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commands::intentions

Where you are: Architecture map → Tauri runtime → Commands → Implementation intentions

Plain English summary. Phase 7. Tiny "if-then" automation rules: "at 09:00 each day, surface my Inbox", "when the morning triage finishes, start a 5-minute timer", "when task X is completed, speak 'Nice'". Frontend owns scheduling and execution because v1 triggers are app-local events plus a local clock check; Rust owns durable storage, validation, and a main-window-only firewall.

At a glance

• Path: src-tauri/src/commands/intentions.rs.
• LOC: 308.
• Tauri commands exposed (5 total), all main-window only:
  • list_implementation_rules(window, state) -> Result<Vec<ImplementationRuleDto>, String>.
  • create_implementation_rule(window, state, request: CreateImplementationRuleRequest) -> Result<ImplementationRuleDto, String>.
  • set_implementation_rule_enabled(window, state, id, enabled) -> Result<ImplementationRuleDto, String>.
  • mark_implementation_rule_fired(window, state, id, fired_key) -> Result<ImplementationRuleDto, String>.
  • delete_implementation_rule(window, state, id) -> Result<(), String>.
• Events emitted: none.
• Depends on: magnotia_storage::{insert_implementation_rule, list_implementation_rules, set_implementation_rule_enabled, mark_implementation_rule_fired, delete_implementation_rule, get_task_by_id, ImplementationRuleRow}, uuid::Uuid, serde_json. Plus commands::security::ensure_main_window.
• Called from frontend at: Settings → Implementation intentions (CRUD); the rule-runner module (mark_implementation_rule_fired after firing).

What's in here

Trigger and action enums (src-tauri/src/commands/intentions.rs:21)

• RuleTriggerKind: TimeOfDay, TaskCompleted, MorningTriageFinished. Serialises as "time_of_day", "task_completed", "morning_triage_finished".
• SurfaceTarget: Inbox, Today, Tasks, Task. The Task variant requires a taskId.
• RuleAction (tagged enum, kind discriminator): Surface { target, taskId, label }, StartTimer { seconds, taskId, label }, SpeakLine { text }.

CreateImplementationRuleRequest (:72)

triggerKind, triggerValue: String, actions: Vec<RuleAction>, enabled (default true), lastFiredKey: Option<String>.

ImplementationRuleDto (:88) and TryFrom (:100)

The DTO unpacks the storage row's actions_json back into typed Vec<RuleAction>. Returns Err on unknown trigger_kind strings or invalid JSON — surfaces drift instead of silently swallowing.

Validators

• validate_hhmm(value) (:125) — strict HH:MM, two digits each, hours 0..=23, minutes 0..=59. Tested.
• validate_actions(state, actions) (:144):
  • At least one action.
  • Surface { target: Task } requires a taskId and the task must exist (via get_task_by_id).
  • StartTimer rejects anything other than 300 seconds (v1 fixed at 5 minutes).
  • SpeakLine requires non-empty text and ≤ 240 chars.
• validate_request(state, request) (:192) — checks the trigger value matches the trigger kind (TimeOfDay requires HH:MM, the others reject any non-empty trigger_value).

Commands (:207 onwards)

All five commands ensure_main_window. CRUD is otherwise straight wrapping. create_implementation_rule generates a UUIDv4, serialises actions to JSON, normalises trigger_value (empty for non-time triggers), inserts, and returns the freshly-fetched DTO. mark_implementation_rule_fired requires a non-empty fired_key (the frontend uses ISO date strings to dedupe daily fires).

Tests (:296)

hhmm_validation_accepts_and_rejects_expected_shapes covers a handful of valid and invalid clock strings.

Data flow

Settings -> create_implementation_rule(req)
  -> ensure_main_window
  -> validate_request (HH:MM if applicable, action shape, task existence for surface-task)
  -> uuid::v4 for id
  -> serde_json serialise actions
  -> magnotia_storage::insert_implementation_rule
  -> list/return DTO

frontend rule-runner cron -> evaluates triggers in JS
  -> when a rule fires: invoke('mark_implementation_rule_fired', id, "2026-05-09")
                        -> stamp the dedupe key in DB

Watch-outs

• Action timer is hard-capped to 300 seconds. The frontend has to surface this constraint. Future versions will need to widen the validator to accept arbitrary durations.
• Rule execution lives entirely in the frontend. If the user closes Magnotia at 08:55 with a 09:00 rule, the rule does not fire. There is no daemon. This is documented in the module header.
• Validation is sync against the DB. validate_actions calls get_task_by_id for every surface-task action. Multiple actions in one rule = multiple round-trips. Acceptable today; consider batching if a rule grows huge.
• mark_implementation_rule_fired requires a non-empty fired_key. The frontend should always pass an ISO date for daily rules and a per-event key for task-completed rules. Empty key = command rejection.
• No PowerAssertion. None of these actions run inference. No need.

See also

• Tasks — Surface { target: Task } and StartTimer { taskId } reference task ids.
• TTS — SpeakLine actions are dispatched by the frontend through tts_speak.
• Capabilities and ACL — main-window-only is the firewall here.