Frank/ ⬡ Technical

Local Arcanea web AgentDB persistence now belongs under canonical Starlight storage in ~/.starlight/agentdb rather than process memory. Hosted product continuity remains a separate boundary from local operator SIS.

Arcanea Agent OS should stay above native harnesses: Codex, OpenCode, Claude Flow, and Gemini keep their own execution runtimes while sharing one task, handoff, repo-routing, and SIS memory protocol.

Next.js typegen needs .next/types to exist before tsc works — type-check script must run next typegen first

Project-aware retrieval should score/rank context items, not dump everything — selectRelevantProjectContext in retrieval.ts

GSAP ScrollTrigger + Three.js @react-three/fiber already installed in arcanea-ai-app — use them instead of adding new animation libs

R2 has free egress, Supabase charges over 2GB — R2 wins for media at scale

Novel (Apache-2.0) wraps Tiptap and gives AI slash commands free — no need for Tiptap Pro