The sandbox escape mechanism is a bypass, not privilege elevation.
The old name caused the agent to confuse it with sudo.
- elevate/ → bypass/ (package, types, tests)
- elevate_notify.go → bypass_notify.go
- Namespace: /elevate → /bypass, session/*/elevate → session/*/bypass
- Tool arg: "elevated" → "bypass"
- Env: OLLIE_ELEVATE_SOCKET → OLLIE_BYPASS_SOCKET
- File: elevate-policy.yaml → bypass-policy.yaml
- All docs, prompts, and scripts updated
Tools like file_write, file_edit, and shell now reset the agent's step
counter when called successfully. This allows the agent to continue
working without hitting the soft step-budget guardrail as long as it's
making active progress (writing files, running commands) rather than
looping on research/reading.
Changes:
- Add ResetsCounter bool to ToolInfo and MetaFile structs
- Parse resetsCounter from .meta JSON files
- Reset step counter in agent loop when ResetsCounter tool succeeds
- Add resetsCounter: true to file_write, file_edit, shell
- Reduce maxSteps from 50 to 25 (resetsCounter makes this safe)
- Remove "hooks" blocks from all 8 agent JSON files (copilot, default, driver, explorer, librarian, navigator, taskmanager, theo)
- Remove beads shell one-liner from prompt arrays in default.json and driver.json
- Hooks mechanism is dead code; these empty blocks are just noise
- Remove all OLLIE_*_PATH vars (TOOLS_PATH, CFG_PATH, DATA_PATH, etc.)
Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ollie/* and XDG_DATA_HOME/ollie/* instead
- Replace OLLIE_<TAG>_LOG per-component logging with single OLLIE_LOG={level}
- Replace OLLIE_USAGE_LOG with XDG_DATA_HOME-based path
- Replace OLLIE_OLLAMA_URL with standard OLLAMA_HOST (or omit entirely)
- Rename protocol markers: OLLIE_LISTEN_READY → ListenReady, OLLIE_9P_OPEN → Open
- Remove freeloader hooks from agent configs
- Update sandbox YAMLs to use XDG paths instead of OLLIE_*_PATH tokens
- Update shell tools to use $(dirname "$0") fallback instead of OLLIE_TOOLS_PATH
- Update docs and prompts accordingly
Add a tool_load tool that writes a tool name to the session's 9P
tools file via ollie-9p, enabling on-demand tool loading.
Reduce autoLoad lists in default.json and theo.json to bare
essentials — everything else is loaded via tool_load.
Ollie Agent
Levi Neely