A reply read the session once at the start, so a message sent while it
ran was never seen, and the follow-up reply queued for it then finished
silently: the message was saved before the reply, so the thread ended
with the bot. Those messages went unanswered.
The text loop now reads new user messages after every round of tools and
before an answer goes out, and the bot decides from what each one means
whether it changes the work (folded in, or the unsent answer redrafted)
or is a separate request, which it acknowledges at once with the new
send_message tool and does after the current work. Messages sent that
way are marked interim, so the thinking row stays up while the bot
works. A reply job records the newest user message it read, and a queued
reply only stays silent when a finished reply already read everything.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The bot's id never reached its prompt: `composeBotPrompt` only took its
instructions, the appendix, its memory and its workspace, and
`grabBotPrompt` never passed `bot.id` or `bot.name` on. A bot could only
learn its id by accident, from a tool description that named it, so
"which bot am I" was unanswerable in most contexts.
- Open the prompt with who the bot is (`composeIdentity`): its name,
whether it's the coordinator or a worker, its role, and its id, said
to be how tools and refs point back at it. `grabBotPrompt` now passes
the bot, which covers chat replies, tasks, routines and delegated
tasks, since both runners build their prompt there.
- Turn the notes' example refs into functions bound to the running bot:
`chatReplyNote`, `botFilesNote` and `coordinatorReplyNote` take its id,
so the folder-ref example no longer points at a hardcoded `owner_id: 5`
(another bot's folder) nor `[bot:3]`. ComputerFilesNote keeps the
computer it's given.
- Stop `create_task` from hiding the worker's own id in its own chat.
Tests: four new `composeBotPrompt` cases pin the identity block (worker,
coordinator, unnamed, no bot at all), and a new `harness-prompts.test.ts`
checks each note's own-folder and self refs point at exactly the running
bot, for three ids.
The two limits were compiled in: a task run stopped at
AppData.HarnessMaxToolSteps (200) and a chat reply at
AppData.BotReplyMaxToolSteps (8), so an install that needed a longer task
had to rebuild.
Both are now `app_settings` rows (`harness_max_tool_steps` and
`bot_reply_max_tool_steps`), read at the two loop call sites through
grabHarnessMaxToolSteps and grabReplyMaxToolSteps, and edited by the super
admin on Settings > General beside the prompt appendix. Zero clears a
limit back to the code default, like the bot file quota.
readStepLimit keeps the saved number only when it is a whole number of at
least 1 and no more than AppData.BotStepLimitMax (1000), so a blank, a
zero or a typo falls back instead of stopping every run before its first
turn, and a huge number still ends in the wrap-up report.
runTextLoop keeps AppData.HarnessMaxToolSteps as its default, so it stays
free of database reads and its tests run as they did.
A coordinator asked to set an uploaded logo as a workspace picture could
not: the picture tools take a media id, and nothing ever gave the bot one.
Attachments reached the model as "[Attached image \"logo.png\"]", every
file tool answers with a [file:ID] ref, and an SVG is deliberately stored
as a document rather than an image.
- copyMediaAsPicture copies an approved image into a new picture row
(bot-image/workspace-image). The source keeps its row and bytes, so a
message that attached it still loads and changing a picture can never
take a file away from a conversation.
- grabPictureSource resolves a picture by [file:ID] (the same scope gate
every file tool uses) or by the user's own upload; parseFileRef reads
the [file:12] form.
- The new set_picture tool ships on every run: a bot sets its own face,
the coordinator can also dress a worker. update_workspace gained
picture_file_id, and setBotPicture/setProfileImage share the copy and
the delete.
- removeReplacedPicture deletes a replaced picture only when it really is
one, never a chat upload.
- uploadAndRecordMedia writes images in their own format: PNG stays PNG
with its transparency, WebP stays WebP, GIF becomes PNG, everything
else JPEG, and the row records the real mime type (it used to say jpeg
for every image).
- Pictures change live: BotUpdatedData carries image_media_id and a new
server:workspace-updated pushes workspace pictures, relayed between
processes.
- Attachments are labelled with their media id, and BotFilesNote tells a
bot that a [file:ID] can become a picture.
- grabRunScopes is now the single source of a run's reachable folders,
shared by the file tools, imports and the picture tools.
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.
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.
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.
Scheduled runs are pre-approved: they carry out their brief instead of
drafting for confirmation. A run that can't do its brief calls
report_run_failed and is retried 5 and 10 minutes later; only then does
the user get one "failed after N tries" message, and the routine keeps
why in last_error.
Every reply and task now gets ActionCheckNote: look for an existing
record before creating one, and verify an action took effect before
saying it's done. Memory and instructions saves are read back, and
create_bot, create_schedule, start_task and delegate_task refuse
duplicates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The composer now writes markdown with bold, italic, strike, code,
links, quotes and lists, from shortcuts, markdown typing or a bubble
over the selection. @ mentions a bot and # a workspace, shown as chips
and saved as [bot:ID] / [workspace:ID]. Text selected in a message can
be quoted into the composer. User messages render as markdown, and
replies tell the bot who and what the user mentioned.
Adds an ESM stand-in for use-sync-external-store, since bunext keeps
React external in page bundles and the CommonJS original requires it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Two new settings pages, MCPs and Tools. Super admins define them; super
admins and admins attach them to bots, to workspaces (every bot there),
or to every bot. Bots get them in chat replies and tasks.
- Custom tools: a JSON-schema of arguments plus an HTTP request, a script
on the bot's computer, or a prompt, templated with {{args.x}} and
{{env.KEY}}, secrets redacted from results.
- MCP servers: remote (URL and headers) or stdio commands run on the host
with a setup command and an isolated env, in a per-process pool. Tools
are listed into a cache and connect on first call.
- Add, edit, access and try open in modals.
- Markdown, JSON and command fields use twui's AceEditor (CodeEditor),
its scripts loaded on demand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Bots, workspaces and computers now belong to the install. Users reach
workers only through bot_users (assigned by a super admin or admin) and
workspace_users; the coordinator and main computer are one per install,
and only the super admin sees the coordinator. Conversations are per
user (bot_sessions.user_id), jobs run for the session's user, and live
updates go only to who should see them.
A bot's core memory is now general knowledge shared by every user it
works for; what it learns about a user lives in bot_user_memories.
One-off scripts move existing installs over: move-bot-memory-to-owners
(run first), then share-crew.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Rail: Add icon with stacked form modals (bot, workspace, computer),
coordinator, recent bots with "See all bots", Workspaces section, and
a workspace mode listing only its crew
- Workspaces: page for context, bots (per-workspace instructions and
memory), computers (default, link, unlink), models and delete;
conversations scoped per bot per workspace
- Sessions: conversations split into searchable, reopenable sessions
with carry-over summaries; sessions and new-session header icons
- Computers: created and provisioned over the docker socket, home dir
kept at DATA_DIR/computers/<id> after delete; super admins only
- Models: workspace settings win over a bot's own, then the defaults
- Pictures for bots and workspaces; bots editable from the header
- Coordinator tools: update_workspace, set_bot_workspace_instructions
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Serve each computer to its owner under /computers/<id>/ (HTTP and
websockets proxied to the AIO sandbox) and show it in a shared
ComputerView with browser, terminal and code modes, opened from the
computers modal or a take-over button in the thread.
- ask_user_to_take_over lets a bot hand a computer to the user for a
login or captcha; the message gets a take-over button and needs-you,
and the viewer hands it back with a chat message.
- While a task runs the thread shows "<bot> is working..." with the
task's latest step; steps read as plain words, not tool names.
- A coordinator with no workers no longer claims to delegate, and bots
describe started tasks in the first person.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Bots have a current computer (bots.computer_id), switched from the chat
header beside the model button or by clicking a computer the bot names
([computer:ID]); tasks run on it by default
- search_computers runs one read-only command on all of a bot's computers;
chat replies know their computers (compose-computers-note)
- The coordinator can use every computer and grants or revokes crew access
with assign_computer
- Delegated jobs record requested_by_bot_id; the worker's result or failure
is reported back in the coordinator's conversation
- bots_queue_updates records each model turn of a job, pushed live and shown
in the working-on panel
- Live relay: every process pushes new messages, job steps and bot changes
from the database to its own sockets, so work done elsewhere shows live
- Bot messages render as markdown (react-markdown + remark-gfm, no raw HTML)
with twui components; rail previews are plain text
- Fix header button overflow in the model and computer selects
- Bump @moduletrace/twui to 0.1.2
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
- Harness: providers, model catalog synced hourly, automatic free picks,
cooldowns, tool loop with context trimming, MCP computer tools
- Bots queue runs replies and tasks through the harness; jobs wait
(attempt refunded) while every model is resting
- Envs: Settings > Environment, scoped general/workspace/computer,
written to computers and redacted from tool output
- Models: Settings > Models, per-harness provider select defaulting to
OpenRouter, and a models modal on each bot's chat (the coordinator's
edits the defaults)
- Chat: thinking row while a reply runs, file attachments (upload,
paste, drop) that replies read as images, audio and document text
- Fix media uploads failing after a user's first file, and private
files being served from the public media path
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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