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HomerandClaude Opus 5 201281d616 New markup over an old stylesheet
Reported from a desktop browser: a stray close button beside the logo, badly
drawn, and a page that would not scroll. None of it was in the code that was
running -- it was the code the browser had not fetched.

The worker caches /static/ under a cache named for the release while the files
in it carried no version, and a page is fetched network-first. That only ever
worked because the worker used to seize every open tab the instant it installed
and wipe the old cache. 1.1.0 stopped it doing that, rightly -- it was swapping
stylesheets out from under a streaming reply -- and a momentary mismatch became
a permanent one: new markup over the previous release's CSS for as long as the
old worker lived. `.sidebar__close` had no rule there, so `.btn--icon` made it
inline-flex: visible everywhere, placed by nothing.

Every /static/ URL carries the release now, written by `templating.asset` and
precached by `sw.js:versioned` -- both halves, because caches.match compares the
query too and precaching the bare path would cache entries nothing requests.
Self-correcting: updating is enough.

The header was also a brand with a button appended and margin-left:auto doing
the placing, which holds exactly while that button is last. Two slots now: a
brand that shrinks and truncates, and a rail on the trailing edge.

Verified before changing anything: with the current stylesheet the button is
display:none at 1280 and, with thirty chats and forty messages, both scrollers
scroll. The first measurement said the thread did not -- that was
scroll-behavior: smooth reporting where it started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 18:16:24 +00:00
HomerandClaude Opus 5 28390095a9 A phone, and how much of this could not be used on one
The sidebar was a 280px panel laid over the page below the phone breakpoint,
opened from first paint, with the only control that closed it underneath it --
and that control existed on /chat and on none of the seven other pages carrying
a sidebar, Settings included. It starts closed at that width now, slides, dims
the page behind it, and closes by tapping beside it, by Escape, or by its own
button, which is inside the drawer where it can be reached.

Everything a finger has to hit was 36px, or 28 for renaming a chat, every action
on a message and every panel's close button. Raising --control-h under a coarse
pointer is the only fix that reaches all forty of them, which is what that token
is for. The row and message actions were also hover-only, so on a phone they did
not exist at all.

Installing: the splash and the browser chrome follow the instance's theme rather
than always being Moria's near-black; there are screenshots, so the install
offer is a dialog rather than a one-line bar; a new release no longer takes over
a page somebody is reading; the notification badge is a silhouette rather than a
grey square; and a browser rotating its own subscription no longer ends
notifications for good.

Every request now says it is happening -- nothing did before, so anything slower
than a few milliseconds looked like a click that had not registered.

A chat can be archived. The column has been filtered on in four places since
folders arrived and written by nothing, which is what made it look built.

chat.css may contain media queries. The ban protected the composer toolbar from
being "fixed" with a breakpoint; that guarantee is asserted directly now, and
the old test would have passed a version of the file that wrapped the toolbar
without one.

scripts/shoot.py is the instrument all of this was found with: it renders a page
through TestClient into a real headless browser at a real size and refuses to
run if an asset URL was left pointing at testserver.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 13:39:35 +00:00
HomerandClaude Opus 5 96f269dadb Boundaries that were supposed to hold
The security pass. Six findings, none reachable by visiting the site and
every one a boundary this codebase says it keeps.

A subagent is pinned to a list of read-only commands, in every mode,
unattended, with no card anybody could approve -- and `find *` was on it.
find writes files with -fprintf, runs programs with -exec and removes them
with -delete, and none of that needs a character the metacharacter guard
refuses. A page the model had just read could ask for a helper and get a
key into authorized_keys, from Plan mode, which promises to change
nothing. Refused in `subject()` rather than trimmed from the list: a
pattern cannot say "and no dangerous flags", and "this one looks
read-only" is exactly what put find there.

The loopback guard missed `0.0.0.0`, which is not is_loopback but does
connect to localhost -- so it answered a *decided* False and skipped the
DNS half too. The one spelling of "this machine" that walked past a guard
whose whole job is that sentence.

Twice in the update helper, which is the one place this deliberately
crosses a privilege boundary: root ran a script the service account owns,
and root sourced a file that account can replace. Either turns a
compromise of the web application into root. The first needed no
compromise at all -- a pull happens as the service user and root runs
whatever it fetched, so control of the branch was control of root. The
old test asserted that exact ExecStart line and had pinned it in place.

Push endpoints skipped check_url, the only outbound request that did. And
a chat could be filed in another account's folder, which hands over its
system prompt -- `_new_chat` resolved the folder, discarded it when it was
not the caller's, and stored the raw id anyway.

An existing helper install keeps the old wiring until install.sh is
re-run; update.sh now says so when it finds itself inside the checkout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 13:45:59 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 5 1b8c9f948c 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>
2026-08-06 16:48:14 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 5 78e5717f77 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>
2026-08-06 15:42:25 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 5 71dc46455c Green instead of gold, and a leaf that reads at 16px
The brand accent was rune gold. It is now mallorn green: --gold becomes
--leaf in tokens.css and everywhere it resolved, and the mark's wafer is
the green of the leaves lembas travels wrapped in rather than the biscuit
inside. Yellow is left to mean exactly one thing in the interface -- a
warning -- instead of two.

Two knock-on choices the rename forced:

  - Code keywords move from the brand accent to --warning. Strings are
    --success, which is green; keywords in leaf green beside them is not
    a colour scheme.
  - --success itself leans teal now. Two greens a hue apart read as one
    colour rendered badly, and an unread dot has to be tellable from a
    brand badge at a glance.

The mark is redrawn, not just recoloured. The blade is ovate -- widest a
third up from the base, rounded where the stem meets it, drawn out only
at the tip -- because the old one was pointed at both ends and read as an
eye. It is also much larger relative to the tile: at 16px the silhouette
is all that survives, and a small leaf on a large tile is a green square
with a smudge on it. Veins sweep towards the tip and shorten as the blade
narrows. The score cross is thinner and fainter so it stays texture.

A single diagonal score was tried first and rejected: behind a diagonal
leaf it does not read as scoring, it reads as a line struck through the
mark.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-31 22:24:53 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 4.8 35b9d8c8d2 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>
2026-07-21 20:00:15 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 4.8 1eba860d39 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>
2026-07-21 19:43:57 +02:00