homarr/AGENTS.md

Homarr Agent Rules

Repository Structure

homarr/
├── apps/
│   ├── nextjs/          # Main Next.js application (port 3000)
│   ├── docs/            # Next.js + Fumadocs documentation site (@homarr/docs)
│   ├── tasks/           # Cron-job initialization and scheduling runtime
│   ├── websocket/       # Standalone tRPC WebSocket server (port 3001)
│   └── workshop/        # Go/PocketBase Workshop service
├── packages/
│   ├── api/             # tRPC appRouter, procedures, OpenAPI
│   ├── auth/            # NextAuth config, providers, session, API keys
│   ├── db/              # SQLite and PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, queries
│   ├── core/            # Env validation, DB/Redis driver factories, logging
│   ├── definitions/     # Domain enums: WidgetKind, IntegrationKind, permissions
│   ├── widgets/         # Dashboard widget definitions and components
│   ├── integrations/    # Integration classes (HTTP clients to external apps)
│   ├── redis/           # Redis pub/sub channels, caching abstractions
│   ├── translation/     # next-intl setup, locale configs, lang JSON files
│   ├── ui/              # Shared Mantine components, theme, hooks
│   ├── validation/      # Shared zod schemas for API/forms
│   ├── common/          # Shared utilities, IDs, errors
│   ├── cron-jobs/       # Cron job implementations
│   ├── cron-jobs-core/  # Cron scheduling primitives
│   ├── cron-job-status/ # Cron status via Redis
│   ├── boards/          # Board context, edit mode, cache updater
│   ├── modals/          # Modal primitives on Mantine
│   ├── modals-collection/ # Feature modals (apps, boards, docker, etc.)
│   ├── form/            # useZodForm (Mantine + zod resolver)
│   ├── forms-collection/# Reusable form UIs (new app, icon picker, upload)
│   ├── spotlight/       # Command palette / search with multiple modes
│   ├── request-handler/ # Server request handlers (feeds, integrations)
│   ├── notifications/   # Mantine notifications wrapper
│   ├── docker/          # Dockerode-based Docker access
│   ├── icons/           # Icon DB/repo integration
│   ├── image-proxy/     # Image proxy + caching
│   ├── ping/            # Reachability / ping utilities
│   ├── analytics/       # Server-side analytics (Umami)
│   ├── server-settings/ # Server setting keys/types
│   ├── settings/        # User-facing settings UI context
│   ├── custom-widgets/  # Custom JSX v2 schema, validation, and runtime
│   ├── onboarding/      # Onboarding studio and setup flow
│   ├── workshop/        # Homarr-side Workshop client and contracts
│   └── cli/             # Node CLI for ops (brocli)
├── tooling/
│   ├── typescript/      # Base tsconfig
│   └── github/          # CI setup action
├── tools/
│   └── homarr-dev/      # Go CLI for local and PR Docker images
├── development/         # Dev docker-compose (Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
├── e2e/                 # E2E test specs
└── Dockerfile           # Multi-stage production build

Documentation

Add or update docs only when a smart, advanced user cannot infer the changed behavior from the UI or generated API schema. Document hidden capabilities, surprising behavior, non-obvious prerequisites or constraints, configuration contracts, and migrations. A code or API change alone is not a reason to add docs.

Keep warranted documentation concise. Omit UI walkthroughs, visible control descriptions, and details already clear from the interface or schema.

Only after this reader-value test passes, use these locations:

• New integration → apps/docs/docs/integrations/<slug>/index.mdx + index.ts
• New widget → apps/docs/docs/widgets/<slug>/index.mdx + index.ts
• Changed API → apps/docs/docs/management/api/index.mdx
• New/changed env vars → apps/docs/docs/advanced/
• New CLI commands → apps/docs/docs/advanced/command-line/
• Auth changes → apps/docs/docs/advanced/ SSO pages
• New cron job → apps/docs/docs/management/tasks.mdx

Monorepo Commands

• pnpm dev — Next.js app only
• pnpm dev:cli -- dev — run the developer CLI without installing a global binary
• pnpm db:seed — seed default database data explicitly
• pnpm docker:dev:up — start the Redis development service in the background
• pnpm dev:docs — Fumadocs site only
• pnpm turbo build — build all packages
• pnpm turbo build --filter=@homarr/docs — build docs only
• pnpm turbo typecheck — typecheck all packages
• pnpm lint / pnpm format — oxlint / oxfmt

Code Style

• Lint: oxlint (not ESLint)
• Format: oxfmt (not Prettier)
• UI: Mantine (not Tailwind) — Tailwind is only used in docs app
• Mantine: use the mantine MCP server in .mcp.json for current v9 APIs before writing component code. Prefer built-in primitives (Combobox/useCombobox, the polymorphic component prop, @mantine/hooks) and check packages/ui/ for existing conventions first.
• Icons: @tabler/icons-react
• Docs app can import from @homarr/definitions for shared types
• Run pnpm dev:cli -- dev to browse local homarr:* images and remote PR images.
• Run pnpm dev:cli -- build <name> from a Homarr checkout to build homarr:<name> with rebuild provenance.
• Run pnpm dev:cli -- build --pr <number> to build a PR locally from a temporary checkout.

Testing

Add tests only when requested. Favor assertions that would fail for a plausible regression in user-visible behavior or a security boundary; avoid checks that repeat implementation details or duplicate stronger coverage. For focused changes, run only the relevant existing or newly requested checks when validation is needed. Do not run broad test, Docker, or E2E suites by default.

MCP servers

.mcp.json declares project-scoped MCP servers. Keep only keyless definitions there; credentials belong in local dotfiles. See Mantine LLM tooling for client-specific setup.

Agent Skills

Portable skills live in .agents/skills/. Read the relevant SKILL.md before working in that domain; detailed references are loaded only when needed. Claude-compatible discovery is provided through .claude/skills.

• codebase-context — architecture, package boundaries, and shared utilities
• documentation-sync — documentation for changes users need explained
• mcp-integration — safe tRPC-to-MCP exposure
• homarr-custom-widget — safe Custom JSX v2 authoring