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Jaroslav Beneš 1eba860d39 Knowledge, notes, memory and skills, and a harness to make them used
Four places a model can reach for, differing in who writes a record and how it
gets in front of the model.

**Knowledge** is uploaded by a person and searched by the model. It goes through
`services/files.py:prepare` — the same pipeline as a chat attachment — so the
same PDF produces the same text whichever way it arrived, and `Document` carries
the same content columns as `Attachment` for the same reason.

**Notes** are written by the model and edited by you. Too long to inject, so
they are searched.

**Memory** is short facts, and every one of them goes into every request. That
single decision is where the rest of its design comes from: records are capped
short, the block has a budget, there is no search tool because the model is
already looking at them, and they are not shareable — a record about a person is
not content to hand round.

**Skills** are saved procedures. Only the name and description are injected; the
body is fetched when the model decides one applies, which is what makes a
hundred skills affordable. A model may write and revise its own — the safety
story is not a gate but a record: every revision is kept, attributed and
revertible. A model that has just read a hostile page can save a skill that
outlives the conversation, and the honest mitigation is that it is visible and
undoable rather than that it was prevented.

**The harness** is why any of it gets used. A model handed a tools array
ignores it and answers from recall, because nothing in the request suggests
otherwise. `services/harness.py` assembles a preamble from what this chat
actually has: when to reach for each tool, the memories, the skill index.

This is an exception to "system prompts are precedence, not concatenation", and
a deliberate one. That rule governs the three *authored* layers and is
untouched — exactly one still wins. The harness is a different axis: it
describes the machinery rather than the behaviour, nobody authored it, and there
is nothing for it to disagree with. It is prepended to whichever authored prompt
won, in one system message, since several endpoints reject a second.

Supporting changes:

- **Sharing**, in one helper. `visible_to()` is the only definition of who can
  see a library item and every listing and tool goes through it. Sharing grants
  *reading*; two people editing one note with no history and no merge is worse
  than copying it. **Administrators do not bypass this** — they bypass
  permissions elsewhere because an admin can grant themselves those anyway, but
  reading somebody's private notes is a different act.
- **FTS5**, created by `db/migrations.py:ensure_fts` with the triggers an
  external-content index needs. Idempotent, like the column sync beside it.
  Terms are ANDed and then ORed: the caller is usually a model writing a whole
  question, and requiring every word loses the match on one absent term.
- **The attach button is a menu** — file, image, a web page, or a document from
  the library. Attaching a document copies it, because history must not change
  when a document is edited later.
- **A URL fetcher with an SSRF guard.** This server can reach the router, the
  other services on the box and LLeMbas itself, and the address can come from a
  model. Private ranges are refused *after resolution* and redirects are followed
  by hand so every hop is checked. An admin can open it deliberately.
- **Model capabilities split** into protocol support and a toggle per built-in
  tool. Rows predating the split have no `tool_*` keys, and absent counts as on
  when `tools` is on — otherwise an upgrade silently takes web search away from
  every model already configured for it.

Also fixes the test fixture, which built the schema with `create_all` and so ran
against a database without the FTS tables production has; it now runs
`sync_schema`, the same path startup takes.

430 tests, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 19:43:57 +02:00

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"""The operational preamble, and how it sits beside the authored prompt."""
from __future__ import annotations
import pytest
from lembas.db.models import Chat, Connection, Model, User
from lembas.security.passwords import hash_password
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
from lembas.services import harness, settings_store
from lembas.services import tools as tools_service
from lembas.services.library import memories as memories_service
from lembas.services.library import skills as skills_service
@pytest.fixture
def owner(db):
user = User(name="Frodo", email="f@shire.test", password_hash=hash_password("x"))
db.add(user)
db.commit()
return user
def _tools(*names):
return [tools_service.REGISTRY[name].schema for name in names]
# --- Composition -------------------------------------------------------------
def test_no_tools_means_no_harness(db, owner):
"""An empty harness is worse than none: tokens that say only that there is
nothing to say."""
assert harness.compose(db, owner, []) == ""
assert harness.compose(db, owner, None) == ""
def test_only_the_guidance_for_offered_tools_appears(db, owner):
text = harness.compose(db, owner, _tools("web_search"))
assert "Look things up" in text
assert "You keep notes" not in text
assert "Skills are procedures" not in text
def test_the_memory_block_is_included_when_memory_is_offered(db, owner):
memories_service.add(db, owner=owner, content="Prefers metric units.")
text = harness.compose(db, owner, _tools("memory_add"))
assert "What you know about this person" in text
assert "Prefers metric units." in text
def test_memories_are_absent_without_the_memory_tool(db, owner):
"""A model not given the memory tool has no business being told them."""
memories_service.add(db, owner=owner, content="Prefers metric units.")
text = harness.compose(db, owner, _tools("web_search"))
assert "Prefers metric units." not in text
def test_the_skill_index_is_names_and_descriptions_only(db, owner):
skills_service.create(
db, owner=owner, name="weekly-report", description="When asked.", body="SECRET"
)
text = harness.compose(db, owner, _tools("skill_get"))
assert "weekly-report: When asked." in text
assert "SECRET" not in text
def test_an_empty_store_contributes_no_heading(db, owner):
"""And the guidance must not point at a heading that is not there: telling a
model to consult an absent section is a good way to make it invent one."""
text = harness.compose(db, owner, _tools("memory_add", "skill_get"))
assert "### What you know about this person" not in text
assert "### Skills available" not in text
assert "was remembered earlier" not in text
assert "You can remember durable facts" in text
def test_the_harness_is_capped(db, owner, monkeypatch):
monkeypatch.setattr(harness, "MAX_HARNESS_CHARS", 200)
for index in range(50):
skills_service.create(
db, owner=owner, name=f"skill-{index}", description="x" * 200, body="y"
)
assert len(harness.compose(db, owner, _tools("skill_get"))) <= 202
# --- Joining -----------------------------------------------------------------
def test_the_authored_prompt_comes_last():
"""It is closest to the conversation, and it is what the user actually
wrote."""
joined = harness.join("HARNESS", "AUTHORED")
assert joined.index("HARNESS") < joined.index("AUTHORED")
def test_either_half_alone_is_returned_unchanged():
assert harness.join("", "AUTHORED") == "AUTHORED"
assert harness.join("HARNESS", "") == "HARNESS"
assert harness.join("", "") == ""
# --- Through build_request ---------------------------------------------------
def _chat(db, owner, *, capabilities, model_prompt="", chat_prompt=""):
connection = Connection(name="c", base_url="http://h", api_key_encrypted="")
db.add(connection)
db.commit()
db.add(
Model(
connection_id=connection.id,
model_id="m",
capabilities_json=capabilities,
system_prompt=model_prompt,
)
)
db.commit()
chat = Chat(
user_id=owner.id, model_id="m", connection_id=connection.id, system_prompt=chat_prompt
)
db.add(chat)
db.commit()
return chat
def _system(body):
first = body["messages"][0] if body["messages"] else {}
return first.get("content", "") if first.get("role") == "system" else ""
def test_a_request_without_tools_has_no_harness_and_no_tools_key(db, owner):
chat = _chat(db, owner, capabilities={})
body = chat_service.build_request(db, chat, tools=[], user=owner)
assert "tools" not in body
assert "How to work" not in _system(body)
def test_the_harness_precedes_the_authored_prompt(db, owner):
settings_store.update(db, {"enabled": True}, key=settings_store.SEARCH)
chat = _chat(db, owner, capabilities={"tools": True}, chat_prompt="Speak as Gandalf.")
offered = tools_service.enabled_tools(db, chat, owner)
system = _system(chat_service.build_request(db, chat, tools=offered, user=owner))
assert system.index("How to work") < system.index("Speak as Gandalf.")
def test_precedence_between_the_authored_layers_is_untouched(db, owner):
"""The harness is a different axis. Exactly one authored layer still wins,
and it is still the most specific one."""
settings_store.update(db, {"system_prompt": "Instance."})
settings_store.update(db, {"enabled": True}, key=settings_store.SEARCH)
chat = _chat(
db, owner, capabilities={"tools": True}, model_prompt="Model.", chat_prompt="Chat."
)
offered = tools_service.enabled_tools(db, chat, owner)
system = _system(chat_service.build_request(db, chat, tools=offered, user=owner))
assert "Chat." in system
assert "Model." not in system
assert "Instance." not in system
# And the resolver on its own is unchanged.
assert chat_service.effective_system_prompt(db, chat) == "Chat."
def test_a_model_prompt_wins_when_the_chat_has_none(db, owner):
settings_store.update(db, {"system_prompt": "Instance."})
chat = _chat(db, owner, capabilities={}, model_prompt="Model.")
system = _system(chat_service.build_request(db, chat, user=owner))
assert system == "Model."
def test_the_tools_array_rides_along(db, owner):
settings_store.update(db, {"enabled": True}, key=settings_store.SEARCH)
chat = _chat(db, owner, capabilities={"tools": True})
offered = tools_service.enabled_tools(db, chat, owner)
body = chat_service.build_request(db, chat, tools=offered, user=owner)
assert body["tools"] == offered