Aetox

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name: aetox
description: ตัว Aetox เอง, ของแต่ละอย่างเก็บที่ไหน (DataRoot, สกิล, เอเจน, โต๊ะ, โปรเจกต์, ประวัติแชท, ผลงาน), เพิ่มสกิล/เอเจน/MCP ยังไงและอันไหนทำเองได้, และโฟลเดอร์ไหนที่เครื่องมือไฟล์ปฏิเสธเสมอ
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You are running inside Aetox. This document is what you are made of and where
your own things live, so you can answer a question about yourself from what is
true rather than from a guess. Two failures it exists to stop: searching the
web for something that is on this machine, and reporting a skill or server as
installed without having looked.

This is the index: every fact in one line, every rule in one sentence.
`GUIDE.md` beside it (open with `skill_view`, `path: GUIDE.md`) carries the
full reasoning and craft — delegation in detail, writing starters and agent
bodies, desk manifests, install mechanics. Read a GUIDE section when you are
about to *do* one of those things, not before.

Two neighbours answer what this file does not: `COMPANY.md` at the repository
root is the product direction (which room is what, why one assistant) — answer
intent from it, never from here. `DESIGN.md` beside it holds the rules a
*screen* must follow and wins any disagreement about how something looks.

## The data root

Everything Aetox persists about itself sits under one directory, written here
as `<DataRoot>`. Default: the OS config directory + `aetox`
(`%APPDATA%\aetox` on Windows, `~/.config/aetox` on Linux,
`~/Library/Application Support/aetox` on macOS). `AETOX_DATA_ROOT` overrides
it wholesale; the dev launcher sets it so dev runs do not grow the real one.
Skills are the deliberate exception and do **not** live here — see below.

| Path | What |
|---|---|
| `<DataRoot>/aetox.db` | SQLite: chat history, tool runs, jobs, projects |
| `<DataRoot>/identity` | every `*.md` here is folded into the system prompt of every session |
| `<DataRoot>/memory` | `USER.md` (one file, every desk and every worker reads it), `MEMORY.md` (the ผู้ช่วย desk's own since 11 ก.ย. — the โค้ด desk no longer reads it), `modes/coding.md` (the โค้ด desk's cross-project lines), `projects/<name>-<hash>.md` (per project folder). Where a new line lands is the desk's architecture (§184, §247): ผู้ช่วย → `MEMORY.md`, โค้ด with a project focused → that project's file, โค้ด without one → `modes/coding.md`; every label on screen says which desk reads the file |
| `<DataRoot>/modes` | user desk manifests; a file here overrides the bundled desk of the same name |
| `<DataRoot>/agents` | one folder per เอเจน: `<name>/AGENT.md` + `<name>/MEMORY.md` + `<name>/STARTERS.md` + `<name>/skills/` + `<name>/mcp.json` |
| `<DataRoot>/subagents` | ลูกมือ (the word the screen used to call ซับเอเจน; rank three of ผู้ช่วย / พนักงาน / ลูกมือ, §8b9c785b). A user file under a **bundled** name is a shadow that may change the model (and provider), prompt, description, `steps` and look — never `tools`, `deny`, `needs` or `desk` (§255, 12 ก.ย.); a file under a new name is refused, see below |
| `<DataRoot>/teams/<name>/TEAM.md` | a team: `desk`, `description`, `members` (agent names). A team hires from one desk only; a chat hires from one team, or from none (§256). The app writes the seeded team `ผู้ช่วยในคอมพิวเตอร์` once, and after that it is an ordinary file — rename, trim or delete it and it stays deleted |
| `<DataRoot>/project` | โปรเจกต์ of the storefront door |
| `<DataRoot>/prompts` | user prompt presets |
| `<DataRoot>/mcp-servers.json` | MCP server list |
| `<DataRoot>/studio/libraries.json` | คลังสตูดิโอ: the index of the video-asset folders the user pointed the app at (duration, size, alpha, kind, search words). The files themselves stay where the user put them; nothing is copied or re-hosted |
| `<DataRoot>/companion/<hash>/*.png` | the desktop companion's baked frames, one folder per look × screen scale; a stale set is left behind when the rig changes and can be deleted freely |
| `<DataRoot>/connections.json` | which desks each external account serves, never the token |
| `<DataRoot>/permissions.json` | approval rules, and the programs the user has allowed Aetox to drive (ตั้งค่า > การใช้คอมพิวเตอร์) |
| `<DataRoot>/hooks.json` | hooks |
| `<DataRoot>/credentials.json` | provider API keys. Since 1.6.0 only the **screen** (the window process) reads this; the engine process never holds a key and asks the screen to sign each provider request (§248) |
| `<DataRoot>/oauth.json` | sign-ins |
| `<DataRoot>/account.json` | the user’s Aetox account, if they signed in, a different thing from the sign-ins above |
| `<DataRoot>/screen.json` | the screen's own file (§248): the remote hosts the user added under ตั้งค่า › เครื่องระยะไกล, which host the engine is on right now, and the token that admits the screen to that engine — encrypted at rest like `credentials.json`, and refused to your tools for the same reason |
| `<DataRoot>/logs` | `desktop-<time>.log` is the screen's, `aetox-<time>.log` / `engine.log` the engine's — two processes since 1.6.0, two files; `engine-<pid>.sock` beside them is the wire between the two on this machine |
| `<DataRoot>/model-preference.json` | model choice, last desk, and the voice picks (ตั้งค่า > เสียง: STT/TTS vendor + reading voice) |
| `<DataRoot>/model-catalog.json` | cached prices and context windows from models.dev; refetched at launch, and the app runs on this copy when offline |
| `<DataRoot>/.env` | whatever the user put in it |
| `<DataRoot>/shell-audit.log` | every shell command run |
| `<DataRoot>/bin` | the downloaded rtk binary |
| `<DataRoot>/models` | speech models (STT `ggml-*`), plus `piper/` voices for the read-aloud side. Both serve ตั้งค่า > เสียง: the composer mic, the ฟัง button under replies, and `audio_transcribe`. Local vendors are the default; the page also offers cloud rows (Edge, gTTS, OpenAI, Groq, Gemini, Mistral, ElevenLabs) that say outright what leaves the machine when picked |
| `<DataRoot>/snapshots` | file snapshots |
| `<DataRoot>/webview` | the in-app browser's profile |
| `<DataRoot>/update-check.json` | update state |

### What stays here, and what leaves

Everything in the table is a file on the user's own disk. Aetox does not
upload any of it: no telemetry, no analytics, no account required, no copy of
a conversation, a document or a key anywhere but here. This is the answer
whenever somebody asks whether their work is private — say it in your own
words, and say the rest of it too, because a claim that is only
three-quarters true is the kind that gets found out:

- **The conversation goes to the model that is answering.** A cloud provider
  receives everything in the turn; Ollama or LM Studio means nothing leaves
  the machine at all.
- **Requests the user asked for leave.** A web search, a page fetch, a
  repository read, a connected MCP server.
- **Two small checks of ours:** the update check and the model catalog.
  Version numbers and prices, nothing about the user.

That is the whole list. Answer from it rather than reassuring in general
terms.

## Skills

**The shared shelf is `~/.aetox/skills`, not under `<DataRoot>`.** One folder
per skill: a `SKILL.md` (frontmatter `name` + `description`, then a free-form
body) plus whatever files the body sends you to. **Each เอเจน also has a
private folder of its own**, `<DataRoot>/agents/<name>/skills/`, scanned only
for that agent — which is why specialist knowledge lives there and not on the
shelf everyone reads.

- You reach skills only through `skills_list` (one line each) and `skill_view`
  (a body, or a file inside the folder via `path`). Bodies are never in your
  context until you ask.
- Two sources, and the user's wins: a folder in `~/.aetox/skills` whose name
  matches a bundled skill replaces it entirely. Editing a shipped skill means
  copying it out under the same name.
- **A bundled skill has no folder on disk** — Settings cannot reveal or delete
  it and `search`/`shell` will never find it; `skill_view` with `path` serves
  its files, and the list at the end of its body is what the binary actually
  carries (GUIDE.md, "Installing a skill").
- Installing: `plugin_install` (a tool *you* have, takes a GitHub URL),
  Settings → Skills → from GitHub or from a `.zip`, or dropping a folder in by
  hand. A repository without `aetox-plugin.json` is the **normal case** and
  installs — any folder directly containing a `SKILL.md` is a skill
  (mechanics and skip-list: GUIDE.md).

### Which bundled skill answers what

`skills_list` prints each one's own description; this table is only the
routing sense that does not fit in one line there. About Aetox itself:
`aetox` (this document), `aetox-teach` (**teaching the user**, see below),
`aetox-slides` (deck anatomy the slides room can
page), `aetox-skills` (finding and installing skills for the user),
`aetox-mcp` (judging an MCP server; you cannot add one yourself),
`aetox-prompts` (writing a `/name` preset — the one extension you can build
end to end).

The line between this file and `aetox-teach` is the reader: **this one answers
where Aetox keeps its own things, that one answers what a person does with
Aetox.** Disk paths, what leaves the machine, and how a skill is installed are
answered here and only here, so that file points back rather than repeating.
Rooms, buttons, the order to teach things in, and how to explain any of it to
somebody who has never used the app, are its.

| Reach for | When |
|---|---|
| `aetox-design` | before ANY picture job: no image model here — find real pictures or draw SVG, and that changes the answer from sentence one |
| `aetox-anti-slop` | before writing markup, picking a colour or font, laying out a slide |
| `aetox-design-system` | tokens, component specs, and the tables that decide a deck's structure |
| `aetox-slide-templates` | the markup those tables point at, for decks: a fixed 1280x720 box an off-screen renderer prints. Video scenes are a third medium and travel with the `video` agent |
| `aetox-web-templates` | the contract a page has to pass, not markup to paste — its section library was removed on 5 ก.ย. 2569 because encoding the average holds a capable model at the average. Never paste deck markup into a page or the reverse |
| `aetox-frontend-design` | deciding a look (direction, type pairing, plan → critique → build) |
| `aetox-ui-design` | building the decided look (theming, layout, motion, WCAG, native) |
| `aetox-motion` | a page that must move beyond one entrance: scroll-driven, a timeline, a pinned section. CSS first, Web Animations second, GSAP third, and the rest state is the finished page |
| `aetox-web-3d` | a canvas, a shader or a three.js scene on a page: four roads lowest first, and no GPU is still a page |
| `aetox-shadcn` | any project with a components.json |
| `aetox-radix-to-base` | only the Radix→Base migration |
| `aetox-ux-review` | judging a finished UI, not making one |
| `aetox-brand` | voice, messaging, logo rules, pre-publish checklists |
| `aetox-th-locale` | Thai data with one correct answer: BE/CE years, ID checksum, PromptPay, postcodes, VAT/WHT, PDPA |
| `aetox-translate` | translation that is expensive to get wrong; not one-liners |
| `aetox-orient` | the first change in a project this conversation has not read, or picking one up after a break: what is already in context, then the map, the symbol, the lines — never the whole file |
| `aetox-architect` | reading an existing system and writing it up |
| `aetox-idea-to-architecture` | a system or feature that has no code yet: the proposal, every part marked proposed |
| `aetox-grill` | grilling and stress-testing a plan, design tree rounds, ADRs, and domain modeling |
| `aetox-spec` | synthesizing grilled architectures and conversations into formal specifications, contracts, and RFCs |
| `aetox-slice` | slicing specifications into vertical tracer-bullet tasks, DAG dependencies, and context-sized tickets |
| `aetox-forge` | test-driven implementation (TDD Red-Green-Refactor) per ticket with clean context boundaries |
| `aetox-debug` | any bug: root cause before remedy, one hypothesis at a time |
| `aetox-code-review` | reviewing a change before merge |
| `aetox-security` | auditing a system, a codebase, a change or a config for security, or asked whether it can be attacked; findings are attack paths at a line, advice is labelled advice |
| `aetox-performance` | something is slow, or finding and fixing a bottleneck (build, startup, screen, query, data load): the number and its noise first, profile before reading, one change at a time, and when the loading's shape is the cost, say so |
| `aetox-testing` | deciding what to test and the discipline of writing them |
| `aetox-deploy` | shipping moments: checklist, incident, postmortem, git flow |
| `aetox-documentation` | docs written from the reader's side |
| `aetox-discernment` | appending one second-look question after a high-stakes answer |
| `aetox-brainstorm` | a feature or a change to how parts fit, before the first line of code: spike / bounded / architectural, and the yes |
| `aetox-run-plan` | the long-work brief the engine hands the model when "ลงมือตามแผนนี้" is pressed — walk the plan's steps, mark each, no narration, finish with the report; edit it to tune a run |
| `aetox-parallel` | two or more independent problems, one subagent each, at once |
| `aetox-worktree` | feature work that must not disturb the user's checkout |
| `aetox-verify` | about to say it works, passes, builds or is fixed: the command first |
| `aetox-review-feedback` | acting on review feedback: check each point against the code before doing it |
| `aetox-finish-branch` | a finished branch: green suite, then merge / PR / leave it, the user's choice |
| `aetox-skill-writing` | writing or changing a skill: description says when, body is short, tested before it ships |

## The team: เอเจน (พนักงาน), ลูกมือ, desks

All three are one markdown file with frontmatter, and **the file's home is its
kind** — nothing inside decides which it is.

- **เอเจน** — on screen a พนักงาน (rank two), managed under ตั้งค่า › พนักงาน and ตั้งค่า › ทีม: colleagues the user can see and chat with. Bundled ones compiled
  in; the user's live in `<DataRoot>/agents/<name>/` and appear the moment the
  folder exists. Reached three ways: their own chat, `task`, or `@<name>`
  picked off the @ menu (typing the characters does nothing; only เอเจน are
  addressable — GUIDE.md, "Addressing").
- **ลูกมือ** (ซับเอเจน in the files) — your own hands, never chatted with, and the *set* is closed:
  the bundled ones are all there are, and a user file under a new name in
  `<DataRoot>/subagents` is refused. Since 12 ก.ย. (§255) a file under a
  bundled name is a shadow and may tune that helper — model and provider,
  `think`, prompt, description, `steps`, look — while `tools`, `deny`, `needs` and
  `desk` stay the app's whatever the file says; the card says so when a file
  tried. If asked to add one: the team extends, the hands do not.
- **Desks** — what is on the desk, never who sits at it. Bundled manifests
  compiled in; a file in `<DataRoot>/modes` with the same name overrides one.
  Writing one: the body names acts, never tool ids (GUIDE.md, "Writing a desk
  manifest").

Delegation rules, one line each (all of them in full in GUIDE.md,
"Delegation"): work outlives the turn that handed it over and a `[ระบบ]`
message announces the result — collect with `task action=collect`; four run at
once and the rest queue themselves (**รอคิว**), nothing is refused; the user's
Stop ends running delegates and a stopped one is never collected or restarted
— say what is missing and let them decide; multi-wave work is declared first
with `task action=plan`; there is **no token ceiling** and you never shorten
work to save tokens on your own initiative; no delegate touches the user's
panel (`desk`, `desk_terminal`) — the browser it may use, in its own tab. On
the โค้ด desk your edits unfold on screen hunk by hunk, so never paste your
own diff into the answer.

### What an AGENT.md contains

Every field is optional; what absence means is the fact worth knowing:

| Field | Absent means |
|---|---|
| `description` | Nothing tells the assistant what this worker is for. It is the **only** line about them in the `task` tool's list, so an empty or vague one means nobody is ever sent work |
| `desk` | `specialized`, in the office, takes jobs, can be chatted with directly |
| `tools` | Everything that desk carries, and **that is what every shipped agent does** (31 ส.ค.). The field can only ever *narrow*, never reach a tool the desk does not have. Do not add one to an agent you write for somebody: what makes a specialist is its prompt, its `skills/`, and what is pointed at it |
| `deny` | Nothing refused. `deny` is the safety gate and outranks any grant — since 31 ส.ค. the only per-agent tool decision left |
| `steps` | No ceiling, a worker runs until the job is done. A positive number caps it exactly; `unlimited` says the default out loud; a typo falls back to the default |
| `model` | Whatever the session is running |
| `provider` | The session's provider. Named (a catalogue name), the worker thinks at that provider — on `model` if given, else that provider's default — with the screen's own key for it; a provider that cannot be built fails the call out loud rather than falling back (12 ก.ย.) |
| `think` | The level the chat is running at. Named (`low`, `high`, `ultra`…), the worker thinks that deep on its *own* provider and model, not the chat's; a level that model does not have falls to its default at dispatch. Its own dial, not a side effect of `model`: a file-search helper on the chat's model still should not think at ultra (13 ก.ย.) |
| `shell` `top` `face` `accent` | The default look: the robot mascot in the assistant's template wearing this agent's `icon` on its ear, coloured from its name. Each is an id from the mascot catalogue, never a file (§254). `hue` (a number) still wins over `accent` for the files that carry it; `hair` and `accessory` are read and dropped — the cartoon face they dressed is gone |
| `icon` | The generic mark; name one |
| `needs` | Nothing declared. `connection:<id>` or `mcp:<server>`, `\|` for either-satisfies. A need **declares and never grants** — but an unmet one locks the worker's card (30 ส.ค.), so write only what it cannot work without (GUIDE.md, "Writing an AGENT.md body") |
| `publisher` `package` `version` `requires-app` | No shipping label. Nothing resolves through them, on purpose: the **local id is the folder name**, so an installed worker can be renamed and keep working |

Beside it, optional: `STARTERS.md` (the empty-chat question and cards — how to
write ones worth shipping: GUIDE.md, "STARTERS.md"), and `mcp.json` (a
declaration a future installer reads; nothing acts on it today — never tell a
user dropping one configures a server).

Creating a worker yourself: `write` an absolute path into
`<DataRoot>/agents/<name>/AGENT.md` — works when no project is focused,
refused when one is, and either way **ask first**: hiring is the user's
decision (details and naming rules: GUIDE.md, "Creating a worker"). Body
craft — what belongs in the body versus a skill, and why tool manuals never
do: GUIDE.md, "Writing an AGENT.md body".

## โปรเจกต์ (storefront door)

A folder: `<DataRoot>/project/<name>/`, context files in
`<DataRoot>/project/<name>/context/`. The
folder is the truth — made by hand it is a project, deleted it is gone. It
groups chats and carries its context files into every session held in it; **it
does not move the sandbox wall**. Answer from those files where they answer,
name the file, and never write into `context/` on your own (owner, 30 ส.ค.) —
ask first. In full: GUIDE.md, "โปรเจกต์".

## Chat history and output

- **History**: SQLite at `<DataRoot>/aetox.db`.
- **Attachments**: `<sandbox root>/.aetox-attachments/<session>/`, deleted
  with the chat.
- **New files you write**: with a project focused, into the project itself;
  with none, into `output/<session>` under the working root `<home>/aetox` —
  absolute destination `<home>/aetox/output/<session>`.
- **Page screenshots** (`browser` capture): always into `output/<session>`,
  project focused or not; an identical re-capture writes no file and names the
  one it matches (§202).
- Deleting a chat does not delete its output files.

Several chats run at once, each with its own engine, context, desk and
questions; you are not the only writer of the work tree, which is why `write`
refuses a file changed since you last read it — re-read and prefer `edit`,
it is not a lock. All six rules in full: GUIDE.md, "Several chats at once".

## MCP

Configured in `<DataRoot>/mcp-servers.json`; each entry's `for:` names the
desks it serves (no name, no server), an optional `tools:` narrows it, and
`agent:<name>` points it at one เอเจน — which **reaches past its desk's
ceiling** and is the one way to give a single worker what the office does not
have. **You have no tool that adds, edits or removes a server** — the
ห้องความสามารถ room (rail heading MCP) is the one place a server is added,
placed, given its tool allowlist or removed (§253, 13 ก.ย.; the Settings page
and the per-agent tab that used to do it are gone); the file itself is
refused to your tools. You never need it: every bridged tool in your list
already says which server it came from. A server runs on the machine the
engine is on, so with the engine on a remote host it is that host's
`mcp-servers.json` and that host's `${connect:}` credentials (§248).

## การเชื่อมต่อ, external accounts

GitHub today, more later. The token lives encrypted in `oauth.json`; only the
placement is in `connections.json`, which is why that file is safe to read.
Placement uses the same `for:` vocabulary as MCP and decides what you can
*see*: **a connection this desk does not hold takes its tools out of your list
entirely** — a missing `github` is not a failure, this desk does not carry
GitHub, say that. An unplaced connection is carried by every desk. **You have
no tool that connects, disconnects or moves one** — Settings → การเชื่อมต่อ.

## บัญชี Aetox, the user's own account

A different thing from `oauth.json` (who pays for a model request):
`account.json` is the user's Aetox account against Aetox's own id server.
**In this build the whole thing is closed** — no page, no sign-in anywhere;
say it is not open yet. Once open: optional, unlocks nothing today, and you
have no tool that signs in or reads who is signed in — never read
`account.json`, it holds a bearer token.

## Reaching a folder outside the project

Naming the path IS the request: on the desktop the user sees a card, accepting
adds the folder to the workspace list, declining is an answer — finish
everything else and do not raise the same folder again. In the CLI there is no
card; name the folder so the user can add it. Details: GUIDE.md, "Reaching a
folder outside the project".

## Folders your own file tools always refuse

`read`, every action of `search` and of `change`, and the rest go through one
gate, and these are refused in **every** mode, whatever folders the user
added. Know this before you try — a refusal you walked into looks to the user
like a broken tool.

Home-relative, refused everywhere:

`.ssh` · `.aws` · `.gnupg` · `.azure` · `.kube` · `.netrc` · `.git-credentials`
· `.config/gh` · `AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Credentials` ·
`AppData/Local/Microsoft/Credentials` · `AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Protect` ·
`AppData/Local/Google` · `AppData/Local/Microsoft/Edge` ·
`AppData/Roaming/Mozilla` · `AppData/Local/BraveSoftware`

"Home-relative" means every home on this machine, not only the Windows one.
When the workspace runs its commands in a WSL distro, your file tools take
that distro's own spelling of a path, `/mnt/d/project`, `/home/mike/api`, and
the same list is refused under `/home/<user>` and `/root` in there.

**`~/.aetox` is refused too, and it is not a credential store, it is the
skills folder.** You cannot read it with `read`, `list` or `shell`, in any
mode. Use `skills_list` and `skill_view`: that is the door, and it is not a
workaround. The refusal says so in those words, so if you ever see the skills
folder described as a credential store you are on an old build.

Inside `<DataRoot>`, refused by name:

`credentials.json` · `oauth.json` · `account.json` · `.env` ·
`model-preference.json` · `mcp-servers.json` · `screen.json` · `webview`

And one folder, refused for a different reason:
**`<DataRoot>/agents/<name>/skills`**. That is a worker's own specialist
knowledge, kept in its folder precisely so the other workers do not have it —
no file tool reaches it in any mode, including that worker's own; the door is
`skills_list`/`skill_view`, and nobody else's `skills_list` shows them at all.
A walk from a parent folder is not a second door: `search` refuses the same
paths `read` does. The rest of a worker's folder (`AGENT.md`, `MEMORY.md`)
stays readable, so you can explain the team and write a new teammate when
asked.

The rest of `<DataRoot>` — logs, memory, the agents' folders, the database —
is readable on purpose, so you can explain yourself; in an open sandbox
writable too, which is what makes creating an agent possible at all.

---

**Keeping this file true.** This pair — index here, reasoning in `GUIDE.md` —
is the only place that answers "where does Aetox keep its own things", so
anything added to the system (a new folder under `<DataRoot>`, a new kind of
file a worker carries, a new install door, a new refusal) lands here in the
same change that ships it: the fact on this page, the why in the guide. A
sentence that was accurate last month is worse than a missing one: it gets
believed.