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 setup-wizard component was deleted in the RSS hard-cut (it was
briefing-config-shaped), but JournalView still imported it — breaking
the Vite build.
Removed the import + showWizard / wizardChecked / checkSetup /
onWizardDone plumbing. JournalView now mounts straight into the day view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes the entire RSS feature surface — feeds, items, embeddings, reactions,
discussion-note flow, briefing news context, settings, env-vars, and DB
tables. Keeps the URL-generic article-reader (the read_article LLM tool)
under a clean module so the LLM can still fetch arbitrary article content
from URLs the user provides.
Backend:
- New services/article_fetcher.py — single source of trafilatura URL→text
- New services/tools/article.py — read_article tool (was nested under tools/rss)
- Delete services/rss.py, rss_classifier.py, rss_filtering.py, article_context.py
- Delete services/tools/rss.py
- Delete models/rss_feed.py (RssFeed, RssItem), models/rss_item_embedding.py
- services/embeddings.py: drop upsert/semantic_search/backfill RSS helpers
- services/llm.py: remove _build_briefing_article_context, briefing-conv branch,
ARTICLE_DISCUSS_SEED skip-RAG branch; drop get_rss_items / add_rss_feed from
the actions list
- services/generation_task.py: drop _maybe_save_article_discussion_note + caller
- routes/chat.py: drop /api/chat/from-article/<id> endpoint
- routes/journal.py: re-import via web.py refactor (article_fetcher path)
- services/tools/__init__.py: register `article`, drop `rss`
- services/tools/_registry.py: drop the requires=='rss' check
- app.py: drop backfill_rss_item_embeddings + backfill_rss_article_content tasks
- config.py: prose-only edit (no env var change — RSS env vars were never first-class)
Frontend:
- stores/settings.ts: drop rssEnabled
- SettingsView.vue: drop the RSS-classification mention
- api/client.ts: drop openArticleInChat (the from-article endpoint is gone)
Tests:
- Delete tests/test_rss_service.py, test_news_api.py, test_article_reading.py
Migration:
- 0042_drop_rss: DROP TABLE rss_item_embeddings, rss_item_reactions, rss_items,
rss_feeds; DELETE settings rows for rss_enabled / briefing_*_topics
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>
Updates user-visible branding across frontend (PWA manifest, page title,
Settings, push fallback), backend (email templates and subjects, LLM
system prompt, CalDAV displayname, SMTP from-name default), README,
quickstart compose, and MCP server description.
Also updates the CI image path and quickstart image reference to
git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/fabledscribe in preparation for the
Forgejo repo rename. Internal Python package, env vars, and database
schema unchanged.
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>
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>
Fetch and display the next 14 days of events in the briefing right column,
grouped by day with color dots, time, and location. Fills the empty space
below the weather card.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a refresh button (↻) to the weather section header in BriefingView so
users can manually re-fetch weather data (needed after deploying the hourly
precip changes to populate the cache). Update the existing POST
/api/briefing/weather/refresh endpoint to return full card data instead of
just location keys.
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>
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>
Add location tabs when multiple weather sources configured. Weather
section stays pinned at top of sidebar while news scrolls independently.
Bump sidebar width from 420px to 620px max for better readability.
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>
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>
Header:
- Remove Research button + modal (skill fires reliably from normal chat)
- Move Summarize-as-Note into a header kebab (disabled until the
conversation has messages)
Left sidebar:
- Full-width "+ New Chat" primary button
- Search input filters conversations by title (case-insensitive
substring) with a "no matches" empty state
- Move Select into a sidebar kebab next to search
Shared .btn-kebab + .kebab-menu styles give future conv-level actions
a home. Document mousedown + Escape dismiss both kebabs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The inherited .chat-panel-fill class lands on ChatPanel's new .chat-full
root via attribute inheritance, and its display:flex was overriding the
grid layout — stacking messages, sidebar, and input bar vertically
inside the reading column instead of placing the sidebar in grid col 4.
Layout is ChatPanel's responsibility now; .chat-panel-fill only sizes.
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>
The .btn-new-conv class has flex:1 for the sidebar row layout, but
when reused inside .no-conversation (a column flex), it stretched
vertically to fill the entire viewport — appearing as a giant
purple rectangle. Override with flex:none in the no-conversation
context.
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
Replace the hand-edit-JSON instructions in Settings → API Keys with a
tabbed UI (Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Other). The Claude Code tab
leads with the `claude mcp add` command, pre-filled with FABLE_URL and
the most recently generated API key, plus copy-to-clipboard buttons on
every snippet. Recommend `uv tool install` or `pipx install` over bare
`pip install` so fable-mcp reliably lands on PATH under PEP 668.
Also fix incorrect priority values in fable-mcp tool docstrings — the
enum is `none|low|medium|high`, not `low|normal|high`.
DRY pass: extract shared `copyToClipboard()` helper used by both
`copyApiKey` and the new snippet buttons; reuse existing
`btn btn-secondary btn-sm` for the copy buttons instead of a bespoke
class.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The standalone current-conditions div showed just a bare temperature with no
forecast context, making the weather panel look incomplete. Now the live
temperature from /weather/current is patched directly into the WeatherCard's
current_temp so it stays fresh without a second display block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProjectListView: add an overall task completion bar above the per-milestone
bars showing the percentage of all project tasks that are done.
ProjectView: milestones where every task is complete now start collapsed
by default, keeping the view clean for projects with many finished stages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
When note type is 'person', replace the main TipTap editor with a contact card form
(Relationship, Birthday, Email, Phone, Organization, Address). The TipTap editor moves
to a collapsible 'Notes' section below the form, auto-expanded when existing body content
is present. Person fields are removed from the sidebar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Account tab: SSO users see an info banner instead of email/password forms
- Briefing tab: remove Office Days section (work days now come from Profile)
- Remove unused toggleWorkDay function
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New Timezone section with text input + Detect button
- Detect auto-fills from browser Intl API
- Save calls PUT /api/settings (which now propagates to scheduler)
- Briefing tab firing timezone hint reads stored value instead of live browser API
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
POST /api/briefing/articles/<id>/discuss injects stored article content
as a persisted read_article tool exchange before triggering generation.
The LLM sees the article as already read; follow-ups retain context via
the fixed history builder. Frontend Discuss button now calls the new
endpoint instead of inlining article text in the user message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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