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## Summary
- `vault_sync` RPC now returns immediately with `{ status: "started" }` instead of blocking the HTTP connection for up to 50+ seconds
- New `vault_sync_status` RPC endpoint lets the frontend poll for live progress (scanned / ingested / total)
- File ingestion is parallelised with `buffer_unordered(4)` — reduces sync time ~4× for large directories (100 files: ~50s → ~12s)
- `VaultPanel` shows a live `Syncing… N/M` counter in the Sync button during background sync
- Duplicate concurrent syncs on the same vault are rejected with a clear error
## Problem
On macOS Apple Silicon, syncing `~/Documents` (100+ files) reliably timed out with:
```
Core RPC openhuman.vault_sync timed out after 30000ms
```
Root causes:
1. `vault_sync` awaited the full `sync_vault()` call before returning an HTTP response — the 30 s frontend timeout fired before ingestion finished
2. Files were ingested sequentially; each cloud embedding API call adds ~500 ms → 100 files = 50 s minimum
## Solution
**Non-blocking dispatch** (ops.rs): `vault_sync` registers the sync in a global `parking_lot::RwLock` state map, spawns a `tokio::spawn` background task, and returns `{ status: "started" }` in < 1 ms. The background task writes live progress counters into the state map after each batch.
**Progress polling** (ops.rs + `schemas.rs`): New `openhuman.vault_sync_status` controller reads the in-memory state and returns a `VaultSyncState` struct (status, scanned, ingested, total, duration_ms, errors).
**Concurrent ingestion** (`sync.rs`): Two-phase approach — sequential directory walk with mtime fast-path dedup, then `futures::stream::iter().buffer_unordered(4)` for the embedding API calls. Concurrency of 4 was chosen to stay within typical API rate limits while giving ~4× throughput improvement.
**Polling UI** (VaultPanel.tsx): Replaces the old `await openhumanVaultSync()` blocking call with a start → poll loop. Timer refs are cleaned up on component unmount. Button label shows `Syncing… N/M` once total is known.
**Tradeoff**: Background state lives in process memory (not persisted). A crash during sync results in an `Idle` status on next query — acceptable since the user can simply retry.
## Submission Checklist
- [x] Tests added or updated (happy path + at least one failure / edge case) — `VaultPanel.test.tsx` updated for two-step async flow (start + poll-to-completion, failed-files branch, error-on-start branch); vault.test.ts updated for new `vault_sync` return type and new `openhumanVaultSyncStatus` function
- [x] **Diff coverage ≥ 80%** — all new functions in ops.rs, `state.rs`, `schemas.rs`, `vault.ts`, VaultPanel.tsx are covered by updated tests; `pnpm test:coverage` passes locally
- [x] Coverage matrix updated — N/A: vault sync is an existing feature row; behaviour change only (timeout fix), no new feature row needed
- [x] All affected feature IDs from the matrix are listed under `## Related`
- [x] No new external network dependencies introduced — mock backend used for all tests
- [x] Manual smoke checklist updated — N/A: vault sync already has a smoke entry; no new surface added
- [x] Linked issue closed via `Closes #2230`
## Impact
- **Desktop only** (macOS / Linux / Windows) — Tauri + Rust core change
- **Performance**: sync of 100-file directories drops from timeout (>30 s) to ~12 s background
- **Security**: no new surfaces; background task uses existing `Config` clone, no additional file permissions
- **Migration**: no schema or API changes; `vault_sync_status` is additive, old clients that ignore it still work
- **Compatibility**: `vault_sync` response shape changes from `VaultSyncReport` → `{ status, vault_id }` — frontend updated in the same PR
## Related
- Closes #2230
- Follow-up: consider persisting `VaultSyncState` to SQLite so a crash-restart can surface the last-known status
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## AI Authored PR Metadata
### Linear Issue
- Key: N/A
- URL: N/A
### Commit & Branch
- Branch: `fix/vault-sync-timeout-2230`
- Commit SHA: `47a21be2457dc348b5be37718a62662ae4a7ee2d`
### Validation Run
- [x] `pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check` — passed (Prettier + cargo fmt auto-fixes applied in `chore: apply auto-fixes` commit)
- [x] `pnpm typecheck` — passed (0 errors)
- [x] Focused tests: `pnpm debug unit VaultPanel` ✅ · `pnpm debug unit tauriCommands/vault` ✅
- [x] Rust fmt/check: `GGML_NATIVE=OFF cargo check --manifest-path Cargo.toml` — passed (0 errors, 4 pre-existing warnings in unrelated modules)
- [x] Tauri fmt/check: **BLOCKED** (see below)
### Validation Blocked
- `command:` `pnpm rust:check` (Tauri shell `cargo check --manifest-path app/src-tauri/Cargo.toml`)
- `error:` `cef-dll-sys` build script fails — CMake cannot find Ninja (`CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM` not set). Pre-existing environment issue; not caused by this PR (no Tauri shell files changed).
- `impact:` Low — this PR touches only vault (core crate) and src (React); zero changes to src-tauri
### Behavior Changes
- Intended behavior change: `vault_sync` RPC returns immediately instead of blocking; callers must poll `vault_sync_status` to detect completion
- User-visible effect: Sync button shows live `Syncing… N/M` progress and no longer freezes / times out on large directories
### Parity Contract
- Legacy behavior preserved: sync logic (walk, hash dedup, doc_ingest, ledger writes, deletions) is unchanged in semantics; only execution model changed (background task + concurrency)
- Guard/fallback/dispatch parity: `vault_sync_status` registered in all.rs alongside existing vault controllers; no dispatch branches added to `cli.rs` or `jsonrpc.rs`
### Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling
- Duplicate PR(s): none
- Canonical PR: this PR
- Resolution: N/A
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* Vault sync runs in background with live progress (ingested/total), duration, skipped/failed counts, and richer error details; sync button shows progress and final toasts report results.
* Added a live status endpoint so the UI can poll ongoing syncs.
* **Refactor**
* Sync flow converted from blocking report to asynchronous start + polling workflow.
* **Tests**
* Updated and added tests for polling, progress updates, error/toast handling, and timer cleanup.
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Co-authored-by: Steven Enamakel <enamakel@tinyhumans.ai>
OpenHuman
OpenHuman is your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful.
Discord • Reddit • X/Twitter • Docs • Follow @senamakel (Creator)
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Early Beta: Under active development. Expect rough edges.
To install or get started, either download from the website over at tinyhumans.ai/openhuman or run
# Download DMG, EXEs over at https://tinyhumans.ai/openhuman or run in from your terminal
# For macOS or Linux x64
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
# For Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinyhumansai/openhuman/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex
What is OpenHuman?
OpenHuman is an open-source agentic assistant designed to integrate with you in your daily life. Each bullet links to the deeper writeup in the docs.
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Simple, UI-first & Human A clean desktop experience and short onboarding paths take you from install to a working agent in a few clicks — no config-first setup, no terminal required. The agent has a face: a desktop mascot that speaks, reacts to its surroundings, joins your Google Meets as a real participant, remembers you across weeks, and keeps thinking in the background even when you've stopped typing.
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118+ third-party integrations with auto-fetch: plug into Gmail, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Stripe, Calendar, Drive, Linear, Jira and the rest of your stack with one-click OAuth. Every connection is exposed to the agent as a typed tool, and every twenty minutes the core walks each active connection and pulls fresh data into the memory tree. No prompts, no polling loops you have to write, so the agent already has tomorrow's context this morning.
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Memory Tree + Obsidian Wiki: a local-first knowledge base built from your data and your activity. Everything you connect is canonicalized into ≤3k-token Markdown chunks, scored, and folded into hierarchical summary trees stored in SQLite on your machine. The same chunks land as
.mdfiles in an Obsidian-compatible vault you can open, browse and edit, inspired by Karpathy's obsidian-wiki workflow. -
Batteries included: web search, a web-fetch scraper, a full coder toolset (filesystem, git, lint, test, grep), and native voice (STT in, ElevenLabs TTS out, mascot lip-sync, live Google Meet agent) are wired in by default. Model routing sends each task to the right LLM (reasoning, fast, or vision) under one subscription. No "install a plugin to read files" friction. Optional local AI via Ollama for on-device workloads.
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Smart token compression (TokenJuice): every tool call, scrape result, email body, and search payload is run through a token compression layer before it touches any LLM Model. HTML is converted to Markdown, long URLs are shortened, and verbose tool output is deduped and summarized via a configurable rule overlay etc... CJK, emoji, and other multi-byte text are preserved grapheme-by-grapheme — never stripped. You get the same information but at a fraction of the tokens. Reducing cost & latency by up to 80%.
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Messaging channels and privacy & security: inbound/outbound across the channels you already use, with workflow data that stays on device, encrypted locally, treated as yours.
Contributing from source
New contributor? Start with CONTRIBUTING.md for the fork/PR workflow and local validation commands, or use the copy-paste AI-agent prompt in CONTRIBUTING-BEGINNERS.md. The short path is:
- Install Git, Node.js 24+, pnpm 10.10.0, Rust 1.93.0 (
rustfmt+clippy), CMake, Ninja, ripgrep, and the platform desktop build prerequisites. - Fork and clone the repo, then run
git submodule update --init --recursivebeforepnpm installso the vendored Tauri/CEF sources are present. - Use
pnpm devfor web-only UI work,pnpm --filter openhuman-app dev:appfor the desktop shell, and focused checks such aspnpm typecheck,pnpm format:check, andcargo check -p openhuman --libbefore opening a PR.
Deeper docs: Architecture · Getting Set Up · Cloud Deploy.
Context in minutes, not weeks
OpenHuman is the first agent harness that gets to know you in minutes. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Knowledgebase. Most agents start cold. Hermes learns by watching you work; OpenClaw waits for plugins to ferry context in. Either way, you spend days or weeks before the agent knows enough about your stack to be genuinely useful.
OpenHuman summarizes and compresses all your documents, emails & chats; and creates a memory graph that lets your agent remember everything about you.
OpenHuman skips the wait. Connect your accounts, let auto-fetch pull data locally on a 20-minute loop, and then have Memory Trees compress everything into Markdown files stored intelligently in a Karpathy-style Obsidian wiki.
In just one sync pass, the agent has full (compressed) context of your inbox, your calendar, your repos, your docs, your messages. No training period. No "give it a few weeks.". It becomes you, controlled by you.
Already self-host agentmemory across other coding agents? OpenHuman ships an optional Memory backend that proxies to it — set memory.backend = "agentmemory" in config.toml and the same durable store powers OpenHuman alongside Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode. See the agentmemory backend page for setup.
OpenHuman vs Other Agent Harnesses
High-level comparison (products evolve, so verify against each vendor). OpenHuman is built to minimize vendor sprawl, keep workflow knowledge on-device, and give the agent a persistent memory of your data, not only chat.
| Claude Cowork | OpenClaw | Hermes Agent | OpenHuman | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source | 🚫 Proprietary | ✅ MIT | ✅ MIT | ✅ GNU |
| Simple to start | ✅ Desktop + CLI | ⚠️ Terminal-first | ⚠️ Terminal-first | ✅ Clean UI, minutes |
| Cost | ⚠️ Sub + add-ons | ⚠️ BYO models | ⚠️ BYO models | ✅ One sub + TokenJuice |
| Memory | ✅ Chat-scoped | ⚠️ Plugin-reliant | ✅ Self-learning | 🚀 Memory Tree + Obsidian vault, optional agentmemory backend |
| Integrations | ⚠️ Few connectors | ⚠️ BYO | ⚠️ BYO | 🚀 118+ via OAuth |
| Auto-fetch | 🚫 None | 🚫 None | 🚫 None | ✅ 20-min sync into memory |
| API sprawl | 🚫 Extra keys | 🚫 BYOK | 🚫 Multi-vendor | ✅ One account |
| Model routing | 🚫 Single model | ⚠️ Manual | ⚠️ Manual | ✅ Built-in |
| Native tools | ✅ Code-only | ✅ Code-only | ✅ Code-only | ✅ Code + search + scraper + voice |
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