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Project Overview & Getting Started

Daedalus is a command-line assistant and patch-management tool maintained by bgill55. It is published as a Node.js package and exposes an interactive REPL-style interface where users can issue slash commands, tag prompts with @agent, and manage a stack of reversible patches applied to a working directory. The project follows a normal semantic-versioning release line and currently ships at v1.54.0 (2026-07-21) Source: package.json:1-40.

This page orients new contributors and operators around the project layout, entry points, and the minimal workflow needed to take the tool from git clone to a first successful command.

What Daedalus Does

Daedalus sits between the user and the files in a repository. It accepts natural-language-ish prompts (with @agent tags that route the request to a named sub-agent) and slash commands (such as /undo) and applies the result as a discrete PatchEntry in an internal log. The log is the source of truth for reversal: any entry can be rolled back individually, or several entries can be rolled back at once using the batch /undo command introduced in v1.54.0 Source: CHANGELOG.md:1-30.

Conceptually, every interaction goes through the same pipeline:

The PatchEntry type is the central data model. It carries the patch payload, an identifier, and an optional timestamp; the timestamp was made optional in commit 08b69cf to accommodate entries that are produced before any clock is available (for example, during test fixtures) Source: CHANGELOG.md:5-15.

Repository Layout

The published package is configured in package.json, which declares the bin entry that makes the daedalus executable available on the user's PATH after install Source: package.json:5-25. The runtime entry point is src/index.ts, which loads src/banner.ts to print the startup banner and then hands control to the command dispatcher Source: src/index.ts:1-30 Source: src/banner.ts:1-20.

Commands live under src/commands/. Each command is a self-contained module exporting a handler with the signature (args, ctx) => Promise<Result>. The dispatcher in src/commands/index.ts performs prefix matching on the leading /, so adding a new command requires only registering a new module — the routing logic does not need to change Source: src/commands/index.ts:1-50.

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus.git
cd daedalus

# Install dependencies (Node.js 18+ is required)
npm install

# Build TypeScript sources
npm run build

# Optionally link the CLI globally
npm link

After npm link, the daedalus command becomes available in any terminal. The package's engines field pins the supported Node.js versions Source: package.json:30-40.

First-Run Walkthrough

Once installed, launch the tool from any directory:

daedalus

You will see the banner printed by src/banner.ts, followed by a prompt Source: src/banner.ts:1-20. From there, three interaction styles are supported:

1. Free-form prompt — type a request and press Enter; it is dispatched to the default agent.
2. @agent tagged prompt — prefix the request with @agent <name> (e.g. @agent refactor) to route it to a named sub-agent Source: CHANGELOG.md:20-30.
3. Slash command — start with / to invoke a command; /undo reverts the most recent PatchEntry, and the batch form /undo <count> reverts the last *n* entries Source: src/commands/undo.ts:1-40 Source: CHANGELOG.md:15-25.

A typical first session therefore looks like:

> @agent review the src/commands/undo.ts handler
> /undo          # revert the last patch
> /undo 3        # batch revert the last three patches

Where to Look Next

With the layout above, a new contributor can typically land a first patch — adding a command or adjusting a type — within a single sitting, and the optional timestamp on PatchEntry means test fixtures no longer need to fabricate a Date for every entry Source: CHANGELOG.md:5-15.

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System Architecture & Source Layout

Daedalus is a TypeScript-based interactive application that pairs a command REPL with a terminal user interface (TUI), supported by a typed configuration and command layer. The repository follows a modular, layered design where each top-level directory under src/ owns a single concern: process bootstrap, interactive loop, terminal rendering, configuration loading, command dispatch, and shared type definitions.

Top-Level Source Tree

The src/ directory is organized by responsibility rather than by feature, keeping cross-cutting concerns (types, config) isolated from runtime subsystems (REPL, TUI, commands).

Source: src/index.ts:1-40, src/repl.ts:1-30, src/tui/index.ts:1-30, src/commands.ts:1-30, src/config/index.ts:1-30, src/types.ts:1-30

Entry Point and Process Bootstrap

src/index.ts is the single executable entry point. It is responsible for:

1. Resolving configuration via the config subsystem.
2. Initializing the TUI before the REPL is started.
3. Handing control to the REPL loop, which remains active until the process exits.

By delegating all I/O and rendering to dedicated modules, the entry point stays small and free of business logic, which makes the startup path easy to audit.

Source: src/index.ts:10-60

REPL Loop and Command Dispatch

src/repl.ts implements the interactive read–eval–print loop. Each iteration of the loop:

• Reads a line of input from the TUI.
• Parses it into a command invocation.
• Looks up the command in the registry exposed by src/commands.ts.
• Invokes the handler with the parsed arguments and shared context.
• Renders the result back through the TUI.

The dispatcher is intentionally thin so command authors can focus on behavior rather than parsing. The recently introduced batch /undo command is registered alongside built-ins in src/commands.ts, allowing it to be combined with other commands in a single batch.

Source: src/repl.ts:20-90, src/commands.ts:1-60

Terminal UI Subsystem

src/tui/index.ts encapsulates all terminal interaction. It exposes an interface that the REPL uses without depending on any specific TUI library. Responsibilities include:

• Drawing and refreshing the prompt area.
• Capturing keystrokes and forwarding them as parsed input lines.
• Rendering command output, including batch results and prompt-tagging markers introduced for @agent prompts in v1.54.0.

By isolating the TUI, Daedalus keeps its core logic testable without a real terminal, and it makes it straightforward to add alternative front-ends (for example, a plain stdout mode).

Source: src/tui/index.ts:10-70

Configuration and Shared Types

src/config/index.ts loads, defaults, and validates runtime configuration. It exposes a typed configuration object consumed by the REPL and command handlers.

src/types.ts centralizes shared types so subsystems can refer to the same definitions. The PatchEntry type lives here; in v1.54.0 its timestamp field was made optional to support entries created by batch operations where a timestamp may not be available at construction time. Related test mocks in the commands suite were updated in the same change.

Source: src/types.ts:1-60, src/config/index.ts:1-50, src/commands.ts:60-120

Layered Data Flow

flowchart TD
    A[src/index.ts<br/>Entry] --> B[src/config/index.ts<br/>Config]
    A --> C[src/tui/index.ts<br/>TUI]
    A --> D[src/repl.ts<br/>REPL Loop]
    D --> E[src/commands.ts<br/>Command Registry]
    E --> F[src/types.ts<br/>Shared Types]
    B --> F
    C --> D

The diagram shows the one-way dependencies at runtime: index.ts initializes config and TUI, then drives the REPL, which in turn consults the command registry and shared types. There are no circular imports among the top-level modules.

Source: src/index.ts:10-60, src/repl.ts:20-90, src/commands.ts:1-60, src/types.ts:1-60, src/config/index.ts:1-50, src/tui/index.ts:10-70

Extension Points

New functionality is added by introducing a handler in src/commands.ts and, when new data shapes are needed, extending src/types.ts. UI changes are confined to src/tui/index.ts. This convention keeps contributions localized and reviewable, and aligns with the v1.54.0 release pattern of adding a new command (/undo) and a new prompt marker (@agent) without modifying the entry point or REPL loop.

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Model Router, Providers & Configuration

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The Model Router is the dispatch layer that turns a high-level request into a concrete call against an underlying language-model provider. It sits between user-facing commands (chat, completion, agent tasks) and the pluggable provider adapters, while a separate configuration subsystem governs how providers, models, and routing policies are selected and persisted.

1. Router Responsibilities and Request Lifecycle

The router (src/router/index.ts) owns the request lifecycle from acceptance to provider hand-off. Its responsibilities include:

• Accepting a normalized request envelope defined in src/router/types.ts (model identifier, messages, tools, sampling parameters, metadata).
• Resolving the requested model to a concrete provider via the provider registry.
• Enforcing per-provider limits through the rate limiter (src/router/rate-limiter.ts).
• Tracking provider health via src/router/health.ts and steering traffic away from degraded endpoints.
• Returning a streaming or buffered response, with consistent error shapes for upstream failures.

src/router/types.ts defines the shared contracts: request/response shapes, error variants, streaming chunk types, and any union types used across the router and provider layers. Keeping these types centralized prevents drift between the consumer-facing API and the adapter implementations.

2. Provider Abstraction and Registry

The provider layer isolates provider-specific concerns (authentication, request formatting, tool calling conventions, streaming semantics) behind a common interface declared in src/providers/index.ts. Each adapter translates between the router's neutral request shape and the provider's native API.

The registry (src/providers/registry.ts) is the lookup table that maps a model identifier (or an alias) to a provider implementation. It supports:

• Static registration of built-in providers.
• Dynamic registration for user-supplied or experimental providers.
• Capability advertisement (context window, tool support, vision, JSON mode) used by the router when validating requests.

src/model.ts defines the canonical Model descriptor that flows through both the router and the registry, ensuring that the same identifiers and capability flags are used consistently.

3. Health, Rate Limiting, and Failover

Two sidecar modules give the router production-grade behavior:

• Health tracking (src/router/health.ts) records recent success/failure outcomes per provider and exposes a readiness signal. The router can short-circuit calls to providers marked unhealthy and surface a degraded mode to callers.
• Rate limiting (src/router/rate-limiter.ts) enforces token-, request-, and concurrency-based budgets. It cooperates with the router to queue, shed, or reject traffic before it reaches a provider, preventing 429 cascades.

Together these let the router offer basic failover: when a provider is unhealthy or saturated, requests can be redirected to an equivalent model on a different provider if the configuration permits.

4. Configuration Subsystem

src/config/index.ts is the entry point for loading, validating, and exposing runtime configuration. It merges defaults, user configuration files, environment variables, and command-line overrides into a single typed object. The shape of that object is declared by src/config/schema.ts, which also performs validation so that misconfiguration fails fast at startup rather than at request time.

Typical configuration concerns owned by this subsystem include:

• Provider credentials and base URLs.
• Default and per-task model selections.
• Rate-limit budgets and health-check intervals.
• Router policy choices such as failover toggles and retry counts.

Because the schema is the single source of truth, downstream modules (router, providers, CLI commands) can consume a typed configuration object instead of re-parsing raw files or environment variables.

5. Data Flow at a Glance

flowchart LR
    A[Caller / Command] --> B[Router index.ts]
    B --> C[Types & Validation]
    B --> D[Health Check]
    B --> E[Rate Limiter]
    B --> F[Provider Registry]
    F --> G[Provider Adapter]
    G --> H[(Upstream LLM API)]
    H --> G --> B --> A
    I[Config index.ts] --> B
    I --> F

Cross-Cutting Notes

• The v1.54.0 release added a batch /undo command and @agent prompt tagging; these flows still pass through the router, so their new request/response shapes must be reflected in src/router/types.ts.
• The same release made timestamp optional on PatchEntry, a reminder that shared type definitions evolve and downstream adapters should tolerate the relaxed field.
• Configuration drift between environments is the most common operational failure; relying on src/config/schema.ts validation catches most cases at boot.

Sources used for this page:

• src/router/index.ts
• src/router/types.ts
• src/router/health.ts
• src/router/rate-limiter.ts
• src/model.ts
• src/providers/index.ts
• src/providers/registry.ts
• src/config/index.ts
• src/config/schema.ts

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• The release notes mention a batch /undo command and @agent prompt tagging

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Doramagic Pitfall Log

Found 6 structured pitfall item(s), including 0 high/blocking item(s). Top priority: Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification.

1. Capability evidence risk: Capability evidence risk requires verification

• Severity: medium
• Finding: README/documentation is current enough for a first validation pass.
• User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
• Recommended check: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
• Evidence: capability.assumptions | https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus

2. Maintenance risk: Maintenance risk requires verification

• Severity: medium
• Finding: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
• User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
• Recommended check: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
• Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus

3. Security or permission risk: Security or permission risk requires verification

• Severity: medium
• Finding: no_demo
• User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
• Recommended check: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
• Evidence: downstream_validation.risk_items | https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus

4. Security or permission risk: Security or permission risk requires verification

• Severity: medium
• Finding: no_demo
• User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
• Recommended check: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
• Evidence: risks.scoring_risks | https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus

5. Maintenance risk: Maintenance risk requires verification

• Severity: low
• Finding: issue_or_pr_quality=unknown。
• User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
• Recommended check: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
• Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus

6. Maintenance risk: Maintenance risk requires verification

• Severity: low
• Finding: release_recency=unknown。
• User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
• Recommended check: Reproduce the official install and quickstart path in an isolated environment.
• Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/bgill55/daedalus

Community Discussion Evidence

Doramagic exposes project-level community discussion separately from official documentation. Review these links before using daedalus with real data or production workflows.

• v1.54.0 - github / github_release
• v1.53.1 - github / github_release
• v1.53.0 - github / github_release
• v1.52.3 - github / github_release
• v1.52.2 - github / github_release
• v1.52.1 - github / github_release
• v1.52.0 - github / github_release
• v1.51.0 - github / github_release
• v1.50.2 - github / github_release
• v1.50.1 - github / github_release
• Capability evidence risk requires verification - GitHub / issue