homelab/.planning/STATE.md

Project State

Project Reference

See: .planning/PROJECT.md (updated 2026-02-04)

Core value: Frictionless conversation with Claude Code from anywhere via Telegram — no SSH, no manual inbox checking, just message and get a response. Current focus: Phase 2 complete, ready for Phase 3

Current Position

Phase: 2 of 4 (Telegram Integration) — COMPLETE Plan: 02-02 complete (2 of 2 plans completed) Status: Complete Last activity: 2026-02-04 — Completed 02-02-PLAN.md (Bot integration with batching, file handling, systemd service)

Progress: [██████████░░░░░] 50%

Performance Metrics

Velocity:

• Total plans completed: 5
• Average duration: 23 min
• Total execution time: 1.95 hours

By Phase:

Phase	Plans	Total	Avg/Plan
1	3	27min	9min
2	2	95min	48min

Recent Trend:

• Last 3 plans: 01-03 (15min), 02-01 (5min), 02-02 (90min)
• 02-02 included interactive debugging and human verification

Updated after each plan completion

Accumulated Context

Decisions

Decisions are logged in PROJECT.md Key Decisions table. Recent decisions affecting current work:

• Claude Code CLI over raw API: Gets full tool access, --resume support, and all Claude Code features for free
• Haiku polling + Opus conversation: Avoids burning expensive Opus tokens on idle monitoring (deferred to v2)
• Path-based sessions: Leverages Claude Code's native session-per-directory behavior, files naturally scoped
• Extend existing bot: Reuse proven Telegram integration rather than building from scratch
• Sessions created as 'idle', activated explicitly: Creating doesn't mean in use, switch required (01-01)
• Metadata read from disk on demand: No caching to avoid stale state (01-01)
• Asyncio.gather for concurrent stream reading: Prevents pipe deadlock (01-02)
• Fresh process per turn: Spawn new claude -p invocation for Phase 1 simplicity (01-02)
• Callback architecture: Decouple subprocess from session management via on_output/on_error/on_complete/on_status (01-02)
• Sibling imports over package imports: Avoids shadowing pip telegram package (01-03)
• Archive sessions with tar+pigz: Compression + cleanup to sessions_archive/ (01-03)
• Persistent subprocess instead of fresh per turn: Eliminates ~1s spawn overhead, maintains context (02-01)
• Split messages at 4000 chars (not 4096): Leaves room for MarkdownV2 escape expansion (02-01)
• Never split inside code blocks: Track in_code_block state, only split when safe (02-01)
• Dynamic typing event lookup: Callbacks reference typing_tasks dict by session name, not captured event (02-02)
• --append-system-prompt instead of --system-prompt: Preserves Claude Code model identity (02-02)
• --dangerously-skip-permissions: Full tool access in non-interactive subprocess (02-02)
• Full model ID in persona: Use claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929 instead of alias (02-02)
• Stream-json NDJSON format: {type: user, message: {role: user, content: text}} (02-02)

Pending Todos

None yet.

Blockers/Concerns

Phase 1 (Session & Process Foundation) — COMPLETE

• Claude Code CLI --resume behavior with pipes vs PTY unknown — RESOLVED
• Output format for tool calls not documented — RESOLVED

Phase 2 (Telegram Integration) — COMPLETE

• Non-persistent process model (spawned fresh per turn) — RESOLVED (02-01)
• Message batching strategy needs validation — RESOLVED: Works with 2s debounce (02-02)
• File upload flow needs end-to-end testing — RESOLVED: User-verified (02-02)
• Typing indicator not visible despite API success — RESOLVED: Stale task cleanup + dynamic event lookup (02-02)
• Model identifies as wrong version — RESOLVED: --append-system-prompt preserves CLI defaults (02-02)

Session Continuity

Last session: 2026-02-04T22:10:00Z Stopped at: Completed Phase 2 (Telegram Integration) Resume file: None Next: Phase 3 (Lifecycle Management)