# Echolot — context for Claude Code

This repo is the **capability prober** for the Echolot project: an F/OSS Android app for detecting
and debugging local network issues (target audience: network engineers). The prober validates the
no-root feasibility matrix on real hardware before the production app is built.

## Project facts

- **Name:** Echolot. Domain echo-lot.app. URI scheme `echolot://`. Namespace `app.echo_lot.*`
  (hyphen→underscore; appIds/packages can't contain hyphens). Prober appId: `app.echo_lot.prober`.
- **Stack:** native Kotlin + Jetpack Compose. No Flutter (all value is in platform APIs;
  Flutter would be a Dart skin over a full Kotlin app + F-Droid build friction).
- **Tiers:** `app` (no root), `shizuku` (ADB-shell privileges via wireless pairing, shipped in v1),
  `root` (future module). Every result records which tier produced it.
- **License:** code is **GPL-3.0-or-later** (`LICENSE`), the specs in `docs/` are **CC-BY-4.0**
  (`docs/LICENSE`). New source files get the two-line SPDX header the existing ones carry.
  The server, when it lands, is GPL too — not AGPL (see `docs/build-status.md` for the reasoning).

## Design docs (source of truth, in `docs/`)

- `docs/feature-catalog-and-feasibility.md` — full feature list + no-root feasibility matrix.
- `docs/measurement-schema.md` — the archived/exportable measurement JSON format (observation vs
  finding separation, two-clock rule, columnar trains, anonymization types).
- `docs/probe-protocol.md` — client↔server wire protocol (pinned-TLS control plane, binary UDP data
  plane with anti-amplification HMAC, STUN, canary DNS reference records).
- `docs/build-status.md` — running log of decisions, what is delivered, and the next steps.

The three specs are draft-complete and user-reviewed; treat them as the contract. `build-status.md`
is the mutable one — update it as work lands.

Keep prober result IDs aligned with the measurement-schema test-type registry.

## Versioning

Prefer **patch** bumps (`server-v0.3.1`) for additive/incremental work; reserve **minor** bumps
for real milestones. Don't burn through minor versions. Tags are namespaced: `server-v*` for the
Go server, `v*` for the app. Pushing a `server-v*` tag runs CI → binaries + Gitea release +
registry image; the server on fmr can `--self-update` from those releases.

## Layout

Monorepo. The prober is one deliverable; the Go server and the production app land as siblings.

```
docs/                          design docs (above) — apply repo-wide, not just to the prober
echolot-prober/                the capability prober (self-contained Gradle build)
  app/src/main/java/app/echo_lot/prober/
    MainActivity.kt            Compose host, runs probes sequentially
    probe/                     Probe interface + all app-tier probes + OS ABI helper
    shizuku/                   AIDL UserService + ShizukuRunner (shell command exec)
    export/Report.kt           JSON report + share intent
    ui/ProberScreen.kt         result cards colored by verdict
```

## Client modules (echolot-app/)

Pure Kotlin/JVM where possible, so the interesting logic is unit-testable without a device and can
be exercised against the live server from the PC:

- `core-protocol` — control plane (pinned TLS) + ELT1 UDP data plane. **One `ProbeSession` per
  server session, for its whole lifetime**: a second one restarts sequence numbers, the server's
  anti-replay window discards every packet, and granted sends then target the closed socket.
- `core-measurement` — the schema types. `core-engine` — composes probes into documents.
- `core-privacy` — the §8 anonymizer (`full` / `balanced` / `strict`). Field classification lives
  in one table (`Classification.kt`); keep it there rather than annotating models.
- `core-archive` — on-device run storage + retention. `enabled` is separate from the three
  ceilings: all-zeros means "no limits", not "keep nothing".

**The local archive keeps the unredacted document; anonymization happens per upload, on the way
out.** Never redact what is stored locally.

### Live testing without a device
`echolot-app/scripts/test-fmr.sh [gradle-task] [test-filter]` mints an enrollment token over SSH,
enrolls, computes the SPKI pin from the served cert and runs a `Live*Test` against fmr. This covers
the whole server-facing vertical (granted sends, downstream MTU, uploads) with no phone involved —
use it before asking the user to test on hardware.

## Conventions

- Every probe returns a `ProbeResult` — never throws to the caller (MainActivity wraps anyway).
- Uncertain OS API paths (getsockoptInt, recvmsg, nat64Prefix) are reached via reflection/runCatching
  and reported, not assumed — the prober's purpose is to discover what exists.
- Hardcoded Linux sockopt ABI numbers live in `OsAbi.kt` with rationale; do not "fix" them to
  OsConstants names that don't exist.

## Build

From `echolot-prober/`: `./gradlew :app:assembleDebug` (needs local Android SDK; set `sdk.dir` in
`echolot-prober/local.properties`). The Gradle build is rooted there, not at the repo root.
First build downloads AGP/Compose/Shizuku from Google Maven + Maven Central.

## Working with test devices (hard-won lessons)

- **Prefer USB for adb.** Wireless debugging dies constantly: probe runs churn the wifi the
  debug link rides on, the Lenovo tablet's ZUI power management kills the listener anyway, and
  the port rotates on every restart. Never drive a probe run over *wireless* adb.
- Collection loop over USB, fully driveable by Claude: install → `am start` → tap "Run all
  probes" → poll `uiautomator dump` until the button label returns to "Run all probes" → tap
  "Export JSON" → the report lands in `cache/reports/` and comes back via
  `adb shell run-as app.echo_lot.prober cat …` (no need to drive the share sheet; dismiss it
  with BACK). Archive under `echolot-prober/reports/`, record findings in `docs/build-status.md`.
- Bash-tool `adb shell` calls with absolute device paths get mangled by Git Bash path
  conversion (`/data/…` → `C:/Program Files/Git/data/…`); use the PowerShell tool for those.
- Bump `versionCode` on every deployed prober change — it shows on screen and as `proberBuild`
  in the report; that's how a report is matched to a build.
- Known devices: OnePlus 15 (CPH2747, A16) — Shizuku UserService works;
  Lenovo TB330FU (A15, multi-user) — UserService never binds, the `newProcess` fallback carries
  it. Full history in build-status.md.
- **Wireless-adb beacon** (`echolot-app/adb-beacon` + `tools/adb-beacon/receiver.py`): the
  wireless-debug port rotates every couple of minutes on these devices; the beacon reads the live
  port from adbd's own mDNS (`_adb-tls-connect._tcp`, filtered to the device's own IP) and POSTs
  it to fmr:443 (cleartext allowed; over a validated net); a PC connector polls and reconnects.
  Bootstrap needs one manual adb connection to install it, then it self-heals. Existing adb
  connections survive port rotation — only fresh connects need the new port.
  **Resolve adbd's mDNS advertisement exactly ONCE per service instance** (re-resolving makes
  adbd re-arm the connection, which spams "wireless debugging connected" notifications); the
  periodic heartbeat only re-POSTs the cached port. Rotation is still caught: onServiceLost
  clears the guard, so the new advertisement is resolved once and reported within seconds
  (verified: 37089 -> 33667 reported 6 s after rotation).
  **Known limitation — do not run the beacon on the OnePlus.** On network churn (SSID jump, roam)
  adbd repeatedly drops and re-publishes its advertisement, so lost/found cycles keep clearing the
  resolve-guard; each resolve makes adbd re-arm and post a "wireless debugging connected"
  notification. Guarding reduces but cannot eliminate this — resolving adbd's own mDNS record is
  inherently noisy on that device. Use manual `ip:port` there (ask the user), or read the port via
  Shizuku (`ss -tlnp | grep adbd`, no mDNS) if the shell tier is available.
- **Shizuku start kills the adb bridge and the beacon can't auto-recover it.** Shizuku's non-root
  start pairs over wireless debugging and runs its starter through adb, hijacking the channel:
  adb goes device→offline→refused, and adbd keeps advertising the now-dead port over mDNS (stale),
  so the beacon reports a port that no longer accepts connections. Workaround: after starting
  Shizuku, **toggle Wireless debugging off/on** — Shizuku keeps running (separate process), a fresh
  port + mDNS record appear, and the beacon/connector recover. Plan the Shizuku-tier dev loop
  around this (or USB, if ever available).
- As of the AGP 9.2.0 / Gradle 9.6.0 / Kotlin 2.2.10 bump, JDK 17+ (including 25) works —
  AGP 9 requires Gradle 9.1.0+ and Kotlin 2.2.10+ as its minimum KGP version. On machines with
  Android Studio, its `jbr` directory works as `JAVA_HOME`.

## Likely next steps

1. Run on physical devices; collect JSON reports across Android versions/vendors.
2. ~~C-over-JNI errqueue shim~~ — not needed; `trace.errqueue_reachable` and `traceroute.udp4`
   are SUPPORTED on both known devices via `Os.recvmsg` + `StructMsghdr` reflection.
3. Fold the confirmed capabilities + Shizuku dump-format samples back into the production
   `core-probe` / `core-shizuku` modules.