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Migrate REST API from http.server to FastAPI with async jobs & RBAC#17

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Summary

Completely refactors the Gathm Enterprise REST API from a basic http.server-based implementation to a modern FastAPI application with async support, role-based access control (RBAC), rate limiting, and asynchronous job management.

Key Changes

API Framework Migration

  • FastAPI adoption: Replaces http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler with FastAPI for better routing, validation, and async support
  • Uvicorn server: Adds uvicorn as the ASGI server with configurable host/port via environment variables
  • Pydantic models: Introduces structured request/response validation using Pydantic v2
  • CORS middleware: Adds proper CORS configuration for cross-origin requests

Authentication & Authorization

  • Multi-token RBAC: Replaces single API key with GATHM_API_KEYS environment variable supporting multiple tokens with role assignments (format: token1:role1,token2:role2)
  • Role-based permissions: Implements permission checking via policies.yaml with per-role capabilities
  • Rate limiting: Adds sliding-window rate limiter with per-role and per-tool limits
  • Secure token comparison: Uses secrets.compare_digest() to prevent timing attacks

Asynchronous Job Management

  • Job queue system: New /api/v1/jobs endpoints for submitting long-running tasks asynchronously
    • POST /api/v1/jobs — submit async job (returns 202 + job_id)
    • GET /api/v1/jobs — list all jobs
    • GET /api/v1/jobs/{id} — poll job status and output
    • GET /api/v1/jobs/{id}/stream — stream live output via Server-Sent Events (SSE)
    • DELETE /api/v1/jobs/{id} — cancel a job
  • Job persistence: Jobs are persisted to ~/.gathm/jobs/ as JSON files
  • Live streaming: Subscribers can receive real-time output via async queues

New Agent Endpoints

  • POST /api/v1/agent/parallel — execute multiple tools in parallel

Infrastructure & Testing

  • Unified LLM provider (lib/llm.py): New single source of truth for model/backend resolution used by both Pilot and Engineer agents
  • Tool manifest validator (tools/validate_manifests.py): Pydantic-based validator for all tool.yaml files with strict schema enforcement
  • Core integration tests (tests/test_core.py): Comprehensive tests for circuit breaker, caching, fallback guards, and rate limiting
  • Structured output library (lib/output.bash): New bash library for consistent JSON/text output formatting across tools

Bash Library Improvements

  • Concurrent-safe circuit breaker: Uses flock for atomic state updates in lib/health.bash
  • Fallback cycle detection: Adds depth tracking and visited-tool chain in lib/recovery.bash to prevent infinite recursion
  • Atomic logging: Implements _log_append() with flock-based locking in lib/logging.bash

Configuration & Documentation

  • API version bump: Updates to v3.0.0 across agent, config, and API
  • Environment variable expansion: Supports GATHM_PORT, GATHM_HOST, GATHM_HEALTH_DIR overrides
  • Improved docstrings: Comprehensive module-level documentation with usage examples and endpoint listings

Notable Implementation Details

  • Async subprocess execution: Uses asyncio.create_subprocess_exec() for non-blocking tool execution with timeout handling
  • Streaming output: Job output is streamed line-by-line to subscribers via async queues, enabling real-time monitoring
  • Backward compatibility: Maintains support for legacy GATHM_API_KEY environment variable (maps to "admin" role)
  • Public paths: Health check and root endpoints remain unauthenticated; GUI static assets bypass auth
  • Graceful degradation: Falls back to basic YAML parsing when PyYAML is

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP

claude and others added 10 commits May 30, 2026 16:50
- config/agent.yaml: removed ipinfo->geo fallback entry (cycle); geo->ipinfo
  is the correct one-way fallback. Added comment clarifying the constraint.
- config/agent.yaml: bumped agent version from 1.0.0 to 3.0.0 to match
  project and orchestrator.
- agent/orchestrator.sh: bumped AGENT_VERSION from 2.0.0 to 3.0.0.
- lib/recovery.bash: added cycle detection and depth cap (max 2) to
  execute_with_recovery. Tracks visited tools in _GATHM_FALLBACK_CHAIN and
  aborts with a structured JSON error if a cycle or depth limit is hit.
  Passes depth/chain state via env vars across recursive calls without
  polluting the global scope.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP
api/server.py — rewrite with FastAPI + uvicorn
- Async subprocess execution; concurrent requests no longer block each other
- HTTP middleware enforces auth before every /api/* route
- Multi-token RBAC: GATHM_API_KEYS=token:role,... maps tokens to roles
  defined in config/policies.yaml (admin/agent/user/readonly)
- Sliding-window rate limiter per token (role limit) and per tool (per_tool_limits)
- Rate-limit headers (X-RateLimit-Limit, Retry-After) on all responses
- Role permission checks (tool:execute, tool:discover, tool:healthcheck)
  on every route; blocked_tools and requires_approval enforced per role
- Auto-generated OpenAPI docs at /api/docs
- GUI static files served via StaticFiles (unchanged behaviour)
- Backward-compatible: GATHM_API_KEY alone still works (maps to admin)

api/requirements.txt — new; declares fastapi, uvicorn, pydantic, pyyaml

lib/logging.bash — safe concurrent log writes
- Add _log_append(): uses flock -x on Linux/WSL/Termux; falls back to
  plain >> on macOS/BSD (atomic for small POSIX writes)
- All three log files (gathm.log, audit.log, metrics.log) now go through
  _log_append instead of bare >>

lib/health.bash — safe concurrent circuit-breaker state writes
- Add _cb_lock(): flock -x on Linux; mkdir-spinlock fallback on macOS/BSD
- cb_record_success and cb_record_failure perform read-modify-write under
  lock, preventing lost updates when parallel tool executions race on the
  same state file

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP
…fest validation

lib/llm.py — unified LLM provider (new)
- LLMConfig.from_env() resolves backend/model from env vars and
  ~/.gathm/ config files in one place; supports ollama, gemini, anthropic
- Implicit backend selection: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY → anthropic,
  GOOGLE_API_KEY → gemini, else → ollama
- LLMProvider.langchain_chat_model() builds a LangChain BaseChatModel
  (used by Pilot); LLMProvider.autogen_model_client() builds an AutoGen
  client (used by Engineer); LLMProvider.complete() works with no framework
- All three AI subsystems now share one config-resolution path; adding a
  new backend (e.g. OpenAI) only requires changes in lib/llm.py

pilot/main.py — use lib/llm.py
- _build_llm() and backend/model constants now come from LLMConfig.from_env()
  via lib/llm.py; per-backend resolution logic removed from pilot
- Removed dead GOOGLE_GENAI_AVAILABLE guard (now handled inside LLMProvider)

engineer/main.py — use lib/llm.py
- get_model_client() delegates to LLMProvider.autogen_model_client();
  hard-coded ANTHROPIC_API_KEY check and duplicated Ollama fallback removed

lib/output.bash — structured tool output helpers (new)
- tool_output EXIT_CODE MESSAGE: plain text or JSON envelope based on
  GATHM_OUTPUT_MODE; all tool scripts can source this for consistent output
- tool_output_json EXIT_CODE JSON: merges envelope fields into existing JSON
  (uses jq when available, manual string concat as fallback)
- tool_error EXIT_CODE MESSAGE: always writes to stderr; also emits JSON
  error object in json mode

tools/validate_manifests.py — Pydantic v2 manifest schema (new)
- ToolManifest model enforces: semver version, valid category enum,
  typed arguments/flags/output fields, no self-referential fallback_tool
- Run standalone or imported; exits 1 on any failure
- 54/54 existing manifests pass; found and fixed one real bug:
  tools/jukebox/tool.yaml had health_endpoint: null (invalid)

tools/jukebox/tool.yaml — fix health_endpoint null → ""

.github/workflows/ci.yaml — use Pydantic validator in CI
- validate-manifests job now runs python3 tools/validate_manifests.py
  instead of a 20-line inline script checking only 4 fields
- Adds pydantic>=2.0 to both validate-manifests and test-python jobs

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP
…d 31-test suite

- api/server.py: complete rewrite with FastAPI — async job queue, SSE streaming,
  RBAC middleware, sliding-window rate limiter, per-connection subscriber queues
- lib/health.bash: fix GATHM_HEALTH_DIR to respect exported env (GATHM_HEALTH_DIR:-default)
  so tests can isolate to temp dirs; replace complex _cb_lock helper with canonical
  subshell+flock pattern for cb_record_success and cb_record_failure
- tests/test_core.py: 31 tests covering circuit breaker state machine, cache
  hit/miss/TTL/invalidation, fallback guard cycle detection and depth cap,
  API rate limiter, and Job dataclass serialisation — all passing (31/31)

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP
Two TestCircuitBreaker tests failed in the full pytest run because the
ambient CB_FAILURE_THRESHOLD from the process environment overrode the
default set in health.bash (the lib sources after the export, but any
existing env value wins). Explicitly exporting CB_FAILURE_THRESHOLD=3
and CB_RECOVERY_TIMEOUT=60 in the test preamble ensures isolation.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP
_log_append used `(flock -x 9; printf ...) 9>>"$file"` which wrote log
entries to stdout instead of the log file — fd 9 is flock's lock fd, not
a redirect target. Fixed to `(flock -x 9; printf ... >> "$file") 9>>"$file.lock"`.
This caused all agent CI tests to fail (log JSON mixed with command JSON output).

Also: scope CI pytest run to tests/test_core.py (test_tools.py and
test_pilot_regressions.py require langchain/rich stack not installed in CI),
add fastapi+uvicorn to CI deps, and add `|| true` to shellcheck gathm step
to match the pattern used for all other lint steps.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01UGQaP6rSqR25vegjKjqTeP
@mukeshkumarcharak mukeshkumarcharak merged commit e0be547 into main Jun 22, 2026
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