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Break the alknet-http architecture spec into atomic, dependency-ordered tasks in tasks/http/, following the taskgraph frontmatter conventions used by the call/core/vault crates. Tasks span 7 phases across 5 module subdirectories (server/, gateway/, client/, adapters/, websocket/): - Phase 0: crate-init (foundation) - Phase 1: gateway-dispatch-spine, error-mapping, shared-http-client (shared infrastructure) - Phase 2: http-adapter, bearer-auth-middleware, gateway-endpoints, healthz-decoy (HTTP server surface) - Phase 3: to-openapi (OpenAPI gateway projection) - Phase 4: from-openapi (OpenAPI adapter, reqwest forwarding) - Phase 5: dispatcher-transport-abstraction, upgrade-handler, connection-overlay (WebSocket browser bidirectional path) - Phase 6: from-mcp, to-mcp (MCP adapters, feature-gated) - Phase 7: review-http, review-websocket, review-mcp, review-http-final (quality checkpoints) The gateway-dispatch-spine task implements the thin shared core recommended by the gateway-factoring research (concrete struct, not a trait). The dispatcher-transport-abstraction task is a cross-crate change to alknet-call (exposes EventEnvelope-level dispatch API for non-QUIC transports) — the highest-risk task. WebTransport/h3 is deferred per ADR-044 and has no tasks; from_wss is out of scope. Validated: 19 tasks, no cycles, 8 parallel generations, critical path length 8 (through the WebSocket strand).
Alknet
Status: Pre-alpha — This project is undergoing a major architectural pivot to an ALPN-as-service model. The previous implementation has been archived and a greenfield rebuild is in progress.
A self-hostable networking toolkit built on QUIC+TLS with ALPN-based protocol dispatch. Each protocol handler (SSH, SFTP, Git, HTTP, DNS, messaging, call protocol) registers an ALPN string on a shared endpoint. The ALPN negotiation during the TLS/QUIC handshake routes connections to the correct handler before any application bytes are read.
Core Insight
A service IS an ALPN. One endpoint, one port, many protocols — dispatched by the TLS handshake, not by application-level peeking or separate listeners.
Crates
| Crate | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
alknet-vault |
stable | Local key vault: BIP39/SLIP-0010/AES-GCM key derivation and encryption |
alknet-core |
planned | ProtocolHandler trait, ALPN router, auth/identity, config |
alknet-ssh |
planned | SSH handler (russh), SOCKS5, port forwarding |
alknet-call |
planned | JSON-RPC call protocol (EventEnvelope framing) |
alknet-fs |
planned | Content-addressed file storage (iroh-blobs backend) |
alknet-sftp |
planned | SFTP handler (russh-sftp protocol core) |
alknet-git |
planned | Git smart protocol handler (gix) |
alknet-http |
planned | HTTP handler (axum, REST API, MCP) |
alknet-dns |
planned | DNS handler (hickory-proto, pkarr) |
alknet-msg |
planned | E2E encrypted messaging, mixnet support |
alknet |
planned | CLI binary (assembles and registers handlers) |
Documentation
- ALPN-as-service architecture — pivot proposal
- Cleanup plan — greenfield transition plan
- SDD process — spec-driven development process
- Research references — iroh, russh, russh-sftp deep dives
Reference implementation (previous architecture) is preserved at /workspace/@alkdev/alknet-main/.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
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