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The testing pass: 2140 tests to 2283, and four bugs that no amount of
reading had turned up. Three came from driving the JavaScript under a
Node DOM stub, which is the practice CLAUDE.md sets out and this is the
reason it does.

The terminal dropped every keystroke after a reconnect. `onclose` closed
over the module-level socket rather than its own, and close() queues its
event -- so the old socket's close arrived after a new one was assigned
and nulled the live one. Output kept coming, because onmessage is bound
to the object, while every send gates on the variable. It also announced
"Disconnected" about a shell that had just reconnected.

Two scripts were loaded twice on /messages, once by base.html and again
by the page. Each is an IIFE with its own state, so four keyboard
shortcuts toggled their panel twice and therefore did nothing, /help
opened two dialogs, and an @ mention attached its file twice. A sweep
refuses any template re-loading what base.html has.

The microphone had no guard while the permission prompt was up, so each
click opened another stream and only the last was ever stopped. And a
skill shared with you took its name out of your own library: create
checked uniqueness against what is *visible* rather than what is owned,
against a (owner_id, name) constraint, and told you to edit a row you
cannot edit.

--ink-faint failed the contrast minimum in both themes -- 3.85 and 3.19
against 4.5 -- so the smallest text on every screen was the hardest to
read. Measured in a headless browser rather than judged by eye.

And the suite runs on 3.11 and 3.12 now as well as 3.14. It had only ever
run on 3.14 while the image ships 3.12 and the packaging claimed 3.11:
the interpreter most people would run was the one nothing had tested.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 14:41:45 +02:00

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"""Skills: named instructions the model can choose to follow.
Two fields carry the design.
`description` is what gets injected -- one line per skill, for every skill --
and is therefore the only thing the model has to go on when deciding whether a
skill is relevant. A description that does not say *when* to use the skill makes
it invisible in practice.
`body` is fetched only when the model decides to use it. That split is what
makes a hundred skills affordable: the index costs a line each, the instructions
cost nothing until wanted.
**A model may rewrite its own skills**, which is the point -- it is how it
learns a procedure once instead of being told every time. The safety story is
not a gate but a record: every write snapshots what was there first, so a change
can be read and undone. A skill written after reading a hostile web page is a
real risk, and the honest mitigation is that it is visible, attributed and
revertible rather than that it was somehow prevented.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import logging
import re
from collections.abc import Iterable
from sqlalchemy import select
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session as DBSession
from lembas.db.models import AUTHOR_MODEL, AUTHOR_USER, CHUNK_SKILL, Skill, SkillRevision, User
from lembas.services import sharing
from lembas.services.library import retrieval
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
INDEX = "skills_fts"
# A name the model can quote back without getting it wrong.
SKILL_NAME_PATTERN = re.compile(r"^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{1,60}$")
MAX_DESCRIPTION_CHARS = 400
MAX_BODY_CHARS = 20_000
# The index goes into every request, so it has a ceiling like memory does.
MAX_INDEX_SKILLS = 60
class SkillError(Exception):
"""A rejected skill write, with a message fit for the model or the user."""
def slugify(name: str) -> str:
cleaned = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9]+", "-", (name or "").strip().lower()).strip("-")
return cleaned[:60]
def visible(db: DBSession, user: User | None):
return select(Skill).where(sharing.visible_to(Skill, user))
def get(db: DBSession, skill_id: str, user: User | None) -> Skill | None:
skill = db.get(Skill, skill_id)
if skill is None or not sharing.can_read(db, skill, user):
return None
return skill
def by_name(db: DBSession, name: str, user: User | None) -> Skill | None:
"""Look one up the way the model refers to it.
Scoped to what this person can **see**, which is theirs plus anything
shared with them -- correct for `skill_get` and `skill_edit`, where a
skill somebody shared is exactly what the model is reaching for.
It is the wrong question for "is this name taken?"; see `owned_by_name`.
"""
if user is None:
return None
return db.scalar(visible(db, user).where(Skill.name == slugify(name)))
def owned_by_name(db: DBSession, name: str, owner: User) -> Skill | None:
"""One of *this person's own* skills by name.
The uniqueness check used `by_name`, which is scoped to what is visible --
so a skill somebody shared with you took that name out of your library.
Sharing a curated skill with a team is the intended use of `library.share`,
and doing it silently reserved the name for everyone it reached: creating
your own was refused with "a skill called 'weekly-report' already exists.
Edit it instead", naming a row you cannot edit, because sharing grants
reading only. The model's `skill_create` got the same dead end.
The table's constraint is `(owner_id, name)`, so the question the check
should have been asking was always this one. `documents.create_base` next
door asks it correctly.
"""
return db.scalar(
select(Skill).where(Skill.owner_id == owner.id, Skill.name == slugify(name))
)
def enabled_for(
db: DBSession, user: User | None, *, exclude: Iterable[str] = ()
) -> list[Skill]:
"""Skills that should appear in the index, oldest first for a stable order.
`exclude` is what one chat has switched off by name -- a narrowing of what
the library already allows, never a widening of it.
"""
if user is None:
return []
hidden = {slugify(name) for name in exclude}
rows = db.scalars(
visible(db, user)
.where(Skill.enabled.is_(True))
.order_by(Skill.name)
.limit(MAX_INDEX_SKILLS + len(hidden))
)
return [skill for skill in rows if skill.name not in hidden][:MAX_INDEX_SKILLS]
def count_enabled(db: DBSession, user: User | None, *, exclude: Iterable[str] = ()) -> int:
"""How many skills are available here at all.
Zero is what withdraws `skill_get` and `skill_edit`: reading and improving
are meaningless with nothing to read, and a model told to "read one with
skill_get" above a list that is not there spends a round finding out.
"""
return len(enabled_for(db, user, exclude=exclude))
def search(
db: DBSession,
user: User | None,
needle: str,
*,
limit: int = 10,
vector: list[float] | None = None,
) -> list[Skill]:
"""Skills matching `needle` that this user may see, best match first.
`vector` is the query already embedded, or None. It comes from the caller
rather than being worked out here because this is synchronous and embedding
is an HTTP request -- see `services/library/retrieval.py`. None means the
keyword search exactly as it always was.
"""
hits = retrieval.search(db, INDEX, needle, kind=CHUNK_SKILL, vector=vector, limit=limit * 4)
if not hits:
return []
order = {hit.id: position for position, hit in enumerate(hits)}
rows = list(db.scalars(visible(db, user).where(Skill.id.in_(list(order)))))
rows.sort(key=lambda skill: order.get(skill.id, len(order)))
return rows[:limit]
def snapshot(db: DBSession, skill: Skill, *, author: str, note: str = "") -> SkillRevision:
"""Record what a skill looked like before it is changed."""
revision = SkillRevision(
skill_id=skill.id,
description=skill.description,
body=skill.body,
author=author,
note=note[:200],
)
db.add(revision)
return revision
def create(
db: DBSession,
*,
owner: User,
name: str,
description: str,
body: str,
author: str = AUTHOR_USER,
) -> Skill:
slug = slugify(name)
if not SKILL_NAME_PATTERN.match(slug):
raise SkillError(
"A skill name must be two or more letters, numbers or hyphens, "
"such as 'weekly-report'."
)
if owned_by_name(db, slug, owner) is not None:
raise SkillError(f"A skill called {slug!r} already exists. Edit it instead.")
if not description.strip():
raise SkillError(
"A skill needs a description saying when to use it — it is the only "
"thing shown until the skill is opened."
)
skill = Skill(
owner_id=owner.id,
name=slug,
description=description.strip()[:MAX_DESCRIPTION_CHARS],
body=body.strip()[:MAX_BODY_CHARS],
author=author if author in (AUTHOR_USER, AUTHOR_MODEL) else AUTHOR_USER,
)
db.add(skill)
db.commit()
log.info("skill %r created by %s", slug, author)
return skill
def update(
db: DBSession,
skill: Skill,
*,
description: str | None = None,
body: str | None = None,
enabled: bool | None = None,
author: str = AUTHOR_USER,
note: str = "",
) -> Skill:
"""Change a skill, keeping what it was.
The snapshot happens before the change and in the same transaction, so
there is no window where a skill has been rewritten with no record of what
it used to say.
"""
changing = (description is not None and description.strip() != skill.description) or (
body is not None and body.strip() != skill.body
)
if changing:
snapshot(db, skill, author=author, note=note)
if description is not None and description.strip():
skill.description = description.strip()[:MAX_DESCRIPTION_CHARS]
if body is not None:
skill.body = body.strip()[:MAX_BODY_CHARS]
if enabled is not None:
skill.enabled = enabled
if changing:
skill.author = author if author in (AUTHOR_USER, AUTHOR_MODEL) else skill.author
db.commit()
return skill
def revert(db: DBSession, skill: Skill, revision: SkillRevision, *, author: str) -> Skill:
"""Put a skill back to an earlier revision.
The revert is itself a change, so the current state is snapshotted first --
going back is undoable too.
"""
snapshot(db, skill, author=author, note="before revert")
skill.description = revision.description
skill.body = revision.body
db.commit()
return skill
def delete(db: DBSession, skill: Skill) -> None:
sharing.forget_resource(db, skill)
db.delete(skill)
db.commit()
def index_block(db: DBSession, user: User | None, *, exclude: Iterable[str] = ()) -> str:
"""The one-line-per-skill listing that goes into the prompt."""
skills = enabled_for(db, user, exclude=exclude)
if not skills:
return ""
return "\n".join(f"- {skill.name}: {skill.description}" for skill in skills)