# Beacon - Project Complete Summary

## 🎯 Project Overview

**Beacon** is a CLI tool for distributing knowledge contexts, lessons, and skills for AI-assisted development teams. It enables organizations to maintain centralized warehouses that can be forked and distributed to individual projects.

**Brand:** Beacon - "Guide your agents with distributed knowledge"

---

## ✅ Completed Work

### 1. Template Cleanup ✅
- Removed all example content (python contexts, example-domain, example-skill)
- Created placeholder files with clear instructions for customization
- Template now provides minimal, clean structure for organizations to fork

**Files:**
- `contexts/AGENTS.global.md` - Placeholder with instructions
- `knowledge/global/{decisions,lessons,facts}/.placeholder.md` - Guidance files
- Removed old example content completely

### 2. Rebranding to "Beacon" ✅
- Package renamed from `agentic-warehouse-cli` to `beacon`
- Command changed from `agentic` to `beacon`
- Updated all documentation and help text
- Tagline: "Guide your agents with distributed knowledge"

**Technical Details:**
- Package name: `beacon`
- CLI command: `beacon`
- Python: `>=3.12` (uses modern type hints: `Path | None`, `list[str]`)
- License: MIT

### 3. Delta Command Implementation ✅
**New command:** `beacon delta`

**What it does:**
- Compares target `.opencode/` with warehouse
- Detects **new files** in target (potential contributions back to warehouse)
- Detects **modified files** in target (local customizations)
- Detects **missing files** in target (content available in warehouse)

**Output:**
- Beautiful colored tables (green/yellow/red)
- Actionable guidance for each category
- Summary statistics

**Use cases:**
- Before contributing back to warehouse: See what's new
- After customizing: Understand local changes
- Regular audits: Keep target in sync with warehouse

### 4. PyPI Preparation ✅
- ✅ Python requirement set to 3.12+
- ✅ MIT LICENSE file added
- ✅ GitHub URLs updated in pyproject.toml
- ✅ Homelab publish guide created (`HOMELAB_PUBLISH.md`)
- ✅ Modern Python type hints (3.12+ syntax)
- ✅ Proper classifiers for PyPI

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## 📦 Package Structure

```
libs/beacon/
├── LICENSE                  # MIT License
├── HOMELAB_PUBLISH.md      # Guide for homelab deployment
├── README.md               # Complete documentation
├── pyproject.toml          # Package config (Python 3.12+)
├── src/beacon/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── cli.py             # 6 commands: setup, list, status, update, delta, clean
│   └── distributor.py     # Core distribution logic with delta comparison
└── test_cli.py            # Test script
```

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## 🚀 Commands Available

| Command | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| `beacon list` | List all available warehouse content |
| `beacon setup` | Install contexts/knowledge/skills to `.opencode/` |
| `beacon status` | Show currently installed content |
| `beacon update` | Sync latest changes from warehouse |
| `beacon delta` | **NEW** - Compare target with warehouse |
| `beacon clean` | Remove `.opencode/` directory |

---

## 📋 Homelab Deployment Instructions

### Build Package

```bash
cd libs/beacon
uv build
```

### Publish to Homelab PyPI

```bash
# Method 1: Direct publish
uv publish \
  --publish-url https://your-homelab-pypi.local/simple/ \
  --username your-username \
  --password your-password

# Method 2: With token
uv publish \
  --publish-url https://your-homelab-pypi.local/simple/ \
  --token your-api-token
```

### Install from Homelab

```bash
pip install beacon 
```

### Test Installation

```bash
beacon --help
beacon list
beacon setup --all
beacon delta
```

**See `HOMELAB_PUBLISH.md` for complete deployment guide**

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## 🔄 Workflow

### For Warehouse Maintainers

1. **Fork template:** Create your organization's warehouse from this template
2. **Customize:** Add your contexts, knowledge, and skills
3. **Publish beacon:** Deploy to PyPI (or private PyPI) using `uv publish`
4. **Distribute:** Team installs `beacon` from PyPI (or private PyPI)

### For Project Developers

1. **Install beacon:** `pip install beacon `
2. **Setup project:** `beacon setup --warehouse ~/warehouse --all`
3. **Work normally:** `.opencode/` contains distributed content (gitignored)
4. **Check changes:** `beacon delta` to see local modifications
5. **Update:** `beacon update` to sync with warehouse
6. **Contribute:** Submit PRs to warehouse for new content

---

## 🎨 Delta Command Examples

### Example 1: Detect New Files

```bash
$ beacon delta

New in Target (Potential Contributions)
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ File                       ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ contexts/AGENTS.new.md     │
│ knowledge/custom-pattern.md│
└────────────────────────────┘

💡 These files could be contributed back to the warehouse
```

### Example 2: Detect Modified Files

```bash
$ beacon delta

Modified in Target (Local Changes)
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ File                      ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ contexts/AGENTS.global.md │
└───────────────────────────┘

⚠️  These files differ from warehouse - may be local customizations
```

### Example 3: In Sync

```bash
$ beacon delta

✓ Target and warehouse are in sync!
```

---

## 📊 Key Features

### 1. Clean Template
- Minimal placeholder content
- Clear instructions for customization
- Ready to fork and customize

### 2. Modern Python
- Python 3.12+ (uses latest type hints)
- Modern dependencies (click, rich, loguru, pyyaml)
- Clean, typed codebase

### 3. Delta Detection
- Compare target vs warehouse
- Identify contributions
- Track local changes
- Maintain sync

### 4. Beautiful CLI
- Rich terminal output
- Colored tables
- Progress indicators
- Clear error messages

### 5. Homelab Ready
- Private PyPI deployment
- `uv publish` support
- Complete deployment guide
- Self-hosted workflow

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## 🔧 Technical Specifications

**Package:**
- Name: `beacon`
- Version: `0.1.0`
- Python: `>=3.12`
- License: MIT

**Dependencies:**
- `click>=8.1.0` - CLI framework
- `rich>=13.0.0` - Beautiful terminal output
- `pyyaml>=6.0.0` - Configuration management
- `loguru>=0.7.0` - Modern logging

**Repository:**
- https://github.com/Shadowsong27/agentic-engineering-warehouse-template
- Package: `libs/beacon/`

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## 📝 Files Created/Modified

### Created:
- `libs/beacon/` (entire package, renamed from `agentic_warehouse_cli`)
- `libs/beacon/LICENSE` - MIT license
- `libs/beacon/HOMELAB_PUBLISH.md` - Deployment guide
- `knowledge/global/{decisions,lessons,facts}/.placeholder.md` - Guidance files
- `contexts/AGENTS.global.md` - Updated placeholder

### Modified:
- `libs/beacon/pyproject.toml` - Updated for beacon branding, Python 3.12+
- `libs/beacon/src/beacon/__init__.py` - Updated docstrings
- `libs/beacon/src/beacon/cli.py` - Added delta command, updated branding
- `libs/beacon/src/beacon/distributor.py` - Added delta() method
- `.gitignore` - Added `.opencode/` and `.venv/`

### Removed:
- `contexts/AGENTS.python.md`
- `contexts/AGENTS.example-domain.md`
- `knowledge/global/decisions/conventional-commits.md`
- `knowledge/global/lessons/session-handoff-patterns.md`
- `skills/example-skill/`

---

## ✨ Next Steps

### Testing in Homelab

1. **Build:** `cd libs/beacon && uv build`
2. **Publish:** `uv publish --publish-url https://your-homelab-pypi.local/simple/ ...`
3. **Install:** `pip install beacon `
4. **Test:** Run all commands and gather feedback

### Improvements Before Public PyPI

1. **Add tests:** pytest unit and integration tests
2. **Add CI/CD:** GitHub Actions for testing and publishing
3. **Improve docs:** Add more examples and use cases
4. **Gather feedback:** Use in homelab for 2-4 weeks
5. **Version bump:** Update to 1.0.0 when stable

### Public PyPI Release (Future)

```bash
# When ready for public release
cd libs/beacon
uv build
uv publish  # Publishes to PyPI.org by default
```

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## 🎉 Summary

**Beacon is ready for homelab deployment!**

- ✅ Clean, professional CLI tool
- ✅ Modern Python 3.12+ codebase
- ✅ Delta command for change detection
- ✅ Complete deployment documentation
- ✅ MIT licensed and open source
- ✅ Ready for `uv publish` to PyPI (or private PyPI)

**Deployment command:**
```bash
cd libs/beacon
uv build
uv publish --publish-url https://your-homelab-pypi.local/simple/ --token your-token
```

**Installation:**
```bash
pip install beacon 
```

**Usage:**
```bash
beacon setup --all
beacon delta
beacon update
```

---

**Project Status:** ✅ COMPLETE AND READY FOR HOMELAB DEPLOYMENT
