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**The portal link puts itself back up.** It already retried a connection that raised, but a session that ended *cleanly* — a portal restarting, a proxy closing an idle socket — returned normally and went straight back round the loop with no wait at all, so an engine could spin against a portal that was merely saying goodbye politely. Every ending now reconnects on a delay, and the delay turns on whether the attempt got as far as attaching: one that stood up and dropped is a network event and retries at once, one that never stood up waits longer each time. Jittered, so a portal coming back is not met by every installation it serves in the same instant. Ping timeouts are named rather than defaulted, since they are what bounds how long a suspended laptop's dead socket looks alive, and the keepalive task is awaited so the reason a link went reaches the log instead of the garbage collector. **`fluksio enroll <code>`** is the whole command now; hub.fluksio.com is the default and `--portal` names another. The one command run before anything works should not need two flags. **`fluksio run` syncs first.** The reason a run exists is usually the edit before it, so remembering to sync was remembering to do something the computer could do — including the worker refresh, which is what makes an edit to your own package take effect at all. `--no-sync` opts out for a tight loop. That last one needed discovery fixed: it only ever looked at top-level `*.py`, so a repository whose code is in a package — the ordinary shape — found nothing from its own root. It now descends into the packages it holds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012ue1tkFWB1bcGy3aWhCKpU
Fluksio App
Fluksio has the goal to build a revolutionary system to tackle any sort of automation challenge.
The core of Fluksio: a node-based, test-driven automation software built to scale. This
repo holds the FastAPI backend, the flow engine, and the dashboard SPA. It is served on
app.${DOMAIN} (SPA) and api.${DOMAIN} (API); the marketing site lives in the sibling
index repo.
Layout
backend/ FastAPI + SQLModel + Alembic + SQLite — the `fluksio` distribution
fluksio/flow/ the flow engine (nodes, pipeline, state backends, controller)
fluksio/cli.py `fluksio serve` / `enroll` / `worker`
worker/ the `fluksio-worker` distribution: the agent and the node runner
frontend/ React 19 + TanStack Router + Tailwind 4 + shadcn/ui
docs/ the public documentation site (zensical), served on docs.${DOMAIN}
docker/ compose.yml → compose.dev.yml → compose.local.yml (+ compose.traefik.yml)
scripts/ generate-client.sh, test.sh
Install without Docker
pip install fluksio
fluksio serve # ~/.fluksio, SQLite, prints an admin password once
fluksio enroll <code> --portal https://hub.fluksio.com # watch it from the portal
Nothing else has to be running. --data-dir puts the installation somewhere else —
worth it on a cluster, where $HOME is often a network filesystem SQLite cannot use.
git is not required but is worth having: flows are files either way, and it is what
turns each save into a commit.
The dashboard is served by the portal, so a machine with no inbound route is reached
without opening a port: it dials out.
A machine that should only run nodes for an engine elsewhere installs less:
pip install fluksio-worker
fluksio-worker --url wss://api.example.com/api/v1/workers/attach --token "$TOKEN" --labels gpu
Getting started
Normally driven from the workspace root (make init once, then make dev). Standalone:
make install # uv sync + bun install
make dev-utils # proxy and mailcatcher only
make dev-backend # FastAPI on :8000, hot reload
make dev-frontend # Vite on :5173
make test # pytest + Playwright (the e2e half needs the stack up)
make lint # ruff + mypy + biome
make generate-client # regenerate the frontend SDK from the OpenAPI schema
make help lists every target.
Documentation
The public site lives in docs/ and is built with zensical:
make docs-serve # live preview on :8000
make docs # static build into ./site
It is served at docs.${DOMAIN} by the docs service in docker/compose.yml,
and .gitea/workflows/docs.yml builds it with --strict on every push. Style
follows the root DESIGN-GUIDELINES.md; the tokens are mirrored in
docs/stylesheets/extra.css.
Repo-only material:
ROADMAP.md— strategy and feature recordNOTEPAD.md— deferred work and findingsDESIGN.md— points at the workspace root'sDESIGN-GUIDELINES.mddocs/architecture/in the siblingdocsrepo — the requirement sources
License
Copyright (C) 2026 Melvin Strobl — GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. See LICENSE.