# Echolot — build status & next steps

Last updated: 2026-07-29.

## Decided
- Name **Echolot**; domain echo-lot.app; 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.
- Tiers: `app` (no root), **`shizuku` in v1** (wireless-ADB pairing), `root` future.
- **License (decided 2026-07-30):** all code **GPL-3.0-or-later**; the specs in `docs/` **CC-BY-4.0**.
  Rationale: the moat is the no-root platform research, which is trivially liftable into a
  proprietary repackage — copyleft is the only option that prevents that, and the F-Droid /
  network-engineer audience reads GPL as a trust signal rather than friction. The specs go
  permissive on purpose: a wire protocol only becomes a standard if anyone can implement it.
  **Not AGPL for the server** — the ASP loophole it closes is speculative here, while blanket
  corporate AGPL bans would hit exactly the enterprise network teams most likely to self-host.
  Sole copyright holder, so relicensing the server to AGPL later stays possible.
  Open: substitute a real legal copyright holder for "Echolot contributors" in the SPDX headers.

## Specs (in `docs/`, alongside this file)
- `feature-catalog-and-feasibility.md`, `measurement-schema.md`, `probe-protocol.md`. Considered draft-complete and reviewed by the user.

## Capability prober — DELIVERED (as zip, 2026-07-29)
Full Kotlin/Compose project scaffolded: `app.echo_lot.prober`, minSdk 26 / target+compile 35,
AGP 8.7.3, Kotlin 2.0.21, Compose BOM 2024.10, Shizuku api+provider 13.1.5, kotlinx-serialization.
Probes implemented: `link.snapshot`, `icmp.ping4/6` (unprivileged ICMP datagram), `sockopt.matrix`
(TTL/TOS/RECVERR/MTU_DISCOVER), `trace.errqueue_reachable`, `multinetwork.request_and_bind`,
`local.mdns_discover`, `peer.ble_advertise`, `shizuku.command_battery` (ip neigh / ip -6 route /
ip addr / ip monitor / dumpsys network_stack DHCP+IpClient / dumpsys wifi). JSON export via share
intent; results carry verdict + raw evidence.

Could NOT be compiled in the cloud sandbox: dl.google.com (Google Maven) and services.gradle.org
are proxy-blocked, and no device is reachable for on-device runs. Build + iterate locally
(Android Studio / Claude Code). Wrapper is pinned to Gradle 8.14.3.

## Next steps
1. Build locally, run on several physical devices (varied Android versions/vendors), collect the
   JSON reports — especially the real per-device Shizuku dump formats.
2. If `trace.errqueue_reachable` = PARTIAL, add a C-over-JNI errqueue shim (`recvmsg`+cmsg parse)
   as a `:native` module and a real `traceroute.udp4` probe.
3. Start the Go server skeleton (enrollment + profile + sessions + UDP echo with observation
   blocks + canary-DNS reference records) per probe-protocol.md.
4. Fold confirmed capabilities into the production `core-probe` / `core-shizuku` modules.