4 posts tagged “design”.
8 min
One daemon, three clients, a long-lived stream of terminal output running alongside ordinary request/response calls. The protocol that carries all of that is gRPC over loopback TCP. Here is the honest accounting: the four alternatives we steelmanned, what the .proto actually looks like, how a client opens the connection, and the costs we took on to get schema-first generated clients in two languages.
7 min
Wildfire mode runs the task queue, refines drafts, generates new work, and at some point it stops. The signal that stops it is one empty file. Here is why that signal, and not a timer or an iteration cap, is the one we keep.
8 min
YAML in 2026 sounds like a punchline. We picked it anyway for project.yaml and every file under .watchfire/tasks/. Here is the honest accounting of what each contender got right, where YAML hurts, and why those tradeoffs were the right ones for a format that humans and agents both have to author.
9 min
There is a binary called watchfired, it runs in the background, it talks gRPC to three clients. The first reasonable question is: why does this need a daemon? Here is the long answer.