start-os/docs/TODO.md

AI Agent TODOs

Pending tasks for AI agents. Remove items when completed.

Features

• Extract TS-exported types into a lightweight sub-crate for fast binding generation

  Problem: make ts-bindings compiles the entire start-os crate (with all dependencies: tokio, axum, openssl, etc.) just to run test functions that serialize type definitions to .ts files. Even in debug mode, this takes minutes. The generated output is pure type info — no runtime code is needed.

  Goal: Generate TS bindings in seconds by isolating exported types in a small crate with minimal dependencies.

  Approach: Create a core/bindings-types/ sub-crate containing (or re-exporting) all 168 #[ts(export)] types. This crate depends only on serde, ts-rs, exver, and other type-only crates — not on tokio, axum, openssl, etc. Then build-ts.sh runs cargo test -p bindings-types instead of cargo test -p start-os.

  Challenge: The exported types are scattered across core/src/ and reference each other and other crate types. Extracting them requires either moving the type definitions into the sub-crate (and importing them back into start-os) or restructuring to share a common types crate.

• Use auto-generated RPC types in the frontend instead of manual duplicates

  Problem: The web frontend manually defines ~755 lines of API request/response types in web/projects/ui/src/app/services/api/api.types.ts that can drift from the actual Rust types.

  Current state: The Rust backend already has #[ts(export)] on RPC param types (e.g. AddTunnelParams, SetWifiEnabledParams, LoginParams), and they are generated into core/bindings/. However, commit 71b83245b ("Chore/unexport api ts #2585", April 2024) deliberately stopped building them into the SDK and had the frontend maintain its own types.

  Goal: Reverse that decision — pipe the generated RPC types through the SDK into the frontend so api.types.ts can import them instead of duplicating them. This eliminates drift between backend and frontend API contracts.

• Auto-configure port forwards via UPnP/NAT-PMP/PCP - @dr-bonez

  Goal: When a binding is marked public, automatically configure port forwards on the user's router using UPnP, NAT-PMP, or PCP, instead of requiring manual router configuration. Fall back to displaying manual instructions (the port forward mapping from patch-db) when auto-configuration is unavailable or fails.

• Decouple createTask from service running state - @dr-bonez

  Problem: createTask currently depends on the service being in a running state.

  Goal: The input-not-matches handler in StartOS should queue the task, check it once the service is ready, then clear it if it matches. This allows tasks to be created regardless of whether the service is currently running.

• OTA updates for start-tunnel - @dr-bonez

  Goal: Add an OTA update mechanism for the start-tunnel server so it can be updated in place without redeploying. start-tunnel is built from the same codebase as StartOS but runs as a separate service.