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# AGENTS.md
These instructions cover the Rust runtime in `runtime/`. They add to the `AGENTS.md` in the repository
root, which applies here as well.
## Rust Runtime (`runtime/`)
**Entry point:** `runtime/src/main.rs`
Key modules:
- `app_window.rs` - Tauri window management, updater integration
- `dotnet.rs` - Launches and manages the .NET sidecar process
- `runtime_api.rs` - Axum-based HTTPS API for .NET ↔ Rust communication
- `certificate.rs` - Generates self-signed TLS certificates for secure IPC
- `secret.rs` - Secure secret storage using OS keyring (Keychain/Credential Manager)
- `clipboard.rs` - Cross-platform clipboard operations
- `file_data.rs` - File processing for RAG (extracts text from PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, etc.)
- `encryption.rs` - AES-256-CBC encryption for sensitive data
- `pandoc.rs` - Integration with Pandoc for document conversion
- `log.rs` - Logging infrastructure using `flexi_logger`
**Every runtime API route requires the API token.** `require_api_token` in `runtime_api.rs` checks it
for all routes at once, so handlers take no `APIToken` argument. Register a new route in
`create_router`, before that call: `route_layer` protects only the routes registered before it, and
a route added afterward would be open to every process on the machine. The test
`every_route_requires_the_api_token` reads the routes from `create_router` and fails for any route
which answers without the token.
**Runtime API handlers never block.** All calls of the .NET app share one HTTP/2 connection, and the
task driving it may wait on exactly the Tokio worker which a blocking handler occupies, so a single
blocking handler can hold up the whole app. Therefore:
- File and disk access, the OS keyring, waiting for a `std::sync::Mutex`, and CPU-bound work such as
loading a tokenizer or scanning text run in `tokio::task::spawn_blocking`. Follow
`run_qdrant_edge_request` in `qdrant_edge_database.rs`, `prepare_image` and `prepare_image_sync` in
`image.rs`, or `sanitize_batch` in `prompt_injection/api.rs`.
- When an API offers a callback, as the file dialogs do, await the callback instead of calling the
blocking variant; see `await_dialog` in `file_actions.rs`.
- Short, bounded work, such as a single metadata lookup or writing a log line, may stay on the worker.
- When the blocking task fails, answer with an error, never with an empty value the app could take
for a valid answer.
- Never keep a `std::sync::MutexGuard` alive across an `.await`, not even with an explicit `drop`
before it: the future of the handler is then no longer `Send`, and Axum refuses it. Scope the guard
in a block instead.
- `runtime_api::test_support::assert_runtime_stays_free` tests a handler which waits for a lock. Run
such a test with `#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 1)]`.
## IPC Communication Flow
1. Rust runtime starts and generates TLS certificate
2. Rust starts internal HTTPS API on random port
3. Rust launches .NET sidecar, passing: API port, certificate fingerprint, API token, secret key
4. .NET reads environment variables and establishes secure HTTPS connection to Rust
5. .NET requests an app port from Rust, starts Blazor Server on that port
6. Rust opens Tauri webview pointing to localhost:app_port
7. Bi-directional communication: .NET ↔ Rust via HTTPS API