Persist community hub through local daemon

app.js

@@ -89,12 +89,7 @@ async function importModel(model) {
     selectModel(model);
 };
 
-const communitySeed = {
-  projects: [{ title: 'AIDE Sovereign Workbench', detail: 'Local-first IDE and model harness', boundary: 'private' }],
-  issues: [{ title: 'Connect LSP language servers', detail: 'Add the first daemon-managed language server adapter', status: 'open' }],
-  discussions: [{ title: 'Welcome to the local developer network', detail: 'No account, relay, or network required', status: 'local' }],
-  marketplace: [{ title: 'No marketplace listings yet', detail: 'Publish signed artifacts only after license and checksum review', status: 'empty' }]
-};
+let communityStore = { projects: [], issues: [], discussions: [], marketplace: [] };
   input.click();
 }
 
@@ -212,11 +207,36 @@ function renderCasefile() {
 }
 
 function renderCommunity(tab = 'projects') {
-  const entries = communitySeed[tab] || [];
+  const entries = communityStore[tab] || [];
   $('#community-feed').innerHTML = `<div style="color:#72ff9e;margin-bottom:5px">LOCAL CACHE / SYNC OFF</div>${entries.map(entry => `<div style="border-left:2px solid #b277ff;padding-left:5px;margin:5px 0"><b>${esc(entry.title)}</b><br>${esc(entry.detail)}<br><span style="color:#718994">${esc(entry.boundary || entry.status || 'local')}</span></div>`).join('')}`;
   document.querySelectorAll('[data-community-tab]').forEach(button => button.style.color = button.dataset.communityTab === tab ? '#72ff9e' : '#718994');
 }
 
+async function loadCommunity() {
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch('http://127.0.0.1:4777/api/community');
+    if (response.ok) communityStore = await response.json();
+  } catch { /* offline cache remains empty until the daemon is running */ }
+  renderCommunity();
+}
+
+async function addCommunityIssue() {
+  const title = $('#community-title').value.trim();
+  if (!title) return;
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch('http://127.0.0.1:4777/api/community/items', {
+      method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ type: 'issues', item: { title, detail: 'Created locally from AIDE.' } })
+    });
+    if (!response.ok) throw new Error('daemon rejected item');
+    $('#community-title').value = '';
+    await loadCommunity();
+    appendLog('COMMUNITY', `Issue created locally: ${title}`);
+  } catch (error) {
+    appendLog('COMMUNITY', `Local daemon unavailable: ${error.message}`, 'warning');
+  }
+}
+
 async function digestFile(file) {
   const buffer = await file.arrayBuffer();
   const digest = await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', buffer);
@@ -277,7 +297,8 @@ async function boot() {
   };
   $('#evidence-input').onchange = importEvidence;
   document.querySelectorAll('[data-community-tab]').forEach(button => button.onclick = () => renderCommunity(button.dataset.communityTab));
-  renderCommunity();
+  $('#community-add').onclick = addCommunityIssue;
+  loadCommunity();
   $('#input').onkeydown = event => { if (event.key === 'Enter') sendChat(); };
 }
 

community/README.md

@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ Use Git for code history, signed commits for authorship, end-to-end encryption f
 
 See `protocol.md` for the encrypted sync, relay, marketplace, and moderation contracts.
 
-The Community Hub stores projects, issues, discussions, and marketplace metadata locally first. Its current UI is a private offline cache; it does not claim that peer synchronization or payments are active.
+The Community Hub stores projects, issues, discussions, and marketplace metadata locally first through the daemon-backed `community/store.json`. Its current UI is a private offline cache; it does not claim that peer synchronization or payments are active.

community/store.json

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+  "schema_version": "1.0",
+  "sync": "local-only",
+  "projects": [
+    {"title": "AIDE Sovereign Workbench", "detail": "Local-first IDE and model harness", "boundary": "private"}
+  ],
+  "issues": [],
+  "discussions": [
+    {"title": "Welcome to the local developer network", "detail": "No account, relay, or network required", "status": "local"}
+  ],
+  "marketplace": [
+    {"title": "No marketplace listings yet", "detail": "Publish signed artifacts only after license and checksum review", "status": "empty"}
+  ]
+}

community/store.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+
+const TYPES = new Set(['projects', 'issues', 'discussions', 'marketplace']);
+
+export class CommunityStore {
+  constructor(file) {
+    this.file = file;
+    this.data = { schema_version: '1.0', sync: 'local-only', projects: [], issues: [], discussions: [], marketplace: [] };
+  }
+
+  async load() {
+    this.data = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(this.file, 'utf8'));
+    return this.data;
+  }
+
+  list() { return structuredClone(this.data); }
+
+  async add(type, item) {
+    if (!TYPES.has(type)) throw new Error('community type is not allowed');
+    const title = String(item?.title || '').trim();
+    const detail = String(item?.detail || '').trim();
+    if (!title || title.length > 160 || detail.length > 2000) throw new Error('invalid community item');
+    const entry = { title, detail, status: item.status || 'local', created_at: new Date().toISOString() };
+    this.data[type].push(entry);
+    await fs.mkdir(path.dirname(this.file), { recursive: true });
+    const temporary = `${this.file}.tmp-${process.pid}`;
+    await fs.writeFile(temporary, `${JSON.stringify(this.data, null, 2)}\n`);
+    await fs.rename(temporary, this.file);
+    return entry;
+  }
+}

daemon/server.mjs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
 import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { ModelManager } from './model-manager.mjs';
+import { CommunityStore } from '../community/store.mjs';
 
 const HOST = '127.0.0.1';
 const PORT = Number(process.env.AIDE_DAEMON_PORT || 4777);
@@ -11,6 +12,8 @@ const MODEL_DIR = path.resolve(process.env.AIDE_MODEL_DIR || path.join(WORKSPACE
 const MANIFEST = path.join(WORKSPACE, 'models', 'manifest.json');
 const modelManager = new ModelManager({ manifestPath: MANIFEST, modelDir: MODEL_DIR, binaryPath: process.env.AIDE_LLAMA_SERVER || '/root/runtime/llama-b10333/llama-server' });
 await modelManager.load().catch(() => {});
+const communityStore = new CommunityStore(path.join(WORKSPACE, 'community', 'store.json'));
+await communityStore.load().catch(() => {});
 
 function json(response, status, body) {
   const payload = JSON.stringify(body);
@@ -69,6 +72,13 @@ const server = http.createServer(async (request, response) => {
     if (request.method === 'GET' && request.url === '/api/models/status') {
       return json(response, 200, { models: modelManager.status() });
     }
+    if (request.method === 'GET' && request.url === '/api/community') {
+      return json(response, 200, communityStore.list());
+    }
+    if (request.method === 'POST' && request.url === '/api/community/items') {
+      const input = await body(request);
+      return json(response, 201, { item: await communityStore.add(input.type, input.item) });
+    }
     if (request.method === 'POST' && request.url === '/api/models/start') {
       return json(response, 200, await modelManager.start((await body(request)).id));
     }

daemon/test-community-store.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { mkdtemp, writeFile, readFile, mkdir } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { CommunityStore } from '../community/store.mjs';
+
+const root = await mkdtemp(path.join(tmpdir(), 'aide-community-'));
+const file = path.join(root, 'community', 'store.json');
+await mkdir(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true });
+await writeFile(file, JSON.stringify({ schema_version: '1.0', sync: 'local-only', projects: [], issues: [], discussions: [], marketplace: [] }));
+const store = new CommunityStore(file);
+await store.load();
+await store.add('issues', { title: 'Local issue', detail: 'Keep this on device.' });
+assert.equal(store.list().issues.length, 1);
+assert.match(await readFile(file, 'utf8'), /Local issue/);
+await assert.rejects(store.add('unknown', { title: 'bad' }), /not allowed/);
+console.log('community store test passed');

index.html

@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
         <button data-community-tab="discussions">DISCUSSIONS</button>
         <button data-community-tab="marketplace">MARKET</button>
       </div>
+      <input id="community-title" placeholder="New local item" style="width:100%;margin-top:7px;background:#09151d;border:1px solid #203342;color:#e4f2ef;padding:6px;font:9px ui-monospace,monospace">
+      <button id="community-add" class="secondary" style="width:100%;margin-top:5px;padding:6px">ADD LOCAL ISSUE</button>
       <div id="community-feed" style="font:9px/1.6 ui-monospace,monospace;color:#9fb8ba;margin-top:7px"></div>
     </aside>
 

package.json

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "description": "Local-first sovereign development workbench",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "node tests/smoke.mjs && node harness/test-orchestrator.mjs && node daemon/test-model-manager.mjs",
+    "test": "node tests/smoke.mjs && node harness/test-orchestrator.mjs && node daemon/test-model-manager.mjs && node daemon/test-community-store.mjs",
     "check": "node --check app.js && node --check daemon/server.mjs && node --check harness/orchestrator.mjs && node --check harness/checks.mjs",
     "veritas": "node harness/run-veritas.mjs"
   },