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Patrick Buckley 9a518657a3 feat: replace console HTTP polling with persistent SSE streams (#266)
* feat: replace console HTTP polling with persistent SSE streams

Console collector now subscribes to each server node's /v1/api/events/global
SSE stream for real-time state updates instead of polling /v1/api/dashboard
and /health every 15 seconds.

Server changes:
- Emit ws_created/ws_closed events on global queue from create/close handlers
- Add node_snapshot on SSE connect (workstreams, health, aggregate)
- Add ?expected_node_id= identity verification (409 on mismatch)
- Add health_changed callback to BackendHealthMonitor circuit breaker
- Add periodic aggregate emitter thread (10s)

Console collector changes:
- Single asyncio event loop on one thread multiplexes all SSE connections
  (scales to 1000+ nodes vs thread-per-node)
- Discovery loop spawns/cancels async SSE tasks per node
- Snapshot reconciliation on connect, delta application for live events
- Fix ws_state→cluster_state event type mismatch
- Remove polling code (poll_interval, max_poll_workers, --poll-interval CLI)

SDK changes:
- Add NodeSnapshotEvent, HealthChangedEvent, AggregateEvent dataclasses
- Add stream_node_events() method (async + sync)

* fix: address review feedback on node event streams

- Fix stop() to let SSE manager exit naturally instead of force-stopping
  the event loop (ensures finally cleanup runs)
- Guard against empty/invalid SSE data from ping frames
- Treat missing node_id as identity mismatch (409) when expected_node_id
  is provided
- Fix stale docstring on _update_metrics
2026-03-31 11:28:39 -07:00

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Docker Deployment

Docker Compose stack for running the full turnstone platform.

Quick Start

# Copy and edit environment config
cp .env.example .env

# Full stack (needs an LLM API on the host)
docker compose up

Console dashboard: http://localhost:8090

See also: Deployment diagram

Services

Service Port Profile Description
server 8080 default Web UI + chat workstreams + LLM
console 8090 default Cluster dashboard
channel production Channel gateway (Discord, Slack, etc.)
server-1server-10 cluster 10-node server fleet (PostgreSQL required)

Profiles

Default (no flag) — starts server and console. Requires an OpenAI-compatible LLM API running on the host (default: http://localhost:8000/v1).

docker compose up

Production — adds PostgreSQL and the channel gateway. Requires POSTGRES_PASSWORD and (for Discord) TURNSTONE_DISCORD_TOKEN:

docker compose --profile production up

Cluster — 10-node server fleet sharing PostgreSQL. Access all nodes via the console at :8090. Requires POSTGRES_PASSWORD:

docker compose --profile cluster up

Configuration

All configuration is via environment variables in .env (copy from .env.example):

LLM Backend

Variable Default Description
LLM_BASE_URL http://host.docker.internal:8000/v1 OpenAI-compatible API URL
OPENAI_API_KEY dummy API key (dummy for local servers)
TAVILY_API_KEY Web search API key (only needed for local/vLLM models; Anthropic and OpenAI search models use native search)

Server

Variable Default Description
SERVER_PORT 8080 Host port mapping
SKIP_PERMISSIONS Set to any value to auto-approve all tools

Console

Variable Default Description
CONSOLE_PORT 8090 Host port mapping

Auth

Variable Default Description
TURNSTONE_AUTH_ENABLED Set to 1 to require authentication
TURNSTONE_AUTH_TOKEN Config-file token for server/console (backward compat, works alongside JWT)
TURNSTONE_JWT_SECRET Secret key for signing JWTs (required when using user identity / JWT auth)

Database

Variable Default Description
TURNSTONE_DB_BACKEND sqlite Storage backend: sqlite or postgresql
TURNSTONE_DB_URL Database URL (e.g. postgresql://user:pass@db:5432/turnstone). For SQLite, defaults to /data/.turnstone.db
TURNSTONE_DB_POOL_SIZE 2 PostgreSQL connection pool size per process (default: 2 base + 3 overflow = 5 max)

The database stores workstream history, user accounts, and API tokens. When using JWT auth, a database backend is required for user storage.

Large clusters: Each turnstone process maintains a small connection pool (5 max). At hundreds of nodes this adds up — use PgBouncer in transaction pooling mode between turnstone and PostgreSQL.

First-time setup: After deploying with auth enabled, create an initial admin user by running turnstone-admin create-user inside the container:

docker compose exec server turnstone-admin create-user --username admin --name "Admin"

You will be prompted to set a password. Use it to log in via the UI or SDK, then create additional users through the admin API. Pass --token --scopes read,write,approve to also generate an initial API token.

Channel Gateway

Variable Default Description
TURNSTONE_DISCORD_TOKEN Discord bot token (required to enable Discord adapter)
TURNSTONE_DISCORD_GUILD 0 Restrict to a single Discord guild (0 = all guilds)

The channel service runs in the production profile. When TURNSTONE_DISCORD_TOKEN is set, the Discord adapter connects to the Discord Gateway and routes messages to the server via HTTP. See Channel Integrations for full setup instructions including Discord application creation and user account linking.

Scaling

For multi-node testing, use the cluster profile which provides 10 server instances with unique node IDs (node-1 through node-10), resource limits, and shared PostgreSQL:

POSTGRES_PASSWORD=secret docker compose --profile cluster up

The default server also runs alongside the cluster nodes (11 total). All nodes are accessible via the console dashboard at :8090.

For production clusters beyond ~50 nodes, add PgBouncer between turnstone services and PostgreSQL. See PgBouncer Connection Pooling for Docker Compose and Helm configuration.

Volumes

Volume Mount Purpose
turnstone-data /data SQLite database (.turnstone.db)

Building

The image uses a multi-stage Dockerfile:

# Build all services
docker compose build

# Rebuild without cache
docker compose build --no-cache

All entry points are installed in a single image: turnstone-server, turnstone-console, turnstone-channel, turnstone-admin, turnstone-eval.

Cleanup

# Stop and remove containers
docker compose down

# Stop, remove containers and volumes
docker compose down -v