openova/CLAUDE.md

OpenOva (Public Repo) — Codebase Guide for Claude

This is the public, open-source OpenOva repository. It hosts the Catalyst platform code and Blueprint catalog.

Proprietary content (website source, deployment configs, infra secrets, the running clusters' manifests) lives in openova-private.

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Read these before doing anything

In order:

1. docs/GLOSSARY.md — terminology source of truth. Wins over any other doc.
2. docs/IMPLEMENTATION-STATUS.md — what's built today vs what's design. Read before claiming any feature exists.
3. docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — Catalyst target architecture.
4. docs/NAMING-CONVENTION.md — naming patterns.

These four together define the model + implementation reality. Any contradiction in older docs is to be treated as outdated and updated to match these.

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What Catalyst is

OpenOva (the company) builds Catalyst (the platform). A deployed Catalyst is called a Sovereign. A Sovereign hosts Organizations, which contain Environments, which run Applications, which are installed from Blueprints.

openova is a Sovereign run by us (formerly Nova). omantel is a Sovereign run by Omantel for SMEs. bankdhofar is a Sovereign run by the bank for itself. Same code in every Sovereign.

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Repo structure

openova/
├── core/                   # Catalyst control-plane application (Go)
│   ├── apps/{bootstrap,manager}/  # historical split; both fold under "Catalyst control plane"
│   ├── internal/           # domain, application, adapters, events
│   ├── pkg/apis/           # CRD types
│   ├── ui/                 # frontend (React/TS)
│   └── deploy/             # K8s manifests for Catalyst control-plane components
├── platform/               # Component Blueprints — one folder per upstream OSS project
│   ├── cilium/  cnpg/  flux/  gitea/  keycloak/  openbao/  ...
│   └── ...                 # ~50+ folders
├── products/               # Composite Blueprints OpenOva ships
│   ├── catalyst/           # Catalyst itself, packaged as bp-catalyst-platform umbrella
│   ├── cortex/             # AI Hub
│   ├── axon/               # SaaS LLM Gateway
│   ├── fingate/            # Open Banking
│   ├── fabric/             # Data & Integration
│   └── relay/              # Communication
└── docs/                   # Platform documentation (canonical)

Each subfolder of platform/ and products/ is a Blueprint repo when published. The monorepo here is convenience for development; CI fans out to per-Blueprint OCI publishes.

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Naming conventions in this repo

• Cluster: {prov}-{reg}-{bb}-{env_type} — e.g. hz-fsn-rtz-prod
• vcluster: {org} (within a cluster) — e.g. acme
• Catalyst Environment: {org}-{env_type} — e.g. acme-prod
• Blueprint: bp-<name> — e.g. bp-wordpress
• Application: <purpose> (within an Environment) — e.g. marketing-site

Full table in docs/NAMING-CONVENTION.md.

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Banned terms

Do not use in any new doc, code, comment, commit message, or UI string:

• "tenant" (as platform terminology) → Organization
• "operator" (as a person/entity) → sovereign-admin (the role). K8s Operators (controller pattern) are still called Operators.
• "client" (in product UX sense) → User. OIDC client and K8s client are fine.
• "module" / "template" (in Catalyst sense) → Blueprint. Go modules, Terraform modules, K8s templates, prompt templates etc. are external technologies and are fine.
• "Backstage" → Catalyst console. Backstage was decided removed.
• "Synapse" (as the OpenOva product) → Axon. Matrix's Synapse server is fine when context is the chat server.
• "Lifecycle Manager" / "Bootstrap wizard" (as separate products) → Catalyst.
• "Workspace" (as Catalyst scope) → Environment.
• "Instance" (as user-facing object) → Application. CRD remains an internal name.

When in doubt: defer to docs/GLOSSARY.md.

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Commit conventions

• Conventional commits: feat:, fix:, docs:, chore:, refactor:.
• Sign every commit. Default identity for this repo: hatiyildiz (269457768+hatiyildiz@users.noreply.github.com). Switch to alierenbaysal (269455083+alierenbaysal@users.noreply.github.com) only when the user explicitly directs.
• No git config global; pass -c user.name=… -c user.email=… per commit.
• Reference issues/PRs by number where applicable.
• Per ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: every issue lifecycles through status/in-progress → status/uat → status/completed. Open an issue before code changes; never close it (only the user does).

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What's user-facing (don't expand without permission)

The user-facing surfaces are UI / Git / API only. There is no Terraform provider, no Pulumi SDK, no catalystctl install for production changes. Crossplane is platform plumbing, never a user surface.

If a future feature seems to need another surface, it almost certainly belongs as either (a) UI work, (b) Blueprint work, or (c) a Crossplane Composition the user never sees. Reject the impulse to add a fourth surface.

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Component README rule of thumb

Every platform/<x>/README.md and products/<x>/README.md:

1. States what the component is (one line).
2. States its role in Catalyst (control plane vs Application Blueprint vs both).
3. Links to the canonical Catalyst doc that defines its place in the model.
4. Configuration knobs and Blueprint configSchema highlights.
5. Operational notes — backups, scaling, multi-region behavior.

If a README contradicts docs/ARCHITECTURE.md or docs/GLOSSARY.md, the canonical doc wins; update the README.

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Customer Sync

Each Sovereign's Gitea mirrors the public catalog from this repo:

GitHub (this repo)                  Per-Sovereign Gitea (mirrored)
──────────────────                  ──────────────────────────────
openova/platform/cilium/   ──sync──> gitea.<sovereign>/catalog/bp-cilium/
openova/products/cortex/   ──sync──> gitea.<sovereign>/catalog/bp-cortex/
...

Sovereigns pull on their own schedule (default daily). Air-gapped Sovereigns mirror via offline media.

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Per-component dev workflow

Most components are simple: a README.md, a Helm chart or Kustomize base, a blueprint.yaml, and a CI pipeline. Iteration is:

cd platform/<component>/
# edit chart/, manifests/, blueprint.yaml
# CI validates and dry-runs on push
# tagged release → OCI publish + signature → blueprint-controller picks up

For Catalyst control-plane code (core/):

cd core/
go test ./...
go build ./apps/...
# UI in core/ui/: npm install, npm run dev

CRD types live in core/pkg/apis/. Add new types here, regenerate clients, then update the controller in core/internal/.