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Guidance for Claude Code working in this repo. The canonical contributor guide is AGENTS.md — read it for repo layout, CRD list, and common tasks. This file covers only what's easy to get wrong.
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Always run make manifests (or make generate for deepcopy too).
- Very specific: line 59
Commit or push only when asked.
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CLAUDE.md
Guidance for Claude Code working in this repo. The canonical contributor guide is AGENTS.md — read it for repo layout, CRD list, and common tasks. This file covers only what's easy to get wrong.
Build / test / verify
- Go 1.25+. Module:
github.com/sympozium-ai/sympozium. make build— all binaries.go build ./...for a quick compile check.make testrunsgo test -race ./...— the race detector is the bar; a change isn't done untilgo test -race ./...,go vet ./..., andgofmtare clean.make test-system(envtest) runs controller tests against a real apiserver with no cluster — use it for reconcile-logic changes. CI runs it (system-testsjob).go vet ./...skips build-tagged files (test/systemis//go:build system);make vet/make vet-tagscovers them — add a line there for any new build tag.- Integration tests (
test/integration/*.sh) need a Kind cluster + a model. They work against any OpenAI-compatible provider — setspec.model.provider+spec.model.baseURL(e.g. a localllama-server/ollama/lm-studio), not justopenai.
After editing CRD types (api/v1alpha1/*)
Always run make manifests (or make generate for deepcopy too). This
regenerates config/crd/bases/ and syncs both chart copies
(charts/sympozium/crds/, charts/sympozium-crds/templates/). CI fails if they
drift (make helm-sync-check). Never hand-edit generated CRD YAML or
zz_generated.deepcopy.go.
Updating the Pi/Hermes example adapter versions
charts/sympozium/values.yaml's harnessExamples block is the only file to
edit for an adapter's name, image digest, or default enablement — the
--reuse-values fallback dict in charts/sympozium/templates/harness-examples.yaml
is generated from it. Run make helm-sync after editing it; make
helm-sync-check (CI) fails if the two have drifted. Never hand-edit the block
between the sync-harness-defaults:begin/:end markers.
Naming — these renames recur as bugs
- The CRD kind is
Agent(formerlySympoziumInstance— do not use). - AgentRun/Schedule reference an agent via
agentRef+agentId(notinstanceRef/agentID). - Ensemble members live under
agentConfigs(notpersonas). - The run-pod label is
sympozium.ai/agent-run(hyphen, notagentrun). AgentRun.spec.modelrequiresprovider,model,authSecretRef;toolPolicyactions are onlyallow/deny;cleanupis onlydelete/keep.
Conventions to match when adding code
- Secrets → env: inject only via the
allowedAuthSecretKeysallowlist with per-keySecretKeyRef. NeverEnvFroma whole secret into an agent/sidecar pod. - Pod security: agent pods run non-root,
readOnlyRootFilesystem,drop: [ALL], RuntimeDefault seccomp. Match this for any new pod spec. - Admission: the webhook (
cmd/webhook) is a separate, validation-only deployment — there is no wired mutating webhook, so don't assume field defaulting happens at admission; do it in the controller. - Image tags: control-plane deployments use a
v-prefixed tag; spawned run pods useSYMPOZIUM_IMAGE_TAGunprefixed (_helpers.tplvs the controller env). - Agents are LLM-driven and treated as adversarial (prompt injection) — validate
anything an agent writes into
/ipcor a CR field before acting on it.
Deploy / commit
helm lint charts/sympoziumafter chart changes; the two-chart split (sympozium-crds+sympozium) means CRDs upgrade independently.- Commit or push only when asked; branch off
mainfirst. Don't hand-commit generated artifacts — runmake generate/manifestsand commit the result.
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