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+# System Architecture Spec
+
+Status: needs_review
+Owner: System Architecture Spec Agent
+Orchestration: 7
+
+## Purpose
+
+Define the v1 system architecture for a CLI/text real-time weather app that uses local weather APIs and LLM-generated explanations. This spec owns module boundaries, integration contracts, and future file ownership hints so implementation agents can build without coupling domain logic to adapters, persistence, or UI concerns.
+
+## Accepted Decisions
+
+- Runtime/UI target: CLI/text.
+- Persistence strategy: SQLite.
+- Product direction: show current local weather information with concise LLM-assisted interpretation.
+
+## Module Boundaries
+
+### CLI Runtime Adapter
+
+Owns process startup, argument parsing, text prompts, command dispatch, and shutdown. It converts user actions into application service calls and renders returned view models as text.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Calls Application Service.
+- Uses Configuration module for startup settings.
+- Does not call weather APIs, LLM APIs, or SQLite directly.
+
+### Application Service
+
+Owns workflow coordination for v1 use cases: load saved location, request current weather, request an LLM explanation, persist successful observations, and return CLI-ready results. This is the shared behavior owner for orchestration and retry decisions that span multiple adapters.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Calls Weather Domain.
+- Calls Weather Provider Port.
+- Calls LLM Explanation Port.
+- Calls Persistence Port.
+- Calls Clock Port when timestamps are needed.
+
+### Weather Domain
+
+Owns pure domain rules and data interpretation: validating location input, normalizing weather measurements, deriving human-readable condition categories, deciding stale-versus-fresh readings, and constructing the domain model used by the rest of the app.
+
+Dependencies:
+- No runtime, network, LLM, or database dependencies.
+- Consumes structured payloads through domain types only.
+
+### Weather Provider Adapter
+
+Owns integration with local weather APIs, including request construction, response parsing, provider error translation, timeout handling, and mapping provider payloads into domain input objects.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Implements Weather Provider Port.
+- Uses Configuration module for endpoint and timeout settings.
+- Does not render CLI output or write to SQLite.
+
+### LLM Explanation Adapter
+
+Owns calls to the selected LLM runtime for weather explanations. It receives sanitized domain summaries and returns concise text explanations, safety notes, and confidence/error metadata.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Implements LLM Explanation Port.
+- Uses Configuration module for model/runtime settings.
+- Does not fetch weather data or persist history.
+
+### SQLite Persistence Adapter
+
+Owns durable storage in SQLite for saved location preferences, recent weather observations, and generated explanation history as defined by the data and database specs.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Implements Persistence Port.
+- Owns schema migrations and SQL query implementation once the database spec is accepted.
+- Does not validate domain meaning beyond persistence constraints.
+
+### Configuration Module
+
+Owns runtime configuration loading and validation for local weather API settings, LLM settings, SQLite path, default units, refresh interval, and CLI defaults.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Reads environment variables, config files, or CLI-provided options.
+- Provides typed configuration to adapters.
+- Does not own business workflow decisions.
+
+### Observability and Error Mapping
+
+Owns shared error categories, user-safe error messages, and diagnostic logging boundaries. This module prevents provider, LLM, and SQLite errors from leaking raw implementation details into CLI output.
+
+Dependencies:
+- Used by adapters and Application Service.
+- Does not own retry policy unless the retry is purely local to one adapter call.
+
+## Dependency Direction
+
+Dependency flow must point inward toward domain behavior:
+
+CLI Runtime Adapter -> Application Service -> Weather Domain
+Application Service -> Ports
+Adapters -> Ports
+Adapters -> Configuration
+Adapters -> Observability and Error Mapping
+
+The Weather Domain must remain dependency-free. Runtime adapters, external API clients, LLM clients, and SQLite code must stay outside the domain module.
+
+## Shared Behavior Ownership
+
+- Cross-step workflow behavior is owned by Application Service.
+- Pure weather interpretation and validation are owned by Weather Domain.
+- CLI text rendering and input collection are owned by CLI Runtime Adapter.
+- Provider-specific network behavior is owned by Weather Provider Adapter.
+- LLM prompt construction, invocation, and response normalization are owned by LLM Explanation Adapter.
+- Durable save/load behavior is owned by SQLite Persistence Adapter.
+- Configuration validation is owned by Configuration Module.
+- User-safe error categories and diagnostic message shaping are owned by Observability and Error Mapping.
+
+## Integration Contracts
+
+### CLI Runtime Adapter to Application Service
+
+Input:
+- User command: refresh weather, set location, show saved location, show recent history, or exit.
+- Optional location text.
+- Optional unit preference.
+
+Output:
+- CLI view model containing weather summary, explanation text, freshness metadata, and user-safe errors.
+
+Rules:
+- CLI must not mutate domain state directly.
+- CLI must not inspect provider, LLM, or SQL payloads.
+
+### Application Service to Weather Provider Port
+
+Input:
+- Validated location request.
+- Unit preference.
+- Request timestamp.
+
+Output:
+- Structured current weather payload with provider metadata.
+- Typed provider error for unavailable, timeout, invalid location, rate-limited, or malformed response cases.
+
+Rules:
+- Provider adapters map external API responses before returning.
+- Application Service owns whether a failed provider call can fall back to saved history.
+
+### Application Service to LLM Explanation Port
+
+Input:
+- Sanitized weather summary from Weather Domain.
+- Optional user-facing context such as preferred units or location label.
+
+Output:
+- Explanation text suitable for CLI display.
+- Confidence or fallback metadata.
+- Typed LLM error for unavailable, timeout, refused, or malformed response cases.
+
+Rules:
+- LLM adapter must not receive raw provider payloads unless those payloads are first normalized by domain logic.
+- Application Service owns fallback text when the LLM is unavailable.
+
+### Application Service to Persistence Port
+
+Input:
+- Saved location preference.
+- Normalized weather observation.
+- Generated explanation record.
+
+Output:
+- Saved preference.
+- Recent observations and explanations.
+- Typed persistence error for unavailable database, migration failure, write failure, or read failure cases.
+
+Rules:
+- Persistence adapter owns SQLite implementation details.
+- Application Service owns when to persist, read, or ignore failed persistence during a refresh.
+
+### Weather Provider Adapter to Configuration Module
+
+Input:
+- Provider endpoint, timeout, credentials or local API path, and unit defaults.
+
+Output:
+- Validated provider configuration or configuration error.
+
+Rules:
+- Missing required provider configuration must fail startup before entering the refresh loop.
+
+### LLM Explanation Adapter to Configuration Module
+
+Input:
+- LLM runtime endpoint or local model settings, timeout, and prompt limits.
+
+Output:
+- Validated LLM configuration or configuration error.
+
+Rules:
+- LLM failure must degrade to deterministic summary text when weather data is otherwise available.
+
+### SQLite Persistence Adapter to Configuration Module
+
+Input:
+- SQLite database path and migration settings.
+
+Output:
+- Open database connection settings or configuration error.
+
+Rules:
+- The app must not start persistence-dependent flows until migrations have completed or a user-safe startup error is returned.
+
+## Validation Seams
+
+- Unit-test Weather Domain without network, LLM, SQLite, or CLI fixtures.
+- Test Application Service with fake Weather Provider, LLM Explanation, Persistence, and Clock ports.
+- Test CLI Runtime Adapter with a fake Application Service and captured stdout/stderr.
+- Test Weather Provider Adapter against representative local API fixtures.
+- Test LLM Explanation Adapter with fake LLM responses for success, timeout, malformed output, and unavailable runtime.
+- Test SQLite Persistence Adapter against a temporary SQLite database.
+- Test Configuration Module with explicit environment/config fixtures.
+
+## Future File Ownership Hints
+
+Suggested file layout for future implementation agents:
+
+- `weather_app/cli.py`: CLI Runtime Adapter.
+- `weather_app/application.py`: Application Service and use-case orchestration.
+- `weather_app/domain/weather.py`: Weather Domain models and pure rules.
+- `weather_app/ports.py`: Weather Provider, LLM Explanation, Persistence, and Clock port interfaces.
+- `weather_app/adapters/weather_provider.py`: local weather API adapter.
+- `weather_app/adapters/llm.py`: LLM explanation adapter.
+- `weather_app/adapters/sqlite_store.py`: SQLite persistence adapter.
+- `weather_app/config.py`: Configuration Module.
+- `weather_app/errors.py`: Observability and Error Mapping.
+- `tests/domain/`: pure domain tests.
+- `tests/application/`: application service tests with fakes.
+- `tests/adapters/`: adapter tests for local API, LLM, and SQLite boundaries.
+
+These paths are implementation hints only. Future agents may adapt names to the repository's actual package structure while preserving the ownership boundaries above.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria Mapping
+
+- Major modules and dependencies are named in Module Boundaries and Dependency Direction.
+- Shared behavior is owned by a clear module in Shared Behavior Ownership.