meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/roots.py, branch 0.10

feat: unified group management, public groups, and activity-based sidebar

2026-08-20T20:21:19Z

Create Group wizard (Electron-only) consolidates 6 steps across 4 interfaces into a single multi-step page: group creation on hub, node attachment, root selection via folder picker, GEK initialization, and auto-pairing — all in one flow. Browser SPA keeps its current behavior unchanged. Public group support (Option A — GEK for all groups): - All groups have GEK regardless of visibility; open-join groups auto-admit via TOFU when join_policy is "open" - Key rotation blocked for public groups (API guard + UI hidden) - Hub signaling allows WebRTC offers for nodes hosting open-join groups even when the caller isn't a member yet - attach_group writes join_policy to node.toml - Daemon loads GEK for all groups, not just private ones - Known-device path in join_request now auto-admits to open-join groups Node loopback API bridge (Electron IPC): - node:detect, node:call, node:pairing-code IPC handlers in main process - Renderer never sees tokens, paths, or keys (session token = physical access) - platform.js node namespace for UI consumption - Loopback endpoints: roots CRUD, member-upload toggle, reload Bug fixes: - Root change detection: removed premature ctx["roots"] updates from add_root and remove_root that prevented indexer retarget on reload - Duplicate offline message: global fallback now gated on !group - Signaling membership check: fallback to open-join groups for non-members Sidebar groups sorted by last_activity_at (most recent first): - New Group.last_activity_at column with Alembic migration - POST /v1/groups/{id}/activity endpoint, called on connect and chat send - Client-side sort + throttled hub updates (1/min) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

feat(ui): 11-point UI overhaul — tabs, transfers, settings, uploads

2026-08-19T14:36:29Z

Hub/UI: - Icon-only group tabs (chat, files, settings) with per-group default tab - Transfer widget: filename becomes a clickable link to open completed downloads - Pulse animation on transfer icon (pale→dark green) while active - Download button feedback in FilePreview (spinner, auto-reset) - Group mute toggle persists across navigation - Login page autofocus, chat refocus after send - Theme toggle closes menu, status badge and duplicate connecting removed - Create-folder restricted to operators, download-path note removed - User preferences API (CRUD) with Alembic migration - Profile: email display/edit via PATCH /v1/users/me - Settings: "Defaults" section for default tab selector - All 10 locale files updated Node: - upload_dir in node.toml: separate filesystem path for uploads - Root.direct flag: uploads land at root path, no subdirectory - CLI --upload-dir flag on `group add` - Admin UI accepts upload_dir Client (Electron): - shell.openPath bridge for opening completed downloads - platform.js passes open callback from native save Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6

feat(node): several named roots per group, and one implementation per operation

2026-08-18T00:15:02Z

Stage A — a group's content is a set of named roots --------------------------------------------------- `shared_dir` becomes a list of {name, path, kind}. The name is the directory's basename, derived once at add time and *stored*: recomputing it would re-identify a whole library the day someone renames a folder on disk. Duplicate names are refused case-insensitively and no root may contain another — both compared with NFC folding, because most of these directories live on exFAT or NTFS where `Films` and `films` are one directory. Every index path carries its root name, in a one-root group as much as in a five-root one. One path shape has to be got right once; two have to be kept right for ever. **A root that goes away freezes; it never empties.** Unmounting a volume makes watchdog report every file under it as deleted, or presents an empty directory to the next scan. Acting on either propagates deletions for a whole library to every member, as though the owner had erased it. So a deletion is acted on only once its root is confirmed readable, and availability is tracked per root — one unplugged drive leaves the others serving. 12 tests, verified to fail against an indexer without the check. Events are not trusted to be complete either: ReadDirectoryChangesW drops them under load and inotify on a FUSE mount misses changes made outside it. A periodic reconciliation sweep is the only thing that recovers a missed event. MNP 0.2 → 0.3 (additive). The hub needs no change: SwarmSource carries a content hash, a node id and an endpoint — no paths, no filenames — and private groups register nothing (H7). Stage B — one implementation behind every front door ---------------------------------------------------- C1 and C6 were both "a second path into the node with its own weaker handshake". Two implementations of `revoke` with two authorization checks is that shape one size down. `meshbay_node/ops.py` holds each operation once, takes the daemon state, and knows nothing about HTTP, argv or MNP. The loopback API is one `_op(...)` line per endpoint; the MNP handlers call the same functions. test_ops.py asserts the shape rather than trusting it. Phase 14 is finished on top of it — `group list`, `gek init|rotate`, `reload` (SIGHUP), `denylist show|clear`, `file list|rm`. **No operator action requires a browser any more.** Plus `gek_rotate` and `member_unpin` as operator-signed MNP operations: rotation is the half of revocation that revocation cannot do, since the ex-member holds the current key, and the node generates the replacement with its own CSPRNG — no key material crosses the wire, which is what the C5b rule is actually about. Two bugs found by running it rather than by testing it ------------------------------------------------------ GroupIndex is keyed by **content hash**, so the same bytes at two paths are one entry — which is also why a scan reports ten files and indexes nine. Reconciliation compared paths, so it decided the second path was a missed event every 60 s, rewrote the entry and pushed an index update to every connected peer. Seen in a live node's log. `meshbay-node reload` crashed on first use with `subprocess` unimported: the module compiles fine, which is the "syntax, not names" trap already recorded for the SPA. test_cli_dispatch.py now walks every verb and refuses to let one be added to the parser without an entry there. Also corrected: protocol.py declared a second MNP_VERSION of "0.1" while the wire carried "0.2" — harmless only because nothing imported it. And _do_dir_create/_do_dir_delete referenced an undefined `filename` on their error path. 740 tests pass; QE/deploy/e2e.py passes end to end against the live deployment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5