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docs/audits/code-health-2026-09.md was a self-report written by a single cleanup PR: it recorded that PR's own diff, its local Windows debug timings and its environment gaps. None of it describes the repository as it is now, none of it is reproducible, and development/testing.md cited it as the authority on testing behaviour. The durable parts of that page - fixtures keep their bytes, tests prefer the production path - stay; the rest goes with the audit.
principles/architecture.md and development/architecture.md shared 55 of their lines verbatim, and principles/state.md and development/state.md 111 of 169 - two sides of one description, each pointing at the other for 'the other half' while repeating most of it. Both pairs had also been edited at different times, so the copies had started to disagree: the development page had syncRoots and tombstone, the principles page had a Security section, and neither was reachable from one page alone. Now each page owns one subject. principles/ is the system model - layers, the two transports and their capability table, the two status paths, migrations, security. development/ is the implementation - entry point, Riverpod declarations, storage shapes, dependency injection, Rust. Cross links point at the subject instead of at a near-duplicate. Simplified Chinese mirror updated to match, with locale parity checked.
It built 'start id1 id2' for acting on several containers at once, and no call site has ever used it - the container page acts on one at a time. Its three tests were the only caller, so they went with it. shellSingleQuote itself stays; buildContainerRunCmd and the rest of the page use it.
diagnostics_level, diag, aptabase and openpanel carried 44-73% comment lines, and most of it was history: which earlier design was replaced, what a removed feature needed, why an abandoned approach was ruled out. That is PR description material, and in a file it buries the contract a reader came for - the levels, the categories, what each destination sends. Every fact that constrains the code is kept: the F-Droid byte-for-byte rebuild that forces a runtime platform check, the redaction-at-recording invariant, why OpenPanel's client id is the whole credential, why Aptabase stop() cannot stop sending, which fields of a SentryEvent are deliberately untouched. Removed are the anecdotes around them. No behaviour change; the comments against the declarations they belong to are unchanged in meaning.
Three more files where the comment outlasted the decision it records. url.dart explained, per constant, why a link exists and which page reaches it; what a reader needs is what the address is. geo_source.dart spent 54 of its 86 lines on a beat method that was deleted with the store it existed for. self_addr.dart described an earlier design before saying what the class does. Kept: what each constant is for where it is not obvious from its name (the crash report body, why the geo host needs no setting), the case order as the chain's control flow, and the private-range filter that makes the loose parse safe.
…ar stories file_backend explained, under each method, what a trait used to declare and why it was removed; what a caller needs is the contract. schema.dart's sequence of twenty-six version lines is the only index of the migration order and stays - condensed to one line each, since every migration file already documents its own reasoning. The rules that constrain the code are all still here: why the staging token is per isolate, why a staged write carries the destination's mode, why rmdir needs recursive, why the version is never written downwards.
It claimed to be the single source of truth for migration residue while every entry's reasoning already lived in a TODO beside the code, and it had drifted from that: the retired-URL key was named legacyStatusUrls where the code has watchLegacyUrls, several live TODOs had no row at all (db_rescue, local_files, server_share, tab.dart, home.dart), and the Hive section cited a \SpiNestSshMigration\ that does not exist. Now it says what it is: the one place that has the whole set, so the next release that advances oldestSupported can find everything it changes with. Each row names a file and a symbol and points at the code for the detail. entity_helpers.dart cited this file for a decision it does not discuss.
CLAUDE.md recorded it as a TODO: a fifth PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy at ios/PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy, referenced by no target in either project file and reaching no bundle, so editing it changed nothing while looking exactly like the four that ship. The test only ever covered those four, which is why nothing caught it. Deleted, and the line now says what the four are rather than what the fifth was.
Three passages had become argument rather than guidance: why the monitor settings form is not a card or a tab, why the heading labels were dropped and added back, why the effect note is silent for saved fields, and why list rows are numbered. The rules those argue for are all still here - the retired AppTab index, effectNote's silence and its cost, the onChanged callback and why a page cannot answer with its list, the numbered rows. The reason to keep the rule and drop the argument is that the argument is what a reader has to get through to find the rule, and it is the part that goes stale first.
window_gaps.dart spent 22 of 41 lines explaining why the band is needed and what the tolerances are for; both are worth keeping, the third restatement of what a gap looks like is not. conn.dart's constructor was spread over five lines for two parameters, with a stray blank line before the closing brace.
The architecture and state pages were each split into a system-level page and an implementation-level one. The skill's routing table still described the old two, so a reader asking how providers are declared was sent to the page that now covers what state the app holds.
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In `@docs/src/content/docs/principles/architecture.md`:
- Line 96: Update the Host fingerprints description in the architecture
documentation to state that sshKnownHostFingerprints are stored in the encrypted
SQLite database (store.db), rather than platform secure storage.
In `@docs/src/content/docs/principles/state.md`:
- Line 49: Update the schedule description in both
docs/src/content/docs/principles/state.md at line 49 and
docs/src/content/docs/zh/principles/state.md at line 49: replace the broad
Spix.transport claim with per-operation rules—status polling uses the leading
transport, history uses a source with stored history, benchmark commands may
fall back through ensureExec, and file transfers independently select SSH or
Monitor references from file capabilities.
In `@docs/src/content/docs/zh/principles/architecture.md`:
- Line 8: In the introductory sentence, replace the invalid phrase “形当大多数行为”
with “影响大多数行为”; leave the surrounding Chinese text and links unchanged.
In `@lib/core/service/self_addr.dart`:
- Around line 55-58: Update the IPv6 fallback documentation around pick and
publicIn to state that selection uses the first reported address and preserves
reported ordering; do not claim the result is stable across
interface-enumeration changes unless the addresses are sorted before selection.
In `@lib/data/res/url.dart`:
- Around line 58-62: Update the documentation comment above GeoData._fetchFrom
to remove the claim that the host learns “nothing else”; state that the manifest
and archive are fetched once, subsequent individual lookups are local, and the
download request still exposes normal network metadata.
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Both were wrong in the same direction - describing one rule where the app
has several.
Host fingerprints are not in platform secure storage. They are a
Map<String, String> on the setting store (sshKnownHostFingerprints), which
is a row in the encrypted SQLite database - the platform keychain holds the
database key and nothing else.
The three clock-driven things do not all resolve through Spix.transport.
Status polling does; stored history goes to whichever transport reports
ServerCapabilities.storedHistory, which is the agent and not necessarily
the one that leads; commands go through ensureExec, which leads and falls
back; and a transfer picks its backend from file capabilities, unrelated to
which transport carries status.
Also fixes a typo in the zh introduction ('形当' -> '影响') introduced when
the page was split.
pick does not make the answer independent of how the interfaces were listed. publicIn preserves the order it was given and pick takes the first IPv4 or the first entry, so the answer follows that order; nothing sorts. What IPv4-first actually buys is that a dual-stack machine resolves to its v4 address, which is what the comment now says. The geo endpoint is an ordinary HTTPS request. 'the host learns that someone took the data and nothing else' was not true of the download: it sees the caller's address, TLS metadata and timing like any request. What is true, and is the point, is that the individual lookups are local, so the host never sees which address is being looked up.
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What this changes
Removes the parts of this repository that AI-authored changes accumulated around the code rather than in it: documentation that restated itself, comments that narrated how a line came to be instead of what it must do, and two things nothing calls.
Every batch is a separate commit. Nothing here changes behaviour, and no schema, protocol, generated source, fixture or submodule is touched.
1. A one-off audit document (
72438f0c)docs/audits/code-health-2026-09.mdwas a self-report written by a single cleanup PR: it recorded that PR's own diff, its local Windows debug timings and its environment gaps. None of it describes the repository now, none of it is reproducible, anddevelopment/testing.mdcited it as the authority on testing behaviour.2. The same page twice (
3d443956)principles/architecture.mdanddevelopment/architecture.mdshared 55 of their lines verbatim;principles/state.mdanddevelopment/state.mdshared 111 of 169. Both pairs had drifted apart while pointing at each other for "the other half" — one hadsyncRootsandtombstone, the other had a Security section, and neither was reachable from one page alone.Each page now owns one subject:
principles/is the system model (layers, transports and capabilities, the two status paths, migrations, security),development/is the implementation (entry point, Riverpod declarations, storage shapes, dependency injection, Rust). Bothzh/mirrors updated; locale parity checked.3. Dead code (
a7e10488,3ccb2ab9)buildContainerBulkCmdbuiltstart id1 id2for acting on several containers at once. No production call site ever used it — the page acts on one at a time — and its three tests were the only caller.ios/PrivacyInfo.xcprivacywas referenced by no target in either project file and reached no bundle.CLAUDE.mditself recorded it as a TODO; editing it changed nothing while looking exactly like the four manifests that ship.Two candidates were checked and kept:
GlobeProjection.unproject(it backs the round-trip test that is the strongest check onproject) and the@visibleForTestingseams that production already calls.4. Comments that outlived their decisions
diagnostics_level.dart(73% comment lines),diag.dart(66%),aptabase.dart(59%),openpanel.dart(44%),file_backend.dart,schema.dart,url.dart,geo_source.dart,self_addr.dart,window_gaps.dart, plusRETIREMENT.mdandCLAUDE.md.Most of what was removed was history: which earlier design was replaced, what a deleted feature needed, why an abandoned approach was ruled out. That is PR-description material, and in a file it buries the contract a reader came for.
Every fact that constrains the code is kept — the F-Droid byte-for-byte rebuild that forces a runtime platform check on the diagnostics default, the redaction-at-recording invariant, why OpenPanel's client id is the whole credential, why
Aptabase.stop()cannot stop sending, which fields of aSentryEventare deliberately untouched, why the staging token is per isolate, why a staged write carries the destination's mode, whyrmdirneedsrecursive.RETIREMENT.mdclaimed to be the single source of truth while every entry's reasoning already lived in aTODObeside the code, and it had drifted: it named alegacyStatusUrlskey that does not exist (the code haswatchLegacyUrls), cited aSpiNestSshMigrationthat does not exist, and had no row for several live TODOs. It is now an accurate index that defers to the code.How it was tested
dart analyze lib test integration_test— no issues, after every batch.flutter test --no-pub --timeout 30s— 2889 passed, 32 skipped, 4 failed, identical tomainon this machine. All four failures are pre-existing and platform-specific on Windows:schema_too_new_page_test(file-name assertion), twoproc_kill_testcases (need/bin/sh), andservice_manager_test(needs a real systemd 258). They fail the same way before and after this branch.docs/:npm run build— 65 pages built, locale parity OK.flutter gen-l10nnot needed (no ARB touched); no annotated model changed, so no build_runner run.Checklist
make analyzeandmake testpassmake genwas run, if any model / ARB file changed — not neededcargo test --workspacepasses, if anything undercrates/ormonitor/changed — nothing didSummary by CodeRabbit
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