docs: correct claims and anchors the code no longer backs

Fix two dead anchors (the MCP trust model, the README quick start) and the
statements that no longer match the app: a guardian can connect a managed
profile's services, the environment module is on by default and reaches the
air-quality host too, its readable location columns were dropped in 0409,
settings sections carry their current names, the Withings card lives on
/settings/integrations, the TrueNAS start period matches the image, the
deploy check names HEALTHLOG_PROD_URL, and the docs index describes what
self-hosting/ and integrations/ hold.
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@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Try the [live demo](https://demo.healthlog.dev) to see a working install — sig
- **Clinical signals, opt-in and additive.** Validated self-checks for mental wellbeing and sleep (WHO-5, PHQ-9, GAD-7, Sleep Condition Indicator — official questionnaire wording, calm crisis-resource handling), grip strength, a 0–10 pain score, waist and body measurements, and a longevity lab panel — each added through one signal registry, so a new signal wires into charts, correlations, the coach, the FHIR map, and the API at once.
- **Records, structured.** Allergies and family history as structured records that flow into the doctor report (reactions and notes are encrypted, the substance and condition names are not), plus lab values you key in or scan from a printed report — OCR extracts the stated values, units, and dates for you to review and confirm before anything is saved. HealthLog transcribes what a report says; it never interprets or diagnoses from it. A vaccination record keeps a lifetime immunization log, doses grouped under the disease they protect against, and prints in the doctor report.
- **A document vault for the paper trail.** An opt-in module stores every letter, report, and scan encrypted at rest — PDFs and photos preview inline, Office and text files stay download-only, and nothing user-uploaded can ever execute in the app. One searchable timeline with type, condition, and year filters, drag-and-drop and paste-to-upload, bulk filing, undo-able delete with a 30-day grace, and per-file/per-account limits the operator tunes.
- **Context that explains the numbers.** An opt-in environmental module folds weather, daylight, and temperature in as influence signals (winter darkness against mood, heat against blood pressure) using a home location you set, so a pattern has somewhere to point.
- **Context that explains the numbers.** An environmental module folds weather, daylight, temperature, air quality, and pollen in as influence signals (winter darkness against mood, heat against blood pressure) using a home location you set, so a pattern has somewhere to point. It is on by default, and nothing leaves the host until someone sets that location.
- **Your devices, one server.** Withings, WHOOP, Oura and Polar sync over OAuth2, Google Health connects Fitbit and Pixel Watch through your own Google Cloud client, Nightscout streams CGM glucose, an Apple Health `export.zip` folds your full history in, and the native iOS app streams HealthKit live. A per-metric source priority decides which reading is canonical when wearables overlap.
- **Medication tracking that tells the truth.** Flexible schedules (weekly injections, weekday-only, intervals, PRN, cyclic), a configurable intake window per dose, and a traceable dose history where every slot reads taken, late, skipped, or missed — the same ledger the compliance rate is computed from, so the percentage can never disagree with the timeline.
- **AI insights you own.** Daily briefing, health scores, correlations, and a conversational coach grounded in your own measurements and interpreted against cited guideline reference bands — where a value sits and what that means in plain words, never a diagnosis. The coach proposes concrete if-then plans you accept or decline, and suppresses proactive check-ins when there's nothing genuine to say. Bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, or point at a local endpoint (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM) so AI requests stay on your network.
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@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@ notes, and machine-readable specs that ship alongside the source:
encryption-key rotation, password reset and account recovery, env
checks, TLS pinning, data repair. These are what an operator reaches
for during an incident.
- [`self-hosting/`](./self-hosting/) — horizontal-scaling notes
(`HEALTHLOG_PROCESS_TYPE=web|worker|all`) and the deploy-pipeline
recipe. Routine install steps stay on `docs.healthlog.dev`. Includes
- [`self-hosting/`](./self-hosting/) — operator notes next to the code:
[`getting-started.md`](./self-hosting/getting-started.md) (install and
updates, the page the boot log points at), the TrueNAS, Unraid and
Portainer installs with their catalog templates, Tailscale, the reverse
proxy, horizontal scaling (`HEALTHLOG_PROCESS_TYPE=web|worker|all`),
notification channels, the environment module, document sources and
reproductive-health data. Includes
[`self-hosting/mcp.md`](./self-hosting/mcp.md) — enabling the
off-by-default MCP connector and pointing Claude.ai / ChatGPT /
Claude Desktop at it, and [`self-hosting/sso.md`](./self-hosting/sso.md)
@@ -44,9 +48,11 @@ notes, and machine-readable specs that ship alongside the source:
- [`migration/`](./migration/) — migration notes. Currently only
v1.3 to v1.4; later releases are covered by `CHANGELOG.md` and
<https://docs.healthlog.dev>.
- [`integrations/`](./integrations/) — per-integration reference
(Withings, Fitbit, Google Health, WHOOP, Apple Health, AI providers,
data import).
- [`integrations/`](./integrations/) — per-integration reference:
Withings, WHOOP, Fitbit, Google Health, Strava, Nightscout, Dawarich and
the Garmin route; the Apple Health, Health Connect, document and data
imports; AI providers; and Home Assistant with its blueprint. Oura and
Polar are covered on the docs site only.
- [`adr/`](./adr/) — architecture decision records.
- [`security/`](./security/) — threat-model notes.
- [`diagrams/`](./diagrams/) — architecture diagrams rendered through
@@ -70,4 +76,4 @@ notes, and machine-readable specs that ship alongside the source:
If you're a self-hoster looking to spin up an instance, start at
<https://docs.healthlog.dev> or jump to the [Quick Start in the project
README](../README.md#quick-start).
README](../README.md#quick-start-docker-compose).
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@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Concrete consequences:
RMSSD HRV has its own ladder, **WHOOP ≻ OURA ≻ POLAR ≻ APPLE_HEALTH**,
separate from the SDNN one.
Override per-user via Settings → Sources (`/settings/sources`).
Override per-user via Settings → Source priority (`/settings/sources`).
## Failure modes
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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The variable is on the `environment:` whitelist in `docker-compose.yml`.
- Time away from home and the distance travelled join the correlation scan as
two more factors.
- Runs of at least two travel days that no trip covers yet are offered as
trips under **Settings → Environment → Location periods**. Using one fills
trips under **Settings → Location & weather → Location periods**. Using one fills
in the dates; you pick the place.
- The Coach and the MCP `get_day` tool see the figures and whether it was a
travel day, never the country.
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@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The Fitbit client id/secret are per-user (Settings), not env vars.
If Fitbit and another source (Withings, WHOOP, Apple Health) both supply the same
vital — resting heart rate, blood oxygen, body temperature or respiratory rate —
the source priority ladder in **Settings → Sources** decides which one wins
the source priority ladder in **Settings → Source priority** decides which one wins
per metric. FITBIT is ranked in every default metric ladder; override
per metric on that page.
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@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ triggers the verification + CASA requirements above.)
If Google Health and another source (Withings, WHOOP, Apple Health) both supply
the same vital — resting heart rate, blood oxygen, respiratory rate — the source
priority ladder in **Settings → Sources** decides which one wins
priority ladder in **Settings → Source priority** decides which one wins
per metric.
## Disconnect
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ default the device-native capture (Apple Watch, WHOOP, Withings) wins over the
Strava copy, because a Strava activity is often a re-upload with lower-fidelity
or missing heart-rate data. A run you record **only** on Strava (phone GPS)
survives untouched. You can promote Strava above the wearables in
**Settings → Sources** if you prefer the Strava copy.
**Settings → Source priority** if you prefer the Strava copy.
## 1. Register a Strava API application
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ or right away after reconnecting Withings once.
needed — `user.metrics` covers weight / BP / heart-list / sleep /
SpO₂ / body comp / temperature / VO₂ max; `user.activity` is the
workout-equivalent stream for steps / energy / distance / floors.
See `WITHINGS_OAUTH_SCOPE` in `src/lib/withings/client.ts`.
See `WITHINGS_OAUTH_SCOPE` in `src/lib/withings/oauth.ts`.
4. Save the application. Withings will issue a **Client ID** and a
**Client Secret** — keep the secret out of any chat log; it grants
read access to every linked account's full health history.
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ callback. The portal only owns the OAuth callback URL.
## 4. Link from the Settings page
With the credentials saved in Settings, open
`/settings/integrations/withings` and click **Connect Withings**. The flow:
`/settings/integrations#withings` and click **Connect Withings**. The flow:
1. The Connect button redirects to Withings' `oauth2/authorize`.
2. The user signs in on Withings and grants the requested scopes.
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ import:
when Apple Health is also linked, so the Apple Health stream wins
for the cumulative axis. The Withings rows stay in the DB.
Override per-user via Settings → Sources (`/settings/sources`).
Override per-user via Settings → Source priority (`/settings/sources`).
## Troubleshooting
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Override per-user via Settings → Sources (`/settings/sources`).
### The webhook stops firing
Webhook subscriptions can lapse after a token revoke or a portal-
side cleanup. Re-subscribe by opening `/settings/integrations/withings`
side cleanup. Re-subscribe by opening `/settings/integrations#withings`
and clicking **Disconnect** then **Connect Withings** again — the
callback exchange re-runs `Notify.subscribe()` with a fresh callback
URL.
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@@ -270,10 +270,13 @@ always confirm the served build after a deploy:
```sh
# Asserts prod + demo serve 1.9.0, prints each target's buildSha,
# exits non-zero on a mismatch or timeout after a bounded retry loop.
pnpm dlx tsx scripts/assert-deploy.ts 1.9.0
HEALTHLOG_PROD_URL=https://healthlog.example.com \
pnpm dlx tsx scripts/assert-deploy.ts 1.9.0
```
Pass `--only=prod` / `--only=demo` to check a single target, or
`HEALTHLOG_PROD_URL` is the base URL of your instance; it has no default and
is required unless you pass `--only=demo`. Pass `--only=prod` /
`--only=demo` to check a single target, or
`--attempts=N --interval=ms` to widen the retry window while a slow
pull settles.
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@@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ maintenance refuses to start while one is.
Have at least twice the largest size free on the database volume.
- **Take a backup** (Settings, Data, Backups), as before any operation on the
whole table.
- **Take a backup**: a database dump, as in
[Updates](../self-hosting/getting-started.md#updates), as before any
operation on the whole table.
## Starting it
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@@ -214,11 +214,15 @@ as something to log in as.
or delete the profile under a fresh second factor. Deleting the profile
deletes everything recorded for it.
- A guardian may keep that record's settings: modules, units, thresholds,
its language and timezone, and its notification preferences. Connected
services are visible as a status only. Connect, callback, sync,
credential, disconnect, resume and test are not guardian surfaces in
this release, and their deep links land on the shared-record unavailable
page rather than on a raw refusal.
its language and timezone, and its notification preferences. A guardian
can also connect and disconnect the record's Withings, WHOOP, Oura, Polar,
Strava and Google Health from its integrations page; the data lands in the
profile's record, and a profile without its own provider app uses the
guardian's. Fitbit (no new connections), Nightscout and Dawarich cannot be
connected for a profile. Sync, the connection test and provider
credentials are not guardian surfaces: once connected, the record syncs on
its own schedule, and their deep links land on the shared-record
unavailable page rather than on a raw refusal.
- **Its reminders go to its guardians.** A record with no login has no
channels of its own, so medication reminders, measurement reminders,
safety-floor alerts and low-stock alerts fan out to every active
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@@ -86,10 +86,11 @@ backfill button in settings fetches both for the range it is given.
Since v1.42 the home, each dated location period and each stored day keep
their coarse location sealed with the instance's encryption key (one value
per row, `{ lat, lon, label }`, under the label
`healthlog/environment-location/v1`). The boot-time encryption backfill seals
rows written by older releases and clears their readable columns; the
readable columns are dropped in a later release once the backfill reports
zero rows everywhere. Key rotation (`scripts/rotate-encryption-key.ts`, or the
`healthlog/environment-location/v1`). The boot-time encryption backfill sealed
rows written by older releases and cleared their readable columns, and
migration `0409` (v1.43) dropped those columns; it refuses to run while a row
still holds a readable location
([migration-0409-plaintext-location.md](../ops/migration-0409-plaintext-location.md)). Key rotation (`scripts/rotate-encryption-key.ts`, or the
in-app rotation) covers all three.
What the person sees is unchanged: the settings page and
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@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ already installed, longer if a TLS-fronted public hostname is in scope
- **Docker 24+ with Compose v2.** The bundled `docker-compose.yml`
pulls a multi-arch image from GitHub Container Registry (linux/amd64
- linux/arm64), so a Raspberry Pi 5 or an x86 VPS both work
unchanged.
and linux/arm64), so a Raspberry Pi 5 or an x86 VPS both work unchanged.
- **3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended), 10 GB free disk.** The Postgres data
volume grows with measurement history; the Apple Health import worker
can briefly hold a 1.5 GB upload in `/tmp` while it parses. The app
@@ -23,11 +22,12 @@ already installed, longer if a TLS-fronted public hostname is in scope
below the supported floor. On a busy instance, raise it.
- **Outbound HTTPS** to `ghcr.io` (image pulls) plus whichever
integration endpoints you plan to enable (Withings, OpenAI, etc.).
The opt-in environmental-context module additionally reaches
`archive-api.open-meteo.com` and `geocoding-api.open-meteo.com` for
weather and daylight; it stays off until you
enable it and set a home location, and every outbound call goes
through the SSRF-guarded egress wrapper.
The environmental-context module additionally reaches
`archive-api.open-meteo.com`, `air-quality-api.open-meteo.com` and
`geocoding-api.open-meteo.com` for weather, air quality and the city
search. It is on by default, but nothing leaves the host until someone
sets a home location, and every outbound call goes through the
SSRF-guarded egress wrapper.
Three requests happen by default without anything connected: the
HaveIBeenPwned range query when a password is set (only the first five
characters of the password's SHA-1 are sent), a daily check of the
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on top of it, see [building skills](../api/mcp-skills.md).
> **Read this before enabling writes.** A remote, write-capable connector
> reached over OAuth is a powerful combination. Read the
> [trust model](#trust-model-read-this-before-enabling-writes) at the end
> [trust model](#trust-model--read-this-before-enabling-writes) at the end
> of this page first.
## Prerequisites
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ LAN-only origin works for Claude Desktop over stdio).
The switch lives with every other module: **Settings → Modules**, the
**MCP** row. Turn it on and the `/mcp` endpoint goes live for your account.
**Settings → MCP** is where you use it. The page has three parts:
**Settings → MCP connector** is where you use it. The page has three parts:
- **State** — whether the module is on, with a link to its switch in
Modules, and your endpoint URL (`<origin>/mcp`). Turning the module off
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ The switch lives with every other module: **Settings → Modules**, the
## 2. Mint a connector token
Still in **Settings → MCP → Tokens**:
Still in **Settings → MCP connector → Tokens**:
1. Choose the scope with the **write** toggle:
- **off** → a read-only token (`health:read`). This is the default and
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ refused (`403`) as a DNS-rebinding defence.
client-id-metadata-document clients with dynamic registration as a
fallback.
3. Approve the consent screen. The connection then appears under
**Settings → MCP → Connections**, where you can revoke it.
**Settings → MCP connector → Connections**, where you can revoke it.
No token to paste — OAuth mints and rotates a short-lived `health:read`
access token (60 minutes, with a refresh token) behind the scenes.
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ different things depending on which button you press.
two actions below, the row stays. A start that was folded into a later
cycle stays for as long as that cycle does, because deleting the later
cycle gives it back.
- **Settings → Delete All Data** removes the rows outright, tombstones
- **Settings → Advanced → Delete all data** removes the rows outright, tombstones
included. Everything the account owns goes except what you sign in
with; the confirmation dialog lists it.
- **Deleting the account** removes the account row, and the database
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Settings the form does not show go under Additional Environment Variables, for
example `UPDATE_CHECK_DISABLED=1`. The full list is in
[environment.md](environment.md). To use your own GeoLite2 databases, add the
directory under Additional Storage and point `GEOLITE2_DIR` at its mount path
([geolite2.md](geolite2.md)).
[`.env.production.example`](../../.env.production.example) and on the
[environment variables reference](https://docs.healthlog.dev/reference/environment-variables/).
To use your own GeoLite2 databases, add the directory under Additional Storage
and point `GEOLITE2_DIR` at its mount path ([geolite2.md](geolite2.md)).
## Plain HTTP on the LAN
@@ -206,15 +207,15 @@ before you touch it.
Until the catalog app is listed, install HealthLog with Apps, Discover Apps,
the menu next to Custom App, Install via YAML, using these values:
| Setting | Value |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Image | `ghcr.io/mbombeck/healthlog`, tag `X.Y.Z` (amd64 and arm64) |
| Port | `3000` (HTTP) |
| User | runs as uid `1001` by default; no extra capabilities, `no-new-privileges` is fine |
| Health check | `GET /api/health`, `200` when ready |
| Start period | at least 60 s, with more retries than the image's 5 × 30 s: migrations run at every boot |
| Database | PostgreSQL 18 (16 works too), no extensions, in its own container with its own dataset |
| Volumes | none for the app; the database gets its own dataset |
| Setting | Value |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Image | `ghcr.io/mbombeck/healthlog`, tag `X.Y.Z` (amd64 and arm64) |
| Port | `3000` (HTTP) |
| User | runs as uid `1001` by default; no extra capabilities, `no-new-privileges` is fine |
| Health check | `GET /api/health`, `200` when ready |
| Start period | 10 min, like the image: migrations run at every boot and wait out a held lock |
| Database | PostgreSQL 18 (16 works too), no extensions, in its own container with its own dataset |
| Volumes | none for the app; the database gets its own dataset |
| Variable | Required | Notes |
| ----------------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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`SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=false` is required for plain-HTTP LAN installs
(`http://tower:3000`). Left at its default, the session cookie carries the
`Secure` flag, the browser refuses to send it over HTTP, and login appears to
"do nothing" — the page reloads to the login screen with no error.
`Secure` flag, which the browser would drop over HTTP. The login page says so
before anything is sent: "Signing in cannot complete on this page".
Set `SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=true` (or leave it unset) only when a TLS reverse
proxy serves HealthLog over HTTPS. In that case also point `NEXT_PUBLIC_APP_URL`
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@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ Tiles at the top of the dashboard live in a **single row**. Width caps
at the chart's width directly below. **Never** wrap to a second row.
If the user enables more tiles than fit, the dashboard surfaces a banner
inviting them to deactivate or reorder via Settings → Dashboard. The
inviting them to deactivate or reorder via Settings → Arrangement. The
layout editor in Settings shows a live preview of the constraint and
flags overflow before save.