Model lists you can read

The chat's model picker shows name, context window (CTX 131K) and an eye
for vision, on shared column tracks; the capability tags are gone from it.
Settings -> Models gives the name its own row and wraps the tags beneath.
The picker's tick now follows an in-place choice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -16,6 +16,72 @@ for 1.0.0 have something to be assembled from.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 1.8.2
+
+The model lists, made readable. Both printed every capability switch as a tag —
+reasoning, vision, tools and then seventeen `tool_*` names — for every model.
+
+- **The model picker in a chat is name, context window and an eye.** One line per
+  model: its name, its context window shortened the way it is quoted (`CTX 131K`,
+  `CTX 1M`), and an eye if it can see images — nothing if it cannot. The tags and
+  the description are gone from it; a menu whose one job is choosing does not
+  need twenty badges per row. The context sizes and the eyes line up as columns
+  whatever a name's length, and a model with no context length set shows nothing
+  rather than `CTX 0`.
+
+- **The tick follows the model you picked.** It stayed on the model the page was
+  loaded with until the next reload, while the highlight moved.
+
+- **Settings → Models no longer runs the tags over the names.** The tags sat
+  beside the name, squeezed it to a word per line on a phone and drew over it at
+  every width. The name now has the row to itself, with the same context size and
+  eye as the picker, and the capability tags wrap underneath at the card's full
+  width. A long name wraps rather than being cut off.
+
+## 1.8.1
+
+Three fixes to how a crowd behaves, found by reading one real round on the live
+instance rather than by testing: two models, one round, a question that asked for
+something to be *made*.
+
+- **A member no longer answers the question again.** Asked to pick a language and
+  write an example, the main model wrote Python; the second model gave a genuinely
+  useful critique of it — and then answered the original question itself, in a
+  different language. Nothing in its instruction said not to. It now says so:
+  *respond to what is above you; do not answer the person's original request again
+  yourself.* A member that produces a rival answer is not a second opinion, it is
+  a second first opinion, and it is what takes a round off the question.
+
+- **The model that opened the round no longer capitulates.** Told to write the
+  final answer and take what the others got right, it abandoned its own perfectly
+  good answer, wrote *"I agree that Rust is the superior choice"* with no argument
+  anywhere for why, and rewrote everything in the newcomer's language. Both
+  closing instructions now carry: *your own answer is not automatically the worse
+  one for having been written first; change your position where somebody gave you
+  a reason, and say what the reason was.*
+
+  This mattered more than it reads. All three answers were compiled: the original
+  Python was fine, the critic's Rust compiled and ran — and **the merged answer
+  that was actually delivered did not compile at all**. A crowd that ends by
+  agreeing with whoever spoke last can be worse than the model that started it.
+
+- **The bubble that opens a round now says `1 of 3` like every other one.** It was
+  the single contribution with no chip, because the crowd does not start it — the
+  composer does, and a round only begins when it finishes. So a two-model round
+  read as an ordinary reply followed by one labelled `2 of 2`, with no 1 anywhere.
+  It is stamped when the round begins, and that stamp is deliberately invisible to
+  everything that decides what happens next: fed to the scheduler it would inherit
+  the round's clock, so regenerating the opening an hour later would end the round
+  with "out of time" before anybody spoke.
+
+- Fixed: **the crowd chip was never translated.** `1 of 3`, `on the way back`,
+  `closing`, `no rounds left` and the rest were English on a Slovak instance.
+
+**Worth knowing, and not a bug:** with **two** models there is no backward pass at
+all. The way back would contain only the model that opened the round, whose turn
+*is* the close — so `crowd.disagree` never fires. You need at least three models
+before a single "do you disagree" bubble can exist.
+
 ## 1.8.0
 
 - **The crowd is where you would look for it.** In 1.6.0 the only way to add a

src/lembas/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """LLeMbas - a Middle-earth themed web UI for OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints."""
 
-__version__ = "1.8.0"
+__version__ = "1.8.2"

src/lembas/services/chat.py

@@ -588,7 +588,10 @@ def build_request(
     if crowd_turn is None and upto is not None:
         from lembas.services import crowd as crowd_service
 
-        crowd_turn = crowd_service.state_of(upto)
+        # `scheduling_state`: the opening reply carries a stamp for the chip's
+        # sake, and regenerating it must still build an ordinary first answer --
+        # not one told that "the answers above are quoted, yours comes next".
+        crowd_turn = crowd_service.scheduling_state(upto)
     # Images are only sent to a model an administrator has marked as having
     # vision. Sending them to one that has not is not a graceful degradation:
     # most endpoints reject the whole request.

src/lembas/services/crowd.py

@@ -134,6 +134,41 @@ def state_of(message: Message | None) -> Turn | None:
         return None
 
 
+def is_opening(state: Turn | None) -> bool:
+    """Whether this state is the main model's opening reply.
+
+    `phase=out, index=0` is **display state and never scheduling state**. The
+    opening reply is not started by the crowd -- the composer starts it, exactly
+    as it starts every other reply, and a round only begins when it *finishes*.
+    Stamping it afterwards is what lets the transcript say `1 of 3` on the bubble
+    that opened the round; before that it was the one contribution with no chip,
+    so a two-model round read as an ordinary reply followed by a crowd.
+
+    Everything that asks "is a round already in progress?" has to skip it, or the
+    stamp changes behaviour it was never meant to touch -- see `scheduling_state`.
+    """
+    return state is not None and state.phase == PHASE_OUT and state.index == 0
+
+
+def scheduling_state(message: Message | None) -> Turn | None:
+    """The round state the scheduler should act on: `state_of`, minus the opening.
+
+    Two things would break if the opening stamp were fed to `next_turn` as real
+    state, and both are silent:
+
+    * **`started_at` would be inherited on a regenerate.** Regenerating the
+      opening reply an hour later would hand `next_turn` an hour-old clock and the
+      round would stop with "out of time" before anybody spoke.
+    * **The once-per-turn gates key off "no state at all"** -- compaction, the
+      title, the unread push. A stamped opening reads as a later speaker, and each
+      of them would be skipped for the turn that is supposed to have them.
+
+    So the stamp is written where the transcript reads it and nowhere else.
+    """
+    state = state_of(message)
+    return None if is_opening(state) else state
+
+
 def now_stamp() -> str:
     return datetime.now(UTC).isoformat()
 
@@ -374,9 +409,11 @@ __all__ = [
     "Turn",
     "elapsed",
     "is_newest",
+    "is_opening",
     "member_speakers",
     "next_turn",
     "now_stamp",
+    "scheduling_state",
     "state_of",
     "tool_defs",
     "unreachable_members",

src/lembas/services/generation.py

@@ -661,7 +661,10 @@ async def _run(generation: Generation) -> None:
             # once, here, and used for three decisions: which tools it may have,
             # which instruction closes its request, and whether it may ask for
             # another round.
-            crowd_state = crowd_service.state_of(message)
+            # `scheduling_state` for the reason `build_request` gives: the
+            # opening reply's stamp is for the transcript, and regenerating it
+            # must not hand it a member's tools or a member's instruction.
+            crowd_state = crowd_service.scheduling_state(message)
             crowd_settings = settings_store.crowd(db)
             may_ask_again = bool(
                 crowd_state is not None
@@ -2232,7 +2235,11 @@ def _advance_crowd(generation: Generation) -> bool:
             speakers = crowd_service.member_speakers(db, chat, owner_user)
             speakers = speakers[: int(settings["max_models"]) + 1]
 
-            state = crowd_service.state_of(message)
+            # `scheduling_state` and not `state_of`: the opening reply carries a
+            # stamp for the transcript's sake (so it can say `1 of 3`), and that
+            # stamp must not read as "a round is already running" -- it would
+            # inherit the old clock on a regenerate. See `crowd.is_opening`.
+            state = crowd_service.scheduling_state(message)
             # The turn a round belongs to: the user message this all answers.
             turn_id = state.turn if state is not None else _turn_anchor(db, message)
             following = crowd_service.next_turn(
@@ -2254,6 +2261,22 @@ def _advance_crowd(generation: Generation) -> bool:
                 db.commit()
                 return False
 
+            if state is None:
+                # The round begins here, so stamp the reply that opened it. It is
+                # the only contribution that is not started by the crowd, and
+                # before this it was the only one with no chip -- which made a
+                # two-model round read as an ordinary reply followed by a crowd,
+                # and left the reader counting "2 of 2" with no 1 in sight. Same
+                # turn and same `started_at`, so the bubbles group.
+                message.crowd_json = crowd_service.Turn(
+                    turn=following.turn,
+                    round=following.round,
+                    phase=crowd_service.PHASE_OUT,
+                    index=0,
+                    of=following.of,
+                    started_at=following.started_at,
+                ).as_json()
+
             speaker = speakers[following.index]
             placeholder = chat_service.create_message(
                 db,
@@ -2281,10 +2304,14 @@ def _opens_the_turn(message: Message) -> bool:
     """Whether this reply is the first one answering a question.
 
     True for every ordinary reply, and for a crowd only for the main model's
-    opening turn -- which is the one with no crowd state on it at all, because a
-    round begins when that reply *finishes*.
+    opening turn. That reply has no crowd state while it is being written -- a
+    round begins when it *finishes* -- and once the round has begun it carries the
+    opening stamp, which `is_opening` reads as "still the one that opens the
+    turn". Both are the same answer to this question, and missing the second means
+    a reply that has already been compacted-for and titled gets it again on the
+    next look.
     """
-    return crowd_service.state_of(message) is None
+    return crowd_service.scheduling_state(message) is None
 
 
 def _opens_the_turn_id(generation: Generation) -> bool:

src/lembas/services/prompts.py

@@ -2023,17 +2023,28 @@ BUILTIN: tuple[Fragment, ...] = (
         group=GROUP_TASKS,
         order=451,
         hint="Added as the last turn when a member speaks on the forward pass. "
-        "The failure to word against is a member that repeats what has already "
-        "been said in different words, which is what makes a crowd feel like an "
-        "echo rather than a second opinion.",
+        "Two failures to word against. One is a member that repeats what has "
+        "already been said in different words, which makes a crowd an echo "
+        "rather than a second opinion. The other only shows up on a request that "
+        "asks for something to be *made* -- write this, pick one, draft that -- "
+        "where a member reads the original instruction as addressed to it too "
+        "and produces a rival answer beside its critique. That is not a second "
+        "opinion either; it is two first opinions, and it is what sends a round "
+        "off the question.",
         default=(
             "You are one of several models answering this. The answers above are "
             "quoted with the name of whoever wrote them; yours comes next.\n"
             "\n"
+            "Respond to what is above you. Do not answer the person's original "
+            "request again yourself — that has been done, and your turn is about "
+            "what was done with it.\n"
+            "\n"
             "Add what is missing, correct what is wrong, and say what you would "
-            "have done differently. Do not restate what has already been said to "
-            "show that you agree with it — if you have nothing to add, say so in "
-            "one line and stop. Be brief: somebody is reading all of these."
+            "have done differently and why. Where you would have made a different "
+            "choice, say what it would buy — naming an alternative is not the same "
+            "as giving a reason to prefer it. Do not restate what has already been "
+            "said to show that you agree with it — if you have nothing to add, say "
+            "so in one line and stop. Be brief: somebody is reading all of these."
         ),
     ),
     Fragment(
@@ -2066,11 +2077,23 @@ BUILTIN: tuple[Fragment, ...] = (
         "round. Its own fragment rather than a sentence inside the one below, "
         "because inviting a choice a model cannot express is worse than not "
         "offering it: on a model without the tools capability there is no "
-        "crowd_again to call, and that is the case the next fragment covers.",
+        "crowd_again to call, and that is the case the next fragment covers.\n"
+        "\n"
+        "The failure to word against is capitulation: the model that opened the "
+        "round abandoning its own answer because somebody spoke after it. A "
+        "closing turn told only to synthesise will follow the last speaker, "
+        "which is how a crowd ends up less accurate than the model that started "
+        "it.",
         default=(
             "You opened this and you are closing it. The others have answered and "
             "have had the chance to disagree.\n"
             "\n"
+            "Your own answer is not automatically the worse one for having been "
+            "written first. Change your position where somebody gave you a reason, "
+            "and say what the reason was; agreement with no argument behind it is "
+            "not a reason, and neither is a member having moved on to something "
+            "else.\n"
+            "\n"
             "Write the answer the person actually asked for. Take what the others "
             "got right, say where you disagree with them and why, and name "
             "anything still unresolved rather than papering over it. Attribute "
@@ -2091,11 +2114,18 @@ BUILTIN: tuple[Fragment, ...] = (
         "is reached, or this model has no tools and so cannot ask. It says the "
         "answer has to be final rather than inviting a choice that would be "
         "ignored, which is the difference between a feature and a feature that "
-        "looks like one.",
+        "looks like one. It carries the same guard against capitulation as the "
+        "fragment above, and for the same reason.",
         default=(
             "You opened this and you are closing it, and this is the last turn: "
             "there will be no further round.\n"
             "\n"
+            "Your own answer is not automatically the worse one for having been "
+            "written first. Change your position where somebody gave you a reason, "
+            "and say what the reason was; agreement with no argument behind it is "
+            "not a reason, and neither is a member having moved on to something "
+            "else.\n"
+            "\n"
             "Write the answer the person actually asked for. Take what the others "
             "got right, say where you disagree with them and why, and attribute "
             "what you took from whom. Where the disagreement is unresolved, say so "

src/lembas/web/i18n/sk.py

@@ -679,6 +679,8 @@ MESSAGES.update(
         "Add a connection": "Pridať spojenie",
         "Models": "Modely",
         "Model": "Model",
+        "Context window": "Kontextové okno",
+        "Sees images": "Vidí obrázky",
         "Groups": "Skupiny",
         "Members": "Členovia",
         "Account": "Účet",
@@ -1085,6 +1087,13 @@ MESSAGES.update(
         "%(models)s models answer each turn, over up to %(rounds)s rounds.": (
             "Na každý ťah odpovedá %(models)s modelov, a to najviac v %(rounds)s kolách."
         ),
+        "%(n)s of %(total)s": "%(n)s z %(total)s",
+        "on the way back": "na ceste späť",
+        "closing": "uzatvára",
+        "round %(n)s": "kolo %(n)s",
+        "no rounds left": "už žiadne kolá",
+        "out of time": "vypršal čas",
+        "two endpoints failed": "dva endpointy zlyhali",
         "Check for due work every": "Kontrolovať splatnú prácu každých",
         "How often it looks": "Ako často sa pozerá",
         "Nothing may repeat faster than": "Nič sa nesmie opakovať častejšie než",

src/lembas/web/static/css/admin.css

@@ -451,6 +451,35 @@ a.tabs__tab { text-decoration: none; }
 .model-list__item:first-child { padding-top: 0; }
 .model-list__item:last-child { border-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0; }
 
+/* The models card in /settings. Every row shares the list's column tracks, so
+   the context sizes and the eyes line up; the description and the capability
+   tags take the rest of the row underneath, never the space beside the name. */
+.model-list--models {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: auto minmax(0, 1fr) auto auto;
+  column-gap: var(--sp-3);
+}
+.model-list--models .model-list__item {
+  grid-column: 1 / -1;
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: subgrid;
+  align-items: center;
+  row-gap: var(--sp-1);
+}
+/* Wraps rather than truncates: there is room below, and a name cut to
+   "Gemma 4 E…" on a phone is a different model's name. */
+.model-list__name {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: var(--sp-1) var(--sp-2);
+  min-width: 0;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+}
+.model-list__more { grid-column: 2 / -1; min-width: 0; }
+.model-list__tags { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var(--sp-1); }
+.model-list__tags:empty { display: none; }
+
 /* --- Permission grids ------------------------------------------------------ */
 .checkbox-row {
   display: flex;

src/lembas/web/static/css/app.css

@@ -1730,6 +1730,32 @@ body.is-resizing .canvas__body { pointer-events: none; }
   color: var(--leaf);
 }
 .picker__tick { color: var(--accent); flex: none; margin-top: 0.35rem; }
+
+/* The model picker: one row per model on the list's own column tracks, so the
+   context sizes and the eyes form columns whatever a name's length. Scoped to
+   the modifier because `.picker__list` is also the @-mention menu's list. */
+.picker__list--models {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: auto minmax(0, 1fr) auto auto auto;
+  column-gap: var(--sp-3);
+}
+.picker__list--models .picker__option {
+  grid-column: 1 / -1;
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: subgrid;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: inherit;
+}
+.picker__list--models .picker__option .picker__avatar { margin-top: 0; }
+.picker__list--models .picker__option-name { min-width: 0; }
+.model-ctx {
+  font-size: var(--text-xs);
+  color: var(--ink-faint);
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.model-vision { display: flex; color: var(--ink-faint); min-width: 1rem; }
+.picker__list--models .picker__tick { display: flex; margin-top: 0; min-width: 1rem; visibility: hidden; }
+.picker__list--models .picker__option.is-selected .picker__tick { visibility: visible; }
 .picker__empty {
   padding: var(--sp-4);
   margin: 0;

src/lembas/web/templates/chat/_message.html

@@ -88,24 +88,24 @@
          replies: a round produces more bubbles than it has models in it. #}
       <span class="badge">
         {% if crowd.get("phase") == "out" %}
-          {{ crowd.get("index", 0) + 1 }} of {{ crowd.get("of", 1) }}
+          {{ t("%(n)s of %(total)s", n=crowd.get("index", 0) + 1, total=crowd.get("of", 1)) }}
         {% elif crowd.get("phase") == "back" %}
-          on the way back
+          {{ t("on the way back") }}
         {% else %}
-          closing
+          {{ t("closing") }}
         {% endif %}
-        {% if crowd.get("round", 1) > 1 %} · round {{ crowd.get("round") }}{% endif %}
+        {% if crowd.get("round", 1) > 1 %} · {{ t("round %(n)s", n=crowd.get("round")) }}{% endif %}
       </span>
       {% if crowd.get("stopped") %}
       {# Why a round ended, where it ended. Without this a crowd that ran out of
          rounds or time simply stops, which reads as the feature failing. #}
       <span class="badge badge--warning" title="{{ t('The round ended here') }}">
         {% if crowd.get("stopped") == "rounds" %}
-          no rounds left
+          {{ t("no rounds left") }}
         {% elif crowd.get("stopped") == "time" %}
-          out of time
+          {{ t("out of time") }}
         {% else %}
-          two endpoints failed
+          {{ t("two endpoints failed") }}
         {% endif %}
       </span>
       {% endif %}

src/lembas/web/templates/chat/_model_picker.html

@@ -3,9 +3,16 @@
   Model picker.
 
   A real dropdown rather than a <select>, because a <select> cannot show an
-  image, a description or capability badges -- browsers render only text in an
-  <option>. The hidden input is what actually carries the value, so the control
-  still behaves like a form field.
+  image or an icon -- browsers render only text in an <option>. The hidden
+  input is what actually carries the value, so the control still behaves like
+  a form field.
+
+  Each option is name, context window and an eye for vision, and nothing else.
+  It listed every capability switch as a tag until 1.8.2, which is twenty
+  `tool_*` tags per model in a menu whose one job is choosing; the full list is
+  on /settings. The options share the list's column tracks (subgrid), so the
+  context sizes and the eyes line up whatever a name's length -- and every
+  option emits every slot, empty or not, or its row shifts.
 
   Inside a chat it PATCHes the chat; on /chat it navigates, because there is no
   chat row to patch yet.
@@ -31,7 +38,7 @@
     </div>
     {% endif %}
 
-    <div class="picker__list">
+    <div class="picker__list picker__list--models">
       {% for model in models %}
       <button class="picker__option {{ 'is-selected' if current_model and model.model_id == current_model.model_id }}"
               type="button" role="option"
@@ -39,23 +46,22 @@
               data-picker-value="{{ model.model_id }}"
               data-picker-search="{{ model.label|lower }} {{ model.model_id|lower }}">
         {{ model_avatar(model, cls="picker__avatar") }}
-        <span class="picker__option-body">
         <span class="picker__option-name">
-            {{ model.label }}
+          <span class="truncate">{{ model.label }}</span>
           {% if model.pinned %}{{ icon("pin", "icon--sm picker__pin") }}{% endif %}
         </span>
-          {% if model.description %}
-          <span class="picker__option-desc">{{ model.description }}</span>
-          {% endif %}
-          <span class="picker__option-tags">
-            {% for name, on in (model.capabilities_json or {}).items() %}
-              {% if on %}<span class="tag">{{ name }}</span>{% endif %}
-            {% endfor %}
+        <span class="model-ctx mono"
+              {% if model.context_length %}title="{{ t('Context window') }}: {{ model.context_length }}"{% endif %}>
+          {%- if model.context_length %}CTX {{ model.context_length|context_size }}{% endif -%}
         </span>
+        <span class="model-vision">
+          {%- if (model.capabilities_json or {}).get("vision") -%}
+            {{ icon("eye", "icon--sm") }}<span class="visually-hidden">{{ t("Sees images") }}</span>
+          {%- endif -%}
         </span>
-        {% if current_model and model.model_id == current_model.model_id %}
-          {{ icon("check", "icon--sm picker__tick") }}
-        {% endif %}
+        {# Always rendered and shown by `.is-selected`, so it follows ui.js's
+           in-place choice rather than staying on the model the page loaded with. #}
+        <span class="picker__tick">{{ icon("check", "icon--sm") }}</span>
       </button>
       {% endfor %}
     </div>

src/lembas/web/templates/partials/icons.html

@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@
     <circle cx="9" cy="10" r="1.6"/>
     <path d="m4.5 17 4.2-4.2a1.5 1.5 0 0 1 2.1 0l3 3 1.9-1.9a1.5 1.5 0 0 1 2.1 0l2 2"/>
   </symbol>
+  <symbol id="i-eye" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
+    <path d="M2.5 12S6 5.5 12 5.5 21.5 12 21.5 12 18 18.5 12 18.5 2.5 12 2.5 12Z"/>
+    <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="3"/>
+  </symbol>
   <symbol id="i-arrow-up" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 19V6M6 12l6-6 6 6"/></symbol>
   <symbol id="i-arrow-down" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 5v13M6 12l6 6 6-6"/></symbol>
   <symbol id="i-star" viewBox="0 0 24 24">

src/lembas/web/templates/settings.html

@@ -145,23 +145,35 @@
             <div class="card">
               <h2 class="card__title">{{ t("Available to you") }}</h2>
               <p class="card__lede">{{ t("In the order an administrator arranged them.") }}</p>
-              <ul class="model-list">
+              {# Name, context window and vision on one line, on the list's
+                 column tracks so they line up down the card; the capability
+                 switches wrap underneath at the full width. They sat beside
+                 the name until 1.8.2 and, twenty tags long, squeezed it to a
+                 word per line and ran over it. #}
+              <ul class="model-list model-list--models">
                 {% for model in models %}
                 <li class="model-list__item">
-                  <div class="row" style="gap: var(--sp-2); min-width: 0">
                   {{ model_avatar(model, cls="nav-item__avatar") }}
-                    <div style="min-width: 0">
-                      <strong>{{ model.label }}</strong>
-                      {% if model.description %}
-                      <div class="text-xs faint">{{ model.description }}</div>
-                      {% endif %}
-                    </div>
-                  </div>
-                  <div class="btn-row">
-                    {% for name, on in (model.capabilities_json or {}).items() %}
-                      {% if on %}<span class="badge badge--leaf">{{ name }}</span>{% endif %}
-                    {% endfor %}
+                  <strong class="model-list__name">
+                    <span>{{ model.label }}</span>
                     {% if model.pinned %}<span class="badge">{{ t("pinned") }}</span>{% endif %}
+                  </strong>
+                  <span class="model-ctx mono"
+                        {% if model.context_length %}title="{{ t('Context window') }}: {{ model.context_length }}"{% endif %}>
+                    {%- if model.context_length %}CTX {{ model.context_length|context_size }}{% endif -%}
+                  </span>
+                  <span class="model-vision">
+                    {%- if (model.capabilities_json or {}).get("vision") -%}
+                      {{ icon("eye", "icon--sm") }}<span class="visually-hidden">{{ t("Sees images") }}</span>
+                    {%- endif -%}
+                  </span>
+                  {% if model.description %}
+                  <div class="model-list__more text-xs faint">{{ model.description }}</div>
+                  {% endif %}
+                  <div class="model-list__more model-list__tags">
+                    {%- for name, on in (model.capabilities_json or {}).items() -%}
+                      {%- if on %}<span class="tag">{{ name }}</span>{% endif -%}
+                    {%- endfor -%}
                   </div>
                 </li>
                 {% endfor %}

src/lembas/web/templating.py

@@ -63,6 +63,26 @@ def stable_hue(value: str) -> int:
 
 templates.env.filters["stable_hue"] = stable_hue
 
+
+def context_size(tokens: int | None) -> str:
+    """A context window as a model list shows it: 131072 -> "131K".
+
+    Decimal thousands, because that is how the number is quoted everywhere a
+    person reads it, and a picker that said "128K" for a 131072-token model
+    would disagree with the admin page's own figure. Empty for an unknown size,
+    so the column slot is still emitted and the next row does not shift.
+    """
+    if not tokens or tokens <= 0:
+        return ""
+    if tokens < 1000:
+        return str(tokens)
+    if tokens < 1_000_000:
+        return f"{round(tokens / 1000)}K"
+    return f"{tokens / 1_000_000:.1f}".removesuffix(".0") + "M"
+
+
+templates.env.filters["context_size"] = context_size
+
 # A user's own message: escaped here and marked up, so `@mentions` read as
 # references rather than as punctuation. A filter rather than a context value
 # because the message templates are included from four different handlers and

tests/test_crowd_chain.py

@@ -177,6 +177,73 @@ def test_the_round_is_recorded_on_every_row(db, started):
     assert len(anchors) == 1
 
 
+def test_the_reply_that_opened_the_round_is_stamped_too(db, started):
+    """The opening bubble says `1 of 3` like every other one.
+
+    It is the one contribution the crowd does not start -- the composer does --
+    so until the round begins there is nothing to stamp it with. Before this, a
+    two-model round rendered as an unmarked reply followed by one saying `2 of 2`,
+    with no 1 anywhere.
+    """
+    chat = _crowd_chat(db)
+    opening = _opening_reply(db, chat)
+    assert crowd_service.state_of(opening) is None, "nothing to say before it finishes"
+
+    assert _advance(db, chat, opening)
+    db.expire_all()
+
+    state = crowd_service.state_of(opening)
+    assert state is not None
+    assert (state.phase, state.index) == (crowd_service.PHASE_OUT, 0)
+    assert state.of == 3
+
+
+def test_the_opening_stamp_belongs_to_the_same_round(db, started):
+    chat = _crowd_chat(db)
+    opening = _opening_reply(db, chat)
+    order = []
+    assert _advance(db, chat, opening)
+    db.expire_all()
+    order = _incomplete(db, chat)
+
+    opened = crowd_service.state_of(opening)
+    first = crowd_service.state_of(order[0])
+    # Same question, same clock -- or the chips group two bubbles of one round
+    # under two different rounds.
+    assert opened.turn == first.turn
+    assert opened.started_at == first.started_at
+    assert opened.round == first.round == 1
+
+
+def test_the_opening_stamp_is_not_scheduling_state(db, started):
+    """It must read as "no round yet" everywhere that decides what happens next.
+
+    Fed to the scheduler it would be a member at index 0, which inherits the old
+    `started_at` -- so regenerating the opening an hour later would end the round
+    with "out of time" before anybody spoke -- and it would hand that reply a
+    member's tools and a member's instruction instead of an ordinary first answer.
+    """
+    chat = _crowd_chat(db)
+    opening = _opening_reply(db, chat)
+    assert _advance(db, chat, opening)
+    db.expire_all()
+
+    assert crowd_service.state_of(opening) is not None
+    assert crowd_service.scheduling_state(opening) is None
+    assert crowd_service.is_opening(crowd_service.state_of(opening))
+    assert generation_service._opens_the_turn(opening)
+
+
+def test_a_later_speaker_is_not_mistaken_for_the_opening(db, started):
+    chat = _crowd_chat(db)
+    order = _run_round(db, chat, started)
+    for message in order:
+        state = crowd_service.state_of(message)
+        assert not crowd_service.is_opening(state)
+        # `==` and not `is`: `state_of` builds a fresh Turn on every call.
+        assert crowd_service.scheduling_state(message) == state
+
+
 def test_each_speaker_carries_its_own_connection(db, started):
     """So `speaker_for` resolves the pair rather than guessing at the id."""
     chat = _crowd_chat(db)

tests/test_crowd_ui.py

@@ -281,6 +281,31 @@ def test_a_bubble_on_the_way_out_says_which_speaker_it_is(db):
     assert "2 of 3" in html
 
 
+def test_the_bubble_that_opened_the_round_says_it_is_first(db):
+    """The opening reply is stamped once the round begins, so it says `1 of 3`.
+
+    Before that it was the one contribution with no chip at all, which made a
+    two-model round read as an ordinary answer followed by one labelled `2 of 2`.
+    """
+    chat = _chat(db)
+    html = _bubble(db, chat, phase=crowd_service.PHASE_OUT, index=0, of=3)
+    assert "1 of 3" in html
+
+
+def test_the_chip_is_translated(db):
+    """It is prose a person reads, and it was English on a Slovak instance."""
+    from lembas.web import i18n
+
+    chat = _chat(db)
+    i18n.activate("sk")
+    try:
+        html = _bubble(db, chat, phase=crowd_service.PHASE_BACK, index=1, of=3)
+    finally:
+        i18n.activate("en")
+    assert "na ceste späť" in html
+    assert "on the way back" not in html
+
+
 def test_a_bubble_on_the_way_back_says_so_and_is_quieter(db):
     chat = _chat(db)
     html = _bubble(db, chat, phase=crowd_service.PHASE_BACK)

tests/test_model_lists.py

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+"""The two places a person reads the list of models: the chat's picker and /settings.
+
+Until 1.8.2 both printed every capability switch as a tag -- twenty `tool_*`
+entries per model -- and in /settings the tags sat beside the name and squeezed
+it to a word per line underneath them. The picker is now name, context window
+and an eye for vision; /settings keeps the tags, underneath.
+
+The layout is by construction (the rows share the list's column tracks), and
+that only holds while every row emits every slot, so a model with no context
+length and no vision is asserted to still have both cells.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+
+import pytest
+
+from lembas.db.models import Connection, Model
+from lembas.services.crypto import encrypt
+from lembas.web.templating import context_size
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("tokens", "shown"),
+    [
+        (None, ""),
+        (0, ""),
+        (512, "512"),
+        (4096, "4K"),
+        (32768, "33K"),
+        (131072, "131K"),
+        (262144, "262K"),
+        (1_000_000, "1M"),
+        (1_048_576, "1M"),
+        (2_000_000, "2M"),
+        (1_500_000, "1.5M"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_a_context_window_is_shortened_the_way_it_is_quoted(tokens, shown):
+    assert context_size(tokens) == shown
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def models(db, registered):
+    connection = Connection(
+        name="Test", base_url="http://127.0.0.1:1", api_key_encrypted=encrypt("")
+    )
+    db.add(connection)
+    db.commit()
+    db.add_all(
+        [
+            Model(
+                connection_id=connection.id,
+                model_id="sees",
+                display_name="Sees",
+                position=0,
+                context_length=131072,
+                capabilities_json={"vision": True, "tools": True, "tool_fetch": True},
+            ),
+            Model(
+                connection_id=connection.id,
+                model_id="blind",
+                display_name="Blind",
+                position=1,
+                capabilities_json={"tools": True, "tool_fetch": True},
+            ),
+        ]
+    )
+    db.commit()
+
+
+def _options(html: str) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """The model picker's options by model id -- not the @-mention menu's."""
+    found = {}
+    for body in re.findall(r'<button class="picker__option\b.*?</button>', html, re.S):
+        value = re.search(r'data-picker-value="([^"]+)"', body)
+        if value:
+            found[value.group(1)] = body
+    return found
+
+
+def test_the_picker_shows_name_context_and_vision_and_no_tags(client, models):
+    html = client.get("/chat?model=sees").text
+    options = _options(html)
+    assert set(options) == {"sees", "blind"}
+
+    sees = options["sees"]
+    assert "Sees" in sees
+    assert "CTX 131K" in sees
+    assert "#i-eye" in sees
+    assert 'class="tag"' not in sees
+    assert "tool_fetch" not in sees
+
+
+def test_every_picker_row_emits_every_slot(client, models):
+    blind = _options(client.get("/chat?model=sees").text)["blind"]
+    assert "#i-eye" not in blind
+    assert "CTX" not in blind
+    slots = ("picker__avatar", "picker__option-name", "model-ctx", "model-vision", "picker__tick")
+    for slot in slots:
+        assert slot in blind, slot
+
+
+def test_settings_lists_the_models_with_their_tags_below_the_name(client, models):
+    html = client.get("/settings").text
+    listing = html[html.index('class="model-list model-list--models"'):]
+    listing = listing[: listing.index("</ul>")]
+    assert listing.count('class="model-list__item"') == 2
+    assert "CTX 131K" in listing
+    assert listing.count("#i-eye") == 1
+    assert listing.count('class="model-list__more model-list__tags"') == 2
+    assert "tool_fetch" in listing