Five operational gaps that bite when a connector-backed bot answers
questions in real groups:
- Single-instance lock: one connector per robot per machine (pid file,
stale-lock takeover). Duplicate Stream connections on one clientId get
messages load-balanced between them, so the bot answers intermittently
(verified live).
- Access policy: --allowed-users / --allowed-groups allowlists plus a
per-sender rate limit (--user-rate-limit, default 20/min). Every
message is an LLM call; without this anyone who can reach the bot can
spend on its behalf.
- Per-conversation FIFO queue: same-chat messages run in arrival order
(follow-ups need the previous turn's --resume session; parallel CLIs
racing one session corrupt it); different chats stay parallel.
- Picture messages: resolve the callback downloadCode via robot
messageFiles/download to a local temp file and hand the path to the
agent CLI — error screenshots are the top Q&A inbound and were
previously dropped silently. The claudecode persona now permits
reading attached files.
- --knowledge-dir: lightweight local retrieval (markdown chunking,
latin-token + CJK-bigram scoring) prepends top-k matching chunks to
each question while the agent keeps running from the clean scratch
dir, so replies stay inside DingTalk's AI-assistant response window.
All knobs have env mirrors (DWS_ALLOWED_USERS / DWS_ALLOWED_GROUPS /
DWS_USER_RATE_LIMIT / DWS_KNOWLEDGE_DIR) for service-style runs.
go build ./... clean; go test ./internal/helpers -race passes with new
tests for lock/gate/queue/knowledge/media. test/cli_compat, test/scripts
and test/unit fail identically on the unmodified base (pre-existing
fixture issues).