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HomerandClaude Opus 5 a16510aba8 The interface speaks Slovak
969 strings, an instance default and a per-person choice, and no half-done corner:
the admin prose is translated too. Design and reasoning: LLeMbas.wiki/Translations.

KEYED BY THE ENGLISH SENTENCE

A missing entry renders the key, which is the English -- so an untranslated string
looks as it always did, an English instance is byte-for-byte 1.6.0, and a
half-finished catalogue is a half-translated page rather than a page of dotted key
names. The cost is that editing an English sentence orphans its translation
silently, which is what tests/test_translations.py asserts in both directions.

No gettext: .po -> .mo is a build step and this project does not have one.

A JINJA GLOBAL, AND THEREFORE A CONTEXTVAR

`t()` is a global for the reason `brand` already documents -- render() is bypassed
by 25 TemplateResponse calls and 8 get_template().render() calls, the latter being
the SSE frames, which have no Request at all. A global is bound once at import and
the language is per person, so the active language is a ContextVar set per request.

🚨 `get_current_user` had to become `async def`. FastAPI runs a sync dependency in a
threadpool, and anyio copies the context in and discards it on the way out -- so
the language was set where nothing could see it and every page rendered in the
instance's language whatever anybody had chosen, with no error anywhere.

NOT TRANSLATED, ON PURPOSE

Everything a model reads: the 60 prompt fragments, and the dates in harness.py,
schedule/runner.py and schedule/compile.py. Only `i18n.stamp` is localised, and
only where a person reads it -- with the *format* translatable as well as the
words, because "26. septembra 2026" is a different pattern rather than the same one
with different words in it. A process locale is not an option: global, not
thread-safe, two people's pages at once.

A second fragment telling models to answer in the reader's language was written
during this work and removed: `core.style` has said it since long before, and
test_an_empty_override_turns_a_fragment_off caught the duplicate.

THE BULK PASS

1213 sites wrapped by a one-off script that only touched patterns it could not
misread. It got three wrong in a way that mattered -- `t('…')` inside `attr="…"`
where the sentence held an apostrophe, closing the Jinja string and 500ing two
pages whose partials no test renders. tests/test_translations.py now compiles all
110 templates. It also wrapped the product's own name, an SSH key header, a
keystroke hint and an example URL, all taken back out: a string is not
translatable just because it is a string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 14:46:33 +00:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 5 bdd7e09753 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>
2026-08-06 09:42:06 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 5 a63723713f 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>
2026-08-04 21:33:34 +02:00
Jaroslav BenešandClaude Opus 5 5766446b84 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