The copy button sat on its own row above the group's time, costing a
line of vertical space for nothing. It now shares that row, left of the
timestamp, the way a bot message's actions already do. A file-only
message leaves no gap: only messages with text get a button, picked by
copyableMessages.
A skill is a runbook: a name, a unique slug, a one-line description of when
it applies, and the markdown body. A run only ever sees the slug and
description (one load_skill tool carries them), and reads the whole body
only when it calls the tool, so a long runbook costs nothing until needed.
Skills are the third extension kind beside MCP servers and custom tools, on
the same botExtensionsSql path, so per-bot, per-workspace and all-bots
grants work the same way, and attachDefaultExtensions hands an every-bot
skill to new bots. load_skill is a reserved tool name, so a custom tool
cannot shadow it, and a built-in wins a clash.
Managed on Settings > Skills; ExtensionRow links each kind to its own page
and a skill never reports a failure, since nothing connects or runs.
Add a moon/sun button beside the rail's Add icon that flips this device
between light and dark, stored under the same theme key the theme picker
and ThemeInitScript read. Following the device stays on Settings > General,
since the toggle is always an explicit choice.
A bot's identity was one of seven hues, and the hue picked both its colour
and its stone shape. Now its colour is free and its stone is its own:
- `bots.color` holds any `#rrggbb`, `bots.stone` the flat-cut shape it's
drawn on. `bots.hue` stays as the palette column they replaced, read only
as a fallback; `src/scripts/move-bot-colour-to-owners.ts` backfills an
install from it (safe to rerun).
- `src/utils/bot-color.ts` is the only place a colour is validated or
resolved (`resolveBotColor`/`resolveBotStone` carry the old hue forward,
`botColorNeedsPaperFace` flips the eyes to paper on a very dark body), and
`src/utils/bot-stone-props.ts` gives every row its props, so a row saved
before this still renders as it did.
- `BotStone` takes the colour as the body's SVG `fill`, the one documented
exception to the token rule: an arbitrary hex has no token to point at.
`UnreadDot` follows it.
- The picker keeps the palette tiles (still shape and colour together) and
adds a native swatch and a hex field, so a custom colour keeps its stone.
Same place as before: the header avatar's modal and Settings > Bots, for
crew managers. The coordinator stays hue-less.
- A recolour reaches other open tabs through `pushBotUpdated`.
Bot and user messages get a quiet copy button under them: the copy icon becomes a check for a moment after it copies the message's text as stored, markdown and refs included. A message still on its way to the server can be copied too, though reply and reactions wait for its id. The async clipboard API is used where it exists and a hidden textarea where a plain HTTP install has none.
The install-wide appendix now uses the shared CodeEditor (AceEditor,
markdown mode) instead of a plain textarea, discarding by remounting the
editor with the saved text. The storage quota field moves to the twui
0.1.6 number input, so the dependency is bumped with it.
`/admin/bots` sent the super admin to the coordinator and everyone else to
their latest bot, which lost the thread each time the tab was reopened. The
conversation pages now record where the browser is in two HttpOnly cookies
(`cobble_last_visited_bot_id`, `..._workspace_id`, a year, `Secure` only over
HTTPS), and the landing page opens that conversation again, in its workspace
when it was one.
A stale cookie can't loop: `grabReachableConversation` re-checks it with
`grabUserConversation`, the gate the conversation pages use, so a revoked
grant, a deleted bot or an archived workspace falls back to the coordinator
(super admin) or the latest bot, first workspace, empty page. Signing out
clears both cookies so the next user on that browser doesn't land in the
previous one's conversation.
Settings > General gains a prompt appendix the super admin sets once:
markdown every bot runs with, right after its own core instructions.
- The text lives in app_settings (bot_system_prompt_append, read through
grabSystemPromptAppend, cached like every app setting), so it changes
without a deploy and applies to every bot on the next run.
- composeBotPrompt takes an appendix and pushes it as
# Install-wide instructions directly after system_prompt, before the
workspace block and memory, so the bot's own more specific rules still
win. grabBotPrompt feeds it in, so chat replies, tasks, scheduled runs
and the coordinator all get it with no call site touched.
- api/admin/settings/system-prompt-append saves it (super admin only,
capped at AppData.PromptMaxLength, empty clears it) and is audit
logged under system.
- The section and its form are hidden from everyone but the super admin,
save in place with a character count and no reload, and say what an
empty text does.
Settings > Backups gains a whole-data archive beside the database
snapshots, and both lists now fully work from the page.
- Data archives: `write-data-backup-archive.ts` tars all of DATA_DIR into
BACKUP_ARCHIVE_DIR as cobble-data-<epoch-ms>.tar.gz, every entry under one
root folder named after the archive, writing a .part name and renaming on
success so a cut-off run is never listed. The newest
AppData.DataBackupsKept are kept; db/.backups is left as it is.
- Restore: `restore-data-backup.ts` extracts to a temp dir, requires one
root folder holding a db folder, takes a safety archive first, then
replaces DATA_DIR (the database snapshots included) and `restart-app.ts`
restarts the process through the docker socket, since the open SQLite
handle points at the replaced file.
- Upload and restore: a modal over each list (database file or data
archive), replacing the old /admin/settings/backups/restore page.
- Delete for both kinds, icon-only row actions shared through
RowIconButton, and restore on every row.
- One backup or restore of either kind at a time (with-backup-run-lock).
- BACKUP_ARCHIVE_DIR is a start-up path (ProcessOnlyEnvKeys); the installer
mounts $COBBLE_HOME/backups-archives at /backups-archives and recreates a
container that lacks it. The image installs tar and gzip.
A bot's folder chip went to bare /admin/files instead of the folder it
named, and even once there the computer volume pointed at the wrong
directory, so the folder a bot linked to looked empty.
The chip lost its folder because folderRefUrl only accepted a ref's
volume name (computer) while the chip hands it the browser's
(computers), so storageVolumeFromRef found nothing and the whole query
was dropped. Both spellings resolve now, through parseStorageSpec, so a
bad owner falls back cleanly instead of emitting owner=0.
The deeper bug: a computer's home was assumed to be
DATA_DIR/computers/<id>, but on a bind mount it can be anywhere on the
docker host, and a computer the app didn't provision (the main one on a
server reached at MAIN_COMPUTER_URL, i.e. a dev server outside docker)
records nothing at all. resolveComputerHomeDir holds the precedence:
the directory provisionComputer actually bound in
(containers.metadata.data_dir), else the new MAIN_COMPUTER_DATA_DIR app
setting for the main computer, else the conventional folder.
A path that isn't on disk also no longer reads as an empty folder:
listStorageEntries reports it as missing and the page says so, so a
stale folder link can't look like a folder nothing has written yet.
Each folder row in /admin/files now opens with its type as an icon in a
box tinted with its own hue (Bots ember, Workspaces teal, Computers
cobalt, Media violet, MCP servers moss, Database amber), so the picker
reads at a glance and the row's width goes to the name. The box carries
the type as its title, so hovering still names it.
There is no public media any more. `/media/public/<id>` served a media
row with no session at all, so anyone with the id could read a file.
The public/private split is gone: the path is `/media/<id>` (and
`/media/<id>/thumbnail`), every request is signed in first, and
`grabUserMedia` decides whether the user may see it: their own upload,
a bot's or workspace's picture or file they reach, or a file on a task
they reach. Anything else is a 404 before a path is built.
The `media.is_private` column and the two per-user directories went
with it: uploads live in `media/<user_id>/` and there is nothing to
pick between. The files browser's media volume is now the viewer's
own folder whatever their role.
Bots also say which of the two things they mean. A `[file:ID]` ref is a
saved file and its chip opens the bytes; a folder is a new
`[folder:volume:owner:path]` ref (`src/utils/folder-ref.ts`) whose chip
opens the files browser there and downloads nothing. The old `[path:...]`
ref and the extension sniffing that guessed file from folder are gone,
so `import_file` names the folder holding a file it copied rather than
the file itself.
The prompts say what the Assistant got wrong: list before importing or
saving, one copy per artifact, never split a file into parts unless
asked, never claim the store is empty without a fresh list, and never
invent a size cap. A re-import now says the path already existed
instead of silently overwriting and reporting a fresh copy.
view.pasteText(text, event) re-asks every paste handler with the event it was given, so the composer's own handler replayed the paste until the stack overflowed (any rich paste from VS Code, Slack or a browser page). It now passes no event, and a ref keeps it from re-entering either way.
The plain-text decision moves to shouldPastePlainText with its own tests.
The rail header now sits in the standard 64px row with a hairline under
it, matching the pane headers, and shows the full logo off the chat
pages instead of the bare stone. A back button joins the conversation
and settings headers (workspace pages only for the conversation). The
rail's own back link and the dividers around it are switched off for now.
Also renames the bot and workspace Delete group to Danger Zone, lifts the
step budget to 50, and lets Logo render without its home link.
Envs had three scopes, general, workspace and computer. A bot had no
scope of its own, so the only way to give one worker a key was to set it
on a computer it happened to share.
The envs table gets a bot_id, and resolution now layers bot over
computer over workspace over general, so a bot's own key wins wherever it
runs. Every computer call site passes the run's bot_id, and grabRunEnvs
does the same for the {{env.KEY}} a custom tool or an MCP server's headers
read.
A bot's and a workspace's settings page can now edit their own envs, in
place, through the same save-env and delete-env routes: sending `scoped`
makes them answer with just that scope instead of the whole install's
overview. Super admins only, like the Environment page.
Records why import_file must not read bytes through the shell (its
30,047-character stdout cap truncated every file), why a conversation's
file props have to carry the whole folder tree, and why any helper that
deletes a parent row must delete its children explicitly instead of
trusting the schema's cascade.
Both runners now pass the files a run wrote back into the reply, and a
computer file ref renders as a chip like a bot file ref does, so a
reply can point at what it produced instead of naming a path.
ON DELETE CASCADE only fires when PRAGMA foreign_keys is on, and only
src/server.ts turns it on. A script or CLI process deleting a bot file
therefore left every bot_file_chunks row behind, and the next
`bun run db:schema` failed with
Foreign key violations after schema sync: bot_file_chunks -> bot_files
deleteBotFile and purgeStorage now delete the chunks themselves, so the
cascade is no longer load-bearing and a maintenance script behaves like
the server.
grab-conversation-files asked listBotFiles for the top level only, and a
bot saves into folders (reports/, seo/coderank/, tmp/...). The page
therefore carried none of the files a reply named, so every [file:ID]
chip rendered as dead plain text and the files could not be opened at
all: the bot had done the work and the user had no way to reach it.
The props now take the whole tree, and a chip that still isn't among
them (a message older than the page's first page of files) fetches its
one file by id, cached per id so a deleted one doesn't refetch on every
render.
import_file sent a computer's bytes back with base64 over /v1/shell/exec,
whose stdout is capped at 30,047 characters. Every import was therefore
cut at 22,528 bytes and saved anyway, with the tool reporting success: a
1.12 MiB archive became a 22 KB file that would not open, and a crawler's
crawl.json lost half its pages.
The bytes now come from the sandbox's streaming GET /v1/file/download.
The size is read first so nothing over BotFileImportMaxBytes is
transferred, the download asks for change_policy=abort so a file that
changes mid-send is refused rather than half-saved, and the received
length is checked against the size read, so a cut-short transfer fails
loudly. Folders go the same way, as a gzipped tar unpacked into one row
per file.
Bots also name a path as [path:volume:owner:path] now, so what a bot
leaves on a computer is a link into the files browser instead of text.
A bot's deliverables and the raw material behind them only existed as
paths in a message, so they couldn't be opened from the app at all. This
browses them read-only at /admin/files, one volume at a time: a bot's own
folder, a workspace's shared one, a computer's home (where a bot's ~/...
actually is), the media library, an MCP server's install folder and the
database.
Access is the whole gate: resolveStorageSpec checks the viewer against
the volume first (a bot through grabUserBot, a workspace through
grabUserWorkspace, a computer through grabUserComputer, media only their
own unless they manage the crew) and no path is built before it passes.
resolveStoragePath then applies the resolveBotPath rules to any root.
The picker lists folders through reachableBotsSql, so it never offers one
the resolver would refuse.
Reading is listStorageEntries (folders first, paginated, symlinks
skipped, catalog rows joined so a bot file still opens through its media
row) and grabStorageFile for bytes under a cap, both behind an ETag.
The task work added ref strings ([file:ID], [bot:3]) in new prompt and tool
files, so the warning about "file" not being a known CSS property came back:
Tailwind read them as arbitrary-property utilities and emitted `file: ID`.
The exclusion list now covers every server-side directory whole instead of
one file at a time (none of them holds a className, so nothing is lost), and
`dict` stays scanned for the static hue classes. The ref literals that must
live in scanned files are reworded in comments, and task-file-row builds its
chip through `fileRef` rather than its own template literal.
Bots and workspaces each keep a list of work tracked until it's done, and
the bots move it along themselves as they work.
- tasks (one collection per bot or per workspace), task_notes (the
progress log) and task_media (a deliverable or a reference file, its
bytes a private media row served at /media/private/<id>)
- statuses todo/doing/blocked/done/cancelled, with blocked_reason while
only the user can unblock it
- visibility as SQL in src/utils/task-access: a user's own bots and
workspaces, a run's own list plus its workspaces, everything for the
coordinator; every tool and endpoint resolves through it
- list_tasks, create_task and update_task on every run, so a chat reply,
a task and a routine all read the list, log progress and file what they
produced
- TasksNote on every run and TaskReminderNote in chat, so a greeting or a
proposed next step brings pending work up in one measured line
- tasks group on the workspace dashboard and a tasks modal in the
conversation header, sharing one form, row and detail panel
- a bot's or workspace's own chat uploads are read before the delete so
none are stranded; bot files keep their folder
Also corrects the README's RAM guidance and table alignment.
twui 0.1.5 makes Form's change handler tolerate a field with no form
ancestor, so the modal's own form is no longer needed to keep a change in
it from throwing.
The modal renders in a portal at the end of the document, outside the
Models page's form, so twui's Form found no form element on a change there
and threw building FormData. The fields get a form of their own, nested
inside the page's, to give it something to read and to keep Enter from
submitting the page.
A fresh install had no generation settings until someone set one, so every
model ran on whatever its provider happened to use. Each harness now has a
default (text 0.3 temperature, vision 0.2, image the provider's own), shown
in the model settings modal so what a model runs on is never a guess.
The defaults are only sent to a model whose catalog lists the field, so a
provider that says nothing about its models still gets no parameter it
might reject; anything saved on a harness or bot wins over the default.
Each text and vision harness setting now carries the generation settings
its model takes (temperature, sampling limits, penalties, seed, reasoning
effort), edited in a modal under the model pick so the harness block stays
short. Nothing is set by default, so models keep their provider's own
values until a super admin or admin changes them.
A setting is only offered and only sent when the catalog says the model
takes it: OpenRouter's supported_parameters is now stored on
harness_models and refreshed by the hourly sync. Other providers list no
parameters, so their models get them all.
The README was a bare file list. It now opens with the horizontal
lockup, a theme-aware hero and a workspace dashboard, both taken from
the running app, so GitHub's preview shows the product instead of
describing it.
AGENTS.md records that the design handoff is outdated: its screens and
briefs are history, while its brand assets (stones, coordinator, app
icon, wordmark) and their copies in src/data are still the foundation.
Tailwind read ref literals like [file:12] in prompts and docs as arbitrary-property utilities and emitted invalid CSS; those files hold no className, so they are excluded from the scan. Links in the user's ink bubble get a readable blue instead of the bubble's own ink, and the bubble no longer needs its own CSS class.
The chips under the composer clogged it once a bot had a handful of MCP servers and tools. They are now one button reading "N tools" (with an alert icon when one is off or not working) that opens them in a modal, where any the bot was given can still be removed and more added.
The header's sessions, new session, computers, models and settings icons
become rows in a single dropdown off an ellipsis on the right, so the
header keeps one control whatever width it has. A row that opens a modal
closes the menu first, so the modal never sits behind an open menu, and
each row shows what it acts on (the computer's name, the text model).
A production deploy leaves its service worker on the device, and it
claims every tab. It serves /.bunext/public/* cache first without
knowing which build asked, while every cache-busting mechanism the app
has (the precache gate, /build-info.json, the loading page) is
production only. So switching to `bun run dev` kept serving the old
build, vendor files included, and wrote the dev files back into the
production build's cache.
Development now clears that worker and every cache it wrote
(`clear-development-service-worker.ts`, from ServiceWorkerRegistrar,
which did nothing in development before), reloads once into the
uncontrolled tab, and /sw.js answers with a stub that unregisters
itself so Web Push and the loading page can't register it back.
The app never terminates TLS: a reverse proxy or tunnel does, and
isSecureRequest still reads X-Forwarded-Proto so cookies stay Secure.
Removes the cert generator, TLS resolution and HTTP redirect, the
local CA download, and the TLS envs, and trims the installer, Dockerfile
health check and docs to match. Also softens the composer's loading row.
Bot and workspace lists in page props leave out instructions, memory and
workspace context, and carry the last message as a short preview. The
header avatar's edit form loads the bot's instructions when it opens.
The conversation renders its latest 30 messages and loads older ones as
the thread scrolls to its top.
Also: the composer shows a placeholder until its editor loads, and
`bun start` no longer builds first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
In production, a page request without the running build's cookie gets a
small loading page instead of the app. It downloads every file in
.bunext/public (listed at /build-info.json) into that build's cache,
checks they are all there, hands over to a new service worker waiting
behind an older one, sets the cookie and reloads. The service worker
then serves the app's code from the cache, so later visits load it from
the device.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A workspace bot asked to "update the workspace record" wrote to its own
memory there, called it the workspace's record, and then, when the user
said nothing had changed, denied making any write at all: it checked
nothing and confessed to work it had done.
- Say in the prompt that the workspace's context is the user's, and that
memory in a workspace is the bot's own notes, readable in its settings
- Say the same in update_memory and update_instructions results, with
where the user reads it and that the workspace's own fields didn't
change
- Have ActionCheckNote look at what actually happened before agreeing
with a user that nothing was done, and never deny work that happened
The composer now puts the bubble and clears the input as soon as you send, so a slow connection never holds either. The bot's status row reads "<name> is getting your message..." until the saved message arrives (by response or push), then switches to thinking. A failed send removes the bubble and restores the text and files.
- Cache the model catalog once per user and each conversation's setting
separately; clear both on logout and after model saves
- Compress hashed assets asynchronously with a byte budget and set Vary
- Memoize message parsing and throttle selection reads
- Debounce draft writes to localStorage
- Keep the composer editor on the page and focused, as before
- Add a bundle budget check and run it in CI
- Show a loading block while sessions load and a workspace avatar in the
mobile conversation header
- Compress responses: page scripts and styles once (brotli or gzip, in
memory) and cached immutable; pages and API JSON gzipped as they stream
- Service worker serves content-named assets cache-first
- Load the models modal's data when it opens (cached in localStorage)
instead of shipping the model catalog in every conversation page
- Lazy-load the Tiptap composer and memoize thread messages
- Import lucide icons directly; twui 0.1.4 drops by-name icons from Button
- bun run start builds the pages minified before serving
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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