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Andy DixonandClaude Opus 5.5 0d45ecea59 Add rm -r for folders, and make ls list one folder level
rm -r FOLDER deletes a folder and everything under it, records and
objects, so the space is freed. It lists what will go (the first 20
names, then a count) with the total size and asks on the terminal; no
answer or no terminal deletes nothing. -f skips the question and makes a
missing name a no-op, -rf and -fr combine them, and rm -r / is refused.
Objects still in use are worked out once per delete, not once per file.

ls now shows one level, like ls(1): sub-folders once with a trailing
slash, their total size and newest date, then the files, with names
relative to the folder. list keeps the recursive listing of full names
that scripts pipe through cut -c31-, and ls -r is the same.

Docs, man pages, the guide (new rm-r screenshot) and README follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 18:15:28 +01:00

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# CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code when working with this repository.
## Overview
vault is a post-quantum encrypted file vault: one `package main` at the repo
root that builds a single `vault` binary. Module `github.com/andydixon/vault`.
- `main.go` - CLI: `genkey`, `init`, `add` (file, directory
or URL), `migrate` (add, then delete originals), `mirror`, `absorb` (tar
on stdin, `absorb.go`), `ls` (one folder level), `list` (recursive),
`get`, `mv`, `rm` (`-r` for a folder, asks unless `-f`).
- `keyfile.go` - key file with two passphrase slots (Argon2id +
XChaCha20-Poly1305 sealing a suite ID and 32-byte master seed). The second
slot is either a decoy identity or random bytes; slot order is random.
- `store.go` - on-disk vault: `records/` holds fixed-size encrypted catalogue
records, `objects/` holds file bodies cut into 4 MiB chunks (last one
bucket-padded) whose IDs are HMAC'd from a per-record seed. Both are
sharded into 256 `xx/` subdirectories by ID prefix. Records a key cannot
open are skipped, not treated as errors.
- `lock*.go` - vault lock on `DIR/.lock`: fcntl on unix, LockFileEx on
Windows, an exclusive lock file elsewhere. Writers lock exclusively,
readers shared, taken after the passphrase prompt.
- `docs/guide` - LaTeX user guide (`build-pdf.sh` via Tectonic; `shots.py`
re-shoots screenshots from the real binary). Keep it in step with the CLI.
- `build.sh` - cross-compiles every `go tool dist list` target except
iOS and android/386, amd64, arm (cgo-only).
- `internal/pqcrypt` - file encryption (header + STREAM ChaCha20-Poly1305),
suite registry, hybrid FrodoKEM-640 + ML-KEM-768 default suite.
- `internal/format`, `internal/stream`, `internal/term` - header encoding,
chunked payload encryption, terminal passphrase prompts.
## Commands
```sh
go test ./...
go build .
./build.sh # all platforms, into ./dist
TARGETS="linux/amd64" ./build.sh # a subset
```
End-to-end check:
```sh
export VAULT_PASSPHRASE=test VAULT_KEY=$PWD/k VAULT_DIR=$PWD/s
./vault genkey && ./vault init && ./vault add README.md docs && ./vault list
```
## Invariants
- Never write a seed or private key unencrypted.
- Keep suite IDs, stanza tags, HKDF info strings and `fileKeySize` (32) stable.
- Every ciphertext's and shard directory's mtime is pinned to the epoch;
records stay one fixed size; objects stay at most 4 MiB and bucket-padded.
These hide metadata from the storage host.
- An object's plaintext starts with its own ID, binding it to its record
and its position in the file.
- `get` publishes output only after every object has authenticated.
- Decoy deniability: both key slots stay the same size and are both always
tried; `init` always writes filler; foreign records are skipped silently.
- Every command that changes the vault holds the exclusive lock.
- Keep dependencies pure Go and CGO_ENABLED=0 builds working.
- Diagnostics go to standard error, lower-case, no trailing full stops.