_maybe_consolidate() now checks get_memories(subject=agent_id)
before storing. Skips if a memory of the same type (pattern/anomaly)
was created within the last hour. Prevents duplicate consolidation
entries on repeated task completion/failure events.
Also restructured branching: neutral success rates (0.3-0.8) now
return early instead of falling through.
9 new tests. 1465 total passing.
Adds SELF-KNOWLEDGE section to both SYSTEM_PROMPT_LITE and
SYSTEM_PROMPT_FULL with:
- Codebase map (all src/timmy/ modules with descriptions)
- Current capabilities list (grounded, not generic)
- Known limitations (real gaps, not LLM platitudes)
Lite prompt gets condensed version; full prompt gets detailed.
Timmy can now answer 'what does tool_safety.py do?' and give
grounded answers about his actual limitations.
10 new tests. 1456 total passing.
Changed message param from str to list[str] in chat() and route() commands.
Words are joined with spaces, so 'timmy chat hello how are you' works without
quoting. Single-word messages still work as before.
- chat(): message: list[str], joined to full_message
- route(): message: list[str], joined to full_message
- 7 new tests in test_cli_multiword.py
Closes#26
Timmy can now introspect which session he's running in (cli, dashboard, loop).
- Add {session_id} placeholder to both lite and full system prompts
- get_system_prompt() accepts session_id param (default: 'unknown')
- create_timmy() accepts session_id param, forwards to prompt
- CLI chat/think/status pass their session_id to create_timmy()
- session.py passes _DEFAULT_SESSION_ID to create_timmy()
- 7 new tests in test_session_identity.py
- Updated 2 existing CLI test mocks
Closes#64
- Replace substring matching with word-boundary regex in route_request()
- "fix the bug" now correctly routes to coder
- Multi-word patterns match if all words appear (any order)
- Add "timmy route" CLI command for debugging routing
- Add route_request_with_match() for pattern visibility
- Expand routing keywords in agents.yaml
- 22 new routing tests, all passing
All `except Exception:` now catch as `except Exception as exc:` with
appropriate logging (warning for critical paths, debug for graceful degradation).
Added logger setup to 4 files that lacked it:
- src/timmy/memory/vector_store.py
- src/dashboard/middleware/csrf.py
- src/dashboard/middleware/security_headers.py
- src/spark/memory.py
31 files changed across timmy core, dashboard, infrastructure, integrations.
Zero bare excepts remain. 1340 tests passing.
- Add ollama_num_ctx setting (default 4096) to config.py
- Pass num_ctx option to Ollama in agent.py and agents/base.py
- Add OLLAMA_NUM_CTX to .env.example with usage docs
- Add context_window note in providers.yaml
- Fix mock_settings in test_agent.py for new attribute
- qwen3:30b with 4096 ctx uses ~19GB vs 45GB default
- BaseAgent.run(): catch httpx.ConnectError/ReadError/ConnectionError,
log 'Ollama disconnected: <error>' at ERROR level, then re-raise
- session.py: distinguish Ollama disconnects from other errors in
chat(), chat_with_tools(), continue_chat() — return specific message
'Ollama appears to be disconnected' instead of generic error
- 11 new tests covering all disconnect paths
Add _warmup_model() that sends a minimal generation request (1 token)
before returning the Agent. 60s timeout handles cold VRAM loads.
Warns but does not abort if warmup fails.
Closes#82
Remove DuckDuckGoTools import, all web_search registrations across 4 toolkit
factories, catalog entry, safety classification, prompt references, and
session regex. Total: -41 lines of dead code.
consult_grok is functional (grok_enabled=True, API key set) and opt-in,
so it stays — but Timmy never calls it autonomously, which is correct
sovereign behavior (no cloud calls unless user permits).
Closes#87
_get_ollama_model() used prefix match (startswith) on /api/tags,
causing qwen3:30b to match qwen3.5:latest. Now:
1. Queries /api/ps (loaded models) first — most accurate
2. Falls back to /api/tags with exact name match
3. Reports actual running model, not just configured one
Updated test_get_system_info_contains_model to not assume model==config.
Fixes#77. 5 regression tests added.
Add config/allowlist.yaml — YAML-driven gate that auto-approves bounded
tool calls when no human is present.
When Timmy runs with --autonomous or stdin is not a terminal, tool calls
are checked against allowlist: matched → auto-approved, else → rejected.
Changes:
- config/allowlist.yaml: shell prefixes, deny patterns, path rules
- tool_safety.py: is_allowlisted() checks tools against YAML rules
- cli.py: --autonomous flag, _is_interactive() detection
- 44 new allowlist tests, 8 updated CLI tests
Closes#69
Move hardcoded model fallback lists from module-level constants into
settings.fallback_models and settings.vision_fallback_models (pydantic
Settings fields). Can now be overridden via env vars
FALLBACK_MODELS / VISION_FALLBACK_MODELS or config/providers.yaml.
Removed:
- OLLAMA_MODEL_PRIMARY / OLLAMA_MODEL_FALLBACK from config.py
- DEFAULT_MODEL_FALLBACKS / VISION_MODEL_FALLBACKS from agent.py
get_effective_ollama_model() and _resolve_model_with_fallback() now
walk the configurable chains instead of hardcoded constants.
5 new tests guard the configurable behavior and prevent regression
to hardcoded constants.
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
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.
Replace in-memory MessageLog with SQLite-backed implementation.
Same API surface (append/all/clear/len) so zero caller changes needed.
- data/chat.db stores messages with role, content, timestamp, source
- Lazy DB connection (opened on first use, not at import time)
- Retention policy: oldest messages pruned when count > 500
- New .recent(limit) method for efficient last-N queries
- Thread-safe with explicit locking
- WAL mode for concurrent read performance
- Test isolation: conftest redirects DB to tmp_path per test
- 8 new tests: persistence, retention, concurrency, source field
Closes#46
Allows specifying a named session for conversation persistence.
Use cases:
- Autonomous loops can have their own session (e.g. --session-id loop)
- Multiple users/agents can maintain separate conversations
- Testing different conversation threads without polluting the default
Precedence: --session-id > --new > default 'cli' session
Fixes#52
- Replace eval() in calculator() with _safe_eval() that walks the AST
and only permits: numeric constants, arithmetic ops (+,-,*,/,//,%,**),
unary +/-, math module access, and whitelisted builtins (abs, round,
min, max)
- Reject all other syntax: imports, attribute access on non-math objects,
lambdas, comprehensions, string literals, etc.
- Add 39 tests covering arithmetic, precedence, math functions,
allowed builtins, error handling, and 14 injection prevention cases
Three fixes from real-world testing:
1. Event loop: replaced asyncio.run() with a persistent loop so
Agno's MCP sessions survive across conversation turns. No more
'Event loop is closed' errors on turn 2+.
2. Markdown stripping: voice preamble tells Timmy to respond in
natural spoken language, plus _strip_markdown() as a safety net
removes **bold**, *italic*, bullets, headers, code fences, etc.
TTS no longer reads 'asterisk asterisk'.
3. MCP noise: _suppress_mcp_noise() quiets mcp/agno/httpx loggers
during voice mode so the terminal shows clean transcript only.
32 tests (12 new for markdown stripping + persistent loop).
Replace repeated asyncio.run() calls with a single event loop that
persists across all interview questions. The old approach created and
destroyed loops per question, orphaning MCP stdio transports and
causing 'Event loop is closed' errors on ~50% of questions.
Also adds clean shutdown: closes MCP sessions before closing the loop.
Ref #36
- memory_system.py: fix regex replacement in update_user_profile()
Used lambda instead of raw replacement string to prevent corruption
- memory_system.py: add guards to update_section() for empty/oversized writes
Ref #39
The httpx AsyncClient was cached across asyncio.run() boundaries.
Each asyncio.run() creates and closes a new event loop, leaving the
cached client's connections on a dead loop. Second+ calls would fail
with "Event loop is closed".
Fix: create a fresh client per request and close it in a finally block.
No more cross-loop client reuse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Give Timmy the ability to file Gitea issues when he notices bugs,
stale state, or improvement opportunities in his own codebase.
Components:
- GiteaHand async API client (infrastructure/hands/gitea.py)
- Token auth with ~/.config/gitea/token fallback
- Create/list/close issues, dedup by title similarity
- Graceful degradation when Gitea unreachable
- Tool functions (timmy/tools_gitea.py)
- create_gitea_issue: file issues with dedup + work order bridge
- list_gitea_issues: check existing backlog
- Classified as SAFE (no confirmation needed)
- Thinking post-hook (_maybe_file_issues in thinking.py)
- Every 20 thoughts, LLM classifies recent thoughts for actionable items
- Auto-files bugs/improvements to Gitea with dedup
- Bridges to local work order system for dashboard tracking
- Config: gitea_url, gitea_token, gitea_repo, gitea_enabled,
gitea_timeout, thinking_issue_every
All 1426 tests pass, 74.17% coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consolidates 3 separate memory databases (semantic_memory.db, swarm.db
memory_entries, brain.db) into a single data/memory.db with facts,
chunks, and episodes tables.
Key changes:
- Add unified schema (timmy/memory/unified.py) with 3 core tables
- Redirect vector_store.py and semantic_memory.py to memory.db
- Add thought distillation: every Nth thought extracts lasting facts
- Enrich agent context with known facts in system prompt
- Add memory_forget tool for removing outdated memories
- Unify embeddings: vector_store delegates to semantic_memory.embed_text
- Bridge spark events to unified event log
- Add pruning for thoughts and events with configurable retention
- Add data migration script (timmy/memory_migrate.py)
- Deprecate brain.memory in favor of unified system
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds /db-explorer page and JSON API to browse all 15 SQLite databases
in data/. Sidebar lists databases with sizes, clicking one renders all
tables as scrollable data tables with row truncation at 200.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
