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Phase 1 of the improvement plan (PR 3 of the sequence). The docs claimed "fully offline"/"never talks to the network," but text-intel makes HTTP requests to a configurable Ollama host that could be remote, with no timeout, no cancellation, and no size limit; the Windows hook logged raw keystrokes into capture metadata that could then be sent to that host. Privacy — raw keystroke capture: - New capture.captureTypedText setting, default false. With it off, printable characters are never buffered in JS and the Windows keyboard hook never even emits them across the process boundary (the flag is threaded into the C#). Shortcut/navigation detection (Ctrl+T, Enter, …) is unaffected. AI network hardening (app/text-intel.js): - Every Ollama call goes through fetchJson with an AbortController deadline (ai.timeoutMs, default 60s): a dead endpoint fails fast instead of leaving UI actions pending forever. - Cancellation: in-flight requests are tracked and cancelInflight(guideId) aborts them; new ai:cancel IPC + api.ai.cancel are called when the editor closes, and shutdown cancels everything. - Bounded concurrency (2) for AI network work. - Screenshots are only attached when allowed (ai.attachScreenshots), the model is vision-capable, and the image is within ai.maxImageBytes — no more unbounded base64-expanded 4K bodies. Local-first host policy (core/text-intel.js): - New isLoopbackHost + validateOllamaHost. By default only a loopback Ollama endpoint is contacted; a remote host is refused with a clear message unless ai.allowRemoteHost is explicitly enabled. Blocked hosts are never contacted. Honest documentation: - README, package.json, and the welcome screen drop "fully offline"/"never talks to the network"/"Electron is the only dependency" for an accurate local-first contract that discloses the optional AI path and the bundled Tesseract OCR dependency. - New docs/PRIVACY.md details exactly what is collected locally and the one outbound (opt-in, loopback-by-default) AI feature. Tests: loopback/remote host matrix, remote-blocked-without-opt-in (and never contacted), remote-allowed-with-opt-in, request timeout, explicit cancel vs timeout, typed-text off-by-default vs opted-in, shortcut detection still works, and a source guard that the C# CHAR emission stays behind the opt-in. 224 unit tests pass; startup smoke and workflow E2E pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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# StepForge
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StepForge is a **local-first**, open-source desktop app for Windows, with
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Linux (WIP) builds. It captures step-by-step workflows as screenshots, lets
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you annotate and describe each step in a focused three-pane editor, and
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exports the result to Markdown, DOCX, PPTX, PDF, HTML (WIP), GIF (WIP),
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confluence (WIP), Wiki.js (WIP), and image bundles (WIP). The current
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reconmendations for exporting is Markdown and PDF.
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It is an independent desktop guide-capture tool inspired by publicly
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documented workflow patterns of commercial documentation tools like Folge. It
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contains no third-party branding, assets, or code from those tools.
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**Network and privacy contract.** StepForge has no telemetry, no update
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checks, no license checks, and no cloud. Guides never leave your machine on
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their own. The only outbound network feature is the **optional** AI
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integration: when *you* enable it and configure an [Ollama](https://ollama.com)
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endpoint, StepForge sends step screenshots and text to that endpoint to
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generate titles and descriptions. By default that endpoint must be **local
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(loopback)**; sending data to a remote host requires the explicit "Allow
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remote AI host" opt-in. See [docs/PRIVACY.md](docs/PRIVACY.md) for exactly
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what is collected and sent. Note that OCR (Tesseract) and its English language
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data are bundled production dependencies — Electron is not the only one.
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## Overview
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The core workflow:
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1. **Capture** — take full-screen, active-window, or region screenshots with
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configurable delay, pause/resume, and global hotkeys; or import images and
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paste from the clipboard.
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2. **Annotate** — rectangles, ovals, lines, arrows, text, tooltips, numbered
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markers, blur, highlight, magnify, and crop on a resolution-independent
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annotation scene graph.
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3. **Describe** — rich-text titles and descriptions, informational text
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blocks, code blocks, tables, step links, and placeholders.
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4. **Export** — every exporter renders from the same normalized Render AST,
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so output is deterministic across formats.
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## What's Included
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- **Guide library** with folders, favorites, title search, full-text search,
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duplicate/move/delete, and a quick-actions palette (`Ctrl+/`).
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- **Capture engine** — the editor's **Capture ▾** button offers full screen,
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active window, and region capture (the app hides itself during the shot),
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plus continuous capture sessions that grab a step on every click where the
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OS allows it, or on a 3/5/10 s auto-interval everywhere else. The REC bar
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shows the live count and the start/pause control. Delay, global
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hotkeys, click markers, clipboard paste, and PNG/JPEG/GIF import included.
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The full keyboard shortcut list lives under **More ▾ → Keyboard
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shortcuts** in the editor.
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- **Three-pane editor** — step tree with substeps, statuses
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(todo/in-progress/done), hidden/skipped steps, focused view (zoom/pan that
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never mutates the original image), autosave, and command-stack undo/redo.
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- **Annotation canvas** — normalized JSON scene graph with
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resolution-independent coordinates; annotations render identically in the
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editor and in every exporter.
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- **Sharing & backups** — single-file `.sfgz` archives (zip-based, path-
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traversal validated), linked guides with `.lock-sfgz` lock files and
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explicit save, plus automated snapshot backups and restore.
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- **Exports** — JSON, Markdown, Simple HTML, Rich HTML (checkboxes + floating
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TOC), PDF, animated GIF, image bundle, DOCX, and PPTX, with per-format
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export templates shareable as `.sfglt` files.
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- **Settings & theming** — system/light/dark themes, capture options,
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keyboard shortcuts, preview step count.
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Everything except the Electron shell is dependency-free Node.js: the ZIP,
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PNG, GIF, PDF, DOCX, and PPTX writers are all implemented in this repository
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using only Node built-ins.
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## Getting Started
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For a Windows installation, see [docs/windows_installation](docs/windows_installation.md) or for a developer/more in depth walkthrough, see [docs/GETTING_STARTED.md](docs/GETTING_STARTED.md).
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On **Linux** (⚠️ work in progress — X11 vs Wayland, enabling per-click capture, the screen-share prompt), see [docs/GETTING_STARTED_WITH_LINUX.md](docs/GETTING_STARTED_WITH_LINUX.md).
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Requirements: Node.js 22.12+ and npm (pinned in `.nvmrc`; installs are
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refused on older Nodes because the packaging toolchain needs 22.12+).
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```bash
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npm ci # one-time, installs the locked dependency tree
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npm start # launch StepForge
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```
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Dependencies are only ever installed by you, via `npm ci` — the app never
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downloads or repairs packages at runtime.
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First run creates the local data directory (`~/.local/share/stepforge` on
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Linux (WIP), `%APPDATA%/stepforge` on Windows; override with
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`STEPFORGE_DATA_DIR`).
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## Testing
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Please create your tests so that when the following is ran it automatically
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tests your test.
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```bash
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bash tests/run_test.sh
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```
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The runner executes every `tests/checks/test_*.sh` script; those scripts run
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the workflow test suites under `tests/unit/` with `node --test`. The tests
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exercise real workflows like creating guides, round-tripping archives, exporting
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documents, and validating the bytes of the output, not string matching.
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## Building & Packaging
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```bash
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bash scripts/bootstrap-offline.sh # verify toolchain availability
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bash scripts/verify.sh # full test suite + smoke checks
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bash scripts/build-release.sh # assemble runnable app directory
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bash scripts/package-linux.sh # local Linux packaging (WIP; not part of release)
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npm run package:windows # Windows installer .exe in releases/
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pwsh scripts/package-windows.ps1 # same Windows installer build via PowerShell
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```
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See [build/build_report.md](build/build_report.md) for what was produced on
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this machine and which packaging tools were unavailable.
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## Offline Guarantee
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The shipping app makes **zero network calls**. There is no telemetry, no
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update check, no license validation, no cloud sync, no account system, and no
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remote AI. Exports embed no remote fonts or CDN references. See
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[docs/SECURITY.md](docs/SECURITY.md) for the threat model.
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## Contributing
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See [docs/CONTRIBUTING.md](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) for the full contribution flow,
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including the issue-number requirement for every pull request and the
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clean-room rules.
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## Repository Layout
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Project docs live in `docs/` and prompt handoffs live in `ai_prompts/`.
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See [docs/ARCHITECTURE.md](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md) for the repo layout.
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## License
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
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Basically, do whatever you want with it just don't make money off it or sell it.
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