The previous handoff sent the next session off to read feat/mechanics-deterministic-pass and feat/calm-suggestions as unmerged branches. Both are in main and have been for a while — that came from misreading `git branch -vv` tracking info as merge status. It matters because it inverts the advice. The deterministic rules engine (prose.ts) already ships, already emits exact-span fixes as suggestion cards under a 'mechanics' family, and already suppresses re-edits of settled sentences. So item 3b's remaining work is most likely the latency/ordering half — render local hits before the LLM pass — not writing a rules engine. Point at the code and the two commits instead. Same for item 5: internal/suggestions/translate.go already exists. Also record that every topic branch was fully merged and has now been deleted locally and on origin; main is the only branch left. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
🌸 Petal
A self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor with warm bubbly design, auto-save, and
local-LLM grammar/ESL suggestions. See petal-spec.md for the full
design spec and BUILD_PLAN.md for build progress.
Stack
Go + chi backend · SQLite (modernc, pure Go) · React + Vite + Tiptap + Tailwind v4 frontend ·
local vLLM/Ollama for AI suggestions. Single-binary deployment (frontend embedded via go:embed).
Local development
Two processes during development:
# 1. Backend (serves /api on :8080)
go run ./cmd/server
# 2. Frontend dev server (HMR on :5173, proxies /api → :8080)
cd web && npm install && npm run dev
Open http://localhost:5173 while developing.
Production build (single binary)
cd web && npm run build # emits web/dist (embedded by the Go binary)
cd .. && go build -o petal ./cmd/server
./petal # serves UI + API on :8080
Configuration is via environment variables — copy .env.example to .env.
Deployment
docker compose up -d --build # petal + the two Piper read-aloud sidecars
Behind Traefik on the parodia.dev VPS; vLLM stays on millenia over headscale.
Full runbook — first deploy, the LLM link, backups and restore — in
deploy/README.md.
Status
Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik OIDC) is next; Copyleaks plagiarism is
still parked — see BUILD_PLAN.md.