Ollie's extensibility is the opposite of Emacs: instead of building
capabilities on top of an interpreter, the core provides integration
surfaces (9P, shell) and pushes everything else to the surrounding
system. This is the Acme/Plan 9 model.
The old fs/session/ package (14 files) and cmd/olliesrv/elevate_tree.go
(imperative FileTree implementations) are gone. Replaced by a single
declarative EDSL in fs/spec.go that declares the entire 9P namespace.
cmd/olliesrv/server.go simplified from 1430 to 825 lines:
- Deleted pathType() (110 lines) — tree.Stat() now handles all path resolution
- Deleted isSessionFile(), dirMode(), filePerm() — all from tree's info
- Deleted fsRoute/routes/route/routeDir — single rootTree, no route table
- Deleted elevateTree — EDSL handles /elevate/ in spec.go
- Deleted handleWrite(), readDNS(), helpPath() — dead code
- Deleted all 5 per-fid result fields — EDSL Request handlers manage state
- Deleted all path-based intercepts in read()/write() — entry.RequestRespMode()
- Deleted all path-depth hacks in makeStat() — custom Stat() closures in EDSL
- Deleted all content-length compute logic — info.Size() from tree
- Removed imports: agent, backend, elevate, paths, toolsrv, json
New fs/ package:
- spec.go — single EDSL declaration of the entire namespace
- builder.go — BuildTree() validates and compiles spec into *Tree
- tree.go — configurable FileTree implementation
- fsnode.go — Dir(), Leaf(), TemplateDir(), NodeOption constructors
- agentfiles.go / sessionfiles.go / rootfiles.go / elevatefiles.go
— handler implementations wired by the EDSL
- lifecycle.go — Create, Kill, Rename, Shutdown, InterruptAll
- persist.go, procfiles.go
- edsl.md — documentation of the EDSL
Tools no longer need to be co-located in $OLLIE_TOOLS_PATH. The .meta
sidecar can specify a cmd field pointing to any executable:
- Absolute path: use directly
- Bare name: resolve via $PATH
Resolution order: OLLIE_TOOLS_PATH/<name> → meta.cmd → PATH lookup.
Local wrappers always win, enabling simplified interfaces over complex
system binaries.
Rewrites doc/WRITING_TOOLS.md to document the plugin model: any
executable + .meta = tool, no source tree integration required.
These scripts were removed. Update all documentation to reference the
current alternatives: ollie-9p rdwr generate, ollie-9p rdwr complete,
and ollie-9p rdwr route.
- Fix all pkg/ path references in doc/*.md
- Update ARCHITECTURE.md package table and 9P interaction model
- Fix stale /tmp/ollie references
- Add ollie-9p client documentation to 9p/README.md
- Add prompts/user-preferences.md: visual-first communication preference
and communication style directives (moved from system_prompt.md).
- Inject user-preferences.md into all agent definitions.
- Replace all execute_code references with shell across docs, prompts,
and agent configs.
- Remove dead u/ and x/ entries from scripts/README.md.
- Remove SYSTEM_PROMPT_QWEN systemPrompt override from navigator.
- justfile: install user-preferences.md.
All tools now receive arguments as a JSON object on stdin instead of
positional CLI args. Each tool declares its schema via # args_json:
header comment.
New shared helpers:
- _lib/args.py: Python parse_args() -> Args with require/get/get_bool/etc
- _lib/args.sh: Bash arg_require/arg_get/arg_bool via jq
Removed denote_view (unused).
Updated WRITING_TOOLS.md to document the new contract.
olliesrv no longer has start/fgstart/stop/status subcommands — it runs
in the foreground and relies on the supervisor (systemd, openrc, or
xdg-autostart) for lifecycle management. This simplifies the binary
and makes the single-process model explicit.
Changes:
- All docs: olliesrv start → olliesrv
- justfile: add install-services target, used by all install recipes;
installs systemd user unit, openrc init script, xdg autostart entry;
remove inline autostart installs from individual targets
- systemd unit: ExecStart drops "start" subcommand
- openrc init script: deleted (was for daemonized start; now managed
via install-services)
- xdg-autostart: new desktop entry (moved from 9p/ submodule),
Exec=olliesrv (no longer shells out to start + remount)
- contrib/ollie-remount: add debug echo for namespace/socket
- 9p submodule: remove daemon subcommands from Go code;
delete old desktop file
- el submodule: update README for foreground-only olliesrv
The D-Bus adapter only exposed 4 parameters (cwd, backend, model, agent)
but the session manager supports 6 (+ system_prompt, remote). The remote
had already added system_prompt as the 5th; this adds remote as the 6th.
All frontends (KDE plasmoid, Kate, tray, dolphin, webui, httpgw) and
tool scripts now pass the correct 6 arguments.
These tools were never reliably used by agents. Planning is handled
via in-context plan files (s/{id}/plan) and the replan/stall detection
in the agent loop.
The adapter is now started by the system service manager, not
on-demand from inside the sandbox. ensureElevateAdapter was
removed from core in the previous commit.
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