Aaron D. Lee
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012QndwfhjyTiZcUYp87dwW8 Signed-off-by: Aaron D. Lee <himself@adlee.work>
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# Quickstart
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Get Rutster running and hear your own voice echoed back in under 5 minutes.
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> **Status:** Slices 1–3 are merged to `main`. Slice 4 (barge-in / VAD-driven playout
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> kill) is the active build target, in flight on the `slice-4-dev-a-reflex` +
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> `slice-4-dev-b-tap` branches. This quickstart exercises the slice-1 WebRTC media
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> loopback, which remains the simplest end-to-end demo on `main`. See
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> [`docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-01-slice-4-barge-in-design.md`](superpowers/specs/2026-07-01-slice-4-barge-in-design.md)
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> for the active build target's design.
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---
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## Prerequisites
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### 1. Rust toolchain
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Install via [rustup](https://rustup.rs/):
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```bash
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curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
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```
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The repo pins a specific stable channel in `rust-toolchain.toml` — `rustup`
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will pick it up automatically on first `cargo` invocation. No manual
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toolchain selection needed.
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### 2. libopus (FFI dependency)
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The `opus` crate links system libopus via FFI (per PORT_PLAN §7's
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"🦀 Core (FFI)" disposition — Opus is the codec surface Rust doesn't need
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to re-implement). Install the dev headers:
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| Platform | Command |
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| Debian/Ubuntu | `sudo apt-get install -y libopus-dev` |
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| Fedora | `sudo dnf install -y opus-devel` |
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| Arch | `sudo pacman -S opus` |
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| macOS (Homebrew) | `brew install opus` |
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Verify: `pkg-config --cflags opus` should print a path with no error.
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That's the only system dependency in slice 1. Everything else is pure
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Rust from crates.io.
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---
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## Run the server
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```bash
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cargo run
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# listening on http://0.0.0.0:8080
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```
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First build takes ~2 minutes (str0m + axum + tokio compile fresh).
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Subsequent builds are incremental.
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---
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## Hear the echo
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1. Open a browser to <http://localhost:8080/>.
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2. Click **Start call**.
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3. Grant microphone permission when the browser prompts.
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4. Speak — you should hear yourself back within ~200 ms
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(no perceptible delay).
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5. Click **Hang up** to tear down. The server logs
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`Closing → Closed` for the session.
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Verbose tracing for debugging:
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```bash
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RUST_LOG=rutster=debug cargo run
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```
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---
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## Troubleshooting
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| Symptom | Likely cause / fix |
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| `error: linking with cc failed` / `could not find opus` | libopus dev headers not installed. Re-run the install command above. |
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| Browser shows no mic prompt | Another tab/app holding the mic, or mic permissions disabled for `localhost`. Check browser settings. |
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| `ICE connection failed` in the browser | Shouldn't happen on loopback (host candidates only). If it does, check the server console for the str0m error. |
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| Click Start call, nothing happens | Open the browser console (F12). The page logs ICE state + connection state to a `<pre>` element. Look for the failure there. |
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| Port 8080 already in use | Set `RUTSTER_HTTP_BIND`, e.g. `RUTSTER_HTTP_BIND=0.0.0.0:8090 cargo run -p rutster` |
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The browser test page at `GET /` is a single self-contained HTML file
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with inline JS — no build step. View source to see exactly what the
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client side is doing.
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---
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## What's happening
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When you click "Start call":
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1. Browser captures microphone audio via `getUserMedia`.
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2. Browser creates an `RTCPeerConnection` and generates an SDP offer
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(audio-only, Opus codec).
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3. Browser POSTs the offer to `POST /v1/sessions/:id/offer`.
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4. The Rutster core (built on [`str0m`](https://docs.rs/str0m), a sans-IO
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WebRTC implementation) accepts the offer, generates an SDP answer with
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its DTLS fingerprint + ICE credentials.
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5. Browser sets the answer as remote description; ICE + DTLS handshake
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completes.
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6. RTP starts flowing: browser → core terminates DTLS-SRTP → decodes
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Opus to 16-bit PCM @ 24 kHz mono → echoes PCM back → re-encodes to
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Opus → DTLS-SRTP → browser plays it.
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The "codec-to-PCM boundary" is the canonical point where, in a future
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slice, the audio tap for an external AI brain splices in. Slice 1 just
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echoes; step 2 of the spearhead swaps the echo for a real tap.
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For the why, see [`ARCHITECTURE.md`](ARCHITECTURE.md). For the dev loop,
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see [`DEVELOPMENT.md`](DEVELOPMENT.md).
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