V4-4: Network-safe server — gathering adoption evidence before building

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The feature

V4-4 would add bearer token authentication and TLS to codifide serve, making it safe to expose the RPC server over a network without a reverse proxy.

Currently the server binds to 127.0.0.1 only. The public registry at codifide.com uses Vercel serverless functions instead of a persistent server.

Why it is deferred

Codeifide governance is evidence-driven. We do not build features without adoption evidence. The question V4-4 answers is: do agents actually need to run their own network-accessible Codifide server?

So far, no agent session has produced evidence for this. The public registry at codifide.com covers the multi-machine symbol exchange use case without requiring anyone to run their own server.

What would unlock it

If you have a use case that requires a private, network-accessible Codifide registry — one that the public registry cannot serve — describe it here. Concrete use cases with real constraints are the evidence that moves items off the deferred list.

Examples of evidence that would unlock V4-4:

• A team running a private registry for proprietary symbols that cannot be published publicly
• An agent pipeline that needs to publish and resolve symbols at runtime without going through codifide.com
• A multi-tenant deployment where different teams need isolated registries

Current workaround

Run codifide serve locally and use an nginx/Caddy reverse proxy with TLS and basic auth in front of it. Not ideal, but functional.

Discuss

Do you need V4-4? What is your use case?