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Lines B, D and H of docs/curated-to-mantra.md, pulled from the Curated fork this
morning, go again this afternoon: the group's nostr profile (kind 0), its four relay
lists (NIP-65, NIP-17, NIP-50, NIP-51), its posts (kind 1), the curated schemas it
publishes (31889), the suggestions it reads (31888) and the entries it accepts
(31890). Eighty-two files, twelve screens, the `nostr/curated/` package, the readings
(`GroupNostrProfile`, `GroupRelayList`, `GroupPost`, `GroupCuratedSchema`,
`GroupCuratedEntry`, `CuratedSuggestion`), the `applyInnerEvent` arms for all eight
kinds, the `ChatRepository` and `NostrRepository` reads that fed them, 226 strings,
and every test that came with them. A translation collective has no list to curate
and no reason to describe itself under a key no member controls, and five rows
saying so on every group's screen were five rows about somebody else's product.
**The pasted-event proposal goes with them, because it was theirs.**
`GroupEventProposal.ACCEPTED_KINDS` was exactly kinds 0, 1, the four relay-list
kinds and 31889 -- "the kinds the group's screen has a place for", in its own words --
so with the five rows gone it would have refused every paste. Keeping it as a
generic "sign any event" was considered and rejected: the screen's whole argument
was that a member goes to the row to see the event landed, and there is no row. The
`ProposedEvent` summaries for the same kinds go too; the one test of its pre-existing
fallback ("Event of kind N") is kept, as the only line of `ProposedEventTest` that
was about code this repository had before the pull.
**Broadcast stays, and nothing opens it.** `BroadcastGroupSignedEventScreen`, its
route, view model, state and `BroadcastButton` are kept, on the decision that a way
to send a group-signed event to relays is worth having against the day something
wires a button in -- the button's only call sites were the five removed screens.
Two things had to change for it to compile against a tree with no relay lists:
`defaultRelaysFor(kind)` is now the app's own publish set for every kind, since the
General list it preferred, the Blocked list it filtered by and the schema relays it
widened to no longer exist; and `relayUrlOrNull` moves into the view model's
companion from the deleted `GroupRelaySet`, unchanged. The hint on the screen says
"the relays this app publishes to" rather than "where the group has said it lives".
Its two tests are rewritten around the new seed: the screen test answers for the
first two seeded relays and counts the rest as asked, and empties the list by hand
to see the empty state, since the seed always has something in it. Deleting
broadcast outright -- the tidier tree -- was the recommendation and was declined.
**Every pre-existing file is back at its pre-pull content plus the kept lines'
hunks, and nothing else.** Eleven files -- `ChatMessage.kt`, `NostrEventDao.kt`,
`NostrEvent.kt`, `LocalChatRoom.kt`, `Member.kt`, `ProposedEvent.kt`,
`ChatTranscript.kt`, `ProfileAvatar.kt`, the group screen's view model and state,
and `m3-title-case.py` -- were touched by no kept commit and are restored from
ba0830a3 byte for byte, so `inComparableGroups` is a private helper of the group
screen again rather than a shared extension one deleted screen needed, and
`ProfileAvatar` has one overload again. The rest were restored and had the kept
hunks re-applied: the back button's three on `ChatRoomDetailScreen`, broadcast's
`groupSignedEvent` read on the two chat repositories, and on the two nostr
repositories the sign-in reads, by reverse-applying the queue commit's hunk. The
check is `git diff ba0830a3 -- <file>`, which shows only those. Reverting the eight
commits was rejected because the back button and the read-only identity work landed
on top of them and would have conflicted in every one of the shared files; editing
the current files by hand was rejected because it leaves residue that a diff against
the base cannot distinguish from a decision.
**The strings that went are exactly the ones nothing references any more and that
the pull added.** Six strings were unreferenced before the pull and stay; the header
sentence and one capitalised "Mantra" that the queue commit's join carried are prose,
not feature, and stay too. The seven section comments that described removed blocks
go; the broadcast block's stays.
**The plan's third decision said "hide the two rows behind a constant".** That
covered the curated rows and not the profile, relays and posts beside them, and the
call was to take the whole identity block out. The record of what went and what
stayed is the paragraph after the built table in docs/curated-to-mantra.md, with the
seam it leaves for the next pull: an upstream commit that touches the identity block
conflicts at `ChatRoomDetailScreen`, `MantraNavHost` and `strings.xml`, and is
dropped. docs/README.md says the same in a sentence. The nsec and npub notes still
name `EditGroupCuratedSchemaViewModel`; they are records of what was built upstream
and are left as written.
Verified with :composeApp:compileDebugKotlinAndroid, :composeApp:compileKotlinJvm,
:composeApp:jvmTest (826 tests, from 1,039), :composeApp:testDebugUnitTest (413,
from 530) and :composeApp:m3Audit, every budget met, 12 adaptive uses at the floor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mantra docs
Notes on the parts of this app whose behaviour is not recoverable by reading the code alone — where the reasoning lives in a protocol, a failure mode that is silent, or a decision that looked arbitrary and was not.
| document | covers |
|---|---|
| shared-key-ceremony.md | ChillDKG over NIP-17: the rounds, the approval gates, the chat transcript, participant ordering |
| shared-key-derivation.md | deriving further keys from the group's threshold key with FROST tweaks — why not BIP32, why no chain code, and the one rule that must not be broken |
| subgroups.md | a group making another group — the four ceremonies, what the parent's signature actually covers, and why the child's key is fresh rather than derived |
| frost-batch-signing.md | signing several events in one ceremony — why one nonce can never cover two messages, and the phased schema, wire and UI work that follows from it |
| marmot-membership.md | how members join an MLS group, and the epoch race that makes a missing member look like a successful invite |
| member-chronicle.md | handing a member added after the work was done the group's signed record — why the events are not on the wire at all, and why the room's id is enough to verify them |
| marmot-direct-messages.md | a one-to-one message inside a group as a stock NIP-59 gift wrap — what its MIP-03 carve-out costs, why the sender cannot read their own, and the one query that would broadcast it |
| mls-skipped-keys.md | why a group event that arrives a moment late is dropped for good, which flows trigger it, the quartz fix, and the partial mitigation in this app |
| long-running-sync.md | the chat subscriptions that stay open instead of pulling once per screen — why the request queue could not simply hold one, and how the group filter follows the room list |
| dead-code.md | code in the sync and relay stack that nothing calls, why each piece is still there, and which of it is a bug rather than a leftover |
| nsec-sign-in.md | signing in with an existing nostr key — why an nsec can never have a wallet behind it, the ten call sites that make it small, and the sign-in machine that was already built and unreachable |
| npub-sign-in.md | signing in with only a public key — what a key that cannot sign can still see here, why that is a preview rather than a browser, and the four decisions the word settles |
| jvm-target.md | what desktop support cost, phased — why the native chain was already done, why an empty source set in our phoenix fork was the real blocker, and why DAO tests need none of it |
| material-design-conformance.md | what the M3 foundations actually require, measured against all 43 screens — the colour pairing that renders the app's own proposals invisible, and eight phases that put the decisions back in the theme |
| curated-to-mantra.md | pulling the Curated fork's thirty-nine commits back under Mantra's names — which lines of work to take, the three decisions, and a measured way to replay a twice-rebranded history without touching seven hundred files by hand |
Start with the ceremony if you are new to this area; the Marmot notes all assume it.
Read the skipped-keys note before debugging any "the other device never got it"
report — it is silent, and it looks like every other kind of delivery failure. The
sync note stands alone, and the dead-code inventory reads as a follow-up to it. The
batch-signing note is a phased plan that has been built: read it after the
derivation note, whose one rule is the same one it is built around. The member
chronicle note is a phased plan that has not been built, and reads as the
membership note's unanswered half: what a member who joins late can be given,
and the one thing they cannot. The
jvm-target note is unrelated to all of them: it is a build and packaging story.
The subgroups note is a phased plan that has been built; it assumes both
shared-key notes and reads as the ceremony's second half — what a group does
once it has a key, and what it can say about a group that does not yet.
The Material Design note is a phased plan that has not been built, and is the
only one about what the app looks like rather than what it does; read the
jvm-target note first if you want to know why its adaptive-layout phase exists.
The curated-to-mantra note is a phased plan that has been built, save for its last
phase, which is a decision: it is about the repository rather than the app, and reads
alone, except that its first decision leans on the derivation note's one rule. Two of
the lines it pulled -- the group's nostr identity and the curated lists -- were taken
out again the same day, and its record says what went and what stayed. The nsec and
npub sign-in notes arrived with it and record what they built.
The nsec sign-in note is a phased plan that has been built; it inherits the
key-storage decision from the jvm-target note and drives the navigation state
machine NavigationViewModel.processLocalAccount implements, so read it with the
code open, and read its table of where the build chose differently first.
The npub sign-in note is a phased plan that has been built, and reads as that
plan's out-of-scope note answered: it takes the Identity type and the sign-in
machine as given and asks what an identity with no secret is for, before it asks
how to build one; read its table of where the build chose differently first.