beaver-agent
My real beaver-gateway setup (paired with the protocol from beaver.kotikot.com).
Uses Claude Code and Raycast subscriptions for agents, has some MCPs set up. You can use this as-is or modify to match your needs: config.py assembles the gateway from the beaver_agent/ package.
Requirements
- Docker + Docker Compose
- Obsidian Sync (for
obsidian-headless) - claude.ai sub
- raycast sub
- Firefly III and its PAT
First launch
1. Create .env and raycast.json
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 beaver_agent/prompts.py; skills are the folders under
мета/бобер/скиллы/ (each becomes a plugin, keep name: in SKILL.md
latin), which window loads which set is beaver_agent/skills.py. The vault
must be synced before the gateway can start. The model process runs as
beaver-runner with a whitelisted environment; the vault is mounted
read-write (it is the dispatcher's home), and beaver_agent/policy.py keeps
it out of .obsidian, мета outside мета/бобер, and from deleting
anything but its own files.
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/anthropicorhttps://<DOMAIN>/anthropic, model = agent name (beaver-opus-highetc) - MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Raycast extension):
/mcp/<name>/, discovery page at/mcp/ - Obsidian companion plugin:
/mdas the plugin's "Base URL",/apifor the panel - Admin UI:
http://localhost:62990/orhttps://<DOMAIN>/, login fromADMIN_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.
Deploy: main is work, stable is production
Komodo deploys only the stable ref; pushing main deploys nothing. Commit
during the day, then ship when the master thread is idle:
make deploy # git push origin main:stable
The gateway image is built from beaver-gateway#${GATEWAY_REF} at deploy
time, so push the gateway first. docker-compose.yml has a healthcheck on
/healthz; Komodo waits for it before it considers the deploy done.
To drain first (архитектура §8.6), call the deploy hook instead of pushing by hand: it waits until no master turn is running, then asks Komodo:
curl -X POST https://<DOMAIN>/hooks/deploy -H "Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>"
Needs KOMODO_URL / KOMODO_KEY / KOMODO_SECRET in .env (and
KOMODO_STACK, default beaver-agent). Komodo alerts can be pointed at
POST /hooks/komodo the same way - they land in the master as an urgent
inject. Jobs, the queue and the subscription window are on the admin Jobs page.
The same key backs the komodo tool the dispatcher and deep chats get
(beaver_agent/hands/komodo.py): one MCP tool with an enumerated
action - status, stacks, containers, logs, search_logs, updates,
update, deploy, restart, exec. exec is docker exec into any
container of the fleet except infrastructure ones (exec_deny, periphery by
default); prune, destroy and a host terminal do not exist in the enumeration,
so they cannot be asked for. The key never reaches the model process.
Layout: config.py + beaver_agent/
config.py is a page: it imports the pieces and calls Gateway(...). The
pieces live in beaver_agent/, one concern per module:
vault.py- paths and the agent's zone,TZprompts.py- how each role's system prompt is assembled from granulesskills.py- which window loads which skill setpolicy.py-PreToolUserules and vault zones (ZONES,VAULT_POLICY)hands/- every MCP the setup has and which agent gets which one; the connectors (komodo, home assistant, vibegram) live here tooagents.py- the roles (dispatcher, deep, distiller, curator, triage, raycast) and the list of instances with models and effortfrontends.py- the windows: Telegram for master and branches, vault files for deep chats,/api,/admin,/anthropic,/mcptexts.py- everything the gateway says to the model or to the user, in Russian (the gateway's own defaults are English)memory/- the recall block under a message, the reply log, handouts and seeds, the vault watcher, the curator briefingjobs/- crons and webhooks, one file per job
Policy (beaver_agent/policy.py)
bypassPermissions everywhere; the boundary is PreToolUse rules declared
per agent (ClaudeAgent.policy): the vault is the dispatcher's home, so it
may create, edit and move anywhere except .obsidian and мета outside
мета/бобер, and may delete only its own files; the distiller and curator
stay in мета/бобер; rm/mv/cp/tee/sed -i/redirects into the vault
outside those zones are refused with a reason; mcp__firefly__store_* and
update_* need the firefly skill opened first in the same session, and the
master cannot open the vault/ skills at all (a branch can). Every tool call
lands in the admin Audit page as tool_call. Run make check.
Editing the setup on the mac
make sync installs ../beaver-gateway editable (extra local), so
imports 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. To assemble the config against your
local vault: BEAVER_VAULT=~/path/to/vault uv run python -c 'from beaver_gateway import config; from pathlib import Path; config.load(Path("config.py"))' with a .env next to it.
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 / beaver_agent without a full rebuild
docker compose restart gateway
Gotchas
- claude in the container doesn't see the vault -
VAULTinbeaver_agent/vault.pyis/vaultinside the container, not on the host. Don't change it;BEAVER_VAULTis for assembling the config on the mac only. - a claude turn fails immediately - check
docker logs beaver-gatewayfor theclaude[<agent>]:stderr lines. Usually auth: redo step 3. - gateway restarts in a loop right after first
up-beaver_agent/prompts.pyreads 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 grantsbeaver-runneran ACL on the two rw sub-mounts once at start; files that Sync creates later inherit it through the default ACL. Ifsetfaclis unsupported on the volume it falls back tochown, and then files Sync writes afterwards as root stay read-only for the model until the next restart.