Ten Brainstorms (Claude) GitHub issue

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Ten new-to-the-project ideas I came up with while you were at 7-Eleven. None of these have been explicitly discussed; some overlap conceptually with existing work but propose new directions.

These are seeds, not specs. Most are worth at most a 30-second read each.

1. Time-travel debugger for Caspian GitHub issue

Mikobase already supports time-travel reads (querying state as of any past timestamp). A debugger could exploit this: step backwards through state changes, not just forwards. Pair with Caspian's deterministic GC (collection happens at known moments) and the auto-recorded Jasmine call frames, and you have the ingredients for a real "rewind execution to before the bug" experience.

Would require recording function-call entries in something mikobase-shaped during a debug run. Heavy but feasible.

2. Visual Xeme tree renderer GitHub issue

The icons we just spent time organizing are a contract waiting for a client. A browser-based (or desktop) viewer that:

Becomes the canonical "see your test results" tool. Implements the icon-fallback rule once, in one place.

3. Test analytics service GitHub issue

A hosted service that consumes Xeme trees over time and surfaces:

Natural paid-tier upgrade on top of the planned logging/Jasmine service.

4. Jasmine → notifications service GitHub issue

A hosted service that consumes Jasmine entries and routes attention-worthy events to email / SMS / Slack / Pushover / etc.

Builds on top of the hosted logging service rather than competing with it.

5. TryCaspian — browser playground GitHub issue

A web page where someone can type Caspian and see it run. Mimics TryRuby, Replit, the various "play with this language" pages.

Aligns with the first-contact strategy memory.

6. Puck CLI tool GitHub issue

A unified command-line tool — puck — for everyday Puck operations. Like kubectl for Kubernetes or gh for GitHub.

puck object get foo.com/widget/42
puck mikobase create scratch
puck mikobase sync source=... target=...
puck class show puck.uno/jasmine
puck blockchain verify
puck test run            # wraps bryton

Single entry point for what's currently a constellation of specific scripts. Discoverable via puck --help.

7. Universal logger sidecar GitHub issue

A small daemon — puck-log — that reads Jasmine entries on stdin (or a Unix socket) and routes them to whatever's configured (local files, the hosted logging service, syslog, Slack, etc.).

Apps just write Jasmine to their local sidecar — they don't need to know where logs ultimately go. The sidecar's routing config is the one knob the operator turns.

Inspired by Fluentd / Vector but Jasmine-native. Small enough to ship as part of the core toolset.

8. Federated mikobases GitHub issue

Multiple mikobases can be queried as a single virtual store. The federation layer:

Use case: an "all my data" view spanning a local mikobase, a remote shared mikobase, and a third-party mikobase the user has access to. None merge physically; the view is a join.

Hard to do well (cross-mikobase joins are nontrivial) but philosophically aligned with Puck's "objects everywhere" posture.

9. Time-bounded objects GitHub issue

A class capability: objects with an explicit lifetime. The mikobase auto-collects them after their TTL expires.

$token = %['puck.uno/auth/token'].new(
    expires_at: %now + 3600,
    user: $user
)
$mikobase.save($token)
# 1 hour later: $token is gone, automatically

Common need (auth tokens, session caches, throttling windows, temporary shares). Mikobase already has the time-travel infrastructure to implement this cleanly — TTL is "this object is collectible after timestamp X."

10. Lazy mikobase records GitHub issue

A record whose value is computed on demand by a function, not stored. The mikobase keeps the recipe (the function + its dependencies) and re-evaluates when the record is read.

$mikobase.save({
    'class': 'lazy_record',
    'key': 'total_users',
    'compute': function() %query.count('users') end
})
# Reading 'total_users' runs the compute function each time

Useful for derived data that doesn't fit a static record (counts, aggregates, computed views) without inventing a separate materialized-view system. The lazy record IS the view.

Caching strategies, dependency tracking, and invalidation are the hard parts.

Status GitHub issue

All ten are speculative. Some overlap with already-flagged future work; others are new threads. None are commitments. Filed for the record while you got snacks.
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