meshbay.git/docs/USERGUIDE.md, branch 0.2

docs: user guide and conventions catch up with per-node identity

2026-08-14T17:15:49Z

USERGUIDE said registration submits your public keys "so other members can wrap GEK bundles for you". Both halves are wrong now: registration creates an account and nothing else, and nobody wraps anything for a key fetched from the hub. The API reference and the register body followed the same correction. CLAUDE.md gains the block a future session needs before touching registration or anything shaped like a user's public key: keys are born at first contact with a node and stay there, the hub publishes none, tokens carry no pk_user, and a scripted signup is now a real account. Left alone deliberately: first-review.md, docs/poc-v1*.md and poc/spike-results.md still describe the old JWT and registration. They are records of what was true on their date, like second-review's verdict table, and draft-v5 is what states the present. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

docs: record the invite redesign — H3 and M3 closed

2026-08-13T23:28:12Z

draft-v5 §2: against an active hub, reading content moves from "❌ H3" to "❌ T3 (browser) · ✅ native". The defensible sentence becomes "the hub cannot read your content unless it ships you malicious client code" — T3 is now the only path, it is an artifact rather than a silent directory lie, and it does not exist for a native client. New §5.5 describes admission and key delivery, with the four properties that carry it and the one exception (open-join groups, where the hub can walk in the front door — a property of open joining, and the setting is read from node.toml). Corrected while writing it: §5.1 said the C5b fix stopped a group admin who does not run the node from inviting, and that the redesign reverses this. It does not, because delegation was deferred. What changed is the timing — the operator issues a code and is then out of the loop. devel-phases-next: 12.1 is done and NOT as written. The plan was key transparency plus safety numbers; what shipped removes the directory read instead. Safety numbers make substitution detectable by a human who checks, at first contact, when there is nothing to check against. 12.2 (served-SPA integrity) is now the highest-value item in that phase. Phase 14 marked for what landed. second-review: H3 and M3 annotated closed at the finding, with what actually closed them. The §7 verdict table is left intact — it is the record of an audit on a date, and falsifying it would be worse than leaving it — with a note pointing at draft-v5 §2 for current state. CLAUDE.md matters most here, being loaded every session: NS4 read "admin_pk_ed25519 auto-pinned from keystore ✅ DONE", which is M3 described as a feature. Rewritten, with the two fixes that must never be attempted (auto-pin, hub lookup). QE/deploy/README.md: set-admin-pk retired from the walkthrough; the regression checklist now exercises pairing, joining by code, recognition without a code, and revocation. USERGUIDE.md is beyond the invite work but was actively wrong: it told users to POST GEK bundles to a hub endpoint deleted in Phase 12, and to re-wrap for every remaining member on revocation. Both replaced with what the code does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5

fix: 4 corrections — streaming hash, watchdog bug, cipher doc, deps

2026-08-09T20:56:18Z

1. indexer.py: streaming blake3 (8MB chunks) instead of read_bytes(). Large files (initrd.img, ISOs, VM images) no longer load into RAM. 2. QE/demo-v1/run_node.py: call indexer.start() not initial_scan(). initial_scan() alone never starts the watchdog observer — files added after startup were silently ignored. Added indexer.stop() on shutdown. 3. USERGUIDE.md §8: clarify symmetric vs asymmetric. Ed25519/X25519 = asymmetric (key pairs). ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-256-GCM = symmetric AEAD 256-bit (content encryption). ChaCha20 is PRIMARY; AES-GCM is optional browser-compat variant only. 4. pyproject.toml: aioquic, websockets, aiosqlite, slowapi added to proper package deps (were installed manually, now declared). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context)

docs: update all pointers after keyderive + QE restructure

2026-08-09T12:57:01Z

CLAUDE.md: add QE/ to structure, key modules table, server state reference, security rule updated (QE/ not keypair files), meshbay.org inventory pointer. devel-phases.md: add milestones 6.6-6.9 (keyderive, bundle, demo scripts, QUICKSTART rewrite). 81/81 tests. docs/meshbay-draft-v3.md §6.1.1: new section documenting 3 key generation strategies (Argon2id CLI, WebCrypto browser+bundle, keystore file) and the algorithm mismatch caveat between CLI and web registration paths. docs/USERGUIDE.md §2 Register+Login: replace "generate and persist before registering" warning with the two clean strategies (derive_keys_from_password for CLI, keyderive.js + keypair_bundle for browser). Login response updated with keypair_bundle field. hub/models.py + users.py + Alembic migration: keypair_bundle column on User, stored at registration, returned at login (web clients only). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context)

docs: add QUICKSTART.md and USERGUIDE.md

2026-08-09T09:49:11Z

QUICKSTART (434 lines): 6-step guide tested against live https://meshbay.org — demo accounts alice_test/bob_test, real transfer of README.txt (23ms) and 1MB chunk (275ms recv, 2.4ms decrypt), exact Python commands with measured output. USERGUIDE (785 lines): 11-section reference — architecture, account management, group/node config, file sharing, HLS streaming, security model, moderation/CSAM, troubleshooting, full API table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context)