project-nomad/docs/emergency/BOOTSTRAP_PROMPT.md

Emergency Bootstrap Prompt

Use this brief when scaffolding emergency-specific work in this downstream fork.

Goal

Build an emergency runtime profile on top of Project N.O.M.A.D. that favors hard-offline usefulness, local search, and bounded sync.

Constraints

• Keep upstream compatibility where practical.
• Prefer additive paths over invasive rewrites.
• Assume the device is a dedicated Android or Ubuntu handheld.
• Keep v1 deterministic: search, excerpt, source, maps.
• Do not make LLM or vector infrastructure a hard runtime dependency.

Network model

• Base policy: ON or OFF
• Explicit exception: armed one-shot sync
• One-shot must support:
  • bounded scope
  • timeout
  • byte cap setting
  • download count cap setting
  • auto-disarm

Quality bar

• Keep the read path local.
• Keep network usage explicit.
• Keep the delta against upstream small and understandable.
• Prefer boring and reliable over clever abstractions.