owncast-IRC-bridge/chat-summaries/2026-03-10_22-00-summary.md

Owncast–IRC Bridge: Full Implementation

Task Description

Executed the full 15-task implementation plan at docs/plans/2026-03-10-owncast-irc-bridge-impl.md using the executing-plans skill. Built a complete bidirectional Rust chat bridge between Owncast and IRC.

Changes Made (15 commits)

1. Project scaffolding — cargo init, Cargo.toml with all deps, .gitignore, config.example.toml, placeholder binaries
2. Config module (src/config.rs) — TOML parsing with serde defaults, env var support for access token, 3 tests
3. Events module (src/events.rs) — BridgeEvent, Source, OwncastState, ControlCommand, BridgeStatus types
4. HTML stripping (src/html.rs) — Strips HTML tags, extracts emoji <img> alt text, decodes entities, 6 tests
5. Owncast API client (src/owncast_api.rs) — send_chat_message with retry, get_status for health checks
6. Health poller (src/health.rs) — Periodic Owncast status polling with state change detection
7. Webhook server (src/webhook.rs) — Axum HTTP server parsing CHAT/STREAM_STARTED/STREAM_STOPPED events, 5 tests
8. IRC task (src/irc_task.rs) — irc crate client with exponential backoff reconnect
9. WebSocket task (src/websocket.rs) — tokio-tungstenite client with reconnect, 5 tests
10. Control socket (src/control.rs) — Unix socket listener with command parsing, 5 tests
11. Router (src/router.rs) — Central orchestration with dedup tracker, echo suppressor, state handling, 4 tests
12. Main entry point (src/main.rs) — Wires all tasks together with signal handling (SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP)
13. bridge-ctl CLI (src/bin/bridge_ctl.rs) — Clap-based CLI for runtime control via Unix socket
14. Dockerfile — Multi-stage build (rust:1.85-slim-bookworm builder, debian:bookworm-slim runtime)
15. Final fixes — Added missing Clone derive on IrcConfig, cleaned up unused imports

Verification

• Both binaries (owncast-irc-bridge, bridge-ctl) compile
• All 28 tests pass across all modules
• Only benign warnings remain (unused struct fields for future API data)

Bugs Found in Plan

• Raw string delimiters r#"..."# conflicted with TOML "#channel" values — fixed with r##"..."##
• strip_html had peek/consume bug (didn't advance past < and & before collecting) — fixed
• reqwest::Response::text() consumes self, so status must be captured first — fixed

Follow-up Items

• Integration testing with actual Owncast and IRC instances
• Wire remaining control commands (connect/disconnect/reconnect) through to tasks
• Add message_buffer_size buffering logic
• SIGHUP config reload support