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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 4.8 1d3f6c450b Users, groups, permissions, model settings and reasoning display
Four features, plus the schema machinery they needed.

**Schema sync.** The first live instance had data in it, and create_all
only creates missing *tables* -- a new column silently never appeared.
db/migrations.py now diffs the declared models against the database and
ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN for what is missing, deriving a backfill
default from the column type (SQLite refuses a NOT NULL column without
one, and a Python-side `default=dict` cannot be expressed in DDL).
Verified against a copy of the live database: eight changes applied, all
rows preserved, second run a no-op. Renames, drops and retypes are still
manual and say so.

**Permissions.** A flat set of named booleans: an instance baseline
widened by each group the user belongs to. A group grants and never
denies -- with denies, "why can this user not do X" cannot be answered
without simulating every group. Admins bypass entirely, because an admin
can grant it back to themselves in two clicks and pretending otherwise
is theatre. Model *access* is separate: public, or granted to groups.
The picker is not the boundary -- switching a chat to a model you cannot
reach is a 403.

**Model settings.** Ordering, pinned-first, an instance default and a
per-user default, display names, descriptions, capability flags, and
uploaded images. Images are stored and served locally rather than by
URL: a remote URL makes every page render a request to a third party.
Uploads are validated by magic number, not the declared content type,
and stored under a random name. Models with no image get a generated
initial whose hue is derived from the model id, so it is stable.

**Reasoning display.** Streams into its own collapsible block above the
answer, labelled "Thought for 14 seconds", collapsed once finished, and
never replayed as context on the next turn. Two sources: the
reasoning_content delta field, and <think> tags inline in content -- the
latter needs a streaming splitter because the tags arrive split across
chunks. Models emitting no reasoning show nothing, via a :has() rule
rather than JavaScript. Verified against qwen35-9b on llama-swap: 694
reasoning events, 52 answer tokens, cleanly separated.

Two bugs found and fixed while testing:

- A bare `Mapped[list]` relationship is treated by SQLAlchemy as a scalar
  and returns None instead of []. It needs the element type.
- FastAPI substitutes the default for an empty form value, so with
  `x: str | None = Form(None)` a submitted `x=` is indistinguishable from
  an absent field. That silently broke clearing a system prompt or a
  temperature. update_chat now reads the raw form and checks key presence.

143 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 11:49:32 +02:00