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>
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>
Establish the LLeMbas foundation: FastAPI/Jinja/SQLite layout, the ORM
schema, and the original SVG identity.
Notable decisions, all recorded in comments at the point they matter:
- No Alembic. SQLite only, schema created at startup, so models carry a
few columns nothing reads yet (Message.parent_id for branching,
content_parts_json for multimodal turns). Adding them later to a live
database without migrations is the painful path.
- Sessions are server-side rows keyed by a SHA-256 of the cookie value,
not JWTs, so logout and bans revoke access immediately.
- Upstream API keys are Fernet-encrypted with a key derived from
LEMBAS_SECRET_KEY. decrypt() fails soft to "" so rotating the secret
degrades to re-entering keys rather than crashing the admin UI.
- Artwork is generated by scripts/build_artwork.py rather than hand-drawn
per file: the mallorn leaf appears in the icon, favicon, lockup and
banner, and one source is the only way those stay in sync. The wordmark
is Source Serif 4 (OFL) converted to outlines, because a README banner
cannot load a webfont and <text> would render in whatever serif the
viewer happens to have.
- Icons live in a template partial, not assets/, because same-document
<use href="#id"> is universally supported and the cross-document form
is not.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jaroslav Beneš