JiboExperiments/OpenJibo/docs/development-plan.md

Development Plan

Summary

This document is the current working plan for the OpenJibo hosted cloud.

The production lane is the .NET cloud in src/Jibo.Cloud/dotnet. The Node server remains the protocol oracle, capture harness, and fast reverse-engineering lab, but it is no longer the long-term hosted architecture.

Day-to-day feature sequencing lives in feature-backlog.md. Live closeout checks live in regression-test-plan.md. This file tracks release shape, current code truth, evidence sources, and the boundary between 1.0.18 closeout work and 1.0.19 follow-up work.

Current Release Snapshot

• Current OpenJibo Cloud release constant: 1.0.18
• Source of truth: OpenJiboCloudBuildInfo.cs
• Spoken diagnostic: Open Jibo Cloud version 1 dot 0 dot 18.
• HTTP diagnostic: /health returns the same version
• Startup diagnostic: the API logs the same version on boot
• .NET target framework: net10.0 across the cloud projects and cloud test project

Release 1.0.18 is now in feature-hardening. Its main bug-fix theme is alarm and photo/gallery behavior on stock OS 1.9, with a few small feature slices added while the test loop is warm.

Latest Live Evidence

jibo test 28 narrowed the backup/blue-ring startup path after the Test 27 cloud-version capture.

• Before the cloud-version test, the robot's local jibo-server-service restarted after a broken pipe, then ssm raised Q4-Server_connection_lost and local @be/settings opened the connection-lost error path. The notification connection recovered about 31 seconds later. Treat early-test confusion as suspect if this local-server recovery appears in the same window.
• The cloud-version answer itself proved the running build was 1.0.18, but the previous source treated cloud_version as a follow-up conversation. A fresh hotphrase LISTEN then captured speech tail as Cloudford., and generic chat replied thanks. I heard, Cloudford.
• Current source now makes cloud_version a one-shot diagnostic, uses a longer diagnostic speech-tail ignore window, and ignores no-transcript hotphrase launch LISTEN setup packets inside that window. The existing no-LISTEN binary guard already ignored same-transID binary tails after finalization, but Test 27 showed it could not stop a brand-new hotphrase listen by itself.
• Test 28 showed our cloud-version/generic Nimbus LISTEN match entering stock BE with skipSurprises unset. After Nimbus settled, BE requested local @be/surprises; Test 28 inhibited the offer because VAD heard people talking, while Test 27 used the same doorway to select @be/surprises-ota and speak the backup-in-progress warning.
• Current source now emits match.skipSurprises = true for hosted turn results, fallback matches, and local skill redirects. Stock BE maps that to skipSurprisesExternal, preventing normal cloud replies from falling into end-of-skill surprises such as OTA/backup prompts.
• Backup-in-progress still appears robot-local. Tests 27 and 28 had no matching Backup_* HTTP calls. Keep investigating robot-local scheduler/status, startup reconnect state, CPU/load, and log/upload work if backup status itself remains sluggish after surprise suppression.
• Test 26 remains the broader regression evidence for gallery success, alarm replacement/delete risk, stop/volume live proof, and short-answer STT weakness. Alarm replacement/menu agreement is still the main release risk after the Test 27 cloud-version-tail hardening.

Release Rhythm

This is the working pattern for each hosted-cloud release:

1. Pick a narrow source-backed feature or compatibility slice.
2. Confirm the stock payload shape from captures, Pegasus, the JiboOS reference tree, or live logs.
3. Implement the smallest .NET path that can be tested honestly.
4. Add focused tests around routing, websocket payload shape, and state behavior.
5. Run the stock robot live test, collect captures, and record the result before moving on.
6. Keep regressions and bug fixes in the current release; roll larger follow-up work into the next version.

For 1.0.18, the remaining release work should stay small: finish one or two feature slices, run the live regression pass, and only patch bugs found in that pass before calling the version complete. 1.0.19 should then reopen the broader feature queue.

Current Code Truth

The hosted .NET cloud is a modular monolith:

Jibo.Cloud.Api -> Jibo.Cloud.Application -> Jibo.Cloud.Domain -> Jibo.Cloud.Infrastructure

Current API and protocol scope:

• HTTP X-Amz-Target dispatch through JiboCloudProtocolService
• /health diagnostics
• WebSocket acceptance for api-socket.jibo.com, neo-hub.jibo.com listen, and neo-hub.jibo.com/v1/proactive
• token/session issuance for account, hub, and robot startup flows
• starter account, notification, loop, media, key, person, backup, robot, update, and upload/log handling
• media lookup through /media/{path}
• no placeholder no-op update from GetUpdateFrom when no staged update exists

Current websocket scope:

• long-lived cloud session state separated from per-turn websocket state
• LISTEN, CONTEXT, CLIENT_NLU, CLIENT_ASR, and binary-audio handling
• pending listen setup packets kept pending instead of finalized as turns
• buffered Ogg/Opus audio preservation per turn
• synthetic transcript hint support for fixture-driven parity
• opt-in local ffmpeg plus whisper.cpp STT path for discovery
• local whisper only attempts external decoding when buffered audio contains an Opus identification header
• auto-finalize thresholds for buffered audio after a real listen phase
• late-audio ignore windows after completed turns
• cloud-version diagnostic turns do not keep follow-up open and receive a longer speech-tail ignore window
• no-transcript hotphrase launch LISTEN setup packets are ignored while a completed diagnostic/local turn is still in its late-audio cleanup window
• passive local context cleanup for gallery/create/settings contexts after stock local skills take ownership
• no-input local completion for constrained prompts, clock value prompts, gallery preview prompts, and settings volume-control prompts
• active local prompt preservation so shared/yes_no, clock, gallery, and settings prompts can still consume transcript-bearing short replies even when the stock skill reports a local context
• binary audio ignored for an existing transID until a fresh LISTEN has been seen, preventing context-only or post-speech tails from reopening an endless buffered turn
• blank-audio hotphrase turns clear pending listen state and install a short late-audio ignore window
• unknown inbound websocket types dropped silently instead of echoing stock-OS-unknown OpenJibo events
• file telemetry and fixture export for HTTP, websocket, and turn captures

Current state and persistence scope:

• InMemoryCloudStateStore remains the runtime store
• a local JSON persistence bridge is enabled by default at App_Data/cloud-state.json
• persisted state currently covers staged updates, media metadata, and backup metadata
• this is a bridge toward Azure SQL and Blob Storage, not the final hosted storage architecture

Implemented In Current 1.0.18 Source

The following behavior is present in source and covered by focused tests:

• cloud version speech and /health version reporting share OpenJiboCloudBuildInfo.Version
• cloud version is a one-shot diagnostic: it speaks the version without opening a follow-up turn, then shields the speech tail from self-listen artifacts such as the Test 27 Cloudford. capture
• hosted turn results, fallback matches, and local skill redirects now emit match.skipSurprises = true so stock BE does not route settled cloud/local responses into @be/surprises
• apostrophes are no longer escaped to ' in spoken ESML, while &, <, >, and " remain escaped
• radio voice launch supports open the radio and genre launch such as play country music, using local @be/radio menu payloads, SKILL_REDIRECT, and silent completion
• news has a first Nimbus-shaped cloud path using match.cloudSkill = news and a news SKILL_ACTION with synthetic briefing content
• stop commands such as stop that and never mind emit stock global_commands stop NLU plus a local @be/idle redirect, without generic chat speech
• stop and cancel phrase matching tolerates stock ASR punctuation such as Never mind.
• volume commands emit stock global_commands volume intents: volumeUp, volumeDown, and volumeToValue with volumeLevel; show volume controls redirects to @be/settings volumeQuery
• volume-to-value parsing handles the observed stock ASR homophone shape Set Volume 2-6. as level 6
• stock-shaped clock handoffs cover time, date, day, clock open, timer/alarm menu, timer/alarm value, timer/alarm clarification, and timer/alarm delete
• alarm delete parsing handles delete the alarm plus the observed stock ASR mishears delete along / delete the along
• clock delete/cancel handoffs do not keep a generic chat follow-up mic open or emit extra cloud speech after the local clock redirect
• alarm parsing covers forms such as 7:30 am, 830, 8 30, 7, 44, 10-25, 10:25 pm, and 10 25 p m
• ambiguous alarm times can prefer the next local occurrence when the robot context includes runtime.location.iso
• short clock value follow-up transcripts are accepted under clock/alarm_set_value and clock/timer_set_value instead of being dropped before parsing
• CLIENT_NLU intent=set with only domain=alarm stays on the local clock clarification path instead of defaulting to a fabricated time
• CLIENT_NLU intent=cancel on clock/alarm_timer_query_menu can reuse the last active clock domain
• CLIENT_NLU intent=cancel on clock/alarm_set_value / clock/timer_set_value maps to local clock cancel instead of re-asking for a value
• photo flows route open photo gallery, observed open photogal, snap a picture, and open photobooth to the matching gallery/create local skills
• passive gallery/create/settings context does not reopen a stale cloud turn
• active local prompts under gallery/settings context are preserved so short yes/no answers can finalize the prompt instead of being suppressed as passive context
• media metadata persists across store recreation and /media/{path} can serve the current text-body placeholder payload
• constrained yes/no handling covers clock/alarm_timer_change, clock/alarm_timer_none_set, create/is_it_a_keeper, shared/yes_no, settings/download_now_later, surprises-date/offer_date_fact, surprises-ota/want_to_download_now, and $YESNO hints
• outbound constrained yes/no responses strip unrelated globals/* rules so stock OS stays local
• no-input fallback for constrained yes/no prompts emits local LISTEN/EOS instead of relaunching generic Nimbus speech, including shared/yes_no after STT failure
• no-input fallback for clock value prompts, gallery/gallery_preview, and settings/volume_control emits local LISTEN/EOS instead of generic I heard you Nimbus speech
• repeated empty create/is_it_a_keeper replies redirect to @be/idle after the second miss so the photo/create flow can settle instead of leaving a stale listening state
• local whisper skips buffered audio turns that do not contain OpusHead, preventing a known ffmpeg failure path from becoming the noisy failure mode
• Word of the Day launch, spoken guesses, structured CLIENT_NLU guesses, hint-order guesses, fuzzy hint matching, right-word cleanup, and late audio cleanup are covered in the websocket layer

Reference Sources

Use these sources as evidence, not as code to copy blindly:

• OpenJibo Node oracle: open-jibo-link.js
• Current hosted .NET cloud: src/Jibo.Cloud/dotnet
• Live captures and robot logs: .\artifact-output
• User-provided original source snapshot: ..\jibo when extracted locally
• Original Pegasus cloud source inside that snapshot: pegasus
• Original SDK and skill source inside that snapshot: sdk
• JiboOS reference tree: ..\JiboOS
• JiboOS skill snapshot: ..\JiboOS\opt\jibo\Jibo\Skills\@be

The Pegasus tree is especially useful for cloud service intent: packages/hub documents /v1/listen, /nlu, and /asr; packages/lasso documents credential and provider aggregation; packages/history and the architecture materials are useful for future memory and proactivity work.

The JiboOS trees are especially useful for local skill ownership and payload shape: @be/clock, @be/gallery, @be/create, @be/radio, @be/nimbus, @be/settings, @be/surprises*, @be/restore, @be/who-am-i, and @be/idle.

The original test suites are useful as behavior contracts before more live-device trial and error:

• ..\jibo\sdk\skills\clock\tests\AlarmTimer documents alarm/timer state expectations. Cancel at the alarm value prompt exits without scheduling; no-alarm query yes redirects to the value prompt while no exits without touching KB/scheduler; existing-alarm keep preserves KB/scheduler while delete, change, and cancel clear it; cross-domain cancel uses the OtherSet yes/no branch before deleting the other clock domain.
• ..\jibo\sdk\skills\gallery\tests documents gallery ownership. Empty gallery yes redirects to @be/create, empty gallery no exits, media-load failure exits, gallery/item views lifecycle out around two minutes, and delete confirmation only deletes on a positive yes.
• ..\jibo\sdk\skills\surprises-ota\tests\OTASurprise.test.js shows OTA/backup surprise priority is robot-local and rate-limited by status plus last-notification timestamps. Backup-in-progress sluggishness should be investigated as local scheduler/status behavior before assuming a cloud backup API issue.
• ..\jibo\sdk\skills\nimbus\tests and ..\jibo\pegasus\packages\integration-tests-int\src\listen*.test.ts show the cloud/Nimbus contract: listen transactions emit SOS, EOS, and LISTEN, with optional SKILL_ACTION; matched responses preserve match.skillID or match.cloudSkill; CLIENT_ASR and CLIENT_NLU should both be first-class test inputs.
• ..\jibo\pegasus\packages\report-skill\tests\subskills\News.test.js is the best source-backed guide for news expansion: use category preferences, filter unusable or duplicate items, gate adult headlines for children or unidentified speakers, and provide image metadata alongside spoken headlines.

When sources disagree, prefer the newest live stock-OS capture for runtime behavior, then stock robot source for local ownership, then Pegasus for original cloud intent, then Node for known working compatibility behavior.

1.0.18 Closeout Gates

Before calling 1.0.18 complete, prove or explicitly defer these:

• Run the focused .NET cloud test suite after the last feature slice.
• Run the current-release live checklist in regression-test-plan.md.
• Confirm the running robot build reports cloud version 1.0.18 without a follow-up Cloudford / generic chat tail.
• Confirm cloud-version and one generic Nimbus/chat turn include match.skipSurprises = true and do not transition into @be/surprises / @be/surprises-ota after speech completes.
• Regression test alarm flows again after the jibo test 26 fixes: set with explicit time, set with compact/spoken/comma-separated time, clarify missing time, replace an existing alarm, cancel/delete by voice including delete the alarm, cancel out of a value prompt, and verify the menu agrees.
• Regression test timer flows after the Test 25 stale-timer observation: set a 10-second timer, let it fire, reset by gesture only after recording state, and verify a new timer prompt does not see an already-expired timer as still active.
• Regression test photo/gallery flows again after the jibo test 26 fixes: open gallery, answer the stock shared/yes_no prompt with a transcript-bearing yes, hand into create, take one photo, keep it, and avoid blue-ring, I heard you, or that's stale turns after gallery cleanup.
• Live-test radio launch: open the radio passed in jibo test 22; re-run play country music if that exact phrase was not captured.
• Treat basic news as live-proven by jibo test 23; defer provider-backed or category-expanded news unless it is chosen as an optional feature slice.
• Regression test the added stop and volume slices after the Test 26 fixes: stop that, never mind, turn it up, turn it down, set volume to six, set volume to 6, and show volume controls.
• Recheck constrained yes/no prompts for update/backup/share/gallery/alarm replacement without leaking global rules.
• Recheck that stock OS no longer logs OpenJibo-only websocket events such as synthetic pending/context/ack packets from the current build.
• Recheck backup/update behavior with explicit attention to robot-local jibo.scheduler.backupStatus, CPU/load, log/upload activity, and whether the deployed cloud is involved at all.
• Treat remaining empty-ASR, ffmpeg, or whisper.cpp transcript failures as STT work unless the capture proves a separate turn-routing regression.

Known Gaps

These are not blockers for calling 1.0.18 complete unless the live test shows a regression in a current release path:

• local whisper.cpp STT remains a discovery seam, not production ASR
• media upload/body handling is not binary-safe enough for final gallery originals and thumbnails
• state persistence is local JSON, not Azure SQL / Blob Storage
• update, backup, and restore are not end-to-end proven, and the jibo test 22 / Test 26 / Test 27 / Test 28 sluggishness appears tied to robot-local backup status/load, startup reconnect state, or previously unsuppressed end-of-skill surprises
• Tests 27 and 28 showed backup/surprise behavior without corresponding Backup_* HTTP traffic; Test 28 isolated the unsuppressed @be/surprises lifecycle handoff after Nimbus
• deployed-build verification needs to prove that synthetic OpenJibo websocket events are gone from the hosted artifact, not just from source
• news content is synthetic; jibo test 23 proved the path but not live provider-backed headlines
• alarm replacement yes/no, alarm voice delete/menu agreement, and long blue-ring cleanup still need successful live proof after the Test 26 and Test 27 source fixes
• weather, calendar, commute, personal report, identity, memory, and proactivity are still mostly discovery or placeholder content paths
• remaining stop/volume variants still need live stock-OS proof beyond Test 26's Never mind. and Set Volume 2-6. passes; robot age and command-versus-question personality routing are not implemented yet

1.0.19 Direction

After 1.0.18 is tested and tagged, 1.0.19 should move back into feature work:

• harden whichever stop/volume behavior is not fully proven by the 1.0.18 live pass, or pick the next lightweight device/persona slice
• end-to-end update/backup/restore proof
• STT reliability improvements, including noise screening and a managed STT comparison
• provider-backed first content path, likely news or weather
• hosted capture/export boundary for group testing
• continued Pegasus/JiboOS-backed mapping for proactivity, memory/history, Lasso-style aggregation, and identity

Azure Direction

The target hosted footprint remains:

• Azure App Service for HTTP and WebSocket traffic
• Azure SQL for accounts, devices, sessions, host mappings, updates, media metadata, and provisioning records
• Azure Blob Storage for media bodies, upload artifacts, update payloads, and curated capture bundles
• Azure Key Vault for secrets and certificates
• Application Insights for diagnostics and live-test observability

Local JSON persistence is only a stepping stone. Do not design new feature slices as if local file state were the final hosted store.