First cut of the agentic briefing redesign. Morning compilation can now
route through a tool-call loop that grounds every factual claim in an
actual tool result, eliminating the hallucinated meetings, tasks, and
news items the legacy one-shot path was producing. Behind a per-user
`briefing_mode` setting (default "legacy"); falls back to the legacy
path automatically if the new path returns empty (e.g. model too weak
to drive tool calls reliably).
New: services/briefing_tools.py — explicit read-only allowlist of 10
tools (tasks, events, weather, rss, projects, notes). New tools added
to tools.py must be opted in by name. Excludes all mutating tools and
external search tools (search_images, search_web, research_topic) which
are neither useful nor safe for a scheduled background job.
New: briefing_pipeline.run_agentic_briefing — wraps the existing
stream_chat_with_tools loop with slot-specific system prompts that tell
the model to only assert facts from tool results and to be honest when
tools return nothing. Max 8 rounds, per-round exception handling,
returns the full message list so tool-call receipts can be persisted
alongside the prose in a later PR.
Sentence-count floors bumped: compilation 6–10 (was 4–8), check-ins
3–5 (was 2–3). Weekly review 5–8.
Design doc: docs/2026-04-10-agentic-briefing-design.md
Out of scope for this PR (future PRs): slot-injection migration,
persisting tool-call receipts into the conversation so chat follow-ups
see them, UI polish for tool-call status, sidecar storage for
briefings. See the design doc's migration path for details.
Enable on an account with:
UPDATE settings SET value='agentic'
WHERE user_id=<id> AND key='briefing_mode';
or insert the row if missing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bryan Van Deusen