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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 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 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