Garden OS

A local-first raised-bed planning system that runs entirely in the browser. Explains placement decisions, not just layouts.

Problem Statement

Most garden planners answer "where should I plant this?" with weak reasoning transparency.

Garden OS focuses on explainable decisions:

• sun fit
• support fit
• shade tolerance
• access fit
• seasonal fit
• structural bonus
• adjacency effects

The system also highlights the limiting factor so users can make high-leverage changes quickly.

Features

• Active v5 Beds What-If trials with zero persistent writes before Apply
• Cross-bed A/B experiments with immutable baselines, dated observations, and read-only Planner summaries
• Explainable scoring panel in Inspect tab
• Limiting-factor detection for each selected crop/cell
• Adjacency analysis (companion/conflict/water mismatch)
• Workspace export/import with .gos.json
• Export-only reasoned summaries for temporal context, multi-bed comparison, companion findings, and active-cell explanation
• Canonical data contract in gos-schema.json
• Zero-backend, offline-capable architecture

Quick Start

1. Clone the repo.
2. Open index.html in a modern browser.
3. Launch the active v5 surfaces: garden-painting.html for Beds and garden-planner-v5.html for the seasonal Planner.

The current root surfaces can run without install, build, or runtime services. That is a shipping mode, not a permanent architecture rule.

Usage Example

1. Select a crop in the palette.
2. Paint cells in the bed.
3. Open Inspect tab on a planted cell.
4. Read the Why this score? breakdown.
5. Move the crop based on limiting-factor diagnostics.
6. Export workspace to .gos.json for backup or sharing.

Structure

garden-os/
├── index.html                          # Canonical Home redirect
├── index-v5.html                       # Current product Home implementation
├── garden-painting.html                # Active v5 Beds editor and experiments
├── garden-planner-v5.html              # Active v5 seasonal planner
├── gos-experiments.js                  # Cross-bed experiment contract/store
├── garden-cage-build-guide.html        # Cage construction guide
├── garden-cage-ops-guide.html          # Operations and maintenance guide
├── scoring-map.html                    # Scoring architecture reference
├── scoring-visualizer.html             # Scoring debugger
├── system-topology.html                # Ecosystem topology map
├── brand-guide.html                    # Brand token and component reference
├── specs/                              # Data schemas and reference JSON
├── docs/                               # Design docs, audits, roadmaps
├── AGENTS.md                           # Agent instructions (issue tracker deprecated; see docs/UI_ISSUES_TABLE.html)
├── CLAUDE.md                           # Architecture constraints
└── README.md                           # This file

Deployment

• Host: GitHub Pages
• Live URL: https://davehomeassist.github.io/garden-os/
• Build step: None for current root surfaces; build tooling is allowed for app-quality surfaces when the product needs it.

Tech

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and vendored React for active v5 surfaces
• localStorage for persistence
• JSON Schema for contract validation
• Offline-capable (no network required except Google Fonts)

Smoke Checklist

• Run the full predeploy verifier:

  cd story-mode && npm ci
  npx playwright install chromium
  cd ..
  node scripts/verify-all.mjs

• Run the live postdeploy smoke:

  node scripts/verify-all.mjs --live-only --live-url https://davehomeassist.github.io/garden-os/story-mode/

• Planner reloads cleanly with existing saved workspaces.
• Planner recovers to a safe empty workspace if localStorage JSON is malformed.
• Planner tool state stays in sync across click, keyboard, reload, and bed switching.
• Planner mobile shell shows the board before side panels and sidebar toggles still work.
• Season Engine v4 (garden-league-simulator-v4.html, archived) neutral clicks inspect/select without mutating the grid.
• Season Engine v4 E toggles eraser and Escape returns to neutral inspect behavior.
• Menus and dialogs open with focus on an action, trap Tab where expected, and close on Escape.
• Phase reasoning smoke verifies score payload parity, temporal context, multi-bed experiment summaries, companion findings, and deterministic reasoned export output.

Roadmap

• Planner accessibility hardening (ARIA, keyboard clarity)
• Scoring visualization polish and diagnostics depth
• Workspace lifecycle improvements
• Additional decision-support modules

Links

• Live: https://davehomeassist.github.io/garden-os/
• Source: https://github.com/DaveHomeAssist/garden-os

Conventions

This project follows the shared naming conventions in 30-shared-resources/shared-standards/NAMING_CONVENTIONS.md.

License

MIT (project-level convention).