Per the design rule "italic is for emphasis, not for design", removed
every chrome `font-style: italic` declaration across the frontend.
42 declarations gone across 24 files: empty-state placeholder copy,
loading messages, "no results" hints, ghost text, voice/role labels,
field placeholder text, brand wordmark, et al.
Markdown content emphasis is unaffected — `<em>` and `<i>` tags from
`*emphasis*` markup still render italic via browser default styling
(prose.css doesn't override em behavior). User-typed emphasis in
notes, journal entries, and chat messages keeps its italic.
Specific spots that lost the decorative italic:
- KnowledgeView .filter-label, .empty-narrator
- NoteEditorView .ef-label, link-suggest related
- ChatPanel .empty-msg, .empty-greeting, .role-label
- ChatMessage .role-assistant .role-label (the "Fable" voice tag —
was italic per the doc's Illuminated Transcript spec, but per the
new typography rule the speaker tag stays regular and lets the
border-left + glow do the bubble framing on their own)
- AppHeader .brand-text ("Fabled" wordmark)
- editor-shared.css .title-input::placeholder
- ProjectView .project-title-input::placeholder
- HomeView .urgency-loading
- WorkspaceTaskPanel .empty-group
- WeatherCard .weather-unavailable
- SharedWithMeView .empty-msg
- DiffView empty-state spans
- ToolCallCard .tool-event-more
- SettingsView 7 spots (.you-label, .geo-pending, hint text, etc.)
- + several other empty-state / hint text spots
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "ready" / "cold" / "unavailable" dots in the AppHeader status
indicator were pulling --color-success / --color-warning /
--color-danger which after the foundation pass became Moss /
Warning gold-brown / Error terracotta — all visibly muted. The
green-ready dot in particular read too dark to register as a
"ready light", and the pulse glow (bright emerald) had nothing to
glow off of.
Status dots are indicator *lights*, not semantic-palette UI
elements. Decouple them with hardcoded vital values:
- ready: #4ade80 (matches the existing pulse glow)
- cold: #facc15
- red: #ef4444
Orange already used a hardcoded bright #f97316; left as-is.
The rest of the system continues to use --color-success /
--color-warning / --color-danger semantically (toast-success,
validation errors, etc.) — only the indicator-light contexts get
the brighter palette.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per the surface-phase spec for the Chat cluster (ChatView, ChatPanel,
ChatMessage, ChatInputBar, ToolCallCard):
Long-form line-height
- ChatMessage: assistant-bubble .message-content jumps from 1.55 to
1.7 — chat is a reading surface, not a snippet stream. User
bubbles stay tighter.
- JournalView: dropped its :deep(.role-assistant .message-content)
override; ChatMessage handles it now and Journal inherits.
ToolCallCard borders
- Removed the outer 1px border. ToolCallCard always renders inside
an assistant bubble; the bubble already contains it. Background
tint differentiates without re-bordering. Per the
structural-not-decorative rule.
- Error state preserved as a 3px left-edge accent in --color-danger,
mirroring the assistant bubble's own left-edge pattern.
Button reclassification per Hybrid rule
- ChatView .bulk-link "All"/"None": accent text → --color-text-secondary
(these are tertiary list-control affordances, not brand moments)
- ChatView .bulk-delete-btn: --color-danger (Error terracotta) →
--color-action-destructive (Oxblood) per Hybrid; paired with a
Trash2 icon since destructive should always be reinforced by an
icon, not just color
- ChatView .btn-delete-conv hover: same Error → Oxblood swap
- .btn-new-conv stays accent (brand moment, correct already)
- .btn-send stays accent gradient (primary brand moment, foundation)
Two-weights-only
- Snapped every font-weight: 600/700 to 500 across ChatView,
ChatPanel, ChatMessage, ToolCallCard per the doc rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces every hand-inlined SVG in the chrome (60 across 15 files)
with Lucide components. Snaps icon sizes to the doc's 16/24 scale —
all icons in this pass land at 16. AppLogo wordmark stays as the
legitimate "custom app icon" exception per the doc; GraphView's <svg>
mount point for D3 stays as well.
Replaces emoji-as-icons in clear button-affordance cases with their
Lucide equivalents: ✕ → X (close/dismiss buttons across 8 files), ✓ →
Check (ProjectView task-advance button), 🎤 → Mic (ChatPanel voice
CTA), 📎 → Paperclip (ChatView context toggle), ↑ → ArrowUp
(ChatInputBar Send), × → X (ChatPanel context-note remove), ☀/☾
→ Sun/Moon (AppHeader theme toggle).
Inline emoji punctuation in textual confirmation copy ("Saved ✓",
"Created ✓", `done: "✓"` status maps, `'✓' : '📄'` interpolations)
is left for surface-phase voice/tone touchups — replacing requires
structural template changes and is best done per-component.
Stroke weight stays at Lucide's default 2px; tightening to the doc's
1.5/1 is deferred per the surface-phase spec (option ii: drop-in +
scale enforcement).
Adds lucide-vue-next ^0.469.0 to frontend/package.json. Docker
rebuild handles the install.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Applies the FabledSword + Scribe iteration palette to theme.css end to
end: indigo (#7c3aed) → dusty violet (#5B4A8A) accent, cool grey →
Obsidian/Iron/Pewter dark surfaces, warm parchment (#F5F1E8) light
mode, Inter body + JetBrains Mono code loaded alongside Fraunces, and
neutral hairline scrollbars (chrome is structural, not branded).
Adds the action token set (--color-action-primary Moss,
--color-action-secondary Bronze, --color-action-destructive Oxblood,
--color-action-ghost-border Pewter) but does not yet reclassify any
buttons — surface-phase work. Buttons remain dusty-violet gradients in
the meantime, by design.
Removes deprecated --color-accent-warm; replaces concrete usages with
--color-text-secondary (dates, flavor copy) or --color-warning (paused
status). Sweeps hardcoded indigo literals in component scoped CSS so
they don't bypass the token system.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Routing changes:
- / now redirects to /journal (Journal becomes the home view)
- /knowledge becomes a real route pointing at KnowledgeView (was a redirect to /)
- /notes redirect target updated from / to /knowledge (the Knowledge surface,
which is where the notes-related dashboard lives)
To revert (Knowledge as home): change the redirect target on the / route
back to "/knowledge". Knowledge stays a real route either way, so the swap
is a one-line edit.
Nav: Knowledge link in AppHeader now points to /knowledge. The "active" check
simplified to route.path === "/knowledge" since / is no longer Knowledge's
home. The brand logo link stays at "/" — clicks still go "home", which is
now Journal.
Keyboard shortcuts in App.vue (Escape, g h, g t) still navigate to "/" and
correctly land on Journal via the redirect — no change needed there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The structured prep card was data-rich but voiceless. Replaced with an
LLM-generated conversational opener — same shape the briefing's compilation
slot had — that renders as a normal assistant chat bubble at the top of
the day's conversation.
Backend (services/journal_prep.py):
- Renamed generate_daily_prep -> gather_daily_sections (still pure data
fetching, no LLM); kept the old name as a backwards-compat alias.
- New _generate_prep_prose: hands the gathered sections to generate_completion
with a warm-conversational system prompt; returns prose. Falls back to a
plain greeting if the LLM call fails or no model is configured.
- ensure_daily_prep_message now persists the prep as role='assistant' with
the prose as content. Structured sections stay on msg_metadata for
provenance. Auto-upgrades legacy system-role preps in place on next call.
Frontend:
- Drop the <article class="daily-prep"> structured block from JournalView.
The prep is now just the first chat bubble — picks up the existing
Illuminated Transcript styling automatically.
- Drop dayMessages / prepMessage / prepSections / asArray helpers — no
longer needed.
- ChatMessage hideMessage filter: comment refined to clarify it only
catches LEGACY system-role prep rows. Current preps are assistant-role
and render normally.
Net effect: open /journal -> first thing you see is a warm assistant bubble
that talks about your day -> input bar below to reply.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The journal UI was over-stripped earlier — weather panel, current-conditions
poll, and the upcoming-events sidebar were all dropped. Restored those (calls
the new /api/journal/weather, /api/journal/weather/current,
/api/journal/weather/refresh, /api/journal/weather/geocode endpoints).
Also: the daily-prep system message was rendering as flat text inside
ChatPanel because there's no .role-system bubble styling. Added a hideMessage
guard in ChatMessage so daily-prep system messages don't render in the chat
stream — they're already shown above as a structured prep card.
News / RSS reactions / article-discuss are intentionally NOT in the journal
(scoped out per user direction). The broader RSS infrastructure cleanup is
a separate, larger task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restores a working browser surface for the journal feature, which was
left UI-less when Stage F of the original plan was deferred. JournalView
is a fresh write (not a rename of BriefingView) — drops the briefing-
specific weather panel, news cards, RSS reactions, article-discuss
button, and setup wizard, since none of those have journal-backend
equivalents.
What it does:
- Fetches /api/journal/today on mount; shows today's daily-prep card
(rendered from msg_metadata.kind === 'daily_prep' sections)
- Day picker via /api/journal/days lets you switch to past days
- Refresh-prep button hits /api/journal/trigger-prep
- Center is the existing ChatPanel pinned to today's journal conversation
(so the chat input + SSE + tool-call cards inherit unchanged)
- Right sidebar keeps the upcoming-events list (uses the generic
/api/events endpoint, not a briefing-specific one)
Also:
- Replace the dead Briefing API client functions with Journal equivalents
(getJournalConfig, saveJournalConfig, getJournalToday, getJournalDay,
getJournalDays, triggerJournalPrep, list/update/deleteJournalMoment).
- Remove NewsView.vue — it was orphaned (no route, no nav) and depended
on the deleted /api/briefing/* endpoints. If a standalone news surface
is wanted later it'll need to be rebuilt against new endpoints.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Title input bumps to 1.4rem with Fraunces serif (matches the
design language's heading treatment) and gains 0.9/1.1rem padding
on the title row for breathing room.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Drop border-bottom lines between header / title / tags / toolbar
so they read as one continuous input surface.
- Add a single border-top above the editor body so the body's
existing boundary stays clear.
- Notes rail gets --color-bg-card so it no longer visually merges
with the tasks panel (both previously shared --color-surface).
Dropped the rail's border-right since the tint now carries the
division from the editor pane.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Widget is now a bottom-anchored dock spanning the content width
(max-width 1200px, rounded top corners, bg-secondary, upward shadow)
instead of a floating corner box.
- Drop the closed state and ✕ button — widget is always present,
matching KnowledgeView's pattern. Collapsed = input-only dock,
expanded = full ChatPanel above the input.
- Grid ratio 1fr:2fr → 0.85fr:2.15fr so tasks get a touch less room
and notes a touch more.
- Workspace note-rail (the notes picker column inside the editor)
widens from 155px to 200px so note titles breathe.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clicking the ▾ button reveals conversations where
rag_project_id === projectId, most-recent first. Selecting one
repoints the widget (and the workspace_conv_{pid} storage key) to
that conversation without deleting the previously active one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
WorkspaceView now renders tasks (1fr) on the left and notes (2fr) on
the right with the floating WorkspaceChatWidget layered on top. The
widget owns the SSE streamingToolCalls watcher and emits note-changed
and task-changed events; the view listens and reloads the affected
panel refs.
Dropped from the view:
- ChatPanel mount, empty-state quick chips, and Chat header toggle
- The conversation lifecycle + SSE watcher (moved into the widget)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Modeled on KnowledgeView's mini-chat. Three states (closed handle,
collapsed input-only, expanded full panel). Takes over the project
conversation lifecycle from WorkspaceView (resume-or-create on mount,
delete-if-empty-and-new on unmount) and adds a restart action. Reuses
ChatPanel for expanded view and ChatInputBar for collapsed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fetch hourly precipitation probabilities from Open-Meteo alongside daily
forecasts. Generate human-readable precip summaries ("Rain likely 2–5 PM",
"Rain likely all day") for today and each forecast day. Display today's
summary as a styled callout and show peak precipitation hour in forecast rows.
Also fix briefing pipeline to parse all weather location rows (not just first).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RSS is now off by default. When disabled:
- Scheduler skips RSS feed sync during compilation slot
- Briefing pipeline skips RSS item gathering
- RSS LLM tools (get_rss_items, add_rss_feed) are hidden
- API routes return empty results for feeds/news
- Frontend hides News nav link, RSS Feeds and News Preferences in settings
- Briefing view hides news sidebar section
Toggle in Settings > Briefing > RSS / News.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add 'wasm-unsafe-eval' to script-src and blob: to worker-src in
Content-Security-Policy header. Required by onnxruntime-web to compile
the Silero VAD ONNX model. Also surface VAD init errors as a toast
instead of silent console log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove border-top from .input-wrapper in ChatPanel directly instead
of overriding per-view. Applies to chat, workspace, and briefing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Switch sidebar from fixed px to proportional 35% so it resizes with
the viewport. Remove border between chat and input bar and between
weather and news. Use container query units for weather/forecast icons
so they scale with column width.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Collapse briefing from 3-column to 2-column grid (chat + sidebar).
Weather moves to top of news column, forecast uses an HTML table so
rows align cleanly. Drop verbose condition text from forecast days
(emoji already conveys it). Switch CI node_modules cache to npm
download cache to avoid tar size error from onnxruntime-web.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Swaps useSilenceDetector for useVad. Adds no-speech guard: when the
user manually stops recording without VAD ever detecting speech, show
a toast and skip the Whisper round-trip instead of sending pure noise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Empty-state rethink: replace "Start a conversation." with a richer
landing showing recent conversations (top 5 as resume links) and a
voice-mode entry button. Gated to full variant only; widget/briefing
keep the simple message.
Context sidebar: switch from grid column (4-col layout) to absolute
overlay on the right gutter (3-col layout). The reading column is now
always symmetrically centered regardless of whether the sidebar is
visible — eliminates the leftward shift that occurred when context
notes appeared.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Streaming bubble (Generating response…) was flush against the input
wrapper top border. Give the scroll column 0.75rem of breathing room
so the assistant bubble sits visibly separate from the input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Context sidebar sections (Auto-included / Suggested / In Context) are
now collapsible with chevrons, and collapsed state persists per
conversation via localStorage. A new Context (N) button in the chat
header toggles the whole sidebar — open by default on wide screens
(>=1200px), closed by default below. Visual differentiation: auto-
included notes get a muted background with an AUTO pill, in-context
notes get an active-chip style with a primary-colored left border,
and each section header shows its item count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase B of chat view refinement. Bumps chat reading column to 1200px,
lifts the RAG scope chip out of the footer and into the ChatView header
(next to the title), and collapses the listen toggle / volume slider /
stop-playback buttons into a single speaker popover on the input bar.
Listen mode + TTS are now available in briefing and workspace chats too,
since the controls live on the shared ChatInputBar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the full-variant flex layout with a single CSS grid owning the
messages column, input bar, and context sidebar. Messages and input bar
share a centered ~820px reading track (--chat-reading-width token) so
the mic button can't get pushed off-screen on wide monitors, and the
context sidebar spans grid-row 1/-1 so it runs the full height from the
chat header down to the bottom edge instead of stopping above the input
bar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The web silence detector previously ran RMS over getByteFrequencyData
bytes (which are already dB-scaled) and re-log'd the result, producing
numbers that didn't line up with real dBFS. Combined with a static
-40 dB threshold that sat right on top of room ambient, silence
detection rarely fired and the user had to click stop manually.
- Rewrite useSilenceDetector to use getFloatTimeDomainData for honest
linear RMS → dBFS.
- Silence threshold is now dynamic: track session peak dBFS and treat
"silent" as 15 dB below peak. Auto-calibrates per mic/room.
- Grace period (1500 ms) at start so the user can begin speaking
before checks arm; static -45 dB fallback until peak clears -25 dB
so dead-silent sessions don't spin forever.
- Silence duration bumped 1500 → 2000 ms for breathing room.
Visual: detached red radial-gradient disc sits behind the mic in a
wrapper; the button no longer scales, so the white mic icon stays
legible on top while the halo grows from 1x to ~2.6x with live
amplitude. Much more obvious "you are live" signal than the prior
subtle box-shadow pulse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mic button now scales and glows proportional to the silence
detector's RMS amplitude instead of sitting static. Gives obvious
feedback that audio is actually being picked up — silence still
breathes via a 0.1 floor, loud input caps at ~1.18x scale so it
doesn't punch through the input bar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The frontend hardcoded think=true on every chat send (ChatPanel full +
widget variants, KnowledgeView minichat), which defeated the _should_think
gate on the backend and made qwen3:14b spend 5-20s on chain-of-thought
reasoning for every turn — even "hi". This was the root cause of the
warm-path TTFT variance tracked in followup_ttft_variance.md: the logged
ttft_ms was really prefill + full thinking phase, bouncing with the depth
of the model's reasoning, not with cache or eviction.
All three frontend callers now pass think=false and let _should_think be
authoritative. The classifier is now a real content-based gate: explicit
think_requested=True still forces on as an override (briefing discuss
actions, future UI toggles, MCP callers), otherwise messages <80 chars
without reasoning keywords skip thinking, messages >=400 chars or
containing keywords like why/explain/analyze/debug/review/etc. get it.
Generation timing now separately records think_requested, the final
think decision, first_token_ms (first any chunk), and thinking_ms
(duration of the thinking phase). ttft_ms keeps its existing semantic
(first content token) so existing log analysis still works. The timing
log line surfaces all four fields so the old "just a big ttft number"
ambiguity is gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge create_task into create_note (set status='todo' for tasks, omit
for notes), merge delete_task into delete_note, consolidate entity
tools (create/update_person → save_person, create/update_place →
save_place), rename get_note → read_note with clearer descriptions,
move calculate out of rag.py into utility.py, and extract shared
duplicate detection into check_duplicate() helper.
Updates all downstream references in generation_task.py, quick_capture.py,
ToolCallCard.vue, and WorkspaceView.vue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three visual improvements for the briefing conversation:
1. Intermediate tool-call messages (empty content, briefing_intermediate:
true) now render as a compact dashed status row with per-tool pills
showing result counts, instead of an empty assistant bubble followed
by a stack of ToolCallCards. Click to expand the full cards.
2. Slot badge on non-intermediate briefing messages — "Full Briefing"
for compilation, "Morning/Midday/Afternoon Update" for slot
injections. Slot updates get a softer bubble treatment (transparent
background, muted border, smaller text) so the compilation stays
visually dominant.
3. Slot separator now triggers on briefing_slot metadata (not the
compilation-only rss_item_ids), and uses a look-behind so it only
fires when there's a prior slot message — no separator above the
first briefing of the day.
New component: BriefingToolStatusRow.vue handles the intermediate
pill row and delegates to ToolCallCard when expanded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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