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interactive-story/PROVENANCE.md
JesseMarkowitz 8c65ae99de M2: cut the hosted product away from the local one
94 files, +1,395 -6,578. Three files are new; twenty-four are gone. The
milestone is subtraction, and what is left is the single-user local
storyteller the specification describes.

Removed in full: campaign scripting and its QuickJS sandbox; multi-user
accounts, guest sessions, login, registration and the shared demo key;
the visitor-analytics tables, dashboard and page beacon; the access log
of sign-ins, addresses and devices; per-IP and per-user rate limiting
and quotas; Render deployment config; Postgres and psycopg; cloud
inference providers, the API-key field and the key encryption that
existed to store it; session-cookie signing. None of it was hidden
behind a flag — the routes are gone and answer 404.

Two things were kept that the brief allowed keeping. The `users` table
and its foreign keys stay as an internal ownership detail, because
rewriting them out means a migration across most of the schema to
delete a column that costs nothing; nothing creates a second user and
no request carries an identity. Five inert tables and four inert
columns stay for the same reason, so an M1 campaign database opens
unchanged.

The one addition is app/endpoints.py, which decides where a story may
be sent. Loopback, RFC1918, link-local, unique-local and CGNAT — an
explicit allowlist of networks, not a guess at what `ipaddress` means
by "private", which calls the documentation ranges private and IPv6
loopback reserved. Every address a hostname resolves to must be in it,
so a split answer does not squeak through, and the rule runs both when
the endpoint is saved and before every outbound request, because a name
that resolved to the LAN this morning can resolve elsewhere this
afternoon. Known cloud hosts are named in the refusal so the error says
why rather than looking like broken DNS. TLS is never traded against
it: M1's shared trust context is intact on all four clients and there
is no way to skip verification.

The hardcoded 120-second model timeout is now a setting. That was not
theoretical — on this GPU-less four-core host a cold load of
qwen2.5:3b-instruct took 648.9 seconds to produce the first turn, while
turns 2 to 5 of the same campaign took 3.6 to 13.1. Connect stays short
at 10s so a wrong address still fails fast; the read timeout defaults
to 300s and is bounded at 3600, because "wait longer" must stay a
number.

Two defects found while testing and fixed here. An unknown /api path
fell through the SPA catch-all and came back as HTML with status 200,
so a client asking for JSON parsed a web page instead of learning the
route was gone. And AIDND_CORS_ORIGINS accepted "*", which on an
unauthenticated loopback API would hand every page on the Internet a
write handle on the campaign database; it now refuses to start.

Verified rather than assumed. Offline, on a network with no route out
and no DNS: five turns, retry with both takes retained, restart with an
identical transcript digest, a failed model call leaving the accepted
AI-turn count untouched, and a capture with zero non-loopback unicast
packets. Against a real second machine on the LAN over HTTPS with a
private CA: four turns, restart, and a capture showing 289 packets to
the approved host, 344 loopback, zero anywhere else, zero DNS queries.
Cloud and public endpoints refused with their reasons; no API key
settable; every removed route 404.

604 backend tests pass, down from 648 by the fifteen retired with the
subsystems they tested and up by the twenty-nine added for the endpoint
policy and the removed surface. The scripting tests were not deleted:
eight files used a JavaScript counter as instrumentation for the state
snapshot and rollback machinery, which M2 does not touch, so the
counter moved to the world-state engine and those tests still assert
what they always did. Frontend lint and build are clean; the image
builds, and its wheel-building stage is gone with quickjs.

No M3 work. Undo is still destructive and there is still no Redo.
2026-09-02 11:27:14 -04:00

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Provenance

This repository is the Adventure Storyteller production fork. Its application code comes from AI-DnD, and its planning package (planning/) is original to this project.

Upstream

Project AI-DnD
Repository https://github.com/parththakkar106/AI-DnD
Commit d72f7c1bda0f34fccd84afb7a25c34eb01c901de
Subject Stop paying twice for a block a retry can still throw away
Author date Mon 31 Aug 2026 16:14:24 +0000
Position tip of upstream/main on 1 Sep 2026, when the fork was taken
License MIT, © 2026 Parth Thakkar

The commit is the one pinned by planning/DECISIONS/009-ai-dnd-production-base.md after Phase 0B. It was not substituted for a newer upstream commit.

How the fork is wired

Upstream history is in this repository rather than copied out of it. The import is a merge of the pinned commit with --allow-unrelated-histories, so:

  • git log d72f7c1bda0f34fccd84afb7a25c34eb01c901de shows the real upstream history, not a squashed snapshot;
  • upstream paths are unchanged (backend/, frontend/, docs/, …), so a later upstream commit can still be fetched and cherry-picked against matching files;
  • the planning package that predates the fork keeps its own history on the other parent of the merge.

To re-verify from a fresh clone:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/parththakkar106/AI-DnD.git
git fetch --no-tags upstream
git cat-file -t d72f7c1bda0f34fccd84afb7a25c34eb01c901de   # -> commit
git merge-base --is-ancestor d72f7c1bda0f34fccd84afb7a25c34eb01c901de HEAD && echo "in this history"

License

Upstream is MIT. LICENSE is upstream's file, unmodified, and the copyright notice stays with it. The MIT terms require that the notice travel with the code and with substantial portions of it; keep LICENSE in place in any redistribution of this fork, including a packaged build.

Work done in this repository after the fork is a derivative of that MIT-licensed code.

Vendored third-party assets

Both were added by Milestone M1 to remove a runtime Internet dependency. Each is redistributable and each has a regeneration path in the tree, so neither is an opaque binary nobody can rebuild.

backend/app/context/vendor/cl100k_base.tiktoken

The BPE merge table for OpenAI's cl100k_base tokenizer, used for context budgeting only — no model of OpenAI's is ever called.

  • Source: https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/encodings/cl100k_base.tiktoken
  • SHA-256: 223921b76ee99bde995b7ff738513eef100fb51d18c93597a113bcffe865b2a7, which is the digest tiktoken itself pins for that URL, and which backend/app/context/encoding.py re-checks every time it builds the encoding.
  • Published by OpenAI for use with tiktoken (MIT).

frontend/public/fonts/*.woff2

Cinzel, Crimson Pro and Inter, Latin and Latin Extended subsets, as variable fonts. All three are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the license text ships beside them as OFL-cinzel.txt, OFL-crimsonpro.txt and OFL-inter.txt, which is what the OFL requires of a redistribution.

Regenerate with python3 frontend/tools/vendor_fonts.py, which also rewrites frontend/src/styles/fonts.css.

What this fork changed in Milestone M2

M2 is subtractive. It reduced the inherited application to the intended single-user, local-first trust boundary. Nothing was added that upstream did not have, except the endpoint policy and the tests that hold these removals in place.

Removed in full: campaign scripting and the QuickJS sandbox; multi-user accounts, guest sessions, login, registration and the shared demo key; the visitor analytics tables, dashboard and beacon; the access log; per-IP and per-user rate limiting and quotas; Render deployment config; Postgres/Neon support; cloud inference providers and the API-key field; session-cookie signing and API-key encryption at rest.

Added: backend/app/endpoints.py, which decides what an inference endpoint may be, and a configurable model timeout.

Three database tables (scripts, adventure_scripts, analytics_daily, analytics_visitor_days, access_log) and four columns (adventures.script_state, settings.api_key, users.demo_turns_used, users.demo_turns_date) are left in place, unmapped or inert, so that an existing M1 campaign database opens unchanged. They are not product functionality and nothing reads or writes them.

What this fork changed in Milestone M1

Nothing was removed from upstream. The changes are the offline/locality hardening M1 called for; see planning/reports/M1-BASELINE-REPORT.md for the evidence.

  • backend/app/context/encoding.py (new) and backend/app/context/builder.py — build cl100k_base from the vendored table instead of downloading it on first use.
  • frontend/index.html, frontend/src/index.css, frontend/src/styles/fonts.css (new), frontend/public/fonts/ (new), frontend/tools/vendor_fonts.py (new) — self-hosted fonts in place of the Google Fonts link.
  • backend/app/main.py — CSP narrowed to same-origin, with the two Google hosts dropped and object-src / base-uri / form-action added; woff2 registered so the self-hosted fonts are served with their real media type.
  • backend/app/tlstrust.py (new), backend/app/providers/openai_compatible.py, backend/app/routers/settings.py — outbound HTTPS verifies against the machine's own CA store as well as certifi's, so a trusted-LAN Ollama with a locally-issued certificate works. Verification is not relaxed.
  • start.sh, start.ps1, docker-compose.yml — the storyteller listener is explicitly loopback-bound.
  • backend/requirements.lock (new) — the exact tested dependency closure.
  • backend/tests/test_offline_assets.py and backend/tests/test_tls_trust.py (new) — regression tests for the above.
  • DEVELOPMENT.md (new) — environment setup and Ollama configuration.