# M1 — Evidence & Audit Design Date: 2026-05-31 Parent design: `2026-05-31-go-focus-os-design.md` ## Purpose M1 gives the daemon eyes and a memory. It adds a continuous active-window sensor, a two-tier evidence store, and live updates of what you are doing — then seals each finished session into a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit trail. M1 is **observe & record only**. It makes no judgment about whether the current window is on-task; that is the advisor's job in M3. M1 is honest instrumentation: the trustworthy foundation that later milestones read from. In the architecture of the parent design, M1 builds the first real **port** end to end — the activity port (`evidence.Source`) with its X11 adapter and a fake for tests — establishing the interface + adapter + fake pattern every later port copies. ## Scope In scope: - `evidence` package: an X11 (xgbutil) active-window sensor behind a `Source` interface, pushing a `WindowSnapshot` on every focus change; evidence health; the legacy title-scrubbing regex as a tested `ScrubTitle` function. - `store` extensions: a per-session raw focus-event log (`sessions/.jsonl`, appended live, pruned after a retention window) and a permanent hash-chained audit log (`audit.jsonl`, one linked `SessionSummary` per completed session). - `session.Controller` extensions: in-memory per-session evidence stats, an injectable clock, focus accumulation while `Active`, crash-recovery replay, and writing the hashed summary at session end. - `web` extensions: the SSE payload carries an `evidence` object; the Active and Review views surface current window, per-bucket time, context-switch count, and an evidence-health indicator. A broadcast callback registered on the controller so every state change (focus, expiry, user action) fans out over one path. - Unit tests for `evidence` (scrub + interface), `store` (audit chain + evidence log), `session` (accumulation via fake source + injectable clock), and `web` (evidence payload over SSE). Out of scope (deferred): - Any AI / drift judgment / on-task vs off-task classification (M2–M3). - Allowed-context matching and violation friction (M3). - Enforcement of any kind, including window-minimize (M7). - Wayland active-window support beyond degraded `Unavailable` reporting. - Visual design polish (M4) — M1 surfaces data legibly, nothing more. ## Architecture Fit Per the parent design's "ports around a decision core": - **Skeleton** (`domain`, `statemachine`) is unchanged by M1. - **Nervous system** (`session.Controller`) gains evidence ownership: it receives sensor events, decides relevance by current runtime state, accumulates stats, persists raw events, and writes the audit summary. It remains the single hub. - **Activity port** (`evidence.Source`) is new — a dumb sensor that makes no decisions. `session` decides what each event means. The sensor never judges; the orchestrator never talks to X11 directly. This is the port boundary M1 exists to establish. ## The Two-Tier Evidence Model Window focus can change dozens of times a minute. Keeping every focus event in the permanent hash chain forever would bloat it. Discarding detail loses the ability to compute things like context-switch frequency. M1 resolves this with two tiers: 1. **Raw, per-session, disposable.** Every focus change is appended live to `sessions/.jsonl` as it happens (crash-durable). This is the firehose: full titles, millisecond timestamps. It is the recovery source for in-memory stats and the basis for end-of-session analytics. It is **pruned after 30 days**. 2. **Summarized, permanent, tamper-evident.** At session end the raw stream is rolled up into one `SessionSummary` (per-bucket totals, switch count, duration, outcome) which is hash-chained into `audit.jsonl` and **kept forever**. The chain is coarse — one linked entry per session — so tamper evidence is cheap and the log stays small. ## Components ### `evidence` (new package) A dumb X11 sensor. One long-lived xgbutil connection is opened at daemon start and kept open for the whole process. It subscribes to `PropertyNotify` on the root window's `_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW` and emits a `WindowSnapshot` on every active window change (and once immediately with the current window). It makes no relevance decisions. ```go type EvidenceHealth struct { Available bool Reason string // empty when Available; populated when not } type WindowSnapshot struct { Title string // full _NET_WM_NAME (raw; used in live view + raw log) Class string // WM_CLASS Health EvidenceHealth } type Source interface { // Watch runs until ctx is cancelled, invoking onChange on every active // window change, and once immediately with the current window. Watch(ctx context.Context, onChange func(WindowSnapshot)) } ``` - Real implementation `x11Source` uses xgbutil: `ewmh.ActiveWindowGet` → `ewmh.WmNameGet` (title) + `icccm.WmClassGet` (class). - On X failure, no active window, or unset `DISPLAY`: `Health{Available: false, Reason: "..."}` with empty title/class. This mirrors the legacy degraded reporting and covers Wayland implicitly. - `ScrubTitle(string) string` is the legacy digit/percent regex (`-?\d+([:.]\d+)+%?`) ported as its own tested function. Used to compute bucket keys; the raw log keeps the unscrubbed title. ### `store` (extended) Two new files beside `snapshot.go`. `store` is infrastructure, not a port. `store/audit.go` — the permanent hash-chained log at `~/.antidrift/audit.jsonl`: ```go type BucketTotal struct { Class string `json:"class"` Title string `json:"title"` // scrubbed Seconds int64 `json:"seconds"` } type SessionSummary struct { Seq int `json:"seq"` PrevHash string `json:"prev_hash"` SessionID string `json:"session_id"` NextAction string `json:"next_action"` SuccessCond string `json:"success_condition"` Outcome string `json:"outcome"` // "completed" | "expired" StartedUnix int64 `json:"started_unix"` EndedUnix int64 `json:"ended_unix"` SwitchCount int `json:"switch_count"` Buckets []BucketTotal `json:"buckets"` // sorted desc by seconds Hash string `json:"hash"` } func AppendSession(path string, s SessionSummary) error func VerifyChain(path string) error ``` - `AppendSession` reads the last line's `Hash` as this entry's `PrevHash` (genesis = 64 hex zeros), assigns `Seq = lastSeq + 1`, computes `Hash = SHA-256(prevHash || canonicalJSON(fields-except-Hash))`, and appends one JSON line atomically (append + fsync). Canonical serialization uses the struct with `Hash` zeroed and stable field order (encoding/json is stable for structs). - `VerifyChain` re-walks every line: recompute each hash, confirm each `PrevHash` equals the prior `Hash`, confirm `Seq` is contiguous. Returns an error naming the first broken line; nil if intact or empty. `store/evidence_log.go` — the per-session raw stream at `~/.antidrift/sessions/.jsonl`: ```go type FocusEvent struct { AtUnixMillis int64 `json:"at_unix_millis"` Class string `json:"class"` Title string `json:"title"` // full, unscrubbed Available bool `json:"available"` Reason string `json:"reason,omitempty"` } func AppendFocus(dir, sessionID string, e FocusEvent) error func ReplaySession(dir, sessionID string) ([]FocusEvent, error) func PruneOlderThan(dir string, age time.Duration, now time.Time) error ``` - `AppendFocus` opens the session file `O_APPEND|O_CREATE`, writes one JSON line, closes. Creates `sessions/` if needed. - `ReplaySession` reads all events in order (used to rebuild stats after a crash). - `PruneOlderThan` deletes session files whose modification time is older than `now - age`. `now` is injected for testability. ### `session.Controller` (extended) Gains: - `clock func() time.Time` — injectable; defaults to `time.Now`. Used for all accumulation and timestamps so tests are deterministic. - `stats *EvidenceStats` — in-memory, current session only (nil when not in a live session). - `onChange func()` — a notification callback the web layer registers; invoked after any state change so the browser is pushed fresh state. - A reference to the store paths (audit file, sessions dir). ```go type bucketKey struct{ Class, Title string } // Title is scrubbed type EvidenceStats struct { SessionID string StartedUnix int64 Buckets map[bucketKey]time.Duration SwitchCount int Current evidence.WindowSnapshot lastFocusAt time.Time lastKey bucketKey hasLast bool } ``` `RecordWindow(snap evidence.WindowSnapshot)`: 1. Lock. Always update `c.latestWindow = snap` (for the live indicator outside Active). 2. If `runtimeState != Active` or `stats == nil`: fire `onChange`; return. (Tracked for display, not accounted.) 3. `now := c.clock()`. If `hasLast`: add `now - lastFocusAt` to `Buckets[lastKey]`. (If the prior snapshot was unavailable, `lastKey` is the reserved `(evidence unavailable)` key.) 4. Append a `FocusEvent` to the session log. 5. Compute the new key: unavailable snapshot → reserved key `{Class: "", Title: "(evidence unavailable)"}`; else `{snap.Class, ScrubTitle(snap.Title)}`. If `hasLast && newKey != lastKey`, increment `SwitchCount`. 6. Set `lastKey = newKey`, `lastFocusAt = now`, `hasLast = true`, `Current = snap`. Fire `onChange`. Lifecycle hooks (all under the existing mutex): - **`StartManualCommitment`** (→ Active): mint `session_id` (UUIDv7), create `stats` with `StartedUnix = clock()`, seed `Current`/`lastKey`/`lastFocusAt` from `latestWindow` (so the first segment counts from start), `hasLast = true`. Persist snapshot (now carrying `session_id`). - **`Complete`** / **timebox expiry** (→ Review): flush final segment (`clock() - lastFocusAt` into `lastKey`), freeze `stats` (stop accounting). Consistent with M0's "freeze active time during review." - **`End`** (→ Locked): build `SessionSummary` from frozen `stats` (`Outcome` = "completed" if user-completed, "expired" if timebox fired — tracked via a field set at the Active→Review transition), `AppendSession` to the audit chain, then clear `stats`. Read view: `State()` is extended to include an evidence projection (current window, buckets sorted desc, switch count, health) for the SSE payload. ### Crash Recovery The snapshot (`state.json`) gains `session_id` and `outcome_pending` fields. On startup, after loading the snapshot: - Run `store.PruneOlderThan(sessionsDir, 30*24*time.Hour, time.Now())`. - If runtime state is `Active` with a `session_id`: `ReplaySession` the raw log and rebuild `EvidenceStats` exactly (sum segments between consecutive events; the final open segment resumes from the last event's timestamp). The raw log is the recovery source of truth for stats; the snapshot only points at it. - The M0 deadline re-arm / expire-to-Review behavior is unchanged and runs after stats are rebuilt. ### `web` (extended) - At startup the `Server` registers `ctrl.SetOnChange(func(){ broadcast() })`. Every state change — focus update, timebox expiry, user action — flows out through this single path. This also moves M0's expiry broadcast onto the same callback rather than an inline broadcast. - The SSE/POST payload gains an `evidence` object: ```json { "runtime_state": "active", "commitment": { "next_action": "...", "success_condition": "...", "timebox_secs": 1500, "deadline_unix_secs": 1748725200 }, "evidence": { "available": true, "reason": "", "current": { "class": "code", "title": "m1 design - antidrift" }, "switch_count": 7, "buckets": [ { "class": "code", "title": "antidrift", "seconds": 540 }, { "class": "firefox", "title": "docs", "seconds": 120 } ] } } ``` `evidence` is null when there is no live session (Locked/Planning). In Review it carries the frozen stats. ### Browser UI (data, not polish) The page stays a pure renderer of pushed state. Additions: - **Active view:** current window line (`class · title`); a per-bucket time breakdown list (sorted desc, `mm:ss`); the context-switch count; an evidence-health pill — green "tracking" when available, amber "evidence unavailable: " when not. - **Review view:** the session summary about to be hashed — total active time, switch count, top buckets. - Visual treatment is minimal and legible; the real design pass is M4. ## Data Flow ``` X server ──PropertyNotify──▶ evidence.x11Source.Watch (goroutine) │ onChange(WindowSnapshot) ▼ session.Controller.RecordWindow │ (accumulate if Active) │ append raw event ▼ ▼ EvidenceStats (memory) sessions/.jsonl │ onChange() ▼ web broadcast ──SSE──▶ browser ... End: SessionSummary ──hash-chain──▶ audit.jsonl (permanent) ``` ## Error Handling - **Evidence unavailable** (X error, no active window, Wayland): snapshot has `Health.Available = false`; time during the gap accrues to the reserved `(evidence unavailable)` bucket so totals always equal wall-clock duration. The watch goroutine logs and continues; it never crashes the daemon. - **Session log append failure:** logged; accounting continues in memory (the raw log is best-effort detail, not the state of truth). Crash recovery for that session would be incomplete, which is acceptable for disposable detail. - **Audit append failure at End:** logged and surfaced; the transition to Locked still completes (state integrity over audit completeness). A retry-on-next- start is out of scope. - **Corrupt audit chain:** `VerifyChain` reports the first broken line; M1 only exposes verification, it does not auto-repair. ## Testing - `evidence`: `ScrubTitle` table tests porting the legacy regex cases (percentages, ratios, leading sign, plain titles untouched). The `x11Source` sits behind `Source`; a `//go:build` integration smoke test queries the live server and is skipped when `DISPLAY` is unset. - `store/audit`: append N summaries then `VerifyChain` passes; genesis `PrevHash` is 64 zeros; `Seq` is contiguous; a tamper test mutates a middle line's field and asserts `VerifyChain` names that line. - `store/evidence_log`: `AppendFocus` then `ReplaySession` round-trips event order/values; `PruneOlderThan` deletes only files older than the cutoff (modification time controlled). - `session`: a `fakeSource` plus injectable `clock` drive scripted focus sequences with controlled timestamps. Assert: bucket totals and switch count; events outside Active are not accounted; unavailable snapshots accrue to the reserved bucket; crash-replay rebuilds identical stats; `End` writes a summary whose buckets/switch-count match and which extends the chain. - `web`: httptest confirms `/events` emits an evidence-bearing payload and that a simulated focus change pushes an updated payload. ## Done When `go run ./cmd/antidriftd`: start a commitment, switch between a few windows, and watch the Active view update live with the current window, per-app time, and switch count. Let it complete (or expire) into Review and see the session summary. End it; `audit.jsonl` gains one hash-chained line and `VerifyChain` passes. Kill the daemon mid-session and restart: the per-window stats are rebuilt from the session log and tracking resumes. Session files older than 30 days are gone on startup. `go test ./...` passes. ## File Structure - Create: `internal/evidence/evidence.go` (types, `Source`, `ScrubTitle`) - Create: `internal/evidence/x11.go` (`x11Source`, xgbutil; build-tagged) - Create: `internal/evidence/evidence_test.go` - Create: `internal/store/audit.go`, `internal/store/evidence_log.go` - Create: `internal/store/audit_test.go`, `internal/store/evidence_log_test.go` - Modify: `internal/store/store.go` (snapshot gains `session_id`, `outcome_pending`) - Modify: `internal/session/session.go` (clock, stats, RecordWindow, lifecycle hooks, onChange, recovery), `internal/session/session_test.go` - Modify: `internal/web/web.go` (SetOnChange wiring, evidence payload), `internal/web/web_test.go`, `internal/web/static/index.html` - Modify: `cmd/antidriftd/main.go` (construct `evidence.Source`, start `Watch`, wire to controller) - Modify: `go.mod` (add `github.com/jezek/xgb`, `github.com/jezek/xgbutil`)