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ci.yml calls `scripts/ci.sh` rather than restating the checks: a workflow that reimplements them becomes a second definition of "done", and the two drift. Android runs as a separate job. It fails when the SDK is absent while ci.sh skips it — a developer should not be blocked by a missing toolchain, but a silently skipped Android build in CI means regressions ship unnoticed. Every action is pinned to an exact version. LICENSE.md records that no licence is chosen yet, and why it is not a formality: the choice is upstream of the UI toolkit decision, since Slint is GPL-3.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Blocker
A cross-platform app and website blocker for Android, Windows and Linux.
One shared Rust core owns every decision. Platform code observes the OS and
enforces what the core decides. That is what makes the same schedule behave
identically on all three, and it is testable rather than aspirational — the golden
decision tables in tests/ are the parity contract, so a platform disagreeing
with the core fails the build instead of producing a bug report.
Status
M0 — repository bootstrap. The core engine exists and is tested; nothing enforces anything yet. No platform has a working build.
| Milestone | State |
|---|---|
| M0 repo bootstrap | in progress |
| M1 core engine | engine, lock timers and safety guarantees written and tested; storage has no I/O yet |
| M2-Linux | not started — daemon is a placeholder |
| M3-Android | not started |
| M4 conditions | not started |
| M5 websites | not started |
| M6 Strict Mode + friction | not started |
| M7 statistics, settings, releases | not started |
Milestone order is Linux-first rather than Android-first. See ADR-15.
What it will do
- Schedules of apps, websites and keywords, with time windows, usage limits, launch counts, Wi-Fi and location conditions
- Blocklist and allowlist modes, with strictest-wins when schedules overlap
- QuickBlock: block a chosen set for a chosen duration
- Strict Mode and a configurable friction ladder, so turning blocking off takes deliberate effort in a weak moment while remaining always possible
- Local usage statistics
What it will not do
This is a friction tool, not a wall. A user with root, ADB, safe mode, a factory reset, or desktop admin rights can always remove it, and that is intended. Factory reset, safe mode and OS recovery are never interfered with. The goal is to outlast an impulse, not to defeat a determined decision.
There is also a hardcoded list of things that can never be blocked — the phone and dialler, emergency calls and alerts, and on desktop the OS shell and the Settings basics needed to keep the machine usable. There is no setting that changes it.
See docs/LIMITATIONS.md for all eight platform limits,
stated plainly, plus the shortfalls in the current code.
Build and test
Requires a stable Rust toolchain. The toolchain is pinned in rust-toolchain.toml.
scripts/ci.sh # everything, stops at the first failure
scripts/ci.sh --keep-going # everything, summarises all failures
cargo test --workspace # tests only
cargo build --workspace # build only
scripts/size-check.sh # the 5 MB stripped daemon gate
Build artifacts go to $HOME/.blocker-target, outside the repository, so target/
never shows up in git status and can be deleted in one command. Override with
CARGO_TARGET_DIR.
Two checks skip on a machine without the relevant toolchain — Android without an SDK, the secret scan without gitleaks. Both skip loudly and are listed in the summary as not-passes. A skip is never reported as a pass.
Layout
core/ the decision engine — pure, no OS calls, no dependencies
tests/ golden decision tables, and the engine purity check
desktop/daemon/ long-lived observer and enforcer (5 MB budget)
desktop/ui/ block-screen window, launched on demand
desktop/platform-linux/ ForegroundWatcher backends, enforcement
desktop/platform-windows/ same, Windows
android/ not started
docs/ architecture, ADRs, limitations, permissions, perf, testing
scripts/ ci.sh, size-check.sh
Documentation
| Document | What it is for |
|---|---|
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md |
The purity contract, next_wakeup, and why the engine has no dependencies |
docs/DECISIONS.md |
17 ADRs, including the two still awaiting a decision |
docs/LIMITATIONS.md |
What the OS will not let us do, and what is not built yet |
docs/PERMISSIONS.md |
Every permission, and what degrades without it |
docs/PERF.md |
Section 5 budgets, and the measurements taken so far |
docs/TESTING.md |
The golden-table contract and the manual checklists |
CLAUDE.md |
The project specification. It governs. |
Performance budgets
| Metric | Target |
|---|---|
| Idle CPU | ~0%, no wakeups without events |
| Idle RAM (daemon) | ≤ 15 MB RSS |
| Block latency | ≤ 150 ms |
| Daemon binary | ≤ 5 MB stripped |
| APK size | ≤ 10 MB |
Currently measured: 0.279 MB stripped daemon — a placeholder that prints two
lines. The meaningful number comes in M2-Linux. Enforced in CI from the first
commit by scripts/size-check.sh.
Licence
Not yet chosen. See ADR-17. Choosing a licence is the owner's decision, and it interacts with the UI toolkit choice in ADR-6 (Slint is GPL-3.0 or commercial), so it is not something to settle by accident.
A note on origin
Blocker is a functional reimplementation of the behaviour of existing app blockers. It reuses no third-party name, logo, icon, copy, or screenshot — only behaviour.