered "want a queue that
outlives the command?" with "slskd has that", and the home page promised
"no daemon, no API to stand up" fifty lines before the section that
describes both.
The download-box walkthrough now tells the truth about its sharp edges: a
pushed folder or share list is live-only on a remote daemon, whose own
config.toml wins at restart; `shares add` validates the path on the
machine you type it on; and a `get` that reaches its `--timeout` cancels
the daemon-side transfer. Its shell example also runs as written now — the
old block put a second command after a foreground daemon that never
returns.
The reference material catches up with the feature: `daemon` and its
subcommands join the command list, the config table gains the
daemon/daemon_token/--no-daemon rows, nine settings become eleven,
`daemon status` and `daemon token` get documented record shapes, exit 3
covers daemons, `queued` joins the serve statuses, the credential-free
count goes 13 to 19, and the action-command count 4 to 6.
And the surprises are written down rather than discovered: the daemon does
not sweep the wishlist on its own; Windows has no socket and so no
auto-attach; the attached TUI's settings form edits the daemon's folders
and rewrites this machine's config.toml; `serve` monitors a daemon's
uploads instead of starting a second server; `whoami` reports the
daemon's world, with --no-daemon as the way out. The OpenRPC section names
the six event methods and the session-wide download.set_dir rule.
Site typechecks, lints, and builds through prerender; every claim was
verified against the cited code before it was written.
Two TUIs on one daemon behaved as two separate windows that happened to share
a login: each showed only the transfers it had queued and the searches it had
run, and neither said it was attached to anything.
The status bar now names the daemon, and both lists are views of the session:
transfers and searches appear in every window, dismissing one dismisses it
everywhere, and a window opened later starts from what is already running
rather than blank. message read likewise starts from the conversation the
daemon collected instead of only what arrives while it runs.
Search state needed the daemon to say when a query went out. The window a
search collects for belongs to whichever client started it, so without that
every other window showed a running search as finished the moment it appeared
— which is what it did. The summary carries a file count too, so a window has
the right number before it has pulled the results across.
Adds Client::forget_search, which the library had no way to do: a resident
client otherwise holds every result set it has ever seen, and a window that
dismissed a search had no way to say so.
A review of the first cut found five defects, all fixed here and all covered:
syncing ran locally too, where it cost a full copy of every result set per
frame and deleted the completed-download history restored from disk; a
transfer could be listed twice by racing its own registration; clearing all
searches did not reach the session, so every row came back; a search dismissed
elsewhere never left; and a wishlist search reported as finished the instant
it went out.
Starting the daemon printed 'ready' and nothing else, so the token and the
next step were both somewhere else. It now prints what other commands can do
from here, and when --bind is given, the token itself with the two config
commands a remote client needs. All on stderr, so stdout stays empty and
daemon still composes in a pipeline.
Adds the guarantee daemon mode is for as a test: eight clients connected at
once are each answered correctly, none has its replies crossed with another's,
and the daemon still counts all eight. Plus 250 connect-and-drop cycles, well
past the connection cap, to catch a per-connection resource that is not
released — the shape a daemon that works for a while and then refuses
everybody would take.
A connection the daemon drops before it can be served now logs why at warning
level. A client only ever sees 'the connection closed', so that line is the
only account of the reason.
A remote daemon could only be named with --daemon and --daemon-token on every
invocation, which made the one workflow daemon mode is most useful for — a
headless download box driven from a laptop — a matter of retyping a 64-character
token. Both are now config keys, so it is two 'config set' commands once and
plain commands thereafter.
Fixes a bug that setup exposed: the up-front daemon status probe read the token
from the command line only, so with the token in the config file it failed
silently and every command that names a path or a server fell back to this
machine's defaults — whoami claiming downloads land in the laptop's home
directory when they land on the box. The regression test was checked by
reintroducing the bug.
Documents the download-box workflow in plain terms across the README, the
website and the agent skill, and says plainly that the schema is open: OpenRPC,
served by the daemon itself, so an Android, iOS or web remote is something
anyone can build without asking.
The website made three claims daemon mode falsifies — "No TTY, no daemon",
"no daemon, no MCP server, no API key", and "no GUI and no daemon mode yet"
under what-this-is-not. All three corrected.
Adds a docs section and a home feature card, both leading with the reason
rather than the mechanics: the server allows one session per account, so
parallel one-shot commands either displace each other or mean a throwaway
username per run, which is account churn on infrastructure other people
maintain. A daemon is one login for as long as you work.
The README section said that three times over and buried the reasoning below
the mechanics; rewritten to state it once, up front. It now also covers which
commands stay local and that shares add reaches a running daemon, which was
meant to land earlier and silently did not — the edit anchored on text that
only existed in SKILL.md.
HeroTerminal was a single 367-line component doing three separate jobs:
simulating the transfer queue, holding the per-search result sets, and
rendering. It is now useTransfers, useResults and useHeroDemo behind a
presentational component. The dead shellRef went with it.
The home, docs and install pages each returned one long JSX block; every
section is now a named component, so the page body reads as an outline.
The prerendered HTML is byte-identical for all five pages, and the extracted
transfer reducer matches the original over 200 ticks.
`completions install` generates the script from the same clap definition
the binary parses with, so it cannot drift from `--help`, and writes it
where each shell already looks. fish scans its own completions directory
unprompted; bash and zsh get one marked `source` line appended to their rc
file, because nothing puts a per-user directory on their search path by
default. `completions uninstall` takes back exactly those lines and leaves
the rest of the file alone.
Remove three cross-page duplications: the "what --help cannot say" list
appeared on both home and docs, the config precedence rule twice on
install, and the soulfind link twice in adjacent community paragraphs.
Drop the em dashes, the adverbs, and the rhetorical triads while there.
Add a release job that regenerates Formula/soulseek-rs.rb in michel/homebrew-tap
from the archives the binaries matrix uploads, and lead with
`brew install michel/tap/soulseek-rs` in the READMEs and on the website.
The agent-native copy described what the skill contains rather than what it
buys you. A new home-page section shows the shape of the request that becomes
possible — describe the outcome, let the agent write the pipeline — and names
the specific knowledge --help cannot carry: which JSON keys a record has, that
exit 4 means widen the query, that a remote path goes back byte-identical,
that --follow never returns.
The install page gains a reference for all nine config.toml settings with
their defaults and an example file, next to the paths that were already there.
The list is the one `config set` accepts, checked against FileConfig::KEYS.
`skills install` becomes the featured card on the home page, in the wide slot
the grid gives its first entry: one command hands a coding agent the JSON keys
of every record, the exit-code meanings, and the --json rule, with nothing to
clone because the skill ships inside the binary. The docs page gains a callout
and the command in the shell listing.
Also catches the site up with the scriptable command surface the last two
releases introduced: `get`, `shares add`, `serve`, `room list`, `message send`
and `--json` replace the flags and spellings that no longer exist.
Removes every comment introduced on this branch: website/ in full, pages.yml
in full, and only the blocks added to ci.yml and release.yml — their
pre-existing comments are untouched.
Two directives survive because they are load-bearing rather than prose: the
triple-slash vite/client reference, and nothing else.
Two comments were carrying behaviour that the code did not state, so the
code now states it. useCopy's rejection handler clears the copied flag
instead of sitting empty, and writeTheme returns whether the write actually
landed instead of swallowing the failure in a bare catch. isExternal drops
its regex for two startsWith calls, which reads the same and no longer
hides a `//` inside a literal.
Reading prefers-reduced-motion in the state initialiser made the first
client render disagree with the server for anyone who has it on: the server
always serialises the searching state, the client painted the resting one,
and React bailed out of hydration with #418 on every load. The preference
now applies a tick later, from the opening-run effect, so the first render
matches the HTML and the resting state arrives immediately after.
The header's home link was 19px tall — the most reached-for control in the
nav, and the only one under the 24px target minimum, while every nav link
beside it was already 44. It gets a 44px box.
The demo's search field also carries an id, name and type, which clears the
"form field should have an id or name" issue and stops browsers offering
autofill on a fake terminal input.
Audited against the AI-design catalog. The world stays — the terminal
aesthetic, the oxide accent, IBM Plex Mono are all chosen, and the audit
cleared them. What went is the handful of defaults that had crept in
underneath it.
Eight feature cards at identical weight said every feature mattered equally.
Search is what the client is for, so it takes a double-width cell and the
grid drops to three up; eight cards plus that one double still comes out
square.
Each glyph sat in a 34px bordered square — the stock icon-in-a-chip
treatment that ships with every component library. The glyphs are the real
TUI's, so they now sit inline like the prompt markers they are.
Callouts lose the coloured left rule. The catalog puts it plainly: a
coloured left border is about as reliable a sign of generated design as an
em-dash is in prose. The tone already lives in the label, which was saying
the same thing twice.
Thirteen arrow glyphs were typed into labels and link text. The
leaving-the-site mark belongs to the control, not the copy, so Button draws
it once, aria-hidden, and only when the link actually leaves. The "read
more" arrows on internal links were pure flourish and are gone.
The hero also drops "blazingly fast Rust", which TONE-OF-VOICE.md lists
under banned, no exceptions.
A 2px border on one side of a rounded box thins as it turns the corner, so
the keycap's bottom edge tapered exactly where a real key looks solid. An
unblurred 1px shadow sits under the full curve instead — same weight, no
taper — which is the look the design system's `.key` rule describes.
Also records the one detector finding that is not a defect: the single-font
warning on index.html. tokens/typography.css calls monospace
"non-negotiable: it's a terminal application", hierarchy comes from three
weights and a five-step scale (the rule's own stated exception), and the
second family it asks for is already there — --font-forum, a system stack
the scanner cannot see because it needs no @font-face. Scoped to that one
file so the rule keeps working everywhere else.
config.local.json holds this machine's hook consent, so it is gitignored
rather than shared.
A Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind v4 site under website/, built from
the soulseek-rs design system so the site and the TUI stay one product.
The colour tokens in src/index.css are the same values as
soulseek-rs/src/ui/styles.rs; change one, change both.
The hero is a working recreation of the TUI: it plays one scripted run and
then takes the keyboard, or lands on the resting state directly under
prefers-reduced-motion. Its sample data is invented or public domain, per
the tone-of-voice guardrail against naming copyrighted material.
Static output rather than an SPA shell. `bun run build` compiles the client,
compiles the same app for Node, then renders every route in src/lib/routes.ts
to its own file with that route's title, description and canonical URL. A
direct link to /install therefore answers 200 with real markup instead of
GitHub's 404 page. routes.ts is keyed into App.tsx by literal path, so adding
one without the other fails typecheck rather than shipping a page whose body
says "not found" under the right title.
Theme is resolved once by an inline script before first paint and adopted by
React through useSyncExternalStore, so there is no flash and no hydration
mismatch on the toggle. Light mode re-cuts the semantic hues darker: phosphor
and tape read on vinyl but wash out on manila.
CI and release skip website-only pushes, and Pages skips Rust-only ones. The
two Rust workflows share one paths-ignore list so they can only skip
together, which keeps the release ci-gate from polling for a run that was
never queued. That gate also now treats a cancelled CI as "keep waiting"
rather than a failure, since cancel-in-progress cancels the older SHA on
every back-to-back push.
Michel de Graaf