Additive fixes surfaced by building a full CMS on PiCloud
(examples/cms-poc/). One migration (0077_apps_cors.sql); no destructive
changes.
Security:
- Close the 502 info-leak on user routes: an uncaught script error (incl.
a throw) leaked the app UUID + script fn names + source line/col. The
user-route (inbox) path now shares scrub_runtime_detail with the
execute-by-id path — raw detail is logged under a correlation id and the
client sees only "script execution error (ref: <uuid>)".
Added:
- docs::find $contains operator (array membership via JSONB @>), per-app
and group-shared — the inverse of $in.
- App-user role management from API/CLI: pic users add-role / rm-role,
backed by the apps/{id}/users/{user_id}/roles endpoints (AppUsersAdmin).
- Per-app CORS: pic apps cors set, apps.cors_allowed_origins; the
orchestrator echoes an allowed Origin and answers OPTIONS preflight.
- Non-JSON request bodies: form-urlencoded -> object, text/* -> string,
other -> base64; ctx.request.content_type added. Malformed JSON still 400s.
- Binary responses via #{ body_base64 } with a script-set Content-Type.
- workflow::run_status(run_id) SDK (F-038): the starting script can poll a
run — #{ status, output, error, steps } or () when no such run belongs to
the app (app_id is the isolation boundary); same AppInvoke gate as start.
Fixed:
- pic apply "app not found" is now actionable (points at pic apps create).
- Interceptor- (F-021) and workflow-step-bound (F-037) scripts no longer
warn "no route or trigger" at plan time — both count as reachability.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PiCloud
A lightweight, self-hosted, event-driven serverless compute platform. Upload a Rhai script, get an HTTP endpoint. Designed to run on a single modest server with no idle CPU cost, and to scale out to a small cluster when you need it.
Status: Phase 1 — MVP scaffolding in progress.
The authoritative design lives in
serverless_cloud_blueprint.md.
Why
Existing serverless platforms are either cloud-locked, heavyweight, or both. PiCloud aims for the opposite end of the spectrum: one binary, one database, one reverse proxy — running on hardware you already own.
Architecture (one paragraph)
PiCloud splits into three logical services — manager (control plane: scripts, schedules, dashboard), orchestrator (per-node event ingress and dispatch), and executor (per-node Rhai sandbox) — each backed by a *-core Rust library. In MVP they run in a single process; in cluster mode they run as three binaries with one manager and one orchestrator + executor per node. Caddy fronts everything; PostgreSQL is the single source of truth.
See CLAUDE.md for working notes and serverless_cloud_blueprint.md for the full design.
Quick Start
Coming as scaffolding lands. For now:
# Rust toolchain (pinned via rust-toolchain.toml)
cargo check --workspace
# Run the all-in-one MVP binary (once main.rs is wired up)
cargo run -p picloud
Repository Layout
crates/
shared/ cross-cutting types
executor-core/ Rhai engine + sandbox
orchestrator-core/ event ingress, dispatch
manager-core/ control plane
picloud/ MVP all-in-one binary
picloud-{manager,orchestrator,executor}/ cluster-mode binaries (skeleton)
dashboard/ SvelteKit
caddy/ Caddyfile
docker/ Dockerfiles
docs/
git-workflow.md Trunk-based workflow
Contributing
See docs/git-workflow.md for the branching and commit conventions. TL;DR: trunk-based, short-lived branches, Conventional Commits, no force-pushing main.
License
TBD.