Repo brief: claritylab/lucida

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Verdict

Mixed — Stale — last commit 4y ago

• 12 active contributors
• Distributed ownership (top contributor 32% of recent commits)
• Tests present

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Lucida is a speech and vision-based intelligent personal assistant that orchestrates multiple backend microservices (ASR, image matching, QA, calendar, facial recognition, etc.) via a command-center dispatcher. It routes user queries to the appropriate services using Thrift RPC, processes results, and returns unified responses—built for multi-modal input handling across Docker containers. Monolithic directory structure: lucida/ contains backend services organized by capability (asyncthrift/fake/ has fake implementations for CMD, IMM, QA; botframework-interface/ for chat integration; calendar/ for event retrieval). tools/ centralizes shared dependencies. Thrift IDL files define service…

Start here

Open these first:

• lucida/commandcenter/app.py — Entry point for the Flask-based command center that orchestrates requests across all back-end services.
• lucida/commandcenter/controllers/ThriftClient.py — Thrift RPC client that communicates with distributed back-end services (ASR, QA, IMM, CA, etc.).
• lucida/commandcenter/controllers/QueryClassifier.py — Core logic for routing incoming queries to appropriate back-end service handlers.
• lucida/asyncthrift/fake/fakeqa/src/lucida/main/QADaemon.java — Template for understanding the Thrift service daemon pattern used across all back-end service implementations.
• lucida/commandcenter/controllers/Database.py — Persistent storage layer for user data and service state; likely used by all controllers.

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

git clone https://github.com/claritylab/lucida.git
cd lucida
make local

This runs dependency installation scripts in tools/, then compiles all backend services. Set export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib if compiling individual services.

Daily commands:

make local          # Install dependencies & compile
make start_all      # Launch all services in gnome-terminal windows

Then open http://localhost:3000/ in a browser. Individual services have Makefiles in their directories (e.g., lucida/asyncthrift/fake/fakeqa/Makefile).

Key cautions & unknowns

• Stale — last commit 4y ago
• No CI workflows detected
• Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
• Ubuntu 16.04 compatibility: tools/README.md has special build notes—ignore at your peril. LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be set to /usr/local/lib for individual service compilation or linking will fail.…
• License evidence is incomplete or ambiguous.
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
• Open issues
• Recent pull requests
• OpenSSF Scorecard

Evidence note

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