# HANDOFF — hermes-xiaozhi-bridge

**Branch:** `main` · **Repo:** `git.moreminimore.com/kunthawat/esp32-server`
**Phase:** 1 complete (testable skeleton, 18 tests green)
**Target next host:** voice-server with RTX 5060 Ti 16GB + V100 32GB

## What exists and works

- `app/main.py` — FastAPI app: `/health` + `/ws/xiaozhi` WebSocket endpoint
- `app/xiaozhi/` — hello/hello-reply protocol, message frames, `Session` state machine, per-connection `DeviceLoop`
- `app/audio/` — `PCMBuffer` (per-utterance), `EnergyVAD` (RMS), Opus: `PassthroughOpus` (test) + `RealOpus` (lazy `import opus`)
- `app/stt/` — `STTEngine` ABC + `MockSTT` + `TyphoonSTT` + `FasterWhisperSTT` (lazy)
- `app/tts/` — `TTSEngine` ABC + `MockTTS` + `JaiTTS` (lazy) + `chunk_text()` (Thai, 60-char hard cap, keeps punctuation) + `TTSQueue` (barge-in cancel)
- `app/hermes/` — `HermesClient` (mock transport now; `openai_http` streaming path ready for Qwen) + `VoiceProfile` guard: asserts `reasoning=="none"` and `tools==["session_search"]` at startup (rejects `terminal`/file tools)
- `app/security/` — device allowlist, SHA-256 token hash
- `app/metrics/` — `LatencyLogger`: speech_start → speech_end → stt_final → hermes_request → qwen_first_token → first_audio_packet → playback_start; `eos_to_first_audio()`
- `app/gpu/` — `GpuMonitor` (VRAM) + `GpuResourceManager.plan()` → FULL/LITE/OFF (pure decision, no process spawning — `voice-full`/`voice-lite`/`voice-off` commands still to wire per plan Phase 13)

**Every backend defaults to `mock` in `config.yaml`** — the bridge boots and passes the full test suite on a CPU-only box. Real backends activate only on the voice-server via config; no code change needed.

## Verified (this host, 2026-10-03)

```bash
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q          # → 18 passed
.venv/bin/python -c "import app.main"  # → OK
```
CON-002 checked: no torch/typhoon/whisper/jait/opus/numpy in `sys.modules` after import.

## Do this first on the voice-server (ordered)

1. **Python 3.11–3.12 venv** (this host ran 3.14; prefer 3.12 for CUDA stack compatibility), `pip install -r requirements.txt`
2. **Protocol verification (CON-004) — do this before anything else.** All protocol constants in `config.yaml` under `protocol:` and in `app/xiaozhi/protocol.py` are marked `# FIRMWARE` PoC assumptions:
   - `hello_version: 1`, `opus_sample_rate: 16000`, `opus_channels: 1`, `frame_ms: 20`
   - Inspect the actual Xiaozhi firmware/OTA used by the ESP32 (its `xai`/`websocket` client) for the real hello schema, auth field name, and Opus framing. `tests/test_core.py::test_hello_parses_firmware_aliases` shows both camelCase and snake_case are accepted — keep the alias layer after verification.
3. **STT**: `stt.engine: typhoon` — point `typhoon_endpoint` at the Typhoon ASR realtime server on the 5060 Ti. Benchmark Thai-English code-switching on the term list in the plan (Qwen, CUDA, vLLM, ComfyUI, …).
4. **TTS**: `tts.engine: jaitts` — point `jaitts_endpoint` at JaiTTS on the 5060 Ti. First-audio latency is the headline metric.
5. **Hermes transport**: `hermes.transport: openai_http` + `base_url`/`api_key` for the Qwen 3.8 vLLM endpoint (V100). Streaming SSE path already implemented in `app/hermes/__init__.py`.
6. **Device auth**: generate a real token per device, `token_hash: sha256(token)` hex in `config.yaml`.
7. **Bind**: keep `host: 127.0.0.1` — the Cloudflare tunnel is the only external surface (REQ-012). Add the tunnel hostname → `127.0.0.1:8765` on the existing tunnel.

## Known sharp edges

- **Chunker**: splits on `.!?。！？ฯ` only, keeps the delimiter with its fragment, hard-slices >60 chars, merges ≤4-char micro-fragments. Do NOT add Thai vowel/tone marks to the split class — it breaks words (bug found in review, see engineering-log).
- **History ownership**: `Session.run_turn` is the single place conversation history is pushed. Don't push from transports.
- **VAD is binary per-frame** (`EnergyVAD.is_speech`); end-of-speech silence-gap logic is the next real work item on the voice-server (PoC uses one utterance = one websocket binary message in tests).
- `openai_http` transport is implemented but **untested live** — mock transport is the tested path.
- uvicorn is in requirements (was not installed on the authoring Mac; it is in `requirements.txt` now).

## Out of scope for Phase 1 (per plan)

MCP device bridge (Phase 10), benchmark suite (Phase 15), GPU command scripts (Phase 13), auto resource manager (deferred — manual `voice-full/lite/off` first).

## Files to read next

`project.md` (requirements) → `plan.md` (status/evidence) → `docs/engineering-log/` (dated decisions) → `app/config.py` (every knob).