feat(core): single-source data_dir/repos_dir via castle.yaml

The `castle` CLI and the `castle-api` service are two independent in-process
drivers of `castle_core`. Each resolved DATA_DIR/REPOS_DIR at import time from
its own process env (default /data/castle), persisted nowhere — so they silently
diverged, and `apply`/dashboard-apply crashed on a non-existent /data.

Make the loaded CastleConfig the single source of truth:
- Resolve data_dir/repos_dir only in load_config (env > castle.yaml > default),
  anchored to the config root; drop the DATA_DIR/REPOS_DIR module globals and the
  import-time file read entirely — no global twin that can disagree with the file.
- Thread config.data_dir/repos_dir through ensure_dirs, _env_context, tls_dir_for
  (now unified — deploy no longer inlines the tls path), and create/add/clone.
- ensure_dirs raises an actionable CastleDirError instead of a bare PermissionError;
  the api surfaces it as 422.
- doctor: "data dir writable" check + WARN when CASTLE_DATA_DIR/REPOS_DIR env
  overrides the file (the one remaining cross-process divergence vector).
- install.sh persists data_dir/repos_dir into castle.yaml (idempotent, non-default).
- Docs: registry.md globals + AGENTS.md roots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-07-06 23:02:33 -07:00
parent b28645f2f4
commit 340f469b3d
16 changed files with 417 additions and 88 deletions

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@@ -34,30 +34,32 @@ def _resolve_castle_home() -> Path:
return Path.home() / ".castle"
def _resolve_data_dir() -> Path:
"""Resolve the program data directory (service/program data I/O).
Decoupled from CASTLE_HOME so bulk data can live on a dedicated volume.
Defaults to /data/castle. Override with the CASTLE_DATA_DIR environment
variable (supports ~ and relative paths, which are expanded and made absolute).
"""
override = os.environ.get("CASTLE_DATA_DIR")
if override:
return Path(override).expanduser().resolve()
return Path("/data/castle")
_DEFAULT_DATA_DIR = Path("/data/castle")
_DEFAULT_REPOS_DIR = Path("/data/repos")
def _resolve_repos_dir() -> Path:
"""Resolve where program source repos live by default.
class CastleDirError(RuntimeError):
"""A required castle directory can't be created (e.g. data_dir outside a writable
parent). Carries an actionable message; surfaced to the CLI and the api instead of
a bare PermissionError traceback."""
`castle create` scaffolds and `castle add` adopts repos under here. Programs
may also live anywhere (source: is an absolute path); this is just the default
home for new ones. Override with CASTLE_REPOS_DIR. Defaults to /data/repos.
"""
override = os.environ.get("CASTLE_REPOS_DIR")
if override:
return Path(override).expanduser().resolve()
return Path("/data/repos")
def _resolve_root_path(
env_var: str, yaml_value: object, anchor: Path, default: Path
) -> Path:
"""Resolve a configurable root with precedence: env var > castle.yaml > default.
`~` is expanded; a relative path is anchored to `anchor` (the dir containing
castle.yaml) — never cwd, so the CLI (shell cwd) and the api service (unit cwd)
resolve identically. The built-in default is returned as-is (so it compares equal
for the "persist only when non-default" check in save_config)."""
raw = os.environ.get(env_var) or yaml_value
if not raw:
return default
p = Path(str(raw)).expanduser()
if not p.is_absolute():
p = anchor / p
return p.resolve()
CASTLE_HOME = _resolve_castle_home()
@@ -65,9 +67,13 @@ CODE_DIR = CASTLE_HOME / "code"
ARTIFACTS_DIR = CASTLE_HOME / "artifacts"
SPECS_DIR = ARTIFACTS_DIR / "specs"
CONTENT_DIR = ARTIFACTS_DIR / "content"
DATA_DIR = _resolve_data_dir()
SECRETS_DIR = CASTLE_HOME / "secrets"
REPOS_DIR = _resolve_repos_dir()
# data_dir and repos_dir are deliberately NOT module constants. Unlike the CASTLE_HOME
# family above (env-or-default — the dir that *holds* castle.yaml can't be configured
# inside it), these are per-instance settings read from castle.yaml. A module global
# would be a second copy of that value, resolved once at import against one process's
# environment — exactly what let the CLI and the api service drift. They live only on
# the loaded CastleConfig; read config.data_dir / config.repos_dir (see load_config).
# User tool directories — the single source of truth for "where our CLIs live".
# Used both at build time (dev-verb subprocess PATH) and at run time (generated
@@ -173,6 +179,11 @@ class CastleConfig:
# Launchable agent CLIs for the dashboard terminal UX (assistant-agnostic).
# Optional; empty means the API falls back to a built-in default set.
agents: dict[str, AgentSpec] = field(default_factory=dict)
# Configurable roots — the single source of truth (no module-constant twin).
# load_config sets them (env > castle.yaml > default); a bare constructor gets the
# built-in defaults so tests/callers that don't care stay valid.
data_dir: Path = field(default_factory=lambda: _DEFAULT_DATA_DIR)
repos_dir: Path = field(default_factory=lambda: _DEFAULT_REPOS_DIR)
# Construction convenience only (not stored): a flat name→spec dict is routed
# into the per-kind stores by kind_for. Lets callers/tests hand us a flat map
# without pre-splitting it; there is still no flat `deployments` attribute.
@@ -416,6 +427,16 @@ def load_config(root: Path | None = None) -> CastleConfig:
if data.get("repo"):
repo_path = Path(data["repo"]).expanduser()
# Configurable roots: env > this file's data_dir/repos_dir > default, anchored to
# `root` (the dir holding this castle.yaml) so a per-call load_config is correct
# regardless of the import-time constants (which resolved against CASTLE_HOME).
data_dir = _resolve_root_path(
"CASTLE_DATA_DIR", data.get("data_dir"), root, _DEFAULT_DATA_DIR
)
repos_dir = _resolve_root_path(
"CASTLE_REPOS_DIR", data.get("repos_dir"), root, _DEFAULT_REPOS_DIR
)
programs: dict[str, ProgramSpec] = {}
for name, comp_data in _load_resource_dir(root / "programs").items():
prog = _parse_program(name, comp_data)
@@ -442,6 +463,8 @@ def load_config(root: Path | None = None) -> CastleConfig:
gateway=gateway,
programs=programs,
agents=agents,
data_dir=data_dir,
repos_dir=repos_dir,
**stores,
)
return config
@@ -622,6 +645,13 @@ def save_config(config: CastleConfig) -> None:
data: dict = {"gateway": gateway_data}
if config.repo:
data["repo"] = str(config.repo)
# Persist the configurable roots only when non-default, keeping castle.yaml minimal.
# These MUST round-trip: save_config rewrites the file from scratch, so a root that
# isn't re-emitted here would be silently dropped on the next apply.
if config.data_dir != _DEFAULT_DATA_DIR:
data["data_dir"] = str(config.data_dir)
if config.repos_dir != _DEFAULT_REPOS_DIR:
data["repos_dir"] = str(config.repos_dir)
if config.agents:
data["agents"] = {
n: s.model_dump(exclude_none=True, exclude_defaults=True)
@@ -649,13 +679,25 @@ def save_config(config: CastleConfig) -> None:
path.unlink()
def ensure_dirs() -> None:
"""Ensure castle directories exist."""
def ensure_dirs(config: CastleConfig) -> None:
"""Ensure castle directories exist. Takes the config so the data dir comes from the
one source of truth (config.data_dir), not a process-resolved global."""
CASTLE_HOME.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
CODE_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
SPECS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
CONTENT_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
DATA_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
# The data dir can live outside $HOME (a dedicated volume), so its parent may be
# unwritable or absent — fail loud with a fix, not a bare PermissionError.
data_dir = config.data_dir
try:
data_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
except OSError as e:
raise CastleDirError(
f"Cannot create data dir {data_dir}: {e.strerror or e}. "
f"Set data_dir: in {CASTLE_HOME / 'castle.yaml'} (or export CASTLE_DATA_DIR) "
f"to a writable path, or create it: "
f"sudo mkdir -p {data_dir} && sudo chown $(id -un) {data_dir}"
) from e
SECRETS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
os.chmod(SECRETS_DIR, 0o700)
# Generated per-deployment secret env files (EnvironmentFile= / --env-file)