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Problem
The always_required list in the dev intent system forces 14 processes for everyone — including celery, nodejs, capture, feature-flags, property-defs-rs — even when someone just wants to hack on Python backend code.

Changes
Trims always_required from 14 to 5 items (backend, frontend, docker-compose, migrate-postgres, migrate-clickhouse). All service processes already declare capabilities in mprocs.yaml, so they get pulled in by the intents that need them.

Backfills every existing product intent with the capabilities they were implicitly getting from always_required (celery_scheduler, flag_evaluation, etc.), so no existing user sees a behavior change after re-generating.

Adds a backend_only intent with zero capabilities — selectable via hogli dev:setup (pick "none") for lightweight Python-only development. Result: ~5 processes instead of 20+.

Also fixes: feature_flags intent now includes event_ingestion so the nodejs process is correctly resolved (previously papered over by always_required).

How did you test this code?

  • All 37 existing devenv tests pass
  • Traced capability resolution for every product intent to confirm identical process sets

Move service processes (celery, nodejs, capture, feature-flags,
property-defs-rs) out of always_required and into the intents that
actually need them. Backfill all existing product intents with the
missing capabilities so no existing user sees a behavior change.

Adds a new `backend_only` intent with zero capabilities for folks
who just need backend + frontend + database — no celery, no nodejs,
no rust services. Useful for lightweight Python-only development
without thermal suicide.

Also fixes: feature_flags intent now includes event_ingestion so the
nodejs process is correctly resolved (previously papered over by
always_required).
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Proxy, objectstorage, feature-flags, and redis-cluster are now gated
behind docker-compose profiles (routing, objectstorage, flags,
livestream). The intent system activates these profiles via capability
docker_profiles — event_ingestion activates routing + objectstorage,
flag_evaluation activates flags, livestream activates livestream.

With backend_only (zero capabilities), docker now starts only the core
data stack: db, redis7, clickhouse, kafka, zookeeper — matching the
minimal setup for Python-only development.
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❌ Hobby deploy smoke test: FAILED

Failing fast because: Timed out after 45 minutes

Connection errors: 180
HTTP 502 count: 0
Last error: AttributeError


Run 23459252405 | Consecutive failures: 2

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