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Jaroslav Beneš 0c438a6333 A version somebody can read, instead of a sha nobody can
Updates follow a channel now. `stable` is the newest vX.Y.Z tag; `edge` is the
branch tip, which is what this did before. Stable is the default, because a
branch tip is not a release -- following one means deploying whatever was pushed
five minutes ago, possibly mid-feature, which is right for whoever builds this
and wrong for whoever runs it. The page can now say "running 1.0.0, 1.1.0
available" rather than showing two shas and leaving somebody to guess.

Read with git plumbing and never a forge API, for three reasons in the order
they bite. It would need a token on the deployment host -- a credential that can
reach the repository, sitting on a box, to answer a read-only question about
version numbers. It would tie this to one forge, so a fork on GitHub gets
nothing. And it breaks: checked against the Gitea this is developed on, `tea
whoami` works and `tea releases list` returns a 500 from a server-side panic
about token scopes, so a page resting on that endpoint would have shipped
already broken.

Release notes still travel, inside the annotated tag object, which
`git for-each-ref` reads with no API anywhere.

Two details that are only obvious after getting them wrong. A tag with a suffix
is not a release: git's version sort puts v1.1.0-rc1 *above* v1.1.0, so
accepting one would step a stable host onto a candidate on the strength of a
hyphen. And `--sort=-v:refname` rather than a lexical sort, which puts v1.9.0
above v1.10.0 and does it silently the first time a project reaches ten of
anything -- there is a test.

What is running is `git describe --tags --always`, so it reads "1.0.0" at a tag,
"1.0.0-7-gd4f56d" seven commits past one, and a bare sha before the first
release ever exists. That last case is what `--always` is for. When it lands
exactly on a tag whose name disagrees with __version__, the page says so: a tag
cut before the version bump names a release nobody can identify afterwards, and
the check costs no subprocess because both facts are already in hand.

update.sh resolves the channel the same way and detaches at the tag rather than
resetting -- a `reset --hard <tag>` while on main would move the local branch to
it, which is a rewrite of a ref nobody asked to rewrite. A host with no tags
falls back to the branch and says so, which is every host until the release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 20:42:03 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš c3bb6c9eaf An update you can ask for, and a boundary that stays where it was
The button cannot do the work, and that is the whole design. The service runs as
an unprivileged account, cannot restart itself, and should not be able to: a web
application that can restart its own service is one whose worst day is much
worse. So /admin/updates writes a file, and an opt-in systemd .path unit runs
deploy/update.sh as root.

Three properties hold it up, and each is a thing that could have been got wrong.
The request file carries nothing that reaches a command line -- no branch, no
ref, no arguments -- because the branch is baked into the unit at install time,
so pressing the button is always "deploy the branch this host was configured
with" and can never be "deploy something else". It is off unless somebody passes
INSTALL_UPDATE_HELPER=1, and re-running the installer without it removes both
units and the marker. And without the helper the page says so and prints the
manual command rather than writing a file nothing is watching, which would be a
button that reports success and does nothing.

The card that says all of this is rendered whether or not there is anything to
apply. It was inside the "there is an update" branch first, so an administrator
could not discover the helper was missing until the day they needed it, which is
the worst possible moment.

Opening the page makes no network request; Check is the one thing that fetches.
And it shows the log between, not a count: "3 behind" is a number somebody has to
go and look up, while the subjects are what decides whether this is worth
restarting for right now.

Docker is one stage, because there is nothing to build -- no Node, no compiled
assets. It bakes no secret key (one in an image is one every copy shares, and
rotating it makes stored API keys unreadable), no data, and no .git, so
/admin/updates inside a container correctly reports that it was not installed
from a checkout. Compose publishes on loopback and refuses to start without a
key. TLS in front is a constraint rather than a recommendation: the service
worker and the microphone both require HTTPS or localhost.

The image was built and run before this was committed, which is how the missing
COPY of LICENSE was found -- pyproject declares it and the build backend reads
it, so the failure reads like a packaging problem and is one line.

deploy/lxc-install.sh creates an unprivileged Debian container and runs the
existing installer inside it. A wrapper, not a second install path: a parallel
installer is two things to keep correct and one of them rots.

/healthz opens the database rather than only proving the socket is listening -- a
process that is up with a database it cannot open answers every page with a 500
-- and says nothing about what is here, being reachable without signing in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 17:56:18 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš dd9e0e9440 Working chat: auth, connections, streaming, folders
LLeMbas now runs end to end. Register, add an OpenAI-compatible
connection, and hold a real streaming conversation organised into
folders. Verified against the local llama-swap instance.

Streaming is the one genuinely tricky part. Sending a message returns
two HTML fragments -- the user bubble and an empty assistant bubble
carrying an sse-connect -- and that attribute is the ONLY thing that
starts a generation. Rendering an incomplete assistant message as a
streaming shell falls out of the same template, which means loading a
page whose last reply never finished simply picks it up again.

Details worth knowing about, each commented where it matters:

- SSE payloads are split across several data: lines. A raw newline in
  one data: line truncates the event, which shows up the first time a
  model emits a code block.
- Markdown is rendered server-side by the same helper for both the page
  and the final streamed frame, so the two cannot disagree. The fence
  renderer is replaced outright rather than using markdown-it's
  highlight option, which re-wraps output in a second <pre>.
- escape_text is html.escape, not nh3.clean_text: it escapes character
  by character, so escaping stream chunks separately equals escaping
  the whole string.
- The stream opens its own session via session_scope(); it outlives the
  request handler and the dependency-scoped session may be closed.
- Deleting a folder keeps the chats inside it (FK is SET NULL). Losing
  a conversation to a mis-clicked folder delete is unforgivable.
- Login failures use one message for "no such account" and "wrong
  password" so the form cannot enumerate registered addresses.

Also adds deploy/ for the gamebox install at https://chat.lan: system
unit, nginx vhost with buffering off (buffering on turns streaming into
one lump at the end), and install/update scripts following the same
service-user and /srv bind-mount conventions as llama-swap and comfyui.

70 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 11:04:13 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 5ef2af6a9f Scaffold project, data model and artwork
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>
2026-07-21 10:34:48 +02:00