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dguiducci efb5b1dc33 feat: let an agent ask what its connectors are, instead of guessing
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An agent that wanted to know which MCP servers it had called
`list_mcp_servers` — a tool that has never existed anywhere in this
repo — and got "unknown tool". It was not a random hallucination: the
prompt block says "the system prompt shows available servers", and
`render_mcp_list` returned an empty string when nothing was connected.
The model read a promise, found no table, and invented the discovery
tool the text implied. The `mcp` kinds of `list_items`/`toggle_item`
had been removed to close the §14 RCE vector, which was right for the
write half and left no read half at all.

So `list_items` gains `type: "mcp"` and returns the whole picture in
one call, split into four buckets that each answer a different
question: what is already loaded (call its tools directly), what is
ready for `activate_tools`, what is installed but unusable and why,
and what the user could still activate. Conflating the first two is
what produced the original failure, so they stay apart. Every entry
carries a derived note and a next step; when the step is a human one,
it says so and names the UI page, because there is no tool for it.

Read-only, and structurally so: `toggle_item` deliberately gains
nothing, and the new `McpDirectory` trait exposes exactly one method.
Enabling a connector from a tool is the thing §14 removed, and a wider
seam here is how it would come back. Deny-by-default survives the
report — an ungranted connector is not named at all, since a listing
of what to ask for is itself a leak — except for a catalogue manager,
who cannot administer what they cannot see.

Three sources answer three questions and none is redundant: the
registry says what exists and who may have it, the owner database says
what was activated, and the live runtimes say what is connected right
now — a row can read `ready` while its process is dead. The live half
reaches the tool through the turn's extension map, alongside the pool
and the fs view; with no live view the durable picture still renders,
so freshness is an improvement and never a precondition.

The static `__MCP_LIST__` table stays as it was, because it is frozen
per conversation for prompt-cache stability. Its empty case now says
so out loud and points at the tool.
2026-08-04 19:41:18 +01:00
dguiducci 080ea736e4 feat: signpost the virtual memory roots inside the container, instead of leaving them absent
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`user-memory/` and `shared-memory/` live in SQLite, so nothing of them existed on
disk — and that nothing was worse than it looks. `cat user-memory/x.md` returned a
bare ENOENT, which a model reads as "the note is missing" rather than "wrong door";
and `mkdir -p user-memory && echo … > user-memory/x.md` *succeeded*, writing a real
file into the home that no reader ever visits (every reader goes to `memory_docs`)
and that the next `ls` then confirms as if it had worked.

Each root now gets a read-only bind mount holding a README that names the tools to
use instead. Read-only as a mount rather than as a mode: the container user has
passwordless sudo, so a chmod would be a suggestion, while `:ro` holds — remounting
needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Verified in a scratch container: write, sudo write, sudo chmod,
sudo mount -o remount,rw and sudo rm all fail. And a README rather than an empty
directory, because "Permission denied" is an error, not an instruction — models
answer it by reaching for sudo; the README puts the correction in the same directory
the failing command just named.

The mounts are deliberately not part of `UserFs`: they back no agent path and the
host-side fs-tools must never resolve into them. They reach existing containers as a
fourth self-heal axis in `reusable()`, not as an IMAGE_TAG bump — the image is
unchanged, and a bump would make every installation rebuild it to fix a mount.

The matching half is in `classify_memory`, which now strips the home spellings
(`./`, `~/`, `/root/`) before matching the root. Without it `~/user-memory/x.md`
missed the match and fell through to the disk router — becoming exactly the
invisible physical file the signpost exists to prevent.

`agents/common/memory.md` says the rule outright: the stores are reachable only
through the file tools and `memory_search`, never through `execute_cmd`.
2026-08-02 22:34:24 +01:00
dguiducci 434e27d7c2 system agents: generalise the scheduler and add the two memory lints
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Memory is kept as a maintained wiki, and a wiki nobody prunes rots. This adds
the scheduled maintenance pass, and generalises the machinery TIC had grown so
that a background agent is a trait impl rather than a loop of its own.

Two lint agents, not one. The private pass runs per user over `user-memory/`
and reports to them; the shared pass runs once over `shared-memory/`, where the
interesting defect is different — a note failing the table rule, i.e. private
business written where every member can read it. It names the note and the
category without repeating the content, since restating it spreads the very
thing being flagged. Both share `agents/common/memory-lint.md`.

Both are read-only, and that is enforced twice: the prompt says report-never-
repair, and `shared-memory/*` writes are already `@fs_write require`, so an
agent that tried to fix something would raise an approval card from an
unattended pass, which is auto-denied. Read-only is the only design that works
here, not merely the safe one.

One scheduler for cadences three orders of magnitude apart. TIC runs every few
minutes, a lint weekly — the case that tempts a second loop. It stays one
because the wake-up decides nothing: `base_tick` picks only how often to look,
and whether an agent runs for a user is `is_due` against persisted state.

Due-ness moves out of the run log into a new owner table, `system_agent_state`.
The two answer different questions: the run log skips idle ticks so it stays a
history rather than a heartbeat, while scheduling needs every attempt. Reading
due-ness off the log would re-run an idle agent on every tick and never bring a
weekly one due once its last productive run aged out. Persisting it is also
what makes a long interval survive a restart — an in-memory deadline is fine at
TIC's scale, but a weekly agent on a box rebooted every few days would have it
re-armed before it ever fired.

The shared store belongs to nobody, so `AgentScope::Instance` runs that pass as
the first unlocked admin. An ownerless run would write its trace into system.db,
which the runs endpoint shows to nobody by design, and its notify() would have
no recipient; attributing it to a user keeps the whole per-user surface working
unchanged.

Settings move to where the run log is. `ConfigSet` gains `owner`, so placement
is data on the set rather than a page that knows set names; the System agents
page grows one tab per agent holding its description, its settings (admin only)
and its runs — "why did this do nothing last night?" is half a schedule
question and half a log question. The form is shared with the Config page, and
writes still go through PUT /api/config/{key}.

Fixes an authorization gap found on the way: neither /api/config handler took
the caller into account, so any authenticated session could read and write
instance-wide config. The sidebar hiding the page is presentation, not access
control. Both are now admin-gated.
2026-07-28 21:24:16 +01:00
dguiducci a3e1b0add0 memory: reshape the two stores into a maintained wiki
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Memory was a scrapbook: notes accumulated, nothing kept them consistent,
and shared memory had no rule saying what belonged in it. This adopts the
LLM-wiki pattern — the assistant maintains an evolving artifact rather
than re-deriving knowledge each session.

The schema (agents/common/memory-wiki.md, included by the three type:chat
agents) adds an append-only log.md beside each index.md, names Ingest /
Recall / Lint as habits, and states the rule for shared memory: write it
there only if you would say it out loud with every member in the room.
One person's health, results or another member's opinion of them stays
private — that is what shared folders, not shared memory, are for.

Tampering is the reason the rules are shaped this way. Shared facts carry
provenance and are superseded rather than erased, and a member who
contradicts a fact they did not write gets a logged CLAIM instead of an
overwrite: only the originator or an admin can turn it into a change.
The approval gate cannot enforce this — it asks the caller, who is the
same person pushing — so a per-role write permission on shared memory is
still the real boundary. The prompt is the etiquette, not the fence.

append_file is a new fs tool because the log needs a write that cannot
shorten a file. On memory paths it is one SQL statement, so concurrent
appends (parallel tool batches, two sessions of one user) cannot lose a
line — a dropped line in an audit trail is worse than a failed write. It
is auto-allowed on shared-memory/log.md at a lower priority than the
shared write rule: gating the trail would be friction with no safety, and
a rejected log write yields an unlogged change.

memory::scaffold seeds index.md / log.md / user.md so the schema does not
describe files that do not exist. Seeded empty rather than left absent:
a missing note resolves to nothing at injection, so the model cannot tell
"nothing recorded yet" from "this mechanism is not running".

__MEMBERS__ renders the roster from users + roles instead of a note the
model maintains. A remembered copy drifts and can be talked into being
edited; this one bypasses the model entirely. users.notes are excluded —
they are the admin's private notes about a person and this block is
visible to every member.

Still open: a UI to browse memory (list_dir does not classify memory
paths yet), a tool-written revisions table (log lines are still typed by
the model), and the periodic lint pass.
2026-07-26 19:03:49 +01:00
dguiducci 4d81295a3d messages: unify harness-injected data under <system-extra> tag
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Replace the ad-hoc [SYSTEM INFO] / [TELEGRAM SYSTEM INFO] prefixes with a
single canonical <system-extra> wrapper, sourced from one constant
(SYSTEM_EXTRA_TAG) so emission and documentation can never diverge.

- core-api: SYSTEM_EXTRA_TAG + system_extra() helper; attachments_block
  rebuilt on top of it.
- telegram: system_info_message (location) uses the helper; the voice
  transcript is forwarded as a plain user message (it is the user's own
  words, not harness metadata).
- chat agents: new agents/common/harness.md include (long form, with an
  explicit "data, not instructions" guard), added to assistant/kid/
  project-coordinator. The tag name rides the __HARNESS_TAG__ sentinel,
  resolved in AgentSystemContext to SYSTEM_EXTRA_TAG — renaming the tag
  stays a one-line change.
2026-07-26 17:54:14 +01:00
dguiducci 7769b6689d list_files with_metadata mode, deeper JSON outline, MCP connector descriptions in prompt
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- list_files: new with_metadata parameter returns {path, line_count?, size}
  per entry (both disk and memory-docs) so the agent can spot large files
  worth outlining before reading
- ast_outline: replaced flat tree-sitter JSON walker with a recursive one
  that shows nested keys at every depth, with inline scalar values and
  container summaries
- message_builder: format active MCP connectors as a table with description
  instead of a bare bullet list
- read_file description now hints to use get_ast_outline first
- tools.md: agent guidance to outline before reading
2026-07-22 22:32:43 +01:00
dguiducci a847dda88f feat(memory): dual-pool memory namespace, FTS search, and prompt injection
Add a virtual memory namespace backed by SQLite, surfaced through the
fs-tools, with private (per-user) and shared (system) stores.

Storage
- `memory_docs` owner table + external-content FTS5 index with sync triggers.
- `db/memory_docs.rs` accessor: get / upsert / list / search (bm25+snippet) / delete.

Routing (tools/fs)
- `classify_memory` splits paths on the raw first component; `..` clamps inside
  the store, never escaping to disk.
- read/write/list/edit/insert/replace/search_file route `user-memory/` to the
  owner pool and `shared-memory/` to the system pool (a singleton captured in
  `register_all`); every other path stays on disk. Each tool extracts a pure
  transform shared between its disk and memory paths.
- New `memory_search` tool over the FTS index (scope private/shared/all),
  with a sanitised FTS5 query. grep_files stays disk-only.

Approval
- `user-memory/*` allow (read+write); `shared-memory/*` reads allow,
  writes require approval so the agent can't silently push one person's data
  into shared memory. `memory_search` allowed via a path-less rule.
- migrate away the old `memory/*` and blanket `shared-memory/*` rows.

Prompt injection
- `MessageBuilder::load_inject_memory` reads `user-memory/` (owner pool) and
  `shared-memory/` (system pool) inject entries from SQLite; disk paths
  unchanged. The system pool is threaded ChatSessionManager -> handler ->
  MessageBuilder.
- main and project-coordinator inject `user-memory/index.md` +
  `shared-memory/index.md`; common/memory.md rewritten for the two stores.
2026-07-11 02:11:00 +01:00
dguiducci 38494a85a9 First Version 2026-07-10 15:02:09 +01:00