# CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

## Project

`temetro` — an **open-source** clinical tool that acts as an **AI middleman** between clinicians and
patient data. Clinicians use a natural-language AI chat to retrieve and organize patient information,
displayed as rich record cards.

The distinguishing idea is a **patient-owned data model**. Instead of (or alongside) living in a
doctor's own database, a patient's record can be stored on the **patient's own device**. When a
clinician adds or changes data, they **sign** it (blockchain-style); the change is written to the
patient's record and **cannot be modified until the patient approves it** through a companion app.
temetro can also **read existing patient databases** and present them in the same organized card UI.

This repository is a **monorepo**: the `frontend/` and `backend/` apps live side by side in one git
repository (published as `temetro`).

> **Status:** the **backend is built**. `backend/` is a TypeScript + Express + Postgres API
> (Drizzle ORM) with authentication and multi-tenant clinics via **Better Auth**, plus an
> **org-scoped patient records API**. The `frontend/` chat is **wired to it**: real auth
> (login/signup/reset/onboarding), route protection, clinic switching, and patient data fetched
> over the API — the old in-memory fixture is gone (`frontend/lib/patients.ts` now calls the backend).
>
> **Now built (thin slice):** a **patient wallet app** (`~/Desktop/temetro-app`, sibling repo — see
> "Patient wallet app" below) and an end-to-end **encrypted share / patient-approval** flow:
> clinics hold a real **Ed25519 signing key** (Settings → Signing, `backend/src/services/signing.ts`),
> and "Import from a patient app" on the Patients page relays an encrypted request to the wallet over
> a **`/wallet` Socket.io namespace**, the patient approves on their phone, and the sealed record is
> imported (with optional **temporary share + auto-delete**). See `backend/src/routes/{signing,patients-wallet}.ts`.
>
> **Still vision, not built:** clinic→wallet push of signed record updates, in-app record editing,
> QR pairing, and cryptographic time-boxing of temporary shares. The AI chat is still **mock replies**.
> Email verification is wired but currently **not enforced** at sign-in (see `backend/CLAUDE.md`).

## Patient wallet app (sibling repo `~/Desktop/temetro-app`)

The **patient companion app** is its own git repo on the Desktop (not in this monorepo): an **Expo
SDK 56** app whose UI **must be built with HeroUI Native** (`heroui-native` + Uniwind/Tailwind) — a
hard requirement; the one exception is the native tab bar, which uses expo-router `NativeTabs`. See
its `CLAUDE.md`. It stores the patient's record **encrypted on-device**,
the patient's identity is an **Ed25519 keypair** whose public key (base58check, `tmw_…`) is their
**wallet number**, and it shares records by sealing them to a clinic's ephemeral key over the
backend relay. The crypto wire format mirrors `backend/src/lib/wallet-crypto.ts` exactly. "Decentralization"
here means keys + data live on the patient's device and the relay only ever forwards ciphertext — it
is **not** a literal blockchain (records are off-chain, which is also what lets a temporary share be
deleted). Commit/push that app inside its own repo, separately from this one.

## Layout

`frontend/` and `backend/` were previously separate per-folder git repos; they have been **merged
into this single monorepo with full history of both preserved**.

The marketing **landing page is not in this monorepo** — it lives in the sibling Desktop folder
`../temetro/landing-page` (`/Users/khalidabdi/Desktop/temetro/landing-page`), right next to the
`../temetro/docs` site. It is **its own git repository** (a Next.js app with the marketing
`components/landing/`); edit and commit it there, separately from this repo.

- **`frontend/`** — the Next.js product app (the AI chat UI). This is where almost all current work
  happens. **It has its own `CLAUDE.md`** — read `frontend/CLAUDE.md` for the stack, commands,
  architecture, and gotchas.
- **`backend/`** — the TypeScript + Express + Postgres API (Drizzle ORM + Better Auth). Built and
  Dockerised. **Has its own `CLAUDE.md`** (and `README.md`) — read it for the auth/schema workflow
  and gotchas.

`frontend/` and `backend/` are **independent apps**, each with its own `package.json` /
`node_modules`. Run `npm` commands from inside the relevant app directory, not from this root.

## Documentation (very important)

The **project documentation lives outside this repo**, in the sibling Desktop folder
`../temetro/docs` (`/Users/khalidabdi/Desktop/temetro/docs`) — a Fumadocs (Next.js) site with
user guides (`content/docs/guides/`), an API reference (`content/docs/api/`), admin docs, and a
roadmap (`content/docs/roadmap.mdx`). It is its own git repository.

**Whenever you make a significant change here — a new feature, endpoint, page, or behavior
change — update the affected docs pages in the same work session** so the documentation stays
accurate (e.g. a new backend route needs an `content/docs/api/*.mdx` entry; a UI feature belongs
in the matching guide; status changes belong in the roadmap). Commit docs changes inside that
repo, separately from this one.

## Running the stack

From `backend/`: ensure a `.env` exists (`cp .env.example .env`, then set `BETTER_AUTH_SECRET` via
`openssl rand -base64 32`), then `docker compose up --build` → frontend :3000, backend :4000,
Postgres. Compose builds the sibling `../frontend` app, which works because they remain siblings in
the monorepo. See `backend/README.md`.

> **Port note:** if another Postgres already holds host port 5432, set `POSTGRES_PORT` (e.g. `5433`)
> in `backend/.env` — the app still talks to Postgres internally on `db:5432`; only the published
> host port changes.

For local dev without Docker, run `npm run dev` in `backend/` and `frontend/` separately (the
frontend reads `NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL`, default `http://localhost:4000`).

## Version control (single monorepo)

This root is **one git repository** (`temetro`). The old per-folder `.git` repos are gone —
`frontend/` and `backend/` are plain subdirectories now.

**Commit after every change.** When you finish a task, commit from the repo root
(`git add -A && git commit`). Keep each commit focused on one logical change, and prefix the subject
with the area when useful (e.g. `frontend:` / `backend:`). End commit messages with the
`Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>` trailer.

`.env` files are git-ignored (only `.env.example` is tracked) — never commit real secrets.

### Always release after pushing

When you finish a unit of work and **push to `main`**, you must **also cut a release** — temetro
ships as prebuilt Docker images, so an un-released change never reaches a self-hosted clinic. After
the push:

1. **Bump the version** to the new `X.Y.Z` in **all three** `package.json` files (root,
   `backend/`, `frontend/`) — they must stay in sync (`GET /api/version` reports it).
2. **Update `CHANGELOG.md`** (move `Unreleased` notes under a dated `## [X.Y.Z]` heading).
3. **Publish the images to Docker Hub** as `khalidxv/temetro-backend` and
   `khalidxv/temetro-frontend`, tagged `X.Y.Z` **and** `latest`. The tag-triggered
   `release` workflow does this automatically (`git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin main --tags`).

See [`RELEASING.md`](./RELEASING.md) for the full checklist. **Never** consider work "done and
pushed" without the version bump + image publish.

## Customized Next.js (frontend)

The `frontend/` app runs a **customized Next.js 16** whose APIs/conventions differ from public docs.
Before writing Next.js code, read the relevant guide under
`frontend/node_modules/next/dist/docs/01-app/`.

## Root tooling

- `.mcp.json` registers the **shadcn MCP server**, and the root `package.json` pins the `shadcn`
  CLI — used to browse/add registry components into the apps. There is nothing to build or run at
  this root level.