A directory the model knows about, and @ to name a file in it

An agent chat used to open with the model knowing the name of a machine and
nothing about what was on it, so the first two rounds of every reply went on
finding out. It now gets a listing: one read-only command, `git ls-files` where
that works and `find` otherwise, falling back to an SFTP walk that always does.
git first because a repository already carries somebody's considered list of
what is not part of the project, and reproducing it by hand is how an index
ends up mostly build output.

The listing is budgeted rather than dumped. A tree of a thousand files is worse
than no tree -- it costs the window on every request forever and buries the four
names that mattered -- so directories that will not fit are shown as a count and
the model is told to open one itself. Collapsing picks the deepest and largest
first: by saving alone it would take `src/` before `src/web/static/vendor/`,
because it contains it, and lose every name worth having.

Read from a cache and never fetched. `harness.context_variables` is synchronous
and sits on the request path; the walk happens in the generation setup, which is
async and already doing network work, with a short wait. A chat whose first
reply outruns its first walk simply has no listing that turn and the fragment
disappears rather than appearing as an empty heading.

Then `@`, over the same index and over the library, and `/` for commands with an
Alt-based keyboard for the same jobs. A mentioned file arrives as contents, not
a reference -- a small model asked to call file_read often does not bother -- and
it arrives with its absolute path and the machine it came from, because a model
handed `main.py` cannot tell which of four it is and cannot name it back when
asked to change something.

The rule that matters for `/`: a message that merely starts with a slash still
sends. `//` escapes and an unrecognised command is posted as written. Swallowing
somebody's message is a much worse failure than an unknown command.

Two exceptions to Manual mode now, not one. Browsing and indexing are a person
acting, not a model, so neither passes through policy.py -- the same argument
the terminal panel rests on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
2026-08-02 17:04:41 +02:00
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@@ -334,12 +334,20 @@ def store_text(
text: str,
truncated: bool = False,
source_note: str = "",
source_path: str = "",
source_label: str = "",
) -> Attachment:
"""Attach text that did not arrive as a file -- a fetched web page.
Written to disk like any other attachment so it can be downloaded and so
there is one cleanup path, rather than a second kind of attachment that
exists only in the database.
`source_note` leads the *text*; `source_path` and `source_label` are
columns. The two are not the same thing and both are wanted: the note is
prose a model reads inside the document, and the columns become attributes
on the tag around it, which is what a reader sees on the chip and what
survives if the text is later truncated away from its own first line.
"""
body = text[:MAX_EXTRACTED_CHARS]
payload = body.encode("utf-8")
@@ -359,6 +367,8 @@ def store_text(
# can see where an attachment called "Some Page.txt" came from.
extracted_text=f"Source: {source_note}\n\n{body}" if source_note else body,
truncated=truncated,
source_path=source_path[:1000],
source_label=source_label[:200],
)
db.add(attachment)
db.commit()