The old word-boundary check falsely triggered when tool names appeared
in arguments (e.g., git commit messages mentioning native tools).
New logic: split on shell separators and only flag when a tool is the
first token of a sub-command or a path ending with /toolname.
Allows user to background the current foreground tool process
by writing 'detach' to the agent ctl file. The agent can then
continue working without waiting for the tool to complete.
When the 'agent <profile>' ctl command switches profiles, the tool
registry now clears old tools and loads the new profile's autoLoad
list. Previously, switching profiles left the old tools loaded.
Changes:
- registry: add ClearAgent(agentID) to remove all tools for an agent
- server/proc: add ClearAgent wrapper and 'clear <agentID>' ctl command
- toolclient: add ClearTools() method to ToolsrvConn
- agent: SwitchProfile now returns *AgentConfig for tool reload
- fs/spec: agent ctl handler clears and reloads tools after switch
Remove lazy tool loading (load-on-call). Tools must now be explicitly
listed in the agent's autoLoad config. Calling an unloaded tool fails
with a clear error message.
Package structure improvements:
- embedding/index.go: generic Index type for semantic matching
- skills/skills.go: uses embedding.Index internally, keeps Skill type
- agent/skill_match.go: matchSkills() for skill discovery
- agent/tool_match.go: matchTools() for tool hints (new file)
Tool hints now match only loaded tools, not all tools on disk.
This makes agent capabilities explicit and auditable.
Add semantic skill matching using all-MiniLM-L6-v2 sentence embeddings.
Skills are automatically injected into user turns based on relevance.
New packages:
- embedding: ONNX-based text embedding with MiniLM model
- skills: skill discovery, embedding cache, and semantic matching
Integration:
- InitSkillIndex called at startup in fs.NewRoot
- matchSkills called per-turn in executeTurn
- Matched skills injected in <context> block alongside user prompts
Makefile:
- install-models target downloads model and ONNX runtime
- Model files stored in ~/.local/share/ollie/models/
Config:
- Threshold: 0.2 cosine similarity
- Limit: 3 skills per turn
- Skill dirs: ~/.kiro/skills (user), ~/.config/ollie/skills (installed)
- Add quirks package for stupid model behavior workarounds
- ShellInvokesNativeTool blocks shell(cmd="tool_name") patterns
- Add client_9p tool: native wrapper for ollie-9p operations
- Block ollie-9p in shell — use client_9p instead
- Update all prompts to use client_9p, not shell+ollie-9p
- Clarify 9P namespace is complete (tools are NOT in 9P)
- Registry.All() lists all available tools for validation
Add explicit guidance to Autonomous Operation section:
- New unacceptable behaviors: giving up before checking skill_list or trying to load tools
- New checklist: must check skills, try loading tools, attempt even uncertain options before reporting failure
When an agent calls a tool that exists but isn't loaded, toolsrv now
automatically loads it instead of returning an error. This eliminates
the round-trip of a separate load call.
- Remove Registry.Exists() (superseded by auto-load logic)
- Fire OnToolsChanged callback after auto-load so olliesrv can update
tool definitions for subsequent turns
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.
Added explicit unacceptable behaviors:
- Mentioning a tool without calling it
- Acknowledging a tool exists but not using it
Added bold statement: 'Knowing a tool exists is not the same as using it.
Your response should contain tool calls, not descriptions of tools you
could call.'
Agents were using shell to invoke tools (cat, grep, ollie-9p) instead of
calling the actual tools. Added unmistakable WRONG/RIGHT code blocks
showing the correct pattern. Shell is ONLY for git, make, npm, etc.
Rewrote system prompt to enforce immediate tool use:
- New 'Autonomous Operation' section: act first, report results
- Explicit list of unacceptable behaviors (narrating intentions, asking
permission for routine ops, producing text when tools should be called)
- Tools section: 'Use them without hesitation', concrete examples
- Skills section: 'if the task needs it, load it' — no asking
- Stronger sub-agent prefix: 'Do NOT respond with a plan. Call tools.'
Timeout fix:
- Add Timeout field to ToolInfo (protocol) and MetaFile (metadata)
- proc.go respects tool-declared timeout before falling back to 30s default
- subagent_spawn.meta declares timeout=0 (no timeout) so the tool is
never killed prematurely while waiting for the sub-agent to finish
- Tool schema declares timeout with 'do not set' guidance to prevent
the LLM from adding a short timeout
Premature response fix:
- Inject behavioral prefix into sub-agent prompt: complete all work
before responding, report results not intentions
- Sub-agent's final text is returned to parent; this instruction ensures
it contains accomplished work, not a plan
- Workflow() no longer defaults to 'conductor' when empty
- runWorkflow() returns immediately for '' or 'none'
- 'none' listed first in the workflows file output
- QML dropdowns default to 'none' instead of 'conductor'
- C++ fallback uses 'none' when server unreachable
- Add session-level cfg file (read: name/cwd/remote/workflow/variant/yolo;
write: workflow, variant, cwd)
- Add readSessionConfig() and updateSessionConfig() to C++ client
- NewSessionDialog supports editMode: pre-populates fields from session cfg,
title becomes 'Session Settings', button becomes 'Save'
- Name and Remote fields disabled in edit mode (non-reconfigurable)
- YOLO checkbox hidden in edit mode
- Only changed values are written back on save
- Add 'Settings...' to session context menu in SessionTree
- Wire sessionSettingsRequested signal through to dialog
- runWorkflow accepts a variant parameter; sources {workflow}-{variant}.conf
as env vars before exec'ing the script
- Session stores variant; persisted and restored
- session/new accepts variant= parameter
- 'run' ctl command accepts optional variant as second arg
- workflows file now lists variants: name<TAB>default,variant1,...
- review workflow reads AUTHOR_PROFILE/REVIEWER_PROFILE env vars
- Add review-code.conf and review-writing.conf example variants
Add peer/ directory to each agent's 9P namespace. Agents communicate
by writing to peer/{name}, which delivers to the target's prompt handler.
Only declared peers can be messaged — the directory is the ACL.
Implementation:
- Agent struct: peers map + AddPeer/RemovePeer/Peers methods
- fs/spec.go: peer/ Each node (write-only entries), peeradd/peerdel/peers ctl commands
- Bidirectional: peeradd A on B also adds B on A
- Peers constrained to same session
- Persisted with session state (PersistedAgent.Peers field)
- peeradd/peerdel trigger immediate session save
Docs updated: system_prompt.md, AGENTS.md, README.md, architecture-9p.md,
architecture-core.md, architecture.md, usage.md.
- Multicall pattern for tool families: one binary per family with
symlinks for each tool name. Reduces tools dir from 156MB to 31MB.
codeintel (6 tools), filetools (5 tools), lsptools (7 tools).
- Build with -ldflags="-s -w" to strip debug symbols.
- Fix Landlock EINVAL on regular files: filter directory-only access
rights (READ_DIR, MAKE_*, REMOVE_*) when adding rules for non-
directory paths.
- Fix toolsrv CWD initialization: pass --cwd flag value to server
state at startup so {CWD} in sandbox.yaml expands correctly.
- Add MEMO_TOOLS=1 env var to memo script; when set, all printed
instructions reference native tool names instead of memo paths
- Set MEMO_TOOLS=1 in all memory tool .meta wrappers
- Add memory_nap tool for compressions
- Add memory_zoom tool for tree navigation
- Add part/T pagination args to memory_wake
- Update system prompt to use memory_zoom tool call
- Fix inject ctl: submit as user message when agent is idle
- Add OptMem memory section to system_prompt.md with tool-based API
- Fix KRunner plugin icon: resolve via QStandardPaths instead of theme name
- Fix desktop file icon: use absolute path to bypass stale system icon
Levi Neely
Ollie Agent