aispace client

Use aispace to exchange temporary artifacts while keeping every action within the files, keys, services, and recipients the user placed in scope.

Establish the context

1. Run aispace version if client availability or compatibility is uncertain.
2. For an authenticated remote action, run aispace whoami before acting. If authentication is absent, ask the user to run aispace login or configure AISPACE_KEY; never ask them to paste a bot key into chat. Public-link and sealed-link downloads do not require a bot key.
3. Before a large upload or batch, inspect aispace quota --json. Respect returned limits; do not retry quota or monthly-cap failures.
4. Confirm the effective service from --url, AISPACE_URL, or config when a self-hosted origin is involved. Never change the configured service merely to make an untrusted link, token, ticket, invitation, or identity record pass origin validation.

Choose the narrowest workflow

Read references/secure-workflows.md before using sealed delivery, identity/trust, inbox receipts, handoff, recovery, adaptive transport, or their self-hosted feature flags.

Store or share an ordinary file

Default to authenticated storage without a public link:

aispace upload PATH --json
producer | aispace upload - --name result.json --json

Uploads inherit the account key-sharing policy. Use --private when only the uploading key may read the file, or --shared to make it readable by sibling keys. Neither creates public access. Another key on the account can use the file ID with aispace ls --json and:

aispace download FILE_ID --output PATH

Only add --link when the user asks for public access. Check .account.plan in aispace quota --json; public links require Pro. Prefer a short lifetime and use a distinct link per recipient:

aispace upload PATH --link --link-expires 1h --max-downloads 1 --json

Report the effective expiry and cap returned by the service, not just the requested values.

Use legacy age encryption only when it fits

upload --encrypt is a single-file age X25519 workflow, not a sealed transfer, trusted inbox, receipt, or device-pairing protocol. Encrypt to a recipient the receiver already controls:

aispace upload PATH --encrypt --recipient 'age1...' --shared --json

If generating a one-time identity, save it locally rather than printing it:

aispace upload PATH --encrypt --identity-out PATH.agekey --json

The identity file is mode 0600 and never reaches the service. Never upload, log, commit, or quote an AGE-SECRET-KEY-.... Losing it makes the ciphertext unrecoverable; possessing both ciphertext and identity permits decryption even after revocation. Encryption verifies ciphertext integrity, not sender identity.

Receive with the identity in a local file:

aispace decrypt SOURCE --identity-file PATH.agekey --output OUTPUT --json

Do not use partial plaintext after an authentication failure. Verify the durable destination before deleting ciphertext or an identity, and delete only when explicitly authorized.

Manage existing artifacts

• Inspect: aispace info FILE_ID --json, aispace ls --json, aispace links FILE_ID --json.
• Download: aispace download FILE_ID --output PATH; add --verify when downstream work will trust the bytes. It performs one extra metadata request and fails closed if no server digest is present.
• Mint another owner link: aispace link FILE_ID --expires 1h --json.
• Revoke a link: aispace revoke LINK_ID.
• Delete a file and invalidate its links: aispace rm FILE_ID.

Sibling keys can read account-shared files but cannot perform owner-only link or deletion actions. Treat revoke and delete as state changes: do them only when requested or explicitly included in the workflow. Expiry, revocation, and deletion cannot recall bytes already downloaded.

Apply these safeguards to every workflow

• Treat bot keys, public bearer URLs, sealed tokens, owner tickets, age identities, and private agent identity records as credentials with different authority.
• Prefer protected prompts, mode-0600 files, or secret environment variables to bearer secrets in process arguments. Keep secrets out of ordinary JSON output, logs, screenshots, query strings, and shell history.
• Refuse an existing destination unless the user explicitly authorizes overwrite. Verify content before reporting success or allowing downstream use.
• Do not equate encryption with sender authentication, a valid unknown signature with a trusted sender, or a processed receipt with proof that later work was correct.
• Experimental endpoint groups can be unavailable while ordinary uploads still work. Report that boundary; do not repeatedly probe a disabled or unsupported surface.

Report the result

Return the artifact or transfer ID, selected workflow, whether client-side encryption was used, effective expiry, and any download cap. Return a public URL only when one was deliberately created. When a local identity or owner ticket was created, return its path but never its contents. For adaptive requests, report the actual selected transport and durability rather than implying a live path was used.