[P1] Detect desktop session and resolve metadata-source strategies #13

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opened 2026-07-17 23:59:49 +00:00 by lost-rob0t · 1 comment

lost-rob0t commented

2026-07-17 23:59:49 +00:00

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Goal

Discover the active desktop environment safely and select the best available metadata sources.

Requirements

Detect Xorg versus Wayland without guessing.
Detect window manager/desktop environment where possible.
Probe configured metadata sources by capability and health.
Support ordered composition rather than one exclusive source.
Track provenance and confidence for every metadata field.
Fall back to generic Xorg metadata when specialized adapters are unavailable.
Unsupported sessions must not silently start recording.

Acceptance criteria

Qtile, generic Xorg, and ActivityWatch selection paths are testable with mocked environments.
Conflicting values are resolved by documented policy.
Probe failures are sanitized and do not execute untrusted commands.
The selected capture and metadata strategies are visible through a status command.

Depends on

## Goal Discover the active desktop environment safely and select the best available metadata sources. ## Requirements - Detect Xorg versus Wayland without guessing. - Detect window manager/desktop environment where possible. - Probe configured metadata sources by capability and health. - Support ordered composition rather than one exclusive source. - Track provenance and confidence for every metadata field. - Fall back to generic Xorg metadata when specialized adapters are unavailable. - Unsupported sessions must not silently start recording. ## Acceptance criteria - Qtile, generic Xorg, and ActivityWatch selection paths are testable with mocked environments. - Conflicting values are resolved by documented policy. - Probe failures are sanitized and do not execute untrusted commands. - The selected capture and metadata strategies are visible through a status command. ## Depends on - #5 - #6 - #12

lost-rob0t commented

2026-07-19 06:53:24 +00:00

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Work started on stacked draft PR #61. Its base is agent/issue-12-audit-hardening so #13 remains ordered behind #12 while hosted CI is blocked. The Zara integration issues local-recall#60 and lost-rob0t/zara#56 remain backlog-only and are not part of this branch.

Work started on stacked draft PR #61. Its base is `agent/issue-12-audit-hardening` so #13 remains ordered behind #12 while hosted CI is blocked. The Zara integration issues local-recall#60 and lost-rob0t/zara#56 remain backlog-only and are not part of this branch.