A fresh hub following docs/self-hosting.md was a locked room: invite-only
(the default) showed "Sign up disabled" with nobody to mint an invite, and
the approval-gated posture stranded the first admin as pending forever.
Emails on the config's admin list are operator-vetted, so they now
activate immediately on signup (any posture), and while the hub has zero
accounts they may sign up even on an invite-only hub. Strangers still
can't take the bootstrap slot, and the door closes after the first
account. Validated end to end from scratch: hub boot → admin signup →
device-code login × 2 devices → init → bidirectional sync → hooks install.
Also adds the missing GitHub Actions CI workflow (build/vet/test on
ubuntu + macos) — the repo previously had no CI at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hub's install guide told Codex and Hermes users to run four CLI
commands by hand, and the one people skipped — `bdrive hooks install` —
is exactly the one that makes files sync at turn boundaries. Hand the
setup to the agent instead, the way the Claude tab hands it to the
plugin.
- `bdrive skill install` (internal/agentskills, plugin/embed.go): the
binary now carries the beardrive skill and writes it to any agent that
reads SKILL.md — ~/.{claude,codex,gemini,hermes}/skills/beardrive/.
User-level on purpose: the skill is about the CLI, not one folder, and
a synced project folder should never carry it. Idempotent; refreshes a
stale copy after a CLI upgrade. Bare `bdrive skill` prints the table,
mirroring `bdrive hooks`.
- Guide's Codex/Hermes tabs are now a single paste, no terminal: the
prompt has the agent install the CLI, keep the skill, sign in, init,
and register hooks. The commands ride inside the prompt because these
agents ship no BearDrive knowledge (Claude's tab is terse only because
the plugin carries it). `login --device` there — a browser-callback
sign-in is invisible to an agent mid-turn, while the device flow gives
it a code and URL to relay. Plain commands live on in an "or run it
yourself" fallback.
- Docs realigned: README, SKILL.md, /beardrive:install, self-hosting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reviewer round 3 (9/7/9/8/7/9) caught the sharpest truth bug yet: the
README quickstart's bare 'bdrive login' defaults to beardrive.ai, which
is waitlist-only and not accepting logins — a launch-day visitor's
first command would fail silently. Fixes:
- quickstart step 1 now routes to self-hosting ('bdrive login
https://your-hub', ~10-minute guide linked) with Cloud honestly
framed as waitlist; website closer promises 'Self-host in one
binary' instead of 'under a minute, done'
- handoff gains a P0 gate: verify the FULL first run (login → init →
edit → log) against a working hub before any launch; bare 'bdrive
login' must not be advertised until Cloud accepts logins
- handoff: seed 3-5 good-first-issues (CONTRIBUTING promises them);
replace the mailto waitlist with a real form before Product Hunt
- README trimmed 583→524 lines: the Authentication and Choosing-a-
database operator reference moved verbatim into docs/self-hosting.md
with a compact pointer left behind
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01P5cxPQdSGJnjXCYY9GeWXt
GTM reviewer round 1 (baseline: positioning 6, funnel 4, open-paid 8,
community 3, launch 3, metrics 2; 3 blockers + 3 majors, all repo-fixable):
- TRUTH: removed the false 'no server required' claim (x3 on the
website) and stale 'S3/GCS directly' sync claims in both plugin
manifests — hub-only since v0.3.0
- POSITIONING: one line everywhere ('the open-source Google Drive for
AI agents' + the attribution/read-analytics wedge) across README,
website, marketplace.json, plugin.json, SKILL.md; third 'Why' card
and AGPL-why rationale; nav CTA → Star on GitHub
- COMMUNITY: CONTRIBUTING.md, issue forms + PR template, public dated
ROADMAP.md, CHANGELOG.md seeded from all 8 releases
- DEMO ASSETS: real product screenshots captured from the seeded demo
hub (Insights treemap, browse-with-heat, public share page) embedded
in README + website — no fabricated content anywhere
- DOCS: self-hosting quickstart, metrics plan (north star: active
shared brains), launch-plan drafts (Show HN/PH/launch week), and
docs/gtm-handoff.md — the prioritized external-action checklist
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01P5cxPQdSGJnjXCYY9GeWXt
