Closes#71: Timmy was responding with elaborate markdown formatting
(tables, headers, emoji, bullet lists) for simple questions.
Root causes fixed:
1. Agno Agent markdown=True flag explicitly told the model to format
responses as markdown. Set to False in both agent.py and agents/base.py.
2. SYSTEM_PROMPT_FULL used ## and ### markdown headers, bold (**), and
numbered lists — teaching by example that markdown is expected.
Rewritten to plain text with labeled sections.
3. Brevity instructions were buried at the bottom of the full prompt.
Moved to immediately after the opening line as 'VOICE AND BREVITY'
with explicit override priority.
4. Orchestrator prompt in agents.yaml was silent on response style.
Added 'Voice: brief, plain, direct' with concrete examples.
The full prompt is now 41 lines shorter (124 → 83). The prompt itself
practices the brevity it preaches.
SOUL.md alignment:
- 'Brevity is a kindness' — now front-loaded in both base and agent prompt
- 'I do not fill silence with noise' — explicit in both tiers
- 'I speak plainly. I prefer short sentences.' — structural enforcement
4 new tests guard against regression:
- test_full_prompt_brevity_first: brevity section before tools/memory
- test_full_prompt_no_markdown_headers: no ## or ### in prompt text
- test_full_prompt_plain_text_brevity: 'plain text' instruction present
- test_lite_prompt_brevity: lite tier also instructs brevity
Old hardcoded IDs (seer, forge, echo, helm, quill) replaced with
YAML-defined IDs (orchestrator, researcher, coder, writer, memory,
experimenter). Added test that old names are explicitly rejected.
* 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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* chore: stop tracking runtime-generated self-modify reports
These 65 files in data/self_modify_reports/ are auto-generated at
runtime and already listed in .gitignore. Tracking them caused
conflicts when pulling from main.
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* fix: resolve 8 dashboard bugs from Round 4 testing report
- Fix Ollama timeout regression: request_timeout → timeout (agno API)
- Add Bootstrap JS to base.html (fixes creative UI tab switching)
- Send initial_state on Swarm Live WebSocket connect
- Add /api/queue/status endpoint (stops 404 log spam from chat panel)
- Populate agent tools from registry on /tools page
- Add notification bell dropdown with /api/notifications endpoint
- All 1157 tests pass
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Round 2+3 bug fix batch:
1. Ollama timeout: Add request_timeout=300 to prevent socket read errors
on complex 30-60s prompts (production crash fix)
2. Memory API: Create missing HTMX partial templates (memory_facts.html,
memory_results.html) so Save/Search buttons work
3. CALM page: Add create_tables() call so SQLAlchemy tables exist on
first request (was returning HTTP 500)
4. Task Queue: Full SQLite-backed rebuild with CRUD endpoints, HTMX
partials, and action buttons (approve/veto/pause/cancel/retry)
5. Work Orders: Full SQLite-backed rebuild with submit/approve/reject/
execute pipeline and HTMX polling partials
6. Memory READ tool: Add memory_read function so Timmy stops calling
read_file when trying to recall stored facts
Also: Close GitHub issues #115, #114, #112, #110 as won't-fix.
Comment on #107 confirming prune_memories() already wired to startup.
Tests: 33 new tests across 4 test files, all passing.
Full suite: 1155 passed, 2 pre-existing failures (hands_shell).
Co-authored-by: Trip T <trip@local>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Remove persona system, identity, and all Timmy references
Strip the codebase to pure orchestration logic:
- Delete TIMMY_IDENTITY.md and memory/self/identity.md
- Gut brain/identity.py to no-op stubs (empty returns)
- Remove all system prompts reinforcing Timmy's character, faith,
sovereignty, sign-off ("Sir, affirmative"), and agent roster
- Replace identity-laden prompts with generic local-AI-assistant prompts
- Remove "You work for Timmy" from all sub-agent system prompts
- Rename PersonaTools → AgentTools, PERSONA_TOOLKITS → AGENT_TOOLKITS
- Replace "timmy" agent ID with "orchestrator" across routes, marketplace,
tools catalog, and orchestrator class
- Strip Timmy references from config comments, templates, telegram bot,
chat API, and dashboard UI
- Delete tests/brain/test_identity.py entirely
- Fix all test assertions that checked for persona identity content
729 tests pass (2 pre-existing failures in test_calm.py unrelated).
https://claude.ai/code/session_01LjQGUE6nk9W9674zaxrYxy
* Add Taskosaur (PM + AI task execution) to docker-compose
Spins up Taskosaur alongside the dashboard on `docker compose up`:
- postgres:16-alpine (port 5432, Taskosaur DB)
- redis:7-alpine (Bull queue backend)
- taskosaur (ports 3000 API / 3001 UI)
- dashboard now depends_on taskosaur healthy
- TASKOSAUR_API_URL injected into dashboard environment
Dashboard can reach Taskosaur at http://taskosaur:3000/api on the
internal network. Frontend UI accessible at http://localhost:3001.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01LjQGUE6nk9W9674zaxrYxy
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