This camp records a Festival run on Helix, an existing open source platform for hosting AI-powered apps. The work began with a repository evaluation, moved through a design work item, and ended with a completed implementation festival. The code changes are in my Helix repository, based on AZX's original Helix. This is an independent example, not an AZX release or a deployment to AZX's live installs.
The replay comes from the festival's recorded task and gate events (fest gif). It shows the work advancing through four sequences and 54 tasks.
- Explore the existing product. The exploration workflow split repository discovery into focused questions. The findings distinguish confirmed gaps from hypotheses and identify the spend, network, and hosted-app isolation problems taken forward.
- Design the changes. The design work item developed three designs, recorded owner decisions, and set the implementation order and verification rules.
- Execute the festival. Helix hardening HH0001 organized the work into spend controls, network egress, CSP and response headers, and a separate hosted-app domain. Each sequence has task files, test records, a review, and fixes. The final phase record maps the outcome to the evidence and lists what remains unverified.
- Inspect the code changes. The four pull requests in my Helix repository cover spend controls, network egress, CSP and headers, and the domain split. They were merged in that order.
The festival implemented 34 planned changes and 11 review fix batches. Its final local gate passed 243 test files and 3,704 tests; browser smoke and network simulation also passed. The code was not deployed to Azure or the live installs. Azure-specific behavior is marked unverified in the rollout records. The phase record predates the PR merges, so its descriptions of the PRs as open are historical; the linked PRs show their current state.
| Path | What it contains |
|---|---|
workflow/explore/helix-repo-exploration/ |
Evidence gathered from the existing codebase and its operations |
workflow/design/helix-spend-containment-egress/ |
Designs, decisions, review, and implementation plan |
festivals/.dungeon/completed/2026-10-11/helix-hardening-HH0001/ |
Completed tasks, review findings, gate evidence, and replay |
projects/helix/ |
Git submodule containing the Helix implementation |
The Helix submodule currently points to a private repository. The camp's written records and GIF can be read here; cloning Helix or following its PR links requires access to that repository.