blackroad-os-docs/docs/LAUNCH-SEQUENCE.md

BlackRoad OS — Launch Sequence

Generated: 2025-12-01 Status: READY FOR APPROVAL Governor: cece.governor.v1

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1. RECONSTRUCTED VISION (Baseline Spec)

Product Blueprint

BlackRoad OS is a distributed AI orchestration platform with six portals:

Portal	Domain	MVP Status
Lucidia	Personal AI with persistent memory	Phase 0
RoadWork	Education/homework help	Phase 1
RoadView	Media creation (video/image gen)	Phase 2
RoadGlitch	Gaming (procedural content)	Phase 2
RoadWorld	Navigation + context	Phase 3
BackRoad	Privacy infrastructure	Phase 3

Technical Scope Map

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      PORTAL LAYER                                │
│   Lucidia │ RoadWork │ RoadView │ RoadGlitch │ RoadWorld         │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                    GOVERNANCE LAYER                              │
│        Policies │ Ledger │ Intents │ Claims │ Delegations        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                   INTEGRATION LAYER                              │
│         MCP Servers │ Tools │ GitHub │ Cloudflare │ Railway      │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                  INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER                            │
│   Cloudflare Pages │ Railway (API) │ Postgres │ Self-hosted LLM  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

MVP Definition

Phase 0 (NOW — Week 1-2)

• Infra Map working with real GitHub data
• All core services deployed and healthy
• DNS routing complete (blackroad.io → all subdomains)
• /health and /version on every service

Phase 1 (Week 3-4)

• Lucidia basic chat working
• Homework Portal basic functionality
• Creator Portal scaffold
• Agent registry + Cece orchestration

Phase 2 (Week 5-8)

• RoadView media generation
• RoadGlitch game content
• Full governance layer
• Policy evaluation in production

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2. MASTER REPOSITORY MAP

Active Repos (Keep & Deploy)

Repo	Purpose	Deploy To	Status
blackroad-os-web	Main website + Infra Map	Cloudflare Pages	✅ READY
blackroad-os-core	API + Database + Integrations	Railway	✅ READY
blackroad-os-api	Public API Gateway	Railway	🔧 NEEDS SETUP
blackroad-os-api-gateway	Edge routing	Cloudflare Workers	🔧 NEEDS SETUP
blackroad-os-operator	Background jobs + scheduling	Railway	🔧 NEEDS SETUP
blackroad-os-prism-console	Admin dashboard	Cloudflare Pages	🔧 NEEDS SETUP
blackroad-os-docs	Documentation	Cloudflare Pages	✅ READY
blackroad-os-infra	IaC, DNS configs, runbooks	N/A (reference)	✅ READY
blackroad-os-agents	Agent implementations	Railway	🔧 NEEDS SETUP
blackroad-os-brand	Brand assets	N/A (reference)	✅ READY
lucidia-core	AI reasoning engines	Railway	🔧 NEEDS SETUP
lucidia-platform	Lucidia web UI	Cloudflare Pages	🔧 NEEDS SETUP

Archived Repos (Already Done)

Repo	Reason
blackroad-os-research	Merged into docs
blackroad-os-ideas	Merged into docs
blackroad-os-helper	Superseded by agents
blackroad-os-home	Merged into docs
blackroad-os-demo	Sample only
blackroad-agents	Superseded by blackroad-os-agents
blackroad-agent-os	Superseded by operator

Pack Repos (Future — Not Phase 0)

Repo	Phase
blackroad-os-pack-creator-studio	Phase 2
blackroad-os-pack-education	Phase 1
blackroad-os-pack-finance	Phase 2
blackroad-os-pack-infra-devops	Phase 1
blackroad-os-pack-legal	Phase 3
blackroad-os-pack-research-lab	Phase 3

Pi/Edge Repos (Later)

Repo	Phase
blackroad-pi-ops	Phase 2
blackroad-pi-holo	Phase 3
blackroad-os-mesh	Phase 2

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3. LIVE PLATFORM DEPLOYMENT PLAN

DNS Mapping Table

Subdomain	Target	Type	Provider
blackroad.io	Cloudflare Pages (web)	CNAME	Cloudflare
www.blackroad.io	→ blackroad.io	CNAME	Cloudflare
api.blackroad.io	Railway (blackroad-os-api)	CNAME	Railway
app.blackroad.io	Cloudflare Pages (prism)	CNAME	Cloudflare
docs.blackroad.io	Cloudflare Pages (docs)	CNAME	Cloudflare
lucidia.blackroad.io	Cloudflare Pages (lucidia-platform)	CNAME	Cloudflare
status.blackroad.io	Cloudflare Pages (beacon)	CNAME	Cloudflare

Service Registry

{
  "services": [
    {
      "name": "blackroad-os-web",
      "type": "frontend",
      "provider": "cloudflare-pages",
      "domain": "blackroad.io",
      "health": "/health",
      "version": "/version",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-web"
    },
    {
      "name": "blackroad-os-core",
      "type": "api",
      "provider": "railway",
      "domain": "internal",
      "port": 4000,
      "health": "/health",
      "version": "/api/version",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-core"
    },
    {
      "name": "blackroad-os-api",
      "type": "gateway",
      "provider": "railway",
      "domain": "api.blackroad.io",
      "health": "/health",
      "version": "/version",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-api"
    },
    {
      "name": "blackroad-os-docs",
      "type": "frontend",
      "provider": "cloudflare-pages",
      "domain": "docs.blackroad.io",
      "health": "/health",
      "version": "/version",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-docs"
    },
    {
      "name": "blackroad-os-prism-console",
      "type": "frontend",
      "provider": "cloudflare-pages",
      "domain": "app.blackroad.io",
      "health": "/health",
      "version": "/version",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-prism-console"
    }
  ]
}

Deployment Order

1. Database (Railway Postgres) ────────────────────── ✅ DONE
   │
2. blackroad-os-core (API server) ─────────────────── ✅ RUNNING LOCALLY
   │
3. blackroad-os-web (Main site + Infra Map) ───────── 🔧 DEPLOY TO CF PAGES
   │
4. blackroad-os-docs ──────────────────────────────── 🔧 DEPLOY TO CF PAGES
   │
5. blackroad-os-api (Public gateway) ──────────────── 🔧 DEPLOY TO RAILWAY
   │
6. blackroad-os-prism-console ─────────────────────── 🔧 DEPLOY TO CF PAGES
   │
7. blackroad-os-operator (Background jobs) ────────── 🔧 DEPLOY TO RAILWAY
   │
8. lucidia-core + lucidia-platform ────────────────── 🔧 PHASE 1

Required Environment Variables

blackroad-os-core (Railway)

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://...
GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=...
CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID=848cf0b18d51e0170e0d1537aec3505a
RAILWAY_TOKEN=...
PORT=4000

blackroad-os-web (Cloudflare Pages)

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=https://api.blackroad.io
SITE_URL=https://blackroad.io

blackroad-os-api (Railway)

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://...
CORE_API_URL=http://blackroad-os-core.railway.internal:4000
PORT=8080

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4. MAKE IT LIVE CHECKLIST

Phase 0: Core Infrastructure (THIS WEEK)

[ ] 1. Deploy blackroad-os-core to Railway
    - Link to existing Postgres database
    - Set environment variables
    - Verify /health returns {"status":"ok"}

[ ] 2. Deploy blackroad-os-web to Cloudflare Pages
    - Connect to GitHub repo
    - Set NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL to Railway URL
    - Verify builds and deploys

[ ] 3. Configure DNS in Cloudflare
    - blackroad.io → CF Pages (web)
    - api.blackroad.io → Railway (core for now)
    - docs.blackroad.io → CF Pages (docs)

[ ] 4. Verify all services healthy
    - curl https://blackroad.io/health
    - curl https://api.blackroad.io/health
    - curl https://docs.blackroad.io/health

[ ] 5. Run infra:sync in production
    - All repos visible on /infra
    - GitHub integration green
    - Last synced timestamp updating

Phase 0.5: Full API Layer (Next Week)

[ ] 6. Deploy blackroad-os-api to Railway
    - Public API gateway
    - Rate limiting
    - Auth middleware

[ ] 7. Deploy blackroad-os-prism-console to CF Pages
    - Admin dashboard at app.blackroad.io
    - Connect to API

[ ] 8. Deploy blackroad-os-operator to Railway
    - Background job runner
    - Scheduled sync
    - Health monitoring

[ ] 9. Set up Cloudflare tunnels for secure internal traffic
    - Core API not publicly exposed
    - Gateway handles all external requests

Phase 1: Portals (Week 3-4)

[ ] 10. Deploy lucidia-core to Railway
    - AI reasoning engine
    - Connect to LLM providers

[ ] 11. Deploy lucidia-platform to CF Pages
    - Chat interface at lucidia.blackroad.io
    - Connected to lucidia-core

[ ] 12. Implement Homework Portal
    - Basic question/answer flow
    - Subject detection
    - Response storage

[ ] 13. Implement Creator Portal scaffold
    - Project management
    - Template selection
    - Draft storage

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5. MISSING FILES TO GENERATE

SERVICE_REGISTRY.json (for blackroad-os-infra)

{
  "$schema": "./schemas/service-registry.schema.json",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "updated": "2025-12-01",
  "services": [
    {
      "id": "web",
      "name": "blackroad-os-web",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-web",
      "provider": "cloudflare-pages",
      "domain": "blackroad.io",
      "endpoints": {
        "health": "/health",
        "version": "/version"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "core",
      "name": "blackroad-os-core",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-core",
      "provider": "railway",
      "internal": true,
      "port": 4000,
      "endpoints": {
        "health": "/health",
        "infra": "/api/infra"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "api",
      "name": "blackroad-os-api",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-api",
      "provider": "railway",
      "domain": "api.blackroad.io",
      "port": 8080,
      "endpoints": {
        "health": "/health",
        "version": "/version"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "docs",
      "name": "blackroad-os-docs",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-docs",
      "provider": "cloudflare-pages",
      "domain": "docs.blackroad.io",
      "endpoints": {
        "health": "/health"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "prism",
      "name": "blackroad-os-prism-console",
      "repo": "BlackRoad-OS/blackroad-os-prism-console",
      "provider": "cloudflare-pages",
      "domain": "app.blackroad.io",
      "endpoints": {
        "health": "/health"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Operator Manifest (for blackroad-os-operator)

# operator.manifest.yaml
name: blackroad-os-operator
version: 0.1.0

jobs:
  - name: infra-sync
    schedule: "0 * * * *"  # Every hour
    command: pnpm infra:sync
    timeout: 300s

  - name: health-check
    schedule: "*/5 * * * *"  # Every 5 minutes
    command: pnpm health:check
    timeout: 60s

workers:
  - name: agent-runner
    concurrency: 5
    queue: agent-tasks

  - name: notification-sender
    concurrency: 2
    queue: notifications

integrations:
  - github
  - cloudflare
  - railway

Deploy Script (for CI/CD)

#!/bin/bash
# deploy.sh - BlackRoad OS deployment script

set -e

SERVICE=$1
ENV=${2:-production}

case $SERVICE in
  web)
    echo "Deploying blackroad-os-web to Cloudflare Pages..."
    cd /path/to/blackroad-os-web
    pnpm build
    wrangler pages deploy .out --project-name=blackroad-os-web
    ;;

  core)
    echo "Deploying blackroad-os-core to Railway..."
    cd /path/to/blackroad-os-core
    railway up
    ;;

  api)
    echo "Deploying blackroad-os-api to Railway..."
    cd /path/to/blackroad-os-api
    railway up
    ;;

  docs)
    echo "Deploying blackroad-os-docs to Cloudflare Pages..."
    cd /path/to/blackroad-os-docs
    pnpm build
    wrangler pages deploy out --project-name=blackroad-os-docs
    ;;

  all)
    $0 core $ENV
    $0 api $ENV
    $0 web $ENV
    $0 docs $ENV
    ;;

  *)
    echo "Usage: deploy.sh [web|core|api|docs|all] [production|staging]"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

echo "✓ Deployment complete"

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6. IMMEDIATE NEXT ACTIONS

Right Now (Copy-Paste Ready)

Step 1: Deploy Core to Railway

cd /Users/alexa/blackroad-os-core
railway link  # Select: blackroad-os-core project
railway up

Step 2: Deploy Web to Cloudflare Pages

cd /Users/alexa/blackroad-os-web
pnpm build
wrangler pages project create blackroad-os-web --production-branch main
wrangler pages deploy .out --project-name=blackroad-os-web

Step 3: Configure DNS

# In Cloudflare dashboard, add CNAME:
# blackroad.io → blackroad-os-web.pages.dev
# api.blackroad.io → [railway-public-url]

Step 4: Verify

curl https://blackroad.io/health
curl https://blackroad.io/infra
curl https://api.blackroad.io/health

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Ready for confirmation. Say 'approve' to execute Phase 1.

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Generated by cece.governor.v1 BlackRoad OS Launch Sequence v1.0