cp .env.example .env
# every empty value is documented inline; secrets: openssl rand -hex 32
nvim .env

# build raycast config on your mac (beta by default, consider checking raycast-api for instructions)
raycast-api init

# copy config.json to your deployment server

docker compose up -d

2. Set up Obsidian Sync

docker exec -it beaver-obsidian ob login
docker exec -it beaver-obsidian ob sync-setup --vault "yourvault"
docker restart beaver-obsidian

Check:

docker exec beaver-obsidian ls /vault

Only markdown is synced by default. To sync everything:

docker exec beaver-obsidian ob sync-config \
  --file-types image,audio,video,pdf,unsupported
docker restart beaver-obsidian

3. Set up claude

On your mac run claude setup-token and put the result into .env as CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN. That is the whole auth: no /login inside the container, no dialogs. The token draws from your subscription limits like regular Claude Code; rotate it by running claude setup-token again.

Claude agents run on the Claude Agent SDK. Prompts are granules under мета/бобер/промпты/ in the vault - plain markdown, the <tag> wrappers and the order live in config.py; skills are the folders under мета/бобер/скиллы/ (each becomes a plugin, keep name: in SKILL.md latin). The vault must be synced before the gateway can start. The model process runs as beaver-runner with a whitelisted environment; the vault is read-only for it except мета/бобер and 💬 чаты.

4. Mint a token

Open admin at http://localhost:62990/ (or https://<DOMAIN>/ if Caddy), sign in with ADMIN_USER / ADMIN_PASS, go to Tokens → Create, scope * for first run.

5. Smoke test

docker exec beaver-gateway ls /vault | head
docker logs beaver-gateway | grep -i "agent registered"

curl http://localhost:62990/anthropic/v1/models \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>"

Where to plug things in

The admin dashboard renders ready-to-copy URLs and snippets for each of these

Everything is on one port under its own path; Caddy forwards the whole domain as is.

any Anthropic client: http://localhost:62990/anthropic or https://<DOMAIN>/anthropic, model = agent name (beaver-opus-high etc)
MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Raycast extension): /mcp/<name>/, discovery page at /mcp/
Obsidian companion plugin: /md as the plugin's "Base URL", /api for the panel
Admin UI: http://localhost:62990/ or https://<DOMAIN>/, login from ADMIN_USER / ADMIN_PASS

Exposing to the internet

caddy/site.caddy holds the routes (one reverse_proxy, domain from BEAVER_DOMAIN); on a shared server it is bind-mounted into that server's Caddy as projects.d/beaver-agent/, on its own box caddy/docker-compose.yml runs a Caddy around it.

cd caddy
cp Caddyfile.example Caddyfile
cp .env.example .env   # BEAVER_DOMAIN, BEAVER_UPSTREAM, Cloudflare token if any
docker compose up -d

Set PUBLIC_BASE_URL=https://<DOMAIN> in beaver-agent's .env so advertised endpoints use the outside origin.

Editing config.py on the mac

make sync installs ../beaver-gateway editable (extra local), so imports in config.py resolve against the checkout you are working on; uv sync --extra prod pulls the gateway from git instead. Neither is used by the image - the container builds the gateway itself.

Useful commands

# shell into the gateway container (claude CLI, bun, python with venv all live here)
docker exec -it beaver-gateway bash

# what obsidian-sync has pulled
docker exec beaver-obsidian ob status

# force a one-off sync (don't wait for the continuous tick)
docker exec beaver-obsidian ob sync

# per-service logs
docker compose logs -f gateway
docker compose logs -f obsidian-headless

# pull the latest beaver-gateway (when GATEWAY_REF=main)
docker compose build gateway && docker compose up -d gateway

# reload config.py without a full rebuild
docker compose restart gateway

Gotchas

claude in the container doesn't see the vault - cwd=VAULT in config.py resolves to /vault inside the container, not on the host. Don't change it.
a claude turn fails immediately - check docker logs beaver-gateway for the claude[<agent>]: stderr lines. Usually auth: redo step 3.
gateway restarts in a loop right after first up - config.py reads prompt granules from /vault/мета/бобер/промпты; until Obsidian Sync has pulled the vault they are missing. Finish step 2, it settles.
the model cannot write into мета/бобер - the entrypoint grants beaver-runner an ACL on the two rw sub-mounts once at start; files that Sync creates later inherit it through the default ACL. If setfacl is unsupported on the volume it falls back to chown, and then files Sync writes afterwards as root stay read-only for the model until the next restart.

README.md

beaver-agent

Requirements

First launch

1. Create .env and raycast.json