o sess approve [id] - approve pending, optionally verify id
o sess deny [id] - deny pending, optionally verify id
Shows request id in output: [42] approving: cmd
Errors if specified id doesn't match pending request.
Works at session or agent context (bypass is session-level).
Reads pending request from session/{s}/bypass, extracts ID,
writes '{id} approve' or '{id} deny' to resolve.
CreateEmpty now returns (session, created, error): if a session with the
given name already exists it is returned untouched instead of erroring,
and only a freshly created session receives the provided cwd/workflow/
variant. The o script no longer suppresses errors from session/new, so
real failures surface while re-creating an existing session stays a
no-op success.
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.
reasoningEffort (low|medium|high) is now the single human-facing control
for model deliberation. Backends that speak a discrete level (OpenAI,
OpenRouter, Copilot, Gemini, Kiro) send it verbatim; Anthropic, which
needs a numeric budget, translates via documented thresholds
(low=4096, medium=8192, high=16384). thinkingBudget remains an advanced
explicit override that wins when set.
- Add EffortLow/Medium/High, threshold consts, ValidReasoningEffort,
EffortThinkingBudget, and GenerationParams.ResolvedThinkingBudget.
- Anthropic: derive budget from effort, grow max_tokens above the budget
(Anthropic requires budget < max_tokens), and force temperature=1 when
thinking is enabled (both are Anthropic requirements).
- Validate reasoningEffort at config load so typos fail loudly instead
of silently no-opping.
- theo: drop explicit thinkingBudget/inflated maxTokens; reasoningEffort
high now implies the 16384 budget.
- Document thresholds and per-backend behavior in data/agents/README.md;
fix stale autoLoad/maxSteps references.
- Add unit tests for the mapping and Anthropic thinking behavior.
Theo is a security auditor reasoning about injection, TOCTOU races,
crypto misuse, and confused-deputy problems — adversarial edge-case work
that needs deep deliberation, not the low effort it was set to. Bump to
reasoningEffort=high and add thinkingBudget=16384 so depth carries over
to Anthropic extended thinking. Raise maxTokens to 24576 so it stays
above the thinking budget (Anthropic requires budget < max_tokens).
Reasoning effort is part of an agent's behavior definition, so set it
on all 14 profiles keyed to role (planning/review high, general medium,
lightweight assist low). Also rename the ThinkingBudget json tag from
the confusing bare "reasoning" to "thinkingBudget", distinct from the
reasoningEffort string knob. No config migration needed — no profile or
backends.conf used the old "reasoning" key.
The autoLoad name implied an automatic tool-loading path that no longer
exists; tools now come only from agent config plus the /tool_load ctl
command. Rename the AgentConfig.AutoLoad field (json autoLoad) to Tools
(json tools), rename LoadAutoLoadTools to LoadTools, and update all 14
agent JSON profiles and the tool-not-loaded error message.
Session names like 'r7.20' caused 'duplicate session' errors because
tmux interprets dots as window.pane separators.
Fix: Use '=' prefix for exact match in all tmux -t arguments.
From tmux(1): 'If the session name is prefixed with an =, only an
exact match is accepted.'
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
user-preferences.md is meant to be prepended to every user message,
not part of the system prompt. Moved from 'prompt' to 'userPrompts'
in: author, conductor, default, foreman, panelist, reviewer.
Other agents already had it in the correct location.
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
- 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
All tool logic lives in the multicall main.go at each family root.
Move .meta files to data/tools/ (single canonical location).
Expand test-core to cover all tools.
- 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
Server:
- session/idx now outputs: session-id, session-name, paused, connected, remote, cwd
- session/{s}/agent/idx now outputs: session-id, agent-id, agent-name, parent-id, depth, state
- Add error if parent agent not found during sub-agent spawn
GUI:
- refreshSessions() reads session index, then agent/idx per session
- Auto-select first top-level agent (depth 0) instead of first in list
- SessionModel tracks agent expansion separately from session expansion
- Agents with children show expand/collapse arrows and are collapsible
- Add hasChildren role to SessionModel
Tools:
- subagent_spawn now passes parent= argument for proper depth tracking
- Remove hardcoded max_depth=5, use server default of 1
- Makefile installs shell script tools from data/tools/
KRunner:
- Update to parse new session/idx format
- 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
The step budget mechanism is gone. Agents run until they finish,
are interrupted by the user, or (for sub-agents) hit the timeout.
No replacement. The human is the kill switch.
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).
Levi Neely
Ollie Agent