Models that know about each other, and have a self

Three features sharing one idea: a model here started from nothing every
conversation and had no notion that anything else existed.

THE ROSTER. `chat.roster_block` builds one line per model this *person* can
reach -- through `permissions.models_visible_to`, never the table -- and
`{{model_roster}}` carries it, gated on the `friend` family for the reason the
memories block is gated on `memory`: a list of peers a model cannot talk to is
context spent on nothing, and one checkbox is then the whole switch. New
`Model.notes` column, a column and not a `capabilities_json` key for the reason
`context_length` and `reasoning_efforts` both carry.

ASKING A FRIEND. A second entry point in `services/subagent.py` rather than a
second module, so one place still owns the bounds and the lifecycle. `_create_
child` takes the friend's (model_id, connection_id) *pair*, because Model is
unique on both and an id alone does not say which endpoint. Three things differ
from a helper: the effort is the friend's own default and never the parent's (the
1.3.0 bug by another door -- the vocabularies differ and a level a model does not
take raises inside its chat template), the chat is ordinary even when the asker's
is an agent chat, and `scope_json["role"]` marks it so `core.friend` speaks
instead of `core.subagent`. `friend` joins the unattended withdrawal set: a
friend that could ask a friend is the same unbounded fan-out in politer clothes.
Budget, concurrency and quota are shared with helpers, so one reply cannot spend
the allowance twice.

PERSONALITY. One table, two roles, `owner_id IS NULL` the discriminator: the
model's own persona, and its read of one person. Keyed on the model's *text* id
with no foreign key, because "Test & refresh" deletes a model the endpoint has
stopped listing and a personality must not be collateral. `PersonaRevision`
copies SkillRevision, and so does the argument: the safety story for a model
rewriting itself is a record and a way back, not a gate. The reflection is shown
to the person it is about, in their own settings, which is the whole of why
keeping one is acceptable. `persona` is withdrawn from any unattended chat --
a helper's task, a friend's question and a schedule's instruction are all words
nobody watched being written.

Two bugs found while reading for this, both silent:

`review_model_id` stored a `Model` primary key, so a refresh taken while an
endpoint was not listing that model unset the administrator's choice -- and
`_reviewer` then fell back to the chat's own model, so pictures were judged by
a model nobody chose. Now the text id, with the primary key still accepted.

`_messages_after` used a bare `>` on `created_at`, so a row sharing the edited
turn's microsecond survived a rewind -- and `_send` writes a user turn and its
placeholder back to back, which is exactly that tie. Deliberately NOT
`thread_tail`'s `(created_at, id)` tiebreak: ids are random UUIDs, so that
settles a tie by coin toss. A tie now reads as "later", which is the safe
direction for an operation whose purpose is to discard what follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -213,7 +213,22 @@
<label class="field__label" for="description">Description</label>
<textarea class="textarea" id="description" name="description" rows="2"
placeholder="What is this model good at?">{{ model.description }}</textarea>
<p class="field__hint">Shown in the chat settings panel and your users' settings.</p>
<p class="field__hint">
Shown in the chat settings panel and your users' settings &mdash; and, if any
model here may ask another one a question, read by those models too.
</p>
</div>
<div class="field">
<label class="field__label" for="notes">Facts for other models</label>
<textarea class="textarea" id="notes" name="notes" rows="3"
placeholder="Parameters, quantisation, a benchmark figure, what it is bad at">{{ model.notes }}</textarea>
<p class="field__hint">
Never shown to a person. It goes into the list of the other models that a
model sees when it is allowed to ask one of them a question, so write what
would help it choose: size, what this one is good and bad at, a score you
trust. Leave it empty and the description above carries that on its own.
</p>
</div>
</section>
@@ -343,4 +358,76 @@
<a class="btn btn--ghost" href="/admin/models">Back to all models</a>
</div>
</form>
{# Outside the form above, and it has to be: two forms cannot nest, and this one
posts somewhere else. See the note beside the Detect button. #}
<section class="card">
<h2 class="card__title">Personality</h2>
<p class="card__lede">
Who this model is, carried into every conversation rather than given to it for
one. Different from the system prompt above: that is an instruction you write,
this is a character it can be — and, with
<strong>Edit its own personality</strong> ticked, one it can rewrite itself.
Every version is kept below.
</p>
<form method="post" action="/admin/models/{{ model.id }}/persona">
<div class="field">
<label class="field__label visually-hidden" for="persona">Personality</label>
<textarea class="textarea" id="persona" name="content" rows="6"
placeholder="Nothing yet. Write one, or let the model write its own."
>{{ persona.content if persona else "" }}</textarea>
<p class="field__hint">
Up to {{ persona_limit }} characters, in the first person. Empty removes it
and its history. It is sent on every request, so length here costs the same
as length in the system prompt.
</p>
</div>
<div class="btn-row">
<button class="btn" type="submit">Save personality</button>
{% if persona and persona.author == "model" %}
<span class="badge badge--leaf">last written by the model</span>
{% elif persona %}
<span class="badge">last written here</span>
{% endif %}
</div>
</form>
</section>
{% if persona and persona.revisions %}
<section class="card">
<h2 class="card__title">
Earlier personalities <span class="badge">{{ persona.revisions|length }}</span>
</h2>
<p class="card__lede">
What it said before each change. This is the whole safety story for a model
that may rewrite itself: not a gate, but a record and a way back.
</p>
<ul class="model-list">
{% for revision in persona.revisions %}
<li class="model-list__item">
<div style="min-width: 0">
<strong>{{ revision.created_at.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") }}</strong>
{% if revision.author == "model" %}
<span class="badge badge--leaf">model</span>
{% else %}
<span class="badge">you</span>
{% endif %}
{% if revision.note %}<div class="text-xs faint">{{ revision.note }}</div>{% endif %}
<div class="text-xs faint">
{{ revision.content[:200] }}{{ "…" if revision.content|length > 200 }}
</div>
</div>
<form method="post" action="/admin/models/{{ model.id }}/persona/revert"
data-confirm="Put this version back? The current one is kept in the history."
data-confirm-label="Restore" data-confirm-danger="false">
<input type="hidden" name="revision_id" value="{{ revision.id }}">
<button class="btn btn--sm" type="submit">
{{ icon("refresh", "icon--sm") }} Restore
</button>
</form>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</section>
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}