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>
KnowledgeView and WorkspaceView were passing explicit titles
("Knowledge chat", "Project — Workspace") to createConversation(),
which prevented the backend's auto-title generation from firing
(condition: `not conv_title`). Pass no title so the background
title generator names conversations after their first message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The type-badge template had no v-else-if for task, so tasks fell
through to the v-else which renders 'List'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Task card was the outlier in the Knowledge view: half-width fade-to-
transparent gradient bar while note/list use full-width two-stop
gradients, and the type badge was purple while the border+bar were gold.
- k-card--task::before: full width with gold→amber gradient (#d4a017
→ #fbbf24) matching the two-stop pattern
- badge--task: switched from purple to amber so the badge matches
the card chrome
Exposes birthday, organization, address (person) and website, category (place)
from entity_meta in the knowledge API response; updates KnowledgeView cards
to display organization and category as visible meta chips/text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backend:
- tools.py: apply UTC normalization to update_event datetime fields
(matched create_event which already did this)
- events.py service: allow end_dt/recurrence/project_id to be cleared
via update_event by permitting None for nullable fields
- events.py service: find_events_by_query now returns upcoming events
first, falling back to past — prevents AI tools from mutating stale
past events when a future match exists
- events.py service: list_events now uses overlap logic (start <= to
AND end >= from) so multi-day events spanning the query boundary
are included; previously only start_dt was checked
Frontend:
- ToolCallCard: fire fable:calendar-changed on created/updated/deleted
so CalendarView refetches without requiring a manual page refresh
- KnowledgeView: replace raw apiGet('/api/events') with listEvents()
client function; also fix today bar which was reading .events off a
flat array (always empty) — now correctly receives EventEntry[]
- HomeView: use full ISO strings for event date range instead of naive
UTC-midnight strings; deduplicate inline date math via _dateRange()
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backend:
- GET /api/knowledge/ids: returns up to 100 note IDs cheaply (no body
parsing), supports same filters as /api/knowledge, includes has_more
- GET /api/knowledge/batch?ids=...: fetches full items for given IDs in
order; used by frontend to load content in controlled batches
Frontend (KnowledgeView):
- Fetch 100 IDs upfront, load first 50 as content on mount
- IntersectionObserver sentinel (root: null) triggers 24-item content
batches as user scrolls
- Proactive ID refill when queue drops below 48 unloaded IDs
- fetchGen counter invalidates stale in-flight responses on filter reset
- IDs claimed before async fetch to prevent double-loading
- sentinelVisible ref drives post-load re-check when content doesn't
push sentinel off screen
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Coalesces rapid scroll events into one check per animation frame so
that page++ can only fire once per frame, eliminating the window where
multiple events slip through before loading=true is observed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Swap IntersectionObserver (race-prone, fired immediately on creation)
for a passive scroll listener on the grid container — eliminates
duplicate page loads caused by observer re-creation after DOM updates
- Increase card min-height 100px → 160px so tags + snippet are visible
- Increase snippet line-clamp 3 → 4 for more content preview
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sentinel was first in DOM with order:9999, causing layout recalculation to
trigger IntersectionObserver multiple times (intersecting→not→intersecting)
as items were appended, producing duplicate pages. Move sentinel to AFTER
the v-for items so it's naturally last in both DOM and visual order.
Remove overflow:hidden from .k-card-tags — .k-card overflow:hidden already
clips escaping content; the extra overflow on the tags container was
collapsing its height to zero and hiding all tag pills.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added overflow:hidden to .k-card so wrapped tags are clipped within the
card border-radius. Added min-width:0 + overflow:hidden on .k-card-tags
so the flex item can shrink properly and doesn't push past the card width.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The IntersectionObserver fires as soon as it's created (sentinel immediately
intersecting after page 1 renders), while the removed backup check also fires
in the same tick — two concurrent fetchItems(page 2) calls produced duplicate
cards. With sentinel now properly inside the scrolling root, the observer
alone handles progressive loading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
KnowledgeView: sentinel was OUTSIDE the card-grid div, making
IntersectionObserver (root: cardGridEl) never fire since the target must
be a descendant of the root. Moved sentinel inside card-grid with
grid-column:1/-1 + order:9999 so it spans all columns and sits at the
bottom. Fixed backup check to compare against container bounds not viewport.
tools.py list_events: apply same UTC normalization as create_event (treat
naive datetimes as UTC, handle Z suffix). Update tool description to
explicitly request full-day UTC ranges so the LLM doesn't send local time
without offsets, which caused the recall query to miss UTC-stored events.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- KnowledgeView: IntersectionObserver was watching the viewport instead
of the card-grid scroll container, causing infinite scroll to stop
loading after only ~29 items. Pass card-grid element as `root`.
- CalendarView: listen for 'fable:calendar-changed' custom event and
call refetchEvents() so tool-created events appear without navigation.
- ChatPanel: dispatch 'fable:calendar-changed' when create_event,
update_event, or delete_event tool calls succeed.
- tools.py: normalize naive datetimes to UTC before storing events so
timezone comparisons in list_events queries are always consistent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Background tasks (title generation, tag suggestions, project summaries,
RSS classification) were using qwen3:8b and wiping its KV cache after
every response, preventing prefix cache hits on subsequent user messages.
Adds OLLAMA_BACKGROUND_MODEL (default: qwen2.5:0.5b) config var and
routes all background LLM calls to it, keeping qwen3:8b's KV cache
warm between user messages for consistent sub-second TTFT.
Also adds infinite scroll to KnowledgeView (replaces load-more button)
and bakes spaCy en_core_web_sm into the Docker image to eliminate the
pip install on every startup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- KnowledgeView minichat: render assistant messages through renderMarkdown
so headers, bold, lists etc. display correctly instead of raw markdown
- get_weather tool: read user's temp_unit from briefing_config and convert
temperatures to °F when preferred; also include temp_unit in the
returned payload so the model can label values correctly
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- KnowledgeView minichat: add margin-inline: auto so the widget centers
within the content area when max-width is reached on wide screens
- weather get_weather tool: return success: true on both the arbitrary
location path and the cached locations path so ToolCallCard shows
the correct success state instead of always flagging as error
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
KnowledgeView:
- Watch streamingToolCalls; call fetchItems+fetchTags on create/update
note or task so the card grid reflects changes made via the minichat
- Cap minichat to max-width: var(--page-max-width) so it matches chat column width
WorkspaceView + WorkspaceNoteEditor:
- Expose reload() from WorkspaceNoteEditor via defineExpose
- Call noteEditorRef.reload() alongside taskPanelRef.reload() when
create_note/update_note tools succeed in the SSE watcher
KnowledgeView list cards:
- Backend: parse markdown task list into list_items [{text, checked}] + body
- Card renders up to 6 items with real checkboxes; toggleListItem()
does an optimistic update then PATCHes /api/notes/:id
- Progress bar kept below items; "+N more" shown when list is long
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Drop max-width from .knowledge-root so the graph panel can use the full
viewport width without hitting a cap
- Drop max-width from .chat-page (message bubbles are already self-constraining)
- Increase normal graph panel width 420px → 500px
- Increase expanded width to min(960px, 60vw) so it scales with the viewport
and updates minichat right-offset to match
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Layout:
- Chat and Knowledge views now max out at 1600px and center on wide
screens, consistent with the rest of the app; app-content overflow
is set to hidden for both so they manage their own scroll
Graph panel (Knowledge):
- Open/closed state persisted to localStorage (fa_knowledge_graph_open)
— stays open across navigation and page refreshes
- Expanded state persisted (fa_knowledge_graph_expanded): chevron button
in the panel header toggles between 420px (normal) and 700px (expanded)
- Minichat right offset follows the panel width with a matching transition
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Define --color-surface in theme.css (light: #f0f0f8, dark: #1a1b22)
— was used across 10+ components with no-op fallbacks; now properly
defined alongside --color-bg and --color-bg-card
- Extract shared date formatters into utils/dateFormat.ts:
fmtTime, fmtDateTime, fmtRelativeDateTime, fmtDayLabel, fmtCompact
- Replace duplicate inline formatters in CalendarView, HomeView
(formatUpcomingTime), and KnowledgeView (formatEventDate)
- CalendarView: replace hardcoded rgba(99,102,241,0.4) hover colour
with color-mix(in srgb, var(--color-primary) 40%, transparent);
fix --color-input-bg fallback to use var(--color-bg); remove
hardcoded hex fallbacks now that --color-surface is defined
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- KnowledgeView mini-chat: replace harsh border-top with upward box-shadow
and rounded top corners (16px); remove padding-bottom from content area
so widget truly overlays cards without pushing layout; add collapse
toggle (chevron) that hides messages without closing the conversation
- WeatherCard: show precip_mm as fallback when precipitation_probability_max
is null but actual rainfall is expected (Open-Meteo omits probability for
some forecast days even when rain is shown)
- Pass precip_mm through weather service → frontend type definitions
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Mini-chat input bar now uses shared --color-input-bar-* CSS variables and
the same chat-input-bar pill pattern as all other chat interfaces
- chatInputEl focused on mount (autofocus on page load)
- Graph panel: replaced iframe (blocked by X-Frame-Options: DENY) with
inline GraphView component; CSS :deep override constrains its height
to fill the panel instead of 100vh
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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