Files
rutster/examples/echo_brain/README.md
opencode controller 411276bfde test(slice-2): integration test + Python echo brain + LEARNING pointers
- Integration test: smoke test against in-process EchoServer (hello
  handshake round-trip). Full end-to-end + reconnect-path tests adapt
  to slice-1's existing integration-test harness.
- examples/echo_brain/: Python reference brain (~80 lines, websockets lib).
  README documents runtime posture + why a Python brain complements the
  Rust one (language-agnosticism vs wire-types-reusability).
- LEARNING.md: 5 new pointers (mpsc/oneshot, VecDeque ring, async WS,
  Box<dyn Trait> field widening, zero-sized marker newtype).

Spec ref: 2026-06-28-slice-2-agent-tap-design.md §8.4, §8.5 #7.
2026-06-28 17:52:16 -04:00

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Rutster Echo Brain (Python reference)

The canonical foreign-language brain for slice-2. Speaks the slice-2 tap wire protocol (§3): versioned JSON events over ws:// text frames with base64-encoded little-endian PCM.

Why a Python brain?

The architecture (ARCHITECTURE.md §"Agent tap") names "a Python script" as the canonical brain persona. This example proves the wire format is language-agnostic: the core's rutster-tap Rust types serialize/deserialize to exactly what json.loads + websockets produces. The Rust echo brain (crates/rutster-tap-echo) proves wire-types reusability from outside the core; this Python brain proves language-agnosticism.

Run

pip install -r examples/echo_brain/requirements.txt
python examples/echo_brain/echo_brain.py
# [echo_brain] listening on ws://127.0.0.1:8081/echo

Then in another terminal:

cargo run  # the core dials out to ws://127.0.0.1:8081/echo by default

Not in CI

This script is not run by CI. The Rust rutster-tap-echo crate covers the in-process test surface for the integration test; this Python brain is the human-runnable demo + manual e2e test plan.

Protocol

See the spec §3 for the full wire protocol. Key behavior:

  • On hello: ack with hello (echo the session_id).
  • On audio_in: echo the same PCM back as audio_out (advisory — core disposes).
  • On bye / session_end: close cleanly.
  • Stateless across reconnects (spec §5.3) — every hello starts fresh.