System Lifecycle & Distribution
VibeAuracle is designed with a "System-Intimate" philosophy. This extends beyond its runtime behavior to how it is delivered, maintained, and eventually removed from a host system.
This section provides a deep dive into the engineering behind VibeAuracle's distribution pipeline—covering the "why" and "how" of our autonomous update, installation, and self-healing mechanisms.
Philosophy
Most CLI tools are static binaries managed by external package managers. VibeAuracle, however, treats itself as a living process. Our lifecycle goals are:
- Zero-Friction Updates: The tool should evolve without requiring manual intervention or losing state.
- Universal Portability: Seamless operation across Linux, macOS, and Windows without platform-specific installers.
- Strict Integrity: Automated verification of every byte downloaded to the system.
- Self-Healing: The ability to detect corruption or build failures and automatically recover to a stable state.
- Observability: Every lifecycle event is audited and logged for long-term intelligence.
Pipeline Overview
The lifecycle is divided into four main pillars:
- Distribution & CI/CD: How we build and verify binaries across architectures.
- Installation & Migration: How the tool integrates with the host system and shell.
- Updates & Hot-Swapping: Our multi-track update system and state-preserving restarts.
- Audit & Debugging: How we track system health and lifecycle events.
- Uninstallation & Rollback: Clean removal and version jumping.
For AI Agents
If you are an AI agent managing this system, you can find structured audit logs at ~/.vibeauracle/audit/lifecycle.jsonl. These logs provide a machine-readable history of every update and installation event.