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 Jaroslav Beneš
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The menu that never appeared, and the reason it never did
composer.js built its menu lazily inside show(), and refresh() wrote list.innerHTML before calling it. `list` is null until build() has run, so the first `/` or `@` ever typed threw a TypeError and took the handler with it. The menu has never appeared in any browser. That is why /compact "isn't there": nothing was. I shipped it having only run `node --check`, which parses the file happily. So this also brings the thing that catches it: a DOM stub driven under node -- not committed, hard rule 1 stands, it is an instrument like curl. It reproduced the crash in one run and immediately found two more: choosing a command from the menu left `/help` sitting in the box so the next Enter ran it again, and Tab completed nothing. Tab now completes and Enter runs, which is the split that matters for a command taking an argument. `.select--sm` was used three times and defined nowhere. I deleted the copy in chat.css and left a comment saying it "is defined once, in app.css", where it did not exist -- so those selects fell back to plain `.select`: width 100% in a flex row where four siblings wanted the same, all of them shrinking together until each was a few characters wide, and half a rem taller than everything beside them. That was the whole of "the connection switch needs to be wider". The connection and directory move to the topbar. They cannot change -- update_chat refuses both with a 409 -- so they are facts about the chat, of a kind with the Temporary badge, not controls on the message. The mode stays by the box. Compaction says it is working. It makes a model call that takes seconds and had no indicator anywhere: `hx-indicator` appears nowhere in this codebase, and the Generation.status channel that says "Summarising earlier messages…" for the automatic path cannot be borrowed, because it lives in the streaming bubble and this endpoint refuses to run while any message is unfinished. The overflow menu now runs the same code as /compact rather than posting for itself, so there is one implementation, one spinner, and one place the endpoint's four carefully written 409s finally reach somebody. /effort, low medium high, per chat with a per-model default. It goes out twice because there is no field that works everywhere: OpenAI and vLLM read reasoning_effort, llama.cpp's own docs say other values "have no effect" and its maintainer says the field "simply gets dropped without error or logging" -- what reaches gpt-oss behind it is chat_template_kwargs. Both are sent, and only once an effort has been chosen, so a provider strict about unknown parameters sees exactly the request it always did until somebody opts in. The control appears only on a model marked `reasoning`, a flag that has existed since the beginning with no reader at all. Mentions and recognised commands are marked as you type -- a mirror behind the textarea holding the same text with every character transparent, contributing nothing but a rounded rectangle, so a pixel of drift is a misplaced rectangle rather than a doubled glyph. A command is marked only when it resolves, so `/thoughts on this` visibly is not one before you send it. And again in the transcript, where user turns had no render step at all and now escape before they inject. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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The composer decides what a chat is, and the topbar stops trying
The mode select in the topbar posted with hx-post against a route that only answers PATCH, so every change returned 405 and the mode never moved. htmx shows nothing when a request fails, so the control looked like it worked: the select stayed where you put it and the server ignored you. It has never worked. Two more of the same kind. A mode could not be chosen at all until the chat existed, so reaching Plan meant sending something in Manual first and letting the model answer under the wrong rules. And the project directory box was real and submitted, but unlabelled and squeezed to a few characters by the select beside it, so it read as broken -- which is how it was reported. So the kind, the connection, the directory and the mode move out of the strip above the text and into one toolbar row beneath it, where attach and send already are. The directory becomes a button that opens a browser over SFTP, because a path is something you would rather find than spell. `scan_dir` is new beside `list_dir`: a picker has to tell a directory from a file before it can draw the row, and `list_dir` backs a tool whose contract is a list of names and must not change under a model mid-conversation. Browsing is a person clicking, not a model calling, so it does not pass through policy.py -- the same argument the terminal panel rests on. It does mean Manual mode has a second exception now. Also: .chip was two components with one name, and the attachment card won, so the Chat/Agent pills silently wore its padding. --radius-md was used twice and declared nowhere, so both fell back to 0. .btn.is-active has been set by syncToggles since the terminal landed and styled by nothing. Enter-to-send ignored isComposing, so committing an IME candidate sent the message. The terminal had five colours of a sixteen-colour palette, with fallbacks from a palette that no longer exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A terminal panel beside an agent chat
A real shell on the chat's own connection, opened and closed like the inspector and never beside it. The modes govern the model; what a person types is theirs, since they hold the credential and could open the same shell with an ssh client. The model cannot see the panel -- a button copies the output you choose into the composer. The session outlives the socket: closing the panel leaves a build running, and coming back reattaches with the scrollback. Two tabs share one shell and the smaller window decides the size. It ends on an idle timeout, on deleting the chat, on disabling, moving or deleting the connection, and on a restart -- which says why rather than quietly opening a fresh shell that has lost the working directory. The nginx template's `Connection ""` is right for SSE and fails every WebSocket handshake, so `location /` now uses a `map $http_upgrade`; update.sh grows a drift check for it, because the only symptom on a stale vhost is a panel that cannot connect. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Agent chats run commands, and stop to ask first
The four tools an agent chat has -- shell_run, file_read, file_write, file_list -- and the mode table wired into the loop that decides which of them stop for approval. Verified end to end against a real Kali container over SSH: the card shows the command, allowing it runs it there, and the file it writes is visible from outside. The mode is enforced in `_authorise`, in the generation loop, server-side, keyed on each tool's declared risk. Not in the prompt: a model is told which mode it is in so it behaves sensibly, but everything it reads -- a web page, a README, the output of the last command -- is untrusted, and a rule written only into a system message is one a poisoned file can argue with. Within an agent chat every call goes through the table, including the built-in ones, because notes_edit writes and Plan mode meaning "look but do not touch" has to mean that too. Two things this turned up. The runners re-check the mode as a backstop, and that backstop refused the very thing a person had just approved -- the mode says "ask", and asking was exactly what happened. Approval is now threaded per call, on a copy of the context, because a round runs its calls together and only some of them were allowed. And the harness said nothing at all, because `registry` maps an offered tool *name* back to a family and did not know the agent tools existed. So shell_run resolved to no family and the fragment naming the machine, the directory and the mode was never admitted. The same omission cost custom tools their guidance once already; there is a test for it now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Compaction: a button, and automatically when the window fills
A long conversation eventually just stops working. Compaction summarises the earlier turns and sends the summary in their place. The messages are kept. They stay in the transcript behind a collapsed divider and simply stop being part of the request, which is what makes the button safe to press and automatic compaction safe to have at all: a summary that came out badly is a bad turn, not a lost conversation. Stored on the Chat, not as a synthetic Message. A synthetic row needs a role -- `system` breaks the one-system-message rule the moment build_messages emits it beside the harness, and user/assistant makes it a turn people can edit, regenerate from and copy, indistinguishable from a real one in all four places a bubble is rendered. Worse, "editing rewinds, it does not branch" would silently delete it and leave no marker that compaction had happened at all. The summary goes out as a user turn and an assistant turn, not one. A leading assistant breaks templates requiring the first non-system message to be user; a lone leading user produces user, user whenever the kept history starts on a user turn -- which it always does, because the cutoff lands on a finished reply. compacted_through_id is a plain id rather than a foreign key: migrations.py compiles only the column type, so a REFERENCES clause would exist on a fresh database and not on an upgraded one, and a constraint half the fleet has is worse than none. cutoff_message validates it on every read instead, and a rewind past the boundary clears it. Compacting again summarises only the delta, with the previous summary supplied to be subsumed. Re-summarising the whole chat each time grows quadratically and eventually exceeds the window it is protecting. Automatically at the top of _run, not in post_message: that route's contract is to return immediately and leave the slow part to a resumable connection, and it also means build_request is called once, after compaction, with no second assembly path. The trigger is the last reply's recorded usage plus an estimate of the new turn -- retrospective because true prompt_tokens are only knowable after a response, plus the delta because otherwise fifty thousand characters pasted into the composer overflow a window that read 90% last turn. It never fires when the context length is unknown. It does fire on estimated counts, which is safe here precisely because nothing is lost. _maybe_compact never raises: a failure logs and sends the uncompacted request. A `status` event says "Summarising earlier messages…" in the meantime, because a silent multi-second pause before the first token is what a hang looks like. The wording is three fragments under Admin - Prompts. Clearing task.compact turns compaction off entirely. Also adds compaction.moment(): SQLite does not store the offset, so a row loaded from disk is naive while one in the session's identity map keeps its tzinfo, and comparing the two raises. Every comparison here is between exactly those. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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An admin inspector on the right of the chat
A third child of .shell, opening and closing like the sidebar opposite it, showing the system message that would go out, the tools offered, what the last reply cost, and the whole request body as JSON. Rebuilt, not recorded. Recording every request would store a copy of the growing conversation against every message -- quadratic in chat length -- and the thing an administrator debugging a bad answer actually wants is what the current configuration produces. The panel says exactly that at the top, so nobody mistakes it for forensics. Owner-checked and admin-checked, not admin alone. permissions.resolve giving an admin everything is about configuration, which they can grant themselves anyway; reading someone's conversation is a different act, and it is why sharing.visible_to has no admin branch. An inspector that could dump any user's transcript would be that branch under another name. No new JavaScript. app.js already delegates [data-toggle], and hx-trigger="intersect once" makes the load lazy for free: a hidden element never intersects, so the request fires the first time it is opened and never on a page load nobody looked at. Image data URIs are replaced before dumping -- fidelity is the point, but not several megabytes of base64 in the DOM. Everything renders through normal escaping and never |safe: this JSON is full of model output, search results and uploaded documents. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Prompt suggestions on the new-chat screen
A blank composer is the least helpful thing a chat client can show someone who has just installed one. Three cards now sit under the empty state, and an administrator manages them at /admin/suggestions. Clicking a card fills the composer and stops there. It deliberately does not send: every default ends mid-sentence, because a card is a starting point rather than a question somebody already asked, and the caret lands where the person has to start typing. Seeding is guarded by a settings flag, not by "is the table empty" -- otherwise an administrator who decided against them would get all three back on every restart. Capped at twelve, six shown: past a dozen this is a menu, and a menu on the empty screen is a worse blank page than a blank page. The cards are gated on there being no chat at all, not on the thread being empty. An empty chat someone opened on purpose already has a model and a prompt chosen. Also fixes a pre-existing bug the position test caught. Both this and _refresh_models wrote `coalesce(max(position), -1) or -1`, and position 0 is falsy -- so the second row landed back on 0 on top of the first. The coalesce was already doing that job; the `or` was undoing it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Temporary chats
A clock in the top-right starts one. It is never listed in the sidebar and is swept a day after the last thing said in it. A real row rather than something held in the browser, because a reload, a crash or a background tab all look identical from here -- "delete when you navigate away" would lose conversations people meant to keep. The flag rides in the URL (/chat?temporary=1) rather than in JavaScript, so it survives a reload and can be bookmarked, and the composer carries it as a hidden field beside model_id. Keep clears the flag. Without a way out, a conversation that turns out to matter is destroyed a day later with no recourse, and people would find that out exactly once. archived was filtered in three places and temporary mirrors all three, plus Folder.visible_chats. It also skips the unread flag in _persist: there is no sidebar row for the dot to land on, and the toast would name a chat nobody can navigate to. The sweep measures age from the newest message, not from the chat row. created_at would destroy a conversation still in use at hour 23, and updated_at does not move when a message is inserted -- onupdate fires on an UPDATE of the chat, and adding a message is not one. It runs at startup beside the existing upload sweep. Deleting a chat cascades its rows but leaves the files on disk; only the orphan sweep unlinks anything, and it looks only at uploads that were never attached. files.remove_files_for_chats() closes that for the new sweep. The same hole in delete_chat is pre-existing and left for its own change, which can now call the same helper. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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One thread template, one sidebar toggle
chat/index.html and chat/_thread.html held the same loop, so anything added to the conversation -- a compaction divider, say -- would have had to be written into both and kept in step by hand. index.html includes the partial instead. The sidebar toggle was a raw inline onclick, the only one left in the application. app.js already delegates [data-toggle="#selector"] and gives open/close, aria-expanded and an is-active button state for free; the chat settings gear has used it all along. Also deletes the .sidebar[data-collapsed="true"] rule, which nothing has ever set. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Knowledge bases, and a file input that lines up
**Bases.** Documents now live in named collections rather than one flat pile, and a chat can be pointed at particular ones — "answer from the contracts folder" is a different question from "answer from everything I have ever uploaded". A chat with none attached still searches everything its owner can see, because empty means unscoped, not empty. The harness names the attached bases. Without that the model cannot tell "there is nothing about this" from "I am only allowed to see one folder", and it phrases a miss as the former. **Sharing moves to the base.** A document is visible to whoever can see the base it lives in, so `Document` is gone from the shareable types and `documents.visible()` filters through `base_id`. "This folder is the team's" is the granularity people think in; per-document grants meant answering "who can see this?" by checking every file. Moving a document between bases changes who can see it, so the destination has to be one you own. `Document.base_id` is nullable only because the column had to be added to a table that already had rows. `sweep_unfiled()` runs at startup beside the orphaned-upload sweep and files anything predating bases into its owner's default, which is what makes "always set" true everywhere else. **The file input.** `.input` gave it a fixed height and horizontal padding, so the browser's own button sat hard against the left edge while the filename floated off the centre line. A file input is two controls in one box and neither inherits anything useful, so it gets its own rule: no horizontal padding, the button sized to `--control-h` with the divider that separates it, and the text centred with line-height rather than flexbox, which file inputs do not lay out reliably. 437 tests, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Live Markdown, stop, rewind, custom picker, dialogs
Seven things. **Reasoning starts closed.** The answer is what the reader is waiting for; the thinking is one click away. **Image borders.** .attachments__image was a block-level <a>, so its border stretched the full column around a narrow picture. inline-block, and the frame is the picture. Same fix for the composer thumbnail. **Markdown now renders during the stream.** The generator re-renders the answer so far and sends it as a `render` event at most every 100ms, swapped with innerHTML, instead of appending escaped tokens and formatting everything at the end. Re-rendering whole rather than appending is the point: a list or a code fence is only correct once its context exists, and partial syntax resolves itself as more arrives. Measured against a live model: 29 render events, formatting visible from the first content token. **Stop button.** A stop request goes into an in-process set the generator checks between chunks; whatever arrived is kept, because a half-written answer the reader chose to cut short is still worth having. Measured: stream ended 0.2s after the request, 1155 characters preserved, message marked stopped rather than errored. Navigating away does the same thing via CancelledError. **Rewind and edit.** Edit one of your own turns and everything after it is deleted, then the conversation runs on from there. Deliberately not branching: that needs a UI for choosing between versions, and "go back and try again from here" is what was asked for. The form states how many messages will be discarded before you confirm. **Custom model picker.** A <select> renders only text in an <option>, so it can never show an avatar. Built from buttons and a hidden input, with descriptions, capability tags, a filter box past eight models, and arrow-key navigation written out by hand since there is no native widget doing it. **Notification system.** lembas.notify/confirm/prompt in ui.js, built on <dialog> so focus trapping, Escape and page inertness come from the browser. htmx:confirm is intercepted, so every existing hx-confirm gets the themed dialog with no change at the call site; the browser's grey confirm() is gone from every template. 230 tests, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Fix bulk actions, create chats lazily, rework the UI
Seven reported problems.
**Bulk model actions 404'd.** /admin/models/{model_id} was registered
before /admin/models/bulk, and FastAPI matches in registration order, so
"bulk" was parsed as a model id. Moved above the parameterised route,
with a comment saying why, and a regression test.
**Empty chats piled up.** There is now no endpoint that creates one.
"New chat" is a link to /chat, which renders a composer with no row
behind it, and POST /api/chats/start writes the chat together with its
first message. Opening one and walking away leaves nothing.
**Pinning meant two different things.** The picker is now always in the
administrator's position order; pinned models get shortcuts in the chat
sidebar and nothing else. A picker whose order silently differs from the
admin screen is just confusing.
**Model images were missing in chat.** Assistant bubbles now show the
avatar of the model that actually wrote the turn -- which is not always
the model the chat is set to now -- falling back to the LLeMbas mark.
The picker shows it too.
**No global or per-model system prompt.** Three layers now: instance
(Admin -> General), model (Admin -> Models), chat. Precedence, not
concatenation: most specific wins outright. Stacking them reads well in
a settings screen and badly in practice, because two layers that
disagree give the model contradictory instructions and nobody can tell
which is losing. The chat panel shows the inherited prompt as
placeholder text so "leave empty to inherit" is not a guess.
**Alignment and button sizing.** Added --control-h and friends to
tokens.css; every button, input and select takes its height from them,
so a mixed row is flush by construction rather than by per-instance
nudging. Icon buttons are square at that height. Added .btn-row,
.card__header/.card__footer and .grid so pages stop carrying inline
styles, and moved every admin page onto them.
**Settings needed structure.** The user settings page is now tabbed
(Account / Models / Appearance / Security) using radio inputs and
sibling selectors -- no JavaScript, and the browser keeps the chosen tab
across a re-render.
Caught while checking: the chat.css surgery had deleted the attachment,
chip and dropzone rules. Restored, and there is now a check that every
literal class used in a template has a CSS rule.
197 tests, ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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File attachments: images for vision, PDFs and text into the prompt
Drag, paste or pick a file in the composer. Images go to vision models as multimodal content parts; PDFs and text files have their content extracted and placed in the prompt. Verified end to end against gemma4-e4b-q8 on llama-swap: given a drawing and a text file, it named the red square and blue circle and read the number out of the document. Type is decided by inspecting the bytes, never the filename or the browser's Content-Type -- a .png full of text is stored as text. Images are downscaled to 1400px and re-encoded: a phone photo is several megabytes of base64, which is slow and a large slice of the context window. PDF text is extracted once, at upload, and stored; re-extracting per request would let a reply change because a parser was upgraded. Design points worth keeping: - Images are only sent to models an administrator has marked `vision`. This is not graceful degradation -- most endpoints reject the entire request rather than ignoring an image part. A plain text turn stays a plain string for the same reason: the list form 400s on endpoints that do not implement it. - Images reach the model as base64 data URIs, not links. A local endpoint has no route back to LLeMbas, and a hosted one has no credentials for it. - Non-images are served Content-Disposition: attachment with nosniff, so an uploaded .html can never execute in this origin. Stored names are random; the uploader's name is a label and never a path. - Uploads are unbound until the message is sent, which is what lets a file be removed beforehand. claim() only takes unclaimed rows owned by the sender, so a forged id cannot pull in someone else's file. Abandoned uploads are swept at startup. - A scanned PDF says so rather than silently contributing nothing, and truncation is declared to the model in the document tag so it can admit it did not see page 400. - "Here, look at this" with no words is a legitimate turn, so a message is only empty when it carries neither text nor files. Also fixes auto-titling, which read message["content"] as a string and would have broken on the first multimodal turn. 186 tests, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Users, groups, permissions, model settings and reasoning display
Four features, plus the schema machinery they needed. **Schema sync.** The first live instance had data in it, and create_all only creates missing *tables* -- a new column silently never appeared. db/migrations.py now diffs the declared models against the database and ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for what is missing, deriving a backfill default from the column type (SQLite refuses a NOT NULL column without one, and a Python-side `default=dict` cannot be expressed in DDL). Verified against a copy of the live database: eight changes applied, all rows preserved, second run a no-op. Renames, drops and retypes are still manual and say so. **Permissions.** A flat set of named booleans: an instance baseline widened by each group the user belongs to. A group grants and never denies -- with denies, "why can this user not do X" cannot be answered without simulating every group. Admins bypass entirely, because an admin can grant it back to themselves in two clicks and pretending otherwise is theatre. Model *access* is separate: public, or granted to groups. The picker is not the boundary -- switching a chat to a model you cannot reach is a 403. **Model settings.** Ordering, pinned-first, an instance default and a per-user default, display names, descriptions, capability flags, and uploaded images. Images are stored and served locally rather than by URL: a remote URL makes every page render a request to a third party. Uploads are validated by magic number, not the declared content type, and stored under a random name. Models with no image get a generated initial whose hue is derived from the model id, so it is stable. **Reasoning display.** Streams into its own collapsible block above the answer, labelled "Thought for 14 seconds", collapsed once finished, and never replayed as context on the next turn. Two sources: the reasoning_content delta field, and <think> tags inline in content -- the latter needs a streaming splitter because the tags arrive split across chunks. Models emitting no reasoning show nothing, via a :has() rule rather than JavaScript. Verified against qwen35-9b on llama-swap: 694 reasoning events, 52 answer tokens, cleanly separated. Two bugs found and fixed while testing: - A bare `Mapped[list]` relationship is treated by SQLAlchemy as a scalar and returns None instead of []. It needs the element type. - FastAPI substitutes the default for an empty form value, so with `x: str | None = Form(None)` a submitted `x=` is indistinguishable from an absent field. That silently broke clearing a system prompt or a temperature. update_chat now reads the raw form and checks key presence. 143 tests, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Working chat: auth, connections, streaming, folders
LLeMbas now runs end to end. Register, add an OpenAI-compatible connection, and hold a real streaming conversation organised into folders. Verified against the local llama-swap instance. Streaming is the one genuinely tricky part. Sending a message returns two HTML fragments -- the user bubble and an empty assistant bubble carrying an sse-connect -- and that attribute is the ONLY thing that starts a generation. Rendering an incomplete assistant message as a streaming shell falls out of the same template, which means loading a page whose last reply never finished simply picks it up again. Details worth knowing about, each commented where it matters: - SSE payloads are split across several data: lines. A raw newline in one data: line truncates the event, which shows up the first time a model emits a code block. - Markdown is rendered server-side by the same helper for both the page and the final streamed frame, so the two cannot disagree. The fence renderer is replaced outright rather than using markdown-it's highlight option, which re-wraps output in a second <pre>. - escape_text is html.escape, not nh3.clean_text: it escapes character by character, so escaping stream chunks separately equals escaping the whole string. - The stream opens its own session via session_scope(); it outlives the request handler and the dependency-scoped session may be closed. - Deleting a folder keeps the chats inside it (FK is SET NULL). Losing a conversation to a mis-clicked folder delete is unforgivable. - Login failures use one message for "no such account" and "wrong password" so the form cannot enumerate registered addresses. Also adds deploy/ for the gamebox install at https://chat.lan: system unit, nginx vhost with buffering off (buffering on turns streaming into one lump at the end), and install/update scripts following the same service-user and /srv bind-mount conventions as llama-swap and comfyui. 70 tests, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |