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>
The gateway is a deployment (castle-gateway) — its lifecycle is the same
convergence as everything else, so the bespoke start/stop/reload verbs
(which still routed through the retired enable/disable path) are gone.
- CLI: `castle gateway` is now inspection only — bare or `status` shows
the route table. Start/stop/reload it via `castle apply` (render routes
+ reload) or `castle restart castle-gateway`. Deletes the last users of
`_service_enable`/`_service_disable`, so those are removed too.
- API: retire `POST /gateway/reload` (making routes live is `POST /apply`);
`PUT /gateway/config` message + docstring now say apply, not deploy.
- UI: GatewayPanel's "Reload" button → "Apply" (useApply); drop the
useGatewayReload hook; GatewaySettings points at `castle apply`.
- docs: `castle gateway reload|status` → `castle gateway` (status lens).
core 129 / cli 31 / api 59 pass; dashboard builds clean; live `castle
gateway` shows routes with no start/stop/reload; /gateway/reload removed
from the API.
Update the README, AGENTS.md, install.sh, and docs/ for the converge
model: one `castle apply [name] [--plan]` replaces `deploy && start` and
the per-kind enable/disable/install/start/stop verbs. CLI references now
list apply + restart (the imperative bounce) + logs; recipes use
`castle apply`; "turn it off" is documented as `enabled: false` + apply.
install.sh's next-steps collapse to a single `castle apply`.
Verified: no retired-verb command instructions remain in any markdown;
install.sh syntax OK; live `castle apply --plan` reports converged;
doctor all-green; core 129 / cli 31 / api 59 pass.
The README/docs explained how the system works but not how to get it up
and running, and there was no way to tell a healthy node from a
half-configured one. Two additions close that gap.
castle doctor — a read-only preflight/postflight check. It inspects
setup *and* runtime (CLI on PATH, uv, lingering; repo:, control plane
registered, dashboard built; gateway/api running + listening, specs
generated; and — under tls=acme — DNS-plugin Caddy, provider token,
:443 bind; tunnel config for public services) and, for anything not
green, prints the exact next command. Exit 0 when nothing failed
(warnings allowed), 1 otherwise, so it doubles as a scriptable smoke
test after install/deploy. Agents can lean on it the same way they use
`castle tool list`.
Docs — the quick start now leads with prerequisites and one command
(install.sh installs the CLI + registers the control plane, so the old
manual `uv tool install` step is gone), adds a `castle doctor` verify
step, and gains an "exposure ladder" table framing the three rungs
(localhost → LAN HTTPS → public) that link the deep DNS/TLS/tunnel docs.
install.sh's closing summary and the AGENTS.md CLI reference mention
doctor too.
