ruche 0.1.0

A git-backed store for cross-cutting work items

ruche

A git-backed store for cross-cutting work items.

Status: early reservation release (v0.1.0). Packaging, CI, and the test harness are in place. The commands parse but are not implemented yet; each one exits non-zero with "not yet implemented". Follow the roadmap below.

What it is

ruche keeps work items (issues, tasks, decisions) inside your git repository, next to the code they concern, instead of in a separate tracker. The store is plain files committed to git. A derived SQLite + FTS5 index makes reads fast and is always reconciled to HEAD before an index-backed read, while trust-critical reads bypass it entirely.

One core, several faces: a Rust library (ruche-core), a command-line tool (ruche), a Python package on PyPI, and (later) an MCP server.

flowchart TD
    core["ruche-core: store, index, merge driver, provenance"]
    cli["ruche (CLI)"]
    py["Python wheel (PyPI)"]
    mcp["ruche-mcp (planned)"]
    cli --> core
    py --> core
    mcp -. planned .-> core

The hive

ruche means "hive" in French. The apian metaphor lives in the concepts and the docs; the commands themselves stay plain English.

Concept	Term
a work item	alvéole (cell)
an active item	couvain (brood)
closing an item	operculer (to cap a cell)
a graduating seed	essaim / essaimer (swarm)
the merge gate	les gardiennes (the guard bees)
propose, then apply	la danse (the waggle dance)

Install

Once published:

cargo install ruche      # the CLI
pip install ruche        # the CLI plus a thin Python binding

Commands

capture, search, board, get, update, note, triage (--apply), decide (--apply), cap, swarm, context, scope rename, reindex, doctor, migrate, init, merge-driver.

Roadmap

The intended stack, each piece added when it is built, not before:

• gix for git access
• rusqlite + FTS5 for the derived index
• ulid for ids
• serde plus a YAML crate for row frontmatter
• rmcp for the MCP face (ruche-mcp)
• PyO3 + maturin for the PyPI wheel (already wired)

Workspace layout

• crates/ruche-core: the library (store, index, write path, merge driver, provenance); module seams only for now.
• crates/ruche: the CLI, built on ruche-core.
• crates/ruche-py: the PyO3/maturin crate that builds the PyPI wheel.

License

Dual-licensed under either of MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.