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.github/workflows/assist-android.yml builds packages.hermes-voice-android
on master pushes that touch it (and on demand) with the run number as
versionCode and the short commit as versionName, signs it with
hermes-voice-android-sign from the ANDROID_KEYSTORE_B64 and
ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD secrets (the clan var
hermes-voice-android-signing of coaxmetal) and uploads it as assist.apk
of the rolling release assist-android.
The package takes versionCode and versionName (default 1), so
`nix build .#hermes-voice-android` stays pure; CI overrides them through
--impure --expr. The unsigned APK is also a check, so PR CI builds it.
assist.lassul.us now sits behind oauth2-proxy on neoprism (provider
oidc, issuer https://id.lassul.us), wired in with nginx auth_request on
that vhost only. The nixpkgs nginx helper (oauth2-proxy.nginx) is not
used because it turns on services.nginx.recommendedProxySettings for
every vhost on the host; the same few locations are written out here.
Unauthenticated requests are redirected (307) to /oauth2/start with a
relative rd, which oauth2-proxy accepts without a whitelist-domain;
the provider button is skipped so it goes straight to Zitadel.
Access: the Zitadel project "assist" is declarative with a grant for
lass@lassul.us only, and its projectRoleCheck blocks everyone else at
the IdP. oauth2-proxy additionally allows only that address
(authenticated-emails-file, no email domains); its OIDC provider rejects
emails whose email_verified is false. The session user is the `sub`
claim. The client id/secret come from zitadel-reconcile's env file
(/var/lib/zitadel-apps/assist-web.env, OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID/SECRET),
used as the unit's EnvironmentFile; the cookie secret from a new
neoprism vars generator (oauth2-proxy/cookie-secret, via LoadCredential).
Public without login, as Chrome fetches them without cookies to install
the page and verify the TWA: /.well-known/assetlinks.json,
/manifest.webmanifest, /icon-192.png, /icon-512.png.
After the login, nginx sets Authorization: Bearer <access token> towards
hermes-voice, from an include in /run written at boot by a root oneshot
(hermes-voice-auth-header, owned by nginx, mode 0600), so the token
never enters the store. For that the hermes-voice generator is now a
shared var (configs/hermes-voice-vars.nix, imported by coaxmetal and
neoprism); a shared generator gets a new value, so the token is rotated.
hermes-voice keeps checking the token, which still guards its retiolum
port; the gateway plugin keeps calling /approve on localhost with
API_SERVER_KEY.
The page no longer asks for or stores the token. Its fetches use
redirect: "manual", so an expired login (redirect to id.lassul.us,
which fetch cannot follow cross-origin) shows up as an opaqueredirect
and the page reloads into the login.
packages.hermes-voice-android builds an unsigned APK (us.lassul.assist,
"Assist") that opens https://assist.lassul.us/ as a Trusted Web
Activity, so Chrome handles the mic permission and the stored access
token exactly as in the browser. Its single activity is the launcher
entry and handles android.intent.action.ASSIST. That is enough to be
offered under Default apps > Digital assistant app: the ASSISTANT
role's AssistantRoleBehavior (packages/modules/Permission) qualifies a
package either by an assist-capable VoiceInteractionService or by an
exported activity resolving ACTION_ASSIST, with no system-app check.
The activity binds the first browser offering the TWA category, opens
a session and launches the TWA intent; without such a browser it opens
a Custom Tab, which other browsers treat as a plain VIEW intent. It
stays below the page in the task and finishes when returned to.
The build is plain aapt2 + javac + d8 from androidenv (build-tools and
platform 36; the SDK is unfree, so androidenv comes from a nixpkgs
instance with allowUnfree and the license accepted). The only library
is androidx.browser 1.10.0's classes.jar (AAR from Google Maven, 289
KB): the client, session and TWA intent builder used here need none of
its dependencies (androidx.core is only referenced by launchUrl-style
helpers, which are not called). The APK is 72 KB and byte-identical
across rebuilds (fixed zip timestamps).
packages.hermes-voice-android-sign zipaligns and signs it with
apksigner (v1-v3, no .idsig) from a keystore and password file, by
default the packaged unsigned APK, and prints the certificate so it
can be compared with assetlinks.json.
The voice page gets a web app manifest (standalone, colors of
style.css) and 192/512 px icons, drawn with imagemagick at build time
(date chunks excluded so the PNGs are reproducible). Both are needed
for the page to run as a Trusted Web Activity in the Android wrapper.
/.well-known/assetlinks.json delegates handle_all_urls to the wrapper
(us.lassul.assist) with the SHA-256 fingerprint of its signing
certificate, so Chrome verifies the app and drops the URL bar. Like
the static files it is served without the access token, and neoprism
already proxies every path of assist.lassul.us.
The signing key comes from the new hermes-voice-android-signing
generator on coaxmetal: a PKCS12 keystore and its password (secret,
deploy = false since only signing reads them) and the fingerprint as a
public file. The package reads the fingerprint from vars/ with
pathExists like the nix-cache key, so evaluation works before the
generator ran; assetlinks.json is then simply missing (404), which is
why the static routes now answer 404 for files not in the static dir.
Paperless-ngx at https://paperless.lassul.us, behind nginx with ACME
(client_max_body_size 100M for phone photo uploads). OCR in German and
English; the nixpkgs module builds tesseract with the languages from
PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE. Data stays at the module's default
/var/lib/paperless (static paperless user, no DynamicUser) with SQLite.
Login via Zitadel (id.lassul.us): lass.zitadel project "paperless" with
access = "declarative", so only users granted on the project (by
verified email) can log in. allauth's openid_connect provider keys
social accounts by uid_field, set explicitly to the token's sub.
paperless' environmentFile is a single env file and the client secret
has to sit inside the PAPERLESS_SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS JSON, so the
paperless-oidc-env oneshot builds it from zitadel-reconcile's env file
into /run/paperless-oidc, keeping the secret out of the store.
The regular login form is disabled; DRF token and basic auth do not go
through allauth's pre_authenticate, so API tokens keep working. The
admin password comes from the paperless-admin vars generator via the
module's passwordFile (LoadCredential).
Backups: /var/lib/paperless plus a consistent .backup of its WAL-mode
SQLite database (the live db files are excluded).
Mailbox scan@lassul.us with a vars-generated password
(mailserver-scan) for paperless' IMAP mail fetching, configured later
in paperless' database.
DNS: paperless CNAME neoprism like the other neoprism services; Gatus
checks the login page.