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Jaroslav Beneš 5e75948069 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>
2026-08-05 14:13:19 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš fd4db76c64 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>
2026-08-04 09:21:03 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 50270e13f7 Names that fit the chat, and a way to change one
Two things about titles were wrong. Every chat spent a second completion on
its name, including an agent chat whose opening words are already a title --
somebody starting one states an objective, not a topic. An agent chat now
takes `fallback_title` from its first prompt and makes no request at all;
an ordinary chat, which opens with a question whose *answer* is what makes a
title worth asking for, is unchanged.

And renaming existed only as the `/title` slash command, which set the heading
and left the sidebar row showing the old name until the next reload -- a rename
that looks half-applied is one people do twice. There are pencil buttons on the
heading and on every sidebar row now, both PATCHing the route that was already
there, and `update_chat` answers a rename with the out-of-band pair the `done`
frame has always sent, so one response moves both. Only on a rename: sending it
for every PATCH would overwrite the heading from an unrelated save. `/title`
sets both spans itself, being a bare fetch rather than htmx.

The dialog is the `data-prompt` mechanism the folder work added, which is why
the heading keeps a button rather than becoming an inline field: it sits in a
flex row beside the badges and the connection chip, and swapping it for a text
box moves all of them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 08:46:08 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 816f2ae957 A menu for what a chat may use, and three keys
Six smaller things, all of them about the interface not saying what is true.

The @ button only ever inserted the character, which the @ key already does
without a button. It becomes the scope menu: what this chat may use, switched
off per chat. Chat.scope_json is filtered inside resolve_tools AFTER the
capability, permission and instance gates -- exactly as chat.knowledge_bases
narrows knowledge_search -- so a crafted POST turning something on reaches a
tool the gates already removed, and there is a test that writes the column
directly to prove it. Absent means on, for every key, so "why is this off?" has
one answer. It is keyed on the gate rather than the tool name, so notes is one
switch rather than five. The switches carry no role="menuitem", deliberately:
ui.js closes a picker when a menuitem is clicked, which is right for an action
menu and wrong for a list you want to set several of -- which is why the menu
needs no JavaScript at all. Typing @ is untouched.

With no skills, nothing should mention them. tool.skills was gated on the family
alone, so somebody with an empty library was told "the list below gives each
one's name" above no list, handed skill_get, and watched the model spend a round
finding out. It requires skills now; the writing half moved to
tool.skills_write, which is deliberately not gated, because saving the first one
is what somebody with none most needs. And core.tool_list finally reads
tool_names, which had been resolved and documented with no fragment using it.

The composer's toolbar is one row again. .composer__actions is last in the DOM
with margin-left:auto, so the moment an agent chat added a connection, a
directory and a mode, Send and the microphone dropped to a second line.
chat.css has no media queries by design and the fix is not to add one:
.composer__context is the single child allowed to shrink and scroll sideways.
There is a test asserting the file still contains no @media.

The effort picker shows the level in force. "Effort: default" named no level and
was true of nothing in particular; chat.resolved_effort is the chat's own value
and build_request reads the same field, so what is shown is what is sent. The
model's default is a seed, copied onto the row at creation and on a model
change, and never consulted at request time -- a fallback would resurrect it
underneath a cleared effort and make "off" silently do nothing. "off" is a
sentinel and not an empty value, because start_chat declares Form("") and cannot
tell absent from empty: with value="" the reader picks off and gets high.

Alt+M dictates, Alt+R reads the last reply aloud, Ctrl+Enter sends from
anywhere. All three click the button that already does the job, so audio.js
keeps its one delegated listener. Alt+M and not Alt+D, which is the address bar
in Chrome and Firefox. Ctrl+Enter never means Stop -- Send and Stop are the same
element, and Esc already stops. Driven under a DOM stub before committing, per
the rule in CLAUDE.md, and tests/test_commands_js.py pins that every key has a
row in SHORTCUTS, since /help reads that list.

And the memory tooling, which had seven defects. The worst: memory_forget was a
case-insensitive substring first-match delete with nothing warning about it, so
forgetting "coffee" against "Drinks coffee black" and "Allergic to coffee"
silently removed whichever was older -- a wrong deletion nobody would ever find
out about, from a tool whose description invited exactly the short fragment that
misfires. It matches exactly first, then by substring, and refuses an ambiguous
one while naming what it matched. add() refuses an exact duplicate. The
at-the-limit refusal no longer tells the model to delete one to make room: past
the block's budget it is not shown all of them and would be guessing, which
feeds straight back into the first defect. And context.memories no longer claims
the memories "still apply", which nothing checks and which taught a model to
trust a stale one over what the person had just said.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 11:22:03 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 8a3a225fea Two selects that never wrote anything, and a queue
The approval card in Auto mode and the missing /effort were one bug. Both
selects hung their hx-patch on an empty sibling form reached by form="…",
and htmx binds a trigger to the annotated element: change fires on the
select and bubbles to its ancestors, which a sibling is not. The live rows
read agent_mode=manual and params_json={} while the browser showed Auto and
Effort: high. policy.py was never involved.

The verb moves onto the control; the empty form stays as value scoping,
which is the half of the CLAUDE.md note that was right. conftest gains
control_named so a test asserts the element carrying the name carries the
verb, rather than asserting the markup that was there throughout.

The composer's highlight was a third instance of the same carelessness in
CSS: .tok-mention is written for the transcript and scoped to nothing, so
the mirror painted its token in accent-coloured monospace over the
textarea's own text. Scoped under .msg; the mirror restates transparency
and font rather than inheriting them, and bleeds by box-shadow.

/effort is now offered before the first prompt and _new_chat reads it.
/index re-walks the project directory on demand, file_write drops the
listing it just invalidated, and the index ladder falls through to SFTP on
a host that refuses exec instead of returning nothing.

A second message during a reply is queued rather than starting a second
concurrent generation: a real Message row with queued set, so it survives a
restart and can be withdrawn. _drain hands one on at the end of a reply,
_inject takes one in at a tool-round boundary so an agent can be steered
mid-task. Stop leaves the queue undelivered. The terminal's Auto toggle
becomes off/copy/send, and send posts straight to the chat without touching
the composer.

@ now offers notes, skills, this chat's attachments and a URL to fetch; a
knowledge base attaches as a reference rather than a copy. copy_document
carries provenance, which was the one attach path that dropped it.

Also fixes an unrelated live bug: the round loop compared against the
global MAX_ROUNDS of 3 while sizing itself from the agent budget of 40, so
agent replies stopped after three rounds and reported forty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 19:49:34 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 0bee366488 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>
2026-08-02 18:17:04 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš b6cea42631 A directory the model knows about, and @ to name a file in it
An agent chat used to open with the model knowing the name of a machine and
nothing about what was on it, so the first two rounds of every reply went on
finding out. It now gets a listing: one read-only command, `git ls-files` where
that works and `find` otherwise, falling back to an SFTP walk that always does.
git first because a repository already carries somebody's considered list of
what is not part of the project, and reproducing it by hand is how an index
ends up mostly build output.

The listing is budgeted rather than dumped. A tree of a thousand files is worse
than no tree -- it costs the window on every request forever and buries the four
names that mattered -- so directories that will not fit are shown as a count and
the model is told to open one itself. Collapsing picks the deepest and largest
first: by saving alone it would take `src/` before `src/web/static/vendor/`,
because it contains it, and lose every name worth having.

Read from a cache and never fetched. `harness.context_variables` is synchronous
and sits on the request path; the walk happens in the generation setup, which is
async and already doing network work, with a short wait. A chat whose first
reply outruns its first walk simply has no listing that turn and the fragment
disappears rather than appearing as an empty heading.

Then `@`, over the same index and over the library, and `/` for commands with an
Alt-based keyboard for the same jobs. A mentioned file arrives as contents, not
a reference -- a small model asked to call file_read often does not bother -- and
it arrives with its absolute path and the machine it came from, because a model
handed `main.py` cannot tell which of four it is and cannot name it back when
asked to change something.

The rule that matters for `/`: a message that merely starts with a slash still
sends. `//` escapes and an unrecognised command is posted as written. Swallowing
somebody's message is a much worse failure than an unknown command.

Two exceptions to Manual mode now, not one. Browsing and indexing are a person
acting, not a model, so neither passes through policy.py -- the same argument
the terminal panel rests on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 17:04:41 +02:00