The _SENSITIVE_PATTERNS list used simple substring matching, so "token"
matched "max_tokens", causing the distillation pipeline to block facts
about max_tokens parameters. Replaced with compiled regexes using
lookaround assertions so compound terms like max_tokens and num_tokens
are no longer falsely flagged.
Fixes#625
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add post-generation similarity check to ThinkingEngine.think_once().
Problem: Timmy's thinking engine generates repetitive thoughts because
small local models ignore 'don't repeat' instructions in the prompt.
The same observation ('still no chat messages', 'Alexander's name is in
profile') would appear 14+ times in a single day's journal.
Fix: After generating a thought, compare it against the last 5 thoughts
using SequenceMatcher. If similarity >= 0.6, retry with a new seed up to
2 times. If all retries produce repetitive content, discard rather than
store. Uses stdlib difflib — no new dependencies.
Changes:
- thinking.py: Add _is_too_similar() method with SequenceMatcher
- thinking.py: Wrap generation in retry loop with dedup check
- test_thinking.py: 7 new tests covering exact match, near match,
different thoughts, retry behavior, and max-retry discard
+96/-20 lines in thinking.py, +87 lines in tests.
Rewrite _THINKING_PROMPT with strict rules: 2-3 sentence limit,
anti-confabulation (only reference real data), anti-repetition.
- Add _pick_seed_type() with recent-type dedup (excludes last 3)
- Add _gather_system_snapshot() for real-time grounding (time, thought
count, chat activity, task queue)
- Improve _build_continuity_context() with anti-repetition header and
100-char truncation
- Fix journal + memory timestamps to include local timezone
- 12 new TDD tests covering all improvements
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add optional prompt argument to `timmy tick` so custom journal
prompts can be passed from the CLI (seed_type="prompted").
Fix extract_user_name() learning verbs as names (e.g. "Serving").
Now requires the candidate word to start with a capital letter in
the original message, rejects common verb suffixes (-ing, -tion,
etc.), and deduplicates the naive regex in TimmyWithMemory to use
the fixed ConversationManager.extract_user_name() instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wire MEMORY.md + soul.md into the thinking loop so each heartbeat
is grounded in identity and recent context, breaking repetitive loops.
Pre-hook: _load_memory_context() reads hot memory first (changes each
cycle) then soul.md (stable identity), truncated to 1500 chars.
Post-hook: _update_memory() writes a "Last Reflection" section to
MEMORY.md after each thought so the next cycle has fresh context.
soul.md is read-only from the heartbeat — never modified by it.
All hooks degrade gracefully and never crash the heartbeat.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* polish: streamline nav, extract inline styles, improve tablet UX
- Restructure desktop nav from 8+ flat links + overflow dropdown into
5 grouped dropdowns (Core, Agents, Intel, System, More) matching
the mobile menu structure to reduce decision fatigue
- Extract all inline styles from mission_control.html and base.html
notification elements into mission-control.css with semantic classes
- Replace JS-built innerHTML with secure DOM construction in
notification loader and chat history
- Add CONNECTING state to connection indicator (amber) instead of
showing OFFLINE before WebSocket connects
- Add tablet breakpoint (1024px) with larger touch targets for
Apple Pencil / stylus use and safe-area padding for iPad toolbar
- Add active-link highlighting in desktop dropdown menus
- Rename "Mission Control" page title to "System Overview" to
disambiguate from the chat home page
- Add "Home — Timmy Time" page title to index.html
https://claude.ai/code/session_015uPUoKyYa8M2UAcyk5Gt6h
* fix(security): move auth-gate credentials to environment variables
Hardcoded username, password, and HMAC secret in auth-gate.py replaced
with os.environ lookups. Startup now refuses to run if any variable is
unset. Added AUTH_GATE_SECRET/USER/PASS to .env.example.
https://claude.ai/code/session_015uPUoKyYa8M2UAcyk5Gt6h
* refactor(tooling): migrate from black+isort+bandit to ruff
Replace three separate linting/formatting tools with a single ruff
invocation. Updates tox.ini (lint, format, pre-push, pre-commit envs),
.pre-commit-config.yaml, and CI workflow. Fixes all ruff errors
including unused imports, missing raise-from, and undefined names.
Ruff config maps existing bandit skips to equivalent S-rules.
https://claude.ai/code/session_015uPUoKyYa8M2UAcyk5Gt6h
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
