From 10a05ba55aa1c21bde9f2c66973b4fe8115a57bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "thomas.kopp" <thomas.kopp@tueit.de>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 14:16:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: config loader with validation and tilde expansion

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 bin/config.py        | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/test_config.py | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 bin/config.py
 create mode 100644 tests/test_config.py

diff --git a/bin/config.py b/bin/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d65b29d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import os
+import yaml
+
+CONFIG_PATH = os.path.expanduser('~/.claude/autoresearch.yaml')
+DEFAULTS = {'time_limit_minutes': 10, 'benchmarks': []}
+
+class ConfigError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+def load_config(path=CONFIG_PATH):
+    with open(path) as f:
+        cfg = yaml.safe_load(f)
+    if not cfg or 'projects' not in cfg or not cfg['projects']:
+        raise ConfigError(f"'projects' list is required in {path}")
+    for p in cfg['projects']:
+        p.setdefault('benchmarks', DEFAULTS['benchmarks'])
+        p.setdefault('time_limit_minutes', DEFAULTS['time_limit_minutes'])
+        p['path'] = os.path.expanduser(p['path'])
+    cfg.setdefault('token_threshold', {'context_remaining_pct': 60, 'api_budget_usd': 5.0})
+    return cfg
diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd4a75a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, 'bin')
+from config import load_config, ConfigError
+import pytest, tempfile, os, yaml
+
+def test_load_valid_config():
+    data = {
+        'projects': [{'path': '/tmp', 'benchmarks': ['echo ok'], 'time_limit_minutes': 5}],
+        'token_threshold': {'context_remaining_pct': 60, 'api_budget_usd': 5.0}
+    }
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w', suffix='.yaml', delete=False) as f:
+        yaml.dump(data, f)
+        name = f.name
+    cfg = load_config(name)
+    assert cfg['projects'][0]['time_limit_minutes'] == 5
+    os.unlink(name)
+
+def test_missing_projects_raises():
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w', suffix='.yaml', delete=False) as f:
+        yaml.dump({}, f)
+        name = f.name
+    with pytest.raises(ConfigError):
+        load_config(name)
+    os.unlink(name)
+
+def test_expands_tilde_in_path():
+    data = {
+        'projects': [{'path': '~/.claude', 'benchmarks': [], 'time_limit_minutes': 5}],
+        'token_threshold': {'context_remaining_pct': 60, 'api_budget_usd': 5.0}
+    }
+    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('w', suffix='.yaml', delete=False) as f:
+        yaml.dump(data, f)
+        name = f.name
+    cfg = load_config(name)
+    assert '~' not in cfg['projects'][0]['path']
+    os.unlink(name)