- Add onClear callback to Agent, wired via support.go
- Publish session.{sid}.agent.{aid}.clear event
- GUI listens for agentCleared signal and refreshes chat view
- Works for both GUI clear button and CLI /clear command
The cwd= parameter in agent/new payloads was not being parsed,
so scripts like ollie-session-here could not set agent cwd on
creation. Now parsed and passed to AgentParams.CwdOverride.
Backend:
- Add proc.start/proc.exit events for background process lifecycle
- Add proc idx ctl command for machine-readable process listing (TSV)
- Add event.pub file for external event publishing
- Add ListProcsIdx to toolclient and toolsrv
- Fix bypass commands to use Setpgid for process group isolation
GUI:
- Add configurable bypass approval shortcuts (Ctrl+Y/Ctrl+N default)
- Add Keyboard Shortcuts section to Settings dialog
- Store shortcuts in theme.conf
Kate:
- Fix 'Start Session Here' - use rdwr for session/new endpoint
The pubsub library had issues:
- Published to literal '*' topic (nonsensical)
- Used TrySend which drops events
- Complex hierarchical wildcard publishing
New implementation:
- Simple eventHub with map of subscribers
- PublishEvent fans out to all subscribers (blocking send)
- SubscribeEvents returns channel, cleaned up on ctx cancel
- SubscribeEventsFiltered filters client-side with MatchTopic
- Removed simonfxr/pubsub dependency
Two bugs:
1. GUI sends 'agent=<profile>' but server only recognized 'profile='
- Added 'agent' as alias for 'profile' in parseAgentNewRequest
2. Model dropdown showed cost columns appended to model names
- /models format: backend<tab>model[<tab>in<tab>out...]
- Parser took everything after first tab as model name
- Now stops at second tab to extract just the model name
Make the namespace explain itself instead of requiring prior knowledge.
- ctl is self-describing: reading it (empty write) or writing 'help'
returns the valid verbs with one-line descriptions; an unknown verb
errors with the valid list. Refactor dispatch to an ordered []ctlCmd
carrying descriptions; drop the undocumented '.' alias and the
drift-prone hardcoded help verb. Keep 'i' (drop 'inject') for fast
injects. o's ctl usage now reads the live listing.
- Errors carry severity + remediation. backend.ClassifyError maps the
typed errors to transient/config/fatal with a one-line fix; the error
event renders [[[error:<severity>]]] and a 'remediation:' line so a
human knows whether to wait or intervene.
- Add a human status file: 'thinking · 12s', 'calling shell · 3s',
'idle' — distinct from the machine-facing raw state. Wire the TUI bar
to it.
- Bare 'o' shows an overview of running sessions/agents with status, so
you don't need to know any names to get oriented.
Tests: dispatch help/unknown/routing, ClassifyError severity table.
chat.raw includes everything; chat strips:
- [[[...]]] markers
- fence delimiters
- <context>...</context> blocks (user prompts)
Text clients get clean output; GUI clients use chat.raw for full control.
Session creation now requires cwd= parameter (no fallback to daemon cwd).
Agent cwd is read-only — agents inherit from session, cannot override.
Frontends updated:
- NewSessionDialog: added Directory field with Browse button
- NewAgentDialog: removed Directory field
- createAgent(): removed cwd parameter
- Kate plugin: passes cwd when creating kate session
- Dolphin: removed cwd from agent/new call
Message history sanitization (backend.SanitizeMessages):
- Removes dangling tool calls (assistant with ToolCalls but missing results)
- Removes orphan tool results (tool message without preceding call)
- Applied before sub-agent context inheritance
- Applied before session persistence save
- Applied after compaction (defensive)
Includes unit tests for all sanitization cases.
- Workflows are executable scripts in data/workflows/
- New 'workflows' 9P file lists available workflows
- Goal file stores text; writing triggers workflow if status allows
- goalstatus file for status read/write, goalwait for blocking
- Session ctl accepts 'run [workflow]' command
- Session now owns CWD; agents inherit via callback
- Conductor workflow: creates agent, primes with instructions, exits
- GUI workflow combo reads from workflows, not agents
- Persistence includes goal, goalstatus, workflow, and session CWD
Write to session/{s}/goal to set a session-level objective.
A conductor agent is spawned automatically in the background,
decomposes the goal, spawns sub-agents, and reports completion.
- goal file: write sets goal + starts conductor; read returns status
- goalwait file: blocks until goal status changes (BlockOnce)
- Conductor writes status=complete/blocked back to goal when done
- Session.Goal() / SetGoal() / GoalSignal() on Session struct
Enforce three limits on sub-agent spawning:
- depth (default 1): sub-agents cannot spawn their own sub-agents
- parallelism (default unlimited): cap concurrent children per parent
- timeout (default 600s): sub-agents are killed after 10 minutes
Top-level agents are never constrained by timeout.
Also: refactored parseAgentNewRequest to return a struct instead of
4 positional values. Added depth/activeChildren fields to Agent.
OLLIE_SUBAGENT_DEPTH env var set on sub-agents.
Deferred: remove maxSteps (replace entirely with timeout).
Sub-agents can now inherit parent context truncated at a specific
user turn: fork_at=5 means 'fork from the state after the 5th
user message.' Enables backtracking without losing unsummarized
context from before a failed approach.
Without fork_at (or fork_at=0), full history is inherited as before.
Sub-agents now clone the parent agent's conversation history into
their initial context. The tool script passes parent=$OLLIE_UNAME
automatically. Mechanically identical to session restore — uses
RestoreHistoryFromMessages on the parent's Messages().
Writing to session/{s}/agent/new with a prompt= key now blocks
until the agent completes its task, then returns the reply and
destroys the transient agent. Without prompt=, behaves as before
(creates agent, returns ID).
Also:
- Move ParsePayload/UnescapeValue to shared ollie/toolsrv package
- Remove duplicate implementations from cmd/toolsrv/internal/server
- Add session.CreateAgentWithParams for direct AgentParams usage
- Eliminate flattenParams/unescapeValue redundancy in fs package
The namespace spec is now fully self-contained. Every handler is a
closure right where it's declared — no jumping between files.
Deleted: handlers_root.go, handlers_session.go, handlers_agent.go, ctl.go
Added: support.go (shared utilities: mergeCtx, streamChat, stripMarkers,
dispatch, wireAgentEvents, help memoization)
spec.go grew to ~920 lines but is now the single source of truth for
the entire 9P namespace. Know where to look.
Levi Neely
Ollie Agent