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feat(docker): the CPU image with compose and Caddy, its tests, CI and release - #2365
Steps 5 and 6 of the Docker proposal: the first SurfSense image, ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsense, the desktop app's stack without Electron, with its tests and its release. Local model runtimes, the password, HTTPS and GPU images come in later pull requests (steps 7–14).
The image (docker/surfsense/)
Dockerfile: Ubuntu 24.04 with Python 3.12, the backend's venv, Node 24, Caddy 2.11 and tini. It bundles the embedding model, the Docling parser pack and voice-activity detection, runs as a non-root user (uid 1000) with data on the /data volume, and has a healthcheck through Caddy.
Compose and .env.example, publishing on 127.0.0.1:4929 by default. The legacy stack uses 3929, so both can run side by side.
Caddy is the only listener.
/api/* goes to the API, with streaming kept open; /api/internal/* is refused (403).
The sign-in callbacks are routed, and everything else serves the app.
A request whose Host is not localhost, 127.0.0.1 or ::1 gets 403, so an instance without a password can't be reached from the network by accident.
Sign-ins finish on the host's browser: plugin OAuth uses the published port (SURFSENSE_LOCAL_PUBLIC_PORT), and ChatGPT's callback gets a fixed port that Caddy routes.
Claude plan in the container: when the API reports it runs in Docker, the Claude dialog shows the docker compose exec commands that install Claude Code and sign it in, each with a copy button.
About shows the image's version, built from surfsense_local/VERSION, the one version shared with the desktop app.
No usage statistics in Docker.
App changes that came with it
A failed Use or onboarding finish shows an error toast with Report issue, instead of text under the list or above Continue. When the local runtime is down, choosing a local model answers 503 local_runtime_unavailable, not 500. An install asked to select a model ends as downloaded while the runtime isn't serving.
Bug reports: the issue forms list Docker under "Which part?", and a report started from the image has it picked already. The Report an issue dialog is narrower.
Scroll fade: no fade in Firefox before 159, which can't follow the scroll and would dim content that isn't scrolled.
Tests
The shared core's tests stay in Desktop Tests. Docker Tests adds only what the Docker entry and the image change:
headless/ is its own package, typechecked and tested on its own instead of through Electron's run.
headless/image.test.ts checks the built image; it's off unless SURFSENSE_TEST_IMAGE names one:
it becomes healthy, and the API answers through Caddy;
the app and its script are served;
a foreign host and the internal routes get 403;
it stops cleanly, and a new container on the same /data keeps its secret.
Backend pytest.mark.image marks 15 test modules whose outcome depends on what the image provides: document scripts, parsing, OCR, figures, ingest, the encoder, boot and migrations. The Dockerfile's backend-tests stage, never shipped, runs them as uid 1000 under tini, on the image's own Python and models.
Four figure-caption tests fail there, and on a host given the same Docling pack. No CI fetched that pack before, so they are strict xfails rather than skipped.
Frontend tests tagged docker run in a Vitest docker project with the image build's settings (/api, the version) and no Electron bridge. Tags are declared and typed, so a misspelled tag fails both the run and the typecheck.
CI and release
docker-tests.yml (Docker Tests), with jobs Headless, Frontend (Docker mode), Image (amd64), Backend in the image, and a Docker Gate. It never pushes an image.
Pull requests build the image only when they touch what can break it: the Dockerfile, Caddy, compose, headless/, sidecars/, opencode's staging, model downloads, dependency files, the frontend's build config, VERSION or the plugin bundle.
A release PR always builds it, because it carries the VERSION bump.
Every push to dev runs every job.
release-docker.yml (Release Docker):
a vX.Y.Z tag that matches VERSION builds the image, tests it, and pushes X.Y.Z;
publishing the release moves latest and X.Y to it, so Docker and the desktop go live together;
pre-releases never move latest, and only MODSetter/SurfSense publishes.
RELEASE.md covers the image: wait for its job before publishing, check latest afterwards, and make the GHCR package public on the first release.
CI caches and speed (Desktop Tests too)
uv and pnpm caches are restored everywhere but saved only by pushes to dev, so caches saved by PRs and tags, which no later run can use, stop pushing dev's out of the repository's 10 GB. pnpm now comes from pnpm/setup, which can restore without saving.
The image's build cache is on GHCR (:buildcache, :buildcache-backend-tests), which every branch, PR and tag can read. Pushes to dev and release tags write it; PRs never do.
Backend unit tests run in parallel with pytest-xdist, and both test steps list the 20 slowest tests. Integration tests stay serial for now; see Known gaps.
Why
The hosted service closed, and the desktop app is the product. Docker brings the same app to servers and to machines where a desktop app doesn't fit. ADR 0072 puts it on the same core as the desktop, so this adds an entry and an image, not a second app. The tests follow the same split: the core is tested once, and Docker Tests covers only what the image adds.
check_docs reports 0 problems, and actionlint passes.
Known gaps
Not yet run on GitHub: Docker Tests' Backend in the image job, Release Docker, and the GHCR cache. This pull request's run is the first.
GHCR starts private: until the first release makes ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsense public, pull requests can't read the build cache and build without it.
Integration tests aren't safe in parallel yet: a parallel trial had failures and workers that died, so they stay serial until the tests that clash share an xdist_group. Their 15–28 minutes are now what makes Desktop Tests slow.
Four Docling figure-caption tests fail with the bundled pack; they're xfail(strict=True) until fixed.
No local model runtimes in the image yet: local chat, image and audio models come with steps 7–9.
High-level PR Summary
Introduces the first SurfSense Docker image ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsense, a CPU-only container running the desktop app's stack without Electron. The image serves through Caddy on localhost by default, bundles embedding models and document parsers, handles OAuth sign-ins through the published port, and includes comprehensive tests and CI/CD workflows for building and releasing the image alongside the desktop app.
…host
Step 5 of the Docker proposal. docker/surfsense/ builds one image from the
repository root: the backend's venv, the SPA built for /api, opencode, the
bundled embedding, parser and voice-activity models, Node, Caddy and tini,
run as a non-root user over a /data volume. Compose publishes it on
127.0.0.1:4929, apart from the legacy stack's 3929 so both can run while
data moves over.
The headless entry starts Caddy when a Caddyfile is given; Caddy is the one
listener, refuses any host but localhost until a password exists, keeps the
workers' internal routes in, and forwards the sign-in callbacks. Plugin and
ChatGPT sign-ins send the browser back through the published port
(SURFSENSE_LOCAL_PUBLIC_PORT), ChatGPT's listener on a fixed port Caddy
forwards to. In the container the Claude dialog gives the docker compose
commands that install and sign in Claude Code there.
Step 6 of the Docker proposal. Pull requests that touch what the image is
built from, and dev pushes, build it and smoke it: healthy through Caddy,
the SPA and the API answer, a non-local host and the internal routes are
refused, and a stop exits cleanly. A vX.Y.Z tag that matches VERSION pushes
X.Y.Z, the image the smoke passed; publishing that release retags it as
latest and X.Y, so Docker and the desktop go live together. Pre-releases
never move latest, and only the main repository publishes.
…list
When the local runtime is down, choosing a local model answered 500 and
the reason sat in a paragraph under the list, or above Continue in
onboarding. The API now answers 503 local_runtime_unavailable, an install
asked to select ends as downloaded while the runtime is not serving, and a
failed Use, in Settings or onboarding, or a failed finish, is an error
toast with Report issue.
The bug and feature forms list Docker beside the desktop app, and a report
started from the image, built with VITE_SURFSENSE_RUNTIME=docker, has it
picked already, so the reporter need not choose.
The image has no Electron bridge, so About showed neither the version nor
the release notes link. Its frontend is now built with
VITE_SURFSENSE_VERSION from surfsense_local/VERSION, the one version the
image shares with the desktop app, and a VERSION bump rebuilds the image.
Firefox before 159 has no scroll-driven animations, so shadcn's scroll-fade
fell back to a static fade on both edges and dimmed content nobody had
scrolled past. Those browsers now show no fade; delete the rule once
Firefox 159 is widely used.
As the desktop has desktop-tests.yml and release-local.yml, the image now
has docker-tests.yml, which builds and smokes it on pull requests and dev
pushes and never pushes, and release-docker.yml, which pushes X.Y.Z on a
tag and moves latest and X.Y when the release is published. Both run
docker/surfsense/smoke.sh, which also runs against a local image. dev
pushes no longer publish dev and git-<sha> images.
Tests whose outcome depends on what the image provides, its user, process
reaping, bundled models and system libraries, carry pytest.mark.image and
still run with the rest. The Dockerfile's backend-tests stage, never
shipped, runs them as uid 1000 under tini on the image's Ubuntu, Python and
models. Four figure-caption tests fail there and on a host given the same
Docling pack; no CI fetched the pack before, so they are strict xfails.
A test of what only the Docker image's build does is a describe tagged
docker beside its desktop tests. The docker Vitest project supplies the
build's VITE_ settings, which modules read as they load, so a tag cannot;
pnpm test leaves the tag out and pnpm test:docker runs only it. Tags are
declared, so an unknown one fails the run, and typed, so it fails the
typecheck. The Claude tests' stand-in API now answers under /api, as the
image's build calls it.
headless/ becomes its own package, typechecked and tested in Docker Tests
rather than through Electron's run. image.test.ts replaces smoke.sh: off
unless SURFSENSE_TEST_IMAGE names an image, it checks health through
Caddy, the app and its script, the 403s, a clean stop, and that a new
container on the same /data keeps its secret. Docker Tests adds jobs for
headless, the frontend's docker-tagged tests and the backend's image tests
in the test stage, and checks the compose file; Release Docker runs the
same image tests before it pushes.
A pull request builds the image, and runs the backend in it, only when it
touches the Dockerfile, Caddy, compose, headless, sidecars, opencode's
staging, the bundled models' downloads, a dependency file, the frontend's
build config, VERSION or the plugin bundle. A release's pull request
carries the VERSION bump, so it always does; one of docs or www does not.
Every dev push and manual run still runs every job, so ordinary code that
breaks the image shows on the merge into dev.
… parallel
uv and pnpm caches are restored everywhere but saved only by dev pushes, so
pull request and tag caches, never reused, stop pushing dev's out of the
repository's 10 GB. pnpm comes from pnpm/setup, which can restore without
saving, as setup-node cannot. The image's build cache moves to GHCR, which
every branch, pull request and tag can read: dev pushes and release tags
write it, pull requests never do. Backend unit tests run one worker per
core with pytest-xdist and list the slowest; integration tests stay serial
until the ones that clash in parallel share an xdist_group. One test named
its parameters by a PDF's bytes, whose ID differs per worker; it names them
by file now.
The same tag starts Release Docker, which pushes X.Y.Z, and publishing
moves latest and X.Y to it. The runbook now waits for its image job before
publishing, checks latest afterwards, makes the GHCR package public on the
first release, and names the image's own dry run. A failed image job does
not hold up the desktop.
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Walkthrough
This pull request adds a Docker image and Compose deployment for SurfSense. It adds Caddy routing, container-aware application behavior, Docker-specific tests, CI and release workflows, and related documentation.
Changes: Docker platform integration
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Summary
Docker image and headless runtime docker/surfsense/*, surfsense_local/headless/*
Adds the multi-stage image, Compose service, Caddy configuration, persistent data volume, callback routing, and headless Caddy supervision.
Adds Docker runtime settings, public and callback ports, container-aware Claude status, OAuth redirect handling, restart-aware model installation, and local_runtime_unavailable responses.
Frontend Docker behavior and model feedback surfsense_local/frontend/...
Adds Docker test projects, image-version display, Docker issue categorization, container-specific Claude commands, and localized toast handling for model and onboarding failures.
Docker validation and release .github/workflows/docker-tests.yml, .github/workflows/release-docker.yml, surfsense_local/headless/image.test.ts
Adds filtered Docker CI, image and backend test jobs, release image publishing, tag promotion, and image lifecycle checks.
Repository guidance and documentation docs/..., AGENTS.md, surfsense_local/RELEASE.md, .github/CODEOWNERS, .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*, .agents/skills/translate/glossary.md
Updates Docker architecture, release, testing, ownership, glossary, and issue-template information.
sequenceDiagram
participant DockerCompose
participant SurfSenseImage
participant HeadlessEntry
participant Caddy
participant Backend
DockerCompose->>SurfSenseImage: Start service with persistent data volume
SurfSenseImage->>HeadlessEntry: Start the headless entry point
HeadlessEntry->>Backend: Start API and wait for health
HeadlessEntry->>Caddy: Start Caddy when configured
Caddy->>Backend: Forward API and callback requests
MODSetter/SurfSense#2353 — Adds the shared headless structure that this pull request uses and extends with Caddy support.
MODSetter/SurfSense#2358 — Adds the shared headless and Docker proposal structure that this pull request continues with Docker packaging and workflows.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 40498
Resolve the Docker validation gaps and pull-request package permissions before merging. The Claude installation and sign-in listener concerns are addressed.
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/docker-tests.yml:
- Around line 139-142: Set the workflow’s top-level permissions to
least-privilege read access, then grant packages: write only to the push-only
cache-writing job; ensure the image and backend pull-request jobs retain
read-only package access and cannot receive a write-capable token.
- Around line 53-55: Update the `image` and `backend` path filters in the
workflow so changes to both shipped source trees trigger image checks, and
backend source changes plus image-marked tests trigger `Backend in the image`.
Preserve the existing filter paths and behavior for unrelated changes.
Review comments at @.github/workflows/release-docker.yml:
- Line 66: Move the conditional Log in to GHCR step before Build so registry
credentials are available when cache-to exports the release cache. Keep manual
dry runs unauthenticated and ensure they do not export the cache.
Review comments at @docker/surfsense/caddy/access-local.caddy:
- Line 4: Update the access control around @elsewhere so a Host header cannot be
treated as proof of a local client; keep the published port bound to loopback
until remote authentication is available, regardless of SURFSENSE_BIND.
Review comments at
@surfsense_local/backend/modules/llm/subscriptions/chatgpt/loopback.py:
- Around line 37-38: Coordinate concurrent ChatGPT sign-ins in Loopback.open so
a new flow cancels and awaits the previous flow before binding the fixed
callback port, or reuses a single listener. Ensure each SignInFlows.start
request can still return its authorization URL when another Docker sign-in is
waiting.
Review comments at
@surfsense_local/frontend/src/features/models/remote/connections/claude/container-command.tsx:
- Line 9: Update the Claude Code install command offered by the remote
connection flow so its download pipeline fails if either curl or the installer
fails, and add curl to the Surfsense runtime image so the command can run there.
- Around line 9-10: Update the install and sign-in commands in the
`container-command.tsx` constants to use the backend’s persistent `/data/home`
as `HOME`; ensure installation writes there and the sign-in command invokes
Claude’s launcher from `/data/home/.local/bin` rather than relying on the
default `PATH`.
Review comments at @surfsense_local/RELEASE.md:
- Line 123: Update the failed-image release procedure in the release
documentation to distinguish transient failures from failures requiring a code
fix: allow same-tag reruns only for transient failures, and direct code-fix
recoveries to build and publish a new version from the fixed commit. Align the
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docker compose exec ran with HOME=/home/surfsense, so the dialog's install
command put Claude Code outside the volume, where the backend, on
HOME=/data/home, never found it and an image update lost it; and the image
had no curl, while the pipe still exited 0. The image now sets HOME on
/data for every process with its .local/bin on PATH, ships curl, and the
command runs under bash with pipefail.
A Host header is the sender's to choose, so Caddy's local-only check stops
a browser on the LAN and DNS rebinding, not a client that sends
Host: localhost. With SURFSENSE_BIND widening the port, an instance with no
password was reachable that way. Compose now publishes on 127.0.0.1 only;
SURFSENSE_BIND returns with the password in step 10.
The container's callback port is fixed, so a second sign-in could not bind
it while the first still waited, and failed until that one timed out. On a
fixed port, a new sign-in now cancels the waiting one and closes its
listener first; the flow holds its listener, since a task cancelled before
it starts never reaches its finally.
Release Docker logged in to GHCR only after Build, whose cache-to writes
to GHCR on a tag, so the first release would have failed at Build. The
login now comes first; a dry run neither logs in nor writes. Every checkout
in both Docker workflows drops persist-credentials, so the code under test
cannot read the token from .git/config.
Re-running the job on the same tag builds the same commit, so a failure
that needs a code fix fails again. The runbook now re-runs only transient
failures; one that needs a fix lets the desktop ship while latest stays on
the previous image, and the fix comes as the next patch version. The
publish rule says the same.
Close a cancelled listener before accepting another sign-in.
The cancel route calls SignInFlows.cancel(), which removes the flow and requests task cancellation without waiting for _finish to close its listener. If the user starts another sign-in before that cleanup runs, _replace_waiting() cannot find the removed flow and the fixed-port bind can fail. Make cancellation complete listener cleanup before the cancel request returns. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update SignInFlows.cancel so it waits for the cancelled flow’s listener cleanup
to finish before returning; adjust its caller to await cancellation if needed.
Preserve the existing behavior when no active flow or task exists.
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@surfsense_local/backend/modules/llm/subscriptions/chatgpt/flows.py:
- Around line 120-122: Track callback processing separately from a flow that is
still waiting, and update the replacement path around flow.task so a new sign-in
does not cancel or discard a flow after its callback has started
asyncio.to_thread(_save, ...). Let the in-progress save finish before removing
that flow, preserving access to its result.
- Around line 90-91: Serialize ChatGPT flow starts when chatgpt_callback_port is
fixed by guarding _replace_waiting() through flow registration with a shared
async lock, so overlapping requests cannot both acquire the same port. Preserve
the existing behavior when the callback port is not fixed, and add a
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- Around line 72-75: Update SignInFlows.cancel so it waits for the cancelled
flow’s listener cleanup to finish before returning; adjust its caller to await
cancellation if needed. Preserve the existing behavior when no active flow or
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Two starts at once could both pass the replacement before either bound the
fixed callback port, so one still failed. A replaced flow whose browser had
come back was saving in a thread cancellation cannot stop, and its result
had no flow left to report it. Cancel left the listener open until the task
next ran. Starts now take the port under a lock; a flow is marked returned
when its browser comes back, which closes its listener, and only flows
still waiting are replaced; cancel closes the listener at once.
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- Line 101: Bound the wait on exchanging in the token-exchange test so callback
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It waited on the token exchange and the first flow with no bound, so a
callback that never reached the exchange hung CI until the job's limit.
Both waits now time out after 5 seconds, and cleanup releases the blocked
exchange and cancels every flow the test started, wherever it fails.
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What
Steps 5 and 6 of the Docker proposal: the first SurfSense image,
ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsense, the desktop app's stack without Electron, with its tests and its release. Local model runtimes, the password, HTTPS and GPU images come in later pull requests (steps 7–14).The image (
docker/surfsense/)/datavolume, and has a healthcheck through Caddy..env.example, publishing on127.0.0.1:4929by default. The legacy stack uses 3929, so both can run side by side./api/*goes to the API, with streaming kept open;/api/internal/*is refused (403).Hostis notlocalhost,127.0.0.1or::1gets 403, so an instance without a password can't be reached from the network by accident.SURFSENSE_LOCAL_PUBLIC_PORT), and ChatGPT's callback gets a fixed port that Caddy routes.docker compose execcommands that install Claude Code and sign it in, each with a copy button.surfsense_local/VERSION, the one version shared with the desktop app.App changes that came with it
local_runtime_unavailable, not 500. An install asked to select a model ends as downloaded while the runtime isn't serving.Tests
The shared core's tests stay in Desktop Tests. Docker Tests adds only what the Docker entry and the image change:
headless/is its own package, typechecked and tested on its own instead of through Electron's run.headless/image.test.tschecks the built image; it's off unlessSURFSENSE_TEST_IMAGEnames one:/datakeeps its secret.pytest.mark.imagemarks 15 test modules whose outcome depends on what the image provides: document scripts, parsing, OCR, figures, ingest, the encoder, boot and migrations. The Dockerfile'sbackend-testsstage, never shipped, runs them as uid 1000 under tini, on the image's own Python and models.xfails rather than skipped.dockerrun in a Vitestdockerproject with the image build's settings (/api, the version) and no Electron bridge. Tags are declared and typed, so a misspelled tag fails both the run and the typecheck.CI and release
docker-tests.yml(Docker Tests), with jobs Headless, Frontend (Docker mode), Image (amd64), Backend in the image, and a Docker Gate. It never pushes an image.headless/,sidecars/, opencode's staging, model downloads, dependency files, the frontend's build config,VERSIONor the plugin bundle.VERSIONbump.devruns every job.release-docker.yml(Release Docker):vX.Y.Ztag that matchesVERSIONbuilds the image, tests it, and pushesX.Y.Z;latestandX.Yto it, so Docker and the desktop go live together;latest, and onlyMODSetter/SurfSensepublishes.RELEASE.mdcovers the image: wait for its job before publishing, checklatestafterwards, and make the GHCR package public on the first release.CI caches and speed (Desktop Tests too)
dev, so caches saved by PRs and tags, which no later run can use, stop pushingdev's out of the repository's 10 GB. pnpm now comes frompnpm/setup, which can restore without saving.:buildcache,:buildcache-backend-tests), which every branch, PR and tag can read. Pushes todevand release tags write it; PRs never do.pytest-xdist, and both test steps list the 20 slowest tests. Integration tests stay serial for now; see Known gaps.Why
The hosted service closed, and the desktop app is the product. Docker brings the same app to servers and to machines where a desktop app doesn't fit. ADR 0072 puts it on the same core as the desktop, so this adds an entry and an image, not a second app. The tests follow the same split: the core is tested once, and Docker Tests covers only what the image adds.
Fixes #2105
Fixes #2106
How to test
Build and run the image:
curl -H 'Host: example.com' http://127.0.0.1:4929/api/healthgives 403.The tests:
Locally:
xfail, 6 skipcheck_docsreports 0 problems, and actionlint passes.Known gaps
ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsensepublic, pull requests can't read the build cache and build without it.xdist_group. Their 15–28 minutes are now what makes Desktop Tests slow.xfail(strict=True)until fixed.High-level PR Summary
Introduces the first SurfSense Docker image
ghcr.io/modsetter/surfsense, a CPU-only container running the desktop app's stack without Electron. The image serves through Caddy on localhost by default, bundles embedding models and document parsers, handles OAuth sign-ins through the published port, and includes comprehensive tests and CI/CD workflows for building and releasing the image alongside the desktop app.⏱️ Estimated Review Time: 1-3 hours
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