# GIA — Agent Knowledge Base

## Overview

GIA is a multi-transport communication platform bridging Signal, WhatsApp, XMPP, and Instagram through a Django web interface. It provides message relay, AI-powered workspace analysis, compose UX, and OSINT search. Stack: Python 3.11, Django 4.x, HTMX, Bulma CSS, SQLite, Redis, Podman. Async runtime uses asyncio + uvloop.

## Structure

```
GIA/
├── app/                  # Django project config (settings, urls, asgi, wsgi)
│   ├── settings.py       # Main settings (imports local_settings.py at bottom)
│   ├── local_settings.py # Env-driven overrides (secrets, feature flags)
│   ├── urls.py           # All URL routing (single flat file, no includes)
│   └── asgi.py           # ASGI entrypoint with WebSocket routing
├── core/                 # ALL application logic lives here
│   ├── models.py         # All models (~1600 lines) — User, Person, AI, Message, etc.
│   ├── forms.py          # Django ModelForms using RestrictedFormMixin from mixins
│   ├── admin.py          # Admin registrations
│   ├── clients/          # Transport service adapters
│   │   ├── __init__.py   # ClientBase ABC (start, message_received, etc.)
│   │   ├── transport.py  # Shared transport layer — attachment prep, send, runtime state
│   │   ├── whatsapp.py   # WhatsApp client via Neonize (~3100 lines)
│   │   ├── signal.py     # Signal client via signal-cli REST API
│   │   ├── xmpp.py       # XMPP client via slixmpp
│   │   ├── instagram.py  # Instagram client via aiograpi
│   │   └── gateway.py    # Gateway HTTP helpers
│   ├── messaging/        # Message processing pipeline
│   │   ├── ai.py         # OpenAI integration (AsyncOpenAI)
│   │   ├── history.py    # Prompt window builder with adaptive limits
│   │   ├── media_bridge.py # Media attachment resolution
│   │   ├── analysis.py   # Conversation analysis
│   │   ├── natural.py    # Natural language processing
│   │   ├── replies.py    # Reply generation
│   │   └── utils.py      # Message formatting helpers
│   ├── modules/
│   │   └── router.py     # UnifiedRouter — orchestrates all transport clients
│   ├── views/            # Django views (class-based)
│   │   ├── compose.py    # Compose UX (~3400 lines) — send, drafts, thread, media
│   │   ├── workspace.py  # AI workspace (~5200 lines) — insights, mitigation, patterns
│   │   ├── osint.py      # OSINT/search interface
│   │   └── ...           # CRUD views for people, groups, sessions, etc.
│   ├── lib/prompts/      # AI persona prompt templates
│   ├── realtime/         # WebSocket handlers (compose thread)
│   ├── templates/        # Django templates (75 files, partials/ heavy)
│   ├── management/commands/ # ur (unified router), scheduling
│   └── util/logs.py      # Custom colored logger — use logs.get_logger("name")
├── Makefile              # Podman + quadlet orchestration commands
├── scripts/quadlet/      # Podman lifecycle scripts and unit rendering
├── Dockerfile            # Python 3.11, venv at /venv
├── requirements.txt      # Pinned deps (django, openai, neonize, slixmpp, etc.)
├── stack.env             # Runtime env vars (from stack.env.example)
└── LLM_CODING_STANDARDS.md # Project-specific coding rules (READ THIS)
```

## Commands

```bash
# All commands run via Podman + quadlet with stack.env
make build                          # Build Docker images
make run                            # Start all services (quadlet manager)
make stop                           # Stop all services
make log                            # Tail logs

# Database
make migrate                        # Run Django migrations
make makemigrations                 # Generate new migrations
make auth                           # Create superuser

# Testing
make test                           # Run all tests
make test MODULES=core.tests        # Run specific test module
# Inside container (or with venv activated):
python manage.py test core.tests -v 2              # All tests
python manage.py test core.tests.test_foo -v 2     # Single test module
python manage.py test core.tests.test_foo.TestBar -v 2  # Single class
python manage.py test core.tests.test_foo.TestBar.test_method -v 2  # Single test

# Service restarts after code changes
podman restart ur_gia               # Restart unified router
podman restart scheduling_gia       # Restart scheduler
# uWSGI auto-reloads for app/core code changes
```

## Code Style

### Formatting & Linting (pre-commit enforced)
- **Black**: Line length 88, excludes `core/migrations/`
- **isort**: Profile `black` (compatible grouping)
- **flake8**: Max line 88, ignores E203, E231, E501, E702, W291
- **djhtml**: Template indent 2 spaces (`-t 2`)
- **ripsecrets**: Scans for leaked credentials

### Imports
- Standard library first, then third-party, then Django, then project
- Project imports use absolute paths: `from core.models import Person`
- Within same package, relative OK: `from .models import User` (seen in admin/forms)
- Views import models explicitly: `from core.models import AI, Person, Message`

### Naming
- `snake_case` for functions, variables, modules
- `PascalCase` for classes (Django views, models)
- `UPPER_CASE` for module-level constants and Django settings
- Private helpers prefixed with `_`: `_safe_limit()`, `_service_key()`
- Service names always lowercase strings: `"signal"`, `"whatsapp"`, `"xmpp"`, `"instagram"`

### Logging
- Use `from core.util import logs` then `log = logs.get_logger("name")` for transport/messaging code
- Use `import logging; logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)` for views/models
- Info for lifecycle events, warning/error for failures, debug for high-volume traces
- Debug logs gated behind `GIA_DEBUG_LOGS` env var

### Views
- Class-based views inheriting `View` or `LoginRequiredMixin`
- CRUD views use `mixins.views.ObjectCreate/ObjectUpdate/ObjectDelete` from `django-crud-mixins`
- Forms use `RestrictedFormMixin` for user-scoped queryset filtering
- HTMX-driven partials in `core/templates/partials/`

### Models
- All models in single `core/models.py` (~1600 lines)
- UUIDs as primary keys for `Person` and related models
- `SERVICE_CHOICES` tuple for transport type fields
- Custom `User` model extending `AbstractUser` with billing fields
- Multi-tenant: most models have `user = ForeignKey(User)`

### Async Patterns
- Transport clients are async (`async def send_message_raw(...)`)
- Views bridge sync Django to async transport via `async_to_sync()`
- `orjson` for fast JSON serialization in transport layer
- Redis cache for runtime state, bridge maps, command queues

### Error Handling
- Standard `try/except` with specific exception types
- Django `ValidationError` for model validation
- `get_object_or_404()` in views for missing resources
- `HttpResponseBadRequest` / `HttpResponseNotFound` for view error responses
- No custom exception hierarchy — use built-in Django/Python exceptions

## LLM Coding Standards (from LLM_CODING_STANDARDS.md)

**MUST READ**: `LLM_CODING_STANDARDS.md` contains binding project rules. Key points:

- Fix root causes; don't paper over with UI-only patches
- Keep behavior symmetric across all transports where protocol permits
- Centralize shared logic — no copy/paste service forks
- Shared attachment prep goes through `core/clients/transport.py`
- Never inject internal blob links as relay body text for attachment-only messages
- After changing `core/clients/*` or router/relay/transport: restart runtime (`make stop && make run`)
- Logging: lifecycle at info, failures at warning/error, high-volume at debug
- Debug diagnostics must be gated (e.g. `WHATSAPP_DEBUG`) and removable in one patch
- When touching large files (2000+ lines): extract minimal reusable helpers, add docstrings
- Update `INSTALL.md` and `README.md` when operational commands/env requirements change

## Anti-Patterns

- **DO NOT** create separate transport-specific media pipelines — use `transport.prepare_outbound_attachments()`
- **DO NOT** add `TODO`/`FIXME` comments — codebase is currently clean of them
- **DO NOT** use `print()` — use the logging system via `logs.get_logger()`
- **DO NOT** modify `core/migrations/` files — Black/linting excludes them for a reason
- **DO NOT** commit `stack.env`, `db.sqlite3`, or any secrets — `ripsecrets` pre-commit hook will block
- **DO NOT** add new models outside `core/models.py` — all models live in one file
- **DO NOT** use type suppression or ignore runtime errors silently

## Key Architecture Notes

- **Unified Router** (`core/modules/router.py`): Management command `python manage.py ur` runs the event loop with all transport clients. Each client inherits `ClientBase` ABC.
- **Transport Layer** (`core/clients/transport.py`): Shared cache-backed runtime state, command queuing, and attachment prep. All outbound media goes through `prepare_outbound_attachments()`.
- **Settings Chain**: `app/settings.py` → imports `app/local_settings.py` (wildcard `*`) → env vars from `stack.env`. Feature flags: `WHATSAPP_ENABLED`, `INSTAGRAM_ENABLED`, `COMPOSE_WS_ENABLED`.
- **Services in podman stack**: `app` (uWSGI), `asgi` (uvicorn for WebSockets), `ur` (unified router), `scheduling` (APScheduler), `redis`, `signal-cli-rest-api`.
- **No test suite currently**: `core/tests.py` is empty scaffold; `core/tests/` has only `__init__.py`. Tests run via `make test MODULES=...` but need to be written.
