The anti-lock-in story for cloud-hesitant users: export a project's
complete store (every device's journal + every blob, i.e. full history
and authorship) into a portable tar.gz, and import it as a fresh project
on any other hub — cloud → self-hosted or back.
The archive is simply the remote store layout plus a manifest, streamed
through the existing remote.Backend, so no server-side support is needed
and it works against every existing hub. Import verifies each blob's
content hash, rejects foreign tar entries, requires an empty target
project, and refuses journal-less archives. Reconnecting devices resume
exactly where they were, because their journals are byte-identical.
Docs: README + SKILL.md command tables, docs-site CLI reference section,
and a new step-by-step reference page (Migrate between hubs).
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- init -f no longer prints 'daemon now keeps this folder in sync' after
the foreground daemon has exited
- one stdinIsTTY() helper (TTY or Cygwin pty) shared by init's prompt
gate and login's headless fallback — the two sites disagreed on Cygwin
- the daemon drops its remote backend when the device token changes, so
an account switch mid-run reconnects with the new credential instead
of pushing with the old one (httpBackend captures the token at open)
- whoami reports a settings read error instead of claiming 'not signed in'
- self-hosting/authentication and manual/setup-by-hand now describe the
automatic device-code fallback instead of presenting --device as required
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
BEA-7 launch-critical set from the onboarding audit:
- login: shells without a TTY auto-fall back to the device-code flow
(agents/CI/SSH no longer hang on the browser callback); a failed
browser open also falls back, and the waiting state hints --device
- bdrive --version now works (cobra root Version), same output as
bdrive version
- init prints a next-steps block: daemon auto-sync note, the
'bdrive init --project p-xxx' connect command for teammates,
bdrive log / bdrive share
- authorship: the daemon re-reads settings.json every tick so a
login/logout/account switch is reflected in op authorship instead
of stamping a stale identity forever; whoami now shows the
signed-in account and labels the git/OS author as the signed-out
fallback
Docs updated in README, plugin SKILL.md, and web/docs reference/cli.md.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a job-shaped use-case page for engineering teams whose customer
context lives where coding agents can't see it: sync a context/ folder
into the repo via --shared, gitignore it (one-writer invariant), point
AGENTS.md at it, and run the in→used→back loop. Register it in the
sidebar between team-wiki and company-brain.
Also sharpen team-artifacts' "send a person a link" story — markdown/HTML
render as pages at a URL, member-only vs public links.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012sSVdMviADW8pu6sAJ4SfX
"Is this for me?" was answerable only by reading the guides and doing the
translation yourself. These five pages answer it directly, sit between
Start here and Working with agents, and route out rather than re-teaching
features:
- Share work across your team's agents — a team that doesn't live in a
terminal: Cowork and Claude Code share plugins, so the agent does the
setup and nobody opens a shell.
- Keep a wiki your agents maintain — knowledge written as a side effect
of work; Insights' hot-and-stale quadrant is the maintenance queue.
- Turn a personal brain into a company brain — OKF bundles, gbrain repos,
Obsidian vaults. They are already markdown directories, so there is
nothing to convert.
- Run a personal wiki, publish part of it — history as the point, plus
per-file public links.
- Carry one context across agents and devices — one project, many mounts,
and what actually happens when two machines edit one file.
Titles are job-shaped; the persona is named in the first line and in the
description, which is also the search snippet and the llms.txt line.
The company-brain page is the long one (790 words vs ~400) because it
carries two frictions worth being honest about. gbrain's own team setup
shares a brain through a remote Postgres, an HTTP MCP server, and
per-teammate OAuth with isolation enforced in SQL; file sync plus each
person's local brain skips all of that at small scale, and the page says
what the server still buys you rather than dunking. And privacy does not
map cleanly: gbrain scopes per person, BearDrive's unit of membership is
the project, so a walled boundary is a separate project — stated plainly,
with a table.
Unverified: whether "let one machine run consolidation" matches how
gbrain teams actually work. Written from the docs, not from practice.
Verified: 23 pages build, zero broken internal links, both external
references (Google Cloud's OKF announcement, the gbrain repo) resolve 200.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sidebar and the homepage disagreed. index.md's "Where to start"
already led with connecting an agent, but the left rail read Install
(brew) -> Quickstart (bdrive login, bdrive init) -> ... -> Connect an
agent, three groups down. Anyone following the rail met the CLI first and
the skill last — the opposite of how the product is meant to be adopted.
The agent page was also filed under guides/, which this repo defines as
agent-workflow docs rather than setup.
Sidebar order is now the recommended path, and that path is agent-first:
Start here what it is -> set up with your agent -> your first hour
Working with agents shared memory, artifacts, read heat, scoping
Manual setup (opt) install the CLI, set up by hand, skills and hooks
Self-hosting / Reference / Concepts unchanged
- start/setup (was guides/connect-an-agent): rewritten as the front door.
Claude Code's plugin, then the one-paste for Codex/Gemini/Hermes, then
what the agent just installed and how to check it.
- start/first-hour (new): the page that was missing — ask for a doc, get
a link back, share it, a teammate's agent picks it up. What success
looks like without a command you have to type.
- manual/skills-and-hooks (new): the mechanics lifted out of the old
onboarding page — per-platform paths, hook events, idempotency,
project-level vs per-user — so the Start page can stay conversational.
- manual/install and manual/setup-by-hand (were start/*): both now open
by saying you probably don't need them, and link back to the agent path.
- index.md leads with "You don't install it — you ask your agent to";
the CLI and hub sentence moves below it.
No `brew install` appears anywhere in Start here. Reference -> CLI stays
exactly where it was: the people most likely to self-host are CLI-first,
and burying it would read as condescending.
Three public URLs moved, so astro.config.mjs declares redirects. Static
builds emit meta-refresh only, so README carries copy-paste 301 rules for
the host — Firebase Hosting and a Cloud Storage + load balancer URL map.
Verified: 18 pages build, zero broken internal links across the built
output, all three redirects resolve. CLAUDE.md and the docs README record
the rule so this doesn't quietly revert.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the 🐻 emoji standing in for a logo everywhere. The mark is the
letter B built from three rectangles — a rail and two blocks, the same
shape as the product (a spine with volumes hanging off it). One fill, so
`currentColor` themes it in the sidebar, the favicon, and flat ink.
- Web app: <Mark> in shell.tsx replaces the emoji-in-a-gradient-tile
badge; the mark takes the honey and the wordmark takes text colour, so
the accent lands once. #vault-name sets in Jersey 10 at 18px — the face
is condensed, so that measures like 13px of the UI face.
- Auth pages (authlocal.go): server-rendered, so they had their own emoji
logo. Same mark, inline.
- Docs: bear.svg becomes the mark (fixed honey fill — Starlight renders
the logo as <img>, which can't inherit currentColor), and .site-title
sets in Jersey 10. Starlight tints that title with the accent by
default, which put honey on white in light mode and failed contrast;
it now takes --sl-color-white, matching the app.
- Favicon: the mark, as a data URI.
Jersey 10 is SIL OFL and self-hosted in both trees — Vite fingerprints
the app's copy into static/assets/, the docs serve theirs from public/ —
so no surface makes a third-party font request. Licence ships beside each
file. It is deliberately not a design token: tw.css's @theme block is
mirrored by the cloud landing's tokens.css and a drift check fails the
build if they diverge, so the logo face lives in plain CSS.
The cloud landing page carries the same mark and face (separate repo).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds web/docs — the public product documentation, built with Astro +
Starlight and deployed on its own rather than embedded in the binary.
Why a standalone site in the OSS repo, rather than a section of the cloud
landing page:
- Docs change far more often than the binary does. Embedding them would
mean a Go rebuild and redeploy to fix a typo, and would ship a Pagefind
search index inside every self-hoster's install.
- Self-hosting instructions and the CLI reference document the OSS
project, so "edit this page" should resolve to something an outside
contributor can open a PR against.
- Design tokens get easier, not harder: scripts/tokens.mjs generates
src/styles/tokens.gen.css from the @theme block in the hub frontend's
tw.css, so there is one source of truth and nothing to police. (The
cloud landing sits across a module edge and has to keep a *copy*,
guarded by its own check-tokens.mjs.) custom.css maps Starlight's
--sl-color-* onto those tokens and invents no colors of its own.
Content is seeded from README.md, docs/self-hosting.md, and the plugin
skill. Guides deliberately cover agent workflows — connecting an agent,
the two-file AGENTS.md orientation pattern, artifacts and links, read
heat, scoping the folder — rather than re-teaching the CLI, which lives
in Reference.
starlight-llms-txt emits /llms.txt at build. Convention wants that at the
root domain, so beardrive.ai/llms.txt should point here; that redirect
belongs to the cloud landing and is the one cross-repo coordination point
this split introduces.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018GcqsM6prjdv9rUrhVVEiC
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
